10.Jun.2000
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Pictures from the Neuss show
Petra Struck has put together some pictures from the Word of Alternatives in Neuss and commented them.
More to come. If you don't need English comments for the pictures or cannot wait to see the pics, have a lock at the
Pictures from the first day of the show
and Pictures from Bill McEwen's presentation at the show
Translated comments are comming soon (mj)
Petro Tyschtschenko
spreads items for followers, unhandsomely |
Jens Langner
AmIDE und P96 Speed |
Jens Langer and Jens Troeger
J.T. (Installer) |
Haage & Partner Support-Team
Gunnar Gertzen
Martin Steigerwald
Sebastian Becker |
Stefan Robl
AmiCamedia Digicam software |
Christoph Dietz (AC + amiga-news.de)
Thomas Steiding (Epic)
Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.) |
T.o.T.-Team from Eternity
Martin Wolf (Idee/Konzept/Progr.)
Daniel Bindel (Animations-Progr.)
Markus Holler
(music)
Patrick Beerhorst (internet presence) |
Screenshots
Tales of Tamar |
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Virtual Dimension
Michael Schaefer
Dennis Pauler |
Amiga-Club
Werner Diesch |
Amiga-Club
Uwe Horn |
APC & TCP
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APC & TCP
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Screenshot T.o.T.
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Milan Computer
Axro GmbH |
Petro Tyschtschenko
autographs the SDK
spent for the lottery. |
Petro as fairy of luck
at the lottery of amiga-news.de |
Petra Struck gets an airbrushed tatoo
planted on her arm by Rolf Tingler (APT) |
Rolf Tinger
(Airbrush Paradise Tingler)
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Rolf acting |
Epic Marketing
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Stefan Ossowski
Schatztruhe |
Falke-Verlag
Nico Barbat
Ali Goukassian |
Tom Neidhardt
Workbench-Enhance-System |
Felix Schwarz
fxPaint |
KDH-Datentechnik
Mrs. Horbach and doughter |
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Haage & Partner |
Stefan Kost
SoundFX |
Stefan Kost
SoundFX |
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10.Jun.2000
Martin Baute
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Report about presentation at the Neuss show
More pictures of the presentation.
In a "conference room" (built out of some plastic walls which were put up, one desk, and an
insufficient amount of chairs) Bill McEwen was talking about Amiga's future for nearly 45 minutes. There
was a couple to listen to. So, let's rewind the dictaphones, and put together what was most imortant....
After the beamer could be woken up by the fifth trying, with plenty of drive and humor McEwen payed up (&qout;
Wellcome to the Amiga sauna...."). From the start he cleared the roumor that Amiga would be in delay of payment
for Gateway. Amiga owes Gateway no money. More than that, Amiga isn't in dept at all.
Further he introduced Dean Brown (DKB) as Director of Hardware once more. Mr. Brown would be responsible for
creating referenz hardware for interessted third-party developers to look about. A game handheld device would
allready be finished, which was in use by Amiga internally to impress interessted parties with the features
of the new operating environment. Based on a StrongARM with 250 Mips, a port for a Sony Memory Stick, and
a coloured display this device might figure well - and it was finished after one week of development!
About the new Vice President of Engineering McEwen showed himself mysteryous. This man might not get introduced
bevore the 10th of Juli, cause he still is employed by another company - "one that is large, and is in
trouble, you know...", and with this words a gesture of tearing something apart....
Further on information about the performance characteristics of the Java[TM] Virtual Machine - which is, acording
to Mr. McEwen 22 times faster in handling multimedia content than any other JVM does (!)
McEwen set clear too, that he wouldn't ask the Amiga Community for patience. The fact, that this show is
happening, that the audience is pressing into this (admittedly too small) room would argument enough that
Amiga users are patient - over 5 years, allready. But he continues to set clear, that he and his associates are
working for the same number of month to fulfill those high expectations.
As a first evidence of success Mr. McEwen took Amiga's SDK to the show, which - as he stated emphatic - still
would be very incomplete, and would target experienced developers in main. The end-users will still have to
wait for a seizable product for some time. E.g. there still is no sound support, streaming support or 3D graphics support
included with the SDK, which will follow later (e.g. 3D support after about 3 month).
In the case of the critical theme of marketing McEwen admited, he still didn't employe a VP of Marketing -
he thinks first to develope a product that would worth a respective marketing would be more important,
than making generous announcements which can't get fulfilled with the best Amiga tradition.
Next he talked about the original plans to provide a deverloper's box by combining hard and software together.
Because of the Amiga user's negative replies to this, they made up their minds - which required a lot of
changes an additional programs (e.g. installer scripts). Now the software of the SDK was released; the HW/SW
developer's box would follow after about 2 weeks.
Amiga would target "Ubiquity in Computing": mobile phones, PDAs, multimedia processor servers,
a new desktop, a new game console, all of that with the same operating environment - something like that
would never have been there.
Applications with this would be fully scalable. After a developer has decided were to put his applications,
this one application could climb up the ",Food Chain" as high as it was wanted to. So, a game coded for
a handheld would even run on a multiprocessor server. But on the other hand an application writen for a server wouldn't
run on a mobile phone - or better to say - only very, very slow....
Processors allready supported by the operating environment would be PPC, M.core, X68, StrongARM, ARM, Sh/3,4,5, MIPS
and a number of other CPUs, which they can't name (at this time), cause they are under NDAs with the
manufacturers.
At the end Bill was talking about the JavaOne, a show that happend in San Francisco last week, and at which the
Tao Group had a booth. The same demonstration shown here at the Amiga show there was running on a Sega DreamCast,
on set-top-boxes, a StrongARM notebook, and a X86 computer. Only this was enough to magnetise the audience, and then
they would have taken out a mobile phone on which a Pole Position clone could run, in spite of the low performance
of 3,5 Mips. This would have been the same mobile phone which Scott McNeilly (Sun) had with him when he entered the stage
at the CES in January, &qout;I've tolled you that once we will have Java[TM] running on such a device, once a day" - just,
that it wasn't Sun's Java[TM] Virtual Machine running on that mobile phone....
And Linux wouldn't be the only operating system that would come into question as a host for the new Amiga. Other hosts
would be Windows, WindowsNT, Linux, WindowsCE, QNX, and OS/9 (a market leading OS from Microware for set-top boxes).
Host support for iTron, Epoc, VxWorks, and PalmOS would be in development, and close to be finished.
The cooperation between the Tao Group and Amiga Mr. McEwen illuminated in quite another way. It wasn't necessary that
they would use only Tao's products. In fact they would have access to 50 developers at the Tao Group to create things
needed by Amga.
Furthermore the BOOPSI libraries were portetd. This porting would be allready finished. They would now do testings and
optimizations. The new scripting language (SHEEP) would also be finished during the next month - the rights for ARexx
belong to a third-party manufacturer, and because of that they would develope another language.
The catchword renderware was spoken, too. The new operating environment would be prepared even for this.
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And then Bill McEwen had a very special goody to offer: Once the single parts of the operating environment will be put together
there will be the AmigaOne - a new multimedia desktop, developed and designed by Amiga, even if manufactured by
thir-party manufacturers. McEwen didn't want to say more about that at that early stage, the way to go would still be
very long.
Since it is a few minutes after midnight, and tomorrow there will be another day of the show waiting I'll finish
for now. This was only the first half of the presentation. I'll report about the other half tomorrow....
...part two
McEwen continued on OEMs and ISVs - the latter being companies willing
to support Amiga, but unable to "take their eyes off" what they are
doing for a living right now. Eleven such ISVs had given their source
code to Amiga - free of charge, free to port.
Of course, the well-known partners of the Tao-Group were mentioned:
Sun, Sony, Motorola, JVC and others. McEwen recommended reading the
press release from the Tao site
(about the certification of their Java machine) - Amiga is in dealings
with all those companies mentioned.
Then, McEwen showed pictures of his former office, and of the new "Amiga
World Headquarter". Five other companies were located there, building
high-end electronics for other companies for demonstratiuon purposes -
with Amiga being able to use their equipment for free.
Then, Bill McEwen started demonstrating the new OS, hosted under Red Hat
Linux on a notebook. He stressed that there was no hardware acceleration
involved (which, as said before, will follow in August). It is difficult
to put into words, but we saw lightning-fast Java demos, some 2D games,
the well-known Boing demo, some free moving Boing balls you could grab
and shoot inot the air with the mouse, a unicode browser, 2D filters,
the transparent "Clock" window (where you could grab a ball through
the clock - everything running on top of Linux, without any flicker or
slow-down. Well, not true, I saw it flickering: when McEwen was
starting the OS a second time, in a different window, the first one froze
for a split-second, to continue as fast and fluently as before, while
McEwen started the same number of demos again in the second window.
The demo was very impressive given the early stage of development, the
pictures only grab a small portion of it.
McEwen was unable to elaborate on further plans, but recommended an article
in Byte magazine from 1994, linked from the Amiga homepage; some of these
things would redefine Distributed Computing completely.
Towards the end, McEwen answered some questions. I recorded the whole
presentation on tape, but some questions couldn't be heard over the
background noise, and some answers made no sense without the questions.
I transscribed what I could make sense of, and left out one or two
sentences I could not make sense of. As soon as I get my hands on the
right adapter cable, I will make a MP3 recording of the tape (which was
recorded with permission from Mr. McEwen).
F: What about the classic OS?
McEwen: We are using the pieces whereever it makes sense.
F: Will there be an emulation for it?
McEwen: We already have an emulator working. Testing is already done, we
are now optimizing it so it runs very very fast. You guys know Brian King? You
know where he works? He is a good man, Brian. He's helping us. So we're working to speed
it up right now, it's a little slow. So we are in the process of optimizing it.
McEwen: Before somebody asks, you're asking if I'm gonna porting it to PPC. No.
I'll tell you why. No matter who I've spoken with, R.J. Mical, Carl Sassenrath, Alan
Havemose, everyone of them has looked at this in the past. It's an 18-month to 24-month
process, and all of them agree it will only be 80% complete. Because I'd had to
re-engineer the AGA chipset, I'd have to re-engineer Agnus, Denise, all those things
are tied directly to the OS. In fact the hardest thing for Havemose in building the 3.1 were
all those bugs that were in those chips they have to account for. So right now it would be
too costly for us to make the moves necessary to capitalize on the market, we need to move forward.
It doesn't help me to be everywhere. It doesn't help me to build a scaleable operating system,
which is what we need to be to win.
Making just another system on a chip is not enough. We need to be able to go to Sony, go
to Panasonic, go to all those guys and say "pick your chip".
F: (Schlecht zu verstehen, Frage über die Hardware-Anforderungen des SDK, ob
es ein spezieller Prozessor sein muß.)
McEwen: The SDK, if you are able to run Red Hat Linux you should be fine.
We tested it on Red Hat and Corel. So you should be absolutely fine on that.
F: Will it also run on the Amiga?
McEwen: Not right now, no. We don't have anything on the 68000. We are hoping
to work with our other friends so when you got PPC, which we know Linux can run on
there, we can run on top of that. And we will be able to run native, on those, on the PPC
cards. That's one of our biggest problems right now, you've got commitments from
people delivering, and nothing is happening.
F: Do you plan to change the design of the interface?
McEwen: It is designed with the flexibility similar to today so you can make
it the way you want. There will be defaults, so an Amiga users might want to have
Workbench as their default, but for other consumers, they might to want it different.
You will have defaults with the flexibility to change it the way you want.
F: (nicht zu verstehen)
McEwen: If you are running Linux on a PPC card within an Amiga, alright? We
have not tested it yet, however the two manufacturers have tested it and said it can
run.
F: (nicht zu verstehen)
McEwen: Not with the first build, no. Part of it is a tools issue, the tools
needed to utilize it. We have two companies right now in the process of making an
IDE specifically for us, so that won't be required in the future. Everything is not
in here (SDK), we know that, and there are certaily things to change; however, we felt
it important enough to get people to understand writing for VP and some changes.
Chris Hinsley, who created this, as you know, is an Amiga gaming guy; and I think
you will find, as most have found as they began to play with this, it's extremly
similar, in many ways as we write today. So it will be a very wuick curve, but
there will be a curve. So we want it to get into peoples hands first, so they
can begin working with it, utilize it, begin writing some applications, you know.
Get familiar, so when we add the other components to it, you will be able to get
moving much quicker.
F: (schlecht zu verstehen, eine weitere Frage zur Kompatibilität mit
alten Anwendungen)
McEwen: In fact we already have an emulator that is working. It's not
in this build, since we are in optimization, yes. In fact we're also looking
into a hardware solution to do it.
F: Everything on the SDK is usable on an Amiga PPC?
McEwen: Nonono. What's on here is designed right now to work with
Red Hat on an x86 platform or on Corel, ok? When it's completed, and you have an
executive OS running, everything is fine, it can run. Again, we haven't
tested it yet, according to third parties it can run on a PowerPC accelerator
within an Amiga, as long as Linux is there. We haven't tested it yet, so I'm
not telling you yes it can. We want to test it first. We've got two machines
in the house we are doing it on.
F: (schlecht zu verstehen, eine Frage über die zu erwartende Verfügbarkeit
von Software für das neue System)
McEwen: We have 131 applications already dedicated.
F: Also games?
McEwen: Most of them are games. There is a very large Indian company who does a
lot of interactive games [...] they already commited to us and will be moving all
their games over to Amiga. They have 63 games themselves, all of them for multiuser
interactive gaming over the net.
F: (nicht zu verstehen)
McEwen: Oh, oh, the multiple screens? Yeah, that's fine. What you see
today from a visual perspective you still can get, ok? All the multiple layers,
etcetera, that's still here, that's ok. That's what you were asking, right?
Thank you!
There were presentations before this one. The first, at eleven, was missed
because I was still on my way to Neuss. The second one was so crowded I couldn't
get inside, but I managed to record some parts of his speech, enough to catch
up the fact that SUN will probably advertise the Amiga JDK to their
user base.
Report by: Martin Baute
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10.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News
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1000 pounds for a game
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd. is looking
for talented games devlopers for the Amiga sector and has initiated a contest to motivate
people that didn't think about game development before.
Whoever does send a finished game, or at least a demo, to CS&E by August 31st, 2000,
can win a contract as well as 1000 pounds advance payment. All other submissions accepted
by CS&E will recieve at least 100 pounds and a contract offer by the company.
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10.Jun.2000
Fun Time World
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New version of CGXReport
The version of CGXReport released June 9th, 2000 now supports CyberGraphX 4.2 pre7
cards and envs.
Download: CGXReport41g.lzh
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10.Jun.2000
Fun Time World
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HSMathLibs for MC68881/82 v44.41
On June 9th, 2000 CyberdyneSystems has
released version 44.41 of the HSMathLibs for the math co-processors MC68881/82. In
this version, all known bugs have been removed, and the Installer script reworked.
Download:
HSMathLibs_881-demo.lha (about 30 kB)
HSMathLibs_881-demo.lzx (about 20 kB)
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10.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Seal Show on September 10th, 2000
On Sunday, September 10th 2000, the South
Essex Amiga Link User Group is hosting an own show in Basildon, Essex.
The show will be sponsored by Analogic Computers
who, like Amiga Inc., will provide prices for the contests taking place during the show.
Analogic, Eyetech, FORE-MATT Home Computing, Crystal Interactive Software (Gilbert Goodmate)
and others have already announced themselves as exhibitors.
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09.Jun.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Aminet 37 CD-ROM available in time for Neuss fair
The Aminet CD 37 - June 2000 - contains almost a gigabyte (unpacked) of
software in thousands of archives. Since Aminet CD 36, more than 500 MByte
of new stuff was added. As special highlight, the Aminet 37 CD features
the unlimited full version of the 3D ego shooter Zombie Massacre.
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09.Jun.2000
Stefan Popp via eMail
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News from Escena
Escena writes:
Since the last announcements, several things have happened. Contrary to all
prophecies of doom, we are still sticking with the ambitious Brainstormer project.
Certain difficulties and situations sometimes demand a detour. We haven't
lost our aims from sight and follow them continously, even though often not with the
focus we would have loved to see.
You'll find the changes that were made during the course of development
here;
the current status here.
We will stay in touch and will give a few interim reports in this space
in future.
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09.Jun.2000
Elbox via eMail
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MEDIATOR PCI 1200 Busboard
On the "World of Alternatives" which starts tomorrow in Neuss, Germany, Elbox will
present at the booth of Vesalia the new MEDIATOR PCI 1200 Busboard.
Also the following Elbox products will be available for buying there:
Elbox Tower for A1200 and A4000, FastATA Controller, 16.6 MB/s with AllegroCDFS
for A1200 and for A4000, the Mroocheck PC-Mouse Interface, and the
4xEIDE'99 Interface with AllegroCDFS.
Return-Path: support@elbox.com.pl
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:21:27 +0200
Organization: ELBOX COMPUTER
Subject: MEDIATOR PCI busboard for Amiga 1200
Elbox Computer is proud to announce the new exciting product:
MEDIATOR
PCI busboard for Amiga 1200
MEDIATOR features:
* PCI busboard for Amiga 1200 in: E-BOX (Winner Tower, Power Tower)
and Infinitiv tower cases
* 4 PCI slots - PCI 2.1 compatible
* Transfer rates between PCI cards up to 132 MB/s
* Transfer rates between A1200 motherboard and PCI
cards
up to two times faster than between A4000 and ZORRO III cards
* Ready to run with existing Amiga 68k and PPC accelerator cards
* Two available hardware versions:
for A1200T (MEDIATOR PCI 1200)
for A1200T with ZORRO IV busboard (MEDIATOR PCI ZIV)
PCI - Amiga bridge is a PCI 2.1 compliant implementation for
connecting PCI devices, thus allowing expansion of Amiga with
all kinds of industry standard hardware products.
Elbox Computer will also be offering some cost-effective PCI
add-on modules:
* Graphic cards based on processors:
S3 Virge 8MB
3dfx Voodoo 3 16MB
3dfx Voodoo 5 32MB
* MPEG-2 hardware decoder based on EM8400 processor
* Ethernet card 100Mb/s
* Sound card based on Yamaha 744 processor
* USB Controller
For the add-on modules, Elbox Computer will provide the necessary
software tools and drivers.
MEDIATOR PCI ZIV will be available from Power Computing
and Vesalia Computer beginning with mid-July 2000.
MEDIATOR PCI 1200 will be available beginning with August 2000.
Best regards,
Darek Smietana
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Darek Smietana Sales Manager ELBOX COMPUTER
mailto:sales@elbox.com fax: +4812 6564981
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09.Jun.2000
Hynek Schlawack via eMail
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New patches for slrn+
I finally got around for putting the newest patches into my Amiga port of
slrn+ and it is available for download as release 4 on my homepage.
This time I haven't put the sources into the main archive so that people
who have no interest in the sources have to download only about 500,000 bytes.
The sourcecodes can be found on my homepage, however.
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08.Jun.2000
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Fair: Rolf Tingler brushes for you :-)
Maybe you already noticed by studying the hallmap
that airbrush booth besides the*AC#/amiga-news.de booth. We have convinced Rolf Tingler of the
Airbrush Paradise to show his airbrushing skills at a fair again after a long
time.
Rolf is known to many Amiga-users by his former appearences at fairs and he was the one who brought the
Amiga-design to the mobile phone housings.
At the fiar in Neuss he will, if you like, decorate your mouse with a nice airbrushed picture. The best you take your
Amiga mouse with you to the show for that. Also body tattoos, which will
disappear by itself after a while, are planned. The prices for that will be about DM 10,-.
At the fair you can take a close look at airbrushing and inform yourself about airbrushing, what airbrushing is,
and what you will need to do it yourself, how it is done, about what you have to take care for and what you better don't do.
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08.Jun.2000
AmiTrade Center
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New beta from ATC
Download: ATC_beta_07062000.lha
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08.Jun.2000
AAAudio Page
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Lame version 3.70 available
Download:
LAMEbin.lzx
LAMEdoc.lzx
LAMEsrc.lzx
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08.Jun.2000
Haage & Partner
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AmigaWriter 2.10 Patch online
The first patch for AmigaWriter can be loaded from the H&P FTP-Server. The printer works much better with TurboPrint.
The 68K-Version sometimes put the cursor at the wrong place or even ended up in an endless loop.
Download: AmigaWriter - Patch2.10.lha - 551 kb
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08.Jun.2000
Kai Mache per eMail
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LinuxPPC CD
The new Linux-PPC CD from Amiga Zentrum Thüringen e.V. is finished right
in time for the fair and will be presented at the booth of Titan
Computer.
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08.Jun.2000
Amiga Fair
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Fair news in short
The fair is soon to come and the news about the events spread. Enclose
the consised version. Follow the link of the headline to the "news" to
find more information.
- Events and list of activities loaded
- Youth hotels in Neuss and Düsseldorf are full
- Double rooms on privat available
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07.Jun.2000
Ali Goukassian via eMail
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Convention Neuess: New Exhibition Map available
Because of recent changes, a new exhibition map is available.
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07.Jun.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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CD32 Games Install Kit Bonus Programs published
At the AirSoft Website an archive is now available with Bonus Programs for
the CD32 Games Install Kit. These however are older versions and are
therefore quite useless.
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07.Jun.2000
Peter Glauser via eMail
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Anti-Trust Case: Judgement in Plaintext
Additional links on the Topic...
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07.Jun.2000
Michael Burkhardt in ANF
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Big Club event on Saturday
This is an open invitation to all Amigans that are unable to go to Neuss, to
come to our Open House on Saturday, June 10th. The Phoenix Computer Club
Hof e.V. is running an Open House from 10am to 10PM. There are many
highlights waiting to be discovered. Hof is in northern Bavaria and is easily
reached via the A9 Autobahn. A detailed route desription can be found at
thier website.
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07.Jun.2000
Hans-Joerg Frieden via eMail
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The 10th of June is H2-Day!
The wait has come to an End. Hyperions first game, Heretic II will be
released at the convention in Neuss. Heretic II is a next generation
fantasy 3D game and is based on the popular games from ID software. Those
that are interested in Heretic II should definatly stop by the Titan stand.
That is where most of the developers will be.
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07.Jun.2000
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Exhibition Flyer now in - Inexpensive travel arrangements
The Flyer for the Neuss exhibition is now in. The article concerning the
inexpensive travel arrangements especially caught our eye.
For 7 Marks to the Exhibition and back
As a train rider you have the least expensive option to come to the World of
Alternatives in Neuss. The Deutsche Bahn has a Weekend ticket for 35DM. With
this ticket you can travel all throughout Germany on regional trains without
a mileage limit. This ticket has the following restrictions:
It is valid from 12:00 AM to 3:00AM the following day on either Saturday or
Sunday. Up to 5 people can ride on on single ticket. This makes this the
cheapest way to get to the convention. More infos concerning this ticket at
Deutsche Bahn
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07.Jun.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Schatztruhe GmbH at the World of Alternatives in Neuss
For the first time Schatztruhe will be at the new "World of Alternative" in
Neuss. Just like previous conventions we will have many products at
special convention prices. We will also have the freshly pressed CD Aminet
37. It is definatly worth a visit. According to information of the
management, there will be demonstations and presentaions of the new
developer system. For more information go to www.amiga-messe.de.
The trip to Neuss is from all over Germany very easy to accomplish. The
vast autobahn network wll bring you irectly to Neuss. Just follow the signs
to the Congress-Hotel DORINT.
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07.Jun.2000
Jens Schoenfeld via eMail
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X-Surf Samba Install CD is done
Just in time for the convention the Samba-Install CD for the X-Surf
ethernet card is finished. On the Amiga side everything is automatic, so
there is no need to deal with complicated configuration files. A few clicks
and you can access harddrives and printers in the network. For Amiga-Freaks
that don`t care for Samba, NetFS will also be automatically installed. No
editing of configuration files. The access performance of amiga-amiga is a bit
higher. For the PC there isn`t a simple method of automation, but a HTML
installation guide includes screenshots of all the important settings.
The CD will be given to all X-Surf customers for free that are able to show
the original bill of sale. Those that aren`t able to be in Neuss will have
to order it from thier retailer. There are not any plans to distribute the
CD without a customer order. Since the CD only contains 5.5 MB data, it will
most probably be available on the internet after the convention. However it
will be a while, since everything is in German and many of the users would
not be able to benefit from it.
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07.Jun.2000
Ingo Kleefeld per eMail
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Software Piracy
In recent times we have become aware that there are an ever increasing
number of companies that are distributing our products on CD-R or CD-RW.
The proucts ArtStudioPro, ElasticDreams, FantasticDreams and
CandyFactoryPro are only sold on pressed CD`s. Any version on CD-R or CD-RW
are pirate copies. We are aware of companies in England and Germany. Anyone
with such a pirated copy should contact us at Motionstudios
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07.Jun.2000
Innovative per eMail
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Innovative AMIGA Newsletter
Updates at the World of Alternatives
As stated in the previous newsitem, Felix Schwarz will present Innovative's
whole productline at the booth of Coolbits at the "World of Alternatives" on
10th and 11th June. The following updates could be finished in time and will
be available at the show:
fxPAINT 1.5
An overview over the new features:
- includes all changes of EK 1 and EK 2 (alone more than 60 new features)
- Tutorials (Video & HTML) on the CD
- heavily improved fxALBUM with new presentation-functions and a new, professional HTML-overviewfunction
- improved palette with HTML-colorcode-export and colorchooser
- ARexx-Launcher
- new effect to reduce or remove JPEG-fractures
- DigiCam-support
- many small improvements
VHI Studio 5.2
The new version features faster MPEG-Export and the ability to create either
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2-files.
fxSCAN 2.0
New effects (incl. Sharpen and a high-quality scaling-routine as known from
fxPAINT), a direct link to fxPAINT and bugfixes are significant for this update.
If you want to buy an update at the show, please bring the original disk or CD of
the old version with you. The prices can be found in our online-shop.
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07.Jun.2000
Andreas L. im ANF
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Update for Dropout-Killer for Movieshop
Starting today the version 1.02 of Dropout-Killer for Movieshop is
available for download. This program repairs video scenes in which
individual frames where not correctly digitized. This tool can remove the
annoying "flashes" A new frame is inserted that is calculated from the
adjacent frames, without changing the scene length without it showing up in
the finished scene.
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06.Jun.2000
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc. names Eyetech as manufacturer of the first Amiga Developer machines.
Eyetech will manufacture "Next Generation Amiga Developer machines", and and will distribute those for England and Ireland.
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06.Jun.2000
Frank Zickmantel by e-mail
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Titan Computer Updates
Joyride:final demo version for CGFX and AGA available.
BurnIT:new drivers v2.71 and french translations by Stephane Payet available
ArtStudioPro:update v3.2 released
Download page
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06.Jun.2000
Pär Boberg by e-mail
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Famous Amiga Uses
Pär Boberg from Sweden has collected a list where you can see which
famous occassions, people, companies and movies employed or still employ
the Amiga. Most of them are people and companies from the TV and movie
industry, or the video editing business. The list is available as AmigaGuide
or plain text file.
Download: FamAmigaUses.lha
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06.Jun.2000
Tao Group
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Amiga is Back, and will change computing forever, again
Amiga, the creators of multimedia computing, have announced the release of their
developer kit for Amiga, Linux, and Java developers." Full article at the title
link.
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06.Jun.2000
amiga-news.de
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Did you send your postcard for the lottery?
If you want to participate in the big lottery and cannot bring your postcard
to our booth in person, you should hurry to the post office and send it to us :-).
Have a look at the fantastic prices following the title link! It's really worth
your while!
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06.Jun.2000
V³ Portal
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V³ 3.2.12beta
This new Voyager3 version is a "beta snapshot" showing the
progress made in bug fixes and improvements, but should be handled carefully due to
the beta status. THis version is only functional with a valid keyfile.
Download: v3_3212_beta.lzx
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06.Jun.2000
GoldED
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GoldED Studio 6 News
On the occassion of the World of Alternatives, Dietmar Eilert will be offering
GoldED Studio 6 for a special price. Make a note and order on these two days!
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06.Jun.2000
Thomas Steiding by e-mail
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Show news from Epic
Epic Marketing will participate in the World of Alternatives taking place next weekend
in Neuss. Attending at their booth will be Paul Burkey, presenting his new titles
"Foundation: The undiscovered Land" and "Foundation Gold Edition", explaining and,
upon request, signing it. All owners bringing their "Foundation Directors Cut" to
the booth will recieve the Gold Edition for a special price.
Aside from these two ready-to-sell new items we hope to be able to present beta
versions of "Dafel: Bloodline" and "Simon the Sorcerer 2". Of course we will have
all titles available from our house at the booth for attractive show pricing.
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06.Jun.2000
Michael Pfeiffer by e-mail
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VWP News: AudioCutter Cinema Preview v0.6 for Linux
At the title link, under "ACutter", the audio and sound processing software
"AudioCutter Cinema" is now avail- and downloadable not only in the Windows
version, but also in versions for 80x86 and PPC Linux. I am sorry that the
PPC version is in a somewhat more experimental state, since there are driver
problems with the testing system. The BeOS version is delayed until further
notice, since the BeKaffe Page
still has not gone online again, and BeKaffe is therefore unavailable for
the time being.
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06.Jun.2000
Andreas Magerl by e-mail
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APC&TCP News
On the Neuss show, APC&TCP presents another Amiga CD-ROM: "Amiga Game Guide".
Are you fed up waiting for cheats, walkthroughs and hints for your favourite game to show
up in game magazines? Are you interested in a game but are not sure if the graphics is
good or making you fall asleep during the game? You don't know which game supports your
4-player adapter, can be played with nullmodem or by Internet, and for which games
DataDisks were released? You need the universal Amiga game database, the "Amiga Game Guide".
The following features wait for you to explore them:
- HTML and AmigaGuide version (with extra part for CD32 games)
- Cheats, tipps and tricks for over 1600 Amiga games
- Over 500 reviews on about 250 games
- About 2500 screenshots from almost 500 games
- Further details on about all 1700 games listed (manufacturer, publisher, genre, year
of development)
- Saved games, HD Installer, game demos, PD games, additional levels, icons etc. - PC compatibility
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05.Jun.2000
AMIGA Inc.
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Espial opens Java Developers Portal for internet smart devices
Espial Joins with Technology and Media Innovators to Launch one of the First
Java(TM) Technology Developer Portals for Internet Smart Devices. Devicetop.com,
supported by Sun, Intel, Motorola, Amiga, Tao Group, IAN, Pointbase, Dr. Dobb's,
Java Report, and JavaWorld.com(tm), Marks Portal Launch. Further details under
the titlelink.
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05.Jun.2000
Kai Mache via email
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FUN OF COMPUTING NG news
On the internetpages of the fair -FUN OF COMPUTING NG- are many new exhibitors
added. Besides Petro Tyschtschenko and Titan Computer, Jürgen Haage of the company
Haage & Partner will be there. Informations about the topics of the discourses
are also available now.
The pages for the -FUN OF COMPUTING NG- will be updated regularly and will be
a good source for the planning of arrival and overnight reservations via internet.
The FUN OF COMPUTING NG will take place in Illmenau/Thüringen, germany from
June, 24th to 25th 2000. The admission is free and there will be a lottery with
interesting prices. Other exhibitors are contacted, so the visitor can be sure,
that this fair is a special one.
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05.Jun.2000
Thomas Steiding via email
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Epic Marketing news
Paul Berkey and Epic Marketing are announcing the "Foundation Gold Edition".
This game is a further development of the original with many new features,
easier gameplay, reworked graphical design and reworked userinterface. The
game will be available from June, 12th 2000, and needs AGA or a gfx-board
Amiga with 68030 and 8 MByte RAM. Further informations you will find in the
following days under projects.
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05.Jun.2000
Alexandros Pourikas via email
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AMIGA.gr internet-magazin online
After some hard work the free Amiga internet magazin «Amiga.gr» is now for
all Amiga-users online. There are many intersting topics like news, reviews,
old games, views, and announcements.
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05.Jun.2000
Jan Andersen via email
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VirusHelp Denmark: TCP trojan on the run
The coder of "SAFE" Zbigniew `Zeeball` Trzcionkowski has informed VirusHelp
Denmark that some new TCP-trojans are on the run:
Organization: Virus Help Denmark
From: "Jan Andersen" vht-dk@post4.tele.dk
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:29:40 +0200
Subject: [vht-dk] TCP Trojan's on the wild
Hi All....
Today we recived information from Zbigniew `Zeeball` Trzcionkowski the
programmer of "SAFE", that there is some new TCP trojan on the loose.
Please read the text that Zbigniew wrote:
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
TCP:4097 remote shell
and
LIBS:rexxfifo.library size: 1136
If You have such then please:
- delete this fake library
- repalce fake LoadWB with the original one
- reboot
The fake LoadWB don`t have $VER string, but to confuse user it have
size and parts of file from the original LoadWB v38.9.
The trojan is fake LoadWB that decrypts and executes rexxfifo.library
which hides original LoadWB also remote shell is opened - TCP:4097.
Installer: (faked YAM?)
Please wait to xvs.library will be updated to remove this in easy way.
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
TCP:2421 remote shell
...and maybe several infected files.
Yes. There is another link-virus. The memory patch is detected as
STD Vaginitis #1 and removed correctly by xvs.library.
The infected files aren`t.
The virus is changed only little bit and is almost same as Fungus
or Vaginitis. Even static crypt key ($DEAD) is same.
Installer: jizzer size: 15368
attacks C:mount as first (adds 700 bytes with virus)
Wait for xvs.library to be updated. To see infected files
look into Safe/VaginitisClone dir of this Safe release!
I wasn`t able to spread this virus to testfiles,
so maybe this is only used to infect c:mount,
so after analyzes of disassembly i`ll be able to say why.
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
TCP: 2001 remote shell
and
fake process called `SetPatch`
and
LIBSi:rexxfunc.library size: 1136
and
L:wb.handler size: 4716
If You have such then please:
- delete those fake library and fake handler,
- replace LoadWB with the original one
- reboot
The fake LoadWB looks like original one, but it is fake.
Installer: `miamispoof` size: 8468
(The file is StoneCracked and then modified to
prevent decrunching)
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
So to be sure please check Your system for:
LIBS:rexxfunc.library size: 1136
LIBS:rexxfifo.library size: 1136
L:wb.handler size: 4716
C:mount (is bigger)
...and wait for new xvs.library from Alex van Niel.
This text is public domain :-)
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanx to Paul for sending the files and to Zbigniew for the text.
The warning from VHT-DK is atthaced to this email, please spread
the warning as much as you can...... ( Thanx).....
Kind Regards.....
Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
vht-dk@post4.tele.dk
http://www.vht-dk.dk
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05.Jun.2000
Euro Electronic Trade GmbH via email
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Amiga Fair in Neuss, Germany, June, 10th and 11th, 2000
At the Amiga fair in Neuss, Germany, the Euro Electronic Trade GmbH will sell
many many Amigagames and joysticks for low prices. A look will be worth it.
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04.Jun.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail
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CD32 Games Cheat & Info Kits released
The CD32 Games Cheat Kit and the CD32 Games Info Kit
have been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Both programs are add-ons to the
CD32 Games Install Kit, which has been available for download in an updated
version for a week now. The CD32 Games Info Kit offers informations and
pictures to many CD32 and CDTV games, while the CD32
Games Cheat Kit offers many cheats for CD32 games.
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04.Jun.2000
Frank Seidel by e-mail
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Homebanking2.2 finished
On my homepage and Aminet the latest version of Homebanking.lha is available. These are
ARexx scripts allowing to do homebanking by using AddressMaster and MultiTermKit. The
scripts are usable for Sparkasse and Deutsche Bank 24, but can be adapted to other banks
as well.
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04.Jun.2000
Ali Goukassian by e-mail
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Amiga Show News and room plan
Last evening, the up-to-date room plan for the "World of Alternatives" was finished. Some
exhibitors will probably join on short notice - updates as usual by means of the homepage.
The room plan is available as A4 graphic (about 270
kB).
Visitors of the World of Alternatives that don't know yet how to get there find
detailed route informations (German) here. There are routes for people traveling
by car, train and plane. Even detailed bus connections are available.
On the Milan side, there are the good news that the TV and the DSP card can be presented,
the 100Mbit network is working, and the new case designs have arrived in time for the show.
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04.Jun.2000
Ali Goukassian by e-mail
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World Launch of the NG AMIGA SDK on the show in Neuss
Bill McEwen confirmed it in his latest e-mail: AMIGA will present the new SDK (Software
Development Kit) for the NG AMIGAs for the first time worldwide on the show in Neuss
coming up next weekend. Bill himself intends to bring the SDK packs for the local
exhibitors. The expected price will be about 250,- DM.
As scheduled, Bill will present the new system in a conference room, report about
AMIGA's plans for the future, and answer user questions.
Bill only briefly attending on Sunday:
Since Bill has a very important interview with the New York Times on Sunday, he had
to cut back his attending to the show to Saturday. If he will be present at all on
Sunday, it will be only briefly. People focussing on the presentations should change
plans to arrive on Saturday. The SDK will of course be available on Sundays, too.
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04.Jun.2000
Frank Mariak by e-mail
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CyberGraphX 4.2 pre7 update available
On the CyberGraphX homepage, there is the latest CyberGraphX 4.2 pre7 update available.
Aside from several fixes, there are now A2410 and RainbowIII drivers included. Also there
is now an option to activate 56 kHz audio directly on CyberGraphX screens. For people
who want to overclock their BCPPV/CVPPC to get some more performance from their card, there
are now the according options too (requiring to actively cool your Permedia2 however). More
about that on the CyberGraphX homepage. As usual, the CyberGraphX v4 CD is required for the
update.
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04.Jun.2000
Ed Collins
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TWF News
Read news on the games Explorer 2260 and Maim & Mangle:
Date: 04-jun-00 00:23:10
From: Ed Collins collins-e@dnet.co.uk
Subject: [twf] June 2000 update
TWF News.
1. General Update
2. Explorer 2260 Update.
3. Maim & Mangle Update.
4. Next News Update
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1. General Update
May could have been better. There was numerous problems with compiler bugs
driving both chris and massi mad. The problems were traced to bugs in the
StormC V3 compiler which wasted a lot of their time chasing code bugs that
didn't exist. On top of that Rob had a harddrive failure which didn't lose
much work but the replacement drive refused to format and took over a week
to get his A4000 working again with the new drive.
2. Explorer 2260 Update.
News this month:
- Continuted working on MiniGL engine and object editor. Started
modifying MiniGL texture code to support more formats and
automatic card-friendly format conversion.
- Fixed some problems with parts of the interface code, began
an abstraction layer to make interface component handling
code easier to port to Linux.
- Extended object editor loading system to support plugin-style
load libraries.
3. Maim & Mangle Update.
News this month:
- There has been far too many problems with bugs in StormC V3. A lot of
development time has been lost due to these compiler problems. We are
switching development over to the GCC compiler (we may use StormC V4
when it is released if the bugs we've experienced have been fixed).
- The game engine is now running under miniGL, on both 060 and PPC.
- Work has started on conversion of our editor tools to use miniGL.
These should be ready within 2-3 weeks.
4. Next News Update
1st July 2000
All the best,
Ed.
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03.Jun.2000
Mario Nitschke by e-mail
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Amiga Times 02/00 online
The new issue of the Amiga Times (02/00) can now be downloaded at the title link!
Have fun, and be entertained. Your Amiga Times editors.
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03.Jun.2000
Martina Kramer by e-mail
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Winner(s) Graphical Artists competition revealed
1ST JUNE 2000--OOSTERHOUT(NB)-NL--C&C·Logo and Design today announced the winner(s) of the Graphical Artist competition.
It took more time than we eventually had in mind, but we have picked a winner from out of more
than 60+ contestors all over the World. The winner has already received word from us by email
and will receive his work printed and framed by the end of next week, together with a contract
for future partnership.
Originally one person would be all we needed, but as seen from all the artwork we have received,
it seems that most people are very good at a specific part of art, but we needed someone more
versatile. That is why we will contact a few more people in the next week, to ask if they would
like to work for us whenever there's need for their specific artwork (paid of course).
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03.Jun.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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GNN: Amiga is Back - AmigaOS to run on any hardware
"AmigaOS Developer Kit for Amiga-, Linux- and Java-developers finished"
"In the book of Amiga Inc., the operating system AmigaOS will bring a revolution of
computer usage - like the Amiga computer did over 15 years ago. Since today, at least
the Amiga Software Developer Kit is finished, allowing interested developers to code
software that would run on almost every platform without needing to be recompiled, thanks to AmigaOS."
Full article (German) at the title link.
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03.Jun.2000
Carsten Schröder by e-mail
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New issue of Amiga World released, new executive update from McEwen
Yesterday a new issue of AMIGAs online magazine Amiga World has been released, containing especially numerous informations for AmigaNG developers. It is available in HTML format, a PDF version will follow soon.
A new Executive Update by AMIGA CEO Bill McEwen:
Amiga is Back, and will change computing forever, again.
Amiga, the creators of Multi-Media computing, have announced the release of their developer kit for Amiga, Linux, and Java developers.
June 3, 2000, Snoqualmie, WA - Amiga announces the release of the Amiga Software Developers Kit, the first new product to introduce the next generation Amiga platform.
The Amiga Software Developers Kit provides the initial tools and examples for developers to create exciting multi-media content for multiple devices and computing environments. The unique strength of the New Amiga comes from the partnership with the Tao Group in Reading England providing a foundation where developers are able to take advantage of a ubiquitous computing environment.
In 1984 Amiga established what is know today as multi-media. As a result of this, Amiga systems are used around the world by leading film studios, animators, and in mission critical applications. Using this as the foundation, the Amiga is moving forward by creating multi-media for numerous devices and computing environments in the home, in the office and beyond.
The Amiga OS is capable of being self-hosted, and sitting on top of other operating systems. A single application is capable of running on X86, Power PC, M.core, ARM, StrongArm, MIPs, SH3/4, and others. In a hosted environment the new Amiga runs on versions of Linux, Windows 95,98/NT, Windows CE, OS/9, QNX4, and others to be announced.
The new OS also embraces the Java language in a new, powerful and compliant way. The intent Java Technology Edition from Tao is world renowned for its speed and compact execution of Java applications. With the new environment, developers will be able to take advantage of both Java, and portable assembler coding.
"Today we take the first step towards the future," said Bill McEwen, President/CEO of Amiga, Inc. "The new Amiga SDK provides an environment where the best developers in the world can build exciting applications, that can transcend hardware limitations. Today Amiga developers can be joined by Linux and Java developers in an environment that provides the foundation for the delivery of future content."
"Tao has been talking for some time now about our developments to create Digital Heaven(TM) and we see Amiga and its community as a fundamental part of the new order that can make it happen and take an industry lead. With the sheer tenacity and the many qualities of McEwen and his Amiga team, the world is going to see Amiga as a Premier Brand for connected digital appliances," said Francis Charig Chairman of the Tao-Group.
For the developer, the new SDK creates a single environment that is scalable from handheld devices, such as cell phones upwards New versions of the kit later in the year will introduce many new media features. Both the current and future versions will enable compact, high performance and robust media solutions to be used across a broad range of devices using identical binaries..
The New Amiga SDK is available through local retailers for $99.00, and from the Amiga web site, Amazon.com and other sources available soon. A version via a Japanese distributor will be announced shortly.
About Amiga:
Amiga Incorporated is dedicated to creating a multi-media operating environment, enabling developers and users to experience a new level of enjoyment.
As it was in the early 80’s, Amiga is ready to introduce the next level of computing.
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03.Jun.2000
Martin Strobl by e-mail
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Newsticker COOL bits
After all details concerning the Amiga show have been clarified, the
special page of COOL bits went online.
On this page, you can find informations where to find the booth, what is being
offered and what other highlights you can expect from the Amiga show in Neuss on June
10th/11th. (German)
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03.Jun.2000
Michael Heider on ANF
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Linux-APUS kernel for "Mac on Linux" PPC Emulator available
At the title link, the kernel (vmlinux_mol.lha) is available for download.
The kernel is required for executing the runtime patches for the PPC emulator
MOL "Mac on Linux". In this kernel version 2.2.10 there is currently only
support for the IDE interface compiled in. More informations about the kernel
modules are available in the ".config" file in the packet vmlinux_mol.lha.
Kernel with SCSI drivers and IDE+SCSI drivers will follow within the next few days. Since
I lacked the tile to recompile and reconfigure the PPC emulator, I would very much
welcome if somebody would send me a binary package and a configuration file, if
possible with a short manual in German. Moreover I would offer my cooperation
with other developers. Questions, hints or criticism can be send to my mail address
101.109037@germanynet.de.
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03.Jun.2000
AMIGA
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AMIGA announces release of the Developer Kit
At the title link, you can read the official announcement of the Amiga Developer Kit.
Moreover, AMIGA has created a new game area
where you can find reports about games planned for the next Amiga generation. Soon
there will be a support area for developers under Support Net.
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03.Jun.2000
APC&TCP
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APC&TCP releases Digital Make Up
On the Amiga show in Neuss, APC&TCP will release another CD-ROM. More information can
be gathered from our homepage or directly from us. After the show, this CD-ROM will be
distributed like all our products:
Welcome to your workbench's wardrobe. The new "Digital Make-Up" CD is an
add-on CD with a collection of tools and utilities for customizing and making up your
Amiga operating system, sorted by subject. This does not only encompass powerful tools
really bringing AmigaOS up to speed and making everyday work easier - we also thought of
graphics material for the grey-in-grey workbench. Additionally, there is software for
implementing speech output. Of course accompaining speech and sound samples in several
formats aren't missing either. Many datatypes, updated libraries, modern fonts, new
commands for the C directory and numerous other system extensions will bring any Amiga
system on the right course. New great screensavers and many icon sets for the NewIcon
system, or real new GlowIcons will make your Workbench look up-to-date. Some software
never released before can be found on this CD-ROM. The new AmigaOS version 3.5 got it's
own drawer, where tools for the latest version can be found. A double-click on "Quickstart"
and you are right in the middle of it - the "Digital Make-Up CD"!
The "Digital Make-Up CD" is optimized for AmigaOS version 3.0 to 3.5. The major part
of the software on this CD-ROM can be started directly. Requirements: Amiga with 68020
CPU, 2 MByte ChipRAM, hard drive, CD-ROM drive, AmigaOS 2.05+.
Recommended: Amiga with 68040 CPU + PPC, 2 MByte ChipRAM, 4 MByte FastRAM, hard drive,
CD-ROM drive, AGA or graphics card, sound card, AmigaOS version 3.5.
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03.Jun.2000
Olaf Köbnik by e-mail
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Amiga Arena News
The Amiga Arena continues to offer special prices for Shareware!
PureBasic for special price!
The new programming language "PureBasic" is now available for a one-time special offer
exclusively at Amiga Arena.
BoulderDäsh campaign extended!
The game classic BoulderDäsh is available at the Amiga Arena until July 1st!
10 one-time offers!
10 special prices for Shareware are on the "Amiga Arena - CD ROM Edition"! (Available at APC&TCP)
The following programs are available for a special price on the CD:
CDCat - Database
Fiasco - Database
GeoWorld - Geography software
HomeBanking - HomeBanking for Multiterm Kit Special Pack!
MUIbase - Database
MusicManIII - Database
NewsCoaster - Newsreader
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow - Picture Catalog / Viewer
WHDLoad - Game Installer
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03.Jun.2000
Frank Wille
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New ppclibemu version 0.7f released
Download: ppclibemu.lzx - (libraries only)
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03.Jun.2000
IrseeSoft
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Turboprint 7.11beta released
Turboprint 7.11beta with HP Deskjet 9xx and improved Epson drivers (English only) is available.
This beta version can only be used in combination with Turboprint 7.10, which is available
with many new drivers starting immediately.
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02.Jun.2000
CyberGraphX
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CyberGraphX News
The final update of CGX V3 (CGX_r71) is available from the download area of the
CyberGraphX website. This version of CyberGraphX contains some bugfixes regarding
OS3.5 and the cgxsystem.lib 41.22. For CVPPC & BVPPC new drivers version 2.8
are available as well.
The download area was reworked and old single update files were removed.
If you are owner of VillageTronic hardware, the Service-Petition of
Paul Qureshi could be of interest
for you. With this petition, Paul wants to convince VillageTronic to release
the support documents to noted repair shops in different countries so that it
can be guaranteed that VT products will still be repaired in future.
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02.Jun.2000
Digital Dreams Entertainment
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Digital Dreams Entertainment: Code name Hell Squad is finished!
As can be read on the start page of DDE,
the action game «Code name Hell Squad» has been finished.
Demo download: HSdemo.lha - 2,15 MB
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02.Jun.2000
Oliver Gantert
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The Cheating Utility
"Dwarf" is now available on my homepage for free download. It is a program in the
style of TrainerMaker and Cheater and allows the manipulation of memory addresses
(with search/compare/change as on the Action Replay). It is written entirely in C
and utilises a nice GadTools GUI.
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02.Jun.2000
CS&E via eMail
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CS&E has moved to new offices
CS&E has moved to new offices in England and can now be reached at the following address:
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum, Oxford Business Park, Oxford, OX4 2JZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481 421, Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481 482.
Soon the company will also be represented in Germany. Read further details under the
title link.
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02.Jun.2000
CD³² Allianz via eMail
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CD³²-Allianz News
_*CD³² Developer-Kit available again*_
A few weeks ago, we had to remove the CD³² Developer-Kit from our homepage,
as we were lacking the webspace and Gary Peake forced us to.
Now it's available again as we have webspace again and explained to Gary that we had
the permission from Petro Tyschtschenko.
_*CD³²-Allianz visits the Amiga fair in Neuss*_
We will visit the fair event in Neuss so that you can get in touch with us. There you can
discuss with us the future of the CD³², the current game situation of the CD³²,
CD³²-Allianz and the cooperation with amiga.topcool and so on. This is what we're
looking forward the most.
Of course we will also try to get in touch with companies, distributors and software
programmers and hope to present you positive news after the fair.
_*New distribution channels for CD³² Outside found*_
After the CD³² Outside can be found soon on the AmigaPlus- and AmigaFuture CD-ROM,
as well as in the CD³²-Corner, we are pleased that our magazine will soon be also
available on Aminet and the Aminet CD-ROMs. This will raise its acquaintance which should lead
to a higher interest in the CD³². From which the CD³² Outside will benefit
as well.
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02.Jun.2000
ANN
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News from Alive Mediasoft
We too have received the eMails mentioned on ANN. Find above a direct link to the Alive
Mediasoft's answer at ANN so that we don't repeat them here and you can direcly participate
in the discussion on the theme.
03 June 2000, supplement:
Bothered Steven Flowers from Alive Mediasoft started his eMail with the
words, "first of all I'm pretty pissed off", and wordy he explained why
Goal 2000 wouldn't be just a cracked version of Goal. There were many
new features and possiblities comming with Goal 2000 not implemented in
Goal,
and that cracked version was taken with the developer's consent, cause
there wasn't any other version available at that time.
Might be that such procedures are being used with a release, but in
my opinion this should be avoided as far as is possible, even though.
That's debatable. But I actually recieved eMails from ppl complaining
about AM again and again during the last few month, e.g. developers who
either didn't get payed or even nobody asked them, if their software may
be distributed. In the past I allways replyed on those ppl, they should
set their problems clear direct with AM, cause I presumed them to be
unsuccessful particular cases. Goal just overflowed the barrel, and put
patience at an end. (ps)
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02.Jun.2000
Bladerunner in ANF
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The Clue becomes open source
As it looks, the ingenious burglar simulation will become Open Source. The guys from Neo
are apparently preparing a sourcecode packet. Meanwhile, there are also many discussions
going on about it in the Neo Forum. Sadly I can't find any participation from Amiga
programmers. It would be nice if there'd be another Amiga release. For more information
follow the title link.
NEW JOBS AT NEO - Good chances for programmers to enter the Online Generation
Two new positions for C++ programmers are available from June on at neo Software in Vienna.
If you always dreamed of becoming a game developer you should take a look at the job
descriptions.
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02.Jun.2000
Günter Horbach in ANF
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Amiga Trademark
Everybody who wants to use the registered trademark «Amiga» must apply for a license
at Amiga Inc. This application can be made via email to gary@amiga.com
and must have the word Trademark in the subject line. This helps to speed up the permission process.
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02.Jun.2000
Davy Wentzler via eMail
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Audio Evolution News
In the «Download PPC plug-ins» area you can download a new high-quality plugin "Reverb".
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31.May.2000
Rüdiger Engel
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ZDNet: CeBIT Home cancelled
"This year there will be no CeBIT Home. This was confirmed to ZDNet by the Deutsche Messe AG on Thursday.
The press spokesperson of the Deutsche Messe, Eberhard Roloff, said: "The quality aspect is unreasonable
for those exhibitors who stayed with us." More details (German) at the title link.
Heise: CeBIT Home 2000 cancelled
The Computer and Multimedia Show CeBIT Home, planned for this late summer in Leipzig, has been cancelled.
The Deutsche Messe AG in Hannover has decided to call the show off due to the bad exhibitor numbers. The
whole concept of a multimedia show addressing the private user is to be rethought. Only a few days
before, the Messe AG has stated that they wanted to stick with the show concept this year, too.
It would have been the third CeBIT Home. Because of the World Exposition Expo 2000 in Hannover, Leipzig
was chosen as alternative. Several well-known exhibitors were missing two years ago already. Back then,
586 exhibitors were attending. The number of visitors declined from 200,000 to about 180,000."
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31.May.2000
Hynek Schlawack by e-mail
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DirScanner version 2.9 released
DirScanner, the file finder, has been released as version 2.9.
Download: DirScanner.lha - 77 Kb
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31.May.2000
Stuart Walker by e-mail
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Digital Images News
Despite the fact it has been quiet around DI in recent months, some extraordinary developments
have been made within DI, and the product line has been changed.
For one it can be announced that Digital Images will port "Wipeout 2097" to the Apple Mac!
Exact release dates will be announced shortly.
Unter the working titles "Conflict", "Sabrina Offline" and "Millenium Surprise", new games
are under development, while "Space Station 3000", "Kijitsu Warriors" and "Digital Soccer"
have been discontinued. Details at the title link.
The URL of Digital Images has been changed. Please bookmark the new address:
www.di-games.co.uk.
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31.May.2000
AMIGA
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Executive Update
Executive Update May 30,2000
Friends:
Many people have been writing to me recently, reminding me that there has been very little activity as far as site updates go. While this is not intended as the official Executive Update, I just want to make sure everyone knew that there has, in fact, been a great deal of activity going on at Amiga since the Amiga 2k show in Saint Louis a few months ago. As usual, there are things that we aren't ready to discuss, but never mistake our silence for being "asleep".
Officially you can watch the Amiga.com site for the new Executive Update, new developer and application information, as well as several other updates which will be posted on June 3rd, 2000.
In the next Update, you can expect to see much more information and details about our immediate plans than this message will have. While we could have waited another week or so to post the next Update, I thought the community needed to hear from us, to let you know what we can at the moment, and to ask you to be patient, just a little bit longer.
One critical area that needs to be addressed right now today is the Amiga name, trademarks, logos, and intellectual properties. Many of you have sent me notes asking us to take action against those who are making illegal copies of our software, using our name without permission, and the distributing our intellectual property without our knowledge and consent.
While this might seem negative for many, it is imperative that Amiga properly and legally defend our trademarks and intellectual property. To be blunt and to the point, if you are using the Amiga name, Amiga logos, or distributing our intellectual property without a license, you must cease and desist these actions immediately. Amiga Incorporated owns the aforementioned items and all rights contained therein.
We understand that many of you have worked very hard to maintain a community, the spirit, and all we know Amiga as today. Unfortunately, there are many people, sites, and even companies out there who are using the Amiga name in a detrimental fashion, and in negative ways. Some have even sought to use the Amiga name to further their own goals and products. Because of this and because international trademark laws mandate it, we must make sure that anyone using our name, logos, or trademarks in any fashion is properly licensed by us.
Okay, now that we've said that, here's the Amiga SDK (Software Developers' Kit)!
On April 1st, 2000, at the Amiga 2k show, Amiga Inc. announced the developer box and our partnership with the TAO group in England. To be quite honest, the number of developers who approached us at the show and shortly thereafter wanting to purchase the Software Development Kit (SDK) separately from the hardware to run on your own machines took us completely by surprise.
Well, we listened and in only a few days will be releasing to manufacture the new Amiga SDK.
More information will be on the site the weekend of June 3rd.
Please note that the SDK will sell for $99 U.S.. The SDK will be available from your Amiga retailer, and other sources soon-to-be announced.
Things really are happening at Amiga, there are new applications, new employees, new partnerships, and new products.
The year 2000 truly is going to be a very exciting time. I look forward to meeting with many of you over the coming months at the different trade shows, different events, by phone, by fax, and by e-mail. I can promise you that with the release of the SDK you'll begin to see Amiga get much more aggressive and move much faster towards the future.
Thank you again for your continued support, and make sure to check the Amiga.com site the weekend of June 3rd.
Sincerely,
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the Amiga team.
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29.May.2000
amiga-news.de
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Phase 5 is sending cards back
In several e-mails we recieved, and in several forums it can be read that Gerald Carda is obviously
sending back cards send in for repair by customers. The first cards have already reached their owners.
So there seems to be hope that customers will get their cards back, some unrepaired, but better
than nothing.
Here is the address again customers should write to to get their cards back:
Wolf Dietrich und Gerald Carda
phase5 digital products
In der Au 27
D-61440 Oberursel
Germany
You should state when you did send in your card, the RMA number is also important. Set an apropriate
deadline for recieving the hardware. (ps)
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29.May.2000
Ivo Janacek by e-mail
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New version of the Mroocheck driver
The new version of the driver for the Mroocheck Interface is available in the download
area of Javosoft.
Download: Mroocheck12f20.lha
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29.May.2000
Martin Endres by e-mail
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Camouflage turns CamX
www.work.de/camouflage/ does no longer exist, turn to www.camx.de (title link).
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29.May.2000
Jürgen Beck by e-mail
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Radwar pictures
At the title link, you can find pictures from the Radwar Party 2000. The pictures were all
taken by members of the demo group "Haujobb", and are accordingly "freaky" (at least some
of them). Manfred Trenz can also be seen on one pic. Here the direct link to the Radwar 2k
picture galery.
An information on the site "Slengpung" in general. This is a project by "Haujobb", and
here you find pictures from many demo parties and similar happenings - from older parties,
too (e.g. the previous Radwar parties).
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29.May.2000
Apex Design
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New status report on Payback
A new status report for Payback has been released, stating that the title screen is now
fully functional, players can save their game and beta testers are enthusiastic. Additionally,
the author has updated the Payback information site.
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28.May.2000
Dietmar Knoll by e-mail
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AFD-COPYRIGHT News!
It's time again for some news on the "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note" (TM) project,
or "AFD-COPYRIGHT" (TM) for short.
This copyright note is an offer to all Amiga developers who want to release FD Software, be it
Freeware, Giftware, Shareware or whatever. 4 new translations have already been published this
year. AFD-COPYRIGHT is now available in seventeen (17!!!) languages - in two formats each, plain
text or HTML file.
The latest addition is the Brazilian-Portugueese translation by Daniel Mealha Cabrita and
Gustavo Sarmento by the ATO. The files can be downloaded from the official support site for
AFD-COPYRIGHT (title link).
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28.May.2000
Oliver Wagner by e-mail
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AmTalk II version 2.2 released
Download: amtalk_22.lzx
README
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28.May.2000
Stefan Robl by e-mail
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OpusSMBHandler version 1.0 released
With this ARexx script OpusMagellanII gets access to the Windows network environment.
It enables the basic functions like browse, copy, rename and also enables access to
password-protected functionalities. WARNUNG: Due to the relatively useless Amiga ports
of Samba it might not work correctly or not at all, depending on your system! No guarantees
given! If you are interested, or even want to add own improvements, feel free to do so!
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28.May.2000
Andreas Magerl by e-mail
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APC&TCP: Faces of Mars
At the Amiga-show in Neuss (germany) APC&TCP release again a cd-rom for
Amiga with the Name Faces of Mars 2001:
fom2001 is the cd-rom collection of the Faces of Mars-pd-series. The best of
the over 500 disks can be found on this shareware-CD-ROM. All programms are
tested under OS 3.5. The games, programms, pictures, animations, mods and
texts can be found in these main-drawers: 1982 (classic games), Babylon 5,
Esotherik, Fantasy, FOM, Games, History, Jokes, Mathematics, Misc, Science,
Science Fiction, Space, Star Trek and Star Wars.
Beside that there will be several bonus programms for internet-users like a
free email-address, link to the personal homepage, discussion-group and The
Portal, a starting point for the web, including, email, search-engine,
webcards and e-commerce.
Also are two audio-tracks included: fom2001 and They came from Outer Space!
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28.May.2000
Matthias Henze by e-mail
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First alpha version (v45.00 alpha 1) of the stormamiga.lib 45.00 for AmigaOS/PPC
A great many functions were rewritten, many new functions added and all known bugs
removed. This version is for registered users only. New registrations are currently
not possible, sorry.
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28.May.2000
Andreas Kleinert by e-mail
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akMPEG version 4.45 released
In the support area, you can download the latest version of the akMPEG players, which
now supports "Pause" and "Single-Step". Download:
akMPEG4.lha
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27.May.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail
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CD32 Games Install Kit Version 3.5 NG released
The latest version of the CD32 Games Install Kit has been released on the Airsoft Softwair
homepage. This is the first public release since over two years. The CD32 Games Install Kit
installs over 120 CD32/CDTV games to hard drive and makes them executable from there. It
offers a stable CD32 emulation mode that emulates many CD32 extensions, e.g. cd.device,
NV RAM.
Version 3.5NG was considerably improved, bugfixed and optimized. It can now downloaded from
the Airsoft Softwair homepage. The extra programs, icons and additional kits will be
offered during the next days.
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27.May.2000
Dhomas Trenn by e-mail
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young monkey studios News
young monkey studios is pleased to announce a substantial reduction in the
shareware prices for it's Amiga software. As well, several applications are
now freely available.
Shareware/Free applications include:
Commander-ImageFX - Customizable GUI for ImageFX
GridLock - 2 player game Modem/NullModem/Ami-TCP (free)
HP3PS - PacificPage PS/PCL Mode Changer (free)
MSE - MIDI SYStem EXplorer - PatchEditor+MORE
SamplerUtility - Disk imager for ProAudio Samplers (free)
TextToBraille - Text To Braille Conversion Utility (free)
TimeKeep - TimeClock Util for Clients-Projects-Invoices
TimeKeepDev - TimeClock Util for Project Development
TimeSpeak - Speaks current date or time (free)
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27.May.2000
Dhomas Trenn by e-mail
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NewTekniques Magazine Index
young monkey studios is pleased to announce that it's NewTekniques magazine indexes
now include over 100 freely accessable online articles, tutorials and reviews on
topics of LightWave, Inspire, Aura, Toaster, Flyer, ImageFX, and Amiga. Other popular
Amiga, Music and Video magazines are also included, with hundreds of other online articles.
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27.May.2000
Günter Horbach on ANF
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KDH stops distributing Alive Mediasoft products
Starting immediately, KDH Datentechnik stops distributing Amiga games published and distributed
by the English company Alive Mediasoft. We wrote to the company demanding clarification why the
CD Goal2000 only includes the old Goal game (with cracker intro). Moreover we requested proof that
a license is available for all published games. If the situation can be solved positively, we will
resume distribution.
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26.May.2000
Volker Grabbe in ANF
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Heise: New PowerPCs expected this summer
«According to reports of the US press, IBM wants to release a new family of
PowerPC processors that do not only offer higher clockrates (up to 700 MHz), but
especially have an integrated L2 cache of 256 KByte. Because of their reasonable
power usage, the in 0,18-µm copper technique manufactured G3 processors
address primarily the notebook market.»
For full article (in German) follow titlelink.
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26.May.2000
Tom Crecelius in ANF
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Goal2000! purchase risks, Alive-Mediasoft maintains silence
Tom Crecelius writes in ANF:
I have purchased the game Goal2000! from Alive-Mediasoft some weeks ago. After
receiving the CD, I noticed an error on the CD. Not Goal2000! is on the CD, but
only Goal!. After decrunching the "Goal2000-1.DMS" archive to disk and booting it
up, an intro appears with the contents: "Goal! - The Championchip League. Broken
by Q.U.A.R.T.E.X in 1993"!!
When the menu appears, it is entirely obvious that this is Goal! and not Goal2000!.
Despite multiple attempts to get into touch with Alive-Mediasoft via mail and
despite former (before I had payed) good mail contact I couldn't get a reply
from Alive-Mediasoft up to this day. Maybe they will now reply...
So be careful if you are interested in "Goal2000!".
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26.May.2000
Martin "Mason" Merz in ANF
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OpusMI Update released
OpusMI - second update (5th release). A collection of icons and images for DOpus and other
programs in GlowIcon design with more than 90 new and reworked icons and a new FTP
startmenu, as well as new default icons for DOpus Magellan II.
Homepage - 2nd update
A new info list was created for the newest informations about OpusMI.
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26.May.2000
CodePoet
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WinUAE: Danish helpfiles available
Danish helpfiles for WinUAE have been released.
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26.May.2000
JOTD
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JST version 3.3 released
Version 3.3 of the hd installer JST which contains smaller bugfixes was released.
Download: jst.lha
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26.May.2000
Fun Time World
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AmiDog: New emulator MESS and MAME update
Two new pages about the emulators MAME and MESS went online on the AmiDog homepage.
Both programs are available in new versions, although there are no big changes. Mathias
Roslund has decided to take over the development of the two emulators after nothing
new has been released of them in a long time.
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26.May.2000
APC&TCP [News]
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KATO Development Group News
In about a month, the Melody 1200 pro will be available again. Distribution will be
handled mainly by the KATO Development Group, but also through other dealers. The
Unity will be a bit delayed and thus also the Melody for Zorro 2 bus.
Why Twister 1200 and no other solution? The difference lies in the details. Technical
background can be read on the KATO Development Group Website. KATO will be pleased
to answer any questions you might have.
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26.May.2000
CyberGraphX
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Draco pages were updated
Draco pages on vgr.vom were updated.
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26.May.2000
Audio Evolution
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Audio Evolution with new domain
The website of Davy Wentzler's Audio Evolution can now also be reached at
http://www.audio-evolution.com/. Please
change your bookmarks.
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26.May.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Software: Awards 2000
The pages of Trogladite Software were
unavailable for some time because of CGI problems and are now online again after a complete
redesign. The first bigger event are the awards of this year.
While one website award was given last year, this year Trogladite Software offers five
awards in different categories. The five categories are: websites, game software,
applications, hardware and shareware/freeware. One award is given for each category.
amiga-news.de is nominated in the category "websites". We would be happy if you would
vote for us and click the following link once:
Vote for us
There's also some news from the software area. AddAssign version 2.0 is released.
Download: addassign.lha
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26.May.2000
Frank via eMail
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InfoWorld interview with Sun co-founder Bill Joy on Jini, Java...
InfoWorld Executive Producer/New Media Katherine Bull and Editor at Large Ed Scannell
interviewed Sun Chief Scientist/co-founder Bill Joy. An interesting read about Jini,
Java and the responsibilities of suppliers and inventors of technology.
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26.May.2000
AROS-ML
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AROS Status update
From aros-announce-admin@lists.hepe.com
Date Thu, 25 May 2000 16:07:03 +0200
Subject [AROS-Announce] Status update
Hello,
There was no status update for more than 6 weeks (which is too much).
I'll do better in the future :-) In the last few days, our WWW counter
silently skipped 33.333 hits.
The Sowatec AG has decided to give AROS a chance. Several people who
applied for the job to work on AROS have been contacted to arrange for
job interviews. That means for me that I will finally be able to meet
some of the people I worked with for the last five years ;-) It doesn't
mean that there will be an AROS development team in Switzerland, though.
So don't hope for too much, yet :-)
Unfortunately, the date for the World of Alternatives is very unlucky
for me; I'll return from my holidays on Saturday and therefore, I'll
not be able to attend :-( Since the World of Amiga in Cologne seems
to be a dead event this year (Who's left to attend ? Who is willing
to attend ??) I'll try to make it the London Amiga show or whatever
is held this or early next year. Sorry if you did expect me to show
up :-)
On a more happy news, BGUI has been handed over to us and integrated
into AROS (you can download the contrib sources for your copy). Manuel
Lemus promised me that it compiles on Amiga but, unfortunately, it
doesn't compile on AROS, yet (the old lack-of-manpower problem). There
should be no major problems, though and porting has started. I just
can't say when it will be finished. Anyone wanting to work on BGUI
only (and not on AROS) should still apply for a CVS account to
synchronise his work with ours.
Also, Steve Crietzman of the Open Amiga Foundation seems to be pretty
far with finding out which legal obstacles could hurt AROS/Lite. His
effort is currently blocked by the effort of the Sowatec AG to found
an AROS development team (we'll have to sort our legal obstacles first).
As usual, the legal dept. drains all the energies ;-)
On the AROS side, work is still progressing, maybe even at a faster
pace than usual ;-) The AROS Native/i386 flavour is currently broken
(the HIDD system has been greatly enhanced and Michael Schulz currently
cannot take care of it) but AROS Linux/i386 works quite fine. Nils
has committed a couple of patches which greatly enhance the speed of
the graphics output (it's now *much* faster then on the WoA in Cologne
last year in November). Right now, bugs in the build system and exec
are hunted by various AROS developers and I hope to see lots of progress
in that area when I return from my holidays.
As for the survey which I started months ago, I hope I can summarize
them after the holidays :-)
Things never turn out what you expect them,
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Tel: +41-(0)1-952 55 55
Fax: +41-(0)1-952 55 66
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25.May.2000
Frederic Labourer via email
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PureBasic V1.40 released
Download: PureBasic.lha
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25.May.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via email
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Airsoft Softwair hompage back online
After two weeks of absence the homepage of Airsoft Softwair is now back online. I apologise for again for this absence,
it should not happen so fast again. All the links should work perfectly also.
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25.May.2000
amiga.topcool.de at the ANF
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Commodore rights sold to ComputerNational Inc.
The rights of the name Commodore are sold again - this time to
ComputerNational Inc.. They are working on a successor for the C64.
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25.May.2000
Markus Schmidt at the ANF
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Amiga 4 ever - project chat
A few days ago the "Amiga 4 Ever Project" has started an IRC-chat. The present topic: "AmigaNG - future or fiction?"
Channel: #a4ep
Server: irc.germany.net
Port: 6667
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25.May.2000
Harry "Piru" Sintonen via email
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cnet.device V1.2 released
The version 1.2 of the PCMCIA-network-driver cnetdevice is released.
Download: cnetdevice.lhacnetdevice.readme
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25.May.2000
Andreas Kleinert via email
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akMPEG4 update
A update of akmpeg4 is available on my wwwsite (and on its way into the
aminet). So it is only interesting to several people, most of you can
leave out this download:
V4.44 (25,05,2000):
- configinfo for DOpus4 and AWeb3 added
- MPGUI looks for "akmp" or "PPCakmp" also in C: if they are not found (locked) in PROGDIR:.
(-> Peter Dorn)
You will find an interview (german) with Andreas Kleinert at the Amiga Future topic "Aktion".
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25.May.2000
Ray McCarthy via email
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Kickstart Show 2000
At the topic "Show" under the titlelink you will now find information
aboout the Kickstart Show 2000, that will take place on the 27th of June
in Surrey, England.
Also the registration to the online-game-competition is possible.
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24.May.2000
Michael Heider on ANF
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Update of the X-Server for Linux m68k
On my homepage, you will find a manual for updating the X-Server and including the tool Xconfigurator
for Linux_m68k in general. Xconfigurator is a tool to create a XF86Config under Linux, which is needed
for the X Window System. In addition, you can order the Linux_m68k CD-ROM here. At the link above,
there are submissions and files for Linux-APUS PPC, too.
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24.May.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Support with Commodore Software (3.1 etc.)
As some might already know, Amiga Inc. has contacted me (and Cloanto) asking to remove
all © software from the web. I will include this chapter in my C= story, since an
explanation would take too long here. Currently, the OS3.1 disks and the OS3.1 ROM files
are no longer available on my website. If you have support questions please contact Amiga
Inc. / Int. directly, since I will for sure not copy disks. Additionally please refer
to xxx.html.
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24.May.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac homepage moved
The homepage for the astronomy software "Digital Almanac" has moved permanently now.
The new URL is www.software.de/dalmanac/.
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24.May.2000
Ivo Janacek by e-mail
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New FastATA version for A1200 and A4000
Javosoft offers a new version of the FastATA driver for A1200 and A4000.
Download: FastATA'99v59a31.lha
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24.May.2000
Thomas Lorenz on ANF
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Big (good) Fusion PPC News!
On the Microcode Solutions homepage there are some news on Fusion PPC:
- Another WOS problem was fixed
- Fusion PPC is now top priority (will be finished shortly!)
- To get more developer resources and funds (and since the number of pre-orders
didn't meet expectations), MS has licensed their PC MAC-68040 emulation technology
to Emulators Inc.
- The Fusion PPC version will no longer require a MAC ROM! It will represent a
100% iMac emulation!
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23.May.2000
CyberGraphX
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Graphics Card poll
The text page of the graphics card poll running since 1995 has been updated.
Participate in the poll or have a look at
the results.
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23.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Boing Bag 2 News
Martin Steigerwald wrote to the AmigaOS 3.5 ML: "About news to Boing Bag 2 (second update
to AmigaOS 3.5), I can only tell you that it is under development. There are some bugs
left to fix. It is to be released as soon as possible, but at first we have to fix the
known bugs so we cannot give a release date yet."
WARNING: DiskCopy v44 does not work correctly with partitions beyond 4 GB, and can even
lead to data loss. It is as of now untested if Format v44 can lead to problems. A certain
caution is adviced. Boing Bag 2 will contain fixed versions.
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23.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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New official OS 3.5 support mailing list
Amiga has created a new support mailing list for AmigaOS 3.5. Details on the
support page.
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23.May.2000
Stefan Robl by e-mail
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Intermediate status report / new web and e-mail addresses
The fact that I have not yet released new updates for ArtecScan, FMdriver, CGXBlanker,
PPCjpeg etc. does not mean I have cancelled the projects! On the contrary: many new
improvements are already planned, some even already implemented - I am lacking the time
necessary for completing them. The reason: Right now I have numerous other (Amiga related)
tasks to tend to.
Nevertheless there are some changes: My homepage is now available at the new domain
www.qdev.de. Starting immediately, my new e-mail
address is also valid: stefan.robl@qdev.de.
The old addresses will remain valid parallely for a long time, however I suggest adjusting
the bookmarks / address books now.
As a small gimmick, my homepage has another (hardware) photography - of a Zorro II autoconfig
board for the A500, which I built/developed years ago. There will be news about this within
the year. More about it later... :)
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23.May.2000
Achim Stegemann by e-mail
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xpkGZIP for WarpOS
Since the asyncio.library has been ported to WarpOS, I ported the GZIP module for Xpk to WarpOS,
which performed very well even under 68k.
It offers fantastic compression and decompression speeds, and currently is the best and fastest
Xpk packer for the Amiga. Due to the extremly good performance, it is the perfect module of choice
for the Xpk filesystem. Compression with up to 750 kB/sec. and decompression with about 5 MB/sec.,
with compression rates of about 80% are possible! It has been uploaded to Aminet.
Download (22 kB)
Moreover, the icon contest for Digital Almanac is over. Winner is Dieter Klisch. Congratulations!
The graphics will soon be on display on the DA homepage.
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22.May.2000
WHDLoad
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WHDLoad version 11.1 released
Download: WHDLoad_11.1_usr.lzx - 105 kB
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22.May.2000
AWNPipe
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AWNPipe version 2.48 released
Download: AWNP_2-48.lha,
AWNP.readme
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22.May.2000
Atéo Concepts
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Atéobus Developer Kit version 4.1 released
Download: ateobus_devkit.lzx,
ateobus_devkit.readme
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22.May.2000
CUCUG
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CUCUG Status Register 05/2000
CUCUG Status Register 05/2000 has been posted.
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22.May.2000
amiga-news.de
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Big lottery at the Amiga show in Neuss
To the occassion of the Amiga show World of Alternatives
taking place on June 10th/11th in Neuss, amiga-news.de has set up a big lottery. As you can see
at the title link, really great prices have been made available for us, many thanks to our sponsors
for it. If you want to supply more prices and being added to the sponsors list, contact Petra Struck
either by phone ( 0049-2104-35040 ) or by e-mail.
On both days on 3:00 PM there will be a drawing at our booth, which we share with the
Amigaclub on BTX & Internet. We managed to get Petro
Tyschtschenko as "Dame" of Fortune :-).
To participate, please bring a post card with your complete address to the show, and bring it
to the amiga-news.de booth until 2:30 PM either on Saturday or Sunday. Only one card per person.
If you cannot come to the show, please send your post card to:
amiga-news.de
Petra Struck
Am Kleff 31
D-40699 Erkrath
Deadline is June 6th, 2000 (date of stamp). All prices listed will be drawn and send out to
the winners directly by the sponsors. Decisions are final, no exchange of prices.
Prices
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AMIGA International Inc., Langen |
- 2 Amiga 1200 with harddisk
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AMIGA Zentrum Thüringen e.V. |
- 3 CDs "Linux-PPC for Amiga"
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APC & TCP, Übersee |
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AS WebShop, Hildesheim |
- 1 Quantum Fireball Ict10 Festplatte with 5.1 GB, E-IDE, 9.5 ms, 512 KB Cache, 5.400 U/min
- 2 boxes Verbatim CD-R media (10 pieces each), 74min, 650MB, Multispeed
- 2 Ultimate BlitzBasic v2.1 - Amiga CD-ROM
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COOL bits, Köln |
- 1 Catweazel MKII Controller for PC drives and a 3x AT Controller
- 1 PCMCIA NIC CM40BC for A1200
- 1 Clarissa V3 easy - Video/Animation software
- 1 Wasted Dreams - action adventure
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DCE Computer Service, Oberhausen |
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Eilert, Dietmar, Aachen |
- GoldED Studio 6 - Editor system with many plugins
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Epic Marketing, Tübingen |
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Eternity Hard- und Software, Frechen |
- 1 Erben der Erde - adventure
- 1 Totally Decent - 3D space combat
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Falke Verlag, Kiel |
- 1 year subscription AmigaPlus - german magazine
- 1 year subscription AmigaFuture - german magazine
- 1 Camouflage - MIDI software
- 1 Wildfire Version 7.0 - graphics software
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Haage & Partner, Glashütten |
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Hackerland, Köln |
- 5 Bücher - "Hackerland - Das Logbuch der Szene" (German) - Authors: Denis Moschitto und Evrim Sen
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Individual Computers, Aachen |
- 1 x-Surf - Ethernet card for all Amigas with Zorro-Slots
- 1 Silversurfer - serial topspeed card for Amiga 1200, Amiga 600 and Buddha (Flash)
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Innovative, Herzogenaurach |
- 2 fxPaint - image processor with a lot of special effects
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KDH Datentechnik, Horb |
- 1 Amiga A1200 with harddisk in airbrushed case
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Kleinert, Andreas, Siegen |
- 2 x Keycode for RegNet-Bundle 5562: SViewIV with PPC-modules and akPNG/akJFIF/akTIFF-datatypes with PPC-support as you can see
here.
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RBM Digitaltechnik, Eschwege |
- 1 IOBlix with ethernet module - the IOBlix ethernet module supports 10Base2 and 10BaseT
- 1 ScanQuix 5 - Scannerdriver for Mustek, HP, Artec, Epson abd UMAX
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Schatztruhe, Essen |
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Service & Consulting, Frankfurt |
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Titan Computer, Bremen |
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Vesalia Computer, Hamminkeln |
- 2 Amiga 1200
- 10 coupons á DM 50,- (to be vouched in at Vesalia)
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Village Tronic, Hannover |
- 1 Paloma IV - VideoIn-Module for Picasso IV Graphics card
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22.May.2000
Worfje on ANF
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Official WinFellow website online
A new developer team for WinFellow has formed to port Fellow, the Amiga emulator, to
Win32 platforms like Win9x/NT/2000. The new website is online.
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22.May.2000
Daniel Orth on ANF
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Graphics contest - deadline extended
Due to the pityful response, the graphics contest of the Amiga magazine
amiga.topcool has
been extended to May 31st. The supergame "Shadow Of The Third Moon" can be won.
Theme of the title page is Turboboards - More power for Amigas (tests of 68k and PPC
turboboard reviews). Raytracing pictures would be nice, but pictures with 2D effects
are ok too. The speed / power of the turboboard(s) should be felt while looking at the
picture. The picture should be b/w-enabled (means, high contrast). Please mail your
submissions - the chance for winning is really big! The artist creating the best
picture (which will be used, too) will get the game.
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22.May.2000
Oliver Wagner by e-mail
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Textinput.class 27.1 available
The Textinput class version 27.1 is available and especially interesting for AmIRC users, since
the Menutoggle function has been improved.
textinput_271.lzx
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22.May.2000
Vesalia on ANF
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Heretic II available soon
Starting June 5th, Heretic II will be shipped.
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22.May.2000
2IDs-Team on ANF
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2IDs Grafix Design Musix online again
After a long unvoluntary break we are now online again, since we couldn't be contacted due
to a technical defect. Our e-mail ports are active again. New are webmaster@2IDs.de,
postmaster@2IDs.de and 2IDs@gmx.de.
Our pages have recieved a new outfit in the meantime, and have been extended by several
features. Aside from free SMS sending, we also created a Call-A-SongArea ;O) Changes have
been applied to 2IDs i-NETstore. Come have a look.
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22.May.2000
V3 Portal
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New Imagedecoder for V3
Version 12.5 of the Imagedecoder fixes the problem with transparent PNGs.
Download: vimgdec_125.lzx
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21.May.2000
Sebastian Bauer
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New versions
Download:
SimpleHTML (0.8)
simplehtml.lzx
html.datatype (0.8)
html-dt.lzx
text.datatype (44.2)
text-dt.lzx
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21.May.2000
Jürgen A. Theiner on ANF
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Link list at playamiga.de
Starting June 1st, I will extend my link list. For this, I need your favourite links
(not necessarily Amiga-related). You can now submit your links online at the title
link.
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21.May.2000
Michael Pfeiffer by e-mail
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VWP News: Java/Kaffe for BeOS
After the documentation How to Install Java
for BeOS has been expanded, the BeKaffe homepage vanished. The new URL
is sadly still offline. So the JavaRunner for BeOS
is pretty useless after all, since BeKaffe cannot be downloaded anywhere. If someone has the original and,
if possible, complete BeKaffe package (.pkg file and / or source code), please contact us so the BeKaffe
homepage or a mirror can be put online as soon as possible.
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21.May.2000
Flelix Schwarz by e-mail
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Innovative celebrates 5th birthday!
Innovative is five years old! For five years, we have been working for the AMIGA®, and
in this time frequently pushed it forward with our uniquely innovative and low-cost software.
Due to this, for one month (up to and including June 21st) we lower the price for fxPAINT
to 109,- DM. You save 30,- DM!! If you have been planning to purchase the fastest image
processor and jack-of-all-trades in the graphics area for the AMIGA®, this is the
opportunity!
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21.May.2000
Ray McCarthy on ANF
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Subscribe for the game contest - Kickstart Amiga Show
If you want to participate in the multiplayer contest for Quake and Super Skidmarks taking
place on the K3-Show The Kickstart Amiga Show, you should subscribe at "Show" under
the title link. The number of participants is limited, and who comes first will be in the
contest. There are many nice prices to win, more details at the title link.
There is also a list of exhibitors at the title link.
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20.May.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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New URL for A4EP
The sites of the Amiga4EverProject are now available at the following URL:
http://www.a4ep.com
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19.May.2000
AWNPipe
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AWNPipe Version 2.48 released
Download: AWNP_2-48.lha
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19.May.2000
ATC
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Prerelease No. 2 of AmiTradeCenter
Besides some new functions, many smaller bugs were fixed.
Download: ATC_1.2pre2.lzx
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19.May.2000
Matthias Henze via eMail
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Mailing list for stormamiga.lib created
Registration
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19.May.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Epic News
Paolo Cattani finished a last update for his F1 simulation "Virtual GP". In addition
to other things, the new update offers an arcade mode in which it is much easier
to keep the car on the road. It should now be possible for beginners as well to
win races with "Virtual GP". Please read the provided instructions carefully.
Download: VGP1.0d.lzx
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19.May.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Exoticons
Exoticons is a NewIcon collection for Amiga and contains 942 icons for Amiga games.
Screenshot. You'll
find further details and the download link under News by following the titlelink.
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19.May.2000
Robert J. Williams via eMail
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SEAL: club issue 5 released
SEAL (South Essex Amiga Link) is pleased to announce that the fifth issue of their
print magazine is ready and available on the Kickstart show on May 27th. This issue
covers the theme CD writers in detail and contains reviews of BurnIT, MakeCD
and MasterISO.
Further highlights are the Cinema4D tutorial with example projects and reviews of
fxPaint, Wildfire 7 and Wipeout 2097. Read further details under the titlelink.
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19.May.2000
Nico Barbat
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"Free Amiga Jobs" Status Report May 2000
Thirty days have passed since Free Amiga Jobs went online - time for the first monthly
status report about the free job service for the Amiga market.
These are the known changes since the last status report:
new jobs (since the last update): 14
arranged jobs (since the last update): 13
arranged jobs (total): 13
open jobs (current): 26
open jobs (total): 44
"Free Amiga Jobs" is a project of Amiga plus and amiga-news.de. For
further informations please write to the accompanying eMail address.
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