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Freeware SNES emulator (25. Jan. 2000)
A new SNES emulator is being worked upon, which will be released as freeware. It will support AGA and CyberGfx, and will require a 68040 (25 MHz) plus low-end PPC603. Sound will be processed by the 68k to achieve a higher performance. There will be an add...

New AmigaUpdate newsletter by Brad Webb (25. Jan. 2000)
====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || -News and Rumors-...

Translator wanted (25. Jan. 2000)
For the english translations of amiga-news.de (you are reading them right now), we are looking urgently for people willing to translate the news item of a day once or twice a week. So far I am doing the translations "all alone". However, I am facing the ...

Crystal Interactive: Amiga games in shops (24. Jan. 2000)
Crystal Interactive (Bubble Heroes, Gilbert Goodmate etc.) plans selling Amiga games in about 30,000 shops in over 30 countries worldwide. This is possible due to dual CDs with program versions for Amiga systems and IBM-compatible PCs. CDs for Amiga syste...

New Amiga magazine for USA? (24. Jan. 2000)
Bill Griffin, President of G&G Enterprises, asks former Amazing authors in this Usenet posting to contact him. He plans publishing a new Amiga magazine in the USA. ...

REBOL: Manual Update, Book (24. Jan. 2000)
The Rebol website was slightly optimized. And there are some news from REBOL.The beta version of REBOL/View will be released soon. This is the GUI system for REBOL.Carl Sassenrath was invited by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to the Pe...

Amiga "BoingCoin" (24. Jan. 2000)
The Amiga "BoingCoin" is a copper coin with the Boing ball as colored logo. Manufacturer is All Things Amiga under license of Amiga Int. The coin is about as thick as a mouse cord. (Bad thing some people have cordless mice. :-)) Other designes are planned...

Unofficial Hypercom3z troubleshooting page (23. Jan. 2000)
If you have unexplained deadlocks with your Hypercom, you should have a look at the tips by Thomas Huber, who solved the issue. ...

Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2k in St. Louis (23. Jan. 2000)
Bob Sharp, organisator of the big Amiga show in St. Louis planned for April 1st/2nd 2000, tells us that many exhibitors from Europe have announced themselves in the last ten days. individual Computers from Germany will be present as well as Paul Nolan Ltd...

Software News (23. Jan. 2000)
XAD-System version4 Dirk Stoecker writes us by e-mail: Version 4 of the archive extractor "xadmaster.library" is ready. This system allows to extract archives of different formats (LhA, LZX, RAR, Zip, ...). Additionally, disk archives (DMS, Zoom) can als...

Request (22. Jan. 2000)
Andreas Kleinert writes: I am looking for somebody who would coordinate a handful of people interested in doing independant benchmarks with the existing JFIF and PNG datatypes for 68k and PPC. The problem with... erm... manufacturer-conducted benchmarks i...

What to do if you encounter pirated software? (22. Jan. 2000)
Kent Seaton has posted some Howto's about this in the NoPiracy forum, which have been included in the "No Piracy" website. ...

Software News (22. Jan. 2000)
Danny Hamon wrote us by e-mail: I got myself the tool "MCControl". With this tool, the Amiga can read the memory card of the Playstation, and can seperately save settings. So old settings are not lost when overwritten with new ones. The tool supports Dex...

VMC Network & Communication News (21. Jan. 2000)
VMC will not produce any more hardware Since beginning of the new Year 2000 we decided not to produce or to develop hardware any more. The company VMC will focus on software developement and license the software products to third party companies. HyperCO...

NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. announces availability of Tumbler(TM) Software Toolkit (21. Jan. 2000)
NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. has announced the availability of the Tumbler(TM) software toolkit implementing NTRU, the world's fastest secure public key cryptography system. The Tumbler(TM) toolkit was developed by Tao Group. Tumbler(TM) delivers encryption, ...

Software News (21. Jan. 2000)
Update for Digital Almanac II available For all registered users (shareware and CD-ROM) of the reknown astronomy program, a free update (version 1.8.2) is available for download. This update removes some bugs in the previous 040 version, and offers some ...

Software News (20. Jan. 2000)
In the Support Area of PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX there are new versions of the ak-datatypes (version 44.76) and a new version of the akMPEG4-player (version 4.06). VWP: JavaRunner 1.0 for PPC-Linux and Windows® The JavaRunner is a programm acessing an already ...

Secret of the Transmeta CPU unveiled (19. Jan. 2000)
Yesterday, Transmeta unveiled the secret Crusoe CPU as promised. It is a CPU clocked up to 700 MHz while staying relatively cool. With this, it offers the performance needed for today's usual multimedia and Internet applications. Additionally, the CPU is ...

IRC Log - Live Chat with TAO-Group and Fleecy Moss (19. Jan. 2000)
As announced yesterday by John Porter, Amiga Oasis Online hosted a live chat with representatives of the TAO Group and Fleecy Moss. I participated in the Chat, and logged it: IRC-Log - LiveChat with TAO-Group and Fleecy Moss - 19.01.2000 <[bree...

EETimes: Moto(rola) invests in virtual processor software house (19. Jan. 2000)
GNN titles: Motorola investing in Amiga partner Tao The CPU manufacturer Motorola, the other manufacturer of the PowerPC chip used by Apple besides IBM, recently purchased a minority of the Tao Group. Since 1994 Tao offers TaOS, an innovative operating sy...