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31.3.99 Update to JoeCard project
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New info regarding announced JoeCards from Met@box appeared on their
mailing list. Stefan Domeyer is addressing several details, as
possibility of USB, Fast SCSI 2, PCI additions to various models of
JoeCards and MultiJoe, new surprise for hungry Amigans :-) You can read
more here.
Paul May via c.s.a.m
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31.3.99 New Photogenics 4.0 website
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Paul Nolan opened new site for Photogenics 4.0, next generation of
Photogenics, well know painting and effect program for Amiga. You can
find list of features, download area, some screengrabs, information
about price and more there. You can visit Photogenics new website
here.
Petra Struck's website
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31.3.99 Another Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko
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Waaslandia Amiga-Only Club (WAC), the biggest Belgian Amiga user group,
presents its latest interview... with Mr. Petro Tyschtschenko, president
of Amiga International, Inc. You can read the interview, posted to
comp.sys.amiga.news newsgroup here.
Christophe Heereman
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31.3.99 Amiga Universe getting bigger
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31.3.99 AmigaShow'99
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AmigaShow'99 will be held from 8. - 9. May, 1999, from 10 am to 6 pm, at Grand Rue, 4, 7070 Le Roeulx, Belgium.
For more info check official AmigaShow'99 website.
AmigaCentre@skynet.be
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31.3.99 Village Tronics News
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30.3.99 Phoenix Fighters' website and demoversion
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Phoenix Fighters, from Alive mediasoft Ltd, now has its new website ready with
the latest demo (v1.1) available for download.
Robert Norberg, Bitwise - developers of PF
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30.3.99 Phase5 news Again :)
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CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & BlizzardPPC flash update (FlashUpdates-300399.lha)
is now available on phase5's ftp.
phase5 ftp
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30.3.99 Multi-Board Computer System Case
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Siamese Systems announces the new 3-Pack multi-board computer system case. This system combines the Newtek
Video Toaster 4000 based Toaster/Flyer system with a commodity Windows or maybe Linux powered PC/Alpha.
Read more.
Siamese Systems website
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30.3.99 Randomize Announces ScanQuix/Umax Scanner Bundle
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Randomize brings affordable flatbed scanning to the Amiga in North America by introducing ScanQuix Amiga Scanner and its ScanQuix/Umax Scanner Bundle.
The ScanQuix/Umax Scanner Bundle provides ScanQuix 4 bundles with the Umax Astra 610S, 1200S and 1220S scanners.
Read more.
Randomize website
AWD website
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29.3.99 Another Cyberstorm G3/G4 announcement
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It's not all that long time ago Phase5 announced their CyberStorm G3/G4 projects.
According to Phase5, the response of Amiga community was good enough, to further
think of improvements to already announced CyberStorm G3/G4 cards. What about
SCSI on all card versions? What about FireWire? OK, just read more
here.
Phase5 website
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29.3.99 Tornado3D for WarpUp
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29.3.99 WarpOS 4.0
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We've just received first information about upcoming WarpOS 4.0 release,
being in beta testing stage now. This new release will feature:
- Pooled Memory API (New Memory Management)
- Shared Semaphores
- BlackBox 68K Emulation Support
- Some new PPC API functions like VacatePPC, CreatePoolPPC, DeletePoolPPC, etc
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29.3.99 Linux/APUS for AFCD40!
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Linux APUS distribution, the Amiga PPC version of Linux, will be on the Amiga Format CD40.
After the base system and X there should be about 60-70MB left on the CD for other stuff.
So, the question is: what software
would you like to see included?
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29.3.99 World of Amiga '99
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World of Amiga '99 is going to be on the 24th and 25th of July. The venue is yet
to be confirmed, but it will be in London. Many more exciting events are planned
than ever before, and Amiga are VERY keen for WoA to be on that weekend, as they
have some big announcements planned.
Gary Storm, SEAL website
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29.3.99 Foundation: Sound too good to be true?
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V1.24 of Strategic game Foundation will be released on April 1st. The update will mark the biggest
visual change to Foundation so far. The flat texture rendering code has been replaced with a more
flexable system that provides Gouraud shading and texture blending. The new version runs at the
same speed as the old version. This update will also cut the HD installation size by 2Meg and
memory usage is also lower due to real-time texture mapping as opposed to pre-rendered shapes.
Foundation Support page
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29.3.99 Alien Boxers from AntiGravity.com
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29.3.99 Log from IRC session with Digital Images
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Log from IRC session with Digital Images (DI), authors of Space Station
3000 game, can be found here.
DI also announced they are looking into the possibility of release of 3 new
games: F22 Airdominance Fighter, Heretic 2 and Zeewolf 3.
Amiga Extreme website
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28.3.99 Space Station 3000 IRC meeting
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There will be a meeting on ARCNet to discuss Space Station 3000 on 28th March at 20:00GMT.
The channel name is #redwall You can join ARCNet at uk3.arcnet.vapor.com.
Stuart Walker, Digital Images
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28.3.99 Latest software news
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28.3.99 GoAD - Help Required
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The Gathering of Amiga Developers (GoAD) was set up in February as a way for Amiga Developers to share ideas
and resources with each other and as such raise the standards of Amiga Software. Now GoAD are creating a
freely distributable, third person perspective, internet multi-player deathmatch game called Cauldron2000
(working title). If you are a talented C or C++ programmer who is prepared to help produce this game and own
a PPC card; e-mail to michaelf@bakakaba.demon.co.uk.
AmigaExtreme website
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28.3.99 Delsyd'99 - New Amiga Show?
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After hearing about the demise of AmiWest99, Delsyd Software would like to see how many people would
be interested in attending a new Amiga show in their home town of Burlington, North Carolina.
The show would be held around the same time as the Amiwest show. If enough people and companies are
interested, they will hold the show. If you are interested, or would like more information about
their plans for Delsyd'99, email them.
Chris Kelley, head programmer of Delsyd Software
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28.3.99 Do you remember Ambermoon ?
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The unreleased official English version of Ambermoon HAS been found and is now online for download
at the Thalion webshrine with some other Thalion's games.
ANN webpage
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27.3.99 Met@box announces PowerPC solution for Amiga
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Met@box AG, formerly know as Pios Computer AG, announced development of PowerPC based cards
for Amiga 1200/2000/3000 and Amiga 4000 owners. Cards are going to be based on PowerPC G3
processor, running at 333 (A1200) and 400 Mhz speeds. Solution for A2000/3000/4000 will
feature PCI compatible connector for future extensions. You can read the whole announcement
here.
Met@box JoeCard website
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27.3.99 Interview with Andrew Korn
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Read un-edited e-mail interview with Andrew Korn,
exCU Amiga deputy ed and current Amiga Format contributor and forthcoming editor of Amiga Active.
SEAL website
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27.3.99 Amiga News Radio Update
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Amiga Radio News featuring Lamar Morgan of Amiga Atlanta Users Group.
Its now available in more formats (GSM, ADPCM, MP3, Real Audio).
Amiga Radio News website
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27.3.99 Rexx Plus open source!
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Donald Dalley: "ICOA has started to solicit for funds to acquire the source code for the ARexx compiler, Rexx Plus. The idea
is to update the program, and even port it to the new Amiga platform, if possible. It will be re-released as open source!"
For this, the ICOA needs to raise $1500 USD. Email Donald Dalley
if you would be prepared to pledge a donation.
AmiSITE webpage
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26.3.99 REBOL 2.0 beta released...
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REBOL 2.0 is coming! In one third the size of 1.0.3 release, with many
new features. REBOL Aliance members received REBOL 2.0 beta version for
intensive testing, to help REBOL Technologies to bring quality product
to the community of Internet users. You can find more information on
upcoming 2.0 release here.
REBOL Technologies website
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26.3.99 FUBAR - Help Required
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26.3.99 New UGN Coordinator
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25.3.99 Corel to support AmigaNG!
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The first unofficial AmigaNG developer was announced, but regard this
info as unofficial. According to Com-Digit Journal, "If the Amiga was
supplied with this software at a competitive price, it could be a real
threat to PCs.". Let's just hope it is going to happen.
Amiga.org website
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25.3.99 No Midwest Amiga Exposition 99
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The topic says it all - no Midwest Amiga Exposition this year. Maybe you will find it disappointing,
but organizers think black days of Amiga are counted, and current development of Amiga platform is
satisfying enough. You can read official announcement
here.
Amiga.org website
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25.3.99 Bleem PSX emulator for Amiga?
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Bleem is the name of PSX emulator for PC, running even faster on PC than
on Playstation, when using decent hardware configuration. According to
Steffen Haeuser, it wouldn't be so hard job to port from Direct3D to
Warp3D, so he decided to ask authors of Bleem for possible Amiga port.
And? Great, the authors seem to be open to an idea.
Amiga.org website
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25.3.99 STFax Update
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Free STFax Pro upgrade to version 3.8 released for registered users. Both upgrades from version 3.7 and 3.0
you can find on Aminet.
Aminet
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25.3.99 Settlers2 cancelled
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68K/PPC Amiga version of strategy game called Settlers 2 (sequel to very popular game "The Settlers®")
from BlueByte canceled.
Amiga Arena website
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25.3.99 New Dry Ice Website
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25.3.99 Win a copy of Napalm
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25.3.99 Amiga GIMP Toolkit
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The GIMP toolkit, GUI system for Linux is going to be ported to the
Amiga, under Free Amiga initiative direction. Availability of this
software for the Amiga will enable easy porting of many Linux apps,
without the need to run X11 server. You can read the announcement
here.
Amiga.org news
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25.3.99 Warp3D v2 for Permedia
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Finally the official version 2.0 of Warp3D for the Permedia chip of CVision/BVisionPPC graphics boards is
available. (both base and develope archives)
Haage & partner website
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24.3.99 MacOSRumors about PowerPC
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MacOsRumors is bringing two articles describing a little bit performance
of their systems, in relation to PowerPC G4 Altivec powered CPUs. You
can read the articles here.
MacOSRumors website
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24.3.99 RMAU Goes To Amiga'99
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Very well-done Amiga'99 show report with
coverage of many of the special events and seminars from the Rocky Mountain Amiga User's Group.
AWD website
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24.3.99 Phase5 news Again :)
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CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & BlizzardPPC flash update (FlashUpdates-240399.lha)
is now available on phase5's ftp.
phase5 ftp
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24.3.99 Microdot-II v1.3 NetConnect Upgrade
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23.3.99 Update on the Cyberstorm G3/G4 Project
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Read about improved specifications
of the CYBERSTORM G3/G4 accelerator and answers to questions which remained open or
have been asked by many Amiga users.
Phase5 website
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23.3.99 Phase5 news
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CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & BlizzardPPC flash updates and V46.5 68040 & V46.5 68060 libs
are now available on phase5's ftp.
phase5 ftp
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23.3.99 Looking for job?
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There is still a position vacant at BlueBlack Solution for a talented pixel artist to work on some small areas of Operation: Counterstrike.
If you think you're good enough to work on a commercial game and can meet deadlines then email
Daniel Allsopp with at least three examples of previous work.
Daniel Allsopp, BlueBlack Solution website
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23.3.99 WarpUp betatesting
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You can sign up for beta testing the new WarpUp software by emailing
Sam Jordan, H&P.
Read more.
warp3d mailing list
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23.3.99 Membership for every Amigan
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Waaslandia Amiga-Only Club (WAC - Belgium) now offers membership for every Amigan.
Read more.
Amiga website
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23.3.99 MakeCD Update
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New version of MakeCD 3.2b final, considered beeing one of the best CD writer
software for the Amiga, is now available. More information on its features
and availability can be found here.
MakeCD website
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22.3.99 MicroDotII 1.3
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MicroDotII 1.3 has just been released, with improved protection against message loss due to system crashes.
Update for NetConnect users will follow shortly.
VaporWare website
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22.3.99 AmigaAMP News
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First external decoding engine for AmigaAMP is now available! Steffen Häuser compiled an external decoding engine under WarpUP.
New version of NeonBars plugin v1.1 features a rotating 3D
bargraph display and Rave3D support!
AmigaAMP website
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22.3.99 VVA Update
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New version of VVA 0.2.1, VNC Viewer for Amiga, is now available here.
More can be found here.
Vaclav Misek
VVA website
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22.3.99 OS Bundle
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Three alternative Operating Systems for Amiga (unofficial RedHat Linux5.1, NetBSD, p.OS Prerelease)
at a single price DM 59. Read more.
Schatztruhe webpage
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22.3.99 FAST ATA2/EIDE software update v3.9
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There is FAST ATA2/EIDE software update available in dowload section
of Javosoft website. You can always find the latest version of this software there.
Javosoft website
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21.3.99 More about Cyberstorm G3/G4
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Small additional info from Wolf Dietrich, phase 5 digital products, about Cyberstorm G3/G4 PPC cards.
(english/deutsch)
PowerUP mailing list
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21.3.99 Digital Images News
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Stuart Walker: "I apologise for the fact that the SpaceStation3000 demo hasn't been released yet as we are still tweaking it to perfection.
The intro animation is finished now and it's looking great with 2 minutes and 20 seconds of lightwave-rendered animation! As you
can see, we are leaving no stone un-turned. We are hoping to release SS3000 in April."
DI News
Digital Images website
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21.3.99 STRICQ 0.1290
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New version of STRICQ 0.1290, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available.
Updated version you can get here.
UIN-creation works again. (STRICQ 0.1275 archive required)
AmigaICQ webpage
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21.3.99 Tales From Heaven Demo
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21.3.99 WarpSNES 3.5
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WarpSNES 3.5, a SuperNes emulator for PowerAmiga running Warpos Kernel, is now
available
with AHI sound support.
WarpSNES website
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20.3.99 UGN Announces Amiga Radio News
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The User Group Network (UGN) is pleased to announce the arrival of Amiga Radio News.
Read more.
Fabian Jimenez
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20.3.99 Latest Games Demos
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Demo of the RPG game The Prophet from Alive Mediasof released.
Read the statement from The Prophet's creators.
As promised a few weeks ago a demo of Pheonix Fighters from Alive Mediasoft has been released too.
Amiga Nutta Games Magazine
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20.3.99 Official Amiga websites
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Allan Havemose writes: "Under the leadership of Jim Collas, there is now ONE unified Amiga. While the American Amiga is named Amiga Inc,
and our German subsidiary is named Amiga International, we are all Amiga. [..] With that in mind, we were attempting to unify our two
different web sites. Since there were most content on the german language site, we decided to use www.amiga.de as the master for
content. When we're done, www.amiga.com and www.amiga.de will be identical, other than one being in english and the other in german.
Over time we'll likely have www.amiga.fr, www.amiga.dk etc. for all other countries."
ANN website
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20.3.99 Jim Collas Amiga99 Speech Audio
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Here you can download the audio of Jim Collas' speech from Amiga99.
Better set aside some time, the format chosen by the UGN is ADPCM3 so there are 28 megabytes spread over seven files!
AWD website
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20.3.99 Amiga'99 Video
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Amazing Computing/Amiga Magazine has announced (only days after the actual event) the availability
of two video tapes focusing on the comments made by new Amiga president Jim Collas.
Check it out!
AWD website
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20.3.98 Foundation Update - Again :-)
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Next Foundation game update to v1.23c is out! You can find here.
V1.23c is a small improvement over previous V1.23 revisions which gave further speed improvements as well as a few important advancements.
Foundation Support page
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19.3.99 Ground breaking news from Phase5!
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Phase5, long time amiga developer and supporter, announced today new
accelerator boards for A3000/A4000 computers, based on PowerPC G3/G4
(Altivec) processors. Finally, Phase5 announced its commitment to Amiga
Inc.'s and Haage & Partner's software solutions.The cards will feature
PCI 2.1 interface for various add-ons. You can find more information
here. Maybe Amiga
Classic line is not all that dead one could think? :-)
Phase5 website
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19.3.99 Visitor n. 333.333
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19.3.99 VirtualNetworkingComputing with Amiga?
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19.3.99 GhostScript & TP7
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19.3.98 Foundation Update 23b
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Next Foundation game update to v1.23b is out! You can find here.
Many players were concerned about the poor level of computer AI in the latest updates. This update should change things for the better.
Foundation Support page
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18.3.99 Tornado3D News
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Free Tornado3D V2.1b manual tutorials are available here.
For offline browsing get this archive.
Registered users will receive an additional archive along with the V2.1b update out soon.
Coupled with the Tutorials archive this will create a complete V2.1 manual.
EyeLight website
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18.3.99 AOL Instant Messenger Amiga Port
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18.3.99 Aminet Moving Main Site to Germany
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Because of continued file system troubles on the current main site, wuarchive.wustl.edu, main site is moving to Germany.
wuarchive will be back as a mirror when the file system trouble is resolved. The main site will very probably remain
in Germany. The most reliable site during this transition should be de.aminet.net with most other mirrors being fully
operational immediately or within days.
Urban D. Mueller
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18.3.99 Pictures from Amiga'99
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18.3.99 Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko
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18.3.99 Amiga'99 winners
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Winner of Amiga'99 show Graphic and Programming Contest is Steffen König from Germany.
Read more.
Winner of Amiga'99 show Best Club Table Display Contest is The National Capitol Amiga Users Group.
Read more.
AWD website
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17.3.99 Only One Amiga Site?
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17.3.99 Nova Design News
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Nova Design have announced that they have arranged to be the exclusive distributors of the
Wildfire3D effects package for North
America.
PowerStation, volume 1 is a package of ImageFX (3.2 or higher only) modules
designed to work with the PowerPC as a coprocessor.
Read more.
Amiga.org website
Nova Design website
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17.3.99 Wall Street Journal Interviews Dave Haynie
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17.3.99 'Executive' - Commercial Vendors Wanted
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IAT International currently holds distribution rights to the 'Executive' multitasking enhancement software
under contract with the author Mr. Petri Nordlund. Any Organisation/Commercial Entity wishing to retail
(or distribute) fully registered copies of the package should contact IAT Manufacturing Sales Department
by email.
ICOA website
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17.3.99 Tales from Heaven
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Latest news about final demo of the soon-to-be released 3D platform game Tales from Heaven
you can read on AmigaExtreme.
AmigaExtreme website
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17.3.99 UGN Representatives meet with Amiga
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On Saturday during the Amiga99 show, several representatives from User Groups around the world had an opportunity to talk face-to-face
with Amiga's CEO and management staff. Read
a bulleted list of their discussion.
Amiga.org website
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17.3.99 Get TVPaint NOW!
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Download TVPaint 3.59 for FREE! TVPaint requires an Amiga computer with a 68030 CPU,
a math co-processor (fpu), 16MB RAM, a Cyber GFX compatible graphics card capable of displaying at least 256 colors and OS 3.0. For the
best results, you should have a 68040 CPU, a 24-bit CyberGFX Zorro III graphics card and OS3.1. But first you must answer a few questons :-)
NewTek website
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17.3.98 Foundation Update 23
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Next Foundation game update to v1.23 is out! You can find here.
Computer AI was improved to make the gameplay a lot more interesting.
Foundation Support page
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16.3.99 Happy Birthday
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On July 21st, 2000 it will be 15th anniversary of a machine that started a revolution - Amiga!
Read more.
William J. Coldwell
www.amiga2000.org www
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16.3.99 CGX News
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CyberGraphX 4.1 update is now out. You will need your CGX CDROM to use as a base for patching upto 4.1.
The update includes the new cgx3drave.lib along with support for the DraCoAltais gfx card and BVisionPPC.
CGX 4 Update notes: If you have not sent in your registration card for CGX V4 then you will not be able to get support.
Rave3D page updated.
vgr.com website
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16.3.99 Video Toaster News
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16.3.99 Phase5 news
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CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & BlizzardPPC flash updates and V46.4 68040 & V46.4 68060 libs
are now available on phase5's ftp.
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16.3.99 Nordic Global News
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16.3.99 Starbirds - Free Shot'em Up Game
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Starbirds is a shoot'em up game like classic R-Type,
Apidya, Wings of Death for 1-2 players. Haage & partner hope that you will enjoy the game.
Haage & partner website
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15.3.99 News from previous weeks of this month!
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15.3.99 New Official AmigaOS3.5 Pages
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15.3.99 CUCUG's Amiga99 Show Report
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Comprehensive show report with pictures and coverage of most of the vendors who attended
the Amiga99 show in St. Louis on March 12, 13 and 14.
page 1
page 2
AWD website
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15.3.99 ZDNet on Amiga comeback
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15.3.99 AROS status update
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New AROS status update is available here. It now seems AROS is being
ported to several platforms, and is merging its code with UAE. It also
seems AROS development team is asking for some kind of help, so if
anyone is interested, go and read the status update.
Gary Peake
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15.3.99 New WHDL
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WHDL v9.2, AmigaOS friendly harddisk-install package, both usr and dev archives you can get
here.
WHDL support page
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14.3.99 Latest Escena G3 card news
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According to Escena's website, there have been changes made to the architecture of the G3 card, and it should
be ready in about two weeks. Read more.
Escena website
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14.3.99 New Amiga Music Company
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A new Amiga company has been set up, Q-Lab. They have produced the soundtracks
for the Amiga games FUBAR and Zombie Massacre (both of which will be released as studio-mastered albums soon) and
their first release will be Sound Stream, an audio sample CD.
AmigaCentral website
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14.3.99 AmigaAMP 2.5 public beta
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AmigaAMP 2.5 public beta is now available for download.
An updated version of the plugin development kit will follow shortly.
AmigaAMP website
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13.3.99 AmigaOS3.5 IRC Log
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Here you can read edited IRC log about OS3.5 from #Amiga99 channel.
Stefan "Syke" Falk, AmigaExtreme webmaster
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13.3.99 Amiga president Jim Collas speaks at Amiga'99
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13.3.99 Jim Collas and Jeff Schindler on IRC
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Here,
Jim Collas and Jeff Schindler did answer the questions of Amiga users.
AWD website
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13.3.99 Just Few News
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In summer, Nordic Global will release "Daytona" - Java VM for the Amiga.
Read more!
According to Patrick Ohly, Angela is currently implementing Joliet support
in MakeCD, but that it's not ready for release yet.
AmigaNetworkNews
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13.3.99 Jobs Offer
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Looking for job? What about joining Amiga development team in San Jose?
Read more.
AmigaInt. website
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13.3.99 Official Tornado3D Mailing List
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The Tornado3D Mailing List is a public, free, mailing list whose goal is to provide a place
for Tornado3D users to meet, share experiences and tips, and overall become more productive
discussing 3D computer graphics with Tornado3D. To sign up simply send an email to
list-request@eyelight-it.com with
SUBSCRIBE t3d-list in the BODY (not the subject) of the message.
Tornado3D website
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13.3.99 AmigaAMP with ID3v2 support!
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AmigaAMP 2.5 will be able to read and display ID3v2 tags (see www.id3.org
for more info). Support for variable bitrate streams has been improved, too.
AmigaAMP website
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13.3.99 YAM 2.0 Preview 7
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Seventh preview of YAM 2.0 is now available.
This pre-release fixes many bugs of the last version and contains a couple of new features and improvements.
YAM website
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12.3.99 TVPaint 3.59CGX for free
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First news from Amiga99 show: NewTek are giving away Amiga version of TVPaint for free!
TVPaint should be available for download next Wedensday.
TekTicker website
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12.3.99 Warpgate
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wARP9 exclusive interview with Sam Jordan
(WarpOS, Warp3D developer) you can find on Warpgate, support page for WarpOS and Warp3D.
Warpgate website
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12.3.99 Null Modem Simulator
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Nullser.device V1.0 simulates pairs of serial ports interconnected by null-modem cables.
It can be used for testing comm programs and network software, but the primary motivation
was to allow linking network software on an emulated computer (e.g. Mac emulated by FUSION
or ShapeShifter) to Amiga network software.
Until Aminet is fixed, nullser10.lha is available here
Fred Wright, developer
Fusion mailing list
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12.3.99 Civilization 3: Call To Power
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12.3.99 E source code for free
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Wouter van Oortmerssen has released
the source code for his Amiga EC v3.3a to the Amiga community. It is an addon to the freeware release of the E
compiler. Read more.
Don Cruickshank
Wouter van Oortmerssen's website
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11.3.99 Ateo News
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Ateo Concepts is designing a new version of the Pixel64 named Pixel64 ZIII. This new version of the Pixel64
will plug on a ZIII slot of the A3000 or A4000. There should be 3D expansion for the Pixel64. This expansion
will be based on the Voodoo chip (version 2 or 3). The 3D expansion will be available for all the Pixel64
versions. The release date is not yet available.
Ateo Concepts website
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11.3.99 Clarification from Siamese Systems
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Read this note from Stephen Jones, owner
of Siamese Systems, sended to Amiga.org to clarify his earlier statements on their position with the Amiga.
Amiga.org website
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11.3.99 Newer version of MakeCD
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New version of MakeCD 3.2b public beta 6, considered beeing one of the best CD writer
software for the Amiga, is now available. More information on its features
and availability can be found here.
MakeCD website
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11.3.99 Linux News
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First OpenBSD 2.5 betas are now available, including the Amiga version.
Latest Permedia2 (CybervisionPPC and BVisionPPC) framebuffer driver for LinuxPPC is available
here.
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11.3.99 NewTek Confirms Opening Flyer Source Code
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NewTek has confirmed that in a few weeks the majority of the code for the Video Toaster Flyer
will be made open source so that 3rd party developers can better tie in their products.
Lightwave sources are not included of course :-)
Amiga.org website
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11.3.99 Cable TV Show '99 in Calcutta, India
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From February 23 - 25, 1999, the third big exhibition for cable TV in India took place in Calcutta, India.
AMIGA International, Inc. attended the exhibition with an own booth, represented by our distributor Raja
Electronics from Delhi. The show was a complete success for AMIGA. A lot of people from the cable TV
industry came over from nearby Bangladesh to stock up with A1200's.
Read more. (pictures included)
AmigaInt. website
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10.3.99 Special Surprises from Nova Design, Inc.
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Nova Design, Inc. will be exhibiting at the upcoming Amiga '99 Show on March 12th-13th in St. Louis.
In addition to offering show specials, they will be hosting training classes on the current releases
of ImageFX, Aladdin 4D and Wildfire and they'll have a few special surprises as well.
Kermit Woodall
Nova Design Inc. website
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10.3.99 DI: Half Life? Sierra: NO!
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Latest info from Digital Images:
"I am very sorry to disappoint you all, but Sierra are not granting us a licence to
port Half Life to the Amiga. We will however make sure that we can get a good
Quake-style game ported to the Amiga." Stuart Walker, DI
AmigaExtreme website
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10.3.99 Rocket science and Amiga
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10.3.99 GoldED Studio 5 update
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Registered GoldED Studio 5 users can download the latest service pack here
to upgrade from 5.0.x to 5.1.5. The major new feature is support for
container-based plug-ins and controls which can be docked to editor windows.
REMEMBER: The offer to upgrade at a reduced price from a previous version to GoldED Studio 5 expires in March '99!
GoldED www
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9.3.99 Paul Nolan's Photogenics 4.0
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Paul Nolan is proud to announce Photogenics 4.0, a complete rewrite of the
original Photogenics, and the culmination of over four years of development.
Read the official annoucement!
Paul Nolan
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9.3.99 Daytona from Nordic Global Inc.
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Daytona is the next major Amiga application from Nordic Global Inc. For more information
visit the Amiga '99 Gateway Computer Show in St Louis. After the show information on
Daytona will also be released on Nordic Global Inc. website.
Nordic Global Inc. website
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9.3.99 Blittersoft & EyeLight
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9.3.99 Mozzam - another Amiga Mozilla port
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Not many details, just this small site, including talk of a MUI based X client
so that Mozilla can be ported more directly from Unix sources.
AmiSITE webpage
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9.3.99 SoundFX 3.80 available
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New version of SoundFX 3.80 (short SFX), an editor for digitized audiodata (samples), is now available.
More info and SFX you can get here.
SoundFX website
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8.3.99 Photogenics 4.0
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Paul Nolan announces winners of the "New name for Photogenics" Competition!
Photogenics 4.0 will be released on Saturday at the St. Louis show!
Read press release.
Paul Nolan
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8.3.99 Live Web Cam and IRC Conferences at Amiga'99
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8.3.99 Two Important Seminars at Amiga'99
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The User Group Network (UGN) is please to announce the offering of two
course relevant to the needs of all user groups at the Amiga'99
show in St.Louis. Read more.
Seminar 1: User Groups: To incorporate or Not
Seminar 2: User Groups: Feedback and Answers for the Future
Fabian Jimenez, UGN Public Relations
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8.3.99 First OS3.5 Demonstration
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Thanks to Haage & Partner and their partner companies, a first demonstration of OS3.5 was
shown on March 5, 1999 at AMIGA International, Inc.'s office in Langen, Germany.
See few pictures.
AmigaInt. website
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8.3.99 ArtEffect 3.0 available
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ArtEffect 3.0 is shipping since last week. The new version of ArtEffect offer a lot of new functions
an most parts have been reworked. The most conspicuous features are: heavily improved layers,
indexed colors, improved color ranges, new filters and many optimizations. Read the
feature list.
Haage&Partner website
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8.3.99 Color Separator for ArtEffect
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AE.ColorSeparator makes it possible for the first time to prepare pictures directly for the four
color printing (CMYK). Read more.
Haage&Partner website
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8.3.99 Be no. 333.333 !
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Be 333.333. visitor of H&P website! The one that sends to H&P a proof in form of a screen
dump, the time of his visit and a photo of himself first will get a software surprise.
Haage&Partner website
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8.3.99 First real aMozilla screenshots?
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8.3.99 STRICQ 0.1278
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STRICQ, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, has reached version 0.1278.
Update is now available here.
Enforcer hits from 1275 have been fixed.
Jonas Davidsson, AmigaICQ website
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7.3.99 Fleecy back online
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Fleecy Moss, former emloyee of Amiga Inc., and founder of KOSH project is back online,
after almost two months of no presence on the net, due some technical problems.
Welcome back, man! :-) You can read his latest opinion on situation in Amiga community
here.
Czech Amiga News team
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7.3.99 New AmigaExtreme Design
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7.3.99 New FREE Win95 FS handler for Amiga
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MSD95 is the name of the Windows95 file handler for Amiga, supporting FAT16/FAT32 and long file names.
You can get it for free here.
DS homepage
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7.3.99 Amiga future founded on Internet appliances
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7.3.99 T-zer0 preordering
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Every regular user of The Portal can preorder T-zer0 already
and get official Quake Survival Guide for free and any other game ordered along with T-zer0 for 50% prize.
Check T-zer0 pages for more info!
ThePortal website
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7.3.99 Vapor Team Plans Online
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All you news junkies out there can now keep track of the latest developments at Vapor by means
of the Vapor Team Member plans.
Vaporware website
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6.3.99 Invite Friends to The Portal
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Every regular user of The Portal can invite up to 3 friends to have full access to
The Portal for a week!
AmiWorld online
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33.2.99 CGX V4.1 update delay
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If you could not tell CGX V4.1 update has been pushed back a bit.
Its new due date is between Feb 37th - Feb 45th :-)))
VGR.COM website
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6.3.99 Reactions From The Amiga Comunity
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Amiga Inc's recent announcement has invoked a mainly positive reaction from the Amiga Community
although many appear to be waiting for more clarification.
Read more.
Amiga Flame website
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6.3.99 Looking for job?
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There is a position vacant at BlueBlack Solution for a talented pixel artist to work on some small areas of Operation: Counterstrike.
If you think you're good enough to work on a commercial game and can meet deadlines then email
Daniel Allsopp with at least three examples of previous work.
Daniel Allsopp, BlueBlack Solution website
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6.3.99 US Supplier for 'TowerHawk' System
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The TowerHawk expansion chassie is design to convert the Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000 desktop computers
into a full tower configuration. The TowerHawk 1200ex is the world's first Amiga 1200 expansion
system that fully supports Newtek's Video Toaster Flyer system. It was previously only available from
RBM of Germany, but now
DVS are assembling and distributing all their products in the US.
AmigaCentral Online magazine
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5.3.99 Interview with Marc Albrecht, A.C.T.
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Here you can read
interview with Marc Albrecht, founder and head developer of German company A.C.T. (Albrecht Computer Technik).
AmiWorld online
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5.3.99 Null Modem Simulator
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Nullser.device V0.9beta simulates pairs of serial ports interconnected by null-modem cables.
It can be used for testing comm programs and network software, but the primary motivation
was to allow linking network software on an emulated computer (e.g. Mac emulated by FUSION
or ShapeShifter) to Amiga network software.
Fred Wright, developer
Fusion mailing list
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5.3.99 AGE working on an ANNEX video
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Two users of AmigaGroupEifel are working on an ANNEX video! The final version will be Quicktime
video of roughly 150 MByte, containing raytraced animations and parts of life performances.
Amiga News & Stories website
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5.3.99 Latest info about the Camouflage project
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Software development requires time and sadly quite some money. Developing new software,
and improving up-to-date software requires that this software is purchased, too - this
holds true especially for the Amiga. It is simply senseless to invest much time and
money for a product that is seldomly purchased and available for download on some
servers. Those who purchase Camouflage are investing in its further development. This
is true for all other Amiga software products, too. Whoever is using pirate copies must
be aware that he is (has been) killing new / further development.
Amiga News & Stories website
Camouflage website
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5.3.99 Virtual Grand Prix Demo Update
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5.3.99 Islona Secure Rights to Re-Release Superfrog
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5.3.99 ProStationAudio demo
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ProStationAudio is a software application that provides a desktop enviroment for editing, mixing and mastering digital audio.
Click here to download the ProStationAudio demo.
AudioLabs website
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5.3.99 Foundation Update
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New Foundation strategy game update 1.22 is available here.
This Update has speeded up the non-graphic based parts of the game. In lowres on an 040/40 the game will run almost twice as
fast (smoother) as the previous version. Further speed-ups are planned over the next week and graphical optimizations will follow.
Foundation Support page
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4.3.99 STRICQ 0.1275
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New version of STRICQ 0.1275, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available. Update you can get
here. Multiline message input and
messageforwarding have been added. TWFmultiLED.mcc can now be used instead of Lamp.mcc.
Jonas Davidsson, AmigaICQ website
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4.3.99 iBrowse News
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ATO have updated the catalog files for iBrowse 1.2x. The latest catalog files can be downloaded
here
(Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Russian, Malyshev).
iBrowse 2 is still being worked on by Omnipresence
and HiSOFT systems.
The new version will have: JavaScript support, improved cache (faster and easier to use),
improved parser (100% speed increase), Shockwave Flash support and much more.
ibrowse-announce mailing list
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4.3.99 Commercial magazine finally about Amiga and REBOL?
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After several requests of Czech Amiga News to one of Czech Chip magazine
editors, our attempts in having REBOL and Amiga mentioned met with
success. Comeback of Amiga and REBOL language were mentioned as other
possible raising stars, together with Perl, PHP, MySQL and Gimp. Anyway,
very interesting experience...
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4.3.99 Progress on WinUAE 0.8.8
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Work on WinUAE, very well known emulator of Amiga for Windows platform
is progressing well, and following features are now being worked on:
basic AGA and NTSC/PAL support, save and restore machine state, random
crashes fixes, filesystem fixes and slightly faster code.
WinUAE homepage
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4.3.99 GoldED Studio 5 update
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Registered GoldED Studio 5 users can download the latest service
pack here to upgrade from 5.0.x to 5.1.4.
GoldED webpage
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3.3.99 Amiga 99 - dinner reservations
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For all those interested in attendance of The Gateway computer show - Amiga 99,
we have an information about saturday's banquet. The tickets are limited!
Hurry-up, as there are going to be some special guest speakers present on the
banquet and some surprise is waiting for you too. You can order your tickets
on following phone, if interested: 1-800-59-AMIGA (26442). And "ask the folks
to sell you tickets to Amiga 99". You can read more about it
here.
Amiga 99 website
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3.3.99 StarGate v1.1 annoucement
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3.3.99 Linux - new Amiga competitor?
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OS News, the site for alternative operating systems, has mentioned latest happenings
in the Amiga land, based on new announcement of "...new president and fast-track
development plans". But not only that. There is a fresh info from Linux World
conference there, speaking of Linus Torvalds predicting the world dominance and
the need of Linux being present in desktops and small devices. Does AmigaInc.
has a competitor? You can read the news here.
OS News website
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3.3.99 Tips on WarpUP
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Sometimes the usage of WarpUP comes with some problems. A special
document
provides you with some tips on how such problems can be solved.
Haage&Partner website
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3.3.99 Turboprint7 Budget Edition
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2.3.99 Open letter to the Amiga Community
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2.3.99 TUMULT expansion
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TUMULT (The Unofficial MUi custom class LisT) pages has been expanded with two new sections.
A News-section which will bring all news related to MUI custom classes and a Links-section
which will provide links to all pages/archives relevant for MCC-authors/users.
TUMULT website
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2.3.99 Latest Software News
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Registered GoldED Studio 5 users can download the latest service pack here to upgrade from 5.0.x to 5.1.3.
SpecFX highcolor/truecolor visualization plugin for AmigaAMP mpeg audio player released!
HTMLview.mcc V12.4, MUI class that will load, parse and display HTML formatted text,
by Allan Odgaard, author of upcoming IProbe browser, released.
Update from CygnusEd 4.2 to CygnusEd 4.20 released!
An update of AmTelnet 1.18beta released for registered users. Brings more speed and a fixes timedout.
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2.3.99 Subscribe to the mailinglists
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2.3.99 PalmBackup
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If you own an Amiga and 3Com's Palm Pilot Personal, Palm Pilot Professional, Palm III organizer, IBM's WorkPad or derivatives,
PalmBackup from W.F.M.H. is the right choice! Shareware version of PalmBackup 1.1 is available
here.
PalmBackup website
AWD website
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2.3.99 Half Life? 2nd chance
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Latest news from DigitalImages:
Space Station 3000 is now nearing completion and we hope to have a demo ready in a
few days, so keep a look out for that! New screenshots have also been released which
are available from our webpage.
We are now talking with Sierra again about this possibility of an Amiga version of
HalfLife. Talks seem to be going better than they were last time. So we must hope (ExiE) :-)
AmigaExtreme website
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2.3.99 Eyelight News
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A limited time special offer: buy Tornado3D 2.1 with FREE upgrade to 3.0 and the new improved manual
online from Eyelight and get an extra 10% discount! This offer expires March 20th, 1999.
Tornado3D 3.0 is scheduled for release in May, 1999.
Eyelight expands its web-presence with two new domains Eyelight-it.com
that will focus on Eyelight's products and services and Mage3D.com the home site for 'Mage.
Tornado3D website
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1.3.99 T-zer0 "beta" site
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1.3.99 GoldED Studio 5 update
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Registered GoldED Studio 5 users can download the latest service
pack here to upgrade from 5.0.x to 5.1.2.
GoldED webpage
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1.3.99 FileMaster 3.1 for free
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Development of FileMaster, well known multitasking directory utility, suited mainly for lower level Amigas,
is now oficially stopped. Here you can donwload latest
version FileMaster 3.1 Beta 4 and generic public keyfile.
Amiga.org website
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1.3.99 New Suite101.com Article
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The new Amiga article went up on Suite101.com today.
Read the article "Open Source AmigaOS Poll" and vote for/against open sourcing AmigaOS 3.1.
Suite101.com website
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1.3.99 FAST ATA2 -v3.7
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New version of driver for FAST ATA 2 controller from Elbox is now available for
download.
Changed procedures for recognising same HDD larger than 9GB and added early
detection of write-protected LS-120 disk.
Javosoft website
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