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           T H E   W O R D   F R O M   A M I N O   A M I G A

                  C O S A   O N   T H E   B U Y O U T

        A M I G A   W E B   D I R E C T O R Y   G O N E   . . .

       . . .   A S   I S   " A M A Z I N G   C O M P U T I N G "

     E X H I B I T O R S   S I G N   U P   F O R   A M I G A   2 K

           M O R E   A B O U T   S T .   L O U I S   S H O W

              S T I L L   M O R E   O N   A M I G A   2 K

                  A M I R C   3 . 3   R E L E A S E D

           M O R P H O S   P R O J E C T   A N N O U N C E D

            V O Y A G E R   V 3   F I N A L   R E L E A S E

         C S & E   A   E U R O P E A N   D I S T R I B U T O R

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Wow...
 So much has happened recently, it's hard to know where to start.
 Allright, the bad news first. The first Amiga monthly magazine,
"Amazing Computing" is dead. It was also the last US Amiga magazine.
This is incredibly sad, especially as it just missed making it into
the new era of "Amiga by Amino", as announced in our recent special
edition. We don't know the details, and I'm not sure I want to. It
would be depressing. However, this is a real loss for North American
Amigans and the hurt will be felt for a very long time.
 Also sad, and this for the entire Amiga community, not just us North
Americans, is the death of CUCUG's Amiga Web Directory. The
cornerstone of the Amiga community on the web, it also just missed the
new era. Rumor has it other sites offered to take the Web Directory
over, and were turned down. If true, that's mind numbing. We really
don't know the details here either, but we will miss them.
 Now, the good news. There really is some, and it's quite good!
 The Amiga Community will survive, for some time to come. The computer
has a new owner, with a plan for the future (that's almost enough to
cause shock in old time Amigans) and a genuine, deep respect and love
for the Amiga and the Community. This is a bit hard to cope with after
recent events, but it's true.
 It's also true they have a rough road ahead of them. Success is by no
means guaranteed. But they'll be traveling the road with the best
computer community that ever existed. If that combination can't build
a meaningful future, then there's very little that can.
 The plan will be revealed to us in the next few months, and
apparently goes well beyond desktop machines. It's going to be an
interesting new era - we'll keep you posted.
 Finally, this new era seems to have room for Petro Tyschtschenko and
his work in Germany. In our opinion, while Jay Miner is the father of
the Amiga, Petro is the godfather or something similar. We're pleased
to see he's still involved. There's no one who's worked harder for the
Amiga's future over the years.
 While we're at it - for you gamers, the library of Quake related
games have been released for people to port, and work is well underway
for PPC Amigas. For those who love these games, the fun is just
beginning.
 Below, the first Executive Update from the Amiga web site, now under
the control of Amino Development.
 We love it!

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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           T H E   W O R D   F R O M   A M I N O   A M I G A

January 3, 2000

YeeHaw and welcome to the year 2000;

 I want to make something very clear from the beginning we have been
told, that Amiga was purchased by Gateway because of the Patents, and
that there were not even aware of the Amiga installed base, or the
people.

 Gateway purchased Amiga because of Patents, we purchased Amiga
because of the People.

 Without the people standing behind, developing, creating, purchasing
and continuing to believe in the Amiga there never would have been
anything for Gateway to purchase. We recognize this, and it is because
of you, and what you have continued to accomplish with Amiga that we
have purchased the company.

 I want to make sure that everyone knows and understands what this all
means to you the true Amigans.

 Here is what was acquired from Gateway:

 1. All trademarks logos etc.

 2. All existing inventory of Amiga International

 3. All existing licenses.

 4. License to All Amiga patents (Gateway still owns the patents, but
we are able to use them).

 5. All web sites, and registered domain names.

 6. The Amiga OS and all that is associated with the OS.

 7. The Amiga operation as it exists today.

 Specific details of the developer system, the OS partners and how one
can begin developing will be released in the next couple of weeks.

 We will be making an announcement on January 8th, 2000 with one of
our partners at CES in Las Vegas, and more details will follow that
release.

 Fleecy, Myself, Petro, and the rest of the team are not going to make
promises and create presentations and demos. We are going to deliver
products, services, and the rest of the world will know what you have
already known.

 We will be officially changing the name of Amino Development
Corporation to the Amiga Corporation this week, and we will let
everyone know of this change shortly once it is officially completed.

 I want to thank all of you for your continued support we will make
Amiga what it should have been, and more importantly what it will be.

 Keeping the faith,

Bill McEwen President/CEO
Amino Development Corporation
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                 C O S A   O N   T H E   B U Y O U T

COSA Reaction to Amino Purchase of Amiga Rights

January 2, 2000

 Within the past few days, ownership of the Amiga rights, trademarks
and technology passed from Gateway to Amino Development. People have
asked for COSA's opinion on the sale, and for comments how this
affects the campaign to open-source the AmigaOS.

 We believe the sale of Amiga to Amino is a good, positive step
forward for the Amiga community, and that the new owners of the Amiga
technology rights are the right people to steer the Amiga technology
into the new millennium.

 COSA have known Fleecy Moss, co-founder of Amino, for quite some
time, and have been in e-mail discussions on a number of matters of
mutual interest, including Open Source, for quite some considerable
time. We have a good working relationship, and a mutual understanding
of what needs to be done to bring the Amiga into the new millennium.

 COSA is confident, based on our discussions with Fleecy, that Amino
has the vision and direction necessary, to take the Amiga into the new
millennium. The major difference to their predecessors being that
Amino truely understands the Amiga technology, and is receptive to the
needs, ideas and inspirations of the Amiga community. (The management
of Amino are, afterall, Amigans themselves.)

 We await the announcements from Amino in the weeks and months ahead
with much anticipation, and look forward to a hopefully long and
productive working relationship with them.

Congratulations, Guys!
Steve Crietzman, and the team at COSA
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       A M I G A   W E B   D I R E C T O R Y   G O N E   . . .

 January 1, 2000 - The Champaign- Urbana Computer Users Group (CUCUG)
announced today that it has retired its popular, award-winning Amiga
Web Directory (AWD) web site.

 Citing continuing declines in the Amiga marketplace and Gateway's
failure to deliver new Amiga computer systems, CUCUG reluctantly
decided to discontinue its popular web site link directory and news
service on January 1, 2000. It was felt that while CUCUG could
continue with the AWD for several months, it was better to retire now
rather than allow the site to slowly decline with the market. CUCUG is
hopeful that the latest owners of the Amiga can turn this market
around for the developers and users who have held on throughout all
the past ownership changes and other difficulties the Amiga has faced.

 For over five years, the Amiga Web Directory served as one of the
most-visited Amiga-oriented web sites on the Internet. Its carefully
cataloged listings of Amiga web sites was the most-respected
collection of its kind. Each site in the AWD's listings was reviewed
by the CUCUG webmaster to ensure quality and Amiga orientation. Site
descriptions were carefully prepared by hand, resulting in accuracy
not possible on other machine- driven sites or those which allow site
owners to write their own descriptions.

 The AWD's Amiga news pages became one of the most imitated features
in the Amiga web community. Dozens of Amiga news sites were inspired
by the success of the Amiga Web Directory's hugely popular news pages.

 A well-known offshoot of the Amiga Web Directory was "Agnes" the
Amiga web searching service. Agnes was also a cartoon character which
personalized the searching service. In addition to the over-2000 Amiga
sites cataloged in the Amiga Web Directory, Agnes could search the
general Internet for Amiga content, newsgroup messages, CUCUG Status
Register newsletters and other Amiga-oriented materials.

 The Amiga Web Directory was one of the first member-supported Amiga
web sites. Amiga enthusiasts joined the CUCUG organization to show
their support for the efforts of the group. These memberships covered
the costs associated with running the popular web service and other
CUCUG activities. CUCUG is very grateful to its members' support which
it has received over the years. The group also acknowledges the many
Amiga-oriented companies which have given assistance.

 CUCUG, which has been supporting local computer users in the
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois area since 1983 will now focus its efforts
on local user group activities.
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      . . .   A S   I S   " A M A Z I N G   C O M P U T I N G "

31 December, 1999
 "Amiga Update" has received confirmation from several sources that
PIM Publication's "Amazing Computing" has recently filed for
bankruptcy. "Amazing" was the first - and the last - monthly Amiga
magazine in the US and its presence will be sorely missed.
 While it is certainly possible for businesses to survive a bankruptcy
and continue into the future, we have no indications that such will be
the case with "Amazing". It is ironic that as Amiga itself is in the
process of a potential rebirth, we have lost both CUCUG and "Amazing
Computing"
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     E X H I B I T O R S   S I G N   U P   F O R   A M I G A   2 K

December 26, 1999


 Amigan-St. Louis announces it's first group of exhibitors for "Amiga
2K". These companies are listed on the Gateway Computer Show's - Amiga
2K© web site. You can view this site by typing in the following
address on your web browser.

 http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html

 These companies are just the first in many that are signing up to
exhibit at this exciting event. Please check the show pages every week
to see the latest news.

 The Gateway Computer Shows are the largest and the most interesting
Amiga shows in the Americas. More products, updates, plans, ideas and
other exciting events have been released, announced and planned at
these shows than anywhere else.

 Amiga 2K will be hosted at the Henry VIII Hotel, on Lindbergh Ave.,
in St. Louis, MO. U.S.A. Show dates are Saturday April 1 through
Sunday April 2, 2000.

 Please check the web site for more information about the show and the
hotel. Come join Petro, myself and many other Amigans at Amiga 2K.
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          M O R E   A B O U T   S T .   L O U I S   S H O W

December 31, 1999


 Amigan-St. Louis is happy to announce the addition of Nova Design,
Inc. to it's growing list of exhibitors.

 The ever popular Gateway Computer Shows, including the new Amiga 2K
show in St. Louis on April1 & 2, 2000, have always been very popular
with Amiga Computer fans.

 This newest addition of Nova Design, Inc. and others is just one more
step in the growing list of companies that will exhibit at the largest
Amiga show in the Americas. Please see the "Show" page in the site
listed below.

 In additon, you can find the "Club Table Contest" described on the
"Contest" page of the Amiga 2K site. This is an excellent chance for
an Amiga Club to showcase it's abilities, and show off the Amiga,
while possibly winning a prize for their efforts.

Please check our site at: http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html
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        S T I L L   M O R E   O N   A M I G A   2 K

January 3, 2000

 Amigan-St. Louis is pleased to announce a discount for clubs
exhibiting at the Gateway Computer Show - Amiga 2K©. The discount is
40% off of the normal price. This is a substantial discount, that is
only available to clubs, and only available when utilizing an eight
foot table. It is a limited time offer.

 The pricing can be determined by looking at the price guide for eight
foot tables under the "Exhibitors" button on the show page at:
http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html Then simply multiply 60% times that
price to determine the price a club would pay.

 Example: An eight foot table space is 9' x 6' or 54 square feet. The
price per square foot is $6. So 54 x 6 = $324. That's the normal
price. Then multiply $324 x 60% to get $194.40. This is what the club
will pay for their table. Eight foot tables can be shared by two
groups if necessary. This would further reduce the cost to a club. The
cost of the table does not include any admissions to the show. All
persons in the club must purchase an admission.

 All in all, this is a substantial discount. It is being given due to
the tremendous support clubs have given to the Amiga. Without the
clubs, there would be no Amiga. So to reward them and their hard
working members, we are giving this discount so they will not deplete
their club treasury to exhibit at Amiga 2K

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                   A M I R C   3 . 3   R E L E A S E D

991227

 AmIRC was the first VaporWare application to be shown to the Amiga
world. Its author, Oliver Wagner, has worked too many late nights on
the program to count, and continues to update it to this day.

 AmIRC's main strengths lie in its interface - it's one of the easiest
IRC clients to use on any platform, yet it also keeps the power users
happy with advanced ARexx scripting and its plugin API, allowing
unique new features to be added. It also features a URL grabber to
capture any URLs mentioned in any channels or query windows, a
lag-o-meter to measure your system's lag from the server, and strong
builtin flood protection including a staggered output queue to stop
you flooding yourself off the server.

 For IRCing on the Amiga, AmIRC should be your number one choice.

 Please remember, AmIRC is shareware. If you use it, please register
the software and help support Amiga software development.

 Download AmIRC 3.3 and see why it's the best IRC client for the
Amiga. If you registered AmIRC 1.x or AmIRC 2.x, you can update to
version 3.3.

 There is an AmIRC Mailing List run by VaporWare for users to discuss
the software. Please feel free to sign up for it, your question may be
answered there.

Features

 o Advanced Low Level Plugin API.
 o Single Window Iconification.
 o Lag-o-meter shows lag from the server
 o Individual window logging.
 o Intuitive channel window with userlist and mode display.
 o Builtin high speed DCC drivers, incl. Secure Chat.
 o ARexx port includes event trapping.
 o IRCNet and UnderNet extensions.
 o Oper and clone announcement.

 o Builtin IdentD, disables itself if needed.
 o Bind sound effects, auto deiconify or ARexx to events.
 o Last nick history, TAB key cycles through.
 o URL grabber saves any URLs to send to your web browser.
 o Supports colored text for both input (WYSIWIG) and output.
 o CTCP/DCC flood protection.
 o Timestamping of lines and inline clickable URLs.

http://www.vapor.com/
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         M O R P H O S   P R O J E C T   A N N O U N C E D

Thursday, 23rd December 1999

 Today we announce the availability of a new Amiga next generation
PowerPC OS project, called MorphOS, to the public.

 In its current state it provides a modern memory protection
microkernel which runs a virtual amiga emulation. This microkernel
will be the base for a new OS layer.

 Research for this project started in early 1998, while at the end of
1998 an early implementation was ready. In 1999, we started on the
virtual amiga emulation to make the current AmigaOS available without
requiring 68K hardware. The basic design goals behind MorphOS are

- memory protection
- resource tracking
- asynchronous message system
- low interrupt latency
- virtual memory (optional)
- distributed computing
- symmetrical multi processing (SMP)
- recursive memory management
- task/thread and clan/chief model
- clean design with an elegant API
- micro/pico kernel mixture

The developer release is planned for end of January.  Minimum system
requirements are
- A4000 with CyberStorm PPC/604e and Symbios 770 SCSI
- CyberVisionPPC
- at least 32MB memory installed
- Kickstart 3.1 (Version 40.68) and Workbench 3.1 or up
Hardware requirements might change as soon as more hardware setups are
tested and implemented.

 As the success of this project will also depend on your
feedback/support, we suggest that interested developers visit our
project webpage for a general MorphOS overview and information on how
to join us to help.

Feel free to enter the project webpage at

http://www.morphos.de or
http://www.morphos.ch
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         V O Y A G E R   V 3   F I N A L   R E L E A S E

28 Dec 99

V³ 3.0 final released

 Here it is: the final version of V³

 Core changes since pre5:

 o now remembers FORM contents on back and, erm, window resize

 o HTTP/1.1 Accept-Language: support

 o Support for URL-embedded password support in HTTP URLs

 o Image information summary added

 o New Search Central plugin

 o The usual load of bugfixes and minor enhancements.

 This release does not include a new VFlash plugin. It is currently
undergoing final testing, and will be released individually within the
next few days.

http://v3.vapor.com
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        C S & E   A   E U R O P E A N   D I S T R I B U T O R

CS&E to concentrate on Amiga Distribution 2000

04/01/00

 I am writing to you for the good of the Amiga in the UK and beyond.
We have many great publishers and retailers and now two dedicated
magazines, but no independent distributor. I can announce to you that
CS&E will step in to independently distribute. We will reach both mail
order and high street retail from our warehouse in Birmingham which is
shared with the likes of Eidos.
 All products are delivered next day across Europe with many
guarantees for both the publisher and retailer. We hope that this step
will prove to be a great benefit for the whole Amiga community and
urge everyone to come together on this issue. Retailers please let us
know your full contact details for regular updates with your fax
number and e-mail and postal address. Publishers please also get in
contact to maximise your sales. A starter pack outlining our aims is
being prepared which will be sent out to all known contacts worldwide.
UK Amiga users can already feel proud by supporting some of the most
innovative companies around, we hope that this link will prove
valuable to all and our aim is to assist this good work.

David Connolly
Kind Regards,

CS&E sales:
7 Glyme Close, Woodstock, Oxon, OX20 1LB, Great Britain
+44 (0) 1993 812685
visit our website at http://www.csande.co.uk
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• Peters Amiga Homepage: A serious bug has been fixed in the HP and Olivetti printer drivers. The HP drivers for the 670C and the 870C are already available for download, the Olivetti drivers will be uploaded by the author at a later time.
• Airsoft Softwair: A new TUP version has just been released. TUP v1.5 now finally works flawlessly with Visual Prefs. Moreover, there are new catalogs for Spanish and French users, and some other improvements. Download: TUP1_5.lha
• Aminet uploads 05.01.2000
• Oliver Roberts: WarpJPEG.datatype 44.5 - download: WarpJPEGdt.lha - 38 Kb
• Ralph Torchia: Spitfire (Palm Desktop) version 0.32 - download: Spitfire.lha
• Haage & Partner offer a patch for PageStream 4.0 revision 2 (4.0r2). - download: pgs40patch1.lha - 597 Kb
• Shadow Works today released a statement, which explains why NewsRog (a NNTP newsreader) is discontinued. In the end, several things like decreasing Amiga market, no hardware developments, software piracy and credit card fraud resulted in this descission. The last version 1.8b, from October 1999, is still available for registered users in the download area.
• Cyberdyne Systems: New alpha versions (v45.00 alpha 6) of the stormamiga.lib for AmigaOS/68k. Some functions have been added, some expanded and optimized, and all known bugs removed. This version is for registered users only.
• Photogenics: Paul Nolan has created three new tutorials. He is now completely reworking the manual, and would wellcome feedback.
• Read at the Czech Amiga News:
  Those who want to see Duke Nukem 3D and Strife ported to Amiga, an contact David Bereault by e-mail.
  
  szip for Amiga, compiled by Allan Odgaard - download: szip_112_amiga.lzx
• Javosoft: New FastATA4000 driver version 1.6 for Elbox FastATA 4000 - download: FastATA4000v16a27.lha
• At Amigart Amster v0.3 is available, the freeware port of Napster MP3. The long filename and "Chat mode" bug has been fixed. Download: amster.lha
• Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail - aside from major optimizations of the PNG and TIFF datatypes, there are small improvements in the JFIF datatype, and PPC603-optimized versions especially for A1200/PPC users. Download:
  
  akJFIF-dt.lha
  akJFIF-PPC.lha
  akJFIF-WOS.lha
  akPNG-dt.lha
  akPNG-PPC.lha
  akPNG-WOS.lha
  akTIFF-dt.lha
  akTIFF-PPC.lha
  akTIFF-WOS.lha
  akMPEG4.lha - new URL!
• SecondSpin, the new MPEG Audio Player, has been released as version 1.87B.
  Download: SecondSpin_Install.lha - V.87B
  and SecondSpin_Encoder.lha - Lame v3.57
• Aminet uploads 07.01.2000
• Trogladite Software: Kalbos version 1.31 released, fixing the CGX bug. Download: ts-kalbos.lha
  
  Major UnInstaller update planned. The new UnInstaller will not only support scripts made for version 1.0, but also those made for 1.1+. Additionally, Commodore Installer logfiles, the new UnInstaller standard and a reworked UI will be implemented.
• Hyperion Software: A page for the game Freespace: The Great War has been added to the projects. The game is a space simulation by Volition/Interplay. System requirements: PPC-processor (maybe 68060), gfx card (maybe AGA), 3D-support by Warp3D, sound by AHI, 64 MB RAM and a 8-speed CD-ROM. Working on the Amiga port are Hans-Jörg Frieden and Chrisian Sauer.
  
  There is a new status report for Heretic II, where Hans-Jörg Frieden says that the four basic elements are finished.
• VWP: Update WaveTracer DS Mark V 5.1
  After the BETA version was already available some time, the final version 5.1 of WaveTracer DS Mark V is now available. Download is possible from the VWP homepage. The update is only possible for owners of the full version, the serial number is required (can be found in the WaveTracer menu "Special", item "User-Info").
• A technical preview of the Opera browser for Linux version 4.0a (Qt edition) has been released. Download of the alpha version: opera-19991224.tar.gz
• The Mushroom Software homepage (F1 Software and 5th Dimension licensee) now offers a "Real-Time Voice Chat", which requires Java, however.
• Innovative writes:
  Since our server is moving right now, there are no new informations e.g. for VLRec NG 4.0 available there. You can however order VLRec NG 4.0 already from our online shop. As soon as our presence has completed its move, we will wellcome you on a further improved and reworked website with many news. So far, please be patient.
• Atéo: The download area has been reworked, "cleaned up" and some files updated.
• Frank Wille: New ppc.library emulation for WarpOS version 0.7b - download: ppclibemu.lzx

From:         "Steve Crietzman" president@amigakernel.org
Date:         Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:41:10 -0000
Organization: Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS
Subject:      [cosa] Some news from Petro

Hi all,

I've just got off the phone with Petro.  Thought I'd share
a little info with y'all.

First, he's alive and well and still functioning as Amiga
International, Inc. and will continue to operate under Amino.

Tom Schmidt is also alive, well and employed by Gateway,
and still around in some capacity - although I'm not sure
what his new title or position is yet.  He is to come over
to Germany and meet with Petro soon to finalise everything.

Petro sounded very optimistic about the future, and said
he looks forward to continue to do his job and to the future
with Amino.

He said to expect some announcements from Amino in the
days and weeks ahead.  Keep a close eye on the Amiga
website.  According to Petro, there's going to be a small
update later today.

He also in this phonecall repeated his continuing support
for COSA and Open Source and asked me to convey his
best wishes to Amigans everywhere, and to let everyone
know that for him, it's "business as usual."

It's reassuring (to me at least) to know that whatever
happens with the Amiga, the one thing we can always
count on is that Petro will always be around.  Whoever
said we don't have stability in the Amiga world? ;-)

Best regards,

Steve Crietzman (president@amigakernel.org)
Amiga 4000/040, 18MB RAM, 1.2GB Hard Disk, Picasso IV
President, Open Amiga Group (http://www.amigakernel.org

1. All trademarks logos etc.
2. All existing inventory of Amiga International
3. All existing licenses.
4. License to All Amiga patents (Gateway still owns the patents, but we are able to use them).
5. All web sites, and registered domain names.
6. The Amiga OS and all that is associated with the OS.
7. The Amiga operation as it exists today.

• GFX board and AGA support
• support for PIP (Picasso 96) and WB Window
• double and triple buffering
• sound
• CD audio support
• mouse, joypad and joystick support
• in-game video options
• network support
• QuakeWorld support (client and server)

• Soundprobe - due to too few requests, an Amiga version is still in doubt.
• Olivetti printer driver updated
  1. Olivetti JP Inkjet driver v40.2 - download: OlivettiJP.lha
  2. Olivetti JP790 driver v40.4 - download: OlivettiJP790.lha
• GoldED Service Pack 15, download only for registered users.
  Download demo: golded6.lha.
• AmiMasterGear v0.81 - download: AmiMasterGear.lha
• AmiComSys 1.30a - download: AmiComSysMUI1.30a.lzx - 260 Kb and AmiComSysMUI1.30a.readme.
• ASM-One update to version 1.42 RTG - download: asmonev1.42rtg.lha
• Barfly version 2.1 - download: Barfly2_1.lha - 624 Kb, readme.
• DarcNES/Amiga version 9a0101a - download: dn9a0101a.lha
• LAME beta version 3.58 3/4, asyncio.library now runs with PPC. Download: LAMEbeta.lzx - 460 Kb
• MetalWEB update, reworked version adjusted to OS 3.5, and with Vapor Auto Update System being integrated.
  Download: MetalWEB4_pre3.lzx - 824 Kb
• Darkage - Bippy version 1.01 and a review of ExtraLife
• Oliver Roberts
  WarpPNG.datatype version 44.1 - WarpPNGdt.lha
  WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.3 - WarpJPEGdt.lha
• CyberGraphX - note for AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.0 users:
  With the upcomming release CGX v4.2, there could be problems with the date in the version string if you still have the old version 40.1 of "Version" installed. To eliminate the problem, you should install Version_v40.3.lha. More notes on the Y2K-problem.
• AmigaOS 3.5 review, from Amiga.org
• Xteam-Software Solution - the game "Virtual Ball Fighters" is finished. Download the demo: vbfdemortg.lha.zip - 3.5 MB, source: Czech Amiga News
• Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail - On my WWW page (see news_e.html), the latest version of the akDatatypes (v44.65 of the three most popular, and v44.8 of akNAIL) and the latest version of akMPEG2 (v4.01) are available. Download:
  
  akJFIF-dt.lha
  akJFIF-PPC.lha
  akJFIF-WOS.lha
  akPNG-dt.lha
  akPNG-PPC.lha
  akPNG-WOS.lha
  akTIFF-dt.lha
  akTIFF-PPC.lha
  akTIFF-WOS.lha
  akMPEG4.lha
  
  If you want to run comparing benchmarks with other datatypes, please make the correct adjustments for correct results - there are a minimum of three possibilities to run my PPC datatypes with "PPC" kernels, and additionally if you disable / enable 24bit output, this affects results, too.
  
  PicBench from Aminet, or PicBench.lha is a good choice for speed benchmarks.

• Sid4Amiga: Update version 3.28 - Download: Sid4AmigaV3_28.lha
• Aminet: Awin-Quake by Peter McGavin for PPC and 68k - Download: awinquake.lha
• Frank Mayer-Pfauder Software Support: YAM2AmIRC v2.2 - Download: YAM2AmIRC.lha - 23 kB
  The freshly styled Software Support Site, with NetStat2AmIRC, Online-O-Meter and the latest version of YAM2AmIRC is online since December 30th. Of course in OS3.5-look :)
• PPT: bugfix for picture manipulation program PPT (text.effect) - Download: text.lha
• V3-Portal: V³ 3.0a bugfix released - Download: v3_30a_update.lzx - 315 kB
• OsaMatic: The radio clock with Amiga software DCF77, update for version 3.x - Download: dcf77update.lha

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991231

            A M I G A   S O L D   T O   A M I N O ! !

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 Happy New Year everyone! Some of you will see this on the last day of
1999, some on the first of 2000 - either way, you have another reason
to celebrate today! We've been waiting and practically twitching to
get this information to you.
 We still don't have a press release directly from Amino, but as the
following information is now available generally on the wire, we owe
it to our readers to get it to you as quickly as possible. If we do
get a press release from Amino/Amiga we'll also get that to you right
away.
 Looks to us like both Gateway and the Amiga Community win with this
deal.
 Big smiles around here today!

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory From Gateway

 SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 -- Amino Development Corp., a privately held
company based in Maple Valley, Washington, has purchased from Gateway
its Amiga trademarks and Amiga computer systems. Terms of the
transaction have not been disclosed.

 According to Peter Ashkin, Gateway senior vice president, Gateway
chose to sell the name after deciding to fold Amiga's software
engineering function into Gateway's product development. This merger
of development activities is part of Gateway's overall strategy to
develop and market the coming generation of "Internet appliances".

 "Amiga, as a personal computer brand, has a loyal following of fans
around the world," Ashkin said. "Under Gateway's wing, Amiga morphed
into a software development company working on a new Internet
appliance operating environment software. Now that we're bringing that
development work into Gateway product development, it made sense to
find a buyer for Amiga."

 "Yee-haw " said Bill McEwen, president and CEO of Amino. "This is a
very exciting day, and now an even more exciting tomorrow. Now we can
finish the job that was started 15 years ago."

 The transaction, effective immediately, includes the transfer of all
Internet domain names related to Amiga which Gateway had held. Gateway
retains ownership of all patents acquired when it bought Amiga in
1997.
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991231

            A M I G A   S O L D   T O   A M I N O ! !

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 Happy New Year everyone! Some of you will see this on the last day of
1999, some on the first of 2000 - either way, you have another reason
to celebrate today! We've been waiting and practically twitching to
get this information to you.
 We still don't have a press release directly from Amino, but as the
following information is now available generally on the wire, we owe
it to our readers to get it to you as quickly as possible. If we do
get a press release from Amino/Amiga we'll also get that to you right
away.
 Looks to us like both Gateway and the Amiga Community win with this
deal.
 Big smiles around here today!

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
----------------------------------------------------------------------

            A M I G A   S O L D   T O   A M I N O ! !

Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory From Gateway

 SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 -- Amino Development Corp., a privately held
company based in Maple Valley, Washington, has purchased from Gateway
its Amiga trademarks and Amiga computer systems. Terms of the
transaction have not been disclosed.

 According to Peter Ashkin, Gateway senior vice president, Gateway
chose to sell the name after deciding to fold Amiga's software
engineering function into Gateway's product development. This merger
of development activities is part of Gateway's overall strategy to
develop and market the coming generation of "Internet appliances".

 "Amiga, as a personal computer brand, has a loyal following of fans
around the world," Ashkin said. "Under Gateway's wing, Amiga morphed
into a software development company working on a new Internet
appliance operating environment software. Now that we're bringing that
development work into Gateway product development, it made sense to
find a buyer for Amiga."

 "Yee-haw " said Bill McEwen, president and CEO of Amino. "This is a
very exciting day, and now an even more exciting tomorrow. Now we can
finish the job that was started 15 years ago."

 The transaction, effective immediately, includes the transfer of all
Internet domain names related to Amiga which Gateway had held. Gateway
retains ownership of all patents acquired when it bought Amiga in
1997.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Amiga Update on the net:
 All back issues available at:
    http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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• Aurora Set Prerelease 4 - SJI-Aurora-Pre4.lzx
• Aurora Set Variant 'B' Prerelease 4 - SJI-AuroraB-Pre4.lzx (available starting January 5th)
• Aurora Set Variant 'C' Prerelease 4 - SJI-AuroraC-Pre4.lzx (available starting January 5th)
• Paola Set Prerelease 4 - SJI-Paola-Pre4.lzx (available starting January 6th)
• Ingrid Set Prerelease 1 - SJI-Ingrid-Pre1.lzx

• StrICQ version 0.1669 - download: STRICQ.lha - and beta version of the preferences window - download: ZodiacImages.lha
• Arcadia announces two new archives available in the download area. For one, there is a patch for all people who did not get a Bubble Hero demo from the Amiga Format CD to run. Then there is the third public demo of Bubble Heroes. The fourth and last (AGA) demo will be finished January 2000. Arcadia wishes a happy new year to everybody. Download: AFBHDemo-patch.lzx and BHDemo3.lzx

mpprosp.lha          comm/bbs    35K+V1.7 - File_ID.DIZ creator for Mods - ph
p_hc183.lha          comm/bbs    31K+V1.8.3 - Uploadchecker for PMBS - Update
GoFetch.lha          comm/net   331K+V1.0 Specialised FTP/HTTP Client designe
samba_2.0.6.lha      comm/tcp   3.1M+Port of the free SMB client and server
js_umsrfc.lha        comm/ums    21K+Umsrfc update (1.2)
MCD_DirList.lha      disk/cdrom  15K+Generates file lists for MakeCD
Pranger.lha          game/misc  106K+Cheap 1ply game- get 2 ships to collide
Zubspace-Psyco.mpg   mods/mpg   581K+Rno-label release no.19 by zubspace (psy
gothbench3.lha       pix/back   1.2M+Darker than ever.
mr_WBench.lha        pix/wb     862K+Workbench For Every Day
picsize.lha          util/dtype  15K+Shows picture dimensions using datatypes
calculator.lha       util/misc   14K+Fully functional calculator
TweakWB14.lha        util/wb     97K+Great WB 3.5 commodity, icon converter, 
yStart.lha           util/wb     17K+Start menu for standard WB icons

• Duff: ImageManager.library v1.1 - Download: ImageManager.LZX
  Mailinglist on the subject:
  Subscribe at IM_Lib-subscribe@onelist.com and
  unsubscribe at IM_Lib-unsubscribe@onelist.com.
• StrICQ version 0.1667 - Download: STRICQ.lha
• Atéo: AteoNet.device - Download: installateonet.lha - readme

2b_XBaseSP.lha       biz/dbase    9K+Spanish catalog for XBase 6.0 v1.0
addidevV1.19.lha     biz/dbase  131K+Sourecode for Addipro in MaxonPascal
addiproV1.22.lha     biz/dbase  116K+German Adress database OS2.X written in 
OnyxBase.lha         biz/dbase   73K+Great address book manager with lots of 
TCom202DEMO.lha      biz/demo    63K+An Amiga order program, (COMMESSE ITALIA
TFat280DEMO.lha      biz/demo   105K+An Amiga Invoice program, (FATTURE ITALI
dvbcontrol.lha       comm/misc  286K+V1.25 D-Box/Mediamaster Settings Editor
nc_update.lha        comm/news  133K+Newsreader Version 1.23 (MUI)
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  280K+Newsreader Version 1.23 (MUI)
slrn.lha             comm/news  1.4M+Slrn 0.9.6.0 (slang 1.3.10)
vlink.lha            comm/tcp    27K+AmiTCP<->MacTCP via virtual ethernet
thor26upd.lha        comm/thor  320K+Upgrade of Thor 2.6
HTTPResume_Fre.lha   comm/www     3K+French localization for HTTPResume v1.8
nah-speed49.lha      demo/mag   1.2M+Speed #49 packmagazine by Nah-Kolor
obligement18.lha     demo/mag   826K+Obligement #18 - Famous FRENCH fanzine !
powerd.lha           dev/e      235K+New programming language based on E
PPC_in_E.lha         dev/e       48K+PowerUp PPC includes converted to E
MCC_TipOfDay.lha     dev/mui     52K+V15.6 - 'Tip of the day' class (MUI)
MCC_TipOfDay_S.lha   dev/mui     51K+V15.6 - 'Tip of the day' class (SRC)
SortCopyGUI.lha      disk/bakup   6K+ReAction GUI for SortCopy
LS_Mac.lha           disk/misc    2K+LS-120 MAC4: Mountlist
LS_Mount.lha         disk/misc    3K+LS-120 DF4: & PC4: Mountlists
stccg.lha            docs/hyper 1.4M+AmigaGuide to Star Trek CCG from Deciphe
Zorro.lha            docs/hyper  15K+HTML & Guide of ZorroII/III & Power_Conn
Greetings.lha        game/gag    55K+Virtual Christmas Card
Colmaped.lha         game/hint   60K+YEAH! >>> map editor for 'Colonization'
WDreamsSolv.lha      game/hint   36K+WastedDreams Solution
ParrotIsland.lha     game/role  1.4M+Full release of the Adventure
cybershow94.lha      gfx/board  138K+SlideShow&Viewer(incl.PCD)for CybGfx&AGA
SmartScale.lha       gfx/conv    11K+A CLI program used for graphics conversi
REDFiX.lha           gfx/ifx    135K+Powerful ImageFX v1.5...v4.1 enhancer. v
photoalbum65.lha     gfx/misc   229K+Picture management (incl.PCD) for AGA&Cy
Frogger.lha          gfx/show   340K+Ultimate MPEG video player (68k & PPC v1
SoftCinema.lha       gfx/show   325K+Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.8
IOBlixUsr.lha        hard/drivr 287K+V37.13, IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 software
Spitfire.lha         hard/drivr 426K+A Palm Desktop for the Amiga!
BSNESMagyar.lha      misc/emu     3K+Hungarian Catalogs for BlackSNESGui
FusLoadPatch.lha     misc/emu    10K+Workaround for FUSION DMA loding problem
SavagePPC.lha        misc/emu    10K+The PPC VideoDriver for ShapeShifter (4/
imdbDiff991217.lha   misc/imdb  2.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Xmas99.lha           misc/misc  148K+Decorate your own x-mas-tree!
DAlmanac_Exe.lha     misc/sci   1.0M+Next Generation Planetarium (1.7.7)
FireIce_Xmas.lha     mods/demo   22K+The great Fire&Ice Christmas music
VK-WSDM.lha          mods/house  17K+Housy 8bit
VK-Herbst.lha        mods/jungl 141K+Jungle/D&B 6+2bit
VK-NMP2.lha          mods/jungl 172K+Jungle/D&B 16bit
rNO-L017.lha         mods/misc  557K+Rno-label release no.17 by roz (techno/t
rNO-L018.lha         mods/misc  260K+Rno-label release no.18 by tang (funkyho
lnsM10_selo.mpg      mods/mpg   5.0M+Selofan clouds - ambient record (part 4/
lnsM11_read.mpg      mods/mpg   5.6M+Thought reader - ambient record (part 5/
lnsM12_time.mpg      mods/mpg   5.5M+Timelords - ambient record (part 6/7) 
lnsM13_misp.mpg      mods/mpg   1.9M+Misplaced - ambient record (part 7/7) 
lnsM7_lostm.mpg      mods/mpg   5.0M+The lost machine - ambient record (part 
lnsM8_sleep.mpg      mods/mpg   5.8M+Sleeping on a mule - ambient record (par
lnsM9_narco.mpg      mods/mpg   4.8M+Narcosis - ambient record (part 3/7) 
LoveMeTender.lha     mods/pop   361K+Superficial but nice Love-Song by R.KAPP
DJH_OFRM.lha         mods/sidew 257K+Merry Christmas '99!  (OctaMED SoundStud
crs_50th.lha         mods/techn 2.1M+CRS00050: megamix anniversary release
crs_awak.lha         mods/techn 1.6M+CRS00051: 'awaken' ep by phase
lns64_blaa.lha       mods/techn  18K+Blaa opt - hard minimal acid by Maytz
EP_RobHubbardO.lha   mus/play     3K+EaglePlayer "Rob Hubbard Old" external r
XMasRachel99.jpg     pix/art    294K+Rachel Raccoon Lights up her tree
gdnsnail.jpg         pix/fauna  192K+A garden snail facing some serious troub
LS_Glow.lha          pix/icon     4K+LS-120 GlowIcon for OS3.5
LaptopTr.jpg         pix/trace   81K+Ray Traced LapTop (Lightwave Quickie)
swglacier.jpg        pix/views  181K+Glacier in Switzerland
db-socwb.lha         pix/wb     274K+Screenshots of sOCIETY/rSE wB3.5
BlizKick.lha         util/boot  162K+MapROM tool for Blizzard turbos. V1.19.
fixfile.lha          util/cli     6K+FixFile: Fixes downloaded files
FixNI.lha            util/cli    12K+Fix NewIcons for OS3.5
RCD10.lha            util/cli     7K+Smallest CD Player
VersCheckV2.lha      util/cli   830K+Check your libs,MUI,devs,dtypes,classes,
MIDI2asm.lha         util/conv    2K+Convert MIDI data to assembler source + 
AmyTree24.lha        util/dir   126K+Tree FS Explorer
calculator.lha       util/misc   14K+Fully functional calculator
xfdmaster.lha        util/pack  216K+Rel1.29 Decrunch packed files (exe/data)
rxmui.lha            util/rexx  142K+RxMUI 2.3 - MUI gui in ARexx
splitter.lha         util/sys    26K+Multiplatform secure JOINER and SPLITTER
WBCtrl.lha           util/sys     3K+Controls undocumentated wb3.5 features (
backclock.lha        util/time  126K+Transparent clock. You must try this !!!
Safe.lha             util/virus  30K+Best new linkviruses detector v12.2
IconHandler.lha      util/wb     20K+V1.9 Drop file on AppIcon to change icon
NewInstaller15.lha   util/wb    460K+THE Ultimate Addon Tool for C= Installer

• Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) by J.L. Bentley

• Beginning Linux Programming (2nd Edition) by R. Stones & N. Matthew

• Amiga (German page updated)
• AROS (Amiga Research Operating System)
• Linux for Alpha, PowerPC and 680X0
• MINIX
• PalmOS (main page plus developer area)
• QNX (Amiga Neutrino Support Site updated)

• Tcl and Tk Toolkit by J.K. Ousterhout

• Webmaster in a Nutshell (2nd Edition) by S. Spainhour & R. Eckstein

• Now Freeware (no keyfile needed)!
• removal of (hopefully) all Y2K bugs.
• completely new Fido part, fully node-/hub enabled
• files are now stored in the filebase carrying their original names.
• mailinglist server for all networks.
• PPP-Login.
• Netcalls over preconfigured providers, depending on time.
• switching some parts of the program to the NList MUI custom class.

• multi-net support: ZConnect/RFC/Z3.8/Fido incl. gating
• multi-port support. Nine ports. Up to eight ports freely configurable. ISDN, modem, network, local, etc. + one sysop port
• interactive control of the box, by WWW (with PD WEB Server), by AmigaGuide or by ANSI choice
• clever Cron system. Events can happen, programs be started on any time, by month, weekday, day, hours and minutes
• uses MUI, therefore fontsensitive and freely configurable outfit
• interface to internet (remote telnet login, (C)SLIP/PPP user login)
• configurable routing, by sender and/or reciever. Domain server configurable for multiple domains.
• Developer Pack for C and ARexx available
• very low memory usage with many ports due to clever server-/client-management
• fully optimized for Amiga multitasking, therefore very low ressource usage
• own locale system for language adjustments by domain, and if wanted online for system texts, error message, and commands
• output of all commands and system messages freely configurable
• online interface is a standard 100% shell, and all online commandos are AmigaOS commands
• whole drives can be mirrored as boards, like including CD-Roms
• user passwords are stored encrypted. Access rights are granted by groups and levels
• big ARexx port with unlimited possibilities for own expansions, with much more than 200 commands
• virtual memory, automatically enabled on memory shortage
• chat system (also available as standalone version) connecting multiple CL systems and points by internet or Hydra Netcall
• detailed, pictured manual
• and many more

• System: Amiga or compatible, MC68030 or better
• Memory: for box usage minimum 4 MB (recommended: 16 MB)
• Programs:
  
  • MUI 3.8 or better
  • NList MUI Custom Class
  • (MiamiDX or compatible TCP/IP-stack for internet connection)

• Airsoft Softwair: AHelp version 1.5 - Download: AHelp1_5.lha
• Trogladite Software: New versions of MakeDir, KalbOS, HandleMyClip
• Picasso96: New rtg.library version 40.3992 (25.12.99) as fix for the last version - Download: rtg.lha
• ZeusBBS: ZMailer update version 1.3.1 - Download: zmailer1_3_1.lzx
• Jens Schönfeld: The first ethernet cards reached customers, and a small bug has been found: With 68030 CPUs, the x-surf.device could not be opened on occassion. The error has been fixed in x-surf.device v1.1. Many thanks to the company Eternity, which helped in locating the bug!
• Mark Sheeky: Mark Sheeky from Scorpius Software made a great christmas present by releasing "Blade" as Freeware. Many thanks to Manfred Müller for this info.
• clickBOOM: News on TNT, PPC-support and Nightlong specification
• Ralph Debusmann: EasyPlayer version 1.0 - on time for christmas, version 1.0 of the alternative music playback package EasyPlayer was finished. - Download: EasyPlayer.lha.bin
• VWP: TCounter 1.0 for Java®, additionally to the unchanged latest version of TCounter in native code for AmigaOS® is now available as platform independant Java® variant. This can be downloaded from the VWP homepage as JRE® (Java® basic installation) and Swing® version, or for JRE® only. A comprehensive (German) manual for installing Java® including links to the free Java® packages is also available from the VWP homepage. TCounter is a counter for online fees, which has been prepared for T-Online® fees, but can be used for other providers as well, since fees can be edited freely.
  Friendly Links: To get an overview over comparable or similar pages, there are now the Friendly Links. This is a special link list with the Top 20 pages submitted to the VWP homepage by users. This list is generated autmatically by a CGI script. The more users are send to http://www.VirtualWorlds.de by other pages, the higher the corresponding link is rated in this list.
  FTP-server partially down: Due to maintenance work, the FTP server (link on the VWP homepage= might be unavailable in the next few days. Downloads are however possible by HTTP from our homepage or the Aminet.
• Vapor: Microdot-II version 1.4.4 (Y2K fix) - Download: md2_14.lzx
• EmuClassics: A/NES CGFX version 1.17 - Download: anescgfx.lha
• SecondSpin - Download Page - (old URL non-functional)
• Nils Görs or AWNPipe: T.H.E. version 1.2 - Download: THE.lha
• Frank Fenn: Beta trial version of AmiMDC800, a software for controlling of and downloading images from the Mustek MDC 800 digital camera - Download: amimdc800.lha
• Thomas Wenzel: AHIRecord version 1.7, this version now also supports 24bit AIFF recordings, if the selected AHI driver supports the resolution. This will be the case for the soon-to-come Arpeggiator-2496 module for the Prelude. Download: AHIRecord17.lha
• Thomas Wenzel: PreludeAHI v2.32, a first version of the Prelude AHI driver with built-in support for the Arpeggiator module. 24bit and 96 kHz are fully supported. Since the Arpeggiator is not yet available, this driver does not make a difference yet. However, I also optimized the general 16bit HIFI transmission subroutines. So, if you want to test the driver, go ahead and install it. If there are problems, please send a short e-mail to me. Since Aminet is currently down for maintenance, the two new versions are only available from my homepage for now.

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     C O S A   L A U N C H E S   O P E N   A M I G A   G R O U P

         F R E E   A U C T I O N S   A T   C L I C K B O O M

    C O S A   R E P S   F O R   G E R M A N Y ,   P O R T U G A L

     C H R I S T M A S   G R E E T I N G S   F R O M   A M I N O

       A M I G A   F O R E V E R   H O L I D A Y   B U N D L E

        A M I G A   A C T I V E   D E C E M B E R   I S S U E

         A M I G A   C D   M A G A Z I N E   I N   I T A L Y

          W I N   W I P E O U T   2 0 9 7   F R O M   A Y P

      T U R B O P R I N T   V .   7   N O W   A V A I L A B L E

   " I M M O R T A L "   -   A M I G A   G A M E   M U S I C   C D

                    A U D I O L A B S   O F F E R

        " F R E E S P A C E "   C O M I N G   T O   A M I G A

      " I N F R A B O X "   -   I N F R A R E D   C O N T R O L

              M K / 2   K E Y B O A R D   A D A P T E R

       A E M A I L   V .   2 . 2 0   N O W   A V A I L A B L E

            M I C R O D O T   I I   1 . 3   V E R S I O N

          M E T A L W E B   4 . 0   P R E R E L E A S E   2

         M I L L E N N I U M   F O R   T H E   T O A S T E R

               N O T   M U C H   T I M E   L E F T ! !

               S E C O N D S P I N   F O R   M P E G S

               S I M O N   T H E   S O R C E R E R   2

              N E T I N F O   2 . 5   A V A I L A B L E

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 The old saying "the only constant is change" is certainly true in the
Amiga community. It sometimes seems that you can't count on anything
staying the same from one day to the next.
 Unfortunately, much of the change we've seen in this year now ending
has been anything but good. The most recent change seems to be the
sudden vanishing of the "Amiga's" only remaining North American print
publication.
 We can tell you this, however. There are a lot of people working very
hard to make changes that will ensure a future for the Amiga. There's
just not much to say about these activities right at the moment. We'll
keep you informed as we are able.

Take a look at Amiga Realm
--------------------------
 Received a note a while back from our friend Paul Andrews in the UK
suggesting we take a look at his site "Amiga Realm". He reports he's
been working long and hard on it in the last few months. The effort
shows. It's well worth your stopping by if you haven't, with a wealth
of Amiga information. Find it at:

http://www.amigarealm.com

 We have a wide variety of stories to bring your way this time, and
it's all pretty much positive for once! Hope this brightens up your
day. For those of you celebrating one holiday or another at this time
of the year, we wish you all the joy such holidays can bring! To all
our readers, we say thanks for being with us throughout 1999, and we
hope to have a prosperous, pleasant and re-invigorating last year of
the century with you and Amiga in 2000!
 Best regards,
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

15 Dec 1999

Hello Brad,

 Any idea as to what has happened to Amazing? I haven't received any
mag. for three months I have made 5 or 6 calls to their phone # and
all I get is a taped message to fax or E-Mail. I've e-mailed Don Hicks
several times and have gotten no response.

 PS thanks for keeping Amiga Update going I feel like it is the only
Amiga resource I can depend on.

Kind regards
--
Don S.
~~~~~~
Don,
 I have no idea - and I did try to find out. We've received several
letters similar to yours. It's very disappointing - and disconcerting
- to have the venerable "Amazing" just pull an amazing vanishing act.
 Don Hicks, are you still there?
 Brad
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                K R U S E   N O W   A   R E B O L

The following announcement was posted recently on the web site of
Holger Kruse, developer of many of the Amiga's best pieces of
software:

Changes for the year 2000

 I am happy to announce that starting January, 2000 I will work for
REBOL Technologies in the capacity of Director of Network
Technologies.

 For those of you who have not heard about that company before: REBOL
Technologies (www.rebol.com) is a privately held company that was
founded by Carl Sassenrath, one of the premier developers of AmigaOS.
REBOL Technologies develops and distributes the scripting language
REBOL, a very intuitive programming language and run-time environment
with built-in Internet support and messaging capabilities. REBOL is
available for over 50 computer platforms, AmigaOS being one of them.
The basic version of REBOL is available for free, extensions are
available for license fees.

 Declining revenues from Amiga software sales and increased software
piracy in 1999 finally forced me to look for a full-time job outside
of my own company. Between several job offers I decided to accept the
offer by REBOL for several reasons. The most important one is that in
my opinion REBOL is currently one of the few truly innovative products
in the software market, and with Carl Sassenrath's history with
AmigaOS his company and its product in many ways reflect and represent
the Amiga spirit.

 With my background in AmigaOS and TCP/IP I am excited about the
opportunity to participate in the development of REBOL, in particular
in the improvement of its networking capabilities, the AmigaOS port
and ports for possible Amiga successors.

 I am afraid this new job means that I will no longer be able to work
full-time on my own Amiga software (Miami, Daytona etc.). This does
not mean that the software becomes unsupported or that I am leaving
the Amiga platform though. I intend to still provide updates and
support for existing software, as my time permits. Here are some
details about current plans for my Amiga software:

 - AmiWin: still supported. An update with 24-bit support and a newer
X11R6 kernel is still planned, but unlikely to be ready soon.

 - Daytona and related products: I am afraid Daytona and its planned
extensions have to be cancelled. There are two reasons for this: one
is lack of time: with my new full-time job I have to cut back
somewhere, and doing it on a project that is still in development
seems to be the most reasonable solution. The other reason is a
possible conflict of interests, because Java and REBOL are competitors
in the market of languages for distributed computing, which may make
it unethical for me to remain involved in Java-related software. I
have not yet determined what will happen to the Daytona sources. There
are several options, somewhat restricted by Sun's licensing
conditions, and I will try to find a solution that will somehow still
allow the existing Java VM of Daytona to be released to the Amiga
community, without future involvement or support from me though.

 - Miami: still fully supported. Version 3.3 is planned for release in
the year 2000.

 - Miami Deluxe: fully supported. After several delays and many
improvements the first full release including documentation will
probably be ready before Christmas, and after that development will
continue. Subject to demand the planned improvements for future
versions may include IPv6, IPsec, named, extensions to IP-NAT and
possibly dial-in support.

 - MiamiSSL: fully supported. A new version that incorporates the
latest OpenSSL changes and protocols is planned.

 - MiamiTelnet: fully supported, as part of the Miami Deluxe package.
Telnet encryption and support for running in a shell window are
planned for future versions.

 - ppp.device: still supported, but no new versions are planned. Miami
and Miami Deluxe should be considered successors of ppp.device.

 - ReOrg: not supported at this time. A version with support for NSD
and disks > 4 GB is something I am considering though, time
permitting.

 I will also have to move my residence from Winter Park, Florida to
Ukiah, California, where REBOL headquarters are located. This means my
LAN will have to move as well, including the server that handles Miami
registrations and orders. Because of that there will be some service
outages affecting my Internet presence during the months of December
'99 and possibly January 2000. Please see my separate announcements
about that. On the up side, chances are my LAN will get a DSL
connection in Ukiah, which should provide better reliability and much
faster responses, in particular for mailing lists, than the current
56k connection.

 Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and a successful year 2000.


Holger Kruse
Nordic Global Inc.
kruse@nordicglobal.com
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     C O S A   L A U N C H E S   O P E N   A M I G A   G R O U P

 COSA HEADQUARTERS -- December 22, 1999 -- COSA (the Campaign to
Open-Source AmigaOS) today officially launched it's new sister
project, the Open Amiga Group, at Amigakernel.org.

 The Open Amiga Group has been created, in the spirit of the Christmas
season, to encourage and help developers, by providing a system where
Amiga projects and applications can be openned up to the contributions
of a team of Amiga developers, using the open-source model as a guide.
It is hoped this will lead to the creation of new high-quality Amiga
applications, and to the revival of stalled or abandoned projects,
which could be continued by a team of open-source Amiga programmers.

 Amiga developers will be able to use the Amigakernel.org website to
join existing projects (currently aMozillaX and AROS, with AmigaOS "in
reserve"), or to easily create projects of their own using the forms
available on the Amigakernel.org website.

 Through a variety of mailing lists, the Open Amiga Group will keep
developers who have registered with us informed of the latest projects
that are being set up, and in contact with other developers working on
the same projects. (It is our intention there be a mailing list for
users and a mailing list for developers for each project hosted by the
Open Amiga group.)

 Open-source projects can then either be hosted by Open Amiga using
our own resources - website, mailing list and tools (and the resources
of sourceforge.net), or we can simply provide links and references to
your own websites, mailing lists and tools.

 The Open Amiga project is a natural extention of COSA's charter,
which is to promote open-source within the Amiga community, and to
campaign for the release of the Amiga operating system as open source.
(It should be noted that negotiations with Amiga Inc's Tom Schmidt on
this matter are ongoing.) We also felt it would be wasteful not to
offer the 130 developers who have already registered with COSA as
"probable developers for an open-source AmigaOS" a chance to work on
other projects.

 For more information, or to register as a developer, or register an
existing open-source Amiga project on our pages, please visit
http://www.amigakernel.org to visit the Open Amiga Group's website, or
http://cosa.amigakernel.org for more information on COSA, the Campaign
to Open-Source AmigaOS, and for the latest news on the status of our
negotiations with Amiga Inc.

 In the spirit of this season of co-operation and friendship, we wish
the Amiga community a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May
the millennium mark a turning point in the Amiga's history, where we
finally reap the mainstream attention and respect that our platform
and it's powerful, speedy OS deserve.
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       F R E E   A U C T I O N S   A T   C L I C K B O O M

FREE AUCTIONS FOR EVERYONE
============================

 Starting 16 Dec. 99, and for the next 60 days after, holding an
Auction at clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions is absolutely FREE for everyone!

 There are no limits to what you want to sell, how many Auctions you
want to hold or how long you want them running. Use all three types of
Auctions, use photographs, layouts, all FREE !


GAME AUCTIONS
===============

 But, that's FAR from everything.

 We want you to come every day and check the latest Auctions.

 Every day, for the next 15 days, we will auction one copy of each of
our games!

 The highest bidder takes it, so you can walk away with a brand new
clickBOOM game of your choice for as low as a few dollars !!!


COMPARING CLICKBOOM AMIGA AUCTIONS TO EBAY
==============================================

 Sure, eBay is the name in online auctioning, however, when it comes
to selling Amiga goods, clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions are simply a better
choice:

 1. Amiga Auctions are free !

 2. Auctions held at Amiga Auctions actually have a better selling
rate than eBay !

 3. Amiga Auctions support English and German !

 4. Amiga Auctions have several layout designs to choose from !

 5. At Amiga Auctions you can choose from a list of Amiga hardware
photographs, and having a photo Auction is free !

 6. Amiga Auctions show approximate price in 3 other currencies !

 7. Amiga Auctions are ran by the Amiga community, for the Amiga
community !

 Bidding, of course, as always is free, so come to
http://clickboom.com/auctions and get in on the Auction action.
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   C O S A   R E P S   F O R   G E R M A N Y ,   P O R T U G A L

New COSA Country Contacts for Germany and Portugal

December 7, 1999

 COSA are pleased to announce the creation of two new "country
contacts". Country Contacts are COSA members who have volunteered to
act as representatives for COSA in their home country and provide
translation services.

 There are current two Country Contacts. They are Volker Mohr from
Germany, who runs the Project IMP website, and Rui Manuel, from
Portugal.

 If you speak German (Deutsch) or Portugese (Portuguese), you should
feel free to contact either Volker or Rui and discuss any comments,
questions or suggestions you have about COSA or Open Source with them.
They'll be happy to help you.

 COSA wants to take this time to thank Volker and Rui for their help,
and for providing this valuable service. With their help, COSA is also
to reach out to people in other countries.

 Volker and Rui are also helping to translate the COSA webpages into
German and Portugese, and these translations will be put online when
they are ready. But this is hard work, so why not drop them an e-mail
and thank them? Or offer to help? They'd like to hear from you!

 English-speakers should still feel free to write to me, Steve
Crietzman. I will try my best to respond as quickly as I am able.

 Once again, our thanks to Volker and Rui! Welcome aboard the COSA
Team! :-)

-- Steve, Volker, Rui, and the ever-growing COSA Team

 {NOTE: the story didn't give information on how to contact these
folks. You might start at http://www.savetheamiga.org.uk and work from
there. Brad}
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    C H R I S T M A S   G R E E T I N G S   F R O M   A M I N O

{The following little note was posted to the Team Amiga list by
Amino's Fleecy Moss. We thought it would brighten everyone's week,
whether you have holidays to celebrate or not, so we're including it
here. Brad}

23 Dec 1999

 Fleecy Moss

 ...to everyone here.

Just to let you know that Amino is still working away
at trying to provide a real future for the amiganauts,
and that this list is one of our inspirations, showing that
there is still talent, passion, nutjobs, and fun, and that the
flame of the Amiga is still burning despite the best efforts
of some to put it out.

Happy holidays to all, and here's looking forwards
to a better tomorrow.

Cheers

the three Aminos...
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       A M I G A   F O R E V E R   H O L I D A Y   B U N D L E

 For all Amiga emulation enthusiasts who ever wondered what Workbench
1.0 looked like, or what the late Jay Miner, "Father of the Amiga",
has to say in his own voice about the Amiga and other interesting
issues, Cloanto just released the Amiga Forever Plus Pack, which
contains new Amiga ROM, Workbench and MP3 audio files! The Plus Pack
joins the Amiga Forever family of emulation and support products,
which are officially licensed by Gateway's Amiga companies.

 Only for the next few days, the Online Edition of Amiga Forever 3.0
($29.99 stand-alone) and the Amiga Forever Plus Pack ($14.99) are
available in a special holiday bundle for only $34.99!

 The Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle includes the Amiga Forever Online
Edition package, with its preinstalled Amiga emulation environment
(1.3 and 3.1 Amiga ROM and OS) and the Amiga Explorer networking
software, plus the following new items, which are part of the Plus
Pack:

- Amiga Workbench ADF files v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.04 and 2.1
- Amiga ROM files v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 2.04 (WB 2.1 uses 2.04 ROM)
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 1: Birth of the Amiga
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 2: Computers and Society
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 3: A New Job
- New HTML pages, including instructions to play MP3 audio files

 For download convenience, the items are archived in two files which
can be downloaded separately, also with the help of an optional
download wizard. It is always possible to resume an interrupted
download, or to download the same file again at no additional cost.
The Plus Pack is cross-platform, while Amiga Forever Online Edition is
for Windows systems only.

 The Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle is available now from the Amiga
Forever Home Page at http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/

 The Cloanto Team wishes all Amiga fans great holidays and a very
happy New Year!
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        A M I G A   A C T I V E   D E C E M B E R   I S S U E

26 Nov., 99

 The December 1999 issue of Amiga Active magazine is out now in
newsagents around the UK. Visit our web site (and click the "issues"
button) for more information about what's in this jam-packed issue -
it's definitely one you shouldn't miss, and we're not just saying that
- take a look for yourselves!

 http://www.amigactive.com

 If you can't get hold of Amiga Active locally, you can now order
individual issues to anywhere in the world, direct from the
publisher... read on...

 *** Credit Card Subscriptions and Backissues

 Pinprint Publishing are pleased to announce that credit card
subscriptions to Amiga Active magazine can now be taken out online,
simply by filling in a form. You can also phone us, or send us your
credit card order by post.

 For more information about how you can order individual issues as
well as subscriptions to anywhere in the world via credit card, visit
the web site!

    http://www.amigactive.com
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      A M I G A   C D   M A G A Z I N E   I N   I T A L Y

November 5, 1999

        Softwave Announces a new CD based Amiga Magazine


Dear Amigans,

 My name is Giorgio Signori, and I am the director of Softwave, a new
company born in Italy this summer. I have been writing on the only
Italian Amiga magazine, Enigma Amiga Run, in the past years, and I am
in Amiga environment since years. After years writing for Amiga, I
decided to build up a new company to publish an Amiga-only, CD-based
magazine. After a lot of work, at the Amiga show Softwave was there
with the first issue of Amiga.it, showed during the conference with
Petro Tyschtschenko. After this, we decided to publish Amiga.it, under
the name Amiga.news, also outside Italy. We put much effort in this,
translating, for now, the whole magazine in English. We will show and
sell the first issue of Amiga.news at the next Home Electronics World
of Cologne, on 12-14 November.

 We hope that the public response will be enough to convince us to
keep doing a multi-language magazine also for the next issues. If so,
since the 3rd issue, we will translate it also in German, as many of
you already requested. In the next days in this site will be published
the summary of the first issue.

 But now, some of the highlights of Amiga.news:

 The magazine part count many important writers here in Italy. Editors
like ing. Massimo Gais, system administrator of the Italian Aminet
node and of the Astronomic Observatory of Naples, like ing. Alessio
Cappelli, expert in Amiga and NetBSD environments. People like Massimo
Marino, writer for the biggest selling videogames magazine in Italy,
The Games Machine, and Nick Mordock, experienced Amiga writer since
years. Not to mention Andrea Favini, the 3000+ staff and Laura
Falzone, writers of proved experience.

 The CD part of Amiga.news differs from what we are used to see on the
market. it will not be a simple shareware collection. Of course it
will contain the recent shareware software from month to month, with
index and search function, but it will be thematic. The first issue of
Amiga.it, published only in Italian, had Linux as theme of the month,
with a RedHatPPC distribution and a serie of articles dedicated to
installation of Linux, but not only. Every month a different theme
will fill the CD. I can anticipate that on the issue that will be
presented at Cologne, there will be a much requested Linux68k/RedHat68
distribution, and a special on Star Wars on Amiga.

 I am available for every question, I will be happy to give all the
answers you may need, if you are a user or an Amiga
distributor/reseller. You can find me at the mailbox yurex@tin.it.
Website: http://www.skylink.it/ear

 Giorgio Signori Director of Softwave
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         W I N   W I P E O U T   2 0 9 7   F R O M   A Y P

22 Dec 1999

 Finally our 26,000 hit is almost upon us! (It would have been 25,000
but the Amiga used to update Amiga Yellow Pages broke - OK?)

 To celebrate this great occasion, Amiga Yellow Pages have teamed up
with Amiga retailer FORE-MATT Home Computing to give away a copy of
WipeOut 2097.

 Don't despair if you already own it or don't have the required specs,
because those nice people at FORE-MATT will let you take your pick
from their £30.00 range which includes hits such as Wasted Dreams,
T-Zero and many more. Or even better! you can opt to choose two games
from their £15 pound range, with a choice of Foundation DC, Moonbases,
Pheonix Fighters and many more.

 Take a peep at the FORE-MATT Home Computing advert, on Amiga Yellow
Pages http://ayp.amiga.tm and take your pick. Alternatively why not
download their December catalogue which contains more goodies than the
advert.

 To Win.. Just save the 26000 counter as a gif file and email to A.Y.P

 FORE-MATT Home Computing can also be reached by telephone on: +44
(0)1793 853802. Mon-Fri. or by email to: sales@forematt.idps.co.uk

 Best wishes for the festive season and all the best in the New Year,
from every one at FORE-MATT Home Computing and Amiga Yellow Pages!
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    T U R B O P R I N T   V .   7   N O W   A V A I L A B L E

9 Dec., '99


 NEW: Turboprint 7.09beta2 with new drivers for BJC1000, BJC2000,
BJC6000 and BJC7100 for download is now available! From IrseeSoft

Features in the brand new version 7 are:

 o Interface to Postscript interpreter "GNU Ghostscript" makes every
printer Postscript compatible.

 o Print Postscript and PDF files from the Internet or a CD, improved
quality and speed with many programs like Final Writer, PageStream (24
bit / 16 mio. colours!), TurboCalc or Wordworth.

 o GNU Ghostscript and 35 fonts are included in the package.

 o New GfxText mode: Print scalable Intellifonts with any printer,
print text on printers that support only graphics (e.g. Canon BJC7000,
Epson StylusColor300)!

 o Zoom function in GraphicsPublisher: Magnify the page view as
required, make precise alignment of pictures or work with smaller font
sizes more comfortable.

 o TurboSpool printer spooler can now produce multiple copies in one
go. As a result, output speed in copy mode is drastically improved.

 o New printer drivers

 o Lots of other improvements.

http://www.irseesoft.com/
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   " I M M O R T A L "   -   A M I G A   G A M E   M U S I C   C D

17 Dec 1999

Hello!

 I'm pleased to announce that "Immortal" - The Amiga game music album
has been released and is now available to order from
http://www.monteiro-music.com


 'Immortal' is a music CD featuring some of the best soundtracks ever
composed for Amiga games. Includes the full soundtrack from "Shadow of
the Beast", as well as the best music from "Superfrog", "Turrican",
"Space Station 3000", "Utopia", "Harlequin" and other all-time great
Amiga games.

 The CD also includes a 3D rendered video clip, allusive to the theme
of the album.

 For more information, please visit our website at
http://www.monteiro-music.com


All the best,

Ruben Monteiro
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                 A U D I O L A B S   O F F E R

December 1999:

 To celebrate the last ProStationAudio release of this millennium,
AudioLabs is offering, until December 27th 1999, the fresh new
ProStationAudio v2.50 with a special discount.

 When ordering before the deadline, you can get v2.50 for US$299
instead of US$395.

 Starting January, AudioLabs will expand the ProStationAudio family of
products for AmigaOS with the hi-end ProStationAudio Millennium. The
new version, among other features, includes 32 channel support on the
timeline, by handling 16 stereo tracks.

http://www.audiolabs.it
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 " F R E E S P A C E "   C O M I N G   T O   A M I G A

15 Dec., '99

 Hyperion is pleased to announce it has acquired a license from
Interplay to port Volition's best-selling space-combat simulator
"(Descent) Freespace: The Great War" to the Amiga.

 System-requirements include PPC processor (WarpOS), graphics-card
(AGA under review) and 32 MB RAM with full support of 3D accelerators
through Warp3D. A 68060 version is not ruled out but would most likely
require 3D acceleration. The game is tentatively slated for release
early Q2 2000 and will be published by Titan Computers.
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     " I N F R A B O X "   -   I N F R A R E D   C O N T R O L

7 Dec., '99

 HILVERSUM, The Netherlands - Amiga developer
 Leon Woestenberg is pleased to announce that
 the infrared tranceiver hardware called
 InfraBox for Amiga computers is now
 available.

 Together with the freely available InfraRexx
 and InfraFace software, it allows Amiga
 users to use their Amiga's for infrared
 remote control. Users can control their
 consumer electronics such as Compact Disc
 players, video cassette recorders, tuners,
 television sets etc. from the Amiga
 Workbench. Or, from any other application
 that supports ARexx or the
 infraremote.library that comes with
 InfraFace.

 Also, in the other direction, Amiga
 applications can be controlled using a
 consumer electronics remote commander.

 The InfraBox, InfraRexx and InfraFace
 products further enhances the Amiga's
 strength in the field of multimedia and
 system interconnectivity.

 The author has been developing infrared
 remote control applications for the Amiga
 since 1994, and is dedicated to support
 Amiga, AmigaOS and Amiga users well beyond
 the current millenium into a next exciting
 era of computing.

 Leon Woestenberg,
 InfraRexx and InfraFace author, InfraBox
 hardware designer

 InfraBox support website:
 http://www.esrac.ele.tue.nl/~leon/infrabox/
 InfraFace support website:
 http://www.esrac.ele.tue.nl/~leon/infraface/
 InfraRexx support website:
 http://www.esrac.ele.tue.nl/~leon/infrarexx/
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            M K / 2   K E Y B O A R D   A D A P T E R

10 Dec., '99

 This model is specifically for the Amiga 2000 and 3000.

 Need a new keyboard for your Amiga? Find out its next to impossible
to get them anymore? How about a mouse? Same deal, and you cannot just
plug in one of those common PS/2 devices that you would find at your
common PC shop.. until now..

 The InsertMK/2 adapter will adapt a PS/2 mouse AND a PS/2 keyboard to
your Amiga 1200, 2000, 3000 4000 (* adapters needed for 1200/4000 *)

 Plug a PS/2 mouse and keyboar dinto this small 6x6x3cm box, then plug
the cables from the box into your keyboard adn you are set.

 The Amiga keys are now mapped to the Winodws keys on your standard
104-key Windows keyboard. The extra keys can be specifically
programmed with software at a later date

 The mouse adapter is unique. You can use a standard PS/2 mouse
(Logitech, Genius, Microsoft, etc..) and even one with a scroller
wheel. The whell is mapped to the up/down cursor keys. Its quite cool
to scroll through a webpage in your browser this way. :)

 They are also flash upgradable. Meaning any changes and upgrades
needed in the future can be performed with a simple flash upgrade
(just like a flash BIOS on a PC)

 This product is now in testing and is scheduled for release in late
December 1999. In the mean time, we need to know how many parts to
order to start assembly with!

 Dealer and distributor enquiries for quantity pricing is welcomed.
60.84 USD $89.95 CAD

Other Related Items:
· MK/2 Keyboard Adapter for Amiga 1200 (2000/3000)
· MK/2 Keyboard Adapter for Amiga 4000 (2000/3000)

Contact Us:

URL  : http://www.nationalamiga.com/
Sales Questions
Technical Support
Phone: +1-519-858-8760
Fax: +1-519-858-8762
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       A E M A I L   V .   2 . 2 0   N O W   A V A I L A B L E

16 Dec., '99

 AEMail Version 2.20 is now available. It can be obtained from AmiNet
or my web page:

 http://www.calweb.com/~jzachar/

 My web page is probably the best source for the AEMail archive since
it is "up to the minute". With AmiNet, it can take some time for the
archive to be replicated to the various mirror sites.

 AEMail Version 1.51 is a minor upgrade that corrects some last minute
bugs found after Version 1.50 was released. It also adds an additional
ARexx script "Addtogrp.aem" to the ARexx directory.

 AEMail Version 2.20 is a major revision of AEMail. This version has
restructured the Menus in AEMail providing a separate menu for
ARexx/DOS commands. It also allows you to call ARexx or DOS commands
from a menu list in addition to the function keys. The ARexx/DOS menu
has also been added to the "Edit and save message line to clipboard;
set ARexx variable" requester.

 AEMail Version 2.20 now also allows you to re-arrange your folder
lists and has added the "Move..." menu item to the Folders menu.
Additional edits have also been added when creating new folders to
prevent assigning illegal names to the folders. Any folder containing
the special characters :, \, or / are illegal as well as the name
"folder".

 The folder strip when, it extends beyond the visable window, is now
correctly displayed on systems using display boards and CyberGraphX
software. Previous versions displayed garbage in that part of the
folder strip when it was moved into the visable portion of the window.
Also, instead of specifying a display mode in the Configuration
Edit/General Page, you can select a clone of the workbench display
mode. Whatever you have selected as the display mode for the workbench
(from the Preferences/Display Mode setting) will be used for the
display mode for AEMail.

 Mime attachments that use the "multipart/alternative" mime
type/subtype are now correctly handled. This mime type/subtype is
widely used in the Macintosh and PC world. Also, headers using
Quoted-Printable notation are correctly handled.

 AEMail Version 2.20 also corrects some bugs found in Version 2.01.

 A complete list of new features, changes and the bugs corrected with
version 2.20 is given at the end of the AEMail.readme file. The readme
file is given in the AEMail archive and can also be found on my web
site which can be displayed with a browser.

 With the release of Version 2.00 at the Amiga '99 show in March of
this year, AEMail now utilizes ClassAct which has become part of the
new Amiga OS 3.5. The ClassAct Classes required are included with the
archive for OS Versions before 3.5. Amiga OS 3.5 includes the required
classes as part of the OS.

 For those of you with a version of AEMail prior to 2.00, AEMail no
longer automatically sends the special "Notification" message when you
send your first message. Instead, when you first load the new version
of AEMail a special requester will appear asking if you want to send
the notification message for updates and giving you the ability to
select what information you want to send. You can cancel this message,
but if you do, the requester will appear each time you load AEMail. Tf
you are a registered user and you cancel, you will be given the
opportunity to suppress the message the next time you load AEMail. For
unregistered users the requester will appear each time you load AEMail
whether or not you send the notification or cancel.

 The installation script also had been completely re-written starting
with AEMail 2.00 to allow you to create multiple icons for multiple
users of AEMail. Please read the INSTALL.TXT document before
attempting to install this version of AEMail.

Thanks,

John
====

From: John Zacharias
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           M I C R O D O T   I I   1 . 3   V E R S I O N

 Microdot-II is an integrated email and news program, using the same
familiar interface to to integrate news, mail and mailing lists 'as
one', performing real threading of email or news correspondence to
make it easier to follow conversations between multiple people.

 Under development for some time by Oliver Wagner, Microdot-II 1.0 was
released in the NetConnect v2 package from Active Technologies.
Updated beta versions have been available to the public in beta form
for some time, and version 1.3 has just been released.

 Microdot-II is easy to use for the novice user, with the most common
functions assigned to toolbar buttons at the bottom of each window.
These toolbars are fully configurable for the power user, and may be
set up to perform any function they like, including the use of ARexx
functions from Microdot-II's large function base.

 Please remember, Microdot-II is shareware. If you use it, please
register the software and help support Amiga software development.

 Download Microdot-II now, and try out the Amiga's professional email
and news client.

 There is a Microdot-II Mailing List run by VaporWare for users to
discuss the software. Please feel free to sign up for it, your
question may be answered there.

Features

   o Easy to use!
   o Powerful filtering system
   o Multiple POP Accounts
   o Full PGP support
   o High speed message database
   o User-configurable buttons
   o User-configurable shortcuts

   o Interaction with other Vaporware programs
      o Voyager - email
      o AmIRC - notification
   o ARexx Port
   o Flexible sorting of messages
   o Fully supports Contact Manager

http://www.vapor.com/
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          M E T A L W E B   4 . 0   P R E R E L E A S E   2

17 Dec., '99

MetalWEB 4.0 Prerelease 2
=========================

 MetalWeb is the first WYSIWYG HTML editor for AmigaOS. The philsophy
behind the software is that you should not need to understand HTML in
order to create pages within MetalWEB. You can create web pages via a
DTP style editor or the 'old way' via a tabbed, coloured text based
source window. Indeed, like the award-winning Dreamweaver you can
open both the edit and source window, work within one of the windows,
whilst the other window updates, automagically!


 Programmer: Pedro Luis 'MultitasK' Mieza
 <multitaskers@retemail.es>

 <multitask@vapor.com>

 Co-Programmer: Josep 'MetalGear' Rubiralta
 <pep-multitask@retemail.es>

 Even better, highlight an area (ie. some text) within the editor
window, and the specific HTML source is updated concurrently.

 MetalWeb also ships with a MetalMap module, allowing you to create
advanced imagemaps, via an easy to use interface.

 Please don't use a pirated copy :(.

New Features:
=============

    - Memory Use Reduced a lot (Requires 2 megs aprox)
    - Drag'n'drop keep out
    - Cursor to edit text as a DTP editor
    - Mark option enable to cut, copy and paste
    - New Imagemap Editor
            now it's an external program linked by arexx commands
    - Speedbar.mcc
    - TearOff.mcc
    - TextInput.mcc
    - Nlist.mcc
    - New Source Editor.
            With coloured html tags.
    - Cut, Copy, Paste to clipboard.
    - New WYSIWYG <-> Source
    - Single edit window
    - New Colourtext Class
    - Visual Size image edition
    - Visual Size table edition
    - Wordwrap


Features:
=========

    - Support most important HTML tags
    - WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
    - Easy Graphic Interface
    - Use datatypes to see pictures
    - No HTML knowledge
    - FRAMES support!
    - HTML 3.2 parser
    - Direct edition on final window
    - Metatools editor
    - Complete Documentation (comming separately "metalweb_docs.lha")
    - Embed object soported
    - Source edition
    - Recent files option
    - Print Source
    - Easy WYSIWYG Imagemap edition!
    - Arexx Commands
    - Resize Images supported
    - Font Colors
    - Font Size
    - Horizontal Bars support
    - Bold, Italic, and Underline on direct edition!
    - Basic TABLE Support
    - MetalWEB could be linked with Amiga best browsers using Arexx



Metalmap 1.0 features:
======================

    - Imagemap can be loaded/saved in HTML format ready to be added
        on your HTML documents.
    - Supports Rectangles, Polygons and Circles.
    - WYSIWYG
    - Arexx
    - Speedbar.mcc



System Requirements:
====================

    Minimum:
        - 2MB of free memory
        - 68000 processor
        - ECS
        - MUI 3.8

    Recommended:
        - 4MB of free memory
        - Hard drive
        - 68060 processor
        - Workbench 3.0
        - Gfx card
        - MUI 3.8
        - PPC Card with PPC datatypes



 To get more information about MetalWEB and another Multitaskers
projects please visit:

    http://www.earthcorp.com/multitask
    http://personal3.iddeo.es/multitaskers
	http://www.vapor.com/metalweb

There is also a mailing list devoted to discussing MetalWEB specific
issues; please see

    http://www.vapor.com/lists/


Or ask me by email:

    multitask@earthcorp.com
    	or
    multitask@vapor.com


Enjoy it!
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        M I L L E N N I U M   F O R   T H E   T O A S T E R

11 Dec., '99


Nova Design and Newtek Announce Availability of Millennium

The Millennium is Here!

 Millennium for the Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer is here now. It's
extremely cool, it's wildly powerful, and it will give your Toaster
and Toaster/Flyer amazing new powers to help you make your work look
better than ever before!

 The Millennium package is presented by Newtek and has been produced
by Nova Design, Inc. in cooperation with all prominent Toaster/Flyer
developers. It is not to be missed.

What's Inside

 Millennium is not merely a single package. It is a collection of
software, scripts, effects, fonts, backgrounds, and other content
designed to update your Video Toaster and Flyer dramatically.
Millennium was designed to be the largest, most comprehensive, upgrade
you could put on your system. Millennium is for the Toaster owner as
well as the Flyer owner.

 You'll find some old favorites are now part of the Millennium
package. Some packages you will be familiar with and some will be
brand new to you. Some existing packages have been upgraded
significantly for the Millennium release and some have been made
Toaster-friendly and Flyer-friendly as well. Here is a list of what
you will find in Millennium.

 o Wipe Studio - You may be familiar with the 'lite' version-but this
is the complete package! Use it to create your own wipes and effects
for the Toaster and Flyer.

 o RenderFX - Upgraded for Millennium, this package allows you to
render your FlyerClip sequences down to a new FlyerClip. You can then
layer more video, CG, and effects for a far more impressive
production.

 o Flyer Utilities - Includes utilities for converting Toaster wipes
between 3.x and 4.x formats, Undeleting FlyerClips, Timecoding and
much more.

 o ProMix - Also upgraded for Millennium, this package provides audio
tools to let you add audio to video, import/export audio formats, add
audio to FlyerClips and animations, and more.

 o Fast Frames - Allows you to 'Toasterize' your Video Flyer by
pre-recording CG sequences, Framestore montages, and create flying CG
effects and more.

 o Fast Fuel - Adds video deck control to the Toaster/Flyer interface
for automatic clip recording.

 o Electric Scene Knife - This can save you literally hours of work.
The Knife can take a FlyerClip and automatically find the different
scenes within it, mark them, and even offer to cut them into separate
FlyerClips for you.

 o Flyer Backup - A script based system that can backup your actual
FlyerClips to a hard drive or to removable media.

 o CGPilot - The famous CG ARexx scripts that automate many time
consuming CG tasks.

 o Toaster Wipes and Effects - There are hundreds of these and most
are available for both Toaster 3.x and 4.x so both Toaster and Flyer
owners can use them. These include wedding wipes, fire wipes, basic
animated wipes, cool soft gradient wipes, and fully rotoscoped motion
matte wipes.

 o MegFX - 41 Flyer-project croutons, which produce real-time
dual-stream split-screen effects and real-time layer-mixed dual-stream
effects directly in Flyer projects.

 o Backgrounds - Hundreds of full color, professionally drawn,
backgrounds for you to use in your CG pages or in ToasterPaint.

 o Control Tower - Adds tons of new effects and macros to your Flyer
 system.

 o Full motion backgrounds - FlyerClips of animated scenes, fire, and
more. You can use these with your Flyer for CG backgrounds or as
royalty-free stock footage.

 There are many other features of Millennium. We've really just
touched the surface of all the tools and content that are included in
Millennium to make your Toaster and Flyer more productive for you.
Millennium also includes hundreds of new ARexx commands for scripting,
programmer's manuals for the ProMix and RenderFX tools and more.

The package will include three CDROMs filled with wipes, effects, fonts,
backgrounds, software and more; full printed documentation, a video tape
containing demos of the package, tutorials, and promotions for other
Toaster/Flyer products.

Check this out!

 Millennium is available from your favorite Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer
reseller. The suggested resale price is only $349.95 and you can order
now!

 This upgrade is the largest-ever for the Toaster and the
Toaster/Flyer. Order today!

 For more information or to order Millennium for the Amiga
Toaster/Flyer directly, you can call 1-800-462-4369 Monday-Friday or
fax at (804) 282-3768.

 You can also find information, and screenshots, on Newtek's web site
and Nova Design, Inc.'s web sites at http://www.newtek.com/ and
http://www.novadesign.com/ on the Internet.

Welcome...the new Millennium!
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               N O T   M U C H   T I M E   L E F T ! !

17th December 1999
For Immediate Release

 Due to the huge success of the 5th anniversary special offer, it has
now been extended until December 25th. Paul Nolan would like to thank
those who have purchased Photogenics for their support, and wishes
everyone a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

 For those who missed the sale details, they are as follows. Paul
Nolan is offering the full version of Photogenics 4.x at a 25%
discount. This brings the price down from $99.99 - to $75, or just $65
if upgrading from a previous version of Photogenics. The special is
only available direct from Paul Nolan Ltd, either online at
http://www.PaulNolan.com, or the StarByte order hotline on 1 800 243
1515, extension 400. Callers outside of North America should prefix
this with their international dialling code for the US (for example
dial 00 1 800 243 1515 from the UK).
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             S E C O N D S P I N   F O R   M P E G S

11 Dec., '99

 SecondSpin is a fully working freeware project to give the complete
conversion sollution to mpeg audio. It's mainly meant to help you to
make perfect mp3 files easily with your amiga, but it's also able to
decode mpeg audio back to aiff files to be burnt back to a cd.

 The program is already almost 100% to completed and is currently in
heavy betatesting stage in order to make it commercial quality. It's
really absolutely free and will always be so. The current release can
be downloaded at many unofficial places, like the one here plus the
docs are online here to give you some impression of what to come. I'v
decided to put online some kind of online forum to help us all to
discuss about SecondSpin. If you've got good ideas, what approach
should we use, please contact me

 o will easily convert audiocds (CDDA) to mpeg audio files or
additionally only leech the tracks as aiff files.

 o will also easily convert your existing AIFF or WAV files to mpeg
audio

 o also converts mpeg files back to AIFF for general use.

 o outputs mpeg audio layers 1, 2 (mono/stereo/j-stereo and 3
(mono/stereo/j-stereo) with bitrates of 320, 256, 192, 160, 128, 112,
96, 64, 32, 24, 16, 8 kbps

 o a full fontsensitive and easy GUI

 o supports all amigas (with or without fpu) as well as amigas
equipped with a ppc.

 o supports www.cddb.com, so it's able to fetch track information from
the site.

 o fully localized

Contact:  second.spin@pp.inet.fi / lauri.ahonen@pp.inet.fi
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               S I M O N   T H E   S O R C E R E R   2

20 Dec., '99

 Yeah!!! that`s right Simon the Sorcerer 2 is finally being released
on the Amiga, and about time too.

 Reserve your copy now. There will be a limited number manufactured -
So chances are if you don`t reserve your copy, you won`t get one.

 Simon the Sorcerer 2 - This isn't just any old 'Child in fantasyland'
story. For starters, no other kids have to put up with useless old
wizards, unattractive heroines, baddies that simply don't know when to
stay dead and being the last one in school to discover puberty.

 Armed with a pointy hat (stupid looking), a pony tail (even more
stupid looking) and a tendency to irritate people twice his size,
Simon returns in this action packed sequel which promises to be more
entertaining, amusing and fun than any other adventure of it's type
(allegedly). It's amazing the sort of rubbish you can read on these
sales leaflets. `s right Simon the Sorcerer 2 is finally being
released on the Amiga, and about time too.

 Reserve your copy now. There will be a limited number manufactured -
So chances are if you don`t reserve your copy, you won`t get one.

 Simon the Sorcerer 2 - This isn't just any old 'Child in fantasyland'
story. For starters, no other kids have to put up with useless old
wizards, unattractive heroines, baddies that simply don't know when to
stay dead and being the last one in school to discover puberty.

 Armed with a pointy hat (stupid looking), a pony tail (even more
stupid looking) and a tendency to irritate people twice his size,
Simon returns in this action packed sequel which promises to be more
entertaining, amusing and fun than any other adventure of it's type
(allegedly).


 So stop hanging around looking blankly at your monitor, like a total
anorak. Order the game! Who knows, you might even enjoy it.

 Technical Specs:

 * Fall a long way and go 'splat!

 * Meet pirates and take the mickey out of them!

 * Puke until your shoes are full!

 * Admire the pseudo-gothic architecture!



              Epic Club CARD Holders, Reserve your copy for £25

              Not a Club CARD Holder? Reserve your copy for £30

            Specs: 030 or better AGA or GFX Card  8 meg of memory

 Reserve your copy with Credit/Debit card - No money will be taken
until day of release.

                      Estimated release date: Feb 2000*

//www.epicmarketing.ltd.net/amiga/newpage/cd960.html
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            N E T I N F O   2 . 5   A V A I L A B L E

20 Dec., '99

From VaporWare

 NetInfo-II is a network information viewer utility. It integrates the
functionality of the well known standalone Traceroute, Ping, Whois and
Finger programs into one seamless GUI application.

 Instead of gathering the information about a host and the Internet
route to it manually, you just enter a hostname and click Start.
NetInfo-II does the rest for you!

Features

 o "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick succession to
get a route overview very fast, then does accurate timings for the
individual hops

 o graphical display of hop min/last/max timings

 o integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on a IP, Host or
Network column to automatically receive WHOIS information for the
given object. NetInfo determines the WHOIS host to query.

 o automatically retrieves WHOIS network information for hosts

 o automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP server
versions

 o history for all queried hosts

 o integrated FINGER client

 o integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache

http://www.vapor.com/products/
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Amiga Update on the net:
 All back issues available at:
    http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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Copyright 1999 by Brad Webb.    Freely distributable, if not modified.
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Today we announce the availability of a new Amiga next generation PowerPC
OS project, called MorphOS, to the public.

In its current state it provides a modern memory protection microkernel
which runs a virtual amiga emulation.  This microkernel will be the base
for a new OS layer.

Research for this project started in early 1998, while at the end of 1998
an early implementation was ready.  In 1999, we started on the virtual
amiga emulation to make the current AmigaOS available without requiring 68K
hardware. The basic design goals behind MorphOS are

- memory protection
- resource tracking
- asynchronous message system
- low interrupt latency
- virtual memory (optional)
- distributed computing
- symmetrical multi processing (SMP)
- recursive memory management
- task/thread and clan/chief model
- clean design with an elegant API
- micro/pico kernel mixture

The developer release is planned for end of January.  Minimum system
requirements are
- A4000 with CyberStorm PPC/604e and Symbios 770 SCSI
- CyberVisionPPC
- at least 32MB memory installed
- Kickstart 3.1 (Version 40.68) and Workbench 3.1 or up
Hardware requirements might change as soon as more hardware setups are
tested and implemented.


As the success of this project will also depend on your feedback/support,
we suggest that interested developers visit our project webpage for a
general MorphOS overview and information on how to join us to help.

Feel free to enter the project webpage at

http://www.morphos.de or
http://www.morphos.ch

ARABIC: Saiid yom al-milaad wa senat jadiida
ARMENIAN: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
AZERI-AZERBAIJAN: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
BASQUE: Zorionstsu Eguberri. Zoriontsu Berri Urte
BULGARIAN: Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo. Tchestita Nova Godina
CHINESE-CANTONESE: Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
CHINESE-MANDARIN: Kung Ho Hsin Hsi. Ching Chi Shen Tan
CZECH: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
DANISH: Glædelig jul og godt nytår
DUTCH: Zalig Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
ESTONIAN: Roomsaid Joulu Phui ja Uut Aastat
FINNISH: Hyvää Joulua. Onnellista Uutta Voutta
FRENCH: Joyeux Noel et heureuse Anne
GAELIC-IRISH: Nollaig mhaith Dhuit Agus Bliain Nua Fé Mhaise
GAELIC-SCOT: Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur
GERMAN: Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr
GREEK: Kala Khristougena kai Eftikhes to Neon Ethos
HAWAIIAN: Mele Kalikimake me ka Hauloi Makahiki hou
HEBREW: Mo'adim Lesimkha
HUNGARIAN: Boldog Karacsonyl es Ujevl Unnepeket
ICELANDIC: Gledlig jol og Nyar
INDONESIAN: Selamah Tahun Baru
IRISH: Nollaig shona diobh
IROQUOIS: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut
          Ojenyunyat osrasay
ITALIAN: Buon Natale e felice Capo d'anno
JAPANESE: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
KOREAN: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
LATVIAN: Priecigus Ziemas Svetkus un Laimigu Jauno Gadu
LITHUANIAN: linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu
LUXEMBURGHISH: Schéin Chrëschtdeeg an dudden
               Rutsch an d'néit Joer
MANX: Ollick Ghennal Erriu as Blein Feer Die
      Seihil as Slaynt Da'n Slane Loght Thie
NORSE-DANISH: Gledlig jul og godt Nytt Aar
POLISH: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego
        Nowego Roku
PORTUGUESE: Feliz Natal e prospero Ano Novo
RAPA-NUI (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi
                          Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
ROMANIAN: Sarbatori Fericite. La Multi Ani
RUSSIAN: Pozdrevly ayu sprazdnikom Rozhdestva Khristova
         is Novim Godom
UKRANIAN: Veselykh Svyat i scaslivoho Novoho Roku
SAMOAN: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
SLOVAK: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
SERB-CROATIAN:Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
SINGHALESE (Ceylon/Sri Lanka): Subha nath thalak Vewa
                               Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
SLOVENE: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
SPANISH: Feliz Navidad y prospero Ano Nuevo
SWEDISH: God Jul och ett Gott Nytt År
TAGALOG (Filipino): Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
TURKISH: Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun
WELSH: Nadolic Llawen. Blwyddn Newdd Dda

From:         "Steve Crietzman" president@amigakernel.org
To:           savetheamiga@egroups.com
Date:         Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:44:18 -0000
Organization: Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS
Subject:      [cosa] Open Amiga Group Formed (Press Release)

URL: http://www.amigakernel.org/AmigaOS/

Press Release
For Immediate Release
22 December 1999

Tel: +44 (0)1778 393472 (Steve Crietzman)
E-Mail: president@amigakernel.org

ANNOUNCING THE OPEN AMIGA GROUP AND AMIGAKERNEL.ORG,
A NEW ORGANISATION AND WEBSITE FOR AMIGA DEVELOPERS

WILL ENCOURAGE OPENNESS, CO-OPERATION AND TEAMWORK IN AMIGA SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT, AND PROVIDE A
COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR OPEN-SOURCE
AMIGA PROJECTS

COSA HEADQUARTERS -- December 22, 1999 -- COSA
(the Campaign to Open-Source AmigaOS) today officially launched it's new
sister project, the Open Amiga Group, at Amigakernel.org.

The Open Amiga Group has been created, in the spirit of the Christmas
season, to encourage and help developers, by providing a system where Amiga
projects and applications can be openned up to the contributions of a team
of Amiga developers, using the open-source model as a guide. It is hoped
this will lead to the creation of new high-quality Amiga applications, and
to the revival of stalled or abandoned projects, which could be continued by
a team of open-source Amiga programmers.

Amiga developers will be able to use the Amigakernel.org website to join
existing projects (currently aMozillaX and AROS, with AmigaOS "in reserve"),
or to easily create projects of their own using the forms available on the
Amigakernel.org website.

Through a variety of mailing lists, the Open Amiga Group will keep
developers who have registered with us informed of the latest projects that
are being set up, and in contact with other developers working on the same
projects. (It is our intention there be a mailing list for users and a
mailing list for developers for each project hosted by the Open Amiga
group.)

Open-source projects can then either be hosted by Open Amiga using our own
resources - website, mailing list and tools (and the resources of
sourceforge.net), or we can simply provide links and references to your own
websites, mailing lists and tools.

The Open Amiga project is a natural extention of COSA's charter, which is to
promote open-source within the Amiga community, and to campaign for the
release of the Amiga operating system as open source. (It should be noted
that negotiations with Amiga Inc's Tom Schmidt on this matter are ongoing.)
We also felt it would be wasteful not to offer the 130 developers who have
already registered with COSA as "probable developers for an open-source
AmigaOS" a chance to work on other projects.

For more information, or to register as a developer, or register an existing
open-source Amiga project on our pages, please visit
http://www.amigakernel.org to visit the Open Amiga Group's website, or
http://cosa.amigakernel.org for more information on COSA, the Campaign to
Open-Source AmigaOS, and for the latest news on the status of our
negotiations with Amiga Inc.

In the spirit of this season of co-operation and friendship, we wish the
Amiga community a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May the
millennium mark a turning point in the Amiga's history, where we finally
reap the mainstream attention and respect that our platform and it's
powerful, speedy OS deserve.

## END

Note: Anyone with questions about this release should contact Steve
Crietzman, President of COSA/Open Amiga on the number at the
top of this release.

Zeitplan.lha         comm/bbs    18K+Schedule-Info (Manager) for Prometheus (
netinfo.lha          comm/tcp   219K+GUI Traceroute/Network Info Viewer
Napoli85-99.lha      docs/misc   18K+Napoli FC statistics since 1985-86
sharks.lha           game/actio 273K+Great Action-diving V1.3 !
PSPrintAE.lha        gfx/misc    60K+PostScript-Print, PlugIn for ArtEffect2+
BSNESGui.lha         misc/emu    68K+A great gui for WarpSNes
01_body.mpg          mods/mpg   5.4M+Prodigy-inspired metal...
Mindprobe.lha        mods/mpg   6.6M+Trance/Acid/Metal mixtured song...
NewMillennium.lha    mods/mpg   2.6M+Meshuggah-inspired metal...
pie_hurts.mpg        mods/mpg   1.2M+Hardcore from Dj Pie / Lunatic 99
Resurrection.lha     mods/mpg   5.4M+Trance/Acid//Goa/Metal mixtured song...
Lch-AmySuns.lha      pix/art    399K+A couple of Amiga inspired pics
Epson_400.lha        text/print  15K+Epson Stylus 400/440 Driver for WB V1.10
Epson_600.lha        text/print  16K+Epson Stylus 600/700 Driver for WB V40.1
HP_Deskjet400C.lha   text/print  15K+Deskjet 400C/L Driver for WB 40.8
HP_Deskjet600C.lha   text/print  16K+Deskjet 600C Driver for WB V40.10
HP_Deskjet670C.lha   text/print  17K+Deskjet 670C/680C/690C Driver V40.21
HP_Deskjet870C.lha   text/print  16K+Deskjet 870C/890C Driver for WB V40.9
Cybermagic.lha       util/blank 1.1M+Blanker for Cybergraphix (0.5.0)
FixSuffix.lha        util/cli     7K+Gives numbering suffixes a fixed length
UnFixSuffix.lha      util/cli     7K+Removes supernumerous zeros from numberi
dt2ps.lha            util/dtype  65K+Datatype to postscript. Unique features
ttflib68000.lha      util/libs  239K+Ttf.library v0.8.2 truetype font engine
ttflib68020.lha      util/libs  237K+Ttf.library v0.8.2 truetype font engine
ttflib68030.lha      util/libs  237K+Ttf.library v0.8.2 truetype font engine
ttflib68040.lha      util/libs  237K+Ttf.library v0.8.2 truetype font engine
ttflib68060.lha      util/libs  237K+Ttf.library v0.8.2 truetype font engine
VersionWB.lha        util/sys    35K+V2.12 AmigaDos Version replacement.
clipper.lha          util/wb     50K+Handy Listview tool to set the Clipboard
TextloaderNG.lha     util/wb    401K+TextConverter V2.11b - Word,WPerfect,HTM

Konwerter2.14.lha    biz/misc   130K+Convert files from Metastock and Omega t
AEMail.lha           comm/mail  865K+AEMail 2.20 E-Mail GUI w MIME/UUENCODE
nc_update.lha        comm/news  123K+Newsreader Version 1.22 (MUI)
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  270K+Newsreader Version 1.22 (MUI)
plnk.lha             comm/news   13K+Plonk script for Yam2NN 0.85 (ver. 0.5)
CarcHTML.lha         comm/www    14K+V1.00 Create HTML page for archived file
guardamy.lha         comm/www   229K+V1.1 Watch web pages for changes
Millennium.lha       demo/aga   440K+Funny Millennium-Demo
Bonus.lha            dev/asm     10K+Christamss gift from Zeeball/Apathy
cha_source.lha       dev/e       43K+E source code for OctaMED nsm plugins
LittelComp.lha       dev/lang    25K+LITTEL Compiler R4 (badgerattack)
fda-upd.lha          disk/cache  26K+Floppy and ZIP bugfixes 1.8->2.0 update
fda.lha              disk/cache 354K+Faster than PFS also installed V2.0
IdentCDR.lha         disk/cdrom  17K+Identifies CD-R/W media (brand, capacity
Cheat_Mania.lha      game/actio  13M+Funny Slot-Machine with nice features
ADescentSrc.lha      game/shoot 1.3M+ADescent source code
Gwars1_5.lha         game/shoot 460K+Galagawars V1.5 + Source by Michael Ross
Patience.lha         game/think 106K+19 games of patience V1.0
PVS.lha              gfx/board   33K+Global Prefs editor for Picasso96
ExtractJPEGs.lha     gfx/conv     7K+Extracts JPEGs (e.g. from Quicktime movi
FPScon.lha           gfx/conv     6K+Reduces the framerate of video frame seq
akMPEG2.lha          gfx/show   126K+MPEG player for CyberGfx/AGA V3.06 (68k/
Arc64.lha            misc/emu    15K+C64 archive processor V2.2
pie_no666.lha        mods/hardc 443K+Hardcore by Dj Pie / Lunatic 99
02_world.mpg         mods/mpg   5.8M+Synth with some heavy guitars...
03_manhi.mpg         mods/mpg   7.0M+Psycho Prodigy/Goa-metal...
04_proje.mpg         mods/mpg   7.2M+Meshuggah/Thordendal inspired metal...
05_error.mpg         mods/mpg   6.3M+Psychadelic Trance/Thrash-metal...
06_float.mpg         mods/mpg   6.8M+Prodigy-inspired metal...
07_polyg.mpg         mods/mpg   5.4M+Prodigy-inspired metal...
08_cloud.mpg         mods/mpg   8.9M+Trance/Acid/Goa-metal...
09_eyebe.mpg         mods/mpg   4.3M+Fast rave???.... :)
10_nucle.mpg         mods/mpg   4.9M+Prodigy-inspired thrashmetal...
11_the.mpg           mods/mpg   2.7M+Fast Drum'N Bass-Goa...
pie_core.mpg         mods/mpg   2.1M+Hardcore By Dj's Pie & Slade / Lunatic
cha_autotempo.lha    mus/edit     8K+Adjust sample pitch to fit tempo in Octa
cha_bassdrum.lha     mus/edit    11K+Bassdrum generator for OctaMED
cha_echo.lha         mus/edit    10K+OctaMED nsm plugin - better echo effect
cha_filter.lha       mus/edit    21K+OctaMED nsm plugin - better filter effec
cha_stanley.lha      mus/edit    24K+Cut up samples easily in OctaMED
Amoralplay1.4b.lha   mus/play   113K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
A1200R_1.jpg         pix/misc    26K+Selfmade Amiga1200 19inches rack machine
A1200R_2.jpg         pix/misc    19K+Selfmade Amiga1200 19inches rack machine
A1200R_3.jpg         pix/misc    15K+Selfmade Amiga1200 19inches rack machine
A1200R_back.jpg      pix/misc    24K+Selfmade Amiga1200 19inches rack machine
A1200R_inside1.jpg   pix/misc    36K+Selfmade Amiga1200 19inches rack machine
A1200R_inside2.jpg   pix/misc    46K+Selfmade Amiga1200 19inches rack machine
BlurryBoing.jpg      pix/misc    11K+Blurry BoingBall Background Image
chatlogo.jpg         pix/misc    11K+Amiga Chat (website) logo
freplace.lha         util/cli     7K+Replaces substrings in filenames
maildecoder.lha      util/cli     3K+Maildecoder V1.0 Mail attachment decoder
mailencoder.lha      util/cli     2K+Mailencoder V1.0 Mail attachment encoder
SeqNum.lha           util/cli     7K+Renumbers file sequences
VersCheckV2.lha      util/cli   815K+Check your libs,MUI,devs,dtypes,classes,
VersCv2Fix1.lha      util/cli    11K+Bugfix VersCheck V2 FINAL (InstallerScri
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype  35K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (WarpOS/PPC) V44.2
Safe.lha             util/virus  27K+Best new linkviruses detector v12.1

Dkg-Prices.lha       biz/dkg      1K+Pricelist for Amiga products at DarkAge 
865163186pe.lha      demo/aga   1.0M+"865163186pe" by PAS MAS (2nd at VEP'99)
iq2k-ms.lha          demo/aga   1.7M+"mankind sucks" by iq2000 (1st at VEP'99
devpic.lha           dev/cross   67K+PIC16 development package
BibelNT_Guide2.lha   docs/hyper 482K+Interpretations of bible NT2 (german)
atoms.lha            game/2play  44K+Classic Atoms game with ASM source
AmiSGE.lha           game/patch  23K+Decode/Encode Frontier:Elite II saved ga
StarCrusaderPa.lha   game/patch  19K+Speedup patch for Star Crusader
WHDF29.lha           game/patch  25K+HD Installer for F-29 Retaliator V1.1
WHDHeroQuest.lha     game/patch  30K+HD Installer for Hero Quest V1.2
CreateIndex.lha      gfx/conv    16K+Make HTML picture index with ImageStudio
VE-Main.lha          gfx/edit     4K+Visual Eng. - Important information
VE-VAlphaP.lha       gfx/edit   270K+Visual Eng. - Visual Alpha Preview
TP3.1.lha            hard/hack  299K+A SAVE TriplePlay MIDI-Interface for Bar
imdbDiff991210.lha   misc/imdb  2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
1999StBt.lha         mods/misc  604K+The Best Mods of Stamen in 1999
Phenomen.lha         mods/stame 150K+"Phenomenon", module by Stamen 1999
EP_DaveLowe.lha      mus/play     3K+EaglePlayer "Dave Lowe" external replaye
EP_SConnolly.lha     mus/play     4K+EaglePlayer "Sean Connolly" external rep
UebermRuhrpott.jpg   pix/trace  175K+Ueberm Ruhrpott
CharMap.lha          text/font   71K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
Jumpgate.lha         util/cli     7K+V2.0 - Patch programs for speed - Olly
VersCheck.lha        util/cli   809K+Check your libs,MUI,devs,dtypes,classes,
akJFIF-dt.lha        util/dtype 190K+AkJFIF-dt V44.60 (JPEG, 68000-060, PPC/W
akJFIF-PPC.lha       util/dtype  56K+AkJFIF-dt PPC plugin V44.60 (JPEG)
akJFIF-WOS.lha       util/dtype  76K+AkJFIF-dt WOS plugin V44.60 (JPEG)
akPNG-dt.lha         util/dtype 198K+AkPNG-dt V44.50 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/WOS
akPNG-PPC.lha        util/dtype  71K+AkPNG-dt PPC plugin V44.60
akPNG-WOS.lha        util/dtype  85K+AkPNG-dt WOS plugin V44.60
akTIFF-dt.lha        util/dtype 202K+AkTIFF-dt V44.50 (TIFF, 68000-060, PPC/W
akTIFF-PPC.lha       util/dtype  95K+AkTIFF-dt PPC plugin V44.60
akTIFF-WOS.lha       util/dtype 105K+AkTIFF-dt WOS plugin V44.60
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype  35K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (WarpOS/PPC only) V44
KPointer.lha         util/mouse   9K+Megaman, Mario, Bub, and DK Pointers.
Scion2html.lha       util/rexx   33K+WWW browser HTML's from Scion Genealogy 
AT.lha               util/time   97K+German database and reminder (freeware)

       BoXeR 6z 58.6%
       BoXeR 4z 24.6%
       BoXeR 4  11.0%
       BoXeR 6   5.8%

       PCI Display Card     63.4%
       PCI SCSI Card        12.6%
       PCI Ethernet Card     8.4%
       PCI Toaster NT Card   7.8%
       PCI Sound Card        6.8%
       PCI Multi-Serial Card 1.0%

1. The fixed archive is on my homepage, and will soon be available from Aminet too. Download: VersCheckV2.lha
2. Only available from my homepage is a second archive containing only the Installer script. Download: VersCv2Fix1.lha - 11 Kb.
3. For those daring enough: In line 31 of the script, a ")" is missing at the end of the line - that's it. Somehow it got lost. The Installer message says line 1163 or such, because the effect of the missing bracket is not recognized earlier.

• Amiga Workbench ADF files v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.04 and 2.1
• Amiga ROM files v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 2.04 (WB 2.1 uses 2.04 ROM)
• Jay Miner MP3 Track 1: Birth of the Amiga
• Jay Miner MP3 Track 2: Computers and Society
• Jay Miner MP3 Track 3: A New Job
• New HTML pages, including instructions to play MP3 audio files

1. Amiga Auctions are free!
2. Auctions held at Amiga Auctions actually have a better selling rate than eBay !
3. Amiga Auctions support English and German !
4. Amiga Auctions have several layout designs to choose from !
5. At Amiga Auctions you can choose from a list of Amiga hardware photographs, and having a photo Auction is free !
6. Amiga Auctions show approximate price in 3 other currencies !
7. Amiga Auctions are ran by the Amiga community, for the Amiga community !

• Some settings can be done by ENV:
• The whole version sensing has been reworked, being faster and safer
• Output can optionally be done in ANSI (so important things can be highlighted)
• A small statistic has been added
• Some small and large fixes have been done, internal help -? updated
• Two bad memory faults, which seldomly occured, but were there in the old version, have been detected and removed
• Special News-Doc in the doc drawer "NewInThisVersion"
• New .catalogs (update only German / English so far. So do the update with Installer only)
• Internal ReqTools requesters replaced by ASL requesters. I had problems getting the old requesters to work with WarpOS and PowerUP, with numerous memory faults. The ASL requesters do work, and are 100% identical with WarpOS and PowerUP.

• http://Gateway.To/Gateway5 (login with language choice)
• http://Gateway.To/Gateway5/D (German contents)
• http://Gateway.To/Gateway5/E (English contents)
• NW:LGateway5 (NETWORD call) does currently NOT work with the three Amiga browsers, only with Netscape and IE. Should be implemented some time, however.

2b_XBase.lha         biz/dbase  198K+Very easy2use flexible and fast database
BAB5_Txt.lha         biz/dbase   45K+Babylon 5 Episode Text / StarBase (115b)
HomeCINEMA.lha       biz/dbase  146K+The coolest German Video Database
OnyxBase.lha         biz/dbase   73K+Great address book manager with lots of 
Zeitplan.lha         comm/bbs    16K+Schedule-Info (Manager) for Prometheus (
CTCPMaster.lha       comm/irc    22K+CTCP-Master, AmIRC Bot-alike script. V1.
DalHelper.lha        comm/irc    35K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
NetInfo.lha          comm/irc    29K+(2.3) NetInfo plugin for AmIRC 2+
UnrealIRCD-bin.lha   comm/irc   331K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Elite-IRCD
yamexpansion.lha     comm/mail  197K+V2.6 handles recent emails with YAM 2.0 
DragonTools.lha      comm/misc  252K+Setup for SpeedDragon and PowerDragon
dring.lha            comm/misc   89K+Distinctive ring for TrapDoor
ViperTools.lha       comm/misc  219K+Setup for Hagenuk's "Speed Viper"
xemviewdata.lha      comm/misc   14K+External Viewdata emulation library
ICQPager0.1.lha      comm/net    60K+Send ICQ Pagers to ICQ users
nc_update.lha        comm/news  120K+Newsreader Version 1.21 (MUI)
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  267K+Newsreader Version 1.21 (MUI)
aweblastpages.lha    comm/www    48K+Loads Last Visited html pages in AWeb3.3
CheckHTML.lha        comm/www   184K+Checks HTML files
HTTPResume.lha       comm/www   116K+Resume interrupted HTTP downloads
HTTPResume_Cat.lha   comm/www     3K+Catalan localization for HTTPResume v1.8
HTTPResume_Ser.lha   comm/www    23K+Serbian localization for HTTPResume v1.8
MetalWEB4_pre2.lha   comm/www   911K+V4.0pre2 WYSIWYG Html Editor!
OpenBrowser.lha      comm/www     1K+Script for open URLs and starting WebBro
Tidy.lha             comm/www   107K+Tidy your HTML - fixes common HTML error
2000vt.lha           demo/aga   167K+Videotracker Animation for Christmas at 
cg_fates.lha         demo/aga   330K+Cg_Fates (AGA Demo presented at slash pa
crs-p42.lha          demo/aga   278K+Project42 demo by corrosion
PSB-Maja.lha         demo/aga   1.5M+"maja the pszczolka" - wild from satelli
PSB-TvsBritney.lha   demo/aga   3.5M+"mr.t vs britney spears" - wild winner f
wpz-frozen24.lha     demo/aga   602K+Frozen#24 - Fuck Ya Party Edition
wpz-inferno.lha      demo/aga    84K+Intro by Whelpz+Destiny - 1st at Fuck Ya
MWI-Zosia01.lha      demo/mag   389K+"Zosia #01" pack by Madwizards edited by
LNS-SuperDrug.lha    demo/sound  66K+Musicdisk by Loonies (generated samples)
AMCAFExt140Exa.lha   dev/amos   726K+Examples for the AMCAF extension *REUL*
ascii2xxx.lha        dev/c       19K+Shows equivalents for number systems.
nrdargs.lha          dev/c       16K+Shell-/workbench transparent ReadArgs in
PatchWork.lha        dev/debug   35K+Check OS functions to be called correctl
LittelComp.lha       dev/lang    23K+LITTEL Compiler v0.15b
MUI_Includes.lha     dev/mui     34K+Assembler includes for MUI
SmartInfoSrc.lha     dev/mui     30K+Assembler sources of SmartInfo
stefanb_src.lha      dev/src    1.3M+Complete sources from Stefan Becker's Am
fbackng.lha          disk/bakup  87K+FBackNG - Daily backup/mirror/cleanup pr
CDCat-AmiNet34.lha   disk/cdrom 1.9M+CDCat Index Of AmiNet 01-34
PFS3ud.lha           disk/misc  114K+PFS3 undelete 
SFSGui.lha           disk/misc   48K+A GUI For ALL SFS Cli Functions
SmartInfo.lha        disk/misc   23K+SFSQuery and SFSdefragmentGUI replacemen
BAB5_Gde.lha         docs/hyper  47K+Babylon 5 Episode AGuide (115b)
AmZ10-AG.lha         docs/mags  173K+German Online-Magazine for AMIGA. AGuide
cg_hexagone.lha      game/board  11K+Cg_Hexagone (a small Game)
cg_risk.lha          game/board 614K+Cg_Risk (Risk Game)
cg_solit.lha         game/board   5K+Cg_Solit (Solitaire Game)
Bloodnet_Solve.lha   game/hint    3K+Bloodnet walkthrough
SushiCombat.lha      game/patch 1.9M+Quake competition servermod v1.0 beta2
yagac07.lha          game/role  240K+Graphic adventure creator 0.7(Balrog Sof
acd_e.lha            game/think  71K+Crossword Deluxe V1.0 English
acd_nl.lha           game/think  71K+Crossword Deluxe V1.0 Dutch
Robossy.lha          game/think 7.9M+Puzzle game with 30 levels
SameGame.lha         game/think  10K+Addictive puzzle game with colored balls
Anim2gif-gui.lha     gfx/conv   149K+GUI , Converts anims to gifs Various Opt
MetaView.lha         gfx/conv   495K+The best vector(AMF,CGM,CLP,DR2D,DSDR,DX
MPEG2Dec.lha         gfx/conv    66K+MPEG-1/2 Video Decoder For 68000/010 Ami
PfPaint.lha          gfx/edit   923K+Powerful painter (V1.2) for Gfx cards.
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    23K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    26K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V1
PicScale.lha         gfx/edit    67K+Scale Pics in a window
VE-batchpro.lha      gfx/edit     1K+Visual Eng. - Batch Process v1.01
VE-Main.lha          gfx/edit     4K+Visual Eng. - Important information
VE-Tutorial1.lha     gfx/edit    71K+Visual Eng. - Tutorial 1
VE-Tutorial2.lha     gfx/edit   107K+Visual Eng. - Tutorial 2
VE-Tutorial3.lha     gfx/edit    64K+Visual Eng. - Tutorial 3
VE-Tutorial4.lha     gfx/edit    33K+Visual Eng. - Tutorial 4
VE-Tutorial5.lha     gfx/edit    68K+Visual Eng. - Tutorial 5
VE-Tutorial6.lha     gfx/edit    47K+Visual Eng. - Tutorial 6
VE-Tutorial7.lha     gfx/edit   106K+Visual Eng. - Tutorial 7
VE-Tutorial8.lha     gfx/edit    98K+Visual Eng. - Tutorial 8
VE-unkregion.lha     gfx/edit     2K+Visual Eng. - Unknown Region v1.02
VE-VAnim.lha         gfx/edit     4K+Visual Eng. - Visual Anim v2.35
VE-VBorderD.lha      gfx/edit   251K+Visual Eng. - Visual Border Demo v1.22
VE-VCard.lha         gfx/edit     4K+Visual Eng. - Visual Card v1.81
VE-VGradient.lha     gfx/edit     3K+Visual Eng. - Visual Gradient v1.29
VE-VLogoD.lha        gfx/edit   146K+Visual Eng. - Visual Logo Demo v1.21
VE-VPuzzleP.lha      gfx/edit    59K+Visual Eng. - Visual Puzzle Preview
VE-VSurface.lha      gfx/edit     3K+Visual Eng. - Visual Surface v1.28
VE-VTexture2.lha     gfx/edit    16K+Visual Eng. - Visual Texture 2 v1.00
IFX-Patcher.lha      gfx/ifx      4K+ImageFX 4.0/4.1-patcher for OS3.5 !!
FileInfo.lha         gfx/misc    15K+An AppWindow who givs you Information ab
MakeSuffix.lha       gfx/misc    17K+Script who makes the Suffixs for Graphic
SvIV-3a.lha          gfx/misc   136K+SViewIV V9.05 (7.12.99) - Part 3a/8
MPEGPlay.lha         gfx/show   186K+MPEG Video Player For 68000/010 Amigas.
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  220K+V1.35b PSX MemoryCard Reader
TechnoIO.lha         hard/hack  306K+Universal digital I/O-System
AmiGenerator.lha     misc/emu   269K+Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator for Warp
anescgfx.lha         misc/emu    84K+A/NES CGFX v1.16 - Nintendo emulator
Basic35Manual.lha    misc/emu    40K+Commodore Basic 3.5 manual
DarcNES.lha          misc/emu   224K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000 emulator v991127c 
imdbDiff991203.lha   misc/imdb  2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
SpaTra06.lha         misc/misc   67K+Spanish Translations Pack 06 v0.4
zdrajca.lha          misc/misc   15K+Zdrajca - nice program to simulate crash
TO_Hard_Jingle.lha   mods/hardc 490K+X-Mas Hardcore Track (DBM)
nigdoubt.lha         mods/med   563K+Niggling Doubt - 2 songs from DJTwiglet
rNO-L016.lha         mods/misc  399K+Rno-label release no.16 by Tarmslyng/loo
pie_nightmre.mpg     mods/mpg   4.5M+Hardcore from Dj Pie / Lunatic 99
brm_mod6.lha         mods/pro   642K+Modules by Broom.
DiamondGUI13.lha     mus/play    72K+V1.3 of the most usable GUI for MPEGA
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   204K+Finally!Modplayer with AmigaAmpSkins!
gressklipperma.lha   pix/anim    83K+Funny animation with sound
the_shower.lha       pix/anim   1.2M+Funny animation with sound
arcadian.jpg         pix/art    278K+Painting by Alvar Andersson
dreamside.jpg        pix/art    162K+Painting by Alvar Andersson
nolife.jpg           pix/art    363K+Painting by Alvar Andersson
Starfield1.jpg       pix/art     24K+Hand drawn starfield
stillife.jpg         pix/art    211K+Painting by Alvar Andersson
MurphyBG-1.jpg       pix/back   223K+Murphy-1 cool BG pic 800x600 (Mitsubishi
MurphyBG-2.jpg       pix/back   164K+Murphy-1 cool BG pic 800x600 (2 Galaxy)
MurphyBG-3.jpg       pix/back   255K+Murphy-1 cool BG pic 800x600 (Red Dust)
MurphyBG-4.jpg       pix/back   115K+Murphy-1 cool BG pic 800x600 (Supernova)
MurphyBG-5.jpg       pix/back   118K+Murphy-1 cool BG pic 800x600 (Comet)
MurphyBG-6.jpg       pix/back   118K+Murphy-1 cool BG pic 800x600 (Comet)
MurphyBG-7.jpg       pix/back   265K+Murphy-1 cool BG pic 800x600 (Galaxy)
MurphyBG-8.jpg       pix/back    52K+Murphy-1 cool BG pic 800x600 (Stardust)
ChristmasBoot.lha    pix/boot   389K+Christmas `99 bootup for Rainboot2
AirbrushMouse1.jpg   pix/misc   339K+AMIGA - airbrush - Mouse
AmigaTheme.lha       pix/misc   252K+Amiga theme for NewInstaller
cora-xmas99.lha      pix/misc   130K+[ancor] a xmas pic with Cora
OutaSpaceTheme.lha   pix/misc   277K+OutaSpace theme for NewInstaller
Windows98Theme.lha   pix/misc   100K+Windows98 theme for NewInstaller
gBa_HEW99.mpg        pix/mpg     19M HomeElectronicWorld99-MPG-by VD-UPLOAD b
AlienNI2.lha         pix/nicon  163K+Cool and Useful Misc NewIcons vol.2!
CamoBG.lha           pix/wb      49K+Camoflage Backgrounds for you WB.
GED_Hexedit.lha      text/edit  119K+Hexedit Environment for GOLDED V1.30
janoeditor.lha       text/edit   22K+TextEditor beta 9 11-nov-99
wordpadv1.4.lha      text/edit  138K+MUI Based TextEditor v1.4
Ital299.lha          text/misc  469K+English to Italian Translator v. 2.99
dz95.exe             util/arc   1.1M .lha unpacker for Windows
xadmaster.lha        util/arc   253K+V3.3 Powerful unarchiving system
cg_menu.lha          util/boot    7K+Cg_Menu (to run softs)
GetMouseInput.lha    util/boot    8K+V1.4 - read mouse button state
JustComm.lha         util/cli     8K+A small utility to justify filenotes
quickcd.lha          util/cli    38K+CLI based audio CD player
VersCheck.lha        util/cli   762K+Check your libs,MUI,devs,dtypes,classes,
sdiREKO-DT.lha       util/dtype   9K+40.8 datatype for .REKO/.RKP cardsets
IdentifyDev.lha      util/libs   76K+Identify hardware and more, OS3.5 (V11.2
IdentifyUsr.lha      util/libs  122K+Identify hardware and more, OS3.5 (V11.2
mpega-WarpUP.lha     util/libs  101K+MPEG Audio decoder library V2.4 (WarpUP,
ppclibemu.lha        util/libs  199K+Ppc.library emulation under WarpOS
AminetStats.lha      util/misc   31K+Gives Detailed Stats on Aminet files
calculator.lha       util/misc   16K+Fully functional calculator
EuraTools.lha        util/misc  233K+FreeWare: Tools for EuraCom V1.11b , Rel
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   44K+Bug report and Aminet readme generator
SIATP.lha            util/moni  145K+System Information And Test Program (SIA
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1. Implement a getter that returns the order of the tree.
2. Use this value to dynamically allocate stack space for the iterator methods instead of requiring the class user to allocate the buffer manually. (What do you think of THAT, Allan?? Trust me -- he likes it!)
3. Send a unique code into the iterators so that multiple iterators may still be used. ** The only problem is: who frees the stack buffers? I guess you'll need a FinishUsingIterator method.

From:        AudioLabs info@audiolabs.it
To:          team@amiga-news.de
Date:        Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:07:46 +0100
Subject:     News

Press Release

DATE:     14-Dec-99
TOPIC:    NL-editing system for Amiga, Flyer and Draco
CONTACT:  info@audiolabs.it


AmigaOS goes back to Hollywood!

EMRL (http://www.emrl.com) is handling the production of the first
AudioLabs (http://www.audiolabs.it) commercial shot on film, focusing
on the ProStationAudio software for AmigaOS.

Stills from the set are online at:
                 http://www.audiolabs.it/news.html
                 http://usa.audiolabs.it/news.html

The location was Chapman University audio studio, in Los Angeles.
The 30 second commercial was shot in color using an Arriflex SR16
camera, with Kodak Vision film. The script deals with a studio
recording session, involving a cellist playing in the recording
room, while a sound engineer works on ProStationAudio for AmigaOS
in the control room.

The film footage will be digitally captured for post-prodution
on an Amiga-based NewTek Flyer system. Audio post-production
will be performed with ProStationAudio itself.

EMRL is pioneering hi-quality film-based productions for Internet
distribution. Their film-based commercials are shot with care for
classic aspects of production such as lighting and exposure, and
also take into account Internet related details like video
compression and motion artifacts reduction.



To celebrate the last ProStationAudio release of this millennium,
AudioLabs is offering, until December 27th, 1999, the fresh new
ProStationAudio 2.50 at a special discount price.

When ordering before the deadline, you can get ProStationAudio 2.50
for US$299 instead of US$395.

ProStationAudio 2.50 is the ultimate solution for digital audio on
AmigaOS. It integrates with existing technologies and pushes them
forward: from native Studio16 files support to NewTek Flyer audio
clips import/export, from Draco binary compatibility to AHI-compatible
support for almost every card on the market, from Elite/SoundStage
EDL import to dual-CPU/dual-monitor operating modes.


Starting January, AudioLabs will expand the ProStationAudio family
of products with the hi-end ProStationAudio Millennium. The new
application, among other features, doubles editing power by
supporting 32 audio channels in the timeline.


ProStationAudio 2.50: Technical Specifications

- sampling system:         16bit linear
- sampling rates:          48/44.1/32 KHz
- processing resolution:   from 24bit to 64bit
- audio tracks (disk):     16
- audio tracks (console):  16
- automation tracks:       80: 5 automated controllers x 16 tracks
- DSP channel inserts:     48 stereo: 96 channels processed
- DSP master inserts:      3 stereo (post-fader)
- automated faders:        16
- automated pans:          16
- automated inserts:       48
- faders groups:           8
- time metrics:            24, 25, 29.97, 30, 75, 100 FPS
- time resolution (audio): 1/100th frame
- time resolution (automation):  1/10th second
- objects per track:       unlimited
- audio regions:           unlimited
- audio sub-region levels: unlimited
- maximum editing size:    120 minutes
- locator markers:         10
- range store/recall slots:10
- display snapshot slots:  10
- display resolution:      up to 1600 x 1280 per monitor
- video monitors:          1 or 2 (4.000.000 pixel GUI)
- CPUs supported:          1 (680x0) or 2 (680x0 + PowerPC60x)
- CPU models:              68040, 68060, PowerPC 603, PowerPC 604
- Realime effects:         ALPS, software plugins system
                           http://www.audiolabs.it/plugins
- EQ (parametric, 1 band):  [2.5Hz : 20000Hz] [-+12dB]
                          [0.05 : 1.00 Q] [1/12th octave steps]
- EQ (parametric, 2 bands): [2.5Hz : 20000Hz] [-+12dB]
                          [0.05 : 1.00 Q]  [1/12th octave steps]
- EQ (shelf, 2 bands):      [2.5Hz : 20000Hz] [-+12dB]
                          [0.05 : 1.00 Slope] [1/12th octave steps]
- EQ (band / notch):        [2.5Hz : 20000Hz]
                          [1/12th octave steps]
- EQ (lowpass / hipass):    [2.5Hz : 20000Hz]
                          [1/12th octave steps]
- Audio import:           MPEG Layer1/2/3, AIFF, WAVE, CDDA Intel and
                          Motorola, FlyerClips, Studio16, MAUD, Maestro,
                          SoundDesignerI, IFF, Sun/Next, Voc
- Audio export:           AIFF, WAVE, CDDA Intel and Motorola,
                          FlyerClips, Studio16,MAUD,
                          Maestro,IFF,Sun/Next, Voc


ProStationAudio 2.50: New Features.

- PSA-AHI transdriver.
                    2.50 supports two families of audio drivers for
                    maximizing compatibility and flexibility. Beside
                    the orginal AudioLabs drivers you can now use any
                    AHI driver for realtime operations.

- Batch Import.
                    Select a directory and let ProStationAudio import
                    all the audio files, unattended. Great for handling
                    large MP3 collections or building effects libraries
                    on removable media for audio/video production.

- Tone generation.
                    Generate pure tones in the 5Hz:24000Hz range. 64bit
                    accuracy. Applications: test signals, striping of
                    masters with sync tones.

- Sweep generation.
                    Generate tones that sweep continuously from/to any
                    frequency in the 5Hz:24000Hz range. 64bit accuracy.
                    Applications: testing of listening rooms and devices'
                    frequency response, special effects.

- DTFM generation.
                    Generate DTFM (phone dialing) tones. Phone number
                    requester with full control on pause, tone and break
                    durations.

- EDL import.
                    ProStationAudio now can import Edit Lists. Create a
                    script with a text editor and let ProStationAudio
                    build the whole project for you, automatically. New
                    ProStationAudio edit list format.

- EDL plugins.
                    EDL plugins allow to import EDLs from other systems.
                    ProStationAudio comes standard with plugins for the
                    Producer EDLs (Elite/SoundStage) and the Studio16
                    EDLs (AD516/AD1012).

- EDL overlay.
                    Import multiple EDLs to merge different multitrack
                    projects.

- Nudging.
                    Nudging with variable step (numerical entry, range
                    size or object size). Move audio objects accuratly
                    using keyboard shortcuts.

- Extended MP3 support.
                    Extended MP3 support including now Wave mpegs and
                    a gain requester for the decoder.



ProStationAudio (tm), ALPS (tm) and AutoMotion (tm) are trademarks of
AudioLabs (http://www.audiolabs.it   http://usa.audiolabs.it).