04.Jan.2000
Patrick Beerhorst in ANF
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New links for amiga-software.com
Patrick Beerhorst writes:
I want to point to the offer from amiga-software.com. With this page, I made it my goal to
offer a link collection of good Amiga software products which often "suffer" from a long
or complicated URL and are therefore unknown to many users, or quickly forgotten if you
forget to bookmark it.
So if you have good submissions for the page, please send them in, so I can keep the page
continuously updated. For submissions, please use the offered form, or send me a mail in
the format title / URL / description and address of the author. Please don't forget to
mention if special hardware is required (like PPC etc.).
(Translation: mb)
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04.Jan.2000
Trojaner-info.de
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Info for PC users: Trojan/Feliz destroys important system files
"The trojan wishes a 'happy new year' [FELIZ ANO NOVO], and a face appears. However, eight
important system files are deleted in the background. A new system boot is no longer possible
then. Like before, beware of new year e-mails with attached files. Of course there are harmless
(exe) files around. My advice: NEVER open this file, no matter from which address it comes."
(Translation: mb)
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04.Jan.2000
Steve Crietzman on COSA ML
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Steve Crietzman: News from Petro
From: "Steve Crietzman" president@amigakernel.org
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:41:10 -0000
Organization: Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS
Subject: [cosa] Some news from Petro
Hi all,
I've just got off the phone with Petro. Thought I'd share
a little info with y'all.
First, he's alive and well and still functioning as Amiga
International, Inc. and will continue to operate under Amino.
Tom Schmidt is also alive, well and employed by Gateway,
and still around in some capacity - although I'm not sure
what his new title or position is yet. He is to come over
to Germany and meet with Petro soon to finalise everything.
Petro sounded very optimistic about the future, and said
he looks forward to continue to do his job and to the future
with Amino.
He said to expect some announcements from Amino in the
days and weeks ahead. Keep a close eye on the Amiga
website. According to Petro, there's going to be a small
update later today.
He also in this phonecall repeated his continuing support
for COSA and Open Source and asked me to convey his
best wishes to Amigans everywhere, and to let everyone
know that for him, it's "business as usual."
It's reassuring (to me at least) to know that whatever
happens with the Amiga, the one thing we can always
count on is that Petro will always be around. Whoever
said we don't have stability in the Amiga world? ;-)
Best regards,
Steve Crietzman (president@amigakernel.org)
Amiga 4000/040, 18MB RAM, 1.2GB Hard Disk, Picasso IV
President, Open Amiga Group (http://www.amigakernel.org
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04.Jan.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX - Software Engineering Website moving
From January 7th to 9th, my WWW provider is changing it's server infrastructure, so www.ar-kleinert.de
might be temporarily unavailable. E-mails should be delivered normally, however.
Progress reports are available at www.puretec.de/umzug_main.htm :-)
(Translation: mb)
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04.Jan.2000
GNN
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GNN: USB-expansion for Amiga
The title link is yesterday's top news at GNN.
GNN writes:
"After the easy-to-expand Universal Serial Bus was quickly spread first by Apples iMac,
and shortly afterwards by Windows 98 systems, interest is now growing among users of
other platforms - at least that of Amiga users might be satisfied soon.
The TigerTronics team is developing a USB expansion board for all Amiga models with
Zorro expansion card, like the 3000 and 4000 series. It is labeled "Eriol", and will
offer two USB ports. Low and high speed USB devices will be supported. If more than
two devices are to be connected, standard USB hubs have to be used. To transmit data
quickly and keep system usage low, Eriol will access Amiga memory directly by DMA
transfer."
Full article (German) at the title link.
Another (German) article at GNN: New chance? Gateway sells Amiga
(Translation: mb)
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04.Jan.2000
AMIGA
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First official statement from Bill McEwen: Executive Update
January 3, 2000
YeeHaw and welcome to the year 2000;
I want to make something very clear from the beginning we have been
told, that Amiga was purchased by Gateway because of the Patents, and
that there were not even aware of the Amiga installed base, or the
people.
Gateway purchased Amiga because of Patents, we purchased Amiga
because of the People.
Without the people standing behind, developing, creating, purchasing
and continuing to believe in the Amiga there never would have been
anything for Gateway to purchase. We recognize this, and it is because
of you, and what you have continued to accomplish with Amiga that we
have purchased the company.
I want to make sure that everyone knows and understands what this all
means to you the true Amigans.
Here is what was acquired from Gateway:
- All trademarks logos etc.
- All existing inventory of Amiga International
- All existing licenses.
- License to All Amiga patents (Gateway still owns the patents, but
we are able to use them).
- All web sites, and registered domain names.
- The Amiga OS and all that is associated with the OS.
- The Amiga operation as it exists today.
Specific details of the developer system, the OS partners and how one
can begin developing will be released in the next couple of weeks.
We will be making an announcement on January 8th, 2000 with one of
our partners at CES in Las Vegas, and more details will follow that
release.
Fleecy, Myself, Petro, and the rest of the team are not going to make
promises and create presentations and demos. We are going to deliver
products, services, and the rest of the world will know what you have
already known.
We will be officially changing the name of Amino Development
Corporation to the Amiga Corporation this week, and we will let
everyone know of this change shortly once it is officially completed.
I want to thank all of you for your continued support we will make
Amiga what it should have been, and more importantly what it will be.
Keeping the faith,
Bill McEwen President/CEO
Amino Development Corporation
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04.Jan.2000
Steffen Häuser be e-mail
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Legal Quake version for WarpUP (beta version) released
Yesterday, the first beta version of Quake 1.09 and QuakeWorld has been released by
Frank Wille and Steffen Häuser. The beta version is available at the title link,
and contains binaries for WarpUP (vbcc-WarpUP compiled) and PowerUP (vbcc-PowerUP compiled)
of QuakePPC.
Feature list:
- GFX board and AGA support
- support for PIP (Picasso 96) and WB Window
- double and triple buffering
- sound
- CD audio support
- mouse, joypad and joystick support
- in-game video options
- network support
- QuakeWorld support (client and server)
It is a beta version. Stability, Warp3D support and a comfortable user interface will follow.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
Joachim Nink in ANF
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Diamond Caves II and Maniacball now freeware
After releasing Diamond Caves I as freeware, the author Peter Elzner has decided to release
the legendary Amiga games Diamond Caves II and Maniacball as freeware. The numerous levels
are available for free download, too.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
ANN
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Amiga ranked 2nd
Amiga is ranking an ungraceful 2nd place in the Wired.com "Vaporware" Award.
I am sure Bill and Fleecy have more to offer than that :-). (ps)
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03.Jan.2000
ANN
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#Ami3D competition
The competition is for all renderers, the selected subject is "The Garden". If you want
to participate, you can find all necessary details here.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
.AmiUpdate
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.AmiUpdate Interview
.AmiUpdate did an interview with Georges Halvadjian, author of
Perfect Paint, which you can read at the
title link. There is also a detailed review of Perfect Paint.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
AROS
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AROS update
The AROS (Amiga Research OS) website has been reworked, and all subpages updated.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
Ivo Janacek by e-mail
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Javosoft: New drivers
New drivers for FastATA/Powerflyer and Allegro / 4xEIDE and Allegro.
Download: FastATA'99v51a27.lha
Download: EIDE'99v27a27.lha
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
Dennis Pauler in ANF
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Update of the AmigaFever homepage
The AmigaFever homepage has been updated again: some new areas, and new articles in the
article archive.
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03.Jan.2000
Neo in ANF
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Römer Computer also closing
Neo writes in the News forum:
I just found this posting in the Heise Newsticker Forum (title link) (partial):
"You have to face reality!
Horst-Dieter Römer on
January 2nd, 2000
Hello friends!
Until December 31rd, 1999, I was Amiga service partner and
did quit, because it was no longer justifiable from an economic point of view."
However, there is no mention of this on the Römer homepage yet.
One less, again :-((
Mario Eng writes on the subject in ANF:
The shop Römer COmputer in Berlin is closed, repairs and sales of Amiga hardware and supplies
does however continue on the Römer homepage. E-Mail to
Eng@Roemer.de.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
GIGA
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GIGA: New Amiga Ownership
"...after Jim Collas and his hardware plans failed at Gateway and quit, it was already forseeable
that Amiga wouldn't see a bright future. 'Now we can finish the job started 15 years ago', says
Amino CEO Bill McEwen, without further commenting this..."
Full article (German) at the title link.
ZDNet: Gateway sells Amiga to startup
For the first time, the amount of 5 million dollar was mentioned in combination with the purchase.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
Falk Lüke by e-mail
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Eternity: Tales of Tamar News
Since these are the first EternityNews this year, a happy new year first!
The work on Tales of Tamar is making steady progress, the demo version will be released soon.
Those who already own it will enjoy a yet improved version even closer to the final game:
Go to the camp, and you will find a nice update for the demo version (v0.25) in one of the
displayed tons! As a small gimmick, we included a small MasterMind clone named "RuneStone"
which you will enjoy for sure.
Additionally, we are looking for language-skilled people (for localising the demo version,
subsequently the full version). People interested should contact me at
pr-manager@eternity.amiga-software.com.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
COSA
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COSA on the Amiga / Amino sellout
Steve Crietzman congratulates Amino on the purchase of Amiga, and is faithful that the
right people did buy Amiga.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Jan.2000
Amiga Future
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Questions to Bill
So Amiga is sold, and of course there are many, many open questions. Please send us your
questions as fast as possible, so we can incooperate them in our interviews. Send questions
to Andreas Magerl, editor-in-chief Amiga Future, e-mail Andreas@chiemgau.org.
(Translation: mb)
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02.Jan.2000
TigerTronics
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TigerTronics website now online
TigerTronics has the goal of developing a USB card for Amiga. In February 2000, the first
prototype card will be finished. Afterwards, the necessary Amiga software will be developed
for this card.
(Translation: mb)
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02.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de
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Software News
- Soundprobe - due to too few requests, an Amiga version is still in doubt.
- Olivetti printer driver updated
1. Olivetti JP Inkjet driver v40.2 - download: OlivettiJP.lha
2. Olivetti JP790 driver v40.4 - download: OlivettiJP790.lha
- GoldED Service Pack 15, download only for registered users.
Download demo: golded6.lha.
- AmiMasterGear v0.81 - download: AmiMasterGear.lha
- AmiComSys 1.30a - download: AmiComSysMUI1.30a.lzx - 260 Kb
and AmiComSysMUI1.30a.readme.
- ASM-One update to version 1.42 RTG - download: asmonev1.42rtg.lha
- Barfly version 2.1 - download: Barfly2_1.lha - 624 Kb, readme.
- DarcNES/Amiga version 9a0101a - download: dn9a0101a.lha
- LAME beta version 3.58 3/4, asyncio.library now runs with PPC.
Download: LAMEbeta.lzx - 460 Kb
- MetalWEB update, reworked version adjusted to OS 3.5, and with Vapor Auto Update System being integrated.
Download: MetalWEB4_pre3.lzx - 824 Kb
- Darkage - Bippy version 1.01 and a review of ExtraLife
- Oliver Roberts
WarpPNG.datatype version 44.1 - WarpPNGdt.lha
WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.3 - WarpJPEGdt.lha
- CyberGraphX - note for AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.0 users:
With the upcomming release CGX v4.2, there could be problems with the date in the version string if
you still have the old version 40.1 of "Version" installed. To eliminate the problem, you should
install Version_v40.3.lha. More
notes on the Y2K-problem.
- AmigaOS 3.5 review, from Amiga.org
- Xteam-Software Solution - the game "Virtual Ball Fighters" is finished.
Download the demo: vbfdemortg.lha.zip - 3.5 MB,
source: Czech Amiga News
- Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail - On my WWW page (see
news_e.html), the latest version of the akDatatypes (v44.65 of the three most popular, and v44.8
of akNAIL) and the latest version of akMPEG2 (v4.01) are available. Download:
akJFIF-dt.lha
akJFIF-PPC.lha
akJFIF-WOS.lha
akPNG-dt.lha
akPNG-PPC.lha
akPNG-WOS.lha
akTIFF-dt.lha
akTIFF-PPC.lha
akTIFF-WOS.lha
akMPEG4.lha
If you want to run comparing benchmarks with other datatypes, please make the correct adjustments
for correct results - there are a minimum of three possibilities to run my PPC datatypes with
"PPC" kernels, and additionally if you disable / enable 24bit output, this affects results, too.
PicBench from Aminet, or PicBench.lha is
a good choice for speed benchmarks.
(Translation: mb)
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02.Jan.2000
Alex Kazik in ANF
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scene-handler now for MovieShop V5
The new version of scene-handler can now also work on MovieShop V5 data. Currently there is
only a demo, since particion access is not yet available. Additionally, a new AIFF/AIFC bug
has been fixed. The registered version is now able to add new sounds to projects. Try participating
in our survey. Download:
scene-handler.lha.
(Translation: mb)
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02.Jan.2000
Steven Kile by e-mail
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AmigaZone
Steven Kile did send us this advertising for AmigaZone.
I posted this a few days before, but forgot to upload the ad. Sorry.
Greetings Fellow Amiga Users,
I just wanted to let all of you know about an Amiga Web-based bulletin board, The AmigaZone.
The AmigaZone is a fully menued online service you can use with any terminal program or Telnet
client, and it also has a fast and slick web interface you can use with your web browser!
The Zone has dozens of message bases, over 40,000 downloadable files, an Amiga Usenet newsfeed,
Amiga Fidonet echoes feed, "QWK" mail and news downloading, CD ROMs online, fourteen Amiga
mailing lists that feed right into our message bases so you don't have to clog up your mailbox
with them, an online gif/jpg library image thumbnail generator, live chat rooms, a members'
private FTP site and POP3 mail server, and more features than any Amiga-specific service you've
ever seen. Yes, it's a multi- interface, easy to use, fully Amiga-dedicated online service and
we'd love to have YOU as a member!
I particularly like, the free email account (YourAccountName@amigazone.com). I am an Amiga user
and proud of it. This lets everyone know.
The downloadable files are not duplicates of Aminet. These files are found all over the web and
deposited her for our convenience. I don't have time to scour the web for the files I need and
this is an excellent resource.
AmigaZone members can participate in nightly Telnet chats. These chats are a good way to make
friends with other dedicated Amiga users and get their valuable help when we need it. The Sunday
chats include prize giveaways (for more info see www.amigazone.com/pages/contests.html#prizes).
This is probably the best odds you will ever find. On average, 10 or less people make it to the
Sunday chats and Harv is very generous with his prizes. I am not talking about cheap prizes, I
have won a factory sealed OpalVision board, and several texture CDs, and books.
When you join AmigaZone as a paid member, you will be sent a FREE official AmigaZone Logo black
mesh baseball cap as our thank-you gift! No strings. No baloney! Click to see a picture of the
cap www.amigazone.com/images/cap.jpg. The
cap is all black, universal-fit and the AmigaZone logo is in white with the Boing! ball that dots
the "i" in its traditional red and white checks. Upon notification of your signup, you'll get an
email with your login info and your free AmigaZone cap will be mailed to you! These hats are
beautiful. I signed on after they started this program, so I had to buy mine. But even then,
members often buy these items at cost.
To join, use our secure signup page (merchant.calweb.com/amigazone.com/pages/signup.html),
or phone CalWeb at 1-800-509-9322 or 1-916-641-9320, and say "AmigaZone Sent Me!" and the $20
signup fee is waived!
All this and it only costs $12.95 per month. We all need to help keep Amiga resources available.
Without our help, we will all be left to our own devices to keep our machines running.
Thanks, Steve.
(Translation: mb)
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01.Jan.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flames Top 10 Games 1999
Digital Images made first place with Wipeout 2097. Congratulations!
(Translation: mb)
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01.Jan.2000
AWD [News]
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Amiga Web Directory closing down
On January 1st, the multi-award-winning Amiga Web Directory, which has gone online in May 1994 as
a free service of Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group
and AdvanceNet, has closed and thanks all members, friends
and supporters.
amiga-news.de owes much to the Amiga Web Directory. Basically, this news service was created from
the idea of offering something like the AWD for the German language. AWD has been by inspiration in
many things. I think it is sad that they close now, since news around the Amiga will not subside
so quickly, especially after the Amino purchase. Therefore I hope the people behind the AWD will
think this over. (ps)
(Translation: mb)
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01.Jan.2000
amiga-news.de
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Software News
(Translation: mb)
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01.Jan.2000
Herbert Markart in ANF
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Austrian Law of Electronic Signatures in force
Since January 1st, the Law of Electronic Signatures (SigG) is in force in Austria. Electronic
signatures by e-mail and Internet are therefore equivalent to hand-written signatures.
(Translation: mb)
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01.Jan.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Gateway sells Amiga
"The legendary multimedia computer Amiga has a new owner, again. Computer manufacturer Gateway
sells the rights on the name and all still existing hardware to the company Amino Development.
Additionally, Amino gets the rights on all Internet domains around the Amiga, and currently
held by Gateway. How much Gateway recieves for the package has so far not been disclosed by the
two companies.
The followers of the Amiga, which enjoys cult status among its fans, have gone through a
rollercoaster of emotions in the years gone by: hope-filled announcements of a revival of the
hardware platform have again and again been followed by cancellations."
(Translation: mb)
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01.Jan.2000
Volker Mohr
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Who has bought Amiga?
Volker Mohr has done this summary for us:
Everybody has heard it: Amino Development has purchased
the rights on the name Amiga, the Internet domain, and most important, on the Amiga technology
developed in the time before Gateway. Not purchased were the rights on the new multimedia
environment, so far been called "AmigaObjects", and the so-called Amiga MCC. These products,
developed during the Gateway era, will be integrated into the Gateway product line without the
name Amiga in the future.
With other words: What we user would call Amiga does now belong to Amino.
But who is Amino? Basically, Amino consists of two persons: Fleecy Moss and Bill McEwen. If
you had an eye on Amiga Inc. and Gateway in the last few years, these names will sound
familiar to you.
Bill McEwen was employed at Amiga, Inc. as "Head of Marketing and Software Evangelism". He
left the company only days before Jim Collas, not all that voluntary himself. Before Bill
worked at Amiga, Inc., he already was employed by several other well-known computer companies,
but had nothing to do with Amiga. Despite this, he was immediately impressed by the capabilities
of the (original) Amiga, and very quickly became a convinced member of the Amiga community and
a supporter of the (by Jeff Schindler) so-called "Amiga Classics". Of course he did not lose
the feeling for the need of new hard- and software developments. So, he was also a supporter of
Collas' plans for the so-called AmigaMCC.
Bill McEwen had to leave Amiga, Inc. a few days before Jim Collas. While Collas was said to
have left the company "for personal reasons", Bill never hid that his contract was not extended.
While Bill is no long-standing Amiga fan, he did not only learn to understand and value the Amiga
and his users, but also was able to win the trust of old Amiga gurus like Dave Haynie and Carl
Sassenrath.
Fleecy Moss is also known to most from his time at Amiga, Inc. Little is known about his time
before that. In an interview with the magazine CU Amiga (which has been closed down in the
meantime), October issue 1998, page 30f., he tells a little bit about himself: "I am British,
and currently work in the USA. I am Project Manager and System Architect, responsible for
introducing new special computer systems. I am Amiga user for 8 years (translator's note:
with the interview being dated 1998), and started with a Commodore Pet and VC 20 at the
age of 11. What I hope to give the Amiga is respect for his philosophy and community ideals,
as well as a good feeling for the future and the digital information revolution." (translator's
note: The above has been re-translated and might differ slightly from the original, to which
I don't have access.)
After Joe Torre, Fleecy Moss was the second important person at Amiga, Inc. whose contract
was not extended. After his departure, Fleecy initiated the KOSH
project. KOSH is intended to be "the hardware equivalent to Linux", a computer platform
honoring user wishes and needs, developed as open source. Fleecy knows of course that such
a goal cannot be achieved in short terms. When Gateway canceled the AmigaMCC plans, Joe Torre
initiated Amino together with Bill McEwen. (translator's note: probably this should read
Fleecy Moss and Bill McEwen, not Joe Torre!?) There have been little information about
this company. The first impression on the public was made by the close connection with
Phoenix, a connection of several Amiga distributors
and developers with the goal of creating a new platform as an alternative to the Amiga. This
common platform was originally intended to be based on PPC systems with QNX as operating
system. Both was not a final decission when Phoenix / Amino was founded, but a basis of
discussion for common plans.
So what does the purchase of Amiga by Amino mean? It is clear that the freshly founded two-man
company does not have the funds to continue AmigaOS development and have new hardware build
in short terms. But that is not required necessarily. To get an impression what can be expected,
I recommend having a close look at the Phoenix pages. The basic difference will probably be that
now there will be no development of an Amiga alternative, but a further development of the Amiga
platform. This means, roughly, that Amiga/Amino will lead the path, but several other companies
will build new Amigas, too. This would bring the Amiga area a similar situation as in the PC area,
where many companies can honor many special wishes of users. This path of action has several
advantages: The necessary investments are distributed among several companies. Additionally,
this gives added security to the user, since a possible bancruptcy of a single company would
not endanger the whole market. This way, the Amiga as a platform will be of interest again
for new users.
If the future systems will run on a modern AmigaOS, QNX or whatever, or if the new systems will
be based on PPC, that's speculation. It's a fact, however, that there has been work on the future
before the purchase, too, so things don't start from zero. Especially how new users are to be
drawn has to be speculated about. For sure there has been thought put in this area, too.
I am convinced that many surprises are to be expected soon.
(Translation: mb)
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Bradd Webb per eMail
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AmigaUpdate newsletter from December 31st, 1999
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991231
A M I G A S O L D T O A M I N O ! !
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Happy New Year everyone! Some of you will see this on the last day of
1999, some on the first of 2000 - either way, you have another reason
to celebrate today! We've been waiting and practically twitching to
get this information to you.
We still don't have a press release directly from Amino, but as the
following information is now available generally on the wire, we owe
it to our readers to get it to you as quickly as possible. If we do
get a press release from Amino/Amiga we'll also get that to you right
away.
Looks to us like both Gateway and the Amiga Community win with this
deal.
Big smiles around here today!
Brad Webb,
Editor
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A M I G A S O L D T O A M I N O ! !
Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory From Gateway
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 -- Amino Development Corp., a privately held
company based in Maple Valley, Washington, has purchased from Gateway
its Amiga trademarks and Amiga computer systems. Terms of the
transaction have not been disclosed.
According to Peter Ashkin, Gateway senior vice president, Gateway
chose to sell the name after deciding to fold Amiga's software
engineering function into Gateway's product development. This merger
of development activities is part of Gateway's overall strategy to
develop and market the coming generation of "Internet appliances".
"Amiga, as a personal computer brand, has a loyal following of fans
around the world," Ashkin said. "Under Gateway's wing, Amiga morphed
into a software development company working on a new Internet
appliance operating environment software. Now that we're bringing that
development work into Gateway product development, it made sense to
find a buyer for Amiga."
"Yee-haw " said Bill McEwen, president and CEO of Amino. "This is a
very exciting day, and now an even more exciting tomorrow. Now we can
finish the job that was started 15 years ago."
The transaction, effective immediately, includes the transfer of all
Internet domain names related to Amiga which Gateway had held. Gateway
retains ownership of all patents acquired when it bought Amiga in
1997.
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All back issues available at:
http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
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31.Dec.1999
Brad Webb by e-mail
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #991231
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_ __ _ <>_ __ _ ||
/\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || A M I G A U P D A T E
/__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || -News and Rumors-
/ \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_|| (An Occasional e-mail
S P E C I A L I S S U E || Newsmagazine)
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AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc.
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991231
A M I G A S O L D T O A M I N O ! !
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Happy New Year everyone! Some of you will see this on the last day of
1999, some on the first of 2000 - either way, you have another reason
to celebrate today! We've been waiting and practically twitching to
get this information to you.
We still don't have a press release directly from Amino, but as the
following information is now available generally on the wire, we owe
it to our readers to get it to you as quickly as possible. If we do
get a press release from Amino/Amiga we'll also get that to you right
away.
Looks to us like both Gateway and the Amiga Community win with this
deal.
Big smiles around here today!
Brad Webb,
Editor
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A M I G A S O L D T O A M I N O ! !
Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory From Gateway
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 -- Amino Development Corp., a privately held
company based in Maple Valley, Washington, has purchased from Gateway
its Amiga trademarks and Amiga computer systems. Terms of the
transaction have not been disclosed.
According to Peter Ashkin, Gateway senior vice president, Gateway
chose to sell the name after deciding to fold Amiga's software
engineering function into Gateway's product development. This merger
of development activities is part of Gateway's overall strategy to
develop and market the coming generation of "Internet appliances".
"Amiga, as a personal computer brand, has a loyal following of fans
around the world," Ashkin said. "Under Gateway's wing, Amiga morphed
into a software development company working on a new Internet
appliance operating environment software. Now that we're bringing that
development work into Gateway product development, it made sense to
find a buyer for Amiga."
"Yee-haw " said Bill McEwen, president and CEO of Amino. "This is a
very exciting day, and now an even more exciting tomorrow. Now we can
finish the job that was started 15 years ago."
The transaction, effective immediately, includes the transfer of all
Internet domain names related to Amiga which Gateway had held. Gateway
retains ownership of all patents acquired when it bought Amiga in
1997.
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Amiga Update on the net:
All back issues available at:
http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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Copyright 1999 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified.
======================================================================
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U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ U P D A T E
/ \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_
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Amiga.org
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A wondeful last message of the year :-)
Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory from Gateway (Individual.com).
More links:
Fleecy Moss in c.s.a.m: Welcome to tomorrow
CNN: Gateway sells Amiga line
Yahoo: Gateway Sells Rights to Amiga Name
CNet: Gateway unloads Amiga name
The Register: Gateway sells Amiga to ex-Amiga employee
Slashdot: Gateway Sells Rights to Amiga Name
Bill McEwen speaks at Amiga.org:
Happy New Year to all Amigans around the world.
Today Gateway
announced that we have acquired Amiga. This is all true,
and we are going to be making numerous announcements in the next week
about the plans for the future systems, and it is
all going to be very exciting. There is a very bright future for us, and
now we can begin the journey. Welcome 2000! - Bill McEwen
I now recommend one thing: go back and have a look at the last
two caricatures by Torsten Dudai (Once upon a time...). Either all these heads agree on a common goal, and cooperate;
or this Hydra will be going nowhere. If I see things correctly, there are two heads considerably stronger than the rest -
QNX and Amino. If THEY agree on things, the next few days will tell. But the people behind PowerOS, MorphOS, Screens,
and AROS should have a close look at what is going on, and think twice about how they can serve the cause best. (mb)
(Translation: mb)
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31.Dec.1999
Martina Jacobs in ANF
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AmigaOS 3.5 wish list
Martina Jacobs writes:
I just hit a site I think interesting. At the title link, you can
find a user wish list for AmigaOS 3.5 updates. Using the guestbook, you can state your opinion
of what is still needed in AmigaOS.
If H&P knows about this site, I don't know,
but it only makes sense this way. If it isn't the case, they know now. :-)
(Translation: mb)
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31.Dec.1999
Günter Horbach by e-mail
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KDH News
KDH wishes happy new year 2000.
A successful and well year 2000 we wish all AMIGA cutomers
present and future. Due to some internal work (stock counting, removing the last storm damage,
and holidays), our shop will be closed from January 1st to 18th. All Internet orders recieved
during this time will be delivered starting January 18th.
(Translation: mb)
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30.Dec.1999
Bruno Vaccaro by e-mail
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SadJesterIcons Update
Bruno has updated several of his icon sets, and offers them for download on his website:
Besides, a visit to Brunos website is always worth its while, since aside from the icons he also
offers a lot of good material for webworkers, and more.
(Translation: mb)
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30.Dec.1999
pro-linux.de
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LWN: Most important Linux news 1999
LWN (Linux Weekly News) has summarised all news from 1999 important for Linux in a timetable, and
even mentioned the Gateway announcement from September. For all Linux users an interesting view
back to 1999.
(Translation: mb)
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30.Dec.1999
Heise Newsticker
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Report from the Chaos Communication Congress
"The 16th Chaos Communication Congress divided the hacker community into two fractions more
than ever before - one wanting to do a life style party, and the other wanting to stress
political discussions and seminars. Harsh criticism and euphoric words were balanced in the
final discussion on Wednesday after three days "fun at the system". Chasms were across
"Windowsing", "generalism" and "game-centricism" of the hacker meeting. Does the Chaos
Computer Club open itself to the mainstream in a time when Internet is becoming the masses
media, and is the meeting degrading to just another LAN party?"
More links:
Wired: Chaos Reigns in Berlin
(Translation: mb)
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30.Dec.1999
amiga-news.de
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Software News
- StrICQ version 0.1669 - download:
STRICQ.lha - and beta version of the
preferences window - download: ZodiacImages.lha
- Arcadia announces two new archives available
in the download area. For one, there is a patch for all people who did not get a Bubble Hero
demo from the Amiga Format CD to run. Then there is the third public demo of Bubble Heroes.
The fourth and last (AGA) demo will be finished January 2000. Arcadia wishes a happy new year
to everybody. Download: AFBHDemo-patch.lzx
and BHDemo3.lzx
(Translation: mb)
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30.Dec.1999
Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail
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With New Prices into the Next Millenium (30.12.99)
Taking the high Dollar (or low Euro) into account, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX again have decided to allow
for cheaper registrations through RegNet.
Additionally, prices have been updated to reflect all
possible, most uptodate bundle discounts as well. For example, the cheapest bundle (#5553) now only
is $14 instead of $18.5 and the most expensive (#5563) only is $65 instead of $77.5. Please see
www.ar-kleinert.de/regnet_e.html for links to
RegNet and their sales conditions.
(Translation: mb)
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30.Dec.1999
Matthias Münch in ANF
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Amiga User Group 99 with new homepage
The AUG99 homepage has been completely redesigned, and the first part is already online.
More areas will follow in the next days.
(Translation: mb)
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30.Dec.1999
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Once Upon a Time, part 2
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29.Dec.1999
Sebastian Bauer in ANF
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Latest developer version of Freeciv
Sebastian Bauer writes:
I just uploaded the latest developer version of Freeciv to my homepage.
Additionally, there are new versions of Pic2Icon (v1.1) and SimpleClock (v1.1).
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29.Dec.1999
Felix Schwarz by e-mail
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Moving...
innovative-web.de is moving. In the next days, our web presence will move to a different server.
After the move, we will be able to offer a further improved web presence. During the move, there
can be downtimes of several days (worst case!). In this time, please send e-mail to
bs168@fen.baynet.de instead. Greetings and a happy new
year, Felix Schwarz.
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29.Dec.1999
Petra Struck
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Axel Krämer now at Met@box
I had the opportunity to talk with Axel Krämer on the phone a short time ago. He is now
at Met@box, responsible for production and logistics, and is very happy with his work. Just
like before, he has a keen eye on what is going on in the Amiga sector, and wishes all
Amigians a happy new year 2000.
Of course I also asked Axel about news on the
joeCARD, and he promised to tell us news
immediately :-).
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29.Dec.1999
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Aminet uploads 30.12.1999
mpprosp.lha comm/bbs 35K+V1.7 - File_ID.DIZ creator for Mods - ph
p_hc183.lha comm/bbs 31K+V1.8.3 - Uploadchecker for PMBS - Update
GoFetch.lha comm/net 331K+V1.0 Specialised FTP/HTTP Client designe
samba_2.0.6.lha comm/tcp 3.1M+Port of the free SMB client and server
js_umsrfc.lha comm/ums 21K+Umsrfc update (1.2)
MCD_DirList.lha disk/cdrom 15K+Generates file lists for MakeCD
Pranger.lha game/misc 106K+Cheap 1ply game- get 2 ships to collide
Zubspace-Psyco.mpg mods/mpg 581K+Rno-label release no.19 by zubspace (psy
gothbench3.lha pix/back 1.2M+Darker than ever.
mr_WBench.lha pix/wb 862K+Workbench For Every Day
picsize.lha util/dtype 15K+Shows picture dimensions using datatypes
calculator.lha util/misc 14K+Fully functional calculator
TweakWB14.lha util/wb 97K+Great WB 3.5 commodity, icon converter,
yStart.lha util/wb 17K+Start menu for standard WB icons
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amiga-news.de
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Software News
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