30.Sep.1999
Daniel Bindel by eMail
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Hyperion News
Hyperion will port the plus pack "The Heretic Fortress" for the game "Heretic II".
A connection with a PC is possible. For owners of the full version "Heretic II" for
Amiga, it will be released for free download.
A new status report
about "SHOGO" is online.
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30.Sep.1999
Ralph Debusmann by eMail
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EasyPlayer
"EasyPlayer" is a configurable GUI for all shell based music players. Be it
"mpega", "SIDPLAY" or "GMPlay" or any recently released shell-based player -
with "EasyPlayer", you get a unified interface with playlist (load, save,
append, shuffle...) and all eytras. It's a totally free software ("open source"
style).
You will be able to get EasyPlayer form Aminet soon, or at the title link.
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30.Sep.1999
Jochen Abitz by eMail
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Eyelight development
Jochen Abitz writes:
Mage for AmigaPPC has been canceled. :(
Eyelight has released a demo of Gamma on their website: www.eyelight-it.com. The
development has been put on hold, and will only be continued if 500 people preorder
Gamma.
Here's the original text from the demo:
Gamedemo for CGX3Drave, (c)1999 Eyelight
This is a rather old "game-like" demo for CGX3Drave that showed off the
basics of Gamma, the 3D games construction kit from Eyelight. It requires a CVPPC
since the software engine we developed for CGX3D rave is not available to the
public.
Being completly unoptimized and running on 68K only, it still shows off
nicely what could have been possible with Gamma. Source code (in C but is actually a
direct translation from Golem, Eyelight's scripting language used in Tornado3D) that
creates the whole game is provided. As you can see it is rather simple, and the
scripting environment made Gamma easy to use even for people with no 3D graphics
programming experience.
Unfortunately Gamma has been canceled for the Amiga, due to the many
shakes the market suffered. If there is enough interest and at least 500 Amigans
pre-order Gamma for as low as 50.00 EURO/ US Dollars, we'll still produce it both in
68K and PPC versions.
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30.Sep.1999
Martin Baute by eMail
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Version Watch: We'll be back!
The Amiga Version Watch,
which has recently been put on hold, will be continued. The software,
which automatically offers the versions of numerous programs as a
website, will be reworked and improved by Martin Baute and Lucas von
Stockhausen as project within their studies. We will report as soon as
the Version Watch returns to functionality.
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29.Sep.1999
Urban Müller by eMail
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Aminet
Urban Müller writes:
Aminet is down. The main site has been hacked, and has to be completely reinstalled.
This will start on Thursday. It's not under my control, so I cannot tell when it will
be functional again.
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29.Sep.1999
AmigaWorld online
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M.S.P.: New game Sports Time
M.S.P. will release their first game, Sports Time. As can be guessed by the name,
it's a sports game, like HiperSports. The game will be released first quarter 2000.
More informations at the title link.
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29.Sep.1999
Titan Computer
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PowerOS preannouncement
Looks like we can look forward to a new PPC operating system :-). Titan writes:
Pre Announcement PowerOS stay tuned Amigans. So far there is only the logo to be
seen, which will surely change soon.
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29.Sep.1999
Trogladite Software
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UnInstaller mailinglist created
UnInstaller has been released a couple of weeks ago, and has been downloaded 800 times
since. Therefore Trogladite Software decided to create a mailinglist for this programm.
You can subscribe at uninstaller-subscribe@egroups.com,
or read the mailinglist directly online: www.egroups.com/group/uninstaller/
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29.Sep.1999
apex designs
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New Logo for "Payback"
At the Payback site, you
can have a look at the new logo. apex designs has created a
mailinglist, too,
but for announcements only.
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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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