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05.Sep.1999
ICOA


The man behind the new Amiga patents
The man behind the new Amiga patents. (ps)

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05.Sep.1999
Tumult


New MCC classes registered at Tumult
Tumult is collecting all information and news about MUI MCC-classes. As of late, MathString.mcc and GLArea.mcc have been added. (ps)

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05.Sep.1999
Alexandros Pourikas by eMail


amiga.gr now also available in English
amiga.gr is now also available in English. (ps)

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05.Sep.1999
Amiga.org


MIRA Amiga 99 in Portugal
MIRA Amiga 99 in Portugal. (ps)

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05.Sep.1999
KATO


New software for Twister 1200 version 1.36
The driver has been optimized. Download: twister.lha (ps)

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05.Sep.1999
H&P [News]


Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign
Haage & Partner has created an own domain for the NoPiracy campaign, which is available at www.amiga-planet.de/nopiracy/. Starting today, a discussion forum dedicated to this campaign is available.
Since we explicitely support this campaign, we have added a link to our Quick Link list, which can be found in the right-hand menu. (ps)

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05.Sep.1999
Sinan Gürkan by eMail


Zune - Open Source Reimplementation of MUI
Zune is a project to reimplement Stefan Stuntz' MUI as Open Source. To achieve this, the project makes use of the API and the freely redistributable includes of the MUI SDK only. The project is based on the LPGL.
Currently Zune is developed under Linux. It is however planned to be portable to other Unixes and, if possible, more or less easily portable for Windows and BeOS.
The project is 20% finished. This includes a good dozen key classes like Notify, Window, Group, Area, Text, Image and the dynamic loading of classes as well as other features.
The current source code can be downloaded as tgz archive from the homepage. On this page, you can find some screenshots of the GUI system.
A mailinglist is available from EGroups. Non-members have access to the archive, too. The list can be subscribed by sending an empty eMail to zune-subscribe@egroups.com or with the form on the bottom of the homepage.
A CVS repository is planned, all participation is warmy welcomed. (ps)

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05.Sep.1999
Janne Siren by eMail


Saku 99: Petro Tyschtschenko about MCC and OS 3.5
Petro Tyschtschenko was unable to attend the Saku 1999 in Finland in person, but gave those present a short status report on development by phone, and made a point not to panic.
Moreover, Petro Tyschtschenko said that he was not fired, and will have a meeting with the new President of Amiga soon. Additionally, he said that AmigaOS 3.5 will be shipped by end of September and that the MCC will appear, however the schedule might be delayed a little.
More information about the meeting can be found at batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/. A MP3 (5 MB) with the speech of Petro Tyschtschenko is available for download: saku99sp.mp3. (ps)

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04.Sep.1999
Andreas R. Kleinert


New: akNAIL 44.4 and akMPEG (September 3rd, 1999)
Download: akNAIL-dt.lha
The akMPEG animation player has been released recntly (see Aminet: gfx/show). Several changes and improvements have been done in the meantime, bugs have been fixed etc. V2.60 of akMPEG2 contains, among others, a new GUI, PPC support, in-window and on-screen-player and an 8 bit AGA version. Download: akMPEG2.lha.
Regnet, register by credit card. (ps)

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04.Sep.1999
Magnus Holmgren


ReqChange Update Version 3.15
Download: ReqChange.lha (ps)

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04.Sep.1999
Amiga Central


New IRC network irc.shagged.org
New IRC network irc.shagged.org (ps)

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04.Sep.1999
TWF


The World Foundry Update
The E2260 and M&M pages have been updated with the monthly news. TWF worked on the backgrounds, the Audio/CD player and the textures in Explorer 2260, and the internal data organisation has been changed in Mame & Mangle, explosion animations been added and some bugs removed. (ps)

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04.Sep.1999
Virtual Dimension


Update of feature list "Othello - the virtual boardgame"
"Othello - the virtual boardgame" is a modern variant of the old Othello game. New among the features is a highscore list, and an option for human opponents to take over a game from an artificial opponent. (ps)

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04.Sep.1999
StrICQ-Support


New beta version 0.1496 StrICQ
Download: STRICQ.lha (ps)

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04.Sep.1999
Vapor.com


AmTelnet 2.0 / AmigaNCP FileSystem upgrade
AmTelnet 2.0
AmTelnet now supports SSH1 for secure remote administration. This update is free for AmTelnet 1.x users.
Download: amtelnet_20.lzx more ... (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Darek Dulian by eMail


FastATA'99 & AllegroCDFS new software for PowerFlyer controller
ELBOX releases FastATA'99 version 4.x. FastATA'99 4.x is the fourth generation of the ATA/ATAPI controller software for ELBOX FastATA/PowerFlyer/Winner HighSpeed Controller for Amiga 1200: more ... (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Stuart Walker by eMail


Digital Images suspending Amiga development
Reply-To:        digital-images-news@egroups.com
From:            Stuart Walker
To;              digital-images-news@egroups.com
Date:            Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:20:52 +0000
Subject:         [digital-images-news] Digital Images Update

To Amiga users worldwide,

Due to recent announcements and problems with Amiga, Digital Images regrets
that we will be suspending all AmigaMCC projects including Sabrina Offline.
Space Station 3000 and Wipeout 2097 will be released as planned, but we will
be suspending all other Amiga developments until further notice.

Everyone behind Digital Images has enthusiastically supported the Amiga
through the good times and the bad times. But with the recent troubles with
Amiga, the entire team has unanimously decided to suspend all Amiga
developments (with the exception of Space Station 3000 and Wipeout 2097). We
regret to have to take these measures, but Digital Images cannot afford to
spend time, resources and money developing for a computer which now, as it
seems may never appear.

We hope that everybody reading this understands our position as this is the
last thing that any of us would ever have wanted to do, but Amiga have made
promise after promise that something would appear, but it has not.

We deeply regret this decision, but it is a final measure that has to be
taken. We wish that we wouldn't have to go this far, but we now have no
other option - it is the last thing that any of us wanted to do. We would
appreciate it if everybody understood our position and wouldn't send e-mails
of anger and abuse. We have done everything in our power to avoid this, but
it just isn't possible.

If the Amiga does indeed rise again, which we hope it does, we will return.

We hope that you will enjoy our upcoming releases of Space Station 3000 and
Wipeout 2097.

If you do have any questions or queries concerning this announcement, please
e-mail info@digital-images.demon.co.uk

We thank you all once again for your loyal and devoted support.

Kind Regards,

Stuart Walker
Digital Images
(ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Rebol


REBOL/core 2.1.2 released
Rebol has released version 2.1.2 of the REBOL Internet Messaging Language. The language is meanwhile available for 35 platforms. more ... (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
CAD-Technologies


Imagine: Update Version 5.16
The "new user" archive has been expanded by the PPC version of the effects. (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
.amiupdate


Perfect Paint Version 1.1
Download: PfPaint.lha - 486 KB (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Amiga


Amiga News
Since today, the English Amiga news page carries the following:
Jim Collas has resigned. more ... (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Herbert Markart by eMail


IBrowse2 available
IBrowse2 available. (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Andy Mueller-Maguhn by eMail


CCC Press Release about MS Crypto API Backdoor
Press Information from Chaos Computer Club
Microsoft Operating Systems with builtin Backdoor:
Secure cryptography with Windows jeopardized
By detailed research with the WindowsNT operating system by an American Security Software developer, a massive software backdoor could be revealed in the operating systems Windows95, 98, NT and Windows 2000 (beta), which is likely dating back to an initiative by the US secret service NSA. This has a heavy impact on Microsoft's operating systems security.
After the initiatives of the American secret service NSA (National Security Agency) for worldwide communications control by means of internationally standarised regulation of encryption have suffered severe setbacks, now obviously it is attempted to reach the same goals by implementing backdoors in the American software products dominating the market. (Rest of the press release at the title link.) more ... (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail


VirtualGP
Thomas Steiding writes:
If everything goes right, our Formula One game "VirtualGP" will be shipped starting mid next week. More information about "VirtualGP" is available at News. There, you can also download the latest and last demo version for the probably best Formula One simulation for the Amiga. (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Stefan Instinske


TGV Haupt: Z4 bus board available
The long waiting is over: the Z4 bus board is available
Z4-busboard for MicroniK, Elbox, Winner, Power-Tower
Features:
- 5 Zorro2-Slots
- 2 Z4-LocalSlots (double bus width (upto 19MB/sec) than Zorro3)
- 2 Zorro2-Slots switchable to Fast-Z2 (double speed) for specially adjusted boards, available in about 3-4 weeks: Buddha-FastZ2 (IDE-Contr.), CV64-3D-FastZ2
- Videoslot (video adapters necessary for activation)
- 4 Clock Ports
- compatible to all common accelerator boards with RAM in upper memory area
- P8/P9 power supply port for standard AT power supplies more ... (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Kamil Iskra in c.s.a.p


gcc 2.95.1 for AmigaOS
Kamil Iskra has released the binaries of "gcc 2.95.1" for AmigaOS. They can be found on the GeekGadgets servers at amiga/m68k/alpha/misc/gcc-2.95.1-bin020.tgz (6.47 MB).
They are compiled for 68020+ CPUs, and can be loaded residently. The sourcecodes are available by anonymous login from the GeekGadgets CVS server.
With gcc version 2.95, the seperate branches of gcc and egcs are merged back together, so GeekGadgets again uses exclusively gcc.
Improvements have been made e.g. in register handling, so the previously common "fixed or forbidden register was spilled" error should be less frequent with this version.
More informations about gcc 2.95 are available at gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html. (ps)

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03.Sep.1999
Thomas Rudloff by eMail


Met@box: Informations about amiJoe1200
Some time ago, we asked Met@box about some info about the amiJoe1200 board, and recieved the following eMail by Thomas Rudloff: more ... (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
.amiupdate


New Interview with Iwin
New Interview with Iwin. (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Torsten Dudai


New Cartoon: Amiga Airlines
more ... (td) (Translation: td)

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02.Sep.1999
Spiegel


Spiegel: Birthday - Internet gets 30
In his article, Detlef Borchers describes the long way to the info highway.
"Thirty years ago, US-American scientists for the first time connected a computer to an IMP (Interface Message Processor), and by this, created the foundation for today's networking technology. With the historical connection, the long birth of Internet began." (Full article - German - at the title link.) (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Amiga Nutta


New "Virtual Grand Prix" demo released
The game has been completely reworked on basis of 'AlienF1', and is now available as demo from Aminet under the name Virtual Grand Prix Demo. Download: AF1last.lha (1.25 MB) (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
SAKU


Petro Tyschtschenko cancels visit at SAKU 99
Due to the resignment of Jim Collas, Petro Tyschtschenko cancelled his visit at the big Finnish event SAKU 99, which is taking place this weekend - he is flying to important meetings in the USA.
It has been confirmed today that Jens Schönfeld of individual computers, known for products like Catweasel, Buddha etc., will be attending SAKU 99. (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Pascal & Rainer by eMail


driver software for laser
Bytei & McScotty (Pascal & Rainer) write:
For about 6 years we run a small laser show rental. Our lasers are exclusively driven by Amigas (1200 50 MHz 10 MB 68030+Co). Sadly, our driver software leaves a lot to be desired! The developer of the software (Edward Skorus) has given us sourcecodes and rights. For a long time now we are looking for alternatives or someone able to expand the driver software. Is there someone among your readers who knows this stuff, or knows someone who knows? (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Andreas Falkenhahn


Alicia Silverstone Rainboot Configs
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
Starting immediately, two great Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) Rainboot configs are available for download from the Airsoft Softwair homepage. They have been done by Jean-Yves Auger of Pixel Art jauger@caramail.com. A must for all Alicia Silverstone fans... (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Peter Ratschiller by eMail


Dr. Awesome released old Mods as MP3 files for download!
Peter Ratschiller writes:
I am a fan of Bjorn Lynne, aka Dr. Awesome (an old-time Amiga scene musician). On his homepage (title link) he now posted that he is reworking old MOD pieces and offers them for download on the MP3 page as MP3 pieces! Also available at http://www.amp3.net/drawesome/. He wants to bring some new pieces online every month! (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Foundation


Foundation News
A new update will be released ASAP. The last version 1.25 was not released because this update has been done for the new version 'Foundation Directors Cut', and was not fully compatible to the old 'Foundation' version. Paul Burkey works on the new Update 1.26 and is trying to make this update compatible with the old version, too. Moreover, Paul informs also that he is increasing his work on 'Foundation's Edge', and that this work is taking most of his time. (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
ADX (Mr. Dombrowski) by phone


Phase5: Next Generation PowerPC G4 processor boards
Phase 5 writes:
TOP NEWS 02.09.99:Join the exclusive club of GigaFLOPS users now - with the Next Generation PowerPC G4 processor boards from phase 5 digital products! more ... (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
ZDNet


Collas out as Amiga president
According to ZDNet, Jim Collas is no longer president of Amiga.
Summary of the article:
Jim Collas leaves the company for personal reasons, and has registered his 118.000 stock shares for sale. Moreover it is reported that Gateway paid 13 million US-Dollar for 47 Amiga patents, and that Collas himself asked Gateway president Ted Waitt for the Job at Amiga. He moreover asked to run Amiga as a seperate company.
Tom Schmidt takes over the post from Collas. Before his joining Amiga, Schmidt has worked as General Manager for Allied Signal. He was not available for comment.
PS:
CNet also reports: Gateway's Amiga president jumps ship
The article states that Collas' leaving does not imply a change in plans, and the planned route will be continued by Schmidt. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
amigaonline.net


AMIGAOnline.NET
Today, AMIGAOnline.NET is going online officially as Internet Service Provider for Amiga users in the USA and Canada. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
AHI


AHI v4 - Status
Martin Blom reports back from holiday, and has good news for PPC users since the PPC assembler mixing routines are much faster than the C version. Details at the title link. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
ZDNet [News]


Coppermine early - Pentium III with 700 MHz comes in October
USB 2.0 being 40 times as fast as current USB
IFA: First DVD on Linux worldwide (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
v3.vapor.com


V³ - TearOff classes not complete in archive
The TearOff-classes in the V³pre 1/2 archives are incomplete. Please download the compete installation from either amiga.org.pl/~szulat/tearoff/ or VaporWare at MCC_TearOff.lzx and install the new archive. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise Newsticker (German)
IFA: DVD-Player for Linux
StarDivision takeover doesn't bother Microsoft
Sun: Into the Web with StarOffice (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Fabian Jimenez


Another Loss
* Forwarded from newsgroup "a Mail"
* Originally from: Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com)
* Original date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:01:48 -0400

Hello All,

I regret to inform that Bill McEwen told me as of
Tuesday he will no longer be under contract at
Amiga.  Sigh.

I called him about some newsletter plans he had
in mind, only to receive yet another bit of
disappointing news.

Regards,
Fabian
--
Fabian Jimenez : fabian@cais.com : ICQ# 21377601
       Editor, Amiga Intuition Newsletter
National Capital Amiga Users Group, www.ncaug.org
more ... (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Magnus Rivertz Torgersen by eMail


Amitory/Oratory for Amiga released as shareware
Amitory/Oratory is a chat program for use on a LAN, and is probably the best chat program to use on a internal network between pc's and Amiga's. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
HEW


Home electronic world in Cologne
The Amiga show so far known as Computer(xx=year) is named "Home electronic world" this year. It will take place from November 12th to 14th in the exhibition center, Cologne, in hall 11.2. The official website is online since today. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Janne Siren by eMail


Press Release: Finnish Saku 99 Event this Saturday
From:       Janne Siren siren@mikrobitti.fi
Reply-To:   siren@mikrobitti.fi
Subject:    Press release: Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
Date:       Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:18:34 +0300


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday

Webcam and IRC Channel Available

ESPOO, FINLAND - September 1, 1999 - Saku 99, the biggest Amiga event in
Finland this year, will be on this Saturday in Vantaa. The show starts at
12 o'clock and will feature Amiga related competitions, demonstrations,
retailers and video films. Amiga's Petro Tyschtschenko and AmigaOS 3.5
previews will be there as well. Attendance is free of charge.

For those who can't attend, the Finnish Amiga Users Group will be hosting a
webcam and an IRC channel (#saku99 at IRCnet) with live comments from the
exhibition place. Please note the Finnish timezone (EET, GMT+2). You should
also check out the Saku 99 invitation intro in Aminet for pictures and
other highlights (demo/intro/saku99.lha).

Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/english/, for further information. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Janne Sirén (siren@mikrobitti.fi).

About Saku 99

Saku 99 will be the biggest Amiga event in Finland this year. Following the
success of Saku 98, which was visited by some 500 Amiga enthusiasts, Saku
99 is aimed to be bigger and better than the previous events. Mr. Petro
Tyschtschenko of Amiga has already confirmed his presence and other great
highlights are planned. Saku 99 will be held on Saturday September 4th 1999
at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki.

About Finnish Amiga Users Group

Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after it's disk magazine, the group is trying
to accomplish it's goals by organizing meetings and by publishing a disk
magazine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and it's predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the disk magazine and held several
public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet,
a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.
(ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Volker Mohr by eMail


Amiga Patents
At the title link, you will find a posting to comp.sys.amiga.misc, listing the patents filed by Amiga. We didn't take a closer look at the list, but perhaps one reader or another has the time to read them :-).
Comments are wellcome in the forum. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail


FMdriver Update Version 1.12
Stefan Robl writes:
The FMdriver packet has been improved further:
All programs can now save in IFF format, too (8 as well as 24 bit). All problems with flicker or lines in small resolutions should be fixed, the FPS rate now looks much more stable, too. A serious bug has been removed that occured when there was no Prism24 module connected. The FMRecorder now offers several file formats, so it will work with every video software. Small changes and bugfixes.
Download: FMdriver.lha (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Alexandros Pourikas by eMail


amiga.gr online
Alexandros Pourikas has created an Amiga website in Greek language at www.amiga.gr. Aside from Amiga news and a forum in local language, there is an interesting picture gallery to be found here. more ... (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]


Fast 3D gfx chip by nVidia
Heise writes, among other:
California gfx chip manufacturer nVidia presented the 3D chip for PC graphic gards previously dubbed "NV10" in Berlin. The GeForce 256 is the first graphic chip for consumer PCs that processes and displays 3D data mainly on its own.
With 23 million transistors, the GeForce 256 is more than twice as complex as a Pentium-III CPU (9 million transistors). Since it does geometry transformations and lighting calculations much faster than the PC CPU, it can create 3D objects and 3D virtual realities with much more detail and fluid moves. Thus, PC games can make use of curved and organic structures like in movies a la "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life". (Full article - German - at the title link).
Here is another interesting link on the subject. (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]


StarOffice goes OpenSource
Heise writes, among other:
As expected, Sun Microsystems today confirmed the purchase of the software company Star Division based in Hamburg, Germany. At the same time, Sun announced the office package StarOffice to be available for Internet download. (Full article - German - at the title link).
Bernhard Kuhn in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc posted more interesting details about the press conference, like StarOffice now being free for _commercial_ use, too. (ps)

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31.Aug.1999



Seybold Conference: First Macs with PowerPC G4 CPU
MacGadget, among others, writes:
As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented a new generation of Macintosh computers in his keynote to the Seybold Conference in San Francisco, which are powered for the first time by the top-performing PowerPC G4 CPU. Apple called the new Macs "supercomputers", offering significantly more speed than the current Power Macintosh G3 product line. Apple starts shipping the first 400 MHz G4 system today. Versions with 450 and 500 MHz are bound to follow in the next two weeks.
The main performance specs are a 2x AGP bus, integrated AirPort technology, an Ultra 66 ATA system and an accelerated PCI bus. Jobs spend special attention on the AltiVec technology. This especially speeds up operations heavy on numerical calculations, like graphic applications. A special AltiVec-optimised expansion to Photoshop is included with every G4 Mac. The new systems will cost between 1599 and 3499 USD. A PowerPC G4 with 500 MHz is said to be much faster than a Pentium III with 600 MHz. The Power Macintosh G4 will be shipped in the same casing as the current G3 line, but not in blue-white but silver-white.
The new configurations in overview:
Power Mac G4/400, 64 MB memory, 10 GByte-HD, 32speed CD-ROM; 1599 $
Power Mac G4/450, 128 MB memory, 20 GByte-HD, DVD-ROM; 2499 $
Power Mac G4/500, 256 MB memory, 27 GByte-HD, DVD-RAM; 3499 $
(More details at the title link - German -) (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Amiga.org


Amiga filed a Patent
At Nr. US5935230, the following patent has been registered: "Multiprocessor arrangement including bus arbitration scheme involving plural CPU clusters that address each other as "phantom" CPUs". (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Audio Evolution


Audio Evolution PPC
New PPC RTFX:
  • 3-band equalizer with mid-sweep (includes new GUI when version v2.0829 or higher is used)
  • low shelving filter (bass control)
    - high shelving filter (treble control)
(ps)

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30.Aug.1999
AER


A/NES 8-bit emulator for Amiga
A/NES CGFX Preview 2 released! Changes: bug fixes, and the emulator is much faster now. Download: anescgfx.lha (early beta). (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
VirusHelp Denmark


VirusExecutor new version 1.82e
Download: ve-182e.lha (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Hyperion


Hyperion brings "Smacker" to Amiga
"Smacker" is an industrial standard video codec, developed by RAD Game Tools and used in over 1400 games. Currently, Smacker is only available for MAC (68k and PPC), DOS, Windows 3.x, 95 and NT. At first, Hyperion considered developing an own video codec, but since Heretic 2 by Activision and Shogo:MAD by Monolith make use of Smacker, it was decided to save developing time and purchase the license for the port, since Smacker is really fast and efficient when used with only 256 colors. smacker.com. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
StrICQ-Support


New beta version 0.1485 StrICQ
Download: STRICQ.lha (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Amigart


MAME new version PPC 3.6b2
Download: mameppc36b2.lha (3.8 MB) (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Amiga Flame


Amiga Flame News
Michael Carillo Interviews Andrew Reed of Crystal Interactive Software
Delsyd Software Announce More Games
Alive Mediasoft Go Serious
Amiga Downunder Show (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
FutureZone


Hotmail cracked completely
FutureZone writes:
Mail of every user readable | no password needed | details unknown so far | FutureZone has tested Exploit
The free mail service Hotmail has been cracked heavily today. With a web form it is possible to read any user's mail - without password. FutureZone has a corresponding link, first tests revealed: Every Hotmail account is readable. (Full article - German - at the title link.)
August 31st, 1999:
Heise writes, among others: Hotmail hole fixed for now
About twelve hours after the Hotmail hack became public, Microsoft reported the bug has been fixed. In the meantime, the Hotmail server was offline. Our editors however recieved messages until late in the night that readers were able to scan Hotmail accounts without the need for a password. After the Microsoft announcement at 2:00 AM local time, this seems to be impossible. Microsoft has not yet commented about the technical background making the attack possibe.
Spiegel Netzwelt, among others, writes: Hacker group claims responsibility for Hotmail hack
According to informations of the online news service "Wired", a so far unknown hacker group claimed responsibility for the move on Monday. The online magazine cites a Swedish spokesman that is reported to have made contact with "Wired". According to him, the group named "Hackers Unite" consists of a Swedish and seven US-Americans. The hackers made the backdoor public to bring attention to the insufficient security of Microsoft's products: "We didn't make this hack to destroy, but to show the world how bad the security really is at Microsoft, and that the company nearly has a monopoly on computer software", a 21-year-old group member is cited. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
BGUI


New BGUI version 41.10
Download: bgui.lha (333077 bytes) of August 30th, 1999. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
PPCRulez


AmigaOS 3.5 preview with pictures
Steve Zoneff has attended the presentation of AmigaOS 3.5 at the Amiga Downunder in Canberra, and created this little preview with pictures. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
V3-Portal


V³ image decoder and VFlash update
Download: v3_imgdecoders_73.lzx and v3_vflash_014.lzx (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News


Imagine Update
A new update for Imagine version 5.16 Amiga Constant Upgrade Programm (ACUP) is available. Download page. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
HiSoft


iBrowse 2.1 to come this week
The beta test results have all arrived, and Stefan will remove the final bugs. If everything runs smoothly, iBrowse will be released this week. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Andreas Küssner by eMail


New Wildfire pricing and Wildfire for Movieshop Video!
Starting immediately, the recommended retail price for the award-winning special effects software Wildfire, version 7\PPC, is cut back. This includes the bundle "Wildfire for Movieshop".
Additionally, the example video "Wildfire for Movieshop" will be released early September. In this video, all special effects offered for the Wildfire-Movieshop combination are shown. The video runs for approx. 100 minutes. For the new pricing and distributor pricing please directly contact Andreas Küssner. All programs can be ordered directly from the Wildfire support:
Andreas Küssner
Marrinksweg 5
48531 Nordhorn
Germany
EMail: eksec@eure.de
Phone: +49 - (0)5921 / 330420 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, working days
Andreas Küssner, Wildfire Project Manager. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Andreas Kleinert by eMail


GIF licence for Webmasters?
Are you a webmaster and want to get a web licence from Unisys for your GIF pictures? No problem, Unisys offers a licence for webmasters for a meager 5,000.00 USD ;-).
Heise writes: Unisys wants to rip of websites for GIF pictures. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Guvenc Kaplan by eMail


Free Amiga postcard service
Amigart started a free postcard service. Send your friends Amiga greetings. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Marc Albrecht by eMail


A.C.T. new address
Finally, A.C.T. has completed its move and is from now on available at the following address only:
Albrecht Computer Technik
Glinder Str. 2
27432 Ebersdorf
Phone Hotlines:
Amiga and Web Service: 0700-ACT-AMIGA (numerical: 0700-228-26442)
Apple/Be/QNX: 0700-ACT-PHONE (numerically: 0700-228-74663)
(Presumably available starting September 10th, 1999)
Office: +49-(0)-4765-8300-60
Fax: +49-(0)-4765-8300-64
Note: The old phone numbers will be redirected for some more weeks.
EMail: info@act-net.com and WWW offers: support@level-2.com. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Torsten Dudai


New Cartoon: Iwin, part two
more ... (td) (Translation: td)

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30.Aug.1999
Arne Hinrichsen by eMail


userfriendly.org: Amiga logo in good company?
Aside from Arne, several other visitors have pointed to this cartoon in userfriendly.org; as always in these cases, the first one is cited as "source". (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail


VMdriver new version 1.10
Stefan Robl writes:
The new version 1.10 of the FMdriver packet contains numerous innovations; e.g. the limitation to graphic cards has been removed, programms are now running in satisfactory quality in 2-256 colors (!!). New are the programms FMInit, FMGrab (great for WebCams!), FMRecord/FMRecordDec and FMRecorder.
FMRecorder makes it possible to comfortably record videos with the FrameMachine. The program contains, aside from an anim viewer, a converter to encode the video as MPEG later on. You can download screenshots from the programs, and a MPEG animation recorded with FMRecord (and encoded with CreateMPEG) from my homepage. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Robert Niessner by eMail


PFS3 finished
The most important new features:
  • PFS Doctor, a repair program for the difficult case
  • expansion of the delete directory to up to 992 entries!
  • extra long filenames, (optionally) up to 100 characters!
  • HDInsttools for easy installation
  • own PFS format command
  • miscellaneous bugfixes

Available from Schatztruhe and other distributors. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Patrick Beerhorst by eMail


Prelude library bug
Patrick Beerhorst writes:
Version 4.52 of prelude.library causes problems with the Prelude 1200 (card is not initialised in certain circumstances). A fixed version v4.55 for both cards (Prelude 1200 and Prelude Z-II) solves these problems. Download: PrlLib455.lha. Additionally, there is a new Mixer v2.1 available from the homepage. Download: PreludeMixer21.lha. (ps)

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