30.4.2k CS&E News
CS&E are very pleased to announce that they have made an agreement with SCi to bring violent racing game Carmageddon to the new Amiga.

CS&E website
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30.4.2k Aminet mirrors?
This topic has recently been brought up incomp.sys.amiga.misc, but was also discussed elsewhere before. With what seems like more and more Aminet mirrors closing down or becoming very unreliable, it was suggested that Amiga should host a mirror on their site. Seeing how Aminet is a prime resource for past, present and future Amiga programs and files, I think it would be a sensible decision for Amiga to either host, or sponsor, a dedicated mirror on a reliable server with a good backbone. What do you think?

ANN website
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30.4.2k Orbit
Orbit is a name of freeware space combat simulator ported to PPC Amiga by Oliver 'Lucy' Gantert. This is a networking Win32/Linux game, released under GPL by Steve Belczyk.

Oliver 'Lucy' Gantert's page
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29.4.2k Hyperion News
The first progress report of Amiga SiN by Peter Annuss. Includes first Amiga screenshots!
As expected, the experiences Hyperion gathered with Heretic II gave quite a boost to the porting of SiN. Since both games are based on the Quake2-engine, there are a lot of similarities in the source-code and they were able to reuse large parts of their codebase.

Thomas Lorenz
Hyperion Software website
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29.4.2k New UGN Times Issue
The 2nd issue of the UGN Times is available for download from the UGN website.

User Group Network website
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29.4.2k AFD-COPYRIGHT (TM)
Dietmar Knoll: "This Copyright Note is an offer for all Amiga developers who want to release FD-Software, be it as Freeware, Giftware, Shareware or whatever.
AFD-COPYRIGHT is now available in sixteen (16!!!) languages - all in two formats, as plain text and as HTML-file.
The latest addition is the Catalan translation by Llorenç Grau from the ATO.
The files can now be downloaded from the Official Support Site for AFD-COPYRIGHT."

Dietmar Knoll, AFD-COPYRIGHT (TM)
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29.4.2k Bugfix in DA II
This update (v1.8.15) to Digital Almanac II fixes calulations of reise/set times of all moons except Earth moon. Download the update from here or read the changes here.

Achim's Amiga homepage
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28.4.2k Toaster Open Source: Flyer Library documentation
The documentation to the Flyer Library is now available. Click here to download.

Video Toaster Open Source Project homepage
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28.4.2k Phase5: Case of Filing for Insolvenzy abandoned due to lack of assets
On April 19th, 2000, the Case of Filing for Insolvenzy Phase 5 Nr. 61 IN 18/00 has been abandoned by the Amtsgericht Bad Homburg due to lack of assets.
This means chamber Amend (which was responsible for preliminary insolvency handling) is no longer the contact for potential claims. Potential claims have to be taken to the former owners Wolf Dietrich and Gerald Karda, Phase5 digital products, In der Aue 27, D-61140 Oberursel, Germany.

Amiga-News.de website
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28.4.2k AmigActive Issue 8 On Sale Now
AmigActive: "Issue 8 should be on sale around the country as of yesterday, but the inevitable delays caused by the Easter weekend may lead to slightly later on-sale dates in certain areas, so leave it until early next week before letting us know if you're having problems finding it in shops. In the meantime, the contents can be found described here.

AmigActive website
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28.4.2k AmyGate V1.0
AmyGate is the first internet client with full support for all the services offered by Aminet. You usually need many programs to have full access to Aminet: for instance a web browser to surf easily through the various directories and files, a ftp-client to upload your files, an email-client to rate a program or un/subscribe the mailing list... and so on. AmyGate can do all these things in the most confortable and easy way for the user, with integrated support of HTTP, FTP and SMTP protocols. AmyGate supports: Aminet Mailing List; Recent Uploads; Last seven days uploads list; Upload (*) and Download (...with resume transfer); Search of a file; Aminet CHARTS and Rating programs.

Pietro Ghizzoni, AmosFactory
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28.4.2k New Scalos Website
Satanic Dreams Software totally redesigned and updated Scalos website. Scalos is very good Amiga Workbench desktop replacement.

Satanic Dreams Software website
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28.4.2k AC3 (Dolby Digital 5) Decoder/Extractor For Amiga PPC
On Frogger download page you can find free ac3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) decoder. There is also ac3 extractor, which can rip ac3 stream out of vob (DVD) file. There is only PPC version, because it needs a lot of CPU power.

Amigart website
Frogger homepage
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28.4.2k Software News
Second Spin v2.09Beta by Lauri Ahonen finally available. readme SecondSpin can easily encode audio cds -> mp1/mp2/mp3 (68k/ppc). This version crashes the prefs window on some systems due to unknown reasons.

WarpPNG.datatype v44.4 - PPC (WarpUp) PNG picture datatype

AWNPipe v2.44 - a new kind of ADOS device. It's functions can be accessed from almost any program including C, E, Assembler, Arexx, and simple ADOS scripts. readme

SecondSpin homepage
Oliver's homepage
AWNPipe Support Site
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27.4.2k AmiBench Is Back
After much delay AmiBench is now fully back online.

AmiBench website
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27.4.2k New content on the Amiga Resource
Andy Mills: "Thanks to Ben Vost, the Amiga Resource have some of the FAQs that were on the AFCD. We have also not long started our own news service, which is still in beta, but appears to be working well over the last couple of weeks. Some of the other services you will find on the Amiga Resource: a links database, browse, search, rate and add your own links, quick/monster links sections, chat forums (still quiet, ATM), a reference to various Aminet sites with links to charts, etc. The Amiga Resource has only been going since the beginning of this year, so a lot of content has yet to be added."

Andy Mills, The Amiga Resource
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27.4.2k QNX on iMac and PPC?
In a comment posted in reply to an earlier news article at ANN, Dan Dodge of QNX fame says that they "are considering doing a port" to the iMac, and that in fact they "are running on it today minus USB support". They want to see "what the demand for QNX on this machine is", but they would also love to "partner with a hardware OEM to bundle QNX on their PPC machine."

ANN website
QNX website
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27.4.2k Another Domain Names
N3O: "Just noticed that AmigaInc. registred those ones to: www.amigate.com, www.amigate.net and www.amigate.org."

N3O
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26.4.2k AmigaWriter 2.0 & ArtEffect 4.0
The long awaited AmigaWriter 2.0 will be availabe in May. The new version got a lot of powerful features - highlights are: Word import, TrueType support with Antialiasing and broschure print. More details will follow.

The 4th version of the popular graphics package ArtEffect for image processing and natural media paint comes in May with many new features and improvements. Especially the functionallity of the layers has been extended and improved. The version comes on a CDROM full of fonts, cliparts and workshops.

Haage & partner website
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26.4.2k Amiga World e-zine now in Spanish
Amiga Inc. gave "Spanish Amiga Users Group" the permission to translate the new e-zine "Amiga World" to Spanish. Now, the first issue is now on-line at SAUG webpage.

SAUG webpage
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26.4.2k Amiverse
According to www.speednames.com domains www.amiverse.com and www.amiverse.net were registered by AmigaInc.

N3O
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26.4.2k New Italian Website For Commodore Fans
Luigi Recanatese is author of many C64 and Amiga games like Dragon Fighter. On his site you'll find the latest registered version of Studio Lotto (just for Italian users) together with some never before released games and demos. One of them is 2D shoot'em up called E.n.e.r.g.y (Produzioni -> Energy -> Download -> Ho letto ed accetto for download).

Luigi Recenatese, A-Heart Software
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25.4.2k fxPAINT EK #2 Completed
The second update for fxPAINT has been completed and offers many new features. Thanks to many optimizations, a higher speed could be achieved. The most important changes since EK #1:
fxVIDEO-System: Tutorial-videos are now possible directly from within fxPAINT!
new drawing utility: bevelcircle
6 new effects (Edge-Detect, Sharpen, Texture, "Deep inside", DisplaceMap and a new buttonborder-effect)
real antialiasing for text
improved tableau-support
vastly improved fxALBUM (especially improved HTML-Album-creation)
wap.plugin: fxPAINT is the first and only program on the AMIGA, that can read and write WBMP-images!
AXIS-color calibration system for optimized screen-display
Mousewheel-support for mice that support the NewMouse-standard (e.g. VMC 4D+ mouse)
improved loader- and saver-speed thanks to the PPC


Innovative website
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25.4.2k MP3-decoder for the Amiga now cheaper
The MAS-Player by DCR has found many friends. So more people can use this MP3-decoder it has gone cheaper. If you interested in this hardware, visit MAS-Player homepage and get informed.

Amiga-News.de website
MAS-Player homepage
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25.4.2k Software News
DiskMaster v2.5b5 - directory utility. DiskMaster2 docs v1.89

FBlit v3.64a - allows you to move some graphics and related functions into fastram instead chipram. Essential for AGA users! Various changes and one bugfix, but still no new FDraw

akMPEG4 v4.43 - MPEG player for CGX/P96/AGA (68k+PPC). readme

SimpleFTP v2.22 - easy to use MUI based FTP client.

DiskMaster homepage
FBlit homepage
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX website
SimpleFTP website
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24.4.2k get.qnx.com Is On-Line
Today get.qnx.com was opened for the public access. First 5000 visitors can submit their request for free Neutrino CD. If your name server can't reach http://get.qnx.com, you can try direct IP access here.

QNX website
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24.4.2k AmiBench Problems
Mark Wilson: "The AmiBench website seems to be having technical problems that are way beyond our control. We are how ever trying to resolve these issues as soon as we humanely can.
Please do try to bear with us as we attempt to fix this problem. We hope it will be over within the next couple of days." Read more

Mark Wilson, AmiBench
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24.4.2k AIO Issue 35
AIO issue #35 (22/04/2000) is now available! This is the second issue compiled by the new editor Mark Tierno.

Amiga Information Online webpage
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24.4.2k MasterBank v3.0 News
The Third·Planet·From·The·Sun website is officially declared up and running.
MasterBank v3.0, a financial program for the Amiga, is being developed as a commercial product and is currently in the beta testing stage with a release date set for June 1st, 2000. At that time it will be sold here via secure credit card processing for the price of $50 (US). For a limited time, a pre-release price of $25 is being offered. This means that your card will be charged now for a product that won't be sent to you until June 1st, but you will get it for half the price.

Third Planet From The Sun website
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23.4.2k LINKS page
We've finally managed to update our LINKS page. If you know some links missing on our list, let us know, please.

Czech Amiga News Team
 
23.4.2k What does RTOS abbreviation mean?
We've alway thought RTOS is an abbreviation for Realtime Operating System. If that term means the same to you, you could find confusing, why AmigaInc. are using the term in conjunction with Run Time Operating System. What is even more confusing to us is the fact, that such run time OS advantage should be "in the way it handles multitasking", as "an RTOS uses fixed scheduling". You can find above claims in Inside the Amiga article of Amiga World magazine.

AmigaInc. website
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23.4.2k HERETIC 2 Demo Available Again
Hyperion: "Heretic 2 demo (41 MB) is temporarily available, until we find a suitable FTP-server." Requirements

Hyperion Software website
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23.4.2k Moved Pages
Italian news page called AmigaPage has moved to www.amigapage.cjb.net.

Stian Strøm's AmigaAMP plugins has page moved to home.enter.vg/stianstro/ampplugins.htm.
Update your bookmarks!

Lovera Marco, AmigaPage Amigaguy's Software website
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23.4.2k Software News
The sixth prerelease of the upcoming new official release (1.1) of ATC (AmiTradeCenter) is ready. changes. ATC is powerful FTP-client with ADT support.

AmiFTPd v2.4 with fixed mget support is now available. The archive should appear on www.cnetbbs.net/amiftpd/ within the next couple days. Those who would like to get it immediately can get it here. readme

amitradecenter homepage
Ray A. Akey via TA ML, AmiFTPd
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22.4.2k QNX Opens Platform to e-device Builders
QNX Software Systems today unveiled a comprehensive strategy to establish the QNX OS as a premier platform for the multibillion dollar e-device market - which includes everything from handheld web appliances to mission-critical Internet routers. For the first time, a full-fledged realtime platform will be available absolutely free to anyone who wants to use it for non-commercial purposes. You can read the whole announcement here.

Czech Amiga News
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22.4.2k Payback News
There is a new status report on Payback gangster game. Don't forget to join Apex announcement list to make sure you're among the first to know about the latest developments!

Apex Designs
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22.4.2k VHI Studio 5 available
The successor of VLRec NG has a huge number of new features and supports a great variety of digicams and digitizers. Pictures can now be processed, optimized, reloaded or sent to fxPAINT directly from within VHI Studio. MPEG-clips can be saved in a breathtaking speed and without any temporary storage, all frames and pictures in memory can now be accessed via a virtual disk and loaded by any AMIGA program. Up to nine inputs can now be watched at once (depending on the used hardware). As VHI Studio is delivered on CD, there is now enough space for all VHI-drivers and CPU-optimized versions of the VHI Studio-modules. Furthermore DigiCam-owners now have much more possibilities to use their camera than ever before: Record videoclips, create timelapse-animations, download the pictures from your camera or create a webcam!

Innovative website
VHI Studio homepage
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22.4.2k Amiga World - Issue 1 in PDF
The PDF version of Amiga World online magazine is available at Amiga World Zine page.
Classic/PPC Amiga PDF reader, other platforms

Amiga Inc. website
 
22.4.2k Software News
Beta-testing of Digital Almanac III should start soon. There are also some news in the DA III section (german). Especially the prices!

The latest version of the stargate-plugin allows you to access pictures loaded into fxPAINT as files. Furthermore it is possible to send images directly to fxPAINT. PhotoAlbum, CyberShow, Superview, VHI Studio NG and Ultraconv NG already support the "Stargate Airport".

JST v3.2c - JOTD startup for HD installs & degrader. Just small bugfixes.

Achim's Amiga homepage
Innovative website
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
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21.4.2k New Amiga Watch: Love In Vain/Not Fade Away
The new Amiga Watch essay, Love in Vain/Not Fade Away, by Roger Wyatt from Tech Head Stories is available. It examines the implications of the recent Amiga 2K announcements. It is part of a series examining the thinking and the vision at New Amiga. It can be found at http://tech-head.com/amiga.htm

Roger Wyatt, Tech Head Stories
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21.4.2k HERETIC 2 Demo Temporarily Unavailable
Hyperion: "Due to the enormous number of downloads the last 24 hours, we temporarily had to take the Heretic II demo (41 MB) offline. We are very sorry for this inconvience. Please watch this space, as the demo will be back shortly. Users that have already downloaded the demo, and are having trouble with it, can download the small patch (4.5KB)."

Hyperion Software website
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21.4.2k Glacis clear out sale
Glacis Technologies is having a sale. They're clearing out their existing Amiga inventory in anticipation of the new Amiga products. Everything Amiga related on their shelves is priced to clear. New products have been added to the list, primarily books and software. All used hardware and software has a 30-day warranty, books are sold as-is. Read more

Amiga.org website
Glacis Technologies website
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21.4.2k VaporWare News
Version 12.1 of the imagedecoders is now available for download. Floyd-Steinberg dithering for GIF images is now supported for users with 8bit screens or less.

MetalWEB is visual HTML editor. MetalWEB v4.0.1 fix bugs of MetalWEB 4.0 loading webs, it comes with new translations and now speedbar prefs could be saved.

VaporWare website
V3·Portal
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21.4.2k NordicGlobal News
Released a new version of the ClassAct GUI module for Miami with a minor bug fix. The "QuickRegistration/Upgrade" server is up and running again now. It was down for a few weeks because of problems with NordicGlobal website.

NordicGlobal website
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21.4.2k Software News
FastATA'99 v5.6 software for ELBOX FastATA (PowerFlyer/Winner) High Speed EIDE controller (for A1200). New: small improvement in detecting ATAPI devices.

Installation floppy disk (v1.34) for AteoNet board. This new release need a key. Install the driver and then send the registration form. readme
ateobus.library v4.1 - readme
AteoBusDebug v1.12 - readme

Ivo Janacek, Javosoft
ELBOX COMPUTER
Ateo Concepts
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20.4.2k Czech Amiga News goes w@p
We are pleased to announce preliminary version of Czech Amiga News in format suitable for WAP compatible appliances. As we expect not many of you own such device yet, you can look at http://www.gelon.net and type in http://www.rebol.cz/can/news.wml to available field and press the button to see the results (probably you will need Netscape or IE to get it work). Of course there is still few things to polish, but system is already usable. Credits go to Johnny T. Nielsen, who is author of the REBOL script. Happy w@pping :-)

www.rebol.cz/can/news.wml

Czech Amiga News Team
 
20.4.2k Preliminary information on QNX Neutrino announcement
According to info available to Czech Amiga News, Monday is the day we should see an official QNX announcement, regarding the release of QNX Neutrino RTOS. QNX goal sounds ambitious: "run in one third of the over 400 million e-devices that, according to market analysts, will ship in 2003". QNX believes in strong advantages being present in their software architecture - realtime, microkernel, highly modular architecture, high linux compatibility, "accessible source" model, easy drivers development, transparent networking, embeddable GUI and many other advantages, already known from their website documentation. QNX also plans on establishing web-based QNX Developer's Network (QDN), to support developers coming to the platform. Neutrino will be soon available to Phoenix platform consortium developers, while public availability is planned for mid-summer. Stay tuned!

QNX website
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20.4.2k HERETIC 2 Demo
Hyperion is proud to announce the release of the Heretic II Demo (41MB). This demo is intended to let you have a glimpse at what the game has to offer. To purchase the full version, visit www.titancomputer.de. List of system requirements:
PPC Amiga with WarpOS 4.0 or better
64 MB of main memory
70 MB harddisk space
AGA or Graphics board (graphics board recommended)
For 3D acceleration: Warp3D-compatible card, Warp3D V3 (Permedia-Based card HIGHLY recommended)
AHI 4


Hyperion Software website
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20.4.2k A vision of the Future
Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci: "A lot of questions go through the Amiga community these days. A lot of ideas shake our brains. Some people waste their time fighting each other. Check what can be done for our Amiga future. Think and then, think again about it..." Read more

Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci,elwoodb.free.fr/AmigaNG
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20.4.2k Alive News
Steven Flowers: "The Pulse Issue 12 is Out April 25th. The Pulse have signed yet more exclusive deals with many publishing houses to bring you the reviews first.
This issue, you'll find massive changes to the stock with brand new games and utils coming in. We also have an Easter Special for you going by the name of Roger Rabbit in "Hare Raising Havoc" available for Amiga CD at £14.99. There's loads of brand new titles newly in including games like Sports Mad, Virtual Ball Fighters, Star Wars Trilogy, Aminet Set 9 and many more."
REVIEWS: Heretic 2, Virtual Ball Fighters, Giana Twins, Teakwondo Master, Cedric.
If you would like to register for free subscription to The Pulse then E-mail your snail mail address to thepulse@alive-mediasoft.co.uk or visit their homepage.

Alive annouced Chess 2k which will include some of the all time Amiga great Chess games:
Battlechess CD version with full speech and audio tracks
Battlechess 2 Chinese Chess
Colossus Chess AGA/ECS
UChess 030/040 4MB and many more...

Steven Flowers, Alive Mediasoft
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20.4.2k Amiga Survivor sold to CS&E
Andrew Reed informed us that the english print magazine Amiga Survivor is no longer owned by Crystal Interactive Software.
The new owner is CS&E, 7 Glyme Close, Woodstock, Oxon, OX20 1LB, UK, Phone +44 (0) 1993 812685, e-mail: csande@csande.com.

Amiga-News.de website
CS&E website
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20.4.2k Software News
New version (V.44.41 beta 1) of HSMathLibs for MC68881/82. All known bugs were fixed. This version is for registered user only.

CyberdyneSystems website
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19.4.2k QNX - get the real scoop
QNX website news says - "Get the real scoop - get.qnx.com coming april 24". News are slowly filtering out, and you can look for some info on LinuxDevice.com website, stating QNX will be free for non-commercial use. But not only that, the article also says source codes of some OS parts are going to be released, and much much more. Interesting reading.

QNX website
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19.4.2k Amiga Impact Website Is Moving
The French Amiga website "Amiga Impact" will be offline for a few days. The site is currently moving to another server and will be back very soon!
Amiga Impact is still devoted to the French-speaking Amiga Community and provides lots of French resources, including a news service. We also provide somes services to any Amiga companies and developers, such as French-translation of products/websites, free advertisement, ... For more info, you can contact us at the following email address: amigaimpact@online.fr (instead of the usual info@amigaimpact.com)

Amiga Impact website
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19.4.2k CGX v4.2 News
'pre6' CGX V4.2 _UPDATE_ archive is now available. pre6 has fixed the pointer color bug for CVPPC/BVPPC, several fixes in CV64/3D driver, pointer hotspot fixes in cgxsystem. CGX V4 CDROM need for update as always.

VGR.COM website
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19.4.2k Web Fonts Fix
Web Fonts page is a sort of tutorial or masterclass on how to set up fonts using Richard Griffith's ttf.library, and then configure your Voyager 3.1 browser to use those fonts when displaying webpages. There was MASSIVE mistake in the tutorial which is now FIXED! There is also patch which you can run to fix the problem on your system is you have already installed the fonts.

www.neko.u-net.com website
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19.4.2k Software News
Charon v1.2 - download manager. This is a small update with most urgent fixes/improvements.

Scalos v1.2b - smart, small and efficent desktop (Workbench) replacement. readme

MiamiSSL v2.21 - implementation of the 'Secure Socket Layer' standard for Miami. This version improves performance and contains replacements for some outdated certificates.

Frogger v1.57 - MPEG Video player. Download (PowerUp/WarpUp/060/040/030). PSX decoder bugfixed and improved. There is also new Argue GUI (v1.56) for Frogger.

Andrija Antonijevic, Charon homepage
Aminet
Satanic Dreams' Scalos website
NordicGlobal website
Frogger homepage
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18.4.2k Amiga World - Issue 1
And here we go - Amiga Inc. posted first issue of thier Amiga World online magazine to their website. Amiga World in HTML version can be found here. PDF version release should follow in a short time. Central site for Amiga World magazine can be found here.

Amiga Inc. website
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18.4.2k Hyperion presents its Amiga release schedule for 2000
In the next few days Hyperion entertainment software will celebrate its first birthday. They are bringing high-end, high-quality entertainment software to the Amiga like Heretic2, SiN, Shogo, Worms Armageddon or Freespace. Over the past year, they built up an code-base that will allow them to dramatically cut down on the development time of new Amiga conversions. Part of this code-base has already been made available to the Amiga development community: MiniGL, chunkyppc.library, an improved version of Warp3D (together with Sam Jordan) etc. They mastered two of the most impressive 3D engines out there: the Quake II engine and the LithTech engine. Together with Titan they brought Smacker, an industry standard video-codec, to the Amiga. Read more

Hyperion Software website
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18.4.2k Tao Group Announces Amiga Java Plans
The underlying technology used in the Amiga system is a Sun Java branded version of PersonalJavaTM developed by the Tao Group. Tao's software is a media-rich environment that was designed from the ground up to run on a wide range of low cost, processor and memory constrained consumer devices that offer a wide range of multimedia capabilities.
Within Amiga's new target markets, several key standards groups are adopting Java technology; HAVi, OSGi and DVB are three examples. Amiga is adopting the popular Java platform for developers creating new generation content and applications that could also be used on industry standard devices such as in home networking and digital television. The millions of Java technology developers will be able to deploy their innovative content on a wide range of new products that will excite consumers. Read more

Tao Group
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18.4.2k Software News
Mroocheck11f11 - new software for Mroocheck PC Mouse Interface (in U.K.: Punchinello MK II), microprocessor-based adapter for attaching PC mice (even with wheel), trackballs, glidepoints, radio-controlled mice to all models of Amiga computers.

Amster 0.5a - MUI based Napster client for Amiga. New in this version: List sorting, Experimental chat, Bugfixes, Small changes. readme

wvware v0.543 - converts MSWord 9, 8, 7, 6 documents to html. readme

SOPE - Sony Playstation emulator. This MiniGL release should be considered as beta, and do not produce as accurate graphics as the software renderer. There are two versions to download, either the interpretive or the dynamic recompiler version.

Ivo Janacek, Javosoft
Aminet
AmiDog's Emulation Corner website
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17.4.2k Foundation Mission CD
Epic Marketing and Paul Burkey are proud to announce the coming of "Foundation Mission CD: The Undiscovered Land". The CD will need "Foundation Directors Cut" and will bring 40 new missions to this classic as well as many other new features. The CD will cost Euro 25,05 and will be availble late May/early June. You can preorder your here.

Epic Marketing website
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17.4.2k MIR AMIGI
"MIR AMIGI" (World of Amiga) is the name of new russion printed Amiga magazine.

Boris Kondratyev
MIR AMIGI website
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17.4.2k MetalWeb 4.0 Visual HTML Editor
The final 4.0 release of visual HTML editor MetalWEB is now available. It offers advanced table support, fixes some datatype related problems and comes with a variety of translations.

VaporWare website
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17.4.2k QNX opens Neutrino RTOS source code
n a bid to boost its profile in the emerging 'e-device' arena, real-time operating system supplier QNX is going open source - sort of.
QNX calls its take on open source, 'accessible source'. As yet, the precise terms of the licensing agreement have yet to be finalised, but the scheme broadly mirrors Sun's Java Public Source licence. So, source code will be made available to anyone who wants it, and developers will only pay if they take products based on QNX technology to market. Read more

ANN website
TheRegister website
QNX website
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17.4.2k Amiga 2000 UGN meeting coverage
At the Amiga 2000 show, Bill McEwen was the speaker at the UGN meeting. The Rocky Mountain Amiga User Group has posted a great article covering the meeting. This is a must read for everyone as it includes more information on Amiga's plans. Read more

Amiga.org website
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17.4.2k Crossfire II News
Dreamworlds Development website hasn't been changed for half a year but Crossfire II has made much progress in the meanwhile. The graphics have been competely redone, there's a weapon shop at last and the first missions of the campaign mode are finished. The game will be published by APC&TCP about June 2000.

Dreamworlds Development website
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17.4.2k Trogladite Software Update
The Trogladite Software site has finally been relaunched with lots of new features. You can now request product updates by email, and there's a competition on the main page, plus at least 3 new products due out in the next few weeks! However, the address has changed (for now) to http://trogsoft.high5.net. As soon as we get our domain working again, you'll be able to use the old address. Please send comments to webmaster@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk.

Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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17.4.2k Games News
GL Quake 1.00 beta 6.2 for WarpOS/Warp3D by Massimiliano Tretene.

JST v3.2b (12.04.2000) - JOTD Startup for HD Installs & Degrader. BIG bugfixes!

WHDLoad 11.0 usr & dev archives - AmigaOS friendly Harddisk-Install package. Various changes.

Damian Stolarek
Frank Wille's homepage
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
WHDL support page
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17.4.2k The Amiga in perspective
'The Amiga in perspective' website, is an open view to the Amiga community which contains ideas and analyst to further dialogue and develop ideas for the future of the platform. Check it out at amigapers.webjump.com and give the author your feedback.

Daniel Villiers, Amiga in perspective page
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16.4.2k Hyperion releases MiniGL technology to the Amiga developer community.
Hyperion is pleased to announce the release of it's MiniGL technology to the Amiga developer community. Unlike Mesa, MiniGL provides only a subset of the OpenGL API which allows for substantially faster performance than Mesa. MiniGL technology (which requires Warp3D for its operation) was succesfully deployed in Hyperion's Amiga conversion of Heretic II and will also be used in future projects such as Shogo: MAD and Freespace. Read more

Hyperion Software website
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16.4.2k Lightforce News
New version of Lightforce is now available.
Robert Kocher: "I "finished" the new menue-system. There are not many functions implemented yet expect start and end, but you can get an imagination what it will look like.
One word to the graphics: I badly need an artist who takes over the drawing part. You might change the png-graphics the way you want and send them back to me, when you want them to be in the next release. All the best graphics-packages will be released on the lightforce-download page".

Andreas Hippauf, Lightforce
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16.4.2k Amiga core fonts for the Web
New fonts for the web released! If you have previously installed fonts from "Amiga CSS Style" collection you must upgrade to the new ones! An important bug was fixed that causes enforcer hits and font sizes now correctly match proper ones!

Efim Shuvikov
Amiga core fonts for the Web
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16.4.2k DiskMaster II News
The DiskMaster II homepage and the mailing-list moved. DM2 2.5b5 should be out really soon.

Aminet
DiskMaster II homepage
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16.4.2k HBMonopoly 2.4
A new version (2.4) of HBMonopoly is available on the HBMonopoly homepage. This release contains some smaller changes and new translations to Czech, Russian and Portuguese. Translations to Catalan and Finnish are updated.

Holger Beer, HBMonopoly
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16.4.2k Software News
Voyager³ v3.2 adds support for HTTP file upload and fixes a couple of bugs. update v3.1 -> v3.2 (347kB), full V³ v3.2 archive (1.2MB), readme

New version (5.6) of Linux APUS bootloader Boothack available. It introduces better WarpUp detection.

New version (V.44.41 beta 4a) of HSMathLibs for 040/060. A bug in the function "SPSincos" (mathtrans.library) were fixed. This version is for registered user only.

AmigAIM V0.9353 Beta- an AIM Client for the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II. Prefs can now be set for Windows to be opened on original connection, auto relogin should not change the normal windows (Either the Docking Window or the Buddy List Window must always be opened, though both can be set for opening). If currently away when Auto-relogin is activated, the client should now reset itself as away after reconnecting. Removed a testing menu I think I left in an earlier upload (didn't do much anyway)

V³portal
Linux APUS site
CyberdyneSystems website
Official AmigAIM page
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15.4.2k New Aminet Mirror
New mirror of Aminet is the Internet's smallest collection of Amiga software. Aminet mirror at aminet.a500.de is located in Forchheim, Oberfranken, Germany, running on an Amiga 1200/030-50! All files that were uploaded since 4-10-2000 are online.

Amiga-News.de website
aminet.a500.de Aminet mirror
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15.4.2k Foundation News
Foundation and Foundation's Edge websites has been moved.

Foundation's Edge is now scheduled for a November/December 2000 release. The project has grown much larger than originally expected. Development for multiple platforms has been expanded. This includes development for Amiga Inc's new Amiga Platform. Also, there has been some unscheduled development of the original Foundation game which includes two new Foundation products to be released in May 2000. News of these products will be announced on the Foundation homepage.

Foundation's Edge website
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15.4.2k BoXeR News
Every month there will be new poll on the unofficial Boxer support site. All results will be forwared onto both Dan Lutz at AntiGravity. If you have any suggestions for Polls then write to Darron Cox.

COSA recently called on AntiGravity to show openness in their future dealings, and work with COSA for the Classic Amiga's future. Read both letters here

AmigaCentral Magazine website
The Unofficial Boxer support site
AntiGravity website
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15.4.2k Interview with Darkage Software
Amiga Future magazine is bringing you an interview with Darkage Software (german), developers of Tales from heaven and Powerball games, Extreme and three multimedia CD's (ExtraLife, Darkage Developer Cd und Amiga Classix 2).

AmigaFuture website
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15.4.2k MorphOS FAQ
A new MorphOS FAQ is in the works. If you have any questions you want answered email them here.

MorphOS website
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15.4.2k Moved Pages
The SoftCinema website is now available at http://www.amiga.pl/softcinema/.

The Airsoft Softwair homepage moved to a new server. Everything is now located on SpacePorts.com.

inet
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15.4.2k MorphOS and akDatatypes
Andreas Kleinert: "As a small addition to my recent MorphOS statement - which might have been misleading in that point - I'd like to add the following: although special akDatatype versions for MorphOS are planned, already the current PPC datatypes (and most likely all other of my PPC applications, although not yet tested entirely) will run without any modifications. The special MorphOS versions just are for gaining extra speed and dropping old 68k/WOS/PPC ballast overboard."

Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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15.4.2k Digital Media Leaders Join To Deliver Integrated Programming Interfac
Industry leaders including 3dfx, 3Dlabs, ATI, Compaq, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, IBM, Intel, S3, and SGI today unveiled their collective vision to develop a standard application programming interface for graphics, video, and audio media devices. Creation of a standardized API will allow digital content application developers to more easily integrate video and graphics capabilities into their application suites, and will make these applications more portable over multiple operating systems, CPU architectures, and add-in hardware devices. Similar to the current industry standard for professional 3D graphics- OpenGLÒ , this new API will consist of standard techniques for input and output of digital video and audio data, and will include extensions to OpenGL to support seamless video and graphics integration.Read more

ANN website
Khronos group website
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15.4.2k Voyager News
A new version of the V³ plugin SDK is now available for download.

Web Fonts page is a sort of tutorial or masterclass on how to set up fonts using Richard Griffith's ttf.library, and then configure your Voyager 3.1 browser to use those fonts when displaying webpages.

V³portal
www.neko.u-net.com website
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15.4.2k Software News
Here's a preview of GoldED Service Pack 16, scheduled for release later this month (30/Apr/2000). You see the new Webworld add-on for code-oriented web page design. Looks G R E A T ! (ExiE)

Another bugfix for Digital Almanac II. This update fixes a bug that almost never appeared. It fixes a calculation bug for orbital elements or asteroids, that could lead to chaotic coordinates in a short time period with very special values. Also graphics and calculation speed again has improved a little bit in the 040 version. readme

New version (V.44.41 beta 4) of HSMathLibs for 040/060. Some functions were optimized and much bugs were fixed. This version is for registered user only.

Report+ v3.0 - freeware GadTools-based forms utility with six distinct functions:
It is an enhanced, reverse-engineered, 100% byte-compatible replacement for the official Commodore bug reporting tool (40.2)
It can generate Aminet-style readmes
It can administer the Amiga Certified Software Engineer 1.1 test
It can generate C-style autodocs
It can access the official manufacturer and product ID registries
It can access the official IFF FORM registry

AmigAIM V0.9351 Beta- an AIM Client for the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II.

GoldED website Achim's Amiga homepage
CyberdyneSystems website
Amigan Software website
Official AmigAIM page
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14.4.2k Amiga Announces Plans to Embrace Sun's Java Technology
Amiga Announces Plans to Embrace Sun's Java Technology as the software platform for forthcoming New Amiga products. Amiga is the home of a large number of the world's leading edge multimedia developers, artists and users. Historically, the Amiga platform has targeted providing the most compelling multimedia content to desktop systems, but the new Amiga platform will address connected, multimedia digital appliances such as webphones, digital TVs, and web pads. Now the world's most creative multimedia engineers can leverage the Java platform to target a vast array of new products and solutions. Read More

AmigaInc. website
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14.4.2k Contributors for WOA required...
Drew Green: "WOA (World of Amiga) is a free magazine distributed on disk and the internet through Trogladite Software. We are currently looking for contributors to write articles for the current and future issues. If you're interested, contact me - Drew.Green@btinternet.com for more details. We're also looking for: Artists who don't mind working in lowres 320x256 with 32 colours or in EHB mode Musicians who can make mods that work in Protracker format Thanks"

ANN website
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14.4.2k Free Amiga Jobs
"Free Amiga Jobs" is an employment agency service. It is free for Amiga-based companies & users.

Free Amiga Jobs website
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14.4.2k Vulcan software to release its Amiga games to the community
Paul Carrington: "With regards to our old Amiga software, yes we will be giving them all away for free, we plan to release a game a month on our website (for download) so keep checking."

Michiel Erasmus
Vulcan software website
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14.4.2k Games News
Amiga version of Heretic II is finished, final quality control has started. New screenshots of Heretic II using Warp3D (Permedia2) are available at Titan Computer page.

Nightlong preordering ends 17th April (this Monday). This is the last chance to save $10 off regular price. Preorder this great game either from clickBOOM's portal or from their webshop.

Thomas Lorenz
Titan Computer website
clickBOOM website
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13.4.2k QNX2000 for Phoenix People
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (QSSL) would like to extend a special offer to all members of Phoenix Consortium to join them at their QNX2000 conference in Vancouver, Canada. Read more

greenboy, Phoenix Consortium
QNX website
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13.4.2k New Amiga Magazine
Daniel Orth: "The first issue of amiga.topcool magazine will release in July 2000. 181 papers of the first issues are preorderd since today. Our aim of 200 preorders until 30th april is more then realistic and so we decided to release this promissed issue of the new german Amiga-magazine "amiga.topcool" in July 2000." Read more (german)

Daniel Orth, amiga.topcool.de website
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13.4.2k akDatatypes for MorphOS
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX announced that "Special versions of akDatatypes for MorphOS are planned. From a developer perspective MorphOS is a decent future path for Amiga PPC applications."

Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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13.4.2k AmIDE - Amiga Integrated Development Environment
AmIDE v0.2 beta - the first betaversion of integrated development environment for AmigaOS. AmIDE will allow Amiga developers to manage/edit and compile their projects within a nice lookin GUI. Together GoldED an AmIDE gives you the perfect solution in a great Project Management like on other platforms with IDEs like KDevelop, Visual C++ etc.

AmIDE homepage
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13.4.2k Ukonx Party 2000
Ukonx Party 2000 demo party (Amiga, PC) will be held in Vesoul, France on 14-15-16 April (more 54h non stop!). Read more.

b!gdAn
Ukonx Party 2000 homepage
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13.4.2k Collas and Crew located.
Since the self-destruction of Gateway's Amiga Inc., several people in the community have expressed a deep-rooted curiousity about where Jim Collas and crew disappeared to. Thanks to the group from Amiganet's #Amiga channel, we've located not only Collas, but Tom Schmidt and Rick LeFaivre as well. Of particular interest is the fact that with one exception, none of them even mention having worked with/for Amiga Inc. The exception is Tom Schmidt (What an irony). ideaEDGE Ventures crew

Amiga.org website
ideaEDGE Ventures website
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13.4.2k Glacis Technologies announces "Direct Ship"
Glacis Technologies is proud to announce their "Direct Ship" program designed to reduce costs and increase profits for Amiga resellers. Read more

Amiga.org website
Glacis Technologies website
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13.4.2k Win Digital Almanach II
Go to this page (german only:-() and win the DA II CD-ROM or a free update to DA III!
Small updates in the DA III section.

Achim's Amiga homepage
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13.4.2k Software News
New version of the Z2-DP8390 MNI driver with support for X-Surf and better performance for Ariadne-II.

LAME v3.70 (non-beta!) - MP3 Encoder (020, 040, 060, PPC).

NordicGlobal website
Amiga Alternative Audio page
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12.4.2k First public release of Miami Deluxe
The first public release, version 1.0c, of "Miami Deluxe", shareware high-end TCP/IP router stack for Internet and LAN access (short: "MiamiDx") is now available. Read more
A demo version (with a time limit and other limitations) is available for free. The full registration costs US$ 60.00. An upgrade from a registered version of Miami (any version) costs US$ 30.00.

NordicGlobal website
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12.4.2k MorphOS Overview
Are you frustrated that there have been no major steps forward towards an updated Amiga Operating System since 1993 ?
Are you are disappointed that the 2 years delayed PowerPC boards didn`t provide a 68k emulation ?
Are you frustrated that the uncounted numbers of people which were in control of Amiga Inc., never delivered a new PPC AmigaOS or plan to deliver something which has almost nothing to do with what you used your amiga for ?
Are you sick of the countless empty words in this market where many people can`t deliver what they promised ?
The people which formed the face of the Amiga desktop since 1993 by developing the first: 68060 boards in 1994; Truecolour RTG standard in 1994; Truecolour picture datatype standard in 1995; PowerPC boards in 1997 for the Amiga...
...will bring you now what you`ve always wished for...AmigaOS running on PPC in 2000...MorphOS. Read more


Ralph Schmidt, MorphOS
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12.4.2k AMINET VIRUS WARNING
imaged.lha   gfx/misc   46K   0   Add Your own description to images!
on Aminet contains a file named InstallerFX/InstallerFX which is HappyNewYear96 infected! The virus is recognized and removable by at least VT Schutz, VirusExecutor and VirusCheckerII or VirusZ.
The file has beeen removed but be carefull because Aminet Virus Protection system :-) is not a 100% perfect and can malfunction.

Andreas Mixich
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12.4.2k HydraBBS Source Code
Dominic "Hydra" Clifton: "The source code for HydraBBS is now availiable, to compile it you'll need SAS/C.  You can do what you like with it but if you release new versions of it I want to know about it! You are NOT allowed to make any money by using this source code. (I never did, so why should you ?) If you want to use parts of it in commercial or shareware products then I must receive a full-version of such a program."

HydraBBS homepage
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12.4.2k New swedish forum for Amigausers
Lars Nygard: "After the swedish no1-amigawebforum located on www.xfiles.se was cancelled earlier this week, I decided to start a new swedish forum located at novogate.com called Sveriges Amigawebforum."

Lars "Amigaman" Nygard
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12.4.2k Fusion v3.2 Delivery
According to Paul Lesurf Fusion v3.2 should start shipping by the end of the week, the delay was caused due shortage of DD floppies.

Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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12.4.2k Directory Opus For Sale ?
Directory Opus 5.0 source code and rights to produce it for the Amga platform was on eBay auction for about ~2hours & 15minutes. Why did it end? Did GPSoftware have second thoughts? Did they get an offer outside eBay? The truth is out there...

ANN website
GPSoftware website
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12.4.2k Software News
CyberGraphX V5 is a PPC version of CGX V4 that runs under Morphos. Good news for 68K users: CyberGraphX V4 is being worked on and there are no plans to stop upgrading it.

AmigAIM V0.9348 Beta- an AIM Client for the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II.

VGR.COM website
Official AmigAIM page
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11.4.2k Amiga Update Newsletter
Latest Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb (n.000409).

Amiga Update website
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11.4.2k Cloanto For You
Today Cloanto have made three of their Amiga commercial programs free for private, non-commercial and non-profit uses:
Personal Paint v7.1b - powerful and intuitive paint, image processing, animation and 24-bit printing package. readme
ColorType v3.1 - bitmap fonts editor. readme
Personal Fonts Maker - powerful tool for designing and processing bitmapped fonts. readme

Aminet
Cloanto website
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11.4.2k Pictures From Amiga Meeting 2000
AmigaFun: "On 8 April in Lodz, Poland, a session was organised to cover current issues related to Amiga computers. The panel presentation was held for the Amiga OS3.5 system, with introduction of the MakeCD program and presentation of Linux as an alternative for the AmigaOS following.
Much interest was aroused in the meeting and discussion with authors of the "Amiga Vademecum" manual. Visitors had the opportunity to meet the editor of the new Amiga-dedicated magazine: "eXec". On the "eXec" stand there was HereticII (Thx to Hyperion), Wipeout2097 and GlQuake (Thx to Massimiliano T.) demonstration. People loved it! :) New products from ELBOX were on show: the FastATA ZORRO IV controller and the "Mroocheck" mouse interface with support for wheels."
You can see the first pictures from the show here.


AmigaFun
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11.4.2k Another stories about the Amiga "come back"
tecChannel - Gelingt Amiga das Comeback? (german)
macnews.de - Das AmigaOS: Comeback auf Linux-Basis ? (german)

Mario Klier
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11.4.2k Interview with Xteam Software Solution
Amiga Future magazine is bringing you an interview with Xteam Software Solution (german), developers of Virtual Ball Fighters, Alchimy Lab and Chess Mania.

Amiga-News.de website
AmigaFuture website
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11.4.2k AmigaUserList
If you are looking for some other Amiga users in you region, or on elsewhere on the world try AmigaUserList. If you are missing there you should check the list too!

Robert Kühn, AmigaUserList
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11.4.2k Software News
Demo of RiVA v 0.30 - very fast MPEG player for AGA/P96/CGFX. readme

TrueReality 990629.3 (000410) - Nintendo64 emulator. This is the first MiniGL release of TrueReality. It requires 3D graphics hardware, and Permedia 2 is strongly recommended.

Aminet
AmiDog's Emulation Corner website
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10.4.2k Let Amiga and OS/2 die peacefully
ZD Net's collumnist, Steven Vaughan-Nichols remembers his old Amiga1000 glorious days, and suggests current Amiga Inc. should better let Amiga die than resurrect it as an Linux API. Just another article wrongly interpreting state of the things. On the other hand - it's a fault of Amiga Inc. themselves as their "new -old" homepage doesn't contain any info on OS partner - Tao Group. You can read the Steven's collumn here.

ZD Net website
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10.4.2k Schatztruhe News
Aminet CD 36 now available. Dated April 2000, contains nearly 1 gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in thousands of archives. Since the release of Aminet 35 over 500 MB new software has appeared. The current edition includes the full version of the excellent car racing game Max Rally.

Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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10.4.2k Amiga 1200 bundles available
Glacis Technologies now have Amiga 1200 bundles for sale. They come pre-packaged with a wide variety of software, from games to Word Processing to Scala MultiMedia software. Read more

Amiga.org website
Glacis Technologies website
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10.4.2k Amiga Arena News
MetaView for special price!
The displayer and converter MetaView is available for a special price at the Amiga Arena.

MUIBase for a special price!
The database MUIBase is still available for a special price until April 30th, 2000 at Amiga Arena.

Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition!
The first informations on the Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition are online at the Amiga Arena homepage.

Amiga-News.de website
AmigaArena website
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10.4.2k Amiga 4ever Website Online
Lee Hesselden:"A new Amiga website Amiga 4ever is now online. The site contains loadsa cheats for many games, a links directory, support for software by me, and much more interesting stuff."

Lee Hesselden, Amiga 4ever
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10.4.2k AmiJoe News
According to COOL bits talks between Haage & Partner and Metabox concerning the 68k emulation for AmiJoeG3 cards have not been finished sadly, which still delays production and delivery of the cards.

Amiga-News.de website
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10.4.2k Internet Apps News
MiamiDx v1.0 - premiere TCP/IP router package. This time with docs (guide).

Voyager³ v3.1 - web browser, Vpdf plugin - Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files viewer; and VFlash v1.2 plugin - FLASH player (PPC module need ppc.library v46.31); are available in redesigned V³portal.

Nordic Global website
VaporWare website
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10.4.2k TECHNODATABASE 00
TECHNODATABASE OO is a 100% Amiga interactive CD-Rom as it runs with SCALAMM400 or player (PAL needed). A 400 megs bonus (hundreds of demos, gfx and sound utilities, mods, mp3, pictures, anims, texts, web sites and so on...) is also offered. A pure delight for technomaniacs and one of the only french interactive Amiga CD-Roms. Read more

Christian Dezert, BOUTIK page
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10.4.2k Software News
Latest CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & Blizzard PPC Flash Update fix ppclib bugs, so that ppc vflash (Voyager v3.1) works and add multisession support to CD-Rom file system.

AEMail v2.30 - internet Email client for the Amiga with ClassAct GUI. readme

Ed Collins via powerup ML John Zacharias' homepage
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9.4.2k CS&E News
CS&E: "There is merit in joining the CS&E club at http://www.icatmall.com/cse as those who have got their hands on an A1200 Magic Pack for £47.99 will vouch for. The CS&E club is newly formed and is a development fund for our Amiga publishing and wholesale operations. In short it is a co-operative idea where we get the best possible value for our retail customers. This gives us the support we need to be in the Amiga market so thank-you to everyone who has joined.
If you want to sign up now you can join for as little as 60p from by credit card at http://www.icatmall.com/cse - the home of the CS&E club."


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9.4.2k Latest VirusWarning.Guide
The latest VirusWarning.Guide v3.0 (9.4.2000) is now available.

Virus Help Denmark website
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9.4.2k Apano Sin
V.A.K.-Entertainment is set to publish Apano Sin, a shoot'em up in the next few months. Apano Sin has 6 worlds and many action packed levels, and should be available for viewing at the AMIGA Show in Neuss, Germany.

AmigaFlame website
V.A.K.-Entertainment website
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9.4.2k Join Trogladite Software
Trogladite Software Management Team: "If you feel you can offer your services to Trogladite Software, in order for us to attain our goal of creating the best software for the Amiga, we are sure that YOU can make the difference. However, the places are limited and if you want to have a good chance of helping out in Trogladite Software, please apply TODAY!"
E-Mail applications should be sent to admin@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk.

ANN website
Trogladite Software website
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9.4.2k Software News
akMPEG4 v4.41 (9.4.2000) - MPEG player for CGX/AGA (68k+PPC).

PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX website
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8.4.2k Amiga.com
AmigaInc.'s www.amiga.com is finally working properly. The 'new' - 'old' website is online.

AmigaInc. website
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8.4.2k Wired: New Amiga Stirs Passions...
Wired magazine is bringing you another article about Amiga. It basically shows Amiga in two different views: the one of people thinking current Amiga Inc. direction has nothing in common with the Amiga philosophy, while the second one of people thinking it is fair to give Amiga Inc. a chance. Article also talks about "partnership" with Corel and Sun. You can read the article here.

Wired.com website
Marion E. Wyatt on TA ML
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8.4.2k LightForce Status
Andreas Hippauf: "Just a short status-report on Lightforce, since it got really quiet about our project.
For the reasons: I did marry and was on honeymoon from 17th march on. So the weeks before and afterwards, I was busy with much more important matters... :-) The rest of the team is/was busy, too. Sadly not with the project, but as it is just hobbyprogramming, it takes some time.
But there are good news as well: I am back and did continue with work. The new menue-system is nearly finished and a new version is near. Expect it this or next weekend on the download-page of LightForce."


Andreas Hippauf, LightForce
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8.4.2k Help Needed
Rick Hodger: "What I am looking for, is the webspace details of all the various ISPs that Amiga people use in the world. In keeping with the "simple" theme, I'm creating a "wizard" or sorts for SimpleFTP that will automatically setup SimpleFTP ready for use with your ISP provided webspace. If you want to help, please go here and fill in the form...cheers!"

ANN website
SimpleFTP homepage
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8.4.2k Amiga Returns!
Amiga Returns! is the name of short but information filled article from MacTimes about the new Amiga developments announced at Amiga 2000.

Amiga.org website
mactimes.com website
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8.4.2k Boing Ball Satellite Dish
Borut Zivkovic from Carinthia/Austria sent us a picture of his satellite dish, which he painted in the Boingball Design. This is a little idea for people who have old parabols and want them make to look better :-)

Borut Zivkovic
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8.4.2k Scalos News
OS3.5 icon support steps forward a bit more, sorted all the problems with icon datatypes: corrupt images with CGX4, 'black' images when rendering onto a native screen with CGX, wrong rendering of complemented images on deep screens, pen locking problems and the dreaded enforcer hits with OS3.5 and AppIcons.

Scalos Developer archive release 2 is now available. This will be updated soon with more 'C' source code examples and fixed/updated autodocs.

Scalos mailing list address has slightly changed due to the eGroups.com & Onelist.com merger.

Satanic Dreams Software website
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8.4.2k Interviews
Amiga Future magazine is bringing you an interview with MantaSoft, Amiga games development company, and interview with CS&E, UK software company. Both in german.

Amiga Future website
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8.4.2k Software News
INET_DIAL from MDR, which integrates Internet or Remote Computer connections with YAM and AWEB now includes support for X-10 apliance control via the web or phone. Timed automated mailchecks, event control, "dial-up" and "dial-in" connections are some of the options included.

AMarquee v50.11a (8.4.2000) - TCP Data Broadcast System (library & server). readme

VersionWB v2.14 (8.4.2000) - - AmigaDos version replacement. It's a major bugfix!

EIDE'99v31a30 - for 4xEIDE.

Richard de Rivaz, MDR Interfaces
www.PARTING.nu website
Ivo Janacek, Javosoft
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7.4.2k Amiga2k Reports
David Steidley and Czech Amiga News presents high quality pictures from Amiga2k show! (MPEG anim inside)

Another set of pictures from St. Louis Show by H&P.

AmigaFlame - What happened at St. Louis?

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7.4.2k H&P Online Shop
In February H&P started with their online shop. Meanwhile they did many improvements to make it easier to use. They added links to the product pages and you will be recognized by the cookie system as a known customer (the shop works without cookies as well).

Haage & partner website
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7.4.2k Fusion v3.2 Amiga delayed
Due to delays in getting blank 3.5" DD disks Blittersoft is not able to ship the update. They hope to get the disks by beginning of next week. The update v3.2 will be available for 30 DM in Germany, Austria and Swiss exclusively at H&P

Haage & partner website
Microcode Solutions website
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7.4.2k clickBOOM news 37: Nightlong
clickBOOM: "Nightlong is approaching the final stage of development. It took a little bit longer than was planned because we had to wait for a new version of Storm for PPC. But, that should now be behind us, as Storm arrived. We'll let you know as soon as Nightlong is ready.
On the not so good side, we only have 150 Nightlong PPC preorders currently. Don't worry, we won't abandon PPC because of that, but you will probably agree with us that 150 does seem like an awfully small number. :(
At the Portal we have a new Nightlong trailer. This one shows a bit more of what Joshua (the main character) can do. There are smaller (8Mb) and larger (22Mb) versions. If you don't have a fast Internet connection, you can get the trailer from your favorite Amiga magazine next mont."


clickBOOM website
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7.4.2k Software News
PageStream 4 Release 5 is available for free at Softlogik`s secure download page for all PGS 4.0 users.

Bugfix and speed improvement in DA II (v1.8.13) fixes two very hard to detect minor bugs in DA II. Also texture drawing is now faster. download

PerfectPaint v1.3 - a powerful painter and picture manipulator (1bit to 24bits ) for the Amiga. What's new v1.3?

Softlogik web site
Achim's Amiga homepage
PerfectPaint's page
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6.4.2k Amiga's Relationship With Corel a Great Success!
Amiga Incorporated, is pleased to announce that its new multi-media consumer interface is well supported by Corel LINUX OS and other Corel applications including the newly released WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux.
Amiga's multi-media consumer interface runs extremely smooth and fast on Corel LINUX OS, and the compatibility between these great products has provided Linux developers with a new and exciting way to create incredible multi-media titles, and games for Linux. Read more

'New' AmigaInc. website
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6.4.2k We're doing exactly what Gateway said they'd do with us
ZDNet News - Gateway 'could have had it all'.
Gateway Inc. may have big plans for Linux-based Internet appliances. But Amiga Inc. -- the company Gateway bought in 1997 and subsequently sold off last year -- has aspirations and agreements of its own to bring Linux to "Amigans."
Bill McEwen: "Like (Microsoft's) DirectX is an RTOS for Windows, we are an RTOS for Linux" (???)

check also Yahoo! News - AOL, Gateway Unveil Internet Appliances

Mario Klier
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6.4.2k Amiga's websites and domains
Bill McEwen, AmigaInc. CEO; posted a clarification to the AAC mailing list regarding the situation of Amiga's websites and domains. Read more

ANN website
AmigaInc. website
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6.4.2k FastATA ZORRO IV EIDE Controller
ELBOX COMPUTER proudly announces the new product for Amiga 1200: FastATA ZORRO IV EIDE Controller with data transfer rate 16.6 MB/s. Features

Darek Smietana, ELBOX COMPUTER
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6.4.2k New Rumor Mill edition
Mystic rhythms is the new article on Squid's Amiga Page & Rumor Mill.

Squid's Amiga Page & Rumor Mill website
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6.4.2k CS&E News
CS&E completed formalities with a very promising new team of developers from Liverpool in England (you know, where the Beatles came from :) named Electronic Dreams Interactive. CS&E will be working with Electronic Dreams to produce high quality education and entertainment software in the future in addition to helping to open an office. Electronic Dreams' intention is to become the major 'in-house' development team of CS&E and this is a goal we share with them.
The first title is named as Cosmo's Fun Class. Read more

You can also join the CS&E club (more info here).

SC&E website
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6.4.2k AmiJoe OS Survey Is Up
Elwood's AmijoeCard unofficial survey is a success (more than 640 entries). After electing your prefered hardware, you may now select which OS you want to see supported the most by Metabox boards. Though this survey is unofficial, Metabox is reading it. So don't hesitate!

Ben Yoris
Amijoe Survey page
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6.4.2k Software Hut's New Site
Software Hut have a new website with a much improved layout.

ANN website
Software Hut website
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6.4.2k Newtek Press Release
Paul Lara, Newtek: "Source code (Toaster and Flyer) is in the process of being dry-cleaned, and once it's all pressed and bagged, there will be a steady flow of uncompiled source code for the developement community to modify or improve!" More information will be available shortly as this project continues.

Amiga.org website
NewTek website
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6.4.2k MorphOS News
MorphOS support page updated the with new FAQ and current list of supported hardware and software.

MorphOS homepage
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6.4.2k AROS News
DOpus 4 is now ported to AROS (see snapshots page). AROS finally got the attention of AmigaInc. (mostly because of the efforts of Steve Crietzman of OAF and Gary Peake of Amiga). AROS sources will stay available at least under MPL.
Read more

AROS website
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6.4.2k Software News
JST v3.2 (bugfixed v3.1) - JOTD startup for HD installs & degrader. Frogger v1.56 - MPEG Video player.Download PPC PowerUP version (WarpUp/060/040/030 will follow). Added support for PSX movies (str, fmv) and str audio (xa,ixa).

According to Amigart Total Vision (authors of Frogger and SoftCinema) have just started new project, codename for it is 'YaQZa'. It will be a PSX emulator for PPC amigas. Prepare for something outstanding. More informations soon.

The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
Frogger homepage
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5.4.2k AMIGA 2000 Show Report
Marion E. Wyatt: "I had the pleasure to attend the Amiga 2K show in St. Louis over the weekend. This was my first show since 1997. That year I attended the St. Louis show and the AmiCon show in Columbus, Ohio." Show report

Marion E. Wyatt
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5.4.2k Amiga's New Website Online
Amiga's new website is online. That link may well take you to the old version as it takes a while to filter through the nameserves, in which case try this link: http://209.15.87.244. Note how it looks exactly the same as the website that Gateway launched (and which was subsequently removed for reasons unknown). Also, there are a few broken image links, though probably this is due to the nameserver as well.

AmigaCentral Magazine website
AmigaInc website
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5.4.2k Kickstart Show Update
Kickstart amiga user group based in Surrey, England are pleased to announce more details of their forthcoming show on saturday 27 may 2000. You can win a A1200 just by attending the show or win a hard drive if you win one of the games competions. More details here.

Kickstart Amiga Group website
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5.4.2k Software News
MUIbase v1.4 - relational programmable database with MUI GUI. Register!

FastATA4000 v2.2 software for ELBOX FastATA High Speed EIDE controller (for A4000).
New gadget "USE" in FastATAPrefs allows changing disk PIO modes and HDD standby delay on the fly
Easier SPLIT/NOSPLIT option management
New FAQ in ReadMeFirst.


MUIbase homepage
Dariusz Dulian, ELBOX COMPUTER
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4.4.2k Amiga2k Picture Report #2
Roger Wyatt & Czech Amiga News are back with second part of the picture report: Amiga2k Picture Report #2.
Both parts have now short descriptions inside.

Roger Wyatt
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4.4.2k Amiga2k Reports And Response
AmigaInc. - Pictures from the Amiga2000 Show in St. Louis
www.onyxsoft.nu - Amiga 2K show report by Jon Peterson
Amiga-News.de - Amiga2K Picture Report
ANN - Banquet Report by Mark Abraham (english, german)
Future Zone - Amiga bastelt weiter an Hard- und Software (german)
GNN - Amiga stellt Entwicklersystem vor - Red Hat als Partner (german)
3Sat/Neues - Kein Aprilscherz - Amiga lebt wieder (german)
Heise - Amiga: Neuanfang mit Linux-basiertem Betriebssystem (german, english [ANN])

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4.4.2k Barfly 2.2
Barfly v2.2 - ASM Development System (Giftware) with 68000 thru 68060 w/6888x, PPC603, PPC604, PPC750(G3) and PPC7400(G4) Altivec support. Removed barfly.library dependency completely and added morphos disassembler extensions. readme

MorphOS homepage
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4.4.2k The Bars&Pipes Tools Guide
The Bars&Pipes Tools Guide has been updated. If you use Bars&Pipes, or are thinking about using Bars&Pipes, you simply can't do without this guide. New additions include the Phoo Tools, Micheal Rees' Tools, and a few other missing things and updates." See www.sonix.demon.co.uk/amiga.html for more details.

ANN website
Mike Clarke's webpage
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4.4.2k Software News
Development of HydraBBS is now ceased. If anyone wants the source code just drop author an e-mail and you can have everything you want.  (Including the key-generator, or you could just remove the protection yourself..) HydraBBS will not be ported to other platforms, but coders of other BBS systems are welcome to use the source (contact author first!)
HydraBBS Discussion forum is working again.

JST v3.1 - JOTD startup for HD installs & degrader

HydraBBS homepage
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
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3.4.2k Amiga2k Picture Report
Roger Wyatt & Czech Amiga News strike again: Amiga2k Picture Report #1.

Roger Wyatt
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3.4.2k Amiga2k Reports And Response
TheRegister - Amiga preps dual-OS plan, outlines hardware line-up
Slashdot - New AmigaOS On Top Of Linux
Pro-Linux - Amiga: Alles wird gut (german)

Moo bunny - Amiga Show Analysis part1, part2, part3 by Corinna Cohn
The first Amiga2k show report with pictures by Matthew DeSantis

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3.4.2k Boxer News
The BoXer mailing list is now up and running. All who are interested in the BoXer Motherboard and the forthcoming systems from AntiGravity are welcome to join. This is yet again organised via the onelist mail server. You can either subscribe via www.onelist.com or simply post an mail to BoXer-Amiga-subscribe@onelist.com with the subject heading Subscribe. The BoXer Support Site is located at http://CoxD.tripod.com. A direct subscription logo will be added to the site in the coming days!

Darron Cox
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3.4.2k The World Foundry News
Check the TWF April 2000 Update for the latest news about their upcomming games Explorer 2260 and Maim & Mangle.

Ed Collins, The World Foundry
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3.4.2k Amigan.com Is Open
Amigan.com lauched today. It features free online auctions, free classifieds, and much more coming soon.

Tom Kisner, Amigan.com
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3.4.2k Glacis Technologies 3rd Birthday
Glacis Technologies is pleased to invite everybody to participate in their celebration of 3 years in business. This includes a 5% discount on the 3rd through 7th of April, and if you order on April 4th (their actual birthday), you'll receive a total 10% off of listed prices. Read more

Amiga.org website
Glacis Technologies website
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3.4.2k Amiga2k: BoXer News
Roger Wyatt: "Anti-Gravity Products of Santa Monica, California has acquired BoXer technology from Access Innovations. As well, the world-wide manufacturing and distribution rights have been purchased from Blittersoft. Paul Lesurf of Blittersoft will become head of the UK office. Mick Tinker now works for Anti-Gravity as Director of BoXer development. BoXers will be built in California, by Anti-Gravity either in Los Angeles or Palmdale.
Paul B of Anti-Gravity brought a BoXer motherboard to the Banquet. As I sat at the same table, I was able to observe the board closely. It appears to be well beyond the prototype stage.
Quoting from the press release: "Two additional engineers have been hired to complete the AGA compatibilty aspects of an all-in-one chip to be known as Hombre (TM)." Interesting isn't it?
Final development and testing of the board are underway. A list price of $1895 USD was posted. See www.antigravity.com for details and specifications."


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2.4.2k Amiga Companies Developing For New OS
Roger Wyatt: "This is a list of Amiga companies developing for new Amiga: Epic, ACT, DCE, Met@box, Scala, Amiga Development, Titan, H&P, Digital Images, Hyperion, Crystal Software. They are porting/developing 117 titles for New Amiga. Cool.
On another point, the Disney animators who submitted new hardware refrerence designs, they include Patrick Roberts, Michael Daugherty, and Arthur Argote. They are lead designers for the new Disney movie Dinosaurs."

Roger Wyatt
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2.4.2k Java Web Browser for New Amiga
"Espial is providing an 800k java web browser for New Amiga." It's probably called Escape.
Escape v4.0 is a web browser that delivers big functionality in a small footprint of less than 800kb. Supporting advanced Internet standards including HTML 4.0, forms, frames, tables, applets, images, JavaScript 1.4, SSL v.2.0/3.0, DHTML, DOM, CSS... Escape v4.0 offers the most extensible plug-in capability of any browser available to the embedded market. Popular multimedia browser plug-ins including Real Networks G2 media player, Macromedia Flash, MP3, QuickTime, MIDI and more can be supported by Espial Escape v4.0. Escape 4.0 also integrates support for Sun's JMF (Java Media Framework), enabling it to load audio or visual media.

Espial website
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2.4.2k Amiga Are No April Fools
Amiga announce plans for this year, including a developer box and concept systems. Amiga Are No April Fools, new article on suite101.com.

suite101.com website
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2.4.2k Audio Evolution Demo
New Audio Evolution demo with support for multiple samples per track is ready and can be downloaded here. You can view the updated listview in the screenshots section. For more information about all the changes and bug fixes, see the history.
The full version will be available within a few weeks from Computer City. Everybody who sent in their registration card will then receive the new version by email too.

Audio Evolution homepage
Computer City website
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2.4.2k Software News
VirusExecutor v2.03 1.4.2000 (215.999B) freeware virus killer.

SimpleFTP v2.14 - easy to use MUI based FTP client.

Virus help Denmark website
SimpleFTP website
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2.4.2k Amiga 2K: The banquet
Roger Wyatt: "Bill McEwean's after dinner talk and demonstration was stunning in its sweep, complexity, and scope. Here are a few highlights: Newtek has placed its source code for the Toaster and Flyer into Open Source status. See www.toaster.amiga.org for details.
Greenboy of the Pheonix Group joined Amiga's Gary Peake on stage to shake hands and announce that there was no split in the Amiga community. Pheonix and Amiga are working together.
Sun is a strategic partner of Amiga.
Bill McEwen: "Our success will be the embrase of Java." Expect to see many Java apps for Amiga.
Red Hat is another strategic partner. So is Corel. Amiga will be the common consumer application layer for 26 different versions of Linux.
The new Amiga developer environment will run on top of a Red Hat Linux base and foundation.
Amiga will be the common consumer interface for Corel Linux apps.
Thus Amiga will provide Java and Linux with a common interface. Amiga will be extensibile running on cell phones to servers.
117 current Amiga titles are being ported to the Tao based New Amiga OS.
Espial is providing an 800k java web browser for New Amiga.
There will be a new version of Scala for the new OS.
Animators from Disney provided the conceptual designs for the look of the new hardware reference designs. They are beautiful. They will be going up soon on the Amiga website. Disney used over 500 Amigas to produce computer animation for their films.
Amiga is aligned with an array of consumer electronic firms including Sony, JVC, and others.
There will be an upcoming announcement regarding Amiga participation in a global ISP alliance.
In the weeks to come Tech Head Stories will provide both in-depth analysis of the Amiga announcements in streaming video, text, and graphic formats. Stay tuned."


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2.4.2k Amiga2k Reports
Amiga 2000 Show News by Wayne Martin.
AMIGA-aktuell Latest News (english, german)

Amiga.org website
AMIGA-aktuell website
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1.4.2k Amiga2k Show News
First short report from Roger Wyatt: "Sprits are high and there is a feeling of optimism among the attendees of Amiga 2K here in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bill McEwen, Fleecy Moss, and Petro Tyschtschenko were in attendance as Bob Scharp opened this popular Amiga show.
After a brief opening statement from Bill McEwen, it was a Petro and Scharp mutual admiration society with each of them recieving awards from the other in recognition of their efforts in support of the Amiga and the Amiga community. Randihar Jesrani, owner of Compuquick Media Center was recognized as a major US vendor of Amiga products."

To watch the webcam you can either follow this link or download some webcam software such as WebVision22a and set it pointing at http://ugn.amiga.org/webcam/webcam.jpg for 15 second intervals.

Cleaned-up IRC-log from the Q&A with Fleecy Moss.
Most interesting: developer machine is K6-2 500Mhz, 64MB, Geforce 256, Linux and Elate - cheap, runs the Tao system very well. Consumer system should be out before the end of the year.

Roger Wyatt
User Group Network
Amiga Globe website
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1.4.2k MorphOS News
There is the MorphOS GCC 2.95.2 (tools) dev pac. ppc GCC2.95.2 crosscompiler and ppc cross binutil 2.9.1 to generate morphos executables. Can also be used for powerup but be aware that the compiler does NOT use 68k structure alignment. (4.1MB).

MorphOS website
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1.4.2k Final Issue of Amiga Format Now Avaliable
UK subscribers should have recieved the final issue of Amiga Format today. If you are a subscriber the remainder of your subscrition will be transfered over to Future's new title, Linux Format, edited by Nick Veitch.

AmigaCentral Magazine website
Future Publishing website
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1.4.2k Software News
DOpus 4.14 (334 kb) - great filemanager from GP Software. sources

Latest informations about the status of development and future of stormamiga.lib and HSMathLibs.

ICS v1.09 - professional color correction for scanners. manuals

Directory Opus 4 Research site
CyberdyneSystems website
Aminet Recent
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1.4.2k March News
News from March 2000 can be found in Execute History section.