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31.5.99 Sites movin'
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Andreas R. Kleinert's website (PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX ) moved to www.ar-kleinert.de.
BTW New versions 44.36 of ak datatypes (JFIF, PNG, TIFF) are available.
Kato Development Group moved to new domain www.katodev.de.
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31.5.99 WaveTracer DS Mark V v5.0
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The WaveTracer DS will be available in some weeks on CD-ROM, distributed by Nightshift. The special introducing
price will be 99,00 DM.
Mark V supports PowerPC (WarpOS®), soundcards via AHI and the Amiga-audio synchronous at the same time,
a new interleaved format for the IFF-SoundANIM's wich is more compatible to AHI, the new AnimFX animplayer wich supports AHI and offers an ARexx-port,
new Loader, Saver and Effects and much more.
Because of the distribution on CD-ROM, much example-samples, -SoundANIM's and playlist-songs are now part of the WaveTracer DS softwarepackage.
VWP website
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30.5.99 PowerPC versions of PCx and FUSION!
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Microcode Solutions have now announced that they will develop FusionPPC and PCxPPC,
if they get 500 pre-paid orders for each product. The retail price for the PPC
upgrade modules is $199.95 for each module. If you pre-pay for either product, you
will be charge only $149.95. If there are not enough pre-paid orders for either
product, they will not finish that product!
Sign or die :-)
many via email
Microcode Solutions website
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30.5.99 Free Amiga moved!
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30.5.99 Help with FreedomCall
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29.5.99 Wipeout screenshots
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29.5.99 GoldED Studio 6
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GoldED Studio 5 users can download the latest service
pack to upgrade from 5.x.x to version 6.0.1. The major new feature is a fully resizable user interface.
Demoversion is also available.
GoldED webpage
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29.5.99 The international Amiga infotainment magazine
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The international Amiga infotainment magazine (AaktInt) needs feedback.
Read more.
Martin Henke, AaktInt homepage
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28.5.99 Paul Nolan got married
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26th of May 1999 Paul Nolan, author of well known graphics/art package Photogenics, got married.
Czech Amiga News sends best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Nolan :-)
Photogenics website
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28.5.99 Amigactive online!
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Amigactive just announced opening of their website. What is this new magazine going to be about?:
"Amigactive will have the highest production values - top designers, skilled writers, and the best
CD-ROM in the business. It will bring a new look to Amiga magazines with fresh presentation and
a feature rich content. There will be a real emphasis on hands-on demonstrations of what you can do
with your computer, and a close eye on the real cream of the Amiga market."
You can read the whole announcement.
Amigactive website
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28.5.99 Script that builds REBOL Technologies website
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REBOL website is completly build in REBOL itself. If you even dare to imagine,
how short the script responsible for complete website could be, just look
here:-)
REBOL Technologies website
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27.5.99 Amiga announces the creation of the Amiga Advisory Council.
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Amiga Advisory Council is the advisory council, which will be
influential in helping to set the future direction of Amiga, with a
special focus on the needs and desires of the existing Amiga community.
You will be able to vote for your favorite representative in very near
future. Read the announcement.
Bill McEwen, Amiga
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27.5.99 New version of Amiga Forever
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Cloanto is pleased to announce that a new version of Amiga Forever Online Edition
is available for download. For this release, both the preinstalled Amiga software and the WinUAE emulation have been updated and improved.
Read more.
Cloanto website
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27.5.99 Amiga Job Offering
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If you want to see, how the advertisement covering job offering in Amiga looks like,
just click here.
Amiga website
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27.5.99 REBOL script library expanded
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REBOL script examples library has now been expanded up to 58 examples.
You can easily recognize new examples by "new" mark. You can get these
scripts here.
REBOL Technologies website
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27.5.99 Individual Computer Products Arrive at Randomize, Inc.
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26.5.99 Letter from Dr. Rick LeFaivre
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Check the letter from Amiga's new CTO,
Dr. Rick LeFaivre. He is thrilled to be a part of the new Amiga team, working with Jim, Petro,
Jeff Schindler, Allan Havemose, and the other top people who are being attracted to this opportunity.
He looks forward to sharing more about their vision, technologies and products in the months to come.
Amiga website
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26.5.99 Macromedia releases Flash sources!
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Flash is the software, which has become the standard for creating high-impact vector based websites
that deliver sound, interactivity, graphics and animations and perform flawlessly across multiple
browsers and platforms. Macromedia announced a Free Source licensing program for the Flash Player
code yesterday. Anyone about to port the player to the Amiga? For more information look
here.
Macromedia press room website
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26.5.99 New Amiga Computers Coming
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26.5.99 Lithtech 3D Engine To Mac And Amiga
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26.5.99 Aminet CD 31
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Aminet CD 31, dated June 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 premium workbench replacement and file manager Directory
Opus 5.5 and a special upgrade offer to Opus 5 Magellan II.
Read more.
Schatztruhe webpage
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26.5.99 Dafel: Bloodline IRC Conference
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AmigaCentral has organised an IRC conference with the creators of the forthcoming RPG Dafel: Bloodline.
It will take place this Saturday evening at 8pm GMT on server.sea-mammals.org, channel #Amigacentral.
AmigaCentral website
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26.5.99 Amiga-ICQ homepage no more
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25.5.99 The AMIGA Booth at the WOA '99
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On July 24 & 25, 1999, the World of Amiga will be held in London, England. Here are some
pictures of what Amiga's
booth will look like. For further information on the WOA'99 check out the
World of Amiga website.
Amiga website
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25.5.99 Australasian AMIGA User Group
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Australia and New Zealand User Group, named Amiga Downunder UG Incorporated (or ADUG for short) will be officially
launched at the Amiga Downunder 1999 (ADU99) Show which
is being organised and hosted by members of the Canberra Amiga Users Society (CAUSe) in Canberra on 21 and 22 August 1999.
Read more.
Amiga website
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25.5.99 GOOD BYE message
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Read the ACT's GOOD BYE message to Amiga community.
(deutsch) ACT: "If one day a new Amiga should be
available with professional developer support we might consider developing for that platform. The current
situation does not allow any plans for such "NG Amigas" though."
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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25.5.99 AE Changes Ahead
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AmigaExtreme will be undergoing some changes quite soon. The hardware part will be taken out of AE.
The site will now be Amiga 3D Gaming only. A new site will be opened, covering the latest hardware
news for the Amiga. Co-workers for the new site needed. Interested?
AmigaExtreme website
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25.5.99 Amiga Patches Resource
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25.5.99 Opus Magellan II update
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Free Upgrade patch for registered users to Opus Magellan II version 5.81 is now
available.
Since the release of Opus Magellan II, development of Opus has
continued and from
user feedback they have added some new features and squashed a couple of small bugs.
GPSoftware website
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25.5.99 NCoder page opened
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24.5.99 AU The Event Calendar!
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Amiga Universe now added event caldendar for people to add Amiga related events to.
The pages are JavaScript enhanced, but still work if you dont have java-script capable browser.
AmigaUni magazine website
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24.5.99 Second public beta
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Second public beta of AmigaAMP 2.6 is now available for download.
BETA-1 tried refreshing the equalizer display even when the window was closed. This resulted in a nice crash when trying to
reload a skin without the EQ window being open.
AmigaAMP website
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23.5.99 Hot discount
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Looking for Candy Factory Pro, Fantastic Dreams, Elastic Dreams or Art Studio Pro? You can now order this directly from
MotionStudios at a time-limited hot discount!
Candy Factory Central website
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23.5.99 Source codes for free
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23.5.99 MPEG audio players
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AmigaAMP 2.6 beta is now available for download.
This version has got the promised EQ support along with some other new features and the usual minor bugfixes.
Powerful MPEG audio player AMPlifier 1.55 is also available.
AmigaAMP website
Thorsten Hansen, Kato Development
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22.5.99 GoldED Studio 6
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GoldED Studio 5 users can download the latest service
pack to upgrade from 5.x.x to version 6. The major new feature is a fully resizable user interface.
Demoversion is also available.
GoldED webpage
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22.5.99 More "AmigaNG" Concept Drawings
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21.5.99 Amiga looks to iMac, Palm for inspiration
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Only The Register tells it like it is. Well, not everytime. Check another article
from The Register based on concept drawings recently published by Amiga.
The Register website
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21.5.99 Napalm 1.35
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All regular Napalm players can get update to version 1.35 at The Portal.
This is a test upgrade, it may (but should not) contain new bugs.
The Portal website
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21.5.99 WoA and AmiWest
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AMIGA will be supporting and participating at two major AMIGA shows in July, AmiWest99 in Sacramento,
California and World of AMIGA 99 in London, England. These shows will occur over the same weekend.
Jim Collas: "We are looking forward to simultaneously discussing our plans for the future with great
audiences on two continents. We are looking at ways to connect the two events and show that AMIGA
users represent a great worldwide community."
AMIGA executives will be at both of the shows, and look forward to sharing more details about what
they have been doing over the past few months and how they are moving towards the future.
Amiga website
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21.5.99 REBOL/core Now On 18 Platforms
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REBOL/core Messaging Language version 2.0.2 is now available for even more platforms. And more powerful!
You can get it here. Check the
Rebol library for more than 40 example scripts.
Rebol website
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21.5.99 AmiComSys new version and server
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AmiComSys (Amiga Communicator System) is a new Internet application for the Amiga OS.
t's much like ICQ but it lets you find Amigans much more easily. AmiComSys recently changed. The new
server to use with AmiComSys is acs.hostile.cx.
AmigaCentral website
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20.5.99 CLUBBED
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South Essex Amiga Link (SEAL) is proud to announce three major improvements
to the quality and service of their print Amiga magazine Clubbed:
higher production quality, more pages and increased content and credit card payment option.
Read more.
SEAL website
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20.5.99 Crystal Software Live at ANT
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Amiga North Thames are proud to announce that Crystal Software, the Amiga
Games company, will be attending the next Amiga North Thames usergroup
meeting which will be held on Sunday 6th of June 1999.
Read more.
Michael Carrillo Chairman, Amiga North Thames usergroup.
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20.5.99 PageStream 4.0
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Software Hut is pleased to announce that SoftLogik
has made them Exclusive North American Distributor for PageStream 4.0!!
Look there for PageStream v3.3 with free upgrade to 4.0!
Getting 4.0 finished is a SoftLogik's top priority now.
They are expecting to ship PageStream4.0 by August or sooner!
Software Hut website
SoftLogik website
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20.5.99 ACT Survey ended today
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Since no project has gathered enough interest so far the only logical conclusion is: Amiga is dead.
There has been an overall result of 1057 (sum for all projects) votes from the survey, many of
which are doubled or trippled.
ACT: "Thanks to all our customers world wide - we do keep our promises and will continue to support
our products on a private base. We will even continue development of Samplitude Opus - but we will
NOT develop V4 for the Amiga, sorry. The Amiga is not the world - it has been a part of it, but now
it is time to sail to new shores." Read more.
Albrecht Computer Technik website
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20.5.99 French corner
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There is petition for the french
translation of catalogs and docs of OS3.5 at france.amiga.tm.
B-Raver/Amedia Software
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20.5.99 AntiGravity.com Updates BoXeR FAQ
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Since the BoXeR FAQ has been put online, hundreds of submissions have been processed. The resulting questions and answers
are now available here.
If you don't find the answer you're looking for, fill out the simple form to submit your new question. AntiGravity.com
will email your answer to you. If your question has been asked by several others, it will soon be added to the Common
Questions page.
Amiga.org news website
AntiGravity.com website
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20.5.99 AAA Awards Voting
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Voting for the 1998 AAA Awards
is open, and closes on June 30. This year, you'll also have the chance of winning fabulous
prizes. Read more.
AAA Awards website
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19.5.99 Jim Collas' Open Letter to the Community and more!
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19.5.99 No more CyberStormPPCs?
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According to Sjoerd de Vries, phase5 have said that they can produce no more Cyberstorm cards.
The only ones left are those already in stock with dealers. There is also a small chance that
DCE may produce PPC604 cards under license.
Fear not though, the G3 cards are coming. More information is promised in June.
PowerUp mailing list
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19.5.99 Jim Collas UK Meeting Report
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19.5.99 A1200 Parts Available
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Now you can obtain new and used support parts
for your 1200 and 1200 tower systems from Randomize, Inc. There are limited quanties of these itmes, sales will
made first come, first serve until the stock is gone.
AWD website
Randomize, Inc website
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19.5.99 Deli14Bit NotePlayer
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Chris Hodges, author of the new 14Bit-NotePlayer for Delitracker
is about to release the new version, but still needs some beta testers for a final run before its release.
V4.00beta adds
AHI-Support, 5 new mixing modes, 3D mode, inverted stereo, anticlick, improved prefs handling, ModSave and much more.
Chris Hodges website
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19.5.99 AriadneII Info
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AriadneII Infotool
is for support purposes. It will print out your MAC address, PLD version and actual chip state. Use this program
to report problems with your AriadneII ethernet card to VT support.
VillageTronic website
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18.5.99 OS 3.5 Beta-testing
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The first beta testing phase for the new AmigaOS 3.5 will start soon. There are over 2.500 applications for the beta test.
The application phase has ended now so do not send applications any more. Every applicant should have gotten
a confirmation by e-mail during the last week. The people that will take part in the beta test will be informed by e-mail
the next days. A second draft is planned for June/July.
The beta test will be run solely by Haage&Partner. Please do not ask Amiga Inc., Amiga Intl. or Haage&Partner any
questions concerning the test. It is impossible to answer to them and it would slow-down development of OS 3.5.
AmigaOS3.5 website
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18.5.99 Questar University, Autumn 1999
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Questar Productions are happy to announce Questar University Autumn 1999. This four-day power conference is planned
during the first week of November. Get the most out of World Construction Set, widely recognized as the best
photorealistic terrain modeling, visualization, rendering and animation software on earth :), by joining together
with other WCS professionals, industry leaders and members of the WCS development team!
Click here for more information or to register.
World Construction Set website
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18.5.99 The Point
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One of the longest running Amiga electronic magazines The Point (since 1992 under the name "Page") has been
saved from extincition by Amiga group "Trogladite software" who have kindly offered to take-over the running
and development of the magazine from Point-Productions.
Read more.
AmigaUniverse website
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18.5.99 amiga.org hacked
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Amiga.org recently published information about NordicGlobal products, backdoors and law suits.
We assume the amiga.org web site has been hacked. Read more.
NordicGlobal website
AmiSITE webpage
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18.5.99 Audio Evolution
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Audio Evolution is new name of PlayHD, audio harddisk recording system. There are some major
changes and the most important one is new mixer design with realtime effects and subgroups.
Read more.
Audio Evolution website
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18.5.99 CBSpeccy ZX-Spectrum 128k emulator
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17.5.99 Digitally Remastered...
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Arpeggiator is a digital audio interface for Prelude Z-II for transferring audio data without quality loss.
It has a built in Prelude-Bus extension so that you can connect other expansions like the MPEG-it! module
without any problems. First prototype is almost finished.
Petra Struck website
Thomas Wenzel's website
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17.5.99 SoftLogik online again
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17.5.99 Genetic Species PIP
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Genetic Species goes PIP. Now you can play the game in a window on your Workbench screen. To do this
you need the "Picture In Picture" sublibrary for the rtgmaster API and a Picasso IV, CyberVision or
CyberVision3D graphics board. It possibly also works on the Merlin and the Retina Z3, but this is
not tested. Updates get here.
Marble Eyes website
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17.5.99 STRICQ 0.1371
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New version of STRICQ 0.1371, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available.
Updated version you can get here.
STRICQ webpage
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16.5.99 HTTPResume v1.6a is FAKE
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Latest HTTPResume v1.6a (110621kB) Aminet release was not done by author and it's not
official in any way. The latest official release is still v1.6, dated 24-Apr-99.
Read more.
comp.sys.amiga.misc
HTTPResume homepage
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16.5.99 AmiBench Dealer Directory
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The AmiBench Dealer Directory
has just had another service upgrade, and now contains over 170 different Amiga Dealers in over 23 countries
around the world. If you find incorrect details, or that your local dealer is not listed, please fill out the
form.
AmiBench website
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16.5.99 Official WOA'99 website
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16.5.99 Educational software availability
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15.5.99 The ICOA Website Is Back
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15.5.99 Miami Deluxe
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Miami Deluxe BETA version 0.9i, full TCP/IP router package for "power users", released. Registered users
can get it here.
Nordic Global website
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15.5.99 10.000 PPC boards
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According to Wolf Dittrich in a interview with amigaOS
there are over 10.000 ppc boards sold for our Amiga, and recently there are more Blizzard
boards sold then CyberStorm boards.
powerup mailing list
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15.5.99 "Free Choice PPC Kernel Petition" Ignored?
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Domagoj Ozanic, author of "Free Choice PPC Kernel Petition",
tried to inform phase5 about petition. He sent multiply emails and FAX and talked to Ralph Schmitt over IRC.
FAX was sent to phase5, emails were sent to Wolf Dietrich (wd@ufoo.phase5.de, wd@gf.phase5.de) and Ralph
Schmitt on laire@basis.owl.de. Answer? NONE!
Read more.
powerup mailing list
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15.5.99 Digital Dreams talk to AIO
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14.5.99 CNet Amiga Professional BBS / Internet Portal
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ZenMetal Software would like to announce the release of CNet Amiga Professional Bullein
Board/Portal version 5 (previously known as CNet Amiga BBS).
Read more.
ZenMetal Software website
Mano
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14.5.99 AWeb is still alive!
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AmiTriX development: "AWeb is still being developed. The newest beta has many nice things but we
are not releasing details of its feature content at this time. Sorry for the lack of specifics
but I think it is best to have new features fully tested before obligating ourselves to include
them. You will find the AWeb mailing list a good source for rumor though. ;-D"
AmiSITE homepage
AmiTriX development website
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14.5.99 AAA Awards 1999 update
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The AAA Awards is an award program rewarding efforts to strengthen the Amiga computer and its user community.
The suggestions are closed now and voting for the
1998 AAA Awards will open shortly.
Amiga.de website
The AAA Awards website
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14.5.99 Haage & partner News
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14.5.99 fMSX Amiga v2.2 beta3
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13.5.99 A4000 PowerFlyer
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A4000 PowerFlyer is EIDE/ATAPI controller supporting PIO-3 and PIO-4 modes for A3000/4000 with ZIII slots.
There is also new CD filesystem called AllegroCDFS, supporting ISO 9660, Joliet, Rock Ridge, CDDA, UDF.
SCSI and ATAPI devices (CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD).
Read more.
AmiSITE homepage
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13.5.99 Settlers II Final Word?
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According to Angus Manwaring, Blue Byte have released a press statement saying
that Amiga version of The Settlers II is "unfeasible".
AmiSITE homepage
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13.5.99 ppclibemu v0.6d
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New ppclibemu lib v0.6d, emulation of ppc.library (PowerUp Kernels) for WarpOS, is now available here.
RC5 client works with it (does 400kKeys on my PPC200MHz).
powerup mailing list
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13.5.99 AHI PPC "trailer"
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"trailer" of AHI/PPC - version that allows you hear what the PPC version of AHI will sound like,
released.
It runs on m68k only and is rather slow, but on the other hand, it sounds much better than the
old 4.180 version.
AHI homepage
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12.5.99 MiamiSSL 2.11
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MiamiSSL 2.11 released. This version fixes a few bugs, provides compatibility
with a wider range of web servers and adds some new encryption algorithms, in particular for users in the US and Canada.
Nordic Global website
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12.5.99 AmigaCentral IRC Confernce
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AmigaCentral will be organising a weekly developer IRC conference, open to all.
These conferences will all take place on Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8pm
GMT on server.sea-mammals.org #Amigacentral.
First conference Sunday 16th May with FUBAR Development Team.
Amiga Central magazine website
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11.5.99 REBOL/core 2.0 Released on More Than 15 Platforms!
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REBOL/core Messaging Language is now less than half the size of version 1.0, has twice as many features,
and operates 35 times faster on average -- and knows how to use popular network protocols such as HTTP,
FTP, POP, SMTP, NNTP...CGI, too. And, REBOL/core is free! You can
download it or view the list of platforms.
Rebol website
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11.5.99 Future development of Image Engineer
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Author of Visual Engineering is looking a coder for developing
Image Engineer. Marko Seppänen: "Image Engineer is
missing some important things like strong build-in gaussian blur, so I've to use some special tricks. If somebody
is interested in taking over developing Image Engineer, then here's your change. From user's view it doesn't need
much to be damn good image modification software. (..again?)
Contact me for more information."
Visual Engineering-website
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11.5.99 LamePPC Mp3 Encoder
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WarpUp/PowerUP ports of LamePPC V3.0 Mp3 Encoder is now available here.
New features include improved quality and joint-stereo support.
Jami Laakonen`s website
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11.5.99 AHI PPC
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Just to clarify a bit... AHI PPC is not released yet. The PPC kernels that author use are.
AHI homepage
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10.5.99 Amiga Radio News Updated
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10.5.99 Amiga Downunder '99 Show
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The Amiga Downunder '99 show will be held in Canberra, Australia, on the 21st and 22nd of August. More
information about the show can be found here.
Amiga website
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10.5.99 CBSpeccy ZX-Spectrum 128k emulator
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10.5.99 WolfenDOOM
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Wolfenstein was the first widely successful 3D computer game ever released. All Wolfenstein missions
has been ported to the DOOM II engine. Each scenario is painstakingly recreated as a DOOM II WAD,
complete with all the Wolfenstein textures, objects, sounds, and enemies. The result is a total
conversion, a complete Wolfenstein experience which takes full advantage of the DOOM engine.
WolfenDOOM was originally created for MAC and PC.
Amiga WolfenDOOM conversation is done by aPEX.
Amiga WolfenDOOM homepage
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10.5.99 ICS color management system
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Wolf Faust, author of the printer driver system "Studio", has released the first color management system for the Amiga.
In the current version is possible
to calibrate the own scanner with a "target" (reference image). After the calibration, all scanned images are converted
to defined color space. ICS is recognized and supported by ScanQuix 4.
rbm digitaltechnik website
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10.5.99 Software Hut Cookout Pics
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9.5.99 AHI PPC
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Both PowerUp and WarpUp have now been released in new versions, with support for something similar to "software interrupts", a feature required by AHI.
The mixing routines have now been finalized, which means that they will not change in the foreseeable future. Author finally added anti-click feature,
which really makes a difference. It sounds much better than before. Skipped the cubic spline code for now, maybe another millenium...
Mixing routines not yet translated to PPC.
Anybody wanna help?
The GNU assember 'gas' will be used, using the System V.4 ABI
AHI homepage
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9.5.99 A.Havemose on IRC again
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9.5.99 MCP V1.33 Alpha (Future Version 2)
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Multifunctional commodity MCP V1.33 Alpha (Future Version 2) is now available here.
Vaclav Misek
aliendesign website
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9.5.99 AmigaNCP 2.0 with Series 5 support released
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8.5.99 AmigaNG not delayed!
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There were some rumours ongoing, AmigaNG is going to be delayed, so
Luca Diana asked
Jim Collas for his opinion, and here it is:
"We are still targeting early late Q3 for a development system and Q4 of
this year for the new multimedia computer. Thanks for bringing this to
my attention. I will clarify it in my next letter to the community due
out shortly."
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8.5.99 Lambda News
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See the screenshots from
3D space combat simulator called Lambda ported to the PC (Pentium II 233mhz with Voodoo 2).
Authors are not abandoning Amiga development! This exercise was necessary in order to see how
the engine will perform with 3D hardware. It looks like Lamba goes to PPC and 3D hardware (Warp3D).
Lambda website
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8.5.99 Warp3D Discussion Forum
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7.5.99 First pictures from meetings with Jim Collas
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As you surely know, Jim Collas, president of Amiga, promised to talk to many amiga personalities,
and the trip to Europe is a very good steps. You can look at first pictures from such meetings at
Amiga's News section of their website.
Amiga website
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7.5.99 Wasted Dreams News
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Last couple of months DDE have spent solving publishing and distribution problems for Wasted Dreams.
But now Wasted Dreams is finally sent for pressing and according to CD plant the CDs will be
finished within 10 (ten) days. DDE developed a new video format, which allow smoothly play
animations on FULL SCREEN even on plain A1200 with 4x speed CD-Rom. First time in Wasted Dreams!
Digital Dreams Entertainment website
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7.5.99 Crystal Space Beta 0.13r010
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A new beta release of the Crystal Space portable 3D engine has been
released. Crystal Space is a large open source project, whose goal is to
create a free, multi-platform 3D engine which supports true 6DOF, colored
lights, mipmapping, portals, mirrors, alpha transparency, reflecting
surfaces, 3D sprites, scripting, Direct3D hardware acceleration on Windows,
Glide, OpenGL, and more. It currently compiles and runs on Linux, general
Unix, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, BeOS, NextStep, OpenStep, Rhapsody, DOS,
Amiga, and Macintosh.
Guvenc Kaplan
Crystal Space website
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7.5.99 AmigaShow '99 Belgium
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7.5.99 ImageFX Support Area
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7.5.99 Village Tronics News
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New Concierto OPL3 software v1.1 is now available.
This program uses the OPL3 soundchip on the Concierto module for PIV to generate FM/AM sounds. It can play OP2- and OP4-Sound at the same time.
New install disks v1.4 for Ariadne II Z2/3 ethernet card are available:
disk1,
disk2.
Village Tronics webpage
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7.5.99 DryIce News
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The first public beta of new DryIce browser should be available around the fall of '99 and will feature full HTML 4.0 support.
Author is still working on the HTML parser right now, which should be very fast and very intelligent so far.
DryIce website
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7.5.99 Mainactor Broadcast News
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All new Mainactor Broadcast modules
(loaders, savers and displayers) will be available on AmiNet for free. The modules are now in extensive
betatesting stage. WarpUp support , FAQ and a Mailinglist are planned.
Petra Struck's website
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7.5.99 Video Toaster 4.3 Convenience Upgrade
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NewTek is pleased to announce a Video Toaster 4.3 Convenience Upgrade.
A Video Toaster owner can now have both the linear-editing wizardry of 3.1, as well as advanced versions of LightWave 3D,
ToasterPaint, CG, and storyboard "slideshow" playback capability. The 4.3 Convenience Upgrade CD consists of the following:
3.1 Toaster Software with LightWave3D 3.2 and LightWave3D 3.5, 4.2 Toaster/Flyer Software with LightWave3D 4.0 and LightWave3D 5.0,
BigFoot PC FlyerDrive Utility.
AWD website
NewTek website
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6.5.99 MP3 encoder "Ncoder" can not be delivered.
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The fastest and first commercial MP3 encoder "Ncoder" for PPC & 68k
can not be delivered. The FHG (Frauenhofer Gesellschaft) decided further
restrictions for the selling of MP3 encoder. The legal slip hole that Titan Computer wanted to use, is now no longer available.
Titan Computer regrets this. Even a free version of Ncoder would Titan Computer
legally seen cost 25$ per copy. This is naturally not economical. At this time Titan Computer negotiates with Thomson to
nevertheless somewhat to achieve. Read more (deutsch).
wARPgATe website
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6.5.99 German telephone CD
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The German Falke Verlag, Publisher of the amigaOS-Magazine will publish a new
German telephone CD early autumn. The CD is based on the latest database of
the German Telekom. The PC version is almost finished and will be out this month,
all other versions (Amiga, Atari, Linux and Mac) will follow in Autumn.
Thomas Raukamp, amigaOS magazine
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6.5.99 Vesalia to distribute boards from DCE/Phase5
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Starting mid June (scheduled), Vesalia Computer will be able to deliver
the following Phase 5 products to the community: Blizzard 1220/4, Blizzard 1230/4, Blizzard 1240T/ERC and
1260, Blizzard SCSI-Kit IV, Blizzard 2040 and 2060, Cyberstorm Mk III, Cybervision 64/3D. Vesalia will take
over the worldwide distribution and support, the boards will be produced by their partner
DCE.
Petra Struck's website
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6.5.99 MUIBase 1.1
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Version 1.1 of MUIBase, relational programmable database which uses MUI as user interface, is
now available here.
New features.
MUIbase website
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6.5.99 Free Amiga Project to produce PSX Emulator
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The Free Amiga project has decided that its latest project will be an entirely new Playstation emulator
for the Amiga. The project, dubbed 'Praystation' is now seeking contributors. They are seeking people
with programming experience to form a new development team.
contact details
AmigaCentral website
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6.5.99 Powermac Emu for warpUP
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Francisco is making campaign for convencing the authors (Mar"c" Hellwig, Christian Bauer)
of Powermac emulator SheepShaver (currently run on BeOS and LinuxPPC) to port it to WarpUP.
If you are interested in this emulator you can vote here.
wARPgATe website
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5.5.99 First EPP-parallel-port-Scanner for Amiga
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Using IOBlix (Z2) or IOBlix 1200 P it is now finally possible to run an EPP-parallel-port-Scanner with your Amiga.
"ScanExpress 600 CP bundle" containing the Scanner and ScanQuix 4. You can connect your printer to the scanner
and use your IOBlix-port for scanning and fast printing. ScanQuix 4 for ScanExpress 600 CP contains all functions
known from the SCSI-Versions of ScanQuix 4.
RBM digitaltechnik website
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5.5.99 French corner
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A French translation of the Bleem (Playstation emulator) campaign for the Amiga port is available here.
A documentation for the French people who want to work for the RC5 Amiga Team is also available here
Adam Carrano
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5.5.99 RealAudio Mailing List
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4.5.99 MiamiSSL 2.0
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MiamiSSL 2.0 released. This version adds
support for SSL v3 and TLS v1, and should be interoperable with most SGC web servers.
Nordic Global website
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4.5.99 Beyond the Four Gigabyte Barrier
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Beyond the Four Gigabyte Barrier
is a comprehensive discussion of the Amiga's problem with hard drives larger than 4 Gigabytes. Various solutions to the
problem are discussed as well as concerns, cautions and other important notes. The article has been recently updated to
include new information about the expected 4 GB support in OS3.5.
dhomas trenn
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4.5.99 Bleem PSX emulator survay
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A survey form is available for bleem PSX emulator: "We are trying to get the Playstation emulator Bleem ported to the Amiga.
The emulator is currently comersial and no sources are available. Our main goal is therefor to make them make a port, but
they won't do this unless they know someone will buy it. They may also give the source to a someone on the Amiga scene if
they can't make the port themself. Show your support and let them know we want it."
Christophe Decanini
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4.5.99 Best of Gremlin
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Islona Entertainment is proud to announce that they have just completed a signing to bring the Amiga community the
Best of Gremlin CD.
The CD will retail at £29.99 but you can pre-order from Epic Marketing at £25.00 each.
IslonaEntertainment website
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4.5.99 Blue Byte proving hard to persuade
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Siebran Roordra spoke to the US wing of Blue Byte about Settlers II, and they didn't want persuading.
Read more.
AmigaUniverse magazine
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4.5.99 PowerStation for ImageFX
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Nova Design announces PowerStation for ImageFX now shipping.
PowerStation is a a package of ImageFX modules designed to work with the PowerPC as a coprocessor.
AWD website
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3.5.99 MORE POWER!
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Czech Amiga News service is now POWERED BY REBOL!
WHY ? ...more speed, more news, more fun ...
(thanks go to J.F Strejcek)
REBOL website
REBOL.CS website
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3.5.99 AmigaOS 3.5 Features
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3.5.99 OS 3.5 beta testing
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Thera are over 2.000 applications for the beta test. Confirmation to every applicant will be send this week.
The beta test will be run solely by Haage&partner.
The application for beta testing will run until 12. May 1999.
Registration
AmigaOS3.5 website
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3.5.99 Photogenics Gallery
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Paul Nolan is proud to have on display stunning artwork from several of
the Amiga's premiere digital artists. See images from Eric Schwartz,
Jan Heinemann, and Rod Volkmar. Also on show are the latest doodlings
from the airbrush of Paul Nolan himself.
Gallery
Paul Nolan
Photogenics website
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3.5.99 Screens conference logs
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3.5.99 Beyond Team Interview
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3.5.99 Multiprocessing System
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3.5.99 Alive games on CD only
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Following much success with The Prophet, Alive will be investing heavily in game publishing.
After much deliberation, they have decided that their future games will no longer be
released on floppy disk, all projects are CD only. Read more.
Steven Flowers
ALIVE mediasoft website
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3.5.99 Wildfire7\PPC meets Movieshop!
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3.5.99 PegasePPC MPEG Encoder
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2.5.99 Rage Of Mages for Amiga
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2.5.99 New stricq mailing list
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To join new, "more official" STRICQ (Amiga ICQ clone) mailing list, just write to
majordomo@owlnet.net
and in the BODY of the message put: subscribe stricq-list.
stricq mailing list
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2.5.99 Amiga Radio News Updated
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2.5.99 Zeus Developments Under New Ownership
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Zeus Developments, writers of the Zeus Bulletin Board System
(Zeus BBS), has been sold to a new management team for the future development of their communications
software. Read more.
Amiga.org News
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2.5.99 Space Station 3000 Demo
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2.5.99 AmTelnet 1.26beta
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AmTelnet 1.26beta is now available for registered users only.
Oliver Wagner hopes that he figured out all the CR/LF related hassles now, and didn't break too much else.
Vaporware website
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1.5.99 Next Suite101.com Article
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1.5.99 500 PPC Amigas
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The Amiga RC5 Team effort strengthened by PowerPC. As of today over 500 PowerPC equipped Amigas are participating
in the Amiga RC5 Team effort Read this press release
and add your power :-)
RC5 team website
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