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14.Aug.1999
Jürgen Reinert by eMail


Product info: ViperTools version 1.0
Jürgen Reinert writes:
Status: Freeware
Short: installing the ISDN DataBox "Speed Viper"
Functions
  • changing presets (locale, MSN etc.)
  • showing and resetting fee counters
  • resetting to factory presets
  • loading new firmware to DataBox

Features
  • GUI
  • does work without MUI
  • comfortable choosing of serial port
  • supports 300 to 115200 Baud

Requirements
  • Amiga with AmigaOS 3.0+
  • DataBox "Speed Viper"
  • hard drive
(ps)

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14.Aug.1999
Markus Fellhauer by eMail


New version Aimcik 0.7 Beta 5
Download: Aimcik.lha (ps)

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14.Aug.1999
Steve Darksun by eMail


RefTools! pages closed down
Steve Darksun writes:
Sad but true. The RefTools! pages have been closed down due to lack of interest from the sponsor. Read the title link. (ps)

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14.Aug.1999
Torsten Dudai


New Cartoon: The dark times are over




(td) (Translation: td)

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14.Aug.1999
Jan Andersen by eMail


New VirusWarning.Guide version 2.8
Name: VirusWarning.Guide
Version: v2.8
Archive name: vht-vg28.lha
Archive size: 81,591 bytes
Date: August 14th, 1999
Author: Virus Help Denmark (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Patrick Beerhorst by eMail


New prelude.library version 4.52
Patrick Beerhorst writes:
New prelude.library V4.52 at the A.C.T. homepage. The new version fixes several bugs concerning the Rombler module for the Prelude ZII. Download: PrlLib452.lha. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Fun Time World


unIQue is looking for excellent musicians and 2D/3D graphic artists
unIQue is looking for excellent musicians and 2D/3D graphic artists for the shoot'em'up game ACSYS. Candidates can contact christian.sobotta@rz.tu-ilmenau.de. The development status indicator is at 25%. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Christian Zimmermann by eMail


AWeb 3.3 to be released in a few weeks
Latest info by AmiTrix concerning AWeb 3.3:
On August 12th, William Parker replied to the question when AWeb 3.3 is scheduled for release:
AWeb 3.3 is almost done and we will be releasing it in a few weeks. Free to AWeb 3.x owners. Thanks for your patience. Bill (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Stefan Werner by eMail


Macromedia wish list for Dreamweaver, IBM opens PowerPC design
Stefan Werner writes:
This news I found at benews.com, but it should be interesting for Amiga users, too:
Macromedia Wish List for Dreamwaver
Macromedia Wish Lists
Macromedia (creators of Dreamweaver, a WYSIWYG HTML editor and Flash, the industry standard web plug-in, among others) have two wishlists up at the moment for future release features. If you would like to see BeOS ports of these products, let them know! -snip-
An Amiga version of the two programs wouldn't be bad either, would it? I, for one, work with Dreamweaver for Windows professionally, and IMHO Dreamweaver is the best HTML editor there is!

IBM Opens PowerPC Design to Apple Rivals
Yves Crevecoeur found on MacWeek this news brief that discusses IBM's action to open the PowerPC platform. These machines will not run MacOS, however they will run Linux PowerPC and, we hope one day, BeOS. This newly opened design with a 450Mhz G3 (aka. PowerPC 750) was shown in the IBM booth at Linux World Expo. Systems using this design should begin shipping in Q1 2000 at earliest, no OEMs have (of yet) jumped on board the PowerPC Bandwagon says IBM. -snip-

This sounds quite like the Pios One, doesn't it? It would be interesting for sure to see the P5-QNX running on this box, with boot menu for Linux and BeOS :-) (ps) (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Roman Schmid by eMail


Tornado3D user-site online!
Roman Schmid writes:
Here you find: tutorials, textures, objects, materials etc. for download. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Titan Computer


Titan RC5 team delivered over 1 million keys :-)
With this, Titan Computer now takes 1st place in the Hall of Fame. Congratulations!
The online order page of Titan Computer is now functional. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
AmigaNation


AmigaNation and AUGS present Amiga meeting in Zürich
On Saturday, September 4th, starting 2:00 PM, swiss Amiga users are meeting in the buildings of the ISP EUnet near Stauffacher in Zürich. AmigaNation together with AUGS is hosting a little meeting where Amiga users from the region can meet and get to know each other, exchange experiences or simply chatting. This meeting is schdeuled to become a regular, alike to the AUGS meetings in Wil and Basel. More information at the title link. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Future Zone


New security hole in internet protocol
Future Zone writes:
Windows 95, 98, 2000, SunOS and Solaris affected | hackers can read all outgoing data | MS says internet protocol to blame. Full article at the title link. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Thomas Lorenz by eMail


Fusion Preorder has to improve
Thomas Lorenz writes:
Source: Fusion-Mailinglist
At Blittersoft only 200 users have changed their "statement of interest" in FusionPPC into a "real" preorder. The preorders can be placed at the title link.
Since the given deadline of 60 days for project realisation to availability will only start when 500 real orders (level 2) are collected, all who stated their interest, and all who would like to see FusionPPC come true, should order at Blittersoft ASAP. Blittersoft has taken over managing the preorders, so this is the only place you should turn to for a preorder (and not directly to Microcode-Solutions).
Orders can be placed by snail mail, too; Blittersoft accepts EuroCheques. For other ways of payment contact Blittersoft by eMail. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999



amiga-news.de celebrates 1st anniversary
We have grown up and learned running. Yes, parents among you will know that babies usually learn running with 13-14 months, but we are of the quick type :-). Meanwhile amiga-news.de consists of a team of nine, all of which are working on the news enthusiastically and with fun. We have learned much this year, some ideas are implemented, others are waiting under the desk. Until we get "adult", there will surely be many news coming your way, in both meanings of the word.
For the statisticans among you, some data:
On August 13th, 1998, the first news was posted: "CU Amiga Magazine cancelled". Back then we had a great 200 readers per month. September 98 they were 1000, October 98 1800, November 98 2700, in December 98 5400, January 99 11,000, February 99 16,500, in March 99 even 23,900, in April 99 again a great increase to 31,900, in May 99 36,800, in June 99 37,200, in July 99 47,000, and this month we will surely reach 50,000 readers :-) We are very excited about this success, and will keep pressing it.
On this opportunity, we want to say a global thank you to all who contributed to this site one way or another. Special thanks goes to all the other news services; without them, collecting the news would be much harder. We are also very thankful to all the attentive Amiga users and developers supplying us with news by eMail.
We would be very happy about birthday greetings in our guestbook :-). (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Linux Ticker


LinuxPPCs CrackThisBox contest over
Linux Ticker writes:
The contest to crack linuxppc.org to win the machine is over, without anybody managing to crack the box. The reason given by the maintainer is (among others) that simply too much bandwith was wasted, and some people tried to crack systems of the ISP and its other customers. (Full article at the title link.) (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
QNX


QNX: QNX Neutrino® RTOS Documentation
QNX Neutrino® RTOS Documentation. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Amiga Central


First CD from Jogeir Liljedahl released
Jogeir Liljedahl, possibly the best known Amiga MOD musician, has released his first music CD. Jogeir has composed e.g. Guitar Slinger. Download: GuitarSlinger.lha (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News


X-Arc beta version 1.4 beta 1 released
Registered users can test this beta version. A version for NC2- and Demo-users is not available. Download: X-Arc1_4beta1.lzx. (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
CGFX


CGXVideo.library Update Version 41.12 (V3)
Download: cgxvideo4112.lha (ps)

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13.Aug.1999
Rainer Lübkemeier by eMail


clickBOOM News
Rainer Lübkemeier writes:
At the GO-section of the clickBOOM portal, an update (360 kB) for T-Zer0 is available (v1.01). It should remove the audio problems with the IDEfix. Moreover, there is an update for the manual. (ps)

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12.Aug.1999
Thomas Wenzel by eMail


New Play16 (Eclipse Edition)
Thomas Wenzel writes:
While porting my audio software to 24-bit, the first thing to do was the ages-since-last-updated Play16. The new version 1.9, which has been completed yesterday, can now process 24-bit AIFF data. The playback, however, is still 16-bit. Next is an AHI-Record and AmigaAMP, and of course the AHI driver for the Prelude. As soon as the digital interface is available, the full resolution can be used with the appropriate equipment (external 24-bit converter). Play16 is available from play16.amiga.software.com (title link), and soon from Aminet. Aside from the expanded AIFF support, nothing much has changed however. There are more detailed error reports if you try to play back unsupported formats or compressions, and that's it. Please don't bombard me with eMails, what else weird features I should be implementing, I have no time for it :) I consider the project closed, and do only detail refining. (ps)

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12.Aug.1999
Alexander Kurtz by eMail


AminetGUI updated
Alexander Kurtz writes:
My AminetGUI has been updated. I now added a new link area. Aside from little improvements of the design, the most important change is that the GUI now has a mirror. It can now be reached at:
Mirror 1: fly.to/aminet/
Morror 2: mercury.spaceports.com/~aminet/
If anybody has ideas or suggestions, please contact aminet-ideen@lxk.findhere.com
Mirror 1 is having troubles, but this will be resolved ASAP. (ps)

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12.Aug.1999
Paul Nolan


Again new update for Photogenics version 4.1 release 57
The old update program did have troubles with very old versions of Photogenics 4.0. The again reworked update is now online (download Update57.lha) including the reworked update-program, or Update.lha for older revisions of Photogenics 4.0. (ps)

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12.Aug.1999
The World Foundry [News]


Maim & Mangle goes 3D hardware only
To really get the most out of Maim & Mangle, a "high spec" Amiga is required. Too many features are simply invisible without 3D hardware. So, we desided to support M&M for Amigas with 3D hardware only. The 68k version requires an 060. (ps)

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12.Aug.1999
Steward Walker by eMail


Digital Images website updated
Steward Walker writes:
The website of Digital Images has been updated.
The URL of the website will change shortly. We will inform you.
New infos about Wipeout 2097 and Space Station 3000 are available. (ps)

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12.Aug.1999
Dietmar Knoll by eMail


GAUHPIL Press Release
Dietmar Knoll writes:
The G.A.U.H.P.I.L. is five years online!
August 12th, 1999, Göttingen, Germany: Dietmar Knoll announces the fifth online anniversary of the Geographical Amiga User Home Page Internet List (GAUHPIL).
The GAUHPIL is a moderated list of private Amiga users homepages. It was created in 1994. Today, a major update has been released. The list now contains 785 private homepages of Amiga users in 33 countries on six continents!
Since July, there is a cooperation between the GAUHPIL, the Amiga Head Count by Stefan Instinske and the Amiga User List by Stefan Martens. The adresses can be found on the German pages.
All Amiga users are wellcome to send infos about their private homepages, so they can be added to the list. Please consider putting a link on your site, to bring attention to this service! (ps)

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12.Aug.1999



Amiga getting more and more media coverage
Heiko Krappmann writes:
In the issue of PC-Praxis before the last one, there has been an article about AmigaOS 3.5. The report was about technical details and the release date. The MCC was mentioned briefly, too.
The latest issue of the PC-Joker printed a small article about our Amiga, too, sounding like this: "Did you already know that Amiga is to release a new computer with Linux, appearing this year?"
At Giga, Michael Labiner stated once that they would possibly switch to Amiga if there would be enough games to fill an issue. The video is available from PC-Joker, issue 7/99, MPEG format. Also many VIPs are "coming out" as Amiga fans, like Oliver Kahn (German soccer pro) at Giga. He said he had an Amiga once, and is missing it :-).

Rudi Rager writes:
In the August issue of the P.M. magazine, our Amiga is mentioned twice in the scope of a raytracing special.
Quote: "Oberland Computer now offers the made-in-Germany monzoom 3d for Windows, originally developed for the legendary Amiga computer." Further down the text, it reads: "One of the dream applications for pros, Cinema4D, developed by Maxon Computer also originally for the Amiga, is now available as an entry version."
The article starts on page 88, the Amiga is mentioned p.90f. Speaking for myself, I am very happy about little things like this :-).

Dirk Baeyens found the following article from ZDNet.com: Gateway to bring back Amiga.

More articles can be found on the Linux Special Page, where we collected all interesting articles about AMigaNG/Linux/QNX sorted chronologically (Wall Street Journal, ZDNet.com, ZDNet.de, FutureZone, Computerwoche etc.). (ps)

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12.Aug.1999
Fun Time World


Now it's official, Urban!
Rüdiger Engel did mention it in his WoA-report, but now clickBOOM has officially announced the winners, and who is listed as the best gamer? Our "Mr. Aminet" Urban Müller himself. Urban is awarded clickBOOM games for a lifetime, including all past and future titles. Sarcastically, clickBOOM adds that now everybody knows what Urban is doing when the Aminet is down again, or the last CD is delayed ;-).
Runner-ups are Jamie Sheralt, who won the MicroniK Infinitiv-tower including Phase5 CV64/3D, Luke Stowe and Daniel Platt. Congratulations. (ps)

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11.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News


Amimaniacs: Interview with Dirk Harlaar of H&P
Amimaniacs: Interview with Dirk Harlaar of H&P. (ps)

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11.Aug.1999
Crystal Interactive Software


New website from Crystal Interactive Software online
Even with a full-screen browser at 1024 x 768, you have to scroll both vertically and horizontally in the center frame. The webmaster has much room for improvement ;-). (ps)

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11.Aug.1999
ZDNet


Solar Eclipse: Pictures from Germany
ZDNet has posted a picture album of the millenium happening. (ps)

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11.Aug.1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail


Starfighter - D'Yammen's Reign
Thomas Steiding writes:
Starfighter is a Wing Commander clone, which requires an ECS or AGA Amiga with 2 MByte Chip and 4 MByte Fast RAM as well as OS 2.x +.
Starfighter features are:
  • 110 missions to choose from
  • free choice of gameplay: training, arcade, single, campaign
  • spoken mission briefings and soundtrack
  • storytelling animation seqeunces completely rendered in Lightwave 5.5
  • choose your favourite from 8 battle fighters
  • interactive radio
  • choose your side:
    • play the good guys (confed) and beat Gyan.
    • play the bad guys (DYammen) and destroy the confederation
    • The "full campaign" option lets you relive the "D'Yammen" saga.
  • 3D sequences adjustable to your system configuration
  • pure space combat action

The game costs 30 Euro and can be ordered directly from Epic Marketing. UK inhabitants please dial 01793 432176 or send eMail to epicmarketing@dialin.net, snail mail to Epic-BSS House, Area 50, Cheney Manor Trad. Est., Swindon, Wilts. (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
Erik Zühlke by eMail


Report in IT-sales week
Erik Zühlke writes:
In the latest issue of the IT-sales week, there has been a report about the Amiga NG on the first page (bottom left). A picture showed the Amiga MCC (already) known to us, and talk was about its Linux future.
Say what you might, the Amiga definitely is present in the print media right now :-). (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
Nico Barbat by eMail


Scenet has moved
Nico Barbat writes:
Scenet, the world's largest collection of eMail and hotlinks from the szene, has moved. The new URL is www.scenet.de (title link).
Nico Barbat, Lars Sobiraj (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
Torsten Dudai


New Cartoon: Silicon Valley, 30 years ago




From left to right: Steve Jobs (CEO Apple), Jim Collas (President AMIGA), Bill Gates (CEO Microsoft) (td) (Translation: td)

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10.Aug.1999
Paul Nolan


New update for Photogenics Version 4.1 Release 57
The old update program had troubles with very old versions of Photogenics 4.0. The new update is now online. Download: Update57.lha (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
Andreas Weyrauch by eMail


Amiga offering new jobs
Amiga is offering new jobs. (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News


YAM Wishing List
YAM Wishing List. (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
Jens Schönfeld by eMail


Wanted: Name for a new serial port
Jens Schönfeld has developed a new high-speed serial port for the Amiga1200 and the clock port of the Buddha Flash. Now a name for it is wanted. There are prices to win :-). Read the full details under the title link. (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
Sinan Gürkan by eMail


Amigart: AmigaNG GFX chipset survey
Which gfx chipset should be used in the AmigaNG? Available answers: 3D Labs, 3DFx, ATI, Bitboys Glaze 3D, Custom Chipset, other industrial chipset, nVidia, no idea. Intermediate results are also available. (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
REBOL


Rebol version 2.1.1 available
Meanwhile, Rebol is available for 33 platforms. (ps)

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10.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News


Operation: Counterstrike cancelled
Since Sadeness, distributor of the realtime strategy game Operation: Counterstrike does not exist any longer, the game has been cancelled.
Blue Black Solution is planning to continue developing the game nevertheless, and distribute it under the name of "Siberian Sun". Many OC subroutines have been improved and new features been added. (ps)

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09.Aug.1999
Prelusion


Prelusion is looking for betatesters
Prelusion is looking for betatesters for the adventure game Gilbert Goodmate. (ps)

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09.Aug.1999
Andreas Kleinert


ak-Datatypes version 44.44 of 18-Jul-1999
Download: akPNG-dt.lha, akTIFF-dt.lha and akJFIF-dt.lha as well as akNAIL-dt.lha (44.2). (ps)

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09.Aug.1999
Felix Schwarz by eMail


VLRec NG 3.2 is available
Felix Schwarz writes:
Only one month after the release of VLRec NG, there is a little big update available with VLRec NG 3.2. For the first time, you are able to simply record movies with the VLab, saving them as MPEG or IFF Anims in full color. NTSC is now correctly supported, too. Addittionally, many suggestions have been regarded and the "workflow" been improved. Download now from www.innovative-web.de (tilte link), and of course tomorrow or the day after tomorrow from Aminet. (ps)

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09.Aug.1999
Andreas Küssner by eMail


Wildfire Mailinglist
Andreas Küssner writes:
A mailinglist has been set up for Wildfire. At the address www.egroups.com/list/wildfire3d/ (title link) you can join. (ps)

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09.Aug.1999
Trogladite Software


Job offers...
Trogladite Software are looking for yet more staff.
  • 2 2D Graphicians: Needed to do 2 dimensional graphics for games and applications
  • 1 3D Graphician: We already have two. We used to have 3 but one's gone AWOL, so we need another.
  • 1 2D Icon and Sprite Designer: Needed to design attractive MWB AND NewIcons/GlowIcons for our products
  • 2 AmigaGuide documentation writers: For writing documentation for our products based on text we give you. Other things will be required of you too, not just documentation writing.
  • As many permanent beta testers as we can find: To test our products...
  • 2 HTML Expert: For use on new projects, Possible online documentation creation too.
  • Developers: Any programming language at all! You get an idea for a product, you have the rest of Trogladite Software at your disposal to help you make it.
  • 1 Admin Assistant: Required to help with user interaction and questions.
  • Ideas people!: Just give us ideas on what to make!
  • Musicians: To create music for our games, etc. MED and Tracker formats only.

If you want to apply, send an email to join@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk telling me which post you want, and I'll get back to you within two days.

Thanks.
Neil Bullock,
Trogladite Software (ps)

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09.Aug.1999
Andreas R. Kleinert by eMail


Maintenance / Not Available
Andreas R. Kleinert writes:
To - citing the provider - ensure more performance and lower risk of failure for the future, our webserver will be umgraded tonight.
This might lead to limited availability of the domain.
www.ar-kleinert.de will be, partially or wholly, be unavailable for WWW and FTP in the night from August 9th to 10th, 1999, starting 0:00 AM, and August 10th from 2:00 to 2:30 PM. I apologize for the inconvenience. (ps)

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09.Aug.1999
Herbert Markart by eMail


FutureZone: Linux-Party in Vienna
Herbert Markart writes:
The First Linux Installation Party will take place in Vienna on August 27th. If you bring your system, you will get Linux installed. More links about it: Registration and the map how to find it. (ps)

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09.Aug.1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail


Press release by Epic Marketing
Pagan Games and Epic Marketing announce their cooperation:

From:    ThomasSteiding epic@swol.de
To:      Petra Struck petra.struck@online-club.de
Date:    Mon, 09 08:00:00 10:10:38 +0100
Subject: Preseerklärung

Press Release

Pagan Games and Epic Marketing are happy to announce a long term cooperation.
This cooperation means that Epic Marketing will publish all Pagan Games
developed in the next couple of years.

Says Vince Pike of Epic: "This will
be a strong cooperation where both partners can concentrate on what they
are doing best: Pagan Games can concentrate on delivering top quality
games and Epic on the Marketing aspect. We look at this as a very strong
partnership which will deliver high quality products to the Amiga community."

Jason Hayman of Pagan Games, one of the co-founders of the Pagan Group adds:
"Our relationship with Epic allows us a stable and supported base for future
development of all Pagan Gamesin the next 3 years. We see this as a long term
deal with Epic with a very promising future for us both. We are the largest
development group on the Amiga with over 20 members working on 3 projects -
and we are still hiring more!"

The first product to be released will be the Amiga title "Dafel:Bloodline",
an action based RPG game. "Dafel:Bloodline" has an isometric 3D POV, similar
to the "Chaos Engine" series and comes with a sound system called Full Sensual
Gaming (FSG) which will be responsible for the best possible atmosphere ever
in a computer RPG game.

The features of "Dafel:Bloodline" are:

* Extremely fast chunky to planar (c2p) graphics engine. RTG compatible.
  The game offers two resolutions to play in, 320 x 240 and 640 x 480.
  Both offer 256 colours on screen, with the 640 x 480 requiring a
  graphics card and a faster processor to run. The AGA version runs at
  25 fps. Both screen resolutions are RTG compatible working on CyberGFX
  and Picasso96 systems.

* FSG Audio System (Full Sensual Gaming) & CD Music/Effects.
  "Dafel:Bloodline" uses our own stereo sound handling system in the game.
  Using either Paula (or possibly AHI) we split the available channels
  in half assigning one pair to what we call Sound Objects (SO) and the other
  pair to Environment sound Objects (ESO). SO`s are used to create objects
  that can be tracked by sound alone. using advanced algorithms, the volume
  level of the sound is calculated in real timeso the closer you are, the louder
  the SO will be heard and the further away you are, the quieter the SO will
  be heard. In relation to the SO, the ESO`s are used to add atmosphere and
  ambedience to a level. In conjunction to background sound effects being
  played off the CD, ESO`s are used to add an extra dimensionto the
  audio set by trigger points on the game map.

* Game Engine

  in "Dafel:Bloodline" we have mixed two gaming elemnts together, action and
  adventure into one single engine. The action elemnts consist of Dafel
  attacking level enemies and end of level monsters. There are three ways
  Dafel can attack using his sword. The first basic way is called a "low swing",
  which inflects little damage, but allows a consistent flow of attacks.
  The second attack is a "medium swing", which allows more damage on the enemy
  but takes longer. The final attack is a "Full Swing", where Dafel slashes
  down from his head and inflicts the most damage, but also needs the most time
  to execute.

  The adventure and strategic elements arise from the solving of puzzles , the
  communication with other characters and the being of Dafel himself.
  Throughout the game there will be subplots that are relevant to the core plot.
  Dafel must find and complete these to progress through the core plot.
  The game has been designed in a non-linear fashionallowing the player
  to revisit areas and solve puzzles in any order. There are however
  key plot stages that need to be completed before advancing to another
  sub-plot. These key stages are always followed by a cut-scene to develop
  the plot further.
  Dafel must also live in the world and to do so he must maintain his armour
  and sword and also feed and drink himself. Strategic elements arise in this
  management role of looking after his equipment and hunting for food. Dafel
  can also visit blacksmiths or shops to maintain or improve his armour
  and sword.

* Enemy Artifical Intelligence

  Enemies that roam Dafel`s world can behave in 3 different ways. We have
  "roamers" who aimlessly wander through the maps attacking at pure will.
  We have "ambushers" who can lay in wait then attack and then we have
  "group-attackers" who only fight in groups. These 3 classes are subdivided
  into various attributes such as sight, hearing, smell and intelligence.
  An enemy with low sight will rely on smelling and hearing his enemy.

* Manga Style FMV and Cut Scenes

  Bloodline begins with a 5 minute FMV sequence based upon the prologue.
  The game also end with a FMV sequence.


The finished product can be expected at around the time of the Cologne
exhibition. A playable demo will be released in a couple of weeks.
Preorders can already be placed with Epic Marketing UK (Tel:01793/432176,
E-Mail:epicmarketing@dialin.net) or Epic Marketing Germany (Tel:07071/
400492, E-Mail:info@epic-marketing.de) for a special preorder price.

"Dafel:Bloodline" will probably remain the only product that will still
support the Classic 68k based Amiga.  The next project "Scavengers", an
action based but still strategic game in complete 3D which will combine
the best of Wing Commander and Command&Conquer into a new game, is scheduled
for release on Amiga MCC and might also be developed for Amiga PPC and 3D
graphic boards if there is enough demand for it.

More on this and other projects that Pagan Games and Epic Marketing are
currently working on can be found at these webpages:

www.pagan-games.com
www.epicmarketing.ltd.net
www.epic-marketing.de

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EPIC MARKETING
HIRSCHAUER STRASSE 9
72070 TÜBINGEN

Tel: +49 (0) 7071 40 04 92
Fax: +49 (0) 7071 40 04 93
Mail:epic@swol.de 
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The ports of the camp systems connected to the network have been scanned far and wide since Friday evening, to find the weak spot in the "enemy" system. The organisers had warned all "green" users to do Telnet sessions with encryption only, to make life not too easy for the password sniffers. But about 6:30 PM, the catastrophy happened: the systems suddenly denied any exchange of data with each other or internet. The Network Operation Center (NOC) at the campsite surrendered and issued a "Red Alert". Even in the early morning of Saturday, the NOC was still offline.
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