11.Dec.2000
Jens Larsson on ANF
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Boingworld WoA 2000 Report
Boingworld.com published the WoA 2000 show report with some wonderful photos.
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11.Dec.2000
Ingo Musquinier on ANF
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dynAMIte Server
We distributed a free preview of the game dynAMIte among the visitors of the WoA 2000.
Normally you find the addresses of the game-servers on our support-side. Unfortunately
the server is out of order at the moment.
You should use pulp.2y.net (port 6318) as the default server. This one is the official
dynAMIte-server (TDSL-connection). Normally this server is available after 7 p.m. As soon
as the web-server is back again you will be able to find the addresses of the other server
on our support-page.
If there are any problems with the game you can discuss them with us at the IRC. We are
daily available at the euIRCnet (irc.hes.de.euirc.net:6667 channel #AmigaZeux).
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11.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF
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TIDesigner (Addon for TealInfo Developer Kit)
For everyone who wants to be able to increase the speed of the editing of TealInfo Folios
for the Palm, TIDesigner is a good help. The program is shareware.
Download: tidesigner.lha
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11.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Payback Preview-Update (Nightlevel)
There is a update for the Payback-Preview.
This time Juergen A. Theiner put the focus on the Nightlevel.
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11.Dec.2000
Michael Burkhardt via eMail
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WoA Pictures by IOM
IOM published some WoA pictures.
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11.Dec.2000
Yoris Benjamin via eMail
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Realsoft 3D V4 - Press release
As mentioned in the exhibition-report, Hyperion will publish a AMIGA-version of there
'Realsoft 3D'. Here's the press release:
From: Yoris Benjamin
Subject: Realsoft 3D V4 press-release
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:32:54 +0100
Hello World !
Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment team up to bring Realsoft 3D to the
Amiga.
Cologne, December 9, 2000.
Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment have entered into an agreement to bring
Realsoft's critically acclaimed and highly advanced 3D modelling and
rendering package to the Amiga.
'Realsoft 3D' is a full featured modelling, rendering, animation and
simulation software tool. Its predecessor, Real 3D, originated on the Amiga
all these years ago and was renowned for its powerful and innovative tools.
Now the new, rewritten 'Realsoft 3D' provides even more power and introduces
dozens of exciting innovations, all accessible through a very carefully
designed, intelligent, and user-friendly interface. This new interface
adapts to the skills of the user and helps him/her to master advanced 3D
techniques with surprising ease. Realsoft 3D is designed to meet the
requirements of today's 3D artist who requires extreme performance through an
easy to use, productive user interface.
Commenting on the agreement, Realsoft's managing director Vesa Meskanen
remarked: "The success of our 3D product line started on the Amiga platform.
This opportunity to port our latest product generation back to Amiga is
therefore very welcome. The platform independent design of Realsoft 3D
together with Hyperion Entertainment's knowledge about the latest
developments of Amiga OS entails that after the initial porting work is done,
all our new software releases will include the Amiga platform without further
porting delays."
"We were extremely impressed by the feature-set of Realsoft 3D. This package
truly represents unbelievable value for money", said Ben Hermans, managing
partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "Through our activities in the field of
entertainment software, we have acquired enormous expertise in the field of
3D graphics. We were looking for a way to leverage this expertise and apply
it to other areas. Given Realsoft's Amiga background, it seemed natural to
approach them. We are very excited that we can play a role in bringing back
Real 3D's successor to the Amiga."
Realsoft 3D will be available for Amiga OS 3.x and Amiga DE in the course of
2001. Requirements and further details to be announced.
About Realsoft Graphics Oy
Realsoft Graphics Oy, a Finnish corporation founded in 1989 as Realsoft Ky,
has been pushing the cutting edge of 3D visualization for over a decade. For
more information about Realsoft Graphics and its products, visit the
company's website at www.realsoft3d.com
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German corporation
founded in April of 1999 with the stated aim of porting AAA entertainment
software to Amiga, Linux (x86/PPC) and Mac. The company has signed license
deals with industry leaders such as Activision (ATVI), Interplay (IPLY) and
Monolith.
Regards,
Ben Yoris
Hyperion Entertainment Software
PR Manager
Web: http://www.hyperion-software.com
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11.Dec.2000
Wolf Faust via eMail
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ICS V2 released
After more than a year of work, the free scanner color correction
ICS V2 was released. Following features have been added to V2 of ICS:
- Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
- ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
- ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data.
- ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial
information
- Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images
(IFF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- Spanish localization added
- ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion.
- IRW does offer improved and localized error handling. Error requesters
now offer detailed information,
hints and often also a Retry function.
- Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats. Also,
memory requirement was reduced.
- Many new small enhancements....
Download the new software from http://www.ics.coloraid.de
--
Wolf Faust
Tel: +49-69-5486556
e-mail
Fax: +49-69-95409598
homepage
Mobile: +49-179-6924769
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11.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena special offer
Together with Helmut Hoffmann, Amiga Arena offers a special Christmas price for
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow inclusive all additional modules. The price will be 35,- DM.
This offer will be valid until 12-31-2000.
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11.Dec.2000
Torsten Dudai
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OS 3.9 - Presentation by Juergen Haage and Martin Steigerwald
Torsten Dudai did a report about the OS 3.9 presentation on the WoA:
Though there was "US-Amiga-News / Bill McEwen" an item of the agenda, neither Bill McEwen - who
stayed in America - nor Fleecy Moss - who was at the show - were available at that time, so
Juergen Haage had to stand in. In a direct dialogue with the users he tried to collect their
worries and sorrows for Amiga Inc. to be able to estimate the current mood. But the discussion
(due to the lack of facts on the subject AmigaDE) very soon resulted in the new OS 3.9, in which
every attendant of the seminar was very interested. So, Juergen Haage was able to seamlessly led
over to the following seminar.
Besides of individual problems (one elder man was especially "persistent") also much of the known
subjects were addressed, as like as the condition of "50,000" sold copies of OS3.9 (Fleecy Moss), and
the "license quarrel" around AmiTCP. In both cases Juergen Haage was able to quiet the devotees' minds: the number
"50,000" would not be meaningful at all, because it even isn't combined with a date. Later one just
would have to able to estimate if or if not OS 3.9 has been a success. For example only 40,000
(or less) sold copies already would be a big success. About the license quarrel Juergen Haage just
said, "There is no license quarrel". Haage & Partner obtained the license for AmiTCP correctly
and is allowed to distribute the TCP stack along with Genesis (no MUI, but Reaction GUI) on the
CD-ROM.
Then together with Stefan Robl, the programmer of AmiDocks, the new OS3.9 tool-bar, (almost) all of
the features of the new Amiga operating system were presented. During the presentation again ideas,
criticism, and suggestions were given by the viewers. Juergen Haage put an implementation in parts into
prospective for a coming "Boing-Pack 2". But the limits of what can be done are almost reached with
this update. Without a change of the KickROMs not much further can be done, any more.
But about one subject he could not give any clear statement: Amiga DE. Haage & Partner still didn't
decide whether or not they would port their own products to the new system. In parts this depends on the
availability of a sophisticated GUI system, which isn't available at the time being.
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11.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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Show Report by Petra Struck
World of Amiga - Gleanings - 10.12.2000
Autor: Petra Struck (German version)
More amiga-news.de Links
Pictures by Petra Struck vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Torsten Dudai vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Petra Struck of the 2nd day
OS3.9 - Presentation by Torsten Dudai - in German
Exteral links to reports and pictures
Fun Time: Eyetech - AmigaONE/AmigaDE Timelines
(Pictures of the Eyetech diagramms)
Fun Time: World of Amiga 2000 - Die ersten Infos
IRC: Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc.
IRC: Elbox
Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (4,1 MB)
Marcus Neervoort: Fleecy Moss's lecture on Dec., 9th
Tom's WOA 2000 Pictures (Thomas Wenzel)
No Risc No Fun
Fun Time World
WoA 2000 pitctures by Salva
Amiga-Community.net
Videos from Elwood
Report from amiga.topcool.de
Pictures from Virtual Dimension
Pictures from Elbox
Pictures from BAUD
Report from Amiga Globe
Report from Boing World
Report from IOM
Show report by Petra Struck
The World of Amiga 2000 from December, 9th to 10th, which was organized by
Haage & Partner, was branded by the vending start of
the new AMIGA OS3.9, which according to the vendors sold brilliant on the fair.
The show took place inside the really imposing building of Cologne's Mediapark 7 on about 300 m² room.
For this show were organized within shortest time this event was attended very well with an amount of
about 1500 visitors (note: own estimation). Seminars were held in the opposite building Mediapark 6. The first
day of the fair Saturday was stamped by active crowd, while on Sunday it was rather unhurried, cause of only half
as full as on the day before.
Before I start describing the highlights of the show I want to put across to every reader that I personally
again liked this fair very much. I'm always exited about the cheerful and personal atmosphere. As already
in Neuss an amazing amount of international attendants had come to the show. I've met and spoken to
people from England, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, France, and Spain. The visitors had visible
fun and where impressed by the many different presentations. Everywhere crowds of interested viewers got together.
Disappointment only dispersed caused by the fact that Bill McEwen didn't attend the show;
short- termed and insuspendable deadlines kept him from coming to Cologne. Fleecy Moss, Vice President
and Chief of Development, but provided for incredulous astonishment by stating there must be at least
50,000 copies of AMIGA OS3.9 sold, to be able to do OS4.0. As for this time nobody thinks this to be
possible his statement was taken for a clear No for OS4.0.
As already in Neuss amiga-news.de together with the
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet was present with an
own booth. From our editorial staff were on the fair: Dirk Baeyens,
Tomás J. Cantó, Torsten Dudai, Ruediger Engel, Guido Fehst, Eric Gillé,
Martina Jacobs, Rolf Tingler, and me truly. Nico Barbat was also on the show, but of course was very
busy at his own booth (Falke-Verlag). Rolf inspired the visitor with his
airbrushing skills.
We enjoyed to get in close contact with the readers and numerous dialogues convinced us to have high
acknowledgment for our work, and encouraged us to continue to spend our free time for this project.
Especially intensive and interesting were the dialogues with editors of other news services, as like
Andrea Vallinotto from diff.org (ItalY), Adrian Sweeney from
amigaglobe.com (Irland), Ian Maack from
amiga.dk (Denmark), Sebastian Brylka from
Fun Time World (Germany), and Mark Hinton
and Russell Trent from AmigActive (England).
Along this I would like to say thank you very much for the many kind compliments regarding our news service.
The Amiga-Club provided the people not able to attend the show with actual pictures from the fair, and
cared for trouble-free UGN IRC chats. Traditional the club members answered our questions, and helped
solving one or the other user's problem.
Also this time Michael Schaefer and Dennis Pauler from
Virtual Dimension were busy with their video camera to
create informing show videos. They did many interviews, and over and over made the microphone sure to work,
cause on the last fair the microphone failed completely, which sure was half a disaster.
Trade and the big ones of the branch were present with their own booths - as a matter of fairness this
time in alphabetical order or vice versa:
In talks with the exhibitors it became clear that - almost unisonous - they all came with mixed feelings,
but against what they expected the visitors were joyfully buying. Trade overall voiced positive about
sales.
Almost at all of the above mentioned booths presentations of different software and hardware took
place which I will describe without special order. So for example Peter Hoffmann, Stefan Sommerfeld,
and Juergen Rebensdorf from
Aliendesign introduced their new sound card
'Repulse', which can be used with every Amiga with Zorro-II expansion. The sound card
offers sampling rates from 8 to 48 kHz, including 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz S/P-Diff, and supports
16, 18, 20, and 24 Bit (S/P-DIF) sampling frequence in mono or stereo.
New at individual computers was the ISDN-Surfer Zorro card which was to purchase either with or
without OVP. The announced products 'Lyra' (adapter to use WindowsTM keyborads with Amiga),
and 'Buddha Flash MK2' unfortunately were not finished, but probably will be available before
Christmas.
Dirk Conrad introduced his MAS-Player which is distributed by
Eternity. The MPEG-Player is a small piece of hardware looking like a serial plug. The player can
play MP3 files already on a machine only equipped with a 68000 68k processor. HiFi quality is around
18 Bit / 44 kHz. Since the WoA 2000 AmigaAMP is supported.
At the booth of Hyperion the attendants were able to admire a prototype of the G-Rex PCI board
by DCE with Voodoo3 graphics board on action. With this system
Heretic II really looked smooth, it was fast and the lightning effects were wonderfully visible.
Users can look forward to better speed and nice graphics. The boards are planned to be finished end
of December 2000.
Of course we yet asked for the projects under construction at Hyperion, and summarized the answers as
follows:
- Shogo: Hans-Joerg and Thomas Frieden are working on the Amiga version which presumably will be
finished end of January 2001.
- Freespace: On the port of this space shooter Steffen Haeuser and
Matthias Roslund are working. It is planned to finished 1Q/2001.
- Majesty: Stephan Rusdorf and Thomas Frieden are busy porting this
fantasy strategy game which includes roll game elements. It is expected to be finished 2Q/2001.
- Die Voelker (Alien Nations): Harry Sintonen is working on the port of this popular build-up and
strategy game, which is a big success similar to Siedler.
- SIN: Steffen Haeuser and Peter Annuss are working on the port of the 3D shooter.
The game will presumably be finished 1Q/2001.
- Hyperion will also port the 3D software 'Realsoft 3D' by Realsoft to the
Amiga! With this software comparable to 'Cinema3D' or 'Reflections'
the Amiga users will get a 3D modelling tool more extended and modern than anything else released
before.
Eyetech together with Martin Schueler from
Escena introduce the plans for the AmigaOne
machine. It was shown on diagrams how the system will look like. The 68k emulation is being developed
by Haage & Partner.
At Eternity Tales of Tamar was presented - Martin Wolf's
favourite project. In the meantime the world map and cities have been enabled. Still intense online
tests are running and the beta testers are really sold on the game. Initial bigger beta test are planned
for 2Q/2001.
Also at Eternity EASys!
by Tom Neidhardt was presented. The current update offers improvements like e.g. a built-in start menu,
OS3.9 menu support and alignment. Other changes: the archive manager now supports XPK; the menus are
structured better, and extend of menus is scalable, and moreover the buggy installation of the previous
version has been fixed, hence a trouble-less installation is possible,yet.
Eternity moreover presented a PC (Eternity 1) basing on 1 GHz (Tunderbird processor by AMD), equipped with
gigabyte board, 128 MB DIMM -133, Ge-Force II graphics board 32 MB DD-RAM, Catweazel controller, 52x CD-ROM drive,
20 GB Quantum HD, two PC floppy drives (one of them connected to the Catweasel), as well as a sound card 128 Bit
PCI. The gag of this PC is a perfectly pre-installed UAE under Windows. This way one gets a fast PC, and
an AMIGA at the speed of 68040/60.
During an interview with Andreas Magerl and Georg Breitsprecher from
Amiga Future and APC&TCP
Mr. Magerl stated that financing of the now self-produced print magazine
'Amiga Future' finally is safe. Number of orders still isn't 100% satisfying, but a huge layout enhancement
would attract more orders. I've seen the new layout and I can confirm it to be a difference like night and day. :-)
Andreas Kuessner from WK-Artworks presented
'Taifun', the successor of 'WildFire'. Taifun is being developed for the new
operating system 'Amiga DE' using the Amiga Software Developer Kit (SDK). KDH-Datentechnik
will be distributor of Taifun.
At epic interactive Paul Burkey introduce 'Simon The Sorcerer II'. The game will be at the vendors
form the middle of next week. Also presented was 'Earth 2140', a real-time strategy game has been
ported to the Amiga by Pagan Games on demand of epic interactive. The master volume is on its way to production.
Still under development is Dafel:Bloodline. Status: Thomas Wuergler continues to work on this game, but
when it will be finished cannot be estimated at the time being. 'Converting games' currently has
a higher priority.
The ATC team handed me a disk containing a preview of the reworked classic game
Dynamite. This one will be to play via internet. I promise to have
a look at it soon. :)
My quite personal summary: The AMIGA is anything but dead! There are innovative developments in hardware
and software taking place. There is unfractured engagement and unrestricted attendance to continue. In many
dialogues it got clear that we are facing a future which though is undetermined, it's not hopeless.
Tenor from the exhibitors' commercial point of view was, "Though one is able to make enough money with the
Amiga, one cannot 'line his pockets'". Already from just this solitary point of view I rate this
fair as a success. I had a lot of fun, anyway, and to have been there really pushed on my motivation. :-)
In terms of this....
Petra Struck
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10.Dec.2000
Salva via email
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WoA 2000 pictures by Salva
WoA 2000 pictures by Salva.
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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
DataM_II.lha biz/dbase 1.0M+Spreadsheet using MUI (German docs only!
ET60DemoFrench.lha biz/demo 2.4M+Multimedia language tutor - French ver.
TProspEd2.lha biz/demo 81K+V2.0.0alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
P-Lister.lha comm/bbs 82K+Pointlister V20001206
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 765K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
2b_Haracz.lha comm/misc 350K+Calculate fee for internet provider
amlog.lha comm/misc 97K+V2.0 - HTTP/FTP/MAIL adress database
Tango.lha comm/tcp 100K+Samba/smb-handler gui. beta-001201
simplehtml.lha comm/www 32K+V0.13 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
streamer.lha comm/www 24K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
StripHunk.lha dev/misc 25K+Tiny cli-command to strip hunks/relocs
xad_COP.lha dev/src 11K+COP xadmaster client
adfblitzer.lha disk/misc 23K+A program to write & read adf-files!
MountDos12.lha disk/misc 21K+Read & list/mount MS-Dos partition-table
pmangband.lha game/role 392K+Pern mangband 3.0.6
FlashMandel.lha gfx/fract 3.9M+The best fractal rendering program for A
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 21K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
imdbDiff001201.lha misc/imdb 1.8M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
YACAS.lha misc/math 551K+Mathematics Program, v1.0.43
Empire.mpg mods/elbie 1.8M+Empire_Topsy-Turvy [Piano] by ElbiE^t13n
5th-remi.lha mods/med 182K+Vetal's OCSS-ravemix on classic music
crashed_.lha mods/med 255K+Multipart Vetal OCSS module
naftalin.lha mods/med 376K+Cool MED module from ukrainian Dreamer
spirit_p.lha mods/med 72K+MED module from ukrainian Dreamer
tranz.lha mods/med 174K+MED module from ukrainian Dreamer
reboot.mpg mods/mpg 606K+Reboot (anti Pc-windoz FRENCH mp3)
aBc_Marie.lha mods/techn 459K+L'aBc de Marie by Chris, The Highlander
vdo_queu.lha mods/techn 339K+The 48th voodoo release
psidren.lha mus/misc 24K+Renames PSIDs tunes to their real name
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 82K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 120K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
PicDp5.lha pix/art 108K+Nice picture made with Dpaint5
SoundsforWB.lha pix/art 446K+Picture and Sound For Wb
DarkNowee.lha pix/wb 130K+Dark WB Look by Nowee for Visualprefs
Epson_400.lha text/print 34K+Epson Stylus 400/440/460 Driver for WB V
HP_Deskjet870C.lha text/print 16K+Deskjet 8x0C/9x0C Driver for WB V40.11
SetDTool.lha util/cli 7K+CLI-Program to change DefaultTool_Entrys
ilbmdt44.lha util/dtype 8K+Improved ilbmdt (44.25)
CountryEdit.lha util/misc 14K+Country definition editor (MUI)
GuiSplatch.lha util/misc 30K+Split and join files with easy to use GU
MultiRen.lha util/misc 175K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with
Ver.lha util/sys 13K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version
GuiSplatch.lha util/wb 30K+Split and join files with easy to use GU
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10.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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Woa pictures
The first exhibiton day was gut visited and as could be read in the different
announcements there were interesting presentations of hard- and software all
over the place. As usual we'll supply you with comprehensive information about
all details in our exhibition review.
You can get a first impression through our pictures. Besides the photos by Petra Struck
under the title link Torsten Dudai has also
captured his impressions.
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10.Dec.2000
Thomas Wenzel on ANF
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New public beta of AmigaAmp
Just in time for the end of the WoA'2000 there's a new version of AmigaAmp.
Originally Thomas Wenzel had planned to release the final version 2.8 these
days. But there are two features he didn't want to psh back for later releases:
MAS-Player Support
The MAS-Player is an external MPEG-audio-decoder for the parallel port and can be
used with EVERY Amiga. The support in AmigaAmp exists in the form of a new
driver system developed by Paul Qureshi together with Dirk Conrad and Thomas
Wenzel. With the combination AmigaAMP and MAS-Player it is possible to play
MP3-files in full quality even on 68030 Amigas. Dirk himself offers a special
highly optimised software which makes playback of MP3 even on a 68000. The
MAS-Player is distributed by Eternity (Martin Wolf).
Shoutcast Streaming
Shoutcast is a protocol for live broadcastings of radio transmissions via the internet.
>From the today released version on AmigaAMP doesn't need an external program for
receiving such transmissions. The necessary protocol is directly integrated.
The two named features are still in development and don't run 100% stable. For
a first impression it is enough though. The new version of AmigaAMP is
downloadable from www.amigaamp.de.
Download: AmigaAMP28b9.lha (573K)
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10.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III Xmas update
Because of illness the release of the Xmas update for DA3 may be delayed some
days. Because of the same reason a preview of the new features was only possible
just now.
Under the title link you can find a summary of the new features including
screenshots.
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10.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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WOA: Eyetech - AmigaOne/AmigaDE-Roadmap
Together with the partners Escena
(Martin Schueler) and Hyperion Software
(further partners are Haage&Partner (68k-Emulation) and Michael Rock(PCI/AGP-Resource
Libraries and other things)) the company Eyetech has presented their plans
regarding their AmigaOne computer. Fun Time World has released
diagrams
of this presentation.
The AmigaOne 1200 from Eyetech is a PPC-PCI-system plus Amga hardware and
68k-emulation for use with Amiga Classic and AmigaDE software. The PPC system is
based on the project
Brainstormer by Escena.
Via the WestBridge
of the system the A1200, IDE, 1 AGP- and 4 PCI-slots are connected. Via the
NorthBridge the PPC-cpu, the SDRAM, USB and two more PCI-slots. The
PPC
can access the Amiga-system (custom chips, Chip RAM, Amiga I/O).
On starting the system the FlashROM is copied into the SDRAM, then the
68k-emulator respectively the AmigaDE is activated and the Amiga Classic'
booted. The Amiga Classic software now runs on top of the 68k-emulation on the
AmigaOne-board (PPC) and uses the Amiga specific hardware of the integrated
A1200-board.
The emulation only emulates the command set of the 68k-cpu-line but no Amiga
specific hardware like AGA which exists as real hardware. The emulation is
memory intensive and therefore needs a fast memory access. For a step-by-step
adaption of the software 'in-line'-PPC-code is supported.
The following planned schedule is given in the diagrams.
Amiga Classic
- 12/2000: developer system
- 01/2001: Classic OS-drivers
- 01/2001: 680x0-emulator
- 02/2001: system for betatesters
- 1. quarter 2001: finished version of the AmigaOne A1200 for use as extended
Amiga Classic (PPC, PCI/AGP-Slots)
AmigaDE
- 07/2001: AmigaDE for end-users
- 07/2001: AmigaDE graphics, drivers and so on
- 08/2001: AmigaDE port for (every) AmigaOne possible
- 1. quarter 2002: availability of ready-to-use applications especially for
AmigaDE
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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Faust on ANF
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Open source: Bars&Pipes Pro 2.0
Alfred Faust has released an email of Todor Fay, the former chief programmer of
Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc., on ANF that is dated 9. December 2000. In this
email Todor Fay announces the release of the source code of Bars&Pipes Pro
V2.0. Besides bugfixes this will make the continued development of the
sequencer possible.
For now Fay is collecting together the source code. For this he needs help from
one or more Amiga developers with an up and running Amiga developer environment.
«I think we can work towards a better solution:
I've gotten clearance to release the source code for
Bars&Pipes to the Amiga community. This means several
things:
1) Known bugs can be fixed.
2) Perhaps y'all can create special hooks for real time
services (timer, midi in and out) in the Amiga code so it
can connect more directly with the services in Windows. It's
pretty amazing that timing works at all, given that it is
running on an emulation of the audio interrupt (kudos to
Brian King!). 'Course that would require changes to WinUAE
to support this.
3) Port Bars&Pipes to Windows. If people want to collaborate
on such a project, I will very gladly provide advice and
assistance.
At this point, I'm collecting together the source code. I
need to work with one or more developers who have Amiga dev
environments up and running to help put this together. We
need to make sure everything is there and compiles
correctly.
Any volunteers?
Todor»
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10.Dec.2000
André Siegel on ANF
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BlueBlack Solution websites gets revamped
André Siegel wrote:
Our net presentation gets momentarily reworked, please have therefor some days
patience until we can give you again access to our complete web offer.
You like the new design of our website? You recognised deficiencies? Show
courage, write us an email
and help us to improve our offers furthermore.
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10.Dec.2000
Richard de Rivaz on ANF
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INET DIAL v3.833
The internet management system 'INET DIAL' now offers a German localisation and
is in general prepared for translations. Everybody who wants to do a translation
may apply to the developer.
Download: inet_dial.lha (528K)
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10.Dec.2000
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WOA: Pictures and reports
pictures
reports
IRC-conferences
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10.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Obligement #24
The 24. issue of the french e-magazine 'Obligement' for Amigas
is ready for downlaod. This issue contains among other things an interesting
article about the AmigaOne, an interview with the graphical artist Eric W.
Schwartz, reviews of Nightlong and MooVid 2 and much more.
Download: obligement24.lha (598K)
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10.Dec.2000
James Russell on Open Amiga-ML
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AmigaDE: James Russell manages Mozilla porting
James Russell is the leader
of the Mozilla-engine-porting for AmigaDE.
Mozilla is the open source browser project
emerged from the Netscape browser.
To begin with Russell has contacted mozdev.org
about the possibility of hosting the necessary infrastructure (webspace, CVS,
mailing list) for the project. It would then become accessible under
mozamiga.mozdev.org.
Everybody who wants to help in porting, give constructive ideas or feedback may
post on the Open Amiga-Mailingliste
or address directly to James Russell.
He is to find on the IRC-channels #mozamiga at irc.mozilla.org
and #developer at irc.whiterose.net.
He suggests to interested people to have a look at the NSPR-Video on
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/brownbag.htmlfor now,
which informs in a comprehensive way about the NSPR module. This module presents the
biggest hurdle for the Mozilla-port for AmigaDE.
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09.Dec.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail
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BoXer Board Status
On the Anti-Gravity page there is a press release dated November, 29th 2000
concerning the BoXer mainboard.
Current BoXeR prototype main-boards feature the emulated AGA chip-set on three
single chips. The final revision will integrate the AGA into one single chip.
The redesign has been completed and it is ready for build up. It is planned
to make this board with one single AGA chip available for the AmigaActive
magazine for testing purpose end of December.
The distributor network is growing. According to the latest survey there are
currently more than 500 distributors of the BoXer.
Our employment survey also got great and worldwide response. Anit-Gravity is
hoping to be able to contact everyone who replied to talk about possibilities
to enable all of them to take part in developing this system.
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09.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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WOA: Fun Time World - information
Sebastian Brylka released first information about the fair.
Bill McEwen didn't attend the fair - his place was taken by an
unprepared Fleecy Moss. Heretic II has been presented as a Voodoo version.
The graphics board was plugged into a G-Rex PCI prototype in an A4000. The
G-Rex board for A1200's has also been presented. This version is ready and
in progress. It's said to be released early 2001.
More information are available in the Fun Time World announcement. Photos and more
information have been announced.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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Amiga in Berlin Scene Club
Under the title link at the upper left you can see an Amiga 1200 in a
Scene Club in Berlin.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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Open Source Campaign planning to create a Counsil
The 'Campaign to Open Source the AmigaOS' campaign created by Steve Crietzman
is making efforts to release the AmigaOS sources as open source. In recent times it has
been quiet around this campaign. This was due to the fact that Crietzman had
taken a longer break, because work had gotten to much to handle. Now he regrets
to have been absent for so long without any explanation.
The current plan involves the creation of a transition plan for the Open
Amiga Foundation. Therefore they are looking for participants. Persons
interested in this initiative might contact OpenAmiga@aol.com.
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09.Dec.2000
André Beer on ANF
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GeoWorld V1.12 - New demo version of the geographical software
We of Beer Productions are happy to announce the release of a new
demo version of our geographical software for the Amiga. This demo version is
based on the current GeoWorld Version 1.12 and contains a foretaste of the
extensive data and many features that make this software unique on the Amiga.
The demoversion can be downloaded on our homepage as well as on the Aminet
(misc/edu). Currently GeoWorld can still be ordered for a special price at
Amiga Arena.
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09.Dec.2000
ANN
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WOA: IRC with Elbox
Under the title link you will find a log-file of ab IRC conference with Elbox.
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09.Dec.2000
Patrick Roberts in Open Amiga-ML
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AmigaDE: Etick V0.86 Beta and Ewinease V0.63 Alpha
On December 9th, 2000 Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.86
of the ticker 'ETick' and alphav ersion 0.63 of the GUI-Kit 'Ewinease'
Etick is a graphical ticker with plug-in support that can display
miscellaneous information like headlines of news services. The archive contains the
files that are necessary to develop plug-ins. Currently the following sources
are supported:
- Amiga.org: Headlines
- Amiga.com: First page headlines
- Amigadev.net: Headlines of the news, Top 10 Downloads, the last 10
uploads
- Time and date
- Weather forecast (needs 'forecast.tgz')
- Stats of the web-servers 'zAMilo'
The program further needs Clip and Artix_Nexttext by Richard Collier. These
packages have to be installed before 'Etick'.
There is a small update for 'Ewinease'. This kit simplifies the programming of
AVE-GUIs in C. This update is an alpha version. The product is not completed and
may contain bugs. More detailed information are in TODO_HISTORY.doc.
Download:
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaOS 4.0 PPC theoretically possible
In the IRC of the WOA 2000 Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. stated that AmigaOS 4.0
PPC is possible to be. Condition for this is that enough copies of
AmigaOS V3.9 will be sold to show that there is a valuable market for this product.
The required number of sold copies is 50,000.
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09.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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KICKSTART ARCHIVES
The homepage of KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM has moved and can be reached under
http://home.nexgo.de/kickstart/.
This page contains among others a wide collection of texts about the history of
the Amiga.
Release date of the CD-ROM is 12-31-2000.
You can find all the necessary information at the homepage.
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09.Dec.2000
xandiy on ANF
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Pictures from WOA 2000
At Amiga-Community.net there are first
pictures of the WOA.
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09.Dec.2000
Bernd on ANF
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Fireball Issue #3
Issue #3 of Fireball is ready for download under the title link.
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09.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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ASM-One V1.45 R454c
As announced on December 5th, 2000, version 1.45 revision 454c of the assembler
'ASM-One' has been released. In this version many bugs have been removed and
some functions added. The RTG version (for gfx boards) only made it to a beta
version since there has not been enough time to remove bigger bugs.
The normal version needs at least AmigaOS 2.x. The RTG version AmigaOS 3.x.
Both require reqtools.library and asl.library.
In the first archive there is also the ASM-One Guide, which contains ASM-One
source rescuer and the history
Download:
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09.Dec.2000
CyberGFX
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Mediator, G-Rex and P96
Several news have been released on the CyberGFX pages in the last few days.
In the channel #amiga(irc.whiterose.net), a collaborator of Hyperion, voiced
positively about the design of the Mediator board. To keep costs low the
people from Elbox only use one logic chip which is used as many times as
required. This way they have managed among otheres to create their PCI bus
without having to use expensive Glue- chipsets from third party companies.
«On #amiga (irc.whiterose.net) one of the guys from Hyperion was chatting about the design of
the Mediator: "They've shown some really clever ways to keep their costs down in design, certainly....
All of their hardware consists of ONE logic chip which they use repeatedly, as many as necessary.",
"They design all their own components, so no need to buy expensive external glue logic.",
"Their PCI bus, for instance, is entirely their own implementation, no glue chip-sets from a
3rd party manufacturer.", "For instance there was a bug in the FastATA 4000 hardware, and
they had to send out replacement chips to fix it. FPGA could just be reprogrammed.", FastATA 4000
is "EIDE controller for Z3. The ONLY one." "Umm it implements the fast ATA modes. like PIO-4, etc.
So I get better performance out of IDE drives.", "Again, like all their other products, their
IDE implementation is their own, using the same chip they use on all their products. :-) Pretty cool."
"Well it also does PIO-5 but Z3 has trouble with it."»
The vendors.txt has been
updated on November, 25th 2000 updated. 18 new boards have been added
respectively updated. There have been no particular changes related to the
Mediator itself.
Pictures about the G-Rex with 5 PCI slots, and about CyberGraphX running on a
VooDoo4 4500 have been released..
About Picasso96 concerning Elbox there has been a new article released
from the P96-Mailinglist.
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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PDF-Version of AmigaWorld #4
Beside the Online-Version there is
now also the PDF version of the
AmigaWorld #4 by Amiga Inc. with information about the new system available.
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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RxMUI V3.95
Alfonso Ranieri released version 3.95 of RxMUI. This
ARexx-Library makes it possible to create GUIs using MUI in ARexx.
Download: rxmui.lha (362K)
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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Price of the 'Martina' sound card
On December 5th, 2000 Czech Amiga News announced the approximate price of the
'Martina' sound card by Michal Kluczewski. The clockport version will cost
about 180,- DM(90,- EUR).
The MPEG decoder modul will be available seperately. Prices for this modul
and other card versions have not been fixed yet.
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08.Dec.2000
Christoph Dietz
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NSDi on AmiTCP/IP licensing and Genesis rights
Press release:
NSDi PRESS RELEASE 2000/12/08 22:45 EET, 21:45 CET, 20:45 UTC
The Issue About AmiTCP/IP Licensing and GENESiS Publishing Rights:
Since the World of Amiga (WOA) show begins tomorrow, Saturday, December 9th
2000 and Haage&Parther is expected to start selling their AmigaOS 3.9
and NSDi and Haage&Partner is not yet in agreement of the licensing
of the AmiTCP/IP software, NSDi is forced to publish this information:
Happened so far:
AmiTCP/IP was licensed to be part of Amiga GENESiS Networking System
with a license fee of $5 per AmiTCP/IP Copy. No later licensing
agreement has been done between NSDi (The AmiTCP/IP Copyright Holder)
and any AmiTCP/IP licensee.
The latest moment any license payments for NSDi has been made
January 1999, with amount of about EUR 4000.
1st quarter of year 2000 AmiTCP/IP source was provided for one of
the GENESiS developer so he could add some missing features. At this
time, however:
- NSDi or respective NSDi personnel has not given any immaterial
property rights of AmiTCP/IP software away.
- No right for further redistribution of AmiTCP/IP source to anybody.
(both of these has been violated, either by incompetence to follow the
copyright laws, or just unwillingity to obey it -- hopefully it is
the first case)
At fall 2000, without any prior notice to NSDi, publishing rights of
GENESiS has been transferred to Haage&Partner. I (Tomi Ollila) at NSDi
was informed this when the press release about 4 weeks after this has
happened, was sent to one of the vaporware mailinglists.
At that time, since such a radical change in GENESiS rights I asked our
current licensee when our payments are due. I basically got an answer
that there is no money since all has gone to publishing cost or lost when
the company that made the CD:s went bankcrupty. That is an answer I could
live with. I did not want our licensee to get into more trouble, as he
had done so hard work with it. I just thought I then ask Haage&Partner
that at a later time -- as publishing rights were transferred, all the
licensing issues should have come with it. But, I also have an ordinary
work -- with EUR 1000 one just cannot manage in modern western country
very long -- I have been pretty busy working so I forgot to ask that
just then.
Note that that does not lessen our immaterial property rights of the
software of ours: It is responsibility of the people who are going
to sell the software further the figure out under what copyright
the sofware is bound of.
But, at the end of November 2000, I heard that Haage&Partner is going to
include GENESiS in their forthcoming AmigaOS 3.9. The genesis package
included AmiTCP/IP, and NSDi has had the previously mentioned licensing
agreement effective with it. However, NSDi was never contacted of such an
arrangement.
I was forced to take a quick action: I sent an e-mail to Haage&Partner
explaining the situation using quite strong words just to get attention.
After a few e-mails sent back and forth, I was asked to make an offer
with a fixed sum for unlimited use of the AmiTCP/IP software. I come
first up with a market price of some TCP/IP stack I've heard, and
that was EUR 15000. That was way too much what the Haage&Partner
representative say they could handle. Since this was so close to
the beginning of WOA and we don't have much time to negotiate (even it
is not my fault that I did not know earlyer), I come up with much
lesser price in my next e-mail...
I sent that email yesterday morning, about 11 EET (10 CET, 9 UTC), and
I have got no answer to that e-mail up to now.
So, now we are in situation, where Haage&Partner does have publishing
rights to GENESiS software, but has no license to sell the included
AmiTCP/IP. It might be so, that Haage&Partner has been so busy that
they have had no time to answer my latest proposition -- that I don't
know. Anyway, If they start selling AmigaOS 3.9 with GENESiS and AmiTCP/IP
included, they are selling unlicensed software.
At the time being, we are still willing to come with AmiTCP/IP
licensing agreement with Haage&Partner and therefore we don't want
to forbid sales of AmigaOS 3.9 at WOA -- mainly since there is so
many Amiga users who don't want to wait any longer before getting
the new Amiga Operating System. Also, taking such a drastic move
don't help our efforts to come with a positive end result in
discussion with Haage&Partner. However, my unfortunate duty is
to declare unlawful to sell products that contains AmiTCP/IP without
valid licensing agreement with NSDi on other sales channels.
At the time being, we continue licensing discussions with
Haage&Partner to get the lisensing issue in order. We will
keep the media informed of the progress of the discussion.
If you have any supportive comments, critisim to throw, or
some more information what I should know, please send e-mail
to the address shown below.
If there is doubt of the authenticity of this information,
this text is also included in my homepage at
http://www.iki.fi/too/amitcp.txt
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila@tfi.net (*)
Network Solutions Development, Inc.
Helsinki, Finland
(*) @nsdi.fi -address no longer active due to poorness of the company.
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08.Dec.2000
GoldED
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GoldED - WoA 2000 special offer
Dietmar Eilert offers visitors of the WoA 2000 GoldED for half price.
To get the special price, please send your WoA ticket or a written
confirmation that proves your presence at the fair to the GoldED support.
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08.Dec.2000
bplan GmbH
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Specifications of the PowerPC mainboard
bplan GmbH releases the specification of the dual G3/G4 microATX mainboard
with codename PEGASOS.
With its PEGASOS development pblan GmbH of Germany brings the unleashed
PowerPC performance to the users.
By using a modular system design, the mainboard could be easily user upgraded
to the individual demands. With todays standard interfaces already designed
onto the PEGASOS mainboard, the users will be able to easily connect standard
components (like harddrives or CD Roms) and a wide range of high-end devices such
as digital video cameras to the system.
While PEGASOS itself is widely scaleable to the users needs, it's a easy task
for retailers or OEMs to configure the system for their demands. By hitting
the best price/performance point for the chosen configuration, systems
starting with one CPU (at entry level) up to multi PPC G4 based cluster computers
could be build using the same hardware.
For technical details follow the title link.
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08.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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WoA 2000
I was shortly at the fair this morning to take some things there and to
get a first impression. The Mediapark consists of several architectonically
imposing buildings. The fair is held in the building Mediapark 7 (1st floor),
while the seminars are held in the building Mediapark 6 (also 1st floor). The
fair exhibitors are work like beavers on their booths and there's a bustle as in a
beehive.
Supplement:
In a talk with Juergen Haage, I have learned that Fleecy Moss will attend
the fair, too.
If you come by car, here a little tip:
A57 to Cologne-Centre, then follow "Innenstadt" until (very small) signs directing
to the MediaPark appear. The entrance to the underground bypass is directly
after the railway bridge. You drive from there either directly to the building
or down into the underground car park MediaPark. At the "Cinedom", the entrance
to the car park forks to the car park entrance and tunnel bypass. You can also
park in the underground car park Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring. Have a good trip and until
tomorrow :-).
More driving tips.
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08.Dec.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Petracell
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08.Dec.2000
Nico Barbat via eMail
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Scenet opens new areas
Scenet has been founded in 1998 as the first web-portal for the legal computer
demoscene, based on a project back in 1994. It offers a huge collection of
web-links, e-mails and icq-numbers of former and active members of the
demoscene on all platforms, just like Amiga, PC and C64 as well as Atari,
Acorn, Mac, CPC and ZX. Since the end of 1999 Scenet has been enlarged by
a big articles- and interviews-section.
Since December 6th, 2000, Scenet contains an internal and interactive
script-system with news items updated every day.
Contact: dire@scenet.de
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08.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Light over Mars CD-ROM released
Light over Mars CD-ROM (LOM) has been released and can be ordered from now on
at APC & TCP. The "Lights Over Mars" CD contains a huge archive with objects
of the best-known science fiction visions. All objects are copyrighted by the
original movie companies. They are for private use only. You'll find more
information in the support area of the APC & TCP homepage (title link).
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08.Dec.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis on ANF
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NetBSD 1.5 is here!
After some weeks ago, the last patch release of the NetBSD 1.4 branch has been
released with NetBSD 1.4.3, some days ago NetBSD 1.5 has also been released.
NetBSD is a complete open source operating system and is shipped with
system administration and user tools, as well as the X window system. New
in 1.5: IP version 6, IPsec, integrated OpenSSL, -SSH and Kerberos.
New for the Amiga architecture and hardware are: improved FPU emulation for
Amigas without FPU, support for media with large sectors for ADOSFS (reading)
and for Linux partitions, SVR4 (AMIX) emulation; drivers for parallel ports
on HyperCOM 3+/4+; a first version of the PCMCIA support; the IDE support can
use the NetBSD code instead of the Amiga-specific solution if the user wishes
(and will be converted in future to this option).
Support for ISDN is available for Master, MasterII, Blaster with the isdn4bsd packet,
and in preparation for ISDN surfer.
System requirements: 8 MB fast mem; 68020+68851 with/without FPU, 68030 with/without FPU,
68040, 68060, Phase5 PowerPC+68k boards in 68k mode (but with SCSI host driver!).
First attempts at a PPC support are available as source.
You can find more information and suppliers at the title link.
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08.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges on ANF
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FormAldiHyd -- driver for Aldi/Medion/Tevion/Aiptek graphic tablet
Chris Hodges writes:
Here
you'll find a new version of my driver for the graphic tablets by Aldi and Aiptek.
there is a MUI version as well as a CLI version. The day after tomorrow, the new
version 0.9ß should also be available on AmiNet.
The driver is freeware, but it would be nice if I'd get some feedback. Maybe it's also
compatible with Summagraphics, but I couldn't test it.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier
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Amigart: Earth2140 will be presented on the WOA in Cologne
According to Jason Hayman von Pagan Games
the full version of Earth 2140 Amiga PPC/68k will be presented on the
WoA 2000
in Cologne. The master CD is already on its way to production.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Simon The Sorcerer II is ready
Simon The Sorcerer II is ready and all who pre-ordered it at epic-interactive
will receive it from December, 14th. After many month of work and many problems
Paul Burkey and Peter Mulholland have made it, they have ported one of the best
cartoon adventures to the Amiga.
AGA or a gfx board is required. A 68030/50 with 8 MB RAM is minimal requirement.
The english game has subtitles in English, German, and Italian. It is delivered
in a DVD case with printed manual. You can preorder here.
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07.Dec.2000
Bill Borsari via eMail
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UGN-IRC from Cologne
The UGN is happy to announce the presentation of live internet chat with
some of the biggest names in the Amiga industry today. The conferences
will begin on Saturday 09.12.2000 at 12:00 CET (GMT +1h.) There will also
be a live webcam from the show at http://ugn.amiga.org/webcam. You can
join the conferences on the AmigaNet family of IRC servers on channel
#woa2000. Here is a list of servers and the port:
- Server (Port always 6667):
- whiterose.us.amiganet.org
- thule.no.amiganet.org
- kth.se.amiganet.org
- linux.us.amiganet.org
- spod.uk.amiganet.org
- fullcomp.au.amiganet.org
For more information about IRC please visit http://ugn.amiga.org/irc.
We have put together a perliminary schedule as a reference:
Participant Company Time
Darek Dulian. ELBOX 12:30:00 CET
Mick Tinker BoXer 13:00:00 CET
Ralph Schmidt MorphOs 14:00:00 CET
Allan M. Redhouse Eyetech 15:00:00 CET
Bill McEwan Amiga Inc 16:00:00 CET
Juergen Haage Haage & Partner 17:00:00 CET
Hope to see you there!
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07.Dec.2000
amiga.org
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News from Fleecy Moss
Fleecy Moss, Technical Director of Amiga, Inc. sends the message, that
Amiga, Inc. about to release in a few weeks the first part of the
AmigaDE technology.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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WayneCam is now online
Wayne Hunt of the Amiga.org team has installed a webcam on his working place.
If you want to watch him work you can do this here.
It is updated every 30 seconds.
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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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WebCam on WoA
Ruediger Engel of the Amiga-Club has installed a webcam on the
WoA2000
and shows the pictures on his homepage: WoA Webcam
or the picture directly.
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07.Dec.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail
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MEDIATOR PCI for Amiga 4000
MEDIATOR PCI 4000 features:
- PCI busboard for Amiga 4000D in: E-BOX (Power Tower,
Winner Tower) tower cases
- 5 PCI slots - PCI 2.1 compatible (DMA, Bus-mastering, etc.)
- 7 ZORRO III/II slots
- 1 Video slot
- The fastest possible PCI design for Amiga, 66 MHz, 32-bit
- Transfer rates between PCI cards up to 264 MB/s
- Ready to run with all the existing Amiga 4000: 68k and PPC
accelerator cards
- Ready to run with SharkPPC G3/G4 cards
MEDIATOR PCI 4000 is made up of two devices:
a) MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card
b) ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI busboard
The PCI to Amiga bridge is a PCI 2.1-compliant implementation
for connecting PCI devices, thus allowing expansion of Amiga
with all kinds of industry standard hardware products.
DRIVERS for MEDIATOR 4000 add-on PCI cards:
- Graphic cards based on processors:
3dfx Voodoo3 16MB (ready)
3dfx Voodoo5 32MB (in development)
- Network cards:
Ethernet 10 Mb/s (ready)
Fast Ethernet 100/10 Mb/s (in development)
- Sound cards:
SB 128 (in development)
SB 1024 Live (in development)
- TV tuner (in development)
- MPEG-2 hardware decoder (in development)
- USB Controller (planned)
- ISDN cards (planned)
Availability:
ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI will be sold as a complete set
with the E-BOX 4000 (Power Tower, Winner Tower), beginning
with 9 December 2000 (during the WOA 2000!).
The MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card will be available in January 2001.
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07.Dec.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment present on the Cologne Show
Also e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will be present on the Cologen Show. At the booth of
Falke Verlag Paul Burkey will present the finished Amiga version of "Simon The Sorcerer II". Thomas
Wuergler from Pagan Games, which ported the real-time strategy game "Earth 2140" by our order to
the Amiga, will present the final version exclusively at the Falke booth. Look forward to two
great PC ports, which you can play already this year.
Furthermore we will offer our games at special fair prices on the fair.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Wired: Forever Amigos with Amiga
Wired reported about Amiga Forever 4.0 by Cloanto.
You can find the article under the title link.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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G-Rex with 5 PCI Slots will be presented on WoA
According to DCE the board was completely new designed and the production
has already started. The board will be presented on the WoA in Cologne. Two new pictures of the board
were published at CyberGFX-homepage. You can also look at
a picture of CyberGraphX on a Voodoo 4-4500 there.
Besides this there are news of the P96 team:
On Saturday the programmer of Picasso96 probably will be present on the WoA2000. Tobias wrote:
"Hi! Alex and I will probably attend the WoA 2000 in Cologne
on Saturday. If you want to meet us (register Picasso96 or complain about
our greed) just look out for us. The pictures on the Picasso96 home page
should be good enough for that. :-) C ya! :-))" .....click on their pictures
for a better view:
picture 1
and picture 2.
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06.Dec.2000
Christian Sobotta on ANF
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ACSYS canceled
After a last telephone call with programmer it is now official that the development of ACSYS (Turrican-clone)
will be canceled. In our opinion for 86 interested people (result of a opinion poll) it is not
worthy continuing the development.
If the development will be continued by a third person the following applies:
The complete code will be released as open source. Only the engine will be given as an object file.
If a commercial publication is planned percentage share of the profit have to be given to us.
The level has to be negotiated with the developer. If the game is going to be published as freeware
we will waive the financial claims. PD,- shareware or something like that are not allowed.
The level of development is at fifty percent. If there are competent programmers we would continue
working on pictures if desired.
We regret this decision and hope you show understanding of it. If you want to write something
to this topic please mail to the programmer because
I have no influence on it no longer. The homepage will be online during the next time. I will complete
the list of interested people if I will get mails with this content.
For further questions we are at your disposal via eMail:
Code: Joerg Belger
Graphic: Christian Sobotta
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06.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
ET60DemoEnglis.lha biz/demo 2.5M+Multimedia language tutor - English ver.
ET60DemoGerman.lha biz/demo 2.4M+Multimedia language tutor - German ver.
DOpusCFG.lha biz/dopus 60K+DOpus4.x configuration with many feature
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 764K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
iris.lha comm/mail 326K+Email client (SMTP/POP3) V2.3
IrisUpdate.lha comm/mail 36K+Update Iris V2.2 to V2.3
Haracz.lha comm/misc 350K+Calculate fee for internet provider
jl_update.lha comm/tcp 2K+Script for updating your ip at Justlinux
rxsocket.lha comm/tcp 139K+Rxsocket.library - TCP/IP ARexx library
streamer.lha comm/www 25K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
APX-ITBM.lha demo/aga 3.7M+I Want To Be Machine by Appendix,release
APX-MAYHEM.lha demo/aga 1.7M+Mayhem by Appendix, released at Satellit
ays-atyp.lha demo/aga 31K+"A-Type 32k Game by Dexter/Abyss!"
ays-crsn.lha demo/aga 36K+"Cruisin 40k Intro by Dexter/Abyss!"
ays-dis4.lha demo/aga 78K+DISISSID #4 by ABYSS (THX songs)
SPO3-Photos.lha demo/aga 232K+Official photos from Spoletium3 demopart
wpz-frozen39.lha demo/aga 430K+Frozen#39 - Spoletium Party Edition
WT_intros_1996.lha demo/intro 1.4M+Wanted Team cracktros from the year 1996
hla-ap14fix.lha demo/mag 24K+Amiga Positive no.14 FIX, new executable
modifile.lha dev/amos 67K+File modifier written by AMOSPro
SamplesMaster.lha dev/amos 107K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
blitzgtfix.lha dev/basic 45K+Blitz2 fix for many Gadtools problems
clockita.lha dev/basic 73K+Italian clock with alarm + source code
libiconv_src.lha dev/c 3.4M+Src for libiconv.a
xad_ar.lha dev/src 12K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha dev/src 19K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha dev/src 54K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_COP.lha dev/src 12K+COP xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha dev/src 13K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha dev/src 8K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_RPM.lha dev/src 10K+RPM xadmaster client
xad_Wrapster.lha dev/src 9K+Wrapster xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha dev/src 13K+ZAP xadmaster client
splatch.lha disk/misc 20K+CLI command to split and join files
BB.lha docs/hyper 285K+The BLACK BIBLE (Russian version) in Ami
Aakt1200GFX.lha docs/mags 336K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1200GUIDE.lha docs/mags 79K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1200HTML.lha docs/mags 215K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
mc0101.lha docs/mags 234K+German Metal Mag in HTML - Januar Issue
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 158K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Mattonite.lha game/demo 276K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
LOS_ED.lha game/hint 99K+Save Editor for game Legacy of Sorasil
AllTerrainRaci.lha game/patch 25K+HD-Installer for All Terrain Racing V1.0
AllTerrainXmas.lha game/patch 23K+HD-Installer for All Terrain Racing Xmas
BatmanReturns.lha game/patch 24K+HD-Installer for Batman Returns V1.0
ColonizationPL.lha game/patch 78K+Polish translation for game Colonization
Microbes.lha game/patch 31K+HD-Installer for Microbes V1.0
pab3d1_1.lha game/patch 56K+(1.1) A Patch for Alien Breed 3D.
PuttySquadDemo.lha game/patch 30K+HD-Installer for Putty Squad Demo V1.0
Quartz.lha game/patch 28K+HD-Installer for Quartz V1.1
Fate1.2.lha game/role 16K+Fate - Polish Version of Dice Simulator
stefadv2.lha game/text 68K+2nd little italian text adventure
Frogger.lha gfx/show 932K+Ultimate MPEG video player (MOS|PUP|WOS|
VideoMPEGA.lha gfx/show 343K+Fast Mpeg video play 1&2 + sound 68k/AGA
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
PrimaxCD9600.lha hard/drivr 56K+Primax Colorado Direct 9600 Scanner Driv
Mentat.lha misc/edu 223K+Mentat 0.6 english2english Longman dicti
stlist.lha misc/emu 25K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001124.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Budzet2000.lha misc/math 431K+Budzet 2000. Calculates your expenses an
ALEM_0018.lha misc/misc 696K+ALEM's ScalaScript 'GeneaBook' Demo (FR)
divert12.lha mods/midi 37K+Divertimento12, GM song by Stefano Regat
divert3.lha mods/midi 59K+Divertimento3, GM song by Stefano Regatt
felicida.lha mods/midi 35K+Felicidad, GM song by Stefano Regattin
rno-r052.lha mods/misc 258K+Rno-records release no.52 by Tang (tekno
dzy-inafantasy.mpg mods/mpg 5.2M+MP3 Tune by Dazzy of Soundforce
win95crash.lha mods/smpl 91K+Windows95Crash.wav : very famous sample
ac3dec.lha mus/play 73K+AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoder. (68k
DeliDecrunch.lha mus/play 8K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.2
WOA-2000.jpg pix/art 14K+Made with fxPaint and Cinema4D
AVK.lha pix/misc 2.0M+X-Mas Calendar
Jack01.lha pix/trace 950K+7 trace-pictures of Ford Mustang by JACK
a500_wb2000.png pix/wb 203K+Amiga500-WB w/WB2000 in 724x566x4
Textloader.lha text/edit 738K+TextEd 8.2 german/english SuperED!!
adTOag.lha text/hyper 17K+AdTOag - Autodocs TO Amigaguide. V1.3
ascii2jascii.lha text/misc 35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
eNote.lha text/misc 161K+Electronical notebook
UnLZX2.lha util/arc 95K+UnLZX with new args (68k/PPC/i486)
xadmaster000.lha util/arc 248K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68000)
xadmaster020.lha util/arc 250K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68020)
xadmaster060.lha util/arc 256K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68060)
xadmasterdev.lha util/arc 141K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (DEVEL)
alba.lha util/boot 50K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
ALeXcompare.lha util/cli 67K+Compare files/dirs/trees & display diffe
makedict.lha util/cli 39K+MakeDict - Creates dictionary from ANY (
SRename.lha util/cli 107K+Advanced rename/renumber CLI program.
EasyConvert.lha util/conv 23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
ppclibemu.lha util/libs 229K+Ppc.library emulation under WarpOS
Calculator.lha util/misc 28K+Fully functional scientific calculator
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 83K+Report+ 4.11: 10-function utility
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 98K+V1.42 - Graphics benchmark program
AmiLogVis.lha util/moni 36K+RC5 Log Visualizer (for distributed.net
dofile52.lha util/rexx 43K+Nice datatype based processfile script
rmh.lha util/rexx 54K+Rmh.library - Rexx Must Have library
LSClock20.lha util/time 31K+SHAREWARE clock utility - New Release v2
Gurus2000_18_G.lha util/wb 178K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
Gurus2000_HTML.lha util/wb 642K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
TweakWB18.lha util/wb 117K+Workbench 3.5/3.9 commodity & icon conve
VisualPrefs.lha util/wb 458K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
WB2000_17.lha util/wb 386K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
WB2000_17_NO.lha util/wb 5K+Norwegian catalog for WorkBench2000 1.7
yStart.lha util/wb 19K+Start menu for standard WB icons (v1.2)
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06.Dec.2000
Alfred Knoetig via eMail
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Digital Albums
Alf's Corner present "Digital Albums" for Amiga. Digital - Albums are photo CDs of Brasilia, Mexico
Argentina and Toscana. Each of the above mentioned CDs contain several hundreds of pictures of
landscapes in high quality. Everybody can start dreaming here.
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06.Dec.2000
Guvenc Kaplan via eMail
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AmigArt: AmigaOS 4.0 petition
AmigaArt wants to submit a petition with their wishes to AmigaOS 4.0 to Amiga Inc. It is an opinion poll
where you can express your opinion concerning the development of the Amiga Classic OS to a PPC-native-OS.
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06.Dec.2000
Paer Boberg via eMail
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List of famous use of Amiga updated
Paer Boberg has updated his list of famous use of Amiga available now in version 1.6.
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06.Dec.2000
Falk Lueke via eMail
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Eternity News regarding Cologne Show
Eternity will present at the "World of Amiga 2000" which takes place this weekend in Cologne the
following products:
*! EASys will be available in new version !*
- Important features of OS 3.9 are supported...
- Tom Neidhardt has added an important complementing which lacks in the modern operating system of OS 3.9.
- Converting of ToolsDemon-Prefs -> OS 3.9-menu added
- Adapting of the toolbar. Pre-configured for vertical and horizontal positions...
- Starting improved ans fastened...
- Choice between big ans small WB-menu...
- Menu itself was improved.
- Scripts of converting of icons do no longer need OS 3.x-CD...
- DEF-icon-fixing via point&click.
- Genisis connection improved...
You can buy the update as CD for 15,- DM at the fair. After the fair the update can be downloaded
from the internet for free...
*! MAS-Player goes AmigaAmp !*
As already promised during the last weeks we have worked on getting as many as possible software support
for MAS-player. A first step has taken now:
- The MAS-player will be supported right from the fair by AmigaAmp. Thanks a lot to Dirk Conrad, Thomas Wenzel und Paul Quershi.
Therefore MAS-player is the most effective, compatible and favourable MP3-player on the Amiga...
- The current version of AmigaAmp at our booth will be presented with internet-radio support for the first time.
*! Eternity presents Eternity-One !*
As a real alternative to the current Amiga-computer-systems we offer a computer with Amiga-emulation
for the first time. There are the following advantages:
- You can chose each Amiga!
- OS 3.x compatible
- OCS, ECS AGA and graphics board compatible
- Save protection in Amiga-box
- Speed as Amiga-Exorzist with 68040/68060 processor
- Access to Amiga-disks possible
- Amiga-sytem with 128 MB RAM
- 100% compatible to Windows-systems and all Windows-programs
- All Amiga & PC-games playable
- Network between Workbench and Windows
- Network to other Amigas over TCP-IP possible
- Cheap because of standard-pc-hardware
- MAc-emulation usable
- Linux usable
- Independent of Amiga-level
- Independent of Amiga Inc.
- Amigs-SDK usable und compatible for the future
- All Amiga 68k programs usable
- Kickstart 1.3-3.1
- Period of guarantee of hardware-producer longer
- No unnecessary long repairing time
- Compatible to OS 3.9
- Convince yourself of this system. It offers a good solution concerning the current Amiga-problems.
We point out that this computer is a starting system.
*! Tales of Tamar !*
We also present Tales of Tamar in the current beta-version at the fair. Convince yourself of the
progress and have a look at the things approaching you.
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06.Dec.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Aminet CD 40 available
Aminet CD 40 - December 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of software in nearly thousand
archives. The very special highlight on this CD is the full version of TurboCalc 4.0 with a attractively priced
possibility of updating to TurboCalc 5.0.
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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Haage & Partner publishes new functions and pictures of OS 3.9
You can find the complete list here: OS 3.9 features.
Here you can find some pictures of the new programs and of the preferences: OS 3.9 screens.
Who has made OS 3.9? Here you can find the list of the involved poeple: OS 3.9 Who did it.
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06.Dec.2000
Xandiy on ANF
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Getting to Cologne
Everybody who wants to visit also the fair and needs a
driving possibility, please join here.
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05.Dec.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF
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News about DeepSilence - The Secret of my Soul
The DeepSilence team is looking for a gifted story writer to cooperate
in case of the game's story and actions. Good knowledge of orthography
is recommended. Contact:
sylvio.kurze@oberland.or.at.
At the time being the SOMS homepage only is accessible at
http://suse.unixcity.de/mangapic/index.html
due to a failture of redirection. Moreover the DeepSilence team would like to mention
alternative-games.de
where a poll is up about which game you are most of all looking forward to. Everybody looking
forward to SOMS, please click DeepSilence-SOMS.
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05.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogsoft Awards 2001
Trogladite Software will overall place five awards in categories application, games,
hardware, developer, and website. Trogladite Software spend a lot of time to simplify
the procedure of voting compared to last year.
If your favourite website for one of the categroies isn't on the list, you have the
possibility to nominate this website.
amiga-news.de is nominated for the category "website". If you would like to vote for us,
please click the following link:
Vote for amiga-news.de in the TS Awards 2001
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05.Dec.2000
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amiga-news.de present at the WoA 2000, too
Of course also the amiga-news.de team will not miss the this year's Amiga show
WoA 2000
in Cologne's Mediapark, which will take place this weekend. As usual we will
inform you about the novelties presented at the fair by extended reports and pictures, and
we are already looking forward to meet our readers in person.
As already traditional our graphics artist, the airbrush artist
Rolf Tingler, will decorate your hardware
live as wanted. He will also bring along the popular mobile phone shells with Amiga design, among others
for the brand-new Nokia 3310, too.
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05.Dec.2000
Andreas Weyrauch via eMail
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IRC-Logfile (revised version)
Andreas Weyrauch, who organized the Jochen Becher chat, has revised the log file and removed
all 'join', and 'left'. You will find the result (mixed, German and English) at
the title link.
Furthermore he says thank you to all of the attendants for the good replies, which encourage him to
go on.
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05.Dec.2000
Peter Merfeld on ANF
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G-REX driver for Voodoo 4-4500 finished
Peter Merfeld, PR manager at DCE Computer Service GmbH, wrote:
DCE Computer is excited to be able to announce that Vision Factory have finished
the CyberGraphx beta drivers for Voodoo 4-4500 boards. The technical data of the
Voodoo 4 are really impressing. With an impressing filling rate of 333 megapixles per
second, and 32 MB of graphics memory the Voodoo4 4500 will bring your PPC Amiga near
to industrial workstations.
Here are the technical data of the fastest graphics board ever used in an Amiga:
- 32 MB Graphics Memory 128-bit Interface
- 166 Mhz Core Clock
- 350 Mhz RAMDAC
- 60Hz-160Hz Vertical Refresh
- 32-bit Color Rendering
- 32-bit Texture rendering pipeline
- 24-bit floating point depth buffer
- 8-bit stencil buffer
- 2048*2048 Texture Support
- Full 128-bit 2D engine
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05.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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It's done: Payback-Work in Progress starts!
Jürgen A. Theiner of playamiga.de wrote:
From now on I will report about the current status of Payback
development irregulary. Because the programmer himself supports me in doing so, I think by now that there may
be many interesting news. It starts with the update to beta 8, which I already released on November, 30th.
The reports will not stop after the final release of the game, but later changes will be reported
(Mission Disks, Updates, Payback 2...), too. So, have a lot of fun on the other side of the law.
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05.Dec.2000
Stefan Sommerfeld via eMail
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Repulse News
Who would like to see this board live - BTW: which is available at reduced price - can come to
Individual Computer's booth on the World Of Amiga in Cologne, which will take place in the
Mediapark this weekend. We still need some preorders to be able to start production of the
board.
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