31.10.99 First Amiga Ezine
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There is now First Amiga Ezine. Subscription is FREE
to everyone. Every Sunday from November 14th subscribers will recieve FREE of charge amigaEzine in their
Electronic mail box. It give you information on all thats happening on the Amiga scene including: exclusive
interviews, games and hardware news and links, round up of the weeks top stories.
AmigaEzine website
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31.10.99 Payback News
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Another Payback status report is now online.
"Several more bands have agreed to appear on the soundtrack. So far, nine artists have given permission,
and have contributed a total of 14 pounding tunes. More details next update (and I really mean it this time :)."
For more information about Payback, great looking gangster warfare 3D simulator similar to GTA, click
here.
Apex Designs website
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31.10.99 Software News
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AmigaAMP v2.7 BETA-9 is now available for download.
Only some minor bugfixes this time. The final version should be ready soon. New
VersionWB v2.10, a replacement for the usual
c:version command by Håkan Parting, is now available.
AmigaAMP website
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30.10.99 Miami 3.2b Second Edition
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Released Miami 3.2b, second edition. This is not a regular update, but rather an extension of the existing Miami
3.2b release. New optional features are a ClassAct/ReAction user interface (the OS 3.5 ClassAct/ReAction
distribution is very strongly recommended for this) and icons in OS 3.5 format. If you are already using Miami
3.2b and do not want to use these new features then you should not
download the new archives. No other changes have been made.
Nordic Global website
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30.10.99 ImageFX 4.1
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There is a patch to upgrade ImageFX 4.0 to the current 4.1 release. Download this
patch and
extract it to RAM: and then double click on the icon to install it.
Description of the new features and fixes!
SuRRouND
Nova Design, Inc. website
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29.10.99 This PC won't die ...
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FSB Technology brings us an article about the Amiga.
It describes Amiga's history, and concentrates on current Gateway web-appliances focus, stating Gateway is recruiting some top
Silicon Valley's talents to Amiga. The artcile also says "Next holiday season, Internet appliances based on Amiga's technology
will hit the market." Linux and Java based OS seems to be also part of the game.
FSB Technology website
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29.10.99 Motorola to improve G4
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29.10.99 REBOL released with Red Hat 6.1
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29.10.99 AmigaOS 3.5 FAQ updated
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29.10.99 OpenSource AmigaOS
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Andreas Kleinert, author of famous akDatatypes and SuperView, expressed another point of view
on AmigaOS becoming Open Source topic. Read more.
Andreas R. Kleinert
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29.10.99 Online ordering for VaporWear T-Shirts
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Exclusive VaporWear T-Shirts are now also available online
as well as by post :-) Unfortunately, for orders by post they can accept only Deutschmarks. Proceed to
Digibuy for the online ordering system.
V3·Portal
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29.10.99 Image manipulation programs
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Do you like fairy-tales ? Here's one for customers, who are planning to buy an
image manipulation program...:-)
Marko Seppänen
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28.10.99 Why is Photogenics different?
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28.10.99 Acknowledgement for support and registration OS3.5
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Since 27. October every registration or support request will be acknowledged by e-mail.
Please use the available forms only, because otherwise your request will not be
processed. Thank you for your understanding.
Amiga website
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28.10.99 AFD-Software Copyright Note(TM) v1.4
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27.10.99 Does Open Sourcing AmigaOS solve our situation?
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We can hear some voices requesting AmigaOS to become Open Source. Will it bring back AmigaOS
to its glory? Will it bring AmigaOS to modern hardware? Will it attract more developers and
bring more applications? Looking to experience of Linux, everything seems to be trivial, but
it seems there could be some more issues involved, making AmigaOS becoming open sourced
inachievable. Read some comments from Olaf Barthel, member of OS 3.5 development team
here.
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27.10.99 First Response to YES or NOT Open Sourcing AmigaOS
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Steve Crietzman, Campaign to open source the AmigaOS (COSA):
"It is come to our attention that there that a number of criticisms and skeptical remarks being floated
around on the Internet. This is our initial response designed to offer our immediate thoughts on these
subjects. It is by no means meant as a point-by-point rebuttal or indepth response. More detailed
counter-criticism and responses will be forthcoming at a later date, time permitting of course."
Read more.
.AmiUpdate website
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27.10.99 Amiga Dealer's Association Suing Amiga
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27.10.99 New VVA release
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New version 0.9.5 of VVA, VNS viewer for Amiga, is now available here.
VNC is an acronym for Virtual Network Computing. VNC consists of a pair of
client and server, when a VNC server is running on a computer, a remote client can connect to it and see the remote display and at the
same time, use his local keyboard/mouse to control the remote computer.
DS homepage
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27.10.99 Update on Delfina card availability
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Delfina Plus is currently not available. Some cards have been shipped, but most orders
can't be filled until a problem in hardware has been resolved. Either manufacturer has
trouble with quality or there is a bug we have not found in most of the cards made so
far. Bottom line is that until the troublemaker is eliminated we will not make any new
cards at such an unbearable defect rate. We sincerely apologize all our customers
waiting anxiously for their boards. Right now there are only Delfina1200 boards to
offer, along with AudioLab software. We hoped to fix the problem much sooner and fill
the orders, but that is no excuse for not speaking out earlier.
Petsoff website
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26.10.99 Phase5 G4 card status update
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Phase 5 announced today, there are going to be some delivery scheduling problems of their new G4 cards,
if situation regarding Motorola's inability to supply MPC107 system controller will not change in the
two weeks period. Usage of alternative system controller is under consideration, but in such case G4
cards would not be ready before early 2000, while on the other hand AGP could be supported. You can
read more information here.
Phase5 website
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26.10.99 OS3.5 Board of honors
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A lot of people worked hard to make AmigaOS 3.5 happen. Here is a list of all people
that were involved. Problems with OS3.5 ? There are more FAQs in the support area.
Amiga website
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26.10.99 Instant Rebate on ImageFX - Get $40 back on 4.0!
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If you've been thinking about buying ImageFX 4.0 with the new animation
features, now is the perfect time to do so! Nova Design, Inc., in cooperation
with your favorite Amiga dealers, is offering an Instant $40 Rebate when you buy ImageFX from any participating dealer.
However, this special offer is for a limited time only!
Amiga.org website
Nova Design website
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26.10.99 ArtEffect 3.0.11 Update
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26.10.99 Mikro Mortal Tennis Demo
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Demoversion of Mikro Mortal Tennis is now available here.
You have to dearchive the archive to a bootable floppy which is called MMTDemo or you can also put it in a drawer
on your harddrive and put an assign in your startup sequence. The game requires any Amiga with 1 MByte Ram and
will be available for the first time at the Cologne show.
Epic Marketing website
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26.10.99 PGPi 6.5.1/Amiga coming soon
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The PGP 6.5.1 source code has now been completely scanned and proofread, and an international
version - PGP 6.5.1i is now ready. A version for Windows 95/98/NT is available for download.
A beta-version for Unix is also available (source code only). Versions for MacOS, Windows
2000, MS-DOS, Amiga and OS/2 will appear shortly.
The International PGP homepage
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26.10.99 AutodocViewer Lite v2.0 BETA
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Beta release of AutodocViewer Lite v2.0 BETA is now
available. This version support linking
from autodoc function text to autodocs and includes. Surely this version is a major update from v1.41.
Ronny Tennebekk
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25.10.99 New CD based Amiga Magazine
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Softwave, a new company born in Italy this summer, announces a new CD based
Amiga Magazine. The first issue of Amiga.news will be available at the Home
Electronics World of Cologne, on 12-14 November.
Read more.
Giorgio Signori
Amiga.it website
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25.10.99 GlädjeStickan News
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The editorial staff at GlädjeStickan: "The Swedish e-zine GlädjeStickan is rising like the phenix!
We are in the process of rebuilding GlädjeStickan, but still we miss the most important part: -
Our subscribers! The complete database over our nearly 350 subscribers also got destroyed during
the crash. So we appeal to our former subscribers as well as new ones to visit
www.amigaspel.just.nu and fill in the form for a subscription."
Stefan Nilsson
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25.10.99 REBOL website updated
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REBOL website got updated with a little bit new info. New document is called
Why REBOL?, and seems to be
describing REBOL-on-all-devices vision. It also mentions REBOL/Media,
REBOL/Browse (web browser plugins) and other specialised versions of REBOL.
REBOL Technologies website
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25.10.99 Product News Station
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25.10.99 What's your opinion on software piracy?
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25.10.99 Phoenix getting off to a rough start.
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The Phoenix Consortium is apparently having a bit of trouble getting off the ground
as this morning Amiga.org received an e-mail outlining a plan to 'kickstart' the Phoenix Consortium by sending your ideas to
all the developers. Read more.
ICOA website
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25.10.99 Alive Mediasoft New Products and Updates
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Whales Voyage 2 is a science fiction, role-playing, strategic trading game, Extreme is a brand new program that
is essential to anyone involved in creating visual demos or video titling on their Amiga, GoldED Studio is the
best text editor and The Pulse Issue 7 professionally printed catalogue/reveiw magazine.
Read more.
AWD website
Alive Mediasoft website
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25.10.99 Digital Almanac II released!
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Digital Almanac II is available! Suggested Retail Price DM 69.00 Digital Almanac is an astronomy
program which offers lots of possibilities. The program is permanantly improved, so that new
versions are at your disposal. Read more (english/german).
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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24.10.99 Darkage News: Another Victim Of Piracy
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Once again a Darkage Software product was cracked by stupid people. It's not the first time,
but it could be one of the last times, at least on Amiga. This time piracy has made a new
victim: Extreme Add-On was
cracked. Wow, crackers are still and still better: this time they cracked a texture collection.
How many protections you had to remove? This is just ridicolous. Considering that the CD costs
10DM (5 Euro), it's more expensive to download it from a BBS than to buy it.
Read more.
Paolo D'Urso, Darkage Software
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24.10.99 Amigactive News
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The next issue of Amiga Active (number two) will be on sale Thursday,
October 28th 1999. There is also new survey - What is Amiga? Perhaps an unanswerable question, but just what makes an
Amiga what it is? Whatever you think it is and what you think the next Amiga should be, take a moment to fill in
this survey.
Results.
Amigactive website
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24.10.99 Titan News
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Pages dedicated to PowerOS just opened! (only german version)
Titan computer just pre-announced ReproStudio NG - the all in one solution for any DTP tasks. Features:
full PowerPC support; imagesprocessing module included; vector drawing module indcluded; scanner support parallel
and scsi; free difinable texteffects; True-Type fontengine included; exports postscript and EPS; exposure support;
24bit printer output; 20 high-grade vector fonts included and many many more. Full details coming soon!
Titan Computer website
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23.10.99 Another Danger
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Less then a week after the offical release of AmigaOS 3.5, pirates cracked and uploaded OS V3.5 to most BBSs and FTPs.
The same happened to WipeOut 2097 PPC game even before the official release date! What does that mean? If the same
happens to Hyperion's Heretic 2 or Shogo we can say no-one will make any other PPC games. This might also put future
revisions of the AmigaOS at risk (3.x and future versions)
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23.10.99 VaporWear T-Shirts
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23.10.99 PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX News
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Just a short information, that new ak datatype versions and SViewIV
are available for download:
akJFIF 44.48 (21.10.99); akPNG 44.48 (21.10.99); akTIFF 44.48 (21.10.99); akNAIL 44.6 (21.10.99) and SViewIV 9.01.
Andreas R. Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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23.10.99 Code name Hell Squad Demo
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22.10.99 Amiga Inc. doing well and still hiring?
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According to post of Ed Dana to comp.sys.amiga.misc, describing his email contact with Dr. Alan Havemose
(Amiga Inc.), it seems his team is doing well. They are still aggressively hiring. Alan also told he is
very busy designing new Amiga software and so will not reply to individual emails.
(Dunno why he's calling it "Amiga" software. ExiE)
Ed Dana on c.s.a.m.
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22.10.99 Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS
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22.10.99 News from Project IMP
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Project IMP - the Independent Multimedia Platform had been founded just after Jim Collas left Amiga and the
AmigaMCC had been canceled. It is our intention to keep the Amiga platform alive and give it a future.
Read the latest news from Project IMP.
Volker Mohr, Initiator of Project IMP
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22.10.99 Second Anniversary of RC5-64 Challenge
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The Amiga RC5 Team effort has now been participating for two years in the Distributed.Net/RC5-64 challenge.
During the first two years of the effort we managed to reach a ranking of fifth overall out of over 8000
teams with a total of 200,000 participants. There are now over 2000 people participating under the Amiga
team, accounting for about 1.1% of all the work done (or 110 million blocks of 2^28 keys).
Read more.
The Amig RC5 Team Effort website
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22.10.99 Amiga OS3.5 News
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AmigaOS 3.5 online registration and support pages opened!
There is also new OS 3.5 Support FAQ (Frequently asked questions).
First small bug in OS3.5 installation script discovered. 20 MB free diskspace (not 10MB mentioned there) is required on your boot partition.
Amiga website
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22.10.99 Future Photogenics Versions
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Paul Nolan: "After working for several weeks on my abstraction layer, Photogenics now runs under Linux!
It will take a bit more work before a demo version will be ready, but everything is progressing smoothly.
Internally, Photogenics is based on my Ng user interface toolkit, and avoids calling any OS specific functions.
Ng itself sits on top of a small OS abstraction layer, which either maps directly to AmigaOS functions, or uses
Posix for thread related functions, and Xlib for display. With this abstraction layer in place, Photogenics
will soon become platform agnostic. With 99.9% of the Photogenics source code remaining unchanged across ports,
no platform will get left behind when it comes to new versions. An Amiga NG version should not be a problem,
and QNX aficionados will be pleased to know that Photogenics will port over with only trivial changes.
screenshot
In summary, there's a fluffy penguin on my shelf, but I'm not abandoning the Amiga. In fact, I am securing its
future on the Amiga as the source code remains practically identical no matter what platform its running on.
Paul Nolan's photogenics website
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22.10.99 Samba and Miami
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There is now description how to set up Samba for use with Miami or MiamiDx, allowing you to exchange files with other Amigas, with Win95/98,
WinNT and Linux. for Olaf Barthel's new Samba port 2.0.5a.
Nordic Global website
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22.10.99 Lambda Status Report
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The Lambda project is now two years old, and still alive and kicking. It's not kicking very hard, but that doesn't matter.
The technology has come a long way from the 50MHz 68030 AGA engine to the x86 hosted hardware accelerated OpenGL tested currently
under development. Read more.
Lambda website
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22.10.99 Software News
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The CVID (Radius CinePak) decoder was broken in AMP v1.26, and the YUY2 decoder produced an upside down image, download this
fixed version if you've experience problems.
Beta release of AutodocViewer Lite v2.0 BETA has been released,
because of major problems under develompent it's still incomplete, but fully functional.
AmiDog's Movie Player website
Ronny Tennebekk
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22.10.99 Tornado 3D TreeOh
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Tornado 3D ThreeOh is ready and distribution should begin in the next few days.
Tornado3D homepage
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21.10.99 AOL, Gateway in far-ranging pact
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21.10.99 Nova Design/Newtek announce Millennium for Toaster/Flyer
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Millennium is collection of software, scripts, effects, fonts, backgrounds and other content to improve your
Video Toaster and Flyer dramatically. The package is presented by Newtek, and was developed by Nova Design
Inc., in cooperation with all prominent Toaster and Flyer developers. You can
read more information here.
AWD website
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21.10.99 MicroniK Special Offer
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MicronicK makas special internet-offer of their hardware, software and spare parts while supplies last.
Sale end 31 October, 1999. Check it!
MicroniK website
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21.10.99 T-zer0 playable demo
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21.10.99 Schatztruhe News
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21.10.99 Software News
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Martin Blom, AHI developer: "Some remarks regarding the last beta release. If AHI complains about not finding ppc.library
>v46.26, don't worry. You only need v46.24 or greater. Not that it matters. I just found out why the PowerUp
version locks up now and then. It turned out that I had misunderstood how to use some stuff in ppc.library.
Unfortunately, this could lead to that I have to ditch the PowerUp version altogether. So don't use the PowerUp
version; it's broken by design."
A beta version of ImageManager.library can be
downloaded. The primary goal of this library (where datatypes failed) was to provide incremental rendering of the
decoded image, allow an arbitrary source (such as a network socket) and to allow the user of the decoding system to
manipulate the image, before any quantization take place, such as scaling.
AHI homepage
Allan Odgaard's website
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21.10.99 Amithyst Returns!
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At long last the Amithyst site is back in the game. We took a long time out to redesign the site and change the format
slightly. We are no longer a monthly magazine, but update as and when new content is ready. The site still covers
Amiga, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, and is still at the same address.
There is now a new email address however.
Sam Webb, Amithyst Online Magazine
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21.10.99 Epic Marketing UK News
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Epic Marketing now have secure ordering on their site,
as well as a special order section, in which UK customers can get hold of software previously only
available from other countries. Also shipping are Foundation DC, Virtual Grand Prix, children's game
Bertie's Animal Kingdom and Ireland, GB and German route planner software AmiAtlas.
Read more.
Amiga.org website
Epic Marketing website
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20.10.99 The Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS
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20.10.99 Blittersoft pages
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20.10.99 AWeb-II Upgrade
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AWeb-II update patch from v3.2 to v3.3 is now available. Some of the new features:
Menus are fully configurable. Navigation buttons are fully configurable, and can be hidden. Displayed pages can be saved as IFF.
Improved JavaScript handling. Option to suppress advertising pop-up windows. Handles more JPEG formats. Passive FTP option for better
operation through firewalls. Better cookie compatability. Additional ARexx commands ...and more
AmiTrix Development website
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20.10.99 Heretic 2 News
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Amiga version of Heretic 2
should run even on 060 and 3D card (Virge) or PPC&AGA. The Heretic 2
FAQ and
Features have been
brought up-to-date, following the ongoing development of the game.
Hyperion website
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19.10.99 QNX RTOS supports G4 well ...
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In response to OEMs building high-bandwidth, compute-intensive systems - such as voice gateways, gigabit
routers, and cellular base stations - QNX Software Systems announced today that the QNX RTOS will
support the newest and fastest member of Motorola's PowerPCTM family: the MPC7400 microprocessor.
QNX Software has also demonstrated its support for the MPC7400's integrated 128-bit AltiVecTM vector
engine, which allows developers to "vectorize" their applications and achieve up to six times the
speed of today's scalar aplications. You can
read the whole announcement here.
Let's hope the same will be true for Neutrino very soon too.
QNX website
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19.10.99 REBOL makes another set of news...
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19.10.99 NEC to build new fab to make chips for Nintendo Dolphin
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TOKYO, NEC Corp. will construct a new fabrication facility to build a graphic chip and the embedded
DRAM that Nintendo Co. Ltd. will use in its next-generation game console, code-named Dolphin. NEC
expects to sell about $2.8 billion of the devices over the full life of Dolphin. You can read the
whole announcement here. The question is - would AmigaNG be
competitive in comparison to Sony or Nintendo, if it was not cancelled?
Fleecy Moss on TA ML
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19.10.99 GTI Offer No-Risk Distribution for Amiga Companies
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Many potential Amiga producers are put off by the risks involved in product distribution,
but GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH now makes the following offer to manufacturers of
Amiga products worldwide: "We will stock your Amiga products on a turnkey basis ! This basically
means that we are prepared to list and sell Amiga products on your behalf to our network of
Amiga dealers on an international basis. Under this scheme, we are willing to price products
according to manufacturers preferences, and remit proceeds of sales minus an agreed commission
fee back to manufacturers on a regular basis. We offer producers the possibility of reaching
a large number of Amiga dealers with the minimum of paperwork and fuss. We are happy to list
Amiga products and sell on your behalf without ANY minimum quantity - thus enabling even
specialised products to obtain an international listing and succeed by their own quality. This
scheme is particularly suited to North American manufacturers looking for increased sales of
their products to the European Amiga trade and thereby to European Amiga users." For more
details, contact Richard Small, Managing Director.
AmigaCentral website
Grenville Trading International website
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19.10.99 SecOS Status Report
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Trogladite Software have released a SecOS Status report concerning all the modules currently
completed or in development which make up the SecOS network suite. It can be found
here.
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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19.10.99 4 New BoXeR Models
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Anti Gravity Products announces 4 new BoXeR models.
The Base model will be similar to those sold in Europe with a wide variety of upgrade options
available. The Neila Phase-498 will be available only to those who preordered them.
Read more.
.AmiUpdate website
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19.10.99 Aliendesign News
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19.10.99 AWeb-II Information Pages
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19.10.99 Software News
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ICS v1.07 - professional color correction
program for scanners is now on Aminet. ICS already is directly supported by ScanQuix, ScanTrax and ImageFX.
Read more.
New vapor_toolkit.library v12.9 is now available.
Aminet
VaporWare website
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18.10.99 Image Engineer Special Offer
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The shareware image manipulation program, Image Engineer
has been updated and is available for download. See the website for details. For very limited time only together with
Image Engineer comes one of it's many add-ons, full version of Visual Puzzle.
Read more.
Marko Seppänen Image Engineer website
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18.10.99 AmigaOS 3.5 Registrations and Support
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The areas for registrations and
support will be opened in a few days.
After registration you will get access to the technical support as well as to other valuable services.
Amiga website
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18.10.99 Open Letter to Amiga, Inc.
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18.10.99 Exodus - The Last War
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Don't miss a demo of new great looking realtime strategy game Exodus - The Last War
from Akson Software, Poland. Read more.
Aminet
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18.10.99 WaveTracer DS Mark V News
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18.10.99 Delivery of AmigaOS 3.5
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The delivery of AmigaOS 3.5 started! Rumors about a delay caused by legal problems is not correct.
Due to the many pre-orders it might one to two weeks to carry out all orders. Thank you very much
for your patience!
Amiga website
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17.10.99 Amigaday pictures report
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Here are some pictures of our Amigaday
on the 16th of october with special guest Petro Tyschtschenko.
B. van der Meer, AmigaScene website
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17.10.99 GoldED Studio 6.2.4
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GoldED Studio users can download the latest service pack to upgrade from 5
or 6.x.x to the latest version 6.2.4 (download demo version). Major
new feature is an improved syntax parsing interface supporting generic configurable syntax parsers
(screenshot) and "rules" to use filetypes based on the contents of a file.
GoldED webpage
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17.10.99 New issue of NewTekniques magazine
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17.10.99 Software News
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AmigaAMP v2.7 BETA-8 is now available for download.
Now using guigfx.library (optional) and hopefully even closer to perfection :))
AmigaAMP website
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16.10.99 fxPAINT 1.0 is on its way
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The fxPAINT Master has been sent out on Monday, 11th of October.fxPAINT
will be ready for shipping on the 1st of november! In this context be sure to preorder fxPAINT until 1st of November, as the special preorder-offer ends at that date.
Innovative website
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16.10.99 Aminet CD 33 is available
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Aminet CD 33, dated October 1999, contains 1 gigabyte (uncompressed) of software in thousands of archives.
Since the release of Aminet CD 32 more than 800 MB new software has appeared. The current edition
features the full version of Marblelous 2, the very popular commercial game.
Schatztruhe webpage
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15.10.99 Cologne Conference '99
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15.10.99 Neutrino 2 book now available
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15.10.99 Legendary Alien Breed heads to DC
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Team17 confirms its upcoming addition to the classic Alien Breed series will be released
on Dreamcast. Other next generation consoles are under consideration too. You can read
the whole announcement here.
Fleecy Moss on TA ML
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15.10.99 No more Enforce for the Amiga?
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Filip Doksansky, the man behing the Insanity
group famous of their Enforce 3D project is selling his A4000 with its full equipment. There seems to be no doubt what does it
mean for Amiga version of Enforce.
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15.10.99 REBOL beta 2.2 released
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REBOL Technologies today released new version of REBOL/core, beta 2.2 version. The REBOL command line
console has been completely redesigned for 2.2. The new console now provides "virtual terminal"
capability that allows you to perform operations such as cursor movement, cursor addressing, line
editing, screen clearing, control key input, and cursor position querying. Security issues were also
further expanded to give user more control as well as some other new features were added. You can
download latest version of REBOL here.
REBOL Technologies website
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15.10.99 NewsRog 1.8b available
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ShadowWorks Software announced availability of Version 1.8b update to NewsRog. This version include 15 changes and
improvements to version 1.8. You can read the whole announcement here,
or look at its preview here.
NewsRog webpage
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15.10.99 Software News
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The first release of SViewIV has been uploaded
to Aminet today. There is also new version of
Apache 1.3.6 webserver for Amiga
uploaded there. Read more.
WHDL v10.4, AmigaOS friendly harddisk-install package, both usr and dev archives are available
here.
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
John A. Whiting
WHDL support page
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14.10.99 Fusion PPC - Poor User Response
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Blittersoft made a statement regarding the response to the Fusion
PPC Amiga situation. Whilst Microcode Solutions announced
the 60 day countdown on September 20th, there was not the required 500 prepayments that were supposed to
trigger this. Blittersoft made the commitment for 500 orders to enable this product to actually see the
light of day. Despite over 600 pledge, they can't even get 500 valid orders now :-(
Read the statement and think about yourself.
(Especially don't miss section regarding PCx situation!)
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft on FUSION ML
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14.10.99 OS3.5 release day confirmed
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14.10.99 V3 - Status
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A few people already wondered why there wasn´t much development in terms of Javascript from Voyager³
pre2 to pre4. Here is an explanation directly from Oliver "Olli" Wagner posted to Voyager mailing list.
Vaclav "sHINOBI" Misek
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14.10.99 Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko
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14.10.99 News Of The Day: Aminet
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14.10.99 GoldED Studio 6.2.3
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GoldED Studio users can download the latest service pack to upgrade from 5
or 6.x.x to the latest version 6.2.3 (download demo version). Major
new feature is an improved syntax parsing interface supporting generic configurable syntax parsers
(screenshot) and "rules" to use filetypes based on the contents of a file.
GoldED webpage
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13.10.99 DDE News
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Code name Hell Squad it's name of new
action-adventure game from DDE. Last month they have purchased resources of unfinished game from AVM.
Their game was far from finished, but it looked very promising. Next week you'll have a chance to
take a closer look on it when the demo will be released. Now you can read basic info and check
few screenshot. Another two Diablo's Land screenshot posted to
Diablo's Land page. Looks really great!
Digital Dreams Entertainment website
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13.10.99 AmigaObjects coming to life?
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"Gateway opts for MIPS-Linux for Web server offering"
is the name of the article, posted on The Register website. The article speaks about Gateway, making a deal with
Cobalt Networks, to produce cheap server appliances that are used for small and medium businesses, and also for
Internet and Web hosting purposes. MIPS, Linux, Internet appliances, - what software technology does Gateway have
in their hands to offer? What about AmigaObjects?
The Register website
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13.10.99 Amiga Books
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UK Amiga enthusiast company Paragon Publishing has unearthed
a stock of books for Amiga users. Now you can buy Amiga books from the Total, Insider and Mastering ranges for
just £5.00 each ($US8, C$10, A$10, Euro 8). They include: Total AmigaDOS, Total Workbench, Mastering Scripts,
Mastering Programming Secrets, A1200 Insider Guide, A1200 Next Steps, Assembler Insider Guide, and Total Amiga
Assembler. E-mail paragon@mcmail.com.
Amiga.org website
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13.10.99 Software News
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SET2ANIM is a program which converts
the animations created in Moviesetter format to ANIM5+sound. It's a specially interesting
program for Eric Schwartz's fans and people who made animations using that program so
now they can 'save' their work since that once in ANIM format you can go anywhere from AVI, QT to MPEG.
New Lame MP3 encoder v3.34beta is here with
many new speed and quality updates.
Daniel Mealha Cabrita
The Amiga Alternative Audio Page
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12.10.99 Voyager News
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Visit V³ website and answer "What is your most wanted V³ plugin?" question.
You can select one of these: VRML, VFlash PPC, Quicktime VR, RealAudio, PDF (Acrobat).
David "zapek" Gerber, author of VFlash PPC V³ plugin tried to make things
clear. He mentioned in his .plan that there won't be a WarpUp version of VFlash PPC. You can use the ppclibemu
if you want. And if it doesn't work... well...too bad. (No Comment)
V³ website
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12.10.99 Aminet Status Report
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Urban D. Mueller: "As you've all noticed, Aminet is currently down. You can still obtain
older files from most mirrors, but they're not getting any new files. The reason is that the
main site has been hacked and has to be reinstalled from scratch. The downtime is taking
longer than expected already. Unfortunately I can't give you predictions when it will be fully
back since I'm not the one doing the repairs. So please be patient. Should an even longer
downtime seem likely, we have the option to move the main site back to wuarchive, but that
would take some time also."
AWD website
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12.10.99 The second beta release of AHI/PPC
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Martin Blom: "This version supports WarpUp! But more work needs to be done, because this version
is a full 35% slower when run under WarpUp than PowerUp. Don't expect speed! Just tell me that
it works. A bug in WarpUp was recently discovered (yesterday, actually), which prevents AHI from
using proper cache handling. A later beta of AHI will either add a work-around fix or require
a later WarpUp version." Read more and
get the archives (binaries and source code).
AHI homepage
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12.10.99 clickBOOM News
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All regular Napalm players can get update to version 1.4 at The Portal.
Fixed network gameplay, added network settings option, added "Lucy" c2p, fixed bugs, etc.)
Network (TCP/IP) game is still missing :(
The Portal moved to a new server, fast as a cold snake... (whatever)
The Portal website
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12.10.99 Amigaquake support page re-opened
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Surgeon's Quake1 Goodies has reopened!
Recent updates include:
Malicemod v0.5 (fps-booster & botmod for quake TC "Malice")
Themod v0.99 (servermodification like Crmod, but includes Rocketarena-mode and is highly optimized
with respect to fps and network-traffic)
Polyblendhack2 (fixed missing pickup-flash removal for standard 68K executable-patch)
Christian "surgeon" Michael
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11.10.99 Voyager News
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The fourth public prerelease of V³ is now available for download.
As usual, lots of problems have been fixed, in particular, the many start-up bugs that creeped in earlier in the month. PPC owners can finally get
VFlash PPC player. Read more.
There is also an optimized replacement for the SSL module included in V³pre4, with less size and more speed -
Voyager SSL 8.4.
VaporWare website
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11.10.99 Swedish e-zine GlädjeStickan is down temporarily
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The editorial staff at GlädjeStickan: "We have some bad news for the readers of the Swedish e-zine GlädjeStickan.
During this weekend, when GlädjeStickan #5 was going through the final touch before release, our computer system
crashed. It happened when while browsing the web for game news. The recently released web browser crashed the
computer when entering a web page. Unfortunaly the harddrive collapsed and as of now no, what so ever, data has
been recovered. This means, amongst other things, that all email adresses to our subscribers are gone. All
articles, new as well as old, are gone. The only thing that is left of GlädjeStickan is the existing web page at
www.amigaspel.just.nu. This web page is the first thing we will try
to re-create, along with the email adress. But don't expect anything before the end of October. When we have
updated the web page and re-astablished the email adress we will start to take on new subscriptons. But not
until then, please. We hope that You as our subscriber will have patience with this unfortunate incidence and we
promise to get back on line as quickly as possible.
stefan.nilsson@sesta.mail.abb.com
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11.10.99 No News from Indy
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11.10.99 Amiga Nutta Future
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Another victim of AmigaInc's decisions? the future of the Amiga is in doubt more then it has been
for a long time now, that you all know. However, the future of Amiga Nutta webpage is something
that is massively less important but is also very much in doubt,
read why here...
Amiga Nutta website
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11.10.99 NetConnect 3, Gone To Press
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NetConnect 3 went to press today
and should be back on the 22nd of October! Feel free to pre-order at the current special prices
until this date!
Active Technologies
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11.10.99 Games News
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There are another two good looking screenshots.
of The World Foundry upcoming strategy game Maim & Mangle.
The glowing material in the first picture is Hyspirdian and what both sides are fighting over.
There is now an amiga port of glTron, anther "Tron" clone.
The current amiga version is 0.45 and has no
sound yet. You need at least a 68060 with StormMesa, recommended is a PPC with WarpOS and a 3D card.
The World Foundry website
glTron website
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10.10.99 Amigaday in Netherlands
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On the 16th of October, The AmigaScene, AGGF and Stichting Amiga Nederland will organize
a special Amigaday in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Special guest this day will be Petro
Tyschtschenko. Starting is 10:30 in the morning. Check their
website for the program or write to
M.Droogsma@wxs.nl.
As the 16th is a two days before the official OS3.5 release day, they expect that
Mr.Tyschtschenko takes the final 3.5 version with him.
B. van der Meer
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10.10.99 New 3D-Game: Newtron
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Tobias Lutz and Andreas Hippauf are writing a new 3D racing game for PPC Amigas with 3D gfx card using WarpOS
and Warp3D. The game idea is based on a sequence from the movie called "Tron". For more info and Newtron demo
check Newtron website.
Andreas Hippauf
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10.10.99 clickBOOM looking for BVision
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ClickBOOM: "If anyone has a BVision board for sale, please contact us
immediately, we need one urgently! Thanks."
clickBOOM portal
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10.10.99 Software News
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PCx (PPC) will be updated after FUSION PPC is done.
The new version of Diavolo Backup should be finished in November '99.
FUSION ML
Computer Corner website
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9.10.99 WOA Issue 5
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WOA Issue 5 is available for download from the WOA page.
If you have not already registered as a regular reader, you can also do that at the site, and you
can get details of the official WOA IRC channel.
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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9.10.99 Interview with Carl Sassenrath
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"I cannot see languages like C++, Java, or PERL taking us to the stars. Object-oriented programming is not the answer. I can truly say this because I've been involved in object-oriented programming
since the beginning. It does not increase productivity. It does not give better results." "We've begun with the release of REBOL/core, but there are more important ideas in REBOL that we
have not yet announced." Do you want to know more? Then read the whole Interview with Carl Sassenrath, author of REBOL.
Rediff On The Net website
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9.10.99 Spoletium2 demo party
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Darkage demo group in association with Comune di Spoleto, Darkage Software, Softwave and Excalibur will
organize also this year the Spoletium2 demo party, an Amiga-only event in Spoleto (Italy), the 1st and
2nd of November. Free entrance, free space for expositors and Amiga freaks, people can enter in the
compos also by email, and they'll receive the prize by post.
Read more.
Paolo D'Urso
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9.10.99 CU-Amiga Retrospective Site
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8.10.99 AmiBench Celebrating
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AmiBench is proud to announce that its celebrating its second
birthday with an exclusive chance to win a signed copy of Photogenics NG (latest full version; many
thanks to Paul Nolan for his prize!).
All you have to do is answer 6 easy questions on the AmiBench.
From all the AmiBench Team (Mark Wilson: Public Relations for AmiBench; Geert Bevin: Webmaster
for AmiBench; Peter Price: Dealer Director Admin; Mick Price: Co Dealer Directory Admin):
"Thank you for two great years, we look forward to many more with the Amiga Community."
Look out for a new and improved AmiBench site coming soon!
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, AmiBench
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8.10.99 New SFS
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New BETA version 1.81 of SmartFileSystem is ready for download.
Reduced CPU usage of Defragmenter considerably. Defragmentation should be a lot faster on 020/030 machines now. Fixed few bugs.
Giacomo Magnini
SmartFilesystem website
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7.10.99 The Phoenix Platform Consortium
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7.10.99 The Iwin statement
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Iwin Corporation were takeover by FOCKE SYSTEMS Ges.m.b.H, will be split into three new independent
firms: Iwin Consulting, Iwin Software Products, Iwin Hardware Products. The management of Iwin
Corporation will be replaced. Read more.
AmiUpdate website
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7.10.99 MicroniK leaving
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According to Olaf Groening MicroniK is leaving Amiga market.
Olaf Groening: "Leider muß ich Ihnen eine schlechte Nachricht übermitteln:
Die Firma MicroniK zieht sich komplett vom Amiga-Markt zurück."
Nagy Gabor
MicroniK website
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6.10.99 Iwin Website Still Online
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6.10.99 SViewIV (where's III ?)
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX announces SViewIV, successor of SViewII. Unless all other updates since 1993
it won't be free for registered users of SViewII - they have to charge them again to ensure
further development. SViewIV itself will be made available for download soon.
Read more (english/german).
Andreas Kleinert,
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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5.10.99 AAA Awards Information Manager needed!
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The AAA Awards, the Amiga Community's grand achievement awards, are in need of a new Information Manager
to handle its Public Relations. Read more.
Martin Sahlén
AAA Awards website
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5.10.99 BYE BYE Nicole
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Nicole Gottfried is leaving Amiga :-(
Dear All,
I would like to thank everybody for the fun and the good work we had together.
I enjoyed very much working with you, even if it was a bit short...... I'm leaving Amiga and my last day will be October 15, 99.
I wish you all luck and success. See you in Cologne. I will be there on Saturday, Nov. 13
All the best Nicole Gottfried
Amiga International, Inc.
Amiga Network News website
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5.10.99 G4 Pricing finalized
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5.10.99 AmigaOS3.6 ?
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Juergen Haage refused rumours about 30.000 preorders of AmigaOS3.5 from H&P!
"The preorders run well, however they could run better."
Amiga Aktuell website
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4.10.99 Image Engineer under development again!
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Development of Image Engineer has been
taker over by Wision, which is the group, I (Marko Seppänen) am managing. So far I've been the one,
who does most of the work. However I know that more people will get interested to take part in
development of Image Engineer after taking a testdrive with Image Engineer.
Read more.
Marko Seppänen, Wision
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3.10.99 Software for networked Amiga's
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Trogladite Software are currently producing a suite of software for networked Amiga's. It includes login programs,
user manager, workstation manager, general server manager, network messenger programs, server to workstation
command interface and many more things! If you're interested in this project, and want to beta test, then please
contact secos@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk. Use the same address
for any questions you may have. We also intend to set up a site dedicated to SecOS in the next few days, so keep
checking www.trogsoft.co.uk.
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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3.10.99 Second Iwin Press-Conference Report
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Mathias Ortmann (WinUAE author) also visited Iwin Press-Conference and wrote short
report.
Press conference attended only few people and Martin Steinbach failed to give a single
convincing answer.
Iwin Corporation website
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3.10.99 phase5's G4 cards
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3.10.99 The World Foundry News
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Second October Update: Maim & Mangle News Added collision detection routines (next step will be add some sort of
'physical reaction' when 2 or more units collide); added a new experimental zsort - zbuffer routine; few editors
improvements; additional units designed and modeled and textures created
The World Foundry website
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3.10.99 SoundProbe Future
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The final curtain looks set to fall on the Amiga Soundprobe. Further work on the Amiga version seems more
and more unlikely as time passes. Whilst Soundprobe has become a popular editor, the Amiga user base just
isn't capable of supporting future developments. The only hope now is that the PC version can be ported
back to the Amiga, but by the time this happens (year or so), the Amiga will be even further behind,
possibly making it impossible to port. Authors will still try and support the Amiga version,
so if you have any real problems (bugs), let them know, but you may need to be patient...
SoundProbe website
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2.10.99 OS3.5 CDs Being Mastered
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According to AmigaCentral OS3.5
CDs are being mastered this week, and should ship in the middle of the month.
AmigaCentral website
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2.10.99 Amiga Imagine still under development
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CAD-Technologies: "We would like to assure everyone that Imagine for the Amiga is still in active development,
and will continue to be developed in light of the future Amiga development plan details released from the
Amiga parent company/Gatway." Read more.
CAD-Technologies website
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2.10.99 The World Foundry News
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2.10.99 Amigactive issue 1
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2.10.99 Amiga Playing Cards
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2.10.99 Iwin Press-Conference
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2.10.99 AROS - The Amiga Research Operating System
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2.10.99 Aminet: What's happen ?
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Aminet main site has been hacked and reinstallation has started few days ago.
It's the reason why nothing is working now!
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2.10.99 Software News
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A first minor update to V³pre3 is available which fixes the SpeedBar image screwups on AGA systems, and also contains
the missing Popplaceholder.mcc. The main archive has been updated, if you already downloaded the 1.10.99 version,
there's a upgrade package.
VirusCheckerII version 2.4 is now available here.
VaporWare website
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
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1.10.99 Real3D: Amiga software partners wanted
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1.10.99 ScreensOS Status
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Screens Amiga Operating System authors: "The Amiga is dead, we HATE Gateway!!! Now we are working
even harder to make this project come true. No beta out yet bet we are still working on it."
ScreensOS website
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1.10.99 CamX/Camouflage Status
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The development of Amiga version is unfortunately put on hold. CamX is now developed for BeOS and Linux.
Registered Camouflage Amiga users can use CROSS discount. Thanks to Gateway/AmigaInc.
CamX Audio/Sequencer website
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1.10.99 WOA 99 tapes available
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Amazing Computing/Amiga now has the World of Amiga 99 tapes available for sale on their website.
Is this the tape Amiga Inc. did not want you to see? What was promised and how has it changed? Jim Collas is gone. Is this the reason?
Amiga's Presentation, Video, Questions and Answers, Press conference and more!
Amiga.org website
Amazing Computing/Amiga website
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