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29.Jan.2001
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware updated
'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' was updated. There are 20 more or less big changes and additions. To be up-to-date Ian is always looking for new pictures and informations! It would be grate if some of you could mail new material to Ian (german or english).

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29.Jan.2001
Brad Webb via eMail


Amiga Update - January 2001 Newsletter
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         A L T . W O A   I N   H U D D E R S F I E L D   U K

         A M I G A 2 0 0 1   I N   S T .   L O U I S   U S A

       C S & E   L A T E S T   P U B L I C A T I O N   N E W S

     M A K E   T O O L S D A E M O N   W O R K   W I T H   3 . 9

               A M I G A Z O N E   L O G O   G O O D S

    N E W   M E D I A T O R N E T . D E V I C E   R E L E A S E D

     P U R E   B A S I C   2 . 0 0   F R O M   F A N T A I S I E

       N E W   S K U L P T   V E R S I O N   A V A I L A B L E

           S E R V I C E   M A N A G E R   F O R   F R E E

     N E W   S T O R M C   D E V E L O P E R S '   P A C K A G E

     V A P O R W A R E ' S   M F T P   I I   1 . 2   I S   O U T

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Over on Amiga.org, there's a lot of talk the last day or two about a
new "Coldfire" processor model from Motorola. Pegged at 100% 68060
compatible and running at 300Mhz, it's generating a lot of excitement
from Classic Amiga users. As nearly as we can tell, this isn't all
that new news, seeming to go back originally to an article that
appeared in "EE Times" on October 17 last.
 Whatever the case, does it really matter? We don't think so. The
future of the Amiga is the new DE. The old 68K market is almost dead.
All you need do is look at "Amiga Update". We've cut back to monthly,
and the issues are smaller, because there just isn't much Amiga news
any longer (we could run more articles by reporting on announced plans
to develop software, or alpha releases, but we prefer to wait until
there's a reasonably finished product). Until the DE is really
established and growing, that's the way it will be.
 Even if there's somebody left to make boards for the new chip, all it
will run is the older software. It might be handy for compatibility as
an add-on board for new DE based machines, but we really doubt that's
going to happen.
 Now, if there'd been a fast, truly compatible Coldfire chip a couple
of years ago ...

 Other Amigans are justifiably concerned about the persistent rumors
of money problems at Amiga Inc. We've been concerned as well. However,
we're not ready to panic and write them off. The collapse of the .com
investment market has made coming up with cash difficult for all
startups. But, as MooBunny reported recently after talking with Bill
McEwen, Amiga claims it's not failing to meet obligations and has
products ready to go, unlike the .coms which died. That may make all
the difference in the world, as long as Amiga can promote them and
sell some. The fact that they apparently can't afford to attend key
trade shows is quite worrisome, but doesn't necessarily signal the end
of the world. As we've said often, time will tell.

 Meanwhile, there is still news in the Amiga community, as you can see
below. It's mostly positive news, and we hope you enjoy it.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

26 Dec 2000

 If possible, in a future newsletter, I'd like to see any info that
might be available concerning someo of the great Amiga software
products which seem to have dropped off the "Radar" during the last
few years.

 Products such as the SuperBase database (Still the best database I've
ever used), Final Writer from Softwood (Again, the Best word processor
I've ever used), etc.

 Are these products going to be part of the New Amiga? What happened
to them?

 For instance, I read a report somewhere that the person who owned
SuperBAse had died and that his widow now owns the rights, but is Not
in a position, either financially or professionally, to do anything
with those rights. True? False? Is there a "White Knight" software
firm which could bring the product back??

Thanks for a great newsletter.

Jerry
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Jerry,
 We'd love to run such information, and will if we get any stories or
press releases that cover these products. SuperBase - most recently
SBase 4 Pro or Personal - is still the database manager I use when I
want to get real work done. At last year's Amiga show in St. Louis, it
was possible to pick up an update disk from the current owner of the
software rights. Since then, I've not heard a word.
 Brad
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        A L T . W O A   I N   H U D D E R S F I E L D   U K

 This forthcoming Amiga show will be held on Saturday 24th February
2001 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Doors open at 12.00 noon and the
show closes at 5.00pm

 The show is presented by the Huddersfield Amiga User Group (HAUG),
co-sponsored by Eyetech and in conjunction with Wirenet

 The venue for alt.WoA is The Old Cornmill on the outskirts of
Huddersfield. This location is less than one minutes drive from
Junction 25 of the M62 Motorway. There is an onsite large free Car
Park and the Hotel boasts both Restaurant and Bar Facilities.

 There is public transport access by Rail to Dewsbury then taking a
bus from Dewsbury Bus Station for Brighouse (via Clifton.). Buses run
every half an hour on the day of the show.

 For those interested in accomodation for the Saturday night, pay a
visit to the website of CreativeTown.com for details of hotels and
guest houses in the area.

 Exhibitors

   o Eyetech Group
   o Wirenet
   o Classic Amiga
   o Cartridge Club UK
   o Forematt Computing
   o Ram Jam Consultants
   o Weird Science
   o Epic Direct
   o Trogladite Software

A number of Amiga User Groups are attending the show:-

   o Huddersfield Amiga Users Group
   o SEAL
   o The Amibench Team
   o Kickstart Amiga Users Group
   o Amiga North Thames
   o Glasgow Amiga User Group

http://www.alt-woa.org
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       A M I G A 2 0 0 1   I N   S T .   L O U I S   U S A

26 January, 2001

 Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey - Friday March 30 through Sunday April
1, 2001 Sheraton at West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO. USA

 Here are the latest highlights of the US's largest Amiga show.

 Cloanto is coming! They've never appeared at the Amiga show here
before - making this a first! They will be exhibiting their latest
release of Amiga Forever: The Amiga emulator for Windows and
Macintosh. This cool piece of software allows you to actually run most
Amiga software titles on Windows or Macintosh computers.

 Our friends at individual computers will be coming over from Europe
and will exhibiting and selling their unique lines of expansion
hardware for the Amiga.

 Eric Schwartz, highly regarded Amiga artist and luminary will be
exhibiting and showing his wares at the Ami-Tech Dayton Amiga Users
Group booth. Eric is the creator of Amy the Squirrel, the cartoon
mascot of the Amiga, and the online comic Sabrina.

 We're also excited to announce that Charles Marks, the well known and
noted artist of Claw Marks Productions is coming from Jonesboro
Arkansas. He will exhibit and sell lithographs of St. Louis and is
helping design the special Amiga 2001 show shirt that will be
available for sale at the show.

 Confirmed exhibitors and name guests include: Amiga, FWD Computing,
Merlancia Industries, CompuQuick Media Center, Dan's Deals, Cloanto,
individual computers, Gateway Amiga Club Inc., Bounce-back Videos,
Amigan-St. Louis, G & G Publishing, Mr. Hardware, Jurgen Haage of
Haage and Partner, PC Journal, Brewster Productions, AmiTech Dayton
Amiga Users Group, AmigActive Magazine, Nova Design, Northwest Amiga
Group, Charles Marks, More exhibitors are being added each week, so
check the web site.

 We also plan to have several exciting surprises - so don't miss out
on this show!

Specially priced tickets are available in advance by mail.
Two day admission tickets.....$17.
One day admission ticket......$12.

 If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices are as
follows:

 Two day ticket at the door....$20
 One day ticket at the door... $15
Persons holding advance tickets will have a special line to reduce
waiting. No check(s) should be mailed later than March 10th or there
is a chance that they will not arrive at our office by the 17th, in
time for processing for the show and return to you by first class
mail.

 Please note that we will accept one check for Admission and Banquet
tickets. Banquet price is $35 per person. Seminars are free. First
come, first serve. No reservations on seminars. Only classes are
ticketed.

 Make your check or money order payable to "Amigan-St. Louis" Send
checks for admission and banquet* tickets to:

Amigan St. Louis
c/o Amiga 2K
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044

http://www.amiga-stl.com
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        C S & E   L A T E S T   P U B L I C A T I O N   N E W S

27 January, 2001

 CS&E Media is a not for profit division of Crystal Software and
Electronics Ltd, set up to provide a street publication for Oxford and
raise money for the homeless and underprivileged. With the lack of
advertising opportunities in the Amiga market, and our decision to
leave games publishing on this format, we are also pleased to be
supporting the Amiga and its companies with the first mass market
English language publication since Amiga Format. As fans of the format
we are offering our time for free and also hope to raise some money
for charity at the same time.
 Currently European Amiga companies are starved of professional
advertising opportunities. Not only can we offer the highest quality
(as you can see from the attached previews), but also the best value
due to offering free distribution, using an international printer, and
of course being a not for profit organisation.
 Amiga Survivor offers a captive audience of buyers, not browsers,
with English language copies being distributed for free across Europe
to customers who spend money either on the coverdisk or with one of
our distributors. Our distributors include Eyetech and Power who take
6,000 alone, but distribution is spread across Europe via the likes of
GTI and Amiga Future also. There are over 30 user groups and smaller
companies who are also distributors.
 A coverdisk at 3.99 a month will see the likes of Max Rally, Cosmo's
Fun Class, Quake and Capital Punishment.
 You can order a subscription directly from CS&E at
http://www.pc-software.com/store.html . We are currently operating a
special offer whereby you can claim a free trial by credit card over
the Internet or for 1 pound by cheque. Go to
http://www.pc-software.com/store.html and enter your details as usual
on the secure server, but you will not be billed and one issue will be
sent out with a note asking for your decision. This store is specially
set up not to charge the card, but of course regular subscriptions
will shortly be available at http://www.amigasurvivor.com .
 Contact csande@csande.com if you have any questions or want to
provide your details by e-mail.
 Due to the ever growing circulation figures, which now includes wide
arrangements in Germany in particular, we will be putting the
advertising rates up from Issue 10. These only reflect the costs of
printing all the new issues. Special offers still apply if you book
from Issue 9 which is coming out next week. You can find the old
advertising rates which still apply for a few days at
http://www.amigasurvivor.com . Look out for a website update very
shortly.
 Due to the high entry costs to the market, Crystal Software and
Electronics has made a strategic retreat from retail publishing and is
now looking to work with more established publishers in this field, at
least for the time being. Development is coming along well with many
developers benefiting from our input into adding 'marketability' to
their creativity, and securing successful distribution deals.
 Work is continuing on the http://www.pc-software.com website where we
will offer flexible pricing models such as pay-per-play and
rent-to-own on all titles. Several rent-to-own games and the
pc-software.com website will be included with each retail product.


David Connolly
Managing Director
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum
Oxford Business Park
Oxford
OX4 2JZ
http://www.csande.co.uk
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     M A K E   T O O L S D A E M O N   W O R K   W I T H   3 . 9

 {One of the few real complaints about Amiga OS 3.9 is the failure of
the very popular program ToolsDaemon to work with it. ToolsDaemon is
among the best of the third party utilities available to add items to
the Workbench's pulldown menus. This freeware utility fixes the
problem and is simple to install. We've used it here and wouldn't be
without it. You can find it on Aminet. Brad}

Short:    V1.0, WB 3.9 ToolsDaemon prefs converter
Author:   johnallan@forceofnature.f9.co.uk (John Nelson)
Uploader: johnallan@forceofnature.f9.co.uk (John Nelson)
Version:  1.0
Type:     util/wb
Requires: OS3.9 (V45+), ToolsPrefs (From ToolsDaemon)

OVERVIEW

 Converts ToolsDaemon prefs file into an Arexx script to add the
 menus to os3.9 in a system legal way.

 As a new legal version of a ToolsDaemon-type util (with pretty
 prefs:)) is being worked on I don`t think this collection of scripts
 will be developed much b4 they are replaced by an all in one
 solution.

FEATURES

  · Uses the nice simple ToolsPrefs
  · Multiple selected files (including 'leftout' files)
  · Multiple commands
  · Hotkeys (set in ToolsPrefs... so it must have a menu item)

CHANGES

 v1.0 - 11 January 2001
        First public release
 v0.4 - Last tested beta, this and the ones b4 are documented in the
        guide
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             A M I G A Z O N E   L O G O   G O O D S

19 Jan 2001

 {Perhaps our shortest press release ever, from the irascible Harv
Laser, long time Amiga GoodGuy and founder of the AmigaZone. Brad}

NEW! Buy Official AmigaZone Logo goods at:
http://www.cafepress.com/amigazone
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    N E W   M E D I A T O R N E T . D E V I C E   R E L E A S E D

26 January 2001

 Elbox Computer has released today a new version (1.2) of
MediatorNET.device for Mediator PCI for PCI Ethernet network cards.

 The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several
PCI Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted with the Mediator PCI busboard.

 Support of New Style Device (NSD) has been added and operation
procedures have been optimised in order to reach the maximum transfer
performance.

 MediatorNET.device is a Sana-2 standard driver. This driver is
compatible with all the Amiga TCP/IP software packages which can
access a Sana-2 driver (e.g. Miami, MiamiDx, Genesis and AmiTCP).

 PCI Ethernet network cards installed in Mediator PCI are the fastest
and the most cost-effective network cards for Amiga computers at the
moment.

 Elbox Computer is offering PCI Ethernet cards with the following
parameters:

 * RTL8029AS PCI local bus 32-bit single-chip Ethernet controller

 * 16K byte SRAM built in

 * Compliance with PCI V2.1

 * Compliance with Ethernet II and IEEE802.3 10Base5, 10Base2, 10BaseT

 * Support for the Full-Duplex function to double channel bandwidth
(20Mbps)

 * Support for Flow Control (802.3x) to improve network performance in
the full-duplex mode

 * Built-in data prefetch function to improve performance

 * Built-in 10BaseT transceiver

 * Auto-detect capability between the integrated 10BaseT transceiver
and AUI

 * BNC and RJ-45 wiring connectors

 * One LED on bracket providing LINK indicators

Suggested street price for PCI Ethernet card: EUR 25.00

Why do you need a network card in Amiga?

 The ethernet card enables connecting Amiga with other computers.

 With such a connection you may have access to the Internet with a
modem (regular modem, ISDN, SDI or commuted access) installed in
another computer.

 With the SAMBA package (www.amigasamba.org), you may use resources
(files, printers, etc.) of computers working under Windows 9x, Windows
NT, DOS, OS/2 or UNIX connected in one network.

 When you install 2 network cards in your computer and use support for
multiple interfaces available in the MiamiDx package
(www.nordicglobal.com), you may use a PPP dial-up line and an Ethernet
network connection at the same time; also, you may exchange data
between different networks. MiamiDx is also offering the opportunity
of protection networks by way of a built-in firewall.

Unofficial e-group on MEDIATOR:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amiga-Mediator
For subscribe mailto:Amiga-Mediator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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     P U R E   B A S I C   2 . 0 0   F R O M   F A N T A I S I E

20 January, 2001

 PureBasic is a new "high level" programming language based on
established BASIC rules. It is compatible with any other BASIC
compiler, whether its for the Amiga or PC format. Learning PureBasic
is very easy! PureBasic has been created for beginner and expert
alike. Compilation time is really fast. We have put a lot of effort
into its realization to produce a fast, reliable and system friendly
language.

 The syntax is easy and the possibilities are huge with the "advanced"
functions that have been added to this language like pointers,
structures, procedures, dynamically linked lists and much more. For
the experienced coder there are no problems gaining access to any of
the legal OS structures or API objects.

 PureBasic is a portable programming langage which currently work on
AmigaOS (680x0 and PowerPC) and Windows computer systems. This means
than a same code can be compiled natively for the both OS and use the
full power of each. There is no bottlenecks like a virtual machine or
a code translator, the generated code is an producing an optimized
executable. The external libraries are fully written in hand optimized
assembler, which produce very fast commands often much faster than
C/C++ equivalent.

 The main features of PureBasic:

 - Built-in arrays, dynamically linked lists, complex structures,
 pointers and variable definitions

 - Supported types: Byte (8 bits), Word (16 bits), Long (32 bits),
 Float (32 bits) and also user defined (structures)

 - Built-in string types (characters)

 - Constants, binary and hexadecimal numbers supported

 - Expression reducer by grouping constants and numeric numbers
 together

 - Standard arithmetic support in respect of sign priority and
 parenthesis: +, -, /, *, and, or, lsl, asl, lsr, asr

 - Very fast compilation

 - Procedure support for structured programming with local and global
 variables

 - All Standard BASIC keywords: If-Else-EndIf, Repeat-Until, etc

 - External library support to manipulate objects like BMP pictures,
 windows, gadgets, DirectX, etc

 - External libraries are fully written in hand optimized assembler
 for maximum speed and compactness

 - The Win32 and AmigaOS API are fully supported as if they were BASIC
 keywords

 - Assembler Inline

 - Precompiled structures with constants files for extra fast
 compilation

 - Configurable CLI compiler

 - System friendly, easy to install and to use

For 2.00:

  About the compiler:
    * Completely rewritten !
    * Now, it's 4 to 7 times faster to compile
    * Faster procedure handling
    * Multi-dimensionned arrays are now supported
    * Residents are now saved/loaded in one file
    * PowerPC code have been removed (nobody want it ?)
    * Some bugs have been fixed
    * The switch MC68020 have been added to the command line

  About the PureLibraries:
    * Rewritten the Sprite library (50% faster) and added several
      commands: SaveSprites(), LoadSprites(), RemoveCookie(),
      FlushSprite(), SpriteHandle(), CopySprite(), GrabSprite()
    * Added 'DisableDebugger' and 'EnableDebugger' to disable the
      debugger for some part within a program.
    * Added the debugger support for Sprite, Joypad, Chunky and
      Sound libraries.
    * Added the following commands: Processor(), MMU(), FPU(),
      RectsHit(), Hex(), Bin().
    * Fixed some commands: ListIndex(), FontID(), DrawingFont()

  About the editor:
    * Added a keyboard shortcut to close the error window.

  Misc (Full version only):
    * SpriteGrabber (Allows to get sprites from a picture)
    * OpenPureBasic (C/C++ -> PureBasic convertor)

http://www.purebasic.com
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       N E W   S K U L P T   V E R S I O N   A V A I L A B L E

20 January, 2001

New version of sKulpt released

 sKulpt is the successor of legendary 3D software "Sculpt Animate
3D/4D" by Eric Graham and Byte By Byte. The raytracing program used to
have many fans for years, because it was easy to use, good value for
money and efficiency. In amateur and professional circles many
pictures have been created with this software. The successor sKulpt
wird will be completely develloped by CdBSSoftware, and already
supports PPC boards and Warp3D.

At the moment, sKulpt is a project in development, yet supporting :

 o RTG support (any screen compatible with Warp3D drivers)

 o 060 and PPC versions (both compiled with StormC v3, waiting for
StormC v4 w/GCC to have a good optimization). PPC version requiring
WarpOS.

 o use of 3D hardware (works well with both CyberVision 64/3D and
 B|CVisionPPC)

 o use of textures (any image file format supported by your installed
 Datatypes).

 Around 60 percent of its features are implemented and available.
 You can find more interesting details on the CdBSSoftware hompage.

Requirements

To run sKulpt, you need :

 o An Amiga (2000, 1200, 3000, 4000) with either a CyberVision 64/3D
or a BlizzardVision PPC or a CyberVision PPC (the only Amiga graphics
boards providing hardware 3D acceleration at the moment, respectively
with the S3 Virge and the 3Dlabs Permedia2 chips), running at least
OS3.0,

 o A minimum of 8 megs of free memory

 o Warp3D v3 installed and properly working with the provided test
samples (WarpTest and Engine), either the 68K or the PPC version.

 o A shell window to launch sKulpt, in which you will have set the
stack to around 120 Kbyte ("stack 120000") before launching sKulpt. It
will look in the "gfx" and "textures" subdirectories for files (gfx
sub directory contents should not be modified otherwise sKulpt may not
work).

http://cdbssoftware.net/english/skulpt.html
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          S E R V I C E   M A N A G E R   F O R   F R E E

31 December, 2000

{The following item was found on the Czech Amiga News site. Brad}

 Colin Wenzel: "I am just dropping a note around the net to let
everyone know that my 'Service Manager' program has now been released
as Freeware. It's a small business (appliance repair orientated style)
control program that I run my business & about 12 others around here
on... I have been keeping it under wrapps since I wrote it but I have
decided to release it (classic version) to the Amiga community in
anticipation of the new DE.

 So if you're interested, you may download the install archive from
this URL: http://www.hotkey.net.au/~colstv/csm_dload/. There is also a
mailing list setup at egroups Amiga-CSM the URL is at the bottom of
the download page... Enjoy... Happy new year from Australia."

Colin Wenzel, Col's Home Page
ExiE
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    N E W   S T O R M C   D E V E L O P E R S '   P A C K A G E

 Dolgesheim, den 28.8.2000. Last Sunday, in the sub-division of the
company HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH in Dolgesheim, the new StormC
developers package was presented for the first time in a select
circle. During the yearly summer festival, a lot was discussed about
the past and the future. Among the many guests were employees of the
company Hyperion (Heretic II, ...) and ESCENA (PowerPC-Boards), who
showed enthusiasm after the presentation


 The most important feature of the new developers system is the step
forwards towards the new AmigaOS. At the moment everything still runs
on the Classic Amiga, and that is how it will be presented, but
everything was developed anew with easy portability in mind.

 A big step towards more up-to-date system has been made through the
decision to support the GNU-Compiler in a modified version. The
current Storm-Compiler is not less professional, but not easy to port
to other systems. The new StormGCC is very compatible to the StormC
compiler, supports known preprocessor symbols (for instance __FUNC__),
writes in 68K as well as in PPC the Amiga Hunk-Format in object files
and creates the same debug file format as StormC. The PowerPC version
of StormGCC supports the PowerOpen/WarpOS conventions.

 In the new StormC the network capabilities are of very high
importance. StormC now can be used by a programming team working on
one project, without problems. An important utility in this respect is
CVS Concurrent Versions System. With the aid of CVS multiple
developers can work on one project or source code at the same time,
and link their changes in a controlled fashion. StormC shows in the
project version number and status of the files, and color marks files
that might give problems.

 The network capabilities are rounded off by the now distributed Make.
In a network, multiple computers can be used simultaneously to compile
a project. StormC finds free computers automatically, and moves
compiling jobs to those. A Make Logfile keeps track of various
compiler commands, error messages, and allows for an exact error
diagnosis in complex projects.

 Further novelties can be found in the project management and the
editor. With the aid of the global search the entire project or all
projects, including hierarchical projects can be searched with full
text search including AmigaDOS patterns. It is possible, by double
clicking the search result, to go directly to the relevant position in
the source code.

 The user can now create his own sections, and decide what kind of
files should be put there, and how they should be edited, shown or
compiled. Sections can be sorted alphabetically and colored in
different colors A helpmeet gives extensive Online Help to StormC,
GCC, AmigaOS Includes and Autodocs. A bubble-help provides basic help
when required.

 The new editor now also colorizes CVS-conflicts, installer- and
AmigaGuide-commands according to new dictionaries. When typing the
name of known system functions, the appropriate prototype is shown,
which makes further input of parameters for these functions much
easier. The double-click on a file path (for instance in an include
command) loads the file in a new . Furthermore the keyboard layout is
freely configurable.

 A new addition is a program for documentation. With StormDOC one
creates ToDo-lists, bug reports, and program documentation. It keeps
track of all actions of the user, knows the various destination groups
and circumstances of the list, who can all also be configured as
search criteria.

 The new debugger cooperates on 68K- and PPC WarpOS programs with the
StormCompiler and StormGCC. The debugging is now no longer limited to
one program - Tasks and Shared Libraries can now also be edited step
by step. When Enforcer-hits occur, the debugger immediately shows the
position of the source of evil in the source code.

 All in all, StormC 4 is fully revamped and greatly enhanced tool,
that will once again speed up software-development on the Amiga, and
will create it more professionally.

The news of version 4 in an overview

     Network capabilities / shared Make
     modified GCC Compiler for 68k and PPC
     CVS Concurrent Versions System
     enhanced Editor (Shows Prototypes of Functions)
     StormDOC to manage ToDo-lists, bug reports and so on.
     enhanced debugger (for GCC also)
     debugging of Tasks and Shared Libraries
     global full text search
     comprehensive Online-Help

Opinions

 Steffen Häuser of Hyperion, responsible for the conversion of Sxx for
the Amiga, said about the new compiler: "The combination of the gcc
code generator with StormC's advantages of the debugger, the
comfortable IDE, the MixedBinaries and the possibility to create
Shared Libraries in an easy way looks like a very nice compiler
system.

 The distributed-make facility to reduce compilation time and the
integration of CVS into the IDE are very welcome. We are looking
forward to employing the new StormC in future projects. Adaptions of a
first project from gcc to the new StormC worked flawlessly. Support
for Elate VP Code in a future version will also be very interesting to
us."

Availability

 The price of StormC 4 is 498,- DM. Customers of older versions of
StormC can get an update for the price of only 198,- DM. The first
presentation was at WOA 2000 in December last year. StormC 4 is
available right away.

www.haage-partner.com
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     V A P O R W A R E ' S   M F T P   I I   1 . 2   I S   O U T

13 January, 2001

 mFTP-II is a File Transfer Protocol client that allows the
transferring of files from one computer to another. Some sites may be
restricted, requiring the use of an assigned user name and password,
while most sites (such as business and corporations) allow anonymous
FTP, in which you will usually give your email address as the
password.

 mFTP-II also allows you to upload files to any remote computer. This
is an ideal way to maintain your web page, uploading files and pages.
You can even open two FTP connections and then transfer files between
those sites!

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

Requirements

   o Workbench 2.x
   o MUI 3.x
   o TCP/IP compatible stack
     Genesis, Miami, AmiTCP, ..

Features

   o Multithreaded and object oriented design
   o Connect to multiple FTP sites at once
   o Site-to-Site transfer (via you)
   o High speed async. transfers
   o Batch download facility
   o Resume partially received files
   o Optional Contact Manager 'Phonebook' as GUI
   o Download, DirTool and ADT GUI Layouts, per host
   o ADT Support and filter feature
   o Drag & drop GUI functionality
   o ADT-Find search for Aminet servers
   o AmFTP profiles import
   o CHMOD support

http://www.vapor.com/mftp/
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29.Jan.2001
Stefan Popp via eMail


Source Code of Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Holomatch v1.10
As reported in issue 02/2001 of c't (page 176), the source code of 'Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Holomatch v1.10' is available at 3D Downloads. Ravensoft published the source code to make the development of add-ons easier.

The "Source Code Release" is only some kind of "Add-on-Source-Code". That means that this release does not contain the 3d engine, but only parts of the game-logic to make the programming of add-ons easier. To use these add-ons you need the windows or linux full version of the game. These sources cannot be used to port the game to the Amiga.

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29.Jan.2001
Dietmar Knoll via eMail


GAUHPIL Millennium Info
GAUPHIL is the biggest Amiga user-list available at the internet. Since 1994 Dietmar Knoll is collecting the names of Amiga-users all over the world. He publishes these names at his homepage. Today the list contains 995 users from 38 countries. If you want to be a member of the list mail your personal informations to dknoll@myokay.net

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29.Jan.2001
Markus Lück on ANF


New Background Pictures for AmigaOS 3.9
Markus Lück wrote:
First of all I would like to say thank you for the positive reactions that followed the release of os39wallp.lha (Aminet). Today the second archive is available at the aminet (os39wallp2.lha).

Will there be a third archive? This depends on the quality of RealSoft3D and if I have the money to by it. The raytracers I am using at the moment are old and not very fast and especially Cinema4D has many bugs.

Download: os39wallp2.lha - 1,6 MB

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29.Jan.2001
Rene Stelljes via eMail


AmigaHelpGuide News
AmigaHelpGuide is a list of active Amiga users. A HTML version is now available at the title link.

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28.Jan.2001
Chris Hodges via eMail


MAS MPeg Device v1.0
Since today, Chris Hodges offers an MAS MPeg Device on his homepage for the MAS3507D player by Dirk Conrad (which is connected to the parallel port). This finally enables people to use all software which uses the standard commodore mpeg.device, such as AMPlifier, Frogger or MPegMovie.

Download: MASMPegDevice.lha (6K), Readme

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28.Jan.2001
Chris Hodges via eMail


FormAldiHyd v2.0 Beta with WacomIV Support
On 1st of January Chris Hodges has updated his tablet driver software for the Aldi/Tevion/Medion and AipTek/HyperPen tablets and included an experimental WacomIV mode. As he does not own such a WacomIV tablet himself and had no time to continue development due to lack of time, he depends on the response and feedback of users with WacomIV tablets who test the new driver and tell him what works and what doesn't.

Contact address: chrisly@platon42.de

Download: FormAldiHyd20beta.lha (48K), Readme

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28.Jan.2001
amiga.org


Amiga: New Forums
On www.amigadev.net are now different new forums for AmigaDE users and developers online.

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28.Jan.2001
Kymon Zonias on ANF


iFusion Tests go Into Final Lap
According to amiga.org Blittersoft has received the latest beta of iFusion from Microcode Solutions.

According to Blittersoft iFusion has been successfully tested on 060/PPC systems. Now just the 040/PPC combination (BlizzardPPC) is undergoing some tests.

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28.Jan.2001
F1 Software


F1: eBay Client and 2 New Games
F1 Software has released detailed information about their announced eBay client 'AmiBud'. This runs on AmigaOS 2+ and faciliates the use of eBay.

Additionally two new games are announced. These will be developed in C++ and shall come out for Windows, Amiga, MacIntosh and possibly for AmigaDE. Further details regarding these games do not exist yet.

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28.Jan.2001
JST


JST v4.5b
On 28. January 2001 the version 4.5b of JST has been released. JST makes the installation of games on harddisc possible and offers patches that improve the compatibility of games in relation to more up-to-date Amiga systems.

In this version was a bug fixed with regard to the Phase5 68060 libs and the Silkworm loader updated (OS 3.5 icon and other things).

Download: jst.lha

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28.Jan.2001
eisblock on ANF


AmigaOnlineGames Update
On 28. January 2001 three more games were added to the AmigaOnlimeGames site and therefore the site comes to a number of 34 games that can be played on the Amiga via different networks.

Hints to further games and information can be sent to AmigaOG@web.de.

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28.Jan.2001
CD32 Allianz on ANF


Searching for Retailers of CD32/CDTV Hard- & Software
The CD32 Allianz wrote:
As it becomes more and more difficult to get hard- & software for the CD32 & CDTV I'd like to ask those retailers who still have articles for these systems in their stocks to contact me so I can let the users know it in the CD32 corner.

Contact address: CD32-Allianz@gmx.de

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27.Jan.2001
Matthias Henze on ANF


New Version (V.44.50 beta 7) of the HSMathLibs
Again there is a new version of the HSMathLibs for MC68040 and MC68060 for registered users. Many bugs were fixed and some smaller optimisations were done. The most significant enhancements in this version for sure are full compatibility with OS3.9 and support of (hopefully) all special cases of the math-libraries.

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27.Jan.2001
CUCUG


CUCUG: Status Register January 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It handels current and important information regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC, as well as the computer industry.

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27.Jan.2001
AMIOPEN-ML/Jorge Pino on ANF


Specifications for Handheld Software under SDK
Amiga Inc. released the specifications for developers to create software for Palm/Handheld/PDA computers on the official AmigaSDK developer list [AMIOPEN-ML]. Following the data:

QVGA (240*320 Pixel)
16 Bit Color
16 Bit Stereo (audio available form SDK-Version 1.1)
Controls via 2 buttons (a+b) and one Game Boy typ
Directional Device
Shall be smaller than 2 MB.

Suggestions for game genres:
scramble/defender types
space invaders/galaxians types
platformers
puzzle games
sports stuff

To make this possible create a standard AVE window and add a 16 bit 240*320 pixmap.

Gary Peake thinks this also to be another way to get more experience with the AmigaSDK.

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27.Jan.2001
AIO


AIO Issue 43 Released
Issue #43 of the online magazine 'AIO' (Amiga Information Online) has been released. Still more authors of articles and reviews are wanted.

Download: AIOV43.LHA



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27.Jan.2001
Hyperion Software


Hyperion: Shogo: Progress Report
Thomas Frieden wrote in the status report that Shogo now officially has entered beta test stage. This means that everything has been integrated to the game and the only task left is to find possible bugs. Read the entire report under the title link.

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27.Jan.2001
Christian Bauer


ShapeShifter V3.11 Released
Christian Bauer has updated his Mac emulator 'ShapeShifter' and made version 3.11 available for download.

Download: ShapeShifter3_11.lha - 281 kB

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27.Jan.2001
Fun Time World


SoftCinema and How to Get New Codecs
Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World did a summary of a Polish article (see title link) which we review here by his agreement.

«Jacek Cybularczyk, author of SoftCinema, released an article about the origin of new codecs for the video player on Amiga.com.pl. This article was written in Polish, thus here only the most important details.

Meantime the program SoftCinema can read the two formats OpenDivX and soon 3ivX, too. Still missing e.g. is MPEG-4 support and several other not quite legal codecs. The problem about those is that sources of the formats are not free available. But there are some possibilities to fix this problem, too. Though there are codecs for MPEG-4 and DivX on Macintosh, but due to missing documentations of the Macintosh resources and extensions this all might be difficult, somehow. The authors also don't seem to have a PowerMac for disassembling.

In case of the second possibility the author wrote that many might think this to be moronic, but the thing works. You take the Windows dll's for help. Work started about two month ago. The technic used is called "binary translation". First the x86 code gets prepared for the C preprocessor in form of a macro instruction. Much of the work takes the program TX86 which can read the dll's (comparable to Amiga libraries) and convert them to C code. This isn't done total automatically, so you still have to correct much yourself. The this way created code is compiled and can be executed under a Windows emulated environment called WIN32ENV. In this a part of Win32 and some important libraries are emulated. This all works on a PowerPC native only. Though all possible codecs run, but speed is at flabby 1 FPS.

To get things somehow faster the code, which contains about 17,000 lines of macro instructions, must get optimized. Unfortunately without optimization 72 MB are not enough to compile, thus the rest of the work were done under APUS with a 200 MB SWAP file. For an optimized compilation a 1 GB SWAP file was needed. The procedure took about 13 hours. But the effort was worth while, meantime everything runs much faster. Next the dll's will be converted to assembler to gain even better speed. This is possible after analysing the C codes and using what GCC has generated. Later on everything will get optimized once more. After profiling often used program parts either will be re-written or more heavy optimized.

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27.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF


Amiga-Community.net: Writing Race...
Since one might have to offer more than one Euro for 4 opinions Amiga-Community.net decided to organize a small competition. Who will write the most opinions until Thursday, 12:00 am MET will win a price:

1. price - Amiga OS 3.9 CD
2. price - Fondation Gold Ed. CD
3. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
4. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
5. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy

Important:
For the form item "Member" fill in your e-mail address. But this is only applys to non-members! Members will fill in their membership number, cause by this their points will be double credited.

Some days after the competition expired winners will be announced on the site and informed by e-mail. Opinions will be rated in my discretion, so don't write only 10 words. For more questions ask: xandiy@amiga-vip.de.

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27.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail


VirusHelp Denmark with New Mailing List
VirusHelp Denmark has created a new mailing list at YahooGroups, which will replace the old ML at eGroups. The new mailing list will be public, so everybody will be able to read it. Postings will only be accepted by VHT themselves.

All members of the old mailing list at eGroups were already subscribed to the new mailing list at Yahoo and should trouble-less receive the announcements via e-mail, as usual. Though it's advisable to subscribe again at Yahoo to be able to take part in e.g. polls.

More information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe can be found under the title link.

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27.Jan.2001
Andy Holzher via eMail


New Exec V44.1 public beta 1 and New MapROM
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has made available for download version 44.1 of Exec as official beta version on his website. This is about a non-official Exec version optimized and faster than the official one, according to himself. Use at your own risk.

Furthermore Piru published version 1.24beta5 of his MapROM tool 'BlizKick' for phase5/DCE acceleration boards.

Download:
exec44_1_beta1.lha - 56 kB
BlizKick.lha - 245 kB

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26.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
tummy_020.lha        biz/dbase  872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
tummy_040.lha        biz/dbase  872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
tummy_060.lha        biz/dbase  872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
TCom2DEMO.lha        biz/demo    96K+V2.8.0 Amiga order program,(COMMESSE ITA
UidlRem.lha          comm/mail    5K+Automatic daily YAM .uidl file deleter :
MWI-SDV30.lha        demo/mag   1.3M+SAVE DA VINYL #30 - packmag by Madwizard
SamplesMaster.lha    dev/amos    92K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
ASweeperSrc106.lha   dev/basic   24K+Source for AGA Workbench MineSweeper V1.
clockita.lha         dev/basic   66K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
flstack.lha          dev/c       11K+Fixed length stack ADT
select_gc.lha        dev/gui     67K+BOOPSI pop-up, cycle and button gadget
titlebar_ic.lha      dev/gui     24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
amigatalk.lha        dev/lang   464K+A GUI version of 'Little Smalltalk' (V1.
MCC_GLArea_Dev.lha   dev/mui    408K+MUI Custom class for StormMesa rendering
MCC_GLArea_Usr.lha   dev/mui    126K+MUI Custom class for StormMesa rendering
MCC_ImageDB.lha      dev/mui     25K+MUI Custom class for loading images.
AutoMounter.lha      disk/misc   15K+AutoMount tool for any changeable disk d
IoJazOS3.9.lha       disk/misc    9K+Iomega Jaz 1GB DOS Drivers/Icons for Ami
FBlitGuideGR.lha     docs/hyper  26K+Greek translation of FBlit.guide (v3.73)
stccg.lha            docs/hyper 1.7M+AmigaGuide to Star Trek CCG from Deciphe
Amigo6_3.lha         game/board  91K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
EgyptianWDC.lha      game/data   19K+Egyptian landscape for Worms DC
Connect4.lha         game/think  52K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
FlashMandel.lha      gfx/fract  4.1M+The best fractal rendering program for A
IOBlixUsr.lha        hard/drivr 294K+V37.17, IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 software
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  673K+V1.59 PSX MemoryCard Reader
breed_junk.lha       mods/hardc 121K+A good acidcore DBM module by Breed
rno-r054.mpg         mods/mpg   5.0M+Rno-records release no.54 by Earthstar (
breed_egg.lha        mods/techn 232K+A minimal acid DBM module by Breed
3PMGUI_Skins1.lha    mus/play    13K+8 Semi nice skins for 3PMGUI 
OnePoWeRweek.jpg     pix/misc    85K+ONE PoWeR WEEK Background by aMiGa=PoWeR
Blessings.lha        pix/wfm    179K+Blessings; Artwork&Literature
alba.lha             util/boot   56K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
WarpBMPdt.lha        util/dtype  42K+Windows BMP datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  297K+Report+ 4.22: Multipurpose utility
coolCalc_sk.lha      util/wb     48K+2 new skins for CoolCalc
mainprefs.lha        util/wb     66K+OS 3.5,3.9 Preferences GUI


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26.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF


WB2000 Images Update V1.5
Since the last archive about 90 new images for users of the startup tool WB2000 were added - the archive now contains about 390 IFF images.

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26.Jan.2001
Markus Schmidt via eMail


ICQ User List
The ICQ user list's sign-up form didn't work for some time. Sadly, this has been noticed only just today because of a hint. The error was fixed immediately. All those who have tried in vain to sign up, please try again.

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26.Jan.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via eMail


Andreas Kuerzinger HP Updated
Andreas Kuerzinger has made available version 1.1 of his AKCatalogs (35 catalogs for various programs) on his homepage. Also the Amiga links page was finished and many other pages updated.

[News message: 26. Jan. 2001, 17:26] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail


Elbox: Version 1.2 MediatorNET.device
Elbox has released a new version 1.2 of the MediatorNet.device for Mediator PCI for PCI ethernet network cards, today. Changes in the new version:

The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several PCI Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted to the Mediator PCI busboard.

Support of New Style Device (NSD) has been added and operation procedures have been optimised in order to reach the maximum transfer performance.

MediatorNET.device is a Sana-2 standard driver. This driver is compatible with all the Amiga TCP/IP software packages which can access a Sana-2 driver (e.g. Miami, MiamiDx, Genesis, and AmiTCP).

You can find further details at the title link.

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26.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF


nectarine * looking for host
A regular listener of the demo radio station 'nectarine *' wrote:
"Hi and hello, as regular listener I have sad news which could still be turned into a story with happy end until end of February.

What is Nectarine? At nectarine.ojuice.net/index.htm you'll find a very special internet radio. They broadcast music of game classics and well-known sceners. Further, you can upload tracks as a small home producer. This all results in an interesting music mix which clearly stands out from the usual droning. Well and now, where's the problem?

Nectarine needs a new HOST... here's the original message:

Why Nectarine can close at the end of February
- For now, Nectarine is friendly hosted by the company where i work (http://www.poliris.com) as Orange Juice webserver etc.. They help us a lot with hardware, technologie and prices for LTP (remember the travel for Amiga competition at LTP IV). They paid every month for an Easynet 12 mb/s ATM line but in March they will pay only for the bandwith that the company needs. So, as nectarine isn't a company project i can't ask them to pay for us. Maybe you noticed that they didn't ask for any adverts at all.

- Nectarine needs a new host (best is in Paris) where i can put the 2 computers of Nectarine Radio. The total amount of bandwith needed could be a very stable 1.5~2mb/S or more and we can find relays everywhere to reduce the total amount. In exchange we can promote the company who host us with banners, jingles etc... If you think that you can help us then just send an email to me. Every emails will be answered.

For now, those peoples try to help us: Scene.org ! Audiorealm ! SonicBox ! and lot of Nectarine lovers ! thx
ciao THOMAS SiEGEL aka d!RT!e (Organiser of mOOdS.2xs.de)"

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26.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail


VirusHelp Denmark: New TCP Trojan Found
A new 'TCP' Trojan was found in New Zealand. So far it isn't known what installs the trojan, but Zbigniew Trzcionkowski, the programmer of Safe, has already updated his virus detector so that the Trojan can be found in memory.

The TCP Trojan replaces "c:mount" by a 7484 byte long file and creates a new file "c:f". The new file c:mount is a clone of the Vaginitis virus.

More information on the new TCP Trojan:

Virus type: TCP Trojan
Trojan name: Explode
Trojan size: 7484 Bytes (c:mount) - 232 bytes (f)
Archive name: ? (still unknown)
Archive size: ? (still unknown)

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26.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail


VirusHelp Denmark: Safe V 14.7 Released
Version 14.7 of Safe has been released. Safe is a virus detector, the program can only find, but not remove viruses.

Name: Safe v14.7
Archive name: safe.lha
Archive size: 20.853 Bytes
Date: January 26th, 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Requires xvs.library v33.24

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26.Jan.2001
Greg Donner


Greg Donner's OS3.9 FAQ Updated
The official OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), maintained by Greg Donner, was updated. The sections 'undocumented features', 'internet applications', 'known bugs' and 'miscellaneous' were made up-to-date.

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26.Jan.2001
amiga.dk


Winter Amiga Congress '01 in Denmark
The Amiga party 'Amiga Congress '01' takes place from March 2nd to 4th, 2001 in Hvidovre, Denmark.

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26.Jan.2001
Ina Sielaff via eMail


Motorola COLDFIRE® Processor News
As the manufacturer was criticized continuously by the current 68k users because the currently available COLDFIRE® processor has neither FPU nor (sufficiently 68k compatible) MMU, the engineering team has designed a new ColdFire (4e) which contains both FPU and MMU and is supposed to replace the 68k generation.

Motorola wants to take this step to "untie" their current customers from the (apparently still sold in huge amounts) 68k processors. The soon to be released, ABSOLUTELY 68k compatible ColdFire 4e is supposed to take their place and replace the old processor family in future.

Here you'll find further details on the COLDFIRE4® processor.

Suplement:
More links on this subjects:
Technical description Coldfire4e
Coldfire Roadmap

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26.Jan.2001
(cd)


test.amigadev.net Runs on AmigaDE
The test page created by Amiga Inc. test.amigadev.net/ runs according to a http:// request issued by telnet on a server "AmigaDE zAMilo V0.098". Looks like the FTP server would be running on wu-ftpd (it's possible that it may be ported to AmigaDE).

The server reacts to "finger", but nobody was logged in. www.amigadev.net and test.amigadev.net are at least hosted in entirely different nets, not on the same computer.

The test page currently shows a logo which poses the question: "Can you write multimedia apps that run in a dozen host environments?" and answers it with the 'Artix logo and "zAMilo http server" powered by Amiga Digital Environment'.

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25.Jan.2001
Mark Wilson via eMail


AmiBench.org - Domain Problems
AmiBench.org might be not accessible under the used domain amibench.org during next days. The reason why is the change of the domain register station.

These days you can use the following alternative URL's:

http://www.amibench.com http://www.amibench.net http://ami.bencher.org

It is not determined by now how long the change will take.

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25.Jan.2001
Individual Computers


Individual Computers News
MiamiDX lisences arrived, Lyra under production

From now on the X-Surf ethernet / MiamiDX bundle again is available form all of the trading partners. Who already owns a X-Surf card can purchase MiamiDX at a special price by presenting his/her bill - simple ordering by e-mail. At the time being MiamiDX is the only possibility to use T-DSL (German Telekom) with the Amiga and wasn't available from German vendors for a long time.

The keyboard adapter Lyra is now under production. The first adapters in versions for A2000, A3000, and A4000 will be available from all of the trading partners in the first week of February. The Eternity company already verified Lyra to be the only adapter that supports simultaneous pressing of several keys. This allows playing games also with a PC-keyboard connected to the Amiga.

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25.Jan.2001
CD32-Allianz on ANF


CD32/CDTV User List Published
Kindly supported by Henning Schlautmann recently the first own CD32/CDTV user list has been published at the CD32-Corner.

Now I would like to ask users owning a CD32/CDTV or being interested in this to enlist. You can enlist online.

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25.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF


GlowIcons Update V1.5
From now on the update of the MiniGlowicons v1.5 can be downloaded from our homepage. Since last version about 90 icons for start-bars supporting icon.library v44.x were added.

The archive now overall contains short to 430 icons. Note: The identical archive for WB2000 user with all of the new IFF pictures will be available from our homepage from January, 27th. Icons missing? Do you have suggestions or icons which should be converted to the mini-format? Write to info@synotec-newmedia.

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25.Jan.2001
Richard de Rivaz on ANF


INET DIAL v3.838 Update
INET DIAL v3.838 now includes support for OS3.9 Genesis TCP/IP stack as well as remote email retrieval. INET DIAL is an integrated Internet and remote computer connection facility which handles 'dial-in' and 'dial-out' connections.

Genesis is provided with a simple installation facility. INET DIAL now includes support for reading e-mails remotely which had been previously automatically downloaded by INET DIAL to your home base computer.

Download: inet_dial.lha

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25.Jan.2001
Dietmar Eilert


Distributed BASIC
Distributed BASIC is a BASIC-Interpreter released in form of a shared library. A beta version is available for download. More details under the title link.

Download: basic.lha - 234 kB

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25.Jan.2001
T.o.T.


Tales of Tamar News
Development of the e-mail strategy game constantly precedes. As for Tales fo Tamar the players send their moves in form of e-mails via the Internet to the Eternity server. This method allows turns from tow to three days and thus a more dense game atmosphere. Additionally a sort of online chat will support the feeling of togetherness. The players can directly log-in there and chat with other users or players.

On 01-19.2001 the chronic of the year 60 were added and today a corrected version of the German FAQ was put online.

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25.Jan.2001
Fun Time World


SoftCinema Version 0.11 Released
Version 0.11 of SoftCinema is available for download for registered users. The following changes and enhancements were done for the movie- and animation player:
  • QuicktimeVR Bugfix.
  • New AVI Codec: DIVX.
  • New QT Codec: 3ivX (will not work until the 3ivX codec has been released, which should happen in a few days).
  • Some problems with displaying of HAM8 fixed.
  • Some problems with AVI color palette handling fixed.
  • For option 'GRAY' now a FULLSCREEN is taken, to utilize 8bpp screen
  • Other smaller changes for codecs speed enhancement regarding.
Download: SoftCinema.lha - 400 kB

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24.Jan.2001
Tumult


New MUI-class: ImageDB.mcc
All new MUI-classes are collected and registered at TUMULT. Yesterday, Bodmer Stephan has registered his new MUI-class 'ImageDB.mcc'. With the help of it images can be loaded into databases using guigfx.library. Further details. Besides this there is an update of the GLArea.mcc-class (v0.9).

Download page

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24.Jan.2001
Blittersoft


Blittersoft Website with New Design
The website of Blittersoft was completely re-designed. There is a seperate Amiga sector in the shop.

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24.Jan.2001
Fun Time World


AmigaOne Website at Eyetech
You can find the new AmigaOne website of Eyetech under the title link which contains information to the boards developed by Eyetech.

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24.Jan.2001
Amiga Impact


muFS patch V45.10 beta
You can find a patch (betaversion 45.10) by Etienne Vogt for the multi-user-filesystem 'muFS' under AmigaOS 3.5 and higher under the title link. Please read the readme for further details.

Download: muFS4510p.lha

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24.Jan.2001
AmigActive


AmigActive goes Active Media
The English Amiga magazine 'AmigActive' has created a new online area called "Active Media". This area will inform you about an outstanding selection of DVDs, CD-ROMs, books and other multimedia publications and it is possible to buy them online. Besides this in "Active Media" there is an area in which you can read former reviews.

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24.Jan.2001
AmigArt


Nightlong Review from AmigArt
In the clickBOOM portal you can also find a 68k 1.2 beta version which is to solve the RTG-Master problem. Registered users can download it there.

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24.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF


Amiga-Community.net News
Amiga-Community.net is looking for at least one sponsor in order to be able to double the bonus for written opinion and to increase the incentive for the readers. Interested parties may please mail to xandiy@amiga-vip.de.

Meanwhile the offer of assessments has increased to about 70 products/websites/dealers.

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24.Jan.2001
CGrX


New Graphics Board Information
You can find new information about current graphics boards on the website of CyberGraphX.

Among others it is reported there that G3/G4 Power PC-cards (Shark), which has been announced by Elbox for this January, will not be released before late March/early April. Elbox decided to re-designing the cards in order to make them AmigaDE compatible.

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24.Jan.2001
Andreas Kürzinger via eMail


Homepage of Andreas Kuerzinger Online
Andreas Kuerzinger wrote:
"Currently only the "About me" and the Amiga-sites work (in German as well as in English) but the rest will follow soon.

Among other things you can download my projects like AKIconz, AKBackPix, AKTaskiSMS, some German catalogs for several programs and something more (ScreenTab-images, WB-Screenshots, etc.) from the Amiga-sites."

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24.Jan.2001



amiga-news.de Now in Japanese, Too
From now on the messages which are relevant for Japan in amiga-news.de will be translated into Japanese by AmigaNut which is a Japanese Amiga dealer.

Thank you very much AmigaNut.

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24.Jan.2001
Newtek Germany on ANF


AURA 2 for TVPaint User
Currently there is a special offer for former Amiga user of TVPaint. The original of Aura (PC) formerly was TVPaint. More than 10.000 pieces has been sold of TVPaint in Europe (Amiga, Windows, SGI). All TVPaint user can update to "AURA 2 for TVPaint user" to a special price.

Requirement: TVPaint serial number
This offer is valid till 31st of March 2001.

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24.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Heise: Corel Will Keep Linux Branch as Seperate Company
Following two extracts from the Heise article:
«Except of the new Linux strategy the already for a long time announced company strategy of Corel contains no big surprises.

...[snip]...

It remains Linux. Corel will not abandon the Linux business as speculated in the last weeks. They still want to offer a complete Linux solution to the customers. To do so Corel intends to outsource the Linux distribution into a seperate company, but to continue to work on Linux versions of WordPerfect Office Suite and CorelDRAW themselves. But there is nothing about .NET for Linux.»

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23.Jan.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


New Details about the CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG
Due to great demand here a more detailed list of what has changed in Install Kit v4.0:
  • Install2001 supports RTG graphic mode for owner of graphics boards.
  • There are both, a Gadtools and a MUI interface for the Install Kit.
  • Many new games can be installed / emulated.
  • Install2001 uses almost a half less memory, which especially enhances compatibility.
  • Both interfaces were completely made over and now are much more user-friendly.
  • There are more settings possible.
  • CD-ROM support was enhanced substantially.
  • The build-in emulator now supports more CD32 specific stuff.
Moreover of course there are many other enhancements as well as bugfixes done. The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 is exclusively available on the 'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition' CD-ROM, which can be ordered from me.

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23.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - UAC Design Bonus!
"The Hunting Games" by Frank Abbing ready for download. There are the following games:

'Plakat schiessen', which works similar to the Moorhuhn game principle, cause one should shoot as much signboards as possible within one minute, but of course not the hunters!

In the case of 'Scheiben drehen' you shoot on plates until all of them face into the same direction. A plate hit will always do one quarter rotation more than the others. Who will make the best time?

Amiga Arena - UAC Design Updates! There are several updates online for games Frank Abbing from UAC Design made available to the Amiga Arena. The quiz game Awaking AGA/ECS is now there as executable version. The game can be played directly from harddisk, no longer .adf format. Risiko v1.7 is now there as the freeware version.

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23.Jan.2001
Timo Kloss via eMail


Inutilis News about Ermentrud
Ermentrud is a new adventure game under development at Inutilis. More information and screenshots are to find under the title link.

Timo Kloss, programmer of the game, wrote:
'Ermentrud (Amiga)' accidently now has got an interactive 'dialog system' using the common multiple choice method. Since also the inventory system is finished the next demo version will almost (almost (almost (...))) show a completed engine, already. Unfortunately this demo doesn't exist for now, but arguably will do somewhere down the road....

Originally we would have liked to already take the 'tavern scenes of the movie' last weekend, but we didn't....
This weekend (or even the following Mon/Tue) we are to proceed, really!

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23.Jan.2001
Fun Time World


SimpleMail Homepage Moved
The website of the new e-mail program SimpleMail by Sebastian Bauer and Hynek Schlawack was completely made over and is now accessible under http://simplemail.sourceforge.net/.

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23.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
TProspEd.lha         biz/demo    84K+V1.3.0 Form Editor For TurboFat (ITALIAN
TProspEd2.lha        biz/demo    81K+V2.0.1alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
ddup-3.0.1.lha       comm/net    21K+Dynamic DNS service client
ddup-3.0.1_src.lha   comm/net    31K+Dynamic DNS service client
hserv.lha            comm/tcp   286K+Hserv ARexx HTTP/1.1 c.c. server
rxsocket.lha         comm/tcp   139K+Rxsocket.library - TCP/IP ARexx library
Cookie_Killer.lha    comm/www    16K+AWeb cookie management (v1.1)
streamer.lha         comm/www    43K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
A_SweeperSrc.lha     dev/basic   24K+Source for AGA Workbench MineSweeper V1.
DTView.lha           dev/e        3K+Simple MultiView clone (incl.source)
AmigaInfo.lha        docs/hyper 334K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Gennaio 2000
amigazette_03.lha    docs/mags  254K+AMIGAzette 3rd iusse (26.12.1999) (itali
amigazette_04.lha    docs/mags  133K+AMIGAzette 4th iusse (23.02.2000) (itali
amigazette_05.lha    docs/mags  285K+AMIGAzette 5th iusse (080.05.2000) (ital
ascene12.lha         docs/mags  1.0M+AmigaScene 0x12 - 11/99 (amigascene.com)
JumpingAround.lha    game/demo  277K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Tintin.lha           game/role  356K+Tintin++ MUD Client, v1.84
TinyFugue.lha        game/role  350K+TinyFugue MUD Client, v4.0s1
skulpt_060.lha       gfx/3d     1.0M+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_doc.lha       gfx/3d     604K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
skulpt_loc.lha       gfx/3d      20K+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_scn.lha       gfx/3d     1.5M+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_src.lha       gfx/3d     227K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
imaged.lha           gfx/misc   136K+Add your own description to images ! (v2
vPNG.lha             gfx/show    10K+Fast 68k PNG pictures viewer
TestGear3.lha        hard/hack  262K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
ASpEmu.lha           misc/emu   136K+V0.78 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
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imdbDiff010112.lha   misc/imdb  2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
3PMGUI.lha           mus/play   161K+Skinnable MPEGA GUI-ideal for low CPUs!
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jonty.jpg            pix/irc    277K+JPEG of JoNty (JoNty-) from #AmigaIRC DA
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WiederUnterwe2.jpg   pix/trace   69K+Starship Enterprise-E in Space
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ThBoundsfLv.lha      pix/wfm    110K+The Bounds of Love Art & Lit.
Zoom.lha             util/app    63K+The "do everything" appicon (FREEWARE)
LatinMap.lha         util/cdity  20K+Special Character Input (FREEWARE)
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23.Jan.2001
amiga-hardware.com


'Big Book Of Hardware' Updated
'Big Book Of Hardware' is a really extended hardware reference website. Here you can find a whole lot of information about almost any Amiga hardware. Yesterday many sections of the website were updated.

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23.Jan.2001
DOpus Support Page


New DirOpus4 Beta Version 4.15f by Jacek Rzeuski
Jacek Rzeuski is working on DOpus4 again and has made available for download a new beta version 4.15f of DirOpus4 on his website.

DirOpus is a file manager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry from GP Software. In 1999 the source code of the program was released under GNU Public License rules. Jacek Rzeuski then started to revise and enhance the program.

Due to lack of time Jacek then wasn't able to work on it that intensive anymore, and Paul Huxham published new beta versions. Now Paul decided not to cooperate with Jacek in the running project, but has started his own DirOpus4 project. Paul's homepage is to find here.

DOpus4beta.lzx -

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23.Jan.2001
The Spirit of AMIGA


Quake Deathmatch by "The Spirit of AMIGA"
On Friday 26th, 2001, 'The Spirit of AMIGA' will organize their first Quake deathmatch. This match will take place on an official server to see how the response will be. 'The Spirit of AMIGA' wants to bring together AMIGA online players and possibly later on to found a clan and/or open an own server. Everybody who would like to participate is heartily welcome to this match. No special software is needed for this server. Details on how and when you will find under the title link (German website).

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23.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz


Interview with Bill McEwen
Christoph Dietz did an extended interview with Bill McEwen, president and CEO of AMIGA, Inc:

Bill McEwen
Bill McEwen


Amiga-News: In your latest Executive Update you announce that the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) would be a great fun for the Amiga community. But how would this be a great fun if Amiga Inc. is not a exhibitor there?

Bill McEwen: We were there. We had two companies showing Amiga enabled devices at the show. These meetings were private, but we were there :-)

Amiga-News: Can you tell us details about this devices and the companies behind?

Bill McEwen: No. We are under NDA with each of them. Announcements will follow soon.

Amiga-News: In an interview with Corinna Cohn you told the community that Amiga Inc. is low on money and our readers are now wondering if this means that Amiga Inc. is closing down. So why are you low on money?

Bill McEwen: We are far from closing down. It takes money to run this business, and we planned to raise money in summer of last year. Our timing was off, and the market had a big downturn. As of the time of the discussion we had not secured more funding.

Amiga-News: So I can assume that there is no financial shortness anymore?

Bill McEwen: We will continue to watch every dime very carefully, this is not a market to be crazy with your money.

Amiga-News: Can you tell us the names of Amiga Inc.'s investors?

Bill McEwen: The "Invisible Hand Corporation, LLC", and "Net Ventures, BV".

Amiga-News: What do these investors expect from Amiga?

Bill McEwen: To make money.

Amiga-News: They are not interested in the Amiga products to use in their own products?

Bill McEwen: They are investors not OEM's.

Amiga-News: Is going public an option for Amiga Inc.? Can we expect to buy stock options in the near future?

Bill McEwen: Public offering is not possible at this time. But you can expect to have opportunities to invest in the future with Amiga.

Amiga-News: Francis Charig told me (as published on amiga-news.de) that the AmigaDE will be ready in the first half of this year. Are you agreeing with this?

Bill McEwen: Yes. This is the plan.

Amiga-News: How and then (more exact) will AmigaDE hit the marked?

Bill McEwen: Initially in some OEM hardware platforms, and then it will get more functionality and be out in other hardware with software following.

Amiga-News: According to MeterNet they are only waiting for AmigaDE to release their Set-Top box. When do they get AmigaDE and will this version be the same as planned for release in the OEM hardware?

Bill McEwen: Yes, the initial release is for this type of hardware OEM.

Amiga-News: Also Francis spoke about memory protection and why TAO is not planning to implement MP into the operating system. But you already announced that Amiga Inc. is going to implement MP into AmigaDE. Is this plan up to date?

Bill McEwen: Tao is not, and they never were going to. This is consistent to what we have said since the beginning. Amiga is handling the MP. So the plan is the same that we have said since the beginning.

Amiga-News: Can we expect MP to be in the first versions of AmigaDE?

Bill McEwen: No, not in the first version. It has been planned for later.

Amiga-News: Why do you think MP is needed?

Bill McEwen: I personally think that this is better suited for the desktop and server market.

Amiga-News: What can AmigaDE developers expect to be added into the next SDK update?

Bill McEwen: Sound, 3d, and numerous other new tools and enhancements.

Amiga-News: When can they expect the next update?

Bill McEwen: Targeted for end of February - middle of March.

Amiga-News: More than 15.000 copies of SDK are sold. How many developers are registered? And how many of them are contributing software?

Bill McEwen: A little over 2,000 busy working.

Amiga-News: This means that at least 13.000 people only bought the SDK to support Amiga Inc. with some money or for to add the SDK to their treasury?

Bill McEwen: You asked how many are registered. We have thousands who are working and have not registered.

Amiga-News: Do you know a reason why they didn't register?

Bill McEwen: No. It is really up to them. We have also located two sites that have created SDK's that are pirated. I believe that we have shut them down now, but we know that several copies were downloaded before we stopped them.

Amiga-News: Which is the most amazing software contributed right now?

Bill McEwen: There are so many, I do not know where to begin. I would encourage people to look at the developer section of the web site to see many of the titles that are being worked on.

Amiga-News: While the "World of Amiga 2000" in Cologne Fleecy announced that about 1.5 Mio units of AmigaDE are already sold. What is the market and when will the AmigaDE based products show up?

Bill McEwen: Products will begin showing up in March of this year.

Amiga-News: A press release from Thendic Electronic Components just crossed the wire that tells that "in September 2001 Thendric will release a modified Handheld-PC for the consumer market under the label 'Amiga(TM)'." Are they only licensing the Name "Amiga"? Or will they use AmigaDE?

Bill McEwen: There is only ONE owner of the Amiga name and Trademarks, Amiga Inc. We own the worldwide exclusive rights to all of the Amiga properties, that were once in the hands of Gateway. Thendic has licensed AmigaDE for their devices. We were not supposed to say anything for another month, but since they have announced, then it is true they are one of many new licensors of AmigaDE.

Amiga-News: And are there other products?

Bill McEwen: Several in the works and all over the office.

Amiga-News: How many copies of AmigaOS3.9 are sold? How close are we to an PPC-Version of AmigaOS 4.0?

Bill McEwen: OS 3.9 I do not know right now. We had several thousand out by before Christmas, and I have not seen the reports of the sales since that time. We should have some numbers up on the site soon. As far as meeting the sales requirements for the OS 4.0 PPC version, we are not even close. We are still evaluating the market need for this product, and I hope that we can show that there is a true market and business for 4.0, and even other versions in the future.

Amiga-News: When can we expect that the decision is made?

Bill McEwen: Working on it now.

Amiga-News: What are the improvements in the classic AmigaOS to legitimate the version jump to 4.x?

Bill McEwen: Once the decision has been made, then you will see a targeted feature list and then we will all know.

Amiga-News: Do you know about the status of development at Eyetech and bPlan?

Bill McEwen: I have been focused on other funding issues, and Fleecy has been working more closely with these developments.

Amiga-News: Will the AmigaOne be available in Q3/2001?

Bill McEwen: That is the plan.

Amiga-News: How can the Amiga community support Amiga Inc. at best?

Bill McEwen: The best way to directly help is the purchase of SDK's and other products. And the more people creating product for Amiga the better. We have recently received several new games for AmigaDE and they are great. It is really encouraging to see all of the development efforts underway, and the more people that we have developing the better.

Amiga-News: Are these games only converted from other platforms or are they completely new? Are they cutting edge in graphics, sound and idea?

Bill McEwen: All of the above.

Amiga-News: Bill, thank you for this interview!

Contact Information Amiga Inc.

World Headquarter
AMIGA, Inc.
34935 SE Douglas Street
Suite 210
Snoqualmie, WA 98065 (USA)
Phone +1-425-396-5660
Fax. +1-425-396-5671

email: bill@amiga.com
WWW: Amiga Inc.

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Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken (12. Jun.)
Amiga Kit: Final Writer 7 pre-installed on A600GS (02. Jun.)
Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.0 (02. Jun.)
Hollywood goes LaTeX: hTeX 1.0 released (02. Jun.)
ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.c for Sam460EX, Sam460CR and Sam460LE boards (18. May.)
Interview: Announcement of a cost-reduced MiSTer FPGA board (08. May.)
MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.2 (2nd update) (04. May.)
Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 29 (02. May.)
A-EON announces new version of Personal Paint for A600GS (27. Apr.)
Hollywood Designer 7.0 released (14. Apr.)
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