29.2.2k AFD-COPYRIGHT News
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Dietmar Knoll: "Here are some news about the project "AFD-COPYRIGHT"(TM) or "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note"(TM).
This Copyright Note is an offer for all Amiga developers who want to release FD-Software, be it Freeware, Giftware, Shareware
or whatever. The Copyright Note is now available in fourteen (14!) languages - all in two formats, as plain text and as
HTML-file. The latest addition is the Czech translation by Vit Sindlar."
Read more (english/german)
Dietmar Knoll, AFD-COPYRIGHT official support site
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29.2.2k iRec for AmigaOS, live streaming audio receiver
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AudioLabs announces iRec (internet Recording), live streaming MPEG
capabilities for AmigaOS! This cool feature comes embedded in any new ProStationAudio version, starting
with the forthcoming Millennium edition. Read more
dr. Maurizio Ciccione, AudioLabs
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29.2.2k Back to the Roots News
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The french ex-Amiga-company Lankhor supports now the legal Amiga
site "Back to the Roots" too. One of their classic Amiga
games called "Outzone" is now available for download. Also from
Sierra are the games "Police Quest III" and "Black Cauldron"
available.
Manuel Calavera, Back to the Roots
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29.2.2k CeBit: Metabox on AmiJoe
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Helmut Fuchs: "I spoke to a salesperson at one of the Met@box booths at the CeBit in Hannover today.
When I asked her about news on the AmiJoe Card she said, that it would definetly see the light of day and the hardware is quite complete,
but that the software is still not ready. She also told me that the only "approximate release date" she could tell me would be around
end of march, because the hardware dept. doesn't get more specific about it, even to her. I think this is quite good news, don't you
think? (despite of the fact, that on the glossy high quality AmiJoe-Flyer, that was on display there a release date of December `99 is
mentioned)" Ben Yoris reports that Elwood's unofficial AmiJoe card survey "has reached more
than 500 entries. This is proving there's strong interest in G3/G4 for Amiga. The most popular comments deal with PCI/AGP gfx cards,
G4 possibility and USB."
ANN website
Met@box website
WARP9 website
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29.2.2k AmigaNutta Update
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28.2.2k V³ Status Report
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Oliver Wagner: "The main work is currently concentrating on furnishing Javascript support, and improving the plugin API.
The good news in that respect is that Emmanuel Lesueur has adapted his Apdf PDF viewer as a V³ plugin, in the process
of which he gave many helpful suggestions on the design of the plugin API. VFlash has also received a major internal
rewrite and is now several times faster than the previous version. The m68k versions are already working nicely, and
Zapek is busy getting the PPC version done. We currently plan for a full new release within the next 2 weeks, although
partial updates (image decoders, VFlash) might show up sooner."
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VFlash status report
V3·Portal
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28.2.2k PhotoFolio V2 available
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PhotoFolio is the professional solution for anyone
wishing to catalogue, view, or store images. Different sort modes, gamma correction, any number of browse
windows and much more make this software an absolute highlight of its class. System requirements: any Amiga with
68020 (and above) and Kickstart 3.0 (or higher).
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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28.2.2k BGUI 41.10 Final release
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Manuel: "Finally I have just uploaded the final release of BGUI 41.10.
This release consists basically a fixes of some of the remaining bugs that were still open. As you may see in the bug
reporting pages, there are still a few known issues to be solved but we could no longer stall the final release of BGUI
41.10 until someone could fix them. From now on consider this the final 41.10 release. An Aminet release will follow
in the following days and will include the licensing text. After this we will be working preparing BGUI to be
developed as an Open Source project which will hopefully simplify the works to have it ported to AROS."
Manuel Lemos, BGUI site
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28.2.2k Software News
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DarcNES/Amiga 9a0226a (000228) - Multi Consol emulator
One of the major improvements in this version is the speed with AGA due to only performing C2P on the required
amount of bitplanes. It affects all systems except PCE since that one is 8bit in the Amiga version of DarcNES.
FastATA'99 v5.4 software for ELBOX FastATA (PowerFlyer/Winner)
High Speed EIDE controller (for A1200). The newest software extends support of large HDD up to 67.6 GB in SPLIT
mode and up to 2199.4 GB in NO SPLIT mode. Added pictures of the MorphOS Team on the bottom of the MorphOS
Support page.
AmiDog's Emulation Corner website
ELBOX COMPUTER
MorphOS website
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27.2.2k Fusion V3.4 update CANCELLED
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Paul Lesurf: "We recently announced the availability of V3.4 upgrade for Fusion 68K.
Unfortunately this release is not currently available and we have removed information on
ordering from our site. Anyone who had pre-ordered in the last day or so will not
receive the update and we will inform them by email. If and when this release is
available,it's availability will be announced via Microcode Solutions Website.
We apologise for this error and for any inconvenience caused.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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27.2.2k Alive To Close :-)
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Alive mediasoft Ltd will cease trading on the 6th March... ...and re-open on the 9th March!
They are movin'. Read more
Steven Flowers, Alive Mediasoft
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27.2.2k Unpublished screenshots of The Heretic Fortress 4.0
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Here are four new screenshots of THF 4.0, which are up to now unpublished.
They are of three levels, which up to now did not work (but now they work) and a fourth screenshot of a different level
which worked before already. Status: The port is complete and working, but up to now only on the state of the PC Version
4.0. Steffen Haeuser is confident that he will reach the same state like the PC Version soon, though.
(archive is UU-encoded)
WARP9 website
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26.2.2k Screenshots from The Search for Tao video posted
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26.2.2k Second monthly live chat with Fleecy now on-line
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The transcript of second monthly live chat with Amiga Corp.'s Fleecy Moss, is now
online for reading.
Next live chat will be held on March 29, 2000! (for members only)
AmigaZone website
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26.2.2k GAC Video Conference - Canceled
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It is with regret that I must announce the cancelation of the GAC (Gateway Amiga Club, Inc.)
Video Conference. It was to be held at our meeting on March 1st at Ladue Horton Watkins High
School. The cancelation ONLY affects the video conference on March 1st, not anything else.
Read more
Bob Scharp
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26.2.2k A.C.T. and ISM to cooperate for Multi Media projects
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M.Albrecht, founder and president of A.C.T: "After many years of successful development of audio and MIDI components Martin Endres
perfectly completes our own know how in these areas. Together we will be able to bring customer oriented high end applications and
hardware to a new multi media market. We are looking forward to this cooperation which has already shown to be functioning during
classic Amiga times." Martin Endres, president of ISM: "Only constructive cooperation between developers will give the new
Amiga a chance on the market. Only together we can create a platform with easy to use applications that is truely customer
oriented. I am happy to work with A.C.T. to make this new Amiga platform come alive."
Read more
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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26.2.2k AmigaNutta Still Alive
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26.2.2k Robotics Enters Amiga World
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Robotics Developer Pack (RDP) brings robotics, automation, and animatronics into the Amiga world.
The heart of the RDP is minissc.library which is designed for controlling standard R/C servos
through the popular Mini SSC II serial servo controller.
Download
ICOA website
AMITY website
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25.2.2k Fusion V3.4 is released
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All Fusion users (and those anxiously awaiting the pending PPC release) will be pleased to hear that we have a new upgrade to the 68K version.
This release confirms the continued commitment to the 68K Macintosh emulation, but also provides a number of improvements and enhancements.
Fusion 68K V3.4 is the final
upgrade before the release of the PowerPC upgrade, which is nearing completion.Read more
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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25.2.2k New Amiga Search Engine
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25.2.2k AmigActive Issue 6
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The March 2000 edition of AmigActive magazine (issue 6) is on sale now.
(24.2.2000) In this month's extensive cover feature, AA talk exclusively to Chris Hinsley and Francis Charig - the men
behind Amiga's new OS partner, Tao Group - about their vision for the future of Amiga computing.
AmigActive magazine website
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24.2.2k Met@box News
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Martin Heine posted some Met@box news in c.s.a.m from an interview with Thomas Rudloff (met@box)
printed in the latest issue of the german magazine "amigaOS" concerning information
about 68K emulation and cards availability. Read more
Martin Heine via c.s.a.m
Met@box website
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24.2.2k Amiga WarpOS/3D News
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Ramboy: "At www.w-9.de you can find daily news about warpOS & warp3D.
A big forum specialy about WOS/W3D is online for all those users they have questions, problems or
something like that about warpOS & warp3D. The wARPgATe has a complete new design too."
Ramboy, WARP9
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24.2.2k Diavolo Mailinglist
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24.2.2k OGR-24 has been suspended!
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OGR-24 has been suspended! (clients should automatically revert
to RC5-64) Due to a a bug with endianness some clients returned some bad work and unfortunately there is no solid way to test all
data for this. The contest (24% was already finished!) will be resumed as soon as the bug is fixed. D.Net will also take the
opportunity to add some features like better progress report and smaller work units. There may not be an Amiga client capable of
OGR before resumption. Read more
The Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
distributed.net website
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24.2.2k Software Hut Newsletter
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24.2.2k Software News
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SecondSpin v2.00 by Lauri Ahonen finally
available readme
SecondSpin can easily encode audio cds -> mp1/mp2/mp3 (68k/ppc). BitmapShades V1.6 (22.02.2000) by Stefan
Koch can help you remove flickering stripes from A1200 DblPal-/Multiscan-Screens. Try limited
demo and write to the
author coz BitmapShades is emailware.
SecondSpin homepage
Stefan Koch, DIGITAL Solutions
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23.2.2k AAA Awards: Voting Opened!
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Martin Sahlén: "It's time to cast your votes in the 1999 AAA Awards! This year, we have made some changes to
easen up the procedure, added a Product award - and we are now also represented in the USA! Oh, and yes, it
should be 1999 - for greatest achievements during 1999." Read more
Martin Sahlén, www.aaa-awards.org
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23.2.2k AmigaOS 3.5 Secrets
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Try this: Choose Workbench/About... menu item. Position the about window so that both left and top are odd (for
example position x:1 y:1). Type "Who?" when the window is active (without ""). Click Ok. And finally check RAM:
for something cool :-) Thera are also some hidden messages. Read more
Harry Sintonen via AmigaOS3.5 ML
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23.2.2k AmiJoe pre-order survey
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Metabox will soon release the G3 boards for your Amiga. Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci has created a
page with a survey on which AmiJoe card people are
planning to buy. The survey is unofficial but the results will be send to Metabox!
Philippe 'Elwood' FERRUCCI
Metabox website
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23.2.2k New Website For Ateobus Users
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Joel: "It was today the first upload of this site made for the ateobus users.
Now the userdatabase section and tha mailing list is
operational, they are just waiting for users. Some others sections like a FAQ, a presentation of all cards
available and some technicals documentations will be available soon. Last, you should use V3 or netscape to
browse this site (some pb with aweb for the colors, and ibrowse JS fails). So enjoy"
Joel "falcon-1-" Ehret
Ateo Concepts website
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23.2.2k DCE Website reworked
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The website of DCE has been completely reworked as announced,
and describtions of the products taken over from Phase5 added. DCE have decided not to used large
graphics and frames in order to improve loading speed. DCE will add still more items on the
website and provide a page dedicated to news and repairing. A german page is also planned.
Amiga-News.de website
DCE Computer Service website
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23.2.2k White Knight Launches Online Shop
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22.2.2k Suite101.com - greenboy Interview (Episode 4: A New Hope)
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John Chandler of Suite101.com, in conjunction with Andrej Bunta of Czech publication "Amiga Review",
brings us an interview with Greenboy, Phoenix "facilitator at large". You can learn more about
Phoenix initiative, its purpose, aims, position in current Amiga community. You can read
the fourth and last part of the interview here.
Suite101.com website
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22.2.2k Mozilla page redesigned
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22.2.2k Repulse Problems
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There are some problems with the Repulse mixer. There are two solutions:
1. remove the mixer (so no Amiga-Audio or CD-ROM input will be on the card).
2. use a different audio codec. Some PROS of the new audio codec:
comfortable mixer with adjustable volume for every input
20 bit samples instead of 16 bit for playing
18 bit samples instead of 16 bit for recording
more inputs and it's possible to record from all inputs simultaniously
3D sound The card will be cheaper with the new audio codec.
The delivery will be delayed for 2 to 3 months instead of 6 weeks for the
current version.It's now up to you what we should do. Just use the new
forum to discuss this. REPULSE forum established under
http://pub8.ezboard.com/baliendesign.
Repulse homepage
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22.2.2k Netscape for Neutrino?
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Just lurking thru Mozilla web site, found following text in "friends of
the tree" section: "I would like to nominate neeti@netscape.com I had
this obscure crash on the Neutrino platform and with very little
information she was able to point me to exactly what was wrong. I would
have probably spent a week or more trying to track it down. -- Jerry
Kirk".
Mozilla website
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21.2.2k Tech Head Video Of Tao Interview
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McLellan Wyatt visited CES show in Las Vegas, where he interviewed Graham Nice, Commercial Director of Tao.
The video is now available, although you can't see it on your Amiga, but have to use Linux, Mac or Windows
box to see it, as it is available in Java streaming video format. You can
see "Search the Tao" video here. Amiga friendly
format is under investigation, so if you wish to help author to make it happen, see the
whole announcement here.
Tech Head website
Alan Crandall on Team Amiga ml
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21.2.2k Amiga.org and H&P team up on the web
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Amiga.org and H&P announced today that they will team up to make Amiga.org's Mitchy Resource Retriever
the best possible resource directory and search engine for Amiga-related information, resources, and Web
sites. Mitchy is a powerful Yahoo-like link directory with a search function that includes the number of
hits for each resources, a rating system, Top 10 lists, and much more.
Read more Another news from H&P:
Finally PowerPC software list on
PPCWorld is up-to-date again. The list is
provided by German AmigaPLUS/AmigaOS and assembled by Carsten Schroeder.
Haage & partner website
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21.2.2k Alive: The Pulse Issue 11
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Steven Flowers: "It may be over a week late but we think it's been worth the wait as we have
been hard at work putting together what we think is the best Pulse we have ever done. NEW
cleaner, more polished look, with better review fonts for easier reading. Just
take a look at what's on offer this month in The Pulse..."
Steven Flowers, Alive Mediasoft
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21.2.2k Amiga Oasis Online Update
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Amiga Oasis Online has moved to http://web.ukonline.co.uk/amigaoasis
and has a improved layout. The News section has been updated with news on Games Such as Nightlong, Simon 2, Foundation
DC, and offical confirmation on ports of Pokemon and Sin. Also the Amiga Game Cheats section has been vastly improved.
John Porter, Amiga Oasis Online
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21.2.2k Amiga Rediscovery is Back
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Despite the demise of Amiga Yellow Pages, Amiga nostalgia gaming freaks everywhere will be pleased to know that
Amiga Rediscovery will be back Monday
21st February 2000 @ 7:30 GMT. This month's downloadable Amiga game demo, is the all time classic
platformer, Fury of The Furries. Re-live a bit of Amiga gaming history, go to
http://ayp.amiga.tm and visit Amiga Rediscovery, one of the most original
concepts to hit the Amiga community in years.
Michael Carrillo
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21.2.2k AROS News
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There is a new support page for AROS for PPC Amiga.
It will be the main contact page for people interested in AROS on PPC cards on Amiga hardware and
especially those people who are interested in supporting this by working on it. AROS for PPC
Amiga progress report (18.2.2000).
AROS website
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21.2.2k Just another OS 3.5 review...
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Just in case anyone is still unsure about buying AmigaOS 3.5 there is a short review
with plenty of images and links. Have you already decided ? :-)
Lyndon Hill
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21.2.2k Amiga Update News
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20.2.2k Scalos 1.2b
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Scalos v1.2b is exclusively
available from http://scalos.satanicdreams.com.
Scalos is now freeware, no longer requires a keyfile. v1.3 is still being worked on.
If anybody wishes to code BGUI/Triton/Gadtools/ClassAct/Reaction/whatever versions of modules which have
a GUI then contact SatanicDreams. Currently all new offical
modules are MUI only.
Michael Carter, SatanicDreams
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20.2.2k OS 3.5 FAQ second edition
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19.2.2k Scalos artist
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SatanicDreams are looking for a new flashy looking logo for use in their
Scalos project. It will be used in the 'About' box and on the website, amongst other places. If you feel capable
please send your submissions to scalos@satanicdreams.com.
We cannot offer you any payment but you will get full credit (as would be expected!)
Michael Carter, SatanicDreams
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19.2.2k POKEMON Needs Your Help
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Pokemon is coming to the Amiga, with Crystal Interactive Software
obtaining a Licence to produce an Amiga game based on the Pokemon characters created by Nintendo. However, Andrew Reed
of Crystal Interactive Software has said that although they have a team of talented programmers, artists and musicians
signed to develop the pc version, they don't have an Amiga team yet. CIS is therefore looking for programmers, artists and
musicians to work on the Amiga development, with this a great opportunity for those people who have the necessary skills.
At this stage they do not know what style of gameplay the game will take, but they are looking for people with the
ability to programme in C++ and also knowledge of 3D engines and Power PC. 2D and 3D artists preferably with a liking and
ability to draw to Anime style Pokemon characters. The music needs to be in similar style to the Pokemon series. If
you're interested in the above positions, then e-mail Andrew Reed of
Crystal Interactive Software.
AmigaFlame website
Crystal Interactive Software website
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19.2.2k DJNick's page
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If you are interested in work of ex-clickBOOM musician
check his new personal website.
Might be interesting to read!
Nikola "DJNick" Tomic
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18.2.2k Warp3D v3.0 released
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The changes are mostly internal, new functions in the API, and support for a new feature of the Permedia 2
(Chroma keying). For the user, the archive offers the possibility to use MiniGL compiled programs, like
the upcoming GLQuake. There's also a small MiniGL-compiled demo in the archive, to give you an idea of
what's to come :) But the most important new feature is improved stability.
Get it here.
PPCRulez website
3D World page
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18.2.2k Simon the Sourcerer 2 News
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18.2.2k Squirrel products to be sold and made by Analogic Computers
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18.2.2k AROS News
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The partnership between the Open Amiga Foundation and AROS is now official (Read the press release).
OAF will handle the public side (handle publicity) while AROS will concentrate all its energies on development. To avoid infringing patents,
the menu code for AROS has been changed. Menus now look more modern plus they open under the mouse (like a context menu). For the desperate,
the old look is still available :-) Also, Michael Schulz has committed a big chunk of code for AROS i386/native. There is now a VGA.HIDD, AROS
can open a workbench screen. There are still some bugs to be ruled out, but it looks very promising. Lastly for today, Stefan Berger has
committed about 20 new applications from fish disks (cfn, aroach, windowtool, touch, shuffle, memomaster, memeter, lyr-o-mat, gooddouble, eval,
egypt and memsnap). Some still don't do something useful but they show that porting apps to AROS is really simple.
AROS website
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18.2.2k Schatztruhe News
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Aminet CD 35 now available. Dated February 2000,
contains nearly 1 gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in thousands of archives. Since the release of Aminet
34 over 500 MB new software has appeared. The current edition includes a limited special edition of the
astronomy software Digital Almanac II. PhotoFolio V2
should be available by the end of February 2000.
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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18.2.2k AmChat for free!
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Jerome Fisher: "[...] For quite some time I ceased working on AmChat out of sheer disgust for
the people who pirated it before it had even been officially released. Now I'm on my way back to
Australia, and things are going to change. I'll have a lot of spare time to finish off the next
AmChat release once I get back, so you can expect it to be out next month. A taster of the
improvements:
- Chat (including multi-user chat) with full support for text styles and IRC-style mode
- Redesigned event display
- More complete user info
- Full logging and history
- Asynchronous file transfer
- Extensive preferences
And best of all... It will be free!
Vapor Team .plans page
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18.2.2k Software News
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FBlit v3.56e - allows you to move some graphics and related
functions into fastram instead chipram. Essential for AGA users!
AmigaAMP 2.8 BETA-3 - MPEG audio player for Amiga.
The playlist dragging bug introduced in v2.8b1 should be gone now. Also, I've changed the config save format to
plain, readable text instead of binary. Not all options in this new config system are supported by the built in config
editor yet but you can change them manually. Beware! Older versions can't read this new config file.
Scalos ExecuteCommand.module v1.1.
'Offical' Scalos website under construction.
FBlit homepage
AmigaAMP website
SatanicDreams website
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17.2.2k STRICQ: Surprise
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The current source code to STRICQ is hereby released
under the GNU Public License. Doug is NOT stopping development of STRICQ. He is starting
development of version 2.0 of STRICQ (called STRICQ+) and hereby skipping version 1.0
Read more
Douglas McLaughlin, STRICQ
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17.2.2k intentTM Font System For Tao's Digital Heaven
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The Tao Group has today provided further proof of its continuing drive and success in making its intentTM
digital content engine and toolkit the very best the industry can offer in terms of quality, footprint,
performance, flexibility, and portability. This has come in the form of the announcement of Tao's intent
Font System. Tao executives believe their font system will further position their software as the
standard content foundation for networked digital appliances. You can
read the whole announcement here.
Tao Group website
Gary Peake
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17.2.2k Magazine articles online
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Over the past years dhomas trenn has been writing for various magazines including: NewTekniques,
CU Amiga, and Amiga Informer. Many of his articles are online in the 'who nose?: reference'
section of the young monkey studios website. It's
FREE so come check it out!
dhomas trenn
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17.2.2k Interview with Jester
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17.2.2k Visual Engineering - Visual Alpha News
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Again already registered users of plugins for Image Engineer
benefit from free updates. This time there's new effects in Visual Alpha. Think about it. You can jump on board anytime
you want to, but probably timing matters. Special offer days once in a month are good days for registering. Shortly,
register once and get free updates for lifetime.
Read more
Marko Seppänen, Wision
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16.2.2k Paraglide Status Report
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VT: "ParaGlide - the 3D add-on module for PIV. Thanks for your feedback! Two external layouters
are working now on the ParaGlide PCB. We hope the layout is finished until 2000-03-16, in the middle of
March. The following prototype production will take 3 weeks. If we are lucky and there are no errors in
the PCB, these prototypes will be fully functional and the complete set of manufacturing data can be
reused for mass production. In this best case the mass production ParaGlides could start shipping
end of April 2000. But any errors in the first prototype PCB will cause a 3 to 4 weeks delay.
Thanks for your patience!"
Bill Toner
Village Tronic website
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16.2.2k Open Amiga Foundation And AROS Announce Strategic Relationship
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16.2.2k Magazyn Amiga is back
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After a long pause polish Magazyn Amiga is striking again. New issue is now available, but... there will be no longer paper magazines.
Magazyn Amiga will be available monthly, but on CD only. You can read it with any browser (HTML version) or with Amiga Guide (text
version). This issue is dated February 2000, and contains materials from the never printed issue 9/99 and new articles (i.e.
ImageFX4.x, Photogenics 4.x and Ebox reviews, interview with Bjoern Lynne (Dr. Awesome), instructions for Cyberstorm PPC overclocking
and more). Magazyn Amiga on CD is in polish, but if will be demands - english version can be created too...
Marek Pampuch
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16.2.2k Warp PPC Station
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Check the Warp PPC Station - page intended specially
to support Amiga PPC effort in general. Fresh News, Questionnaire, Solutions, Links, Hardware, Software
and other sections cover complete support for every PPC Amiga user.
"Warp3D V3 is beeing finished these days. A new release of WarpUp is also beeing worked on, mainly to support PPC projects which require features or bugs beeing fixed."
Domagoj Ozanic, Warp PPC Station
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16.2.2k New Drivers
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The latest versions of software for ELBOX FastATA (PowerFlyer/Winner) High Speed EIDE controller
for A1200/A4000 and for the 4xEIDE'99 buffered interface are now available:
FastATA'99 v5.2 (for A1200)
FastATA4000 v20 (for A4000)
EIDE'99 v3.0 (for 4xEIDE)
Ivo janacek, Javosoft
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15.2.2k Suite101.com - greenboy Interview (Part 3 of 4)
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John Chandler of Suite101.com, in conjunction with Andrej Bunta of Czech publication "Amiga Review",
brings us an interview with Greenboy, Phoenix "facilitator at large". You can learn more about
Phoenix initiative, its purpose, aims, position in current Amiga community. You can read
the third part of the interview here.
Suite101.com website
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15.2.2k Repulse website updated
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New features for the REPULSE sound card are S/P-DIF optical input and "Feature Connector" for extentions.
Due good interest no pre-orders are needed and card will be sold by distributors and not directly by
developers. The end-user price will probably a bit higher than 130 EUR because of the S/P-DIF input.
A well-known Amiga hardware developer will manufacture the card and will do the hardware support.
Current production status: ordered the final prototype.
Repulse website
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15.2.2k Scalos News
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Scalos v1.x will now be FREEWARE!
Satanic Dreams will try and get a re-packaged v1.2a released soon (lets hope).
SatanicDreams website
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15.2.2k Software Hut's newsletter
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Here is information on the latest specials and news tidbits
from Software Hut. Also a really special price for a well off 1200 configuration. Looking for the hard to find
Delfina-Plus, get your pre-order in now for the next shipment.
Amiga.org website
Software Hut website
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14.2.2k Amiga and H&P announce a path towards the future
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14.2.2k AmiTech Advertising Project - A Progress report
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Well, its been one week since we first put the word out about our attempt to give Amiga businesses
the chance to get their ad in our newsletter which will be given to the attendees at the upcoming
A2K show in St Louis. All I can say is so far is WOW! We received inquiries almost immediately
and all were extremely positive! Read more
Len Carsner, AmiTech Dayton Amiga Users Group
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14.2.2k World of Amiga 2000: Don't book your holidays!
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Once again, the UK will be the centre of Amiga attention this summer. The giant World Of Amiga machine
has been activated once again, and the wheels are turning! While we are awaiting confirmation of the
exact dates, we can confirm that the show will be happening in late June/early July. This should give
overseas visitors ample time to pop across the pond to visit the fabulous
AmiWest show on 29th and 30th July as well!
Read more
Andrew Elia, AmigaSoc
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14.2.2k CIS's Pokemon PC game Converted to Amiga
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Crystal Interactive Software's dedication to Amiga gamers has taken another step further with Amiga Flame
able to exclusively report that Crystal Interactive Software has reached a deal to covert Pokemon to the
Amiga. The Pokemon craze has been racing throughout the country for the last few months with Pokemon the
game becoming a smash hit on the Nintendo 64. Alex de Vries, President and CEO of Crystal Interactive
Software has also confirmed that this major title will be available in the shops in dual format.
To find out all about this great news, read the exclusive Press Release
sent to Amiga Flame.
Amiga Flame website
Crystal Interactive Software website
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14.2.2k Fleecy Speaks On AmigaZone.
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14.2.2k Valentines Day
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Check the Exotica amusing valentines day logo. Enjoy :-)
BuZz, Exotica
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14.2.2k Project OGR
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On Tuesday, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:00 UTC distributed.net will officially
begin working on the search for the Optimal 24-mark Golomb Ruler. Clients and proxies that are capable of
working on OGR are already available for most platforms. Since there is no Amiga client capable of OGR yet,
we can't completely switch to it, but you could switch with any other machines if you wish. Make sure to
upgrade to the latest clients, some problems were solved in the recent updates and of course OGR was added.
Amiga RC5 team effort article and interview with Thomas Tavoly -
"Cracken und Hacken ganz legal - Das RC5-Projekt by Robbie Schäfer (english version).
The Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
OGR page
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14.2.2k Transmeta don't plan 68k support
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Black Hand says he repeatedly mailed Transmeta
to enquire about 68k emulation support, or the posibility to access and modifiy the morphing code. Here's what
Frank Priscaro replied: "Supporting the Amiga was something that we considered early on,
but had to drop because all of our resources needed to be focused on the Linux and x86 markets. We have no plans at this time to
support the 68K family of processors."
ANN website
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14.2.2k Foundation News
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Here is the long awaited demo version of Foundation Directors Cut v1.27. The online Manual is included
with the archive although it does not cover Demo specific issues, it is targeted at the full
commercial version. These archives are freely distributable by any means.
FoundationDC_Demo.lha - 4.9mb - Demo in LHA format
FoundationDC_Demo.lzx - 4.7mb - Demo in LZX format
The recommended system for this version is 030/50 (or faster) with at least 8Meg of fast ram, AGA
or CyberGFX/P96 compatible GFX card and at least 32Meg of Hard Drive space. High resolution modes (640x480
or larger) are not recommended without 060 and a fast graphics card. Medium resolution (640x256) has been
provided for AGA users who want to play with more graphic detail although 040/40 or faster is recommended
for that size.
Foundation homepage
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14.2.2k Software News
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'pre4' CGX V4.2 _UPDATE_ archive is now available.
The only changes are the CGX prefs program, with properly working USEROXXLER setting
read from tooltype, before it was read inversed.
SecondSpin v1.99Beta.
readme
If you'll find any bugs, write to author ASAP, coz he is
now finishing v2.0 (AMINET release).
VGR.COM website
SecondSpin homepage
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13.2.2k How to tower an A4000
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Glenn Hisdal: "I have just finished making a guide on how to put an A4k desktop into a PC tower.
I used a different method than what was described in an
earlier guide on the subject.
The new guide can be found here."
The most important thing when you want to tower A4000, is to have one :-)
Glenn Hisdal
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13.2.2k ALIVE News
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Descent 2 for Amiga should be out in two weeks! Marathon 2 will be the next game ported to our Miggy.
Read the latest Alive Mediasoft press release.
Steven Flowers, Alive Mediasoft
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13.2.2k Upcoming STRICQ Announcement
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Doug: "I have made an important decision concerning STRICQ's future development. That decision
will be announced on my webpage next weekend.
Don't be too concerned. I am NOT announcing that I will stop developing STRICQ. In fact,
I think most people will see this announcement as good news. Also, this has nothing to do
with Mirabilis or AOL." (Just to stop rumours flaying around)
Douglas McLaughlin via STRICQ ML
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13.2.2k Fleecy on development team training
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Fleecy Moss: "Just to let you all know. I am in Seattle at the moment
for a third round of training with our new development team. 4 weeks ago, 4 of the Amiga team were
trained. Last week 3 more were trained, along with 2 guys from an Amiga company that is a strategic
partner. This week, 5 more of the development team is being trained. In 3 weeks time, the final training
will occur with our last member, and 3 or 4 ppl from at least 2 Amiga companies that are also strategic
partners. The entire team will be introduced once the training is finished, and the strategic partners
will be announced. Things are happening."
ANN website
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13.2.2k Ali Baba
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It's the name of new Amiga platform adventure game from Medici team in which Ali Baba seeks the secret caves where the infamous
Forty Thieves have hidden their treasures. Check the screenshots page
or get the demo. (readme)
Ali Baba is available for sale by mail order.
Medici website
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13.2.2k DCE Interview REVISION
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[...- DCE takes over the repair service for these products. Owners of older cards need to make itself thus no concerns here...]
According to Petra Struck DCE WILL also REPAIR older cards like Blizzards 1220/1230,
Cyberstorms MK1/MK2 and others! DCE is in Gemrany well known as the biggest service-center for Amiga-hardware.
Petra Struck
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12.2.2k Aminet Hunter
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AmigaSoc UK is proud to present Aminet Hunter.
Aminet Hunter is probably the most
advanced Aminet search engine on the Internet. Designed with the same technology
that many commercial websites employ, speed, power, efficiency, and ease of use are
guaranteed. Originally scheduled for launch at World Of Amiga '99, the project
has been held back due to various other commitments we've had. We firmly believe
that you'll agree it's been worth the wait!
Try it now!
Andrew Elia, AmigaSoc
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12.2.2k AOL TV environment dead ringer for AmigaSoft OE
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From the new electronic programming qualities to the mutatably transparent interfaces to the new systems
for interactive graphics, AOL's AOL TV set-top environment so far looks to be everything Gateway's
AmigaSoft OE was. Perhaps not surprising given AOL's $800 million deal with Gateway and technology
partnerships. The first set-tops come out this summer and will be made by Philips.
Read full story.
Amiga.org website
C|net news.com website
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12.2.2k UGN-Times released
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David Crawford: "The UGN-Times, an American Disk Magazine, has been released
to the dealers today (Feb. 11, 2000). The disk should be available from dealers this weekend, maybe even today!"
So far these dealers have recieved the first issue: Anti-Gravity, Randomize, NationalAmiga, FWDComputing, Turtle
Lightning Amiga Software, SoftwareHut, AmiTrix, Easyupgrades & a few more, please check with your favorite dealer.
If they do not have The UGN-Times have them email the Editor.
Check our LINKS page for dealer's URLs.
ANN website
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12.2.2k News: Image Engineer and Visual Engineering
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12.2.2k Alive Mediasoft Require Your Thoughts
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Alive Mediasoft is expanding The Pulse,
with the next edition having more news, a Hints and Tips section along with a Letters page. Steven
Flowers of Alive Mediasoft has asked Amiga Flame for a bit of help this issue. The problem they have
is simple, as they have just opened a Letters section; they need some letters to fill it. Alive
Mediasoft would like people to e-mail them with
your thoughts, questions and comments on anything either Alive Mediasoft or Amiga related. They would
be happy to talk about technical problems, concerns for the future of the Amiga, questions about future
releases, stuck on a game and anything else. Steven Flowers also emphasized that Alive Mediasoft "would
also be pleased to hear any interesting news from users about what they're up to, maybe a small Amiga
event they want us to put in the news section."
Amiga Flame page
Alive Mediasoft website
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12.2.2k FUSION PPC News
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MS: "There have been problems (bugs) discovered in the WARP OS software. We are working with
the authors of this software to resolve the problems so we can finalize FUSION-PPC for the
Amiga! Work is progressing well, except for this stumbling block, which will be resolved
shortly!! We understand that everyone wants this emulation, and we will complete this
project!!"
Thomas Lorenz
Microcode Solutions website
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11.2.2k AllegroCDFS 3.0
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ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to offer AllegroCDFS 3.0. It's the fastest Amiga CD filesystem.
AllegroCDFS is 2 to 4 times faster than any another Amiga CD filesystems.
Read more
Darek Smietana, ELBOX COMPUTER
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11.2.2k Interview with Thomas Dellert of DCE
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In an interview with Thomas Dellert from DCE stated that
- BlizzardPPC will be available in 2 months, BVision and CVisionPPC will be available in 2 weeks.
- DCE takes over the repair service for these products. Owners of older cards need to make itself thus no concerns here.
- We already acquired the exclusive rights at the products in April 1999. We do not pay royalties at P5. rather the rights by a unique payment were acquired. Perfect contracts exist. The availability of the products is secured.
- I had 2 days ago a meeting with Ralph Schmidt and franc Mariak. We are us united to co-operate in the future very closely. There will be new software updates for these boards.
- a Permedia3 based BVisionPPC, CVisionPPC is planned for current boards. Frank Mariak (CGX) will create the drivers.
- With the entire technical Know How of the company Phase5 we have now a powerful package. For the time being however only as dual CPU solution.
- Whether we decide for a G4 project, I cannot say at present however yet.
english translation
Amigart website
Amiga-News.de website
DCE Computer Service GmbH website
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11.2.2k Get Fusion and PCx
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This months AFCD contains Fusion 3.1 and PCx 1.1, the same package as you'd get free
with Fusion PPC or if you bought the pack previously. Check the Fusion and realize
how great it is. You will then maybe interested in purchase or pre-order
Fusion PPC :-)
Andrew Barker via Fusion ML
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11.2.2k CGX 4.2 pre3
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'pre3' CGX V4.2 _UPDATE_ archive is now available.
The only changes are TI/3DLabs drivers "returns 8 bits per gun instead of 6 bits per
gun" and 'update installer' now make the OS3.5 CGX prefs tool if that option is selected.
VGR.COM website
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11.2.2k Total Impact Announces Co-Development Partnership with LinuxPPC
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Hardware developer Total Impact announces their partnership with
LinuxPPC,Inc. Two companies will work together to port Linux into
Total Impact's multiprocessor PPC motherboards. Total Impact's powerful motherboards are based on P.O.P
(PPC Open Platform) architecture that can run up to 13 PPC processors at the same time.
That's significant for amiga community too.
Amigart website
Total Impact
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11.2.2k Jobs @ Pagan
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Pagan Games is an ever expanding development group. They started up a little over 2 years ago,
the last year and a half under a commercial contract with their long term partners,
Epic Marketing website. With their partner, they
are able to master, duplicate, package and distribute games world-wide for Amiga and Mac
platforms. They are looking for: GUI / AI coders, Amiga PPC coders and Mac coders.
Read more
Pagan Games website
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11.2.2k Isn't it easy? EASys!
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EASys! sets new standards in terms of usage of Amiga computers.
Especially users of the actual Workbench 3.5 will see EASys! as an ultimate enhancement for the current system update.
But not only for those, EASys! is also in daily use on OS3.1 and SCALOS systems empowering their usability and giving
them a totally new value. 100% OS3.5 compatible!
EASys!
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11.2.2k AROS News
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Aaron Digulla: "We have begun to move contributed software (for example, examples from Fish disks and Aminet,
the small and big games) outside of AROS. These things have now their own graph (that's why
the size of AROS became smaller last week) and the code is in AROS-contrib.
There is progress on the AROS i386/native front. A very basic VGA.HIDD has been written plus some additional
stuff (timer, trackdisk, etc)."
AROS homepage
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10.2.2k Cable TV Show 2000 in Calcutta, India
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From 27 - 29 January, Amiga International, Inc. attended one of the biggest Cable TV Shows in Calcutta, India.
Just like last year, it was another full success. This time, there were four more AMIGA booths apart from the
main one. Monarch Video and Agani PTY from Mumbai as well as Abishek Enterprise from Calcutta and
Rajan Electronics from Delhi also had booths at this exhibition. There were lots of visitors from
neighbouring Bangladesh, the coming market where the Amiga will gain shares of the cable TV market.
In a TV interview, Petro Tyschtschenko explained why AMIGA is so popular in the Indian market and what
solution it means for the TV market. Amiga International, Inc. plans to participate in this important event
again next year. Read more
Amiga website
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10.2.2k More phase5
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greenboy: "phase 5's insolvency should have very little impact on Phoenix or
QNX plans. As it was, they were not able to proceed with their announced Amiga-oriented
intentions. But Neutrino's hardware needs are in no way dependent on phase 5. So the only effect will be within a small
portion of the public which still believes phase 5 is the keystone, when in fact it is not. The
interviews I've done attempt to clarify those misperceptions and
are reaching a large print and web readership. Whether phase 5 will be reborn under a different guise remains to be seen."
Ralph Schmidt wrote in comp.sys.amiga.misc: "The last Phase5's Amiga products are and will be continued by
DCE." He also points out that he's not employed by Phase5, does not own any part of
Phase5 and therefore is not responsible for any of this.
Squid's Amiga Page & Rumor Mill
ANN website
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10.2.2k Bye Phase5...
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Dundar Unsal: "Great majority of us used/are using your cards,
you became the symbol of bravery in Amiga world by producing extensions for our Amigas and carry them
up to PPC technology that is still unbelievable to many. We saw many Phase5 acts that are strange to
a just a hardware/sofware producing company, there were always something beyond profiting, an amigan
spirit. Amigart say bye to Phase5." Send farewell To Phase5.
Dundar Unsal, Amigart website
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10.2.2k The Latest Amiga News from Epic
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Table of Contents:
1. Why are we not in Amiga Format?
2. The biggest ever CD ROM offer
3. Latest on Simon 2
4. We stock Alive,s products
5. Do not forget your gold card
6. Download Demos
Answers here!
Epic Marketing website
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10.2.2k New demo and homepage for HomeLand
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10.2.2k Amiga4Ever Magazine
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Amiga4Ever Magazine (in paper) is now out for every Amiga owner in Norway. For about £30 a year,
you will receive a magazine or just a news letter every other week.
Amiga.org website
Amiga4Ever website
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10.2.2k Boxer News
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Blittersoft have updated their BoXer page
to reflect the Boxer status update. Mick Tinker: "There is a new prototype currently in production, it will be back
for development to continue in just over 2 weeks. There haven't been many major changes to the specification since it
was last update. Even when the board is back there the laborious task of powering it up in stages, developing
additional logic to support features and making sure everything works as intended. I am expecting 2-3 months of
development time from when the board is back in my hands before it is at the stage where it can be release for
production."
ANN website
Blittersoft website
Access Innovation website
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10.2.2k VBF - Alchimy - Chess Mania
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"I am Tamascelli Stefano president and manager of XTeam Software Solution, I inform you that "Virtual Ball Fighters"
should be on one CD, in order to put it at a midrange price. We have nearly completed the development of
Alchimy Laboratory Junior, a multimediale chemistry software (experiments), you can find one movie
here (needs a MPEG player).
The development of Chess Mania begun, for now we are defining some characteristics of the product, you can find
some screenshot here
and there.
The demo should be online between 2/3 months."
Tamascelli Stefano, XTeam Software Solution
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10.2.2k CGX 4.2 pre1
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'pre' CGX V4.2 _UPDATE_ archive is now available. This update, like all 4.x updates requires
your CGX V4 CDROM to use as a base for patching upto the 4.2 files. Just to name a few new features... KEEPAMIGAVIDEO now works, you can turn this
on and have both the Amiga display and the GFX card(s) display updated at the same time. There is FUZZYFONTFIX for Spectrum, PicassoII(+), Piccolo
owners. Bars&Pipes Pro 2.5b 'workaround'. Along With Pixel64 support.
VGR.COM website
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10.2.2k The Aminet GUI in English
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The Aminet GUI is now available also in English. This is enabled by on-line.
With the call of the Aminet GUI can be selected now at the Intro screen between German and englicher version.
For the future further languages are planned. Who knows good on-line of German or English into other languages,
please write to AmiNET@LXK.FindHere.COM. I would be pleased also
about suggestions for further languages.
The Aminet GUI page
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9.2.2k Fax from Phase 5 dated 02/09/2000 14.43 h
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Oberursel, 02/09/2000: On January 26., 2000 application for insolvency was made about the property
of phase 5 digital production, and the application proceedings has been established by a decee made by
the competent county court at the same day. During the regular application procedure there are
negotiations about assumption, and continuation of the Amiga technology field with among others
prospective buyers. By that, continuation of the current development and products shall be attained,
espacially as for the new G4 acceleration boards.
Every customer who did product preordering from and product prepayment to phase5 digital products will
become informed about their objective rights in writing, once the insolvency proceeding will be established.
Phase 5 Insolvenzantrag gestellt (german)
Amiga-News.de website
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9.2.99 clickBOOM's S-File n.3
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Sofia saw the first alpha version of Nightlong Amiga! At the moment the whole game works,
but it's not finished yet. There are still some things to be fixed and optimized. For
example, Nightlong is so big that it's proving very hard to squeeze it all even on 3 CDs!
Once all of the final things are fixed it will be time for beta testing. That's where
clickBOOM will need you. If you want to be a beta tester, let them know (only users who
preordered Nightlong are eligible for beta testing). One bad news is that
NightLong will be released a bit later
than expected. S-File 3
clickBOOM website
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9.2.2k Randomize Inventory Clear-Out
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8.2.2k Suite101.com - greenboy Interview (Part 2 of 4)
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8.2.2k AmigaMozilla News
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James Russell chatted very briefly on IRC with Netscapians/Mozillans regarding a port, read their
advice on the developer page.
The NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime) API is the place to start, and so now we have a starting
point. NSPR DOCS,
SOURCE (If you want to chat
with Mozillans, too, to ask them questions, etc., just point your IRC client to irc.mozilla.org
and join the #mozilla group. If you find any interesting info,
e-mail it to James so he can post it to AmigaMozilla
page that we all might benefit from it.
AmigaMozilla page
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8.2.2k AROS News
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There is progress on the AROS i386/native front. A very basic VGA.HIDD has been written plus some additional stuff (timer, trackdisk, etc).
Code for Menus has been comitted. Unlike on the Amiga, Menus are handled by a normal task which gets all input events as long as the user
presses the right mousebutton. Therefore, menus don't block, they are very easily enhanced and the input handler is much more simple.
And if blocking menus ever become an issue, this can added on a per-program basis by looking for RMB down/up.
AROS homepage
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7.2.2k Counter is back! Links Page Improved!
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After looong time counters are finally back!
HTML code fixed. "How to use" this page in progress :-)
Check our improved links page (click on 'LINKS' button in the right column or 'LINKS'
from menu on the top of the page). If you find any site missing there or some bad entry inside let us know, please.
Any ideas, comments... ? We are looking for somebody
who can help us create the biggest Amiga links page here :-)
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7.2.2k Corel to buy Inprise/Borland
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7.2.2k New muFS
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Multiuser is the continuation of the Multiuser Filesystem (muFS),
and provides UNIX style security for AmigaOS - preventing people from accessing private/secret/sensitive
files or deleting files they shouldn't. Multiuser was originally developed by Geert Uytterhoeven and is
currently being maintained and developed by Wez Furlong, Johan Eriksson and Richard Smith.
The current incarnation of Multiuser (version 1.8) has been around for some time, and does it's job very well.
It does have a couple of inconsistencies with the rest of the UNIX world that make it a bit of a pain to cater
for, if you are porting UNIX code. Multiuser 2 will remove these inconsitencies, and extend the multiuser system
to integrate with networking software ...
Multiuser page
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7.2.2k Executive Update Updated
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The Executive update
from 3rd February was revised in some points:
"We will soon be starting official meetings in Europe, the UK, and the US for developers and dealers.
This will include introductory training seminars for the new OS, and introductions to the retail
pricing and schedules. We will also begin the process of introducing the new web site, and putting
the Amiga Advisory Council to work."
Amiga-News.de website
Amiga website
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6.2.2k fxPAINT Demo Available
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Due to the great demand, Innovative have decided to develop a demoversion of fxPAINT.
The result can now be downloaded. The demoversion has nearly all features of the full version
apart from those, that allow you to save and print images. The PPC-support is untouched from these limitations.
Innovative website
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6.2.2k Games News
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Peter Verswyvelen created several Amiga games in the past. Do you remember Deliverance ?
Now you can get Ziriax
and Zarathrusta for free.
Deliverance will be the next...
Pagan are happy to announce 2 new members of staff. Axiom will be working on in-game gfx for
Dafel: Bloodline and Psycho (from scene group Loonies) will be joining the Magick development
team in creating the 3D game engine.
The new version 2.0 of the freeware game HBMonopoly is now available. It can connect upto
eight Amigas for a network Monopoly game. Official
HBmonopoly website opened.
FreeCiv v1.7 (05.02.00) -
native Amiga Compile of Freeciv (Civilization clone).
Peter Verswyvelen's homepage
Pagan Games website
Holger Beer
Sebastian Bauer's homepage
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5.2.2k Eriol USB status
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The design of the Eriol control logic has progressed steadily during january. Entering february the first fullscale test
simulation of the control logic is about to begin. The Eriol project has also run into some trouble, which may delay the
project... Read more
Thomas Graff Thøger, TigerTronics
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5.2.2k Central AmigaMozilla page
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Anyone who has any interest in coding Amiga Mozilla should go directly to the AmigaMozilla homepage
and sign up to have their name, info (expertise, code interests, already begun projects, etc.,) and e-mail posted up on the site so that others can
contact you and we can start coordinating some actual code development. The final Moz code is said to be about 3 percent dependent on OS, so it can't
be THAT hard to port Mozilla to Amiga.
AmigaNation News page
AmigaMozilla page
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5.2.2k Epic Marketing News
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Epic Marketing have announced the availability of Tales From Heaven on their revamped website.
The game takes you into a 3D world a la Mario 64 where you have to get your kitten back from
whatever evil antagonist that comes your way. It requires a 030 with 8 MB of RAM, supports AGA
and graphics cards, and can be ordered online for 89 DM.
On another note, Epic are definitely going ahead with Simon The Sorcerer 2 and ask you to
preorder the game, which has the exact specifications and price as the former.
Amigart website
Epic Marketing website
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4.2.2k Bill McEwen in Live Interactive Video Conference
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Amiga Inc's President and CEO, Bill McEwen, will speak at GAC meeting March 1st. A live interactive
video conference will be conducted. Mr McEwen will discuss the "OS for the 21st Century" and
demonstrate some "new stuff". Read more
Bob Scharp
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4.2.2k Eternity 20.000th Visitor Special
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Eternity are awaiting 20.000th visitor on their homepage. As a small bonus the 20.000th visitor will get a fast IDE-controller or one of
the current AMIGA games. So send them your screenshot of the Eternity startpage
including the webtracker, the number counted on the right bottom of the language-related page (Visitor German/English/Netherlands) and
the used browser. And tell them a bit more about your person and Amiga-config and the price you´d like to get. Good luck!
Eternity website
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4.3.2k Village Tronic Is Alive!
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But they did not found the excellent hard- and software developers they were looking for in 1999. That means they had to concentrate
the workforce they have on the top priority projects. Unfortunately, the ParaGlide is not a top priority. The good news is that despite
of these concentrations the ParaGlide project still has not been canceled, because the developers coming from the Amiga did reject to
cancel it. They are looking for a ParaGlide fan who is an experienced PCB layouter and uses the Protel layout system. The schematic is
ready in Protel, and the positions of the connectors are fixed on the PCB. But the PCB has to be layouted, that means 8 EDO-DRAM 40pin,
1 PQFP240, 1 PQFP208, 1 QFP100 and some small stuff. If you are interested in helping the ParaGlide project, send email to their
Amiga support. The software side is organized already.
Bill Toner
Village Tronic website
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4.2.2k External MP3 Decoder
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The Storm MP3/e is an MPEG audio decoder specifically designed to
allow machines that dont have the power to play MPEG files to do so. The unit incoroprates state of the art
components and many features not available in a unit of this price. Storm MP3/e allows a standard Amiga 500, PC286
or Archimedies to play MP3 files with ease. The unit is compatible with any system fitted with a parralell printer
port and is supplied with drivers for PC and Amiga use.
AmigaCentral Magazine website
Activ Logic homepage
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3.2.2k Feburary Executive Update
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3.2.2k Monthly Live Chats With Fleecy Moss
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AmigaZone, the online service for Amiga owners founded in 1985 by Harv Laser,
is pleased to announce that it has scheduled a monthly live chat with Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Product
Development for the new Amiga Corp. All AmigaZone members are invited to attend
these chats, an toss those burning questions at Fleecy.
Amiga.org website
AmigaZone website
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3.2.2k Diavolo Update
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Finally! We are able to ship the latest version of Diavolo Backup. Some words on the handling of distribution. Diavolo Backup 2000 will only be
available as Pro version (71,07 Euro), or for the DraCo as Terra version (152,36 Euro).
If you have a DB Standard Version, the update is 25.56 Euro.
If you have a DB Pro version, the update is 12.78 Euro.
If you have a DraCo Terra version, the update is 12.78 Euro.
If you have a DB Pro version and need Terra, the update is 81.30 Euro (DraCo only).
The update is send out as lha file. The update and support can only be handled by e-mail for now. The update has to be payed by credit card or Eurocheque. Other ways of payment are NOT available. The first shipping will take place on Friday, February 4th, 2000.
To order your update bindingly: e-mail to info@crevico.com containing the following data:
Order:
Full Name:
Serial Nr. of your previous DB:
I pay by credit card, card nr., date of expiry:
My e-mail address:
I pay by cheque.
Amiga-News.de website
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3.2.2k ALIVE: Quake PPC News
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Steven Flowers: Since Xmas, we have been announcing details of the imminent release of Quake PPC.
To keep you updated, I'm please to say that the work is progressing very well. We will soon be
able to start bundling Amiga Quake with this new version.
So what can you expect to be included with Quake PPC?
Quake 68k, Quake PPC, GL Quake (support for 3d gfx card owners), Quake World (internet play)
PSX joypad support, and much much more...
Read more
Steven Flowers, ALIVE Mediasoft
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3.2.2k Digital Images Job Vacancy
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Stuart Walker: "There is currently a job vacancy for a C++ programmer to work on Space Station 3000.
You will require knowledge with GUI programming and AI. At present, the position will be payed on
royalties, but within the next few months, we will be looking at providing monthly payments to
senior members of the company as well as having them working full time with us in Los Angeles.
If anybody is interested, please contact Stuart Walker directly via e-mail on
djstu@byke.com."
Stuart Walker, Digital Images
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3.2.2k amiga-news.de now with Amiga Link Directory (ALD)
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amiga-news.de opened the new Amiga Link Directory (ALD) for the public on 23.1.2000.
The new directory`s aim is to become THE directory for AMIGA-pages.
Innovative, a software-company based
in Herzogenaurach/Germany developed the required technology for this exciting
enterprise. Read more (english/german).
Amiga-News.de website
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2.2.2k AmiTech Project for A2K Show
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This year, AmiTech has deceided to take its usual newsletter and open it to advertising from all
vendors-services-websites that cater to Amiga people. It is our desire to create a mini
directory of who is still around to support the Amiga. We hope it will be something every Amiga
user will keep next to his computer much like a phone directory is kept next to a phone.
We would appreciate any help you can give us by spreading the word about our project and/or
placing an ad with us. Complete press release.
Len Carsner, AmiTech Dayton Amiga Users Group
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2.2.2k Boing Bag 2 in a month?
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Boing Bag 2 may be ready till end of February or even a little bit later cause Jochen Becher
also has to work on AmigaWriter V2 and also Olaf Barthel is quite occupied.
Martin Steigerwald via amigaOS3_5 ML
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2.2.2k Haage & partner News
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Today H&P opened their new online shop. It is in German only by now but English version should be ready in a few days.
If you alredy want to have a look: online shop.
The next days H&P expect visitor no. 555.555 on their homepage. Be there and win an ArtEffect or AmigaWriter...
Read more
Haage & partner website
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2.2.2k Burnit v2.65
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Burnit v2.65 released! New features:
BurnIt is the first and only Amiga CD-Recording package which supports DAO 2448 Mode, well kown as CD+G copy mode.
This mode enables 100% copies of any CD you like. There are no longer any restriction you can create a backup of every CD.
Burnit easy read and writes digital ID`s, the new writing routines are able to copy all 8 subchannels and P-W!!
But pay attention that only a very limited number of CD-Recorders support this mode e.g. Mitsumi 4802 or Plextor 820
(you need a special CD-Rom drive for reading 2448byte datas, see BurnIT guide for further details)!
- Also you can create your Audio CD with your own special CD-Text informations.
- Open session mode for creating Audio CD part by part (TAO).
- New or reworked drivers for Mitsumi4802, Yamaha6416, Yamaha8416, Plextor8220, Ricoh7040 and many more.
- CD-cover printout with CD-Text support (Pagestream3 or greater required).
- AmigaOS 3.5 support upto 100 characters per file name possible.
- New and advanced read/write settings for individual handling e.g. Gap-Creation, special Error-Recover
routines and many more. - CD-Text support read and write (your CD-recorder must support this feature).
- Full access to large internet AudioCD database for archiving and managing your Audio CD`s.
Updates from BurnIt Version 2.5 or 2.6 are free by Email shipment, Snailmail shipping takes DM 15.-,
updates from v2.x cost DM 50.- plus shipping.
Titan Computer website
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1.2.2k Suite101.com - greenboy Interview (Part I)
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John Chandler of Suite101.com, in conjunction with Andrej Bunta of Czech publication "Amiga Review",
brings us an interview with Greenboy, Phoenix "facilitator at large". You can learn more about
Phoenix initiative, its purpose, aims, position in current Amiga community. You can
read the article here.
Suite101.com website
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1.2.2k Amiga watch - return of the Amiga
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1.2.2k GPL release of Dopus creates interest on Slashdot
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Amazingly, the Linux crowd over on Slashdot has picked up on the GPL release of Dopus.
There's a lot of talk now about porting it
to the Linux platform, as well as quite a bit of reminiscing about the Amiga.
ICOA website
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1.2.2k AROS News
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AROS will become the development wing of OAF, the Open Amiga Foundation
(what COSA will become). OAF will handle public relations and the contact to Amiga, they will collect and compile all information and keep us informed
about all important events so that we can completely concentrate on the development. They will also handle all money and legal issues which is a very
big releaf for us.
AROS website
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1.2.2k So much money, so little time
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1.2.2k DiskCopy & TrackCopy64
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1.2.2k SNES emulator now high priority project
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Although there were quite few messages after the first announcement about a new SNES emulator,
Coyote Flux got over a hundred extra after the second one. This means that the SNES emulator
has now been given a high priority of development. Some more options and bugfixes will be
added to PPC680x0 this week, followed up by working mostly on the SNES emulator. The 3D
engine (for the forthcoming game Burnin' Rubber 2000), PPC680x0 and the OS porting will
ofcourse continue development as well, although CoyoteSound will be delayed. Please be
patient for the website, it is under construction and will appear on www.amiga.de soon.
Once it's launched, it will be announced.
S. Raghoebardayal, Coyote Flux
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