17.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III - Christmas Update
Achim Stegemann wrote:
The Christmas update for DA3 is ready and can be downloaded on the
homepage.
There had some adaption regarding the new OS 3.9 to be done (because of the new
math-libs).
During the installation pay attention to the hints by all means!
Besides that I wish all Amigans a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium!
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17.Dec.2000
Sven Droege on ANF
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Bonds v1.78 BETA3 with New Homepage
Sven Droege wrote:
The users of the financial software Bonds had to count on long waitstates for
updates. Since today there's a new homepage under the known address
www.programmed-excellence.de
online. Through a server change the access probabily should be improved
drastically. Besides that there's a new update v1.78 BETA3, which only contains
some small bugfixes. Additionally for registered users there's now the tool
"quotations updater", that can be used to update quotations also without Bonds.
The email-address of the author has also changed. It's now
Sven.Droege@programmed-excellence.de.
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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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ppclib.emu v0.8e
On 16. Dezember 2000 Frank Wille has released the version 0.8e of the
'ppclibemu'. This library makes it possible to run PPC programs, that use
the ppc.library made by p5 directly under WarpOS. Added in this version is the
support for DoMethod, DoSuperMethod and CoerceMethod, so that now the Voyager
Flash-PlugIn does also run with the ppclibemu.
Download:
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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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MorphOS: MUI class - NList v19
On 16. Dezember 2000 a PPC version of the MUI class NList v19 for MorphOS/PPC
has been released. This class is used for example by the email client YAM. The
PPC version speeds up the building of the lists.
Besides the PPC archive you need the 68k version of NList. This is ready for
download on the NList-Homepage.
Download: NList_19.lha/PPC (141K)
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17.Dec.2000
Gunter Hinrichsen on ANF
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HTMLread v.48
Gunter Hinrichsen has released an update of 'HTMLread' on 17. December 2000 and
an update of the Genesis plug-in for HTMLread on 14. December.
HTMLread is an extension for the email client YAM that allows reading HTML mails. YAM
can't display e-mails written in HTML for now, as they are sent by Netscape,
Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these e-mails to a
HTML viewer.
Some changes have been made in the new version:
Two bugs were fixed, it's become smaller, condition images are supported, the
download manager now doesn't open his condition windows anymore when you're
offline, the downloadmanager now knows the option QUIET, better looking
condition GIFs and some more changes.
The Genesis plug-in toggles Genesis automatically on- and offline again for the
download of web-images.
Download:
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17.Dec.2000
Marcus Neervoort on ANF
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Marcus Neervoort with New URL
Marcus Neervoort's homepage is now reachable under the new URL
http://amigapage.de/. On his site there are
among other things informtion about the history of the Amiga, Fleecy Moss'
speech on the WoA 2000 and pictures of the WoA 2000 to be found.
The move became necessary as the web-space Neervoort needs to keep the page
running wasn't sufficient anymore at T-Online coupled with other providers of
web-space.
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17.Dec.2000
Stefan Martens on ANF
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Stefan Martens with E-Mail Problems
Stefan Martens wrote:
Freedoms causes probs.
All those who have sent me an email from Thursday on to xy@stefan1200.de, xy@amiga-user-liste.de
or amiga@alternative-games.de, please send this mail once again to Stefan1200@gmx.de.
And please use this email address at least until Tuesday. As soon as the normal
e-mail addresses work again I'll announce this.
For the time being there are also problems with the related homepages, these are
partly not accessible! If there will occur any problem, please use:
Stefan1200/AUL: http://die.hotcity.de/stefan1200/
Alternative-Games.de: http://die.gamecity.de/alternative-games/.
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17.Dec.2000
Kurt Geens via eMail
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www.amigasdk.com with New Layout
www.amigasdk.com is presented in a new
layout and uses now PHP-Nuke for generating
the pages as Amiga.org already does.
The site informs comprehensively about the AmigaSDK.
The actual editoral by James Russell with 'Why Linux Needs Amiga' as topic
covers the running-anywhere feature of AmigaDE regarding games for Linux.
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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Office package 'Papyrus' for Amiga
The office package 'Papyrus' by the company
R.O.M logicware shall be ported to
the Amiga. Until now the package was available for OS/2, TOS(Atari) and Windows.
Responsible for the prot is Titan
Computer. For the next issue of Amiga Plus it is planned to print more
information. In the issue 11/2000 of the 'st-computer' there's an interview with
the manager of R.O.M. logicware. Fun Time World had already released the
following quote on 11. December:
«For all the love for the Amiga, but very important for us are a Macintosh
and a Linux version at the moment..... As we have just come together for a
cooperation with an important company in the Amiga market, that also supports us
heavily on doing the MacIntosh version one can count indeed on three more
supported platforms:
Mac, Linux and also Amiga.»
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17.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Online shops of Epic Direct Ltd.
The shops AmigaGames.co.uk and
AmigaUtils.co.uk of
Epic Direct Ltd. are online. The former offers games and hardware like
joysticks, the latter applications like office and developer software.
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17.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Status of the AmigaOS v4.0 Petition
On the website of Amigart there's a form made available a little
bit to the bottom which can be used to show one's interest for Amiga v4.0. For
the time being 825 people have subscribed to this petition. For now it is
planned to run it until 1. January 2001 and then hand them over to Amiga
Inc.
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16.Dec.2000
Simon II
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Simon The Sorcerer II - Update 3
Paul Burkley has released Update 3 of Simon II for download.
This update solves problems with loading and saving with the adventure game while running AmigaOS 3.9.
I just tried it myself and now the game runs without any problems under AmigaOS 3.9..
Download: Simon2Upd3.lha - 79 KB
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16.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Aqua - New Adventure-Game
Crystal Interactive will retail the new adventure 'Aqua' .
At Emerald Imaging
you will find information and screenshots of this game.
In this game you'll find yourself in a mysterious world and you must find a way to leave it.
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16.Dec.2000
Frank Carlos on ANF
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Amiga Expands the Linux Community through Cross-Platform Architecture
Here's an article/demo
about the Amiga's revolutionary VP (virtual processor) assembly code,
the heart of the new Amiga's Digital Environment. It takes you through an in-depth look at an
an Amiga demo written in VP (virtual processor) assembly code. Also take a look at this
Interview
with Bill McEwen (President) and Fleecy Moss (VP of Technology), to learn more about the
technology behind the new Amiga Digital Environment and why it's so revolutionary and so
damn cool! And here's an article,
that covers more advanced Amiga topics about the new Amiga SDK.
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16.Dec.2000
Andre Beer on ANF
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GeoWorld - Christmas Offer for People Interested in Geography
There is an abslolutely special offer of the newest version of GeoWorld for
all who quickly decide to buy it. The offer is valid until 24.12.2000 (date on
the stamp or email order). A demo version and an order form and more
information can be found under the title link.
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16.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha biz/dbase 116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4b)
StarBase_SCR.lha biz/dbase 116K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v4.0)
streamer.lha comm/www 24K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
d4-bullp4pp3r.lha demo/ecs 76K+D4rkn3ss - Amigademo from Dreamhack 00
SamplesMaster.lha dev/amos 108K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
BlitzLstFeb00.lha dev/basic 383K+Blitz mailing list archives for February
BlitzLstMar00.lha dev/basic 179K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
BlitzLstNov00.lha dev/basic 140K+Blitz mailing list archives for November
Amiga-C-Nov00.lha dev/c 89K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Nove
amiga12.lha dev/cross 71K+LUnix SDK (binary distribution)
WarpUp-Nov00.lha docs/misc 97K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in N
Snace.lha game/2play 308K+2pl. snake-like racing game, but in all
Mattonite.lha game/demo 234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
DiamondBOX.lha gfx/edit 390K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.XMAS
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 522K+V1.55 PSX MemoryCard Reader
LocaleCS_cats.lha misc/misc 1.7M+Czech and Slovak Locale - catalogs
OS39-Boot.lha pix/boot 88K+CyberGraphX-BootPic.library for OS3.9
HideWB.lha util/boot 17K+HideWB is a nice util that shift up WB s
EasyConvert.lha util/conv 23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
GuiSplatch.lha util/misc 31K+Split and join files with easy to use GU
ShootTheScreen.lha util/misc 502K+It's main task is doing series of Screen
GoodTime.lha util/time 410K+GoodTime is a WB clock showing time usin
TacyCacy.lha util/wb 469K+Display citation on WB in very nice way.
VisualPrefs.lha util/wb 459K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
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16.Dec.2000
Thorsten Schölzel via eMail
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CD³²-Allianz News
On the CD³²-Developer-Site there are new information about coding
including the Akiko-GPU. Furthermore you can find three more documents there.
These texts are only available in English and therefor we are searching for
somebody who could translate them.
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16.Dec.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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aminetGUI is NOT offline
In some forums there is a rumor that says the aminetGUI and even the whole
AmiNET were offline. This is not true. he AmiNET as well as the aminetGUI are
online. Only the URL www.aminet.de is offline since the domainprovider has
problems. The current URL is
www.amiga-gateway.de/aminetgui/index.html.
All services of the GUI can be reached under this URL.
Alexander Kurtz, webmaster of the Aminet-GUI wrote: "I do not
intend to give up on this project.
Currently I lack the time to make all the changes I imagined to make, but I am
still working on it! I owe this to you, the Amiga community."
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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier
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Chip: Nvidia buys 3dfx: Spectacular 3D-Company takeover
The moment has finally come: 3D graphics pioneer 3dfx closes its doors - and
sells the company to its hardest opponent: Nvidia. You can find the complete
report under the title link.
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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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EASys! Update 4.8.4 and bugfix with OS 3.9
The update to version 4.8.4 of EASys! will be ready for 20.12.2000 at the
latest. User who bought the 4.8.4 CD-R package at the fair in Cologne don't
need that update anymore. But following things should be arranged with 4.8.4
CD-R package so OS 3.9 runs completely.
- rename the file EASys!:config/OS39_with_toolsdaemon to OS39_with_rexxmenu
- in file SYS:StartSys/e_WB/2_Toolbar (or 2_ToolManager_EASys) add one line
before the startup of the toolmanager:
wait 10
this is required because
an asynchron simultaneous start of AmiDock and ToolManager causes a bug.
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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Interview with Paul Nolan
GraphicsBoard.com did an interview with Paul Nolan, the author of Photogenics.
You can find the complete interview under the title link.
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16.Dec.2000
Michael Ufer on ANF
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New Sample-Set for WormsDC
Since Hyperion are taking their time for "Worms Armageddon" for the Amiga, I
have created a new sample-set with up to 90% of German samples for the old
"Worms - The Directors Cut" (try the "Suizid-Oma" or atomic bomb;)). This puts
the fun back into WormsDC :-). Caution: the set is approximately 3 MB large
(you need a lot of Fast-Ram to use the samples).
Download: NewWorms.lha
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16.Dec.2000
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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Mini-GlowIcons 1.3 including OS3.9 Updates
The current MiniGlowincons archive with over 400 small icons for start-bars or
small VGA desktop is now available on our homepage. Included are among
others icons for OS 3.9 (UnArch, AmiDock, Action...). In the download area
there are also some desktop backgrounds and MP2/MP3 sound files that where
created with the Amiga.
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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Speculations about Corel's Linux-business
As formerly announced, Corel sold its Linux area. Here are more links
concerning the subject:
ZDNet: Scoop: Corel to sell its Linux arm
The Register: Corel Linux selloff nearly a done deal
The Register: Corel responds to Linux sale speculation
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15.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Trouble with Defective Crusoe Processors
NEC calls back notebooks
Shortly after notebooks with the Transmeta processor went on sale, they make negative
headlines. Because of defective chips, NEC calls back the sold notebooks.
NEC shipped the new notebooks La Vie XM. 284 in Japan for only a few days, now
they were called back because of defective processors. According to Transmeta,
the fault has already been fixed, the devices run without problem. Probably a
reaction to the defective chips: the stock market value of the processor manufacturer
dropped by 5.06 US$. Apparently, defective chips have also been built into the new
Sony Picture Books Vaio PCGCi VE. Other than NEC, the Japanese company does not
plan to call back the computers. An exact number of affected devices is not known
yet. US media speak of about 13,000. Sony offers free exchange of the notebooks if
difficulties with installing Windows appear.
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15.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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SEGA in the red
(Irina Srebot) - Since the introduction of the Dreamcast console, the former hope
becomes a millstone round the company's neck. The Japanese company faces a financial
dilemma. Sega expects for the current financial year a loss of 193 million Euro.
Despite price reductions to stay competitive with Sony's Playstation 2, there's
no hope for a change. Analysts recommend Sega to concentrate on developing software.
Since March 2000, Sega sold profitably 30.2 million games.
Supplement 12-16-2000:
Accidently we coughed an elder message. On 12-12-2000
Heise reported that
contrary to what many experts expected Dreamcast sells very well after the release of
Playstation 2. So according to the manufacturer around Thanksgiving sells increased of 85% percent
compared to sells of the week before. Also Sega would profit from Sony's delivery problems in the case
of Playstation 2, said Peter Moore, president of Sega USA, in an interview with the news service CNET
on the Jupiter Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, yesterday.
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15.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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ZDNet: Scoop: Corel to sell its Linux Arm
According to unconfirmed rumors, Corel wants to get rid of its Linux arm.
You'll find the full article at the title link.
Slashdot link on this topic:
Slashdot: Corel To Sell Linux Arm
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15.Dec.2000
IKE on ANF
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Unofficial AmigaOS 3.9 Mailing List
An inofficial AmigaOS 3.9 mailing list was created at eGroups. The discussion group
is a forum for all questions regarding AmigaOS 3.9. To subscribe,please send an e-mail
to AmigaOS39-subscribe@egroups.com.
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15.Dec.2000
Deftone on ANF
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BlitzEngineers with new domain!
The BlitzEngineers Homepage has moved. The new address is
http://www.blitzengineers.de.
There you can download the latest version of SMSEngineer.
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15.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Frogger 1.64b1 released
The MPEG 1/2 decoder 'Frogger' is now available for
download in version 1.64b1.
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15.Dec.2000
Eternity via eMail
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Eternity is waiting for Visitor #40,000
As Christmas time is the time of presents, we will give the person who e-mails
our webmaster Patrick Beerhorst at patrick@synotec-newmedia.de
with a screenshot and mentioning of approximate time and date
a Tornado 3d 1.5 worth about 200 DM!
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15.Dec.2000
J.R. Wilson via eMail
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Amiga Extravaganza Delayed
The show 'Amiga Extravaganza' which was planned by ARCUG for early January 2001
in Indianapolis was postponed for indefinite time because of too little interest.
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14.Dec.2000
SimonII
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SimonII - Update
Paul Burkey has released an update for the game Simon The Sorcerer II.
This update among other things should fix the ASL requester problem.
Download: Simon2Upd1.lha
Supplement: 12-15-2000:
Update #2 is online, cause update #1 didn't fix the ASL requester problem.
Download: Simon2Upd2.lha - 89 KB
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14.Dec.2000
Maciek Binek via eMail
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Elbox - WoA 2000 Pictures
You will find show pictures by Elbox under the title link.
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14.Dec.2000
ANN
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Show Videos by Elwood
Elwood did many smaller videos of the Cologne Amiga show and provides them for download
as MPG files under the title link.
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14.Dec.2000
Microcode Solutions
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iFusion PPC News
iFusion, an iMac emulator for PPC Amigas, has entered beta level. When to expect a final
version isn't mentioned. On the website some
screenshots
of a working iFusion are to see.
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14.Dec.2000
SpawnPPC on ANF
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AmiWorld On-Line
The Italian online magazine 'AmiWorld' is online again.
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14.Dec.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail
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Alchemy Laboratory Junior by XTeam Software available
Chrystal Interactive took on stock 'Alchemy Laboratory Junior'
by XTeam Software, an education software
for chemistry. With the CD you can learn about chemistry in an easy way, can watch
experiments as 3D simulations and the interactive teacher. Necessary materials are
included. Existing localisations: Italian, English, German.
Requirements: A current version of Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer.
Compatible to Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Amiga, and BeOS.
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14.Dec.2000
Amiga Impact
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Project Amiga Java Engine looking for Programmers
Merlancia Industries is looking for programmers wanting
to participate in developing the Amiga Java Engine for AmigaOS. Interested programmers
might contact amiga@merlancia.com.
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14.Dec.2000
Virtual Dimension
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Virtual Dimension Show Pictures
To shorten waiting for the show video by Virtual Dimension a bit on the "Vor Ort" page
there are already some photos of the World of Amiga in Cologne.
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13.Dec.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail
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NetBSD-1.5
As reported before NetBSD 1.5 is available for download.
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13.Dec.2000
Bob Scharp
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Amiga 2001 - Website online
We already have several exhibitors listed in this
first listing of our web pages. More will be added
each week. Be sure to keep posted on this the biggest
Amiga show in the Americas.
St. Louis is centrally located in the heart of the
U.S., and is served by several airlines, including
TWA, which has a hub here. Check the web page for
the phone number of our official travel agency,
Best Way Travel. They can help you get your travel
arrangements made to attend the show.
Amiga2001 - an Amiga Odyssey, will be hosted at the
Sheraton West Port Hotel, located in St. Louis, MO.
The hotel is physically located in the city of
Maryland Heights at:
Sheraton West Port Hotel
900 West Port Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63146
For reservations contact them at 314-878-1500 and
ask for the reservation desk. Reservations is open
from 8 AM until 10:30 PM CST. Be certain to tell
them that you are attending the Amiga2001 show,
so that you get the special rates. Stay at the
Sheraton West Port, get special rates, and help
the show. The Sheraton has 17 Restaurants, 6 Bistros,
a Comedy Night Club, a two screen Cinema, the
West Port Playhouse, and several snack shops,
magazine shop and speciality shops all available
and within a one to five minute walk. Convenient
undercover parking for guest as well.
While your viewing the web page, be certain to send
in your money for tickets to attend and tickets for
the Amiga2001 Banquet to be held Saturday evening.
The show is Friday, March 30 thru Sunday April 1st,
2001. Friday is the Developers Conference with
classes and the vendor setup Friday evening. Saturday
and Sunday are the exhibit floor displays with lots
of exhibitors showing off their latest Amiga products
and offering good prices to boot. Classes are
also available on Saturday and Sunday for those
not quite up to the more challenging ones on Friday.
Check out the Amiga2001 web pages and come enjoy
the show and say happy retirement to Petro Tyschtschenko,
who will retire while at the show on Saturday, March 31.
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13.Dec.2000
Met@box
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Met@box introducing Set-Top Boxes
In time for start of production Met@box AG today introduced to the public
their new generation of set-top boxes. The modular built met@box 1000, which can be
connected to any TV-set, enables interactive TV watching, and by the integrated
digital TV-standard (DVB) is capable of the future TV broadcasting standard.
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13.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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Nursery School ?
As I learned the IRC conferences organized by UGN and conducted by the Amiga-Club didn't
went off as without a hitch as I said in my show report. Script-kiddies didn't have better
things to do as to flood the channel with multilating scripts, so some of the panned IRC
conferences had be interrupted or could not take place, at all. UGN was already thinking of
never again to organize conferences from shows.
To people not able to attend a show the IRC conferences always were an appreciated possibility
to get actual information, and most of all the only opportunity to address their questions
directly to the VIP's of the branch.
Therefore I appeal to the scrip-kiddies to grow up at last and to stop their nursery school
behavior.
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13.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
StarBase_CLI.lha biz/dbase 104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.8)
TProspEd2.lha biz/demo 81K+V2.0.0alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
AW20-francais.lha biz/haage 14K+AmigaWriter 2.0 - Francais (french) loca
tf02.lha comm/net 255K+TinyFugue MUCK client for Amigas.
AmftpSp.lha comm/www 188K+Amftp sound Spanish
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AmsterSpF.lha comm/www 367K+Spanish sound female for amster
streamer.lha comm/www 23K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
ltp4_demodisk.dms demo/disk 464K+XMFC - Lucky&Tigrou Party 4 Megademo
BlitzLstMar00.lha dev/basic 211K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
MuForce.lha dev/debug 265K+The V40 Enforcer, detects illegal RAM ac
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MuLink.lha dev/misc 116K+Memory protect selected hunks of binarie
MuScan.lha dev/misc 113K+Print the MMU tree layout.
xad_bzip2.lha dev/src 39K+Bzip2 xadmaster client
xad_COP.lha dev/src 11K+COP xadmaster client
xad_MakeSFX.lha dev/src 11K+MakeSFX xadmaster client
SortCopy.lha disk/bakup 28K+Copy or backup files,directories and lin
F1Champ.lha docs/misc 60K+Statistics of Formula One '50-'00
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WHDSupremacy.lha game/patch 24K+HD Installer for Supremacy V1.1
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Afraid.lha mods/atmos 125K+Afraid by Chris, The Highlander
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HouseCore.lha mods/house 315K+HouseCore by TailS...
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EWJ2-Anything.lha mods/med 60K+EWJ2-Anything But Tangerines by Chris, T
GlobalGladiato.lha mods/med 109K+GlobalGladiator by Chris, The Highlander
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SofM-Village.lha mods/med 37K+SofM-Village by Chris, The Highlander
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DZY-tat.mpg mods/mpg 5.5M+MP3 Tune by Dazzy of Soundforce
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Hard.lha mods/rock 243K+Hard by Chris, The Highlander
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Iktys.lha mods/rock 42K+Iktys by Chris, The Highlander
Terra.lha mods/rock 127K+Terra by Chris, The Highlander
Acoustic.lha mods/slow 54K+Acoustic by Chris, The Highlander
Finalgame.lha mods/slow 36K+Finalgame by Chris, The Highlander
Sweet_Stars.lha mods/slow 270K+Sweet Stars by Chris, The Highlander
666-alarma.lha mods/techn 357K+666-ALARMA by Chris, The Highlander
daftpunk.lha mods/techn 363K+Daftpunk by TailS...
Dags.lha mods/techn 194K+Dags by Chris, The Highlander
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dreampart.lha mods/techn 183K+Moby - GO by TailS...
no_way_out.lha mods/techn 317K+Hardtrance Track from Psycho/MOODS
ShortLifespend.lha mods/techn 209K+Short Lifespend by Chris, The Highlander
Teckbeat.lha mods/techn 49K+Teckbeat by Chris, The Highlander
Transmod.lha mods/tranc 36K+Transmod by Chris, The Highlander
MTRS_V2.16.lha mus/edit 194K+8 track HD-recorder + AHI
GriGanDer.mpg pix/3dani 3.6M+El GriGanDer
Inspector_de_H.mpg pix/3dani 1.6M+Inspector de Hacienda
Los_Mariachis.mpg pix/3dani 4.4M+Los Mariachis
AnimCool.lha pix/anim 1.2M+Anim time real
DeathconBKdr01.lha pix/back 614K+WB backdrops
OS3.9Bootpic.lha pix/boot 165K+OS3.9 boot-picure for AGA users
kerst10.jpg pix/misc 268K+Amiga Christmascard
sg-strip_1.lha pix/misc 77K+[ancor] StarGround - the new online-com
Sens_Icons.lha pix/nicon 207K+NewIcons for Sens. Soccer + other games
Amiga_PC.lha util/boot 109K+Make your Amiga booting like a PC
MuFastChip.lha util/boot 111K+Chip memory cache mode fine tuning tool
MuFastRom.lha util/boot 112K+MuLib conformal ROM to RAM remapper
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 127K+MuLib Zero Page remapper, FastExec/Prepa
MuLockLib.lha util/boot 105K+Lock the mmu.library in memory on startu
MuOmniSCSIPatc.lha util/boot 110K+Make the omniscsi.device MMULib aware
MuSetCacheMode.lha util/boot 115K+MMU tree adjustment tool for experts
ModePro.lha util/cdity 239K+4.65 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
AutoCLI.lha util/cli 18K+Auto (un)pack LHA/LZX & other things. V0
SED.lha util/cli 14K+Amiga stream editor
MMULib.lha util/libs 582K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 52K+Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution
xpk_User.lha util/pack 226K+V5.2a Compression package, user edition
68040Lib.lha util/sys 290K+A MuLib aware 68040.library, 68030.libra
FastIEEE.lha util/sys 138K+Speed up your mathieee libraries!
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13.Dec.2000
Xandiy on ANF
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Free Advertising Banners at Amiga-Community.net
Amiga-Community.net Christmas special: Free advertising banners on the main page
without link! (Editor's note: An advertising banner without link might be pretty useless.)
Send your logo (max. 120x120) to xandiy@web.de.
All of the logos sent in up to 12-23-2000 will be put on the site.
The logos will appear rotatory where at this time the pictures of the
WoA2000 are shown. It would have to be a pretty definite logo, cause there
will be no linking! This action will start if enough logos will be there and will
last until 01-06-2001 incl..
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13.Dec.2000
2IDs GRAFIX DESIGN MUSIX and more
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Flash version finished of the gallery "The man as subject of art"
Well, now it is the time, at last: also the flash version today did
the jump to the net. Beseide of the HTML version now the optically
more extended pages, but of same content, are online. Under the title
link all of the render-workes / grafix-people and artists are invited
to exhibit their art works. Of course copyright will stay with the
relative artis.
Subject of the pictures is "THE MAN AS SUBJECT OF ART".
We are looking forward to your contributions. So, get to your AMIGA or PC
or even MAC and start creatively. Let the artists know what you think about
their art work, and use our guest book to do so.
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13.Dec.2000
Martin Baute on ANF
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Pictures from the WoA
Also the Amiga user & developers from Bielefeld (Germany) were at the show, and
we even took photos with us! (Unfortunately I wasn't there myself, hence the
comments to the pictures are somewhat scanty.)
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13.Dec.2000
Michael Burkhardt on ANF
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With Amiga to the Diploma
By this I would like to officially thank everybody who guided and supported my during
my studies to become a graduate engineer for media technics. To everybody who suffered
from my lack of time I would like to say thank you for your understanding.
As my final year project substantially deals with Amiga I would not withdraw it from
the public. It is available for download on my homepage (German):
un-archived as pdf file(1,8 MB)
lha archived (1,2 MB)
The subject of the project is:
Conception and implementation of an automated control for a monitor-wall under technical
and marketing political aspects. Automation bases on an ARexx script controlling several
applications running non an Amiga 1200. For creation of software my special thanks go to:
Rico Schreckenbach
Stefan Robl
Karlheinz Marks
Stefan Steppat
To continue this project placing of some hardware for MPEG video display would be necessary.
As e.g. the related module for the CD32 isn't available any more, for this new projects
as like as Mediator might be addressed as a solution.
With this technic and our software an arrangement could be designed and delivered that would
be unique in the event branch.
- runs stable and reliable
- optimized software
- well-priced hardware
- easy editing
- arbitrary expandable
With this the most efficient and moreover cheapest device of it's kind would be created. Well now, dear
hardware developers: don't let them detain or discourage you. THANK YOU.
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13.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Think-pad without Crusoe
IBM will not bring note-books with the Crusoe processor by Transmeta to the market.
On detailed reasons the company keeps silent.
The official statement from IBM said the processor would not fit to the current
marketing concept. The decision not to equip think-pads with this processor is
a bad blow for Transmeta. An unfavourable timing, because from November the
company's shares shall be deald in Nasdaq. Senior analyser Peter Glaskowsky from
Microdesign Resources assumes that IBM wouldn't like to use the processor due to the
bad performance. Testings with Sony note-books would have turned out that a Crusoe
processor 700MHz would not be faster than an Pentium 233MHz, Glaskowsky added.
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13.Dec.2000
Dirk Baeyens
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AmigaOS 3.9 registration
At the title link you will find the registration form to register your copy of AmigaOS 3.9.
Supplement 16 Dec 2000
You will need SSL installed to access this page.
If you don't recommend secure data transfer you might use
this page for registration.
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12.Dec.2000
Suite101
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John Chandler: Making Way In The Universe
In his new article John Chandler gives an interesting overview
of the work done by Amiga in the year 2000.
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12.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
Every year Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games, hardware,
developer, and websites. Under the title link you will find a summary of the votes given in first
week.
In category application at this time 'YAM' is ahead, 'Heretic 2' in games, 'Mediator'
in hardware, 'MorphOS' and 'Hyperion' close up in development, and in websites 'Czech Amiga
News' is ahead closely followed by 'amiga-news.de'.
Die you already vote? If not, would be happy about
your vote for amiga-news.de.
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12.Dec.2000
AmigaGlobe
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AmigaGlobe WoA 2000 Report
A WoA 2000 report by AmigaGlobe.
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12.Dec.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: CGX Update
cgxsystem.library.elf version 42.5 was released.
The library now contains SuperLayers for PPC, and some speed enhancements for MagicMenuPPC.
Download: cgxsysppc_20001210.lha - 156 KB)
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12.Dec.2000
AROS
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AROS News
In December again a number of things happened at AROS. Stefan Berger did
a complete rewrite of the layers.library, hence it is much faster, but
easier than the old one. Georg Steger contributed further files for ReqTools, and
Adam Chodorowski started working on the workbench.library. Johan Alfredsson has
enhanced the ReqTools file requester, and the drive requester now works. A PS/2
Mouse.HIDD was added by Michael Schulz. More details are to find under the
title link.
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12.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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Merlancia with new specifications for hand-held?
Amiga.org reported about that Merlancia already put specifications for the
Hurrican system (hand-held computer) as well as it's interface on their website.
Links for this:
http://www.merlancia.com/MISEL/
http://www.merlancia.com/MISEL/torroindex.html
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12.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Golem: IBM introduced progressive technology for chip production
«The first chips with CMOS 9S technology form early 2001
IBM for the first time unifies copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transitors, and the
enhanced "low-k delectric" insulation in circuits with 0.13 mikron by their new technology named CMOS 9S.»
Further messages about this subject:
The Register: IBM reveals 10GHz, .13µ PowerPC chip tech
3DNews: IBM unwraps world's most advanced chip-making technology
ZdNet: IBM, Intel chips: Smaller and faster
Slashdot: IBMs CMOS 9S
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12.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF
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boeder - no salvation at sight
Some still remember this company from old Amiga days (disks, joysticks, a.m.m.).
The "Computer Partner 43/00" wrote, that the company already in October made application for
insolvency. Negotiations for takeover failed, so the company faces the off. At the time being the
Vivanco AG only is interested in the name, but even this only if the price is right. Insolvency
procedures are planned to be started between December, 15th and 20th.
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12.Dec.2000
BoingWorld
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BoingWorld - WoA 2000 Report
BoingWorld has published a WoA 2000 Report.
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11.Dec.2000
Jens Larsson on ANF
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Boingworld WoA 2000 Report
Boingworld.com published the WoA 2000 show report with some wonderful photos.
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11.Dec.2000
Ingo Musquinier on ANF
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dynAMIte Server
We distributed a free preview of the game dynAMIte among the visitors of the WoA 2000.
Normally you find the addresses of the game-servers on our support-side. Unfortunately
the server is out of order at the moment.
You should use pulp.2y.net (port 6318) as the default server. This one is the official
dynAMIte-server (TDSL-connection). Normally this server is available after 7 p.m. As soon
as the web-server is back again you will be able to find the addresses of the other server
on our support-page.
If there are any problems with the game you can discuss them with us at the IRC. We are
daily available at the euIRCnet (irc.hes.de.euirc.net:6667 channel #AmigaZeux).
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11.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF
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TIDesigner (Addon for TealInfo Developer Kit)
For everyone who wants to be able to increase the speed of the editing of TealInfo Folios
for the Palm, TIDesigner is a good help. The program is shareware.
Download: tidesigner.lha
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11.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Payback Preview-Update (Nightlevel)
There is a update for the Payback-Preview.
This time Juergen A. Theiner put the focus on the Nightlevel.
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11.Dec.2000
Michael Burkhardt via eMail
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WoA Pictures by IOM
IOM published some WoA pictures.
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11.Dec.2000
Yoris Benjamin via eMail
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Realsoft 3D V4 - Press release
As mentioned in the exhibition-report, Hyperion will publish a AMIGA-version of there
'Realsoft 3D'. Here's the press release:
From: Yoris Benjamin
Subject: Realsoft 3D V4 press-release
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:32:54 +0100
Hello World !
Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment team up to bring Realsoft 3D to the
Amiga.
Cologne, December 9, 2000.
Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment have entered into an agreement to bring
Realsoft's critically acclaimed and highly advanced 3D modelling and
rendering package to the Amiga.
'Realsoft 3D' is a full featured modelling, rendering, animation and
simulation software tool. Its predecessor, Real 3D, originated on the Amiga
all these years ago and was renowned for its powerful and innovative tools.
Now the new, rewritten 'Realsoft 3D' provides even more power and introduces
dozens of exciting innovations, all accessible through a very carefully
designed, intelligent, and user-friendly interface. This new interface
adapts to the skills of the user and helps him/her to master advanced 3D
techniques with surprising ease. Realsoft 3D is designed to meet the
requirements of today's 3D artist who requires extreme performance through an
easy to use, productive user interface.
Commenting on the agreement, Realsoft's managing director Vesa Meskanen
remarked: "The success of our 3D product line started on the Amiga platform.
This opportunity to port our latest product generation back to Amiga is
therefore very welcome. The platform independent design of Realsoft 3D
together with Hyperion Entertainment's knowledge about the latest
developments of Amiga OS entails that after the initial porting work is done,
all our new software releases will include the Amiga platform without further
porting delays."
"We were extremely impressed by the feature-set of Realsoft 3D. This package
truly represents unbelievable value for money", said Ben Hermans, managing
partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "Through our activities in the field of
entertainment software, we have acquired enormous expertise in the field of
3D graphics. We were looking for a way to leverage this expertise and apply
it to other areas. Given Realsoft's Amiga background, it seemed natural to
approach them. We are very excited that we can play a role in bringing back
Real 3D's successor to the Amiga."
Realsoft 3D will be available for Amiga OS 3.x and Amiga DE in the course of
2001. Requirements and further details to be announced.
About Realsoft Graphics Oy
Realsoft Graphics Oy, a Finnish corporation founded in 1989 as Realsoft Ky,
has been pushing the cutting edge of 3D visualization for over a decade. For
more information about Realsoft Graphics and its products, visit the
company's website at www.realsoft3d.com
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German corporation
founded in April of 1999 with the stated aim of porting AAA entertainment
software to Amiga, Linux (x86/PPC) and Mac. The company has signed license
deals with industry leaders such as Activision (ATVI), Interplay (IPLY) and
Monolith.
Regards,
Ben Yoris
Hyperion Entertainment Software
PR Manager
Web: http://www.hyperion-software.com
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11.Dec.2000
Wolf Faust via eMail
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ICS V2 released
After more than a year of work, the free scanner color correction
ICS V2 was released. Following features have been added to V2 of ICS:
- Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
- ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
- ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data.
- ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial
information
- Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images
(IFF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- Spanish localization added
- ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion.
- IRW does offer improved and localized error handling. Error requesters
now offer detailed information,
hints and often also a Retry function.
- Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats. Also,
memory requirement was reduced.
- Many new small enhancements....
Download the new software from http://www.ics.coloraid.de
--
Wolf Faust
Tel: +49-69-5486556
e-mail
Fax: +49-69-95409598
homepage
Mobile: +49-179-6924769
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11.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena special offer
Together with Helmut Hoffmann, Amiga Arena offers a special Christmas price for
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow inclusive all additional modules. The price will be 35,- DM.
This offer will be valid until 12-31-2000.
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11.Dec.2000
Torsten Dudai
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OS 3.9 - Presentation by Juergen Haage and Martin Steigerwald
Torsten Dudai did a report about the OS 3.9 presentation on the WoA:
Though there was "US-Amiga-News / Bill McEwen" an item of the agenda, neither Bill McEwen - who
stayed in America - nor Fleecy Moss - who was at the show - were available at that time, so
Juergen Haage had to stand in. In a direct dialogue with the users he tried to collect their
worries and sorrows for Amiga Inc. to be able to estimate the current mood. But the discussion
(due to the lack of facts on the subject AmigaDE) very soon resulted in the new OS 3.9, in which
every attendant of the seminar was very interested. So, Juergen Haage was able to seamlessly led
over to the following seminar.
Besides of individual problems (one elder man was especially "persistent") also much of the known
subjects were addressed, as like as the condition of "50,000" sold copies of OS3.9 (Fleecy Moss), and
the "license quarrel" around AmiTCP. In both cases Juergen Haage was able to quiet the devotees' minds: the number
"50,000" would not be meaningful at all, because it even isn't combined with a date. Later one just
would have to able to estimate if or if not OS 3.9 has been a success. For example only 40,000
(or less) sold copies already would be a big success. About the license quarrel Juergen Haage just
said, "There is no license quarrel". Haage & Partner obtained the license for AmiTCP correctly
and is allowed to distribute the TCP stack along with Genesis (no MUI, but Reaction GUI) on the
CD-ROM.
Then together with Stefan Robl, the programmer of AmiDocks, the new OS3.9 tool-bar, (almost) all of
the features of the new Amiga operating system were presented. During the presentation again ideas,
criticism, and suggestions were given by the viewers. Juergen Haage put an implementation in parts into
prospective for a coming "Boing-Pack 2". But the limits of what can be done are almost reached with
this update. Without a change of the KickROMs not much further can be done, any more.
But about one subject he could not give any clear statement: Amiga DE. Haage & Partner still didn't
decide whether or not they would port their own products to the new system. In parts this depends on the
availability of a sophisticated GUI system, which isn't available at the time being.
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11.Dec.2000
Petra Struck
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Show Report by Petra Struck
World of Amiga - Gleanings - 10.12.2000
Autor: Petra Struck (German version)
More amiga-news.de Links
Pictures by Petra Struck vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Torsten Dudai vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Petra Struck of the 2nd day
OS3.9 - Presentation by Torsten Dudai - in German
Exteral links to reports and pictures
Fun Time: Eyetech - AmigaONE/AmigaDE Timelines
(Pictures of the Eyetech diagramms)
Fun Time: World of Amiga 2000 - Die ersten Infos
IRC: Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc.
IRC: Elbox
Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (4,1 MB)
Marcus Neervoort: Fleecy Moss's lecture on Dec., 9th
Tom's WOA 2000 Pictures (Thomas Wenzel)
No Risc No Fun
Fun Time World
WoA 2000 pitctures by Salva
Amiga-Community.net
Videos from Elwood
Report from amiga.topcool.de
Pictures from Virtual Dimension
Pictures from Elbox
Pictures from BAUD
Report from Amiga Globe
Report from Boing World
Report from IOM
Show report by Petra Struck
The World of Amiga 2000 from December, 9th to 10th, which was organized by
Haage & Partner, was branded by the vending start of
the new AMIGA OS3.9, which according to the vendors sold brilliant on the fair.
The show took place inside the really imposing building of Cologne's Mediapark 7 on about 300 m² room.
For this show were organized within shortest time this event was attended very well with an amount of
about 1500 visitors (note: own estimation). Seminars were held in the opposite building Mediapark 6. The first
day of the fair Saturday was stamped by active crowd, while on Sunday it was rather unhurried, cause of only half
as full as on the day before.
Before I start describing the highlights of the show I want to put across to every reader that I personally
again liked this fair very much. I'm always exited about the cheerful and personal atmosphere. As already
in Neuss an amazing amount of international attendants had come to the show. I've met and spoken to
people from England, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, France, and Spain. The visitors had visible
fun and where impressed by the many different presentations. Everywhere crowds of interested viewers got together.
Disappointment only dispersed caused by the fact that Bill McEwen didn't attend the show;
short- termed and insuspendable deadlines kept him from coming to Cologne. Fleecy Moss, Vice President
and Chief of Development, but provided for incredulous astonishment by stating there must be at least
50,000 copies of AMIGA OS3.9 sold, to be able to do OS4.0. As for this time nobody thinks this to be
possible his statement was taken for a clear No for OS4.0.
As already in Neuss amiga-news.de together with the
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet was present with an
own booth. From our editorial staff were on the fair: Dirk Baeyens,
Tomįs J. Cantó, Torsten Dudai, Ruediger Engel, Guido Fehst, Eric Gillé,
Martina Jacobs, Rolf Tingler, and me truly. Nico Barbat was also on the show, but of course was very
busy at his own booth (Falke-Verlag). Rolf inspired the visitor with his
airbrushing skills.
We enjoyed to get in close contact with the readers and numerous dialogues convinced us to have high
acknowledgment for our work, and encouraged us to continue to spend our free time for this project.
Especially intensive and interesting were the dialogues with editors of other news services, as like
Andrea Vallinotto from diff.org (ItalY), Adrian Sweeney from
amigaglobe.com (Irland), Ian Maack from
amiga.dk (Denmark), Sebastian Brylka from
Fun Time World (Germany), and Mark Hinton
and Russell Trent from AmigActive (England).
Along this I would like to say thank you very much for the many kind compliments regarding our news service.
The Amiga-Club provided the people not able to attend the show with actual pictures from the fair, and
cared for trouble-free UGN IRC chats. Traditional the club members answered our questions, and helped
solving one or the other user's problem.
Also this time Michael Schaefer and Dennis Pauler from
Virtual Dimension were busy with their video camera to
create informing show videos. They did many interviews, and over and over made the microphone sure to work,
cause on the last fair the microphone failed completely, which sure was half a disaster.
Trade and the big ones of the branch were present with their own booths - as a matter of fairness this
time in alphabetical order or vice versa:
In talks with the exhibitors it became clear that - almost unisonous - they all came with mixed feelings,
but against what they expected the visitors were joyfully buying. Trade overall voiced positive about
sales.
Almost at all of the above mentioned booths presentations of different software and hardware took
place which I will describe without special order. So for example Peter Hoffmann, Stefan Sommerfeld,
and Juergen Rebensdorf from
Aliendesign introduced their new sound card
'Repulse', which can be used with every Amiga with Zorro-II expansion. The sound card
offers sampling rates from 8 to 48 kHz, including 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz S/P-Diff, and supports
16, 18, 20, and 24 Bit (S/P-DIF) sampling frequence in mono or stereo.
New at individual computers was the ISDN-Surfer Zorro card which was to purchase either with or
without OVP. The announced products 'Lyra' (adapter to use WindowsTM keyborads with Amiga),
and 'Buddha Flash MK2' unfortunately were not finished, but probably will be available before
Christmas.
Dirk Conrad introduced his MAS-Player which is distributed by
Eternity. The MPEG-Player is a small piece of hardware looking like a serial plug. The player can
play MP3 files already on a machine only equipped with a 68000 68k processor. HiFi quality is around
18 Bit / 44 kHz. Since the WoA 2000 AmigaAMP is supported.
At the booth of Hyperion the attendants were able to admire a prototype of the G-Rex PCI board
by DCE with Voodoo3 graphics board on action. With this system
Heretic II really looked smooth, it was fast and the lightning effects were wonderfully visible.
Users can look forward to better speed and nice graphics. The boards are planned to be finished end
of December 2000.
Of course we yet asked for the projects under construction at Hyperion, and summarized the answers as
follows:
- Shogo: Hans-Joerg and Thomas Frieden are working on the Amiga version which presumably will be
finished end of January 2001.
- Freespace: On the port of this space shooter Steffen Haeuser and
Matthias Roslund are working. It is planned to finished 1Q/2001.
- Majesty: Stephan Rusdorf and Thomas Frieden are busy porting this
fantasy strategy game which includes roll game elements. It is expected to be finished 2Q/2001.
- Die Voelker (Alien Nations): Harry Sintonen is working on the port of this popular build-up and
strategy game, which is a big success similar to Siedler.
- SIN: Steffen Haeuser and Peter Annuss are working on the port of the 3D shooter.
The game will presumably be finished 1Q/2001.
- Hyperion will also port the 3D software 'Realsoft 3D' by Realsoft to the
Amiga! With this software comparable to 'Cinema3D' or 'Reflections'
the Amiga users will get a 3D modelling tool more extended and modern than anything else released
before.
Eyetech together with Martin Schueler from
Escena introduce the plans for the AmigaOne
machine. It was shown on diagrams how the system will look like. The 68k emulation is being developed
by Haage & Partner.
At Eternity Tales of Tamar was presented - Martin Wolf's
favourite project. In the meantime the world map and cities have been enabled. Still intense online
tests are running and the beta testers are really sold on the game. Initial bigger beta test are planned
for 2Q/2001.
Also at Eternity EASys!
by Tom Neidhardt was presented. The current update offers improvements like e.g. a built-in start menu,
OS3.9 menu support and alignment. Other changes: the archive manager now supports XPK; the menus are
structured better, and extend of menus is scalable, and moreover the buggy installation of the previous
version has been fixed, hence a trouble-less installation is possible,yet.
Eternity moreover presented a PC (Eternity 1) basing on 1 GHz (Tunderbird processor by AMD), equipped with
gigabyte board, 128 MB DIMM -133, Ge-Force II graphics board 32 MB DD-RAM, Catweazel controller, 52x CD-ROM drive,
20 GB Quantum HD, two PC floppy drives (one of them connected to the Catweasel), as well as a sound card 128 Bit
PCI. The gag of this PC is a perfectly pre-installed UAE under Windows. This way one gets a fast PC, and
an AMIGA at the speed of 68040/60.
During an interview with Andreas Magerl and Georg Breitsprecher from
Amiga Future and APC&TCP
Mr. Magerl stated that financing of the now self-produced print magazine
'Amiga Future' finally is safe. Number of orders still isn't 100% satisfying, but a huge layout enhancement
would attract more orders. I've seen the new layout and I can confirm it to be a difference like night and day. :-)
Andreas Kuessner from WK-Artworks presented
'Taifun', the successor of 'WildFire'. Taifun is being developed for the new
operating system 'Amiga DE' using the Amiga Software Developer Kit (SDK). KDH-Datentechnik
will be distributor of Taifun.
At epic interactive Paul Burkey introduce 'Simon The Sorcerer II'. The game will be at the vendors
form the middle of next week. Also presented was 'Earth 2140', a real-time strategy game has been
ported to the Amiga by Pagan Games on demand of epic interactive. The master volume is on its way to production.
Still under development is Dafel:Bloodline. Status: Thomas Wuergler continues to work on this game, but
when it will be finished cannot be estimated at the time being. 'Converting games' currently has
a higher priority.
The ATC team handed me a disk containing a preview of the reworked classic game
Dynamite. This one will be to play via internet. I promise to have
a look at it soon. :)
My quite personal summary: The AMIGA is anything but dead! There are innovative developments in hardware
and software taking place. There is unfractured engagement and unrestricted attendance to continue. In many
dialogues it got clear that we are facing a future which though is undetermined, it's not hopeless.
Tenor from the exhibitors' commercial point of view was, "Though one is able to make enough money with the
Amiga, one cannot 'line his pockets'". Already from just this solitary point of view I rate this
fair as a success. I had a lot of fun, anyway, and to have been there really pushed on my motivation. :-)
In terms of this....
Petra Struck
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