* Forwarded from newsgroup "a Mail"
* Originally from: Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com)
* Original date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:01:48 -0400

Hello All,

I regret to inform that Bill McEwen told me as of
Tuesday he will no longer be under contract at
Amiga.  Sigh.

I called him about some newsletter plans he had
in mind, only to receive yet another bit of
disappointing news.

Regards,
Fabian
--
Fabian Jimenez : fabian@cais.com : ICQ# 21377601
       Editor, Amiga Intuition Newsletter
National Capital Amiga Users Group, www.ncaug.org

From:       Janne Siren siren@mikrobitti.fi
Reply-To:   siren@mikrobitti.fi
Subject:    Press release: Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
Date:       Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:18:34 +0300


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday

Webcam and IRC Channel Available

ESPOO, FINLAND - September 1, 1999 - Saku 99, the biggest Amiga event in
Finland this year, will be on this Saturday in Vantaa. The show starts at
12 o'clock and will feature Amiga related competitions, demonstrations,
retailers and video films. Amiga's Petro Tyschtschenko and AmigaOS 3.5
previews will be there as well. Attendance is free of charge.

For those who can't attend, the Finnish Amiga Users Group will be hosting a
webcam and an IRC channel (#saku99 at IRCnet) with live comments from the
exhibition place. Please note the Finnish timezone (EET, GMT+2). You should
also check out the Saku 99 invitation intro in Aminet for pictures and
other highlights (demo/intro/saku99.lha).

Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/english/, for further information. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Janne Sirén (siren@mikrobitti.fi).

About Saku 99

Saku 99 will be the biggest Amiga event in Finland this year. Following the
success of Saku 98, which was visited by some 500 Amiga enthusiasts, Saku
99 is aimed to be bigger and better than the previous events. Mr. Petro
Tyschtschenko of Amiga has already confirmed his presence and other great
highlights are planned. Saku 99 will be held on Saturday September 4th 1999
at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki.

About Finnish Amiga Users Group

Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after it's disk magazine, the group is trying
to accomplish it's goals by organizing meetings and by publishing a disk
magazine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and it's predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the disk magazine and held several
public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet,
a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.

• 3-band equalizer with mid-sweep (includes new GUI when version v2.0829 or higher is used)
• low shelving filter (bass control)
  - high shelving filter (treble control)

• PFS Doctor, a repair program for the difficult case
• expansion of the delete directory to up to 992 entries!
• extra long filenames, (optionally) up to 100 characters!
• HDInsttools for easy installation
• own PFS format command
• miscellaneous bugfixes

• adding a new generic search function in the maxi search, enabling for the first time the search for special keywords in the additional databases like economy, history etc. (full text search)
• complete rework and bugfixes
  • NewLook-Menus for OS 3.0+ (no more changing menu colors)
  • flashing pointer for cities and small countries now working correctly
  • scrolling of the maps pixel by pixel per keyboard
  • sorting speed-up due to presorted databases
  • faster search functions (in Assembler)
  • VisualPrefs now supported nearly completely
  • GeoWorld-Fonts can now stay in the same directory
• interaction with all requesters now completely by keyboard
• option to give distances in miles instead of kilometers
• requester "no information available" now with configurable time-out
• reworked and expanded prefs window (among others display mode, font, use, save or reset prefs)
• expansion of the city database for Austria, Switzerland, Brasil and US cities (over 1100 cities with ZUP code, 6119 cities total)
• expanding the city databases with details about country / state capitals
• expanding the country databases with details about the Internet abbreviation (e.g. .de, .uk, .us)
• informations about the databases are now kept in a seperate GeoWorld.data file, so an expansion of the databases does no longer imply a change of the main program
• expansion of the info requester
• rewritten and expanded online help
• reworked and extremly expanded data about the inhabitants of the countries (over 100 kByte text!!)

• Midi tower with 230W power supply
• 68040 (40 MHz) or 68060 (50 MHz)
• 2 MB ChipRAM (on A4000 mainboard)
• IDE controller (on A4000 mainboard)
• SCSI2 controller (on the processor board) for hard drives and CD-ROMs
• 7 Zorro II/III slots
• 5 ISA slots (non-active)
• 2 video slots
• 3,5" floppy drive HD 1.76 MB
• original A4000 keyboard
• original Amiga mouse
• 40speed IDE CD-ROM drive
• 13.1 GB IDE hard drive
• AmigaOS 3.5

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Author: Jan Erik Olausen
 Changes in this update:
- new prefs window added (BETA).
  VE directly goes to the prefs window when new settings are added.
- hopefully fixed 'Error 12000'.
- vector check added. Not too well yet, but I'm working on it.
- VE can now display tasks, libraries and devices...

"Dear Sir,

This is not true, the only thing that has happened is,
that iwin has contacted us with this request.
However, we have not even had a first meeting to
discuss this possibility.

Kind regards,
Justine de Jong"

• Max. 30 stereo channels. (*)
• Full duplex recording.
• Mixing desk with volume, panning, mute, solo, PPM level meters, 3 realtime effects and 4 subgroups per channel.
• Full mixer automation with event editing on the timeline or with timecode.
• 4 Subgroups and subgroup automation
• Realtime effects with runtime (near real-time) parameter change and on/off state selection. Includes CPU-overload detection for preventing lock-ups during playback.
• Timeline display with a graphical overview of all samples and ability to move samples along the timeline.
• Pre Computed Graphics for fast graphical display of samples and realtime zooming.
• Marker mechanism to place locators, time marker and punch in/out markers easily on top of the timeline for quick access.
• Sample editing (cut, copy, paste, erase). Direct to disk, not limited by memory.
• Disk-based effects like Delay, Noise Gate, Chorus, Limiter, Amplifier, Ring Modultion, Lowpass filter, Highpass filter, Parametric EQ and FIR filter.
• MIDI start synchronisation with external equipment, Bars&Pipes and CAMD.
• Record level indication before and while recording for optimal dynamic range settings and peak indicators for prevention of digital distortion.
• Mastering to stereo AIFF file via the AHI Hifi modes.
• Online help and documentation

• Combo Racer (Racer)
• Disposable Hero (Shoot em Up)
• H.A.T.E. (3D Shooter)
• Harlequin (Platformer)
• K 240 (Strategy ala Sim City)
• Litil Devil (3D style Platformer)
• Plan 9 from outer Space (Adventure for the worlds worst movie ever)
• Premier Manager I-III (Footballmanager)
• Shadow Fighter (Beat em Up)
• Super Cars I & II (Race and Fight on the Highway)
• Switchblade I &II (Action RPG)
• Top Gear II (Racer, follow up to Lotus)
• Utopia (Strategy)
• Video Kid (Cute Platformer)
• Zool I & II (Best Platformer for the Amiga - EVER!)

Date: Fri, 20 08:00:00 23:48:11 +0200
From: Darek Smietana support@elbox.com
To:   petra.struck@online-club.de
Subject: News on A4000 PowerTower

Dear Petra Struck,
Two days ago you announced on your news side A4000 PowerTower test
in www.amigaextreme.com. Its author ask us a few questions after
placing the test in the www.amigaextreme.com.
We shall be glade if you will put our reply to the author's doubts
in this test. Please find the enclosed message on this issue from us.

Regards,
Darek Smietana
ELBOX COMPUTER


Subject:        A4000 PowerTower
Date:           Fri, 20 08:00:00 23:25:15 +0200
From:           Darek Smietana support@elbox.com
Organization:   ELBOX COMPUTER
To:             "Falk Stefan, ITS-SL" stefan.falk@slg.se
References:     1

Dear Stefan,
thank you for your message and interest in the A4000 Power Tower case.
Reading your description of the Power Tower in www.amigaextreme.com,
I have the impression that you must have been a little distracted while
installing Amiga in the new case.

First of all, seeing your photos, it seems to me that you were
installing the Amiga motherboard, the ZORRO board and the turbo card
without removing the side assembly wall.
The Power Tower stands out with its immense ease of assembly with its
removable specially-designed side assembly wall. After removing the
external case, the side wall is removed, which is secured with only two
hexagon screws. The Amiga motherboard, ZORRO III and the turbo card are
all installed onto this side wall when outside the main tower case.

You have stated that a better fixing of the ZORRO III bus board
would be useful and handy in the tower case. Well, it is ready and
waiting, but you seem to have missed it. Three hexagon bushes for
securing the ZORRO bus board are already mounted, with two more
provided in the box with special accessories and which are supposed
to be screwed into the holes in the Amiga motherboard. If you make
use of them, everything must run perfect.
Before the side wall with the Amiga motherboard, the ZORRO bus board
and the turbo card is replaced inside the case, you should have
installed a FDD floppy drive, your hard disks, a CD-ROM, etc... Only
now the side wall with all the electronics is to be mounted inside
the case.

Are you wondering what the STANDBY switch is used for? If you install
some cards in the ISA slots, which are present in the ZORRO bus board,
you can then use this switch :-)

As regards your CVPPC problem, you can order a special short-lenght
front bay for 3.5" devices to the Power Tower 4000. As a standard,
the Power Tower 4000 is sold with bays for 8 x 3.5" devices (1 front
bay for 4 x 3.5" devices and 1 rear bay for 4 x 3.5" devices).
Having ordered a special shorter front bay for 2 x 3.5" devices and
installing it instead of the front bay for 4 x 3.5" devices, you will
quite easily find room for your CVPPC card inside the Power Tower 4000.
You can also remove the front bay for 4 x 3.5" devices altogether, and
mount the floppy drive in any of the 5.25" bays with a 5.25"/3.5"
assembly kit. Your 3.5" hard disks, if you have not more than four
of them, you can then place in the rear bay.

I hope that all your doubts are now cleared. We are sure the new Power
Tower is an advanced design, and the ease of its assembly may be
something completely new to Amiga 4000 desktop users.

Please repeat the installation as I have written it here. I am sure you
will be more than pleased with your case then.
Anyway, if you have any more inquiries, please do not hesitate to
contact our technical support: support@powerc.com or support@elbox.com

Best wishes
Darek Smietana
ELBOX COMPUTER

• 100% Assembler code
• support for AVI and MOV files
• support for INTEL INDEO format 3.1 & 3.2
• nice, VCR-like GUI
• extremly fast playback
• fast c2p algorithms for smooth ECS/AGA playback
• ECS support (16 greyscales), AGA (256 colors, Ham8, 18 bit)
• support for CyberGFX and Picasso96
• system friendly

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Date:          August 16th, 1999
Author:        Heiner Schneegold

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• 2 comments on Amiga goes Linux
• mECH Tornado3D workshop
• MP3 basics
• interview with Petra Struck from amiga-news.de
• and more

• changing presets (locale, MSN etc.)
• showing and resetting fee counters
• resetting to factory presets
• loading new firmware to DataBox

• GUI
• does work without MUI
• comfortable choosing of serial port
• supports 300 to 115200 Baud

• Amiga with AmigaOS 3.0+
• DataBox "Speed Viper"
• hard drive

• 110 missions to choose from
• free choice of gameplay: training, arcade, single, campaign
• spoken mission briefings and soundtrack
• storytelling animation seqeunces completely rendered in Lightwave 5.5
• choose your favourite from 8 battle fighters
• interactive radio
• choose your side:
  • play the good guys (confed) and beat Gyan.
  • play the bad guys (DYammen) and destroy the confederation
  • The "full campaign" option lets you relive the "D'Yammen" saga.
• 3D sequences adjustable to your system configuration
• pure space combat action