Happy New Year 1999 with Czech Amiga News
30.12.98 Cookie Monster
Read more about serious security flaw in all major Web browsers. Check if your browser is an "vulnerable application" (IBrowse 1.22, Voyager 2.95) or not (AWeb2 3.2). Read full press release.

Petra Struck's webpage
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30.12.98 X-Phone
The X-Phone is a new communication package for the Amiga with MUI GUI. It masters all standard-functions of a telephone with answering machine and many others like ISDN support. Read more.

Apocalypse Software webpage
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29.12.98 CyberVisionPPC
Phase5 recently released a new batch of CVisionPPC cards which uses a different types of SGRAM (9832 A USA MT 41LC256K32D4 LG -10 Micron, not Fujitso anymore). These cards are only compatible with the driver coming with the card and not with any CVPPC driver released before (ie. V3 r70a). 'The forthcoming v4 driver update will take care of the different card versions. Only one driver for all card revisions.' Also the cards 'have the additional connector, too... (Which one?)

vgr.com webpage
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29.12.98 Wasted Dreams=Distant Space
Wasted Dreams, cool looking space adventure is no more called Wasted Dreams but Distant Space. The game is no longer developed by Digital FX (bankruptcy->closed) but instead Digital Dreams. The game will be available in January 1999. BTW RTG support added via RTG Master.

AmigaNutta webpage
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29.12.98 Diablo's Land
Second game from Digital Dreams is Diablo's Land, arcade-adventure game with many FRP elements. The game shoudl be available in April 1999.

Digital Dreams
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28.12.98 Two Years of ANN
Today, on 28-Dec-98, ANN (Amiga Network News) is two years old! Read more.
Czech Amiga News congratulate to Christian Kemp, the author and wish better next two years with Amiga.

ANN webpage
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27.12.98 Status of the G3-project!
Read more about status of G3 PowerPC ZorroIII board project! (deutsch)

Escena webpage
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27.12.98 AmigaActive - new commercial Amiga magazine!
Blittersoft webpage
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26.12.98 AmigaAMP v2.3
New AmigaAMP version 2.3 released! Many new features added: 680x0 based spectrum analyzer, visualisation plugin system, hardware accelerator support and several bugfixes!
For visualisation plugins page click here. AmigaAMP plugin development kit get here.

AmigaAMP webpage
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26.12.98 ADescent PPC
New version of ADescent PPC with mouse support is now available here.

Holger "heureka" Jakob's page
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26.12.98 KOSH news
KOSH website got updated in several areas, as New Formal Development Environment, New weekly message from Fleecy, KOSH-hardware-o summary and KOSH-logical-arch summary. If you are interested in reading the info, visit this page.

KOSH website
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25.12.98 Clickboom to announce 1000$ winner today
Clickboom will today at 8.00 pm GST announce the winner of 1000$ (CND) contest via their new chatroom. Maybe while reading this message you even don't know you are already a winner? :-)

ClickBOOM webpage
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25.12.98 XMAS
AMIGA International, Inc. wishes you a Merry Christmas and all the best for 1999!

AmigaInt. website
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24.12.98 Haage & Partner's special offer
Haage & Partner, currently the most active company around Amiga Classic line, prepared special offer for you. You can buy new ArtEffect 3.0 for only 129 USD (198 DM) now, but more special prices are available. Go and visit this page.

Haage&partner website
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24.12.98 Infoworld about REBOL
Infoworld collumnist Maggie Biggs published article about scripting languages, and the article contains very positive note about REBOL. You can read the article here.

InfoWorld website
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24.12.98 ClickBOOM chat
A brand new non-Java chat is available at ClickBOOM. For the next two days feel free to test it, and report any comments, suggestions or problems to info@clickboom.com. BOOM# guys can use some advanced options, not available to regular visitors.

ClickBOOM webpage
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23.12.98 IProbe
The preview of IProbe, new Amiga web browser with MUI GUI, will be released presumably early february. A real IProbe1.0 will then follow a few months later for free. Read more!

Allan Odgaard's page
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22.12.98 KOSH website update
KOSH - Kommunity OS and Hardware, new project lead by Fleecy Moss, has now updated web site. The site is frameless and using java script. Go and visit it here.

KOSH website
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22.12.98 Ready for Enforce ?
Enforce, cool looking 3D game's minimal bloody requirements are 040, 16MB ram, GFX card (15/16 bit modes) and all 3D graphics cards supported through Warp3D. Enforce pages will be back again ...soon :-).

Fido, Enforce coder
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21.12.98 3Dfx to be...
According to PPCRulez Village Tronic has confirmed that the Voodoo addon for PicassoIV will be made, they had more than 500 preorders, it will ship in march. But who will develope special 3Dfx games for 500 users ??? ...standalone 3Dfx card can be solution.

PPCRulez webpage
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21.12.98 Updated StormMesa pages and Warp3D
New version of Warp3D 1.1 fixes 'false color bug' problem on Z2 machines. Get here!
Added a lot of information on StormMesa to the 3D World site, including download pages, Q&A area and a gallery. Read more.

Haage&partner homepage
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21.12.98 Genetic Species CDDA
Original digital compact disc songs from 3D game Genetic Species are available for free download. This includes the 7 ingame tracks and the bonus track. You can get here.

Marble Eyes webpage
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21.12.98 Wacom Intuos tablets
Haage&partner just released new Tableau drivers for the new pressure sensitive Wacom Intuos tablets. Tableau is compatible with ArtEffect 1.x-3.x, DrawStudio, ImageFX, PPaint 7.0, Photogenics, TV Paint. Read more.

Haage&partner homepage
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20.12.98 PPC or AmigaNG
Answer the stupid question "What's better? PPC or AmigaNG" on ClickBOOM's page.

ClickBOOM webpage
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20.12.98 ADescent
New version of ADescent 0.8w is available. Most important feature of this version is Warp3D support for your CV643D! 040 or 060 version.

The Official ADescent homepage
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20.12.98 The Ripper
4th issue of The Ripper, new free Amiga disk mag, is available. The author is looking for the talented people who would like to contribute to this disk mag. Check it!

Yoda, Raising Hell Productions
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18.12.98 Warp3D released
The first version of the hardware independent 3D driver system Warp3D and version 3.0 of StormMesa are available. Finally there exists a way to use the power of 3D graphics boards, as it is done on other platforms for a long time. Get Warp3D here.
3D World page updated too!
If you are interesed you can subscribe to the official 3D World mailing list.

Haage&partner homepage
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18.12.98 BLIZZARD PPC 603e/603e+ SystemUpdate
BLIZZARD PPC 603e/603e+ systemupdate for trouble-free operation with the BVision PPC graphics board get here.

Phase5 webpage
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17.12.98 Publisher of Explorer2260
World Foundry, creators of PPC game Explorer2260, leaves Vulcan Software. They are looking for another publisher now. The announcement and FAQ is available here.

Sinan Gurkan
World Foundry webpage
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17.12.98 BVisionPPC
BVisionPPC IS REALLY OUT NOW! ... FINALLY :-) Look at the picture.

IRC
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16.12.98 Amiga conversion wishlist #2
Clickboom has put up a page with a wishlist for games you want to see ported to Amiga. It's first step - preparation of the list itself. Read more or make your wish here.

Sinan Gurkan
ClickBOOM webpage
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16.12.98 Upgrade your CDTV
CDTV upgrade project has reach the release stage of development. Thanks to the "Amiga of Minnesota Interest Groups Alliance" is now possible to use 3.1 ROMs on your CDTV. Read more.

amiga.org webpage
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16.12.98 BlackIRC
BlackIRC is a new IRC (Inter Relay Chat) client for AmigaOS with special abilities. BlackIRC 0.9 prerelease is now available. Read more and download from Aminet.

Innovative homepage
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16.12.98 NewsRog Update
The update 1.4a of NewsRog, most powerful usenet reader available for the Amiga, you can find here. The update is only available for the registered version of NewsRog and is free. There is demo of NewsRog 1.4 too.

NewsRog webpage
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15.12.98 Christmas gift
As a gift to you SASG decided to give away all their products for 20% less than usual for this Christmas season! This special Christmas discount is time-limited and will expire on December 25th. Merry Christmas!

Vaclav Misek
SASG webpage
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15.12.98 Interview with Digital Images
For those interested in an interview with Digital Images, there is next one waiting for you from official AmigaNutta IRC channel #amigames. You can read conference log here or conference summary here.

Amiga Nutta webpage
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15.12.98 ttf.library
New version of truetype outline font library ttf.library for Amiga computers is now available. Version 0.7.7 adds options to select various or custom metrics and variety of small bugfixes. You can get it here.

TTF.lib webpage
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15.12.98 Screens© PPC OS
Screens©, the PowerPC operating system for hi-end Amigas, is under development. Read more.

PPC Rulez webpage
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15.12.98 WHDL & JST
WHDL and JST are both the AmigaOS friendly harddisk-install packages. You can get new version of WHLD 8.1 usr and dev archives here. Latest version of JST 1.2a both JOTDStartup and JST Developper package can be found here.

WHDL support page
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers page
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15.12.98 3Dfx to be or not to be? #2
Still about 80 preorders are required until december 20th to start developing of the 3Dfx add-on for PicassoIV cards. So, take part in Village Tronic's survey.

Village Tronic webpage
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14.12.98 akJFIF for WarpOS
New version of akJFIF 44.9 datatype is now available with WarpOS patch! Register to get more ak datatypes and SView PPC modules patched to work under WarpOS. You can get it here.

PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX webpage
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14.12.98 WWW.AMIGA.COM
AmigaInc.'s pages FINALLY REDESIGNED! GO THERE!

AmigaInc. homepage
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13.12.98 Interview with Digital Images
For those interested in an interview with Digital Images, there is one waiting for you created by Amiga Data. You can read conference log here or conference summary here.

Amiga DATA News
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12.12.98 HP opened 3D World site
Haage & Partner just opened new web site dedicated to Warp3D and StormMesa. You can visit it here.

Haage & Partner
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12.12.98 AmigaWares in Europe
AmigaWares, popular Amiga oriented clothing line, is now available in Europe through RBM Digitaltechnik. You can order from RBM by emailing them at order@rbm.de.

AmigaWares webpage
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12.12.98 AHI PPC
Author of AHI, hardware independent audio for Amiga, has now received 106 pre-orders for AHI PPC version. He ordered a PPC board and will develop a PPC version when he gets one.

Sinan Gurkan
AHI homepage
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12.12.98 Miami Deluxe
Miami Deluxe BETA version 0.9a, full TCP/IP router package for "power users", released. (MiamiTelnet included) You can get it here

Nordic Global page
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12.12.98 Prelude1200 available in UK
Prelude1200, 16-bit audio card for Amiga1200, is na available in UK through Blittersoft. Read more and order :-).

Sinan Gurkan
Blittersoft.
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12.12.98 clickboom.com offline
On Wednesday, December 9, around 6pm local time, clickboom.com got hacked by a group of international hackers "Royal British Screwups". They changed permissions, erased all the files, and created as much havoc as they could in a very short period of time. They left obscene messages and some disturbing pictures. This resulted in clickboom.com not being available for a few days. GOOD NEWS: Everything is back to normal now!

AND REMEMBER: 2 days to 1000$ deadline (December 14).

ClickBOOM webpage
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12.12.98 Warp3D Q&A
AmigaExtreme fired off a few questions at Thomas Frieden of Warp3D team. You can read the whole thing here

AmigaExtreme webpage
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11.12.98 TUMULT "The Unoffical MUi custom class LisT"
Looking for some MUI custom classes? Nothing on Aminet? Only old version on your HD? Try TUMULT!
Read more.

TUMULT homepage
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11.12.98 REBOL 1.0.3 released
REBOL Technologies released newer version (1.0.3) of REBOL language. Current version features some bug fixes, improvements, proxy support, and the family of platforms is extended of HP/UX and AIX. You can download it here.

REBOL Technologies
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10.12.98 Amiga SWOS Network
For these who love SensibleSoccer, the best football game ever :-), there is page dedicated to all the SensibleSoccer fans all around the world: Amiga SWOS Network. Read more!

Sinan Gurkan
amigart.com webpage
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10.12.98 3Dfx to be or not to be?
Still about 150 preorders are required until december 20th to start developing the 3Dfx add-on for PicassoIV cards. So, take part in Village Tronic's survey.

Note: THE PROBLEM is with PicassoIV card probably. Better design *cheap* standalone 3Dfx card for ZIII :-)

Village Tronic webpage
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10.12.98 Aminet 28 CD-ROM
Aminet 28 CD-ROM, dated December 1998, is available. Contains 1 gigabyte (uncompressed) of software in thousands of archives. The current edition features a full version of CygnusEd Professional Release 3.5. Owners of the Aminet 28 are entitled to obtain an inexepensive upgrade to CygnusEd Professional Release 4.

Schatztruhe webpage
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10.12.98 Siamese System announces TVNC set-top-box
TVNC is new set-top-box like projekt from Siamese Systems. This system is based on Linux, featuring KDE graphical user interface. Shame AmigaOS can't be used for things Amiga Inc. claimed our OS will be used for. What Amiga based company will leave Amiga Classic market next? You can read more about the TVNC here.

Note: Maybe it't time to forward this news to Amiga Inc. We would be really interested in hearing something about supporting the Amiga from them. Anyone interested in doing so? ;-)

Siamese Systems website
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9.12.98 GlowIcons FAQ
As you already know, GlowIcons is the set of icons done by Matt Chaput, originally planned as an official AmigaOS 3.5 icon set. However, the situation now seems to be different. If you are interested in hearing what happened, is going on, and will happen with GlowIcons, visit this page.

Amiga.org webpage
Pixel Studio webpage
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9.12.98 QNX at Amiga.info
December 16 is the day of the meeting of Amiga.info user group, this month featuring interesting guest speaker - Mal Raddalgoda, Director of Corporate Communications for QNX. For more info click here.

AmigaInt. website
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9.12.98 STFax Pro v3.6 Upgrade
Free STFax Pro upgrade to version 3.6 released for registered users. Both upgrades from version 3.5 and 3.0 you can find on Aminet.

Active Technologies webpage
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9.12.98 Amiga Forever online download
Cloanto announced today availability of their Amiga Forever emulator for your PC. You can download it for only 19.95 USD. Everyone interested should visit their website.

Cloanto webpage
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9.12.98 Pyromania Classic
DiscreetFX is an Amiga developer bringing you many popular mainstream software titles and is offering special pricing and extra effects for Pyromania Classics Amiga/Video Toaster version. For more information visit this page.

Amiga.org webpage
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9.12.98 STRICQ 0.1173
New version of STRICQ 0.1173, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available. Updated version you can get here. Fixes some really nasty bugs of version 0.1155. (STRICQ 0.1155 archive required)

STRICQ webpage
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8.12.98 MAX Rally demo now available
MAX Rally, the racing car game from Fortress, now in its demo version is available on Fortress website. Click here for ordering information.

Fortress website
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8.12.98 Sam Jordan & Amiga Classic future - the way to follow?
Sam Jordan, author of Warp3D and member of Haage & Partner's PowerPC team is asking Amigans to place enough pre-orders to Village Tronic's 3Dfx survey, as if we want to see some best 3D games conversions, according to him it seems to be the only one possible way to follow. Is it as easy as "to Voodoo or not to be"? Read more about it!

Sam Jordan, Haage & Partner
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8.12.98 Phase5 & BVisionPPC
Phase5 now oficially confirmed BVisionPPC graphics card will now contain 8MB SGRAM and are going to be available from 15 December, 1998.

Sinan Gurkan
Phase5 webpage
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8.12.98 Interview with Titan Computers
For those interested in an interview with Titan Computers, there is one waiting for you on the Amiga Nutta website. You can read conference log here or conference summary here.

Amiga Nutta webpage
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8.12.98 Interview with Digital Images
13th of December at 8pm GMT (9pm CET), there will be IRC interview Digital Images. The interview will be held on the official Amiga Nutta IRC channel, #amigames. This can be found on the IRCnet network. Everybody is welcome!

Amiga Nutta webpage
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7.12.98 STRICQ 0.1155
New version of STRICQ 0.1155, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available. Updated version you can get here. File transfers finally added and working!

STRICQ webpage
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7.12.98 BOOM DOLLARS (10 BOOM$)
ClickBOOM will give you $10CDN per every ClickBOOM game that you register. Read more.

ClickBOOM website
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7.12.98 ArtEffect 3.0
According to Haage&Partner, they are still working on the new release of ArtEffect 3.0 and expected release date is end of January 1999.

Haage&partner webpage
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7.12.98 AmigaWriter 1.2 Manual
English translation of the manual of AmigaWriter 1.2, word processor for the Amiga from H&P, is finished. Registered users can request it now.

Haage&partner webpage
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7.12.98 New website of Motion Studio
Motion Studio, well know for their Art Studio and Elastic Dreams product, has now very nice redesigned web site. You can take look at it here.

Motion Studio website
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6.12.98 AmigaOS 3.5 in first half of 1999
Dr.Allan Havemose, AmigaInc.'s Vice President, confirms that AmigaOS 3.5 is still scheduled for the first half of 1999. Read more.

ANN webpage
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5.12.98 KOSH web site online!
KOSH - Kommunity Operating System & Hardware, new project of people not satisfied with current Amiga situation, has now its own domain. You can find it at www.kosh.net. The site is online already.

KOSH website
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5.12.98 Missing THX?
Amiga-sound editor by Abyss, formerly known as "THX Sound System" doesn't exist anymore, due to conflict of already registered THX name (LucasFilm Ltd.). Its site is now down and will not be back. However, the program is now called AHX, and you can find it here.

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5.12.98 New Issue Of The Pulse
Alive MediaSoft have published the latest issue of The Pulse and their Catalogue that is continuing to expand with even more pages. Read more. If you wish to contact Alive MediaSoft about The Pulse or even about ordering an issue for FREE then e-mail Jennie Flowers.

AmigaFlame website
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5.12.98 Another strange datatypes.library?
As reported on Nordic Global inc., some versions of datatypes.library were causing hacking your system, gaining your account name and password, and sending it to group of pirates.Take care of 45.4, or 45.5 version having 32748 bytes in size. Read more about this mechanism. We just found out another one, which is not reported amongst correct nor fake versions. It is 45.5 version having 30844 bytes in size. What's that?

Nordic Global Inc. website
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5.12.98 the Newt - exclusive interview with Clickboom
the Newt - internet based Amiga magazine brings you an interview with Clickboom, covering info on why we don't have PPC version of Quake. It's simple - Phase5 and Amiga Inc. totally failed. You can get through to the interview following this link.

David Stroud - Editor, the Newt
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4.12.98 akPNG and akJFIF
New versions of akPNG beta 44.8 and akJFIF beta 44.8 datatypes are available here.

PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX webpage
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4.12.98 Opera Again :)
There is still chance to get Opera browser ported to Amiga... "If you know of some rare bird who starts where others have already given up, this may be his chance. Let them know at magic@operasoftware.com. Thanks to all who sent us notice about this :-)

Opera Software website
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4.12.98 Game Reviews
Everybody interested in games can find several reviews of latest Amiga games on the net.
Olofight fighting game review by Sinan Gurkan you can read here. MaxRally racing game review by AmigaFlame you can read here. or review by AmigaNutta you can read here.

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4.12.98 Interview with Digital Images
12th of December at 8pm GMT (9pm CET), Digital Images and probably Blittersoft will be on the official Amiga Data IRC channel #amigadata on ARCnet. Please come along and bring as many people as you can!

AmigaDATA
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3.12.98 Amiga Opera no more!
Unfortunately the Cologne show did not provide the hoped for boost for the Amiga Classic market, and Ramjam Consultants have therefore abandoned the Amiga Opera browser port.

Opera webpage
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3.12.98 Genetic Species & Network support
Authors of Genetic Species are looking for skilled programmers from Amiga community, to help them implement fast network support in their game. You can read more information here. So development is continuing ? Great news!

Marble Eyes Development
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3.12.98 GlowIcons2
Now is possible to download a pre-release version of the great looking icons package GlowIcons2.

Pixel Studio website
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3.12.98 Napalm Amiga finished
Amiga version of Napalm is now finished, at least Clickboom's site says so. The game is now in the final testing stage. For more info visit Napalm page.

ClickBOOM website
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3.12.98 Cologne98 video from Javosoft
Javosoft, the Amiga distributor in Czech Republic, now offers video tape with Computer98 material of total length 42 min. For more information write to javosoft@poda.cz.

Javosoft webpage
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2.12.98 Interview with Titan Computers
6th of December at 8pm GMT (9pm CET), there will be IRC interview with Titan Computers. Hopefully, this will include the authors of both Settlers 2 and Claws of the Devil. The interview will be held on the official Amiga Nutta IRC channel, #amigames. This can be found on the IRCnet network. Everybody is welcome!

Amiga Nutta webpage
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2.12.98 Interview with Vulcan
For those interested in an interview with Vulcan, there is one waiting for you on the Amiga Nutta website. You can read it here.

Amiga Nutta webpage
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1.12.98 Haage & partner News
ArtEffect 2.6 is now available in 7 languages (Czech too :-)), two more are on the way. Read more.
All FontMachine 3 users can get a free update to version 3.20 from H&P's ftp site.

Haage&partner website
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1.12.98 Win 1000 CND with Napalm
Do you want to win 1000 CND? Well, don't wait and preorder your copy of Napalm from Clickboom. The winner will be announced on XMas day. For more instruction and rules visit this page. Deadline for all interested is set in the stone to 14. December, 1998.

ClickBOOM website
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1.12.98 Listen to the interview with Carl Sassenrath
Tech Netcast is bringing you an interview with Carl Sassenrath, author of REBOL. The earlier interview with Steve Mason, Marketing, PR & Sales guy at REBOL Technologies is also available. For more information visit this page, or you can download rebol.gsm file via Alan Crandall's web site. Gsm file players can be found on Alan's web site (Win) or on Aminet (Gir06.lha, comm/tcp, 269K - player; GSMToast.lha, util/pack, 88K - audio codec).

Alan Crandall
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1.12.98 HISTORY and more
News from November can be found in Execute History section.

Thanks to Artie for help with winter Czech Amiga News logo.