13.Jul.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden (e-mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Warp3D for Voodoo 3
We are pleased to announce that our Voodoo 3 Warp 3D V4 drivers for
Prometheus (both 68K and PPC) are now fully completed.
We are currently in the process of rewriting the Warp 3D license agreement so
you can expect the full driver package in the course of the next week.
As we are still getting e-mails about the Elbox situation, we would like to
point out that we have not heard from anybody at Elbox for over two weeks now.
At this point it appears to be highly improbable that we will ever see 3D
drivers for the Elbox's range of PCI products.
Again, we would like to ask everybody mailing us about 3D support for Elbox
PCI hardware to contact Elbox rather than Hyperion Entertainment.
We cannot be held responsible in any way for the lack of 3D support. If 3D
graphics are important to you, we advise you to look into purchasing a
competing PCI product."
Ben Hermans
Managing Partner, Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Amiga-Mailbox Stardate access disrupted
The Stardate mailbox (Amiga mailbox since 10 years and since more than one year
accessible through web portal http/telnet) can not be reached for some days
because of a lightning stroke.
Also affected is the Dynamite server stardate.2y.net.
Polling boxes and users are asked to switch to the Modem/ISDN numbers
(can be found here in the Amiga Link Directory).
It'll be announced when access via internet is possible again.
(ps)
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13.Jul.2001
Bernhard Kellerer (e-mail)
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Soundtrack and Boing beachballs sought
My name is Bernhard Kellerer, I am Creative Director of the London
film production company "iMagic Films Limited". I am Amiga fan since 1987,
foundation member of the Austrian Amiga Club Tirol
and still convinced that we'll be "Back For The Future" one day. What always
fascinated me about the Amiga is the community that sticked through thick and thin
with our "girlfriend". And just this community it is that gave me this idea.
We will soon film a commercial for an Austrian town. It is a low budget production which
is made possible only through the (mostly) free of charge working volunteers. Despite
the low budget, the 30 - 40 second spot will certainly have a high cinematic standard.
It is about a young woman who is catapulted from a dreary surroundings into a fascinating
dreamworld. About 150 extras, some fire-eaters, pyros and confetti bombs will provide
a proper spectacle. The spot will be shown in many cinemas.
Now we're looking for a piece of music which accompanies the dream journey of our
protagonist. GEMA-free music is out of question, but a real movie composer too expensive.
Here the community comes into play: there are many talented musicians in the Amiga
MOD- and demo-scene who could easily compose a soundtrack for us. Maybe an already
existing piece could be modified. We haven't agreed on any music style so far and
are thus open for everything.
Since nevertheless some conditions regarding length and structure of the piece should
be obeyed, I suggest that people who are interested in the project contact me directly
by e-mail.
As a special insider gag it's supposed to rain boing balls which the local firemen
will let fall down upon the extras from a net affixed to a ladder. For this, we need
a larger number of boing beachballs. And here again the community is asked: who can
do without his beachball before the summer vacation? Which dealers have maybe still
boing beachballs in stock and could put them shortly at our disposal? Maybe this
commercial could later be adapted as an AMIGA commercial.
My postal address is:
Bernhard Kellerer
Langgasse 8
A-6065 Thaur
- Austria -
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
AMIGAplus newsletter
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Event: AMIGA World 2001 website online
The website of the AMIGA World 2001, which is held from 20th to 22nd September 2001
in Cologne together with the maxpo2001, can from now on be reached at
www.amiga-messe.de and contains
the first, preliminary information. The English version should be available this
weekend.
If you want to book a booth at the show, please note that the definitive deadline
for booking is the 31st July. Later bookings are not possible.
Please send organizational or technical questions to info@amiga-messe.de.
If you are an exhibitor and want to publish news on the show website, please send them
to nico@amigaos.de.
Please note also that the phone and fax numbers of the show organizer
falkemedia have changed. The new numbers are (+49)-431 200766-0 and (+49)-431 200766-1
respectively and will be available from tomorrow on.
Contact:
falkemedia
An der Holsatiamühle 1, D-24149 Köln
Tel: (+49)-431 - 200766-0
Fax: (+49)-431 - 200766-0
info@amiga-messe.de (ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Saku 2001
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Event: Matay and Nova Design at Saku 2001
The companies Matay and Nova Design will attend the Finnish Amiga show Saku 2001
held on September 1st in Vantaa (near Helsinki). Read the announcement at the
title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Pawel Filipczak (ANF)
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SMS-Tool: TaskiSMS version 2.58
The new version 2.58 of TaskiSMS has been released. With this program you can
send short messages (SMS) to mobile phones in 160 countries of the world. The
program can be downloaded from the TaskiSMS homepage
or on Aminet.
News in this release:
- updated HandyLand plugin
- updated Lycos plugin
- added GoldenTelecom plugin
- fixed sms split routine, it's now more intelligent
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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epic interactive: Amiga version of The Feeble Files?
In the last weeks we received quite a few e-mails and requests for an
Amiga version of our upcoming Mac conversion of the cartoon adventure The Feeble
Files. Since porting the game to the Macintosh is now completed we have
evaluated the possibility of an Amiga version of this great game. An
Amiga version would require an 060/PPC equipped Amiga with 32 MByte RAM and a
graphics board (4 MB). The game would come with complete English and German
speech versions on at least 2 CDs. You can find more information on this great
title in the projects section of our homepage.
Because the Amiga market has declined over the past 12 months and porting a
game to another platform is always also a financial risk we have decided to
start a preorder campaign for The Feeble Files Amiga: If we receive at least
400 preorders for this game we will bring The Feeble Files to the Amiga.
Porting the game from the Mac to the Amiga should not take more than 6
weeks, so that the game could theoretically reach Amiga users by early
September. Please send orders to order@epic-interactive.com. The game will
cost Euro 51,10 (plus shipping). If you wish to pay by credit card please
contact KDH Datentechnik.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Fun Time World
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MP3 Encoder: LamePPC 3.89
Jarmo Laakkonen has released version 3.89 of the MP3 encoder LamePPC,
which only runs on WarpOS.
Download:
lame.lha (246 KB)
lam_src.lha (933 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Jan Andersen (e-mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Updates of bootable disks
Virus Help Denmark has updated the bootable antivirus disks, with version 33.26
of xvs.library. And we have also made a new disk with VirusExecutor
by Jan Erik Olausen.
Here is some info about the disks:
Kickstart 2.0x or higher:
VirusExecutor v2.19 (xvs.library v33.26) - 563.617 bytes (.dms packed)
VirusCheckerII v2.5 (xvs.library v33.26) - 468.680 bytes (.dms packed)
VirusZ III v0.94b (xvs.library v33.26) - 545.671 bytes (.dms packed)
Kickstart 1.2 or higher:
VT-Schutz v3.17 - 428.401 bytes (.dms packed) ** NOT UPDATED **
Virus Help Denmark still needs some translators who can translate some virus tests from
German into English. E-mail Jan Andersen
if you want to help.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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12.Jul.2001
Merlancia Industries
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Dave Haynie: CTO of Merlancia Industries
Dave Haynie is the new CTO of Merlancia Industries. Dave Haynie might be well known by any
Amiga user, cause he's a kind of living legend. The following is a brief summary of his career so far:
Dave Haynie studied electronic engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University. After his studies four month
of employment at General Electric he was hired by Commodore in September 1983 to support their "TED" project,
which was started by Jack Tramiel. Later the C116 emerged from the "TED" project. While his times at Commodore
Haynie decisively worked on many projects, like several 8 bit machines (e.g. C128), the Amigas A500, A2000,
A2500, A3000, and A4000, Zorro-III, and he took part in the development of the AA and AAA chipsets, etc..
All in all he spent 11½ years at Commodore. 'Beside' of that he wrote about 50 articles for Amiga magazines
of those times; Amiga Sentry, .Info, Amiga Transactor, Amazing Computing, Amiga World, etc.. Furthermore he wrote
some developer tools and the FFS tool "DiskSalv".
Some of his 'stations' at Commodore:
- 1983: Commodore "TED" project, low-cost VIC-20 replacement.
- 1984: Commodore 128 project, the sequel to the venerable Commodore 64..
- 1986: Amiga 2000-B - slot-based Amiga.
He designed the gate-array (Buster) and a "coprocessor interface" for the CPU slot.
- 1988: Amiga 2620/2630: 68020/30 CPU cards for the Amiga 2000.
- 1989: Amiga 3000: First fully 32-bit Amiga architecture. As a co-creator of the system, he designed
the basic system architecture, the Zorro III expansion bus standard, and the "Buster" bus control
gate array which implemented Zorro III.
- 1991: Amiga 3000+": initially a product oriented design, this coupled the new Amiga "AA"
system/graphics chipset, an AT&T DSP3210 media coprocessor, 16-bit audio and modem CODECs, etc.
Management changes canceled the project, though some of its "DNA" lived on the Amiga 4000 and 1200.
He also developed basic modular "Acutiator" architecture for next-generation Amiga systems.
- 1992: Developed 32-bit SCSI controller for Amiga 4000, architecture for stand-alone DSP add-in cards,
and prototype of "AAA" motherboard, for Commodore's 4th generation, 64-bit Amiga graphics system.
System works, but by 1993, there's no money left to fix the four full-custom ASICs.
- 1994: Developed plug-in graphics subsystem for the Amiga. Commodore declares bankruptcy,
this is never built.
Haynie created a 2-hours video about the last day at Commodore and the goodbye-party, known by the name of
"The Deathbed Vigil and Other Tales of Digital Angst". This video for example is as a bonus content of the
"Amiga Forever" CD by Cloanto.
After his times at Commodore Dave Haynie worked for the Scala Inc. company for a short time, where about 80%
of the former Commodore engineers met, again. In November 1995 Amiga Technologies contracted him to consult for
the PowerAmiga project. He developed a concept, but due to Escom's financial problems this project got canceled.
After that, in May 1996, Haynie was contracted by the PIOS Computer AG, where he was in charge of the hardware.
Shortly before founded by Stefan Domeyer PIOS engaged also other former Amiga Int. or Commodore employees, among them
such clinking names like Dr. Peter Kittel and Andy Finkel. PIOS formed up to become a successful distributor of
PowerPC hardware and to make the PowerAmiga dream reality - the term of "PiosONE" was born.
Later from the PIOS Computer AG the Met@box AG emerged, a group of meanwhile
six companies with among other things Settop boxes as part of their product line. Me@box made application for
insolvency in May 2001.
More stations on Haynie's way:
- 1999 - Fleecy Moss started the KOSH project
to develop a new open source operating system for the Amiga - Dave Haynie is responsible for the hardware.
systems and audio.
- 1999 - The "Phoenix Platform Consortium" to define the Amiga's future was founded - beside of Dave Haynie
also Carl Sassenrath, RJ Mical, Wolf Dietrich (Phase 5), and Dan Dodge (QNX) were part of it.
- 2001 - In July Dave Haynie became CTO of Merlancia Industries.
He contributed information for the "The International Technology And. Computing Historical Association"
ITACHA, who collect 'artefacts' from technic and computer industry
and make these information available online. Unfortunately at this time there is only one page about the
"C65" available.
Also a really rich source for Amiga devotees are the
"The Dave Haynie Archives".
Last but not least it might be to mention that he became known and dear to many of the Amiga community
as a an unweary, all-time helpful co-worker/partner/friend. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF)
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Ride agency at Amigakult
Thomas Wolf wrote:
I created a rubric on the new page of Amigakult (www.amigakult.com)
where people wanting to attend the Cologne show can search or offer a ride to the show.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Change of address: PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
The new address of perSuaSiVe SoftWorX since 01. July 2001 is:
Andreas R. Kleinert
Rabenflugstrasse 1
D-57074 Siegen
E-Mail-address, phone and fax number did not change and letters to the
old address will not get lost.
(ps)
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12.Jul.2001
Deftone (ANF)
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Website: graphician wanted!
Who would be interested in creating a logo for the DJ portal for a banner on the
site in return? Just send an e-mail to
deftone@blitzengineers.de.
Thanks.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
amiga.org (ANF)
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CNet: Psion leaving handheld business
Psion, who were about to utilize the AmigaDE for future PDAs, will leave the
handheld business. The reason might be that Psion do not have enough financial
resources to compete with PalmOS or WinCE products.
The share declined in price to it's all-time-low during the last weeks.
But Psion is working on the Netbook. It is obscure to what extent these changes will affect
the use of the AmigaDE.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Golem IT-News (ANF)
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Golem: Motorola at severe loss
As to read at golem.de Motorola suffers from a crisis in the tele-communication
market. The company drew sales of 7.5 millions USD in 1Q/01 which stands for a
minus of 19% compared to last year's sales.
Follow the title link for the Golem article (German).
Edtor's note: Since at the moment every chip manufacturer in fact is in the same situation
this seems to be more likely a normal evolution of market.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
SixK
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Webserver: MorphOS Apache 1.3.20 + PHP 4.0.6
Version v1.3.20 of the webserver including the script language module
PHP v4.0.6 for MorphOS is available from the 'SixK Port Page'. This version
is for use with the official
Amiga Apache archive.
Download: apache1320_php406_mos.lzx
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)
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CD32-Allianz website moved
Thorsten Schoelzel wrote:
CD32/CDTV-Corner moving
Unfortunately I'm not able to update the CD32/CDTV-Corner more often, at
the time being. The server space decreased more an more, so the site now
move to a new server. The new address is:
http://home.nexgo.de/cd32-allianz/
Along with this move new possibilities raise for the CD32/CDTV-Corner, cause
now other CD32 and CDTV freaks can help working on the website to design it
more interesting and topical. Everybody wanting to help now can contribute
own content, as long as this content matches the subject of the page. Who is
interested and means business will get all access data via e-mail promptly.
If this test of organizing a webpage with several webmasters will succeed,
this will sure affect other homepages, too. A very interesting test, I think.
(ps)
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11.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: ENVHandler V 1.9
Stephan Rupprecht has released version 1.9 of his HappyEnv replacement 'ENVHandler'.
Download: envhandler.lha - (13 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Jul.2001
T.o.T.
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Game: Tales of Tamar now also for PC
Tales of Tamar is an Internet-based round game for Amiga, Atari,
Linux and PC
of Eternity Entertainment Software.
With PC-version 0.20 the game is now playable without any restricts on a PC. Distributing grain, feeding the folk, gathering the corn, controlling the increase of the population, setting the tax, exploring...belong to the tasks of the ruler in the PC version up to now.
Thus Tales of Tamar is the first game in the world which unites the computer platforms of Atari, Amiga and PC in an online-game.
We are still looking for alpha-tester for each platform. Ask your friends and acquaintances and try to prove yourself in this fantasy-world. Who really is the better strategist? Please mail to Martin Wolf if you are interested in.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2001
Chris Hodges
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MP3: MASMPegDevice V1.4
On 9th July 2001 Chris Hodges has published version 1.4 of the MASMPeg-device. This device is a Commodore compatible mpeg.device for the MAS-player (MP3/2-audio-hardwareplayer) of Dirk Conrad.
It enables MAS-player being used together with software which support the mpeg.device standard. AMPlifier, Frogger and MPEGMovie belong to this.
Download: MASMPegDevice.lha (129 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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NARR-site: Skin for MUICD-player and MI-set for PlayGUI
Richard Kapp writes:
All those who do not like the OS 3.9 CD-player and miss a graphically appropriate other one should risk a peep at MUI-CD player where you can exchange the graphical buttons. On my homepage you can download a gfx-set with aqua-look for the great CD-player ´MUICD-Player´. The alternative images glow and give away when clicking them. Have a look at a screenshot.
Maybe it encourage some users to create their own sets?
Besides this some areas have been changed. There are now more current screenshots and a MI-icon (thanks to Martin Merz!) image set for PlayGUI which also contains a special MI-skin.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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