19.Mai.1999
alando Online Auktionen
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alando Online Auktionen
alando ist eine große kostenlose Auktionsplattform für alles und jeden.
Privatpersonen, Händler und Firmen können auf alando in spannenden
Online-Auktionen Gebrauchtwaren, Neuwaren und Sammlerartikel meistbietend kaufen
und verkaufen. Jeder kann also Bieter und Anbieter sein!
Auch Amiga-User wurden nicht vergessen, in den Kategorien Computer und
Computerspiele gibt es spezielle Amiga-Rubriken.
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19.Mai.1999
AC
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RC5-Team vom Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet
Schon seit Dezember 1997 rechnet das Amiga-Club RC5-Team fleißig mit, um den
64-Bit-Schlüssel zu knacken. Es werden immer noch Mitstreiter gesucht. Wer
sich bisher noch nicht dazu entschließen konnte, mitzurechnen, weil alles zu
kompliziert in englisch erklärt wird, sollte sich die
Hilfe zur
Installation von Myzar in Deutsch ansehen. Dort wird genau erklärt, worum
es geht, wo Sie die nötige Software bekommen und wie sie konfiguriert werden
muß. Wer beim AC-RC5-Team mitrechnen möchte, kann sich
bei Wolfgang Czepan anmelden.
Fragen zum RC5-Team-Effort werden im Amiga-Club Forum gerne beantwortet.
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19.Mai.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Neue 68060.lib Version 46.6 von Phase5
Download: 68060-170599.lha.
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19.Mai.1999
AMIGA
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Jim Collas: offener Brief/Update der wichtigsten Aktivitäten (Executive Update)
offener Brief an die Community
Update der wichtigsten Aktivitäten
Die Briefe sind in englisch, meist folgt aber ein paar Tage später eine deutsche Übersetzung:
MAY LETTER FROM JIM COLLAS
19 May, 1999
Dear Amigans,
April was a very busy month for Amiga with much activity and good
progress. I received over 1200 emails from people around the world, I
met with key representatives of the Amiga community in Germany and the
U.K, we added to our executive staff, we established relationships
with key technology partners, and we finalized our 1999 product plans.
The amount of emails I received from the Amiga community has been
overwhelming. Most of them were emails of support and encouragement
while many others gave me suggestions and input on technology and
products. These emails have been wonderful. They are uplifting,
insightful, interesting, and fun to read. People in this community
have a great personality. Many were short emails of encouragement but
just as many went on for several pages listing insights, suggestions,
and opinions. Thank you very much for your emails of support. They
have been tremendously encouraging to the Amiga executive team and me.
There were, of course, also some emails sent by Amigans who are
frustrated by the situation. These emails were also valuable in giving
me insight into the mistakes of the past so that I could avoid them as
we press toward the future. Please keep the emails coming.
I apologize for not responding to all of the email sent to me. I have
personally responded to over 600 emails but was unable to keep up with
the volumes. I want to assure you that I read every email sent to me
and that they play an important role in defining our future plans. I
will continue to respond to as many emails as possible on a personal
basis. This brings me to the main subject of this month's letter:
communication. It is important that we set up an effective process for
communicating with the Amiga community. Emails and requests for
meetings are overwhelming Amiga executives at this time. This volume
of communication is very encouraging but I am concerned that we can't
personally respond to every one of them and it will become frustrating
to the community.
We are working on plans to improve communications between Amiga and
the community. These plans will consist of multiple programs
including: the current executive update, an email response team, a new
Amiga Advisory Council, polls on future product features, better
monthly user group communication, and improved communication to the
Amiga press. Detailed information on all of these programs will be
posted on our web site in the next several weeks. In addition to
keeping the community up to date on Amiga activities, the main goal of
these programs is to involve the community in setting future Amiga
plans. All of us need to work on this together to make sure we are
setting plans that will help the community and allow Amiga to drive
the next computing revolution.
One of the planned communications programs is a new "Amiga Advisory
Council" or AAC. The idea for this program came from my discussions
with people in the Amiga community. It is difficult to get thousands
of people involved in our planning process so we need to establish a
more manageable forum. The plan is to set up an advisory council
consisting of people that are viewed as leaders in the Amiga
community. Members of this council will be "elected" by the Amiga
community. We are currently working on the details of the "election"
process. This council must represent all major constituencies of the
Amiga community so that we can get a full set of concerns and inputs
regarding future Amiga plans. We will set-up special message boards,
email lists, and meetings allowing the AAC to communicate effectively.
Information on AAC meetings and decisions will be communicated to the
Amiga community. Keep watching our web site for updates on this
program. We will also make sure information gets published to Amiga
magazines and user groups.
In late April I traveled to Germany and the U.K. to meet with
representatives and leaders of the Amiga community to discuss Amiga's
future plans and get the community's help in setting these plans. I
apologize to the people that did not have the opportunity to
participate in these meetings but I had to keep the meetings to a
manageable size. There were about 30 to 40 people in each country
representing developers, dealers, distributors, user groups, and
press. I think that these meetings were very informative and
productive. They will allow me to optimize our future plans while
taking the requirements of the Amiga community into account. To give
you an example, we spent a considerable amount of time talking about
how to bridge the community from the current Amiga platform to the
next generation. The current Amiga platform has several years of
useful life remaining but people are not investing in it because it is
dated and the next generation is around the corner. One suggestion is
to port the next generation AmigaSoftTM Operating Environment (OE) so
that it runs on a current Amiga configured with a Power PC expansion
card. This would not be an optimum configuration but it would extend
the life of current PowerPC Amigas. We are looking into this
possibility and will keep you updated.
On a personal note, I had a wonderful time in Germany and the U.K.
The trip was both productive and very enjoyable. The trip was packed
with excellent food and good people. I really enjoyed meeting with
people from the Amiga community. After six years of working with
executives in the PC industry, it is a breath of fresh air to work
with people that have so much passion and enthusiasm about what they
believe in. I especially enjoyed the extended conversations in the
bars and pubs. These tended to get even more passionate and creative.
To those of you who participated in the events, I thank you for making
my trip both productive and enjoyable. In case you are curious, the
most challenging part of my trip was sitting still while Petro drove
me on the autobahn at 240 km/hour. I thank god for solid and stable
German automobiles and good German beer.
Before I end this letter I would like to cover a few more topics that
came up frequently in emails sent to me. First, I would like to
clarify our hardware product plans. Amiga is planning to come out with
a next generation multimedia computer in late Q4 of the year. This
computer will have a unique architecture, a great operating system,
awesome 3D gaming performance, and advanced multimedia features. I am
confident that this computer will meet your expectations for a great
next generation Amiga. Unfortunately, we can't disclose details of the
new computer yet since we are under non-disclosure agreements with our
technology partners. We also need to be careful about alerting our
competition to our plans. One thing I can say is that the technology
partners we are working with are extremely excited about our direction
and technology. There are Amigans in all major technology companies
and they are eager to support us in driving a new computer revolution.
These partners include some major technology and component companies
in the computer industry. We should be ready to disclose more at the
World of Amiga and AmiWest shows in July.
The new Amiga multimedia computer will also support a home networked
"information appliance" environment that will allow networked devices
throughout the house access to the power and features of this
computer. I need to clarify the term "information appliances" which is
becoming a popular term in the computer industry. "Information
appliances" are not digital toasters, refrigerators, and ovens with
LCD displays. They are devices such as wireless LCD tablets, Internet
terminals, game machines, and digital set-top boxes. These devices
will all be connected together through a single network and will be
integrated into a single comprehensive operating environment. This is
the reason why we use the term "operating environment", or OE, to
describe our new software rather than operating system. Our software
is much more than the underlying operating system.
In addition to the full multimedia computer described above, Amiga
will also develop reference desigs for a variety of "information
appliance" companion devices such as wireless LCD tablets. Our goal is
to enable a full home computing environment rather than just a
computer. We will encourage others to develop and ship
Amiga-compatible computers and information appliances. To help clarify
our plans to the Amiga community, we are releasing our initial product
concept to the Amiga press to publish in the next issues. I hope this
helps clarify our product plans. We will continue to disclose details
as they become available and as is appropriate.
The second topic that I would like to cover is Amiga support for
developers. The Amiga development community is important to us and we
will be taking an active role in support Amiga developers. We are
evaluating plans for financial support as well as in-depth technical
support. We will communicate more about this plan within 60 to 90 days
when we also start releasing more technical information for
developers.
I have also updated the "major activities" sub-section under the
"executive update" section on our web site. This will give you some
more detail on the status of Amiga programs so I encourage you to read
it. We have also added a top 10 questions web page to the "executive
update" section. This page will answer the top questions asked in
emails sent to me.
In closing I would like to say that I am more excited then ever about
the opportunities for Amiga and the Amiga community. It has been a
long wait but the Amiga community is still the greatest community in
the computer industry and the time is ideal for a new revolutionary
architecture and platform. I will keep you posted on our progress and
promise to disclose as more details as soon as possible and
appropriate.
Sincerely,
Jim Collas
President, Amiga
Amiga Hires Computer Industry Veteran as CTO
Amiga has hired computer industry veteran Dr. Rick LeFaivre as its
chief technology officer and senior vice president of advanced
technology. Prior to joining Amiga, Dr. LeFaivre served as senior vice
president of R&D and chief technology officer at Inprise Corporation,
formed from the merger of Borland International and Visigenic
Software. He has held key executive management positions in the
computer industry including vice president of the Advanced Technology
Group at Apple Computer, vice president of engineering for the Network
Systems Division at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, and director of
Windows and Graphics Systems at Sun Microsystems. Jim Collas,
president of Amiga stated that "Rick is an incredibly valuable
addition to the Amiga team. He brings with him a wealth of technology
experience and industry contacts." Jim went on to state that "hiring
top level talent like Rick should be a clear indication to the Amiga
community that we are dedicated to the development of exciting
technology for the new Amiga platform."
Amiga Hires Experienced Senior Executive As COO
Amiga has hired senior executive Tom Schmidt as its Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Amiga, Mr. Schmidt
served as Vice President and General Manager of a strategic business
enterprise within AlliedSignal, an advanced technology and
manufacturing company based in Morristown, NJ. Previous to
AlliedSignal, Mr. Schmidt worked at Baxter Healthcare Corporation in
several key operating and sales and marketing roles. He also served as
a Senior Project Manager and Strategic Management Consultant at Arthur
Andersen. Jim Collas, president of Amiga, stated that " at Amiga, we
are serious about building a substantial company for the future and
Tom has the experience and general management capabilities required to
build and manage a world-class corporate structure." Jim went on to
state that "Amiga is being positioned for a major come back and we
must be prepared to manage the growth associated with these plans. Tom
is the ideal person for this job."
UPDATE ON MAJOR ACTIVITIES - MAY
Operations/Planning:
- We are looking in San Diego to move out of the Gateway building
into a separate Amiga building in order to accommodate the expansion
in Amiga's San Diego staff.
New Staff:
- We hired Dr. Rick LeFaivre as our Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
and Sr. VP of advanced technology. Dr. LeFaivre is a senior technology
executive who has worked for Apple, Silicon Graphics, Sun, and
Inprise. See the associated Amiga website news release for more
information.
- We hired Tom Schmidt as our Chief Operating Officer (COO). Tom
Schmidt is an experienced senior executive from Allied Signal, which
is a $30 billion corporation. See the associated Amiga website news
release for more information.
- Several weeks ago, we placed Amiga employment ads in major
newspapers and have a significant amount of highly qualified leads
that we are reviewing.
- We have hired a full time recruiter to coordinate our expanded
recruiting efforts.
Major Development Programs:
- O/S 3.5 - This product is being developed by Haage & Partner under
contract from Amiga. The target release date is late July or early
August. We are talking to Amiga hardware development companies to
qualify hardware products targeted at the O/S 3.5 release. We plan to
come out with a recommended hardware configuration and list of
qualified Amiga hardware products for the O/S 3.5 release.
- AmigaSoftTM Operating Environment (OE) - We are developing our
next generation operating environment including operating system, user
interface, and some revolutionary software structures to be disclosed
at a later date. Target beta version is 3Q99 with final in late 4Q99.
We are also looking at the possibility of porting this new AmigaSoftTM
OE to the O/S 3.5 recommended hardware configurations. If we can
accomplish this it will allow people to run the new OE on specific
Amiga configurations with PowerPC boards.
- Next generation hardware architecture - Being developed as a
foundation for all next generation Amiga products. We are within
several weeks of final component selection.
- AmigaSoftTM development system - This is planned in 3Q99 along
with the beta release of the new AmigaSoftTM Operating Environment.
- Initial next generation computer - We are developing the next
generation computer that will be used to launch the next generation
systems architecture and operating environment. Target release date is
late 4Q99. Please see this week's letter to the community for more
information.
- We have released concept drawings of the next generation Amiga
products to the Amiga press.
Shows and Community Activities:
- I visited Germany and the U.K. and met with representatives of the
Amiga community. We held meetings with leaders of the Amiga community
and discussed future Amiga plans.
- We will sponsor and participate in the 1999 London World of Amiga
show in late July.
- We are also planning to support the AmiWest show in late July.
- We are planning for the Cologne and Las Vegas shows in November.
- Petro and Jim Von Holle are developing reseller, distributor, and
magazine support programs to help the Amiga community.
- We are also working on some user group support programs and
improved communication programs.
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19.Mai.1999
SEAL
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SEAL berichtet vom Meeting mit Jim Collas vom 30.04.99
Auch in England hat Jim Collas ein Meeting mit verschiedenen Leuten aus der Amiga-Szene
abgehalten. Die Usergruppe SEAL berichtet ebenfalls über sehr positive Eindrücke und
schließt ihren Report mit den Worten: "Jim believes in Amiga, and we believe in him".
(Jim glaubt an Amiga, und wir glauben ihm).
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19.Mai.1999
CodePoet.com
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WinUAE 0.8.8, Release 5
Download: WinUAE088R5.exe
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19.Mai.1999
MystCorp
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Mystique Corporation mit neuer Website
Mystique Corporation beschäftigt sich insbesondere mit Kindersoftware für den Amiga.
Lange Zeit hatte sich nichts mehr auf dieser Website getan, aber nun ist sie mit
neuem Layout präsent, aber nach Aussage des Webmasters noch als Preview zu betrachten. Unter
'Description' findet sich trotzdem schon der Hinweis, daß KiDSuite für AmigaOS 5.0
entwickelt wird :). Auf der Kinder Software Seite
können Sie jede Menge Software für Kinder downloaden.
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18.Mai.1999
Davy Wentzler per eMail
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Mit Version 2.0517 bekommt PlayHD neuen Namen (Audio Evolution) + neue Features
Audio hd-recording program PlayHD gets new name 'Audio Evolution' and new
features!
It's my pleasure to announce that an update of the audio harddisk
recording program PlayHD is available now on my
homepage.
The name has changed now from PlayHD
to 'Audio Evolution' and besides this change, a whole lot of
new features have been added since my last demo from January.
For the people who have never heard of PlayHD or Audio Evolution:
Audio Evolution is an audio harddisk recording system primarily aimed at
musicians who want an easy-to-use multitrack recorder for home-studio
applications. It's based on the AHI system by Martin Blom, which makes
it possible to run Audio Evolution on every modern soundcard designed for
Amiga computers. Because of the efficient mixing routines of AHI, it's
possible to play up to 30 tracks at the same time on expanded systems,
even without PowerPC technology. But that's not what makes it a good
harddisk recording system: Audio Evolution also offers a versatile mixing
desk including individual channel and master level display, mute, solo,
panning, subgroups and realtime effects. Besides that, full mixer automation
gives you mixing possibilities only limited by your imagination. Also take a
look at the timeline display with its marker system for fast positioning in
the song, locators and punch in/out features which saves you precious
time in your recording session.
New features since January:
- Completely new GUI for the mixer window
- Volume display per channel with PPM meters
- Resizable timeline
- Subgroups
- Realtime FX (no PPC yet :-( )
- Bars&Pipes start synchronisation
- CAMD start synchronisation
- New Record window with record level display
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18.Mai.1999
Alex Kazik per eMail
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TAR-Handler V1.1
Alex schreibt:
Nun ist es soweit, mein TAR-Handler ist fertig.
Ab sofort ist die V1.1 erhältlich: Er erlaubt es TAR-Archive (auch g'zippte)
zu mounten, und es wie eine (Hard)Disk zu benutzen. (z.Z. Read Only).
Download: TAR-Handler.lha
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18.Mai.1999
Honorable Mention
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Amiga.info Volume 6 Issue 10 mit Jim Collas Interview
Amiga.info Volume 6 Issue 10 mit Jim Collas Interview.
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18.Mai.1999
Amiga Emulation Resource
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CBSpeccy V0.24b
Download: cbspeccy.lha
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18.Mai.1999
AmigaOS 3.5
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In Kürze beginnt die erste Betatest-Phase für das neue AmigaOS 3.5
AMIGA schreibt:
Anmerkungen zur Bewerbung zum OS 3.5 Betatest (17 Mai 1999):
Wir haben bisher über 2.500 Bewerbungen für den Betatest erhalten.
Die Bewerbungsphase ist jetzt abgeschlossen, bitte schicken Sie uns daher
keine Bewerbungen mehr. Wir möchten jedem Bewerber für seine Hilfe danken.
Jeder Bewerber sollte mittlerweile auch ein Bestätigung per E-Mail erhalten haben.
Die Personen, die am Betatest teilnehmen, werden in den nächsten per E-Mail
benachrichtigt. Eine zweite Betatest-Runde ist für Juni/Juli geplant.
Der Betatest wird ausschließlich über die Firma HAAGE&PARTNER abgewickelt.
Bitte stellen Sie keine Fragen zum Test an Amiga Inc., Amiga Intl. oder HAAGE&PARNTER.
Es können unmöglich alle diese Anfragen beantwortet werden und es würde
nur die Arbeit am OS 3.5 verzögern. Wir danken für Ihr Verständnis.
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18.Mai.1999
Olaf Köbnik per eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Digital Almanac II die neue Version zum Sonderpreis!
Digital Almanac II erschien diesen Monat neu und ist das
Amateur- und semiprofessionale Hobby Planetarium Programm für den Amiga!
Für alle, die den Überblick am Himmel haben wollen hier einige Features!
- Sternendatei mit weit über 500000 Daten
- 50000 Planeten und Asteroiden
- Strucktur der Milchstarsse
- u.v.m
Für weitere Infos besuche die Homepage unter
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~astegema/.
Hinweis: Wer sich registrieren lassen möchte, erwähnt bitte, daß er das
Sonderangebot der Amiga Arena nutzen möchte! Preis für Amiga Arena
Besucher NUR 20 DM! Was wollt Ihr mehr?
GeoWorld Vorankündigung!
Da sich die neue Version von GeoWorld verschiebt (sollte diesen Monat erscheinen),
wird es wahrscheinlich eine Sonderaktion für GeoWorld 1.09 in der Amiga
Arena geben!
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18.Mai.1999
Thomas Wenzel per eMail
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Kommentar zum OS3.5
Thomas Wenzel, bekannt durch Play16, Samplitude, Prelude, AmigaAMP hat mir
folgenden Kommentar zum AmigaOS 3.5 geschickt. Wäre schön, wenn darüber im
Forum
eine interessante Diskussion in Gang käme.
Hier sein Kommentar:
Nachfolgend eine Liste mit dem, was ich persönlich von einem neuen OS für
die Classic Amigas erwarte -- im Grunde genommen gleichbedeutend mit dem,
was jeder von einem modernen OS heutzutage erwartet:
- Unterstützung für die verschiedendsten Eingabegeräte (Maus, Tastatur,
Joystick, SketchPad) über die verschiedendsten Schnittstellen (Bus,
seriell, USB) auf Treiberebene, die nahtlos in's System integriert ist
- Ein neues, zuverlässiges Dateisystem, welches auch Partitionsgrößen
von über 4GB zuläßt, sowie ein passendes Toolkit mit Reparatur- und
Defrag-Programmen dazu
- Unterstützung für Streaming Audio/Video auf Treiber- und CODEC Basis,
sodaß problemlos Quicktime, MPEG, AVI, etc. eingebunden werden können
- Vollständige Netzwerkunterstützung inklusive TCP/IP für WAN und LAN
sowie der Möglichkeit, des gemeinsamen Zugriffes auf Festplatten und
Drucker OHNE sich mit Mountlisten und Netmount Kommandos 'rumschlagen
zu müssen. Da muß es schon ein automatisch erstelltes Listview mit
allen im Netz verfügbaren Resourcen geben, von denen ich mir dann eine
Auswahl per Drag&Drop auf die Workbench ziehen kann.
Natürlich muß das System fehlertolerant sein. Eine Blockade, nur weil
der angeforderte Rechner gerade nicht antwortet, ist undenkbar.
Kurz gesagt, ich möchte ein modernes System haben, ohne haufenweise
unzuverlässige Hacks, Patches und Aufsätze laufen lassen zu müssen.
Das muß alles sauber integriert sein.
Über solche Gimmicks wie neue Icons, buntere Prefs-Programme etc.
kann man nachdenken, NACHDEM die vier obigen Punkte erfüllt sind.
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