30.Oct.2000
SEAL
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SEAL Meeting Report
At the title link you can find reports and pictures of the latest SEAL-meeting (10-27-2000).
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30.Oct.2000
Stephan Rupprecht via eMail
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New ILBM-Datatype Version 44.23
Stephan Rupprecht wrote:
Unfortunately version 44.22 of my datatype has a major bug. You sometimes cannot reopen
the datatype. With the new version I fixed this and I would like to thank all of who reported this bug.
Download: ilbmdt44.lha
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30.Oct.2000
DCR Soft- and Hardware
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Little Helper for MAS-player
Dirk Conrad published some usefull CLI commands that can be used with the hardware based
'MAS-Player'. On his homepage you will find the source codes too, and an example for how
to use these commands with DirOPUS buttons.
Download: CLI_Commands.LHA - 22 KB
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30.Oct.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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Narr Site Completely Revised
The 'Narr Site' was completely revised and is now using a complete new design.
The page offers many Amiga-Freeware for example Toolbars, PlayGUI, ShowGUI, anims and mods.
A new clean looking WB-Font and a game-set for the WB-Game Mahjongg Tiles.
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30.Oct.2000
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amiga-news.de is Moving
amiga-news.de is moving to a new and own server. Due to this during the next days short failures are
possible. If you will fail to access amiga-news.de we ask you for your understanding and patience.
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30.Oct.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail
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Dr. Dobb's Journal/Amiga
Dr. Dobb's Journal September/2000 (a well known magazine about algorithms and programming paradigms)
publishes an article about GUI's by Michael Swaine. The article even deals with the history of Amiga
from the beginning of Commodore to the newest plans of Amiga, Inc.
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30.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
MLogBook.lha comm/misc 676K+HAM Radio LogBook with CallBook
jl_update.lha comm/tcp 1K+Script for updating your ip at Justlinux
htmlpack.lha comm/www 14K+HTMLPack - HTML code packer
kng-unit.lha demo/aga 699K+- United - dentro by Kangooroo in 2k
Wade-Innocence.lha demo/slide 1.7M+Innocence Slideshow by Wade/Faction (ex-
znn_goo2.lha demo/sound 219K+Chippack by Mice/Zenon
Istar.lha dev/misc 671K+Knowledge Based System Inference Net Bui
KnowledgeSvr.lha dev/misc 671K+Knowledge Based System Inference Net Bui
Info-1-00.lha docs/mags 19K+Internet Amiga Magazine - Polish
scenet34.lha docs/misc 149K+SCENET - not just the Scene gateway! - #
NewNAPALMUnits.lha game/data 11K+Unit Data Set s for NAPALM 2Player/CHAOS
ACSYS.lha game/demo 603K+A.C.SYS demo V1.0 - AGA Turrican clone
InstallKit3_9.lha game/patch 823K+The ultimate CD32 emulator/hd installer
LordIII_S.lha game/role 2.7M+Spanish version
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 420K+V1.52 PSX MemoryCard Reader
AGReader.tgz misc/emu 89K+AmigaGuide file reader, for Unix system.
A-el.mpg mods/techn 6.2M+Electroish d&b techno carnage
A-geron.mpg mods/techn 2.9M+Electroish d&b soothing techno
EP_Norsk.lha mus/play 23K+Norwegian catalog for Eagleplayer V2.01
PlayGUIUpd.lha mus/play 20K+PlayGUI Update 3.0 -> 3.a
AnimeWP.lha pix/back 2.0M+Big Anime Wallpapers
Gc-BoingBack64.lha pix/back 160K+Quality 640x512 Workbench backdrop (64co
GC-BoingBackdr.lha pix/back 480K+Quality 640x512 Workbench backdrop.
fom3p17.jpg pix/henz 291K+Cloned Triceratops on Venus
fom3p18.jpg pix/henz 138K+Faces of Mars-Logo
fom3p19.jpg pix/henz 151K+3Pyramids at night
fom3p20.jpg pix/henz 196K+3Pyramids at night (through night-glasse
fomsw23.jpg pix/henz 120K+TIE-Fighter chasing a Spitfire-plane
fomsw24.jpg pix/henz 86K+TIE-Fighter chasing a Spitfire-plane
Pris38.jpg pix/trace 121K+Pris at night
Pris39.jpg pix/trace 173K+Pris at night (through night-glasses)
Guanajuato06.jpg pix/views 167K+The university of Guanajuato (Mexico)
Sierra01.jpg pix/views 167K+Little town in the Sierra Madre (Mexico)
AKNewWB.lha pix/wb 497K+Screenshots of AK's *32-col.* MagicWB
ALEM_0020.lha text/dtp 6K+ALEM's AudioK7 template for PageSetterII
Epson_400.lha text/print 34K+Epson Stylus 400/440/460 Driver for WB V
RemAPollo.lha util/boot 61K+A1200 040\60 MMU Apollo Turboboard Rema
SystemPatch.lha util/boot 6K+Speedup patch for 68020+
XPKPatch18.lha util/pack 22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
rmh.lha util/rexx 53K+Rmh.library 6.0 - Rexx Must Have library
counter.lha util/shell 13K+Keeps track of the times it has been exe
reshunt.lha util/sys 17K+ResHunt - Executable programs resource h
remember.lha util/wb 10K+Restarts programms after a crash or rebo
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30.Oct.2000
Dirk Harlaar on ANF
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Dirk Harlarr Becomes Internal Director of CS&E
David Connely decided that Dirk Harlaar should not only manage the German part of CS&E, but for all other countries, too.
Further informations are available in the following press release:
New managing director for CS&E
After the recent news that Dirk Harlaar would manage the German branch
of CS&E, Dirk Harlaar and David Connolly decided that Dirk would
become the new managing director of Crystal Software and Entertainment
(CS&E) overall. While business strategy is still at a beginning stage,
CS&E "under" Dirk Harlaar will focus on the Amiga Games market,
whereas David Connolly will continue with the pc games based
www.pc-software.com
Dirk Harlaar am 30. Oktober 2000 im ANF
CS&E not completely gone
As David Connolly, director of CS&E, announced, CS&E England has left
the Amiga market. After long discussions, David Connolly has decided
to hand over the Amiga part of CS&E to the newly appointed sales
director, Dirk Harlaar.
Based in Germany, this branch of CS&E will focus on games distribution
for the Amiga as well as the PC. The forthcoming educational software
"Cosmos Fun Class" is at this time being translated into German and
Dutch, in order to reach a wider audience.
Further products can not yet be announced, as CS&E has just started
this branch, and is still looking for games devellopers who want to
publish their work through their outlets.
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29.Oct.2000
Apex Designs
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Payback Status Report
James Daniels wrote in his status report, that he used most of his time to
create new levels which include levels taking place at night. Among many changes
the lightning of the streets and the cars has been improved, support for
PSX controllers, different looking pedestrians has been added, and some bugs
were fixed. People now panic when the player tries to kill them. The weather now features
thunder-storm with superb light effects, and the game speed has been improved.
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29.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta at ANF
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NRNF: Bubble Heroes Test
On 29. October 2000 Fabio Trotta has released a comprehensive test of the game
"Bubble Heroes" on No Risc No
Fun.Because of delivery problems the test has been delayed.
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29.Oct.2000
Mads via email
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Improved telnet.device Wanted
The telnet.device makes it possible to use BBS's via the internet. But because of
existing errors this device causes so big problems for sysops that they gave in
and now work with ftp-sites instead of BBS-sites though their appealing systems
already existed since the early nineties.
It is feared that, if these problems aren't solved soon, all good Amiga BBSes
will disappear.
When th device is ready Mads will collect money for paying off the work.
Everybody who feels being able to solve the following problems may write to Mads@softhome.net.
Telnetd.device(all versions)
- Locks up the whole system ,cause unknown
- Speed is limited to XXXXX cps, even slower then telser.device
Telser.device(all versions)
- Locks up single nodes ,cause unknown
- Locks up single node if carrier loss by server
- Speed is limited to 5xxxxCPS, 2 slow for xDSL.
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29.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Central Closed
Chris Korhonen wrote at ANN
that Amiga Central has been closed.
«Basically, we decided it was no longer viable to continue the site. From our
point of view the Amiga is dead, very little software and support. And
Amiga's current plans may sound nice but they will either:
a) Never Appear
b) Apear, but, will not be anything like the amiga you know and love.
Which will leave amiga owners with some non standard hardware which is
of limited use.
It was good while it lasted but it's time to call it a day.»
Posted by C Korhonen on 29-Oct-2000
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29.Oct.2000
Stephan Rupprecht
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ILBMdt v44.22
On 28. October 2000 Stephan Rupprecht has released the version 44.22 of his
ILBM datatype. The ILBM datatype makes it possible to display images in the
IFF-ILBM format. Rupprecht's datatype stands out for the capability of
displaying HAM- and EHB-images on a Picasso 96-, CyberGFX- or similar screen in
the correct colors. Additionally it possesses the ability of displaying 24bit
graphics without a graphics card. Compared with the previous version an internal
change has been made. As ramlib uses only a little stack all libraries are now
opened in LibOpen() instead of LibInit().
Download: ilbmdt44.lha (8K),
Readme
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29.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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DirOpus v4.15c beta
Jacek Rzeuski has released the beta version V4.15c of the directory tool
"DOpus". This version offers among other things support of archives via the
XADMaster-library. The complete, extensive changes can be taken from the history.
Download: DOpus4beta.lzx (260K)
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29.Oct.2000
ANN
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ACE 2000 - Show Report by Craig Delahoy
Already on 23. October 2000 Craig Delahoy, member of the Amiga Advisory
Council, has released his comprehensive report about the ACE 2000, which
contains many detailed information.
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29.Oct.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF
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Amster v0.8
On the 29. October 2000 version V.08 of the
Napster client "Amster"
for Amiga computers has been released. Amster is a client for the exchange of
MP3 files and supports features such as chatting, search, download, announcing
lists and many more. This update contains a number of improvements and bug
fixes, that can be taken from the
readme.
The program runs on AmigaOS v3.0+ and requires MUI V3.8, MCC_NList V19.97,
and MCC_Textinput V27.
Download:
Supplement 30 Oct 2000
Thomas Wenzel wrote in the
forum:
«Hmmm... can't open Textinput.mcc V26 though I have installed the delivered v28.
Problem solved! One may download vapor_toolkit_142.lzx
Oliver Wagner seems to use some of this Vapor stuff in the new textinput.mcc.
As long as it is free available, it's all the same to me, but despite of this I don't like it.»
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29.Oct.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via email
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AudioCutter Cinema project file
To demonstrate the abilities of the AuioCutter Cinema the sample "Leaving" can
now be downloaded using http://www.AudioCutter.de/download.html.
In addition to that you can download the complete project file that was used to
create this sample. This project file demonstrates the use of several layers as
well as the creation of surround effects via the editable sound positions and
the echo surround effect. The project itself bases on only two initial samples
(with unfortunately medium quality). To reduce the size of the project file, it
had to be scaled from 24 Bit / 96 kHz to 16 Bit / 48 kHz.
AudioCutter Cinema Voting Area
Your opinion is wanted. At
http://www.AudioCutter.de/vote.html
it is now possible to rate the quality and power of the AudioCutter Cinema and
possibly express critics and suggestions for improvements. Virtual Worlds
Productions is very interested in this feedback to improve AudioCutter Cinema
furthermore.
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29.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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Amiga Information Online #40
On 28. October 2000 the issue #40 of the Amiga magazine
Amiga Information Online(AOI) has been released.
Download: AIOV40.LHA
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29.Oct.2000
Amiga Future
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Amiga Show in Cologne
The following message has been posted in the news section of Amiga Future
on 28. October 2000:
«There will be an Amiga show taking place in Cologne this year!!!
Unfortunately we don't have the time to post more precise information on
this topic, today. It will happen from 9.12.2000 to 10.12.2000 in Cologne.
As said, comprehensive and actual information can be found here at the Amiga Future.»
Supplement 29 Oct 2000
Quotations taken from the Amiga Future-Site:
«As promised yesterday here now some more information about the Amiga
show in Cologne:
Haage & Partner organizes an Amiga exhibition on 9th and 10th of December in the
central placed Mediapark in the Cologne North town. Several known exhibitors
have already promised the exhibition management to attend. There are no
information about the seminars and events for now. Therefore we don't release
anything regarding these.
But it is sure that the exhibition date will be at the same time the sales start of
the amigaOS 3.9. The OS 3.9 will now contain a complete non cut down TCP/IP
stack and many more new features.
We will soon be able to present an exhibitors list and many more details at this place.
The Amiga Future will of course attend the show.»
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29.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Update Newsletter
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/__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || -News and Rumors-
/ \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_|| (An Occasional e-mail
"SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" || News Source)
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AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc.
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001022
T H E A M I G A O N E I S A N N O U N C E D I N O Z
S E P T E M B E R E X E C U T I V E U P D A T E
A P C & T C P S T A T E M E N T O N E P I C U K
A M I G A F U T U R E ' S F U T U R E
S H A R K P P C F R O M E L B O X
V O O D O O N E W S F R O M D C E
E L B O X C O M P L A I N T R E V O O D O O
H A N D P G E T S T F A X P R O , G E N E S I S
S T F A X 4 . 5 I S A V A I L A B L E
F A S T E C H ' S U N N A M E D E X P A N D E R
I M A G E F X H O L I D A Y S A L E
I N S T A L L E R N G ( 3 R D P A R T Y ) A V A I L A B L E
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
The biggest news in quite a while is the annoucement of the
specifications for the new Amiga One computer at the Alternative
Computing Expo in Australia. This REALLY marks the beginning of the
next generation Amiga! There's a lot of interesting reading in the
announcement. We think you'll find it fascinating. And what's this
about Classic Amiga OS 3.9 ?!?
The "smallest" news is that we seem to have new unprofessional feuds
in the Amiga community. One involves Elbox (you'll recall we carried a
complaint from them last issue) and a particular developer about
Voodoo. The other is between APC&TPC and UK Epic. We don't know who's
right or who's wrong, or who forced who to go public, but we DO know
this is not a matter for public fighting. By contrast, at the present
time two of the highest value companies in the US market also are
feuding, at what might be a personal level involving CEOs. This feud
has already involved many millions of dollars. Just about nobody
outside of the companies is aware of this. Why? Because the people
involved are true business professionals.
We report the "good stuff", we report the "bad stuff", - and will try
to be even handed, so if anyone involved in this silliness thinks
they've not been given equal time, please contact us. Please note that
everyone involved has "good stuff" to contribute if they wish to.
The Community will build on the good stuff.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:
25 Sep 2000
Brad & company,
I realize that everyone is exploring new ways to market and sell and
get paid. However, the following eGroups ad was atop the recent AU:
-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------
Your family still won't know what you do. At least they'll know where.
The resources, brainpower & breadth of opportunities at Microsoft are
unmatched. The only question is are you ready for that kind of impact?
http://click.egroups.com/1/9223/5/573261969761703
---------------------------------------------------------------------
I at first thought that it was a bad joke, but then decided maybe it
was just bad luck. So I figured, OK, I'll support AU by clicking on
it. My company firewall responded with, "Access to NON-BUSINESS chat
site BLOCKED. " Which no doubt rung a little bell in the head demon's
office of our network sysadmin, as I was checking it out during a
break at work.
So now I will finish with, No $*)(&#! Thanks, and watch your
advertisers a little bit more carefully. No need to shoot our own
market in the foot while trying to come out ahead.
Paul
~~~~~~
Paul,
You second thought was the correct thought - it was bad luck. That ad
was put on the top of AU (issue 000923) by e-groups during
transmission through their system. By agreeing to let them put ads on
the mailings, we get their services for free. We don't even see the
ads, and have no knowledge of what specific ad will be used, until
after the mailings go out.
This particular ad was very aggravating to us, but we had no way of
knowing it was going to happen.
Given that AU is totally free and has no income, we're not in a
position to pay e-groups the fee to eliminate all ads. The potential
for this to happen again exists. Best way to handle it is probably to
just ignore it. But it isn't easy.
Brad
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Last issue we had a question from Dave regarding Castlewood's Orb
drive. Below are two answers we received from readers, one each for
IDE and SCSI versions of the drive.
Thanks to our readers for being so responsive!
Brad
24 Sep 2000
Hello Dave,
On 28 Aug 2000 you wrote:
> Has anyone used Castlewood's Orb drive on an Amiga? I hadn't found
> any information regarding that yet and was wondering if their
> headerless approach presents special problems for developing an Amiga
> driver, or what special considerations might exist for implementing an
> Orb drive on a SCSI-equipped Amiga (like my A3000UXD).
I purchased the IDE version of the ORB drive several months ago.
Unfortunately, I have not had very good luck with it. First of all,
the write speed is much lower than the read speed. It seems to read
data at a speed comparable to IDE hard drives. It writes data at less
than half that speed. I only use the ORB drive for system backup and
it takes a long time to do a backup.
I am also unable to exchange cartridges without rebooting. When I
load a new cartridge and issue a diskchange command, the system just
hangs up. I previously used a Syquest 105MB cartridge drive (IDE) and
was able to exchange disks at will.
Also, the drive makes a lot of noise. My old Syquest drive made about
the same noise as a hard drive. The ORB makes a loud, several second
long, clicking noise every 15 to 20 seconds. Since I only use the
drive for backup, I began booting without a cartridge installed which
eliminates the constant sounds. I can later insert a cartridge and
mount it with the OS 3.5 Mounter tool if I need to use the drive.
Reliability has been a problem for me too. I use the drive very
little; only about twice a month for backup. About a month after
purchasing the ORB drive it suddenly stopped working. When I booted
the computer the drive would flash a red error code and would not
mount. Castlewood was very responsive though, and I was able to send
the drive back to them for an exchange. Yesterday, I got a write error
while trying to do a backup. I could read the data that was already on
the drive, but was unable to write new data. When I tried to reformat
the drive I got another flashing red error code. I tried another
cartridge and got the same result. I haven't had time to contact
CastleWood yet, to see if they will repair or replace the drive.
I would like to state for the record that my experience is with one
Castlewood ORB drive and is probably not representative of the quality
of all their drives. I have had Email contact with several users who
have the SCSI version of the drive and are happy with the ORB drive. I
have not heard from anyone else with the IDE version.
Regards,
Jeff
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27 Sep 2000
Brad,
With regards to Dave's request for info on an Orb drive, I am using
one with my Amigas. I connect it to a 2000 with a Blizzard 2060 board,
a 3000 with the built in Amiga SCSI controller, and a PC with an
Adaptec controller by just switching the cable to whichever computer I
want to use it with. It works just fine with the Amigas; they just
think it is another removable drive like a SyJet or Syquest (ho hum).
The PC had to have drivers installed, of course, and to use it with
Drive Image on the PC, I had to do some more gyrations, but the Amigas
just use it, as expected. I HAVE found that the Orb drives are
sometimes sensitive to SCSI IDs and bus placements, particularly on
the Mac, but with the Amiga it is pretty foolproof. Haven't gotten it
to work with the Video Toaster Flyer yet, but am working on that. I
think that is a termination problem.
Just connect it up with the SCSI ID set right and the correct
termination, and format the disk. No sweat (other than the usual OS
3.5 problems).
Bob
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T H E A M I G A O N E I S A N N O U N C E D I N O Z
October 21, 2000, Melbourne, Australia - It is with great pleasure
that we are able to announce the first new Amiga hardware in over 6
years. The AmigaOne, our first consumer product, will be targeted at
the desktop and workstation market. Further products to follow will
cover the markets from Personal Digital Assistants and upwards. All
these products will run a single piece of software, the revolutionary
Amiga Digital Environment (DE).
We completed the AmigaOne specification three months ago, and dubbed
it the "zico". It is a specification and not a product because Amiga
is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer. The ability of the
Amiga DE to host itself on multiple hardware and operating system
platforms frees us from hardware dependency and gives our partners and
our customers the freedom to chose the hardware that best suits their
needs and tastes.
The zico specification is as follows;
- One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
- 64MB+ memory
- Next Generation Matrox graphics card
- Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
- 10 GB+ HD
- CD/DVD
- USB 1.0
- Firewire
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 56k modem
- Spare PCI slots for expandibility
With the completion of the specification stage of the Amiga One, we
contacted several respected hardware companies with a view to
selecting partners who would be interested in creating AmigaOne
products.
The AmigaOne process involves close co-operation between Amiga and
our partners' hardware groups, the running of the AmigaDE on the
hardware, and a thorough quality certification of the final product.
Only then can the product be called an AmigaOne.
Whilst still in detailed negotiation with several companies, we are
delighted to announce the first partner company and its initial set of
AmigaOne products.
The Eyetech Group Ltd, of Stokesley, U.K. already has an excellent
reputation in the Amiga community. They have done much to keep the
classic Amiga alive during the last five years, and we feel that in
the creation of the first new Amiga machines and the transitioning
>from the classic to the next wave, that experience will prove
invaluable.
Bill McEwen President of Amiga Inc commented: "This arrangement
builds on and extends our existing partnership agreement with Eyetech,
first announced in April of this year. Our experience during this
period has shown Eyetech to be a no-nonsense company capable of
delivering what they promise on time and this consideration also
weighed heavily in our choice of a hardware partner for the PPC based
AmigaOne."
Alan Redhouse, Managing Director of UK-based Eyetech, said; "I am
delighted that we have been able to build on our existing partnership
with Amiga and continue our close working relationship with them on
both a technical and manufacturing level. Our decade of Amiga
experience, plus our hardware and software efforts to push the Amiga
forwards means that we are able to work with Amiga to deliver a proven
upgrade solution to Amiga users which gives their existing 'Classic'
applications an immediate and substantial performance boost whilst
providing full forward compatibility with the new Amiga DE. Our work
on the Predator line of boards means that we can help Amiga to fulfill
its requirement of maximising the investment of the current community
as it moves forwards."
Fleecy Moss, Chief Technology Officer, Amiga Inc added: "After talks
with the hardware development staff of several companies I am
convinced that working with Eyetech will allow us to offer an elegant
solution that gives both an excellent level of backward compatibility
and a powerful basis for the new Amiga Digital Environment. Top of our
requirements list was to ensure that those Amigans who have spent
considerable money in staying with the Amiga would not be left out in
the cold. Whilst you can't please all of the people all of the time,
we think we have come up with a set of products and solutions that
will put a smile on as many faces as possible."
Eyetech is focusing on an immediate need in the existing Amiga
market. Many have already invested considerable resources in their
classic Amigas, both in terms of hardware and in terms of software.
Whilst keen to move forwards with the AmigaOne, they also want to
maximise their investment in the classic platform.
The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 is a custom board which uses Eyetech
Predator technology with the "zico" specification to provide a perfect
synergy of classic and next generation. It provides all the
functionality of the standalone AmigaOne PPC, but has been extended to
mate with a classic Amiga A1200. This allows customers who have a
serious investment in the classic Amiga to continue to use their
machines whilst also having a brand new Amiga at their disposal. The
68k processor in the A1200 will be emulated at a substantially
increased level via the PPC processor on the AmigaOne, whilst the
classic operating system can take advantage of the AmigaOne's next
generation hardware resources.
The AmigaOne PPC 4000 machine is similarly designed to allow
customers who have a significant investment in their classic Amiga
A4000 to be able to move that investment forwards whilst also
benefiting from the next generation capabilities of the AmigaOne.
The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 will be available as an upgrade for
owners of towered A1200 computers, the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 4000 as an
upgrade for Amiga 4000 desktop computers in tower conversion cases.
Options for producing AmigaOne PPC upgrade designs for other Classic
Amiga designs (such as the A3000 and Amiga International A4000T) will
be looked at (subject to demand) once the A1200 and A4000 products are
released.
In order to implement all the features of the AmigaOne specification
the, A1200 and A4000 upgrade versions will feature one AGP and six PCI
slots, a user-upgradable G3/G4 (Macintosh-type) cpu slot, up to 512MB
SDRAM and a high speed IDE/ATAPI interface. The system will be
dual-bootable both into the Amiga DE and into Classic Amiga Workbench.
This latter feature will allow purchasers to have the performance
benefits of full G3/G4 cpu speeds and 512MB of SDRAM memory whilst
running Classic Amiga software. Both these boards are scheduled to
ship in 1Q01, with developer versions being available in December
2000.
Design of both the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC A1200 and A4000 products has
been done with great sensitivity to the existing user and developer
community.
"By releasing the classic compatible AmigaOne PPC products first,"
said Alan Redhouse. "We are providing a transitional path forwards for
the existing community, enabling them to maximise their current
investment whilst also leaping ahead with the new Amiga DE."
In order to facilitate this transition, the classic Amiga operating
system will see its lifeline extended. OS3.9, to be launched before
Christmas will add a raft of new features and functionality, and will
be able to run on the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC classic products.
Eyetech are also keen to talk to existing hardware manufacturers
about possibilities for licencing, manufacturer and other co-operation
in order to ensure a smooth transition of the existing Amiga community
from the present to the future.
Amiga is also very close to signing up partners for a standalone
AmigaOne machine. The ATX form factor AmigaOne has been designed to
run the full consumer version of the Amiga Digital Environment (DE)
allowing the best of the Classic Amiga software which has been ported
to run directly under the Amiga DE, and the use of a wide range of
Amiga DE-based digital content - such as productivity software,
content creation suites, development environments and 3-D games - to
be used 'out of the box'.
All this work - including extensive testing of hardware and software
components - is scheduled to be complete in time for end user
deliveries 3Q01. Amiga Inc is currently in negotiation with several
potential partner companies for the development and manufacture of the
stand-alone AmigaOne and its related digital content/software.
Companies interested in producing this version, utilising the PPC
processor family include Eyetech, and bplan GmbH of Germany. We hope
to have announcements to make on this within the next few weeks. Other
companies and other processors are also under negotiation.
A new website is being set up, specifically to provide a focal point
for news, questions, comment and discussion on the AmigaOne, and we
encourage people to visit it and participate.
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S E P T E M B E R E X E C U T I V E U P D A T E
September 28, 2000
Executive Update
Greetings to one and all.
I know it has been a long time since I last had the chance to write
to all to all of you.
It has been very, very busy, and we have seen some great successes,
and some disappointments. I have not been asleep, and to the contrary
I have not been getting much sleep of late. There is so much activity,
and so little time that I have been spending a great deal of time in
other areas and not keeping everyone up to date.
To my Friends in Italy, I apologize that I was not able to attend the
show. It was a real disappointment for me personally, as I wanted to
greet each and every one of you. The reason was not because we are
broke, or out of money as the rumors would state.
Simply, there were two companies in California that I have been
working with, and they requested a meeting that occurred over the same
period of time. With working with these OEM's we will be able to add
several million more Amigans, and the discussions went well and are
progressing quickly, these meetings were in addition to what is
mentioned in point 3 below.
Now with all the above fun stuff......
Here we go:
1. The SDK for Amiga DE.
This has been very exciting, and we are really pleased with the
number of applications and the number developers using the product to
create some great products.
The next version of the Software Development Kit will be out in the
next couple of weeks. In addition to the Linux version there is now a
version available for Windows. That's correct you are now able to
develop for the new Amiga on either Linux, or Windows.
It will feature a new raft of multimedia (Mesa, the SSEYO Koan Audio
Engine, streaming) as well better development tools, a richer AVE and
enhanced performance.
2. Amiga OS 3.5 and beyond
We are continuing taking a very hard look at the current Amiga and
how we can best move the platform forward. There are discussions on
going for some new opportunities and we will be able to share some
announcements in the very near future.
3. Amiga DE business opportunities. Wow, this is an area that is
absolutely exploding. For developers this is going to be great news.
Not only will the applications you are working on be used by your
Amiga family members, but with the deals that are either executed or
in motion there will be millions more consumers joining the Amiga
family.
Now many of you began to speculate on the Meternet announcement.
Meternet is offering a great product, and they are going to be making
it available to the Amiga community, but it is not the AmigaOne.
4. The AmigaOne.
We have listened to a great many of you with comments, suggestions,
business ideas and technical ideas. Dean Brown has been a huge help,
especially that he is now here in Snoqualmie with the other members of
the team.
Because of this input we have begun negotiations for a brand new
design. Most of the details have been worked out, and I hope to have
the finished announcement ready by the middle of October. It is my
firm belief that you will all be very pleased and excited.
5. Dealers/Distributors, and our friends in the Press:
The well of information for all of you has been too dry, and
inconsistent. To better provide information to each and every one of
you.
Amiga has created two new mailing lists. Please go to:
http://www.amigadev.net/index.php?sid=&subpage=home&function=showmail
lists or to www.amigadev.com and select mailing lists on the right
hand side of the screen. Select either press or dealer, and fill out
your information. We will begin weekly feeds to these lists to better
support our press and dealers.
I know that many of you will read that this letter says nothing, and
that there is nothing happening, other than a new motorcycle for me.
Well you are very wrong. We are meeting directly with the heads of
some of the largest computer and consumer electronics companies in the
world, and not only do they see the value in what we are offering but
they see where the Amiga community, you, is the real value.
Now we still have a ways to go, but we are moving very fast, and I
know that you will all be very proud of Amiga as we continue to make
things happen.
The biggest challenge for Amiga right now is to stay focused on our
core strengths, and not make the mistakes of those who have walked
before us.
The Amiga opportunity is huge, and sometimes overwhelming. There are
so many conflicting reports, and I have not done a very good job of
being able to communicate to all of you as well as I would like to.
We are getting much closer every day, and everyone of you are a major
part of the Amiga Family's success.
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team
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A P C & T C P S T A T E M E N T O N E P I C U K
30 Sep 2000
I beg to inform you about the following:
APC&TCP has just one single distributor: GTI
Epic Marketing UK (not Epic Germany!!) hasn't been our English
distributor for a long time and hasn't been supplied by us with
anything. Epic UK does also not receive any legal software from our
company by other middlemen. Epic UK should not have one single product
of APC&TCP in their stock after a whole year (products which haven't
been payed for anyway), so they can't offer nor sale any of our
products. If this should be the case anyway - well, it should be clear
enough what exactly is sold there :(
APC&TCP http://www.apc-tcp.de
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A M I G A F U T U R E ' S F U T U R E
16 October, 2000
CS&E PRESSRELEASE
CS&E has recently made an agreement with Amiga Future to produce an
English version of this popular German games magazine. To begin with
Amiga Future will be included in Amiga Survivor, but after a few
issues it will be out as a publication in its own right under the
Amiga Future UK name. You can subscribe to Amiga Future UK now and you
will receive at least two FREE copies of Amiga Survivor until Amiga
Future is ready. Simply contact CS&E and leave your details, including
a credit card number if you desire. Subscription prices will be
similar to the current prices charged by Amiga Future. Amiga Future UK
will be out in the UK and beyond under the new CS&E Media label.
Best Regards,
David Connolly
Managing Director
CS&E
AMIGA FUTURE PRESSRELEASE
The Amiga Future met recently a license agreement with CS&E
(England). Starting from the output 27 of the Amiga Future now also
English users can arrive the benefit of the Amiga Future. For the
first outputs the Amiga Future will be however only once a part of the
well-known English magazine Amiga Surivor. Later the booklet will
become completely independent.
The German editorship supplies only the booklet contents of the
editorial section of the Amiga Future UK. CS&E is exclusively
responsible for subscribers, advertisement , selling price and for
pages which are particularly arranged for English users. The same
applies also to subscriptions and single orders of the English
Version.
Also the cover CD will not be 100% identical, since the English user
has no need for German info texts.
The Amiga Future appears as used and except the editorship of the
Amiga Future has nobody to influence on our magazine. Definitive
nothing will change for our German-speaking user. Naturally the
editorship looks also still further for partners in other countries.
Andreas Magerl
Chefredaktion
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S H A R K P P C F R O M E L B O X
Krakow, 12 October 2000
ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to announce the breath-taking new product:
the most powerful PowerPC accelerator for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000.
The new accelerator - SharkPPC G3/G4 board - is a pure PowerPC-based
processor card to be fitted in MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI
A3/4000 busboards.
SharkPPC G3/G4 cards give Amiga Classic computers the top performance
of the latest PowerPC technology and the power of the long-awaited
next generation computer.
New PowerPC750 processors installed in SharkPPC G3/G4 cards offer the
following performance: 17.4SPECint95@400MHz, 11.7SPECfp95@400MHz,
928DMIPS@400MHz, 22.4SPECint95@550MHz, 13.3SPECfp95@550MHz,
1276DMIPS@550MHz.
The SharkPPC G3/G4 design combines speed of PowerPC G3/G4 processors
with extremely fast on-board memory interface controlling two SDRAM
modules, up to 512MB each. The peak memory transfer rate reaches
582MB/s. The accelerator card takes control over the PCI busboard with
a 66MHz PCI 2.1 compliant interface fitted with a two-channel DMA
controller.
Communication between the existing Amiga turbo accelerator and the
SharkPPC G3/G4 card is executed with the shared SDRAM memory and the
interrupt controller in the MEDIATOR PCI hardware. The new accelerator
offers excellent bandwidth to any PCI card: 264 MB/s (132 MB/s in the
system with 33 MHz PCI cards). This powerful performance in PCI
graphic cards enables development of new superb games/graphic
applications in the native PPC code.
All the currently available Amiga software may be executed in the 68k
processor with full use of all the PCI cards installed in the
computer. It is possible because both accelerator cards installed in
the computer access all the PCI cards independently.
On top of that, in new applications to be developed both accelerators
may enhance performance of each other just the same way as it is done
in advanced multi-processor systems. This is due to the fact that
processors in both accelerators (68k/PPC and SharkPPC) work fully
simultaneously, which is for the first time available for Amiga users.
The first SharkPPC G3/G4 cards for developers will be available by
end of November, with production planned to commence in January 2001.
When new speed versions of PowerPC processors are available, the
SharkPPC line will be expanded with more models.
The suggested retail price (VAT excl.) for the SharkPPC G3/G4
accelerators are:
SharkPPC G3/G4 750@400................ EUR 390.00
(PowerPC750@400MHz and 256KB@400MHz L2 Cache)
SharkPPC G3/G4 750@550................ EUR 520.00
(PowerPC750@550MHz and 256KB@550MHz L2 Cache)
Pricing of versions with other processors will be announced
separately.
NEW
Please look for our further releases:
1. Development progress of PCI Sound and TV card drivers for MEDIATOR
PCI 1200.
2. MEDIATOR development line (A4000 and A3000).
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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V O O D O O N E W S F R O M D C E
DCE gets exclusive rights to publish Voodoo CGX drivers
Oberhausen, Friday 13th October 2000
Today, Vision Factory Development (VFD) and DCE Computer Service
signed an exclusive contract about the use of current "CGX
Voodoo"-Drivers. In contrast to earlier announcements , this driver
will be exclusively available for the G-REX PCI expansion only.
This contract guarantees the immediate availability and the best
support a user can get for the current range of powerful voodoo
graphics boards in conjunction with all currently available ppc
accelerators of the Blizzard- and CyberStorm series.
With the expected problems of PPC 3D drivers in conjunction with
Mediator PCI and the currently available PPC accelerators in Dual-CPU
mode (68K 2D driver) in mind, VFD decided to drop the further
development of the actual Alpha Voodoo drivers for Mediator and
concentrates on development for the G-REX PCI board because drivers
were succesfully tested already.
Voodoo3 cards should give you a significant performance boost for the
current range of PPC accelerated games, flawless working of the
CyberGraphX driver can't be guaranteed due to technical hardware
limitations of Mediator PCI though, so VFD decided to go that way.
As a final note, CGX Voodoo driver alpha versions that are probably
develivered with the Mediator hardware are in no way authorized or
licensed by VFD. Current S3 ViRGE drivers are not affected by this
agreement.
DCE and VFD also decided to work together on additional drivers
regarding both networking and sound in conjunction with G-REX PCI.
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E L B O X C O M P L A I N T R E V O O D O O
On Saturday, 14 Oct 2000
community of Amiga users were informed that an agreement was signed
by virtue of which Mr. Frank Mariak (Vision Factory Development)
transferred exclusive rights to Voodoo PCI drivers written by himself
to a third party.
We, ELBOX Computer, feel obliged to make the entire situation clear
to Amiga users world-wide, as the circumstances around this event are
twisted again and again and give false image of the situation to
public opinion.
Please find the below report as the clarification of what has been
transpiring in the recent weeks behind the scenes.
Background
On 24 July 2000, Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development
jointly released an announcement on concluding an agreement, by virtue
of which VFD undertook to develop support for PCI graphic cards
installed in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard. (See
http://www.vgr.com/mediator/pressrelease1.txt )
Before this agreement was concluded, both parties negotiated and
finally decided on some specific terms and conditions of co-operation
as follows:
The key point of the agreement was that support for PCI graphic
cards in CGX3 was to be devoid of hardware acceleration, which
was to be fully developed in the CGX4 commercial version.
The parties decided to make the following commitments:
1. ELBOX Computer shall make the developer's documentation for
the MEDIATOR PCI busboard available in order to complete the
agreed work.
The developer's documentation was transferred to
Mr. Frank Mariak on 14 July 2000.
2. ELBOX Computer will provide Vision Factor Development with
computer hardware for preparing drivers for PCI graphic cards
installed in the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, which Mr. Mariak
needed at that time.
ELBOX Computer sent the hardware: Amiga 1200 in E/BOX tower
with the developer's MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, 1240 turbo
card, FastATA 1200 controller, a hard disk and other necessary
add-ons as well as S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 PCI cards to
Mr. Frank Mariak on 07 Aug 2000. Another computer hardware
set was delivered to VFD team last week.
3. Vision Factory Development shall develop support for graphic
cards operating in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard. Support for
S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 chipsets was agreed upon as the minimum.
S3 Virge:
ELBOX Computer received a test version of an S3 ViRGE card
driver (enabling starting Workbench in the S3 ViRGE PCI card)
from Vision Factory Development on 18 July 2000;
S3 ViRGE drivers are currently available.
Voodoo3:
ELBOX Computer received a test version of Voodoo3 drivers
for MEDIATOR PCI for presentation purposes (allowing for
operation with Workbench) on 29 Sep 2000.
4. ELBOX Computer, after starting the production of the MEDIATOR PCI
busboard shall deliver a bundled free package of CyberGraphX v.3
along with drivers for all the currently supported PCI graphic
cards.
ELBOX Computer is now selling the MEDIATOR PCI busboard
through the network of its distributors world-wide.
CGX3 is bundled with MEDIATOR PCI. This is an excellent
advertising move for the commercial CGX4.
Before the agreement
ELBOX offered Mr. Frank Mariak that our programmers would prepare
drivers for various graphic chipsets, including Voodoo3 PCI, for
working with CyberGraphX. Such drivers would then be transferred in
the form of source codes written in assembler for Mr. Frank Mariak's
authorisation and distribution. We expected only making available some
developer's information related to CGX in return.
However, Mr. Mariak decided he would himself write the drivers
if we supported him with hardware and documentation. Which we did.
False information
in the announcement on selling rights to Voodoo drivers included
alleged expected technical problems related to implementation
of 3D drivers with our MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
Please note that none such problems exist. On our request,
Mr. Mariak was to report to us any possible problems related
to his development work... and he remained silent all the time.
Using Developer's Documentation
for MEDIATOR PCI and computer hardware (including Voodoo3 PCI card)
provided free of charge by ELBOX Computer as requested by Mr. Frank
Mariak for writing Voodoo3 drivers, as it turned out, for another
company is the clearest form of breaching rules of social life
and business honesty and integrity.
New business vision
On 13 Oct 2000, Mr. Frank Mariak signed an agreement on selling
the Voodoo3 drivers for benefit of another company. In contacts
with our company, Mr. Frank Mariak never mentioned any intention
of this kind on his part, never suggested such a possibility
and never asked for or negotiated any payment for his software
writing work. He never contacted us in this issue.
Then, out of the blue, he surprised us and all Amiga users with
making a "simple BUSINESS DECISION" (original quotation from
Mr. Mariak's response to our inquiry for explanation of the
VFD & DCE's announcement) on making an alliance with a third
party for selling the above rights.
We hope this explanation clarifies the situation.
Please make sure that we refrain from any comments of ethical
or whatever nature. The above are simple facts to make you all
aware of the plot behind the scenes.
ELBOX MOVES FORWARD
In the view of the circumstances described above, ELBOX Computer
hereby announces that our programmers shall prepare software
for supporting Voodoo3 cards in the MEDIATOR PCI busboards.
These drivers will be included in the software package for the
MEDIATOR PCI busboard. We expect completing work on the first
version of this software within two weeks.
ELBOX Computer
Mariusz Wloczysiak, Press Department
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H A N D P G E T S T F A X P R O , G E N E S I S
Darlington, UK. September 28, 2000
Active Technologies and HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH (H&P) have come
to a mutual agreement where the publishing rights to the fax/voice
software STFax Professional, and the copy and publishing rights to the
TCP/IP stack, Genesis, are passed from Active Technologies to H&P.
Active Technologies believe that the future of STFax Professional and
Genesis is more secure and promising under the direction of the H&P
development team. The agreement is in effect immediately and further
enquiries should be addressed to H&P.
Jürgen Haage comments on the take-over: Genesis and STFax are
strategically important products for H&P and we are glad that we can
care for their future development and porting. A first result of our
efforts will be the release of a new update of STFax by next week. We
are also planning a new look for Genesis - you will be surprised.
Active Technologies was a developer of Internet and communications
software for the Amiga computer, producing a number of award-winning
titles such as NetConnect, Genesis and STFax Professional.
H&P is the leading manufacturer of development systems and
applications for the Amiga family of computers and currently
developing next generation software for the existing and future Amiga
market. Their mission is to provide the Amiga market with the most
effective tools and applications possible. For further information,
visit www.haage-partner.com.
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S T F A X 4 . 5 I S A V A I L A B L E
13 October, 2000
The following functions have been added:
o Added ELSA MicroLink Office support for Independent Mode.
o Added support for Diamond Multimedia voice command set.
o asyncio.library is used (if available) when transferring files via
XPR
libraries (BBS transmissions).
o The check for files stored inside the modem memory will be
performed
only once when STFax is started, instead of each time the serial
device
is opened.
o The viewer will open using the last used scaling factor.
More Information on STFax
Availability
STFax 4.5 is available now and can be bought directly in our online
shop.
Full Version
The price of STFax 4.5 is 98,- DM.
Updates
There is a free update for all customers of version 4.x on our ftp
server (-> Download). Customers that do not have Internet access can
find the update on our Service-CD. Customers of older versions can get
the Update for 59,- DM.
Sidegrades
Customers of other commercial fax programs can obtain a Sidegrade for
just 79 DM. (-> Proof needed!)
www.haage-partner.com
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F A S T E C H ' S U N N A M E D E X P A N D E R
21 October, 2000
Amiga super expansion system
The as yet unnamed Amiga classic expansion system is currently in the
alpha test phase. The product will initially be released for A3000/T
and A4000/T computers.
The system provides:
- 3 PCI slots
- 3 Zorro-III compatible slots
- 1 AGP slot
- 1 SDRAM DIMM slot
- 2 CPU expansion slots
- 1 A1200 style clock slot
- 2 x serial and 1 x EPP Parallel ports
Inital CPU module offerings will be 400 MHz Motorola Power PC G4
based and 333 MHz Motorola Coldfire based (68k compatible)
Coldfire CPU module completed and in testing.
The new coldfire CPU module is now complete and in testing with the
expansion module. OS patches and library updates required are now
being developed. Initial performance testing is very impressive.
Legacy 68k Amiga applications like DTP and 3D rendering software run
at modern PC/Mac speeds.
PowerPC module has been delayed due to performance concerns. Our
Charon chipset on the Expansion system is being redesigned to allow
full speed access by both CPU modules and the PCI and AGP busses
concurrently.
Expansion System drivers now in Alpha testing stage:
- LSI(Symbios) 53C8xx SCSI
- VIA rhine ethernet (10/100)
- DEC Tulip ethernet (10/100)
- Intel Ethernet (10/100)
- Axxon I/O (HS serial parallel)
- SB-Live!
- HPT-366 IDE
GFX drivers coming soon pending RTG software decision.
http://fastech.iwarp.com
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I M A G E F X H O L I D A Y S A L E
27 September, 2000
Nova Design, Inc., the award winning leaders in graphics software for
the Amiga, is pleased to announce a special bundle and sale on ImageFX
for the holidays! We're not kidding around this time, we're not
playing softball either. This is a big league sale. We mean it -- this
one is big! Really Big!! (to quote the Shatner)
Before we tell you just how low we've cut the price of ImageFX, you
really want to know that we're adding something extra special into the
package. With EVERY sale we're including PowerStation -- the PPC
modules for ImageFX. Normally these sell for $99.95 all by themselves.
But not this time, because we're going to include them for free when
you buy ImageFX new or upgrade!
Now, here's the deal on the pricing. You're getting ImageFX and the
PowerStation modules included in the package. ImageFX itself normally
lists for $299.95 -- and sells for about $240 from most mail order
companies. If you added PowerStation to that price you'd be paying
$340 or so, but not this time. For the first time ever, we're going to
lower the price to only $199.95 for direct or reseller sales! That's
less than $200. Granted, it's only a nickel less, but it's still the
lowest price ever offered outside of Clem's copy of a used ImageFX on
eBay!
If you just need to upgrade your ImageFX -- the deal is even better,
because we're lowering the upgrade prices as well. If you're upgrading
from ImageFX 3.x, the price will be only $59.95. PowerStation ALONE
cost more than that! If you're upgrading from 2.x, the price is only
$79.95. If you have ANY other, older, version of ImageFX -- the
upgrade price is being dropped $25 down to only $124.95 now! We've
NEVER lowered upgrade prices before and we don't plan to do it ever
again.
The only 'catch' is that you better buy soon, because this sale isn't
going to last long. It's just for the holidays or until my partners
find out and make me stop!
Special Pricing Again
Okay, one more time. ImageFX, brand new, with PowerStation, is only
$199.95 for a limited time.
Upgrades from 3.x, 2.x, or older are an insanely low $59.95, $79.95
and $124.95 respectively. Also for a limited time.
Remember, ImageFX is available from your favorite Amiga reseller and
they need your business too. Outside the US contact our distributors
Haage and Partner in Germany or EyeTech in the UK. They are running
their own specials at this time and you should contact them for their
prices.
If you wish to order directly at full retail you can also fax your
order to (804) 282-3768 or mail it to Nova Design, Inc., 1910 Byrd
Avenue, Suite 204, Richmond, VA 23230 ATTN: INSANE PRICING
For more information visit us on the Internet at
http://www.novadesign.com
'PowerStation' works on any Amiga equipped with a PowerUP supported
PPC accelerator with ImageFX 3.2 or higher installed. WarpUP with the
new PowerUP compatibility also works well. ImageFX works on any Amiga
with 4mb of RAM and a hard drive.
http://www.novadesign.com/
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I N S T A L L E R N G ( 3 R D P A R T Y ) A V A I L A B L E
Oct 1, 2000
What's this thing about
First, you need an Amiga Computer for this tool. Furthermore, the
Amiga must run at least version 2.1+ of the operating system. Every
Amiga user knows the Installer tool, distributed with the system.
Well, the idea is nice, but the Installer became a pretty old thing
during the last years. Thus, in 1997 I decided to rewrite the entire
tool and the result is the InstallerNG, which you can get here. Below,
please find a few of the things which are enhanced (compared to the
old Installer) and which are completely new:
o the compiler itself is stronger and, thus, much safer
o resizeable and modern GUI; if you like, plugin the MUI interface
o mc68060 and PPC recognation and support
o many new functions (see the documentation)
o interpreter options (e.g. debug, create uninstall scripts, etc...)
o optional compiler modules
o many, many more ...
And of course, it is fully compatible to the old Installer (provided
the scripts are ok)!
Archives
The InstallerNG is Freeware. You may download the entire distribution
(binaries, documetantion, developer information, compiler modules, GUI
plugins, sample scripts), the binaries (including a version for either
68000 and 68020+ plus a debug version) or related compiler modules
here.
o complete archive (440k,Oct 1, 2000) download
o the binaries only (215k, Oct 1, 2000) download
o compiler modules (4k, Oct 1, 2000) download
If you would like to release your own GUI plugins or compiler
modules, please don't hesitate to contact me.
http://installerng.light-speed.de
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29.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Email tool: Excelate Victory
On the above page the e-mail tool Excelate Victory is announced for December
2000. It supports POP3 (e-mail receiving), SMTP (e-mail sending) and MIME (attachments)
with 13 easy to use commands. This allows for example the easy programming of an
e-mail client using ARexx respectively in general the easy implementation of
e-mail applications. As an example a word processor could be easily enhanced
accordingly. A restriction on a certain language doesn't seem to exist. Czech
Amiga News lists C, Blitz BASIC, AmigaE etc. and AmigaDOS-Scripts,
ARexx-Programme, SCALA, CanDO...
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29.Oct.2000
Ricco Clemens at ANF
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Easy Publishers: E-mail Problems
Because of work on our own telephone installation the Easy publishers can only
answer to incoming e-mails in a restricted way until 13. November 2000. For
urgent things it is recommended to use normal mail or the telephone
(address). Important things may be mailed to the
following e-mail address:
ricco.clemens@gmx.de.
These will probably be answered at the end of a week. The publishers ask for your
understanding.
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29.Oct.2000
Matthias Henze at ANF
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stormamiga.lib v45.00 alpha 3 for SAS/C
After a longer period Matthias Henze has released a new alpha version (v45.00
alpha 3) of stormamiga.lib v45.00 for SAS/C on 29. October 2000. In this
version, only available for registered users, some functions have been added,
some functions have been optimised, and some bugs have been fixed.
Download is possible via the title link.
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29.Oct.2000
Dirk Harlaar on ANF
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CS&E Back Again
CS&E not completely gone
As David Connolly, director of CS&E, announced, CS&E England has left
the Amiga market. After long discussions, David Connolly has decided
to hand over the Amiga part of CS&E to the newly appointed sales
director, Dirk Harlaar.
Based in Germany, this branch of CS&E will focus on games distribution
for the Amiga as well as the PC. The forthcoming educational software
"Cosmos Fun Class" is at this time being translated into German and
Dutch, in order to reach a wider audience.
Further products can not yet be announced, as CS&E has just started
this branch, and is still looking for games developers who want to
publish their work through their outlets.
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28.Oct.2000
Stefan Falke on ANF
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EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.5 Available
There is an update of the Paging-Software EZP@gerNG CE available for download
on the SFXSoft-Homepage.
Most important changes of this release:
- The Icon-Texts of the Short-cut-Gadgets are now correctly removed when
moved.
- When displaying the Toolbar-Gadget on gfx-boards, there are no
more color mismatches anymore.
- The GUI routines are now exported at approximately 90% to the external
GUI-Modul, which is the condition to create a support for different
GUI-Engines
- More changes see ReadMe
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28.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANf
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Amiga SDK now also Available for Windows
The Amiga Developer Kit (SDK) is now also available for Windows.
System requirements:
Ethernet network interface card with Windows 95B, 98, NT Workstation 4.0 (with SP3), 2000, ME, 64 MB RAM
(128 RAM recommended), 100 MB free harddisk space, 200 MHz CPU or faster.
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28.Oct.2000
David Connolly by eMail
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CS&E Retireing from the Amiga Market
«Farewell from CS&E, Dear friends,
maintaining a commercial business in the Amiga market has become
increasingly difficult. I don't just mean in terms of the poor sales, but in
terms of maintaining professional communication and business relationships.
I don't feel I am able to offer a truly professional service for the Amiga
as I have failed on both these counts. I have made inproper comments on
mailing lists and failed to attract developers to sign for CS&E.
As I have made the announcement before that CS&E would leave the classic
Amiga but come back for the next generation, it is with regret that I have
to say this time the company is leaving the Amiga to concentrate on the PC
development.
Amiga Survivor will be continuing as a non-profit making magazine
through the editorial staff but CS&E will continue to lend a hand in taking
orders.
I wish the Amiga all the best and will be keeping a very close eye on
all the developments as an eager customer.»
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28.Oct.2000
CyberGraphX
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CGX V3 Elbox Mediator ViRGE Driver Update : Release 3
This is the third release of the Elbox Mediator archive with Virge-drivers. The archive contains
changes and bugfixes concerning the CGXMode problem. The name changed from ElboxGenericViRGE to MediatorViRGE.
The old driver must be removed. There are more details on theMediator page.
Download: CGXV3_ElboxR3.lzh
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28.Oct.2000
AMOS Factory
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AMOS GUI Extension Update 2.10 Released
Author: Pietro Ghizzoni
Download: gui210.lha - 380 Kb
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28.Oct.2000
Amiga Future
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ImageEditor »NetPBM-Imageeditor«
ImageEditor version 1.17 by Christian Effenberger has been released. ImageEditor is a well featured digital image editing
software based on the NetPBM-Filter (including PPC-Support). ImageEditor is part of the SiteWay project.
Download: ImageEditor.lha - 1,5 MB
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28.Oct.2000
ANN
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Amiga SDK: Top 10 - Portation Wish List
Patrick Roberts started a poll to determine which applications should be ported to the Amiga DE.
Read the results under the titel link.
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28.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK
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Amiga SDK Linux Update 1.01
There is an Amiga SDK Update (for the Linux hosted version) from version 1.0 to version 1.01 available for download at the
the protected area of the Amiga Developer Support page, to which developers
and beta-testers can log in using their Support Network-ID.
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28.Oct.2000
AmiDog
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FPSE V0.08 Amiga Revision 5
Mathias Roslund released the version 0.08 Amiga Revision 5 of the Open
Source Playstation Emulator "FPSE" (Free PlayStation Emulator)
on October 27th, 2000. This is a minor update which mainly concerns
people that have SCSI errors. In detail, following things
have changed:
- New: MDEC movies can now be decoded in gray scale which results in a speed-up. You can activate this option with -g.
- New: Support for 24Bit-PSX-Screens. This should make MDECs look like the original on the console.
- Change: The CD-Code has been changed. CMD_READ is now used instead of direct SCSI.
This should work with all CD-ROMs. However only sektors with 2048 Bytes are supported. Games with different
sector sizes will not work properly.
The emulator runs on PPC-Amigas with 32MB RAM, WarpUP V4, CGFX V3 and requires a PSX-BIOS.
Download:
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28.Oct.2000
GameSpy.com
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GameSpy: Interview with Tribsoft
James Hills of GameSpy.com interviewed Mathieu Pinard of Tribsoft.
Tribsoft cooperates with Hyperion Software and Titan Computer
in porting software. In the case of Europa Universalis, Tribsoft ports
this strategy game to Linux, while Hyperion does the
Amiga and Mac ports. Titan retails the product. In the interview, Pinard
points out the reasons for this cooperation and more.
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28.Oct.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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Install Kit v3.9 Released
Recently, a new version of the Amiga CD32 Games Install Kits has been released on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage.
Version 3.9 is a bigger update and supports a lot more games now. Furthermore, bugs have been removed and a few things
have been improved respectively added. Since we are now slowly approaching the moment where nearly every CD32 game is
supported, here a list of the games that are not yet supported, and for which I am therefore looking for:
- Brutal: Paws of Fury
- Case of the cautious Condor
- Dennis
- Der Seelenturm
- Diggers (single CD version!)
- Exile
- Football Glory
- Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia
- Guiness Disc of Records: Second Edition
- Humans 3
- Impossible Mission 2025
- Insight Technology
- Jet Strike (single CD version!)
- Legacy of Sorasil
- Lost in Mine
- Mitre Soccer Superstars
- Pinky
- Sabre Team
- Speris Legacy
- Star Crusader
- Super Loopz
- The Clue
- Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball
- Tower of Souls
- Trivial Pursuit
- Turrican
- Turrican 2
- Wembley International Soccer
- Whale's Voyage
If somebody owns one of the CD32 games mentioned above, he may contact me. The Install Kit v3.9 can be
downloaded under the title link.
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27.Oct.2000
distributed.amiga.org
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RC5: Client V2.8011 build 464
A new version of the RC5-64/OGR client for the participation in the RC5 contest has
been released. It is a pre-release V2.8011 build 464, which is available for download
for 68000-68060, WarpOS and PowerUp Amigas.
In the download area,
of the above page, all changed made since build 463 as well as the known problems with
the current version are listed.
Download:
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27.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Cracker steal Microsoft source code
Apparently no canard. As can be read at the title link at Heise, unknown crackers
have invaded the Microsoft computer net and stole source code of the newest
Windows versions and office software.
For full article (German) follow title link.
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27.Oct.2000
Matthijs Schonewille on ANF
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New Real-time Website Statistics Program Created on the Amiga!
Though the complete website is in Dutch (for now), I am pleased to inform
you that I released Webcat.nl Stats. Webcat.nl Stats is a website statistics
application. It is free for personal webpages and I used my Amiga to develope
it. There is of course a category: Computers - Amiga you can choose. Furthermore
you can select your own icon (only 11x11 pixels!) that will appear on your
page. You're all invited to check it out at http://stats.webcat.nl/ (title link).
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27.Oct.2000
ByteKnight on ANF
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Nightlong Update
At the clickBOOM portal, there is an update of Nightlong (V1.1) for registered users.
It should solve the problems with disappearing samples and the music.
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27.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Tom`s Hardware Guide: Amiga tries again
Tom`s Hardware Guide also reports on the new Amiga One.
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27.Oct.2000
ACE 2000 website
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ACE 2000 images by Jeff Sereno
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27.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MUI PPC for MorphOS V3.9 - public beta
It is a public beta of MUI PPC for MorphOS, version 3.9. Please read the documentation
carefully before installing the archive.
Download: muippc39beta.lha - 884 Kb
More new archives for MorphOS (PPC only IXEmul/Tools) are available for download.
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27.Oct.2000
ANN
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microsoft.com Whois entry at InterNIC
Hackers have attacked InterNIC:
Christian Kemp posted today at ANN,
that the "Whois" entry of microsoft.com at InterNIC (the registration site for
.com domains) looks currently as follows:
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TERRORISTS.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.RULED.BY.HACKERJACK.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.INSPIRES.COPYCAT.WANNABE.SUBVERSIVES.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.NO.LINUXCLUE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM
Supplement:
Richard Koerber told us on ANF:
The InterNIC hack is a joke. The alleged "hacker attack" on InterNIC has turned out
to be a misinterpretation of the result of the WHOIS query.
Heise: Alleged hack on microsoft.com a joke (update)
«The report is a canard.
Seruriteam apparently did not make themselves familiar with the tools for querying the
whois database before releasing the news. The clients do not only show the queried
domain but all that contain the search string. If the query contains only the word
Microsoft, you get several domains, among others MICROSOFT.FEARPENGUINS.CX.
On a casual glance, the search result irritates: one might think, the entry was manipulated.
An information contained in the search results states in such cases that it's several
independent entries. Indeed the entry of the Microsoft domain remained unchanged - a
joker from San Francisco has merely created sub-domains for the domain terrorists.net.
In another entry, he pays tribute to Apple with
APPLE.COM.IS.THE.CHOICE.OF.ALL.SELF.RESPECTING.TERRORISTS.NET.»
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27.Oct.2000
ANN
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Tao announces Cooperation with ZoomON
Tao Group announces the cooperation
with the Swedish company ZoomON.
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27.Oct.2000
Innovative
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innovative-web.de Moves
innovative-web.de moves to a new server. Email and web presentation may be temporarily
down. Should the website at http://www.innovative-web.de
not be available, please try http://www.innovative-server.de,
a 1:1 mirror of the data of innovative-web.de. This domain is already located on a new server.
Please send email for the duration of the move to xyz@innovative-server.de instead of xyz@innovative-web.de.
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27.Oct.2000
Dirk Baeyens by eMail
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ACE 2000 - Show Report
Date: 25-oct-00 14:15:42
From: Michael Czajka MC-1@bigfoot.com
Subject: [ACE_2000] ACE 2000 Official show report
Hi,
ACE was enjoyed by almost everyone and most people want to see it run again
next year.
Many vendors transacted not only business but networked and set up strategic
alliances with each other and the user groups. User groups worked
brilliantly together. Sponsorship, demo's and lots of other things are going
to occur as a result of this show. I know a few of the attendees spent until
the wee hours locked in a room discussing how to leverage strategic software
and hardware innovations.
The show was very much about software innovation although although a lot of
innovative hardware also took centre stage (RiscStation & VR21 spring to
mind).
AUSOM took out the most professional stand hands down. They also had the
biggest stand having an entire room to themselves. People loved the kind of
one-to-one they got with the most powerful of mac's.
CAUS took out the most innovative amongst the Amiga groups. It was a shame
we couldn't get their web cam on-line.
Bill McEwan took out most attendees at any seminars, followed closely by Ka
Ping Yee.
Most creative seminar goes to Tony Paterson who spoke about video editing on
the Draco and gave some excellent examples.
Most active stand for the user groups probably goes to LUV who were so busy
they had to get in another table although AUG spent a lot of its time pretty
busy.
Most active stand for the dealers probably goes for Symmetry Innovations
(QNX) who did seminars, demo's and had 4 people on the stand who often
couldn't keep up with the interest.
Most friendly stand goes to Ebay who spent the entire show showing us how to
use the net to trade better. I think the user groups showed them a thing or
two as well.
Most active Amiga stand goes to Vince Morton from Computer Magic. He had the
most up-to-date hardware and software and some absolute bargains! A $1000
SCSI scanner for $400! Wow!
Best graphical hardware was the VR21 3D glasses. I don't know how many they
sold but I do know that at least a couple of people went home interested in
developing for them.
Most bulletproof software was the RiscStation Point of Sale solution.
There's nothing more robust than an OS that goes on a ROM. 4Mb only!
Most eyecatching machine was the Amigatech A4000 Towerminator a plastic and
chrome monolith with a set of innovative thin film light emitting panels
that make it stand out even better in the dark. Unfortunately it's
temporarily out of production.
Best software utility must go to Greg Perry for his invaluable DirOpus. It's
a shame that he didn't do any seminars at this show.
The penultimate exhibitor award has to go to APANA who arranged to attend
and confirmed at something like 2am Friday morning.
Most embarrassing moment at the show: Has got to be when Amiga users Steven
Howard and I think it was Steve from CAUS didn't recognise the CEO of Amiga
Bill McEwen. Shame guys shame!
I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank all volunteers who helped
make the show a success. It was very much a user group effort.
In particular I'd like to thank Steven Howard who manned the door in a
competent fashion so that I really didn't worry about that aspect of it.
Tim who simplified my life with the food van (that was a Latrobe effort:
well done guys).
Guy Nathan (Cyberwolf) who pitched in just about everywhere as required.
Peter Margerison who helped print up all those nice badges, put signs on all
the tables so you'd know where to go and then helped as required.
Ewen Bell who did a fantastic job on our web site. Seona too for the help
she gave us in its genesis.
Dianne and Keith who manned/womanned the AUG/MAUG food stall.
Merv Stent who helped control the door at the dinner.
Erik and Janne who did an excellent job looking after the seminar room.
Jeff Dunn and all those other people (Latrobe) who hung around late on
Sunday and took home whatever garbage was left over from the show.
If I've forgotten anyone I apologise. If anyone didn't get contacted we're
sorry. I think we did work the volunteer list fairly hard. However often it
was a case of turning up and asking what to do.
All those others who just pitched in and did things when either I or Greg
asked... thanks! If either of us were not polite we apologise.
I tried to say hi to as many of you as I could at the show but, I'm
disappointed that I couldn't touch base with more people. I'd have liked
that. Maybe next time? Or perhaps you'll catch me at one of the user group
meetings? Either way it was great to meet you all.
An examination of core costs established that the event did turn a profit.
Therefore such an event is financially viable. Unfortunately overall the
event made a loss. Despite this the organisers feel that ACE was well worth
holding. We had a great time, met great people and learned a great deal.
We think that the effects of the show may be far reaching. We know that many
people went away with each others numbers and are collaborating on "stuff".
It was a definitely a user based show (but what powerful users!) and had the
zing that most of our larger exhibitions seem to lack.
If I haven't mentioned something I ought to please e-mail me and I can do an
update.
We thank you for your participation and hope that you'll be back for more
next year.
:-)
Michael Czajka
ACE 2000
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26.Oct.2000
CyberGraphX Website
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ShowCGXConfig 42.2 and VooDoo Alpha Driver
ShowCGXConfig was released in version 42.2 and shows now all gfx boards recognized by CGX.
Also it displays which gfx board in which system is used. More info you will find
on the CGX V4 site.
Download:showcgxcfg_20001024.lha
A new free alpha driver for VooDoo-gfx-boards connected to the Mediator board is also available
for download. More info you will find on the Mediator site.
Download: VooDoo_ALPHA_25.lha
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26.Oct.2000
MAS-Player
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MAS-Player Software Version 1.3c
An update of the software for the hardware based MPEG-Player 'MAS-Player' is available.
This hardware gives good results in playing MPEG-files even on a 680x0-processor.
Download of version 1.3c:
MAS-Player.LHA
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26.Oct.2000
AmigaAIM
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AmigaAIM Version 0.9397 Beta
For the AOL Instant Messenger like software for the Amiga a new
beta-version is available and can be downloaded from the usual sites.
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26.Oct.2000
amiga.org
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Mitchy: Victim of its own success
amiga.org reports (title link),that 'Mitchy', the webcrawler and the Link-Directory
of amiga.org, due to too great success and the related accesses the server cannot bear it anymore.
amiga.org is already working on bringing 'Mitchy' back online better than ever.
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26.Oct.2000
Haage & Partner
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Haage & Partner News
Update of PowerPC World
After a longer break Stefan Funke has made an update of the PPC World pages.
PPC World
AmigaOS 3.9 announced
Maybe surprisingly for many of you Amiga Inc. not only released some new details
of the AmigaONE at the ACE 2000 in Australia, they also announced a new AmigaOS for
the classic Amigas. As for OS 3.5 the new AmigaOS 3.9 is developed by H&P. More
details will follow. news
We are five
No, we are not five people, but our company is now five years old. Yes, we can
not believe it either, that is already was such a long time ago as Jochen Becher, Juergen Haage,
and Markus Nerding have given each other the "word of consent" at the notary ;-). We want to say
thank you to all the Amiga users those have supported us all that time. It was always
a greast pleasure for us:).
More co-workers wanted
For special support tasks and several minor and medium projects we are looking for
experienced co-workers for the fields Genesis support, web programming, AmigaWriter
support, PageStream support and general coders. more
ArtEffect workshop now for download
The popular workshop, which presents in twelve chapters the interesting functions
and effects of ArtEffect, is now available as archive for download.
Download:workshop4.lha
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26.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
FAQs-deutsch.lha biz/haage 59K+FAQs, german version, 27 Sep 2000
FAQs-english.lha biz/haage 55K+FAQs, english version, 27 Sep 2000
Sashi89.lha comm/misc 13K+Link software between TI calculator and
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 9K+V1.3, YAM2-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 +
Clarissa_HTTPd.lha comm/tcp 114K+AREXX HTTP-Server (german) v1.0
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 244K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.7
T-Rexx.lha comm/tcp 106K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
cache2file.lha comm/www 4K+Makes a directorytree from AWEBCACHES!
SPO3-Invtro.lha demo/aga 101K+Invitation intro for SPO3! (Amiga-only d
UP-EP003.lha demo/sound 1.9M+UP ROUGH "Aggression Session EP" feat. S
Emperor.lha dev/c 358K+Object-oriented programming language
wla_dx_020_6.9.lzh dev/cross 300K+WLA DX v6.9 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816
perl-5.6.0-bin.lha dev/gg 6.2M+Perl 5.6.0 for amiga with ixemul.library
fat95.lha disk/misc 51K+Win95/98 compatible file system
Starmag24_HT.lha docs/mags 402K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
ALEM_0023.lha docs/rview 351K+ALEM's Elbox Keyboard Interface Doc (FR)
F1GP_2000.lha game/data 11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (final u
NewNapalmBoot.lha game/patch 1K+For those of you with problems running N
DA3Demo.lha misc/sci 2.5M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
ChupaChip.lha mods/chip 5K+Excellent CHIP modul by Night Knight
MP3Info.lha mus/misc 19K+Writes the Title, Author, etc into MP3s.
wavetompg.lha mus/misc 3K+Repairs mp3/mp2 header from broken files
FWCalendar.lha util/rexx 422K+THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream
NewSearch.lha util/sys 7K+Open-source replacement for "C:Search".
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 18K+PatchBrain v1.20 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
yStart.lha util/wb 18K+Start menu for standard WB icons (v1.1)
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26.Oct.2000
R. Crescente via eMail
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Ragonsoft AmigaXchange - Banner Exchange
The banner exchange is only for websites that deal with the Amiga and have a factor
of 0.9. For 100 fade-ins you will get 90 credits. The fact that only Amiga websites are
allowed for the banner exchange will give you advantage to reach the proper people.
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26.Oct.2000
Andre Siegel on ANF
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BlueBlack Solution is Looking For Another Art Designer!
BlueBlack Solutions is looking for a talented art designer who will as additional support help to create
in-game-graphics and sequences for the commercial real-time-strategical 'Operation:
Counterstrike'.
Requirements:
- totally professional results with a raytraycing package of own choice
- Access to powerful hardware (HigEnd-Amiga, PC, or PowerMac)
- enough knowledge of the English language for working in an international team
Interested persons mail to:
jobbo@jobboland.de.
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26.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Wired News: Amiga Fans, the Wait Is Over
Also Wired News is reporting about the new AmigaOne.
As mentioned before all articles are listed at the rubric
External Links.
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26.Oct.2000
Atéo Concepts
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Atéo-Concepts will Shut Down at the End of October
Due to a very strong decrease of the Amiga market and big difficulty in buying
products, we have decided to close Atéo Concepts at the end of October.
We will keep in touch with users that want to contact us for various technical
questions or for after sale service. The e-mail address
ateo-concepts@libertysurf.fr
will stay available. Soon, new driver versions with no keys will be available
on the Atéo Concepts website. Also you will find a list of articles in store; these are
offered without p&p.
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26.Oct.2000
Andreas Kuessner via email
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Taifun Alpha Version - DEMO
As successor of the video- and animations special effects program 'Wildfire' the
development of 'Taifun' for the new Amiga is in progress. Now a very early preview-version
was released. An installed AmigaSDK is required.
Download: taifun.tar.bz2 -
Taifun.readme
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26.Oct.2000
Robert Williams on ANF
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New-Look SEAL Website
South Essex Amiga Link, the UK Amiga user group well known for SEAL-O-RAMA and
Clubbed magazine, has uploaded their totally re-designed website. We hope the new
site looks cleaner, is easier to navigate and faster to load.
But... the update is more than just a new look, the site now concentrates more
on the Club's activities. You'll find an illustrated report of every meeting in
the Club/Reports section and we'll soon be adding examples of members' work in
the Gallery section.
From now on the SEAL website will be updated at least every fortnight. So visit
us at http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk and let us know what you think!
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25.Oct.2000
Dirk Baeyens via eMail
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Pictures of the ACE in Melbourne
Under the title link you can find some pictures of the Amiga-exhibition ACE which took place on the
21st and 22nd of October in Melbourne. Greg Perry by GPSoftware has taken these pictures.
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25.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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AmigaOne with New Logo
Amiga immediate was responsive to the wishes of the community and changed the Amiga One logo. Many users were
unhappy with the old one.
In the Amiga One forum this issue is
discussed very much.
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25.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Sad Message for the Amiga Community
Amiga is mourning for Bob "Coz" Cosby, an important member of the Amiga family.
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25.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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PCWELT: Amiga is back!
PCWELT reports positively about the Amiga One. Look at the article under title link. (German)
There is a report about Amiga at I.T., too:
Amiga OS to run in household electronics
«The OS by Amiga runs on TV set-top-boxes, portable devices and game consoles. They also report about
an already signed contract on a DSL TV set-top-box and eleven several arrangements.
In the video-text of the ZDF (German TV-station) the following message was released:
New Amiga-models from summer 2001:
After more than six years the software producer Amiga has announced new desktops and workstations for summer
2001. This is about a special hardware-specification. Besides this Amiga is going to support portable
devices like Handhelds and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). The new computer shall have at least 64 MB RAM,
a graphics board by Matrox, and a sound system by Creative Labs.»
T-Online (German internet provider) also reports:
«AmigaOne will come next summer (German)
New PC follows the trend.
Amiga wants to come out grand again. Over six years devotees had to wait. After the announcement of a
platform independent Amiga operating system the corresponding hardware now is supposed to appear, too.»
The non-Amiga medias collective are strongly interested. We have listed
all these and even more articles in chronological order in the category extern articles.
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25.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Sega Dreamcast Tools
Those ones who are interested in doing more things than "just" playing with their consoles should
visit the website of Marcus Comstedt. There you can find everything you need to program under
AmigaOS.
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24.Oct.2000
Dirk Conrad on ANF
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Software Update MAS-Player v1.3b
MAS-Player is a hardware for playing back MP3 and MP2. The MAS-Player version 1.3b
is available for download at the title link.
New in this version: A DAO CUE sheet editor, allowing to split a MP3 file recorded
from a complete CD. This can be used e.g. for CDs where songs blend into the next one.
The CUE sheet editor can process CUE lists, which are used by Windows software like e.g.
CDRWIN.
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24.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
The PhotoAlbum/Cybershow package and the XadMasterlibrary are available for a special
price from Amiga Arena until 2000-10-31 only.
Amiga Arena Interview Action
A new interview with Marcel Beck (YAM) is online.
Amiga Arena - Support Your Local Hero
Amiga Arena supports the poll by UnIQue on the subject of continued development of
the game A.C.Sys. A small review of the demo version is online.
Amiga Arena - Links Support
Aside from new links, there is also a review for the freeware game BubbleStones,
a Bust a Move clone. There will be more reviews in the future.
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24.Oct.2000
Coyote Flux
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PPC680x0 version 1.20 (promotional edition)
The new promotional edition of PPC680x0 (1.20) is available now. This is the actual StormC 4 release promo.
This StormC 4 release has a few new features added to it. The most important feature is the .fd file option.
>From now on, PPC680x0 has a big list of .fd files to learn 68k library-call registers from. This means that
it is actually possible to determine which function is being called: Only the registers used by this function
are saved/restored to and from the 68k.
A new executable, PPC68k24 has been added to the archive as well: This version works with graphic-boards as
well, has a 24-bits picture on CyberGraphx and has the scroll/effectsbar disabled.
Download: PPC68kPR.lha.
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24.Oct.2000
Ron Goertz
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FWCalendar Update Version 4.09
FWCalendar is an ARexx script (macro) for FinalWriter V4+ or Pagestream V3+,
for easy creation of calendars. The script can be customized with over 100
user-configurable variables.
Download: FWCalendar.lha -
please also read the installation instructions.
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24.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Eyetech licensing Voodoo card drivers from DCE
Eyetech licenses the Voodoo drivers from DCE for the soon to be released Predator
PCI/AGP expansion bus boards for the A1200 and A4000.
[News message: 24. Oct. 2000, 10:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2000
Blittersoft
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Exodus to be distributed exclusively by Blittersoft
Exodus will be distributed exclusively worldwide by Blittersoft, except for Germany. KDH
Datentechnik signed a contract with Blittersoft so they will have exclusive distribution
rights for all Blittersoft Amiga games in Germany.
Exodus is a realtime strategy game created by a Polish programmer team.
[News message: 24. Oct. 2000, 10:19] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2000
Amiga Club Help Forum
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YAM goes OpenSource
In the YAM News Letter No. 9, Marcel Beck announced that he will discontinue development
of YAM. Reasons are lack of time and a shift of interest.
He will release a final version of "his" YAM, containing some small bugfixes. Afterwards
he will release the source code of this version on the
YAM website. E-mail support for YAM up to version 2.2 will
be continued.
If there will be new versions of YAM for AmigaOS or other operating systems, Marcel Beck
will offer them for download on the YAM website. YAM is an email client for Amiga computers,
enabling the user to edit, send, recieve and manage e-mails. Currently YAM is available in
version 2.1 dating 2000-06-19. YAM is freeware.
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24.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Eyetech News
Eyetech released the AmigaOne 1200 & 4000 specifications. Read the title link for details.
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24.Oct.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis on ANF
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NetBSD-1.5 BETA Amiga test version
NetBSD is a free, easily portable UNIX-alike operating system, which, aside from many
other platforms, also exists in an Amiga version.
A new test version of NetBSD-1.5 for 68k Amigas is available at the FTP server
ftp.netbsd.org in the directory /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_BETA/amiga.
Minimum requirements:
- CPU: M68020 + MMU M68851, optionally FPU M68881/2, or
- CPU: M68030, optionally FPU M68881/2, or
- CPU: M68040 or M68060
- RAM: 8 MB Fastmem (A3000/A4000: not Zorro II)
- a M68LC040 or M68040V-CPU might possibly work too, but this has not been tested
yet
- M68000, M68010, M68EC030 CPUs do not suffice
- further requirements (drive controllers etc.) are described in the relevant locations
in the installation documentation
WARNING: 1.5 requires a major reinstallation. Moreover, 1.5_BETA is
a test version. If you need bugfixes and a minimum downtime, you should install NetBSD-1.4.3
when it becomes available.
Test reports, in English where possible, should be send to the mailinglist
port-amiga@netbsd.org. Instructions for
subscribing to this mailinglist can be requested from majordomo@netbsd.org.
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