27.Oct.2000
distributed.amiga.org
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RC5: Client V2.8011 build 464
A new version of the RC5-64/OGR client for the participation in the RC5 contest has
been released. It is a pre-release V2.8011 build 464, which is available for download
for 68000-68060, WarpOS and PowerUp Amigas.
In the download area,
of the above page, all changed made since build 463 as well as the known problems with
the current version are listed.
Download:
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27.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Cracker steal Microsoft source code
Apparently no canard. As can be read at the title link at Heise, unknown crackers
have invaded the Microsoft computer net and stole source code of the newest
Windows versions and office software.
For full article (German) follow title link.
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27.Oct.2000
Matthijs Schonewille on ANF
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New Real-time Website Statistics Program Created on the Amiga!
Though the complete website is in Dutch (for now), I am pleased to inform
you that I released Webcat.nl Stats. Webcat.nl Stats is a website statistics
application. It is free for personal webpages and I used my Amiga to develope
it. There is of course a category: Computers - Amiga you can choose. Furthermore
you can select your own icon (only 11x11 pixels!) that will appear on your
page. You're all invited to check it out at http://stats.webcat.nl/ (title link).
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27.Oct.2000
ByteKnight on ANF
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Nightlong Update
At the clickBOOM portal, there is an update of Nightlong (V1.1) for registered users.
It should solve the problems with disappearing samples and the music.
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27.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Tom`s Hardware Guide: Amiga tries again
Tom`s Hardware Guide also reports on the new Amiga One.
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27.Oct.2000
ACE 2000 website
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ACE 2000 images by Jeff Sereno
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27.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MUI PPC for MorphOS V3.9 - public beta
It is a public beta of MUI PPC for MorphOS, version 3.9. Please read the documentation
carefully before installing the archive.
Download: muippc39beta.lha - 884 Kb
More new archives for MorphOS (PPC only IXEmul/Tools) are available for download.
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27.Oct.2000
ANN
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microsoft.com Whois entry at InterNIC
Hackers have attacked InterNIC:
Christian Kemp posted today at ANN,
that the "Whois" entry of microsoft.com at InterNIC (the registration site for
.com domains) looks currently as follows:
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TERRORISTS.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.RULED.BY.HACKERJACK.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.INSPIRES.COPYCAT.WANNABE.SUBVERSIVES.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.NO.LINUXCLUE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM
Supplement:
Richard Koerber told us on ANF:
The InterNIC hack is a joke. The alleged "hacker attack" on InterNIC has turned out
to be a misinterpretation of the result of the WHOIS query.
Heise: Alleged hack on microsoft.com a joke (update)
«The report is a canard.
Seruriteam apparently did not make themselves familiar with the tools for querying the
whois database before releasing the news. The clients do not only show the queried
domain but all that contain the search string. If the query contains only the word
Microsoft, you get several domains, among others MICROSOFT.FEARPENGUINS.CX.
On a casual glance, the search result irritates: one might think, the entry was manipulated.
An information contained in the search results states in such cases that it's several
independent entries. Indeed the entry of the Microsoft domain remained unchanged - a
joker from San Francisco has merely created sub-domains for the domain terrorists.net.
In another entry, he pays tribute to Apple with
APPLE.COM.IS.THE.CHOICE.OF.ALL.SELF.RESPECTING.TERRORISTS.NET.»
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27.Oct.2000
ANN
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Tao announces Cooperation with ZoomON
Tao Group announces the cooperation
with the Swedish company ZoomON.
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27.Oct.2000
Innovative
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innovative-web.de Moves
innovative-web.de moves to a new server. Email and web presentation may be temporarily
down. Should the website at http://www.innovative-web.de
not be available, please try http://www.innovative-server.de,
a 1:1 mirror of the data of innovative-web.de. This domain is already located on a new server.
Please send email for the duration of the move to xyz@innovative-server.de instead of xyz@innovative-web.de.
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27.Oct.2000
Dirk Baeyens by eMail
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ACE 2000 - Show Report
Date: 25-oct-00 14:15:42
From: Michael Czajka MC-1@bigfoot.com
Subject: [ACE_2000] ACE 2000 Official show report
Hi,
ACE was enjoyed by almost everyone and most people want to see it run again
next year.
Many vendors transacted not only business but networked and set up strategic
alliances with each other and the user groups. User groups worked
brilliantly together. Sponsorship, demo's and lots of other things are going
to occur as a result of this show. I know a few of the attendees spent until
the wee hours locked in a room discussing how to leverage strategic software
and hardware innovations.
The show was very much about software innovation although although a lot of
innovative hardware also took centre stage (RiscStation & VR21 spring to
mind).
AUSOM took out the most professional stand hands down. They also had the
biggest stand having an entire room to themselves. People loved the kind of
one-to-one they got with the most powerful of mac's.
CAUS took out the most innovative amongst the Amiga groups. It was a shame
we couldn't get their web cam on-line.
Bill McEwan took out most attendees at any seminars, followed closely by Ka
Ping Yee.
Most creative seminar goes to Tony Paterson who spoke about video editing on
the Draco and gave some excellent examples.
Most active stand for the user groups probably goes to LUV who were so busy
they had to get in another table although AUG spent a lot of its time pretty
busy.
Most active stand for the dealers probably goes for Symmetry Innovations
(QNX) who did seminars, demo's and had 4 people on the stand who often
couldn't keep up with the interest.
Most friendly stand goes to Ebay who spent the entire show showing us how to
use the net to trade better. I think the user groups showed them a thing or
two as well.
Most active Amiga stand goes to Vince Morton from Computer Magic. He had the
most up-to-date hardware and software and some absolute bargains! A $1000
SCSI scanner for $400! Wow!
Best graphical hardware was the VR21 3D glasses. I don't know how many they
sold but I do know that at least a couple of people went home interested in
developing for them.
Most bulletproof software was the RiscStation Point of Sale solution.
There's nothing more robust than an OS that goes on a ROM. 4Mb only!
Most eyecatching machine was the Amigatech A4000 Towerminator a plastic and
chrome monolith with a set of innovative thin film light emitting panels
that make it stand out even better in the dark. Unfortunately it's
temporarily out of production.
Best software utility must go to Greg Perry for his invaluable DirOpus. It's
a shame that he didn't do any seminars at this show.
The penultimate exhibitor award has to go to APANA who arranged to attend
and confirmed at something like 2am Friday morning.
Most embarrassing moment at the show: Has got to be when Amiga users Steven
Howard and I think it was Steve from CAUS didn't recognise the CEO of Amiga
Bill McEwen. Shame guys shame!
I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank all volunteers who helped
make the show a success. It was very much a user group effort.
In particular I'd like to thank Steven Howard who manned the door in a
competent fashion so that I really didn't worry about that aspect of it.
Tim who simplified my life with the food van (that was a Latrobe effort:
well done guys).
Guy Nathan (Cyberwolf) who pitched in just about everywhere as required.
Peter Margerison who helped print up all those nice badges, put signs on all
the tables so you'd know where to go and then helped as required.
Ewen Bell who did a fantastic job on our web site. Seona too for the help
she gave us in its genesis.
Dianne and Keith who manned/womanned the AUG/MAUG food stall.
Merv Stent who helped control the door at the dinner.
Erik and Janne who did an excellent job looking after the seminar room.
Jeff Dunn and all those other people (Latrobe) who hung around late on
Sunday and took home whatever garbage was left over from the show.
If I've forgotten anyone I apologise. If anyone didn't get contacted we're
sorry. I think we did work the volunteer list fairly hard. However often it
was a case of turning up and asking what to do.
All those others who just pitched in and did things when either I or Greg
asked... thanks! If either of us were not polite we apologise.
I tried to say hi to as many of you as I could at the show but, I'm
disappointed that I couldn't touch base with more people. I'd have liked
that. Maybe next time? Or perhaps you'll catch me at one of the user group
meetings? Either way it was great to meet you all.
An examination of core costs established that the event did turn a profit.
Therefore such an event is financially viable. Unfortunately overall the
event made a loss. Despite this the organisers feel that ACE was well worth
holding. We had a great time, met great people and learned a great deal.
We think that the effects of the show may be far reaching. We know that many
people went away with each others numbers and are collaborating on "stuff".
It was a definitely a user based show (but what powerful users!) and had the
zing that most of our larger exhibitions seem to lack.
If I haven't mentioned something I ought to please e-mail me and I can do an
update.
We thank you for your participation and hope that you'll be back for more
next year.
:-)
Michael Czajka
ACE 2000
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26.Oct.2000
CyberGraphX Website
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ShowCGXConfig 42.2 and VooDoo Alpha Driver
ShowCGXConfig was released in version 42.2 and shows now all gfx boards recognized by CGX.
Also it displays which gfx board in which system is used. More info you will find
on the CGX V4 site.
Download:showcgxcfg_20001024.lha
A new free alpha driver for VooDoo-gfx-boards connected to the Mediator board is also available
for download. More info you will find on the Mediator site.
Download: VooDoo_ALPHA_25.lha
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26.Oct.2000
MAS-Player
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MAS-Player Software Version 1.3c
An update of the software for the hardware based MPEG-Player 'MAS-Player' is available.
This hardware gives good results in playing MPEG-files even on a 680x0-processor.
Download of version 1.3c:
MAS-Player.LHA
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26.Oct.2000
AmigaAIM
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AmigaAIM Version 0.9397 Beta
For the AOL Instant Messenger like software for the Amiga a new
beta-version is available and can be downloaded from the usual sites.
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26.Oct.2000
amiga.org
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Mitchy: Victim of its own success
amiga.org reports (title link),that 'Mitchy', the webcrawler and the Link-Directory
of amiga.org, due to too great success and the related accesses the server cannot bear it anymore.
amiga.org is already working on bringing 'Mitchy' back online better than ever.
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26.Oct.2000
Haage & Partner
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Haage & Partner News
Update of PowerPC World
After a longer break Stefan Funke has made an update of the PPC World pages.
PPC World
AmigaOS 3.9 announced
Maybe surprisingly for many of you Amiga Inc. not only released some new details
of the AmigaONE at the ACE 2000 in Australia, they also announced a new AmigaOS for
the classic Amigas. As for OS 3.5 the new AmigaOS 3.9 is developed by H&P. More
details will follow. news
We are five
No, we are not five people, but our company is now five years old. Yes, we can
not believe it either, that is already was such a long time ago as Jochen Becher, Juergen Haage,
and Markus Nerding have given each other the "word of consent" at the notary ;-). We want to say
thank you to all the Amiga users those have supported us all that time. It was always
a greast pleasure for us:).
More co-workers wanted
For special support tasks and several minor and medium projects we are looking for
experienced co-workers for the fields Genesis support, web programming, AmigaWriter
support, PageStream support and general coders. more
ArtEffect workshop now for download
The popular workshop, which presents in twelve chapters the interesting functions
and effects of ArtEffect, is now available as archive for download.
Download:workshop4.lha
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26.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
FAQs-deutsch.lha biz/haage 59K+FAQs, german version, 27 Sep 2000
FAQs-english.lha biz/haage 55K+FAQs, english version, 27 Sep 2000
Sashi89.lha comm/misc 13K+Link software between TI calculator and
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 9K+V1.3, YAM2-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 +
Clarissa_HTTPd.lha comm/tcp 114K+AREXX HTTP-Server (german) v1.0
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 244K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.7
T-Rexx.lha comm/tcp 106K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
cache2file.lha comm/www 4K+Makes a directorytree from AWEBCACHES!
SPO3-Invtro.lha demo/aga 101K+Invitation intro for SPO3! (Amiga-only d
UP-EP003.lha demo/sound 1.9M+UP ROUGH "Aggression Session EP" feat. S
Emperor.lha dev/c 358K+Object-oriented programming language
wla_dx_020_6.9.lzh dev/cross 300K+WLA DX v6.9 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816
perl-5.6.0-bin.lha dev/gg 6.2M+Perl 5.6.0 for amiga with ixemul.library
fat95.lha disk/misc 51K+Win95/98 compatible file system
Starmag24_HT.lha docs/mags 402K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
ALEM_0023.lha docs/rview 351K+ALEM's Elbox Keyboard Interface Doc (FR)
F1GP_2000.lha game/data 11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (final u
NewNapalmBoot.lha game/patch 1K+For those of you with problems running N
DA3Demo.lha misc/sci 2.5M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
ChupaChip.lha mods/chip 5K+Excellent CHIP modul by Night Knight
MP3Info.lha mus/misc 19K+Writes the Title, Author, etc into MP3s.
wavetompg.lha mus/misc 3K+Repairs mp3/mp2 header from broken files
FWCalendar.lha util/rexx 422K+THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream
NewSearch.lha util/sys 7K+Open-source replacement for "C:Search".
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 18K+PatchBrain v1.20 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
yStart.lha util/wb 18K+Start menu for standard WB icons (v1.1)
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26.Oct.2000
R. Crescente via eMail
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Ragonsoft AmigaXchange - Banner Exchange
The banner exchange is only for websites that deal with the Amiga and have a factor
of 0.9. For 100 fade-ins you will get 90 credits. The fact that only Amiga websites are
allowed for the banner exchange will give you advantage to reach the proper people.
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26.Oct.2000
Andre Siegel on ANF
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BlueBlack Solution is Looking For Another Art Designer!
BlueBlack Solutions is looking for a talented art designer who will as additional support help to create
in-game-graphics and sequences for the commercial real-time-strategical 'Operation:
Counterstrike'.
Requirements:
- totally professional results with a raytraycing package of own choice
- Access to powerful hardware (HigEnd-Amiga, PC, or PowerMac)
- enough knowledge of the English language for working in an international team
Interested persons mail to:
jobbo@jobboland.de.
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26.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Wired News: Amiga Fans, the Wait Is Over
Also Wired News is reporting about the new AmigaOne.
As mentioned before all articles are listed at the rubric
External Links.
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26.Oct.2000
Atéo Concepts
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Atéo-Concepts will Shut Down at the End of October
Due to a very strong decrease of the Amiga market and big difficulty in buying
products, we have decided to close Atéo Concepts at the end of October.
We will keep in touch with users that want to contact us for various technical
questions or for after sale service. The e-mail address
ateo-concepts@libertysurf.fr
will stay available. Soon, new driver versions with no keys will be available
on the Atéo Concepts website. Also you will find a list of articles in store; these are
offered without p&p.
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26.Oct.2000
Andreas Kuessner via email
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Taifun Alpha Version - DEMO
As successor of the video- and animations special effects program 'Wildfire' the
development of 'Taifun' for the new Amiga is in progress. Now a very early preview-version
was released. An installed AmigaSDK is required.
Download: taifun.tar.bz2 -
Taifun.readme
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26.Oct.2000
Robert Williams on ANF
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New-Look SEAL Website
South Essex Amiga Link, the UK Amiga user group well known for SEAL-O-RAMA and
Clubbed magazine, has uploaded their totally re-designed website. We hope the new
site looks cleaner, is easier to navigate and faster to load.
But... the update is more than just a new look, the site now concentrates more
on the Club's activities. You'll find an illustrated report of every meeting in
the Club/Reports section and we'll soon be adding examples of members' work in
the Gallery section.
From now on the SEAL website will be updated at least every fortnight. So visit
us at http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk and let us know what you think!
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25.Oct.2000
Dirk Baeyens via eMail
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Pictures of the ACE in Melbourne
Under the title link you can find some pictures of the Amiga-exhibition ACE which took place on the
21st and 22nd of October in Melbourne. Greg Perry by GPSoftware has taken these pictures.
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25.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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AmigaOne with New Logo
Amiga immediate was responsive to the wishes of the community and changed the Amiga One logo. Many users were
unhappy with the old one.
In the Amiga One forum this issue is
discussed very much.
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25.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Sad Message for the Amiga Community
Amiga is mourning for Bob "Coz" Cosby, an important member of the Amiga family.
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25.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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PCWELT: Amiga is back!
PCWELT reports positively about the Amiga One. Look at the article under title link. (German)
There is a report about Amiga at I.T., too:
Amiga OS to run in household electronics
«The OS by Amiga runs on TV set-top-boxes, portable devices and game consoles. They also report about
an already signed contract on a DSL TV set-top-box and eleven several arrangements.
In the video-text of the ZDF (German TV-station) the following message was released:
New Amiga-models from summer 2001:
After more than six years the software producer Amiga has announced new desktops and workstations for summer
2001. This is about a special hardware-specification. Besides this Amiga is going to support portable
devices like Handhelds and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). The new computer shall have at least 64 MB RAM,
a graphics board by Matrox, and a sound system by Creative Labs.»
T-Online (German internet provider) also reports:
«AmigaOne will come next summer (German)
New PC follows the trend.
Amiga wants to come out grand again. Over six years devotees had to wait. After the announcement of a
platform independent Amiga operating system the corresponding hardware now is supposed to appear, too.»
The non-Amiga medias collective are strongly interested. We have listed
all these and even more articles in chronological order in the category extern articles.
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25.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Sega Dreamcast Tools
Those ones who are interested in doing more things than "just" playing with their consoles should
visit the website of Marcus Comstedt. There you can find everything you need to program under
AmigaOS.
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24.Oct.2000
Dirk Conrad on ANF
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Software Update MAS-Player v1.3b
MAS-Player is a hardware for playing back MP3 and MP2. The MAS-Player version 1.3b
is available for download at the title link.
New in this version:
A DAO CUE sheet editor, allowing to split a MP3 file recorded
from a complete CD. This can be used e.g. for CDs where songs blend into the next one.
The CUE sheet editor can process CUE lists, which are used by Windows software like e.g.
CDRWIN.
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24.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
The PhotoAlbum/Cybershow package and the XadMasterlibrary are available for a special
price from Amiga Arena until 2000-10-31 only.
Amiga Arena Interview Action
A new interview with Marcel Beck (YAM) is online.
Amiga Arena - Support Your Local Hero
Amiga Arena supports the poll by UnIQue on the subject of continued development of
the game A.C.Sys. A small review of the demo version is online.
Amiga Arena - Links Support
Aside from new links, there is also a review for the freeware game BubbleStones,
a Bust a Move clone. There will be more reviews in the future.
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24.Oct.2000
Coyote Flux
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PPC680x0 version 1.20 (promotional edition)
The new promotional edition of PPC680x0 (1.20) is available now. This is the actual StormC 4 release promo.
This StormC 4 release has a few new features added to it. The most important feature is the .fd file option.
>From now on, PPC680x0 has a big list of .fd files to learn 68k library-call registers from. This means that
it is actually possible to determine which function is being called: Only the registers used by this function
are saved/restored to and from the 68k.
A new executable, PPC68k24 has been added to the archive as well: This version works with graphic-boards as
well, has a 24-bits picture on CyberGraphx and has the scroll/effectsbar disabled.
Download: PPC68kPR.lha.
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24.Oct.2000
Ron Goertz
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FWCalendar Update Version 4.09
FWCalendar is an ARexx script (macro) for FinalWriter V4+ or Pagestream V3+,
for easy creation of calendars. The script can be customized with over 100
user-configurable variables.
Download: FWCalendar.lha -
please also read the installation instructions.
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24.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Eyetech licensing Voodoo card drivers from DCE
Eyetech licenses the Voodoo drivers from DCE for the soon to be released Predator
PCI/AGP expansion bus boards for the A1200 and A4000.
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24.Oct.2000
Blittersoft
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Exodus to be distributed exclusively by Blittersoft
Exodus will be distributed exclusively worldwide by Blittersoft, except for Germany. KDH
Datentechnik signed a contract with Blittersoft so they will have exclusive distribution
rights for all Blittersoft Amiga games in Germany.
Exodus is a realtime strategy game created by a Polish programmer team.
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24.Oct.2000
Amiga Club Help Forum
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YAM goes OpenSource
In the YAM News Letter No. 9, Marcel Beck announced that he will discontinue development
of YAM. Reasons are lack of time and a shift of interest.
He will release a final version of "his" YAM, containing some small bugfixes. Afterwards
he will release the source code of this version on the
YAM website. E-mail support for YAM up to version 2.2 will
be continued.
If there will be new versions of YAM for AmigaOS or other operating systems, Marcel Beck
will offer them for download on the YAM website. YAM is an email client for Amiga computers,
enabling the user to edit, send, recieve and manage e-mails. Currently YAM is available in
version 2.1 dating 2000-06-19. YAM is freeware.
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24.Oct.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Eyetech News
Eyetech released the AmigaOne 1200 & 4000 specifications. Read the title link for details.
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24.Oct.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis on ANF
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NetBSD-1.5 BETA Amiga test version
NetBSD is a free, easily portable UNIX-alike operating system, which, aside from many
other platforms, also exists in an Amiga version.
A new test version of NetBSD-1.5 for 68k Amigas is available at the FTP server
ftp.netbsd.org in the directory /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_BETA/amiga.
Minimum requirements:
- CPU: M68020 + MMU M68851, optionally FPU M68881/2, or
- CPU: M68030, optionally FPU M68881/2, or
- CPU: M68040 or M68060
- RAM: 8 MB Fastmem (A3000/A4000: not Zorro II)
- a M68LC040 or M68040V-CPU might possibly work too, but this has not been tested
yet
- M68000, M68010, M68EC030 CPUs do not suffice
- further requirements (drive controllers etc.) are described in the relevant locations
in the installation documentation
WARNING: 1.5 requires a major reinstallation. Moreover, 1.5_BETA is
a test version. If you need bugfixes and a minimum downtime, you should install NetBSD-1.4.3
when it becomes available.
Test reports, in English where possible, should be send to the mailinglist
port-amiga@netbsd.org. Instructions for
subscribing to this mailinglist can be requested from majordomo@netbsd.org.
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23.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaOS- and SDK-Update
Apart from the AmigaOne there were some additional announcements by Bill McEwen.
Czech Amiga News summed them up in a little article by Greg Thomas.
They say, that the PPC-Amiga-Device by Eyetech will be expandable with Mac acceleration boards.
AmigaOS V3.9 will be shipped with Workbench V3.9 and a kickstart-chip V3.9.
The new SDK-update will be released tomorrow and the next version in one month.
Furthermore Amiga will make 10% of the firm available for investments by Amiga-users.
Attention: Whether Amiga Inc. nor any other person did check this article.
Supplement: 23.10.2000:
Sjoerd wrote on ANF that he asked H&P
and they said that there will be no new Kickstart version for AmigaOS 3.9.
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23.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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akMPEG V4.50
The new verison 4.50 of akMPEG by Andreas Kleinert is available for download at the Aminet.
The MPEG-player needs AmigaOS V3.0 and supports CyberGFX, Picasso 96, AGA, 68k, PPC and MorphOS.
Download: gfx/show/akMPEG4.lha,
Readme
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23.Oct.2000
Amiga Inc.
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New Executive Update by Bill McEwen
A new Executive Update by Bill Mc Ewen is online. The EU is about the exhibition
in Melbourne and the new AmigaOS version 3.9 that will be released before christmas (take a look at the first Screenshot).
October 21, 2000 - Executive Update
Dear Amiga Family:
I am writing this as I fly back from a wonderful two days at the ACE 2000
Amiga show in Melbourne, Australia. It was indeed a great delight and
pleasure to meet with all the wonderful members of the Amiga Family Down
Under, and I already look forward to my next opportunity to visit
Australia.
I especially want to thank all the dealers, developers and end users who
attended the seminars and the hundreds of you who joined for the banquet
dinner. Amiga truly is a global family, and too much of an unknown
phenomena. It is the Amiga Family who has kept this amazing system alive
and growing.
I would like to take a moment to recognize the efforts of two people who
especially made my stay in Australia an enjoyable and educational
experience. Jeff Rose, of Unitech, the d'Amiga distributor for Australia,
and Basil Flinter the Secretary of the Amiga Down Under Group or ADUG. I
want to thank them both for taking the extra time to help me truly
understand what Australia and New Zealand mean to Amiga, and what Amiga
can do to help our its Family Down Under. I can certainly say that on my
next trip I will take the time to also visit New Zealand and say hello in
person.
Upcoming Products
There are many exciting things happening with Amiga and I wanted to tell
the entire Amiga community what the attendees of ACE 2000 learned at the
show.
Amiga will release an upgrade for the Classic AmigaOS! Version 3.9 of the
AmigaOS will be shipped and ready for the 2000 holiday
season. AmigaOS 3.9 is being developed in concert with Haage and Partner
GmbH. A new website devoted specifically to OS3.9 will be online shortly
and it will include an OS feature list and other bits of useful
information. OS 3.9 will be made available to classic Amiga users for the
affordable price of under $40.00 US. Watch our main website,
www.amiga.com, for more details of OS 3.9 and its new
website.
Because Amiga is still a Benevolent Dictatorship-and not a democracy or
even a republic-we listen closely to the feedback and input from the
community. Based on this feedback we strive to create products that you
want, need and enjoy.
We are pleased to announce to the community the first in a series of new
hardware that has been designed by Amiga and soon manufactured by Amiga
OEM partners. The first in our AmigaONE series of products are the
AmigaONE PPC 1200, and the AmigaONE PPC 4000 cards from Eyetech. These
products will become available to developers in December this year and are
designed to meet the specific needs of the Amiga Community. We have also
announced another partner, bPlan GmbH, who are creating a new AmigaONE PPC
based desktop computer.
More details will emerge shortly about bPlan, Eyetech and the new AmigaONE
products, so visit the AmigaONE web site at www.amiga.com/products/one/pr.php
to stay informed.
I would also like to announce new versions of the Amiga SDK. AmigaSDK
version 1.1 will begin shipping on October 24, 2000. In addition to an
upgrade for the Linux version, we are please to release the Windows
version of the Amiga SDK as well.
There was a mistake in the September 28 Executive Update. As erroneously
printed in the update, the Amiga SDK 1.1 does not include the sound, UI,
or 3D pieces. These will be found in version 1.2, which itself will be
released shortly. I am sorry for the error, but take comfort in the fact
that purchasers of an Amiga SDK receive free updates and upgrades for 12
months from the date of purchase.
Closing
It has been an amazing 10 months since we started Amiga Incorporated. The
community has seen the delivery of the Amiga SDK, an upgrade to the SDK,
an upgrade to the Classic AmigaOS, and now the announcement of three PPC
based AmigaONE products. We still have a long way to go and many more
battles to fight, but I am confident that with the community behind us,
and the enhancements to the product line continuing, there is a long and
exciting future for Amiga.
To the user group members around the world, it is time to start calling
the members who have drifted away and let them know what is happening with
the new Amiga. We want them to know they can again be part of continuing
the legacy that is Amiga.
Again thanks to Greg, and Michael, and the thousands of other Amigans Down
Under who made ACE 2000 such a great event.
Get Boinged!
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team
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23.Oct.2000
Frogger-Site
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Frogger V1.6 beta for Linux/x86
Betaversion 1.6 of the MPEG-player "Frogger" for Linux/x86 is out now.
The player supports the playing of MPEG-1 and -2, and Audio-Layers 1, 2 and 3.
Download: frogger_linux_x86.tgz (65K)
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23.Oct.2000
aphaso
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NListtree V18.5
Version 18.5 of the NLosttree-class for MUI were released. The class presents listree entries in a tree structure
and it supports drag&drop, and multi-selection of entries. The changes are:
- Preparse-String-Pointer at MUIP_NListtree_DisplayMessage.
- Drop-Types are now public. It uses the same values then NList-Drop-types.
- When hiting return MUIA_NListtree_Doubleclick will be selected.
- NULL-pointer were replaced by the text "*** NULL POINTER ***".
- Multi-Test-Hook will be called in every case of multi-selection.
- New: MUIM_NListtree_PrevSelected.
- New: MUIV_NListtree_FindName_Flag_Selected - only finds selected entries in MUIM_NListtree_FindName.
- Bugfix when DoubleClicking: there are no effects if DoubleClick were set to something else then ALL
- New Doubleclick-value: MUIV_NListtree_DoubleClick_NoTrigger.
The class needs AmigaOS 2.x, MUI V3.8 and MCC_NList V0.89 (NList.mcc V19.97).
Download: MCC_NListtree.lha (169K),
Readme
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23.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
Videomanage.lha biz/dbase 1.7M+A Videodatabase
LPx.lha comm/net 3K+Print scripts for Samba, v1.0
MP-TelekomSI.lha comm/tcp 2K+Settings for MiamiPhone v1.5
wpz-fun.lha demo/aga 6K+4kb intro by Whelpz released on Astrosyn
wpz-info02.lha demo/aga 100K+Whelpz info issue #o2 (january 1999)
MWI-Overview03.lha demo/slide 2.1M+OVERVIEW #03 by MAWI. party slideshow an
fda-upd.lha disk/cache 70K+Fixed:OS35 checksums ViNCEd faster compa
fda.lha disk/cache 352K+Linux' buffer-cache v3.0
dblocate.lha disk/misc 21K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
AnnuaireAmiga6.txt docs/anno 4K+Announce for the new http://www.annuaire
WarpGIF-DT.txt docs/anno 2K+Datatype for GIF-Images with WarpOS (40.
VWorksPricelis.lha docs/hyper 23K+Virtual Works pricelist
3DWorldArc0600.lha docs/misc 104K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 06/00
3DWorldArc0700.lha docs/misc 48K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 07/00
3DWorldArc0800.lha docs/misc 36K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 08/00
3DWorldArc0900.lha docs/misc 10K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 09/00
3DWorldArc1000.lha docs/misc 20K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 10/00
FatePL.lha game/role 14K+FatePL - Ultimate Dice Simulator for RPG
nam.lha game/text 126K+Czech text adventure game
BStones.lha game/think 183K+BubbleStones 1.4, Bust a Move like
WBsteroids.lha game/wb 174K+Asteroids-clone in scaleable wb-window
akMPEG4.lha gfx/show 196K+MPEG player (CGfx/P96/AGA) V4.50 (68k/PP
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 127K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 65K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
stlist.lha misc/emu 24K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001013.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
JochenHippelST.lha mods/chip 197K+Atari ST Mods by famous musicians
ThunderBlade.lha mods/misc 253K+Custom modules from "Thunder Blade"
rno-r049.mpg mods/mpg 1.9M+Rno-records release no.49 by Tarmslyng/l
atdt.lha mods/pro 291K+'ATDT' - a protracked MOD by &.
g-nainenjatotu.lha mods/pro 404K+'G-nainen ja Totuus' - a protracked MOD
jehovantodista.lha mods/pro 253K+'Jehovan Todistaja' - a protracked MOD b
mechno.lha mods/pro 377K+'Mechno' - a protracked MOD by &.
suurivalkoinen.lha mods/pro 251K+'Suuri Valkoinen' - a protracked MOD by
twinblade.lha mods/pro 811K+'Twin Blade' - a protracked MOD by &.
worthless.lha mods/pro 265K+'Worthless' - a protracked MOD by &.
EP_PaulSummers.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Paul Summers" external repl
plone.lha mus/play 450K+V1.6 - PlayList AddOn for PlayGui
AladdinBoot.lha pix/boot 510K+Aladdin Bootup for Rainboot3
BaaackBoot.lha pix/boot 455K+Baaack Bootup for Rainboot3
BeatboxBoot.lha pix/boot 227K+Beatbox Bootup for Rainboot3
LionKingBoot.lha pix/boot 142K+LionKing Bootup for Rainboot3
WSucksBoot.lha pix/boot 865K+WindowsSucks Bootup for Rainboot3
fomsw22.jpg pix/henz 9K+C-3PO and R2-D2 (Star Wars)
Rio91.jpg pix/views 90K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
Rio96.jpg pix/views 107K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
Rio98.jpg pix/views 156K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
guidecheck.lha text/edit 60K+V1.21 AmigaGuide syntax checker (and mor
ascii2jascii.lha text/misc 35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
r.lha util/cli 49K+V1.56 Just in time GUIs for every DOS Co
delfina4.16bet.lha util/libs 21K+Delfina.library version 4.16 (beta)
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 98K+V1.26 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha util/pack 22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
Scion2html.lha util/rexx 33K+WWW browser HTML's from Scion Genealogy
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23.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta on ANF
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Picture Gallery of the ACBB
The ACBB installed a picture gallery that
contains pictures showing the activities of the club.
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23.Oct.2000
Thomas Zahren on ANF
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Headlines on Amiga Inc. Press Release
The following reactions on the press release by Amiga Inc. were published in non-amiga (online-)magazins.
Slashdot: Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of
The Register: Amiga unveils next-gen hardware spec
MaximumPC: Amiga Plunges Back into Hardware
CNet: Welcoming back an old Amiga
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23.Oct.2000
dEFToNE on ANF
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SMSEngineer Update - v1.0.7
SMSEngineer version v1.0.7 released.
Changes:
- BugFix: The space-field now works
- BugFix: The space-field now works with the gateway.dat-file.
- Changing of the label of the remaining-space-field to "NochFrei/Möglich"
- New list view for the upcoming address book
- Some internal changes
- New tooltype for the position of the signature
- Signature fields will not be shown if you set SignPos=NOSIGN
The download is available at the title link.
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22.Oct.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon Online: Highway Patrol
Together with a new there's a new homepage.
The layout was completely revised and Pearl is used to give it a more
interactive design.
You can now rate and comment on every cartoon.
Besides, there's now a service for Amiga clubs only. More about that
here.
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22.Oct.2000
Bastian Moritz on ANF
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New German Magazine - Triple-A
Bastian Moritz wrote:
Until some months ago I had created an Atari fanzine with some other people. But
as I am also an Acorn user and some of my colleagues Amiga fans we thought that
we could also put it all on a broader basis.
This resulted in Triple-A, a fanzine for Amiga, Acorn and Atari. The first issue
comes out on 29.10. From today on you can at least surf to our homepage.
At www.triple-a-mag.de
you get infos and a forum. In addition to this you can subscribe here or place
free adverts.
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22.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino via email
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AmigaOne Area at amiga.com
At the area products at
amiga.com is now a section specially for the AmigaOne.
There are news, information,
FAQs and a discussion forum at your disposal.
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22.Oct.2000
David Connoly via email
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CS&E: Software and Banner
CS&E will soon releae "Cosmo's Fun Class".
This is a education software package for children at the age of 4-9 years. It fosters
reading, calculating and the hand/eyes coordination and much more.. The software
runs on an A1200. It was developed by the team of
Electronics Dream Interactive.
In conjunction with an Amiga Survivor subscription the package is available at a special
price. To do a translation into German language CS&E needs 300 pre-orders. They expect 1000
pre-orders for the game "Carmageddon". All in all the people at CS&E hope to sell
5000 copies of "Carmageddon".
"Back in Time 2" however has been finished as is the English version of "Cosmo's Fun
Class", so they don't need any pre-orders for that. Details about pre-ordering are
available via email: csande@csande.com
and will be released soon in both, the print and online magazines of CS&E.
On the website of the Amiga Survivor
magazine is free room for small banners. Everybody interested may place
his/her banner there in exchange with banners by CS&E on their own
websites.
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22.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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ppclibemu v0.8c
Frank Wille has released the version 0.8c of the ppclibemu on 21. October 2000.
This software emulates the ppc.library by phase 5 under WarpOS and this way allows
the direct use of PowerUp-programs with WarpOS. This version patches the
Exec-functions FreeMem()/FreeVec() to avoid problems with bad coded programs
which free PPC memory using theses Exec-functions. This affects for example
TurboPrint.
Download:
The update contains solely the libraries. Everything else is included in the
complete archive of the version 0.7.
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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Super Expansion System
The new company Fastech announces an expansion on their website with the
following features: 3 PCI slots, 3 Zorro-III compatible slots, 1 AGP slot, 1
SDRAM DIMM slot, 2 CPU expansion ports, 1 A1200 clock port, 2 x serial and 1 x
EPP parallel ports. As CPU modules are a G4 module with 400 MHz and a Coldfire
module with 333 MHz announced. The expansion shall be released first for
A3000/T- and A4000/T computers and is in the alpha test stage at present.
While the G4 module is delayed to reach a higher performance via a rework of the
design the Coldfire module is in the test stage. As the Coldfire is not 100%
compatible with the 68k line OS patches and library patches are needed. They are
working on these at the moment.
Editorial note:
Hints strengthen that this website and so the report may be a fake. We can't neither
confirm nor deny this at the moment, but we'll continue our investigations.
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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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StrICQ v0.1728 beta
After a long time a new beta version of the ICQ client "StrICQ" for the Amiga
was released on 20. October 2000. This beta version 0.1728 is dated on 18.
February 2000. According to Czech Amiga News this version is supposed to work
better together with ICQ2000. Though it tends to crash the ICQ2000 client during
the chat initialisation.
Download: STRICQ.lha
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22.Oct.2000
CyberGFX
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Mediator Drivers
Already on 19. October 2000 the following information appeared on the CyberGFX
website: Elbox has sent an updated driver archive to the registered Mediator
users. This archive contains the Mediator system files, a SANA-II network driver
supporting many network chip sets and the CGX Virge driver.Those belonging to the
registered Mediator users may contact Elbox
regarding the latest drivers. The latest CGX Mediator drivers can be found on
the CyberGFX Mediator page.
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22.Oct.2000
ANN
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English Amiga Board
AmigaMos and
rck-power have joint and set up the
English Amiga Board.
This one aims to be as good as the German Amiga Emu Board.
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22.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Article concerning AmigaOne Games
Articles appeared regarding the games Europa Universalis, Echelon: The
Storm, Jagged Alliance 2, and Battle for the Globe at Amiga Flame.
The strategy game "Europa Universalis" will be ported by Hyperion-Software for
the Amiga. The games "Echelon: The Storm" and "Jagged Alliance 2" are listed on
the AmigaDE Software list
that was released by Amiga recently. "Battle for the Globe" is an
action-strategy game that is being developed at the moment by Nordicsoft for
PPC-Amigas and IBM compatible PCs.
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22.Oct.2000
Mirko Engelhard on ANF
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AmigaLand: 2 New Games
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Since today there are two new adventures on our site.
Beneath a steel Sky
and Lure of the Temptress.
Both games were made by the company Revolution Software Ltd.
who gave us the permission yesterday to offer these games for free download.
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22.Oct.2000
Stefan Schulze via email
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Screen Shots of Crossfire II
Stefan Schulze writes:
On our website are the latest screen shots of the action shooter Crossfire ready for
admiration. They are completely taken from the campaign mode.
Besides that it looks as if Jan Morgenstern (www.jm-music.de) will be supporting us as a
free lancer in the future. I'm really pleased that we don't have to rely on
Techno now. :)
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22.Oct.2000
ANN
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Nostalgia: Putty Squad Demo
On 20. October 2000 the demo of Putty Suqad was released in the Amiga
Rediscovery section of AmiHoo. This demo
was released as coverdisk. The game itself was never released by System 3 Software.
Amiga Rediscovery of AmiHoo has the conception
to rediscover some of the greatest Amiga games by playing the demo
versions which were released as cover disk years ago. So this site also calls to
share your thoughts about the games with others and to ask for help at comp.sys.amiga.misc.
Besides the demos of the recent months there's, among other things, a help file on
the page reachable on the page at the title link that explains how to unpack the DMS disk
archive.
Download: PuttySquad.dms
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22.Oct.2000
Schatztruhe
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Aminet Set 10
Schatztruhe announces the release of the 10. Aminet set by 2. November 2000.
This set contains all files that have been added since the 9. set and full
versions of Max Rally, Zombie Massacre, Personal Paint 7.1b, Pinball Dreams, Pinball
Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The Aminet CDs 36 to 39 are included in
unchanged. Altogether the set contains more than 3G of software in
almost 4000 archives.
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22.Oct.2000
David Connolly via email
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CS&E: Amiga Future and Games at the Shops
The english issue of Amiga Future will be available by February 2001 at the
newspaper sellers in Great Britain and Ireland. The price will be £5,99. A
six months subscription including coverdisk costs £29,99 and can be ordered
at CS&E.
In Great Britain and Ireland CS&E now also offers Amiga games via retail
chains like Dixons and Electronics Boutique. PC games will be ported to the Amiga
(and vice versa) and released as dual-format-package by CS&E. So there
are three possibilities for the Amiga user to buy games. 1) At the local Amiga
retailer. 2) Via retail chains like Dixons. 3) As download liable for costs via the
soon opened website http://www.pc-software.com/.
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22.Oct.2000
Jochen Abitz on ANF
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Merlancia Comments on Criticism
Merlancia Industries announced
some hardware for the AmigaDE some days ago covering computers from Palmtop over
laptops to PC-towers. This announcement caused some doubts. In the above
statement, dated 22. October 2000, Ryan E. A. Czerwinski from Merlancia comments
on the criticism.
Among other things it can be read that the release of the TORRO website took
place to give the Amiga community an idea now of what is in development.
For the COMDEX, in Phoenix, Merlancia announced the introduction of a working
Hurricane prototype and invited to an arrangement for a private talk at the
exhibition. They are working on the Hurricane board for eight months now. As
expected release date for the Hurricane and the eClips they named the second to
third quarter 2001. This date also depends on the release of the AmigaDE.
The complete statement
caters to further nine subjects.
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22.Oct.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanach III Demo Bugfix
Achim Stegemann wrote:
Everybody having difficulties with the demo of the planetarium program Digital
Almanach III can download a bugfix from my homepage. Unfortunately there was an
enforcer hit in the first demo version which caused problems on some few Amigas (020,030 ??).
Download: DA3Demo.lzx (2,5 MB)
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21.Oct.2000
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Olliweb.de back online
olliweb.de provides information covering the Amiga - Linux subject. After
the website was offline for quite some time, due to logistic and technical
problems of the provider, olliweb.de is available again from now on.
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21.Oct.2000
Amidog
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AMP 2
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has posted some important comments about his
movieplayer "AMP 2" on his website. Among other things he points out that the
prefs-format has changed. Therefore all the former AMP.cfg files must be
deleted before you can use the new version. Some option were had, names of options were
changed or options have been removed, and may not be used in the old way anymore. More
informations can be found under the title link at the "AMP 2" section.
Download current version 1.33: AMP2pre6.lha
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21.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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EU-Commission starts Poll about Software Patents
"The European Commission has started a poll about patents on computer programs,
so-called "computer-implemented inventions". Prior to this is the EU's fear
that the lack of EU-standard provisions of law in this sector could slow down
economic growth, competitive capacity and development of the internal market.
The commission has asked concerned institutions, companies, the public, and
the member-states to express themselves about a
probe document
from the commission's departements. The commission will state its final
position concerning this subject around beginning of 2001."
Complete article under the title link. (German)
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21.Oct.2000
amiga.org
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Merlancia Announces New Products Running on the AmigaDE
Merlancia announced a new product line that will run on the AmigaDE.
From the Palmtop PC to tower and laptops everything is represented.
In this context, it might be interesting to point out
Merlancia's Collection of Amiga
and Commodore antiques and curios and prototypes and his 1974 AMX. There
are lots of pictures of the prototypes.
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21.Oct.2000
Alfred Faust via eMail
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BlueRibbon Soundworks Inc. Is Alive ...
Alfred Faust wrote:
Nearly 5 years after the take over of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc. by
Microsoft, I received the official permission from Todor Fay (the former boss)
to post all of Blue Ribbon Inc.'s products for download on my newly created
homepage. Until now, the software could only be (officially and
legally) acquired if you happened to be a member of Compuserve.com (USA).
I'm very grateful to Todor Fay (and surely every other musically interested AMIGA-user does so)
for this permission, because in my opinion programs even though
those have great functionality never have achieved this level of
user-friendliness. They fit so nicely into the AMIGA system that they
run on OS 3.1 and on graphic-boards (promote with NewMode) without any problem.
Bars&Pipes can be expanded by its tools and accessories to such an extend
that it is in a certain way "updatable".
My new homepage concerns:
- Bars&Pipes 2.5 (German online-manual which is also downloadable as
AMIGA-Guide)
- DB-50XG (my Hardware-Hack, online and downloadable)
- TriplePlay3.1 (the same)
also planned or in preparation:
- SuperJAM! 1.1 (z.Zt. only program and styles downloadable)
- Rules for Tools (Toolscoding for Bars&Pipes - only as download for
now)
- Inovatools1 (Intuition-expansion - used in Bars&Pipes,
SuperJAM! and The PachtMeister , only as download for now)
- My own music made with Bars&Pipes - SuperJAM! - DB-50XG
- and more
As mentionned above the site has a huge download-area where you can
_l e g a l l y_ download all of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc.'s products.
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21.Oct.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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Five New Rainboot3 Configurations
On October 20th, 2000 Airsoft Softwair released 5 new
Rainboot3-configurations. There are Aladdin Boot, Beatbox Boot, Baaack Boot,
Lion King Boot and Windows Sucks Boot by Werner Henkel. You can find them at
the download
area of the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: BoardType V1.0
BoardType is a small tool which prints out the version of the BlizzardPPC board
in use. This information is needed to track bugs. The bug report
should mention the output of this tool.
Download: boardtype.lzh (1,6K)
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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: CygnusEd Professional 4.21
An official PPC port of the text editor "CygnusEd Professional V4.21" has been
released for MorphOS. This port needs the original CygnusEd4-CD-ROM as a
basis. During the installation of the patch, the 68k version stays untouched
so that it can still be used in case one would like to install both versions
on the same partition. The updated frontend recognizes whether the editor has
been started under MorphOS or AmigaOS an then loads the corresponding binary.
This update can also be downloaded at Schatztruhe.
Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd.lha (211K)
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21.Oct.2000
Michael Heider on ANF
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Kernel Version 2.2.10 for Linux_m68k Available
Michael Heider wrote:
As announced, the Kernel-2.2.10 for Linux_m68k can be downloaded on my
homepage under the link mentioned above from today on. A comment how to
install this kernel is included in the archive.
I would also like to announce the following: After a call at SuSE I was told
that SuSE Linux 7.0 for PowerPC should be available from next week on.
Pre-orders are already accepted at this time.
In near future I will once again create an installation how-to and inform
about the innovations.
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21.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta nn ANF
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Nightlong problems due to bugs
Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes:
Nightlong has been shipped and I received it today. Unfortunately the game
cannot be installed since there are no executable icons. As promised, Qu**e is
included but it can't be installed either, but there are nice videos on the CD.
Note from the editors office: Many users were able to run the game without any
problems. As we were told on the phone today, a wrong CD-filesystem might
cause this problem
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21.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF
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PlayGUI News
On the PlayGUI website there is a small update for PlayGUI (v3.a).
- PlayGUI now shows Playtime
- Playtime can be switched on and off
- Bugfix (no mod in memory caused problems)
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21.Oct.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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Amiga Inc. anounnces the AmigaOne
Press release: October 21, 2000, Melbourne, Australia - It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce the first new Amiga hardware in over 6 years. The AmigaOne, our first consumer product, will be targeted at the desktop and workstation market. Further products to follow will cover the markets from Personal Digital Assistants and upwards. All these products will run a single piece of software, the revolutionary Amiga Digital Environment (DE).
We completed the AmigaOne specification three months ago, and dubbed it the "Zico". It is a specification and not a product because Amiga is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer. The ability of the Amiga DE to host itself on multiple hardware and operating system platforms frees us from hardware dependency and gives our partners and our customers the freedom to chose the hardware that best suits their needs and tastes.
The Zico specification is as follows:
- One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
- 64MB+ memory
- Next Generation Matrox graphics card
- Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
- 10 GB+ HD
- CD/DVD
- USB 1.0
- Firewire
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 56k modem
- Spare PCI slots for expandibility
With the completion of the specification stage of the Amiga One, we contacted several respected hardware companies with a view to selecting partners who would be interested in creating AmigaOne products.
The AmigaOne process involves close co-operation between Amiga and our partners' hardware groups, the running of the AmigaDE on the hardware, and a thorough quality certification of the final product. Only then can the product be called an AmigaOne.
Whilst still in detailed negotiation with several companies, we are delighted to announce the first partner company and its initial set of AmigaOne products.
The Eyetech Group Ltd, of Stokesley, U.K. already has an excellent reputation in the Amiga community. They have done much to keep the classic Amiga alive during the last five years, and we feel that in the creation of the first new Amiga machines and the transitioning >from the classic to the next wave, that experience will prove invaluable.
Bill McEwen President of Amiga Inc commented: "This arrangement builds on and extends our existing partnership agreement with Eyetech, first announced in April of this year. Our experience during this period has shown Eyetech to be a no-nonsense company capable of delivering what they promise on time and this consideration also weighed heavily in our choice of a hardware partner for the PPC based AmigaOne."
Alan Redhouse, Managing Director of UK-based Eyetech, said; "I am delighted that we have been able to build on our existing partnership with Amiga and continue our close working relationship with them on both a technical and manufacturing level. Our decade of Amiga experience, plus our hardware and software efforts to push the Amiga forwards means that we are able to work with Amiga to deliver a proven upgrade solution to Amiga users which gives their existing 'Classic' applications an immediate and substantial performance boost whilst providing full forward compatibility with the new Amiga DE. Our work on the Predator line of boards means that we can help Amiga to fulfill its requirement of maximising the investment of the current community as it moves forwards."
Fleecy Moss, Chief Technology Officer, Amiga Inc added: "After talks with the hardware development staff of several companies I am convinced that working with Eyetech will allow us to offer an elegant solution that gives both an excellent level of backward compatibility and a powerful basis for the new Amiga Digital Environment. Top of our requirements list was to ensure that those Amigans who have spent considerable money in staying with the Amiga would not be left out in the cold. Whilst you can't please all of the people all of the time, we think we have come up with a set of products and solutions that will put a smile on as many faces as possible."
Eyetech is focusing on an immediate need in the existing Amiga market. Many have already invested considerable resources in their classic Amigas, both in terms of hardware and in terms of software. Whilst keen to move forwards with the AmigaOne, they also want to maximise their investment in the classic platform.
The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 is a custom board which uses Eyetech Predator technology with the "zico" specification to provide a perfect synergy of classic and next generation. It provides all the functionality of the standalone AmigaOne PPC, but has been extended to mate with a classic Amiga A1200. This allows customers who have a serious investment in the classic Amiga to continue to use their machines whilst also having a brand new Amiga at their disposal. The 68k processor in the A1200 will be emulated at a substantially increased level via the PPC processor on the AmigaOne, whilst the classic operating system can take advantage of the AmigaOne's next generation hardware resources.
The AmigaOne PPC 4000 machine is similarly designed to allow customers who have a significant investment in their classic Amiga A4000 to be able to move that investment forwards whilst also benefiting from the next generation capabilities of the AmigaOne.
The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 will be available as an upgrade for owners of towered A1200 computers, the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 4000 as an upgrade for Amiga 4000 desktop computers in tower conversion cases. Options for producing AmigaOne PPC upgrade designs for other Classic Amiga designs (such as the A3000 and Amiga International A4000T) will be looked at (subject to demand) once the A1200 and A4000 products are released.
In order to implement all the features of the AmigaOne specification the, A1200 and A4000 upgrade versions will feature one AGP and six PCI slots, a user-upgradable G3/G4 (Macintosh-type) cpu slot, up to 512MB SDRAM and a high speed IDE/ATAPI interface. The system will be dual-bootable both into the Amiga DE and into Classic Amiga Workbench. This latter feature will allow purchasers to have the performance benefits of full G3/G4 cpu speeds and 512MB of SDRAM memory whilst running Classic Amiga software. Both these boards are scheduled to ship in 1Q01, with developer versions being available in December 2000.
Design of both the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC A1200 and A4000 products has been done with great sensitivity to the existing user and developer community.
"By releasing the classic compatible AmigaOne PPC products first," said Alan Redhouse. "We are providing a transitional path forwards for the existing community, enabling them to maximise their current investment whilst also leaping ahead with the new Amiga DE."
In order to facilitate this transition, the classic Amiga operating system will see its lifeline extended. OS3.9, to be launched before Christmas will add a raft of new features and functionality, and will be able to run on the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC classic products.
Eyetech are also keen to talk to existing hardware manufacturers about possibilities for licencing, manufacturer and other co-operation in order to ensure a smooth transition of the existing Amiga community from the present to the future.
Amiga is also very close to signing up partners for a standalone AmigaOne machine. The ATX form factor AmigaOne has been designed to run the full consumer version of the Amiga Digital Environment (DE) allowing the best of the Classic Amiga software which has been ported to run directly under the Amiga DE, and the use of a wide range of Amiga DE-based digital content - such as productivity software, content creation suites, development environments and 3-D games - to be used 'out of the box'.
All this work - including extensive testing of hardware and software components - is scheduled to be complete in time for end user deliveries 3Q01. Amiga Inc is currently in negotiation with several potential partner companies for the development and manufacture of the stand-alone AmigaOne and its related digital content/software. Companies interested in producing this version, utilising the PPC processor family include Eyetech, and bplan GmbH of Germany. We hope to have announcements to make on this within the next few weeks. Other companies and other processors are also under negotiation.
A new website is being set up, specifically to provide a focal point for news, questions, comment and discussion on the AmigaOne, and we encourage people to visit it and participate.
Supplement:
More links on this subject:
Slashdot:
Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of (German)
Golem: AmigaOne - New Amiga comes in late summer 2001
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21.Oct.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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AminetGUI - Update
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
The AminetGUI is once again free from commercial banners and PopUp windows.
The AminetGUI has also found a new server. I would like to thank Ingo Bowe
once more for providing his server.
During the move, AminetGUI has been restructured. The new structure permits to
provide new language versions of AminetGUI in a simple way. A developer archive
with a matching template in the download area will be available soon. Spanish
will be the first language to be added. Many thanks in advance to Tomás J.
Cantóy Diez. More translators are always welcome.
I would also like to thank Buster who send me the German version of the
Aminet-Upload.docs some while ago. Those can be reached at the Docs area.
Due to the move I also drop the Link area. Links are handled by the
Amiga-Gateway from now on.
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21.Oct.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Malice: The better Q***e?
To shorten the waiting until the release of Shogo and Sin a bit, I provide a
test about Malice, a Q***e conversion. Is it really more than a mission pack?
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21.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
MCC_Guigfx.lha dev/mui 172K+Guigfx MUI custom class V19.2
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 31K+A simple backup tool.. v1.2
dblocate.lha disk/misc 20K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
ges3b.lzh game/hint 7.9M+Packet of solutions, cheats cards to gam
WHDShdWarriors.lha game/patch 23K+HD Installer for Shadow Warriors V1.1
Detris.lha game/wb 45K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715!
MPEG_S_LAMEppc.lha mus/misc 232K+MPEG_S_LAME the MP3 Encoder for SoundFX
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 81K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
DeliDecrunch.lha mus/play 9K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.1
MRQ.lha util/cdity 151K+The MUI requester improver, now OpenSour
Cmp.lha util/cli 4K+Nice and tiny binary file compare tool
HexShow.lha util/cli 5K+Shows files as Hex
SED.lha util/cli 13K+Amiga stream editor
MultiRen.lha util/misc 173K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with
DRemind.lha util/time 216K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.56!
CLICon.lha util/wb 161K+A versatile replacement for IconX
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21.Oct.2000
Ben Yoris via eMail
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Statusreport about Descent: Freespace 'The Great War'
Hyperion Entertainment Software is working on a port of "Descent: Freespace
'The Great War'". The game already runs in software-render-mode. The
engine still needs some optimization before work on the 3D acceleration can
begin. Furthermore Ben Yoris tolled us that there is still hope for a version
running on 060 or 040 CPUs with Warp3D.
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21.Oct.2000
Jens Schönfeld via eMail
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Kickflash under Production
After a long period of waiting a reworked version of Kickflash is finally under
production. First there will be a version for the absolute Amiga classics, the
A500 and A1000. Besides 1MB flash memory for Kickstart ROMs, there is also a
86 pin CPU-Slot for A2000 accelerator cards, and a Zorro slot. A version for the
A1200 will follow.
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