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31.10.2k Crossupgrade to Windows version of Amiga SDK
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On Amiopen maillist Gary Peake revealed possibility to crossupgrade from Linux SDK to Windows SDK.
This offer is valid for freeware developers and will be reviewed on case-by-case basis.
Read more
ANN website
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31.10.2k A to Z of Amiga Utilities
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The Utilities section of FORE-MATT Home Computing's website is now open. The section consists of two parts,
an A-Z listing and featured products. The A-Z listing is broken down in to six alphabetical sections
showing the large range of Amiga utilities available to order from FORE-MATT Home Computing along with
brief descriptions.
Amiga OS 3.9 is one of the featured products in the utilities section where you will
find more in-depth product information and in the case of OS 3.9 details of how you can now pre-order for
a small deposit. There's more to come...
FORE-MATT Home Computing website
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31.10.2k CS&E not completely gone
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As David Connolly, director of CS&E, announced, CS&E England has left the Amiga market. After long discussions,
David Connolly has decided to hand over the Amiga part of CS&E to the newly appointed sales director, Dirk Harlaar.
Based in Germany, this branch of CS&E will focus on games distribution for the Amiga as well as the PC. The
forhtcoming educational software "Cosmos Fun Class" is at this time being translated into German and Dutch, in order to
reach a wider audience.
After the recent news that Dirk Harlaar would manage the German branch of CS&E, Dirk Harlaar
and David Connolly decided that Dirk would become the new managing director of Crystal Software and Entertainment (CS&E)
overall. While business strategy is still at a beginning stage, CS&E "under" Dirk Harlaar will focus on the Amiga Games
market, whereas David Connolly will continue with the pc games based www.pc-software.com.
Amiga-news.de website
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31.10.2k OpenSSL ported to the Amiga
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OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is
licensed under an Apache-style licence, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and
non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions.
Amiga port of OpenSSL v0.9.6,
readme
Boingworld website
OpenSSL website
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31.10.2k Digital Images: Deadlock
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Stuart Walker explained why was the Space Station 3000 cancelled. "Space Station 3000 had been in development for over two and a half years.
It had been re-designed, re-programmed and ripped apart countless times over the development time and we really felt that it was going nowhere."
"Deadlock is what we like to think of as the game that was born out of Space Station 3000's death." Deadlock is a space combat simulator set in
the early 22nd century. On Deadlock website you can find more info about the game and the first
screenshots. Read more
Digital Images Entertianment website
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31.10.2k bPlan website found
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31.10.2k TurboPrint News
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Turboprint 7.15 contains new drivers for Canon BJC3000, 6200, 6500, 8200.
Turboprint 7.15 Driver Update Disk for users of Turboprint 7.0x is available directly from IrseeSoft.
Turboprint 7.15 contains new printer drivers for:
Canon BJC 1000, 2000, 3000, 4400, 6000, 6100, 6200, 6500, 7100, 8200
Epson Stylus Color 460, 660, 760, 860, 900
Epson Stylus Photo 750, 1200 with full photo ink support
HP DeskJet 810, 812, 815, 830, 832, 882, 895, 930, 950, 970
IrseeSoft website
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31.10.2k Software News
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MorphOS PPC port of ttf.library v0.8.3
is now available. You need a properly installed MorphOS release as well as all the ttf.library related tools, the 68k version of the program won't be modified. After
installation of the MorphOS shared library into the libs: drawer, you can still use the 68k version of ttf.library if you plan to install both on the same partition.
Dirk Conrad published some usefull CLI commands
that can be used with the hardware based ´MAS-Player´. On his
homepage you will find the source codes too, and an example for how to use these commands with DirOPUS buttons.
MorphOS website
ttf.library homepage
Amiga-news.de website
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30.10.2k Elbox comments on AmigaONE 1200/4000
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A few days ago, Amiga Inc. proposed the direction, in which the Amiga Classic computer line should evolve.
This direction assumes the necessity of equipping Amiga Classic computers with PCI-standard slots, the G3
or G4 processor with fast SDRAM memory and a slot for a the Next Generation MATROX graphic card.
In order to fully use the new AmigaDE system, Amiga Classic must be fitted with several basic pieces of
equipment. The AmigaONE 1200 idea assumes connection of this hardware directly to the CPU expansion slot
in Amiga 1200.
Elbox: "We are really glad to inform all the owners of Amiga Classic computers that this
is exactly the way, for which Elbox was the pathfinder in their designing and marketing of the MEDIATOR
PCI 1200 busboard." Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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30.10.2k iFusion Nears Completion - Pre-Payment Offer Soon To Close
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Blittersoft has received news from Microcode Solutions thay iFusion is in the final "tweaking"
stage and will be ready to release shortly. Once released, the reduced Pre-Payment price will cease, and iFusion will be sold at a price
of $249.00. All those who wish to take advantage of this offer need to order
before the product is released.
Blittersoft website
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30.10.2k Unofficial OS 3.5 FAQ online
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Gregory Donner: "The HTML version of the Unofficial OS 3.5 Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) is now online. An updated AmigaGuide version is also available, and both formats will be maintained. .lha and .zip archives of the site are
available for download for your convenience. I welcome all feedback."
Gregory Donner, Greg's Page
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30.10.2k Amiga Interview Archive
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Neil Bullock: "Trogladite Software are proud to present the Amiga interview archive.
This will hopefully evolve into a one-stop site for any Amiga-related interviews you could care to mention. Along with linking to external
sites, the archive will also form the basis of Trogladite Software's own interviews which we will be conducting with various people over time."
Trogladite Software website
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29.10.2k AmigaSDK for Windows Available
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The AmigaSDK for Windows 95B, 98, NT Workstation 4.0 (with SP3), 2000, ME is now available for purchase directly from
Amiga's SDK page.
Requirements: Ethernet Network Interface Card, 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended), 100 MB of hard drive space, 200mhz
Processor or faster.
AmigaInc. website
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29.10.2k Another ACE 2000 Report
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Craig Delahoy's show report (and other thoughts) on the ACE 2000 expo in Melbourne incl.
pictures. Very interesting! "Photogenics already runs on AmigaDE. According to Bill McEwen it took Paul Nolan only three weeks to port it."
Craig's Amiga Pages
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29.10.2k Nightlong News
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Nightlong PPC v1.1 was emailed to all owners of Nighlong PPC game.
Nightlong CDs retested with CacheCDFS and AsimCDFS (v3.10) and they work fine, of course.
In CacheCDFS just make sure "don't show Joilet" is off (default).
clickBOOM's Portal
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29.10.2k Read about Hyperion and Tribsoft
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Ben Yoris: "Here's an interesting article where you can read about
Tribsoft and Hyperion Entertainment."
They will share their source codes to speed up porting of lates games from/to Linux, MAC
and Amiga of course.
ANN website
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29.10.2k AmigaCentral Closed
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Chris Korhonen about Amiga Central: "Basically, we decided it was no longer viable to continue the site.
From our point of view the Amiga is dead, very little software and support. And Amiga's current plans
may sound nice but they will either:
a) Never Appear
b) Apear, but, will not be anything like the amiga you know and love.
Which will leave Amiga owners with some non standard hardware which is of limited use.
It was good while it lasted but its time to call it a day."
Chris Korhonen via ANN
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29.10.2k BlueBlack Solution is Looking For Another Art Designer!
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BlueBlack Solutions is looking for a talented art designer who will as additional support help to create
in-game-graphics and sequences for the commercial real-time-strategical 'Operation: Counterstrike'.
Requirements:
totally professional results with a raytraycing package of own choice
Access to powerful hardware (HigEnd-Amiga, PC, or PowerMac)
enough knowledge of the English language for working in an international team
Interested persons mail to: jobbo@jobboland.de.
Amiga-news.de website
BlueBlack Solutions' german website
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28.10.2k SDK 1.01 Update Now Available
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Version 1.01 of the Amiga SDK for Linux has been released. To download the update login to the site
using your support network ID and click on the developer or beta-tester tab and then SDK Updates. Select the update link and your download
will begin. If you have any issues, please contact support@amigadev.net.
Amiga Support Network
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28.10.2k Farewell From CS&E (Again)
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David Connolly: "Dear friends, maintaining a commercial business in the Amiga market has become increasingly difficult.
I don't just mean in terms of the poor sales, but in terms of maintaining professional communication and business
relationships. I don't feel I am able to offer a truly professional service for the Amiga as I have failed on both
these counts. I have made inproper comments on mailing lists and failed to attract developers to sign for CS&E.
As I have made the announcement before that CS&E would leave the classic Amiga but come back for the next generation,
it is with regret that I have to say this time the company is leaving the Amiga to concentrate on the PC development.
Amiga Survivor will be continuing as a non-profit making magazine through the editorial staff but CS&E will continue to
lend a hand in taking orders.
I wish the Amiga all the best and will be keeping a very close eye on all the developments
as an eager customer."
David Connolly, CS&E
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28.10.2k CGX V3 Elbox Mediator ViRGE driver update : Release 3
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This is the third release of the Elbox Mediator archive with the ViRGE drivers.
It includes a few changes and fixes the problem with CGXMode. Please read the text on the Mediator page.
You can not directly copy over the new drivers on top of the older releases. If you have any problems please email:
virge@mediator.vgr.com.
If you use the ViRGE driver with a card that is not on the Mediator Page or CGX supported graphic cards page, please email
virge@vgr.com and get a custom named driver.
CyberGraphX homepage
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27.10.2k Bubble Heroes Competition Part I: THE WINNER
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The Bubble Heroes Competition Part I is over! The magic number is ... 778515!
The lucky winner of the copy of Bubble Heroes game directly from Crystal Interactive Software is:
name=Christian Runda
email=vegan@gmx.at
number=786547
All the less fortunate have another chance with Amihoo.com
in Bubble Heroes Competition Part II!
Czech Amiga News
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27.10.2k MUI PPC for MorphOS
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Prerelease Public Beta of MUI PPC (v3.9) for MorphOS is now available.
Read the docs inside the archive before installing. The installer will copy your complete current MUI: setup to MUIPPC.
It will copy over the PPC MUI parts on top of the new MUIPPC directory.
There are also some new releases (a2ixlibrary, manutils2.1) and
updates (ixemul, ixemul-dev, gcc-2.95.3-bin, binutils-2.9.1-bin,
groff-1.11a-bin) under MorphOS.
MorphOS website
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27.10.2k Nightlong News
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Nightlong 1.1 exe for 68K is available in clickBOOM's Portal for all registered owners of Nighlong game.
It should fix the sound disappearing bug. If it proves to work fine a PPC update will be emailed to PPC
users.
clickBOOM also removed the notice about 'bad CD drivers' related to problems with Nightlong CDs
as some of us reported. (without answer btw [ExiE])
clickBOOM's Portal
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27.10.2k Top 10 App Results From First AmigaDE Webserver
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27.10.2k Amiga Update Newsletter
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27.10.2k Excelate Victory - Embedded Email Controller
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Excelate Victory is coming, an exciting new era in Emailing has dawned
for the Amiga. If you can use ARexx - then you can make an Email client...
Excelate Victory via its incredibly simple ARexx port allows you to build your very own emailing systems. You aren't limited
to programming them in C, Blitz BASIC, AmigaE etc., you can use AmigaDOS scripts, ARexx programs, SCALA, CanDO...
You can build clients for batch mailing, text based, graphically based, multimedia presentation systems, people with
disabilities, the list goes on and on. You can even add Emailing capability to any Amiga application if it has some form of
ARexx access, such as Final Writer. Presently, Excelate handles all the POP3 (mail retrieval), SMTP (mail sending) and MIME
(attachments) in 13 easy to use commands...
Nick Lamburn via ANN
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26.10.2k AmigaOne in Press
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26.10.2k Haage&Partner are already 5
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H&P: "No - not 5 people, but our company H&P is already 5 years of age. Even for us it is sometimes hard
to believe that it was already 5 years ago when Jochen Becher, Jürgen Haage and Markus Nerding said "Yes" at the
notary to start this business ;-) We want to thank all those people out there that supported us during this time.
It was really a pleasure for us :)"
Haage&Partner website
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26.10.2k CGX VooDoo3 ALPHA driver released
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The free ALPHA CyberGraphX V3 VooDoo3 driver has been released "as is" to the public.
If you have a VooDoo3 and Mediator you can try it. You can only find the latest archive (V2.5) on the
Mediator Page. Please read the conditions, as this driver may or may not work on your setup.
It is a ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA driver!
On Mediator Page page you can find also list of network interface card that works with the SANA2
driver that comes with the Mediator. If you abous some other card that works too, let them know.
CyberGraphX homepage
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26.10.2k ArtEffect Workshop For Download
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26.10.2k VMC Back Again At WWW.VMC.DE
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26.10.2k innovative-web.de Moves
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26.10.2k OFF TOPIC: Tucows To Open a QNX Area
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26.10.2k TAO and ZoomON cooperation
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Tao Group and swediesh ZoomON
anounced that ZoomON, a leading provider of flexible graphics solutions in Web and wireless environments,
will make its comprehensive Vector Graphics Engine available on Tao Group's intent(TM) media platform.
Teemu I. Yliselä vis ANN
Tao Group website
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26.10.2k Amiga Arena News
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The PhotoAlbum/Cybershow package and the XadMasterlibrary are available for a special price from Amiga Arena until 2000-10-31 only.
Amiga Arena Interview Action
A new interview with YAM developer Marcel Beck is online. (german)
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Arena website
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26.10.2k Software News
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Improved new v2.8011 build 464 Amiga 68k/WarpOS/PowerUp clients (RC5-64/OGR) are out! Visit the
download section for
details on the improvements, and of course to download them.
pasm v1.3e - portable assembler for the PowerPC processors
of the 60x-series, written completely in ANSI-C. All PPC standard instructions, all 32-bit extended mnemonics
and most of the 64-bit extended mnemonics are supported.
Compiled with vbcc for Amiga OS M68k. sources,
docs
The new promotional edition of PPC680x0 v1.20 is available now. This is the actual StormC 4 release promo.
This StormC 4 release has a few new features added to it. The most important feature is the .fd file option. From now on, PPC680x0 has a big list of .fd files to learn
68k library-call registers from. This means that it is actually possible to determine which function is being called: Only the registers used by this function are
saved/restored to and from the 68k. A new executable, PPC68k24 has been added to the archive as well: This version works with graphic-boards as well, has a 24-bits picture on
CyberGraphx and has the scroll/effectsbar disabled.
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
Frank Wille's homepage
Coyote Flux
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25.10.2k AmigaOne logo changed
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25.10.2k AmigaOne in Press
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25.10.2k Bob 'Coz' Cosby Has Passed Away
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Amiga mourns the loss of an integral member of the Amiga family, Bob "Coz" Cosby.
He was long time Amigan, friend to Jay Miner and part of AmigaInc. since July 2000.
Read more
Harv Laser, founder of AmigaZone sent to Amiga.org this very thoughtful announcement.
AmigaInc. website
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25.10.2k Altered Eyetech's Press Release
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Eyetech have slightly altered the press release concerning
the AmigaOne 1200 & 4000 specifications, which they originally released on Tuesday. One minor update includes
the quote of a G3 processor module being as little as $35 from a main Mac dealer.
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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25.10.2k New-look SEAL Website
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South Essex Amiga Link, the UK Amiga user group well known for SEAL-O-RAMA and Clubbed magazine, has uploaded its totally
re-designed website. We hope the new site looks cleaner, is easier to navigate and faster to load.
But... the update is more than just a new look, the site now concentrates more on the Club's activities. You'll find an
illustrated report of every meeting in the Club/Reports section and we'll soon be adding examples of members' work in
the Gallery section.
From now on the SEAL website will be updated at least every fortnight.
So visit us at www.seal-amiga.co.uk and let them know what you think!
Robert Williams via ANN
SEAL homepage
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25.10.2k Ateo Concepts To Close
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Ateo Concepts: "Due to a very big decrease of the Amiga market and a big difficulty to buy products, we have
decide to close Atéo Concepts at the end of october. We will keep in touch with users that want to contact
us for various technical questions or for after sale service. The e-mail address
ateo-concepts@libertysurf.fr will stay available. Soon,
new drivers versions with no keys will be available on the Ateo Concepts web site.
Read more
Ateo Concepts
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25.10.2k Software News
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ShowCGXConfig v42.2 - will show all the current display
devices (gfx cards) that CGX knows about. Will also show if you are using a 68K (CGX V3/V4) or PPC (CGX V5) version
of the driver.
fat95 v2.10 - Win95/98 compatible file system.
fat95 is a DOS handler to mount and use Win95/98 volumes just as if they were AMIGA volumes.
readme
Perl v5.6.0 - Amiga port of scripting
language Perl (ixemul.library required). readme
CyberGraphX homepage
Aminet
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24.10.2k AmigaOne 1200 & 4000 Specifications For Running the Amiga DE
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Eyetech has released the specifications on their A1200/A4000 AmigaONE boards:
6 x PCI slots (on 2 buses) + 1 x AGP slot
2 x SO-DIMM sockets for up to 512 MB memory
1 x cpu slot to take a Macintosh-type G3/G4 cpu module
1 x custom PCI card with USB1.0 (for Amiga DE mouse/keyboard/printer/scanner/floppy disk/Zip etc), UDMA/IDE/ATAPI & 10/100 MBPS ethernet controllers
A1200/A4000 interface logic, ATX PSU connector and tower system mounting hardware.
Read more
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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24.10.2k Eyetech Signs Up For Amiga VooDoo Licence From DCE
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Eyetech Group Ltd of the UK has become the first company to sublicence the Amiga VooDoo graphics card driver technology
from DCE for use in their shortly-to-be-released
Predator PCI/AGP expansion bus boards for the A1200 and A4000.
Alan Redhouse, Managing Director of Eyetech said "I am delighted that we have been able to come to this arrangement
with DCE, and via them with VFD to bring the unrestricted capability of VFD's VooDoo drivers to our Predator range of
Amiga PCI/AGP/G3/G4 expansion boards. Moreover by sharing the cost of the core routines with DCE - and possibly other
manufacturers still to be named - we have come significantly below the allocated budget for the Predators graphics
drivers thus enabling us to give even better value to purchasers of the Predator products."
Read more
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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24.10.2k YAM Goes Open Source
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Marcel Beck (developer of YAM) announced, that after YAM 2.2 (which should appear soon and should contain
mainly bugfixes) he will stop development due to the lack of time. Don`t worry, he wants to make YAM
sources available under Open Source licence. You will find sources on
YAM homepage soon.
YAM maillist
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24.10.2k Pictures From ACE 2000
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24.10.2k Top 10 Wanted AmigaDE Apps
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Patrick Roberts of Artix Software has started a series of Top 10 surveys to help Amiga and Amiga
developers in finding out whats most popular in the particular catagory. This week the Top 10 list is: Top 10 Wanted AmigaDE Apps.
Please be very specific of what applications you would like such as "Photogenics" not "A Paint Package". List you Top 10 picks, #1 being
the application you most want, and send them to top10@artixsoft.com before Thursday at Midnight
PST. Oh, and please do not include games as that will be the subject of a later Top 10 list. Thanks.
They will post the results on Friday.
Amiga.org website
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24.10.2k AmigaOS 3.9
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Shipping this Christmas 2000 an upgrade for the AmigaOS! Version 3.9 of the AmigaOS will be shipping, and ready for your holiday season.
AmigaOS 3.9 is being developed in concert with Haage and Partner GmbH, and a new web site
that will include a feature list, and other bits of information will be available shortly. OS 3.9 will be available for under $40.00.
Watch the site for more details. In the meantime, here's a screen shot.
Read more
AmigaInc. website
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23.10.2k The Official AmigaOne Website Is Now Online
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This website is the official source of information for the AmigaOne.
It contains information on the AmigaOne specification, a list of partners who are implementing that specification
into product, progress reports, a Frequently Asked Questions section, updated twice monthly, and a discussion board.
AmigaInc. website
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23.10.2k Blittersoft to Distribute Exodus
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Paul Lesurf: "Blittersoft are pleased to announce that we have recently signed an exclusive agreement with Sland Media
to distribute the real time strategy game, Exodus."
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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23.10.2k Amiga Annoucement in Press
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23.10.2k New Christmascard Service
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Martina Kramer: "As off today we've started a new Christmascard service. All information can be found
here. A new URL has been launched:
www.christmascards.nl to enforce this new service. Although
most text is still Dutch on this site, there should be no problem understanding it's contens. An
english version will be launched soon.
Anyone interested in our new Christmascards.nl service who
has read this press release from any Amiga news-source, get's 15% discount by simply mentioning
'AmigaOne'."
Martina Kramer, C&C · Logo and Design
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23.10.2k Problems with Nightlong CDs ?
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clickBOOM: "Some of the Nightlong users reported having trouble reading CDs on their Amigas. This is really not the CD fault,
but the cd driver software on your system. CDs were tested on several of our Amigas and they worked perfectly. Some users
suggested that maybe the CD duplication process was different than for our previous games, but it wasn't. It's the same
company and same process as before. We'll contact the duplicating company on Monday just to make sure everything was
identical. Still, most of the users (and all of our machines) read CDs fine. Very strange. In any case, no need to panic.:)"
(It looks to me it's not cd driver probelm in some cases [ExiE])
clickBOOM's Portal
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23.10.2k Mitchy, A Victim Of It's Own Success
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Search.amiga.org, also known as Mitchy is dead. Over the last week messages have been coming into the Amiga.org
office reporting server errors, and after checking them out today (our Admin has been moving) they discovered
their server is now unable to handle the daily hits. So from today they will be shutting down mitchy, a victim
of its own popularity. However, do not fear. They are working on bringing Mitchy back!
Amiga.org website
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22.10.2k CS&E Distribution Excludes Nationals
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CS&E Distribution, part of Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd, will provide an exclusive personal service
to UK independents. As one of Britain's most active publishers, Crystal Software and Electronics is able to
target the independents by offering large margins on a large amount of quality budget and mid-price software.
CS&E Distribution has already signed up a significant third party publisher with a full stock market
listing. CS&E will concentrate on the independents as many publishers find it convenient to handle the
multiples but difficult to maximise their independent coverage. No other distribution company completely
excludes the nationals from their thinking.
Read more
David Connolly, CS&E
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22.10.2k Cosmo's Fun Class
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David Connolly: "With the news that CS&E has come back to the Amiga games scene I can tell you the latest good news that
we are bringing back our projects Cosmo's Fun Class,
Carmageddon and Back in Time 2. Cosmo's Fun Class will be released imminently. The full price of this package was expected
to retail at £30-40 but we have made a special price of £14.99 since we are also including it on Issue 10 of Amiga Survivor.
However you must subscribe at £19.99 UK, £26.99 Europe or £34.99 Rest of World from CS&E directly.
Read more
David Connolly, CS&E
Electronic Dreams Interactive website
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22.10.2k Bill McEwen Tells All to Cross Platform Crowd in Oz
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Greg Thomas: "ACE 2000 was a huge success for Amiga and its users. Many people from many platforms attended and heard
FOUR big announcements from Amiga CEO, Bill McEwen. The first and the biggest is the new PPC based Amiga One, the new
computer from Amiga. It was emphasised that Amiga is a software company, so in future all hardware will be from third
parties, not Amiga itself. There will soon be a card to upgrade your existing A1200 and A4000 (A3000 maybe) to Amiga
One specifications with access to Apple Mac accelerators! Second, Workbench 3.9 with a new Kickstart 3.9 chip is to
be released. The next update of the SDK is tomorrow and the next version in one months time. And last of all was the
announcement that Amiga is opening 10% of the company up to investment from Amiga users. This was a huge announcement
in itself and added to the jubilation of the crowd. During his speech Bill said he is not the saviour of the Amiga,
we are. This was a great day for our Amiga. Many of the Linux users were very excited about this "closed source" news
too :-) The speech was so well received that Amiga user, Rick Hammond said to Bill, "Thank you, this has changed my
life. I'm back with Amiga again."
Greg Thomas, ACE 2000
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22.10.2k Satellite & Kindergarden 2000 Party
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Satellite & Kindergarden 2000 party will be held on 4th and the 5th of November 2000 at the Club "Slowianin",
ul. Korzeniowskiego 2, Szczecin, Poland. This party is organised by Poland and Norway together.
Read final invitation or run this
Amiga exe.
Adam Wrzosek
Appendix homepage
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22.10.2k Comparade 8 - Scene & Userparty in Emmering Near Munich/Germany
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Andi Brandmair: "Comparade 8 is the C= (C64) and Amiga computerparty in south Germany. It is from 27.October 17:00h till
29.October 2000 12:00h in Emmering near Munich/Germany. Many competitions (demo,gfx,music), network, fun, etc.
Vistit our homepage for further information. Theres also a map and an overview
about the compos and entrance-fees. Hope to see ya all on the big C= party."
Andi Brandmair, Comparade
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22.10.2k Merlancia Industries Addresses Amiga Community on TORRO Series Speculations
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Merlancia Industries addresses the Amiga community on some general misconceptions of the TORRO series, and gives
some updated and more detailed information
at the same time.
Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, Merlancia Industries
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21.10.2k Amiga Announces the AmigaOne
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In an announcement from the Alternative Computing Expo in Melbourne Australia, Amiga today announced plans
for its new specification of computers that host the Amiga Digital Environment.
It is a specification and not a product because Amiga is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer:
- One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
- 64MB+ memory
- Next Generation Matrox graphics card
- Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
- 10 GB+ HD
- CD/DVD
- USB 1.0
- Firewire
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 56k modem
- Spare PCI slots for expandibility
There is also big surprise for all classic Amiga (A1200/A4000) owners! Read More
AmigaInc. website
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21.10.2k Bubble Heroes Now Shipping
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Blittersoft are pleased to announce that we have taken delivery of Bubble Heroes.
Orders can be placed securely from our web site.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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21.10.2k Amiga Super Expansion System
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Fastech announced yet unnamed Amiga expansion system featuring 3 PCI slots, 3 Zorro-III compatible slots, 1 AGP slot,
1 SDRAM DIMM slot, 2 CPU expansion slots, 1 A1200 style clock port, 2 x serial and 1 x EPP Parallel ports.
Inital CPU module offerings will be 400 MHz Motorola Power PC G4 based and 333 MHz Motorola Coldfire based
(68k compatible). The product will initially be released for A3000/T and A4000/T computers and currently is in the
alpha test phase.
Fastech website
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21.10.2k First Pictures of the G-Rex.
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First pictures of the G-Rex PCI bridge are available on www.vgr.com/cybergfx/.
There is also one 'Lost In Space' photo on DCE's page.
For everybody who still believe Phase5 never made a PCI prototype card for development there is also
Phase5 G-Rex PCI Bridge prototype picture on the vgr.com.
CyberGraphX homepage
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21.10.2k Amiga Rediscovery Is Back, Again :-)
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Dust off your floppy drive and download one of the greatest Amiga Game Demos ever - Putty Squad. Play the exellent coverdisk demo of a game that
System 3 Software foolishly never released.
The idea of Amiga Rediscovery is another chance for Amiga users to re-discover some of the great
games of the Amiga's past by playing demos that were given away on the front of Amiga magazine as coverdisks many years ago.
Amiga Rediscovery is exclusive to Amihoo.com.
MikeC via ANN
Amihoo.com page
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21.10.2k Elbox News
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According to vgr.com Elbox sent out a updated driver archive to their registered Mediator users a few days ago. The archive has
the 'Mediator System' files, a SANA-II Network driver supporting many networking chipsets and the CGX ViRGE driver. If you are
a registered Mediator user you can contact Elbox at www.elbox.com for the latest drivers.
CyberGraphX homepage
ELBOX Computer website
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21.10.2k Results of the Top 10 SDK Wish List
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21.10.2k Software News
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Another new version of AmiDog's Movie Player 2 - AMP 2 pre6
has been released. This releases adds seeking in MPEG system (audio and video) streams.
Since the prefs format has changed, you need to delete any AMP.cfg file before using this version.
The problem with "BestModeID failed" is now gone and AMP should happily display any sized MPEG on any sized screen.
Audio playback will now not start until the video has been properly initialized. The audio filter will now be turned
off by default, an option has been added to turn it on. Fixed a bug causing the last few seconds of MPEGs not to be
played. Optimized the MPEG audio decoder a little (4%). Changed the 8bit dithered display to use 256 instead of
224 colors. Reduced the number of contextswitches resulting in a noticable speed increase.
After long time there is new StrICQ v0.1728 - ICQ clone with MUI GUI.
This version should work somewhat better with ICQ2000. Although it does have a tendancy to crash the ICQ2000 client during chat initialization.
History
AmiDog's Movie Player homepage
Douglas McLaughlin, StrICQ support page
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20.10.2k Descent FreeSpace Progress Report
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Steffen Haeuser and Mathias Roslund of Hyperion Entertainmen released their first progress report of Descent: FreeSpace The Great War
Amiga version. Freespace runs already on both Fullscreen and Workbench window. Support for graphics boards, AGA, Picasso 96 PIP and optional double/triplebuffering is included. The report includes real
screenshots from ported Amiga version. Freespace supports PSX Port, CD 32 pads/joysticks, mouse and keyboard. This is already fully implemented. Owners of PSX joypads can also use the analog sticks of
their pads! There is still chance for 68K version of this game.
Hyperion entertanment website
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20.10.2k Earth 2140 Work-in-progress report #2
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Amigafire.com now has the second work-in-progress report
about Earth 2140 - a real time strategy for 68k and PPC Amigas converted by Pagan Games
and published by Epic Marketing.
There have been also added further optimizations to the game, and the game is now running much better - especially on 68k based
machines. A new public demo will be released at the time when the demo is put on cover CDs of Amiga magazines.
Thomas Würgler, Amiga Fire
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20.10.2k Aminet Set 10 Available November 2nd, 2000
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AMINET Set 10 offers you everything that was added to the archive
since AMINET SET 9 was made, plus full versions of Max Rally, Zombie Massacre, Personal Paint 7.1b, Pinball Dreams, Pinball
Fantasies & Pinball Illusions. AMINET® Set 10, dated November 2000, consists of more than 3 gigabytes of software in
nearly 4.000 archives.
This Aminet Set contains the Aminet CDs 36 to 39 as a bundle without modifications!
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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20.10.2k Merlancia Announced New Products To Run AmigaDE
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Merlancia Industries announces new product line to run AmigaDE. From a Palmtop PC to a tower, and even a laptop, it's all in there.
The MMC TORRO Series will feature all that the user has come to expect from his computer, and more. From the ultra sleek ApocolipS
desktop, to the ultra powerful Tsunami tower, to the palmtop sized Hurricane, it's what you were waiting for...
Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, Merlancia Industries
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20.10.2k CygnusEd Professional 4.21 for MorphOS
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The official MorphOS PPC port of CygnusEd Professional 4.21 is available.
You need a properly installed MorphOS release as well as the original CygnusED 4 CDROM
to install the PowerPC port, the 68k version of the program won't be modified. After installation you can still use the 68k version of
CygnusEd if you plan to install it on the same partition. The updated ed frontend automatically detects if it's run under MorphOS or
AmigaOS and uses the proper CygnusEd main binary.
MorphOS homepage
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20.10.2k Kickflash Finally In Production
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After a long time, the revised version of Kickflash finally went into production. First, the total Amiga-classics A500
and A1000 are served: In addition to 1MB Flash memory for kickstart Roms, a 86-pin slot for A2000 accelerator boards
and a Zorro-slot are given. A version for the A1200 will follow.
individual Computers website
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20.10.2k ACE2K Domain Name Special
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For the duration of the ACE2000 show, .com .net and .org domain names can be registered at Boing.net
in an Amiga friendly environment for only $40AUD (incl GST if applicable) this includes free domain parking with Web hosting deals
coming soon. Check it!
Amiga.org website
boing.net
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19.10.2k CS&E News 1
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Some good news for Amiga fans in the UK and Ireland. Amiga Future will hit the major
newsagents from as early as February 2001. The magazine's price has been set at
£5.99, although a 6 issue subscription including coverdisk is just £29.99. You can
order Amiga Future from CS&E now.
David Connolly, CS&E
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19.10.2k CS&E News 2
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CS&E has got Amiga games back on the shelves, at least in the UK and Ireland, through major retailers
like Dixons and Electronics Boutique. PC games will be converted to the Amiga (or vice versa) by CS&E
and released in dual format packs. Amiga users will have three options:
1) Support your existing loyal Amiga dealer
2) Pop in at your local Dixons or equivalent
3) Digitally download the product for a small fee at our forthcoming website at
www.pc-software.com. CS&E is working on the website which
will contain sections for our media titles, Amiga games information and a digital download section.
David Connolly, CS&E
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19.10.2k Bartman Software With Project "Fubar"
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The Bartman Software Team currently works on completing the commercial action / strategy game Fubar.
Almost 4 years of development have already gone into this project. A new beta version is already available from the Bartman website
in exchange for a user registration. Minimum requirements are an Amiga with MC68020 CPU, 12 MB RAM, AGA and a CD-ROM.
Amiga-news.de website
Bartman website
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19.10.2k Dreamworlds Development is Looking for One More Musician
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Stefan Schulze: "Because Audun Evensen (our musician up to now) does not have enough time anymore we have decided to engage another musician.
She/He should get along with each possible kind of music, work on time, be well up in editing samples and of course should be interested in games.
Having a sampler, good hardware (PPC) and knowledge in English are advantageous but not necessary. Of course you are participated in proceeds from
the sales. First (and urgent) music for Crossfire II is needed. Here is Techno or something like that sufficient. It`s all right if different kinds
of music are used provided that it fits to hard action. :) I prefer stirring classical music but it is hard to handle with the computer. Furthermore
some intermediate progression have to set to music (own format). After finishing CF2 (if a further co-operation is desired) we need right music
(medieval, atmospheric, classical, sometimes rock music) instead of Techno for our next game called "Between The Lines", a real time. Those ones who
are interested in (or have any questions) please mail to stefan@dreamworlds.de with a demo work or state
an internetaddress where I can find such a sample. A few information about yourself and your hardware configuration would be useful."
Amiga-news.de website
Dreamworlds Development website
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19.10.2k PSV Manager Available Online
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Thanks to help from 'Scanner' (webmaster of Ami-Site) full English version of our football
management game extravaganza, 'PSV Manager', is now available online on our new website
www.freyutd.w.pl. You can find there informations about 'PSV' and all our current and future
projects.
Kamil Barczynski, Frey United Software
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19.10.2k MorphOS News
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BoardType v1.0 - show you what version of the BlizzardPPC card you have installed.
When reporting some types of MorphOS errors this information will be needed. If you turn in a bug report please email the output from BoardType with
your report.
Butterfly v1.1 - graphical frontend for the MorphOS startup program.
The program
can be started from anywhere but the standard prefsfile assumes that Butterfly is located in the morphos-user directory. Whats new: "Added ResetLevel
slider. For some setups the default ResetLevel setting doesn't work. Please read startup.doc for more details.
Ghostscript v5.10 - poscript viewer. This needs a 68k installation and the ixemul archive.
SoX v12.17 - Sound eXchange, has been ported to MorphOS. It can convert between over
20 different sound formats.
MorphOS homepage
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19.10.2k Software News
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BGUI v41.11 final - free GUI toolkit for the Amiga OS. BGUI = Boopsi Graphical User Interface.
Archive includes: BGUI library standard version for all Amigas, BGUI library enhanced version for Amigas 68020 and OS 3 or better,
BGUI preferences editor and example programs with source code in C.
BGUI homepage
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18.10.2k Interview with CGX author by amiga-news.de
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18.10.2k Graphics Artist Needed For Game Under Development!
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Ludvig Pedersen: "We are working on a action/strategy game called "Battle for the Globe". The game will be released
for PPC Amiga and Windows platforms. You can find more information on our website:
http://www.nordicsoft.com. We are looking for someone capable of rendering
3D characters. If you are interrested in joining this game project, contact us at
ludvigp@sensewave.com or runeb@sensewave.com.
Ludvig Pedersen, Nordicsoft
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18.10.2k New Compuquick Website
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18.10.2k Aminet CD 39 Available
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Aminet CD 39, dated October 2000, contains nearly 1 gigabyte
of (uncompressed) software in thousands of archives. Since the release of Aminet 38 over 500 MB new software has
appeared. The current edition includes the full version of the fantastic pinball games Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies
and Pinball Illusions. All three games are playable directly from CD or harddisk.
Aminet Set 10 will be announced soon!
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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18.10.2k UAE News
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A new UAE JIT "Everton" release is available. You should get it as a patch
against pristine UAE 0.8.15 sources. JIT UAE adds just-in-time compilation to the Linux version of UAE, making it a lot faster
than the classic UAE.
Bernie's at-uni machin
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17.10.2k ELBOX: Insider Report
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In July 2000, ELBOX Computer and Frank Mariak (VFD) negotiated and agreed upon writing drivers for MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
Frank Mariak agreed to write the software with hardware and technical documentation provided to him by ELBOX Computer as
requested by him. He had never asked for cash reimbursement and never asked for making cash-based contract.
Frank Mariak was to write drivers dedicated for ELBOX hardware, to the order of ELBOX, based on an agreement between ELBOX
and himself. Frank Mariak's long-term benefit was spreading and popularising his commercial product: CGX4.
Ultimately, Frank Mariak sold rights to these drivers in exclusive form to a third party, who are not affiliated with ELBOX
Computer in any way. This transaction, with the following use of confidential ELBOX documentation within third-party
agreements is clear-cut breach of commercial law in any country in the world.
This step was thought to block developing highly-demanded software for Amiga computers.
ELBOX Computer decided to clear this situation up in the following report. The last part of the report announces software
solutions to make good the damage caused by Frank Mariak's decisions. Read more.
There is also short interview with Darek Dulian, ELBOX
on Fun Time World (translated by translator.go.com).
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX Computer
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17.10.2k CS&E Media Have 3 Competitions
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David Connolly: "I've got a prize of an 8 speed CD-ROM drive with all the trimmings to the 100th
subscriber to Amiga Future UK (should be very soon). Plus I'll continue on with Crystal
Interactive Software's competition to give away my nice A4000 if and when either Amiga Survivor
Germany or Amiga Survivor UK reaches 1,000 subscribers (The UK one's not too far off but Germany's
bigger!). The final competition is for Amiga Survivor again in that all subscribers before the end
of the year will be entered into a draw to win an A1200."
David Connolly, CS&E
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17.10.2k MorphOS Second Release
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17.10.2k Information About Europa Universalis Port Was Wrong
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Hans-Joerg Frieden, Senior Software Engineer, Hyperion Entertainment: "I've read your news item about Europa Universalis, and actually the information
is wrong (of course the original site Paradox Entertainment carries this false information). Actually, only
the Linux right was aquired by Tribsoft. The Amiga and Mac versions are licenced by Hyperion Entertainment."
Hans-Joerg Frieden, Hyperion Entertainment
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17.10.2k Spo³ Semoparty Moved
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17.10.2k 3D Engine For Sale
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Kamil Burzynski: "I have 3D engine. It is featuring 100% LightWave compatibility, including scenes,
objects, textures, motions, splines, envelopes, lights, shadows, variable zoomfactor, optionally
blobs support and more.
Works on PowerUP+AGA (limited features, especially no lights/shadows),
PowerUp+CGX+Warp3D m68k (latest version), optionally version for OpenGL available (not yet finished).
Further details available on request. If you're interested please send your offer
(I'm looking for job too!) to nopik@teleinfo.pb.bialystok.pl.
Kamil Burzynski
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16.10.2k Thomas Dellert (DCE) Speaks About G-Rex PCI
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Thomas Dellert: "Basically the G-Rex is an old p5 delevopment running for about 2 years in Frank Mariaks Amigas as PCI-Adapter.
It was especially designed for the p5 PPC cards. Voodoo3 is working 100% already. German distributor Vesalia was forced by
Elbox to take all G-Rex details off their website else Elbox would no longer supply products. Therefore DCE will put all info
(photos, prices, delivery time etc.) onto their website. Should be available on thursday.
Concerning the driver: DCE simply paid a 3rd party developer (i.e. Frank Mariak) for his work to have the drivers. Elbox had
the chance to get the same. They would only have to invest some money of course."
Amigart website
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16.10.2k Amiga Future UK
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CS&E has recently made an agreement with Amiga Future to produce an English version
of this popular German games magazine. To begin with Amiga Future will be included in Amiga Survivor, but after a few issues it
will be out as a publication in its own right under the Amiga Future UK name. You can subscribe to Amiga Future UK now and you
will receive at least two FREE copies of Amiga Survivor until Amiga Future is ready. Simply contact CS&E and leave your
details, including a credit card number if you desire. Subscription prices will be similar to the current prices charged by
Amiga Future. Amiga Future UK will be out in the UK and beyond under the new CS&E Media label.
Read more (english/german)
David Connolly, CS&E
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16.10.2k Amiga Survivor Is On It's Way
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CS&E Media can confirm that the ninth issue of Amiga Survivor is on its way to the printer for release
by the end of October. It includes a copy of Max Rally. Issue 10 will be out at the end of November and
includes a copy of Cosmo's Fun Class. Issue 11 will be the first to include Amiga Future and is a
Christmas special of 68 pages including a mystery gift or two. Shortly there will be a website at
http://www.amigasurvivor.com. For now you can join the Amiga
Survivor egroup at http://www.egroups.com/messages/amigasurvivor.
David Connolly, CS&E
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16.10.2k ACE 2000 (Australian) Amiga Computer Expo News
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The (Australian) Amiga Computer Expo has Amiga dealers and user groups from all over Australia coming to ACE 2000 21st & 22nd October.
Expect to see the new second edition SDK release, information about the Amiga One, first showing of the PCI mediator in Australia as well
as accelerator cards. ACE has a full agenda of seminars, conferences, meetings and workshops to keep you busy. ACE is networking the
entire show. Expect to see the web cam in action. New items added to the show include the Geek fest on Friday 20th and a computer museum.
This is the Australian Amiga event of the year. Don't miss it!
Michael Czajka, ACE 2000 Support
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16.10.2k Blittersoft Sign Agreement With KDH Datentechnik
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Blittersoft have recently signed a partnership agreement with KDH Datentechnik
which means they become exclusive German distributors for all Amiga games released by Blittersoft.
The agreement also install s Blittersoft as exclusive UK distributors for products released by KDH Datentechnik, for example
the forthcoming "Taifun" program.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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16.10.2k SHARK G3/G4 Board Pricing
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Blittersoft now have full price details
of the new SHARK G3/G4 boards from Elbox, which are due out in January 2001. We can also accept no-deposit pre-orders
for these products.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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16.10.2k Tribsoft Acquires Europa Universalis Port Rights
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16.10.2k Amiga Arena - FLM Special Offer
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Olaf Köbnik: "The Amiga Arena presents a new exclusiv special offer. FLM can be registerd for 10 DM in The Arena!
FLM is a foreign language program that you can use as dictionary, as translator for texts and for learning
words. FLM includes English-German-English dictionaries (alltogether cca 8 MB with cca 175000 words)."
Olaf Köbnik, Amiga Arena
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16.10.2k Software News
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JST 4.2 - JOTD startup for HD installs & degrader.
Small fixes, enhanced OSEmu.
News from OnyxSoft:
BackUp v1.2 - A smart cleaning function has been added to update outdated files and now there is also a time indicator on operations.
Detris v3.0 - This game has been re-written from scratch and is now my favourite tetris-clone up to date (no kidding).
DRemind v1.56 - Fixed a bug with the individual settings and some minor stuff and a installer is now availble, thanks to Alexander Döller.
MultiRen v1.42 - It's now possible to get the #?.info files automatically renamed (just set a flag in the settings).
TheMPegEncGUI v2.05 - Added some options for Pegase and Lame. The requesters will now open on the same screen as TMPEGUI is opened on...
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
Stefan Blixth, OnyxSoft
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15.10.2k CGX V3 Elbox Mediator ViRGE Driver Update
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15.10.2kSetiAtHome - Amiga neads would like you to join
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Andrew Guard: "SetiAtHome is a project which works on data from SETI. SETI is a project where they use radio telescopes
in hope to find life out there in Space. Now SETI has a big problem they nead to analyse massive amount of radio data.
Now on Windows there client which you can download for free which process this data for SETI. Now if you have PC and
are a member of SetiAtHome project please join us. What we are trying to prove is Amiga users are a major user base on
Internet. With this we could prove to SetiAtHome that this is so and get them to approve an offical client for
SetiAtHome on the Amiga to get published.
Just look up "Amiga" as the usergroup."
Andrew "aMIGA_dUDE" Guard
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15.10.2k Happy Birthday Amiga Flame
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Four years ago Amiga Flame was born to show everybody that an Amiga games market did exist and to aid these new development teams of all nationalities
to promote their titles to gamers and to ensure that their games reached the games playing public through the help of publishers...
Read more
Amiga Flame website
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15.10.2k Eternity News
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The URL has changed: http://www.eternity-computer.de from now on is
the new online home of Eternity. Please change your bookmarks!
To make getting used to the new URL more
easy for users we have raised another of our popular special projects: For orderings within the next two weeks the
customer will get 1 DM discount on every of his/her order already placed in 2000. With this we want to thank our
many faithful customers and want to give them a very special bonus.
EAsys! Servicepack 3. For the system enhancer EAsys!
distributed by Eternity service-pack 3 was released. This fixes many little bugs, and automatic creation of icons
is implemented. Who wants to learn about the other new features should get it soon.
The MASplayer which we distribute since early this month already sells well. Happily our customers are not dumb,
so we received some suggestions on additional possible use of the MASplayer:
MPEG-Movie-Player could surrender playing of sound completely to the MAS and thereby would have to deal almost
only with playing the movie.
Internet-Phone would be possible with acceptable speed and quality also on Amigas.
Internet-Radio via MASplayer is already under construction.
Interested software authors can contact us via e-mail to eternity@pride.de.
We heavily support developers.
Amiga-news.de website
Eternity website
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15.10.2k Software News
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AmigAIM V0.9397 BETA - an AIM Client for
the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II. history
ttf.library v 0.8.3b - truetype compatible font
engine for Amiga OS. Any Amiga applications which can use normal system fonts can now use truetype fonts. Separate
archives are available with optimized versions for 68020, '030, '040, '060, as well as generic 68000 series CPU's.
Fixed enforcer hit/crash in ttfmanager.
Official AmigAIM page
ttf.library homepage
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14.10.2k Amiga DE News
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Bill McEwen posted a clarification on ANN, where he explains
how the list of game ports from 'What is Amiga All About?'
article on AmigaInc.'s website was created and announces that Gary Peake has been promoted to Director of Developer Relations.
Gary Peake posted some facts in the amigaopen list about Amiga DE.
ANN website
Utopia, AmigaSDK.com
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14.10.2k 18" color LCD flat monitor giveaway contest at Amiga.ca
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All Free WebMail users on Amiga.ca have a chance to win an 18" color LCD flat monitor.
When you first access the amiga.ca home page, a pop-up window will appear. There is your chance to sign up for the
contest. Because the window will not pop-up again until a week later. When you signup from the pop-up window,
save the information and reenter your name for the contest as many times as you want. Deadline is October 31.
Downtown AMIGA website
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14.10.2k VaporWare News
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V³ is progressing nicely - frames are working again, and some deep-down fiddling with layers and cliprects brought
the rendering and scrolling speed to completely new heights ;)
There will be a new release soon, when Zapek has finished the configurable popup menus.
There's also a amtelnet test release which might, or might not, address the Z-Modem-Transfer problems with Miami.
The source code to MicroDot-1 (not 2) was released on ftp.vapor.com.
Oliver Wagner in his .plan
V³ Portal
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14.10.2k AROS News
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Cleanup of the AROS source tree by Bernardo Innocenti, primitive hardfile support of FFS-formatted floppy disks (ADF)
by Georg Steger and better mouse support for AROS Native/x86 by Tobias Seiler (mouse buttons work now). Georg threw
in some additional code to change the position of the mouse pointer on the screen and now you can move the window
around. Since VGA.HIDD doesn't support the XOR drawing mode, yet, there is still some garbage when you move the
window but that should be fixed, soon :-)
AROS homepage
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14.10.2k SView Port News
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The design of the C++ classes is completely platform-independent (e.g. regarding endianess)
and suitable to be ported for a wide range of operating systems, e.g. certain Linux
derivates, BeOS or QNX. Additionally, no compiler-specific C++ specialities are used
("baseline C++) and utilization within a - except that particular part - clean C program
is no problem.
In the meantime the SView class library already successfully has been
ported to GCC under Linux/x86 (same source tree for Win32 and Linux). [ libsview.a (260K) ]
Usage with other compilers like e.g. Visual C++ 6 will be as simple.
Read more
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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14.10.2k Software News
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Frogger 1.62 beta 2 for 68k and PPC is available here.
There is also new frogger start image.
There is silversurfer.device patch to V2.103. For copyright reasons, there is only a patch from V2.102 to V2.103 this time.
Since it's not 100% clear if this patch is legal or not, individual Computers have removed it to be on the safe side.
If you want to use the patch, it seems to be necessary to ask Harald Frank for a
permission to use an errorfree, updated version of his driver. Changes:
A1200 recognition routine only executed when A3000/A4000 not detected. This fixes the bug with some browsers and IDE problems after starting silversurfer.device on those machines.
Silversurfer now recognized on (forthcoming) ISDN Surfer board
Silversurfer Limited Edition now recognized on 26-pin expansion port of X-Surf Ethernet board
Frogger homepage
individual Computers website
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13.10.2k SHARK Attack
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ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to announce the breath-taking new product: the most powerful PowerPC accelerator
for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000.
The new accelerator - SharkPPC G3/G4 board - is a pure PowerPC-based
processor card to be fitted in MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI A3/4000 busboards.
SharkPPC G3/G4 cards give Amiga Classic computers the top performance of the latest PowerPC technology
and the power of the long-awaited next generation computer.
Read more
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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13.10.2k DCE gets exclusive rights to publish Voodoo CGX drivers
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Vision Factory Development (VFD) and DCE Computer Service signed an exclusive contract about the use
of current "CGX Voodoo"-Drivers. In contrast to earlier announcements, this driver will be
exclusively available for the G-REX PCI expansion only. This contract guarantees the immediate
availability and the best support a user can get for the current range of powerful voodoo graphics
boards in conjunction with all currently available ppc accelerators of the Blizzard-and CyberStorm
series. With the expected problems of PPC 3D drivers in conjunction with Mediator PCI and the
currently available PPC accelerators in Dual-CPU mode (68K 2D driver) in mind, VFD decided to drop
the further development of the actual Alpha Voodoo drivers for Mediator and concentrates on development
for the G-REX PCI board because drivers were succesfully tested already. Voodoo3 cards should give
you a significant performance boost for the current range of PPC accelerated games, flawless working
of the CyberGraphX driver can't be guaranteed due to technical hardware limitations of Mediator PCI
though, so VFD decided to go that way. As a final note, CGX Voodoo driver alpha versions that are
probably develivered with the Mediator harware are in no way authorized or licensed by VFD. Current
S3 ViRGE drivers are not affected by this agreement. DCE and VFD also decided to work together on
additional drivers regarding both networking and sound in conjunction with G-REX PCI.
[Money talk... dunno why bad news follow right behind the good ones ? ExiE]
CyberGraphX homepage
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13.10.2k INET DIAL v3.824 now includes support for EZP@gerNG SMS/Paging client
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INET DIAL from MDR now supports SMS/Pager Client "EZP@gerNG" from Stefan Falke. This allows for off-line composition and send.
INET DIAL is an integrated Browser based control system which provides local and remote X-10 Control facilities, automatic mail
retrieval, collection and distribution as well as Internet and Remote Computer connections. INET DIAL also provides a "dial-in"
server for remote computer networking. AWEB-II and IBROWSE are currently supported.
For latest download and screenshots visit http://www.mdr.co.uk
Richard de Rivaz, MDR Interfaces Ltd
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13.10.2k AmigaPower #11 Is Out
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The 11th issue of Amiga Power is out! Content:
Reviews of Amiga Writer - Art Effect 4.0 - Carte Zorro IV - Hypercom 3+ - Visual Prefs - Catweasel.
Pratice : Magellan - Turbocalc - Drawstudio - Mui Base - Blitz Basic - Aminet.
Plus the Amiga news, Games and the presentation of the MPEG Machine.
Amiga Power is edited by the AFLE association, the biggest in France (with more than 250 members).
Amiga Power is laser printed (no photocopy) with a laser color printed cover.
More details on the AmigaPower website.
Ben Yoris
AmigaPower website
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13.10.2k H&P News
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STFax 4.5 released
H&P: "After we took over the distributation of STFax, a new version has been released. This version offers support for the ELSA Office modems.
You will find more information in the press release."
New ImageFX offers
H&P: "For a limited time we can offer award winning ImageFX including the PPC module PowerStation. You will find more information in the
press release."
Haage & partner website
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13.10.2k ProStationAudio v4.00: tutorial on SMPTE sync.
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Check here for a tutorial on how to use
the new ProStationAudio v4.00 Arexx interface to trigger multitrack playback (with realtime effects and
mixing automation) using an external SMPTE source (such as a video deck) and the AD516/AD1012 boards.
The Arexx interface supports buffers' preloading for zero-latency triggering.
AudioLabs website
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13.10.2k SUN Puts StarOffice Into Open Source
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As promised, Sun Microsystems and CollabNet have worked together to build the infrastructure to put the StarOffice
code into the open source arena on October 13th. The CVS repository is up and running, and the code is now
available for checkout and download. A complete set of technical documentation is available, including a guide to
the projects, whitepapers, a "build guide", and a porting guide. We may see Amiga.DE, Linux/PPC and maybe AmigaOS
(MorphOS) versions soon. Visit Openoffice.org for details and codes.
Amigart website
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13.10.2k HellFight News
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There you can see beta-alpha-test screenshots of HellFight game,
previously called Virtual-Fight, a virtual fighting game for the Amiga.
Final version will require 68K or PPC processor, CGFX or AGA, 16 MB fastram and SUPER-stereo set :-)
HellCoder of HellHound, homepage
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12.10.2k Demo of Earth 2140
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There's now a demo of Earth 2140 available (13MB) for alassic Amiga (PPC & 68k).
Earth 2140 is reatime strategy game created by Topware. The finished game is scheduled for an early November, release priced at DM 99,95.
You can preorder the game now directly at epic interactive for DM 89,95 (plus p&p).
This offer expires October 25th.
demo download here
Minimum Requirements: 040/25, GFX board supporting CGFX or P96, 24 MB RAM, 20MB HD
Recommended: 060 or PPC [WarpOS], 32 MB RAM
Pagan Games homepage
Thomas Steiding, epic interactive
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12.10.2k CGX V3 Tested With 2 More ViRGE/DX PCI Cards
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12.10.2k Dafel:Bloodline Short Progress Update
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Classic Amiga, Mac and PC versions of this game are still under steady development. Much of the complex
graphical work is now complete and development of the code continues.
Pagan Games has now offically become multi-platform. They now develop not only for Classic Amiga and
Mac, but also new and upcoming markets such as the Amiga One and Milan range of computers.
They also redesigned their web site, again :-)
Pagan Games homepage
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12.10.2k Amster News
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The Amster website is now hosted on www.amiga.dk. New URL: http://www.amiga.dk/amster/.
There were updated most screenshots to reflect the current features of Amster, Napster client for Amiga with nice MUI GUI.
Amster homepage
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11.10.2k Want to Know What Amiga is All About?
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11.10.2k Nightlong Preorders Mailed
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clickBOOM: "All Nightlong preorders mailed, up to the last one. Enjoy this great game! Thank you
for your support to all who preordered."
clickBOOM website
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11.10.2k Obligement n°23 (French E-zine)
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Issue 23 of the famous French E-Zine is now available. You can download it at
obligement.free.fr. This issue have
a lot of good articles like the interview with Ralph Schmidt, review of
Foundation Undiscovered Land, article about the situation of Amiga in the
world, and lot more!
ADAM Olivier
Obligement website
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11.10.2k AMIOPEN: New Interview With Fleecy
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Vidar Langberget: "I've just posted an interview with Fleecy at my Temple Of Technology
website. It can be found here.
Also, I think a lot of you might be interested in this as well."
(you will need CSS capable browser to see it correctly)
Vidar Langberget, Temple Of Technology
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11.10.2k Interview with Ben Hermans
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11.10.2k VMC-ISDN V3 Beta89 now including Mac-FreePPP Support
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Harald Frank: "After many days of hard work and several hundred dial-in tests, we are able to offer an improved version
of VMC-ISDN, which from the current version works with all Mac FreePPP versions without problems.
VMC-ISDN is now the only ISDN card software for AmigaOS allowing the Apple Macintosh emulators Shapeshifter of Fusion to build
internet connections directly via ISDN and Sync-PPP. None of the currently available Amiga ISDN card drivers offers such an option,
but often have such fatal errors in the protocols that make user-friendly operation impossible.
First tests showed that internet banking, requiring Java, can now be utilized with your Amiga using an ISDN card and a Mac emulator
like ShapeShifter or Fusion, installing NetscapeNavigator or the InternetExplorer on your virtual Mac."
Amiga-news.de website
VMC - Network & Communication Solutions website
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11.10.2k unIQue Ask For Your Support
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ACSYS is a shoot'em up game inspired by the classic Turrican.
unIQue: "Now the time has come where we must ask you to buy our game because we dont't know whether
makes sense to develop again. If we get over 500 prospective buyer then we'll complete the game."
Try the demo and tell them
what you think about!
unIQue homepage
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11.10.2k AWeb 3.4 Internet Browser with New Features
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An article published at the AWeb-mailinglist unveils some new features of AWeb 3.4:
Enhanced JavaScript (supports some JavaScript v1.2 commands)
Support for AmiSSL
Option to disable banner-ads
Designed SELECT-objects appear now as a popup-menu
Context menus are using now the same palette as the system-menus
Better navigation by support for wheel mice
Function for displaying "tool tips" ('ALT' tags)
Support for "FONT FACES" including the possibility of using different fonts in the same HTML-document
This is just a short overview of the whole article by AmigActive.
The new issue contains screen shots of the upcoming version 3.4.
Amiga-news.de website
AmiTrix Development Inc. website
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11.10.2k Exodus & Husaria News
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At the moment there were four different versions of "Exodus - The Last War" released : a polish, a german, an english, and a french one.
Soon the Czech version will be available for download.
There are plans for developing another game; code name "Husaria". In Polish this means a kind of heavy cavalry, soldiers specialized
for fast attacks, which were noted for their victories particulary during the 17th century. For example King Jan III Sobieski who has
supported Austria against Turkey in the battle near Vienna.
For this new project the programmers are looking for the following things:
Maps of Europe from 16th and 17th century.
Fotos of castles, palaces and buildings used for economic purposes of the above mentioned centuries.
Fotos or pictures of armours and weapons of this time.
If possible, we need pictures of all 4 walls of the buildings, because we need this for making 3d-models out of them. It would be nice
if you could tell us the name of the e.g. castle, and maybe send us a little map showing the location.
If you would like to help us, you can send your material via email to
darexodus@poczta.onet.pl.
Amiga-news.de website
Exodus page
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10.10.2k New Executive Update
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Bill McEwen's new executive update is ready:
next version of SDK will be out in the next couple of weeks (LInux/Windows) with Mesa, the SSEYO Koan Audio
Engine, streaming, better development tools, a richer AVE and enhanced performance. There is also still
chance for current Amigas and AmigaOS3.5. AmigaOne announcement should be ready by the middle of October.
AmigaInc. website
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10.10.2k REBOL Rolls Forward ...
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REBOL Rolls Forward is the name of the article published in on-line SunWorld magazine.
The article talks about advantages of REBOL, as well as the slight change in orientation of REBOL Technologies from tool
provider to products provider. You can read the article here.
SunWorld website
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10.10.2k The World Foundry No Longer Responsible for Maim & Mangle
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The World Foundry LLC (TWF) don´t have the rights for developing the announced Amiga games "Explorer 2260",
"Maim & Mangle", and the "Collins Encyclopedia Galactica" (CEG, part of Explorer 2260), anymore.
The developer Chris Page now is responsible and continues to develope the games.
Amiga-news.de website
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9.10.2k Release of "Exodus - The Last War" Imminent
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This nice-looking real-time strategy game by the Polish developers Zloty Skarabeusz is nearing completion
and will be published shortly by another Polish company, Sland Media. There's also a 14MB demo available
for download, in three parts: part 1,
part 2,
part 3.
ANN website
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10.10.2k SpeedCOM A1200 and PARalizer
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The SpeedCOM 1200 is a serial interface board designed for use with the clock port and can transfer up to 460 kbs.
As the board address can be changed, it is possible to use two of these boards simultaneously. It has been
developed by Artur Gadawski. Currently he´s working on the PARalizer,
a board with a parallel interface.
Amiga-news.de website
Spidi's homepage
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9.10.2k Merregnon Soundtrack
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Merregnon soundtrack is a new concept album that tells
a fantasy story through 74 minutes of orchestral music. Contributing composers include some
names that should be familiar to a lot of music-loving Amigans - Jogeir Liljedahl, Chris
Huelsbeck, Gustaf "Lizardking" Grefberg and Allister Brimble amongst others. The CD is
available now.
ANN website
Merregnon homepage
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9.10.2k New Mediator PCI Pictures
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8.10.2k Contract Developer Wanted By Amiga Inc.
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Gary Peake (Amiga Inc.): "We are currently looking for a developer interested in joining our interface programming
team at Amiga Inc. This offer is being made first to our SDK developers on the Open Amiga List as promised in
earlier posts by Fleecy and myself. This will be contract work under Fleecy Moss, VP of Technology.
If you have experience now with Ave, the SDK and interface programming, please send a resume to
fleecy@amiga.com.
If accepted, Fleecy will fill you in on what he is
looking for specifically and the details of the contract.ract."
Amigart website
AmigaInc website
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8.10.2k Amiga Arena News
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The Amiga Arena proudly present for all Amiga Linux PPC users the demoversion from
"AudioCutter - LinuxPPC 0.91"!
This exclusiv demoversion is only aviable in the
AmigaArena with the permission from Virtual Worlds Productions.
For more onformation please visit the Amiga Arena and
AudioCutter homepages.
Olaf Köbnik, AmigaArena
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8.10.2k AMIgay-Zine Updated
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Robert Kühn: "After some months I have made a update of my AMIgay page! Now you can find
more usefull things there, e.g. message board, guestbook, etc..."
Robert Kühn, AMIgay-Zine
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8.10.2k AmigaAMP homepage has moved
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Thomas Wenzel: "During October 2000 A.C.T. will end all sponsoring activities for the Amiga platform.
This includes the web site service "amiga-software.com". The AmigaAMP homepage has moved to
amigaamp.de. Thanks to Marc for quickly registering amigaamp.de
for me and for helping me with the migration."
AmigaAMP homepage
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8.10.2k Software News
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Kuang 11 v2.66 - superiour script set for AmIRC finally in new version. You can expect some new functions
and many bugfixes. Check this readme for the full list. Old K11 users can obtain new version through
AmIRC by typing /kupd. New users should download K11 from
Aminet and then update it.
Amiga Coding Syndicate
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7.10.2k ACE 2000 Amiga show makes Slashdot News!
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The upcoming Australian Amiga and other alternative OS show, ACE 2000, has been linked onto Slashdot.
The site has now seen the "slashdot effect" and got 55,000 hits in the first 6 hours! The worlds
biggest Amiga show will reveal Amiga to thousands of other computer users :-)
ACE 2000 article on Slashdot
Greg Thomas, ACE Co-ordinator
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7.10.2k Amihoo.com Back Up And Running
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www.amihoo.com is available to use again.
Also, 98% of new entries have now been added.
The Lucky Epic Direct £20
Voucher winner is finally revealed! Don't just sit there, go and have a read
of the winning email.
Michael Carrillo, Amihoo.com
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7.10.2k The Biggest (literally) Freeware Football Management Game
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Kamil Barczynski: "PSV Manager is a football management game extravaganza. Giant and very playable program full of humor.
After success of Polish version, we have prepared the English edition. Why you should check out this game? Because:
only here you'll find 9 real/fantasy leagues and 40 generated
you can choose any of 46 teams in each league
you'll be playing in league and domestic cup competitions
all European cups are simulated (including Intertoto Cup and Cup Winners Cup)
there are at least 10 ways to buy or loan player from one of approximatly 1000 teams (maybe more)
summer and winter breakes are full of options to choose from (for example indoor-football tournaments, trips to foreign camps, friendly matches, transfers, vacations, etc.)
many options, statistics, hidden chances (or traps) gives that game an unforgetable atmosphere thanks to funny samples commenting Your actual situation.
Aand all of this you can have for free! System requirements: any Amiga, 2 MB Chip, 4 MB Fast, HDD: about 300 MB of free space for full version; about 48 MB of free space for
basic version (without samples).
IMPORTANT: Since Aminet administrators have refused to include "PSV" to their archive, because of its, according to their opinion, controversial content (especially samples
taken from movies, sitcoms, cartoons, songs, etc.), we are looking for some ftp/web site, which could distribute our game (about 200MB of free space is needed).
You can write to freyutd@pro.onet.pl."
Kamil Barczynski, Frey United Software
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6.10.2k Amiga Realm Gets Facelift For 1st Birthday
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In time for its first birthday, the Amiga Web Directory service "Amiga Realm" has completely redesigned the layout of their
website and improved the clarity. The navigation was improved and the categories rethought.
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Realm website
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6.10.2k 2000/01 Internet Amiga F1GP Championship
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The IAF1GPC is a competition run for players of the Amiga version of MicroProse Formula One Grand Prix (aka World Circuit),
competing against each other over a full championship season. This championship series (and this website) is currently
maintained by Oliver Roberts.
The final preparations for the new season are almost complete, and the following updates have now been made:
Updated Rules; New Datafile Pack; Updated result submission instructions; Updated schedule.
Read more
Internet Amiga F1GP Championship
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6.10.2k New PageStream 4.0.8c
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Grasshopper LLC, the new distributor of PageStream, has made an update to Amiga and Win versions of PageStream (v4.0.8c) available
for download in the secure downloads area.
Grasshopper LLC website
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6.10.2k Amiga Active Issue 13 Now Available
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AA: "Due to a few supply problems, our birthday issue was unavailable to order direct from Pinprint
from the day it was published. However, we now have some copies in stock - so if you can't find it
in the shops, hurry up and order your copy direct from us whilst our own (limited) stocks last!
Either call our order line on +44 (0)1202 296292 with your credit card details or pop along
to our secure online order form to order over the Internet. It couldn't be simpler! But if you want
to pay by cheque, you'd better hurry up and get it in the post!
Few days ago Amiga Active opened their new website!
Amiga Active website
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6.10.2k New and IMPORTANT HyperCOM 2.96B4 Update
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6.10.2k Modification of Hypercom 3plus Module (Goldsurfer) for IOBlix Emulation Mode
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The new Hypercom software (v2.96+) can emulate the IOBlix parallel ports, so parallel-port scanners
and ZIP-drives can be used with the Hypercom. The Hypercom Zorro cards are already primed for this,
however the modules for the A1200, Buddha, Catweasel and the X-Surf (also sold as "Goldsurfer) need
a minor technical modification.
Detailed technical description
including pictures.
Amiga-news.de website
individual Computers website
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6.10.2k Exodus - The Last War
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The polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz" will publish their new game "Exodus - The Last War" soon.
The game is in the process of making and supposed to be finished within one week. The company "SLAND MEDIA" is the publisher, which is directly connected
to the group. Which company will be responsible for sales in Europe has not been decided, yet. For further information have a look at the provisional
site. This site is still completely written in polish. An own domain and English sites are likely to follow.
Amiga-news.de website
Exodus page
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6.10.2k Software News
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A new version of TaskiSMS has been released. In version 2.02 stack problems has been fixed. It can be downloaded
from AmiNet or from Taski ftp server. TaskiSMS is easy to
use SMS sender based on plugins. If your GSM network is not supported yet,
contact author.
Pawel Filipczak
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5.10.2k Amihoo.com Server Failure
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Michael Carrillo: "Sorry, but I must apologise once more. No, it hasn't been taken off, Amihoo.com is still up
and running but the re-direct server which sends you to amihoo.com has once more gone down Grrr!!! This is
currently outside my control, so please bear with me as I keep my fingers crossed in the hope that it will be
fixed soon. In the meantime should you wish to access Amihoo.com, then use
www.amihoo.u-net.com.
Michael Carrillo via ANN
Michael Carrillo, Amihoo.com
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5.10.2k Nightlong News
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Kay Are Ulvestad: "Finally, it seems that Nightlong is ready. According to clickBOOM,
the game has been duplicated and packaged, and after a final test of all three CD's, they'll mail the preordered copies on
Thursday and Friday."
Kay Are Ulvestad via ANN
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5.10.2k ADoom Updated Again
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5.10.2k VooDoo3 Drivers
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There have been a number of rumors from a number of sources that the VooDoo3 driver will be released very shortly.
Vision Factory Development: "Currently this is not true. We have no set date for a release yet. We are still
updating and developing the driver. Vision Factory Development's website,
www.vgr.com will have the drivers and latest news when it is released.
Currently the free CGX V3 driver supports 4MB ViRGE and ViRGE/DX cards."
CyberGraphX homepag
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4.10.2k ProStationAudio v4.0 Ready For Release
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The new ProStationAudio v4.00 is complete. Supporting two CPU's, splitted interface on two graphic cards
and two monitors, ProStationAudio v4.00 is the perfect NL-editing software for power users. Two versions
available, Millennium and Remix.. The Millennium 4.00 demo can be downloaded from the
download area.
New features include: Arexx command set for transport control, Multiple metrics: time, bars:beats,
wordclock, film (16mm and 35mm), Multiple timerulers at once on the timeline, configurable, Two mixing
desk models: compact and extended, Info bar for accurate measurement of ranges and views, GUI access to
marker, range and view banks, fixes and enhancements.
This is the 8th free upgrade since
version 1.00. Please, all the customers contact Audiolabs now to update the email addresses database and
receive their copy. ProStationAudio v4.00 Millennium is available as an electronic update to customers
that already received the CDR set, and on CDR for customers that received an electronic version earlier.
Free of charge.
AudioLabs website
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4.10.2k Amiga.info Developer Meeting
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On October the 18th, Wonder Computers will be demonstrating the new Amiga developer machine, d'AMIGA,
along with the SDK software. If you are interested in the new Amiga, and have yet to purchase the
SDK, then you should visit this meeting. Where ? Royal Oak, 161 Laurier, East Avenue, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada (7.00 PM). Be there on time! :-)
Amiga.org website
amiga.info website
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4.10.2k Commodore Prototypes
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Click here to see some of the
RAREST Amiga and Commodore never-released products never seen! Ever seen an Amiga "Spellbound" card?
Check'em out. Read the intro text on that page, then click on them thar little bitty thumbnails to see
the full sized pictures.
ANN website
AmigaZone website
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4.10.2k AFD-COPYRIGHT News
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The "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note"(TM) or shorter "AFD-COPYRIGHT"(TM) has been released
for the fifth time this year. This Copyright Note is an offer for all Amiga developers who want to
release FD-Software, be it as Freeware, Giftware, Shareware or whatever.
AFD-COPYRIGHT is now available in eighteen (18!!!) languages - all in two formats, as plain text and
as HTML-file. After the releases of the Czech, Russian, Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese translations
the latest addition is the Hungarian translation by Álmos Rajnai and Péter Kovács (again, from the ATO).
The files can now be downloaded from the
Official Support Site for AFD-COPYRIGHT.
Dietmar Knoll, Official Support Site for AFD-COPYRIGHT
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4.10.2k Shoutcast/Icecast Amiga client
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StreAmi is an Amiga client for very popular audio
streaming over the net. There are two well known streaming systems, Icecast and Shoutcast, which can send audio data over
network compressed with mpg audio. StreAmi allows you to connect to such a server and listen to the audio in realtime.
readme
Aminet
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3.10.2k iFUSION Soon ?
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Jim Drew: "Completion of the Amiga version of iFUSION is nearing! We will be posting screen shots shortly!
We appreciate the hundreds of emails regarding the device level file system!"
Microcode Solutions website
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3.10.2k Interview with BlueBlack Solution
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3.10.2k Eternity - New Distributor of the MAS-player
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Since October 1st, 2000 Eternity took over the distribution of the MAS-Player in cooperation with Dirk Conrad.
The MAS-Player is a hardware MP3-player that can be used with every Amiga parallel interface. The program
plays MP3´s in 18bit and 44kHz with very low CPU usage and is therefore the best and cheapes solution for
playing MP3-files with an Amiga computer. A techpage will follow. Eternity will ask Thomas Wenzel if he
would support the MAS-Player with his AmigaAmp. Eternity will offer a 6 month guarantee.
Amiga-news.de website
Eternity
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3.10.2k Amiga PPC port of ADoom
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ADoomPPC 1.5 - Amiga PPC port
of ADoom. Changes in 1.5: Tooltypes are now supported in the WarpOS version. Save games are now compatible
to version 1.3. Old 1.4 saves won't work any more. New option -nojoy disables joystick reading for a small
speed increase. source code
Amiga projects by Jarmo Laakkonen
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3.10.2k AmiWolfenDoom Website Moved, and one Appeal
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The AmiWolfenDoom homepage has moved and is now available at www.antibyte.de.
Robert Wahnsiedler is still on the hunt for a person that is able to modify the ADoom-engine for making Ninja-,
Simpson and Batman-Doom possible. According to the downloadrates of AmiWolfenDoom the interest of the users is
very high.
For the modifycations you must have C/Assembler skills and you have to read the docs. There are no
major changes to make but the DEH support must be revisde (patch of the internal graphic/sound/textroutines by
using a Ascii-file with commands). For example there is no recognition of text. This causes games that use these
kind of functions to crash. If you are interested, please contact Robert Wahnsiedler.
Amiga-news.de website
www.antibyte.de
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1.10.2k Amiga Arena - No one is perfect!
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Olaf Köbnik: "The Amiga Arena says Soory about the missing keyfiles on our homepage!
Now you can download all files, it was a upload-mistake by my self. Sorry for this!"
Now the keyfile for TextloaderNG is free for all Amiga Users! TextloaderNG is a HexEditor with a many features!
Olaf Köbnik, Amiga Arena
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3.10.2k Software News
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VirusExecutor v2.06 (size: 223.630B) - virus killer that's meant to be easy to use.
VEPatchBrain v1.19 (size: 17.359B) - PatchBrain v1.19 for VirusExecutor v2.xx.
Just copy the file 'VirusExecutor.patches' to the VirusExecutor: drawer and restart VirusExecutor
LAME v3.87 beta - MP3 Encoder (020, 040, 060, PPC/PowerUp).
Lame v3.87 no longer works with SecondSpin without changing the code and recompiling, thus LameSpin no longer works, and is no longer included.
On the good note this version is slightly faster, especially the PPC version! ;)
history
Virus Help Denmark website
Amiga Alternative Audio page
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2.10.2k Of Set Top Boxes and Internet Devices
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2.10.2k Earth 2140 Work-in-progress report
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2.10.2k New TaskiSMS
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A new version of TaskiSMS has been released. In version 2.01 some bugs has been fixed and
updated sending routine. It can be downloaded from AmiNet
or from Taski ftp server.
Pawel "Paplo/Taski" Filipczak
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2.10.2k Software News
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DOpus 4.15b - improved version of great filemanager from GP Software.
- preliminary link support
- removed few dead assignments (from Jaroslav Pokorny's sources)
- ARexx results can be bigger than 256 chars without trashing memory
- live lister prop update during reading a directory can be turned off (currently available only through lister
popupmenu and not saved in config file)
Development of SoundFX version 4.1 continue: totaly reworked MPEG-saver (own presets); Enrico Meyer has recompiled the
current release of the LAME-encoder without libSoundFile, so that it now works with SoundFX.
There is now a MRU (MostRecentUsed)-list in the menu; even more bugfixes (and again thanks to the SoundFX-mailinglist).
Directory Opus 4 Support pages
SonicPulse website
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1.10.2k Filters for ImageFX website moves
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1.10.2k AmigaOnLine.NET available in Quebec City
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AmigaOnLine.NET is proud to continue expanding coverage all over the United States & Canada.
Further, we are pleased to announce the addition of Quebec City, PQ (Canada) to
our list of POP. AmigaOnLine.NET is now available for area code (418). Quebec City's Acess Number
is: 418-266-1555.
AmigaOnLine.NET
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1.10.2k New Bubble Heroes Demo
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Bubble Heroes Amiga is now 100% completed (in both AGA and RTG versions) and published by Crystal Interactive Software!
Arcadia: "There is a new collection of Bubble Heroes demos (in RTG version) to download from our their download section.
We really hope that our game will get a good response from Amiga community and we hope that everyone who will play it will really enjoy!"
Arcadia website
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1.10.2k SecondSpin author pledges for help!
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Lauri Ahonen: "I can't locate the source of the famous prefs crashing bug in SecondSpin v2.09Beta.
It works flawlessly in my machine so tracing the bug down with my debugging skills (which are
non-existent :P) is near impossible, nor talking about actually fixing it! I would be very
grateful if someone pro could trace the bug down and fix it... it's slowing SS development to
almost none! I suspect some custom library SecondSpin uses, notably the tritonrexx.library.
Please help me and fix it! You can download the main archive from my
web page."
Lauri Ahonen, SecondSpin
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1.10.2k Amiga Arena News
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With the permission from Pascal Gisin Amiga Arena is now offering the keyfile
(registered to Amiga Arena) for Textloader and TextloaderNG! This Time only
for users of the AMIGA ARENA CD-Rom edition!
Amiga Arena - free keyfiles and full versons:
Imperium Terranum II keyfile - space strategy, BallMaster full version - puzzle
game, SHARKS! fulll version, Matrix Hunter full version - shooter, MusicmanIII
free registration, TextLoaderNG keyfile.
Olaf Köbnik, Amiga Arena
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1.10.2k VOODOO3 CGX V3 News
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Vision Factory Development: "As posted before, the CGX V3 drivers are currently up and running. The current drivers
are a PRERELEASE SHOW version that are by no means ready for day to day use. Currently there is no set date for a
release. The ViRGE and ViRGE/DX drivers are ready to ship and the archive will be released soon." You can find a
complete list of tested/supported boards that work with CyberGraphX on the
Mediator Page, or a complete list on the
CGX supported graphic cards page.
CyberGraphX homepage
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1.10.2k Interview with Ben Yoris from Hyperion
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1.10.2k VMC-ISDN V3 is now Online Officially
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VMC: "Thanks to the many friendly beta-testers we now are able to offer an official version for the new VMC-ISDN software
for all of the interested, and each owner of an Amiga ISDN board.
Though this version still doesn´t has all the features VMC is currently working on, but it fits to
make users realize there is no faster driver for ISDN boards for the Amiga. This version also contains complete example configuration files for every German Call-by-Call
internet providers, and Miami or MiamiDeluxe.
Since like all the time users have been asking for prices, functions or limitations of the drivers an extensive AmigaGuide
document was included, which hopefully answers all these questions.
Amiga-news.de website
VMC - Network & Communication Solutions website
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1.10.2k Software News
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ACUP status update: PPC version of the S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine) updated, additional functionality
implemented in the project submit tool. Issued to beta testers.
CAD-Technologies website
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