23.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaOS- and SDK-Update
Apart from the AmigaOne there were some additional announcements by Bill McEwen.
Czech Amiga News summed them up in a little article by Greg Thomas.
They say, that the PPC-Amiga-Device by Eyetech will be expandable with Mac acceleration boards.
AmigaOS V3.9 will be shipped with Workbench V3.9 and a kickstart-chip V3.9.
The new SDK-update will be released tomorrow and the next version in one month.
Furthermore Amiga will make 10% of the firm available for investments by Amiga-users.
Attention: Whether Amiga Inc. nor any other person did check this article.
Supplement: 23.10.2000:
Sjoerd wrote on ANF that he asked H&P
and they said that there will be no new Kickstart version for AmigaOS 3.9.
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23.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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akMPEG V4.50
The new verison 4.50 of akMPEG by Andreas Kleinert is available for download at the Aminet.
The MPEG-player needs AmigaOS V3.0 and supports CyberGFX, Picasso 96, AGA, 68k, PPC and MorphOS.
Download: gfx/show/akMPEG4.lha,
Readme
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23.Oct.2000
Amiga Inc.
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New Executive Update by Bill McEwen
A new Executive Update by Bill Mc Ewen is online. The EU is about the exhibition
in Melbourne and the new AmigaOS version 3.9 that will be released before christmas (take a look at the first Screenshot).
October 21, 2000 - Executive Update
Dear Amiga Family:
I am writing this as I fly back from a wonderful two days at the ACE 2000
Amiga show in Melbourne, Australia. It was indeed a great delight and
pleasure to meet with all the wonderful members of the Amiga Family Down
Under, and I already look forward to my next opportunity to visit
Australia.
I especially want to thank all the dealers, developers and end users who
attended the seminars and the hundreds of you who joined for the banquet
dinner. Amiga truly is a global family, and too much of an unknown
phenomena. It is the Amiga Family who has kept this amazing system alive
and growing.
I would like to take a moment to recognize the efforts of two people who
especially made my stay in Australia an enjoyable and educational
experience. Jeff Rose, of Unitech, the d'Amiga distributor for Australia,
and Basil Flinter the Secretary of the Amiga Down Under Group or ADUG. I
want to thank them both for taking the extra time to help me truly
understand what Australia and New Zealand mean to Amiga, and what Amiga
can do to help our its Family Down Under. I can certainly say that on my
next trip I will take the time to also visit New Zealand and say hello in
person.
Upcoming Products
There are many exciting things happening with Amiga and I wanted to tell
the entire Amiga community what the attendees of ACE 2000 learned at the
show.
Amiga will release an upgrade for the Classic AmigaOS! Version 3.9 of the
AmigaOS will be shipped and ready for the 2000 holiday
season. AmigaOS 3.9 is being developed in concert with Haage and Partner
GmbH. A new website devoted specifically to OS3.9 will be online shortly
and it will include an OS feature list and other bits of useful
information. OS 3.9 will be made available to classic Amiga users for the
affordable price of under $40.00 US. Watch our main website,
www.amiga.com, for more details of OS 3.9 and its new
website.
Because Amiga is still a Benevolent Dictatorship-and not a democracy or
even a republic-we listen closely to the feedback and input from the
community. Based on this feedback we strive to create products that you
want, need and enjoy.
We are pleased to announce to the community the first in a series of new
hardware that has been designed by Amiga and soon manufactured by Amiga
OEM partners. The first in our AmigaONE series of products are the
AmigaONE PPC 1200, and the AmigaONE PPC 4000 cards from Eyetech. These
products will become available to developers in December this year and are
designed to meet the specific needs of the Amiga Community. We have also
announced another partner, bPlan GmbH, who are creating a new AmigaONE PPC
based desktop computer.
More details will emerge shortly about bPlan, Eyetech and the new AmigaONE
products, so visit the AmigaONE web site at www.amiga.com/products/one/pr.php
to stay informed.
I would also like to announce new versions of the Amiga SDK. AmigaSDK
version 1.1 will begin shipping on October 24, 2000. In addition to an
upgrade for the Linux version, we are please to release the Windows
version of the Amiga SDK as well.
There was a mistake in the September 28 Executive Update. As erroneously
printed in the update, the Amiga SDK 1.1 does not include the sound, UI,
or 3D pieces. These will be found in version 1.2, which itself will be
released shortly. I am sorry for the error, but take comfort in the fact
that purchasers of an Amiga SDK receive free updates and upgrades for 12
months from the date of purchase.
Closing
It has been an amazing 10 months since we started Amiga Incorporated. The
community has seen the delivery of the Amiga SDK, an upgrade to the SDK,
an upgrade to the Classic AmigaOS, and now the announcement of three PPC
based AmigaONE products. We still have a long way to go and many more
battles to fight, but I am confident that with the community behind us,
and the enhancements to the product line continuing, there is a long and
exciting future for Amiga.
To the user group members around the world, it is time to start calling
the members who have drifted away and let them know what is happening with
the new Amiga. We want them to know they can again be part of continuing
the legacy that is Amiga.
Again thanks to Greg, and Michael, and the thousands of other Amigans Down
Under who made ACE 2000 such a great event.
Get Boinged!
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team
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23.Oct.2000
Frogger-Site
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Frogger V1.6 beta for Linux/x86
Betaversion 1.6 of the MPEG-player "Frogger" for Linux/x86 is out now.
The player supports the playing of MPEG-1 and -2, and Audio-Layers 1, 2 and 3.
Download: frogger_linux_x86.tgz (65K)
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23.Oct.2000
aphaso
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NListtree V18.5
Version 18.5 of the NLosttree-class for MUI were released. The class presents listree entries in a tree structure
and it supports drag&drop, and multi-selection of entries. The changes are:
- Preparse-String-Pointer at MUIP_NListtree_DisplayMessage.
- Drop-Types are now public. It uses the same values then NList-Drop-types.
- When hiting return MUIA_NListtree_Doubleclick will be selected.
- NULL-pointer were replaced by the text "*** NULL POINTER ***".
- Multi-Test-Hook will be called in every case of multi-selection.
- New: MUIM_NListtree_PrevSelected.
- New: MUIV_NListtree_FindName_Flag_Selected - only finds selected entries in MUIM_NListtree_FindName.
- Bugfix when DoubleClicking: there are no effects if DoubleClick were set to something else then ALL
- New Doubleclick-value: MUIV_NListtree_DoubleClick_NoTrigger.
The class needs AmigaOS 2.x, MUI V3.8 and MCC_NList V0.89 (NList.mcc V19.97).
Download: MCC_NListtree.lha (169K),
Readme
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23.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
Videomanage.lha biz/dbase 1.7M+A Videodatabase
LPx.lha comm/net 3K+Print scripts for Samba, v1.0
MP-TelekomSI.lha comm/tcp 2K+Settings for MiamiPhone v1.5
wpz-fun.lha demo/aga 6K+4kb intro by Whelpz released on Astrosyn
wpz-info02.lha demo/aga 100K+Whelpz info issue #o2 (january 1999)
MWI-Overview03.lha demo/slide 2.1M+OVERVIEW #03 by MAWI. party slideshow an
fda-upd.lha disk/cache 70K+Fixed:OS35 checksums ViNCEd faster compa
fda.lha disk/cache 352K+Linux' buffer-cache v3.0
dblocate.lha disk/misc 21K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
AnnuaireAmiga6.txt docs/anno 4K+Announce for the new http://www.annuaire
WarpGIF-DT.txt docs/anno 2K+Datatype for GIF-Images with WarpOS (40.
VWorksPricelis.lha docs/hyper 23K+Virtual Works pricelist
3DWorldArc0600.lha docs/misc 104K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 06/00
3DWorldArc0700.lha docs/misc 48K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 07/00
3DWorldArc0800.lha docs/misc 36K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 08/00
3DWorldArc0900.lha docs/misc 10K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 09/00
3DWorldArc1000.lha docs/misc 20K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 10/00
FatePL.lha game/role 14K+FatePL - Ultimate Dice Simulator for RPG
nam.lha game/text 126K+Czech text adventure game
BStones.lha game/think 183K+BubbleStones 1.4, Bust a Move like
WBsteroids.lha game/wb 174K+Asteroids-clone in scaleable wb-window
akMPEG4.lha gfx/show 196K+MPEG player (CGfx/P96/AGA) V4.50 (68k/PP
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 127K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 65K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
stlist.lha misc/emu 24K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001013.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
JochenHippelST.lha mods/chip 197K+Atari ST Mods by famous musicians
ThunderBlade.lha mods/misc 253K+Custom modules from "Thunder Blade"
rno-r049.mpg mods/mpg 1.9M+Rno-records release no.49 by Tarmslyng/l
atdt.lha mods/pro 291K+'ATDT' - a protracked MOD by &.
g-nainenjatotu.lha mods/pro 404K+'G-nainen ja Totuus' - a protracked MOD
jehovantodista.lha mods/pro 253K+'Jehovan Todistaja' - a protracked MOD b
mechno.lha mods/pro 377K+'Mechno' - a protracked MOD by &.
suurivalkoinen.lha mods/pro 251K+'Suuri Valkoinen' - a protracked MOD by
twinblade.lha mods/pro 811K+'Twin Blade' - a protracked MOD by &.
worthless.lha mods/pro 265K+'Worthless' - a protracked MOD by &.
EP_PaulSummers.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Paul Summers" external repl
plone.lha mus/play 450K+V1.6 - PlayList AddOn for PlayGui
AladdinBoot.lha pix/boot 510K+Aladdin Bootup for Rainboot3
BaaackBoot.lha pix/boot 455K+Baaack Bootup for Rainboot3
BeatboxBoot.lha pix/boot 227K+Beatbox Bootup for Rainboot3
LionKingBoot.lha pix/boot 142K+LionKing Bootup for Rainboot3
WSucksBoot.lha pix/boot 865K+WindowsSucks Bootup for Rainboot3
fomsw22.jpg pix/henz 9K+C-3PO and R2-D2 (Star Wars)
Rio91.jpg pix/views 90K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
Rio96.jpg pix/views 107K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
Rio98.jpg pix/views 156K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
guidecheck.lha text/edit 60K+V1.21 AmigaGuide syntax checker (and mor
ascii2jascii.lha text/misc 35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
r.lha util/cli 49K+V1.56 Just in time GUIs for every DOS Co
delfina4.16bet.lha util/libs 21K+Delfina.library version 4.16 (beta)
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 98K+V1.26 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha util/pack 22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
Scion2html.lha util/rexx 33K+WWW browser HTML's from Scion Genealogy
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23.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta on ANF
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Picture Gallery of the ACBB
The ACBB installed a picture gallery that
contains pictures showing the activities of the club.
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23.Oct.2000
Thomas Zahren on ANF
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Headlines on Amiga Inc. Press Release
The following reactions on the press release by Amiga Inc. were published in non-amiga (online-)magazins.
Slashdot: Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of
The Register: Amiga unveils next-gen hardware spec
MaximumPC: Amiga Plunges Back into Hardware
CNet: Welcoming back an old Amiga
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23.Oct.2000
dEFToNE on ANF
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SMSEngineer Update - v1.0.7
SMSEngineer version v1.0.7 released.
Changes:
- BugFix: The space-field now works
- BugFix: The space-field now works with the gateway.dat-file.
- Changing of the label of the remaining-space-field to "NochFrei/Möglich"
- New list view for the upcoming address book
- Some internal changes
- New tooltype for the position of the signature
- Signature fields will not be shown if you set SignPos=NOSIGN
The download is available at the title link.
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22.Oct.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon Online: Highway Patrol
Together with a new there's a new homepage.
The layout was completely revised and Pearl is used to give it a more
interactive design.
You can now rate and comment on every cartoon.
Besides, there's now a service for Amiga clubs only. More about that
here.
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22.Oct.2000
Bastian Moritz on ANF
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New German Magazine - Triple-A
Bastian Moritz wrote:
Until some months ago I had created an Atari fanzine with some other people. But
as I am also an Acorn user and some of my colleagues Amiga fans we thought that
we could also put it all on a broader basis.
This resulted in Triple-A, a fanzine for Amiga, Acorn and Atari. The first issue
comes out on 29.10. From today on you can at least surf to our homepage.
At www.triple-a-mag.de
you get infos and a forum. In addition to this you can subscribe here or place
free adverts.
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22.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino via email
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AmigaOne Area at amiga.com
At the area products at
amiga.com is now a section specially for the AmigaOne.
There are news, information,
FAQs and a discussion forum at your disposal.
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22.Oct.2000
David Connoly via email
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CS&E: Software and Banner
CS&E will soon releae "Cosmo's Fun Class".
This is a education software package for children at the age of 4-9 years. It fosters
reading, calculating and the hand/eyes coordination and much more.. The software
runs on an A1200. It was developed by the team of
Electronics Dream Interactive.
In conjunction with an Amiga Survivor subscription the package is available at a special
price. To do a translation into German language CS&E needs 300 pre-orders. They expect 1000
pre-orders for the game "Carmageddon". All in all the people at CS&E hope to sell
5000 copies of "Carmageddon".
"Back in Time 2" however has been finished as is the English version of "Cosmo's Fun
Class", so they don't need any pre-orders for that. Details about pre-ordering are
available via email: csande@csande.com
and will be released soon in both, the print and online magazines of CS&E.
On the website of the Amiga Survivor
magazine is free room for small banners. Everybody interested may place
his/her banner there in exchange with banners by CS&E on their own
websites.
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22.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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ppclibemu v0.8c
Frank Wille has released the version 0.8c of the ppclibemu on 21. October 2000.
This software emulates the ppc.library by phase 5 under WarpOS and this way allows
the direct use of PowerUp-programs with WarpOS. This version patches the
Exec-functions FreeMem()/FreeVec() to avoid problems with bad coded programs
which free PPC memory using theses Exec-functions. This affects for example
TurboPrint.
Download:
The update contains solely the libraries. Everything else is included in the
complete archive of the version 0.7.
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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Super Expansion System
The new company Fastech announces an expansion on their website with the
following features: 3 PCI slots, 3 Zorro-III compatible slots, 1 AGP slot, 1
SDRAM DIMM slot, 2 CPU expansion ports, 1 A1200 clock port, 2 x serial and 1 x
EPP parallel ports. As CPU modules are a G4 module with 400 MHz and a Coldfire
module with 333 MHz announced. The expansion shall be released first for
A3000/T- and A4000/T computers and is in the alpha test stage at present.
While the G4 module is delayed to reach a higher performance via a rework of the
design the Coldfire module is in the test stage. As the Coldfire is not 100%
compatible with the 68k line OS patches and library patches are needed. They are
working on these at the moment.
Editorial note:
Hints strengthen that this website and so the report may be a fake. We can't neither
confirm nor deny this at the moment, but we'll continue our investigations.
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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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StrICQ v0.1728 beta
After a long time a new beta version of the ICQ client "StrICQ" for the Amiga
was released on 20. October 2000. This beta version 0.1728 is dated on 18.
February 2000. According to Czech Amiga News this version is supposed to work
better together with ICQ2000. Though it tends to crash the ICQ2000 client during
the chat initialisation.
Download: STRICQ.lha
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22.Oct.2000
CyberGFX
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Mediator Drivers
Already on 19. October 2000 the following information appeared on the CyberGFX
website: Elbox has sent an updated driver archive to the registered Mediator
users. This archive contains the Mediator system files, a SANA-II network driver
supporting many network chip sets and the CGX Virge driver.Those belonging to the
registered Mediator users may contact Elbox
regarding the latest drivers. The latest CGX Mediator drivers can be found on
the CyberGFX Mediator page.
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22.Oct.2000
ANN
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English Amiga Board
AmigaMos and
rck-power have joint and set up the
English Amiga Board.
This one aims to be as good as the German Amiga Emu Board.
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22.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Article concerning AmigaOne Games
Articles appeared regarding the games Europa Universalis, Echelon: The
Storm, Jagged Alliance 2, and Battle for the Globe at Amiga Flame.
The strategy game "Europa Universalis" will be ported by Hyperion-Software for
the Amiga. The games "Echelon: The Storm" and "Jagged Alliance 2" are listed on
the AmigaDE Software list
that was released by Amiga recently. "Battle for the Globe" is an
action-strategy game that is being developed at the moment by Nordicsoft for
PPC-Amigas and IBM compatible PCs.
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22.Oct.2000
Mirko Engelhard on ANF
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AmigaLand: 2 New Games
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Since today there are two new adventures on our site.
Beneath a steel Sky
and Lure of the Temptress.
Both games were made by the company Revolution Software Ltd.
who gave us the permission yesterday to offer these games for free download.
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22.Oct.2000
Stefan Schulze via email
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Screen Shots of Crossfire II
Stefan Schulze writes:
On our website are the latest screen shots of the action shooter Crossfire ready for
admiration. They are completely taken from the campaign mode.
Besides that it looks as if Jan Morgenstern (www.jm-music.de) will be supporting us as a
free lancer in the future. I'm really pleased that we don't have to rely on
Techno now. :)
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