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30.11.2k Total Graphic Mania
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Programmers in the Development Department of ELBOX Computer company have prepared and successfully
implemented the latest version of drivers for Voodoo3 cards working with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
The in-depth approach to programming has resulted in full hardware acceleration applied in these drivers.
Now, Voodoo3 cards used with MEDIATOR show speed of operation, which exceeds the speed of all the
previous graphic cards used in Amiga up to several times!
The latest drivers support all the versions
of Voodoo3 PCI 2000/3000 cards with SDRAM and SGRAM memory chips.
These drivers are 100%-compatible
with the P96 system. ELBOX Computer provides complete support for the drivers released. Please contact:
Voodoo3@elbox.com.
Work on the drivers is being continued so as
to ensure their full compatibility with newer graphic systems.
ELBOX Computer website
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30.11.2k Hyperion Entertainment To Attend WOA 2000
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Hyperion Entertainment will be present with an own booth at the World of Amiga show to be held in Cologne,
Germany on 9 and 10 December 2000. The company does not only intend to make some exciting announcements
there but will also demo Heretic 2 in a way never before seen on the Amiga. (Voodoo3 version? nobody
knows [ExiE])
Further demonstrations will include Shogo:MAD and Freespace: The Great War.
The Hyperion staff will be on hand to take pre-orders of Shogo and to answer your questions with respect
to upcoming Hyperion Entertainment products for the Amiga. They hope to see many of you in Cologne in
less than two weeks time!
Hyperion Entertainment website
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30.11.2k Back to the Roots Amiga-News
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Back to the Roots Team: "More scene demos were added, and in the games section you'll find the
game "Skidmarks" from Acid Software - a company who's now supporting our mission for offering classic
Amiga games legally and for free. Included were also some extremely hard to find adventure games from
Infocom plus other highlights of the Amiga games history.
We're also happy to present you a review of the brilliant music CD "Merregnon". The music was
composed by well known musicians like Chris Hülsbeck (Turrican), Allister Brimble (Superfrog), or
Markus Holler (Tales of Tamar). We've done an interview with the Amiga demo group "Reason", too.
Maybe you're interested to know how they see the demo scene on the AmigaOne."
Bobic & Hippie2000, Back to the Roots
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30.11.2k WOA 2000 IRC Conferences
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Following IRC Conferences will be at WOA 2000:
- Mick Tinker (BoXer) 13:00:00 CET
- Ralph Schmidt (MorphOS) 14:00:00 CET
- Alan M. Redhouse (Eyetech) 15:00:00 CET
- Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.) 16:00:00 CET
- Juergen Haage (Haage & partner) 17:00:00 CET
CU on December 9th, 2000, irc server:irc.whiterose.net, channel #WoA2000!
Amigart website
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30.11.2k Interview With Petro Tystschenko
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30.11.2k Are you a Serious Retina Z2 owner and user?
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VGR.COM: "FREE FREE FREE... We are looking to collect information on the RetinaZ2 hardware. If there is enough interest
a driver will be started. If you currently use a Retina Z2 and wish to runs some tests for the driver email us ASAP at
retinaz2@vgr.com!"
CyberGraphX homepage
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30.11.2k Games & Software News
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Alpha Client (0.32R6) of Tales Of Tamar
for Amiga (1.43MB) is now available for beta testers.
The first English doc pages of Digital Almanac III have been uploaded!
There you can read about the final selling prices of DA III (English). Please read them carefully !
Most links are still out of order, but the first links can be accessed.
Tales of Tamar homepage
Digital Almanac homepage
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29.11.2k Amiga World Issue 4
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What do Sheep, Amiga Magazine Publishers, and Vince Pfeifer Have in Common? They are all featured in the
latest edition of Amiga World. For the latest
word in Amiga news and insight, check it out.
(PDF version is not yet available)
AmigaInc. website
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29.11.2k Trogsoft Release 2 New Products
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Trogladite Software has released two new products.
HandleMyClip 2.0r, which is a set of commands for dealing with the Amiga clipboard, and DGC 0.99g which is
a ram-resident virus checker.
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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29.11.2k Interview With ELBOX Computer
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29.11.2k New P96 VooDoo3 Driver Released Tommorow
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Tomorrow will be available driver version 1.1 supporting all versions (SDRAM & SGRAM) of Voodoo3 cards.
Elbox has release 2 new graphic "banners" for the Mediator. Check'em on VGR.COM.
CyberGraphX homepage
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29.11.2k Tester for SMB-Filesystem Wanted
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Olaf Barthel: "I created a counterpart to my Amiga Samba port. A filesystem to share files with other SMB servers.
With knobs on I need some help: who would like to test this filesystem, may please get in contact with me via
e-mail (olsen@sourcery.han.de). It is about to find errors and to
enhance functionality of the filesystem. Experiences with Samba and debugging tools for Amiga (Enforcer, Sashimi,
Wipeout, etc.) are presumed.
Amiga-news.de website
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29.11.2k Wanted: a modern-day Amiga
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29.11.2k Drake and Abuse News
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Drake section updated. Drake is AmigaPPC game similar to
Microprose's 'Pirates!' classic. You can now subscribe to the Drake newsletter to get the latest infos.
Oliver Gantert: "I recently got the Abuse sources from the Frieden brothers (thanks, Hans-Jörg!) and hope to have
a WarpOS port ready soon."
Oliver 'Lucy' Gantert's page
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29.11.2k Software News
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Amster v0.8 port for MorphOS/PPC done by Gürer Özen.
You must have Amster v0.8 installed to use this port. Make sure to read the "AmsterPPC.readme" in the archive.
Amster is an Open Source MUI based almost full-featured Napster client for AmigaOS." "Napster is an MP3 sharing
community using a special client that features things like chatting, searching, downloading, notify lists, etc.
UnLZX v2.16 is available for download. UnLZX 1.0 port
for Amiga 68000/020/040, WOS/PUP, i486/Win95 with output path and pattern matching. Source included.
MorphOS website
Amster homepage
Oliver 'Lucy' Gantert's page
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28.11.2k AmigaOS 3.9 in Your Stocking
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Amiga ships AmigaOS 3.9 on December 4, just in time for the holidays! They've recently opened their
AmigaOS 3.9 pages, so check out all the fabulous new
features of this important Classic Amiga upgrade.
AmigaInc. website
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28.11.2k ACE2k Report at Linux Power
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28.11.2k BPPC Overclocking
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Giorgio Signori: "I'm going to upload a new and totally refreshed version of my web page
on the BPPC overclocking on zap.to/ppcoverclock.
Check it out in the next hours!"
Giorgio Signori, BPPC Overclocking site
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28.11.2k HTMLread Extension For Yam
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HTMLread is an extension for YAM. YAM is a wonderfull
mailer but it is not able to handle e-mails that are written from Netscape, Eudora or Outlook in HTMLcode. HTMLread detect,
convert and send this emails to youre favourite HTMLviewer. Download V.45 version
HTMLread homepage
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28.11.2k New Version Of English Longman Dictionary Mentat 0.6
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There is new version of english2english Longman dictionary for Amiga called Mentat 0.6.
New in this release:
- ARexx interface (4 commands)
- ARexx scripts to connect Mentat with CygnusED, AWeb, IBrowse
- Printing
- Spanish and Czech localization
- Visual improvements
- some tiny opimizations
Adrian "Sauron" Siemieniak, Mentat
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27.11.2k Ralph Schmidt Interview
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27.11.2k Vote For Your Favourite Shareware Game
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What is your all-time favourite freely-distributable game for the Amiga? It can be PD or shareware,
or anything in between. Vote now and see the results, along with the most popular games, on the
next Amiga Active CD. Vote now at
http://www.amigactive.com/surveys.
Note: commercial games are excluded from this poll. You have already had an opportunity to
vote for those, with your wallet. One name will be drawn from those who voted for the top game,
to win an exclusive Amiga Active T-shirt.
Neil Bothwick, Amiga Active Magazine
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27.11.2k New version of ProStationAudio: T8.
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T8 includes all the features of Millennium in an 8 stereo track / 16 channel layout. Support for dual-CPU,
dual monitor, dual graphic card, realtime multitrack disk-streaming and DSP processing (multiple plugins
on multiple tracks), mixing automation, faders control from external MIDI mixers and hunderds of other
features. T8 is 235 US$. 26 DSP plugins included (64 bit EQ, compressors, effects).
With the holiday season coming, since November 30th 2000 to December 10th 2000 the ProStationAudio line is
on sale at discounted prices:
ProStationAudio Millennium: 275 US$ instead of 325 US$
ProStationAudio T8: 199 US$ instead of 235 US$
ProStationAudio Remix: 115 US$ instead of 125 US$
A table comparing different ProStationAudio versions is published here.
AudioLabs website
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27.11.2k Darkage News - Amiga Classix 3
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Darkage are proud to announce the third CD in the Amiga Classix's succesfull serie! As always, it's designed to work on Amiga, MAC and PC.
It's under development and it'll be released soon.
Darkage's new website is online incl. list of their official international dealers.
Darkage website
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26.11.2k Digital Almanac III News
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Because of the positive echo from non-German Amigans, an English version of DA3 will be produced.
The earliest date of release is about end of January 2001. This version will include the
Xmas-update for German users, which will include some new and interesting features.
In the next days on the DA-homepage, there will appear some screenshots of the Xmas-update as
well as the final selling prices of DA3 English version.
Achim Stegemann, Digital Almanac
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26.11.2k DVC v3.0
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DVC is a util that allows direct version checking of files, meaning you can use DVC
to check libraries on CD-ROMS etc, and update your system with them at the click of
a button. It has advanced path, file and version checking. It also allow Direct
Online Updating of your system. Author is looking for BETATESTERS, SOMEONE to do
a small journalistic preview and SOMEONE to make a introduction/beginners guide.
Read more and apply
Roger Hågensen, EmSai Galactica Software
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26.11.2k AMIGA aktuell International 11/2000
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AMIGA aktuell International 11/2000 is online.
In addition to the latest Amiga news etc. there are many test reports and previews in this edition. In
the games section we take a close look on Bubble Heroes, Exodus, Earth 2140 and ACSYS. As each month
you will also find a list of the available AmigaNG software in this edition of AMIGA aktuell
International.
Carsten Schroeder, AMIGA aktuell
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26.11.2k SimpleBox wb8616JID Update
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MeterNet posted a FAQ page for their AmigaDE-based
SimpleBox wb8616JID", a "Java Internet Device" retailing
for 399$. A 10,000 unit production run is planned for December, with first units shipping in late
January 2001. Picture included!
ANN website
MeterNet website
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26.11.2k Interview With Amidog
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26.11.2k Spo3 Entries & Results Available
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25.11.2k KDH Datentechnik Attends The WOA2000 In Cologne
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KDH finally decided to take part at the WOA2000 in Cologne/Germany. The main driver to attend the WOA2000 has
been a tremendous number of Amiga customers have been calling in, as they were missing one of the mayor Amiga
dealers on the Amiga show. Besides good prices KDH will have its X-Mas Backpack well filled with news and
surprises. To shorten the time till X-Mas, KDH will open its Advent Calendar 2000 from Dec 1rst to Dec 24th
on their websites at www.kdh-datentechnik.com. Come on and
look for a treat. The Advent specials change daily and therefore last only one day.
Günter Horbach, KDH Datentechik
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25.11.2k An Amiga Active Christmas
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Even though Christmas is a month away, Amiga Active is set to publish their Christmas issue with it expected
to out by the 30th of November.
The Christmas issue will have features on the Amiga One announcement with
Amiga Active staff looking to the future according to Amiga Inc. Amiga Active hope to "lead you through the
PR smoke and marketing mirrors to show you what's really going on". For Gamers they should have coverage of
the 62 games announced for the Amiga One. Nightlong has been reviewed and they take a look at Descent:
Freespace, currently being converted by Hyperion Entertainment. The Christmas issue will offer a knock down
price for those readers wanting to subscribe to one of the most excellent Amiga magazines on the market,
Amiga Active. If you wish to order the Christmas issue of Amiga Active e-mail them at
subscriptions@amigactive.com.
Amiga Flame website
Amiga Active website
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25.11.2k Amiga President Talks OS 3.9 and Beyond
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Bill McEwen announces Amiga OS3.9, and talks about the future of both the Classic Amiga OS
and the Amiga Digital Environment. AmigaOS 4.0 development really depends on the sales of
OS 3.9. Bill McEwen: "There are many more exciting things happening at Amiga and I look
forward to sharing with you all of the great details, and announcements in Koln, Germany
in December." Read More.
AmigaIc. website
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25.11.2k AmiChurras Millenium Show
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Dan: "AmiChurras is the most important Amiga party in South America, it happens 3rd December 2000
in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil. The next one is the last AmiChurras in this millenium and it's going to
be the best ever! All amiga users from Brazil and near southern countries (as Uruguay, Argentina)
are invited."
Daniel Mealha Cabrita
AmiChurras Millenium webpage
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25.11.2k Cinemaware publishes "Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown"
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A well-known game is to start its comeback on Playstation 2, Microsofts X-Box, and Windows-PC. Cinemaware will publish
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown in spring of
2002. The game bases on the classical game "Defender of the Crown" from 1986. In all the mix of strategy and action
was sold over one million times on several platforms as on Amiga, too. The revised version is set to the time of the
"Avenger of the disinherited ones". You have to release England from the clutches of the villain prince John. In a
mail one of the responsible persons said that the game possibly will be ported to AmigaPPC if there is enough interest.
Amiga-news.de website
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25.11.2k WOA 2000: Exhibitors Themes
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On this page you will find temporary
exhibitor list, stand plan and themes of the exhibitors: AmigActive, AmigaFuture, AmigaPlus and Falke
Verlag, Cool Bits, Dreieinhalb, ELBOX Computer, Eternity, Individual Computers, Schatztruhe and
finally Haage & Partner.
WOA 2000 homepage
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25.11.2k Direction change of HighAnt Development
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Marco Frischkorn: "Because of the present situation I feel bound to leave the sector of Amiga.
We will finish BATTLE and will be then no longer at your disposal. In any case I will not be.
The rest of the team probably will keep faith with the Amiga. You can read
further information here (german).
I wish each one of the few remaining Amiga developer good luck and much fun with it. Maybe
I will come back some day. But this does not depend on me alone...."
Amiga-news.de website
HighAnt Development website
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24.11.2k ELBOX authorised by IBM
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Mariusz Wloczysiak: "We are proud to announce that ELBOX COMPUTER was authorised by IBM Corporation,
New York, USA, to use the PowerPC Logo Trademark for the newest Elbox product for Amiga computers:
SharkPPC G3/G4 PowerPC card for MEDIATOR PCI 1200/3000/4000.
Read more
ELBOX Computer website
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24.11.2k Distributed BASIC
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Distributed BASIC is a new BASIC interpreter
released in form of a shared library. It is designed to be used by developers to add scripting
capabilities to their software. Once loaded by an application, a BASIC scripting library will be
available in the background, ready to execute BASIC programs. Distributed Basic was developed to provide
clean and clear interfaces around it. It is easy to embed the language into an application and use it as
a macro language like Rexx. This project aims at providing an alternative to Rexx as scripting language
while being compatible with Rexx on the communication level.
Download beta version
GoldED Studio website
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24.11.2k Amiga Forever 4.0 Now Available
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Amiga Forever 4.0 is the all-in-one Amiga
emulation and connectivity environment for PCs, officially licensed by Amiga International.
This new version includes version 3.1 of the Amiga ROM and OS files and AGA support under WinUAE.
Additional preinstalled programs and features, like for example Personal Paint, DirectoryOpus 5.5,
TurboText, drag-and-drop LhA de-archiving and the ToolManager dock have been updated.
This version additionally includes an archive with a new, ready-to-run PowerMac version.
This emulation is currently the only way of having an Amiga laptop (if we assume that you install it
on a PC laptop or on a Mac Powerbook/iBook).
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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24.11.2k Amiga Update Newsletter
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24.11.2k Aminet CD 40 Available Soon
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Aminet CD 40, dated December 2000, contains
more than 700 MB of (uncompressed) software nearly thousand archives. Since the release of Aminet 39
numerous 500 MB new software has appeared. The current edition includes the full version of TurboCalc
4.0 with a discount offer to upgrade to TurboCalc 5.0.
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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24.11.2k Software Hut News Letter
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Software Hut is offering Gift Certificates for the hard to shop for Amiga User in your life. Also, information on the Repulse,
OS39, AmigaForever4.0, and updated used/refurbished items.
Read more
Amiga.org website
Software Hut website
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23.11.2k More News on the WOA 2000
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Haage & Partner would like to remind change of location of upcoming World Of Amiga show,
being held in Cologne. The new location is MediaPark,
that is located in the centre of Cologne. The MediaPark offers a huge Multiplex kino center,
book shops and much more.
The show will be held in a hall and a foyer (MediaPark No. 7).
The presentations and seminars will be held in a big seperate room. Come and join the show!
Read more
Haage & Partner website
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23.11.2k Eyetech News
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Eyetech are pleased to announce that they will be stocking the Repulse soundcard, manufactured by Individual Computers,
when it is launched in Q1 2001.
Customers are encouraged to place no-obligation pre-orders for this board, as this
way they can be sure to obtain a board at the lowest possible price from Eyetech.
Eyetech are now accepting no-obligation preorders for Amiga OS 3.9, due to be released in December.
Read more
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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23.11.2k Earth 2140 Work-in-progress report #3
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The final installment of the work-in-progress series is here.
Since the last time a lot of progress has been done. As a matter of fact the only thing missing now is
incorporating the movie player. Due to Christmas release networking support is missing in the game, update with networking
support will be released later. Both 68k and PPC version are faster now. Hardware compatibility is also better than before.
Amiga Fire website
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23.11.2k AmigaOne Forums Closing
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24.11.2k AmiTCP5 for MorphOS!
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David 'zapek' Gerber updated his .plan with some clarification
of what MorphOS is all about.
"Some people seem to think that MorphOS is
a simple 68k emulator [..] but [..] MorphOS is a whole operating system on its own. It has a kernel called Quark and
features memory protection, multitasking, threads, fast interrupt handling, optional virtual memory and so on."
He is also talking about VaporWare's support of MorphOS.
I decided to support MorphOS as well as
I can and will do my best to help make most of the VaporWare applications come in a PPC native version.
AmiTCP 5 will be the next release.
David 'zapek' Gerber's .plan, V3Portal
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22.11.2k Espial launches university program
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"In a move to increase engagement with early-stage embedded developers of Java-based technology,
devicetop.com has announced the launch of its University
Program. This program, supported by major industry players, was piloted in October 2000 using
Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada as the first participating university. The program consists
of seminars and weekend workshops where computer science and computer engineering students are
taught how to develop and create Java applications specifically for smart devices. The program
is the latest step in an ongoing process to build leadership for Java software in a rapidly
growing industry. Devicetop.com is a software developer community founded by Espial and supported
by partners such as Motorola, Intel, Amiga, Dr. Dobbs, JavaWorld and Java Report."
The full article can be found here.
ANN website
devicetop.com site
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22.11.2k More VooDoo Information
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Updated the Mediator Page again with a bit of VooDoo3 info and another tested NICs.
If you will buy Voodoo card for your Mediatored Amiga you should get one with SGRAM memory. Check the Mediator page for more
info on different Voodoo 3000 cards.
CyberGraphX homepage
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22.11.2k Warp3D and CGX4 drivers for G-REX In The Works
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Ben Yoris, the "PR Manager" from Hyperion Entertainment,
posted on the G-REX mailinglist: "The Frieden brothers from Hyperion are planning this support, yes.
Hyperion definitely needs the power of Voodoo3 for the actual and future games."
CGX Status for G-REX from VFD: "There will be real support for CGX4 (In fact it is finished already)."
CyberGraphX homepage
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22.11.2k Software News
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Yam 2.2 for MorphOS/PPC is available
You will need the 68K version of YAM 2.2 installed, you can get that on the that on the
YAM homepage.
Make sure to read the "Readme.MorphOS" in the archive on how to setup the files!
Frogger 1.62 beta 4 for 68k and PPC is available here.
Frogger is the fast MPEG video player, with MPEG-2 layer support for AMIGAs with fast 68k CPUs (68040/60)
or PowerPC equipped systems.
MorphOS homepage
Frogger homepage
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21.11.2k Picasso96 & Elbox
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21.11.2k WarpUP 5.0 Beta Version
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"WarpUp 5 doesn't contain any revolutionary changes
or features, but we have tried to eliminate as many problems as possible. Additionally we have tried to
implement features which were requested by developers working on WarpUp projects.
The much-discussed multitasking-lock-problem might have disappeared, but I rely on your feedback to know
if this is true. Please also consider, that your problem might not be the same as the problem of other
people have similar symptoms.
The WarpUp 5 package also contains a recent version of the PowerUp emulation package, which is also
considered a beta version, which should be tested as much as possible. Please report problems concerning
the PowerUp emulation to its author (Frank Wille)."
Amigart website
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21.11.2k AROS Status Update
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Joerg Dietrich committed a ppm.datatype (for PPM pictures). Tobias Seiler fixed a long standing bug in the
keyboard initialization of AROS Native/i386, so PS/2 keyboards should work now. Georg Steger ported more
and more programs which use Reqtools and fixed a lot of bugs in the code. The port of Reqtools should be
finished, soon.
AROS website
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21.11.2k Mediator Page updated
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21.11.2k Amiga compatible foot-pedal for gamers
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Vesalia now has an Amiga compatible QJ foot-pedal which is connected between your Amiga and your joystick/joypad.
You select which joystick movements are made by the pedal by configuring the appropiate switches on the pedal,
this way you can easily set the optimal configurations for your favourite games. It's priced at 59 DEM.
More info can be found at Vesalia Computer website.
Amigart website
Vesalia Computer website
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21.11.2k Games & Software News
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20.11.2k Voodoo III bundles with Mediator PCI
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Blittersoft can now provide Voodoo III 2000 or 3000 16Mb PCI graphics card for use with the Mediator PCI card. Drivers provided with
Mediator board. Read more
Blittersoft website
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20.11.2k Updated Bubble Heroes RTG Exe
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As promised, an archive containing a new RTG executable of Bubble Heroes is available in the download section
of Arcadia's site. The file is addressed to all the CV64+Cgfx users, however it runs on every system and probably handles the video in a better way... so they
suggest to try this patch to every Amiga RTG user who thinks the RTG version is not working properly on his system.
Arcadia website
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20.11.2k Prelude Z2 SOLD OUT
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ATC: "Thanks for the massive support! Sorry, at the moment we cannot accept any more preorders for Prelude Z2 sound card. Depending
on the amount of units we will be able to produce we may put those not being preordered already into our shop-system. At the moment
we have to consider Prelude Z2 SOLD OUT."
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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20.11.2k Xami - X11 server for Amiga
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Xami r020 - is an X11 server for Amiga that can
take advantage of hardware capabilities of the graphic system for acceleration. It may be launched from
Workbench or CLI, uses the current keyboard mapping and does not need any extra libraries such as ixemul.
Owners of graphic cards that have Picture in Picture capabilities with Picasso96 will benefit to use the
server in a PIP window. So, if you have around you a machine with X11 capabilities such as a Linux or a
BSD box, this is the software to have.
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20.11.2k MI News - New Releases
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Martin Mason Merz: "There are four new or reworked releases based on the AppMI collection available on the Aminet:
CharonMI, EZPagerMI, MicroDotMI and VoyagerMI. All archives contain a full GlowIcons Toolbar Set for each application."
Martin Mason Merz, Mason.Home
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20.11.2k G-REX-PCI Info Page and ML
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19.11.2k fxSCAN 3.0 with OCR
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fxSCAN 3.0 is available starting with the 27th November 2000. New in this version is the teachable OCR-function,
the optimized copying-function and support for the free BetaScan-drivers. Many small improvements have been
made and the GUI has been overworked. The new version will be delivered on CD. A new fxSCAN-homepage with the
list of supported scanners and the first screenshots of fxSCAN 3.0 went online today.
Innovative website
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19.11.2k Innovative News
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innovative-web.de has moved to a new server. EMail should work
reliably again now so you can use innovative-web.de as receiptant-domain without second thought again.
Please resend EMails sent in the timespan from 12.11.2000 to 17.11.2000, as they didn`t receive these
mails due to a complete fall-out of our server. Having moved to a new server Innovative can now offer
you two ways to make an order: Via plain HTTP and via SSL.
Innovative website
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19.11.2k What's the best video-editing platform?
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TechTV have a poll
about the best computer platform for video editing. The alternatives are Windows, Mac and Amiga.
Just now Mac is the first and Amiga second...
ANN website
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18.11.2k New Beta of AmIRC
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AmIRC 3.5.5beta released.
This beta version of AmIRC features a newly implemented
output engine, which is much faster and less memory intensive. The beta is available for
registered users only.
VaporWare website
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18.11.2k Interview With Stuart Walker
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Amiga Flame Interview with Stuart Walker of Digital Images.
"Digital Images has been through a great deal over the last year and so it seemed only fair to look back with Stuart
Walker to some of their experiences and to look forward to what Digital Images have in store for Amiga Gamers."
Amiga Flame website
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18.11.2k bplan Page Updated
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bplan page finally updated. They don't seem to mention the Amiga name
anywhere but their current project is "Multiprocessing PowerPC G3/G4 mainboard at ATX formfactor size".
Mario via ANN
bplan website
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17.11.2k AmigaOne FAQ Updated
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17.11.2k Installation guidance for SuSE Linux 7.0 PPC
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17.11.2k English version of Digital Almaac III
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If there are about 30 people being interested in Digital Almanac III, Achim Stegemann will write the English version.
Current number of preorders is now only 18. If you are interested in the English version of DA III and you REALLY
WANT TO PURCHASE IT, then send an email to the author with the subject Preorder
DA III English. He don't want you to send him any money for preorder. This makes no sense, but he want you to be
honest to only preorder DA III, when you are REALLY interested in it.
Page with DA3-bugreports updated.
There is bag in V1.4 that affects only the 040- and 060-version of DA3 (not PPC)! There is also a minor bug in the
Installer-script of CD-ROM V1.4. This does not affect CDs of V1.4 that have been delivered after THIS date.
Digital Almanac homepage
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17.11.2k Pay For P96 Voodoo3 Driver
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P96 Voodoo3 driver for Mediator PCI saga continues. Should ELBOX pay to P96 authors? For what?
Check these comments
posted on ANN.
ANN website
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16.11.2k Amiga Oasis Online Is Back
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Amgia Oasis Online is back after a 7 month break. This weeks updates featurs news on Nightlong plus
a sneak look at Payback the impressive looking GTA clone they also have a AmigaOne game list and
a indepth look at AmigaOS3.9. plus much more.
AOO have also fixed there live Java chat room
link so you can join them online #AmigaGames on IRC Dalnet just by visiting the website (you need
a java browser though).
John Porter, Amiga Oasis Online
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16.11.2k More G-Rex Info
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DCE has a new 'ad' for their G-Rex card. It has much more information on the G-Rex now. It is in German again. Includes: 5 PCI slots,
PCI.library in FlashROM, Multi-Monitor capability with 4 graphic cards, DMA for Network and USB boards. Cost: 399DM,
Ships with: ViRGE, Permedia2, VooDoo3 2000/3000 and Ethernet drivers. Drivers to be released in March 2001: UW SCSI, TV Tuner, Soundblaster,
Voodoo4-4500. It is again a PDF file (tiamk.pdf), You can find it converted to a JPG so
that you may view it with a web broswer.
CyberGraphX homepage
DCE Computer Service website
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16.11.2k Santa Claus Special at Vesalia Computer
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German computer shop Vesalia has a special Santa Claus offer to Amiga users. Mediator PCI 1200 / PCI Z4 incl. Voodoo 3
3000 are sold as a package for DEM 688, you save DEM 100. (DEM 439,00 + DEM 349,00 when sold separately).
Unfortunately they don't seem to accept credit cards...:(
Amigart website
Vesalia website
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16.11.2k Trogsoft Survey and Sender 1.15 Released
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Neil Bullock: "Trogladite Software have released Sender 1.15, which is reduced in size, now runs
as a commodity, has finally fixed the filename bug, and lets you choose whether to copy file
icons or not. Also, there is a site survey for people to fill in to tell us what we should be
doing. More can be found at the Trogsoft site."
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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16.11.2k AmigaVideogames Open Group (AVOG) News
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Manuel "Debugger" Montoto: "Sorry for the lack of news... It's my fault, sorry :( I'm very busy,
because I'm trying to enter in a videogame programming company. Those last months i was not able
to update the webpage because i was working for Zigurat,
programming a 3D Football game for arcade machines, and Zigurat is VERY far away from my house...
I don't have my computer with me, and i can't remember the password for the web server :P
Now with a bit of luck I'm going to work for another company... The good news are that i WILL
have time to update the web site even working for those guys! So expect the update very soon..."
AVOG is a new group formed by Amiga developers, musicians and graphists helping you with creating
games for 68K and PPC Amigas.
Manuel "Debugger" Montoto, AVOG
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16.11.2k The Ripper Fighting Back
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Amiga online magazine "The Ripper" comes back to life. Sponsored by Soft Logik, They are a non Profit making magazine.
Run by Amiga users. Now they need amiga users everywhere to join together and help make a magazine for EVERYONE to
enjoy. Contact: webmaster@the-ripper.ednet.co.uk.
ANN website
The Ripper website
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16.11.2k 3dfx Abandons Cards
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According to CNN financial network Internet reports, graphics chip manufacturer 3dfx has announced
plans to close its Juarez, Mexico card manufacturing plant and remove itself from the business of
building graphics cards.
The move comes two years after the firm took over STB Systems and the
August reports for the second quarter revenue showed a decline of over 36 per cent from the previous
year. It is not clear what effect this will have on the European operation.
Charlot Cobben, C&C·Logo and Design
3dfx website
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16.11.2k CompuQuick November Update
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15.11.2k Amiga Fire's Game Market Opens
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Amiga Fire now introduces their very own Market for buying
and selling new and classic Amiga games. This section is only meant as a bulletin board. Amiga Fire is in no
way involved in any trades and cannot be held responsible for anything in the Market section. Note that ONLY
original Amiga games is allowed in the Market section. Anything else will be deleted on sight.
Amiga Fire website
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15.11.2k Amiga-Online.com Back Again!
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15.11.2k P96 "patch" VooDoo Mediator Drivers Not 'legalize'
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There was message posted on one of the Mediator mailing list from the Main author of P96:
"Hi, there is no Voodoo3 driver for Picasso96, because Elbox has obviously created and actually _distributed_
one without any permission from us. We will not support this driver in any way unless Elbox legalizes this
driver. Be prepared to have new Picasso96 releases that won't work at all with Mediator hardware installed.
Sorry, but we can not just let this happen... Regards, Alexander Kneer." - I got 2 emails today from someone
that had emailed the P96 authors and it says the same things.
A quick look at the P96 homepage,
on the Distribution page has the following information:
"Developing software for Picasso96 is free, development of Picasso96 hardware drivers is restricted to non-commercial
projects, old hardware or - if a licence is obtained from the authors - new hardware products. We reserve the right to
decide whether to provide support for a certain project or not. Writing and issuing hardware drivers without the written
approval of the Picasso96 authors will not be tolerated. Licensing Companies that want to sell graphics cards or other
products with Picasso96 as the core driver system must license Picasso96 from: Kneer & Abt GbR. Masurenweg 6a D-89233
Neu-Ulm Germany The licence fees are based on the complexity of the product and the number of units sold. We request about
3 to 5 per cent of the retail price with a minimum of about DM 10."
CyberGraphX homepage
Picasso96 homepage
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15.11.2k ELBOX's Aswer to P96 Authors
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ELBOX responds to attacks on it's latest graphic card drivers. Highlights:
The Voodoo3 ver. 1.0 driver (available now for MEDIATOR PCI registered users) is 100% compatible with the P96 graphic system.
Development of Elbox Voodoo3 drivers will be continued and updated and they will be made compatible with OTHER graphic systems, too.
Drivers for other graphic chipsets are under development now and will be provided by Elbox.
It's possible ELBOX will create completely NEW, modern and expandable graphic system.
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX Computer
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15.11.2k alt.WoA Show
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The Huddersfield Amiga User Group are proud to present alt.WoA show with co-sponsor Eyetech and in conjunction
with Wirenet. Show will be held on Saturday 24th February 2001 in Huddersfield in Wesy Yorkshire.
Fleecy Moss of AmigaInc. has promised to attend the exhibition. Read more
Ian Aisbitt, HAUG
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15.11.2k Amiga Resource Competition
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Andy Mills: "To celebrate the Amiga Resource's 1st birthday at the end of this year, we will be giving away
a copy of a AmigaOS3.9 in a competition. Keep your eyes open for further information..."
Andy Mills via ANN
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15.11.2k Software News
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Trogladite Software have released a new product called ScriptTools v1.0.
As the name implies, it is a collection of tools for use in AmigaDOS scripts.
VEPatchBrain v1.21 (size: 18.987B) - PatchBrain for VirusExecutor v2.xx.
Just copy the file 'VirusExecutor.patches' to the VirusExecutor: drawer and restart VirusExecutor
If you have a lot of unknown patches, please let the autor Jan Erik Olausen know so he can add them to this patch brain.
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
Virus Help Denmark website
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14.11.2k "Power to the Upstarts!" - The RJ Mical Interview
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14.11.2k amiga-news.de server problems
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Petra Struck: "Due to a complete failure of the the fileystem on the webserver, amiga-news.de will be shut
down for about 2-3 days for a full reinstallation of the operating system and its components. We ask for
your understanding and are taking any necessary action to soon supply our readers with news again. In this
days please send E-Mail for amiga-news.de to petra.struck@online-club.de."
ANN website
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14.11.2k Amihoo Poll - Answering Some Of Your Questions.
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A number of questions have arisen because of this poll, as a result Mike C posted short FAQ to ANN.
Mike C: "First of all, thanks to all those who have taken part in the poll. Originally I had asked for
at least 100 replies, but the figure so far has been exceeded by over ten times that amount! - Thank you all.
Okay, time to answer so of those questions,
If you will permit me, I am going to do it in true Q&A style."
Mikey C, Amihoo.com
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14.11.2k delfinampeg.device Is Now Out On Aminet
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RedTeo Matteo Consolati: "After some rumors on delfina mailing list, betatesting an bug snooping
delfinampeg.device is dowlodable from Aminet. This device work with Amplifier then decoding mp2
and mp3 using delfina dsp. Frogger use also this new device. In my cybppc 233 I'm playing now
vcd without frame skipping and better sincornization many thanks to Michael Henke, autor of the
device and Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz for the new beta3 of frogger with new fantastic enacements."
RedTeo matteo consolati
delfina ML and tvsion-egroup
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14.11.2k Hyperion & Warp3D author on VooDoo-Warp3D driver for Mediator
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Hans-Jörg Frieden: "Hi! First of all I have to say that Hyperion has not promised anything,
since Warp3D is not a Hyperion project. It is a joint effort between Sam Jordan, Thomas Frieden and myself. We will do drivers if
possible. First of all we'll have to see what "100% compatible with Picasso96" means. Warp3D makes some assumptions about the
internal workings of both CyberGraphX and Picasso96 that go beyond mere API compatibility. It is definately too early to say anything
specific. We'll need a bit more time to evaluate the situation. Developing a hardware driver will take time - Elbox took some time to
bring out this driver, so please allow us a bit of time to make the 3D part. This is not a paid-for job, so it needs to be done in
spare time... Best regards, Hans-Joerg."
[..] On the issue of compatibility, it seems that the Elbox Voodoo3 driver is a real Picasso96 driver, so things should work out.
But as I said, the matter requires more investigation, but we'll start development of the driver ASAP."
You can read the complete thread here.
ANN website
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14.11.2k Silversurfer software update
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All legal issues have been cleared, the silversurfer support continues! Changes:
A1200 recognition routine only executed when A3000/A4000 or Draco ist not detected.
This fixes the bug with some browsers and IDE problems after starting silversurfer.device on those machines.
Silversurfer is now recognized on ISDN Surfer board (up to two units)
Silversurfer Limited Edition now recognized on 26-pin expansion port of X-Surf Ethernet board
individual Computers website
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13.11.2k GoldED Studio 7 Preview
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GoldED Studio 7 is scheduled for release in December 2000. Major new feature will be the transition
from a Rexx-centric application to Distributed BASIC, a new portable BASIC interpreter specifically
developed for use inside applications. While beeing compatible with Rexx on the communication
level, Distributed BASIC will make customization less difficult for the majority of users.
Distributed BASIC will also be available as a stand-alone package to other developers.
GoldED Studio homepage
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13.11.2k Breakthrough In Graphic Cards From ELBOX Computer
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ELBOX Computer is proud to give you access to the latest generation graphic cards based around Voodoo3
chipsets by 3Dfx. All MEDIATOR PCI 1200 users can freely use the full capacity of these cards: now
and ever after. This is due to proprietary software drivers for MEDIATOR PCI for Voodoo3 cards
prepared by ELBOX Computer programmers' team. These drivers are 100% compatible with the popular
graphic system for Amiga: Picasso96.
Development of drivers will be continued by ELBOX Computer
to enable use of Voodoo3 cards also with other graphic systems for Amiga computers.
Read more
New P96 Voodoo3 Drivers and Mediator system update are available on
Mediator page.
Darek Dulian, ELBOX Computer
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13.11.2k Fixed Bubble Heroes Demos
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Some users warned us that the RTG version of Bubble Heroes does not work properly under CV64 graphic boards
when used in conjuction with Cyber Graphix (it seems that everything works fine with Picasso 96). So, for
everyone interested, in the download section you
can now find a new lzx archive which bring you all the three RTG demos of Bubble Heroes patched to work
everywhere. Sorry for the problem and enjoy the new demos.
In the next week-end, a patched RTG executable (which will also make the complete game to run under
CV64+CGFX) for the commercial version of Bubble Heroes, will be available.
Arcadia homepage
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13.11.2k Klaus Burkert Is Back, New Picasso ML & Fred Fish Soon To Go
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Klaus Burkert (ex VillageTronic hardware guy) has a new webpage at www.sophisticated-development.de.
Tobias Seiler is helping out and has setup a MajorDomo mailinglist for sophisticated-development stuff including
Picasso topics. You can subscribe by sending email to majordomo@sophisticated-development.de.
"The server is online 24h a day 7 days a week. It has a 622MBit connection. There is no file archive yet. The homepage will change soon."
On a side note... www.ninemoons.com, run by Fred Fish, will soon stop hosting the current Picasso mailing
list. He has done this for over 3 years, It will be sad to see him go.
CyberGraphX homepage
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13.11.2k Bill McEwen ACE 2k seminar clips available on Aminet
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13.11.2k Software News
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ProstationAudio v4.01 released. It's maintenance update of both Millennium and Remix versions.
New: editable root names for recording, with automatic indexing for easier management of multiple takes
and case-independent project-structures handling, to allow making backups on ISO-normalized CD-R's.
Fixes: Arexx PRELOAD command is now async (didn't return control to Arexx) and icons display now
compatible with any graphic board with any color depth.
There's no new public demo for v4.01.
The two problems mentioned above, affecting v4.00 demo, can be considered fixed.
A new beta version of the MUI-class NListtree (v18.6 beta 2) and a translation pack are out.
Click to download
AudioLabs website
Apocalypse Hard- and Software website
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12.11.2k Hyperion brings Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim to the Amiga.
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Hyperion Entertainment and Titan Computer are pleased to announce that they will
be bringing Cyberlore Studios' critically acclaimed God sim "Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim" to the Amiga.
Majesty will be published for Amiga and Linux by Titan Computer and is slated for release in early Q1 of 2001.
A PPC equipped Amiga (supported through WarpOS), at least 48 MB of memory, a graphics-card and around 300MB of
harddrive space will be required. The possibility of a 68060 and AGA version is under review.
Read more
Hyperion Entertainment website
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12.11.2k Amigadev.net News
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Amigadev.net File Tree
Amigadev.net now has an AmigaDE file archive similar to Aminet on-line. Both open source and 3rd party
software is available from the site.
Private Developer List
Amigas Private Developer Mailing List is now on-line. To join the list you must have a NDA on record with Amiga
and be logged in to Amigadev.net site.
Amiga.org website
Amigadev.net
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12.11.2k REBOL at Comdex!
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REBOL Technologies Founder, Carl Sassenrath, will be presenting at Comdex on Nov. 13 at 10:15am, MGM#319,
titled, "New Programming Languages/Environments You Need to Know About".
Rebol Technologies website
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12.11.2k Mediator VooDoo3 driver release
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Elbox has released information that their VooDoo3 driver for Mediator PCI board will be released: "On Monday, 13 November 2000."
CyberGraphX homepage
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12.11.2k RC5 Cracking News
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Further improved (and much faster on PPC for OGR) 464b builds are now up on the download page,
go get them! Also: all PPC users who are cracking RC5 right now, should start cracking OGR again - re-issued stubs for OGR-24 and OGR-25 pass 2 are now being
distributed (i.e. stubs that have yet to be cracked), and OGR-26 is likely to be starting as soon as the re-issued stubs from pass 2 are complete. Statistics are
now back as well.
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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11.11.2k MeterNet to show off Amiga-powered SimpleBox at Comdex
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According to their press release, the Amiga, Inc.-partner MeterNet
is set to have their Amiga DE-powered SimpleBox device on display at the Fall Comdex expo in Las Vegas next week
(on the 14th and the 15th).
ANN website
MeterNet website
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11.11.2k Hexen 2 Code Released
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Raven Software has released the source code for Hexen 2, and it can be found on FilePlanet.
"Raven is pleased to be following in the path of id Software by releasing source code to one of our older games, Hexen 2,
based on Quake 1 engine, said Rick Johnson, lead programmer for Hexen 2 and Soldier of Fortune. "We hope that the mod community can both learn from and make any
improvements/changes they see fit to the code. Those of us that go back to the Hexen 2 days look forward to the exciting projects that the mod community will offer."
Read more
Anybody interested in PPC port? Let us know!
gamespy.com website
Raven Software wbebsite
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11.11.2k Albrecht Computer Technik News
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As production of Prelude Z2 has stopped nearly one year ago ATC are now preparing the remainders of productions cycles
as our "X-Mas 2000 Final Release". If all works well we will have a small number of Prelude Z2 cards for Amiga
computers available for the first two weeks of December 2000. Note that we do not accept dealer inquiries for these
cards. Inquiries made by "clubs" are welcome though. The price of these cards will be 380,-DM incl. VAT ("MWST") plus shipping.
A small number of "Arpeggiator" modules - SPDIF Digital IO module for Prelude Z2 - is also available. Price is 299,-DM incl. VAT plus shipping.
A handful of "Rombler" modules - the MIDI I/O module and Waveblaster adaptor for Prelude Z2 - is still available at a price of 99,-DM incl. VAT plus shipping.
Orders can be placed through their Online-Shop or by EMail.
When using EMail include your full shipping address. If your shipping address is outside Germany include your Creditcard information (or send a fax!) for VISA
or EURO/MASTER. Note: if any information required for shipping or billing is missing in an order the order will be not accepted. They will not be able to contact
you in order to gain necessary information bit by bit.
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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11.11.2k Prelude Information For Software Development And Tech Specs
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ATC: "Since we received a considerable number of requests about the internals of our Prelude products we have decided to publish all
information needed to develop native Prelude drivers (direct hardware access). The reason for not doing this previously was that we
wanted to avoid developers releasing propietary driver systems without any compability between different solutions. Since the Amiga
development in our company has stopped we are now releasing sources but ask developers to seriously question their goals when
releasing new propietary driver systems on a decreasing market. We will publish the information discussed on the
Prelude web pages as soon as possible. NDAs having been signed so far remain
active in areas not covered by the published information on these web sites."
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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11.11.2k Trogladite Software Update
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Neil Bullock: "Trogladite Software has released several new products including Mimosis, Sender 1.1, and others,
and has also made many new alterations to the site including letting you customise the front page, subscribe to
mail notification lists and comment on nearly anything on the site. There are also now 34 interviews listed in
the interview archive."
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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11.11.2k Software News
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Some people reported severe problems with the latest DOpus beta versions (4.15c and 4.15d), so an older beta version
was uploaded again (v4.15b). Download it here if you suffer
frequent crashes with the newer versions.
New demoversion (V.44.40) of HSMathLibs
for MC68040 and MC68060. You can test with the new demoversion of HSMathLibs the advantages of it before you register.
Subspace v1.1 - AmigaAMP plugin.
It has more warpfields, more waveshapes, more colormaps and there's experimental PowerUP support as well.
Directory Opus 4 Support pages
CyberdyneSystems website
AmigaAMP homepage
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10.11.2k AmigaOS 3.9 First Details
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H&P announced first details of AmigaOS 3.9. The list is still temporary and does not contain all functions.
Multimedia programs (MP3 player, AVI & QT player, new CD player)
Web browser AWEB 3.4 SE (new version)
GENESIS (full Internet and network access)
AmiDOCK (new program start bar)
WarpOS 5.0 (new version)
IomegaTools (for Zip and Jaz)
new powerful Shell (with extensive prefs)
automatic datatype recognition
integrated unpacker (lha, lzx, dms, zip...)
fast search (search for and in files)
new picture datatype (PPC-optimized)
many new Tools (ASLPrefs, new Info requester, new watch, font cache, new color wheel, etc.)
extensive HTML documentation (in English and German)
Andrea "Gavoz" Gaviraghi
Haage&Partner website
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10.11.2k REPULSE Price
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The negotiation for the production of the REPULSE sound card is finished.
Individual Computers, the company that brought you products like Catweasel and
X-Surf, will produce and distribute the REPULSE. To start the production this year Individual Computers wants to have as
much as possible pre-orders.
Because of component shortage and strong dollar the price was recalculated, but now it's
the final one. Adviced end-user price: approx. 250 EUR. Production start: end of this year.
Alien Design website
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10.11.2k New Poll: The Future of the Amiga Games Market
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As a large number of Amiga games get released and fail to meet the minimum required sales target, Amihoo.com
have teamed up with a number of Amiga Publishers and developers to access the mood and opinions of the Amiga
games player. Your input is valuable, if not very important. Your honest answers will determine which
direction the Amiga games industry will take. Please, be honest and truthfull, they need at least 100
replies or more. Enter poll
Mike C, Amihoo.com
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10.11.2k Mediator versions
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10.11.2k Amiga Spitfire² version 1.3 Released
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The latest version of the Amiga-Palm Desktop software is now available. For registered users there
is also a new beta of the YAMsync conduit for synchronizing of email between YAM and the Palm Mail
application.
Files can be downloaded from Aminet or the
Amiga Spitfire² homepage.
Ralph Torchia, Amiga Spitfire²
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10.11.2k Star Empire II News
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9.11.2k Programmer Wanted
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The Secret of my Soul team is looking for programmer, who wants to take over the further development of the source code (C++, 98% OOP) of SOMS.
It is just about game-programming like story/inventory/bobs, some effects, and resolving bugs. Everything else is ready and easy to use. You
will need an Amiga with min 20MB RAM and a fast cpu (68030+) for compilation and an installed GNU-C version 2.91.66 (GCC/EGCS) or higher and
GeekGadgets.
The programmer does not have to do all of the work. They are planing a cooperation with the actual programmer because he has not
longer the possibility to spent all of his time on the programming of the engine. The payment will be percentage of every sold game.
Amiga-news.de website
The Secret of my Soul homepage
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9.11.2k Another iFUSION News
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Microcode Solutions: "We have encountered a few problems with the compiler we were using for the Amiga.
Today, H&P (makers of the compiler) are to email us a new (corrected) version that should fix the
problems that we have run into. It came to the point where we could no longer make work-arounds for
the compiler errors.
We would like to publically thank H&P for their continued support of this
project!
The Amiga version of iFUSION is the base code for the PC port."
Microcode Solutions website
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9.11.2k Ovate seeks developers/consultants for leading-edge Internet development
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While Ovate isn't an Amiga-related company as such, it was founded by Amiga people and does still employ
Amiga people. We like to think that we develop with an Amiga-inspired approach to efficiency,
extensibility and quality. It will come as no surprise that all the leading-edge technologies from
AmigaSoc such as the postcode-based user group locator and Aminet Hunter are all derived from Ovate
technology. We see our future goals being very compatible with those proposed by Amiga (in fact we
already have our SDK!). All our deployment goes on UNIX machines (specifically, Solaris).
Read more
Andrew Elia, Ovate Ltd
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9.11.2k REBOL, by Big Blue
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Adam Olivier: "There's an article about REBOL
on IBM's developerWorks. This is REBOL on the Linux side, but it seems that our technologies are spread widely, as usual."
Let Daniel Robbins introduce you to Rebol, the latest tool to add to your scripting repertoire. This free tutorial makes learning Rebol really easy.
Adam Olivier
IBM's developerWorks site
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9.11.2k Software Hut News Letter
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9.11.2k Amiga One Editorial
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9.11.2k Bubble Heroes Review
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9.11.2k Software News
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Frogger 1.62 beta 3 for 68k and PPC(PUP) is available.
Frogger is the fast MPEG video player, with MPEG-2 layer support for AMIGAs with fast 68k CPUs (68040/60) or
PowerPC equipped systems.
Latest patch for MultiUserFileSystem v1.8 is available.
This fixes quite an important security bug! readme
This is a patch to create a NSD compatible MultiUserFileSystem from the FastFileSystem provided
with AmigaOS 3.5, allowing to use MultiUser with disks bigger than 4 GB.
Frogger homepage
Multiuser homepage
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8.11.2k WOA 2000 News
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The highlight of the show will be the first official presentation of the new AmigaOS 3.9. This day sales of AmigaOS 3.9
will start too. There will also be hourly seminars on AmigaOS 3.9 and other interesting AMIGA Software and Hardware.
There will be a lot of dealers and manufacturers as well as Bill McEwen, who will tell his vision of the AMIGA future
to the AMIGA fans.
Haage&Partner website
WOA 2000 website
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8.11.2k Bob Cosby Memorial Fund
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Below is the information for the Bob Cosby Memorial Fund. Bob was a long time Amiga advocate, friend of Jay Miner,
and friend of mine. If you wish to help, please see the following info:"
Donations can be sent to:
Robert Cosby Memorial Fund
@ Washington Mutual
1390 South Main Street
Walnut Creek, Ca. 94596
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 388-087-1146
(The Account number MUST be included to insure proper deposit.)
Gary Peake, AmigaInc.
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8.11.2k Interview With Stefan Ossowski
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8.11.2k Octamed SoundStudio V2
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According to OctaMED SoundStudio website a new Amiga version 2 of OctaMED SoundStudio is slowly being developed.
It was originally aimed for release in late 2000. However, the new authors have received very little input from
potential users and are unsure as to how many customers a new Amiga version might have.
Therefore, if you truly want to see the next V2 completed, you are requested to send an e-mail to:
KatoDev, in the subject area please place: "I want a new Amiga V2"
and in the main message window please tell them that you desperately want to see the new Amiga version.
If they receive enough input it will spur them on to complete the V2 for you. So, it's all up to you!
The latest beta of the new Octamed Soundstudio v2 (quite old though) is available on Aminet.
Bobby Clark via Aminet
>MED SoundStudio website
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8.11.2k Digital Almanac III English Version
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Achim Stegemann: "Though there are a few orders of Digital Almanac III (English), which still doesn't exist,
the author is waiting for about 30 preorders for the English version of DA3!
The project will be
cancelled, if the interest in DA3 of non-German users is as weak as in the last two month. The limit is 30!
From that number of preorders on, there will be an English version available. If not, DA III will only be
continued in German."
Achim Stegemann, Digital Almanac
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7.11.2k Repulse Sound Board Will Be Produced by individual Computers
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After long negotiations, the contract with Aliendesign, the team that has developed the Repulse, has been finished.
If individual Computers can collect enough pre-orders this month, production may even start this year. Although
even the big players like Nokia and Ericsson talk about component shortage, all the necessary components will be
available by mid-december. Please send your pre-order to one of their retail partners, they will collect them
and send them to individual Computers.
individual Computers website
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7.11.2k Other individual Computers News
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Since two weeks, a revised version of the X-Surf ethernet board is shipping.
The changes are: X-Surf ist now Draco-compatible, full performance with RBM OnBoard zorro expansion, IDE-timing improved.
Because of the Euro currency being continously weak against the US Dollar,
The size of the flash memory on the Buddha Flash controller had to be reduced to 32K due to increasing prices.
The initial plan was to use the extended memory for a mouse driver by an external company that has not been provided for months
now, so the reduction of memory is not a drawback for anybody.
During the week from November 13th to 17th, the gamma-test of the ISDN-Surfer will start.
For this test, individual Computers are looking for Amiga-users with very special setups and ISDN phone lines that are NOT provided
by Germany's Deutsche Telekom. Users who had problems with ISDN boards by other vendors before are also welcome to put the ISDN surfer
to an especially hard test. After the short and therefore very successful beta-phase, proper function must be tested with uncommon setups.
Gamma-testers only pay 150,- DM plus shipping and handling for the ISDN Surfer. If you want to register for the test, just
send individual Computers an e-mail.
Read more
individual Computers website
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7.11.2k The Zico Factor
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Following on from last month's look at Amiga set top boxes, time to take a look at the freshly announced Amiga desktop machines.
The Zico Factor,
new article by John Chandler on suite101.com.
suite101.com website
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6.11.2k BoXeR Available January 2001 ?
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Paul Lesurf: "The work is very close and we have an aim to demonstrate BoXeR to AmigActive
as close to Christmas as possible. [..] The hope is just before the Christmas break. All
being well, AmigActive will be able to show pictures
and reports on this in the New Years issue. [..] we expect BoXeR production to begin in Janaury.
There will be PPC options for this too." BTW there are several
causes for the previous BoXeR delays.
Paul Lesurf via FUSION ML
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6.11.2k Delsyd's New Webpage
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Chris Kelley: "We finally moved off of Geocities, and we're hosting the Delsyd Software page on our own server.
We've got screenshots of our 3d engine up on the page, and a massive message board for discussing all things
Amiga and QNX related. You can get to our page by following the link on our old page at
www.geocities.com/delsydsoftware. We've registered
www.delsyd.com, and that URL should be transfered to our server sometime this week. Come check out our new
page, and see what we've been working on! :)
Chris Kelley, Delsyd Software
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6.11.2k AmigaOne in Press
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6.11.2k A/NES News
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A/NES CGFX v1.21 for registered/non-registered
users released!
Mostly minor fixes, however be sure to check out the new "Matrix mode" for all NES-"hackers".
This new feature allows you to browse through the NES-memory while playing, with REALTIME update! Makes hacking alot more
fun, and ALOT easier. Notice that A/NES CGFX seems to have problems with cgfx emulation using p96 software.
Mailinglist for A/NES ideas/discussion/bugreports started. Here you can discuss A/NES ideas, features,
bugs etc with other users and authors. Sign up here
Morgan Johansson, A/NES homepage
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6.11.2k The #amiga at germany.net becomes #amiga at EuIRC
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he IRC channel #amiga known from irc.germany.net can be found at EuIRC since today. The name of the channel
remains the same, only the server has been replaced by a server network.
EuIRC can be reached via irc.euirc.net or irc.hes.de.euirc.net. Details can be taken from the channel
homepage http://cubique.elge.de/amiga.
Amiga-news.de website
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6.11.2k Centro Amiga with New Addresses
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6.11.2k SView C++ classes
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Andreas Kleinert: "The SView C++ class porting effort makes progress. In the meantime, we already can load
29 fileformats and save 14 different ones. Besides a batch conversion program there also already is a
small, tiny image viewing program for X-Windows (Linux/x86).
Of course, there still is the option to
port all this over to Linux/PPC, BeOS, Windows or even MorphOS or AmigaOE - given, that there is a C++
compiler available (and maybe a X client) that is (are) not too far away from the Linux concept."
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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5.11.2k World Of Amiga 2000
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Now it is official - the first AMIGA-only show since years will again be held in Cologne. From 9.-10. December the MediaPark
in Cologne will be the destination for all AMIGA fans.
The highlight of the show will be the first official presentation
of the new AmigaOS 3.9. This day sales of AmigaOS 3.9 will start too.
The information on the WOA page is still in German only, but more English information on the show will be available very soon.
Haage&Partner website
WOA 2000 website
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5.11.2k Nightlong problems
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Vaclav Misek: "Nightlong is definitely the best point&click adventure for Amiga since Monkey Island series but there
are a few serious problems. The first one and IMO the most serious is that CDs I received (I received second copy for
review with the same results) appear to have R/W errors in majority of CD-ROM drives and even in CD-Writers (it seems,
this is due bad quality of medias or wrong duplication process).
It`s also strange that masters were prepared by
Windows burning software and are in Joliet file-format, instead of RockRidge or ISO9660 with long names. It means, that
you need cd filesystem which supports Joliet, for example CacheCDFS, the latest AsimCDFS or Allegro. There are also some
minor problems with CD names covered by additional info from clickBOOM. I emailed to clickBOOM about R/W problem many
times, but no responce from them at all.
(I have the SAME PROBLEM and clickBOOM ignored all my emails send to them [ExiE])
clickBOOM website
Vaclav "sHINOBI" Misek
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5.11.2k Bill McEwen appeared on Silicon Spin
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5.11.2k Excelate Victory Information
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The info page at excelate.trogsoft.org has been uploaded allowing you to
read up more information on this exciting new email product.
Nick Lamburn via ANN
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5.11.2k Software News
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New version (V.44.41 beta 6) of HSMathLibs for MC68040 and MC68060.
Much functions were optimized and some bugs were fixed. This version is for registered user only.
Another new version of AmiDog's Movie Player 2 - AMP 2 pre7
has been released. This releases adds seeking in MPEG system (audio and video) streams.
The MPEG video decoder is heavily optimized, this might have added a few bugs. Minor MP3 decoder optimizations (7%). Any ISO end
codes within the stream are now ignored. A few small fixes and code changes. Tweaked the timer code to make AMP skip less frames.
CyberdyneSystems website
AmiDog's Movie Player homepage
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4.11.2k Benelux AmigaOS3.9 Preorder
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Computer City, Benelux Amiga dealer/distributor has opened a pre-order form on their website,
enabling Benelux Amiga users to sign up for Amiga's upcoming AmigaOS3.9 release.
The form can be found at: www.compcity.nl/amiga/os39.htm
For additional information, please contact Computer City at +31-(0)10-4517722 or email
info@compcity.nl.
Computer City website
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4.11.2k YAM 2.2 - YAM Goes OpenSource
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YAM v2.2 - free, MUI based premier mailer. This version fixes some
bugs in YAM 2.1 and includes Finnish locale. This is the last version of YAM written by Marcel Beck.
The complete source codes of YAM 2.2 have been released under the GNU General Public License. and can be found
on the YAM OpenSource homepage.
Marcel Beck: "If you want to develop this program further or if you want to port it to a different operating system,
register at sourceforge.net and use the CVS repository to download the current version of the sources.
Please don't forget to tell me about your plans."
YAM homepage
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4.11.2k Amiga VP Code Example on IBM's Developer Works
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4.11.2k Clarissa-HTTPd
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Clarissa-HTTPd is another HTTP-Server which
is programmed in AREXX and can be a good alternative to the giant Apache. If you read the enclosed documentation you can see
which operations are possible with the server. For more information please have a look at the
readme-file. But there is still one
disadvantage (for some people it might be an advantage): The current version has been written completely in German as
well as the script of the server itself and the examples of the CGI-scripts.
Amiga-news.de website
Clarissa-HTTP homepage
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3.11.2k The AmigaOne 1200 & 4000, the Predator, GRex and Mediator Differences
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Eyetech Group Ltd: "We have released a new press release,
with a factual clarification of similarities and differences between the AmigaOne 1200 & 4000, the Predator,
GRex and Mediator boards."
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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3.11.2k Hurry! Last Chance To Win a Copy Of Bubble Heroes on Amihoo.com
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The competition to giveaway a copy of the top rated game, Bubble Heroes by Crystal Interactive Software
End Midnight, Saturday 4th November.
Don't delay, surf on over to www.amihoo.com
and click on the competition link to be in with a chance of winning this excellent addictive arcade puzzle game.
We want you!!!
Since Amihoo.com caught up with the backlog of new entries, you lot have slowed down! Since Amihoo.com
became 100% up to date, only 3 new entries have been sent for inclusion. Either the directories are complete or you are
missing out! If you have an Amiga related website website we want to know about it!
If you don't, tell us what we are missing using our feedback form.
Amihoo.com
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3.11.2k Amiga Club Names And Addresses Needed
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Bob Scharp: "Since the completion of the fantastic Amiga2K show, in St. Louis this last March 31st - April 2,
I've hit upon an idea that will help Amiga Clubs even more. To do this project properly, I need to acquire
the names and addresses of all the Amgia Clubs I can, including a contact person and phone number where
possible. I already have a good number, but I don't want to miss anyone.
Read more
Bob Scharp
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3.11.2k 2nd Fleecy Interview At Temple Of Tech
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3.11.2k Another CS&E Decision: Survivor Org.
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Amiga-news.de posted this message from Dirk Harlaar: "After the recent news of Crystal Software and Electronics (CS&E)
leaving the Amiga market, and the following news that Dirk Harlaar would be the new managing director of CS&E, this news has to be rectified once again.
Managing director of CS&E, David Connolly, has decided to stay managing director of his company. However, CS&E will no longer be active in the Amiga market.
A new company has been founded, Survivor Org., which has gotten the rights to any Amiga publications CS&E had. Managing director of this company is Dirk Harlaar.
(And this is the final, true news). Survivor Org. will focus on Amiga software, and we hope to bring you more news about forthcoming releases soon.
Please understand that this new company is still in the very early days. We do have some games signed up already, but it is much to early to say anything about them
yet. Cosmos Fun Class, the educational program that eleased shortly by Survivor Org."
ANN website
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3.11.2k Software News
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New beta release of ATC (AmiTradeCenter) is ready for download.
changes. Some buttons magically disappeared! Looks like no one
needs them but they are back anyway... ATC is powerful freeware FTP-client with ADT support.
The latest beta release of DOpus (4.15d) - improved version
of great filemanager from GP Software. Changes
The beta version contains only the files that changed since the last public release.
ATC homepage
Directory Opus 4 Support pages
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2.11.2k Amiga introduces Windows Development Environment for Multi-platform Applications
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The Amiga Software Development Kit for Windows allows pure multi-platform Amiga applications to be developed on Windows.
Now users of Windows can join Linux users in developing for the Amiga Digital Environment.
Read More
AmigaInc. website
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2.11.2k Petro Retires
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After many years of tireless service to Amiga, Petro Tyschtschenko announces his retirement.
At the end of this year all operations and offices of Amiga Germany will be closed.
Read more
We would like to wish him and the German Amiga crew the best of luck.
Amigart: Tribute To Petro
You can leave a message to Petro Tyschtschenko
on Amigart. All the messages will be delivered to Petro by Amigart team members.
31.10.2000 No Risc No Fun - Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko (german)
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal
AmigaInc. website
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2.11.2k iFUSION News
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some basic specs of iFUSION by Jim Drew, CEO of Microcode Solutions.
Requires WarpOS - no exceptions
Requires OS8.6 or later
Requires 32MB of RAM
Requires a video card or AGA
Requires 200MB of hard drive space (hey, that's the MAC OS - not us)
The emulation IDs itself as a G3 Macintosh (G4 is not possible due to missing Altivec support)
Steve Bowman vie FUSION ML
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2.11.2k Bill McEwen Seminar Video
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Kresimir Rogic: "Watch the floppy disk demo clip from Bill McEwen's seminar at ACE2k which was held in Melbourne, Australia on 21st and 22nd October 2000.
The demo basically shows Bill McEwen loading up a game written for the AmigaDE which is on a floppy that is run on a winblows box and a Linux Box.
Due to my webspace limitations, the video is in .asf format, which I think is Winblows only. In a few days I hope to aquire more space so that I can add
mpeg 2 videos for download." The clip is available on KrasH's ACE 2k Video Page.
Kresimir Rogic
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2.11.2k RJ Mical's New Job Focus' On Technology Similar To Amiga
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Amiga and 3DO veteran RJ Mical is joining Red Jade. Mical will join the wireless entertainment start-up
to identify technical objectives for the company and to lead internal and external software groups.
Mical's previous roles include the co-invention of the 3DO gaming platform, co-creation of the Lynx
handheld game system, and leading the software engineering team for Amiga. "Mical's extensive experience
and proven track record will be invaluable to the development of our product," said Red Jade CEO Gunnar
Tyrsing, "His history with bleeding-edge interactive entertainment hardware and software companies
contributes to his profound understanding of what consumers are looking for in the future." Red Jade
is developing a mobile, wireless hardware platform that combines games, music, and PDA functions.
Read more
Sam Smith
Read Jade Inc.
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2.11.2k Interview With Developers of Exodus
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1.11.2k OS 3.9 No-deposit Pre-orders Taken
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Blittersoft are pleased to announce that they are now taking no-deposit pre-orders for the new AmigaOS 3.9,
due out in December. To place a secure online pre-order, please visit
this page.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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1.11.2k AppMI - New Projects
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There three new Aminet uploads based on the AppMI collection:
AWebMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for AWeb.
readme
PhotoMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for Photogenics.
readme
IBrowseMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for IBrowse (available soon).
Mason.Home page
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1.11.2k Trogladite Software News
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Trogladite Software have released three news products in the last few days.
Setbuffers v1.1 is a command line tool which sets a disk's buffers rather than changing it from what it already is.
LhA/LZX Bar offer a graphical progress bar to show how the archive operation is going, rather than ugly text.
Sender v1.1 - it can only be described by comparing it to the Windows 'send to' menu option.
When you right click on a file in Windows, you get a menu option labelled "Send To", which then has a list of places you can 'send' that file to. Amiga Workbench doesn't have the popup menu
functionality of windows, and as such, replicating the above has been done using an AppIcon method.
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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1.11.2k Software News
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AmigaWriter-Filter for PageStream v0.9 is prerelease version of a new import filter for PageStream.
It consist of text filter and document filter (which alows you to use your AmigaWriter documents as native PageStream documents).
The update to Digital Almanac III v1.3 is available. All users have been informed about the update.
New beta release of ATC (AmiTradeCenter) is ready for download.
changes. This beta fixes the problems ATC had with NListtree V18.5.
ATC is powerful freeware FTP-client with ADT support.
PageStream maillist
Rüdiger Hanke's page
Digital Almanac homepage
ATC homepage
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