From:     info@markengrabbing.de
To:       markenrecht-aktion@thoha.de
Date:     Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:44:12 +0200
Subject:  Kurzupdate - Aktion gegen Markengrabbing
Reply-to: info@markengrabbing.de

Hallo liebe "Aktionäre" !

Heute gibt es nur ein kleines Kurzupdate ...


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So, das war es für heute erst einmal ...

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wie immer
Euer
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To:       PETRA.STRUCK@ONLINE-CLUB.DE
Subject:  Verlosung
Date:     Fri, 21 Aug 99  9:42:08 GMT
From:     SYSOP@NOSTLGIC.OCHE.DE (Jens Schoenfeld)

Jetzt wird's spannend: Wie ermittelt ein Hardwaredesigner
unter 37 Leuten einen echten Zufallstreffer? Ganz einfach:
Chip werfen! (Münze werfen war gestern :-)). Bei jedem Wurf
wird das Intervall halbiert, bei Schriftseite wird's das
obere Intervall, bei Lötseite das Untere. Bis zur ein-
deutigen Bestimmung eines Namens wird mit genauen Brüchen
gerechnet, Beschwerden bezüglich des Verfahrens bitte nach
NIL:.

 1. Starfury@t-online.de
 2. ahoi@pmnet.uni-oldenburg.de
 3. jkaenner@knuut.de
 4. captain_hit@worldmailer.com
 5. Markus.Kuhnen@t-online.de
 6. pglauser@webware.ch
 7. placebo@ch.transnet.de
 8. fritz.trampnau@okay.net
 9. e9527180@stud3.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Bergmann)
10. MKretschmer@t-online.de
11. hanss000@mail.uni-mainz.de
12. kirsche@mops.net
13. Ralph.Ewers@esn.siemens.de
14. neuhaus@iamexwi.unibe.ch
15. libe0011@fh-karlsruhe.de (Bernhard Lindner)
16. n_rosswinkel@osnabrueck.netsurf.de
17. info@kdh-datentechnik.com (Guenter Horbach)
18. fritz.trampnau@okay.net
19. "Ecki."@t-online.de (Wolfgang Eckart)
20. BIGFoot@private.dk
21. devoider@gmx.net
22. matthias_muench@gmx.de
23. borut.zivkovic@alpe-adria-leasing.si
24. ronsch@karlsruhe.netsurf.de
25. falinski.ks@muenster.de
26. Markus.Lunk@SoftM-Berlin.de
27. Beautyfrosch@t-online.de (Martin)
28. wwg@arco.met.fu-berlin.de (Walter Weber-Groß)
29. MisterAmiga@gmx.de (Daniel Schulz)
30. MellowBrain@gmx.de
31. c1.schreiber@01019freenet.de
32. holger.hesselbarth@sican.de
33. Jebedia@gmx.de
34. rTraub@all-for-one.de (Traub, Rainer)
35. Erik.Thos@gmx.de
36. topgun@pop.ch (Michael Jaccoud)
37. AndreasDVG@01019freenet.de

[1..37]
Wurf: Lötseite, damit sind nur noch
[1..19] im Rennen.
Wurf: Lötseite, damit reduziert es sich auf:
[1..10]
Wurf: Schriftseite, und es sind nur noch
[5,5..10] im Rennen.
Wurf: Schriftseite, und es gibt nur noch vier Leute:
[7,75..10]
Wurf: Lötseite, und es wird spannend unter zwei Leuten:
[7,75..8,875]
Wurf: Schriftseite, damit haben wir einen Gewinner:
[8,3125..8,875]

es ist Nummer 8:

 fritz.trampnau@okay.net

Der Gewinner ist bereits per e-mail benachrichtigt.

Und: Es geht weiter, jetzt geht es in die zweite Runde, es
gilt den endgültigen Namen auszuwählen. Dafür hat Petra ein
Poll-Script auf der Seite installiert. Wer übrigens versucht
zu schummeln (also mehrere Stimmen abzugeben), wird vom
Script erkannt und nicht nochmal gezählt, es wird also eine
wirklich repräsentative Umfrage!

Jens

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• K 240 - Aufbaustrategiespiel und Nachfolger von Utopia
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• Super Cars I & II - Die Top - Actionraserei
• Top Gear II - Nachfolger der legendären Lotus Serie
• Utopia - Aufbauastrategie ala Sim City
• Zool I & II - Die rasantesten Jump and Runs für den Amiga

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Subject:  Re: [TA] Amiga MCC CPU = MIPS64 20000 CPU ?
Date:     Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:48:37 -0400
From:     Dave Haynie
Reply-To: teamamiga@thule.no
To:       teamamiga@thule.no

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:36:55 -0600, "Sami Cokar"
jammed all night, and by sunrise was overheard remarking:

> > Zitiert von Dave Haynie

> > einige grundlegende Annahmen zu machen. Zum einen, solange Du
> > nicht weißt, daß jene, die die Entscheidungen treffen, dumme
> > Menschen sind, mußt Du annehmen, daß sie schlau sind, daß

> > "sie tun, was ich tun würde". So mache ich meine Voraussagen,

> Solange Du keine "Insider-Informationen" hast, oder durch Deine
> Konversation mit Jim Collas praktisch unter NDA bist, was wäre
> Dein fachmännischer Tip zum CPU-Partner, mit dem Amiga Inc. sich
> zusammentut?

Nun, ausgehend von meiner Unterhaltung mit Jim Collas, was sie bisher
gesagt und getan haben usw. muß ich auf Transmeta tippen. Ich kenne
Teile der Technologie, an der Transmeta arbeitet, von deren Patent-
schriften (die jeder lesen kann, nachdem sie akzeptiert wurden; IBM
hat einen netten Patentserver am Netz). Hier sind einige der Gründe:

    1) Grundsätzlich hat Jim in unserer Unterhaltung gesagt,
    er könne Transmeta nicht bestätigen (ich hatte noch nicht
    gefragt), aber dann fuhr er fort, die geplante Systemarchi-
    tektur zu beschreiben, die im Prinzip etwas wie den Transmeta
    erfordert: Als ein Desktop/Allzweck-Heimcomputer, auf einer
    traditionellen CPU laufend, wäre es eine absolute Schnecke.
    [...]

    2) Sie zeigten "Sun" und "Transmeta" am Ende von Collas Rede
    auf der WoA. Natürlich ist Sun beteiligt, allein aufgrund der
    zugegebenen Unterstützung von Java und Jini (ob das "Technolo-
    gie-Lieferant" oder "aktiver Partner" bedeutet, bleibt abzu-
    warten). Es ist unwahrscheinlich, daß sie "Transmeta" dort
    zeigen würden, wenn sie es nicht benutzen würden UND Transmeta
    ihnen Erlaubnis zu diesem Leckerbissen gegeben hätte. Das paßt
    auch sehr gut zur Aura des Geheimnisvollen, mit der sich Trans-
    meta die ganze Zeit umgibt (mit viel Aufhebens um die Anwerbung
    von Linus Thorvals, aber schaut Euch www.transmeta.com an).

    3) Amiga arbeitet zu einem gewissen Teil mit Linus. Bei all den
    Behauptungen "wir werden die beste Multimedia-Plattform sein",
    bei denen Collas geblieben ist, bei denen Amiga [die Firma]
    geblieben ist, brauchen sie tatsächlich einige weltklasse Linux-
    Kernel-Leute, um den Kernel auch nur auf Windows-Multimedia-
    Leistung zu bringen. Und es ist nicht viel Zeit. Auf der anderen
    Seite ist es schwer, einem Partner zu widerstehen, der viel
    dieser Arbeit bereits erledigt hat. Und vielleicht ist das der
    einzige mögliche Grund, für den jemand QNX für Linux fallenlassen
    würde, und immer noch selbstbewußt behauptet, auf der Multimedia-
    Schiene im AmigaOS/BeOS-Sinne des Wortes zu fahren.

Nun quellen die Gerüchteküchen natürlich vor "MIPS" und "MAJC" über
(Suns neue "Architektur für das nächste Jahrtausend", die sie zum
ersten Mal vollständig auf der heutigen Hot Chips vorstellen werden,
zumindest erwartet man das, sie sind auf jeden Fall im Zeitplan).

Die MIPS-Gerüchte begannen erst vor einigen Monaten, als Amiga eine
Stellenliste herausgab, in der auch ein MIPS "porting engineer" o.ä.
gesucht wurde. Es gibt zwei Theorien, die dies erklären.

Die erste, und bei weitem wahrscheinlichste, ist, einfach auf einen
anderen Teil des Systems zu schauen. Es wurde lange gemunkelt, der
AmigaNG würde einen "Multimedia-Chip" als Grafik-, Sound- und vielleicht
sogar CPU-Engine haben. Eine meiner ersten Vermutungen war etwas von
Chromatic, den Herstellern der MPACT-Linie von MMCs, basierend auf
VLIW, woran Gateway mit 10-15% beteiligt ist. Chromatic starb schnell,
da deren Chip einfach nicht ganz in einen PC paßte (Grafik viel zu
langsam, die meisten All-in-One PCs hatten Systemlösungen für Grafik
und Sound). ATi kaufte Chromatic letztes Jahr auf; in letzterer Zeit
wurde ATi als der Lieferant für die Grafikarchitektur des AmigaNG
angekündigt. Aber es ist nicht deren neuer 128-bit PCI-Chip, sondern
etwas anderes. Mein Tip: Woran auch immer Chromatic gearbeitet hat.

Es ist auch klar das MIPS und ATi zusammenarbeiten (MIPS, nicht SGI,
die sich letztes Jahr von MIPS getrennt haben und den ganzen High-End-
Kram mitgenommen haben). MIPS liefert den Kern, ATi die 3D-Erfahrung.
MIPS bekommt einen guten 3D ISA (sie berichten heute auch darüber auf
der Hot Chips, aber Ihr könnt die Specs von http://www.mips.com herunter-
laden), ATi bekommt einen Allzweck-Prozessorkern zur Verwendung in
den eigenen 3D-Chips, ala Hombre. Dies wäre nicht schnell genug für
eine Desktop-CPU, mag aber in Spielkonsolen oder STBs eine gute Figur
machen. Als Stand-Alone Grafikprozessor ist es exzellent, und mit den
richtigen neuen Befehlen wird es mehr Teile der 3D-Pipeline bearbeiten
als die aktuellen 3D-Chips (nVidia, 3Dfx, etc). Wieder genau das was
wir für Hombre-als-Grafikkarte geplant hatten.

Die andere Theorie (nicht von mir, aber ich sammle...) ist, daß

Transmeta tatsächlich einen Prozessor wie beschrieben herstellt, aber
deren VLIW-Engine Teile der MIPS-Technologie benutzt. Wenn das der
Fall wäre, wären jene mit MIPS-Erfahrung bei der Arbeit mit diesem
Chip nützlicher als jene ohne diese Erfahrung.

Die MAJC-Idee ist vielleicht etwas solider; denn nach dem, was Sun
beschreibt, ist ein ausgereifter MAJC-Chip viel schneller als heutige
CPUs. Statt die Instruktionsebene zu parallelisieren wie die super-
skalaren RISCs oder VLIW-Prozessoren von heute, bauen sie vollständige
CPUs getrennt auf denselben Chip. Dies, in Verbindung mit "pervasively
threaded code" (x86, nein; Java, vielleicht) könnte diese Maschine um
ein Vielfaches schneller als eine konventionelle CPU machen, aber nur,
wenn jeder MAJC-Prozessor vergleichbar mit einem PIII o.ä. wäre.
Was das angeht, müssen wird abwarten. Und es gibt keine Möglichkeit zu
sagen, wann echte Chips auftauchen werden. Sun hat nichts zu verlieren,
jetzt über den MAJC zu reden, weil es keine Konkurenz zu einem existie-
renden Produkt ist -- sie haben nichts im Heim-, Embedded- oder Desktop-
Markt. In diesem Fall wird meistens früh als später über die Dinge
geredet.

Mehrfache CPUs pro Chip sind nichts neues. TI hat ein "32080" genanntes
Ding, das vier 32-Bit DSPs und einen RISC-Prozessor auf einem einzelnen
Chip bietet. Nicht billig, aber arbeitet bei einigen Problemen gut (TI
macht auch einen VLIW-basierenden DSP, und darauf scheinen sie sich für
die Zukunft zu konzentrieren).

IBM macht jetzt etwas ähnliches, auch wenn sie in Wirklichkeit einen
"Multithreaded"-Chip bauen, nicht völlig getrennte Chips. Das bedeutet,
daß jeder Chip verschiedene Registersätze hat (inklusive PC), aber MMU
und ein Pool von Ausführungseinheiten zwischen den verschiedenen Threads
aufgeteilt wird.
--
Dave Haynie  | V.P. Technology, Met@box AG |  http://www.metabox.de
My opinions are my own, but sign the right NDAs, pay those
royalties on time and in cash, and they may be yours, too.

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

Subject:   Re: [TA] Amiga MCC CPU = MIPS64 20000 CPU ?
Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:52:18 -0400
From:      Dave Haynie
Reply-To:  teamamiga@thule.no
To:        teamamiga@thule.no
References:  1 , 2

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:00:58 +0200, "g'o'tz ohnesorge"
 jammed all night, and by sunrise was overheard remarking:

> Dave Haynie schrieb:

> > Mein Tip: Woran auch immer Chromatic gearbeitet hat.

> Vielleicht auch nicht, siehe unten. Aber es ist möglich, daß ATi die
> MIPS-Lizenz billig im Tausch gegen einiges von dem Chromatix-Zeug
> bekommen hat, am Ende als MIPS 3D ASE .. ?

Oder vielleicht doch. Das Hauptproblem mit der Original Chromatic-
(nicht Chromatix) Architektur, abgesehen von "niedriger Leistung bei
Dingen, die für PC-User von Wert sind", war die Tatsache, daß sie alle
möglichen Handreichungen von der Host-CPU benötigte.

Also ist es sehr sinnvoll, daß jede neue Grafiksache, die sie ent-
wickeln würden, ihren eigenen internen Allzweck-Prozessor bekommen
würde. Das würde sowohl das Host-System entlasten als auch Stand-Alone
Spiel-/STB-Konsolen erlauben. Ein MIPS-Core wäre dafür ideal, und das
ist wahrscheinlich der Teil, den ATi als Belohnung dafür bekommt, das
man MIPS bei der Entwicklung der 3D ISA hilft.

Mit anderen Worten, Hombre, neu entwickelt.

> > Es ist auch klar das MIPS und ATi zusammenarbeiten (MIPS, nicht SGI,
> > die sich letztes Jahr von MIPS getrennt haben und den ganzen High-End-
> > Kram mitgenommen haben).

> http://www.mips.com/pressReleases/081699A.html ist eine Ankündigung
> von MIPS über einige Extra-3D-Befehle für deren existierende SIMD-
> Einheit.

Wie ich gesagt habe... das sind keine neuen Neuigkeiten, auch wenn es
bekannter werden wird, da MIPS gestern ein Papier darüber veröffentlicht
hat.

> Die neuen Befehle sind für die Software der Geometrie-Einheit, die
> 10-25 Millionen Polygone pro Sekunde auf einem 500 MHz-Prozessor
> erreicht und dabei zusätzliche 0,5 mm2 an Silizium benötigen. Das
> sind mindestens dreimal so viele Polygone wie in den schnellsten
> AGP 3D-Karten von heute!

Im Durchsatz, ja. Aber der ist üblicherweise durch den Bus beschränkt:
Sie können einfach nicht so viele Polygone pro Sekunde berechnen. Die
meisten 3D-Karten erreichen zig Milliarden von Operationen pro Sekunde,
und können ihren Teil der 3D-Pipeline besser abarbeiten als sowohl die
CPU sie füttern kann oder die Busarchitektur, worst case, erlaubt.

Das Problem ist hauptsächlich die Fähigkeit der CPU, Fließkommapolygone
zu liefern. Mit Sicherheit etwas, das dieser MIPS 3D-Satz, oder AltiVec
(wahrscheinlich noch schneller, wette ich), vielleicht sogar SSE schon
bald mit den heute existierenden Karten ausräumen wird.

> Die Geometrieberechnung (die Erstellung der Polygondaten, die dann zur
> Darstellung an den 3D Grafikchip gesendet wird) verbraucht etwa 70%
> in heutigen x86 CPUs bei 3D-Spielen. Die Grafikchips der nächsten
> Generation (jene nach dem ATi Rage128, nVidea RIVA TNT2, 3Dfx Voodoo3
> und einigen anderen kommen) werden wahrscheinlich alle die Geometrie-
> einheiten on-board haben, um die Arbeitslast der CPU zu reduzieren.

Yup. Die CPU war für einige Zeit der Flaschenhals. In vielen Fällen wird
sie es auch bei diesen neuen Systemen mit Geometrieeinheit sein. Aber der
Trend ist klar - mehr und mehr der 3D-Pipeline geht auf die Grafikchips

über, da diese (für den PC) neue parallele und pipelined-Architekturen
nutzen können (der größte Teil dieses Krams kommt von High-End Grafik-
Engines), die an 50-100 Stages gleichzeitig arbeiten, etwas, wovon eine
CPU nur träumen kann.

> Geometrieeinheiten auf diese Chips zu integrieren wird Intel in
> Schwierigkeiten bringen, da Zocker keine neuen Prozessoren über 300 MHz
> mehr brauchen werden; Windoze wird diese neuen Funktionen durch DirectX
> 7.x unterstützen.

Und es wird bereits in OpenGL unterstützt. Aber es würde Intel nicht sehr
schmerzen; ich glaube nicht für eine Minute, das Spieleprogrammierer nicht
Wege finden, die ganze CPU auszunutzen.

Aber das ist ein Wiederholungsthema. Damals, als PCs keine 3D-Engines
hatten, war eine schnellere CPU der einzige Weg. Dann kam 3D, und klar,
man bekam eine schnellere Performance (mit Beschleunigung, die nicht immer
vorhanden war) durch eine relativ preisgünstige 3D-Karte. Dann schlossen
die Spiele auf, und die CPU war wieder der Faktor. Dann wanderte die
Pixel-Setup-Engine auf den Grafikchip, und die Grafikkarte war wieder
der Faktor. Sobald man die Grafik-Engine verbessert hatte, war die CPU
wieder der Faktor. Jetzt wird es wieder umschlagen, für eine Weile.

> Da bereits doppelt so schnelle Prozessoren verkauft werden, die eine
> Unmenge an Power freisetzen, um Spiele viel interessanter zu machen.

Yup. Komisch, wie der PC zu so einer "Spielmaschine" geworden ist, daß
beinahe alle neue Technologie heute von Spielen vorangetrieben wird :-)

> Ich vermute, daß ATi den MIPS-Prozessor mit diesen neuen Befehlen
> zu diesem Zweck auf den eigenen Chips verwenden wird; dieser könnte
> dann, als Nebeneffekt, als Stand-Alone-Chip in Set-Top-Boxen laufen.

Das ist es, was ich seit Wochen sage. Ursprünglich, vor der Linux-
Ankündigung, hat jemand eine Nachfrage nach MIPS-Support in einer Amiga-
Stellenanzeige entdeckt, und Threads wucherten darüber, daß die geheim-
nisvolle CPU auf MIPS basieren könnte. Die ATi-Geschichte hat dies sehr
viel unwahrscheinlicher gemacht. Gateway besaß einen großen Teil von
Chromatic; Chromatic machte zu und wurde von ATi aufgesaugt; Amiga kündigt
an, man würde einen ATi-Chip benutzen, der nicht aus ATi's normaler Rage-
Linie etc. käme. Was könnte das sonst sein als deren Weiterentwicklung
des Zeugs, das man von Chromatic erhalten hat? Sie brauchen eine Embedded-
CPU dafür, IMHO, um die Probleme des alten Chromatic-Designs zu umgehen.
Tataa, ATi hat eine MIPS-Lizenz, und sie arbeiten mit MIPS an einigen
Dingen zusammen. MIPS macht keine Grafik-Engines, sie machen CPUs, und
sie müssen die 3D-Erfahrung von jemand anderes nutzen. Paßt gut zusammen,
macht perfekten Sinn, etc. Aber wenn dies die einzige CPU im AmigaNG ist,
sind sie verloren, zumindest oberhalb des STB-Levels.
--
Dave Haynie  | V.P. Technology, Met@box AG |  http://www.metabox.de
My opinions are my own, but sign the right NDAs, pay those royalties
on time and in cash, and they may be yours, too.

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

Subject:    Re: [TA] Info on Amiga Clones?
Date:       Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:52:06 -0400
From:       Dave Haynie
Reply-To:   teamamiga@thule.no
To:         teamamiga@thule.no
References:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:19:51 +0200, "g'o'tz ohnesorge"
 jammed all night, and by sunrise was
overheard remarking:

> Iwin Corporation NUTZT KEINE der patentrechtlich geschützten Technologie
> von Amiga Inc. Alle Amiga-kompatiblem Iwin-Computer basieren auf unserer
> eigenen Technologie, die - tatsächlich - kompatibel mit Amiga-Computern
> ist.

Sehr unwahrscheinlich. Es ist so gut wie unmöglich, Amiga-kompatibel zu
sein, ohne Amiga-Patente zu verletzen. Ja, man kann die Software-Patente
umgehen, indem man die Leute woanders das AmigaOS kaufen läßt; aber wenn
der Blitter blittet und der Copper coppt, gibt es praktisch keine Chance,
das Blitter-Patent nicht zu verletzen, und vielleicht andere. Und, natürlich,
macht es nicht den geringsten Unterschied, ob dies in Hardware oder Software
geschieht -- Patente decken die Erfindung, nicht die spezielle Implementierung
derselben (und ja, UAE verletzt mit Sicherheit die Amiga-Patente).

Es ist sehr merkwürdig, daß diese Typen Behauptungen aufstellen, ohne
anscheinend die Grundlagen des Patentrechts zu verstehen. Nicht, daß es
in der Praxis einen Unterschied macht -- ich kann mir nicht vorstellen,
daß Gateway jemandem nachstellen würde, der einen neuen Amiga Classic-Klon
herstellt. Aber wenn sie nicht einmal dies verstehen, wovon haben sie dann
noch keine Ahnung?
--
Dave Haynie  | V.P. Technology, Met@box AG |  http://www.metabox.de
My opinions are my own, but sign the right NDAs, pay those
royalties on time and in cash, and they may be yours, too.

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:48:11 +0200
From: Darek Smietana support@elbox.com
To:   petra.struck@online-club.de
Subject: News on A4000 PowerTower

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

Regards,
Darek Smietana
ELBOX COMPUTER


Subject:        A4000 PowerTower
Date:           Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:25:15 +0200
From:           Darek Smietana support@elbox.com
Organization:   ELBOX COMPUTER
To:             "Falk Stefan, ITS-SL" stefan.falk@slg.se
References:     1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best wishes
Darek Smietana
ELBOX COMPUTER

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To:      PETRA.STRUCK@ONLINE-CLUB.DE
Subject: Zwischenstand
Date:    Sat, 15 Aug 99 17:37:59 GMT
From:    SYSOP@NOSTLGIC.OCHE.DE (Jens Schoenfeld)

Hallo Petra,

Hier mal ein Zwischenstand der kreativen Ergüsse Deiner
Leser nebst ein paar Kommentaren. Vielleicht inspiriert das
ja zu noch besseren Vorschlägen? Meine Kommentare stehen in
eckigen Klammeren.

++

Starfury@t-online.de schlägt vor:

Warpgate, MightyMAx  [Liste gekürzt]

++

ahoi@pmnet.uni-oldenburg.de schlägt vor:

COMcorde, Speedy Comzales [Liste gekürzt]

[letzterer ist irgendwie cool. Wurde übrigens von noch mehr
Leuten vorgeschlagen!]

++

jkaenner@knuut.de schlägt vor:

MilleniumWarp

++

captain_hit@worldmailer.com schlägt vor:

Fireball     [geht nicht - ist von Quantum eingetragen!]
TNT WarpCom  [explosiv? ;-)]
Carrera Rapida!

[Liste gekürzt]

++

Markus.Kuhnen@t-online.de:

mein Vorschlag wäre "Speerial", eine
Wortschöpfung aus "Speed" und "Serial".
Flashcom, Comcorde

[Dein vierter Vorschlag in der dritten Mail "Hermes" kam zu
spät, die Ehre gebührt 'nem Anderen!]

++

pglauser@webware.ch handelt wohl viel an der Nasdaq:

GoToCom, GoToSer, GoToSerCom, AmiWarp
[Liste gekürzt]

++

placebo@ch.transnet.de schlägt vor:

COM`on (baby)

++

fritz.trampnau@okay.net schlägt vor:

SIGURD-Speeder

[Sigurd spricht sich irgendwie nicht gut]

++

e9527180@stud3.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Bergmann) schlägt vor:

seReal, seREALcom, serial.com, eclipse
[letzteren Begriff können wir glaub' ich alle nicht mehr hören, oder?]

++

MKretschmer@t-online.de

Mein 1. Vorschlag wäre "Powercom"
Mein 2. Vorschlag wäre "Star-Communicator"

[Leider beides schon vergeben: Powercom wird von Power
Computing in England verwendet, bei Star-Communicator gibt
es garantiert Probleme mit den Software-Fredels die das
Star-office vertreiben.]

++

hanss000@mail.uni-mainz.de schlägt vor:

HermesCOM

[Najaa, klingt irgendwie wie das Versandhaus mit den
baby-blauen Autos]

++

kirsche@mops.net

Hier drei Vorschläge:
1.  COMbat / COM*BAT
(natürlich mit 'nem Logo mit Fledermaus)
2. COM-MAN-DO
3. SPEEDY COMZALES

++

adrian@mini.gt.owl.de schlägt vor:

speedSer
BuddhaCom

[Mit Abstand das Einfallsloseste was ich gelesen habe - nimmt
nicht an der Verlosung teil]

++

Ralph.Ewers@esn.siemens.de

Mitchy (der Hund von Jay Miner)
Serial Service
Extracom
Comrunner
Stormcom, Stormrunner, Stormrider
Matrix

[Liste gekürzt]
["Mitchy" steht schon recht weit oben auf meiner Liste!]

++

neuhaus@iamexwi.unibe.ch

wie waere es mit:
 o  BBB - Beaufield's Bit Beamer (falls du deinen Namen
    nicht hergeben willst, genuegte auch Bit Beamer)
 o  Qwik
 o  Gonzales  Comzales  Commzales (in Anlehnung an Speedy)

[BitBeamer klingt gut - meinen Namen möchte ich aber nicht
ins Englische übersetzen. Deutschland hat in absehbarer Zeit
kein eigenes Geld mehr, und die Sprache wird zunehmend von
Anglizismen infiltriert, da sollte man wenigstens vor den
Namen Halt machen. Qwik erinnert mich an "Kwik copy", das
Disk-Editier-und-kopier-Tool auf dem C-64. Liste gekürzt.]

++

libe0011@fh-karlsruhe.de (Bernhard Lindner) schlägt vor:

CommPanion

[gefällt mir!]

++

n_rosswinkel@osnabrueck.netsurf.de schlägt vor:

 1) "Contactor"
 3) "Multisurf"
 4) "Dreamspeed"
13) "Cerborus"
14) "Surf Porter" (Oder nur Surfport)
16) "TELEscope"

[Liste ganz offensichtlich gekürzt]

++

matthias_muench@gmx.de schlägt vor:

Sofi

[kein Kommentar - Nimmt nicht an der Verlosung teil.]

++

Und auch die Fachhändler machen sich Gedanken:

info@kdh-datentechnik.com (Guenter Horbach) schlägt vor:

fasttalk
speedtalk
talktome
[Liste gekürzt]

++

fritz.trampnau@okay.net:

Wie wär`s, wenn du das Teil  "SIGURD - HighSpeeder" nennst ?!
SIGURD kennt schließlich irgendwie fast jeder !

[nur ich nicht]

++

"Ecki."@t-online.de (Wolfgang Eckart) schlägt vor:

Serial-Slider

[kleiner Tip: Mailer umkonfigurieren, dann kann man Dir auch
per "reply" antworten]

++

BIGFoot@private.dk schlägt vor:

serial killer

[najaa, ich will das Ding nicht an Catcher oder Psychopaten
verkaufen, sondern an Amiganer!]

++

devoider@gmx.net schlägt vor;

1. Subspace communicator (abgeleitet vom transwarp)
2. Wormhole communicator (flutsch und ab in einen anderen Quadranten des
Datennetzes)

[auch wenn "Transwarp" und "Subspace" gut klingen, der
"communicator" macht den Namen zu lang.]

++

Da ich im letzten Kommentar meinen eigenen Favoriten aus der
Liste entfernt habe muß ich ihn natürlich ersetzen. Ich
werfe hiermit

Silversurfer

ins Rennen, in Anlehnung an den Titel von Hardy Hard, der
jetzt in die Dance charts eingestiegen ist.

Wer bis jetzt noch nicht an der Verlosung teilnimmt, kann
nachlegen. Bis Freitag den 20. August um 23:59 nehme ich
noch Vorschläge an, danach geht's in die zweite Runde, die
Wahl des Namens. Ich weise nochmals darauf hin, daß die
eigentliche Wahl des Namens die Chancen bei der Verlosung
nicht beeinflußt. Auch wenn mein eigener Vorschlag gewählt
wird, geht der Preis an einen Teilnehmer der ersten Runde,
eben dieser Vorschlagsrunde.

Warum hat eigentlich noch keiner das Wörtchen "Channel"
benutzt? Da läßt sich doch auch was draus machen!

Ich habe heute beim Surfen gelernt, daß Sigurd ein
Comic-Held ist. Scheinbar ist er so wenig bekannt, daß das
Comic selbst auf Comicshop.de veröffentlicht wird. Keiner
meiner Bekannten wußte etwas mit "Sigurd" anzufangen, ich
mutmaße daher, daß er noch weit vom Bekanntheitsgrad von
Asterix & Obelix oder Lucky Luke entfernt ist.

Noch ein Hinweis in eigener Sache:
Ich kann leider keine Bestellungen für die Karte entgegen-
nehmen, weil ich einfach nicht die Zeit habe so viele Pakete
zu packen und zur Post zu bringen. Ich freue mich ja über
das rege Interesse, muß aber trotzdem auf meine Handels-
partner verweisen, bei denen es auch gleich den guten Support
gibt (alphabetische Reihenfolge): Jam Computer, KDH, Vesalia.
Jam Computer liefert bereits.

Schönen Tag noch,
-----------------------------------------------------------
Jens Schönfeld

To:      PETRA.STRUCK@ONLINE-CLUB.DE
Subject: Vorschlge die zweite
Date:    Fri, 21 Aug 99  9:39:20 GMT
From:    SYSOP@NOSTLGIC.OCHE.DE (Jens Schoenfeld)

Hallo Petra,

Hier die restlichen Namensvorschläge, die bis gestern nacht
hier eingetroffen sind. Richtige Reißer waren leider nicht
mehr dabei, aber lies' selbst:

++
matthias_muench@gmx.de

[hat nachgelegt und nimmt mit]

- Fire Channel
- Channel Pusher
- FireCom

[an der Verlosung teil.]
++
borut.zivkovic@alpe-adria-leasing.si schlägt vor:

Connecticut

++
ronsch@karlsruhe.netsurf.de (Ronald Schulz) schlägt vor:

Bit-Rocket
++

falinski.ks@muenster.de schlägt vor:

CyberBurst
CyberCom
Comiga

++
Markus.Lunk@SoftM-Berlin.de hofft auf ein:

COMBack
++
Beautyfrosch@t-online.de (Martin):

SerSpeed1200
[Najaa.. nimmt trotzdem teil]
++
wwg@arco.met.fu-berlin.de (Walter Weber-Groß) schlägt vor:

 AmiCOM
++

MisterAmiga@gmx.de (Daniel Schulz) schlägt vor:

 COMmanche

++
 MellowBrain@gmx.de

4. FireCom
6. DexStar
8. SerWolf
9. SpeedHawk
12. AlphaCom
14. CrayFish
[Liste gekürzt]
++

c1.schreiber@01019freenet.de schlägt vor:

  - Megaspeed
  - Powerhawk
  - White Arrow

++

holger.hesselbarth@sican.de schlägt vor:

cOMR@d

++
n_rosswinkel@osnabrueck.netsurf.de (Nico Roßwinkel)
[hat nochmal nachgelegt]:

17) timesurf
25) Magic Fly
28) timewarp [it's just a jump to the left,
              and then a step to the right :-)]
++
 Jebedia@gmx.de

 Baudelle, Baudette
[hmm.. witzig, könnte aber falsch verstanden werden]
++

rTraub@all-for-one.de (Traub, Rainer)

TransRapido
DataRunner

[Liste gekürzt]
++
 Erik.Thos@gmx.de

COMnection
++
 N.Suessdorf@t-online.de

HurryCom
[Hmm.. abschreiben kann jeder, nimmt nicht teil]
++
topgun@pop.ch (Michael Jaccoud)

PowerPulSER
EnhanSer
BitBooster

[mal wieder was kreatives, cool!]
++

AndreasDVG@01019freenet.de schlägt vor:

ChannelWarp
FlashCom

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Date:    Mon, 10 Aug 99 14:59:14 GMT
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From:    ThomasSteiding epic@swol.de
To:      Petra Struck petra.struck@online-club.de
Date:    Mon, 09 Aug 1999 10:10:38 +0100
Subject: Preseerklärung

Press Release

Pagan Games and Epic Marketing are happy to announce a long term cooperation.
This cooperation means that Epic Marketing will publish all Pagan Games
developed in the next couple of years.

Says Vince Pike of Epic: "This will
be a strong cooperation where both partners can concentrate on what they
are doing best: Pagan Games can concentrate on delivering top quality
games and Epic on the Marketing aspect. We look at this as a very strong
partnership which will deliver high quality products to the Amiga community."

Jason Hayman of Pagan Games, one of the co-founders of the Pagan Group adds:
"Our relationship with Epic allows us a stable and supported base for future
development of all Pagan Gamesin the next 3 years. We see this as a long term
deal with Epic with a very promising future for us both. We are the largest
development group on the Amiga with over 20 members working on 3 projects -
and we are still hiring more!"

The first product to be released will be the Amiga title "Dafel:Bloodline",
an action based RPG game. "Dafel:Bloodline" has an isometric 3D POV, similar
to the "Chaos Engine" series and comes with a sound system called Full Sensual
Gaming (FSG) which will be responsible for the best possible atmosphere ever
in a computer RPG game.

The features of "Dafel:Bloodline" are:

* Extremely fast chunky to planar (c2p) graphics engine. RTG compatible.
  The game offers two resolutions to play in, 320 x 240 and 640 x 480.
  Both offer 256 colours on screen, with the 640 x 480 requiring a
  graphics card and a faster processor to run. The AGA version runs at
  25 fps. Both screen resolutions are RTG compatible working on CyberGFX
  and Picasso96 systems.

* FSG Audio System (Full Sensual Gaming) & CD Music/Effects.
  "Dafel:Bloodline" uses our own stereo sound handling system in the game.
  Using either Paula (or possibly AHI) we split the available channels
  in half assigning one pair to what we call Sound Objects (SO) and the other
  pair to Environment sound Objects (ESO). SO`s are used to create objects
  that can be tracked by sound alone. using advanced algorithms, the volume
  level of the sound is calculated in real timeso the closer you are, the louder
  the SO will be heard and the further away you are, the quieter the SO will
  be heard. In relation to the SO, the ESO`s are used to add atmosphere and
  ambedience to a level. In conjunction to background sound effects being
  played off the CD, ESO`s are used to add an extra dimensionto the
  audio set by trigger points on the game map.

* Game Engine

  in "Dafel:Bloodline" we have mixed two gaming elemnts together, action and
  adventure into one single engine. The action elemnts consist of Dafel
  attacking level enemies and end of level monsters. There are three ways
  Dafel can attack using his sword. The first basic way is called a "low swing",
  which inflects little damage, but allows a consistent flow of attacks.
  The second attack is a "medium swing", which allows more damage on the enemy
  but takes longer. The final attack is a "Full Swing", where Dafel slashes
  down from his head and inflicts the most damage, but also needs the most time
  to execute.

  The adventure and strategic elements arise from the solving of puzzles , the
  communication with other characters and the being of Dafel himself.
  Throughout the game there will be subplots that are relevant to the core plot.
  Dafel must find and complete these to progress through the core plot.
  The game has been designed in a non-linear fashionallowing the player
  to revisit areas and solve puzzles in any order. There are however
  key plot stages that need to be completed before advancing to another
  sub-plot. These key stages are always followed by a cut-scene to develop
  the plot further.
  Dafel must also live in the world and to do so he must maintain his armour
  and sword and also feed and drink himself. Strategic elements arise in this
  management role of looking after his equipment and hunting for food. Dafel
  can also visit blacksmiths or shops to maintain or improve his armour
  and sword.

* Enemy Artifical Intelligence

  Enemies that roam Dafel`s world can behave in 3 different ways. We have
  "roamers" who aimlessly wander through the maps attacking at pure will.
  We have "ambushers" who can lay in wait then attack and then we have
  "group-attackers" who only fight in groups. These 3 classes are subdivided
  into various attributes such as sight, hearing, smell and intelligence.
  An enemy with low sight will rely on smelling and hearing his enemy.

* Manga Style FMV and Cut Scenes

  Bloodline begins with a 5 minute FMV sequence based upon the prologue.
  The game also end with a FMV sequence.



The finished product can be expected at around the time of the Cologne
exhibition. A playable demo will be released in a couple of weeks.
Preorders can already be placed with Epic Marketing UK (Tel:01793/432176,
E-Mail:epicmarketing@dialin.net) or Epic Marketing Germany (Tel:07071/
400492, E-Mail:info@epic-marketing.de) for a special preorder price.


"Dafel:Bloodline" will probably remain the only product that will still
support the Classic 68k based Amiga.  The next project "Scavengers", an
action based but still strategic game in complete 3D which will combine
the best of Wing Commander and Command&Conquer into a new game, is scheduled
for release on Amiga MCC and might also be developed for Amiga PPC and 3D
graphic boards if there is enough demand for it.

More on this and other projects that Pagan Games and Epic Marketing are
currently working on can be found at these webpages:

www.pagan-games.com
www.epicmarketing.ltd.net
www.epic-marketing.de



-----------------------------------------------------------
EPIC MARKETING
HIRSCHAUER STRASSE 9
72070 TÜBINGEN

Tel: +49 (0) 7071 40 04 92
Fax: +49 (0) 7071 40 04 93
Mail:epic@swol.de 

From    Martin Baute solar@baud.de
To      Petra Struck petra.struck@online-club.de
Date    Sat, 07 Aug 1999 12:03:05 +0200
Subject Kriegs-Analogie
Name    Martin Baute


Hallo Petra,

auf ANN fand sich diese sehr treffende Metapher zur Situation, inklusive
einer Reaktion von Jim Collas. Ich habe beide für die Sonderseite übersetzt.

*** Deutsch, Englisch folgt ***

Posting von Paul E. Bell auf comp.sys.amiga.misc:

Hi Jim,

Nein, ich habe Deine Nachricht nicht zitiert, wie Gateway die
Informationen betrachtet, die Du ausgibst und die Leute, die Du
anwirbst und wie man sich wundert, was Du tust; oder Deinen Vergleich
mit anderen Firmen. Auf jeden Fall Dank Dir, daß Du uns diese Dinge
gesagt hast.

Verstehe das folgende nicht falsch, bevor Du alles gelesen hast:

Amiga und die Gemeinschaft befinden sich beide in einer schwierigen
Situation. Auf eine Art ist die Amiga-Gemeinschaft wie eine kleine
Armee, die jetzt schon seit Jahren von Notrationen lebt. Im Laufe
dieser Jahre sind Generäle gekommen und gegangen, und alle haben sie
Vollrationen und "echtes Essen" versprochen, gleich um die Ecke. Diese
Generäle haben auch neue Waffen versprochen, Verbesserungen der
jetzigen Waffen, und mehr und bessere Munition. Aber wir leben immer
noch von Notrationen, unsere Gewehre und Munition ist Jahre alt, und
unsere Stiefel sind durchgelaufen.

Jetzt haben wir einen neuen General, einen, der uns Vollrationen und
"echtes Essen" verspricht, gleich um die Ecke. Einer, der uns neue und
bessere Waffen verspricht, mit besserer Munition, und Fahrzeuge, nicht
weniger. Um dies zu erreichen, hat er sich mit einem Kommandostab
umgeben, wie wir ihn noch nie gesehen haben, auch wenn wir immer noch
nicht erkennen, wie diese Leute die neuen Waffen, Munition und Essen
heranschaffen sollen (etwas, was normalerweise von Forschern und
Entwicklern getan wird, und vielen davon), oder wie die
Nachschublinien zusammengestellt werden sollen (momentan scheinen wir
uns selbst zu versorgen, indem wir die umliegende Landschaft plündern,
zwischen spärlichen Nachschüben von Freiwilligenorganisationen und ein
paar Söldnereinheiten).

Der neue General versucht, näher bei seinen Männern zu sein, er
versucht, ihnen Einsicht in einige der Gedanken hinter seinen
Entscheidungen zu verschaffen. In der Zwischenzeit diskutiert das
Kabinet, was in aller Welt er da zu tun versucht, und warum er so
unorthodox ist. Sie machen sich Sorgen, daß der Gegner seine
Nachrichten abfangen könnte, und einen Gegenangriff startet, bevor die
kleine Armee ihre neue Ausrüstung überhaupt erhält. Der General hat
alle Hände voll zu tun, die Truppen und das Kabinet zur gleichen Zeit
zu beruhigen.

Wegen denen, die sich darauf vorbereiten, das Schiff zu verlassen,
sollte es vielleicht eine Navy/Admirals-Situation sein, aber das faßt
die Situation zusammen, exklusive den Abspringern.

Wenn ich es richtig verstehe, würde die Armee normalerweise von den
neuen Rationen erst erfahren, wenn sie da sind, nicht vorher.
Normalerweise wäre da vielleicht nicht einmal eine Armee, die auf die
neuen Waffen wartet, wäre es nicht eine alte, und hoch dekorierte
Armee, und eine, die einfach nicht aufgibt, selbst wenn ihre Anführer
sterben oder verschwinden.

Vielleicht verdient es diese Armee, besseren Nachschub zu erhalten, zu
wissen, daß besserer Nachschub unterwegs ist, oder zumindest
produziert wird. Auf der anderen Seite, vielleicht nicht.

Was wäre passiert, wenn Du bis zum Start geschwiegen hättest? Jene,
die das Schiff verlassen wollten, wären sowieso gesprungen; die, die
bleiben wollten, wären geblieben. Es gäbe immer noch Beschwerden über
den Nachschub, aber vielleicht hätte es weniger Verwirrung und weniger
Beschwerden über den General und seinen Stab gegeben.

Nachdem es gesagt wurde, können wir nicht mehr zurück, aber es sollte
uns klar sein, daß wir im Krieg sind. Vielleicht wissen wir nicht,
wen der General für den Gegner hält, aber es sollte uns klar sein, daß
es nicht gut ist, wenn wir selbst zum Gegner werden. Es sollte uns
auch klar sein, daß wir sehr kurz davor sind, jeden Tag. Ich weiß
nicht, was die Lösung ist. Ich weiß aber, daß ich, als Fußsoldat, die
ausgegebenen Informationen auf der Basis mußich_wissen_ beurteilen
sollte, und im Moment mußich_es_nicht_wissen_.

Was ist anders? Ich werde vom General nach meiner Meinung gefragt, wie
dieser Krieg zu führen sei, welche Waffen ich brauche, wie ich mein
Steak gerne hätte! Der General wird von Zeit zu Zeit von Soldaten in
den Schützengräben gesehen (wie macht er das), selbst spät in der
Nacht, oder in den Stunden der Morgendämmerung. Selbst einige hohe
Offiziere sind aufgetaucht, die Truppen zu inspizieren, Befehle zu
geben, Fragen zu beantworten. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, daß dies
zuvor oft passiert wäre, wenn überhaupt. Ja, die Analogie ist nicht
wirklich wie die Realität, aber sie erklärt meinen Standpunkt:
Normalerweise gäbe es gar keine Armee; oder, wenn doch, wäre sie mit
Waffen und Nachschub des letzten Jahres gut ausgerüstet, und wüßte
nichts von den neuen Plänen.

Amiga ist eine sehr ungewöhnliche Firma, die offensichtlich einen sehr
ungewöhnlichen Führungsstil verlangt. Ich hoffe nur, daß die Risiken,
die Du uns zuliebe eingehst, sich am Ende auszahlen. Vielleicht werde
ich mich weiter beschweren, während ich Rationen des Gegners verzehre
und eine Waffe benutze, die ich von einem Gegner gekauft habe, den ich
auf Fronturlaub in einer Bar getroffen habe. Aber ich kann, und werde,
darauf warten, daß die neue Ausrüstung hier eintrifft.

Danke im Voraus.
--Paul E. Bell Email and AIM: wd0gcp@millcomm.com
ifMUD: Helios | IRC: PKodon, DrWho4, and Helios
(I'd put my webpage here, if it had anything on it.)

***

Jim Collas' Antwort:

In vielerlei Hinsicht sind wir tatsächlich dabei, einen Krieg
anzuzetteln, in dem wir erheblich in Unterzahl sind. Ich habe ein
neutrales Schlachtfeld gewählt, auf dem wir eine Chance zu kämpfen
haben (Info-Appliances und Computing Devices der nächsten Generation).
Ich habe mächtige Verbündete gebeten, uns beizustehen (Linux, Sun, und
viele andere). Wir bauen einige einzigartige und mächtige Waffen
(Amiga NG Technologie). Wir haben eine Startegie, die sie überraschen
wird (noch geheim). Macht Euch keine Sorgen über das Kabinet. Der
Präsident hat versprochen, uns bedingungslos zu unterstützen. Denkt
daran, es ist nur eine Analogie. ;-)

*** Ende Deutsch, Englisch folgt ***

*** Englisch, Deutsch weiter oben ***

Posting from Paul E. Bell on comp.sys.amiga.misc:

Hi Jim,

No, I didn't quote your message about how Gateway is looking at the
information you are giving out and the people you are hiring and
wondering what you are doing, or your comparison with other companies.
Thanks for telling us these things, though.

Don't take the following wrong before you read it all:

Amiga and the community are in a hard situation for both. In a way,
the Amiga community is like a small army that has been living on
K-Rations for years now. Over the course of these years, generals have
come and gone, all promising C-Rations and 'real food' just around the
corner. These generals have also promised new weapons, upgrades to
current weapons, and more and better ammunition. Still, we live on
K-Rations, our guns and ammo are years old, and our boots are wearing
out.

Now we have a new General, one who is promising C-Rations and 'real
food', just around the corner. One who is promising new and better
weapons, with better ammunition, and vehicles, no less. To accomplish
this, he has surrounded himself with a command team like none we have
seen yet, though we still don't see how these people are going to get
the new weapons, ammunition and food developed (something usually done
by R&D people, and lots of them), or how the supply lines are going to
be put together (currently, we seem to be supplying ourselves by
looting the surrounding countryside, in between sparce transports from
volunteer organizations and a few mercenary groups).

The new General attempts to be closer to his men, he attempts to let
them in on some of the thinking behind the decisions he is making.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet is deliberating what in the world he is
attempting to do, and why he is being so unorthodox. They are getting
woried that the enemy might pick up on his messages and launch a
counterstrike before the little army even gets their new supplies. The
General has his hands full, trying to calm the troops and the Cabinet
at the same time.

Perhaps with those who are preparing to jump ship, it should be a
Navy/Admiral situation, but that about sums up the situation, not
including the ship jumpers.

Now, if I understand it corectly, normally, the army would be told
about the new rations when they got them, not before. Normally, there
might not even be an army to use the new weapons, if it weren't for
the fact that it is an old army, and well decorated, and one that just
won't give up, even when it's leaders die or disappear.

This army may deserve better supplies now, it may deserve to know that
better suppliess are on the way, or at least being procured. Then
again, it may not.

What would have happened if you had kept quiet until launch? Those who
were going to jump would have jumped anyway, those who would stay,
would stay. There would still have been complaints about the state of
supplies, but, perhaps, there would have been less confusion and less
complaining about the General and his commanders.

That said, we can't go back, but we should be aware that we are at
war, we may not know who the General thinks the enemy is, but we ought
to realize that it does us no good to become the enemy ourselves. We
also ought to realize that we come very close to it, every day. I
don't know what the solution is, I do know this, as one of the
footsoldiers, I should consider the information given me on a
needto_know_ basis, and for now, Idon't_need_to_know_.

What's different? I get asked by the General for my opinion on how to
fight this war, what weapons I need, how I like my steak! The General
is seen in the trenches (how does he do that) by soldiers from time to
time, even late at night, or in the wee hours of the morning. Even
some of the top brass have shown up to inspect the troops, give
orders, answer questions. I don't remember this happening much before,
if ever. Oh, yes, the analogy is not quite what the reality is, but it
makes my point, that there wouldn't even be an army normally; or, if
there were, it would be well supplied with last years weapons and
supplies, and oblivious to the new plans in store.

Amiga is a most unusual business, seemingly calling for a most unusual
way of running it. I just hope the risks you take for our sakes are
worth it in the end. I may still complain, as I am eating the enemies
food and using a weapon I bought from an enemy soldier I met in a bar
on R&R one day, but I can, and will, wait for the new supplies to get
here.

Thanks, ahead of time, --Paul E. Bell Email and AIM:
wd0gcp@millcomm.com ifMUD: Helios | IRC: PKodon, DrWho4, and Helios
(I'd put my webpage here, if it had anything on it.)

***

Jim Collas' answer:

In many ways, we are indeed preparing to launch a war in which we are
significantly outnumbered. I have picked a neutral battlefield where
we will have a fighting chance (info-appliances and next generation
computing devices). I have asked powerful allies to join us (Linux,
Sun, and many others). We are building some extremely unique and
powerful weapons (Amiga NG technology). We have a strategy that will
take them by surprise (still secret). Don't worry about the Cabinet.
The President has promised to support us no matter what. Remember,
it's just an analogy. ;)

*** Ende Englisch, Deutsch weiter oben ***

Mit freundlichen Grüssen,

    Martin Baute          /// Amiga A1200 Towerhawk - PowerPC 603e / MC68060
 => solar@baud.de <=     /// Newsmaster & VersionWatch at http://www.baud.de
Member of Team AMIGA \\\/// Member of the Bielefeld Amiga Users & Developers
100% Microsoft free!  \XX/ Amigas are back, never been dead, only forgotten!

May The Source Be With You!
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Date    Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:24:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From    Martin Sahlén
To  Petra Struck
Subject Re: AAA Award Sweden Information


AAA Award Sweden 1998 Winner Presentation

For Immediate Release
Permission Granted To Redistribute Without Alteration

Contact: Björn Axelsson - gecko@acc.umu.se, +46-90-19 11 73 President,
Amiga Computer Group


Stockholm, Sweden. Monday August 6, 1999.
The AAA Award Sweden for 1998 will be announced and presented at the
Great Nolia fair in Umea, Sweden on Saturday August 14, 15:00.

NOMINEES
The nominees for the AAA Award Sweden 1998 are
    Stefan Burström, for IBrowse
    Vidamus, for FinalWriter 97 Swedish translation
    Christian Nylen, for good customer support at Syscom


THE PRESENTATION
The AAA Award Sweden for 1998 will be presented Saturday August 14,
15:00 CET. Booth 6055 (Amiga Computer Group) at the Great Nolia fair
("Stora Nolia") in Umea, Sweden.


TO GET THERE
The Great Nolia fair is a huge fair with around 120.000 visitors.
Below are links to information about the fair. For more information,
contact us.
Homepage: http://www.nolia.se/stora/
Travel information: http://www.nolia.se/nav/index_resa2.html


CONTACTS

Björn Axelsson, President ACG   gecko@acc.umu.se, +46-90-19 11 73
AAA Awards, homepage            www.aaa-awards.org
AAA Awards, phone hotline       +46-90-71 00 20 (24 hours)
AAA Awards, fax                 +46-90-71 01 46


Acknowledgements

The AAA Awards is copyright © 1997-99 Amiga Computer Group.
The AAA Awards logo is copyright © 1997 Amiga Computer Group and Björn Hagström.
AMIGA® is a registered trademark of AMIGA International, Inc. / Gateway, Inc.


The AAA Awards 1998 are presented in association with AMIGA and Cloanto

From:    ThomasSteiding epic@swol.de
To:      team@amiga-news.de
Date:    Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:05:43 +0100
Subject: Preseerklärung

6. August 99

Paul Burkey und Epic Marketing geben Zusammenarbeit bekannt
**
Paul Burkey und Epic Marketing sind stolz eine langfristige Zusammenarbeit
bekannt geben zu dürfen. Das Ziel dieser Zusammenarbeit ist, hochklassige
Strategiespiele für den Amiga zu entwickeln und auf dem Markt zu plazieren.
Die ersten Früchte dieser Zusammenarbeit sind das Spiel "Foundation Directors
Cut", daß bereits in ca. 2 Wochen erhältlich sein wird. Dabei handelt es
sich um ein aktualisiertes "Foundation" mit allen veröffentlichten und einem
neuem Update, alles fix und fertig und ready-to-use auf CD installiert. Der
Directors Cut von Foundation ist vor allem an diejenigen User gerichtet, die
"Foundation" bisher noch nicht gekauft haben. Dazu soll Sie jetzt der neue Preis
von DM 49.- (Euro 25) ermutigen. "Foundation Directors Cut" kann bereits jetzt
bei Epic Marketing Germany (Hirschauer Strasse 9, D-72070 Tübingen, Tel:
07071 400492, Fax: 07071 400493, E-Mail:info@epic-marketing.de) oder
Epic Marketing UK (Tel:01793 432176, Fax: 01793 514187, E-Mail:
epicmarketing@dialin.net) vorbestellt werden.

Foundation ist ein Echtzeitstrategiespiel, das bekannte Strategiespielelemente
mit gänzlich neuen Konzepten verknüpft. Erfahrene Strategen werden

über das komplexe Ressourcenmanagement und die durchdachte Steuerung
erfreut sein. Anfänger werden sich über die leichte Zugänglichkeit zum
Spiel freuen, daß seinen Tiefgang nach und nach aufzeigen wird.

Die Features von "Foundations Directors Cut" werden sein:

* optimierte Grafikkartenunterstützung
* komplette Unterstützung von CyberGraphX, Picasso 96 und AHI
* neue Grafikeffekte wie Textureblending und Lighting/Shading
* Grafikkartenbesitzer können in einem Fenster auf der Workbench spielen
* AGA Unterstützung mit schneller c2p Routine, so daß AGA fast identisch wie
  RTG aussieht
* Nutzt vorhandenes Fast Ram für Grafik, so daß es keine Speicherprobleme mehr
  gibt
* optimierte Festplatteninstallation
* optimiertes Gameplay
* verbesserte künstliche Intelligenz bei Computergegnern
* Mehr Spielstatistiken und Steuerungsicons
* schelleres Gameplay, schnellere Laderoutinen
* noch vieles vieles mehr


Aber der Directors Cut ist nicht das einzige Produkt, das wir hiermit
ankündigen möchten. Am Nachfolger zu "Foundation" wird bereits kräftig
gearbeitet.
Mehr Details zu "Foundation`s Edge" erfahren Sie in Kürze auf diesen
Homepages:

www.epic-marketing.de
www.sneech.freeserve.co.uk/foundedge.html


Ferner werden Epic Marketing und Paul Burkey mit zukünftigen Projekten
vor allem den Amiga NG berücksichtigen. Auch hierzu werden Sie in Kürze
Details auf unseren Homepages finden.





EPIC MARKETING
HIRSCHAUER STRASSE 9
72070 TÜBINGEN

Tel: +49 (0) 7071 40 04 92
Fax: +49 (0) 7071 40 04 93
Mail:epic@swol.de

AMIGA gibt Gründung des Amiga Advisory Council (AAC) bekannt (06.08.99)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

»6. August 1999

San Diego, Kalifornien - Die Gründung des Amiga Advisory Council (Amiga-
Beirat) wird heute, am 6. August 1999, offiziell bekanntgegeben.

Die Gemeinschaft übermittelte uns hunderte von Nominierungen und auf Grund
Ihrer Eingaben freuen wir uns, folgende Mitglieder im Amiga-Beirat
willkommen heißen zu können:

Andrew Elia        Ben Vost         Bill Panagouleas     Cade Hannan
Carsten Schroeder  Chris Heereman   Christian Kemp       Christoph Dietz
Conor Kerr         Craig DeLahoy    Dave Law             Don Hicks
Gary Peake         Gunter Horbach   Heinz Wrobel         Holger Kruse
Ian Greenaway      Jeff Rose        Juergen Haage        Kermit Woodall
Luca Denelon       Malte Mundt      Randhir Jesrani      Thomas Frieden
Thomas Raukamp     Thomas Svenson   Tom Lively           Trish Zlotek
Wayne Hunt         Wayne Martin

Das Ziel des AAC ist es uns zu helfen, die Zukunft des Amiga durch
enge Verbindung mit Leuten, die als führend in der Amiga-Gemeinschaft
angesehen werden, zu planen. Alle Mitglieder des AAC haben mit Amiga
eine Vereinbarung zur Nichtweitergabe (NDA) getroffen und werden deshalb
Zugang zu vertraulichen Informationen über zukünftige Produkte und Pläne
haben. Dadurch kann Amiga geachtete Mitglieder der Amiga-Gemeinschaft
an diesen vertraulichen Informationen teilhaben lassen, ohne dass unsere
Pläne an die breite Öffentlichkeit gelangen.

Die Mitglieder des AAC wurden ausgewählt, um die unterschiedlichen Bereiche
innerhalb der Amiga-Gemeinschaft zu repräsentieren - die Presse,
Entwickler, Handel/Vertrieb und die Organisationen der Usergroups. Der AAC
wurde geschaffen, um einen Informationsfluss von der Gemeinschaft zum
Amiga-Management und von Amiga zurück zur Gemeinschaft zu ermöglichen.
Jedes der Mitglieder bildet einen "Draht" zur Gemeinschaft und dem Bereich,
den es vertritt.

Wir haben unsere ersten offiziellen Treffen mit dem AAC in London und
Sacramento abgehalten und es haben über 20 Mitglieder an diesen ersten
Treffen teilgenommen. Der AAC konnte viele der Wünsche und Bedürfnisse
der Gemeinschaft an Amiga weitergeben. Da wir auf den Start des Amiga
der nächsten Generation hinarbeiten, werden die vom AAC empfangenen
Eingaben eine Richtschnur für diese Entscheidungen sein.

"Wir heißen die Mitglieder des AAC als aktive Repräsentanten der Amiga-
Gemeinschaft willkommen und freuen uns darauf, viele der vorgeschlagenen
Programme in der nahen Zukunft zu verwirklichen," sagte Jim Collas,
"gemeinsam werden wir es schaffen, die Computer-Nutzung für immer zu
verändern."

Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie bei:

Bill McEwen
Amiga
bill.mcewen@amiga.com
Tel:425-413-2620
Fax:425-413-2640«




»August 6, 1999

San Diego, CA - The Amiga Advisory Council is officially launched today
August 6th, 1999.

The community submitted hundreds of Nominations, and based upon your input
we are pleased to welcome the following members of the Amiga Advisory
Council:

Andrew Elia         Ben Vost        Bill Panagouleas    Cade Hannan
Carsten Schroeder   Chris Heereman  Christian Kemp      Christoph Dietz
Conor Kerr          Craig DeLahoy   Dave Law            Don Hicks
Gary Peake          Gunter Horbach  Heinz Wrobel        Holger Kruse
Ian Greenaway       Jeff Rose       Juergen Haage       Kermit Woodall
Luca Denelon        Malte Mundt     Randhir Jesrani     Thomas Frieden
Thomas Raukamp      Thomas Svenson  Tom Lively          Trish Zlotek
Wayne Hunt          Wayne Martin

The objective of the AAC is to help us better plan the future of Amiga
through close communications with people who are viewed as leaders in the
Amiga community.  The members of the AAC have all executed non-disclosure
agreements (NDAs), with Amiga and will have access to confidential
information regarding future products and plans.  This allows Amiga to share
sensitive information with respected members of the Amiga community without
having to disclose our plans publicly.

The members of the AAC were selected to represent their different areas of
affiliation within the Amiga community - the Press, Developers,
Dealers/Distributors, and the User Group organizations.   The AAC is
designed to provide a flow of information from the Community to the Amiga
management team and from Amiga back to the community.  Each of the members
of the AAC will act as a conduit to the community and the areas that they
represent.

We held our first official meetings with the AAC in London and in Sacramento
with over 20 AAC members participate in these first official meetings. The
AAC was able to share with Amiga many of the desires, and needs of the
community.  As we work towards the launch of the Next Generation Amiga the
input received by the AAC will help guide those decisions.

"We are excited to welcome the members of the AAC as active representatives
of the Amiga community and look forward to implementing many of the programs
suggested in the near future,  stated Jim Collas, "together we will make a
difference in computing forever."

For more information please contact:

Bill McEwen
Amiga
bill.mcewen@amiga.com
Tel:425-413-2620
Fax:425-413-2640 

• Bugfix: Beim Verschieben der GUI wird der Hintergrund nicht mehr gelöscht. Dies funktioniert nun auch im Vollbildmodus.
• Bugfix: Weitere Änderungen am Quelltext-Archiv sowie zusätzliche Informationen zum Quelltext online unter http://www.CodePoet.com/UAE/source.htm.
• Bugfix: Um eine höhere Stabilität zu gewährleisten wurde der Speicherbereich von Zorro-III auf 64MB begrenzt.
• Neu: Zusätzliche Debug-Informationen über den Typ der, von DirectDraw, generierten Oberflächen.

• [1] UAE Home Page, http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
• [2] "Amiga Forever 2.0", AmZeiger 09/98, http://www.fh-brandenburg.de/~janssen/amzeiger/sw/9809fe.htm
• [3] "Emulator: Amiga Forever Online Edition", Power-Brei, 17-Jan-1999, http://www.amigaworld.com/power-brei/News/01-1999/NT.170119990FE.html
• [4] Andreas Neumann, "Test: Amiga Forever 1.0 Preview Edition", AmigaGadget, #33, http://www.amigagadget.de/33/t.cd.amigaforever.html
• [5] Andreas Neumann, "Test: Amiga Forever 2.0", AmigaGadget, #37, http://www.amigagadget.de/37/t.cd.amigaforever2.0.html

• Brian King, "WinUAE Home Page", WinUAE, 05-Aug-1999, http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 21:14:09 +0200
From: Georg Steger georg.steger@rolmail.net
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i686)
To: "Amiga News (Subject: News)" team@amiga-news.de
Subject: News

Ankündigung: ReqAttack 1.0 (Aminet: util/misc/ReqAttack.lha)

BESCHREIBUNG:
=============

ReqAttack, der Nachfolger von KeyReq, ist ein unglaublich cooles
neues Utility (vergleichbar mit ARQ) welches die Bedienung und das
Aussehen von Requestern, welche mit den standard Systemfunktionen
(EasyRequestArgs, AutoRequest, BuildEasyRequestArgs, BuildSysRequest)
erzeugt werden, verbessert.

FEATURES:
=========

o Konfigurierbare Requester Logos, die auch animiert sein können.

o Konfigurierbare Button Images und Button Aussehen.

o Konfigurierbares Hintergrundmuster.

o Erweiterte Tastatur Kontrolle. Man kann mit TAB, SHIFT TAB und den
  CURSOR Tasten durch die Buttons cyclen. Der hervorgehobene Button
  kann mit RETURN und einer weiteren konfigurierbaren Taste (Vorgabe:
  LCOMMAND v) aktiviert werden. Der Button ganz rechts kann mit ESCAPE
  und einer weiteren konfigurierbaren Taste (Vorgabe: LCOMMAND b) ak-
  tiviert werden. Es ist möglich, die Aktivierung eines Buttons abzu-
  brechen, indem SHIFT oder ESCAPE vor dem Loslassen der Button Akti-
  vierungstaste gedrückt wird.

o Requester können verschoben werden, indem in eine beliebige Stelle
  des Fensters geklickt wird.

o Möglichkeit, die Requester in der Mitte des Bildschirms oder unter
  dem Mauszeiger erscheinen zu lassen.

o Sehr spezielle bedingte Konfiguration.

o Man kann fast alles konfigurieren, wie zum Beispiel den Abstand
  zwischen den einzelnen Elementen des Requesters, deren Ausrichtung,
  die Farbe des Hervorhebungs Rechtecks und vieles mehr.

o Dokumentation in Deutsch und Englisch

Vor dem Download kann man sich ein paar animierte Preview Bilder
auf der folgenden HTML Seite ansehen:

       http://freeweb.dnet.it/steger/reqattack/reqattack.html

ReqAttack selbst findet man im Aminet: util/misc/ReqAttack.lha

                     *** ReqAttack ist Shareware ***

--
Georg Steger, Hochlercher 30, I-39030 St. Johann/Ahrntal
EMail: georg.steger@rolmail.net

• Bugfix: Die Picasso96-Bildschirmmodi werden nun durch die Größe des zur Verfügung stehenden RTG-Speichers limitiert. Damit kann z.B. bei 1MB-RTG-Speicher keine Darstellung mit 1600x1200 in 24-Bit mehr angewählt werden.
• Bugfix: Die TCP/IP Netzwerkanbindung arbeitet nun, in einigen Fällen, besser.
• Bugfix: .dms-Dateien funktionieren nun wieder. Vorausgesetzt xdms.exe ist auf dem eigenem System installiert.
• Bugfix: Wenn ein neues Verzeichnis von der Workbench aus angelegt und dessen vorgegebener Name geändert wird, gibt es keine Abstürze mehr.
• Bugfix: Einige Fehler des Dateisystems wurden behoben. Dazu gehören Probleme beim Unbennen von Dateien und obskure Probleme mit Unterverzeichnissen, die anscheinend gerade benutzt werden und damit nicht löschbar sind, auch wenn sie definitiv nicht benutzt werden.
• Bugfix: Obskurer Fehler, der mit dem Archiv-Bit im Zusammenhang steht und z.B. beim AmigaDOS PROTECT-Befehl auftrat.
• Bugfix: Und Korrekturen bei weiteren Dateisystemfehlern.
• Bugfix: Die Option zum automatischen Ausschalten des Sounds, wenn WinUAE ikonifiziert wird, arbeitete beim erneuten Start des Sounds nicht korrekt.
• Bugfix: Die MIDI-Auswahl ist nur noch dann in der GUI möglich, wenn die Emulation der seriellen Schnittstelle eingeschaltet ist.
• Der zweite Joystick-Knopf arbeitet nun auch bei einigen Spielen, die das POTGO-Register nicht korrekt initialisieren (z.B. B.C. Kid), problemlos.
• Bugfix: Der Zugriff aufs Dateisystem im Windowed-Modus ist nun schneller. Möglich wurde dies durch Benutzung des DirectDraw-Clippers statt dem eigenständigen Parsen der Clipliste. Anmerkung: Dies könnte auf einigen Systemen zu einem Geschwindigkeitseinbruch führen? Es wird daher um Feedback gebeten.
• Bugfix: Das Quelltext-Archiv wurde aktualisiert und enthält nun einige Dateien, die vorher fehlten.
• Neu: Die Geschwindigkeit der DirectX 6.x-Unterstützung für Picasso96 wurde erhöht. Hiermit sind im Vollbildmodus nun auch unterschiedlich Refreshraten möglich. Vorher gab es eine Beschränkung auf 60Hz.
• Neu: DirectSoundNotification Unterstützung, für einen besseren Double-buffered DirectSound unter Win98 und Win2000 (sofern die Soundkarte dies unterstützt).
• Neu: Der Inhalt des Windows wird nun aktualisiert, während die GUI über dem Window bewegt wird. Dies funktioniert derzeit nur im Windowed-Modus. Bei der GUI im Vollbildmodus werden die Bereiche weiterhin mit schwarz überschrieben.
• Neu: Unterstützung für serial-on-demand (shared serial-port) über die GUI. Anmerkung: Bisher nicht getestet! Es wird um Feedback gebeten.
• Neu: Enforcer-Hits generieren einen Piepston und lassen das Window aufblitzen.
• Neu: Amiga In A Box (AIAB) Link in About tab der GUI.
• Neu: About tab der GUI besitzt nun ein besseres Aussehen.
• Änderung: Der vorgebene Wert für den Line-Modus ist nun "Doubled", so daß die Höhe von Bildschirmen nun gleich korrekt ist.
• Änderung: Die Compiler-Optionen und der Quelltext wurden, zugunsten einer Geschwindigkeitserhöhung und einer Verminderung der Größe, verändert.

• [1] UAE Home Page, http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
• [2] "Amiga Forever 2.0", AmZeiger 09/98, http://www.fh-brandenburg.de/~janssen/amzeiger/sw/9809fe.htm
• [3] "Emulator: Amiga Forever Online Edition", Power-Brei, 17-Jan-1999, http://www.amigaworld.com/power-brei/News/01-1999/NT.170119990FE.html
• [4] Andreas Neumann, "Test: Amiga Forever 1.0 Preview Edition", AmigaGadget, #33, http://www.amigagadget.de/33/t.cd.amigaforever.html
• [5] Andreas Neumann, "Test: Amiga Forever 2.0", AmigaGadget, #37, http://www.amigagadget.de/37/t.cd.amigaforever2.0.html

• Brian King, "WinUAE Home Page", WinUAE, 05-Aug-1999, http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/

• Ein U2W SCSI Controller mit internem 68poligen Anschluß und aktiver Terminierung, Datenrate max. 80MB/sec, bis zu 15 Geräte anschließbar, für einen unverbindlich empfohlenen Verkaufspreis von EURO 150 zzgl. MwSt.
• Ein Ultra-SCSI Controller mit internem 50poligen Anschluß und aktiver Terminierung, Datenrate max. 20MB/sec, bis zu 7 Geräte anschließbar, für einen unverbindlich empfohlenen Verkaufspreis von EURO 80 zzgl. MwSt.
• Ein Ultra-DMA IDE/ATA Controller 66MHz mit zwei Kanälen (unterstützt bis zu 4 Geräte) für einen unverbindlich empfohlenen Verkaufspreis von EURO 80 zzgl. MwSt.
• Ein IEEE-1394 Controller mit zwei Anschlüssen und 400Mbps, für einen unverbindlich empfohlenen Verkaufspreis von EURO 100 zzgl. MwSt.

• einen schnellen 2D/3D Grafik-Chip mit einer 128bit 3D-Einheit verwenden
• ine maximale Auflösungen von 1920x1200 Pixeln in 32bit Farbe bei 72Hz Bildwiederholrate bieten
• über Hardware Video Beschleunigung für Full-Screen, Full-Frame DVD Wiedergabe verfügen

• PowerPC Accelerator Board für Amiga 1200 Tower-Systeme Basisboard im A1200-kompatiblen Formfaktor mit einem 288-poligen ZIF Prozessorsockel (Interposer-Standard) für gängige G3 Prozessor-Module (auch geeignet für zukünftige G4 Prozessor-Module)
• Bis zu 1GB Hauptspeicher auf zwei Bänken (Steckplätzen) unter Verwendung handelsüblicher SO-DIMM Module (100 MHz SDRAM)
• Zwei Standard Mini-PCI Anschlüsse für Mini-PCI Steckkarten, plus ein PCI-Erweiterungssteckplatz für eine dritte PCI-Karte oder eine aktive PCI-Erweiterung (z.B. PCI Expansion Board mit zusätzlichen Steckplätzen)
• Zwei unabhängige 12MBit USB Kanäle serienmäßig integriert, inklusive externem Steckanschluß
• Zwei MByte Flash-ROM für Systemsoftware, Bootmenü sowie OS-Software
• Das BLIZZARD G3/G4 wird inklusive dem Echtzeit-Mikrokernel-Betriebssystem QNX Neutrino und einer darauf aufsetzenden leistungsstarken 68k-Emulation für Amiga 3.x Legacy Support ausgeliefert
• Kompatibel zu den führenden PowerUP-Anwendungen mit zusätzlicher Leistungssteigerung in vielen Anwendungsbereichen
• Benutzung mit alternativer Systemsoftware anderer Anbieter problemlos möglich
• Zwei Jahre Garantie auf Teile und Verarbeitung

• PowerPC Accelerator Board für Amiga 3000(T)/40000(T)-Systeme Basisboard im A3000/A4000-kompatiblen Formfaktor mit einem 288-poligen ZIF Prozessorsockel (Interposer-Standard) für gängige G3 Prozessor-Module (auch geeignet für zukünftige G4 Prozessor-Module)
• Bis zu 1 GB Hauptspeicher auf zwei Bänken (Steckplätzen) unter Verwendung handelsüblicher SO-DIMM Module (100 MHz SDRAM)
• Zwei standard Mini-PCI Anschlüsse für Mini-PCI Steckkarten, plus ein PCI-Erweiterungssteckplatz für eine dritte PCI-Karte oder eine aktive PCI-Erweiterung (z.B. PCI Expansion Board mit zusätzlichen Steckplätzen)
• Zwei unabhängige 12MBit USB Kanäle serienmäßig integriert, inklusive externem Steckanschluß
• Zwei MByte Flash-ROM für Systemsoftware, Bootmenü sowie OS-Software
• Das CYBERSTORM G3/G4 wird inklusive dem Echtzeit-Mikrokernel-Betriebssystem QNX Neutrino und einer darauf aufsetzenden leistungsstarken 68k-Emulation für Amiga 3.x Legacy Support ausgeliefert
• Benutzung mit alternativer Systemsoftware anderer Anbieter problemlos möglich
• Zwei Jahre Garantie auf Teile und Verarbeitung

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990802

                   A M I G A   A B O U T   C O R E L

                   C O R E L   A B O U T   A M I G A

      G A T E W A Y   A L L I E S   W I T H   G E   C A P I T A L

      A M I W E S T   ' 9 9   A N D   W O R L D   O F   A M I G A

              A A A   C H O S E S   M A R C E L   B E C K

              J I M   C O L L A S   S O U N D S   O F F

                    P H A S E 5   E X P L A I N S

            F R O M   T H E   A M I G A   R & D   T E A M

        V O T E   F O R   F A V O R I T E   U T I L I T I E S

          S A S S E N R A T H   O N   T E C H   B R I E F ?

         A M I G A   F L E A   M A R K E T   I N   T E X A S

     A L L   C O M P U T E R   M E E T I N G   I N   F R A N C E

                   T H E   L A S T   P I C A S S O

                  E X O D U S   -   A M I G A   N G

                    P H O T O G E N I C S   4 . 1

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 World of Amiga has come and gone, as has AmiWest '99. Very
interesting announcements and speculation came out of the pair of
shows. Jim Collas continues to communicate to the community like no
other CEO of any company I'm aware of. He's even starting to get testy
when appropriate. Nice to see he's become that comfortable with
Amigans and good for him for doing so.
 We've got new software, a new classic OS coming - albeit probably a
bit delayed - mockups of new models, ties developing with some big
names in the larger computer world, and a plan for the future. It's an
exciting time to be following the Amiga.
 Nothing created by people will ever be perfect, however. Phase 5 and
QNX have their own plans for the future, long time Amiga developers
are justifiably concerned about where they will fit in the new age -
if at all, the Amiga market continues to shrink for the present and
answers to all sorts of questions won't be available for some time to
come.
 It's certainly not boring at the moment.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

Hello Brad
I was wondering if you could find out about omnipresence for me. They had a
mailing list support for Ibrowse, which I was removed from quite a while
ago. But each time I try to re-subscribe to the list, the mail always comes
back undeliverable. Plus, their web site doesn't seem to be up and running
any more. Any web site that I have been to with an Ibrowse link ( the link is
to omnipresence) doesn't work, including Hisoft!

Another problem I'm having is recently I haven't been able to get on aminet,
either through http or ftp. It says that logging on as anonymous is
forbidden! Do you know what's up with that?

Thanks for your informative newsletter, by the way! And the new Amiga's
sound like they're going to be awesome! Do you know of any websites that
have shots of the new prototypes and screenshots of the new environmennt in
action? Or will they be eventually on the Amiga website soon?

Regards

Peter
~~~~~~
Hello Peter,
 You're right about the Omnipresence site. However, work seems to be
going forward on IBrowse. We honestly don't know what's going on. Any
of our readers have more information?
 Your don't say how you're accessing Aminet, so I'm not entirely sure
what's happening. It sounds as if you're attempting an anonymous ftp
login. If so, that will only work with sites set up specifically for
anonymous ftp. Check your software preferences and disable anything
related to anonymous ftp and see if things improve.
 You can find shots of the new Amiga mockups that were shown at World
of Amiga on the Amiga.com site at:
http://www.amiga.com/diary/1999/990728.html
 I'm not aware of anyone with screen shots of the Amiga OE yet.
 Brad
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                   A M I G A   A B O U T   C O R E L

             Amiga announces relationship with Corel Corporation


 July 22, 1999 - San Diego California - Today, Amiga announced that
they are working closely with Corel Corporation to insure that several
of Corel's award winning software applications will be supported on
Amiga's new line of products that are scheduled for release later this
year.

 This announcement follows Amiga's recent announcement that they have
selected Linux as the OS kernel for the new Amiga Operating
Environment. "We are extremely excited about our relationship with
Corel and their entire product line", said Jim Collas, President and
CEO of Amiga, "This insures that our customers who purchase the new
Amiga systems will have world class personal productivity applications
such as the upcoming WordPerfect Office for Linux."

 Customers have made over 1 million download attempts for Corel®
WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® since Corel made the product available on
their web site last December. "We expected the Linux version to do
well," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, Chief Executive Officer and
President of Corel, "but one million download attempts is
extraordinary. Not only does it speak volumes for WordPerfect, I think
it is somewhat indicative of the growing popularity of Linux. We
expect the release of WordPerfect Office for Linux will be an even
greater success when we release it early next year."

 As Amiga approaches the release dates of the new Amiga Operating
Environment and the Amiga MCC (Multimedia Convergence Computer), we
will be announcing more details on these and other products and their
availability dates.


 About Corel Corporation

 Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized developer of
award-winning graphics and business productivity applications.
Development of market-leading products such as the CorelDRAW®line of
graphics applications and the Corel® WordPerfect® Suite of business
tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of the corporate,
retail and academic markets. Committed to value, compatibility, choice
and open standards, Corel develops products for the Windows®,
Macintosh®, UNIX®, Linux® and JavaTM platforms. For more information
about Corel, please visit their web site at www.Corel.com

 Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT and the Go Further
logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or
Corel Corporation Limited.
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                   C O R E L   A B O U T   A M I G A

Corel Is Pleased To Be Chosen By Amiga To Supply Linux® Applications
Corel and Amiga work closely to support new Amiga Operating Environment

 Ottawa, Canada-- July 27, 1999-- Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL,
TSE: COR) is pleased to announce that it has formed a new relationship
with Amiga, to ensure that Corel's award-winning software applications
will be supported on Amiga's new line of products that are scheduled
to be released later this year.

 Recently, Amiga announced that it has selected Linux® as the OS
kernel for the new Amiga Operating Environment. Amiga is developing
products and technology for current and future computing devices which
are focused on making computers and the Internet a natural part of
everyday life.

 ``Corel is dedicating extensive resources to develop Linux, and the
feedback from our customers has been tremendous,'' said Dr. Michael
Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation.
``Since December, our customers have made over 1 million download
attempts for Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux. We are pleased to have the
opportunity to bring our award-winning applications to an even wider
audience and to further the growing popularity of Linux.''

 As Amiga approaches the release dates of the new Amiga Operating
Environment and the Amiga MCC (Multimedia Convergence Computer), it
will announce more details.

 ``We are extremely excited about this new relationship with Corel and
its entire product line,'' said Jim Collas, president and chief
executive officer of Amiga. ``This ensures that our customers who
purchase the new Amiga systems will have world-class personal
productivity applications such as the upcoming WordPerfect Office for
Linux.''

 Corel Corporation: Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized
developer of award-winning graphics and business productivity
applications. Development of market-leading products such as the
CorelDRAW® line of graphics applications and the Corel® WordPerfect®
Suite of business tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of
the corporate, retail and academic markets. Committed to performance,
compatibility, value and open standards, Corel develops products for
the Windows®, Macintosh®, UNIX®, Linux® and JavaTM platforms. Corel's
common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol CORL
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      G A T E W A Y   A L L I E S   W I T H   G E   C A P I T A L

23 Jul 1999

 "InformationWeek Daily" on-line newsletter for 23 July is reporting
that Gateway and GE (General Electric) Capital have formed a
partnership for enterprise system support. The short article notes
"Gateway has teamed up with services company GE Capital IT Solutions
to create a business model for the two companies sell customized
versions of their products and services to the enterprise. Under the
partnership, GE Capital IT Solutions will provide presale
infrastructure analysis, network and systems integration, and support
services. Gateway will then join GE Capital to assess the
organizations needs, from which Gateway will build to order the most
cost-effective system, customizing desktop, mobile and workstation
systems and servers to meet customer needs."

 "Gateway is hoping GE Capital's focus and penetration in the
enterprise market will open doors to customers that the company's
small sales force and lack of relationships in the market has
prevented. 'In the corporate sector Gateway is only about 2 years old,
and we have about 2% market share,' says Phyllis McCullagh, Gateway's
VP of corporate and partner sales."
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     A M I W E S T   ' 9 9   A N D   W O R L D   O F   A M I G A

By Brad Webb

 What follows is our impressions of the recent World of Amiga and
AmiWest 99 computer shows. We were unable to attend either show, so
have scoured the net and our mail to gather information on what
happened.
 First, it seems the World of Amiga was much the more important show.
This isn't too surprising. Despite the participation of Amiga in both
shows, WOA has a longer history and has been a key player in the Amiga
community for some time. We've seen almost no information from the
AmiWest show. There's been a lot from WOA. AmiWest will grow in
importance over time.
 AmiWest was clearly the smaller show, with most vendors concentrating
on the show in London. The folks at AmiWest were able to hear the
presentations from WOA, including the video presentation and speaches
by Amiga President Jim Collas, Dr. Rick LeFaivre, CTO and Dr. Allan
Havemose, VP, Engineering - after some initial technical difficulties.
Reports from the show indicated Mr. Collas's passion for the Amiga
came across clearly despite the round the world link. There were some
Amiga notables at the AmiWest, including Miami's Holger Kruse and Harv
Laser of the Amiga Zone.
 Over in London, the show seemed smaller than previous ones according
to many reports. Jace Hayman of Pagan Games had an interesting take on
that however:

 "I've heard people complaining a lot this year that it only took them
20 minutes to walk around the stands before they had covered the lot.
Well I've been to quite a few 'high profile' PC shows in recent months
and they were smaller and I walked around them in 10 minutes!"

 This is a quote from his show report, available on the Pagan Games
web site at www.pagan-games.com.
 If all you wanted to do was view the vendors and their booths, an
hour or less would have sufficed. Also, the "CyberCafe" wasn't, as the
needed parts and bits weren't delivered as promised. But there was
still a lot to see, including the presentations mentioned. The video
which preceeded the speeches included slides showing the logos of
Amiga partners. Companies mentined in the video or at the show as
working with Amiga included Corel, Sun and Pentagram, the folks
designing the new computers. The presentation slide that got the most
attention was the one with the logo of mysterious chip maker
TransMeta, employer of Linus Torvalds, the author of Linux. This has
led to much speculation that TransMeta will be the processor of choice
for the next generation, but that has not been confirmed by Amiga, and
probably cannot be confirmed by them at this point.
 Here's an interesting quote from the online site "The Register" for
July 27, commenting about Amiga and the TransMeta chip. It might be of
special interest to the Power PC fans among our readers:

 "It will be fabbed by IBM Microelectronics.
 "The IBM connection is particularly intriguing since many of
Transmeta's designers hailed from IBM's PowerPC development team, and
worked on a PowerPC chip, the 615, which had a bolt-on x86
compatibility module."

 Little that would be new to readers of "Amiga Update" was presented
at the shows, but the important thing was to hear the executives of
Amiga saying it with your own ears. For those who attended, that must
have been a stirring experience.
 The hoped for updates of IBrowse 2 and Voyager 3 were there only in
beta form. On the positive side, there were finished looking mockups
of the next Amiga itself and its monitor. Photos are available on
Amiga's web site (www.amiga.com). Interestingly, there was no keyboard
anywhere in sight, as nearly as we can determine.
 Good shows, good fun, good Amiga companionship. What more do you
need in life?
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            A A A   C H O S E S   M A R C E L   B E C K

London, UK. Saturday July 24, 1999.

 Marcel Beck, creator of well-known Amiga e-mail software "YAM",
received today the AAA Award International 1998. The award
presentation was held at the World of Amiga show in London, UK!


THE AWARD

 The AAA Award International 1998 consists of a custom designed
crystal glass Boing ball and a fine diploma. It was awarded through a
voting with Amiga users worl-wide. The AAA Award International is a
recognition from the Amiga Community of Mr. Beck's great software and
support.

 The winner was announced at the World of Amiga show in London, by
Petro Tyschtschenko, MD of Amiga International, Inc. Marcel Beck, who
unfortunately could not come to the show, stated in a previous phone
recording that he felt very honored to receive this award, and thanked
all YAM users around the world.


MOTIVATION

 The motivation, for which Mr. Beck received the AAA Award
International 1998: "For his creation of and continuing devotion to
YAM, Yet Another Mailer. Its many features, ease of use, stylish GUI
and stability make it an unparalleled e-mail client, which also is
completely free!"


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 The AAA Awards Committee wishes to thank all Amiga users who voted,
its Associates and Partners, and the World of Amiga management for
their support.


CONTACTS

AAA Awards, homepage            www.aaa-awards.org
AAA Awards, phone hotline       +46-90-71 00 20 (24 hours)
AAA Awards, fax                 +46-90-71 01 46
Marcel Beck, e-mail             mbeck@access.ch
Martin Sahlén, e-mail           director@aaa-awards.org
Petro Tyschtschenko, e-mail     ptysch@amiga.de



 The AAA Awards 1998 are presented in association with AMIGA and
Cloanto

The AAA Awards are copyright (c) 1997-99 Amiga Computer Group.
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             J I M   C O L L A S   S O U N D S   O F F

20 Jul 1999

Warning! I deserve to right to rant once in a while also so here I go:

 I know that we still have to improve communication but visibly
communicating with a large community is difficult. I expend a
significant amount of effort listening to and understanding the Amiga
community. I have spent 100s of hours in the last several months
listening to and corresponding with the Amiga community. Here are some
of the activities:

 1) I met with over 100 Amigans in multiple groups in St. Louis to
listen to input.

 2) I have met with multiple groups around the U.S. to get input. I
have held several press conferences to get input.

 3) I flew to Germany and the U.K. in May specifically to meet with 60
to 70 prominent Amigans and listen to input. Multiple feedback session
of several hours.

 4) I met with key Amiga developers in U.K. and Germany.

 5) I read the most popular Amiga newsgroups daily.

 6) We have started Amiga sponsored forums to get input.

 7) I read over 100 emails a day from the Amiga community and reply to
many of them.

 8) I talk to people in the Amiga community many times a week.

 9) Bill McEwen and Darreck Lisle read 100s of email a day and compile
the common inputs and questions fo me and other executives.

 10) We are establishing an Amiga Advisory Council consisting of
prominant Amigans that were nominated by the community.

 11) etc ...

 As you can see I have had 1000s of interactions with the Amiga
community. I wonder if anyone realizes how much effort this is on top
of running the company. I wonder if anyone realizes how much travel
this is away from my family. I do this because I care about what you
think. I listen to the community and think deeply about the input as I
set the plans. In order to better understand our plans, there are a
few things people should consider:

 1) There are many differing opinions in the community about what to
do. Many times people are pulling in opposite directions.

 2) There isn't a single consistent set of requirements from the
community.

 3) I am trying to make up for several years of flawed decisions. This
has made the situation very difficult. Because of the delay we can't
just evolve a product line like most companies would. This also means
I inherited a community with little patience (understandable).

 4) There are a significant number of variables to consider and its
impossible to communicate them all publicly.

 5) There are many things that the community doesn't know relative to
new technology advancements.

 6) We can't share all of our strategic plans publicly.

 7) This is an extremely difficult industry to compete in. There are
many big players with deep pockets. Microsoft just passed the $500B
value mark. We can't just waltz in with a "me too" strategy.

 8) We are basically building company from scratch, not just a
product. Do people realize how difficult this is to do quickly.

 9) There are constraints on budget and resources. We are working as
effectively and diligently as we can. 1 0) There are people that will
blast whatever we do. No matter what we do. It's unfortunate for me
but they are understandably fed up because of the past.

 I know it's frustrating but don't judge me on the last several years.
These were screwed up and I didn't have anything to do with it. Judge
me on the last 5 months. I am driving Amiga in a way that it hasn't
been driven in a long time. As an aggressive, independent, and
visionary company. I am balancing technology, business, marketing, and
industry dynamics to come up with a plan that gives us a great chance
at being a driving force in the computer industry again. We are in a
very difficult predicament and I am defining a very strong plan to get
us out. It is not easy to understand all of the variables that go into
this plan. It's even more difficult to communicate it publicly. This
plan requires complex compromises and prioritization and not everyone
will understand or agree. Also remember, the first product out is not
the end of our roadmap. The only thing I can assure you is that I do
care about the community and I listen. I will drive relentlessly and
aggressively to bring back Amiga as a driving force. There is 101
things I can do with my career but this is what I have passion for. I
need the Amiga community behind me on this or we will fail. We have
one last shot. We can't afford to be diverted or distracted. We MUST
stand united to succeed.

Thanks for listening.

Sincerely,
Jim
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                    P H A S E 5   E X P L A I N S

23 Jul 1999

Dear Amiga friends,

 in addition to our recent announcement about a cooperation with QNX
Software Systems Ltd. and our new AMIRAGE K2 project, this Open Letter
shall address some of the controversy questions that many of you are
asking these days. It contains my frank personal analysis and view of
the state of the Amiga market, the goals of AI and the general
situation, which are the reasons for our decision to take the chance
for the cooperation with QNX and to provide alternative solutions in
the future. If you are interested in these statements, I encourage you
to read and - especially if you are a developer - consider it
carefully.

 First of all, there is the question "why did they do that, why do
they split the Amiga market" in all of it's incarnations - often
combined with the assumption that we want to "steal away the Amiga" or
become the Amiga ourselves. The answers to that are fairly simple:

 1.We want to design a superior technology, which we believe is in the
spirit of the original Amiga, or, in different words, a technology
that many creative users would like to see. This includes innovation
in software and hardware. We don't want to make major compromises,
just to follow the mainstream or to do what everybody does.

 2. There is obvioulsy no place for phase 5 (as well as many other
developers, as I will outline below) on the roadmap of Amiga Inc.

 We are simply doing what we believe is the right thing in respect of
our vision, the technological goals we follow, and also the business
opportunities which we believe are the best for our future.

 From our point of view, AI will be developing and marketing a product
that has only the name in common with the original Amiga. They
probably have some nice ideas (although many details are still quite
vaguely described by common buzzwords at this time), but we can't see
any revolution in there - only evolution similar to that you can see
in many places of the computer industry today.

 Looking at the available information, to us it seems obvious that
Amiga will build an appliance based on Linux, incorporating JAVA
technologies and their extensions named AmigaObjects. It is an
appliance to "fulfill the promises of the information age". That's
nice, but there are others to do so, too.

 I strongly feel that the major revolution that Amiga is talking about
is the next marketing revolution, when you can sell "information
appliances" to those millions of people who are not computer users,
but shall be connected to the Internet just as they became connected
with telephones long time ago. There's nothing bad in this, but what
has it to do with an Amiga computer? What I feel most uncomfortable
with is the fact that there is obvious no intention to create
something new, spectacular, extraordinary because this is risky;
instead, the new product is intended to be sold to millions, requiring
to accept many compromises and to follow the mainstream.

 So, what has the upcoming AI product in common with the original
Amiga and it's spirit? It may be a nice product, that many people will
go for, but such are palm pilots, cell phones, playstations, stereo
systems, TV sets, beer and candy bars as well (I left out the
Wintel-based PC intentionally from this list). There's nothing wrong
at all when Amiga users are saying, "hey, this is a nice thing I'm
gonna buy it", just as there's nothing wrong in Amiga users buying
palm pilots, cell phones, playstations, stereo systems, TV sets, beer
and candy bars as well (I left out... uh, you know what I mean).

 Amiga has not been talking to us, phase 5, except than in a meeting
on Jim Collas' trip through Europe. Ever since then, there was not a
single email, contact, any information to us. They didn't supply us
with an NDA, allowing them to tell us more about their plans earlier,
and supporting us in making our decisions. Instead, they watch us
(where "us" means many other developers as well) supporting the "Amiga
Classic" and following the PPC route, while they are going to cut it
off again. Is that fair or loyal against the developers and users
supporting the Amiga platform with their efforts and their money? It
gives me the strong feeling that don't even care what happens with us.
There is no indication of any kind of partnership at all, so there
can't be any mutual loyalty either.

 I do not know which contacts have been made to other existing Amiga
developers. Many of them seem to be surprised by the latest
announcements, many dislike them, some may appreciate them - but if
so, did they think about their own future? Personally, I believe the
lately announced "contacts to Corel" are a significant message. Why
didn't we read "AI works closely with H&P to port Amiwriter to the
AmigaNG", "AI has choosen NovaDesign's ImageFX to ship with the MCC",
"AI and WorldFoundry announce availability of two hot 3D titles with
the release of the MCC" or similar announcements?

 It's simple: AI follows the industry standards. Just as they use
Linux and need the momentum from Linux to carry them forward, they
need the big names such as Corel to carry them forward. They don't
need, for example, phase 5 as a hardware company supporting their
projects, and I strongly believe they (at least think they) don't need
the Amiga S/W developers for their success. Jim Collas said in his
"Response to Linux feedback" of July 10:

 "I simply don't believe we can gain enough momentum without tapping
into the Linux momentum. Linux will give us continuous access to new
technology and components as they are released. With QNX we could get
out a new platform but I don't believe we would keep up with the rapid
technology changes in the computer industry."

 Can we read from this that all the active Amiga developers - who have
supported our platform with so many products and technologies that
make the Amiga still up-to-date and useable - are assumed to be unable
to provide the necessary software technologies on a new platform? I
think so. Jim Collas showed concern about the business success if
Linux hadn't been choosen. Obviously, the relationship with Corel
seems to be important to AI also, to support the business success. Who
will be the next important partner, preoccupying market segments on
the new Amiga platform? Adobe? ID Soft? Who knows.... Now, just a
thought: If there wasn't that Linux momentum right now, would then be
Windows compatibility important for the success? A question to the
Amiga developers: Do you appreciate that AI considers it important for
the success of the MCC, that the big names in industry come to the
platform to provide the technology/software products that - as it
seems - AI doesn't believe you could provide? And a question, to the
Amiga users: What is more important for you, the success (and
shareholder value?) of a company that carries the name Amiga, or the
technology that they bring to you?

 When the new AI MCC shall be sold in millions, the current Amiga
community will not be a sufficient market at all. I believe it is then
the latest, when AI's loyalty to the Amiga community will end - just
as AI's loyalty with the current Amiga developers has ended. The same,
I strongly believe, will be the case for the small remaining base of
dealers and distributors. What will count for AI is not the fact that
those have supported the Amiga many years - the business success will
demand that the MCC is sold by the BIG ones. And that's what it is all
about: becoming BIG, selling BIG, making BIG money. Nothing wrong
about it - but the loyalty of the Amiga community, which AI is surfing
on these days before their BIG take off, will probably not be
rewarded. And while AI teams up with the already BIG ones, the chances
of us small ones to grow big with the new Amiga generation are getting
smaller each day.

 Where does this leave us? From my point of view, there is no place
for us - and I mean not only phase 5, but most if not all of the
current Amiga developers - on the Amiga roadmap, and in the future
that Amiga wants to create. That also means for us as companies: no
more (Amiga) business. But with QNX, there is an OS solution that will
fulfill the promise of technological excellence - and we here at phase
5 are able to provide some really advanced hardware as well as
concepts for future computing.

 Just a side note: What Amiga today calls a revolution, are just
concepts (and some developments from such) which we have proposed
three years ago already. We proposed hardware-independent distributed
processing a long time ago, and we outlined our vision of application
tasks or threads (read also "Services" or "Objects" or "Revolutionary
objects" or "You-know-which-kind-of Objects") that run on different CPUs
or processors or appliances, somewhere in a box or a network, and
communicate with each other. I don't want to say that AI may not have
some additional and new ideas, but if they are so revolutionary
remains to be seen - and guess what remains there if you climb down
from the above-JAVA level to the underlying levels of software
technology....

 QNX Neutrino will allow fantastic software to be written, to support
similar revolutionary services, applications and developments. There
is new and stunning hardware technology available to us - PPC G4, the
stunning Altivec technology, multimedia processing in many kinds, and
the digital convergence (we talk about high-performance digital
convergence here, not about a fusion of a cell phone and a palm pilot)
- and this altogether can be the base for a wonderful platform for all
the creative users out there, as outlined in our latest announcements.
It can be a future that we design altogether - the users, the
developers, the user groups and all others who support the Amiga. We
definitely need to team up now and develop our future, instead of
waiting for AI's BIG thing we have been waiting for three years now.
And so I am asking you all out there, to make a stand and show your
position. I am asking you developers to show publicly your support for
the QNX Neutrino running on PowerUP boards, and our upcoming AMIRAGE
computer series (and maybe other hardware from other manufacturers,
too...). With 13 years of Amiga history and experience, I can only
underscore that the strong support of the majority of Amiga users and
developers for this new path will create succesful products, most
creative and stunning technology, and a growing and valuable market in
which all those who start now can become technology leaders. We all
have survived in a shrinking market for so long, and now we can decide
actively if we want to start off into a future that will realize
technological excellence and open up new dimensions for us, or if we
want to be lost in the mainstream finally, which we could have joined
many years ago already.

 BTW, I deny those assumptions saying we would split the Amiga market.
We are just offering the products that AI won't offer - and just
considering the features and price position, our product may initially
not be in competition with Amigas MCC (although we have not heard
about the MCCs price yet). We are following a path that AI has
obviously dropped, and we want to team up with those Amiga friends,
users and developers which Amiga wants to leave behind (maybe not on
purpose, but probably with a "hey sorry if you came under the BIG
wheel that we are turning now" attitude).

 I would also like to say some words about our former projects, the
A\BOX and the pre\box, in comparison the the new AMIRAGE K2 project
(BTW, we knew that some would read it as AMI-RAGE, and others as
A-MIRAGE, but we a) have no problems with some self-irony, and b)
recommend to speak it with a french pronounciation). There are voices
critizising us, blackening about the vaperboxes and such. It is true,
we failed to deliver these two products, while we - in contrary to
others - did at least provide the leading Amiga add-on technology,
continuously throughout the last years, in a difficult market. The
A\BOX development was delayed following the initial delays in the
PowerUP development. After PowerUP had been finished, the market
situation had changed significantly since Amiga had been sold to
Gateway, and many users and Amiga people were waiting for
developments/announcements at/from Amiga Inc. It was a logical
business decision to stop the A\BOX project, as we couldn't justify
continued development efforts and investments into it at this point.
Later, in March 1998, we announced the pre\box, a simpler and
easier-to-realize stand-alone product, planned to support MP and the
PPC transition, for which we also signed a license agreement with
Amiga for the OS 3.1. But shortly after the pre\box was announced, AI
announced on the WOA 1998 in London that they would not use the
PowerPC but the MMC chip instead, an announcement that significantly
hurt our business (as well as the business of many Amiga developers
and companies). As a consequence, the pre\box development was put on
hold and went back into the drawers later that year. I think that it
is obvious that our chances to succesfully realize the former
demanding projects - which would have required support of AI, the
developers and the community - have been badly influenced by such
external decisions. Today, with the AMIRAGE K2 development, we are in
a completely different situation, as the use of the QNX Neutrino OS
will allow us to focus on the hardware development, and exploit the
options that todays's latest silicon technology offers, without
drawbacks and compromises. We are convinced that we can deliver on our
promise with the dawn of the next millenium.

Hoping to see you in the future.

Yours sincerely
Wolf Dietrich

 {Editor's note: there are some interesting points made in the above
letter from Mr. Dietrich, and, though it is long, we felt we should
bring it to you in its entirety. However, we will not be covering the
QNX/Phase 5 aliance and its results in detail. Whatever they make, it
by definition will not be an Amiga. There may be irony in that, but
such is the case. We don't intend to ignore them, but our focus in on
Amiga, whatever it is and whoever makes it. Brad}
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           F R O M   T H E   A M I G A   R & D   T E A M

19 Jul 1999

 Very interesting and active debate over the past two weeks. We *love*
the passion of (most of ;-)) the on-line community. Linux? X- Windows?
PCI? USB? MIDI? Floppy Drive? ATI graphics, etc., etc. While an
overwhelming percentage of our email is quite positive about Amiga's
directions, there are those who have raised quite legitimate technical
concerns, and a small percentage who are just bashing everything we do
(more on them later). One positive aspect of the Linux announcement is
the huge influx of technical talent into the Amiga camp from the Linux
community. There are legitimate issues with Linux, as anyone with a
technical background will acknowledge. One positive aspect of the
Linux phenomenon is that there are hundreds of thousands of
programmers out there working to fix those problems. There are also
hundreds of companies working on applications and drivers (and
hardware) for Linux, that we can immediately tap into. Yes, there are
integration and testing issues to work on, but there are many, many
more positives than negatives. Please understand that the Linux
decision was not purely (actually not mostly) a technical decision. It
was a decision driven by a reasoned analysis of what underlying OS
would give Amiga the greatest chance to succeed in the marketplace,
and as a company.

 Also understand that we have not yet seen a single technical issue
raised in the news groups that we are not already aware of, and
working on either inside of Amiga or through partners. Will the Amiga
MCC under development be perfect? Of course not -- product development
is all about tradeoffs. When it is shipping, will it be at the heart
of the best distributed multimedia computing environment in the
marketplace in terms of price/performance/usability? Yes! Even more
important, the MCC is only one piece of a much broader strategy that
we have chosen to not really discuss yet. When Jim Collas talks about
revolutions, it's not a revolution in terms of what happens to be
inside the MCC box (although some of the unannounced components are,
indeed, revolutionary); it's the entire distributed home
computing/Internet environment and experience that will be
revolutionary as it rolls out over the coming year. DON'T JUST FOCUS
ON BOXES AND OPERATING SYSTEMS! (sorry for shouting.)

 So, to those of you raising legitimate technical concerns, we will do
our best to communicate solutions as they are worked out. Better yet,
help us track down those solutions. Linux is getting better every
week, with issues getting resolved at an amazing pace. ATI may not be
able to ship their new graphics/video accelerator (which looks great)
on time, and rest assured that we're also looking at 3dfx and NVidea.
Yes, there will be a floppy drive (probably a 1.44MB / 120MB combo).
We're working on the sound/MIDI requirements. We're listening to
proactive suggestions, and will do our best to manage the inevitable
tradeoffs to create the best next-generation system we can.

 To the small number of individuals who have been sending vulgar,
threatening hatemail because you don't like what we're doing, and have
announced that you're fed up and are leaving the Amiga community,
goodbye. Millions and millions of people will purchase Amiga-branded
and Amiga-compliant products over the coming years, and we're sorry
you won't be among them.

Rick LeFaivre, Allan Havemose, and the Amiga R&D Team
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       V O T E   F O R   F A V O R I T E   U T I L I T I E S

News Release 24/7/99
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Amiga Information Online has set up a Utilities PD Toplist. So if you
have three favourite Utilities that you would like to give credit to
then why not show your support for those programs and send us your
votes.

 It is very simple, all you have to do is give 3 points to your
favourite Util, 2 points to your second favourite and then 1 point to
your third favourite utility of all time.

 The only restriction is you can only vote of PD/Shareware type
software and not Commercial. By commercial I mean you don't register.
It still holds it open to vote for Utilities like Miami, AmIRC and the
like.

 If you are interested please return the form to the address below,

-Cut-

1st Util (3 Points) : [Enter util name here]
2nd Util (2 Points) : [Enter util name here]
3rd Util (1 Point)  : [Enter util name here]

-Cut-

Email : SnorsleX@Home.se
Topic : AIO Toplist

 You can see the latest ratings in the latest issue of AIO or on our
website,

Aminet:Docs/Mags/AIOV26.lha

or

http://www.aio.co.uk

Chris Seward
Editor of Amiga Information Online
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         S A S S E N R A T H   O N   T E C H   B R I E F ?

 {Editor's note: this exchange was found in an Amiga usenet group on
the net. There is no confirmation from Carl Sassenrath for this item,
so it must be considered a rumor. We invite comments from Mr.
Sassenrath if he so wishes, and would be happy to publish them. Brad}

21 Jul 99
>On the 20 Jul 99 05:38:34 +0000, Paul May said,
>>
>> to Quote: Carl Sassenrath on the Tec Brief, Amiga to use Linux.
>>
>> "I'm not impressed.  This crap is not in my future.
>>
>> I say: complexity begets complexity.

 >Um, Paul, do you have any opinion of your own rather than the dozen
or >so daily postings from famous amiga people that you keep sending
here >from the team Amiga maillist (have you permission to forward
their >mails to the newsgroups ?).

Hi Ed.

 Indeed, the answer to both questions is YES, i have many opinions but
rather than add my thoughts to the many good posts here, i prefer to
take the direct route and try to help everyone in both places to get
the bigger picture so as to have better Opinions by forwarding both
ways for thoughs people not on both the TAML or here.

 i hope you find it useful ?, if not then i'm sorry for wasting your
time making you read them.

 on the matter of a 'Dozen or so' thats not quite true, more like 6
perhaps seven and then not that many *every* day, even so at your
estimated dozen a day that is a very small ammount compared to the
traffic here on csam, to date no one on TAML as had any comp about me
forawarding Jim's and several other peoples usenet posts there other
than one person not being able to view my forward very easly.

 as for the TAML, everyones welcome there and it has from day one had
the policy that anything posted there is freely distributable, that
fact plus Team AMIGA mailing list has probably the highest
concentration of AMIGA Developers/resellers/service providers Ect
online, makes it a really good place for open peer review IMO OC, plus
TAML eventully finds its way to far more places (FIDONET for instence)
than csam so helping to spread the important
information/facts/announcments to those persons interested but without
Web access (many more than most web people realise).

--

 to Quote: Carl Sassenrath on Tec Brief Amiga to use Linux.

 "I'm not impressed. This crap is not in my future.

 I say: complexity begets complexity.

 Give me an OS that fits on a floppy. And you know what? It will work
better than their system ever could.

 Down with big systems. They are created by those who don't have a
clue what computing is really about: people".

--
 Paul May, Manchester, UK
 Team *AMIGA* , *OwlNet* , *REBOL* , *KOSH*
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         A M I G A   F L E A   M A R K E T   I N   T E X A S

July 18,1999

MCCC Announces Flea Market Extravaganza '99

Where : The Brookside Convention Center, Hurst, Texas

When : Saturday, September 25, 1999

Time : 12:00 to 4:00pm

Admission : Free

Amiga Computer Flea Market

 Hardware and Software for Amiga computers, from members and
non-members, will be for sale. The flea market will be open to members
for a fee of 5% on items sold. A fee of 10% will be charged to
non-members on items sold.

Sellers:

 Items for sale must be turned into a club representative. Prices are
set ahead of time and sales are handled by club representatives.
Arrangements MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE. Items will NOT be accepted on
the day of the show. There will be no exceptions. Items to be sold at
the flea market may be turned in at one of the chapter meetings or you
may make arrangements with one of these club representatives:

Mark Stodola Cedar Hill (972) 299-6824
Ned Kelly Arlington (817) 277-5825
David Owens Fort Worth (817) 847-5486
Dan Stockelman Dallas (972) 985-8522

Buyers:

 Cash and checks accepted from members. Cash only accepted from
non-members. Prices will be reduced at 3:00 pm.

Door Prizes

 Drawings will be held throughout the day. You must be present to win.

MCCC Amiga Library

 The entire MCCC library of Amiga computer disks, over 2,000 disks,
will be available.

Special Membership Offer

 13 months for the price of 12. This offer is good for new or renewed
memberships.

Classes

 A class/demo of the new 3.5 Operating System will be held, time to be
announced.

Amiga Wares Available

 Amiga Wares (shirts, caps and more) from Randomize, Inc., will be
available at the show.

3.5 Operating System Available

 Copies of the new 3.5 Operating System will be available for sale by
the club or a dealer to be announced.

Amiga Computer Raffle

 Details to be announced when finalized.

Amiga Computer Dealers

 Space is available to rent for dealers, companies or user groups.
Please inquire on rates.

Directions & Parking

 The Brookside Convention Center is located at 1244 Brookside Drive in
Hurst, Texas. To get to the Convention Center get to Highway 183/121
and take the Precinct Line Road exit and drive south on Precinct Line
Road. After approximately 0.3 miles turn left (east), on Bedford
Euless Road. Drive 0.4 miles to Brookside Drive. The Convention Center
is on the southeast corner. There is plenty of parking space, and
parking is free.

For more information email: mstodola@airmail.net
To be kept up to date as things develop, email: agm@startext.net

MCCC is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the support of Amiga
computers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
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     A L L   C O M P U T E R   M E E T I N G   I N   F R A N C E

25 Jul 1999

Hello,

 The "Byte Millenium" meeting will take place at Marck, in the north
of France (near Calais), from 27th of August to 29th. We want this
meeting to gather a lot of people from different computers (I was told
that there will be people with Amstrad CPC, Oric, MSX, Amiga, Atari,
PC etc.). During this meting we will have to show what your loved
computer is able to do : Lots of magazines reporters will be there
too.

 There will be a contest which aims to equalize the chances between
all the computers (eq you will need more imagination than Mhz).

 The entrance will cost 150 FF (for food, and the contest prizes).

 Hope to see you there !

One from MCHTML/CocOOn SySteM

NB : No lamerz/gamerz/swapperz please...
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                   T H E   L A S T   P I C A S S O


                         Our Amiga future?!?

 Our (Village Tronic) future in the amiga classic market is not clear
right now. We will definitely sell our AriadneII and the forthcomming
3d-Module add-on for PicassoIV but this doesn`t go for the sales of
PicassoIV, Paloma PAL, Pablo and Concierto. As the sales in the last
few month have dropped dramatically it`s no longer profitable for our
company to run other assembly lines.

 So we had to swallow the bitter pill and cancel the productionline
and sales of Paloma, Pablo and Concierto officially. You may find last
pieces of these products with our distributors though... If there is
someone interested in licenzing one of these products you can contact
us.

 For the PicassoIV we have another solution for our customers to have
a last chance to get one of these marvelous graphic-boards:

 To be sure to sell enough cards for an assembly-line and to make it
profitable for our distributors too, you can preorder your PicassoIV
with them. VillageTronic will produce the requested cards in a VERY
LAST assembly line so that the now preordered boards will arrive in
distribution by the end of september.

 Customers that have preordered their cards here directly with us will
get them as soon as we have enough on stock. After that VillageTronic
will NOT sell ANY boards directly anymore to endcustomers.

 This will definitely be the last order for PicassoIV. So please
contact our distributors for your LAST ORDER:
--------

America:

SoftwareHut
www.softhut.com
softhut@erols.com
Bolmar industrial Park
991 S. Bolmar St. units F&G
West Chester, Pa. 19382
United States
Tel: 800-932-6442 or 610-701-6301
Fax: 610-701-6306

England:

Blittersoft
www.blittersoft.com
sales@blittersoft.com
6 Drakes Mews
Crownhill Industry
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK8 0ER
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1908 261466
Fax: +44 (0)1908 261488

Italy:

Euro Digital Equipment
aorlandini@villagetronic.com
Via Dogali 25
Italy 26013 Crema

Germany:

Vesalia Computer
www.vesalia.de
order@vesalia.de
Industriestr. 25
46499 Hamminkeln
Tel: 02852/9140-10
Fax: 02852/1802

KDH-Datentechnik
www.kdh-datentechnik.com
bestell@kdh-datentechnik.com
Südring 65
72160 Horb
Tel: 7451/555111
Fax: 7451/ 555115

Ekkehard Brüggemann, Village Tronic Support Team
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                E X O D U S   -   A M I G A   N G

14 Jul 1999

 Exodus Multimedia is pleased to announce the first AmigaNG-powered
digital video workstation, Maverick! While still in the design and
engineering stage, we have committed to delivering this exciting new
concept to the video industry. Our decision to proceed with this
project was reached after a private meeting with Jeff Schindler and
Darreck Lisle at the St.Louis Amiga show. After talks with Amiga Inc.
which lasted into the early hours of the morning, it was decided that
the new OS offers significant advantages over other operating systems,
in terms of size, speed, reliability and flexibility. From its
inception, the AmigaOS was designed to handle full motion video,
graphics and animation. The AmigaNG version promises to improve on
this base technology and add features not seen on any other platform.
Our current line of digital video workstations is based on Windows 98
and NT plus the Newtek Video Toaster Flyer. While we are very early
into this project, we will provide more concrete specifications by
summer's end. The tower case will be based on the current design used
on our standard workstation, pictures of which can be seen on our web
page at www.exodusmm.com.

 "The Amiga has proven to be the leading OS for video production on a
large and small scale. To this day, there are 15 year old Amigas still
being used to do mainsteam video, while most other computing platforms
are obsolete within two years. It is our goal to take Maverick into
the 21st century with an OS and hardware capable of supporting new
standards like HDTV, DV and MPEG-2 all with realtime video effects and
transitions. The AmigaOS gives us that power!", said Stan Carver,
President of Exodus Multimedia.

 From the last poll, there were over 7 million Classic Amigas sold to
date. To show our support for the Classic Amigas, we have been working
with Mick Tinker of Access Innovation, a European company, to provide
a state of the art solution that would allow current Amiga owners to
take advantage of new technologies without sacrificing backwards
compatibility. Based on specifications provided by Exodus Multimedia,
the new motherboard will have a PowerPC processor, PCI slots and fast
SDRAM, in addition to Amiga specific devices like Zorro slots and an
high speed emulation of the custom chipset. Full Video Toaster and
Flyer support will be provided as well. The use of new technologies
will make way for devices currently on the Windows platform such as
FireWire, USB, pro audio sound cards and high end graphics cards to be
easily ported to the AmigaOS without having to redesign hardware. The
new Amiga-powered Maverick should be available 3rd quarter 1999.

 In the meantime, we have salesmen and service technicians that are
fully capable of supporting the Amiga community, as we always have. We
are now taking pre-orders for OS 3.5 and look forward to the new
AmigaNG with all of it's possibilities. We will post details on our
web page http://www.exodusmm.com/amiga/ as we progress with this
project- STAY TUNED!
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                  P H O T O G E N I C S   4 . 1

16th July 1999

 Paul Nolan is pleased to announce Photogenics 4.1, featuring dozens
of new and improved features, more tools, online html help, and rock
solid stability. It all adds up to the must have graphics purchase of
the year.

 To make this purchase even easier, you can now use your credit card
to order using a toll free (US only, international charges apply)
order hotline, or online at http://www.paulnolan.com. Please read the
full details below for more information.

 Photogenics 4.1 is a free upgrade to users of Photogenics 4.0, please
email your name and the email address used when ordering Photogenics
to updates@paulnolan.com.
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