Happy New Year 1999 with Czech Amiga News
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30.12.98 Cookie Monster
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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27.12.98 AmigaActive - new commercial Amiga magazine!
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26.12.98 AmigaAMP v2.3
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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 KOSH news
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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
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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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24.12.98 Haage & Partner's special offer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ?
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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 The Ripper
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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
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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
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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
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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
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BVisionPPC IS REALLY OUT NOW! ... FINALLY :-)
Look at the picture.
IRC
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16.12.98 Amiga conversion wishlist #2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Screens©, the PowerPC operating system for hi-end Amigas, is under development.
Read more.
PPC Rulez webpage
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15.12.98 3Dfx to be or not to be? #2
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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
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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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13.12.98 Interview with Digital Images
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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
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12.12.98 AmigaWares in Europe
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12.12.98 AHI PPC
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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9.12.98 Amiga Forever online download
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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$)
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7.12.98 ArtEffect 3.0
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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
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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
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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
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5.12.98 KOSH web site online!
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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?
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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.
old THX webpage
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5.12.98 New Issue Of The Pulse
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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?
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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
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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 Opera Again :)
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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 Napalm Amiga finished
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1.12.98 Win 1000 CND with Napalm
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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
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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
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News from November can be found in Execute History section.
Thanks to Artie for help with winter Czech Amiga News logo.
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