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
TFA
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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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21.Aug.2000
Amiga RC5 Team Effort
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Amiga RC5 Team Effort celebrates third birthday
Congratulations ! Since 3 years we are taking part in the worldwide calculation contest. To decode a 64-bit key is the
aim of these contest. To solve this problem you have to calculate 18.4 trillion posibilities.
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21.Aug.2000
CUCUG
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CUCUG Status Register #August 2000
The status register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group.
The newsletter deals with up-to-date and important themes about Amiga and Macintosh.
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21.Aug.2000
Jami Laakkonen
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Lame Version 3.86 Released
New version for the MP3-encoder Lame for Warp-OS users released. This release includes a SecondSpin-compatible version.
Download: lame.lha - 409 KB
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21.Aug.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
VorwahlenGui.lha biz/dbase 163K+MUIGUI for german telefon codes
ultraacc.lha biz/misc 375K+UltraAccounts 5.1, home accounts made ea
AmIRC_ITA.lha comm/irc 15K+Italian catalog for AmIRC v3.5
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
Charon_Hun.lha comm/net 17K+Hungarian localization for Charon v1.2
samba_2.0.7.lha comm/tcp 6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
SMSMasterMUI.lha comm/tcp 201K+SMS via Amiga - International - *PREVIEW
MWI-MetatagLK.lha demo/aga 3.0M+"Metatag Lock K-231277" by Madwizards at
ASM-One_V1.44.lha dev/asm 240K+680x0/6888x/68851 Macro Assembler
blitzgtfix.lha dev/basic 13K+Blitz2 fix for many Gadtools problems
hookfunc.lha dev/basic 5K+[Blitz2] Working example of hooks
ImageDTInfo.lha dev/basic 71K+Image Datatype Info 1.51 tool
Amiga-C-Jul00.lha dev/c 71K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in July
ColorWheel.lha dev/gui 26K+Hi-/truecolor colorwheel.gadget (44.5)
Yagg_src.lha dev/src 495K+Blitz2 sourcecode for Yagg, Black Blade
ACDPlay_src.lha disk/cdrom 1.3M+Source of ACDPlay 1.5 and 1.6
CDCatAmiN01-38.lha disk/cdrom 2.0M+CDCat Index Of AmiNet 01-38
AmigaInfo.lha docs/hyper 276K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Agosto 2000
AaktInt0800.lha docs/mags 313K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0800GFX.lha docs/mags 402K+International infotainment magazine (gra
WarpUp-Jul00.lha docs/misc 19K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in J
WormWars.lha game/misc 786K+WormWars 6.3a: Advanced snake game
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 28K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 31K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_Upd.lha gfx/edit 38K+Update PerfectPaint V2.0 -> V2.1
PfPaint_V2.lha gfx/edit 910K+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
RotateAnim.lha gfx/edit 6K+PPaint script for creating animations
ArteffectScrip.lha gfx/misc 1K+Load pictures into ArtEffect with this a
TV-Logo.lha gfx/misc 72K+Small but capable logotype display
SpaTra05.lha misc/misc 178K+Spanish Translations Pack 05 v0.80a
Korkenholz.lha mods/funk 482K+Funny and funky DBM by R.KAPP!
EP_2.02bfixed.lha mus/play 89K+Eagleplayer2.02b fixed for long filename
Imagination.jpg pix/trace 67K+Behind Imagination
SIL51GlowOpus5.jpg pix/wb 163K+Opus5 Screen grab with the famous OpusGI
CompTextsCED.lha text/edit 5K+Compares two testfiles with CygnusEd
1TouchMac25.lha util/boot 21K+Multi startup-sequence boot using mouse
arc2arc25.lha util/rexx 2K+Convert any archive format easily
FWCalendar.lha util/rexx 235K+THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream
CyberClock_upd.lha util/time 7K+CyberClock update to v1.23
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21.Aug.2000
John Zacharias
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AmiWest 2000 Reports by Rick Rudge and Brian Deneen
Rick Rudge's report is divided into two parts. In the first
part
he describes his impressions. The second part
is about the speech of Bill McEwen at the AmiWest-bankett.
Brian Deneen's report is very detailed and describes the fair as well as the bankett:
AmiWest'2000 Report
by Brian Deneen, President, Sacramento Amiga Computer Club
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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21.Aug.2000
Pär Boberg via E-Mail
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Famous Amiga Uses V1.4
Pär Boberg completed his list of famous Amiga aplications.
The list shows where, when and by whom the amiga were used for example for things like movieproduction.
Beside the online version a lha-archive is available for download.
Download: FamousAmigaUses.lha
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21.Aug.2000
LinuxInfo.DE via E-Mail
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LinuxInfo.DE opens Chat - Server
LinuxInfo.DE, well known for his german docs and informations opens a
chat-server.
At http://chat.linux-info.de/ have all kind of linux-users the posibility
to communicate with each other. LinuxInfo.DE wants to support the communication between the users and offers a
platform for this purpose. The service will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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21.Aug.2000
Fun Time World
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VBCC V0.7d for MorphOS
On the 20th of August Franl Wille released version 0.7d of the ANSI-C compiler vbcc for MorphOS.
This version can produce 68K- and PPC-binaries.
The compiler was writen by Volker Barthelmann and is available for MorphOS, Amiga 68K, PowerUp and WarpOS.
The sourcecode is available too.
Download: vbcc07d_MorphOS.lzx (1247K)
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20.Aug.2000
Bernd Gmeineder on ANF
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AMI Sector One with New Features
Bernd Gmeineder wrote:
AMI Sector One - the famous site for legal Amiga software downloads is back. During the last three month while AMI Sector One
has not been updated our crew worked on a completely new layout and some new features.
The most impressive innovation surely is the area "A-Compendiums",
which contains a searchable database of about 1400 Amiga games at the
moment. In addition to credits for software companies,
programmers, graphics artists, sound artists and musicians, more
information like release year and emulator compatibility is listed.
The database will grow to about 5000 games and 1500 applications. We
also could get many licenses of software companies: Some are
"Vulcan" and "UDS" (More will be published soon). Therefore we have new
games like "Valhalla",
"Obsession Pinball", "Skate Tribe", "Serene 2" and others.
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20.Aug.2000
Fun Time World
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NListtree.mcc V1.3 (18.4)
On August, 20th 2000 Carsten Scholling released version 1.3 of the NListtree-class for MUI. Enforcer and PoolWatch-Hits
have been removed in this version. All changes can be found in the
readme.
The class needs AmigaOS2.x, MUI 3.8 and MCC_NList 0.89 (NList.mcc 19.97).
Download: MCC_NListtree.lha (164K),
readme
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20.Aug.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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Preview of the Playstation emulator "FPSE"
On August, 20th 2000 on No Risc No Fun a preview of the Playstation emulator FPSE,
including screenshots, has been released.
Also, some little things have been reworked on the page. More suggestions are welcome every time.
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20.Aug.2000
Fun Time World
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Test of the think-game "PicTris"
A test of the game PicTris has been released at Fun Time World.
It is available from APC&TCP and runs on Amigas with AGA or graphics card. The CD-Rom contains 18 MB of game data.
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20.Aug.2000
Andreas Magerl by eMail
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Preview of Payback & Interview
A actual preview of Payback can be found in the actions-area of the Amiga
Future Homepage (German). There is also a little interview (German) with James Daniels, the programmer of Payback.
Since today the Amiga Future wants to publish homepage reviews in the actions-area from time to time.
These reviews will not be announced every time so just look at the page :o)
Also the Subscription-Site has been updated. Subscribers of the "new"
Amiga Future get a voucher to buy some products of several software companies for a special price.
The FAQ of the "new Amiga Future" has been updated and also
all Homepage-Sites os the "new" Amiga Future were reworked.
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19.Aug.2000
Fun Time World
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Dallas Morning News: Megabytes of Memories
On August 17th, the Dallas Morning News published an article by Paula Felps, which
mentions the Amiga.
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19.Aug.2000
Fun Time World
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FPSE v0.08, Amiga-Revision 3
On August 19th, Mathias Roslund has released Amiga port revision 3 of the Open Source
Playstation emulator FPSE v0.08.
Changes from the previous version:
- new: Dynarec. This feature still contains some bugs, so not every software will run.
- bugfix: Pictures to be displayed by DMA should be displayed correctly.
Download:
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19.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Interview with Sebastian MacDougall from Matrox
GA-Hardware has released an interview with Sebastian MacDougall from Matrox. The interview
briefly mentions Amiga, too: "Matrox has and will continue to work with 3rd parties, the
alliance with Amiga is just one of the numerous vendors that have come to regard Matrox
as a leader in the graphics industry."
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19.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News
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UAE with JIT
For Linux an UAE version has been released containing a Just In Time Compiler (JIT),
which would make it faster than a 68060.
The archive contains a binary for Linux/386 and the source code.
Download: uae-JIT.tar.gz.
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19.Aug.2000
Richard Smedley
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UltraAccounts 5.1 Available
The Shareware program UltraAccounts, which is very well suited for home accounting,
is available for download as version 5.1. Online registering is possible.
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19.Aug.2000
BlueBlack Solution
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Operation: Counterstrike
BlueBlack Solution is still working hard on the game "Operation: Counterstrike".
A new website with detailed information will go online soon. Currently, a non-playable
demo version is worked upon.
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19.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News
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QNXStart - New Community Page!
Greenboy is happy to announce that there is a special news site for QNX users. This
PhoenixPartner site is almost finished, and now available online (titlelink).
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19.Aug.2000
Fun Time World
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ProStationAudio with New PlugIns
New PlugIns have been released for the ProStationAudio software. More PlugIns are
planned and should follow soon.
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19.Aug.2000
Paul Andrews via e-mail
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AmiBench with New URL
AmiBench, the big ad forum, can now be reached at the following (new) URL:
ami.bencher.org. Please update your bookmarks.
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18.Aug.2000
Deftone on ANF
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SMSMaster MUI v1.0 Preview
It is done: SMSMasterMUI is ready. Well, not quite, still a preview version.
With this tool you can send international SMS (short mail service) to GSM mobile
phones. MUI and OS3.0 are required!
Download:
sysmastermui.lha
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18.Aug.2000
Mirko Naumann
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More Picture Selections from the Neuss Fair
Mirko Naumann sent us some nice pictures of the Neuss fair which took place in
June 2000 on CD.
Amiga-Händler.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Amiga-Nikolaus.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Amiga_Brushmouse.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Amiga_Brushmouse_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Amiga_Writer_2.0.jpg
(640 x 480) |
And_the_winner_is.jpg
(640 x 480) |
And_the_winner_is_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Atari-Händler.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Atari-Händlerin.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Atari-Händlerin_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Atari-Händler_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Atari-Konsolen.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Atari-Konsolen_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Atari-Lynx.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Atari_Jaguar.jpg
(640 x 480) |
A_kind_of_magic.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Best_Electronics.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Best_Electronics_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Brushmaster.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Cash-Flow.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Der_Gewinner_des_A1200.jpg
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Der_Gewinner_des_A1200_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Der_Gewinner_des_A1200_3.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Die_Aminet-Tasse.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Die_Belagerung.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Die_Belagerung_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Die_Veranstaltungshalle.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Eine_überraschte_Gewinnerin.jp
(640 x 480) |
Eine_überraschte_Gewinnerin_2.
(640 x 480) |
Eingang_zur_Messe.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Ein_glücklicher_Gewinner.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Ein_glücklicher_Gewinner_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Ein_Spion!.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Ein_Zubehörhändler.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Ein_Zubehörhändler_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Fachhändlerkonferenz_Milan.jpg
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Fachhändlerkonferenz_Milan_2.j
(640 x 480) |
Fachhändlerkonferenz_Milan_3.j
(640 x 480) |
Fachhändlerkonferenz_Milan_4.j
(640 x 480) |
Falke-Verlag.jpg
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Falke-Verlag_2.jpg
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Falke-Verlag_3.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Haage_&_Partner.jpg
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Händler_allgemein.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Händler_allgemein_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Kantine.jpg
(640 x 480) |
KDH-Datentechnik.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Keep_the_momentum_going.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Konferenz.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Magic_to_be_sold.jpg
(640 x 480) |
MilanTV_Card_Preview.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Multi-Kulti.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Petra´s_Fotographen.jpg
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Petra´s_Fotographen_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Petra´s_Fotographen_3.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Petra´s_Fotographen_4.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Petra´s_Fotographen_5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Petro_auf_der_Messe.jpg
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Titan-Computer.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Verkosoft.jpg
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Verkosoft_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Verlosung.jpg
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Verlosung_2.jpg
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Verlosung_3.jpg
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Verlosung_4.jpg
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Verlosung_5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Vesalia_Computer.jpg
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18.Aug.2000
Dirk Conrad on ANF
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MAS-Player
The Amiga "MAS-Player" is now available as a PRO version. This project is an MP3 player
for the Amiga parallel port.
The PRO version is an improved variant and takes up only half as much CPU time which
makes it possible to play back MP3 songs on a plain 68000 Amiga with 7 MHz with up to
192kbps and higher in highest quality. People with DIY experience who want to solder
it themselves now have the possibility to buy the MAS 3507D chip. For more information
follow the titlelink.
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17.Aug.2000
Ron Goertz
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New Versions for FW-Arexx-Script
At Ron Goerz you can find new versions for his Arexx-Scripts for FinalWriter.
FWCalendar now is available as version 4.04, and FWCAddEVent is available as version 3.87.
Download: FWCalendar.lha
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17.Aug.2000
amiga.org
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Audios and Videos from the AmiWsest 2000 Available
Thanks to the UGN-Team, Audio Labs,
and Floyed Diebel from EMRL there are audios and videos from the
AmiWest 2000 available for download.
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17.Aug.2000
Halvadjian on ANF
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PerfectPaint V2.0
PerfectPaint Version 2.0 available for download. Painting, animations and image editing for
pictures from 1 -24Bit. What's new:
- Sorry for AGA users, but this version works only with graphics card
and Cybergraphx or Picasso 96.
- Works well now with Picasso 96
- Improve GUI (Verbesserte GUI)
- One aplication to manage pictures and animations from 1Bit to 24Bits.
- More Arexx commands.
- Add brush effects with real time preview.
- Improve zoom with real window
- You can convert pictures, animation or brush to CMAP or RGB.
- Add several tools to edit your mask: magic wand,lasso, polygon,elliptical marquee...
- Print command with TurboPrint
- New Boing effect: Grab alpha-channel, Grab RGB
- Color and Gamma correction
- New arexx script: Button_On, Button_Off, LensFlare
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16.Aug.2000
Bill McEwen via eMail
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Amiga Incorporated and Infomedia Network Announce Strategic Relationship
Amiga Incorporated, and Infomedia Network, Inc. Announce Strategic
Relationship for new line of Interactive Set-Top Boxes
August 16, 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.
About Amiga:
Amiga is focused on creating a multi-media digital environment
that provides developers with a true write once run anywhere scenario.
Amiga includes a rich 15-year history of industry leadership in the development
of what we know as multi-media.
About Infomedia Network:
Infomedia Network, Inc. is a communications technology
company with patents pending on new digital TV consumer devices that enable
broadcast television, voice telephone services, high-speed Internet, TV
quality video conferencing, and on-demand games and entertainment that
use existing copper wiring inside the home. Infomedia is currently the
only company today building advanced TV / multi-media set-top boxes that
address the needs of the next-generation "Full Service Network" for each
type of broadband infrastructure.
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16.Aug.2000
Haage & Partner
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Summer prices at H&P
Up to the 27th August H&P offers some of their bestsellers at summer prices.
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16.Aug.2000
Aminet
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New Aminet uploads
Twiny.lha comm/misc 24K+Control your Amiga from your PC (w/ src)
SX4Amiga.lha dev/cross 85K+SX-chip programmer V0.95
mrwcs_c2p.lha dev/src 12K+Not particularly fast c2p routine with d
SAT2Kpre.txt docs/anno 8K+Satellite'2000 pre-invitation.(PL/ENG)
cd32outside2.lha docs/mags 1.5M+CD32 Outside No.2 - German CD32 magazine
amigo5_4.lha game/board 80K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
Wordsearch.lha game/data 1K+2 Wordsearch puzzles to use with Guess S
InstallKit3_8.lha game/patch 844K+The ultimate CD32 emulator/hd installer
angband.lha game/role 718K+Angband 2.9.1 - Roguelike solo RPG
MahjonggTilesD.lha game/think 22K+German Catalogs for MahjonggTiles V1.0
MonsterMind.lha game/think 10M+Gloomy master-mind clone with nice FX
DiamondBOX.lha gfx/edit 196K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.03
SvIV-IFX.lha gfx/misc 6K+SViewIV - ImageFX loader V1.00 (13.8.200
WhirlDisc.lha misc/edu 77K+World Book encyclopaedia viewer. GPL
AampPlaylistCo.lha mus/misc 35K+Converts AmigaAMP 2.8 playlists
anarkaback1.jpg pix/misc 132K+Another stunning picture
anarkaback2.jpg pix/misc 64K+Another stunning picture
anarkaback3.jpg pix/misc 182K+Another stunning picture
anarkaback4.jpg pix/misc 302K+Another stunning picture
anarkacolage.jpg pix/misc 398K+Another stunning picture
anarkastrochen.jpg pix/misc 75K+Another stunning picture
anarkawb.jpg pix/wb 368K+Another workbench snapshot
anarkawb2.jpg pix/wb 224K+Another workbench snapshot
wordpad16.lha text/edit 116K+MUI Based TextEditor v1.6
saw_1.0.lha util/cli 5K+Alternative to strip a given word from a
picsize.lha util/dtype 19K+Shows picture dimensions using datatypes
ExecuteOnReset.lha util/misc 41K+Executes some CLI-commands on reset
ScreenSwitch.lha util/wb 24K+Quick and Easy Screen Switching. V1.32
WB2000_15.lha util/wb 364K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
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16.Aug.2000
Nico Barbat via eMail
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AMIGA plus Cover 07+08/2000
On the website of AMIGA plus you can find the popular cover of issue 07+08/2000 for download in a very high quality.
Please note the pattern of the ads for future ads in shopper.
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16.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Canon-Printer with "Date of Decay"
«Yesterday, in this way German ZDF-economic broadcast "WISO" reported about the case of an owner of a
BubbleJet 600. This spring the four years old device started printing out the warning tank of remaining ink would
be full soon after each printed piece of paper. After a little time the printer claimed remaining tank being full
and finished work.
The ingeneer looked after but neither tank nor absorbing felt has been soiled particularly. To be on the safe side
he cleaned everything - but in vain. Printer didn`t start working again.
According to WISO Canon-hotline confirmed the printer has been provided with a counter for the drops of ink given
off which stops the device as a precaution after 15000 pieces of paper printed out (depending on the kind of printing)
- independent of the fact if the catching tank actually was full or not. The broadcast did find out BubbleJet 600
can be persuaded starting its work again by holding the keys "Power", "Form Feed" and
"Print Mode" while putting in the main plug and switching on the printer.«
For full Report have look at title link.
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16.Aug.2000
Christian T. Steigies via eMail
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Debian 2.2 Available
Yesterday, Debian GNU/Linux has been published officially.
Debian GNU/Linux now runs on iMacs and Netwinders, and of course Intel
PC's, Sun SPARCs, Alphas, and older Macintosh and Amiga hardware are still
supported.
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16.Aug.2000
Paul Andrews via eMail
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Amiga Realm with Small Ad
AmigaRealm, the very extensive link index, offers a new service: "Smart Exchange". There you can put a
private small ad. Ads are being presented with regard to geographical locations.
Link index has been extended by the area "Hardware Directory" where you can find many distributors of
hardware in several subgroups.
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16.Aug.2000
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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EASys! update and Installerpack 4.7
Because errors still always could occur on some computers a current update of installation has appeard for the
EASys!-CD. Please note the corresponding Readme. In addition there is the servicepack 2 on our server for all
registered users.
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