19.Jan.2000
Transmeta
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Secret of the Transmeta CPU unveiled
Yesterday, Transmeta unveiled the secret Crusoe CPU as promised. It is a CPU clocked up to 700 MHz
while staying relatively cool. With this, it offers the performance needed for today's usual
multimedia and Internet applications. Additionally, the CPU is completely x86-compatible.
Other links on the subject:
CNN: Transmeta unveils futuristic Crusoe chip
ZDNet: Transmeta takes wraps off Crusoe
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19.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de
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IRC Log - Live Chat with TAO-Group and Fleecy Moss
As announced yesterday by John Porter, Amiga Oasis Online
hosted a live chat with representatives of the TAO Group and Fleecy Moss. I participated in the Chat,
and logged it:
IRC-Log - LiveChat with TAO-Group and Fleecy Moss - 19.01.2000
<[breed-away]> ok everyone be patient, we just waiting for the guys to rejing :)
<sNAK3^RP> i wonder how many ppl are not using there normal nicks???
<sNAK3^RP> lol...u can imagine how many arnt
<[breed-away]> I Would like to welcome Francis Charig and Fleecy Moss to the room
<[breed-away]> plus other members of Tao group watching :)
<[breed-away]> Are you ready to get started Francis?
<situation> Here we go...
<Senex> 1) One thing "Amiga Aurora" (my suggestion for the new OS's name) MUST have: Screens - so how about Screens, Datatypes, FFS-support? 2) Why not calling the product family just "Amiga", i.e. "Amiga Aurora", "Amiga XYZ", etc.? GA
<Charig> We will be working with Amiga, taking a close look at the existing features and making sure that the new system will have the same or greater functionality.
<Netsplit^> when can we expect to be reaching for our checkbooks, to buy something new from u guys & when might it be. GA
<Charig> Bill's in the room and Fleecy can't talk! :) Announcements on this will come when the product is ready to ship. No more hype!
<Urizen> Will you support hardware-accelerated OpenGL? GA
<Charig> intent(TM) supports hardware accelerated 2D and 3D graphics. As for the 3D APIs that sit on top, we encourage all 3D APIs to be ported across. Have you heard of Renderware? :)
<tOmAsH-BB> What is the real cooperation level of TAO and Motorola? I mean, does Motorola want to use your (Amiga?) software, and vice versa?
<Charig> It is publicly known that Motorola is releasing connected appliances utilising Tao's software (e.g. Timeport P1088 smart phone, see announcement 8.1.00)
<dreamstar> Q: will Elate be used as the next generation OS of future Amigas? GA
<Charig> Specifics on this will announced shortly. :)
<Firebird^> Hello Mr. Charig, my feeling about Gateway 2000's (Old Amiga Inc.) plans for using Linux as the OS of the new machines is that it would be a mistake. It wouldn't be an Amiga, just a Linux box with the Amiga name slapped on it. I hope this isn't going to be planned. ;)
<Charig> That was a statement!
<Elektro> fleecy: please describe the new amiga Computer(!) thnx :) GA
<Charig> "It's lovely and cuddly" says Fleecy
<sNAK3^RP> Q: well there be a Os4.0 chipset...GA
<Charig> If you mean, "a new chipset for a new Amiga" then the answer is that the new Amiga has been designed to be hardware independent, hence Tao.
<Charig> This is why we are partnering together.
<Charig> Also I want to add a couple of other points.
<sNAK3^RP> Q: will we still have Os as such...GA
<Charig> The main objective today is to correspond about intent(TM) rather than have extrapolations about the precise configurations of the new Amiga.
<TheB> What is the Amiga "history" that TAO has? It doesn't seem very comforting that you have to take a look at the Amiga to figure out what it's about. (As for Firebird's statement.. that's true of any new "Amiga".) And as for this 'hardware independent' Amiga.. is that like java? :) GA
<Charig> Have you looked at our website to see what technology we offer?
<amiga-news_de> 1st question: TAO: It was reported that you helped in the Amiga buyout. How much of this was "your idea", means, are you tech supplier, partner, or even more? 2nd question: Will there be free Tao and/or Amiga documentation, for the "just curious"?
<situation> In future, One question at a time, please, we have a lot of people wanting to ask questions
<fleecy> We talked to Tao when looking for partners and got so horny about each other that Tao dropped us some VC names and made introductions and recommendations about Amiga.
<fleecy> Tao is our foundation supplier. Amiga will be providing all the support. Anyone who signs up to develop will have access to full APIs.
<Swarfega> Apple's new OS X has a lot of it's GUI done with vectors, which allows easy scaling, rotating, etc. of pretty much anything on the screen. Will that sort of thing be possible with new Amigas (or is the OS extensible enough to allow people to write their own interfaces)? GA
<charig> We are not intending to have matrix style transformations embedded in the lowest layers of the graphics subsystem as this inherently slows down all other graphics functions.
<charig> Such vector type operations are available higher up.
<charig> ...where they should be.
<charig> Remember... elegance through simplicity and performance.
<dark4ces> would there be any performance benefit to writing code in VP assembler rather than higher-level languages? GA
<charig> There will be the same benefit that writing an assembler over high level languages offers in any other environment.
<charig> You trade off slightly higher development effort in order to gain tighter, faster code.
<charig> Remember that writing in VP gives you the advantages of assembler but no portability drawback.
<sNAK3^RP> monolog: rendering will be faster:))))
<AmigaDragon> (1) Will the new system (HDW or SW) have equivalent (or higher) filesystem support such as CrossDOS/CrossMAC including Windows longfilenames? (2) Fleecy, will we see, sometime in the not too distant future, AmigaOS (classic) Open source? GA
<fleecy> Me and 4 of the dev team have been VP for 2 days now and it's nothing like traditional assembler, more like C with the crap bits taken out. You'll find out soon.
<situation> People, One question at a time, please
<fleecy> Answer to AmigaDragon - Q1 - You can mimic multiple file systems + they also have their own high performance native file system.
<fleecy> Amigadragon (2) - our lawyers are looking into it but it is a much more complicated web than anybody could guess.
<TheRiley> if someone wanted to build an "Amiga"-desktop based on, say, the POP-standard, and use your new OS , would you support it (and if, how)? could the new OS run on phase5 Amirage for example? (ok, that's 2 questions, but they overlap so much that they are basically one :))
<charig> 1. Yes. 2. Bill was talking to Gerald Carda yesterday. :)
<HaXoR^> Mr Charig / Fleecy, is it just a coincidence this conference happening immediately before the transmeta cpu lauch(5pmGMT)? GA
<charig> Yes. We are hardware independent.
<Cpt_Hbl^> How long has Amino/Amiga and Tao been co-operating ? We know all about Fleecy/Bill/Petro but how does Toa feel about Amiga community? GA
<[breed-away]> Yup, it was supposed to happen yesterday.....
<charig> We have a large amount of respect for the Amiga community which is why we have been working cooperatively with Bill and Fleecy for some months, determined to make this really happen.
<BJS> The Time of Homecomputers of the 80's r over, i mean, what does a CHRP board with an strange OS with Amiga in common, other than the name, it's just marketing. and the things done from 1994 till now r only done for the existing userbase and they shrunk, how will u encourage others to buy amiga?
<charig> By providing the best platform.
<Thy> Do you plan to do advertising ? Considering that it should be worldwide, can you afford that ? To have the best machine is not enough if nobody knows that. GA
<charig> Yes. We will be doing advertising (Tao and Amiga) with our partners.
<Senex> How many developers are working currently on "Amiga Aurora" (i.e. the new OS <g>), and how many of them are from Amiga, how many from Tao? GA
<charig> Amiga has a dozen engineers growing, Tao has 60 + plenty of blue chip partners.
<RUiNa> Q: Please take this all as one general question about marketing. With consoles and settop boxes allowing more ability and connectivity, and with super low pc prices, do you feel we'll compete with these pricewise or are you moving towards some other newer market? we all know marketing was the original amiga downfall. is the marketing planned and being taken care of by pro's? GA
<charig> Yes. We like to call them "hookers".
<FryG_away> Q:will there be any new updates for WB3.5 ? GA
<fleecy> We have a transitional plan for the Classic that we will announce with our partners.
<Nico_Barbat_amigaOS> Francis, Bill told on the press-conf. that you are an long-time Amiga-fan - in which effect could this be useful for the *developer* group? WHO is actually working on the new OS? GA
<charig> I'll take those in reverse order.
<charig> We already have the foundation layer. I'm not going to discuss o/s specifics today. The entire Tao engineering staff is working on software which will be utilised by the Amiga community.
<charig> Remember that it is not just that we are fans, we also have major Amiga engineering history at Tao.
<sNAK3^RP> Q: in what year will we see the Adverts or price lists.amiga has NEVER died..GA
<charig> This year.
<|MB|> Hello. I am a convinced amigaist, but in what this new repurchase is it different from the precedents? How long will last your new development? GA
<charig> What?
<Szczepan-BlaBla> Does new Amiga (or what is named) will have full support for "Classic" Amiga apps running just like normal one ? I mean that I can use any current program to edit/view/etc. any file from disk (not like it is in UAE). GA
<charig> Announcement soon.
<ioni> Will there be PCI, AGP, USB, etc. ports in the 'new Amiga' ? And support for them ? ga
<charig> We will support all significant hardware standards.
<Reticuli> fleecy stated earlier: "anyone who signs up to develop will have access to full APIs"... The API's WON'T be public domain? Is this wise? The Amiga excelled because of the back bedroom developers who just decided to have a quick dabble one night and has survived years in the wilderness because anyone could program it without having to become a formal developer. Or did I misinterpret that answer? GA
<charig> You are assuming that the development kit is going to be expensive... it won't be.
<CraiK> Q: I have got several commodore amiga computers including amiga 500, 1200, and CD-32, along with commodore 64. All i want to know is, what do you expect the future of the AMIGA world will be like (in general)? bright or dark? I just want you to make me feel comfortable about the AMIGA's future. I come from the middle east, btw just to let you know that we also DO care about the MIGGY ;) and thank you very much for your time, sirs. GA
<^PaulaCIA^> CraiK Commodore are dead, Amiga is owned by Gateway 2000 for more info go to www.amiga.de !
<[breed-away]> heh
<situation> oops, I think your bot needs updating, breed
<[breed-away]> eck, must update Paula!!!
<[breed-away]> slaps Gateway 2000 about a bit
<Erchin> lol
<DanDude2> hehehe
<GuardianBOB> heh heh yes you should.
<JoeSchmo> MUHAHAHAHA
<Gaijin^> lol.. yeah :P
<charig> Of course it is going to be bright. Tao's heavily in demand with so many global consumer electronics companies.
<jws72512a> Will new Amiga/Tao OS System run on IBM PC box? GA
<charig> We regard the Amiga as a fundamental part, not just of our strategy but the whole future of digital content.
<situation> Okay, I've not asked a question yet, so here goes... How confident are you at taking on the industry giants, Microsoft, Intel, et al... and winning?
<charig> Tao is already becoming very successful and we know that the co-operation will accelerate our success, Amiga's and the community.
<sNAK3^RP> well guys thx for <maybe> given us some hope...we look forward to new things......
<charig> Thank you and Goodnight from Reading England :)
<situation> Thanks very much for giving us your time
<situation> round of applause, please
<[breed-away]> I wish to thank Francis Charig, Fleecy Moss, Bill M and the other guys from Tao for turning out..
<Erchin> many many thanks to everyone
<[breed-away]> im sorry to those who didnt get there questions answered
<situation> Thanks everyone for being so patient... we ran this whole system by hand, 'cause we didn't have time to set up proper scripts (Translation: mb)
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19.Jan.2000
EETimes
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EETimes: Moto(rola) invests in virtual processor software house
GNN titles: Motorola investing in Amiga partner Tao
The CPU manufacturer Motorola, the other manufacturer of the PowerPC chip used by Apple besides IBM,
recently purchased a minority of the Tao Group. Since 1994 Tao offers TaOS, an innovative operating
system for the diverse CPU platforms, and already engaged in a strategic partnership with Amiga
Incorporated in December 1999.
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19.Jan.2000
Steven Flowers by e-mail
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Alive Mediasoft looking for programmers and game reviewers
We need your help more staff need to work from home we need programers to join hower in house
devolement team and a game reviewer to work for The Pulse if your are intrasted in any of the
persions please conted jenniealive@innotts.co.uk.
(Translation: mb)
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19.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de
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Software News
- Aminet Uploads
- Jan Andersen from Virus Help Denmark
told us by e-mail that an update for VirusExecutor of Jan Erik Olausson is available. It is version
1.83c with 115,156 bytes. Download: virusexecutor.lha - 115 Kb
- Patrick Beerhorst told us in the ANF that
Eternity offers an archive with 220 GlowIcons
especially for start menus (e.g. DirOpus) for download. Download:
synotec_glowicons.lha - 230 Kb
- AmigAIM v0.9301 - beta, an Amiga client
for the AOL InstantMessenger by Richard H. Poser. Download:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha
- At amiEmulators you can find a new AmiMSX version
3.0 Beta (a preview). Download: AmiMSX_v3.lha
- Schatztruhe will have three new CDs available shortly.
Aside from the classics SteuerProfi 99
(a German tax program) and Aminet 35,
there will be a large GlowIcon Collection
available, which will be especially interesting for OS 3.5 users. The CD-ROM contains over 3500
professionally made icons for all kinds of programs (apps, games, ...), drawers, DefIcons etc.
Additionally, many DockIcons and some toolbars for several applications will be included.
- Ulrich Hambuch told us in the ANF that
WBInfo 2.9c was released, and the development of
WBInfo v3 is going full steam ahead.
- Detlef Wojtaszkiewicz told us in the ANF
that Richard Fhager released version
2.0 of his freeware video poker game.
Download: dawnvideopoker200.lha - 334 Kb
(Translation: mb)
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18.Jan.2000
ADX
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ADX Datentechnik website with new layout
ADX has reworked their website completely and very neatly. An online shop has been implemented,
where all articles can be ordered directly online.
(Translation: mb)
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18.Jan.2000
Jan Andersen by e-mail
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Virus Help Denmark reports link virus "Hitch Hiker v4.11"
Virus Help Denmark found a virus infected archive on Aminet on January 18th. The archive is infected
with the link virus "Hitch Hiker v4.11". More information on the archive:
Name: Sniper Virus name: HitchHiker v4.11 Archive name: Sniper.lzh Archive size: 667,902 bytes
Infected file: Sniper Infected size: 688,060 bytes (infected)
The game is playable, but please remember to remove the virus first with one of the common virus
programs like VirusExecutor, VirusZ, VirusChecker II or VT.
(Translation: mb)
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18.Jan.2000
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM insane?
clickBOOM makes a weird offer: Those who mark themselves as complete clickBOOM and Amiga fan,
having a tattoo with the words "clickBOOM" or "Amiga" or a logo made, get all clickBOOM games
for free. Contact with clickBOOM should be made before getting the tattoo done.
I can only hope this is a joke, because such offers are very questionable in my eyes. (ps)
(Translation: mb)
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18.Jan.2000
Amiga.org
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Interview with Aaron "AROS" Digulla
Interview with Aaron "AROS" Digulla.
(ps)
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18.Jan.2000
Amiga.org
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Fleecy answers some questions by Gary Storm
AQUAFRESH - Fleecy answered some questions by Gary Storm
(ps)
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18.Jan.2000
Amiga.org
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AmigaGuide® to be reworked
AmigaGuide® to be reworked.
(ps)
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18.Jan.2000
Andreas Magerl by e-mail
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APC&TCP mostly unavailable due to illness
Due to illness, APC&TCP will be mostly unavailable starting January 17th to early, mid March 2000.
During this time, only snail mail (APC&TCP-Computerclub, Postfach 83, D-83236 Übersee) will be
answered with a small delay, if you enclose enough money for return stamps. The answering machine
(phone +49-(0)8642/89995) will be checked regulary, but please understand not everybody can be
called back. Fax, e-mails and storage media can be send, but will not be read and answered before
early/mid March.
(Translation: mb)
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18.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de
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Software News
- Alive Mediasoft
announces "Frontier First Encounters" and "Elite 3 First Encounters" for Amiga.
- Marko Seppänen
told us by e-mail that he was unable to fix the dead link to the offer page due to
technical problems of the provider. Here is the correct link:
offer.
The Image Engineer PlugIn "Visual Border" now has an option (in the registered version)
to create / save the border effect with single or all pictures in a directory. Orders
can be placed here.
- Virus Help Denmark
announces the new VirusExecutor version 1.83 of author Jan Erik Olausen being available. Download:
virusexecutor.lha - 118,140 bytes
- Epic Marketing released two new game compilation
CDs. The CD "Adventures Lair" is a CD with ten complete graphics adventures. The CD requires
an Amiga with hard drive and 2 MByte RAM. Among the games are "Mad House", "Legends of Lothian",
"Federation", "Blood Fest", "Seven Realms" and others.
Ten complete games can also be found on the compilation CD "Mutantology", including the commercial
Mutation games "Castle Kingdoms" (action adventure), "Tommy Gun" (shoot-em-up) and "Tin Toy
Adventure" (jump&run).
- Stefan Werner told us in the ANF that Be offers BeOS R5
for free download. Download: BeOS download page.
- dEViL told us in the ANF that SecondSpin is now
available in version 1.97beta.
Download: SecondSpin_Install.lha
- AmiDog released DarcNES (multi-console-emulator)
version 9a0115a. Download: dn9a0115a.lha.
- Hans-Werner Schober offers a new
beta version 4419.03 of FastIPrefs, adjusted to OS 3.5. Download:
FastIPrefs4419_03b.lha - 118 Kb
- You can find new screenshots of "The Last Seal" at Ancor as
well as new informations on the game; e.g. a new sound program is being used, which sounds great,
and new sounds have also been sampled already. Additionally, new rooms have been created, and the
drawing of a new character has been begun.
(Translation: mb)
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18.Jan.2000
3SAT - Neues
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3SAT Computermagazin Neues mentions Amiga
The computer magazine "NEUES" by 3SAT (German TV channel), known for really good investigations
and matter-of-fact reports is becoming more and more liked by Amiga users, because, for a positive
change, "NEUES" does not ignore the Amiga in their reports. On January 17th, there was a report
about the sellout and the cooperation with the TAO Group. Citing:
"There are news to rell about Amiga, too. After Gateway sold its Amiga share in December, the
company has entered a strategic partnership with the british TAO Group. They want to develop a new
Amiga Operating System together. Currently Tao offers four operating systems, with the realtime
OS Elate being especially interesting. Elate is platform independant, no matter if Windows or
Linux, and offers multi processor support. One can be looking forward to how Amiga might profit
from this cooperation."
(Translation: mb)
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18.Jan.2000
John Porter by e-mail
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Live chat with TAO Group
The Live Chat will take place today at 16:00 GMT. Sorry for posting this so late,
but I didn't have a change to translate any sooner. (mb)
Reply-To: "John Porter" johnp@cadlink.co.uk
From: "John Porter" johnp@cadlink.co.uk
To: team@amiga-news.de
Subject: News
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:05:13 -0000
Organization: CADlink UK
Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know we have got a live chat with Tao Group and
hopefully fleecy to discuss the Amiga and what we feel should be done.
Tao dont have that much a roll in the development but they do have
some say and are very intrested to hear the views of the Amiga public
to help them take the correct road.
Francis Charig, Chairman and Chief Exec of Tao Group has confirmed
this with me and seems like a really down to earth guy and very sincere
in what he wants to do with the Amiga, he said he will ask Fleecy to
attend as well.
So got some ideas? questions? or just want to sit and watch? then
come to #AmigaGames on IRC Dalnet. I will be confirming the live chat
with Francis a hour before we go ahead to make sure things are ok, if we
have to postpone it, there will be a new date given in the topic.
If you have a JAVA client you can come directly to
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/9376/irc/chat.html
If you are on a Amiga you will need to download Amirc from Aminet and
log onto a dalnet server.
amiirc.lha
The best server to use is irc.dal.net on port: 7000 group: 01
If you are on a PC you can get Mirc from http://www.mirc.com
The Live Chat will be on 19/01/00 at 16.00 GMT
The Chat will be moderated you need to msg a active op to be able to
ask a question No more than 2 questions per go
Usuall IRC rules apply, swearing, name calling, flooding will end in
a ban.
Hope to see you all there
Best Regards
John Porter
Amiga Oasis Online
http://bounce.to/amigaoasis
#AmigaGames IRC Dalnet
(Translation: mb)
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17.Jan.2000
Christoph Dietz
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Meeting with Bill McEwen in Frankfurt
Bill McEwen, President and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Amiga Incorporated, explained his
vision for the future of the Amiga on January 17th.
At the first meeting after the Amiga takeover by Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss, mainly hard-
and software developers were present as well as representatives of the two remaining German
Amiga print magazines and of course myself for amiga-news.de.
The meeting was intended for getting to know each other. Bill McEwen is not a no-name, but
so far he was rather behind the scenes at Amiga Inc.
However, he brought some goodies with him to Frankfurt. He explained the partnership with
Tao, and that their OS will be part of the new Amiga generation. He assured that not only
a developer box specification will be released in February, but also that the necessary
software will be offered for free download at the same time.
For the late summer, the introduction of the first consumer system is scheduled. The exact
specification of this model is not yet decided upon, and depends on the results of his numerous
talks with developers during his trip to Europe.
All in all, a beginning for the next - and hopefully successful - attempt to revive the Amiga.
At any case, Bill McEwen earned broad support on the Frankfurt meeting.
(Translation: mb)
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17.Jan.2000
Andreas Mayer-Gürr by e-mail
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CSC contest over
After 62 days and 98% keys done, the CSC key has been cracked. The correct key was found by a
Sparcbox (with Solaris) in the USA. The Amiga team has done 4 million key blocks with 228 keys
each, for a total of 1.11% of the keyspace.
Now all Amiga users who participated in the CSC contest should return to calculate RC5 blocks.
Every block counts... ;-)
(Translation: mb)
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17.Jan.2000
Petra Struck
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MeKa pictures
Hosted by the Fachhochschule Karlsruhe (Technical College), the yearly "Meeting Karlsruhe" took place
last weekend, for the seventh time and with about 150 participants. I was overwhelmed by the really
phantastic organisation of this huge meeting. There were 5 rooms with 30-35 computers each completely
networked. The Fachhochschule provided a free 10 MBit connection in addition to their rooms, which
led to great download rates. Thanks to the ATM systems from HiLan, there even where 155 MBit available
locally.
The hosts really had planned for everything. There was a seperate sleeping room where exhausted
visitors could take a nap. A cinema was available for relaxing, and all the time fresh breadrolls, coffee,
tea and other non-alcoholic beverages were offered; a really well working Internet Pizza service
made the offer complete.
I had many interesting conversations, met many, many really nice people, and left with the wish
to return for all three days next year. I really enjoyed myself, but I did regret not having brought
my computer. I want to say thanks for the invitation, and congratulate the hosts on their excellent work.
(Translation: mb)
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17.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de
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Software News
- AHXRipper v4.41
Christian Rosentreter told us by e-mail:
Kåre Johansen recently released version 4.21 of his popular AHXRipper (formerly
THXRipper). v4.21, v4.41, I really don't know - probably you do... (mb)
Moreover, other tools of him (several ABBS v2 tools, LazyFiles 1.01, CheckDrive 1.01, ...) are
available for download from his homepage.
- Tumult releases the source code of the MUI class
Xenbar. The archive can be very useful if you want to create alternative #?.image files. It is
the original source code by Stefan Stuntz. Download: Xenbar.LHA
- At Duffs Homepage you can find a new version
of his HTMLview version 12.6. Download:
MCC_HTMLview_Update.LZX - 64 Kb
- For registered users of Photogenics there is a new
update to version 4.4 beta 75. This update contains new modi like RubEmboss and BumpMap as well
as an improved Emboss modus. Download: Update75.lha
- 950 Kb
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17.Jan.2000
Jorge Pino by e-mail
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AOL for Amiga looking for support
Jorge Pino writes:
We are looking for: - enthusiastic Amiga programmers and users
- web designer with experience in Java, CGI scripting, HTML
- if possible, programmers wanting to port an AOL software
- support of the project by translations to Spanish, French, English etc.
Those interested can contact Jorge Pino by e-mail.
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17.Jan.2000
Stefan Robl in ANF
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FMdriver VHI v1.1 released
Stefan Robl has released version 1.1 of his VHI
driver for the Framemachine on January 15th. Some VHI problems have been removed in this
version, and all features recently added to VHI are supported.
The driver is giftware (like 10 USD, hardware etc.) and works on Amigas with 68k CPU.
Download: FMdriverVHI.lha,
readme
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17.Jan.2000
Czech Amiga News
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HTMLview.mcc v12.6 released
Allan Odgaard has released version 12.6
of his MUI class for viewing HTML documents on January 16th.
The class currently supports the major part of the HTML 4.0 standard as defined by the
W3C. According to Allan Odgaard, the class is more precise than many
browsers, and very well suited e.g. for e-mail programs wanting to display HTML - especially since
the class is working really fast. You shouldn't forget, however, that it is a prototype undergoing
many changes. E.g. it is being worked upon Style Sheets support. The release of a Style Sheet
supporting version will take some time, however.
With the included demo program, the class can be used as "offline browser". Without written
permission of the author, however, it must not be used on CD-ROMs etc.
The class offers the following features:
- Incremental site buildup. The parsing is done by a seperate process, so the MUI program
can still react to user input while a HTML document is parsed.
- Progressive drawing of graphics. Currently GIF, GIFAnim, JPEG, and PNG are supported by modules.
- Text can be marked and copied to Clipboard.
- Full text search.
- Comprehensive HTML support. Tables with background graphics, frames, forms etc.
- Very fast.
- and more...
Known bugs:
- Text outside of ... is not displayed.
- Entities (e.g. &) without trailing ; are not recognized.
- The Floyd-Steinberg algorithm for dithering pictures tends to handle pictures differently towards
the borders. This can lead to patterned backgrounds looking like there are lines between patterns.
- The datatype wrapper for decoding pictures seems to work only with the P96 picture.datatype.
If you are interested in programming a Flash viewer, RealAudio plugin etc., contact
Allan Odgaard.
Download:
MCC_HTMLview.LZX v12.5 (140.8 Kb, 7-Sep-1999)
MCC_HTMLview_Update.LZX v12.6 (63.5 Kb, 16-Jan-2000)
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17.Jan.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Payback status report #7
James Daniels from Apex
Designs has posted the 7th Payback status report
on January 16th. Additionally, the link page has been updated.
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17.Jan.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Additional Informations by Alive Mediasoft
Elite 3 will support PPC and Warp3D. It is being ported by the people doing the Descent 2 port, too.
The real-time strategy game Home Land is announced for first quarter 2000.
The Alive Mediasoft website should be online
again by now and offer informations about the new releases planned for this year.
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16.Jan.2000
Jim in c.s.a.g.
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3 Amiga advertisments from 1989
On his homepage, Jim
offers three Amiga commercials from 1989 for download. The three ads, described as very well made,
are tailored to the US market, and have been broadcasted on MTV in 1989.
However, so far the commercials are only available in RealVideo (.rm) format; a format without an Amiga player
being available so far. Additionally, single pictures and the sound in .wav format are available, and
Jim is interested in offering the animations in a different format. He
is looking for tips which format is best suited for the Amiga.
19.01.2000: Jims e-mail address seems to be non-functional. On the website, this
one is listed: hangfire@avalon.net. The commercials are
now available as Quicktime movies (about 1 MB per movie).
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16.Jan.2000
Patrik Henz in Metalmoon ML
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fom2001 - CD-ROM collection
fom2001 is a CD-ROM from the Faces of Mars PD series. The CD contains the best from over 500 disks.
The games, programs, pictures, animations, mods, and texts are divided in 15 main categories:
- 1982 (classic games)
- Babylon 5
- Esotherik
- Fantasy
- FOM (Faces of Mars)
- Games
- History
- Jokes
- Mathematics
- Misc
- Science
- Science Fiction
- Space
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
Contact: Patrick Henz, phenz@gmx.net
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16.Jan.2000
Fun Time World
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HSMathLibs v44.41 beta 2
Cyberdyne Systems has released version 44.41 beta 2
of the HSMathLibs for MC68040 and MC68060 on January 15th. In this update, many functions have
been optimized and some bugs fixed.
The update is only for registered users.
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16.Jan.2000
Fun Time World
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WarpJPEG.datatype v44.6
Oliver Roberts has released version 44.6
of the WarpJPEG datatype on January
15th.
This version supports decoding of EXIF thumbnail pictures and includes additional small
changes.
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16.Jan.2000
Fun Time World
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Virtual Ball Fighters
Amiga Flames has released informations and screenshots
on the game Virtual Ball Fighters.
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16.Jan.2000
Sylvio K. in ANF
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DeepSilence extra games wanted
We are looking for extra games for the action Manga RPG DeepSilence, that can be played within the
game in some kind of game arcade.
DeepSilence uses CyberGfx, so it can be played on the Workbench, too. 90% of the graphics are
traced. The game will offer 20 big maps, over 30 different weapons and spells, light and nebula
effects, non-linear storyline, action sequences and more.
System requirements: Amiga, 68020, AGA or gfx card, 8 MB FastRAM, 2x CD-ROM. According to the
readme file,
a 68020 reaches 30 pics/sec (resolution 320x256x8).
The game is announced for first quarter 2000. A 5 MByte demo file with informations, graphics and
a large animation is on Aminet.
Sylvio K. writes:
Hello you private programmers out there!
I know there are many programmers out there just waiting to be discovered! We offer you the chance!
Subject: We are currently working on an Action-Manga-RPG for Amiga! (Info on Aminet
/game/demo/Deepsilence.lha,
Deepsilence.readme)
and are planning to put numerous games in one level! It's like you are in a game arcade, with many
different games to play... that's where we need you! Send us your games! No matter how simple they
are! (Please, not that simple!)
Following requirements have to be met, however:
- They have to be adapted, so they really look like started from a game machine - so no advertising!
- If it requires AGA, it has to run on CyberGfx, too!
- They should be running on AGA, so no graphic errors!
This is your chance!! Take it!
Mail to: Mangaclub@freenet.de (answers usually on weekends)
Bye! Sylvio
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15.Jan.2000
Amiga Times
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CD32 Alliance online again
The CD32-Alliance pages, maintained by
Thorsten Schölzel, are online again, and in a
new design.
The website is about the CD32 game console, which Commodore released 1993, and its expansions
(MPEG module, SX-1, SX32, CD32-joypad etc.). Aside from posting detailed information, the CD32
Alliance wants to make new software available for the CD32, and offers their help for this.
A CD32 version of the shareware game Sharks is announced for a self-cost price of 10-12.5 Euro.
A screenshot is available from the news area.
The website currently offers a news section, information about and pictures of the CD32, a games
area planned to offer a complete overview over all CD32 games in the future, opinions about the
console and more. A developer area has been announced.
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15.Jan.2000
Fun Time World
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Melody Z2
Kato Development writes on their own website:
December last year, a limited number of almost-finished Melody Z2 were offered for a special
price. The demand was incredibly high, so we wanted to produce some new. Sadly, some of the
parts are very hard to get, or completely unavailable. So we cannot produce more Melody Z2
in this form.
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15.Jan.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Format: Open Letter to the Editor
In the February issue 2000 of Amiga Format, SView
Productivity Suite II by Andreas Kleinert is ranked 49%. In
this open letter to the magazine, Andreas Kleinert speaks out about this test result.
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15.Jan.2000
Amiga.org
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Amiga, The Next Generation
In this text, Jack Seay focuses on the history of Windows and Amiga, and voices his thoughts
and opinions on past and future of Amiga.
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15.Jan.2000
Amiga.org
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Motorola investing in Tao
Motorola is investing in Tao Group Ltd., and is planning to use Taos Virtual Processor and the
Java-based OS technology in products of their own (e.g. mobile communication, Internet). An important
issue for portable applications is the virtual code needing less memory than native code, despite
being executed fast. With a RISC CPU, the memory factor is 1.4 to 1.7.
Charig: "We currently work with a number of partners from consumer electronics. Motorola is not the
only important partner, but the first investor."
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15.Jan.2000
Amiga Times
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DDE website in new design
Digital Dreams Entertainment (Wasted Dreams) created a new
design for their website. At the same time they announce
that they are working on the second part of Wasted Dreams. System requirements: Amiga with AGA
or graphics card, 4 MB RAM and 2x CD-ROM. First screenshots are to be released soon.
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15.Jan.2000
Thomas Frieden in 3DWorld ML
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Hyperion Software looking for programmers
For upcoming projects, Hyperion Software is
looking for a programmer.
Experience in C/C++ and Warp3D and, ideally, OpenGL are required. Experience in PowerPC
programming (WarpUP) would be a bonus, but are not required.
Hyperion Software offers you the possibility to work on one of the best games to be
released for Amiga. And this work is of course payed for.
If you are interested, contact BenH@hyperion-software.de.
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15.Jan.2000
Fleecy Moss in a newsgroup
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Setting some things straight
* Forwarded from "Team Amiga" Mailinglist
* Originally from: fleecy moss (fleecy@earthlink.net)
* Original date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:19:45 -0500
In my trawling around the community hangouts,
I have come across several misconceptions, rumours,
and a lot of confusion. Whilst I can't hope to answer
everything, here are some things I want to set straight.
0. Amiga will build a digital content universe. Digital
content means anything composed of 0 and1 -
applications, video, audio, games, emails, whatever.
We will focus on 2 markets, the pathfinder market,
for digital adventurers, power users, gamers,
content creators, DTPers, artists, video ppl
and those who refuse to define a computer as
a digital appliance. Our second market will
cocentrate on the Domestic Digital Habitat (DDH).
1. If you are a personal computer person, there will
be a personal computer second wave Amiga.
2. We will support classic development in so much
as we want to help users and developers transition
to a new machine. That will be the total extent of our
support for the classic machine. If this involves further
AmigaOS releases, then so be it.
3. We are targetting x86 and PPC for the first consumer
release of Pathfinder products (if you are a personal
computer person, this means you).
4. We will do everything in our power (that doesnt bankrupt
us or interfere with our primary goals) to ensure classic
Amiga software runs on the new machine in some form or
another.. The new Amiga product family (formerly called
AQUA) will run natively and hosted. This is to create a large
market fast for Amiga developers to profit from. For the first
pathfinder release it will run hosted to see this market grow
fast. We see one of our core duties as serving the developers.
6. We are talking to the Phoenix Consortium about common
interests.
7. We have been contacted by QNX but currently have no plans
to work with them.
8. We will develop Amiga products for another market, the
Domestic Digital Habitat (DDH) market. This markets will
be kept separate but products will work together if the installer
so desires it.
9. There will be a new website and it will be public shortly. It has
been tested on all browsers, Amiga and non Amiga, and given
the compatibility problems between the implementations of open
standards, our best effort has been made. The site will grow
quickly and more information will be added. We want it to become a
village where all Amigans can come to voice their opinions, chat,
and travel off to different parts of the Amiga universe.
a. A developer support manager has been selected and they are
working on implementing the developer support program. This will
be in place before the developer boxes are released.
b. The developer boxes are specced out, we have contacted several
whitebox manufacturers and we are building the distribution.
c. Amiga will not provide dates until we have a product. We will share
timelines, but will not attach dates to them. Enough damage has
already been done.
d. We have had acceptances from 75% of our development team and
their names and roles will be announced once we get back from
training (before the end of the month).
This mail can be redistributed without modification within the community.
As further questions and issues come up, we will attempt to answer them.
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14.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de
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Bill Gates resigns as Microsoft CEO
"Microsoft founder and so-far CEO and Chairman Bill Gates passes on the CEO position of the worlds
largest software company Microsoft. New CEO will be Gates friend and former Microsoft President
Steve Ballmer.
Gates will remain Chairman, and additionally creates the job of Chief Software Architect, which he
will use to press on the development of the future Windows Internet Plattform."
ZDNet: Microsoft on the chopping block?
CNet Special: Gates steps aside
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14.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de
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Software News
- At the Surround Page you can find
Back Orifice in the new version 1.21.10. Download AddOns:
MuiBOv.1.0.LHA
and BoAmiga1.21.10.LHA.
- Paul Nolan's Photogenics 4.4 Beta is released for
registered users. Aside from improved loader and saver modules, the new version offers an updated
JPEG module and basic support for Adobe Photoshop(R). New effects, e.g. FireBlur, and seven new
drawing modules make the update complete. Download: Update74.lha.
- Frank Wille offers a Quake version
for AmigaOS/68k on his website.
- Christian "SuRgEoN" Michael reports about his Surgeon's
Quake1 Goodies at the Czech Amiga News. This
is a website offering links and help for Quake.
- ANN reports about a new Dreamcast VMU
emulator. Available is a developer tool, the emulator and Tetris as shoot-em-up. The
emulator runs on Amiga and needs AmigaOS 2.x or better.
- Trogladite Software plans an update to AmigaGuide
in cooperation with OmegaResearch UK. New will be picture support, different font sizes and more.
Moreover, Trogladite Software took over development of "The Legends of Triten". It is a high-quality
role playing game by MantaSoft. The game will be distributed either commercially, or as shareware
with option for online registering.
- The HiSOFT Systems website has been reworked. The pages
for iBrowse2 are now available again,
where you can register iBrowse2 online.
- Epic Marketing released the game
Tales From Heaven from
Darkage Software. The incredible 3D jump&run
engine offers four different worlds with four levels each, great audio tracks and stereo sound effects.
Seven programmers have worked on the game for two years. An older demo (April 99) is available
for download: tfhdemo.lha - 890 Kb
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14.Jan.2000
EETimes
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EETimes: Amiga reborn via Tao alliance
EETimes has a very detailed article by Junko Yoshida on the cooperation by AMIGA and TAO-Group.
Interesting is the part that TAO Group helped funding the Amiga buyout... (mb)
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14.Jan.2000
Audio Evolution
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Audio Evolution
Davy Wentzler writes:
It has been a while again since this page was updated, and this time it's quite bad news: 4
months ago I strained both my arms and hands and was not able to program anymore. It's been
better since then, but still I can only work for a few hours on Audio Evolution in the weekends,
otherwise it would take too much of my health. This means that there has not been a lot of progress
lately, but I'm working on something that requires a major overhaul of the program, and I think
you'll like it! Unfortunately, I can't tell when the next release will be and when I recover from
my injury. Cross your fingers!
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13.Jan.2000
Steven Flowers by e-mail
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New Alive Mailinglist
Alive Mediasoft has opened a new mailinglist, where news about their games are posted. Moreover,
Steve informed that, due to bandwith issues, the website was temporarily unavailable over the
christmas days. The bandwidth has been improvd, so the problems should be solved.
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13.Jan.2000
Christoph Dietz by e-mail
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Istec 100x configuration tool
Christoph Dietz writes:
Swen Stullich has stopped development on the configuration tools for the phone systems Istec 100x.
I was able to talk him into providing me with the sources and a generic keyfile, so both will be
available in the future and development of the tool can be continued if an interested programmer
can be found.
So I divided program and source on two archives (UFT-Istec_usr.lha and UFT-Istec_dev.lha)
and uploaded them to Aminet.
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13.Jan.2000
Felix Schwarz by e-mail
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Innovative News
Fourth coup of the video pros - VLRec NG 4.0 available!
VLRec NG 4.0 shines with many new features. Aside from the reworked interface graphics in
GlowIcons look and the option to record in different sizes, there is now a direct interface
to fxPAINT. Moreover, the speed of VLRec NG has been further improved, and new effects are
available. A must-have for owners of any VHI-compatible video card!
fxPAINT website updated
The fxPAINT website has been updated and expanded. Here you find new screenshots and an
overview over most effects offered by fxPAINT. The website has a more uniform layout, and
is easier to navigate now.
First VHI developer information available
Starting immediately, developers can download the FD, include, and autodoc file for VHI.
An exsample driver with source code and the vhimaster.library are scheduled to follow until
mid 2000.
innovative-web.de move completed
Our web presence has successfully moved to the faster server. On this occassion, many
improvements have been implemented in the whole website. You now see how much p&p is
charged while ordering as well as a short description of the article. The navigation bar
has been reworked so it is perfectly usable in 800x600. Please resend e-mails send on
January 11th, 12th or 13th to info@innovative-web.de or order@innovative-web.de if you
have not recieved an answer yet.
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13.Jan.2000
Andreas Magerl by e-mail
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English Version of SeaSide released
Andreas Magerl of APC & TCP writes:
Today we release the english version from SeaSide. You can order the game in some days at all
dealers worldwide or direct by APC & TCP. You found some Screenshots and infos on our homepage:
www.chiemgau.com/apc&tcp (title link).
Please dont forget: Due to a stay at a hospital we are not available from mid January to early
March. During this period we can not be reached via phone, fax or e-mail and we also can not
deliver orders. This will be done from early march when we resume our bussiness as usual. During
this time our homepage will not be updated. Thank you.
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13.Jan.2000
Daniel Orth by e-mail
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Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko
Daniel Orth writes:
In an interview with amiga.topcool.de, Petro Tyschtschenko said that Amiga already sold 12,000
OS 3.5, this number however being not yet sufficient to earn money. That would take 25,000.
Moreover, Petro commented on the fusion of the German print magazines amigaOS - Amiga Plus.
He regrets that there are only two Amiga magazines left (counting in the PCgo add-on Amiga Magazin).
However he regards the amigaOS as "a very professional magazine".
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