* Forwarded from "Team Amiga" Mailinglist
* Originally from: fleecy moss (fleecy@earthlink.net)
* Original date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:19:45 -0500


In my trawling around the community hangouts,
I have come across several misconceptions, rumours,
and a lot of confusion. Whilst I can't hope to answer
everything, here are some things I want to set straight.


0. Amiga will build a digital content universe. Digital
    content means anything composed of 0 and1 -
    applications, video, audio, games, emails, whatever.
    We will focus on 2 markets, the pathfinder market,
    for digital adventurers, power users, gamers,
    content creators, DTPers, artists, video  ppl
    and those who refuse to define a computer as
    a digital appliance. Our second market will
    cocentrate on the Domestic Digital Habitat (DDH).

1. If you are a personal computer person, there will
    be a personal computer second wave Amiga.

2. We will support classic development in so much
    as we want to help users and developers transition
    to a new machine. That will be the total extent of our
   support for the classic machine. If this involves further
   AmigaOS releases, then so be it.

3. We are targetting x86 and PPC for the first consumer
   release of Pathfinder products (if you are a personal
   computer person, this means you).

4. We will do everything in our power (that doesnt bankrupt
   us or interfere with our primary goals) to ensure classic
  Amiga  software runs on the new machine in some form or
  another.. The new Amiga product family (formerly called
   AQUA) will run natively and hosted. This is to create a large
   market fast  for Amiga developers to profit from. For the first
   pathfinder release it will run hosted to see this market grow
   fast. We see one of our core duties as serving the developers.

6. We are talking to the Phoenix Consortium about common
   interests.

7. We have been contacted by QNX but currently have no plans
    to work with them.

8. We will develop Amiga products for another market, the
    Domestic Digital Habitat (DDH) market. This markets will
    be kept separate but products will work together if the installer
    so desires it.

9. There will be a new website and it will be public shortly. It has
     been tested on all browsers, Amiga and non Amiga, and given
     the compatibility problems between the implementations of open
     standards, our best effort has been made. The site   will grow
    quickly and more information will be added. We want it to become a
  village where all Amigans can come to voice their opinions, chat,
   and travel off  to different parts of the Amiga universe.

a. A developer support manager has been selected and they are
    working  on implementing   the developer support program. This will
    be in  place before the developer boxes are released.

b. The developer boxes are specced out, we have contacted several
     whitebox manufacturers and we are building the distribution.

c.Amiga will not provide dates until we have a product. We will share
    timelines, but will not attach dates to them. Enough damage has
   already been done.

d. We have had acceptances from 75% of our development team and
   their names and roles will be announced once we get back from
   training (before the end of the month).

This mail can be redistributed without modification within the community.
 As further questions and issues come up, we will attempt to answer them.

Return-Path: oliver@websale.de
From:        Oliver Esberger
To:          team@amiga-news.de
Date:        Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:04:04 +0100
Subject:     PhotoFolio v2.0 Announcement (fwd)

*** WEITERGELEITETE NACHRICHT ***
  Ursprünglich von: Steve Quartly
  Geschrieben am: 13-Jan-00
*** Start der weitergeleiteten Nachricht ***

Hi All,

Steeple  Software  is  proud  to  announce  the first commercial release of
PhotoFolio v2.0 in conjunction with Schatztruhe.

PhotoFolio  v2.0  is a major step forward from it's predecessor version 1.2
with may new features including:

* ARexx

A  fully  documented  ARex port for those of you who like to automate tasks
using  ARexx  scripts.  These  scripts are made available through pull down
menus and toolbay buttons and can be pre-configured in the settings window.

* Drag 'n' Drop proofs

Dragging  and dropping of proofs is now supported (by popular demand!). You
can drag and drop:

- Between browse windows.
- Onto a path in the main window's listtree.
- Onto a Show window.
- Onto the information window.

* Workbench Icon Support

Workbench icons can be dropped:

- Onto a browse window
- Onto the listtree in the main window.

* Toolbays

Both  the  main  and  browse  windows  now  have  toolbays  (optionally, of
course!)  making navigating around PhotoFolio v2.0 faster and easier. Those
of you who don't like using context menus.... this is for you!

* CLI support

You  can  launch  PhotoFolio v2.0 from a shell, passing in paths. Each path
passed  in  will  automatically  be added to the main window's listtree and
then opened into a browse window.

* Listtree Tree mode

The  listtree  in  the main window can now be operated in the current "flat
mode" or as a proper directory tree structure in "tree mode".

* Native IFF-ILBM loading

Imageio.library  has  been re-written to support IFF-ILBM. This means there
is a dramatic increase in speed when loading IFF-ILBM files.

* Amiga DOS pattern matching

Selecting  proofs  has  never  been  easier.  Using  the in-built Amiga DOS
pattern matching system, proofs can now be selected using wildcards etc.

* Saving of images as JPegs

Images can now be converted to jpegs directly within PhotoFolio v2.0.

* Settings

The  setting window has been totally re-designed and re-written making sure
your   prefs  file  is  completely  compatabile  with  future  versions  of
PhotoFolio.

* Unsaved proof indication

For  those  of  you  who run without any text description below the proofs,
knowing  which  proofs  are saved and which aren't is a problem. Now, a red
box  is  (optionally)  drawn  in  the  bottom right hand corner of un-saved
proofs.

* Constant size proofs

Proofs  can now be displayed at a constant size, making the distribution of
proofs in the browse window even.

There  has also been several minor improvements and additions, and many bug
fixes from version 1.2 making it more stable and flexible.

These new options coupled with the the existing features of PhotoFolio make
it  a  formidable  image  cataloguing  system  for  both  the  amateur  and
professional user alike. With continuing support, PhotoFolio promises to be
one  of  the most powerful image cataloguing systems available on the Amiga
platform.

PhotoFolio  v2.0  is planned to be released in early to mid February. Price
has  yet  to be decided, however users who have paid the shareware fee will
receive a discount on the retail price.

Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham
Steeple Software

*** Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht ***

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Oliver Esberger - mailto:oliver@websale.de

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