30.Aug.1999
Arne Hinrichsen by eMail
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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".
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30.Aug.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail
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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.
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30.Aug.1999
Robert Niessner by eMail
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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.
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30.Aug.1999
Patrick Beerhorst by eMail
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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.
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28.Aug.1999
Carsten Schröder by eMail
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Tyschtschenko: No more Executive Updates for competition reasons
+++ AMIGA-aktuell-Special +++
Tyschtschenko: No more Executive Updates for competition reasons (27.08.99)
AMIGA Vice President Petro Tyschtschenko explained on request of AMIGA aktuell, that
Amiga decided to change information politics to avoid too many details of the AmigaNG
development reaching competitors, which would be a burden for the whole project. The
head of the German Amiga office stressed that other companies don't handle new
developments any differently.
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28.Aug.1999
Olaf Köbnik
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Amiga Arena News
Olaf Köbnik writes:
Complete full version on Amiga Arena!
The Amiga Arena reports back after the summer break directly with the highlight for 1999!
Exclusively and only at Amiga Arena, the best shareware space economy simulation
Imperium Terranum 2 is available as full version for download!
Info about the game and the archive for Imperium Terranum 2 (3.2 MB) are only
available from Amiga Arena! This one-time offer is only available for the next 21 days!
(Note: Message dates from August 28th). Amiga Arena says thank you to the team of
Virtual Worlds Productions, who made this offer possible!
TaskForce Version 0.38 online!
The latest version of the strategy game TaskForce is, as always - before Aminet - available
on the TaskForce homepage (title link).
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28.Aug.1999
Thomas Lorenz by eMail
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FusionPPC: Only 380 of the needed 500 preorders recieved
Thomas Lorenz writes:
There are still many preorders missing. Here the latest news from the Fusion mailinglist:
From: Jim Drew msdei@ctaz.com
Subject: [FUSION]: PPC upgrade status
This is an official announcement from Microcode Solutions...
As many of you know, Microcode Solutions has been trying to establish a base market for its new
emulations. We presented the public with a test marketting idea of pre-paying for a PowerPC emulation. We
reached our base goal of 500 units (actually we reached nearly 700), and then we announced that we were
now accepting the pre-payments. To date we have only 380 pre-payments (none of which have been
processed), meaning that we are still short 120 units before we can commit to producing this product.
It has been several months since we have been collecting actual pre-payments. We are spending an
incredible amount of time and resources on this project (which is 1/1000th the revenue of our PC market),
and we hope that we are not wasting our time by doing so. We ask that if you have not placed your order
yet, please do so now. If we do not reach the 500 unit goal, we will not release the product, no matter how
much we have completed so far... we will use some of the work for our PC version. x
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27.Aug.1999
Andre Beer
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Update GeoWorld
After more than half a year of work, today we finally finished the long-awaited update to
version 1.1 of GeoWorld. GeoWorld, probably the best geographical software for the Amiga,
has been expanded by the following features in version 1.1:
- adding a new generic search function in the maxi search, enabling for the first time the
search for special keywords in the additional databases like economy, history etc. (full text
search)
- complete rework and bugfixes
- NewLook-Menus for OS 3.0+ (no more changing menu colors)
- flashing pointer for cities and small countries now working correctly
- scrolling of the maps pixel by pixel per keyboard
- sorting speed-up due to presorted databases
- faster search functions (in Assembler)
- VisualPrefs now supported nearly completely
- GeoWorld-Fonts can now stay in the same directory
- interaction with all requesters now completely by keyboard
- option to give distances in miles instead of kilometers
- requester "no information available" now with configurable time-out
- reworked and expanded prefs window (among others display mode, font,
use, save or reset prefs)
- expansion of the city database for Austria, Switzerland, Brasil and US
cities (over 1100 cities with ZUP code, 6119 cities total)
- expanding the city databases with details about country / state capitals
- expanding the country databases with details about the Internet abbreviation (e.g. .de, .uk, .us)
- informations about the databases are now kept in a seperate GeoWorld.data file,
so an expansion of the databases does no longer imply a change of the main program
- expansion of the info requester
- rewritten and expanded online help
- reworked and extremly expanded data about the inhabitants of the countries (over 100 kByte
text!!)
The Update Nr. 9 and a up-to-date demo version are available from our
homepage (title link), and should appear on Aminet (misc/edu) in the next few days.
Download (Demo): GeoWorld_E.lha
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27.Aug.1999
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Redesign of the website and database ready
Amiga.org is here again full power, the website has a friendlier and cleaner layout now,
and it is (as before) possible requesting news sorted by subject from a database, like
hardware etc., seperately.
I am dreaming of a database like that, too, simply great :-). (ps)
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27.Aug.1999
Haage & Partner
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Haage & Partner News
Amiga No Piracy campaign
The campaign goes on: some more logos and the final one :) Discussion forum will start soon.
New 3D World-Logos
There have been yet more submissions for the logos. H&P initiated a
vote which kind of logo
you like best.
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27.Aug.1999
Markus Lunk by eMail
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ComputerWoche: Linux-based operating system competing agains WindowsCE
ComputerWoche writes: Amiga is not dead, new live as home information device
MUNICH (CW) - New details have surfaced about Amiga, the cult of the 80ies. It is intended
to be mainly used as Information Appliance in the future.
About two years ago, direct PC distributor Gateway purchased the rights of
the computing pioneer Amiga and its 47 patents from German Escom AG. Now, the name
shall be brought back to life.
Aside from PCs for the consumer market, future's Amigas will be mainly used
as information appliances in private households. CEO Jim Collas wants to present an
operating enviroment until the end of the year, and ship the first machines early 2000.
(Full story - German - at the title link)
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27.Aug.1999
Amiga
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No more executive updates
Amiga writes:
For the next several months, the Amiga staff will be focused on implementing our business
and product plans. We will not be discussing or commenting on future company directions during this time.
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27.Aug.1999
Compcity by eMail
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E4000
Computer City announces the availability of the E4000. The computer is based on a standard
A4000 mainboard with an Elbox tower and AmigaOS 3.5 (which will be delivered when available).
The processor boards are manufactured by Apollo / DCE. Technical specs:
- Midi tower with 230W power supply
- 68040 (40 MHz) or 68060 (50 MHz)
- 2 MB ChipRAM (on A4000 mainboard)
- IDE controller (on A4000 mainboard)
- SCSI2 controller (on the processor board) for hard drives and CD-ROMs
- 7 Zorro II/III slots
- 5 ISA slots (non-active)
- 2 video slots
- 3,5" floppy drive HD 1.76 MB
- original A4000 keyboard
- original Amiga mouse
- 40speed IDE CD-ROM drive
- 13.1 GB IDE hard drive
- AmigaOS 3.5
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26.Aug.1999
Future-Visions by eMail
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Info from Met@box about amiJoe PPC boards
Andreas Schmidt writes:
Today, I recieved some informations from Thomas Rudloff (Met@box) about the announced
amiJoe boards, including some price informations, which can be found on our webpage.
The title link is the German page, the English pages do not (yet?) carry this information.
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26.Aug.1999
Fun Time World
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Lame 3.25 Beta
Note: The Warp-Up version of this MP3 encoder can still crash at certain circumstances.
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26.Aug.1999
Amiga
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Pictures from the Downunder '99 Show
More pictures can be found at GP Software.
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25.Aug.1999
NewsTekniques TekTicker
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European Version of NewTek
European Version of NewTek.
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25.Aug.1999
Andreas Kleinert
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New ak-Datatypes Version 44.46
Download: akPNG-dt.lha,
akTIFF-dt.lha and
akJFIF-dt.lha as well as
akNAIL-dt.lha (44.3, from August 10th 1999).
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25.Aug.1999
AWD [News]
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Amiga Job offering, Amiga 2k announced, Amiga Downunder 99 show report
Various news from AWD:
Amiga Job Posting
Amigan-St. Louis is Proud to Announce Amiga 2K
Amiga Downunder '99 Show Report
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25.Aug.1999
Iwin
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Iwin: product specifications of A510MP and A1010MP online
At AmiUpdate, the entry in the
Sun Dealer Catalog is considered sufficient proof for the existence of Iwin. Here's the
entry.
At ANN, there are two more interesting postingsabout the subject: 1. The manufacturer of the tower casings has been found, it is the company Antec. 2.
Jeffrey D. Webster explains in a posting
to c.s.a.m. why it isn't that hard to get added to the Sun Dealer Catalog.
Comment about the technical specification: It reads all too well. You cannot run the
bus system with a 68060-50, however. You will never get the speed to the PCI bus to transport
the data fast enough for the pixel rates of the gfx card. Not to speak of AGP. I consider
that impossible with a 68060 CPU. A company without Amiga experience can never implement
this stuff. For this, the subject is far too complicated. And how is all this intended
to run without Amiga chipset?
Thomas Raukamp writes: About your
comment about bus speed - don't forget that the Milan
is running gfx cards on the PCI bus with 060, so it is possible. Far less likely is that
the emulation of the Custom Chips is possible without modification of the Kick-ROMs. If they
modify them, they break the licence since they have none. With this, Iwin would end in court.
Slashdot.org: Amiga 510 & 1010 released?
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25.Aug.1999
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Bernhard Hembach dead
Attorney and bancruptcy manager Bernhard Hembach has died on August 20th
at the age of only 55 by heart attack. Our feelings are with his family.
Mr. Hembach managed the bancruptcies of Commodore and Escom, and by his
casual approach did his part in keeping the Amiga alive.
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