21.Aug.1999
Martin Endres by eMail
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News from Camouflage MIDI/Audio sequencer
Martin Endres writes: The price has been cut back (including cross-update to CamX).
CamX (the successor) will probably be released in autumn/winter in German as well as
English.
The first version will be for Amiga68K only, with a Linux86 and perhaps an AmigaNG
version coming later (if AmigaNG is already available by then).
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21.Aug.1999
cucug.org
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Cucug: The Status Register - August, 1999
Cucug: The Status Register - August, 1999.
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21.Aug.1999
Vapor.com
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Bug Tracking System by VaporWare now online
Bug Tracking System by VaporWare now online.
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21.Aug.1999
Amiga.org
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geeknews: Q & A with Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner
Q: Will we see a project from Opera to support the upcoming AmigaOS?
A: We will have to wait and see. At this time we do not know what will happen
with the new Amiga and what it really means. I have had my share of Amigas in
the past and I still have a couple at home so I would love to see the Amiga
prosper. At this time, however, we do not know what is going to happen. There
have been a lot of announcements without results from Amiga Inc. and we are
still waiting to see real results. If they deliver we will consider a port.
geeknews has not forgotten to ask about an Amiga version of Opera. As before,
the situation is such that there is no development taking place.
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21.Aug.1999
WHOTA
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WHOTA Volume 2 - Issue 21 online
WHOTA Volume 2 - Issue 21 online.
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20.Aug.1999
Amiga Universe
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Amiga Universe closed down until further notice
Amiga Universe Gone, but not forgotten. On the AU website today there is only a hint that
a decission has been made to close down AU. For now, perhaps they will reappear with the AmigaNG,
maybe they reappear next week.
We hope for next week...
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20.Aug.1999
AmiDog
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New Movie Player Beta Version
Note: AmiDog has decided to release this beta version to get feedback. Please note that crashes are
possible, and there are still bugs left. Download: AMPbeta.lha.
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20.Aug.1999
Andreas R. Kleinert by eMail
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akMPEG Animation Player version 2
Andreas R. Kleinert writes:
The akMPEG2 animation player is now available from my homepage. The archive contains an 68k version
(040/FPU or better) and a PPC version, both as Overlay and 24-Bit In-Window version. Changes since
version 1.00: Version 1.00 had only a 68k version and used the mathffp.library instead of the CPU,
some bugs removed.
P.S.: I know the program does not support sound (MPEG Video with audio part). This will not change ;).
Download: akMPEG2.lha. In the next few days,
the program will be available from Aminet.
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20.Aug.1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail
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Best of Gremlin
On the BEST OF GREMLIN you will find around 30 full games that have been published by
english Software company Gremlin for the Amiga. Most of the games can be started direct from the
CD. Where available both AGA and ECS versions of the game have been included. This is what you
will find on the CD among others:
- Combo Racer (Racer)
- Disposable Hero (Shoot em Up)
- H.A.T.E. (3D Shooter)
- Harlequin (Platformer)
- K 240 (Strategy ala Sim City)
- Litil Devil (3D style Platformer)
- Plan 9 from outer Space (Adventure for the worlds worst movie ever)
- Premier Manager I-III (Footballmanager)
- Shadow Fighter (Beat em Up)
- Super Cars I & II (Race and Fight on the Highway)
- Switchblade I &II (Action RPG)
- Top Gear II (Racer, follow up to Lotus)
- Utopia (Strategy)
- Video Kid (Cute Platformer)
- Zool I & II (Best Platformer for the Amiga - EVER!)
Price: 45,50 EURO
Systems: all Amigas; Pentium 16 MByte
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20.Aug.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail
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New programs: FMdriver and AVL
Stefan Robl writes: FMDriver:
Since the company electronic-design has stopped soft- and hardware development
for the FrameMachine, and the software had some troubles on modern systems, ED
gave me permission to continue development of this card's software.
The result is FMdriver, a completely rewritten driver tuned for high
hardware compatibility and speed (including PPC!). The package contains a config
tool and FMTV, which allows TV to be watched high-speed with CGX/P96 on the WB.
More about it on my homepage. Download: FMdriver.lha.
AVL: AVL is a simulation of self-learning bacteria on the WB. The user can
influence it any time (feeding etc.). Guaranteed addictive! ;) Download:
AVL.lha.
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20.Aug.1999
StrICQ
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New beta version StrICQ 0.1473
Download: STRICQ.lha.
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19.Aug.1999
Amiga.org
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Amiga Downunder '99 starts this weekend
The Amiga Downunder '99 will take place this weekend, August 21st-22nd in Canberra,
Australia. We will report about the highlights of the show.
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19.Aug.1999
Darkage Software
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Darkage Software looking for programmers
Wanted: 68k C and Asm programmers. Contact Paolo
"Mod3m" D'Urso.
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19.Aug.1999
c.s.a.m.
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Jim Collas in c.s.a.m.: Iwin response
Jim Collas in c.s.a.m.: Iwin response.
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19.Aug.1999
Andreas R. Kleinert by eMail
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akMPEG
akMPEG has been released. It is a programm for playing MPEG animations on 68k Amiga
systems with CyberGFX (CgxVideo/Overlay recommended, CPUs 040 and better). Download:
akMPEG.lha. The
archive will be available from Aminet in the next few days.
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19.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Dave Haynie on Team Amiga Mailinglist
On the Team Amiga Mailinglist, Dave Haynie speaks out about interesting subjects
like which CPU might be used in the AmigaNG, and Iwin is discussed too.
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19.Aug.1999
Amiga Extreme
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Review of the A4000 Power Tower
The author of the tower test has asked some questions towards Elbox, read
their answers here:
Date: Fri, 20 08:00:00 23:48:11 +0200
From: Darek Smietana support@elbox.com
To: petra.struck@online-club.de
Subject: News on A4000 PowerTower
Dear Petra Struck,
Two days ago you announced on your news side A4000 PowerTower test
in www.amigaextreme.com. Its author ask us a few questions after
placing the test in the www.amigaextreme.com.
We shall be glade if you will put our reply to the author's doubts
in this test. Please find the enclosed message on this issue from us.
Regards,
Darek Smietana
ELBOX COMPUTER
Subject: A4000 PowerTower
Date: Fri, 20 08:00:00 23:25:15 +0200
From: Darek Smietana support@elbox.com
Organization: ELBOX COMPUTER
To: "Falk Stefan, ITS-SL" stefan.falk@slg.se
References: 1
Dear Stefan,
thank you for your message and interest in the A4000 Power Tower case.
Reading your description of the Power Tower in www.amigaextreme.com,
I have the impression that you must have been a little distracted while
installing Amiga in the new case.
First of all, seeing your photos, it seems to me that you were
installing the Amiga motherboard, the ZORRO board and the turbo card
without removing the side assembly wall.
The Power Tower stands out with its immense ease of assembly with its
removable specially-designed side assembly wall. After removing the
external case, the side wall is removed, which is secured with only two
hexagon screws. The Amiga motherboard, ZORRO III and the turbo card are
all installed onto this side wall when outside the main tower case.
You have stated that a better fixing of the ZORRO III bus board
would be useful and handy in the tower case. Well, it is ready and
waiting, but you seem to have missed it. Three hexagon bushes for
securing the ZORRO bus board are already mounted, with two more
provided in the box with special accessories and which are supposed
to be screwed into the holes in the Amiga motherboard. If you make
use of them, everything must run perfect.
Before the side wall with the Amiga motherboard, the ZORRO bus board
and the turbo card is replaced inside the case, you should have
installed a FDD floppy drive, your hard disks, a CD-ROM, etc... Only
now the side wall with all the electronics is to be mounted inside
the case.
Are you wondering what the STANDBY switch is used for? If you install
some cards in the ISA slots, which are present in the ZORRO bus board,
you can then use this switch :-)
As regards your CVPPC problem, you can order a special short-lenght
front bay for 3.5" devices to the Power Tower 4000. As a standard,
the Power Tower 4000 is sold with bays for 8 x 3.5" devices (1 front
bay for 4 x 3.5" devices and 1 rear bay for 4 x 3.5" devices).
Having ordered a special shorter front bay for 2 x 3.5" devices and
installing it instead of the front bay for 4 x 3.5" devices, you will
quite easily find room for your CVPPC card inside the Power Tower 4000.
You can also remove the front bay for 4 x 3.5" devices altogether, and
mount the floppy drive in any of the 5.25" bays with a 5.25"/3.5"
assembly kit. Your 3.5" hard disks, if you have not more than four
of them, you can then place in the rear bay.
I hope that all your doubts are now cleared. We are sure the new Power
Tower is an advanced design, and the ease of its assembly may be
something completely new to Amiga 4000 desktop users.
Please repeat the installation as I have written it here. I am sure you
will be more than pleased with your case then.
Anyway, if you have any more inquiries, please do not hesitate to
contact our technical support: support@powerc.com or support@elbox.com
Best wishes
Darek Smietana
ELBOX COMPUTER
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19.Aug.1999
Haage & Partner
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Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign
More and more, pirate copies jeopardise the existence of Amiga companies.
Especially with games and applications, pirate copies are the reason for
new projects never seeing the light of day. It is high time for a combined
effort...
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19.Aug.1999
StrICQ
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New beta version StrICQ 0.1467
Download: STRICQ.lha.
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19.Aug.1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail
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Movieplayer MooVID on CD
Thomas Steiding writes:
Epic Marketing has the full version of Movieplayer MooVID available on CD. MooVID features:
- 100% Assembler code
- support for AVI and MOV files
- support for INTEL INDEO format 3.1 & 3.2
- nice, VCR-like GUI
- extremly fast playback
- fast c2p algorithms for smooth ECS/AGA playback
- ECS support (16 greyscales), AGA (256 colors, Ham8, 18 bit)
- support for CyberGFX and Picasso96
- system friendly
In addition to the
MooVID executable, the CD contains dozens of movie clips in different formats. More informations
available from our homepage shortly (title link).
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18.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Dave Haynie on Team Amiga Mailinglist
Dave Haynie speaks out about interesting subjects on the Team Amiga Mailinglist, e.g.
which CPU might be in the AmigaNG, and Iwin is discussed, too.
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18.Aug.1999
Titan Computer
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NcordeR version 1.5 available
Changes: 5 % more speed for PPC Amigas, Picasso96 picture.datatype issue solved,
bugfix for 604 WarpOS, reworked GUI, two new skins. Remark: There are still
issues with 603 WarpOS systems. Download page.
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18.Aug.1999
Amiga Nation
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New compiler ASMBasic by Daniel Schwab
Amiga Nation writes:
Daniel Schwab is currently working on ASMBasic, a compiler oriented at Basic and
Assembler. Programming is done in userfriendly Basic style. Full article at the
title link (German).
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18.Aug.1999
Amiga Central
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Iwin plans to present the new computers in Germany
In a posting to csam Iwin states that they will release further technical details on
their website within the next two or three days, and that Martin Steinbach has agreed
with Thomas Raukamp of the German "amigaOS" print magazine to make a presentation in
Germany shortly before the official release date. Thomas confirmed the agreement.
Still, we stay very wary, we can still imagine this could be a well-done hoax, and
will only be convinced otherwise when we have seen the promised machines in action.
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17.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Swedish magazine x-files media interviews Stefan Burström
The swedish magazine x-files media has interviewed Stefan Burström, author
of IBrowse and winner of the swedish AAA Award. The interview is Swedish, but
contains several interesting screenshots of IBrowse 2.
Page 1,
page 2 and
page 3
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17.Aug.1999
Jan Andersen per eMail
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VT Update version 3.16 and VirusCheckerII Update version 2.03
Name: VT v3.16 (Main archive)
Archive name: vt316k.lha
Archive size: 424.640 bytes
Date: August 16th, 1999
Author: Heiner Schneegold
Name: VT v3.16 (Doc. archive)
Archive name: vt316dok.lha
Archive size: 503.934 bytes
Date: August 16th, 1999
Author: Heiner Schneegold
Name: VirusChecker II v2.03
Archive name: vht-vc23.lha
Archive size: 590.966 bytes
Date: August 16th, 1999
Author: Alex van Niel
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17.Aug.1999
Gaddar by eMail
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Amimaniacs is looking for Opus Themes
Gaddar writes:
In our online magazine, we have opened an area (link: Desktop) for Opus Themes. (Themes
are preconfigured layout presets for DOpus 5.8x). The themes already available are looking
great and we hope we can upload many more Opus Themes.
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17.Aug.1999
Michael Burkhardt by eMail
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Important info for DraCo users
Computer Corner in Munich just informed us that there is now a new library
for Diavolo Pro Terra. So, MovieShop 5.2 users can make backups of their audio
and video partitions again.
The library is free for registered users and can be ordered from
Computer Corner by eMail. Phone Computer Corner: +49 - (0)89 / 7141034
eMail address: computer.corner@crevico.com
At the same time, Eiperle CGM
informed us that a free update is offered for the CGM DVE Vol. 1 CD-ROM, so
the included macros can continue to be used with MovieShop 5.2.
If that ain't good DraCo news for a change.
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17.Aug.1999
GoldEd
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GoldEd Update version 6.1.4
Download: sp614.lha
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17.Aug.1999
Paul Nolan
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Photogenics 4.2 to appear soon
Photogenics 4.2 will be free for registered users, and offer many new features.
Large parts of the image processing mode have been reworked / rewritten.
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17.Aug.1999
Robert Niessner by eMail
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AmigaScene 0x10 (July/August) online
Robert Niessner writes:
We are pleased to announce finally that the latest english issue of the
AmigaScene (0x10 July/August) is online now.
Contents:
- 2 comments on Amiga goes Linux
- mECH Tornado3D workshop
- MP3 basics
- interview with Petra Struck from amiga-news.de
- and more
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17.Aug.1999
Marc Albrecht by eMail
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Visitor number 250.000 has been found :-)
Marc Albrecht writes:
After I sorted all seven submissions of screenshots showing the webhits counter at 250.000 by the TIME
given, the one with the EARLIEST hit is
DIRK DOCKBREYDER
A Prelude1200 including Samplitude Opus Lite will be send to him ASAP - congratulations! (ps)
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17.Aug.1999
Iwin-Corp.
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Iwin announces new computers based on Amiga
On the website, two new Amiga-based computers are announced. For one the A510, which is planned as
a workstation with Motorola 68k (M-version) or PowerPC (P-version) CPU. The other is the A1010,
with special CPUs for Java and multimedia applications added.
More links on the subject: The Register
and AmiUpdate interview with Martin Steinbach.
Since the Iwin-Corporation (? I win?) is completely unknown to us so far, we did some research on
our own. The domain iwin-corp.com has been registered on June 21st, 1999, by Martin Steinbach,
85375 Neufahrn, Germany. The given phone number is a mobile. The phone register does list neither
a Mr. Martin Steinbach nor a company called Iwin-Corporation. The Iwin-Corporation is not registered
as a licensee by Amiga. The software named is non-existant. The trademarks A510 and A1010 do already
exist. Due to this, we think this website is a fake.
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17.Aug.1999
Thomas Wölflick
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Jason Kroll: BeOS Release 4.5
Thomas Wölflick writes:
I have found an interesting article in "Be Magazine" at www.bemagazine.com/articles/beos-4.5.html
(title link). There, Jason Kroll writes about the BeOS Release 4.5 in whole, its chances and
future. Especially interesting was the honorable mention of Amiga in the paragraph before the
last one. Here, he writes:
..."One impediment to development, and to users switching to BeOS, is that we don't know for sure
how secure the future will be. For one thing, Amiga, supported by Gateway, is probably in cahoots
with Transmeta, and based on the free Linux kernel, is about to make a monster reappearance,
supposedly based on technologies we have never seen in home computers. How will BeOS fare against
competition from the rebirth of the original multimedia machine?"...
Preliminary congratulations, fear of an undead, or how would you call it?
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16.Aug.1999
Matthias Münch by eMail
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New Amiga User Group: AUG99
Matthias Münch writes:
A few weeks ago, I announced the appearance of a new Amiga User Group - AUG99. After some
days and nights, not to forget my trusted friend caffeine, the homepage is finally finished.
All further details about AUG99 can now be read from the homepage.
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16.Aug.1999
Virtual Dimension
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Othello - the virtual boardgame
"Othello - the virtual boardgame" is currently in beta stage, scheduled release date
is September 1999.
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16.Aug.1999
HydraBBS
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New version HydraBBS 1.10
New version HydraBBS 1.10.
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16.Aug.1999
StrICQ
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New beta version StrICQ 0.1466 - August 15th, 1999
Download: STRICQ.lha
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16.Aug.1999
Fun Time World
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New mouse adapter: Punchinello from Power Computing
Power Computing offers a new adapter that allows Microsoft two-button mice, Logitech
three-button mice, serial mice and trackballs to be used. The adapter is called Punchinello.
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16.Aug.1999
TWF [M&M]
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Maim & Mangle mailinglist implemented
The World Foundry has implemented a new mailinglist for Maim & Mangle. Here you
will find reports about the development progress, and suggestions and ideas for the
game can be placed, too.
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16.Aug.1999
Jens Schönfeld by eMail
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Wanted: Name for a serial port add-on
Jens Schönfeld is looking for a name for his new high-speed port card via
amiga-news.de. Details at the title link. The first submissions have been recieved,
Jens summarized and commented them, to be found at the title link, too. There are
some really good suggestions among them, others did not find Jens' approval. The
special, with prices to be won, is continuing; if you have a good idea, send your
submission to: namescout@nostlgic.oche.de.
When the special is over (August 20th), the readers of amiga-news.de will be able
to choose the final name from the submissions.
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15.Aug.1999
Oliver Wagner by eMail
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AmIRC version 3.1 released
This update fixes small issues with AmIRC 3.0. Download:
amirc_31.lzx.
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