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30.4.99 akDatatypes and SView/PPC under WarpOS
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30.4.99 Genesis Odyssey PPC II - System Update
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30.4.99 amigaOS and AmigaFever join forces
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30.4.99 ADescentPPC WarpUP/Warp3D
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ADescentPPC
versions for WarpUP have been released by Peter Annuss. There are 3D accelerated
Warp3D and normal versions available on Aminet.
Aminet net:-)
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30.4.99 AmiDog's MPEG Movie Player
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New version 1.02 of AMP, AmiDog's MPEG Movie Player for PPC equiped AGA Amigas is now available.
Major speedup for 16/32bit modes (37.2fps vs 25.0fps in 32bit) and also 8bit gray is faster on CGFX now (50.8fps vs 45.4fps).
AmiDog's Movie Player website
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30.4.99 Foundation Update
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30.4.99 Joyride
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The 3D driving game for AGA Amigas similiar to Accolade`s Test Drive 2 (mentioned on this site few weeks ago)
is now called Joyride. New support page incl latest demoversion you can find
here.
Joyride website
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29.4.99 A.C.T. News
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Survey will end on 20th of May 1999! After this date they will decide what products will be developed.
600 interest calls for theUSB controller.It is solely up to you whether A.C.T. will
continue Amiga development and support.
Projects that have not been considered important enough to the community will not be developed.
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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29.4.99 Moonbases Publisher
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29.4.99 wARPgATe homepage
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wARPgATe homepage now has its own domain www.w-9.de.
There you can read the latest infos, download all released stuff for warpOS and warp3D,
get helpful tips and much more...
wARPgATe website
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28.4.99 Turboprint 7.04
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Latest Turboprint update to version 7.04 you can find here.
Added printer drivers for HP DeskJet 880 and 895 and fixed many bugs from previous versions.
IrseeSoft webpage
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28.4.99 68K Blizzards
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The DCE GmbH will be manufacturing and supporting 68K based processor cards (Blizzard 1220/4,
Blizzard 1230-IV, Blizzard 1240 T/ERC,Blizzard 1260, Blizzard SCSI kit IV, Blizzard 2040,
Blizzard 2060) and CV64/3D with scandoubler under license agreement with
phase 5. They abandoned these products when they started
focusing on the PPC cards.
Read more (deutsch).
Petra Struck's website
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28.4.99 Trogladite Software Awards
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The results to the Trogladite Software Awards are in and the winners are, Haage & Partner
for Features, Amiga Nutta for Informative Content, ClickBOOM for Graphics/CGI Useage/Technicality
and Amiga.org for Design and Layout.
Read more.
Amiga.org News
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28.4.99 fMSX Amiga v2.2 beta1
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28.4.99 SpaceStation3000 Demo FIX
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If you are having trouble getting the SpaceStation3000 Demo to run, get this fix
(Demo4.lha).
In the game never select Engine Settings/Game Settings/Window Size 320 -250.
Required file is missing in the demo...
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27.4.99 SpaceStation3000 Demo
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26.4.99 Screens Conference
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Amiga Universe is proud to announce details of a second Screens conference
Lennart Friden and Christian Nylen will once again be available to answer
your questions regarding the operating system for PowerPC Amigas, on the
ArcNET channel #amigaUni. The conference will start at 8pm British time on
Sunday, May 2nd, and finish at 10pm.
(ArcNET servers)
AmigaUniverse magazine
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26.4.99 RealAudio for Amiga
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26.4.99 AmigaAMP 2.5 service pack 2
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26.4.99 Miami Deluxe
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Miami Deluxe BETA version 0.9h, full TCP/IP router package for "power users", released. Registered users
can get it here.
Nordic Global website
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25.4.99 Allan Havemose on IRC
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What devices will the AmigaNG support? Will OS5 have a Ram disk? Find the answer here.
Amiga.org news
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25.4.99 Shogo for Amiga
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Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has (in close co-operation with
Stuart Walker from Digital Images) acquired the rights from Monolith to port
'Shogo', the highly acclaimed PC game, to the Amiga.
Shogo is a high-end 3D shooter with anime/manga (Japanese cartoons) elements
and is based on the LithTech (tm) engine developed by Monolith.
Warp3D Mailing-List
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25.4.99 Miami Deluxe
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Miami Deluxe BETA version 0.9g, full TCP/IP router package for "power users", released. Registered users
can get it here.
Nordic Global website
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24.4.99 aMozillaX IRC conference
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24.4.99 The Prophet Released
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24.4.99 Amiga Radio News Updated
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23.4.99 Tornado3D v2.0 SE
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Special version of Tornado3D has all you need to create breath-taking 3D graphics and animation
at a very reasonable price and with a full upgrade option. Includes PowerPC and Virge3D support.
You can get this outstanding 3D package
for only 199 DM from H&P.
Haage&Partner website
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23.4.99 AsimCDFS 3.10
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The most interesting feature of AsimCDFS 3.10 is support for the Joliet file system. If you are registered
user of AsimCDFS and got serial number, you can get the new archive
here.
Asimware Innovations Inc. website
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23.4.99 Freeware MP3 encoders?
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MPEG Layer-3 encoders are not free! While most of the distribution of MPEG Layer-3 software decoders
is free of charge, for all MPEG Layer-3 encoders a license is needed and royalties have to be paid.
Read more.
AmigaAMP website
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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23.4.99 RA players
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Version 1.3 of RAPlay, multi-format RA and RA2 player, is now available here (040, 060, PPC).
Version 0.52 of RealAmiga Player, multi-format RA and RA2 player, is now available here (68k).
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22.4.99 WarpUP Release 4
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After intensive work and countless tests the new release of WarpUP can go public.
The text describes the news and the new tools.
Update and full archive are available here.
Haage&Partner website
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22.4.99 World of Amiga '99 -it's going ahead!
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PBA Events in association with AmigaSoc UK
are pleased to announce that the most eagerly awaited Amiga event on
everyone's calendar is going ahead. The show will be on the weekend of
24th and 25th July. Read more.
Andrew Elia
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22.4.99 Recruiting people for 'Portrait' development team
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Portrait is painting program, released to Aminet some time ago. Author of this program is now looking
for some talented programmers, willing to help in many areas, as he rewrote the core from the scratch
and needs to add many features to it. The idea is to write something that is sort of a mixture of
Paint Shop Pro/Personal Paint/Photogenics and ImageFX. If you are interested, read
more. You can also directly contact the author.
comp.sys.amiga.programmers
Chris January
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22.4.99 New MP3 encoder
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Ncode is a brand new freeware MP3 encoder. It generates high-quality MP3 files and supports MS-Stereo
(aka joint-stereo). You can even define MP3-TagIDs. Both WOS and PowerUp PPC versions as well as
68K version are available here.
power-up mailing list
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22.4.99 Opera YES or NOT ?
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Helmar Rudolph, initiator of ProjectMagic, Opera Software:
"We are talking to a German team about the port, but we are currently not sure if this port will be
resumed, mainly in the light of the competition and the current market situation of the Amiga.
Hope to have more detailed news on that soon."
Opera website
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22.4.99 GoAD
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The GoAD (Gathering of Amiga Developers) has opened their new website.
There's also some additional info on the open source 3D game project, Cauldron2000, available at the website.
AmigaExtreme website
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21.4.99 UK & European Net Strike
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Read the official press release for the Campaign for Unmetered
Telecommunications (CUT) in the UK, which is part of a co-ordinated European Telecom Campaign.
The objectives are for the introduction of unmetered calls at a flat-rate charge, as available
in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and recently Ireland, as well as many other countries.
The current UK and European pricing structures are detrimental to the development of the internet
and e-commerce in the EU.
Alan Day
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21.4.99 Amiga-C programmer mailing list
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A new Amiga-C programmer mailing list is being established and wants 'C'
coders of all types to join up in the hope of creating a large pool of
knowledge. It is hoped beginners and experts will be brought to gether
to share ideas and help each other with coding problems. Areas such
MUI, UNIX porting, AmigaOS, Games etc. are hoped to be covered so if you
know your stuff about any aspect of 'C' or are keen to learn how, then
join up.
Mike Carter
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21.4.99 WinUAE 0.8.8 Release 3
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WinUAE 0.8.8 Release 3 is now available.
There are some fixes over the previous 0.8.8 R2 release.
WinUAE website
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20.4.99 USB Controler
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The USB Controler for Amiga from A.C.T is very likely to appear. Let them know
if you prefer USB with 4xSerial ports on the card or whatever you think could make sense.
If you are interested in PPC MPEG Encoder, show you interest (preorder), coz the licence needed to port a legal MPEG
Audio Encoder to Amiga is expensive.
ARTAS, Amiga ReTargetable
Audio-System, will be developed using Linux as basic platform and will be ported to Amiga ASAP.
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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20.4.99 Aminet Wuarchive Site Restored
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20.4.99 aMozillaX Conference
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The aMozillaX conference on ArcNet that was called off after Ben Rothwell had technical problems,
has been re-arranged. The meeting will take place on Saturday 24th April at 8pm BST or 7pm GMT
in channel #RedWall, on the ArcNet IRC network.
(servers)
AmiSITE webpage
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20.4.99 AmigaUni is moving
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19.4.99 Amiga Matches
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Amiga Inc. prepared new promotional products - Amiga matches, in the boing ball logo style.
Interesting design. You can find more information in the News & Diary section of
AmigaInc.'s website.
AmigaInc. website
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19.4.99 Very late Amiga'99 report
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Check this very very late St.Louis Amiga'99 show report by Steve Folberg.
Steve Folberg
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19.4.99 Multimedia developer wanted
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Tekmark Global Solutions is looking for skilled developer, familiar with AmigaOS or PowerPC, programming in C,
working with Adobe Premiere etc. For more info on what the company offers to potential candidate, look
here.
Amiga.org news
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19.4.99 ArtEffect News
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Haage&Partner released three new catalogues for their ArtEffect 3.0.
The catalogues represent Czech, French and Danish languages and you can
dowload them from HP's ArtEffect support area.
Haage&Partner website
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19.4.99 Foundation Update
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Foundation strategy game update 1.24b is available here.
No obvious changes were made but a great deal of source was rewritten in an ongoing attept to tidy and optimize the game.
Foundation Support page
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18.4.99 OS 3.5 details from AUGS user group meeting
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Haage & Partners revealed some more detailed info on OS 3.5. Browser in OS 3.5 will be special version of AWeb,
and TCP/IP stack is going to be Miami. The e-mail API and simple e-mail client will be from author of Voodoo and
New Yourk. Even some more info can be found here.
AmigaCentral website
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18.4.99 Playable TV/NAB99
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First information coming from NAB99 are covering success of Playable TV units, being sold to some
companies (e.g Disney). Playable TV unit is system based on Amiga/Toaster/Flyer and quite a bit
of proprietary software to introduce state of the art interactive functions for video editors,
stadium screens, and other digital artists. More info can be found
here.
NewTekniques magazine
Amiga.org news
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18.4.99 WinUAE 0.8.8 Release 2
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WinUAE 0.8.8 Release 1 is now available.
There are many fixes over the previous 0.8.8 R1 release.
WinUAE website
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18.4.99 Amiga Corner opened
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Today the new game site called Amiga Corner opened. The site
will feature screenshots, reviews, previews and news. Author
is also looking for somebody that can help him with the site.
Linus Gustafsson
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18.4.99 Latest Games News
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Read about QuakeWorld and Quake for Warp3D,
and why we can't play them.
New 68k/PPC version 2.0 of Eat The Whistle football is now
available.
The game is now faster, have better AI, better goalkeepers and a lot of improvements.
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18.4.99 Latest Software News
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New version 0.9.0 of VVA, VNS viewer for Amiga is now available here.
New version 2.1 of LHA archiver is now available here.
New version 1.01 of AMP, AmiDog's MPEG Movie Player for PPC equiped AGA Amigas is now available.
New version 2.1 of fMSX, the MSX emulator for the Amiga, has been released.
New versions of akPNG 44.32, akJFIF 44.32 and akTIFF 44.32 datatypes are available here.
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17.4.99 aMozillaX beta in two weeks!
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According to Ben Rothwell, the aMozillaX team expect to release a public beta in two weeks time.
Features beta 1 is said to have include full HTML4 support, ECMAScript 1.3 support (JavaScript),
and no BLINK support! Java will use either Daytona or RamJam's future JVM. All that will be
missing in beta 1 are Java and SSL. According to Ben, it will be "very useable".
AmiSITE webpage
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17.4.99 Latest Games News
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17.4.99 Is the Alien Boxer Right For You?
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70 new Q&A was added to the Alien BoXer FAQ.
Read the answer to the most interesting question: "Why should I pay $1,495
for BoXer, when I can get a 300MHz PC/clone for $500.00 running Windows and install Amiga Forever software or the Inside-Out Card?"
Amiga.org news
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17.4.99 NewTekniques Live Coverage of NAB
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New Tekniques will be showing live coverage of NAB99. Coverage will include an Amiga/T/F story and several PlayableTV announcments, one Amiga/T/F related.
Read more.
Amiga.org news
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17.4.99 Future of ACT
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Albrecht Computer Technik (A.C.T.) is currently carrying out a survey
to find out how many people are actually still interested in Amiga hardware and software development.
So far the number of responses has been alarmingly LOW! It looks like there will be NO future development.
CHANGE IT! (time is running)
AmigaAMP website
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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17.4.99 Delsyd Software homepage
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Delsyd Software homepage updated. More information about games in development, information on supported
hardware, and the results of the PPC accelerator poll added. Create some really neat stuff and
win $1000US.
Delsyd Software website
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17.4.99 Amiga Radio News Updated
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17.4.99 Nordic Global mailing lists
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17.4.99 Eucalyptus source code
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Due to not enough time for next development Isengard Developments have decided to release the source code
to the Amiga version of mailing program Eucalyptus. You can download the source code
here.
Isengard Developments
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16.4.99 Graphics for embedded systems
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Read the article about graphics for embedded
systems which mentioned the OpenGL API for Amiga. "In fact, an OpenGL port to QNX is reportedly in progress
for Gateway's (www.gateway.com) Amiga game console". (?????)
Amiga.org news
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16.4.99 Joint Amiga Developers
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Joint Amiga Developers (JAD) have launched! They are few people who think some Amiga-programmers don't really get enough attention.
They are trying to help them getting attention. They announce projects, assign people to them and coordinate them.
They observe progress and publish newsletters to the programmers involved in the projects.
Read more.
Joint Amiga Developers website
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16.4.99 First issue of AmigActive
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First issue of AmigActive will cost £4.99 UKP and will be published next month. There will be a web site
from next week and a mailing list before then. AmigaActive CD is almost completed. However the Readers
submissions drawer is looking rather bare (not surprising since there are no readers yet :) If you have
something that deserves public exposure, why not mail aacd@wirenet.co.uk
for details of how to submit your work.
AmiSITE webpage
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16.4.99 Voyager News
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Oliver Wagner: Ok, here's a short summary of what has been done,
is being done and (eventually) will be done for Voyager 3. This focusses on "major" changes, and
I've written it offhand, so I may have forgot something.
VaporWare website
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16.4.99 Moonbases Requires New Publisher
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Homegrown Software are looking for a new publisher for Moonbases, the real-time strategy game.
The game was due to be published by Verkosoft, however, they have ceased publishing of Amiga
games, Homegrown are now in the unfortunate position of having to find a new publisher.
Read more.
Amiga Nutta magazine
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16.4.99 Amiga-PSION Link
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Psion's palmtop computer Series Three contain a fine operating system which includes a full
peer-to-peer networking software, using a protocol called NCP. AmigaNCP features a full NCP
implementation, including a remote file server to access Amiga files from your Psion and
a file system to access Psion files from your Amiga.
Read more.
VaporWare website
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15.4.99 Amiga Latest News
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Darreck Liesle appeared on IRC, saying a few interesting news:
- Amiga Insight is the name of new on-line Amiga magazine, which should be put on Amiga's web site soon
- In the future there are going to be monthly IRC conferences with Amiga
- Amiga will be running web cam in their office.
- Darreck Liesle and Jeff Schindler are moving to San Diego too
- The new look and feel of five new incarnations of Amiga NG will be done by company called Pentagram
Amiga.org news
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15.4.99 Another Fusion PPC petition in French
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Unnoficial petition was replaced with a French translation
of the Blittersoft's official one.
All results will be send directly to Blittersoft.
There is also available French translation of Tornado3D WarpUP PPC survay.
The results will be send directly to Steffen Haeuser.
Adam Carrano
APS website
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15.4.99 Cross ppc-egcs available
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Egcs Linux/x86 -> PPC cross compiler, binaries compiled for
x86-gnulibc1(libc5): contains Paladin's C library, PowerUP includes,
libmoto for fast math performance and is available for download
here.
comp.sys.amiga.programmers
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14.4.99 The Odyssey PPC II
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The Odyssey PPC II is a new completely expandable and configurable Amiga from Genesis.
Select your own configuration through Randomize's new
"Build-Your-Own" system.
Even you can get Fusion 3.2 + MacOS8.5 for $79.95 US with Odyssey PPC II :-)))))))
Randomize website
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14.4.99 New Alive Website
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14.4.99 Late report from Commenwealth Games 1998
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AMIGA International, Inc. sponsored Commenwealth Games 1998 in Malaysia.
Read more.
Amiga website
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14.4.99 Nordic Global mailing lists
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14.4.99 Fusion/PCx PPC questionnaire
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Blittersoft, Microcode Solutions distributors for Amiga Fusion and PCx, have published a
questionnaire aimed at determining
the market for PPC modules of Fusion and PCx emulators.
Blittersoft website
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14.4.99 Another Fusion PPC petition in French
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Check an unofficial petition for the PowerPC versions of Fusion/PCx.
Translators from French to any languages needed.
Adam Carrano
APS website
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13.4.99 New Gilbert Goodmate Screenshots
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PrelusionInc. have just released some new amazing screenshots of the upcoming adventure, Gilbert Goodmate.
Gilbert Goodmate is being developed, and will be released, on the PC. Prelusion intend to release an Amiga port of the game shortly after, or if possible
at the same time as, the PC release.
PrelusionInc. website
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13.4.99 Linux Apus Installation Guide
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13.4.99 Schatztruhe accepting OS3.5 preorders
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13.4.99 Alien BoXeR FAQ
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BoXeR development continues on schedule for the May 15, 1999 shipping date. The first new Amiga since the demise of Commodore can be yours at the
special preorder price of only $1495 until May 15, 1999.
Interactive Alien BoXeR
Frequently Asked Questions added.
AntiGravity.com website
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13.4.99 VaporWare mailing lists
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13.4.99 Dr. Richard LeFaivre, Ph.D.
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Read more about Dr. Richard LeFaivre, Ph.D.,
Chief Technology Officer Amiga, Inc. directly from Amiga website.
Amiga website
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13.4.99 PicassoIV MPEG Module Survey
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Some PicassoIV users have shown interest in a MPEG-2 module for the PicassoIV, so one such user has started
his own UNOFFICIAL survey to see what interest there is.
Amiga.org website
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13.4.99 Operation: Counterstrike website
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Just launched new Operation: Counterstrike website you can find here.
Daniel Allsopp, Blue Black Solution
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13.4.99 FUSION PPC
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Jim Drew, Microcode Solution: We are no longer working on Amiga stuff (FusionPPC/PCx), even in our spare time.
This will change once the iMac emulation for the PC has been completed.
Fusion mailing list
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12.4.99 Dry Ice Features
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Just imagine: Dry Ice will support HTML 4.0, JavaScript 1.3, XML, possible REBOL support,
no MUI, or ClassAct needed, HTTP/1.1. It is not based on the Mozilla code, it is not a
port from UNIX. Dry Ice, like any other top class Amiga piece of software is written from
scratch, especially for the Amiga.
Dry Ice website
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12.4.99 Racing Game demo
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Check the demo of AGA only racing game.
It`s a 3D driving game similiar to Accolade`s Test Drive 2 on A500. It runs very fast on AGA
and quiet enjoyable. Comments, BUG reports, ideas or publisher propositions you can send
to Milan Golubovic.
Sinan "Mano" Gurkan
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12.4.99 Pre-orders of OS3.5
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Blittersoft are accepting pre-orders of the new OS 3.5 CD, to be released in August. There will be no monies debited
until the day of release. As a special offer, there will be Fusion/PCx available with OS 3.5 for £15.00 UKP.
Blittersoft website
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11.4.99 The Portal News
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New COMMUNITY section added to The Portal. It allows you to create your own polls.
All Portal users will then be able to vote on them. It's fun :-)
The Portal
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11.4.99 NCAUG Cookout at Software Hut
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11.4.99 AmigaAMP 2.5 Final
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11.4.99 DI News
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Genetic Species engine will be used in 3D part of Space Station 3000. A demo of the game is very close now and should be with us very soon.
Wipeout 2097 is now progressing well and some early screenshots of the Amiga version shoud be ready in about 1-2 weeks!
A demo should be available soon also.
DI are talking with Binary Asylum about Zeewolf 3. DI are talking with several other companies too,
with regards to porting several brilliant games like Herectic2, Quake2, F22 Air Dominance Fighter.
Kijitsu Warrios and Digital Soccer will
be using new graphics engine for AmigaNG only! Screenshots of the engine shall be available soon!
DI are looking for skilled C programmers
for the development of Digital Images AmigaNG games.
Digital Images website
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11.4.99 Computer Voodoo :-)
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Paul Nolan: Could whoever is messing with the Paul Nolan's voodoo doll (not available for purchase soon) please STOP!
First my 4000T blows up, then my spare 4000D doesnt work, my harddrive almost dies on me, and today my monitor tried
to catch fire.
Photogenics website
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11.4.99 Jim Collas's answers
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Read few answers from Jim Collas, Amiga,
to several questions/comments asked by Victor Prasad, Amiga fan.
c.s.a.m
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11.4.99 Interview with Hal Greenlee
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Read the short multilingual interview with Hal Greenlee, famous NASA retired, who updates the situation of Amigas used at Cape Canaveral to control launches.
(english, italian,
german, portoguese)
Joachim Thomas, AmiWorld On-line
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11.4.99 Amiwest '99 Amiga Show
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AmiWest '99 will run from Friday,
July 23th, through Sunday, July 25th. The show will feature classes, seminars, guest speakers, a banquet
and many Amiga vendors and groups.
AWD website
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10.4.99 akDatatypes Updated
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10.4.99 Amiga Radio News Updated
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9.4.99 Application for OS 3.5 Beta-testing
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In May the beta-testing phase for the new AmigaOS 3.5 starts. To be considered as a beta-tester, you would have to match certain criteria.
Application
Amiga website
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9.4.99 Future of ACT
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The Amiga has reached a state where development of new products - hard and software - is not covered by sales any longer.
In order to further support the platform development companies have to make sure orders for a specific project will pay
back investments within a short given time frame.
ACT have a great number of projects waiting to be started or ready to be put into their final state.
SO WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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8.4.99 10, 9, 8, 7... and the Winner is...
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100 000th visitor of our newspage and the winner of a special price is - Bjarke Vangsgaard.
Congratulations! Thanks once again to all of you visiting our news service, and we are looking forward to welcome our 200 000th
visitor :-)
Czech Amiga News team
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8.4.99 Who is Rick LeFaivre?
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When you look closely at Amiga's staff page, you will find out CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
is already named. His name is Rick LeFaivre, and if you want to know, what is Rick's
technology background, just click here, as it seems to be
very impressive.
Amiga website
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8.4.99 The Year 2000 problem and the Amiga
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8.4.99 New REBOL beta
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REBOL Aliance members received second beta version of REBOL/Contra 2.0.
This new version contains another set of refinements, CGI enhancements,
socks5 proxy and much much more. Let's go back to testing :-)
Rebol now exists for a few new platforms as: BSDi, FreeBSD, SGI Irix,
DEC-Alpha, Linux and BeOS...
Rebol website
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8.4.99 WinUAE 0.8.8 Release 1
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WinUAE 0.8.8 Release 1 is now available.
There are significant changes in this release over the previous 0.8.6 R6 release.
WinUAE website
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8.4.99 Redesigned Boxer?
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According to Mick Tinker, the Boxer motherboard is now under redesign work to better fit todays
standards, but details will not be available untill the product is near to shipment.
c.s.a.m
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8.4.99 OS Bundle available
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8.4.99 Amiga Nutta Updated
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Amiga Nutta has received a small facelift and has few games news. (Seaside, World Foundry)
Amiga Nutta Magazine
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7.4.99 Tornado3D for WarpUP Survey
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All mails concerning the "Tornado3D for WarpUP" Survey were deleted because of unexpected disaster :-(
So if you signed up already, please do it again. If you haven't signed up yet but you are interested
in Tornado3D WarpUp PPC version, check this survey too.
Steffen Haeuser
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7.4.99 aGTK team needs help
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The aGTK team still needs a few people to work on the native Amiga port of GTK+, the GUI toolkit from
the GNOME project, used in such famous UNIX apps as GNOME, GIMP and Balsa (the GNOME mailer), as well
as others. If you have experience in XLib and Amiga programming and would like to join, please mail
Hans-Joerg Frieden.
c.s.a.p
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7.4.99 HTMLView.mcc Update
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There's a new update available for HTMLview.mcc,
MUI class that will load, parse and display HTML formatted text. Updated class will expire in two months.
Allan Odgaard's website
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6.4.99 Downunder 99
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The Amiga Downunder 99 show will be run at the Hotel Heritage, in Canberra, the Australian National Capital,
on August 21st and 22nd 1999. Read more.
Deja News, The Discussion Network
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6.4.99 New KOSH Mailing List
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In response to the traffic on the KOSH general mailing list, new kosh-programming-o mailing list was created.
If anyone thinks there should be others, email to Jason Radford.
Jason Radford
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6.4.99 AmiDog's Movie Player
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V1.00 of the MPEG videoplayer for PPC equiped AGA Amigas released.
Full CGFX support, 8bit/16bit/32bit uses direct gfx memory access and is therefore very fast.
Sound is also here, it's however very slow currently.
AmiDog's Movie Player website
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6.4.99 Amiga St.Louis 99 Hall of Horrors
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Huge collection of pictures taken at Amiga99 by Mushroom Software.
Separate sections cover show set-up, floor pictures and coverage from the parties.
AWD website
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6.4.99 Titan Computer News
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6.4.99 Aminet CD 30
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Aminet CD 30, dated February 1999, contains nearly 1 gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in thousands
of archives. Since the release of Aminet CD 30 over 500 MB new software has appeared. The current
edition includes the full version of the 3D action shooter Gloom 3.
Read more.
Schatztruhe webpage
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6.4.99 Photogenics 4.0
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Finally, after four years of hard work the new version of the well-known graphic manipulation software
Photogenics 4.0 is available. Photogenics is a registered
trademark of Paul Nolan. and should be available mid/end of april for DM 179,- from Schatztruhe.
Read more.
Schatztruhe webpage
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5.4.99 QNX/Neutrino 2.0 - VOTE FOR THEM! :-)
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QNX/Neutrino 2.0 has been chosen as a finalist for the 1998 EDN
Innovator/Innovation of the Year competition. Nominated in the Embedded
Development category, QNX/Neutrino was selected for its advanced
microkernel architecture. Help QNX/Neutrino to win, as it is our AmigaNG
foundation. Just one click.
More info directly on
QNX website.
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5.4.99 Napalm 1.3
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All regular Napalm players can get update to version 1.3 at The Portal.
This is a test upgrade, it may (but should not) contain new bugs.
The Portal website
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5.4.99 Livewire Aminet Mirror
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Australian Aminet mirror on the Livewire website was lost after a RAID failure and will not be restored.
Access numbers, dwindling CDRom sales plus space utilisation were the three deciding factors leading to
the decision to not restore Aminet mirror.
Ross Delaforce, archive administrator
AmigaUni mailing list
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5.4.99 Snapshot function NOT removed from AmigaOS
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Juergen Haage: We don't remove the snapshot function. This was a misunderstanding. What we tried to do
is to find a automatism to remove the manual snapshot. On the current point of work we can say that
this will not be possible. Please be sure we never try to remove the snapshot function we only try to
make it a little bit easier.
many of you
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5.4.99 G4 and Altivec
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It looks like G4 and Altivec are comming to the Amiga world.
There are many people talking about Altivec so if you want know
what they are speaking about check Motorola's offical
Altivec website
Motorola website
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5.4.99 Visual Engineering
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5.4.99 aMozillaX Conference
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There will be a meeting with Ben Rothwell and another couple of developers from the aMozillaX project.
The meeting will take place on Saturday 10th April at 8pm BST or 9pm GMT in channel #RedWall, on the
ArcNet IRC network.
(servers)
AmiSITE webpage
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4.4.99 A1200 TwisterPPC Project
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Read the latest info about A1200 TwisterPPC project.
It's a cooperation between ACT (Apollo), Haage&Partner and Titan Computers. 3 versions
are planed, additional hardwares are a gfx-board and UW-SCSI.
AmigaExtreme website
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4.4.99 STRICQ 0.1295
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New version of STRICQ 0.1295, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available. Updated version
you can get here.
Adds four new arexx-commands.
AmigaICQ webpage
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4.4.99 NewsRog Update
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The update 1.6C of NewsRog, most powerful usenet reader available for the Amiga, you can
find here.
The update is only available for the registered version of NewsRog and is free.
NewsRog webpage
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4.4.99 Saku 99
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Finnish Amiga Users Group is pleased to announce it's third annual Amiga event, Saku 99. Following the success
of Saku 98, which was visited by some 500 Amiga enthusiasts, Saku 99 is aimed to be bigger and better than the
previous events. Mr. Petro Tyschtschenko of Amiga has already confirmed his presence and other great
highlights are planned. Read more.
Janne Siren
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4.4.99 ProStationAudio demo
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ProStationAudio is a software application that provides a desktop enviroment for editing, mixing and mastering digital audio. Latest
ProStationAudio v1.20 demo with PPC support is now available here.
AudioLabs website
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4.4.99 Linux/APUS for AFCD40 #2!
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Please read this e-mail
and stop writing to Richard Drummond to say what you want to see on the AFCD40.
AmiSITE webpage
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3.4.99 Snapshot function removed from AmigaOS
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There are info available in comp.sys.amiga.misc conference, saying Mr. Haage said in his interview
for AmigaOS magazine, 'snapshot function will be completly removed from the OS'. If you think you
will surely miss it, send an email message with
your opinion/explanation to Mr. Haage right now.
c.s.a.m
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4.4.99 Amiga Radio News Updated
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2.4.99 Fake MUI 4.0 on AmiNet
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Oliver Wagner:"There's a faked MUI 4.0 archive on AmiNet which is probably crapped
full of backdoors and other nifty stuff. Don't bother with downloading it, you can
be rest assured that it's not from Stefan Stuntz (who's on holiday at the moment,
so he can't comment on this topic easily)"
Oliver Wagner
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1.4.99 Wolf Dietrich's (Phase5) comments
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Wolf Dietrich, general manager of Phase5, adresses some issues on comp.sys.amiga.misc conference.
The interesting one is answer to Stefan Domeyer's (Met@box) message, talking about refinements
of JoeCards project. Does the attitude of email means old good Amiga days are back? :-)
You can read some posts here.
Wolf Dietrich, phase5 to c.s.a.m
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1.4.99 AmigaSoc announces ...
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In order to get more users to Amiga user groups, AmigaSoc announces discounts for UK Amiga usergroups. Once you
become a valid member of one of the UK Amiga usergroups, you will receive discounts at some companies offering
Amiga products. For more info visit this page.
AmigaSoc website
Andrew Elia
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1.4.99 iBrowse 2 is coming!
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1.4.99 Foundation: Sound too good to be true?
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V1.24 of Strategic game Foundation is now available. The
update will mark the biggest visual change to Foundation so far. The flat texture rendering code has been replaced with a more
flexible system that provides optional Gouraud shading and texture blending. The shaded mode runs at almost the same speed as
the old non-shaded version but it can be turned off to give the old flat shaded effect with greater speed than ever before.
Foundation Support page
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1.4.99 April Fools Day News
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Read about CyberVisionTNT² graphic card on vgr.com.
Check the article "New Amiga specs finally announced!"
from AmigaUni and laugh :-).
Following the lead of Apple and Netscape, Microsoft will be making its own variation of the Open Source model,
called the Microsoft Public License. Under the license, developers will be able to download the source code
of Windows 2000 and submit bug fixes (OSnews).
Martin Blom, the developer of AHI for the Amiga has decided to leave the computer scene for good, in favour of a song
and music career. Read more.
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1.4.99 GoldED Studio Update
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Registered GoldED Studio 5 users can download the latest service
pack here to upgrade from 5.x.x to 5.1.6.
GoldED 5.1.6 Demo is also available.
The offer to upgrade at a reduced price from a previous version to GoldED Studio 5 expires in March '99.
The latest version of the HTML
publishing extensions takes advantage of toolbar pop-up buttons introduced with GoldED 5.1.6
(see screenshot).
GoldED webpage
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