5728 Messages found

Collas out as Amiga president (01. Sep. 1999)
According to ZDNet, Jim Collas is no longer president of Amiga. Summary of the article: Jim Collas leaves the company for personal reasons, and has registered his 118.000 stock shares for sale. Moreover it is reported that Gateway paid 13 million US-Dolla...

Press Release: Finnish Saku 99 Event this Saturday (01. Sep. 1999)
From: Janne Siren siren@mikrobitti.fi Reply-To: siren@mikrobitti.fi Subject: Press release: Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:18:34 +0300 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday Webcam and ...

Amiga Patents (01. Sep. 1999)
At the title link, you will find a posting to comp.sys.amiga.misc, listing the patents filed by Amiga. We didn't take a closer look at the list, but perhaps one reader or another has the time to read them :-). Comments are wellcome in the forum. ...

StarOffice goes OpenSource (31. Aug. 1999)
Heise writes, among other: As expected, Sun Microsystems today confirmed the purchase of the software company Star Division based in Hamburg, Germany. At the same time, Sun announced the office package StarOffice to be available for Internet download. (Fu...

Hotmail cracked completely (30. Aug. 1999)
FutureZone writes: Mail of every user readable | no password needed | details unknown so far | FutureZone has tested Exploit The free mail service Hotmail has been cracked heavily today. With a web form it is possible to read any user's mail - without pas...

New Wildfire pricing and Wildfire for Movieshop Video! (30. Aug. 1999)
Starting immediately, the recommended retail price for the award-winning special effects software Wildfire, version 7\PPC, is cut back. This includes the bundle "Wildfire for Movieshop". Additionally, the example video "Wildfire for Movieshop" will be rel...

PFS3 finished (30. Aug. 1999)
The most important new features: PFS Doctor, a repair program for the difficult case expansion of the delete directory to up to 992 entries! extra long filenames, (optionally) up to 100 characters! HDInsttools for easy installation own PFS format command ...

FusionPPC: Only 380 of the needed 500 preorders recieved (28. Aug. 1999)
Thomas Lorenz writes: There are still many preorders missing. Here the latest news from the Fusion mailinglist: From: Jim Drew msdei@ctaz.comSubject: [FUSION]: PPC upgrade status This is an official announcement from Microcode Solutions... As many of you ...

No more executive updates (27. Aug. 1999)
Amiga writes: For the next several months, the Amiga staff will be focused on implementing our business and product plans. We will not be discussing or commenting on future company directions during this time. ...

Iwin: product specifications of A510MP and A1010MP online (25. Aug. 1999)
At AmiUpdate, the entry in the Sun Dealer Catalog is considered sufficient proof for the existence of Iwin. Here's the entry. At ANN, there are two more interesting postingsabout the subject: 1. The manufacturer of the tower casings has been found, it ...

Bernhard Hembach dead (25. Aug. 1999)
Attorney and bancruptcy manager Bernhard Hembach has died on August 20th at the age of only 55 by heart attack. Our feelings are with his family. Mr. Hembach managed the bancruptcies of Commodore and Escom, and by his casual approach did his part in keepi...

AmigaOS 3.5 briefly presented on TV (24. Aug. 1999)
In the (German) TV show "Neues", AmigaOS 3.5 was presented in a one minute report. Among others, the new HD-Toolbox was shown, which will support hard drives >4GB, SCSI and IDE. Aside from Internet funtionality and online manual, the Preferences were a...

Iwin people: Put an End to This! (23. Aug. 1999)
We have recieved several eMails by people who asked Tulip about the actual state of talks about the Commodore logo. All recieved the same answer by Tulip: "Dear Sir, This is not true, the only thing that has happened is, that iwin has contacted us with ...

Audio Evolution now distributed commercially by Computer City (23. Aug. 1999)
Audio Evolution (better known as PlayHD) is now available as PPC version. The commercial distribution is now in the hands of Computer City in Rotterdam. Details about the program and the distributor in the full press relase: To: Magazines From: B...

V³: Second prerelease available (23. Aug. 1999)
Major changes since the first public prerelease include: configurable toolbar, allowing for custom Rexx or Javascript commands and custom imagery major speedup in layouting complex tables VFlash now compiled for different architectures, and supporting ...

akMPEG (19. Aug. 1999)
akMPEG has been released. It is a programm for playing MPEG animations on 68k Amiga systems with CyberGFX (CgxVideo/Overlay recommended, CPUs 040 and better). Download: akMPEG.lha. The archive will be available from Aminet in the next few days. ...

AmigaScene 0x10 (July/August) online (17. Aug. 1999)
Robert Niessner writes: We are pleased to announce finally that the latest english issue of the AmigaScene (0x10 July/August) is online now. Contents: 2 comments on Amiga goes Linux mECH Tornado3D workshop MP3 basics interview with Petra Struck from amig...

Wanted: Name for a serial port add-on (16. Aug. 1999)
Jens Schönfeld is looking for a name for his new high-speed port card via amiga-news.de. Details at the title link. The first submissions have been recieved, Jens summarized and commented them, to be found at the title link, too. There are some really goo...

Starfighter - D'Yammen's Reign (11. Aug. 1999)
Thomas Steiding writes: Starfighter is a Wing Commander clone, which requires an ECS or AGA Amiga with 2 MByte Chip and 4 MByte Fast RAM as well as OS 2.x +. Starfighter features are: 110 missions to choose from free choice of gameplay: training, arcade,...

Press release by Epic Marketing (09. Aug. 1999)
Pagan Games and Epic Marketing announce their cooperation: From: ThomasSteiding epic@swol.de To: Petra Struck petra.struck@online-club.de Date: Mon, 09 08:00:00 10:10:38 +0100 Subject: Preseerklärung Press Release Pagan Games and Epic Market...