28.Aug.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Amiga Arena CD Update
New update for Amiga Arena CD-ROM:
The CD contains fullversions of 3 more games:
Game - Imperium Terranum II - Genre: world-simulation (Civilization,Colonial Conquest)
Game - BallMaster Exclusive Fullversion (Keyfile) - Genre: Puzzel (Logical Clone)
Game - Blade - Genre: Action RPG
Bonus - Blade German version
As a special thank you to all supporters and byers of the Amiga Arena CD-ROM we included the german version of Blade.
You cab get a update only from APC&TCP. For doing these you must have the original CD-ROM,
juwelcase and the ORIGINAL cover (without all of this you can not obtain the update).
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28.Aug.2000
Stefan Martens on ANF
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Amiga User List moves to a New Server
Please use http://www.stefan1200.de (or http://die.hotcity.de/stefan1200)
instead of the old URL.
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28.Aug.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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Establishing of a List with SDK and AmigaNG Software
I am trying to build up a list with all the new available and coming up software for the SDK and AmigaNG/AmigaONE.
Because of this I need the following information:
1. Name of the programmer
2. Kind of program (Tool/Game etc.)
3. Explanation or link to one
4. Version number and date of release
5. A link to the program or to a downloadpage
6. A link to the homepage
7. Type of software: Shareware/Freeware/what-ever-ware...
8. Things you want to add
The list gives you the possibility to publish own software by using a central page. It is like a versionwatch for SDK
and AmigaNG/AmigaONE software.
The list will be published at amiga.developer.network and may occure in a printed magazin.
Due to my moving it is not possible to be online with amiga.developer.network on the first of september 2000. Please help
me to help the Amiga, because only together we are a community.
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28.Aug.2000
Markus Nerding via eMail
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Press Release: StormC 4 - The New Dimension of Programming
Dolgesheim, 28.8.2000. Last sunday HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH presented their
new StormC developementkit to a well elected group in Dolgesheim. This happens during the annual summerparty, and the past and
the future were discussed too. The guestlist included employes of Hyperion (Heretic II,...) and ESCENA (PowerPC-Boards).
They were very excited about the new product. You can read the whole press release at the titlelink (German).
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28.Aug.2000
Amiga Flame
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Screenshots of the Adventure "SIM - The lost world"
"SIM - The lost world" is a classic adventure like "The Dig" or "Darkseed". At the time the
development is stopped due to the leaving of the programmer. Some very nice screenshots are available at the titlelink.
The recommend specs are a classic Amiga with graphics accelerator, 16 MB RAM and a fast CD-ROM-Drive.
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28.Aug.2000
Olaf Köbnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Burning Business - Part I
Amiga Arena exclusivly offers a special price for a commercial product for the first time. Together with Andreas Regul we
are offering AmiAtlas5, one of the best route planners. Please support the programmers because the developing is going on.
Amiga Arena interview special!
We have new interviews with Maxime Gamboni (picFX) and Mario Qualmann (lotto).
Amiga Arena CD-ROM Test
Issue 9/00 of the AmigaPlus print version features a review of the Amiga Arena CD-ROM edition.
SENTENCE "...The author not just put some software and multimedia files on a CD-ROM but he took the time for
chosing the right things and for making a good-looking interface. Even Aminet users can buy this product because they
can get a good overview of the PD/Shareware-scene by doing so.
...AmigaPlus RATING:4 out of 6 points (good)".
Amiga Arena Mailing List!
Amiga Arena needs your support. If you want to be up-to-date about new special offers and the news of Amiga Arena :
"Keep the Flame Burning!" and "Join The Amiga Arena Mailinglist"!
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28.Aug.2000
Sebastian Bauer
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New text.datatype Version 44.5
This is a replacement for the original text.datatype. The different to the origin is that text.datatype supports
paste and copy of a whole text passage. Another new feature is the searche function. The sources are now available for
AROS, too.
Download: text-dt.lzx - 10 KB
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28.Aug.2000
Ben Yoris via eMail
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Linux Version of SiN Almost Finished
Hyperion Entertainment announced that the betatests of the Linux-Port of "SiN" will be finished at the end of
September 2000. There will be versions for x86 and PPC Linux systems.
The Amiga version is still at alpha stage and will hopefully be released on the beginning of october. Further details
are available on this page.
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28.Aug.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III Demo
A Demo of Digital Almanc III available for download. Only german version at the time, but an english cataloge is available, too.
Aminet upload was done.
Download: DA3Demo.lha (2.6 MB)
ReadMe
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28.Aug.2000
Stefan Martens on ANF
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StrICQ Version 0.1732
The new version 0.1732 for StrICQ now includes 5 different languages.
Download: stricq.lha - 280 KB
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28.Aug.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
HunOpus.lha biz/dopus 423K+Filetypes predefined for icon management
TruncateMail.lha comm/mail 10K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
cyahoo.lha comm/misc 207K+Chimmy's Yahoo Client v.0.12
ftpproxy-101.lha comm/tcp 94K+FTP proxy server
Tinyproxy-133.lha comm/tcp 179K+Tinyproxy, a small HTTP proxy daemon.
wpz-frozen34.lha demo/aga 559K+Frozen#34 - Assembly Party Edition
ASM-One_V1.44b.lha dev/asm 240K+680x0/6888x/68851 Macro Assembler
Dorkalize.lha dev/c 32K+Powerful localization tool, v0.3
Avr.lha dev/cross 139K+Atmel AVR Programmer/Assembler 1.04
wget-153.lha dev/gg 200K+Wget 1.5.3, GNU Wget is a utility to ret
ColorWheel.lha dev/gui 26K+Hi-/truecolor colorwheel.gadget (44.6)
GradientSlider.lha dev/gui 6K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.4)
AmigaFAQ_PL.lha docs/help 57K+AmigaFAQ_PL for Polish users only.
pkd-gde4.lha docs/hyper 65K+The Guide Through The Worlds Of Philip K
Amigo5_5.lha game/board 80K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
TM_206.lha gfx/ifx 291K+Layers Animator for ImageFX v3+
Alien_on_Mars.mpg mods/elbie 2.8M+Alien_Mars [Bowie-tech] by ElbiE^t13n!
Anthem.mpg mods/elbie 1.2M+Anthem [Classical] by ElbiE^t13n!
Abgruendig.lha mods/misc 199K+A nice DBM with a holiday mood by R.KAPP
lnsM23_Kind.mpg mods/mpg 2.5M+My kind - techno/trance by Tarmslyng (Na
lnsM24_CloudE1.mpg mods/mpg 3.2M+Dig a stone up with your foot - slowbeat
lnsM25_CloudE2.mpg mods/mpg 2.2M+Cloudy space goggles - slowbeat techno (
lnsM26_Burner.mpg mods/mpg 2.1M+AfterBurner - slowbeat techno by Tarmsly
lnsM27_ClorEp1.mpg mods/mpg 6.9M+All about Cloroform - slowbeat techno (C
lnsM29_RobDe.mpg mods/mpg 3.5M+Rob De hey - house by Tarmslyng
lnsM30_Surv.mpg mods/mpg 3.3M+Surviving on mars - Acid/trance (Track n
lnsM31_Mole.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Molecular computers - Techno/acid trance
lnsM32_High.mpg mods/mpg 4.3M+Highlight player - Techno/Acid trance (T
lnsM33_Visi.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Visiting the jungle dog - Acid trance (T
lnsM34_Blow.mpg mods/mpg 3.8M+Operating with a blown mind - Goa (Track
lnsM35_Pyra.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Confused about the pyramids - Goa (Track
lnsM36_Infu.mpg mods/mpg 2.6M+In the future - goa (Track nr 7 from a r
lnsM37_Year.mpg mods/mpg 3.7M+100 years and a summer - Trance (Track n
lnsM38_Stro.mpg mods/mpg 3.6M+I need something stronger - Trance (Trac
lnsM39_Inse.mpg mods/mpg 2.6M+Acid Insect - Acid (Track nr 10 from a r
lns72_Ego.lha mods/tranc 12K+Ego intro tune - mono Trance by tarmslyn
amigaclouds.lha pix/misc 1.1M+Amiga, Sun in a cloudy world
TurboVal.lha util/boot 17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.6)
InitPPCLib.lha util/cli 2K+InitPPCLib: brings ppc.library back
RAWBInfo.lha util/sys 82K+ReAction based icon information (1.17)
Safe.lha util/virus 20K+Safe v13.9 - virus dicovering system
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28.Aug.2000
Brad Webb via eMail
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Amiga Update Newsletter
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R U K S U N L I N K S W I T H A M I G A
A M I G A & R E D H A T W O R K I N G T O G E T H E R
E X E C U T I V E U P D A T E F R O M B I L L M C E W E N
J U S T A F T E R O U R L A S T I S S U E . . .
A M I G A / I N F O M E D I A A N N O U C E M E N T
A M I G A K D H L I N K
A M I G A A N D M A T R O X A L L I A N C E
A M I W E S T 2 0 0 0 : A R E V I E W
A C E I S T H E P L A C E
P A U L N O L A N J O I N S A M I G A
" A M I G A F U T U R E " ' S F U T U R E . . .
F W D P A R T N E R S W I T H A N G E L I T E
I F U S I O N P R O G R E S S N O T E D
S V I E W I V A N D I M A G E F X
E L B O X A N D C Y B E R G R A P H X D E A L
P H A T E D I T F O R A M I G A O E
P I C T R I S A N N O U N C E D
W B N O T E S 1 . 0 3 M A I N T E N A N C E R E L E A S E
N O T E S F R O M A P C - T C P
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Lots of press releases from Amiga Inc. figure in this issue. That's
both good and well, not bad, but not ideal. You can find most of these
press releases at Amiga's web site if you wish. We bring them to you
because many people rely on us to provide this news. We wish we had
more news from other sources, but it's been a bit sparse this month.
That's one reason for the newsletter coming out so near the end of the
month.
That's the way it is with news - some months a lot, some not so much.
In a small market like ours it shows more than in larger markets.
However, the news we bring is mostly encouraging. The progress Amiga
is making is consistent and long term. We haven't seen this determined
a drive for the future from the Amiga's owners since - well, maybe
never before.
We like that. A lot.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:
12 Aug 2000
Hi Brad,
I search anything about Music-x.
Sites, performances (Music-x Midifiles),
other users !!!
Can you help me ???
Thanks
Johan
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Can any reader help Johan with his search? Let us know, we'll pass
the information on.
Thanks,
Brad
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20 Jul 2000
Hi,Brad;
I am enjoying issue 0718, and thanks
My Question or thought is this:
Did the "Powers That Be" consider that probably most Amiga owners
don't have CD-Roms on their machines? This is strictly my estimate
based on the people who attend various User-Groups in my area.
I realize that those users who are near one of the few service
centers in the U.S., can go and receive expert attention at getting a
cd-rom installed in his or her computer. This has restricted me from
installing 3.5 OS.
In preparation for my 1200, I purchased a DataFlyer SCSI, them
purchased the Driver software, purchased 3.1 chip and 3.5 OS. Guess
what! The driver software is not compatiable with the SCSI nor even
the CD-Rom that I borrowed.
I also have a 3000 at work, and a 2000 at home. I will not install
3.5 on the other machines due to one person in my User group that does
have a cd -rom has a problem with his cpu after installing the 3.5 OS.
It may have been the "politically correct" thing to do putting the OS
on a CD, but I bet it has lost many, many buyers that don't have a
cd-rom.
Sincerely,
Nelson
~~~~~~~
I understand your frustration, but technology marches on and the
CD/ROM is now a more economical method of delivering software than the
floppy disk, in many cases. It's also much more reliable.
It's not that difficult or expensive to add a CD/ROM drive to an
Amiga, and it's becoming more and more necessary even without 3.5
coming on CD/ROM.
My biggest 3.5 concern may relate to yours. It seems if you mix SCSI
and IDE on a given Amiga, you will likely have problems doing an
install. This is ridiculous and needs to be fixed quickly.
For what it's worth, we've been running 3.5 on an A3000 and an A4000
at "Amiga Update" for quite some time with no problems after we got a
successful installation. I, for one, won't go back.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Brad
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23 Aug 2000
Hello Brad,
How goes it? Help! I'm pulling my hair out. I've got a problem with
my system, there is a problem with my clip unit. When clip more than a
few lines of text from an application and try to paste it either with
the menu paste item or Amiga V the cursor flashes and nothing happens.
If it is just a few lines, about 10 say from my startup-sequence it
works fine but any more and it won't work. If I do the stack command
from the WB menu execute command it shows the current stack to be 8192
bytes. The Conclips stacks is set at 4096 and the clipboard.device is
set at 4096.
My system consist of:
A3000 68030
OS3.5
2 megs. chip 16 megs fast ram
C-1950 Monitor
I GB Conner HD
1GB Jaz
Catweasel HD Drive controller With IBM HD Drive with buda IDE
(buda not instaled yet)
Picasso IV with the Concierto sound module & mic.
inturnal and exturnal DD 3.5 disk drives
Exturnal CDrom
If you have any idea of what's wrong
e-mail me ASAP.
Kind regards
Don
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Don,
I don't have enough experience with some of the equipment you list to
attempt an complete answer, though I do wonder if your stack values
may prove to be too small. We have a tremendous resource in our
readers, so let's hope one of them can provide better guidance.
If you can, please contact us at "AU" and we'll get you in touch with
Don.
Thanks,
Brad
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R U K S U N L I N K S W I T H A M I G A
Snoqualmie, WA, August 22,2000 - Amiga Inc. is pleased to announce
that it has reached an agreement with Ruksun Software Technologies to
bring its award winning Messenger Force and IMAP Force products to
Amiga. Ruksun Software Technologies is one of the pioneering companies
in the development of Internet and Connectivity application software
for mobile and wireless devices that run the Windows CE, Palm OS and
EPOC platforms. As key players in the mobile and wireless computing
industry, Ruksun's portfolio consists of end-user mobile applications,
innovative Internet-based technologies, wireless client implementation
and wireless messaging platforms.
The first two applications being developed by Ruksun for Amiga
include award winning IMAP Force and Messenger Force.
Messenger Force is Ruksun's Instant Messaging client that is device
agnostic and works on all the popular hand held devices powered by
Windows CE, Psion devices using the EPOC OS and Palm hand-helds that
run the Palm OS. A soon-to-be-released version will allow Instant
Messaging via cell phones.
Messenger Force, like other popular instant messaging clients, allows
for devices to be notified when other contact list are online such
that they may communicate in real time via Instant Messages. Messenger
Force is a small footprint, comprehensive messaging product that
supports authenticated user logon, auto notification, contact list
management, status management, and access permission, as well as
asynchronous and real time messages and notifications.
IMAP Force will be the first email client for Amiga that will support
the IMAP4 protocol for online access to mail. IMAP Force is designed
to allow mobile users to quickly and selectively browse through their
messages without having to download either the large message or large
attachments. IMAP Force allows users to send mail messages via SMTP,
and supports Quoted Printable encoding and non-ASCII text in headers.
IMAP Force includes POP3 functionality allowing users to access their
POP3 accounts and to perform simple mail operations.
"I have followed the Ruksun development efforts for many years, and
it is really exciting to be able to include their great skills and
great products in the Amiga Family," said Bill McEwen, President/CEO
of Amiga, Inc. "Ruksun products will be great additions for our OEM
partners, and the Amiga Community."
Randall Hughes, Vice President, Sales and Strategic Alliances at
Amiga Inc. noted, "We are thrilled to include best of breed products
as Messenger Force and IMAP Force to Amiga. We are equally happy to
see our platform validated by a partner who has distinguished itself
on other platforms. We know that Ruksun, like our other partners, will
enjoy the binary compatibility value proposition of Amiga and continue
to innovate rather than rewriting existing applications."
Rajkumar Chainani, CEO at Ruksun Software says, "Ruksun is pleased to
partner with Amiga and extend our popular products to support this
platform. We believe that the Amiga OS lends itself to tremendous
possibilities for connected digital appliances and non-PC devices. As
time goes by, Ruksun will continue to create revolutionary products
for this revolutionary platform."
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A M I G A & R E D H A T W O R K I N G T O G E T H E R
Snoqualmie, WA, August 21, 2000 - Amiga (www.amiga.com) has announced
today an agreement with Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the leader in
open source internet infrastructure, to provide high performance
multimedia for the Linux platform. The agreement gives the Redhat.com
community access to Amiga's Software Developer Kit. Bill McEwen, Amiga
President/CEO, said that the company selected Red Hat because of its
leadership and abilities to assist in the development of the new
Amiga.
"The Amiga community has already created significant content
including games and exciting Java applications with the Amiga SDK.
With the response that we received from the members of the Red Hat
team, they clearly understand what the Amiga has meant to the
development of personal computer as we know it today. And more
important, they are eager to provide support and add significantly to
the solid foundation we have been developing," McEwen said.
"We're excited to be working with Amiga," said Paul McNamara, VP of
Products and Platforms at Red Hat. "With a multimedia consumer layer
available with Red Hat as the foundation, new markets and new users
will be able to take advantage of Linux and the software available on
Redhat.com."
"The strategic relationship and partnership with the Tao Group in
Reading, England (www.tao-group.com) that we announced at the
beginning of this year, added to this support from Red Hat, gives the
New Amiga a very exciting and real story," McEwen added.
The new Amiga SDK is the embodiment of the Amiga multimedia computing
experience. With tools, support, and exciting new applications already
in development for the new Amiga, developers can quickly begin
creating games, multimedia applications, and can use Java for even
more opportunities. With the purchase of the SDK a developer will
receive free updates for the next 12 months, and the scout level of
Amiga's support program.
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E X E C U T I V E U P D A T E F R O M B I L L M C E W E N
August 8, 2000 - Greetings to the Global Amiga Family
It has been a hectic several weeks, and we are moving even faster
this week.
There will be some new announcements in the next few days that should
be of interest to everyone as we work hard to expand the members of
the Amiga family.
I would like to say a big "Thank You" to everyone who attended the
show in Sacramento California, and another special thank you to John
and Jan Zacharius and the rest of the SACC team. They did a great job.
I am writing this letter as a quick answer to some questions that I
have received in the last 48 hours.
As mentioned before, if you hear something that you need to confirm,
ask. Every member of the Amiga team is more than willing to answer
questions. It gets somewhat tiresome to constantly get rumors sent to
us after they have been out there for several days or even weeks.
Here are answers to two rumors that need to be addressed immediately:
1. Once you sell the remaining A1200's you are pulling out of
Germany.
Answer: No. We have no plans of pulling out of Germany. In fact we
are looking at ways to increase our presence in all of Europe, Asia,
South America, and even here in North America. There are several ideas
on the table, and even some names have been attached to the ideas.
There will more information available when we are ready to share the
plans.
We are certainly not going to disregard the business in these
markets.
We are a growing company and very excited about the future.
2. You are going to begin selling new A4000's and there are already
1,000 of these new A4000's being built.
Answer: Who came up with this one? There is no manufacturing of any
Amiga except the new desktop, notebook, and handheld in the works.
I have asked before, and now I will ask again, please stop these
rumors. If you hear one, contact any member of the Amiga Team
directly, and we will answer you.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kindest regards, Bill McEwen, and the rest of the Amiga Team
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J U S T A F T E R O U R L A S T I S S U E . . .
July 18, 2000
In Response to Community Concerns Posted on MooBunny
We are very excited at the response that we have received in the
first few weeks of the Amiga SDK version 1 going out into the world.
We have received lots of feedback, mostly good, some not so good, and
three particular points have come up that we would like to address
before they become common untruths.
Firstly, it is true that the Amiga Foundation Layer which ships on
the SDK does not have memory protection. However, this does not mean
that AmiTM, the next generation Amiga Digital Environment will not
have memory protection. A comment made in an article in the last
AmigaWorld seems to have been interpreted in such a way as to suggest
that this is the case when in fact the point being made was that Amiga
is looking at many solutions for providing robustness and security.
AmiTM will provide a robust, secure environment and we will use the
most elegant and effective means to achieve this.
Secondly, the End User Licence Agreement that made it into the SDK is
in error as a result of a legal misinterpretation. There is NO ROYALTY
to be paid for any application either created with the SDK or which
will run on AmiTM. Amiga will be creating a scheme in which third
parties can pay a royalty to Amiga in exchange for official Amiga
certification, branding and promotion. This provides a revenue stream
to Amiga and a value add for the third party. This scheme is entirely
voluntary.
The third point has been drawn as a conclusion from the first two,
namely that Amiga is abandoning the desktop market. Nothing could be
further from the truth. The announced AmigaOne will feature processor
options ranging from 600 Mhz to 1 Ghz, with other, even more powerful
devices already on the drawing board. The conclusion to be drawn from
this is either that Amiga is very committed to the desktop market or
that we are going to build one mother of a cellphone.
We are committed to making the Amiga THE best computer system in the
world. Yes we are also going to go into other markets, but that does
not mean we are abandoning the desktop, the Amiga philosophy or the
loyal Amigans who have stood by the platform through the good and the
bad.
Thank you,
The Amiga Team
><> Bill McEwen ><>
President/CEO
Amiga Inc.
Tel 425-396-5660
Fax 425-396-5671
bill@amiga.com
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A M I G A / I N F O M E D I A A N N O U C E M E N T
16 August, 2000
Snoqualmie, WA - Houston, TX - Amiga Incorporated and Infomedia
Network, Inc. today have announced a strategic relationship in
delivering the Amiga and its content to a new line of broadband
interactive set-top box products.
Infomedia Network is dedicated to bringing the best products to their
new line of set-top boxes. These new products include TVision, the
first in a family of interactive TV set-top products that provide the
consumer with a low-cost, easy to use gateway for Internet and
Entertainment. TVision connects to corporate LANs, as well as home DSL
and cable modems through an Ethernet port and provides users with
Internet access, scaleable real-time Video Conferencing, Interactive
Video games, Movies-on-Demand, Home Banking, Point-of-Sale, and other
exciting new features without the need for a PC.
"Amiga, Incorporated and the Amiga community offer great additions to
the products and services that are planned for TVision," said Patrice
Haftman, CEO of Infomedia Network. "Now TVision customers will have
great content available to them from the best developers in the
world."
"We are excited about working with Infomedia," said Bill McEwen,
President/CEO Amiga Incorporated. "Amiga is the perfect fit for the
products and services Infomedia are looking to offer to their OEMs and
consumers. Amiga developers are already using the new Amiga SDK to
create new applications, multi-media titles, and interactive content
that are perfect for this new line of Set-top Boxes."
Infomedia Network and Amiga are privately held companies, and terms
of the transaction were not available.
For more information on either company please visit their web sites:
www.infomedia-network.com, and www.amiga.com respectively.
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A M I G A K D H L I N K
July 19, 2000
Snoqualmie, Wa. USA - Amiga Inc. is pleased to announce their
partnership with KDH Datentechnik of Horb/Stuttgart, Germany, to
distribute the new d'AMIGA Developer Machine, the Amiga Next
Generation product line as well as the AMIGA CLASSIC products.
"We are happy to ensure high quality standards in Europe for our
recently announced d'AMIGA developer machine. Gunter has been a
well-known and respected dealer for many years and has gone to great
efforts to ensure that the d'AMIGA developer machine will be available
to both developers and other dealers in Europe. We are pleased to be
able to offer as economical a solution to our community and to be able
to bundle additional support from Amiga for our developers. The
d'AMIGA developer machine represents significant value to any member
of our community. As we have stated in the past, we have bundled
additional value to the d'AMIGA developer machine that will not be
available elsewhere. If you machine does not have d'AMIGA developer
machine badge, it will not be supported in the same manner. We
encourage the community to investigate the d'AMIGA developer machine,
which will only be available for distribution through KDH in Germany.
We equally encourage the other dealers to contact KDH for availability
for your customers. We all welcome KDH to our future," said Randy
Hughes, Vice President - Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.
KDH Datentechnik, a well-regarded name in the Amiga community, is
ecstatic to be a part of Amiga Inc.'s plans for the future. They are
excited to have been named the exclusive supplier of d'Amiga
development machines in Europe and anticipate that sales of both SDK
and Developers machine will continue to enjoy grow by leaps and
bounds. Gunter Horbach, President of KDH Datentechnik, stated, "We are
very proud to be a part of the new Amiga future and to be able to
provide the current Amiga Classic line as well as the Next Generation
products to the Amiga community in Europe. A close and fair
relationship with our Amiga users as well as the Amiga dealers is the
key to our future. Our base of satisfied customers make us one of the
largest mail order retailers of Amiga products within Europe. We would
like to take this opportunity to thank our customers worldwide for the
opportunity to serve them as well as for their support of the current
offerings from Amiga. We encourage the user community as well as the
other dealers to investigate the excellent value of the d'AMIGA
developer machine and welcome your queries. Our customers have
encouraged us to support the Amiga platform over the years and remain
vocal in their support of the Next Generation Amiga. Customer
satisfaction, friendly and uncomplicated service in concert with the
best technical expertise remain the hallmarks of KDH. These qualities
as well as the vision of Amiga Inc. ensure a bright future for us
all."
Amiga's mission is to provide THE platform, architecture and tools
for the emerging Digital Content Universe. In doing so, we will
uniquely empower our partners and customers to create products that
will deliver on the promise of the Digital Age. The release of our
first products, the Amiga software development kit (SDK) and now, the
d'AMIGA developer machine, is enabling thousands of developers, tired
of the old platforms designed for yesteryear's services, to come over
to join with the tens of thousands of existing Amiga developers
already working with Amiga to create the content of today and
tomorrow, now. For additional information, please visit
http://www.amiga.com www.kdh-datentechnik.com
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A M I G A A N D M A T R O X A L L I A N C E
24July, 2000
Amiga Inc and Matrox are pleased to announce the creation of a
strategic alliance between the two companies.
"Amiga has always been about excellent 2D and video, and in working
closely with Matrox, we can take that to the next level and beyond"
said Fleecy Moss, VP of technology at Amiga. "Whilst having been the
leader in 3D software and content creation, 3D hardware is a
relatively new thing for the Amiga, and with what Matrox have up their
sleeves, the next wave of Amigas are going to turn 3D fiction into 3D
reality."
"Matrox is always pleased to have an opportunity to assist in
developing third party products," says Alain Thiffault, product
manager, Matrox Graphics. "Amiga has a history of offering a solid
platform and we're happy to provide resources for their future
products."
www.matrox.com.
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A M I W E S T 2 0 0 0 : A R E V I E W
by Brian Deneen, President, Sacramento Amiga Computer Club
(Used with permission.)
From the moment I walked into the room, I knew something good was
happening. I saw people that I knew (Roger Berry, Bill Clay and John
Zacharias) being helped by someone I didn't know (Rick Rudge) to get
ready for AmiWest 2000. Registration packets were being stuffed,
AmiWest 2000 banquet tickets printed, and special show edition
Amigazettes being stapled. I joined that last activity on Thursday
before the show.
The reason I knew something good was happening was the evidence of
smiles and the cameraderie being shared. Many have commented, both
inside and outside Amigadom, about the spirit of the Amiga community.
We are a very creative group of people for whom no other computer
platform will do. And that very creativity, shared and enhanced, is
what made that Thursday (and the rest of the weekend) special during
AmiWest 2000.
Those who are less creative, who need some sort of huge corporate
presence to hide behind, might think that "spirit" is amusing. If
that's your style, you are more than welcome to it. I, for one, have
worked for the two largest organizations in the entire world while
they held that status (AT&T and the US Army) and would rather be
smaller and more creative than suffocate in corporate gridlock. The
current spectacle of the PC world is ample evidence of such gridlock
for any who want to observe. I'll take my opportunities with "leaner
and meaner" platforms and companies.
This creative spirit was evident in all of the vendors present.
Hyperion Entertainment was an example, with Hyperion Belgium
represented in force along with the US representative, James Sellman.
(As an aside, James Sellman had NEVER MET his boss from Belgium, Ben
Hermans, until AmiWest this year, after 10 years of working with him
long-distance!) They loaded up their software and had it running
during the show, a graphics and sound tour de force for the serious
gamer. Another example was ProStation Audio with Jim Sutcowicz and
Floyd Diebel, both members of our club. They have seen great
development of their software with their Italian partner and had what
they deemed a successful show.
Another example is Kermit Woodall of Nova Design, who sold out and
said he'll be back next year. We met on Saturday night at the banquet
in the buffet line, having a nice conversation about music and
musicians prompted by my wearing my musicians' work clothes (a tuxedo)
to the banquet. On Sunday, I sat down at his booth and asked him to
show me what his software does, explaining along the way that I'm kind
of the village idiot when it comes to image manipulation. Half an hour
later, I was writing a check for the latest version of Image FX, the
first absolutely brand new Amiga software that I have ever purchased.
After I watched his booth for a few minutes, we discussed ideas for
AmiWest 2001. He had some good things to say and we may be using some
of his ideas in the future. For any of you who have used his software
or seen the results of those who do, I think it safe to say that
Kermit is one of our most creative community members. He was begin
ably aided by Darreck Lisle, present at previous AmiWests as a Gateway
Amiga representative.
Our own Jim Sutherland was also present, observing and helping us
arrive at prices for software and hardware that he donated to benefit
the club. SACC members like Jim make our club great and we a glad that
Jim is with us. SACC as a club is full of creative people who use the
Amiga because nothing else will do. Reliable, flexible, programmable
and configurable, with an OS (1.3-3.1) called by Byte magazine the
most elegant available, the Amiga demonstrates staying power like no
other platform in the world.
Other vendors who did very well were Pagestream, who sold out of
product even while the company was moving to Wisconsin through an
innovative rep arrangement; CompuQuick, who did very well and
commented that people buy more at AmiWest than at other shows they had
attended; and Eyetech, who had some amazing things to show and sell
(including a new developer machine that combined an Amiga 1200 and a
500 MHz PC in a DESKTOP case) and said they will be back next year -
FROM ENGLAND! FWD Computing was very friendly and gave an address of
someone handling hardware and software. Merlancia Industries was
selling both Amiga Hardware and Software and probably should get the
"overflowing booth" prize for having the most on hand. AmigaZone with
Harv Laser, founder and SYSOP, was there signing up new customers. G &
G Publishing Enterprises, publisher of "The New Amigans" magazine,
also signed up new subscribers. NorthWest Amiga Group, Inc. (another
User Group selling Amiga memorabilia and T-shirts) made at least their
second appearance at AmiWest. Anti-Gravity Products of Boxer fame had
Joe Torre as their rep onsite. AmigaOnLine.NET (a nationwide just for
Amiga Internet Provider) was demonstrating the advantages of their
service. Lostman Robert Hamilton was selling his original design
T-Shirts, shorts, and sweats. AEMail was ably represented by
programmer John Zacharias. The vendors were a healthy representation
of the major players in today's Amiga scene.
Then there was a significant list of 10 seminars given throughout the
two days of the show by very knowledgeable people, some of them (such
as Kermit Woodall, Joe Torre, and Floyd Diebel) developers of the
software/hardware they were demonstrating. We were priveleged to have
such a crew of knowledgeable presenters and look forward to having
them back and expanding the list next year. We also hope to see Bob
and Diana Scharp, organisers of the Amiga shows in St. Louis and
producer of "Bounce Back Videos" (video taping the show) back next
year.
SACC's own Jack and Rita McCann headed up this year's raffle effort
raising money for AmiWest. They did a raffle every hour on the hour
and provided a sense of structure for the days of the show. The
highlight of each raffle day was the raffling of a new A1200 computer,
donated to the show by Petro from Germany. The raffle stage was also
graced on Saturday morning by a group singing a song about Jay Miner.
Lots of enthusiasm and smiles were obvious all around.
The Jay Miner Memorial Library was also exhibited for the first time.
Bookcases loaned by Michael Salcedo and Ray Washburn, both of SACC,
housed the library for its first exhibition ever. This software
library was the personal software library of Jay Miner, father of the
Amiga 1000 computer. It contains many original and one-of-a-kind items
proudly displayed on the show stage.
User Group Network's new chair Bill Borsari gave a seminar, assisted
by Robert Hamilton, Joanne Calhoun, and others. This is a focus for
our club, as the UGN is serving as a quasi-official channel for
information from Amiga Inc. While Amiga Inc. also has their corporate
user-group liason, UGN is also being employed as an information
channel. Bill Borsari called for a new look to the UGN as a
cooperative body, freely and creatively sharing information between
user groups. One function of this sharing might be the development of
a database of newsletter articles so that information could be quickly
disseminated through the UGN server. Moderation of this forum is an
issue but the idea is a good one.
One thing the UGN is helping with is the Amiga road tour, announced
at AmiWest by Amiga Inc. president Bill McEwen. The tour, to take
place in October, will highlight developments by Amiga Inc. using the
larger user groups as geographical centers. SACC was the first one on
the map with our larger membership and assignment to reach out to a
200-mile radius around Sacramento. You will see more on this as we get
more information.
Amiga Inc. was represented at AmiWest 2000 by President Bill McEwen,
Randall Hughes and Bob Cosby (the COZ). Bill, Randy and Bob were very
cordial and forthcoming, very knowledgeable veterans of the computer
wars. Bob was joining the company the evening of the banquet and I
witnessed what he said was his first meeting with Bill. Bob has done
everything from hand-building industrial hard-disk drives for Ampex
somewhere in the dim, dark past to, most recently, telecommuting from
Walnut Creek for a software firm located in (if I remember correctly)
Pismo Beach. He is now in quality assurance at Amiga Inc. Randy worked
for QNX before signing on with Amiga Inc. 18 months ago and is
travelling with Bill to see things.
The Saturday night banquet was truly exciting. Access Sacramento was
there with multiple cameras and portable control booth to get a good
video of the banquet. One of the original Amiga beta testers, Annette
Daniels, was running one of those cameras. (Another member of the
original Amiga team, Dale Luck, paid a visit to AmiWest late on Sunday
afternoon.) I was seated at the head table in order to present our
SACC Ken Barton memorial award. Others there included John & Jan
Zacharias and granddaughters, Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc. president), Bob
Cosby (the COZ, to those of you who know), and Randall Hughes (of
Amiga Inc.).
John opened the banquet by inviting us all to line up at the buffet,
a sumptuous meal whose equal would be difficult to find at any but the
finest restaurants. (And yes, I am an experienced diner, having dined
extensively on two continents.) Good conversation was had by all while
serving. Then we presented the Ken Barton memorial award to John
Zacharias, who received it with appropriate ceremony.
Then, it was on to an Amiga television commercial featuring BB King
and several others who were using state-of-the-art Amigas (circa 1988)
in a variety of creative ways, from undersea exploration to flight
simulation to graphics design and production to music. Then the
featured speaker took the podium.
Bill McEwen, of course, was our featured banquet speaker. I won't try
to summarize the speech for you, just highlight some of the things
that stood out to me.
* One of the things I was glad to hear was that Amiga Inc. does have
a corporate development group working on hardware configurations to
run the new OS. In other words, there will be a new Amiga computer,
the Amiga One. Third party manufacturers will build them specifically
for the new OS software.
* Bill showed film clips of two interviews (one on CNN and the other
on another network) that he had done within that past two months. A
news feature on that other network was also shown. Bill has been busy
promoting the product and doing it well. And the tapes he was showing
were, he mentioned, provided FREE OF CHARGE for public presentation,
something that just doesn't happen in the media world (others are
charged up to $10,000 per tape). Unless, of course, you're Amiga!
* A New York Times reporter came to Washington state to interview
Bill and see the new corporate headquarters. The standard time frame
for such visits is about 30 minutes to an hour at most. She spent four
and a half hours talking to Bill, touring the building, etc. Probably
found more creativity per square foot there than most anywhere else on
the planet!
* Discussions with Corel, Red Hat and many unnamed software producers
are progressing well; you can read about the agreements reached so far
on the web site at www.amiga.com.
* Another welcome development: the new OS will run classic Amiga
software. Bill said, in a passing comment, that "we have something
better than emulation" that will accomplish this.
* The OS software was actually demonstrated on two screens on either
side of the speaker's platform and covering most of the wall there
(probably about 15 by 20 feet per screen). Complex images were loaded
and performed flawlessly, manipulated in real time at any speed
desired. Bill kicked the OS up on Linux and on Windows, then plugged
in a diskette to load a program (the same program) called "Tunnel"
into BOTH systems. It loaded very quickly and flew along without a
hitch. Clearly, something revolutionary is happening here.
* The new company acknowledged their debt to the Amiga community. "If
you hadn't stuck it out there would have been nothing for us to buy"
was, I believe, the gist of Bill's very laudatory comments. By the
way, Bill McEwen had never even SEEN an Amiga computer until AmiWest
'98 here in Sacramento. Now he heads up the company. No gridlock here!
* The Amiga road show was announced for the end of October, designed
to showcase the current state-of-the-art of Amiga. More details as
they become available.
* Bill also announced the new Amiga developer program. After
highlighting the huge sums of money other companies ask of their
developers up front, before any sales are made (from Sony at
$250,000.00 to Microsoft at a cool $1,000,000.00), Bill announced that
Amiga Inc. is asking $1.50 per unit sold from its developers to
participate in its programs. Those programs are to include purchasing
retail space in computer stores (endcaps, etc.), using the official
Amiga logo on packaging, and having access to technical developer
information. That $1.50 per unit is, of course, a minimum, but my
information source (an Amiga developer) has it that the MOST they are
charging anyone is under $50,000.00 for access to everything
accessible, clearly miniscule compared to even $250,000.00. Bill said
they are doing this to include everyone who has been faithful during
the lean times; they don't want to leave anyone out. They intend to
reward those who have been in the community the whole time. Again, the
creative approach to software creation.
I'm sure that other things were said; these were my standouts. The
banquet was a very exciting evening. I'm glad that I was there and
plan to attend next year.
AmiWest 2000 was the place where substantial announcements were made,
people got acquainted and re-acquainted, and a good time was had by
all. It was a lot of work but, like anything worthwhile, the reward
came in a job well done. Thanks to all of you who participated. Come
back next year and invite your friends and business associates. As the
T-shirts that Amiga Inc. handed out to everyone at the banquet said,
"It took them 15 years to catch up - now they never will."
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A C E I S T H E P L A C E
29 July, 2000
The Australian Alternative Computer Expo includes:
Amiga Computer Expo
Apple Computer Expo
L-ACE (Linux- ACE)
Australian Connectivity Expo
The best operating systems all under one roof! Alternative O/S's
welcome!
When
Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd October 2000
Tentative Times: 9-6pm Saturday 9-5pm Sunday
Where
The Pits, Aughtie Drive Albert Park Lake, Albert Park (in the middle
of the park!).
The show makes provision for families, children and those on lower
incomes.
Entry fees:
$10 General
$7 Students & concession)
$20 Family
Children under 12 free
MS free zone!
Think outside the square!
Support: MC-1@bigfoot.com
Co-ordinator: Greg_T@connect.net.au
http://scsi.bizland.com/ACE-2000/ace_2000.htm
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P A U L N O L A N J O I N S A M I G A
29 July, 2000
Amiga is committed to creating a user experience that will set the
standard for the future of digital living.
As part of the first phase, we have brought together a renowned set
of designers and developers. We are delighted to announce that Paul
Nolan will be joining the corporate Amiga team. Paul comes to us with
many years of experience in the design and implementation of numerious
graphics development and interface products.
"I`m excited to have the opportunity to help Amiga Inc. realize their
dreams for the next generation Amiga, and look forward to continuing
to support the Amiga community," Nolan said.
Paul Nolan, a distinguished application developer and graphics
expert, is the founder and CEO of Paul Nolan Software Inc., a San
Diego, California based company. His award-winning Photogenics
graphics manipulation application has met widespread acclaim since
1994 on the Classic Amiga, and will be soon be available in stores
across the country for Linux, too. More information on Paul Nolan and
the ongoing development of Photogenics can be found at
http://www.PaulNolan.com.
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" A M I G A F U T U R E " ' S F U T U R E . . .
14 Aug 2000
Andreas Magerl explains the current publisher, the Falke-Verlag, will
discontinue production and selling of Amiga Future after issue #27
because of commercial considerations.
Preventing the last Amiga game magazine from being closed Andreas
Magerl will continue to work with his editors. Selling will be based
on subscriptions. Therefore you should know that Andreas Magerl was
responsible for the content and the Falke-Verlag for the layout and
sales. Because he has not the marketing channels as a big publishing
house has, the further existence depends on the number of
subscriptions. A subscription form is available here. At the moment
there are 6 issues availabel for 60 DM with costs of shipment
inclusive (inside of Germany).
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F W D P A R T N E R S W I T H A N G E L I T E
19 Jul 2000
Frank and Carol Davis of FWD Computing would like to formally
announce our partnership with Angelite Productions. The owner of
Angelite Productions, in addition to their software development for
the Amiga, has also taken over the position with FWD Computing of
Sales Manager. We welcome Mike Ingall. We are adding Angelite
Productions line of software to that which we already carry for the
Classic Amiga. This line includes software for those using Linux on
their Amiga, CDs supporting BeOS, as well as thir line of adults only
CDs for the Amiga.
Mike Ingall may be contacted at:
Angelite_Prod@mailcity.com
Technical inquiries about software may be directed to Frank Davis at:
fdavis@iquest.net
Thank you,
FWD Computing
http://FWDcomputing.tripod.com/
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I F U S I O N P R O G R E S S N O T E D
26 August, 2000
There is light at the end of the tunnel... and we are sure it is not a
train!
We will be posting the new iFUSION interface for customer review in
the near future. Since the emulation itself has been greatly
simplified, many of the options found in FUSION are no longer
necessary. For example, we do not need seperate video drivers for
every video card now. iMacs don't have floppy drives built-in, so
there is no need for a floppy control menu (floppy drives can be
accessed as a block-level device via the STORAGE menu now).
Perhaps someone can help us...
We are looking for a handler or filesystem that allows AmigaDOS
devices (DF0:, DH0:, RAM:, etc.) to be opened and controlled as a file
using standard AmigaDOS file I/O commands such as Read(), Write(),
Seek(), etc. All data transfers are done on a block level using
standard file I/O. This greatly simplifies the I/O code and allows
AmigaDOS to cache data. Hardfiles, floppy drives, and hard drives are
now handled using a common I/O. The problem is that devices can not
normally be "opened" like files. We can write a handler for this
ourselves (we wrote a Mac handler for the file transfers in FUSION
already), but we would like to find something that already exists (if
it does) to speed up the release of iFUSION! If you think you can be
of help, please email me at: msdei@ctaz.com
Thanks for hanging in there!
Jim Drew, CEO - Microcode Solutions
http://www.microcode-solutions.com/amiga/amiga.htm
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S V I E W I V A N D I M A G E F X
14 August, 2000
Anyone who owns a valid keyfile for SViewIV now also can utilize the
new "SUPERVIEW" IFX loader module with ImageFX 2.6 and above - it's
distributed as part of the main program, but add-on wise.
Additional ultra-speed can be achieved through SuperView-Library's
optional PPC modules - which are working completely transparently.
Additional information on SViewIV/PPC can be found under
http://www.ar-kleinert.de - including download links to Aminet and to
the RegNet creditcard-based online registration site.
If you can't wait, here's some more information. SViewIV comes with
the following SVObject loaders for images:
- IFF-ACBM - Windows,OS/2 BMP - PNM (PBM,PGM,PPM)
- IFF-ILBM - JPEG (JFIF v6) - IMG (GEM Graphics)
- IFF-DEEP - PhotoCD - WPG (WP Bitmaps)
- IFF-FAXX - TIFF - MacPaint MAC
- IFF-PBM - PCX - EPS (Header/PS)
- IFF-RGB8 - Atari Degas - C64 (Koala, Doodle)
- IFF-RGBN - Spectrum ZX - TIM
- IFF-RGFX - XWD - FBM
- IFF-YUVN - Windows Icon - CDR-Previews
- QRT/POV Raytrace - Mac PICT-2 - SGI
- SPP - SVG - Targa
- Pictor/PCPaint - SunRaster - UtahRLE
- PNG - CVP (passphoto) - Icons (WB/Magic/New)
as well as all OS3-Datatypes and 24 Bit DataTypes (picture.datatype
V43).
Many formats with 24 Bit-Support. Reads XPK- and PP20-packed data via
Unpack.svobject.
Writes C-Sourcecode in chunky/RGB notation. Together with external
third party programs also the following file formats seamlessly can be
embedded:
File Format needs program also needs support for
---------------------------------------------------------
- AMF MetaView (ILBM)
- CLP MetaView (ILBM)
- DXF/AutoCAD (tm) MetaView (ILBM)
- FIG AmiFIG (Postscript)
or: MetaView (ILBM)
- CGM GPlot (Postscript)
or: MetaView (ILBM)
- IFF-DR2D MetaView (ILBM)
- IFF-DRSD MetaView (ILBM)
- Limbo Limbo 4.0 (PNM)
- Postscript (TM) Ghostscript -
- WPG-Vector MetaView (ILBM)
- WMF MetaView (ILBM)
(*) attached you find a preview copy of the IFX loader for
convenience
(**) in the current version, all images are imported
as 24 bit for quality. If there's demand for colormaps
or a SAVER module, this would be an option for
future releases.
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E L B O X A N D C Y B E R G R A P H X D E A L
Krakow, PL - 24 July 2000
Elbox Computer, the developer of Amiga hardware and software, who
have designed and produced the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, announced a
partnership today with Vision Factory Development, developer of
CyberGraphX, the widely popular graphic system for Amiga computers.
Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development will co-operate to port
and optimize the CyberGraphX graphic system for operation with PCI
graphic cards installed in the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard.
CyberGraphX V3 will be available with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
CyberGraphX V4, the extended commercial version of this system may be
obtained from all the CyberGraphX distributors; it will enable even
more comprehensive use of the PCI graphic chipsets capacity.
Support for new graphic chipsets will be developed for both versions
(V3 and V4) of the CyberGraphX system.
Current information on drivers available for MEDIATOR will be
reported at http://www.vgr.com, the official CyberGraphX website.
CyberGraphX
The CyberGraphX standard is being supported by all major Amiga
software vendors worldwide. CyberGraphX was designed to define an
independent graphics standard for Amiga graphic boards. Continued work
on Workbench emulation was also an important issue. Over 7 years of
experience in developing graphics board software was employed in
making Workbench control screens with all the existing Amiga graphic
cards. CyberGraphX is based on hardware-dependent monitor driver and
hardware-independent libraries. This solution has many advantages, one
of these being bug fixes in the Workbench card control. Speed
optimization is another benefit available for ALL the graphic boards
supported by the CyberGraphX system. CyberGraphX works with majority
of the most popular applications on the Amiga and resources of Public
Domain and Demo software available are broad.
MEDIATOR PCI 1200
The MEDIATOR PCI 1200 is a new-generation busboard for Amiga 1200
computers. The MEDIATOR busboard is fitted with four PCI
2.1-compiliant slots for connecting PCI devices, thus enabling
expansion of Amiga 1200 with a variety of PCI-standard hardware
products. MEDIATOR's hardware has been made compatible with ALL the
available Amiga 1200 turbo cards. MEDIATOR PCI opens an immense wealth
of PCI cards for Amiga 1200 owners: network, sound, modem (ISDN),
decoding (MPEG-2, MP3), TV, and, most of all, graphic cards based
around chipsets like S3 ViRGE, Savage4, Voodoo3, Voodoo5, Riva TNT2,
etc. MEDIATOR PCI enables using the high-end cards based around the
latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors (available in the PCI card form) in
Amiga 1200 computers. When this feature is combined with the PCI
graphic cards, totally new superb possibilities are open for Amiga
owners.
Elbox Computer, Press Department
Mariusz Wloczysiak
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P H A T E D I T F O R A M I G A O E
PhatEdit
This is (apparently!) the worlds first GUI based text editor for
AmigaOE. It is written entirely in VP code and is completely free! The
only thing I do ask is that you tell me about any problems you find
and also keep checking our site for updates (screenshots). NOTE :
REQUIRES FILEDIALOG!
readme
FileDialog
This was written in conjunction with PhatEdit. It seemed rediculous
that each time I wanted to use a filedialog I had to write all the
window code for it and all the event handling. Now, all you do is one
qcall and the filename, directory, filter and status (OK/CANCEL) is
returned. Easy!
http://members.xoom.com/PhatRepublic/prods.html
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P I C T R I S A N N O U N C E D
26 August, 2000
Pictris is a highly addictive, involving puzzle game. The object of
it is simple, you are given a blank grid and you must find a picture
hidden within it. To make it easier, you are given the numbers of
consecutive blocks in the rows and columns to use to solve the
picture.
Although this may seem simple, whenever you make a mistake time is
deducted from your clock. If you run out of time, then you'll have to
start that level again. All your attempts are recorded automatically,
and hi-scores are kept.
The game is divided into 3 separate difficulty levels, and a tutorial
mode.
Although the first time you play it, it may seem difficult to play,
after you get the hang of it (pay close attention to the tips in the
guide file and tutorial) you'll find it very rewarding, and hard to
put down :)
Features:
Pictris contains 250 unique puzzles in 3 difficulty levels, ranging
from 5x5 grid tutorial puzzles, to near impossible 15x15 brain
teasers.
Each puzzle is set against a randomly chosen backdrop, with the
ability to add your own backdrop sets in IFF format.
During the game you are treated to a selection of multi-channel
Octamed sound studio modules (at up to 44.1khz mixing), again with the
ability to load your own mods.
As you play the game, you scores for each level are automatically
saved and your best time is kept. This means that even when you've
finished all the puzzles you can go back to improve your high score.
Finally, the game has support for many languages (see the demo for the
complete list)
Pictris requires a 020+ Amiga with AGA or a GFX card, and at least
1.4 megs of free chip and 4 megs of fast. It is released on CD only,
but can be run without installing to hard drive. (it does need
somewhere with write access for save files however).
Playing the game is done through mouse controls. During the game you
have the option to save the current puzzle as it is, and after every
round the game autosaves.
The demo needs 3.6 megs of hard drive space. It lacks most of the
puzzles and backdrop sets, as well as the ability to load and save
games. It does demonstrate most of pictris' in game features and
gameplay however, so it is well worth the download.
Download Demo:
From UK Aminet
From German Aminet
From USA Aminet
Order Online & Offline:
APC&TCP (International)
Or your nearest Amiga supplier
http://www.apc-tcp.de
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W B N O T E S 1 . 0 3 M A I N T E N A N C E R E L E A S E
14 August, 2000
Organise your passwords, and your life!
This is a maintainence release. If you downloaded version 1.0
yesterday (Aug 13th), you will need to download this version
WBNotes is a program inspired by the good old fashioned Post-It
notes. Those things that you stick everywhere until they eventually
become a fire risk, and lose their usefulness due to volume.
Well, you no longer need the paper ones, as WBNotes is here to help.
o Create new notes
With headers, and body text, plus a 'due time/date' which can be when
WBNotes pops the note up for you to read, and plays a nice sound to
alert you to it.
o View/Manage your notes
With the WBNotes View Notes window, you can view your notes, and
delete those that you don't want.
o Manage WBNotes
WBNotes has an easy to use preferences window which you can use to
set up the various options that WBNotes gives to you.
o Password Manager
The Password Manager is perfect for keeping all your passwords in.
You can add additional information about what a password is for, and
give it a title. Passwords are encrypted for protection.
http://users1.50megs.com/trogsoft/products/wbnotes.shtm
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N O T E S F R O M A P C - T C P
26 Aug 2000
Today we sign the publishing contract with "Desert Racing". at this
time we can not present a Demo, Support-Page, Shots or other from the
game.
Forget all old demos, please. The developer work stong on the game
and make many, many new and better features...
19 Jul 2000
Today we release the demo from SeaSide. You can download on
http://www.apc-tcp.de page or Aminet.
Andreas Magerl
APC&TCP
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All back issues available at:
http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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28.Aug.2000
ANN
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V³: Image Decoders V14.0 for MorphOS PPC
Since the August, 27th 2000 the first public version of the PPC-Image-Decoder for MorphOS is available for download.
You will need Voyager V3.3 alpha 35 for using the decoder. David Gerber said that this is realy fast.
Download: vimgdec_morphos_14.0.lzx
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27.Aug.2000
Jan Andersen per E-Mail
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Safe V13.9
On August, 27th 2000 Zbigneiw Trzcionkowski has released version 13.9 for the virus detector Safe.
This application recognizes if there is a virus in memory and removes it, if possible. This software
cannot check files for virus infection.
With this version a bug concerning rebooting on 68040 CPUs has been fixed. Further details you can get
from the Readme.
Safe need AmigaOS V2.04+ ad xvs.library V33.23+.
Download: Safe.lha (20 291 Bytes)
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27.Aug.2000
ANF
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ACommander V0.1
ACommander is a filemanager (freewar) for the new AmigaOS. Up to now it only offers rudimentary
functions, but the author will constantly develope this program. Additional to the program archive
there are two screenshots of the filemanager on the website.
Download: AC.ZIP
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27.Aug.2000
AOI on ANF
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Amiga Information #38 Online
Furthermore AOI is looking for editors.
Download: AIOV38.LHA
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27.Aug.2000
Armin Klippel on ANF
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iFusion Moving Forward
On the homepage of Microcode Solutions one can read that the strongly simplified new interface for iFusion (as Fusion PPC
apparently should be named now) might soon be available for official testings. Moreover Jim Drew is asking the
Amiga Community for help: he is looking for a DOS-Handler which is able to access an AmigaDOS-Device (DH0:, RAM:, etc.) like a
normal file. Please, send eMails to msdei@ctaz.com.
Closer information you can get on the Homepage of Microcode Solutions.
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27.Aug.2000
ANF
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JOTD Patch & HD Installers V4,0 Beta
Beta version v4.0 for JST is available for download.
New JST v4.0 beta
- (26/08/2000): Flashback loader update. One more french version supported
- (25/08/2000): New JST v4.0 beta available - !big! bugfixes & improvements!
Download: JST v4.0 beta
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27.Aug.2000
V3Portal
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Voyager V3.3 alpha 35
Close to the start of his two weeks holydays Oliver Wagner has released a new
alpha version for Voyager. Forms are activated in this version again. A complete list
of all changes can be taken from the Readme.
During his holydays Oliver Wager will not be reachable. David Gerber will do the Voyager support for these days.
Download: v_33_alpha35.lzx
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26.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News
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JIT UAE: 2nd Alpha Version
As already announced on August 19th, an UAE version for Linux has been released containing
a Just in Time Compiler (JIT), reportedly making it faster than a 68060. Bernie Meyer: "After
almost 600 downloads of the first alpha version of JIT-UAE, it's time to release a second
alpha version."
The archive contains a binary for Linux/386, and the source code. What has changed in this
version can be read at the title link.
Download: uae-JIT_CA.tar.gz
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26.Aug.2000
CyberGraphX
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CyberGraphX News
The CGX v3 driver for the Mediator board is
functional now, and has been tested on a board with PCI ViRGE. The version for v4 will
be released with the next v4 update. The Voodoo3 driver is worked upon, no release date
has been announced, yet. The support site for Mediator PCI
has been updated.
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26.Aug.2000
Stefan Falke via eMail
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New versions of EZP@gerNG CE and YGM released
On the SFXSoft homepage, updates for the paging software EZP@gerNG CE and
the POP3 mail checker YGM are available for download.
EZP@gerNG Classic Edition v1.3:
- misaligned colors with left-out quick call gadgets with default image - fixed
- for more about changes see ReadMe
YGM v2.4:
- no more waiting for timeout with slow / unavailable mail servers
- mailbox entries can be skipped during mailbox checking
- new BUSYICON can be given to be displayed during mailbox checking
- GUI and AppIcon can now be snapshot and unsnapshot in position and/or size
- for more about changes see ReadMe
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25.Aug.2000
BTTR-Team via eMail
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Back to the Roots News
"Back to the Roots", the biggest and oldest legal archive for commercial
Amiga software was updated again and of course there are many interesting
news for anybody.
The gamers can relive the past with cool classics like the
fabulous adventure games "Quest for Glory 2 - Trial by Fire"
and "Goldrush" from Sierra. Also we are very proud, that the
german Amiga company MegArts has allowed us, to put the
addictive puzzle game "Brainman" and the Kick-Off alike
Icehockey game "MegArts Hockey" online. And as always, these
were just some examples.
The sceners will find some of the hottest pc demo releases
from the Assembly 2k now in our archive, too. "Spot" from
Exceed - a demo which looks like a Pixar movie or "Art" from
Haujobb - just to name two demos. Also some demo scene
stuff, which was released a little bit earlier this year,
was uploaded.
If you like classic Amiga500 demos, then we give you the
opportunity to take a trip many years back in time with
masterpieces like "Devil's Key", "Elysium" or "The Drunk
Desert Demo".
And last but not least we have again some wonderful modules
for your ears (from musicians like Rapture, Elwood and others)
and some candy for your eyes (graphics from Peachy, PGCS,
Toast and others).
This should be enough stuff for enjoying the next rainy day in
front of your computer, therefore we wish you a lot of fun with
all these goodies.
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25.Aug.2000
Alex Kazik via eMail
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Scene-Handler Version 1.1.4 Released
Version 1.1.4 for Scene-Handler, which allows you to mount Movieshop scenes to get direct access
to them, was just released with many new extras.
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24.Aug.2000
Daniel Robbins on Open-Amiga ML
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Daniel Robbins: The new Amiga SDK
In the "developberWorks:Linux library" section of the IBM-Server an article
on the Amiga SDK by Daniel Robbins has been released. This article discribes the
basic functionality, and speed of the new Amiga system. Due to the VP the SDK will
furthermore is described as solution for game devotees, cause the system does not
depend on a particular processor type, and hence runs on different hardware architectures.
Robbins responds on the installation of the SDK quite extensive and offers problem
solution tips. The article closes with a list of links.
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24.Aug.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
ArtEffect4Demo.lha biz/haage 1.1M+ArtEffect(Demo): Outstanding Graphics Pr
AW2.20-Demo.lha biz/haage 2.1M+AmigaWriter 2.20 - Demo Version
CManager.lha comm/misc 607K+Contact Manager, a centralised system-wi
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 359K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
bing-113.lha comm/tcp 69K+Bing, bandwidth measurment tool for inte
curl-711.lha comm/tcp 262K+Curl, transfer data with URL syntax
fsp25.lha comm/tcp 359K+FSP, a secure file transfer protocol
rcftpd.lha comm/tcp 143K+Rc-ftpd - the best ftpd for amiga ;-)
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 171K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.1 - *
tcpproxy-116.lha comm/tcp 57K+TCP proxy server
simplehtml.lha comm/www 32K+V0.11 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
SDL-Amiga.lha dev/misc 722K+First beta of SDL library Amiga port.
MountDos11.lha disk/misc 17K+Read & list/mount MS-Dos partition-table
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Starmag22_AGui.lha docs/mags 329K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AGuide-Vers
Starmag22_HTML.lha docs/mags 384K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
guess_levels.lha game/data 17K+New files for use with Guess Stress
ufosg.lha game/hint 40K+UFO Strategy Guide
apt2.lha game/misc 297K+Alien Pong Trilogy 2 - Simple Pong Clone
PAnalyzer.lha game/misc 49K+Ping analyzer for QuakeWorld
so2k.lha game/misc 202K+Shoot Out 2000. AF Reader Game.
WHDResolution.lha game/patch 22K+HD Installer for Resolution 101
WHDRodland.lha game/patch 25K+HD Installer for Rodland V1.3
TV-Logo.lha gfx/misc 72K+Small but capable logotype display
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 399K+V1.49 PSX MemoryCard Reader
TitanicII.lha misc/edu 1.8M+Multimedia history of the Titanic, with
Tutankhamun.lha misc/edu 1.2M+Multimedia history of Tutankhamun, with
mp32html.lha mus/misc 59K+V2.4/2.3 - Converts MP3 folder to HTML.
spcli.lha mus/misc 23K+Control SongPlayer from the CLI (v1.51)
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 79K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
modplayer.lha mus/play 74K+MOD Player 2.2, 5-format module player.
shore.jpg pix/art 265K+Painting by Alvar Andersson
aga2000.jpg pix/misc 214K+Official Cover AGA The Blues 2000
SFLogos.lha pix/misc 27K+Some nice logos for SimpleFind3!
Epson_600.lha text/print 16K+Epson Stylus 600/700 Driver for WB V40.1
MiraWizARC_Fra.lha util/arc 5K+French catalog for MiraWizARC V1.0 ( Mas
bootspeak.lha util/boot 10K+BootSpeak 1.0 - random greetings on star
rb_w3.lha util/boot 7K+'wip3out' style Rainboot 2 config.
preferences.lha util/libs 148K+Preferences.library (Scalos) User+Dev
MultiRen.lha util/misc 173K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with
Scion2html.lha util/rexx 33K+WWW browser HTML's from Scion Genealogy
DRemind.lha util/time 210K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.55!
trackdisplaycl.lha util/time 37K+V1.11 Use hardware track display as cloc
hdpp20.lha util/wb 94K+A Hard-Drive Password Protector
irritator.lha util/wb 70K+Irritator. Use it to scare off PC owners
nd2-reg.lha util/wb 84K+NetDOCK-2 v1.25r - Dockbar program for W
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24.Aug.2000
Amiga, Inc.
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Rukson Software Technologies Joins Forces with Amiga
The software company Ruksun Software Technologies will port their two bestsellers
Messenger Force, and IMAP Force to the new Amiga.
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24.Aug.2000
Andreas Mayer-Gürr on ANF
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Heise Reports on the cooperation between Amiga and Red Hat
«After Amiga already announced some cooperation
last month to bring the
multimedia computer of the past to new boom, no even popular hardware and software companies
came to the group of Amiga supporter. So Linux pro Red Hat has announce a cooperartion
with Amiga. With this step they anticipate a wider multimedia support for Linux, than up to now.
Since then Red Hat distributes also the
Amiga Developer's Kit, which only
runs on Linux, yet. A variety of software has already been portetd to the Amiga environment. Ther is
a list on the specially created Amiga Developer' Pages.»
Full article at the titlelink. (German)
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24.Aug.2000
AmigaGlobe
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AmigaGlobe Accessible via WAP
From now on you can access the news of AmigaGlobe even using your WAP mobile phone.
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24.Aug.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III
Developement of the astronomy application DA III has been finished. The first
copies can be delivert from August, 28th. A (strongly limited) demo version also will be
published at Aminet and on the DA homepage, within the next few days.
If somebody might not know, by now:
Digital Almanac is THE astronomy application for Amiga. Seeing extent and features this software
should not fear of comparison to corresponding (expensive) software for PCs.
New in DA III first of all:
- PowerPC Support (WarpOS).
- Bigger Databases (more than 100,000 Deek-Sky-Objects, more than 80,000 small planets and asteroids, more than 1000 comets
- Enhanced GUI and Drawing Routines
- Enhanced analysis of Solar Eclipses
- Expanded Calendar
- Faster Drawing on all CPUs
- Significant faster Searching of the Hubble-GSC-Cataloug compared to DA II
- and many more
The price is 50DM (upgrade from DA II) or 80DM (first use). The application is delivered on CD-ROM, only.
A CD stuffed with 400MB is to be expected. Further information on the homepage (titlelink).
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24.Aug.2000
D. Crawford via eMail
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AmigaOnline.NET Changed Dial-in Numbers
The net of AmigaOnline.net has been enlarged due to better performance, by what the dial-in numbers
has been changed:
From "D. Crawford"
Organization AmigaOnLine.NET
Date 23 Aug 2000 15:23:01 -0400
Subject Changes at AmigaOnLine.NET (PR)
Press Release:
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22-AUG-00
Number changes, and POP updates: (Phoenix, AZ & Seattle, WA coverage area)
To better serve our customers, AmigaOnLine.NET is updating some of our POP servers.
These updates will provide for better data transfers, and better availability of
circuits (i.e. many more people can access through ONE number)¹ However, this
action will change some access numbers. The changes are listed below:
Pheonix, AZ (old numbers)
602-889-1300
602-889-1301
Pheonix, AZ (NEW number)
602-445-0051
Seattle, WA (old numbers)²
206-812-1399
206-812-4571
206-812-4572
206-812-4573
206-812-4574
206-812-4575
Seattle, WA (NEW number)
206-299-0155
Thank you,
AmigaOnLine.NET
¹The move should be completed by August 31, 2000.
Please, update Miami or Genesis by then.
²Everett and Tacoma users should be aware that they may encounter problems
with the new number, as it might be out of their calling range. If this is
the case, continue to use the old number and contact AmigaOnLine.NET as
soon as possible.
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Thanks, again!!!
--
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Regards,
David Crawford
Sales Executive
AmigaOnLine.NET
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23.Aug.2000
Sebastian Bauer
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New Versions of SimpleHTML and html.datatype
New versions for SimpleHTML (0.11) and html.datatype (0.11). SimpleHTML is a HTML offline Browser.
It is useful in order to qickly display smaller HTML-files (e.g. as MIME display program for HTML-files
in YAM). But it supports only a small part of the HTML-Tags. There is a html.datatype available, too.
Download: simplehtml.lzx - 30 KB und
html-dt.lzx - 25 KB.
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23.Aug.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: Developer-Mailinglist Established
MorphOS has established an official developer-mailinglist at eGroups. For subscribing to that mailinglist
please mail to
MorphOS-Dev-subscribe@egroups.com,
for unsubscribing please mail to
MorphOS-Dev-unsubscribe@egroups.com.
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23.Aug.2000
VaporWare
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CManager 1.9 Published
Contact Manager is a program which allows to manage your addresses together with user information.
These might be web addresses, FTP-addresses, IRC-channels or other addresses. This update contains
some bugfixes.
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23.Aug.2000
Haage & Partner
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Inside Haage & Partner
Recently Markus Nerding has given an Interview interview to
AmigaWorld about the future of H&P. This one has been published in the third issue and can be read on the homepage of
Amiga Inc.
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23.Aug.2000
ATC
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New Version of AMiTradeCenter
There is a new version for the FTP-client called ATC.
Download: ATC_beta_22082000.lha
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23.Aug.2000
Deftone on ANF
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Change of Name
SMSMasterMUI has changed its name because there has already been a program with similar name and
function. From today it is now called "SMSEngineerMUI".
As SMSEngineerMUI.lha
the new version probably can be downloaded from tomorrow.
I ask you to delete your old version and to install the update.
We apologize for our mistake. We did not know that there already was a program with this name.
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23.Aug.2000
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amiga-news Celebrates Second Anniversary :-)
In our History you can read up how amiga-news.de has developed in the last
two years. Meanwhile we are a team of 23 persons who place parts of their valuable spare time at disposal
to provide you with the most current news around the Amiga every day.
Gradually it has been added many service sections such as Amiga Link Directory, Free Amiga Jobs,
Aminet Uploads, Newsticker and translations to six languages. Tell our guestbook
if you are pleased with us; what you consider being good and what we might could improve.
At this point I want to thank all the helpful hands in person because without the support of each one
amiga-news.de would not represent that what it is today. I also want to thank all the readers who tirelessly
provide us with news found :-).
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23.Aug.2000
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amiga-news.de Newsticker in English Available
Since our German newsticker has been a full success with 633 subscribers we do not want to withhold our
English readers this service getting our news via eMail
If you don't have time or the possibility to visit amiga-news.de via WWW, you can receive
the english translation from amiga-news.de also via email.
Jürgen Müller will prepare for you the newsticker in
regular periods.
To subscribe, please send email to
newsticker-en-request@amiga-news.de
To unsubscribe, please send email to
newsticker-en-request@amiga-news.de
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22.Aug.2000
Bill McEwen via eMail
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Amiga Inc. Press Release on Cooperation with Red Hat
Amiga and Red Hat working together to provide the foundation for exciting
games, and consumer content for the desktop, STB, Game machines, and
handheld markets
Exciting games, blazing fast Java, new consumer environments, all with the
new Amiga SDK available for $99.00 from Redhat.com Marketplace
Melissa London
Red Hat
919.547.0012
Bill McEwen
Amiga, Inc.
425.396.5660
bill@Amiga.com
Snoqualmie, WA, August 21, 2000 - Amiga (www.Amiga.com) has
announced today an agreement with Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the leader in open
source internet infrastructure, to provide high performance multimedia for
the Linux platform. The agreement gives the Redhat.com community access
to Amiga's Software Developer Kit. Bill McEwen, Amiga President/CEO, said
that the company selected Red Hat because of its leadership and abilities
to assist in the development of the new Amiga.
"The Amiga community has already created significant content including
games and exciting Java applications with the Amiga SDK. With the
response that we received from the members of the Red Hat team, they
clearly understand what the Amiga has meant to the development of personal
computer as we know it today. And more important, they are eager to
provide support and add significantly to the solid foundation we have been
developing," McEwen said.
"We're excited to be working with Amiga," said Paul McNamara, VP of
Products and Platforms at Red Hat. "With a multimedia consumer layer
available with
Red Hat as the foundation, new markets and new users will be able to take
advantage of Linux and the software available on Redhat.com."
"The strategic relationship and partnership with the Tao Group in
Reading, England (www.tao-group.com) that
we announced at the beginning of
this year, added to this support from Red Hat, gives the New Amiga a very
exciting and real story," McEwen added.
The new Amiga SDK is the embodiment of the Amiga multimedia computing
experience. With tools, support, and exciting new applications already in
development for the new Amiga, developers can quickly begin creating
games, multimedia applications, and can use Java for even more
opportunities. With the purchase of the SDK a developer will receive free
updates for the next 12 months, and the scout level of Amiga's
support program.
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22.Aug.2000
Günter Horbach on ANF
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KDH d'Amiga Shipping
Shipping of the d'Amiga has started. After the last papers on the Amiga Development System
d'Amiga arrived from the USA, KDH Datentechnik will ship the system in Europe starting August,
23rd. The Amiga Software Developer Kit and a large support package are part of the developer
package. Now development for the AmigaOne can take off.
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22.Aug.2000
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ASM-One v1.44 Rev. 443 available
Download: asmonev144.lha - 246 kB
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22.Aug.2000
Scalos
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Scalos News
Dave McMinn has updated the preferences.library, and created the "autodocs". More information
at the "Developer" area.
Mike Carter has updated the module Execute_Command to version 1.1. This version is still beta
and might contain bugs. Therefore please consider making a backup prior to installation.
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22.Aug.2000
amiga.org
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Trogladite Software survey
Trogladite Software will soon change to a different server and thinks about improving
layout and content. A survey has been started at the titlelink to enable them to
react to user's wishes.
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