29.Sep.1999
Darkage Software
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Darkage Software has opened a mailinglist
At the title link, you can join the mailinglist. Darkage Software has decided to stop
development of the shoot'em'up game "Alive", since less than 100 people voiced interest
in the game. The development of "Tales from Heaven" and "Land of Genesis" will of course
be continued, with "Tales from Heaven" being almost finished.
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29.Sep.1999
Fun Time World
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APC&TCP: The Best of Airsoft Softwair CD-ROM
Right on time for the Home Electronics World '99 in Cologne, the "The Best of
Airsoft Softwair" CD-ROM has been released. The CD-ROM is a collection of nearly
all programs ever released by the user group Airsoft Softwair. All shareware
releases from Airsoft Softwair are of course included on the CD-ROM as unrestricted
full versions. Many of the other programs have been reviewed and included in their
latest version. (Details at the title link.)
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29.Sep.1999
Haage & Partner
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H&P News: STFax 4.0 available, NetConnect 3 to be available soon
STFax 4 has been adapted yet more to the needs of private persons and small companies,
like including 120 professional voice messages in German and English. Additionally,
many fuctions have been considerably expanded and improved.
More details.
According to the manufacturer Active, NetConnect 3 should be available by
early October. Aside from Voyager 3, AmIRC 3, NetInfo 2 and Genesis, the programs
MetalWeb 4 (WYSIWYG HTML editor), mFTP 2 and WebVision 2 have been added.
More details.
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28.Sep.1999
Linuxticker
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m68k Hacker Meeting In Oldenburg
LinuxTicker writes:
The Linux/m68k-hacker meet on the 15th and 16th of October in the university of Oldenburg (Germany)
The meeting is mainly for developers. The official announcement including a registration form can be
found under the titlelink.
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28.Sep.1999
Andreas Falkenhahn per eMail
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Britney Spears Rainboot Bootup
Andreas Falkenhahn writes.
Because of the sucess of the Alicia Silverstone Rainboot Bootups, there 's now a Britney Spears Rainboot at
the Airsoft homepage. There are two versions for download: a light version without sounds, which
is 550kb smaller than the full version with sounds.
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28.Sep.1999
The World Foundry
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TWF-Poll: Do You Want a LINUX Version of Explorer 2260 ?
The news-page of TWF shows the results.
Furthermore there's a brandnew support-page e.g. with
patches for TWF games. There 's a new CD player too.
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28.Sep.1999
Amigart [Classic]
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World Construction Set: Render Engine Developement, Amiga upgrades
World Construction Set Render Engine Development and Upgrades For The Amiga.
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28.Sep.1999
amiga-news.de
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Petro Seen In "Neues" On 3sat
On Monday in the evening Petro Tyschtschenko gave a short interview about the MCC not to be
released. The interviewer asked what kind of strange game is played by Amiga Inc. in the USA.
Petro explained that the current developement was a surprise for him too. He coorperated with
Jim Collas very good and didn't have a doubt that the MCC is going to be released. But he got
used to surprises and stress situations, how everyone knows and this he will master the situation
again. The interviewer: "This means to cry about our old, beloved Amiga again."
Everyone who wants to see the interview again can watch the rerun on Saturday, the 2nd of October
at 2.00 pm.
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28.Sep.1999
Robert Kuehn per eMail
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New Amiga User List
Robert Kuehn writes:
I created a homepage (titlelink), in which every Amiga user can enter himself and gets listed.
So everyone has the possibility to find Amiga users near him.
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28.Sep.1999
Joern Plewka per eMail
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KATO
We support the attempt of Mr. Grabbe, who suggested a new, useful Amiga hardware.
This suggestion isn't new, but after the planless acting of AI, where even 5 years after
CBMs bankrupt nothing happened (hardware), nonetheless actual.
The big problem, which prevented us from integrating the Amiga into a standarized platform
via slot card until now, is the problem with the drivers for plugin cards and on-board hardware.
In the opposite to the name owners, who constantly states he doesnt need third party developers,
we know that they cant make it on their own.
Another problem is the Amiga Community, which can only be filled with enthusiasm for completly
illusoric projects. Its not practical to try to compete with SGI, Sony or Apple, which are calculating
millions of sold systems. Otherwise homecomputermainboards are classified to be useful enough to
use modern RISC CPUs. The result are the well known "impotent" tower solutions.
CPU top....envoirement flop.
If there should be amiga developers, which dont want just want to tap money, they should use
standard hardware. In the first point this would be a usual mainboard (Athlon/AlphaII) or a
PPC-mainboard (IBM/MOT).
Katodev has access to a bridge, which is used as adapter to use cards,build for 030 Macs, in PCI
machines. The license fees should be really low. This would be a basis for a minimal Amiga mainboard
without CPU, something a british company was unable to do.
Amiga-floppy and sound would be 100 % compatible, the 68k would get emulated, for example via UAE,
which is ,with a decent CPU, already fast enough.
Everyone who wants cooperate with us, and Mr. Grabbe, should contact us. There are no detailed
infos or product-announcements for end-user.
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27.Sep.1999
SEAL
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SEAL: Interview with Petro
SEAL: Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko.
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27.Sep.1999
Jim Gunnell by eMail
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Byte.com: W(h)ither The Amiga? The curtain draws upon the storied platform
Byte.com: W(h)ither The Amiga? The curtain draws upon the storied platform.
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27.Sep.1999
Johannes Geiss by eMail
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Open Letter to Thomas Schmidt
Another one? Yes ;-). Johannes Geiss has written down his frustration about Amiga Inc.
in his (German) Open Letter. To not make this a permanent institution, we promise this is the
last letter published here :-).
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27.Sep.1999
Nico Barbat by eMail
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Game designers wanted
Eremation Entertainment is desperately looking for people for a commercial Amiga
game, especially programmers and graphicians.
Informations: Nico Barbat, +49 - 221 / 4304656, +49 - 179 / 4932913,
nico@barbat.de.
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27.Sep.1999
Domenig Weyermann by eMail
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Linux Day in Feldkirch
The Linux User Group Vorarlberg (LUGV) hosts the LinuxDay on October 30th, 1999,
in the Montforthaus Feldkirch (Vorarlberg, Austria, adjacent to Germany, Switzerland
and Lichtenstein). We want to offer both private users and companies an opportunity
to get an impression from the various operating fields of the free operating system
Linux. Aside from a Linux installation party for beginners, we offer workshops and
lectures about Linux as Internal Server (Windwows Connectivity with Samba, connecting
Linux to Novell- and Mac-networks), External Server (WWW, FTP, Mail), Security /
Firewalls / Internet with Linux, games, desktop environments...
All interested in Linux, and those who want to learn more, are invited!
We would be happy about Amiga freaks visiting us. Attendance is for free. More
details at the title link.
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27.Sep.1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail
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Show report Pianeta Amiga '99 by Thomas Steiding
Thomas Steiding by Epic-Marketing has
attended the show, and summarised his impressions for us:
The third Pianeta Amiga took place in the small "exhibition hall" of the small city
Empoli near Florenz. On both days, roughly 2500 Amiga users attended the show.
According to officials, there were only 25 visitors less than last year. The nice
thing with the Italian show is you can simply sit down on the grass outside of the
building, enjoying the sun.
About the exhibitors: These were less than last year. At the Amiga Int.
booth, aside from A1200 for special pricing there was Ami-Cola to be enjoyed and
fashion trends to be followed (Boing Boxershorts).
Haage & Partner, at the NonSolo Soft booth, mainly presented AmigaOS 3.5.
Naturally there was always a lot of people at this booth. The final version is scheduled
for release early October.
At the booth of Power Computing, you could purchase accelerator and interface
boards. Additionally, the new strategy game Red Mars was presented. A talk with Toni
Ilinari revealed that the game Golem was cancelled.
At the joint booth by Epic Marketing and Darkage Software, several games
were presented, like VirtualGP, Tales from Heaven and the PPC version of Eat The Whistle.
Additinally, the effects software Extreme and the Darkage Developer CD were presented.
Main attraction at Virtual Works was the beta version of Wipeout 2097, which
should be in the production by now and available soon.
At Innovative (?), the latest Vapor products (Voyager 3.x, Microdot etc.)
were available.
Additionally, the latest Amiga print magazine Enigma Amiga Life was to be
appreciated, appearing in its first issue at the show. The magazine is distributed by
Italias largest distributor for computer magazines, however they did not yet know about
Collas leaving.
A new innovative product is Amiga IT, an HTML magazine based on CD-ROM.
The developers are considering German and English versions. The first issue has many
great programs and Quake AddOns, like e.g. Quake Rallye.
In the non-commercial hall, user groups and developer teams met, informing
the public about their actions. The game Bubble Heros was on show, an innovative and
addictive guessing games bound to be released by Crystal Software. Some demo coders
showed what great effects can be done by the aging AGA chips. The hall was under the
special motto Meet and Greet.
On Saturday evening, there was a short press conference, with about 500
people attending. Petro Tyschtschenko, obviously exhausted by the ongoings of recent
weeks, showed some videos from the Amiga past. He was unable to comment about the
future, everything was unclear again, but that's familiar to us Amigians.
Impressive for a German like me was the relaxed atmosphere of the show,
perfectly reflecting Italian lifestyle. All in all, a nice experience.
Thomas, many thanks for your report, giving us a good impression of the show.
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26.Sep.1999
Olaf Köbnik by eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Olaf Köbnik writes:
Current Situation - Amiga Arena!
Right now a new concept for Amiga Arena is being worked on. The
Amiga Arena Specials with special prices for Shareware programs will be
continued, with not only German software being offered in the future.
The information offers for games are extended. Only software
with development really continuing for the Amiga will be supported.
Free Amiga Games!
Since there are no specials at Amiga Arena due to this right now,
there are links to sites offering free Amiga Classic games for download legally!
Games like Syndicate, Theme Park (AGA), Fifa International Soccer, Soccer Kid,
Kick Off 2, Black Crypt, Arabian Nights, Sim City and many more are legally
available from these sites.
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26.Sep.1999
Thomas Lorenz by eMail
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New Versions: MOV/AVI player SoftCinema 0.6 and MPEG player Frogger 1.3.5 beta
Both packets are for PPC (PowerUP).
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26.Sep.1999
Andreas Falkenhahn by eMail
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Rainboot News
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
A new Service Pack for Rainboot has been released: The Rainboot Service Pack #2
contains a new version of RCC (1.16), optimised Rainboot 2.67 data and updated
German guides. As always, a password is required to use the Service Pack, since
it is intended for registered users only. Registered users can order the password
from me by eMail.
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26.Sep.1999
Andreas Kleinert by eMail
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Amiga Future Statement
Following a recent trend :-) in the Amiga community, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
has released a statement about the Amiga future, too, which hones latest
developments and initiatives, too.
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26.Sep.1999
Andreas Frank by eMail
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AmigaOS 3.5 - A Point Of Criticism
At the title link, Andreas Frank explains (German, sorry) why he doesn't
agree with the 2:1 ratio.
The following eMail was recieved concerning the topic, written by
Andre Dörffler:
My name is Andre Dörffler, and I am working for Haage & Partner. You might
have to rename the article AmigaOS 3.5 - A Point Of Criticism in:
Kickstart 3.1 - A Point Of Criticism
Since the criticism is about the window borders hardwired into the Kickstart 3.1.
Since the Kickstart is not updated, but only the OS, it is not possible to change
the window borders or system symbols. That would only be possible with a patch,
which does not belong to an OS update because it is a HACK, and not system friendly.
Thank you for the clarification.
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