From:             Martin Baute solar@baud.de
To:               team@amiga-news.de
Date:             Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:12:43 +0200
Subject:          Open Letter to Tom Schmidt
Voller Name:      Martin Baute
Homepage:         http://www.baud.de/public/members/solar.html

Dear Sir,

we are the Amiga community. We are a community of people brought together
by a very different kind of computing, which survived despite the gravest
of circumstances, beyond bancrupty, beyond despair, beyond obsoletion.

The community survived because there was hope, and little alternative.

We look at the market of home, personal, and office computing, and we see
bloated, inefficient, unreliable systems that offer little "feeling" to
the power user, and much irritation to the beginner.

So we dared to hope, that one day there would be a computing alternative
available again to the masses, one that made computing fun again for
everyone, not only for the elusive few who actually like to modify arcane
registry entries or .rc lines.

And our hopes, for long, and sometimes very dark years, were on the brand
named "Amiga", because this brand - rather, the philosophy and spirit it
stood for - embodied what we liked in computing.

We have seen many changes at the helm, even more changes in direction.

And every time again, ever since EsCom times up to the latest ongoings at
Amiga Inc., whenever there was a change at helm or a change in direction,
we feared.

Our fear always was the same. Will there be an Amiga computer we can
buy, to sit on our desks at home or in the office?

There has always been talk about Set-Top-Boxes. In more recent times,
there is talk about "information appliances".

But what the community anxiously waits for, always has waited for when
the winds of change were blowing, is not about Set-Top-Boxes, not about
"information appliances". I do not want to critizise, to the contrary.
There are evolving markets out there waiting to be explored, and it is
a good feeling that Amiga might be among the spearhead of explorers to
this market.

However, for us, the existing, living, starving community scattered all
around the world, for the distributors, developers, vendors, users, for
us, it is the desktop we most anxiously wait for.

Yes, there certainly is a mass market for Set-Top-Boxes and information
appliances, and the Amiga Inc. concept for a pervasive home network is
a nice one for sure. But all this is not what the brand "Amiga" promises
to us.

To make a long story short, to ask the question so vital for motivation,
faith, and hope for many of us, I ask you:



- Do the plans at Amiga Inc., which you told us will be followed
  through, still include a home/personal computer product range similar
  or at least alike to the "Multimedia Convergence Computer" previously
  presented by Amiga Inc.?
  Manufactured by Amiga Inc. itself, or by third party manufacturers?

  (Means, will we see hardware as revolutionary as your software
  technology, or will we share the fate of BeOS, fine OS without
  own plattform?)

- And will it be presented anywhere near to the original time scale
  (1st quarter 2000)?



A question so simple, but of utmost importance for those who look at
Amiga Inc. today. Those looking at Amiga tomorrow might be satisfied
by Set-Top-Boxes and "information appliances".

We are not. Scatter our fears.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

With kindest regards,
--
    Martin Baute          /// Amiga A1200 Towerhawk - PowerPC 603e / MC68060
 => solar@baud.de <=     /// Newsmaster - English:  http://www.amiga-news.de
Member of Team AMIGA \\\/// Member of the Bielefeld Amiga Users & Developers
100% Microsoft free!  \XX/ Maintainer of Version Watch: http://www.vwatch.de

Amiga - The Last Line of Defense.
-- www.baud.de



Permission granted (and readers encouraged) to spread and copy
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From:        "B. van der Meer" b.vd.meer@worldonline.nl
To:          team@amiga-news.de
Date:        Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:55:11 +0100

OS3.5 demonstration in the Benelux.

On saturday the 18th of september Dirk Harlaar of Haage & Partner
will give a demonstration of the new OS3.5 in Leeuwarden, located
in the Netherlands. Propably this will be the final salesversion.
This day will be organized by the AGGF and ComputerCity, the OS3.5
distributer in the Benelux.

Contact us at: amiga@worldonline.nl


The AGGF is the Amiga User Groep Friesland found in 1993.
Since january 1999 we publish a bimonthly paper-magazine called AmigaScene in
the dutch language.

AGGF webpage: http://www.fris.nl/~dkraus/AGGFINDEX.HTML
AmigaScene webpage: http://home.worldonline.nl/~amiga/


******


Os3.5 demonstratie bij the AGGF.

Zaterdag 18 september zal Dirk Harlaar van het Duitse Haage&Partner bij de
Amiga Gebruikers Groep Friesland
het nieuwe besturingssysteem OS3.5 komen demonstreren. Het is zelf
waarschijnlijk dat het hier om de
definitieve versie gaat, zoals dit op de markt gaat komen.
Deze dag wordt door de AGGF in samenwerking met ComputerCiy, de officiële
importeur, van OS3.5 georganiseerd.

De locatie is Clubhuis 'Welgelegen', W.Loréstraat 36 te Leeuwarden. Open
10:30-16:30.
Neem rustig je Amiga mee, maar bel ons dan wel even van te voren. tel.
0519-562288 (tussen 19:00 - 21:00 uur)
of email: amiga@worldonline.nl


De AGGF is de Amiga Gebruikers Groep Friesland en bestaat sinds 1993.
Vanaf januari 1999 geven wij de AmigaScene uit. Dit is een tweemaandelijkse
Amigablad met
artikelen over software en hardware en laatste nieuws.

AGGF internet adres: http://www.fris.nl/~dkraus/AGGFINDEX.HTML
AmigaScene internet adres: http://home.worldonline.nl/~amiga/


******
Thanks in advance.
Berend van der Meer.
AGGF/AmigaScene.

• no wedding with some limited platform (like Amiga Classic), but using the existing, expanding, and promising kernel from QNX
• I prefer a real-time system from one manufacturer over the compilation of thousands of developers worldwide
• extremly tight schedules for realization of results (announcements are made true in weeks, not years)
• no fantasy products, but using existing technology like QNX, Rebol, probably ARTAS
• realistic plans "behind the scenes", means: real plans building upon Phoenix' results

• the GeoWorld manual in HTML format
• a new GeoWorld startup picture for download
• an opportunity to subscribe to the GeoWorld newsletter (mailing list)

From:      AudioLabs info@audiolabs.it
To:        Petra Struck petra.struck@online-club.de
Date:      Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:43:10 +0100
Subject:   Press Release


Press Release

DATE:       09-Sep-99
TOPIC:      NL-editing system for Amiga and DraCo
CONTACT:    info@audiolabs.it


AudioLabs (http://www.audiolabs.it) is proud to announce ProStationAudio,
the ultimate NL-editing software for AmigaOS-based systems.

Featuring   timeline  visual   editing,  region-based  audio  management,
realtime  DSP effects,  faders automation, studio-quality digital mixing,
ProStationAudio  is  the  largest  audio  project in development for the
AmigaOS.

ProStationAudio v2 Demo is available for downloading at the AudioLabs web
sites. North America residents can take advantage of the local web server
at http://usa.audiolabs.it for faster downloads.



[FEATURES]

- Import/export audio from/to any platform. Exchange audio files with
  industry standard platforms including Windows, MacOS, Unix or
  dedicated hardware (DraCo, NewTek Toaster/Flyer, AD516/Studio16).

- Internet friendly: MPEG layer 1, 2 and 3 (the popular MP3) import,
  Java ulaw import/export. Import multiple MP3 files, overlap them
  on the timeline to create automatic crossfades, add realtime effects
  such as EQ and stereo field expansion, then master to CDDA, all with
  ProStationAudio.

- Hard-disk based non linear editing. Work with audio recordings up to
  2GB each, regardless the amount of RAM memory installed. Disk streaming.
  Instant random access to any location.

- Non destructive editing. Trim, cut, fade, crossfade audio recordings
  without affecting the original takes. Instantaneous operations
  regardless the file size.

- Region-based editing. Any fragment of audio is accessible from an
  alpha-sorted list, managed by the application. Any fragment generated
  by cutting, bouncing, recording, gets automatically named and sorted.
  Let ProStationAudio take care of your most complex projects.

- Visual approach. Build your projects managing visual audio blocks.
  Examine on-screen waveforms to create perfect edits. Each block can
  be distorted manually to create fades and trim its boundaries. Blocks
  can be dropped over blocks to create crossfades (or to have them
  automatically align in various ways). Multilayer graphics: objects,
  waveforms, fades/xfades, automation.

- Extensive set of tools for positioning and aligning objects, ranges
  and the cursor. Accurate spotting to SMPTE locations, at sub-frame
  resolution. Tools for DJs such as shifting and scaling ranges. The
  intelligent Magic Wand tool lets you create perfect loops in a
  fraction of a second, automatically.

- Automotion (tm), the automation engine. Create the perfect mix while
  letting the software remember all of your moves. Automation tracks
  can be graphically edited in the timeline window or recorded in
  realtime by grabbing the faders during playback.

- Realtime design. Operate on faders, pans, effects parameters, even
  the virtual tape speed, always in realtime, to tune up your mix on
  the fly or create dynamics effects. These dynamic effects can
  optionally be recorded to disk, again in realtime, while playing.

- Advanced auditioning. Fast-forward and slow-motion during playback.
  Realtime time stretching. The auditioning signal can be digitally
  recorded to disk in realtime.

- ALPS architecture for audio DSP plugins: unlimited expansion
  possibilities. Multiple DSP inserts allow to apply different DSP
  effects to each track, in realtime. Multiple master DSP inserts
  (post-fader processing).

- ALPS plugins: freely accessible modules for realtime DSP operations.
  Downloadable from the web site. Include dynamic compression,
  several EQ modules, spatial processing, ducking, delays, ...
  http://www.audiolabs.it/plugins

- Hi-end hardware support: ProStationAudio takes advantage of 1 or 2
  CPUs, 1 or 2 video monitors, 1 or 2 graphic cards.  Add value to
  your hardware investments.

- Hi-quality graphic interface, scalable, font-sensitive, supporting
  up to 1600x1280 on two different monitors. Shaded look, includes
  gadgetry (pots, switches,...) scanned from real gear. Supports also
  a dual screen display on a single monitor.



[TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS]

- sampling system:         16bit linear
- sampling rates:          48/44.1/32 KHz
- processing resolution:   from 24bit to 64bit
- audio tracks (disk):     16
- audio tracks (console):  16
- automation tracks:       80: 5 automated controllers x 16 tracks
- DSP channel inserts:     48 stereo: 96 channels processed
- DSP master inserts:      3 stereo (post-fader)
- automated faders:        16
- automated pans:          16
- automated inserts:       48
- faders groups:           8
- time metrics:            24, 25, 29.97, 30, 75, 100 FPS
- time resolution (audio): 1/100th frame
- time resolution (automation):  1/10th second
- objects per track:       unlimited
- audio regions:           unlimited
- audio sub-region levels: unlimited
- maximum editing size:    120 minutes
- locator markers:         10
- range store/recall slots:10
- display snapshot slots:  10
- display resolution:      up to 1600 x 1280
- video monitors:          1 or 2
- CPUs supported:          1 (680x0) or 2 (680x0 + PowerPC60x)
- CPU models:              68040, 68060, PowerPC 603, PowerPC 604
- Realime effects:         ALPS, software plugins system
                           http://www.audiolabs.it/plugins
- EQ (parametric, 1 band):  [2.5Hz : 20000Hz] [-+12dB]
                          [0.05 : 1.00 Q] [1/12th octave steps]
- EQ (parametric, 2 bands): [2.5Hz : 20000Hz] [-+12dB]
                          [0.05 : 1.00 Q]  [1/12th octave steps]
- EQ (shelf, 2 bands):      [2.5Hz : 20000Hz] [-+12dB]
                          [0.05 : 1.00 Slope] [1/12th octave steps]
- EQ (band / notch):        [2.5Hz : 20000Hz]
                          [1/12th octave steps]
- EQ (lowpass / hipass):    [2.5Hz : 20000Hz]
                          [1/12th octave steps]
- Audio import:           MPEG Layer1/2/3, AIFF, WAVE, CDDA Intel and
                          Motorola, FlyerClips, Studio16, MAUD, Maestro,
                          SoundDesignerI, IFF, Sun/Next, Voc
- Audio export:           AIFF, WAVE, CDDA Intel and Motorola,
                          FlyerClips, Studio16,MAUD,
                          Maestro,IFF,Sun/Next, Voc




[PRICING & ORDERING]

ProStationAudio is US$395. The software can be ordered only via Internet,
directly to AudioLabs. Local orders and payments are possible in US and
Canada, these orders are passed to AudioLabs by local representatives.

Crossgrade price for registered AudioLab16 users, US$245.



The AudioLabs www sites are located here:

http://www.audiolabs.it (european server)
http://usa.audiolabs.it (US server)


Email:

info@audiolabs.it
orders@audiolabs.it


ProStationAudio (tm), ALPS (tm), AutoMotion (tm), AudioLab16 (tm) are
trademarks of AudioLabs.

Reply-To:       digital-images-news@egroups.com
From:           Stuart Walker Stuart@digital-images.demon.co.uk
Date:           Mon, 06 Sep 1999 19:01:26 +0000
Subject:        [digital-images-news] Wipeout 2097 Pre-Ordering

Hello,

Wipeout 2097 can now be pre-ordered from http://www.blittersoft.com for
£29.95!

Specification:

Highly detailed 3d graphics
8 tracks with up to 15 ships racing concurrently
3 racing modes (time trial/arcade/challenge)
4 racing classes
5 ship models with different characteristics
8 weapons/extras
9 CD audio tracks + 16 bit sound fx
MPEG animations (no external player required)
Keyboard/Mouse/Joypad control (fully configurable)

AMIGA-specific features:

Runs in a window on the workbench (incl. resizing)
Supports triple buffering for max. performance
Increased maximal view distance during the race
Fogging effect
Mipmapping/trilinear filtering (if supported by hardware)
Gamma correction
Optional frame rate limitation

Requirements:

PowerPC 603e CPU (recommended: 604e CPU)
3D gfx card (minimal: CV3D, recommended: CVPPC/BVPPC or newer)
recommended: sound card
minimal 1 MB free HD space (recommended: 70 MB)
24 MB RAM (recommended: 32 MB RAM)
CD-ROM drive
OS 3.0 (recommended: OS 3.1)
CyberGraphX/Picasso96 software
WarpUp V4 software (included)
Warp3D V2 software (included)
recommended: AHI software

Kind Regards,

Stuart Walker
Digital Images

Name:          VirusExecutor v1.82f
Archive name:  ve-182f.lha
Archive size:  100.804
Date:          6. September 1999
Programmer:    Jan Erik Olausen
System :       OS 2.0x or better

Dear Amigans:

I wanted to make sure everyone knew that Jim Collas has chosen to leave Amiga to pursue
other interests and opportunities. I would like to personally thank Jim for the leadership
and vision he brought to Amiga and the entire Amiga community over the past eight
months. We wish him the best of luck in his new endeavors.

I have been with Amiga since April of this year as the Chief Operating Officer and I
continue to be extremely excited about the plans and strategies we have been working very
hard on the past several months. Those plans will continue with a great business and
technology leadership team focused on the emerging Internet Appliance market space. As
we finalize our plans in this area, we will communicate those to the community.

I would also like to thank Bill McEwen for his many contributions to the Amiga community
and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. Bill has been a steady and calming
voice to the community.

Regards,

Thomas J. Schmidt
President

Date:         Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:15:36 +0200
From:         Darek Dulian
To:           "Amiga-News.de" petra.struck@online-club.de
Subject:      FastATA'99 & AllegroCDFS new sofware for PowerFlyer Controller

ELBOX Computer is proud to present FastATA'99 ver.4.x.
FastATA'99 4.x is the fourth generation ATA/ATAPI control
software for ELBOX FastATA/PowerFlyer/Winner HighSpeed
Controllers for Amiga 1200.

With this software the newest PowerFlyer/FastATA/Winner
High Speed Controllers with new EIDE/UltraATA HHDs
may reach over 10 MB/sec. (Sysinfo, DriveSpeed) and with
new CD-ROM drives may exceed 7 MB/sec.

>From FastATA'99 ver.4.0 on, controller users could choose between
spliting HDD > 4 GB into 4 GB logical units or using DirectSCSI
and TD64 commands.

If you would like to receive e-mail updates of the software written
for the PowerFlyer FastATA-2/EIDE Controller, please send a message
to:       support@elbox.com
subject:  subscribe FastATA'99
body:     [your name], [your ATA3.driver version],
          [the serial number of your controller]

If you have a controller version without AllegroCDFS,
you may want to purchase it from:
sales@powerc.demon.co.uk
or
sales@elbox.com
or your local distributors.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Read more:

THE  FAST ATA-2/EIDE CONTROLLER

In recent times, the extremely dynamic progress in the mass production
technology of data storage media has resulted in a huge increase
of their capacity and speed. It is especially apparent in the devices
which make use of the FAST ATA-2/EIDE standard of communication with
computers.
Enhanced IDE is at present the most common controller standard for
hard drives, CD-ROM drives, CD-RW drives, DVD drives, etc.

The Amiga 1200 has a built-in hard disk controller in the IDE standard.
However, only the PIO 0 mode of operation has been implemented in the
Amiga 1200, which is the slowest of all PIO modes with a maximum
transfer rate of about 3 MB/s.

The FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller idea has been based upon the
assumption to fully use the currently produced devices in
the FAST ATA-2/EIDE standard with their increased speed and capacity.
The aim of this solution is to adapt the existing Amiga computer
systems to the new, many times more effective devices, while retaining
full compatibility with the existing software and hardware installed
in the system.

The FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller has been designed to fit inside the
Amiga 1200 in its standard casing or in any Tower-type casing.
The controller works with two EIDE ports, which can accommodate up
to four devices. Apart from the PIO 0 standard, necessary for
booting up the Amiga computer from a hard disk and for accepting
the oldest types of devices, the card also provides for fast
PIO 3 and PIO 4 modes.



THE  FAST ATA-2/EIDE CONTROLLER FEATURES

The  FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller with its many features represents
the highest technology controller in its category. The following
list describes some of these features:

Fast transfer rate of up to 16.6 MB/s

The  FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller with its maximum transfer rate
of 16.6 MB/s in the PIO 4 mode offers a huge capacity reserve for
fast mass storage devices, especially for fast hard drives.
Therefore, applications may run much faster if they can count on
fast access to large data files.

Support of ATAPI standard devices

The  FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller implements the ATAPI standard as
well, for use with devices like CD-ROM drives, DVD drives, etc.
This enables the connection of ATAPI-standard devices to the Amiga
with no need for the installation of additional software.

Two buffered and terminated EIDE ports

The controller operates with two EIDE ports, which enable
installation of up to four IDE/EIDE/ATAPI devices. Both controller
ports are fully buffered and terminated in accordance with the
recommendations set forth in the ATA-3 specification.

Fully compatible with hard drives of over 4 GB capacity

Limitations on the size of hard disks have been overcome in the
FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller. The  FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller may be
used with hard drives of over 4 GB capacity with no need to change
the FastFileSystem used so far for file management.

Automatically configured devices

The Controller automatically recognises any devices attached to it,
negotiates the highest possible data transfer rates, switches the
devices into its appropriate mode and performs data transfers at
their maximum transfer rates.

Automatic recognition of the processor type

The  FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller automatically detects processor type
used and optimises and modifies some software routines
in order to achieve the highest possible data transfer rate between
the controller and the computer memory.

32-bit access

The computer recognises the controller as a 32-bit device configured
in the address space of the previous IDE controller, which has been
disconnected. Full 32-bit operation of the controller combined with
very efficient software guarantees a significant increase in the
speed of your computer.

Other features of the  FAST ATA-2/EIDE Controller:

* 2 devices in different modes of operation (PIO 3 or PIO 4)
  may be connected simultaneously to each of the ports without speed
  reduction.
* New mass storage data verification procedure free of ROM-based errors.
* The software installation is performed automatically by the
  installation programme script found in the enclosed floppy disk.

Reply-To:        digital-images-news@egroups.com
From:            Stuart Walker
To;              digital-images-news@egroups.com
Date:            Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:20:52 +0000
Subject:         [digital-images-news] Digital Images Update

To Amiga users worldwide,

Due to recent announcements and problems with Amiga, Digital Images regrets
that we will be suspending all AmigaMCC projects including Sabrina Offline.
Space Station 3000 and Wipeout 2097 will be released as planned, but we will
be suspending all other Amiga developments until further notice.

Everyone behind Digital Images has enthusiastically supported the Amiga
through the good times and the bad times. But with the recent troubles with
Amiga, the entire team has unanimously decided to suspend all Amiga
developments (with the exception of Space Station 3000 and Wipeout 2097). We
regret to have to take these measures, but Digital Images cannot afford to
spend time, resources and money developing for a computer which now, as it
seems may never appear.

We hope that everybody reading this understands our position as this is the
last thing that any of us would ever have wanted to do, but Amiga have made
promise after promise that something would appear, but it has not.

We deeply regret this decision, but it is a final measure that has to be
taken. We wish that we wouldn't have to go this far, but we now have no
other option - it is the last thing that any of us wanted to do. We would
appreciate it if everybody understood our position and wouldn't send e-mails
of anger and abuse. We have done everything in our power to avoid this, but
it just isn't possible.

If the Amiga does indeed rise again, which we hope it does, we will return.

We hope that you will enjoy our upcoming releases of Space Station 3000 and
Wipeout 2097.

If you do have any questions or queries concerning this announcement, please
e-mail info@digital-images.demon.co.uk

We thank you all once again for your loyal and devoted support.

Kind Regards,

Stuart Walker
Digital Images

• header expanded by needs-field
• bugfix: delete to trap-error when opening a directory
• bugfix: MIME version in system/standard/email corrected
• bugfix: arguments to objects and functions now retain upper/lowercase
• bugfix: system/console/tab-size
• bugfix: find now works on ports
• bugfix: copy now works on ports even when not copying to start of port
• bugfix: problems with multiplication of money values
• on reading an empty file, an empty string is now returned.

• Your Amiga will get the most up-to-date CPU which was ever available in an Amiga, including any upgrade processor boards
• Your Amiga will offer a processing performance which is superior to nearly any available personal computer system today - supercomputer performance on your desktop! Plus even the option for symmetrical Multi-Processing with Dual-XPC7400 modules for those who need the real bang....
• Your Amiga is technologically up-to-date - with powerful hardware, expansion options and the support of highly modern Operating Systems including backwards compatibility to the Amiga OS 3.x.

* Forwarded from newsgroup "a Mail"
* Originally from: Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com)
* Original date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:01:48 -0400

Hello All,

I regret to inform that Bill McEwen told me as of
Tuesday he will no longer be under contract at
Amiga.  Sigh.

I called him about some newsletter plans he had
in mind, only to receive yet another bit of
disappointing news.

Regards,
Fabian
--
Fabian Jimenez : fabian@cais.com : ICQ# 21377601
       Editor, Amiga Intuition Newsletter
National Capital Amiga Users Group, www.ncaug.org

From:       Janne Siren siren@mikrobitti.fi
Reply-To:   siren@mikrobitti.fi
Subject:    Press release: Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
Date:       Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:18:34 +0300


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday

Webcam and IRC Channel Available

ESPOO, FINLAND - September 1, 1999 - Saku 99, the biggest Amiga event in
Finland this year, will be on this Saturday in Vantaa. The show starts at
12 o'clock and will feature Amiga related competitions, demonstrations,
retailers and video films. Amiga's Petro Tyschtschenko and AmigaOS 3.5
previews will be there as well. Attendance is free of charge.

For those who can't attend, the Finnish Amiga Users Group will be hosting a
webcam and an IRC channel (#saku99 at IRCnet) with live comments from the
exhibition place. Please note the Finnish timezone (EET, GMT+2). You should
also check out the Saku 99 invitation intro in Aminet for pictures and
other highlights (demo/intro/saku99.lha).

Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/english/, for further information. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Janne Sirén (siren@mikrobitti.fi).

About Saku 99

Saku 99 will be the biggest Amiga event in Finland this year. Following the
success of Saku 98, which was visited by some 500 Amiga enthusiasts, Saku
99 is aimed to be bigger and better than the previous events. Mr. Petro
Tyschtschenko of Amiga has already confirmed his presence and other great
highlights are planned. Saku 99 will be held on Saturday September 4th 1999
at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki.

About Finnish Amiga Users Group

Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after it's disk magazine, the group is trying
to accomplish it's goals by organizing meetings and by publishing a disk
magazine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and it's predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the disk magazine and held several
public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet,
a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.

• 3-band equalizer with mid-sweep (includes new GUI when version v2.0829 or higher is used)
• low shelving filter (bass control)
  - high shelving filter (treble control)

• 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

• 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!!)

• 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

Name:       VirusExecutor v1.82b
Archive name: ve-182b.lha
Archive size: 48.337 bytes
Date: 24 August 1999
Author: Jan Erik Olausen
 Changes in this update:
- new prefs window added (BETA).
  VE directly goes to the prefs window when new settings are added.
- hopefully fixed 'Error 12000'.
- vector check added. Not too well yet, but I'm working on it.
- VE can now display tasks, libraries and devices...

"Dear Sir,

This is not true, the only thing that has happened is,
that iwin has contacted us with this request.
However, we have not even had a first meeting to
discuss this possibility.

Kind regards,
Justine de Jong"

• Max. 30 stereo channels. (*)
• Full duplex recording.
• Mixing desk with volume, panning, mute, solo, PPM level meters, 3 realtime effects and 4 subgroups per channel.
• Full mixer automation with event editing on the timeline or with timecode.
• 4 Subgroups and subgroup automation
• Realtime effects with runtime (near real-time) parameter change and on/off state selection. Includes CPU-overload detection for preventing lock-ups during playback.
• Timeline display with a graphical overview of all samples and ability to move samples along the timeline.
• Pre Computed Graphics for fast graphical display of samples and realtime zooming.
• Marker mechanism to place locators, time marker and punch in/out markers easily on top of the timeline for quick access.
• Sample editing (cut, copy, paste, erase). Direct to disk, not limited by memory.
• Disk-based effects like Delay, Noise Gate, Chorus, Limiter, Amplifier, Ring Modultion, Lowpass filter, Highpass filter, Parametric EQ and FIR filter.
• MIDI start synchronisation with external equipment, Bars&Pipes and CAMD.
• Record level indication before and while recording for optimal dynamic range settings and peak indicators for prevention of digital distortion.
• Mastering to stereo AIFF file via the AHI Hifi modes.
• Online help and documentation

• Combo Racer (Racer)
• Disposable Hero (Shoot em Up)
• H.A.T.E. (3D Shooter)
• Harlequin (Platformer)
• K 240 (Strategy ala Sim City)
• Litil Devil (3D style Platformer)
• Plan 9 from outer Space (Adventure for the worlds worst movie ever)
• Premier Manager I-III (Footballmanager)
• Shadow Fighter (Beat em Up)
• Super Cars I & II (Race and Fight on the Highway)
• Switchblade I &II (Action RPG)
• Top Gear II (Racer, follow up to Lotus)
• Utopia (Strategy)
• Video Kid (Cute Platformer)
• Zool I & II (Best Platformer for the Amiga - EVER!)

Date: Fri, 20 08:00:00 23:48:11 +0200
From: Darek Smietana support@elbox.com
To:   petra.struck@online-club.de
Subject: News on A4000 PowerTower

Dear Petra Struck,
Two days ago you announced on your news side A4000 PowerTower test
in www.amigaextreme.com. Its author ask us a few questions after
placing the test in the www.amigaextreme.com.
We shall be glade if you will put our reply to the author's doubts
in this test. Please find the enclosed message on this issue from us.

Regards,
Darek Smietana
ELBOX COMPUTER


Subject:        A4000 PowerTower
Date:           Fri, 20 08:00:00 23:25:15 +0200
From:           Darek Smietana support@elbox.com
Organization:   ELBOX COMPUTER
To:             "Falk Stefan, ITS-SL" stefan.falk@slg.se
References:     1

Dear Stefan,
thank you for your message and interest in the A4000 Power Tower case.
Reading your description of the Power Tower in www.amigaextreme.com,
I have the impression that you must have been a little distracted while
installing Amiga in the new case.

First of all, seeing your photos, it seems to me that you were
installing the Amiga motherboard, the ZORRO board and the turbo card
without removing the side assembly wall.
The Power Tower stands out with its immense ease of assembly with its
removable specially-designed side assembly wall. After removing the
external case, the side wall is removed, which is secured with only two
hexagon screws. The Amiga motherboard, ZORRO III and the turbo card are
all installed onto this side wall when outside the main tower case.

You have stated that a better fixing of the ZORRO III bus board
would be useful and handy in the tower case. Well, it is ready and
waiting, but you seem to have missed it. Three hexagon bushes for
securing the ZORRO bus board are already mounted, with two more
provided in the box with special accessories and which are supposed
to be screwed into the holes in the Amiga motherboard. If you make
use of them, everything must run perfect.
Before the side wall with the Amiga motherboard, the ZORRO bus board
and the turbo card is replaced inside the case, you should have
installed a FDD floppy drive, your hard disks, a CD-ROM, etc... Only
now the side wall with all the electronics is to be mounted inside
the case.

Are you wondering what the STANDBY switch is used for? If you install
some cards in the ISA slots, which are present in the ZORRO bus board,
you can then use this switch :-)

As regards your CVPPC problem, you can order a special short-lenght
front bay for 3.5" devices to the Power Tower 4000. As a standard,
the Power Tower 4000 is sold with bays for 8 x 3.5" devices (1 front
bay for 4 x 3.5" devices and 1 rear bay for 4 x 3.5" devices).
Having ordered a special shorter front bay for 2 x 3.5" devices and
installing it instead of the front bay for 4 x 3.5" devices, you will
quite easily find room for your CVPPC card inside the Power Tower 4000.
You can also remove the front bay for 4 x 3.5" devices altogether, and
mount the floppy drive in any of the 5.25" bays with a 5.25"/3.5"
assembly kit. Your 3.5" hard disks, if you have not more than four
of them, you can then place in the rear bay.

I hope that all your doubts are now cleared. We are sure the new Power
Tower is an advanced design, and the ease of its assembly may be
something completely new to Amiga 4000 desktop users.

Please repeat the installation as I have written it here. I am sure you
will be more than pleased with your case then.
Anyway, if you have any more inquiries, please do not hesitate to
contact our technical support: support@powerc.com or support@elbox.com

Best wishes
Darek Smietana
ELBOX COMPUTER

• 100% Assembler code
• support for AVI and MOV files
• support for INTEL INDEO format 3.1 & 3.2
• nice, VCR-like GUI
• extremly fast playback
• fast c2p algorithms for smooth ECS/AGA playback
• ECS support (16 greyscales), AGA (256 colors, Ham8, 18 bit)
• support for CyberGFX and Picasso96
• system friendly

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Archive size:  424.640 bytes
Date:          August 16th, 1999
Author:        Heiner Schneegold

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Date:          August 16th, 1999
Author:        Heiner Schneegold

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Date:          August 16th, 1999
Author:        Alex van Niel

• 2 comments on Amiga goes Linux
• mECH Tornado3D workshop
• MP3 basics
• interview with Petra Struck from amiga-news.de
• and more

• changing presets (locale, MSN etc.)
• showing and resetting fee counters
• resetting to factory presets
• loading new firmware to DataBox

• GUI
• does work without MUI
• comfortable choosing of serial port
• supports 300 to 115200 Baud

• Amiga with AmigaOS 3.0+
• DataBox "Speed Viper"
• hard drive