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30.6.2k AmiWest 2000 Press Release 6
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Amiga International, Inc., has donated two Amiga 1200HDs (260 MB hard drives) with Magic Packs
which will be given away as grand prizes at the end of the show days on both Saturday and
Sunday.
Hourly raffles will be held on both Saturday and Sunday of the show where prizes,
donated by the vendors and other sources, will be given away. These can include hardware as
well as software. You must be present at the raffle to obtain your prize. We will not ship
prizes. Read more
John Zacharias, AmiWest 2000
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30.6.2k Bill McEwen on CNN
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Bill McEwen writes: "I will be on Digital Jam on CNN tomorrow night. This is a live broadcast from 4:30pm to 5:30pm Pacific Time.
Now I am only to have 3 to 6 minutes on the show, and they will not confirm that actual time till tomorrow morning, but it is the
first television coverage for us. There is a link off of the www.CNNFN.com web site where
people can view the show." [Reposted from the AAC-Intern ML with permission]
ANN website
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30.6.2k ThePulse News
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For the last 2 years, thousands of Amiga owners around the world have been enjoying the monthly editions
of The Pulse, distributed free as a catalogue/magazine.
Well now, due to phenomenal demand from
the public and a new publishing house, The Pulse is being produced as a professional magazine in it's
own right. Available commercially for just £3.00 per issue, The Pulse Magazine promises to be the hottest,
fastest source of information for all things Amiga. Read more,
issue 14 cover
The new E-mail address: thepulse@pulsepublishing.co.uk
Steven Flowers, ThePulse
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30.6.2k Amiga SDK: First glance
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In his article, Lars Thomas Denstad provides a quick look
at the much-awaited Amiga SDK. First screenshots included!
Alexander Limi
Larzlars' homepage
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30.6.2k New Distributed.net Client for AmigaOS (68k/PPC)
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The new clients are finally out! Surf to the Distributed.Net download section to get them.
These are faster and come in 3 flavours, 68k, WarpUP and PowerUP. They also enable Amigans to enter the OGR contest (when it reopens).
Distributed.amiga.org site does not have the latest setup/usage information yet, but this will be updated
during the weekend. Remember to flush your old blocks, backup your ini file and recreate it with the -config option. Don't forget to set your E-mail
address again, and also note that Myzar v2.0 does not handle these clients!
Myzar has been updated as well, to version 2.1. Download from Myzar site. This version supports only
the new clients (460+). Note that it supports most but not all new features of the new clients, such as setting thresholds to a time limit instead of
units/packets (this will obviously be updated in the next release).
Alan Buxey
Amiga RC5 team homepage
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30.6.2k AppMI - a toolbar image collection in GlowIcons design for developers
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Martin Mason Merz: "AppMI is a big collection of toolbar images in the GlowIcons design, witch will maybe
found a standard for the ClassicAmiga system. The collection is free for developers and anybody else, but
to get the archive you have to register and anybody who release a product using AppMI, should send me
a copy of the full version of the program. That´s why only registered users will get the archive.
The registration area for AppMI ist now online and the release is planed for late July 2000.
Martin Mason Merz, MASON.HOME
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29.6.2k Exclusive Look into Amiga and Interview with CEO of AMIGA
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Gamers Depot released an interesting interview with Bill McEwen, CEO of AmigaInc.
GD: Do you see Amiga releasing new hardware in the future?
Bill: We're not a hardware company, but we will have a new Amiga machine, built by a third party using off the shelf
parts. We aren't giving the specifics out yet, however my personal favorite CPU is the DEC Alpha, and that's the way I'd go if I could. Expect an announcement forthcoming towards the end
of the year. [Alpha or PPC? ...who knows :-) ExiE]
Gamers Depot website
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29.6.2k Send a Question and Win SDK
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Here is your chance to ask Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga, about anything Amiga.
All entries will be put into a drawing for one copy of the SDK (Amiga Software Development Kit - $99 Value!).
Deadline is Sunday July 11th at 8pm EST. Read more
Mac Gorilla website
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29.6.2k Can you change your mind? (Part 2)
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The release of the new Software Development Kit (SDK) has brought AmigaOS back into the light and many people are judging it based
on what they remember about AmigaOS from 8 or 9 years ago. The new version of AmigaOS will be very different from the old and
this is why people should not dismiss it until they understand better what is going on.
Read more
amiga.org website
OsOpinion website
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29.6.2k Trogsoft need more people
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28.6.2k Amiga Forms Strategic Distribution Agreement with Compuquick Media Center
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28.6.2k Insider-section introduced
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Following the wishes of many customers (mainly programmers), some programming documentations for iC's hardware
(X-Surf, ISDN-Surfer, Buddha, Graffiti ) are now available in the "insider-section" of the
support page. They are plain textfiles without
any pictures, because online-reading wouldn't make sense. The files are meant to be reference guides for programmers.
individual Computers homepage
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28.6.2k H&P News
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H&P are now offering MegaFonts, collection of 5000 professional True Type fonts for use
on Amiga and PC systems. Includes a big poster with all fonts. Price 99 DM.
H&P are also offering the new Amiga SDK for 249 DM.
Haage&Partner website
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28.6.2k Software News
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REBOL/Core v2.3 is now ready for download.
There are two different versions: REBOL for Amiga with ROMs2.0-3.1 and CPU 68020+
or 68000 .
ACUP status update: The PPC version of the Imagine S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine) has
been issued to the beta testers.
REBOL Technologies website
CAD-Technologies website
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27.6.2k Eyetech launches Eye-Play
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Eyetech - recently chosen by Amiga as their partner for the manufacture and distribution
of the new DevBox in the UK and Ireland - have launched Eye-Play, a division
dedicated to the publication, promotion and distribution of top-end games for the Classic Amiga architecture and, more
significantly, for those currently in development which are designed to run under the new Amiga OE.
Read more.
Alan M Redhouse, Eyetech Group Ltd
Eye-Play website
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27.6.2k Innovative brings Digita(TM)-power to your AMIGA!
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Innovative has developed a driver for DigiCams running the Digita(TM) Operating Environment.
Digita(TM)-enabled DigiCams offer much more flexibility and abilities than everything else
currently on the market. Digita(TM) is used in high-end-cameras of different companies, runs
on PowerPC- and Coldfire-CPUs and allows you to run scripts, applications and games (incl.
MAME!!) on your camera. The developers of Digita(TM),
Flashpoint(TM) wants to make Digita(TM) the standard
for DigiCams and specified a standardized communication- protocol between computer and camera.
With the now available VHI-driver, AMIGA-users finally get access to these amazing cameras
and can download and rework pictures from these cameras. Currently available
Digita(TM)-enabled DigiCams are Kodak DC 220, DC 260, DC 265, DC 290, Minolta Dimage 1500 EX,
Dimage 1500 3D, HP PhotoSmart C500, C619, C912, Pentax EI-200, EI-2000.
Innovative website
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27.6.2k Exotica News
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Updated ExoticA's mirror of the High Voltage SID Collection to version 3.6. The collection now contains 13,028 SID tunes.
ExoticA offers the collection in two formats. Either as individual files with a simple to use
HTML Interface or you can download them all in one large
archive (24MB). There are many new high quality
scans of classic Amiga titles added to the Games Gallery.
Exotica website
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26.6.2k Imagine progress update
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ACUP status update: The Imagine S.A.R.E. (Stand Alone Render Engine) has been issued to the beta testers.
Almost all of Imagines rendering functions are supported in this release, and over the next few beta
updates we will see enhancements to the client/server design, and PPC support. (PPC rendering already
works with the current ImagineV5.18 beta release)
Martin McKenzie, CAD-Technologies website
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26.6.2k MorphOS in Amiga Active magazine
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David Stroud: "You may be interested to know there's an (I think it's fair to say "extensive", right Ralph? :-)
interview with Ralph and Frank about MorphOS in the upcoming issue 10 of Amiga Active magazine - which, if you
can't get hold of the magazine locally, you can order from our web site at
http://www.amigactive.com.
There will be a fuller preview of issue 10
appearing on the web site in a few days [..]"
David Stroud, Amiga Active magazine
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26.6.2k The Forgotten OS - Part 1
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Hassan Kazmi aka Karajorma has started a series of articles
on OsOpinion about Amiga past, present and future. NOTE: OsOpinion is always looking for good Amiga articles, so if you have something
positive to say, write it up and send it in.
amiga.org website
OsOpinion website
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26.6.2k May 2000's Amiga World in PDF format
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26.6.2k First Apps for AMIE!
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GZIP and TAR make up the first two utilities ported to the new AMIE platform. To work inside the Linux-side
of the development machine, you'll need both utilities to unarchive system files and utilities. You can
download them from the FTP site.
amiga.org website
Amiga Support Network
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26.6.2k Crossfire II News
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26.6.2k Software News
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According to Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft; Microcode Solutions are in final testing of FusionPPC. They expect it shortly.
Subspace v1.0 AmigaAMP plugin by Thomas Wenzel available. Do you like Geiss
or G-Force for WinAMP? Don't miss this breathtaking trip into... subspace! WarpUP and fast gfx card required. This plugin is Open Source!
Charon v1.3 - download manager. Features: Multiple download of HTTP/HTTPS/FTP files all
with/without proxy, automatic retry/resume of downloads, huge number of options to customise it, scheduled downloads, ARexx interface, MUI GUI, and more...
AmigaAMP website
Paul Lesurf via FUSION ML
Charon homepage
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25.6.2k WOCA 2001
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The World of Commodore / Amiga show is currently in the planning stages for Winter 2001. The World of Commodore / Amiga
is both an Amiga Show and a Commodore 8-bit show in one! The show shall take place in western USA. Additonal
informations will follow soon.
WOCA 2001 website
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25.6.2k Amiga Arena News
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After a long time now it is possible to translate the german shareware supporter site to english!
The Amiga Arena special aktion is every month new shareware software for lower price to register!
This time it's PureBasic, Neptun and BoulDerdäsh for special price in the Arena!
The english users can now use the forms to register Amiga shareware programms for special prices!
Amiga Arena CD is out now published by apc/tcp germany!
Olaf Koebnik, Amiga Arena
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25.6.2k New AmIRC
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AmIRC v3.5 is now available. This update of AmIRC features improved commands,
reduced CPU usage and many minor improvements and bug fixes.
VaporWare website
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25.6.2k Software & Games News
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24.6.2k Amiga Future News
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The german homepage of the print mag Amiga Future have now includes
a translate tool. The users can now read all their news, interviews (every week 1-2 interviews) votes, and so on.
Andreas Magerl, Amiga Future
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24.6.2k Amiga Minus
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Slawomir Wilk: "Amiga Minus is a new paper magazine dedicated to all polish Amiga users. It's noncommercial magazine
focused on pure Amiga jorunalism. More information about this project.
Amiga Minus reserved few pages for advertisements of freeware/shareware stuff and Amiga related sites.
If you want to announce your work or page for free or for a few licences among polish Amiga users - write to the
main editor of AM mrwolf@friko.onet.pl."
Slawomir "Mr.Wolf" Wilk, Amiga Minus
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24.6.2k Amiga Flames News
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Ultra Violent Worlds is the first game to be released by Crystal Interactive Software into the retail end using
their dual format idea, and so your copy of Ultra Violent Worlds can be played either on the Amiga or PC.
UVW
developed by Australian developers Vorlan Software is a straight out shoot'em up. Ultra Violent Worlds first surfaced
in 1998, but their first release suffered from a number of bugs. However, Crystal Interactive Software has assured
Amiga Flame that these bugs have been ironed out. Read more
Andrew Reed of Crystal Interactive Software has revealed that the company is going through a period of structural
changes, which has led to the opening up of some job opportunities. They are seeking a mixture of talented coders,
artists and musicians/ FX creators. All jobs are based on project contracts, payment is upfront development fees +
royalties (more details will be sent to interested applicants).
Read more
Amiga Flames website
Crystal Interactive Software website
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24.6.2k Bubble Heroes News
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24.6.2k AVOG News
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Manuel "Debugger" Montoto: "I have introduced some minor changes in the AVOG pre-web site. The project
is going to be FREEWARE, not GPL, as this will stop any commercial usage. The mailing list is opened
now, to subscribe you only have to send an email to:
avog-subscribe@egroups.com.
Of course there isn't anyone subscribed for now, so the mailing list will start really in one or two
weeks..."
Manuel "Debugger" Montoto, AVOG
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24.6.2k Software News
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New betaversion (V.45.00 beta 3) of stormamiga.lib V.45.00
for AmigaOS/68k and StormC. Much bugs were fixed and much functions were optimized.
Digital Almanac III will come with a complete new DS-database.
The advantage of the new database makes it easier to expand and results in a much shorter program code (ca. 100 kB shorter
then before !). The catalogs are now treated all equal, the program will no more handle all catalogs seperatly. The database
now contains more than 100,000 objects, including the large PGC catalog. The new structure of the database makes it easy to
handle with objects that have different names. The old format of DA II contained lots of objects twice, because the program
was not able to recognize some objects being the same but with different names.
VT-Schutz v3.17 (24 June 2000) - antivirus by Heiner Schneegold.
VT Schtz detects now the Mataba virus.
CyberdyneSystems website
Digital Almanac homepage
Virus Help Denmark website
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23.6.2k Petro Tyschtschenko to be at AmiWest 2000!
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Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director, Amiga International, Inc., has announced that he will be joining
Bill McEwen, President of Amiga, Inc., in attending AmiWest 2000.
AmiWest 2000 is the west coast all
Amiga show which is being produced in Sacramento, California, at the popular Holiday Inn, Sacramento
NorthEast, 5321 Date Avenue Sacramento, CA 95841, on Saturday, July 29th and Sunday, July 30th, 2000.
The Holiday Inn venue proved to be such a hit for last year's show that we are again holding it there.
Read more
John Zacharias, AmiWest 2000
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23.6.2k amiga.topcool has interviewed Met@box
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amiga.topcool publishes in their first issue an interview with Met@box. Met@box explains why
the amijoe will release in 6 months: there was a bug in the Memory/PCI Bridge Controller.
Now the card will be redesigned and will cost less then 1000 DM.
Daniel Orth, amiga.topcool
Met@box website
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23.6.2k NO A2/3/4000 version of AmiJoe ?
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AmiJoe info is now on the amijoe (joecard) website! It uses flash and it's german only at the moment. In the News section
state that there will be NO Amiga 2000/3000/4000 version of the AmiJoe... :-((((
H&P and Met@box has a reached an agreement about WarpUP port for the card.
Met@box website
joecard.com page
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23.6.2k Amiga Videogames Open Group
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Manuel "Debugger" Montoto: "When I started learning how to code videogames for Amiga I was very frustrated:
You need to learn too many AmigaOS and Amiga specifically things, and there is not too much info to start...
So I want to give to anyone my modest work, the interface routines to code videogames I made this past months.
If you are an amateur programmer, those routines will help you dramatically to start programming on your PowerPC
enabled Amiga.
If you don't code, but are a musician or a graphist... Why not help amateur Amiga programmers?
In some days I will open a FTP account to store your work! The web page is only informative... In some days I
will upload a "serious" site. Please, take a look and consider to help us... Thank you."
Manuel "Debugger" Montoto, AVOG
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23.6.2k Drake
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Drake should be Microprose's 'Pirates!' clone but
with more features, different maps, more goods to trade,... and all this in a 3D world.
There are some early screenshots added. Amiga requirements: PPC CPU, Permedia2 or better gfx card, WarpOS,
Warp3D, StormMesa, CyberGraphX or Picasso96.
Lucy's homepage
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23.6.2k New EASys! homepage is online
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23.6.2k Nexus 6581 Audio CD
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Reyn Ouwehand is a great musician and producer who has put a lot of love and effort into his
"Nexus 6581" CD. It is the same kind
of production as the "C64 Back in Time" albums, and that means new studio-recorded versions
of classic and well-known songs from old C-64 games. But Reyn is a master producer and has
also added real instruments like guitar, sax and other stuff, and his new versions of these
cool C64 tracks really sound great.
Claudio Marro Filosa
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23.6.2k #Developer on Amiganet.org
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Have you got the SDK, or perhaps waiting for it? Well come to #Developer on Amiganet
(whiterose.net) and talk to people like you. BTW: Some Amiga staff have already visited :)
amiga.org website
Amiganet.org page
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22.6.2k NY Times article: The return of a desktop cult classic
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The New York Times posted this article about
the Amiga, the community, and Amiga Inc's future plans.
Note: You have to login to their site by getting a free account
to read it, but it is a good, unbiased article
amiga.org website
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22.6.2k Aladdin's Lamp issue #21
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Aladdin's Lamp issue #21 of the Aladdin4D newsletter is now up and available online. The third new issue since Nova Design posted
the original 18 issues online last year, it features articles by Dave Matthews, Michael Cassera, and editor John Whiting. The articles
cover a range of topics, from an introductory article on texture-mapping, through an animated cutting torch tutorial to simulating
volumetric lighting.
Aladdin's Lamp and its sister publication, ImageFX Currents, can be
found by going to the Nova Design website and clicking on the graduate's cap or on the word
"Newsletters."
Aladdin's Lamp and ImageFX Currents are manned by a small staff of volunteers, and are freely available to the Amiga
community, although all copyrighted material remains the property of Nova Design and the individual authors.
John A. Whiting
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22.6.2k New marketplace for VHI-boards and DigiCams
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Innovative: "Due to popular demand, we have decided to create a forum for selling and buying VHI-boards and -DigiCams.
This forum can be reached via "Support" from the VHI Studio-Homepage.
The popular VHI-forum can now also be found there again after a short absence.
Innovative website
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21.6.2k Sixteen Degrees Of Seperation
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21.6.2k SEAL-O-RAMA! 2000
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SEAL-O-RAMA! 2000 is being held on September 10th in Basildon, Essex, courtesy of SEAL.
Sponsored by Amiga and Analogic, it will be an electronic orgy of bargains, delights,
games, demonstrations and prizes. Come along if you dare!
Full details at www.seal-amiga.co.uk.
Gary Storm, SEAL
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21.6.2k Darkage Studio Closed
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Darkage Studio - Darkage Softwares's parallel company is closed. Darkage will now concentrate only
on the production on Amiga software and they won't sell anymore software that isn't produced by them.
Powerball game will be released during the summer and published by Epic Marketing Germany at
a budget price.
Long-awaited update of Extreme v2.0 features full-overscan!
Read more (eenglish/italiano)
Darkage Software website
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21.6.2k New fxPAINT-workshop online
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Yet another workshop for fxPAINT is online. This time it covers the composition of images and the usage of the magic stick.
A must for every fxPAINT- owner! The workshop can be found under "support" from the
fxPAINT homepage.
Innovative website
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21.6.2k Photogenics Update
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Photogenics 4.5 Release 83a is now available
for download for existing Photogenics 4.x customers. Update: This version does not work under AGA. A fix will
be posted soon, but for now the latest AGA version is 4.4 release 75.
To install, download the
update and unarchive it using lha. Run Photogenics 4.x, then run the Update program in the Updatexx directory
you just unarchived. Note that the update will not work unless Photogenics 4.x is running. You should reboot
after the update, so save your work beforehand. If the update results in Photogenics no longer working, you
will find that the update program creates a backup directory in the parent of the Photogenics directory.
Photogenics homepage
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21.6.2k Scalos News
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LoadWB and Preferences.library have been converted to 'C' language for easy updating and bugfixing.
Work has begun on porting the assembler version of Scalos to the 'C' language now. It could take
some time with over 560kb of pure source code for one file!
With summer holidays (for some)
coming up, development could speed up a little too :)
Scalos homepage
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20.6.2k clickBOOM News
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clickBOOM drops a bomb! Each copy of clickBOOM's latest masterpiece, and the biggest Amiga game ever - Nightlong,
will come with a free, full original version of Amiga Quake !!! Moreover, it includes 68K, 060, PPC, Warp3D
and QuakeWorld executables! All unrestricted and free. Enjoy Amigans!
CB: "As per results of our poll, we are starting a promotion of the Auctions section by auctioning 1 of each of
our games every day. The promotion is scheduled to last 2 weeks, and we hope it will bring more attention among
Amiga users to a great service Auctions offer."
Claudio Marro Filosa
clickBOOM website
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20.6.2k Stop AmiJoe Rumours #2
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We got another answer from Susan Elzingre, Met@box regarding A4000 version of AmiJoe:
"I cannot answer you completely but I can tell you that it should be there by end of Q3.
We now have an expert finishing the card." (June 15, 2000)
Sounds better but ... :-)
Sjoerd de Vries
Met@box website
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20.6.2k Hyperion thanks loyal A-miga users for Heretic 2 feedback
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Ben Hermans: "In recent days Hyperion received quite a lot of e-mail of people pledging support, this in response to our
comment about low sales. We want to thank everyone who took the time to send a note of encouragement and support. These
people realise that it is extremely short-sighted to buy expensive hardware and then go on to pirate the software that
takes advantage of this hardware as the end-result will be that no new software will be available. Hyperion doesn't
think it's fair to punish loyal users because of the misdeeds of pirates. We will continue to deliver on our promise of
providing high-end, high-quality products but implore everybody out there not to pirate and make our work impossible."
Ben Hermans, Hyperion software via ANN
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20.6.2k AROS Update
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Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla: "Some new software is ported to AROS: The freetype library (www.freetype.org), BGUI and SnoopDOS.
Also DOpus becomes more and more usable. Many bugs in the Gfx.HIDD were fixed and there is now a quite usable cybergrafx.library. Also the first version of an
IDE driver for x86/Native was committed. Also a trackdisk.device is there, so we can start porting a filesystem to AROS.
As for BGUI, we would like someone
who will keep it alive on Amiga (that is, make sure that our changes don't make BGUI unusable on the Amiga). If you want to help, please contact
digulla@aros.org.
Also please note that my PGP-key has changed (2048bit instead of only 1024bit for better security :-).
You find my new version here (Shift-Click on the link to download).
Lastly, my Amiga SDK has arrived. You can
expect an AROS Amie/Native but probably not soon."
AROS website
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19.6.2k Code name Hell Squad News
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DDE's latest game Code name Hell Squad is finished and will be available in shops during this month.
DDE have opened Code name Hell Squad contests their web site.
TRY IT!
Sanjin Antulov, Digital Dreams Entertainment
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19.6.2k Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
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Remember GIF and LZW ? There is petition directed to the European Parliament. Its goal is to warn European Authorities against the dangers
of software patents. This petition is supported by the EuroLinux Alliance together with European companies and open source associations.
Please make this petition well known to everybody concerned. Read more and sign if you care...
Bob Kennedy: "The Euro Anti-Software Patent site will not allow access without you taking a cookie!"
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
petition.eurolinux.org page
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19.6.2k Alive mediasoft is closing it's Amiga retail company
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Alive mediasoft is closing it's Amiga retail company with no future plans to sell software or hardware
in the Amiga market.
Alive mediasoft will no longer publish games for the Amiga market either. Current copyright ownerships
are being discussed with individual developers to arrange possible transfer of publishing rights so
that the games can continue to made available to the Amiga public via a third party if the developer
so wishes.
Alive's flagship publication THE PULSE is to be become it's own entity and be published
as a fully commercial magazine. Read more
Steven Flowers, Alive mediasoft
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19.6.2k Tales From Heaven Review
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Stefan "Syke" Falk: "Albeit a bit late, I've tossed up a review
of Epic Marketing's 3D platformer Tales From Heaven."
Stefan "Syke" Falk, Amiga Extreme website
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19.6.2k New UGN-Times Issue
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19.6.2k Amiga aktuell Int Issue 06/00
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19.6.2k New License-free Audio Format
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19.6.2k Stop AmiJoe Rumours
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Darrin Lanchbury: "Due to the rumours circulating this site (ANN) about Met@box dropping the AmiJoe card
I decided to email Met@box directly rather that joing in the "sky is falling" chorus. Here is the reply:
[..] From: schaper@metabox.de (Aenne Schaper) [..] Hello Darrin, The AmiJoecards is not available. It will probably be on the market at
the end of this year..."
Darrin Lanchbury via ANN
Met@box website
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19.6.2k GAUHPIL News
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Dietmar Knoll: "This is just to let you know about some changes on the Geographical Amiga Users Home Pages Internet List
(GAUHPIL). Most pages are now bilingual (English & German) and the navigation links have therefore changed on most
pages: http://GAUHPIL.home.pages.de/.
I will be on holidays for the next
three weeks. Please go on sending me your updates and hints. I will check them all when I'm back home. Thanks for your
attention and support!"
Dietmar Knoll, GAUHPIL
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19.6.2k VHI-Exampledriver-sourcecode online
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The VHI-Standard has been extended to support DigiCams recently. Three DigiCam-drivers are already available.
The new extensions are not yet documented and so we decided to release the
sourcecode for the CamEx-driver for
download to support the development of new drivers. The sourcecode can also be used as a basis for the
development of drivers for videoboards.
Innovative website
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18.6.2k Sales of Heretic II VERY disappointing
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Sales of Heretic II have been very disappointing with only 400 copies sold
so far. With an estimated 10.000 PPC cards out there, less than half of a percent (0.4%) of PPC users bought the game.
If sales of Heretic 2 do not go up significantly from the 400 copies sold so far, Hyperion will have no choice but to cease all further
Amiga development. We knew sales would not be high but 400 copies is ridiculously low considering the fact we had more than 1500 downloads
of the demo. Obviously piracy is still rampant.
Well 4% will be much more accurate :-) and it's too early to judge IMHO (ExiE)
Ben Hermans, Hyperion software via ANN
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18.6.2k Amiga Forms Strategic Distribution Arrangement with Software Hut
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Snoqualmie, Wa. USA - On June 17, 2000, Amiga announced a partnership with Software Hut, Inc. of West Chester, Pa. USA for distribution of the new Amiga SDK and Classic Amiga products.
Software Hut, Inc., the leading distributor in North America of Classic Amiga products, will now make available existing Classic Amiga products as well as the next generation SDK
to all Amiga dealers, end users, and developers. Read whole annoucement.
AmigaInc. website
Software Hut website
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18.6.2k Meet a Classic Amiga That's Been Pumping Iron
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Classic Amiga user Volker Mohr has built a slightly customized A1200 -that is, if you consider that sheets of aluminum,
paint, an amplifier, and a jigsaw all fit into his customization project.
Read More
AmigaInc. website
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17.6.2k Happy 14th Birthday to ShadowFire_Amiga BBS
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Do you remember the good old BBS days? Well ShadowFire_Amiga BBS celebrates it's 14'th birthday!
Yes, Still alive and well after all these years, and still running on the the A2000 it was
started on. Read more
amiga.org website
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17.6.2k Heretic II (Demo) Review
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16.6.2k Information from Amiga Inc Support Director, Gary Peake
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16.6.2k Foundation Gold Edition
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Foundation Gold Edition is now available from all good Amiga stockist. The CD, which retails at Euro 40,50,
contains both the game and the new Missions plus some enhancements to the game itself. More information on
Foundation Gold Edition can be found in the products section on Epic webpage.
Important notice EM: Foundation Gold Edition has been properly produced, i.e. the game is on a
silver CD, has professionally printed covers and comes in cellophane. If you come across a version that
is sold to you on Gold CDRs, please get in touch with us under
support@epic-marketing.de.
Epic Marketing website
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16.6.2k Ateo News
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The SCSI card for the AteoBus will be available in one or two weeks. Price is 450FF. The card contains
an external SCSI port (SUB-D25) and an internal SCSI port (50pts).
Ateo are also offering some products with a special prices for limited time.
Read more
Ateo Concepts website
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15.6.2k More News From The Neuss Show
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The second part of Martin Baute's report
from the presentation given by Bill McEwen at the Neuss show is now online in english. Interesting
details revealed include that Amiga already have a working Classic Amiga emulation, that the SDK has
been successfully made to run on a PPC Amiga and that Sun embraces Amie.
ANN website
amiga-news.de
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15.6.2k Amiga-SDK News
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According to Fun Time World in accordance with Bill McEwen there will be a free student version of the Amiga-SDK.
Software Hut have listed the requirements
for the SDK hardware on their web site. Most Linux supported graphics cards will work but the Matrox G400 will offer special advantages in developing down the line.
The new Amiga SDK has arrived at Amazon.com and is available for sale. However, if you have a local dealer, please support them by buying the SDK from them instead. You can find the
list here.
amiga-news.de
Fun Time World website
amiga.org website
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15.6.2k amiga.uk.net launches officially on 17th June 2000!
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17th June, 2000 marks the launch of the UK's only free Amiga specific ISP. They provide all the service
of any usual ISP, but they are Amiga users and target the Amiga commuinty. In the future thry hope to
bring their subscribers special deals on hardware and software, as well as an up-to-date news service
on all things Amiga. So if you are paying for your internet access, or have tried to use one of the
non-Amiga free ISP's, now is your chance to rectify the situation! You also get a cool
"yourname@amiganet.uk.com" email address!
Paul Lesurf
www.amiga.uk.net
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15.6.2k The Clue: Free Download
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15.6.2k Software News
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WarpSNES v5.0 - SNES Emulator for PowerPC (WarpUP).
readme
Next will be V6.0 which will hopefully include further optimizations of the Sound Code.
CDWriter First Public Beta - shareware CD writing program
although this first public beta has no restrictions or messages. This program has only been tested on one computer with one CD-ROM
and one CD-R/RW drive. Therefore it's very unlikely that it will work with all configurations. Before you start destroying your
CD-R's please use the Test-mode first!!! readme
Aminet
Willem Mestrom, Nuwanda's Home
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14.6.2k AmiWest 2000 Press Release 4
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Bill McEwen, President of Amiga, Inc., will be the guest speaker at the
AmiWest 2000 Banquet on Saturday Evening, July 29th.
Mr.McEwen will speak on the progress made to date by the new Amiga,
Inc. This includes the recent release of the Software Development
Kit that you will be able to purchase at the show from a number of
our vendors. Read more
John Zacharias, AmiWest 2000
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14.6.2k More Info About PCI
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Steffen Haeuser: "Hi! To clear up some things about these soon-to-appear PCI Interfaces - Initially a A1200 version will be released,
some weeks after the A1200 version there will be a A4000 version. Elbox is doing Picasso 96 drivers themselves which are
progressing fast in developement, Hyperion will do Warp3D drivers. The interface
reaches around 22 MB/sec. which is slightly faster than the Cyberstorm PPC CybervisionPPC interface. When the interface is released,
cheap PCI cards will be already available for it. The main "problem" of current GFX Cards (which still are the best which the Amiga
has currently) is the fillrate of the chips, not the Bus Bandwidth, which means 3D Games should *fly* on the new boards. Elbox plans
supporting more PCI Cards asides from GFX Cards later then."
Steffen Haeuser via ANN
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14.6.2k World of Alternatives 2000
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14.6.2k Amiga Update Newsletter
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14.6.2k [D-Tronic Design Studio]
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Previously named Amiga Design Studio agency, that uses Amiga technology for everyday work,
changed name to 'D-Tronic Design Studio' due to AmigaInc's Amiga/Ami name and logo ©
copyright. In next few days will be reachable from
www.d-tronic.com.
D-Tronic Design Studio website
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13.6.2k Epic Marketing News
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"Foundation: The undiscovered Land", the Mission CD for Foundation, is now available from all good Amiga stockist.
The Mission Pack costs 25,05 Euro and requires a Directors Cut or the original Foundation CD to run. More
information can be found in Epic's products section.
Important notice EM: "It has come to our attention that some unscrupulous dealers sell our games as
pirated copies. If you bought a copy of "Foundation: The undiscovered Land" that is not properly produced
(printed covers, silver CD and the CD in cellophane) please get in touch with us under
support@epic-marketing.de."
Epic Marketing website
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13.6.2k Innovative News
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VHI Studio 5.2 available. As there was no time before the World of Alternatives,
the archive is released now, after the fair. The new version offers faster MPEG-Encoding and support for MPEG 2.
French translation of fxPAINT. Réléc Hard- & Software have done a complete
translation of the fxPAINT catalog-file and a part of Innovative's homepage-pages. If you prefer a French GUI or if you want to
read product-information in French, have a look at their homepage.
Innovative website
Réléc website
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12.6.2k World of Alternatives 2000
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12.6.2k Discounts From TLAS
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If you purchase something from the TLAS (Turtle Lightning Amiga Software) website this month,
you will get a discount of 10% on any software in the order.
Amiga.org website
TLAS website
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12.6.2k Amiga Home Automation Offer
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Jim Lucia: "JK Sales has added a free incentive offer to those who have been waiting to jump into Home Automation with their Amiga.
Check out our web site for more information on our free offer and
get a jump on the "smart appliance" revolution."
Now you can get lamp module or keychain remote with every mail order purchase
of all 3 Amiga Home Automation programs (Port Monitor, EZHome and EZCron) with or without the Home Director kit.
Amiga.org website
Amiga Home Automation page
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12.6.2k Iomega adds Amiga support
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11.6.2k World of Alternatives 2000
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11.6.2k First News from Amiga Fair (World Of Alternatives) in Germany
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Hyperion Software released "Heretic II" PPC at the show.
Amiga SDK was available at the show. It was sold from 229 DEM.
Hyperion Software announced that they will porting "Soldier Of Fortune" from Activision to PPC Amiga.
Haage & Partner was selling Storm C 4.0, Amiga Writer 2.1 and Art Effect 4.0.
Elbox Computer was demonstrating Mediator 1200 PCI Board. Click here to see the
photo of Mediator 1200 PCI Board.
Amigart website
FunTime World website
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11.6.2k Hyperion signs Soldier of Fortune for Amiga and Mac
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Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Activision Inc. (NASDAQ: AVTI) to port Raven Software's smash-hit
"Soldier of Fortune" to the Amiga and Mac platforms.
Soldier of Fortune is based on a
heavily modified version of ID Software's Quake 2 engine. It delivers the most realistic, covert-operative themed shooter ever created by
plunging players into the secret and deadly world of the modern-day gun-for-hire via dozens of real-to-life missions, spanning five
continents and innovative multiplayer modes. Read more
Hyperion Software website
Raven Software website
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11.6.2k ACUP status update: Imagine
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Work is progressing on the next phase of the ACUP update. A client/server orientated rendering system is being introduced,
where this will aid in the provision of 68K/PPC support. These changes will also help us to, in the future, provide
stand-alone rendering software and improve network rendering support.
In the meantime, for those of you not in the beta
testing group - there is a new test program for users with PPC and 3D gfx cards available. It can be downloaded from the
ACUP server, on the beta table at the bottom of the page "000529-edgl". This is an example of hardware accelerated OpenGL
support, showing texture/environment/ multi-texture mapping, along with PPC support.
CAD-Technologies website
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11.6.2k Mroocheck/Punchinello Compatible Mice
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Not all PS2 mice work with the Mroocheck/Punchinello mk2 adapter, so Olivier Fabre have setup a
Mroocheck compatibility list/survey page.
If you have this interface, please fill this survey. Of course, results are available there too,
if you're looking for some information before buying an interface and/or a mouse.
Olivier Fabre via ANN
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10.6.2k Escena News: Brainstormer PPC Card
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Escena: "Originally, we had decided to update the web page after all changes we introduced since beginning
of this year have been completed.
But due to the near date we originally wanted to ship the boards
(End Quarter 1/99) and the Amiga '99 Show in St. Louis (at which we would have liked to demonstrate a
running product), we now shortly sum up the most substantial changes. To see what changed,
go here."
More detailed informations will
be placed on the Escene page after the remaining work is finished. (Probably within the next two weeks.)
Escena website
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10.6.2k VaporWear: T-Shirt 1.0
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VaporWare are pleased to announce the re-opening of the VaporWear Shop, where their official T-Shirt
is available to buy online for only 12UKP. The three sizes of T-Shirt can also be bought by post -
for details of both options, proceed to the VaporWear page.
V3·Portal
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9.6.2k MEDIATOR - PCI busboard Amiga 1200
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Elbox Computer is proud to announce the new exciting product: MEDIATOR - PCI busboard for Amiga 1200.
PCI - Amiga bridge is a PCI 2.1 compliant implementation for connecting PCI devices, thus allowing
expansion of Amiga with all kinds of industry standard hardware products. Read more
Darek Smietana: "Come and see MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard in the
"World of Alternatives" fair in Neusse at the Vesalia Computer stand.
The following products will available for you to buy in this stand: Winner Tower for A1200 and for A4000,
FastATA controller 16.6MB/s with AllegroCDFS for A1200 and for A4000, Mroocheck PC mouse interface, 4xEIDE'99
buffered interface with AllegroCDFS.
Darek Smietana, Elbox Computer
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9.6.2k Wired withdraw Amiga article
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9.6.2k Amiga Extreme Is Back
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After a little more than 2 months offline, www.amigaextreme.com is back!
with the latest news from 3D games world and more :-)
Stefan "Syke" Falk, AmigaExtreme
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9.6.2k AROS News
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Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla: "First of all, there are no news regarding the commercial venture
which I spoke about last time. Several ideas are currently weighted against each other and,
as usual when money comes into play, things progress very slowly. In the mean time, AROS
itself progresses at its usual slow pace :-)
As for job appliances, we need five people
and only three persons which we can use, applied, yet. So there are still two, high payed
jobs open.
Currently, we use DOpus 4, kindly made available to the Amiga community by
GP Software, to find and fix bugs in AROS."
AROS website
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9.6.2k Software Piracy
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Ingo Kleefeld: "In recent times we have become aware that there are an ever increasing number
of companies that are distributing our products on CD-R or CD-RW. The proucts ArtStudioPro,
ElasticDreams, FantasticDreams and CandyFactoryPro are only sold on pressed CD`s. Any version
on CD-R or CD-RW are pirate copies. We are aware of companies in England and Germany. Anyone
with such a pirated copy should contact us at
Motionstudios."
Amiga-news.de website
Motion Studios website
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9.6.2k The Amigan
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The Amigan® - new Amiga online parody newsletter! Check it!
The Amigan® is not intended for readers under 18 years of age. ...and with low IQ :-)))
The Amigan website
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9.6.2k CompuQuick June 2000 Update
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9.6.2k Silencer website
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Here is official URL for new isometric action game
in Crusader No Remorse style for Amiga, called The Silencer.
DJNick
Silencer website
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9.6.2k Software News
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New version (V.44.41) of HSMathLibs for MC68881/82.
All known bugs were fixed.
Patrick Ohly has implemented raw writing on MakeCD
CD burning software, and he will try to get a beta module with support for it finished soon. First he has to sort out other
problems with Sony drives, though.
MetaView v2.9 - display and convert many graphics (vector)
file formats. Some of the biggest improvements are the usuable Index-module, the possibility to send pictures from
Index-module to other application and the improved CGM import. Docs
CyberdyneSystems website
SAUG website
MakeCD support page
Henk Jonas, Metaview homepage
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8.6.2k Design an Amiga game and win £1,000!
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Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd are hosting a games competition for all new Amiga games developers.
Due to the lack of quality games developers for the Amiga, our search for talent must include people who
haven't considered Amiga games development before. The rules are that before August 31st 2000 you must come up
with a full version, or at least a demo, of a new game. The best game as judged by Crystal Software and
Electronics will win a contract worth at least £1,000 in advance. All other offerings accepted get £100 at
least for their efforts and an offer of a contract with CS&E. Please mark clearly on your entry that you
are entering our Amiga games competition and send some information to our address - followed by the final game
as soon as possible. This competition is hosted at the www.csande.co.uk website and a list of winners will be
posted as soon as it is decided. Why don't you get a team together and enter for some fun and a chance to help
out the Amiga market? Good luck!
CS&E website
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8.6.2k SEAL Show
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South Essex Amiga Link, one of the UK's most active Amiga user groups and publishers of Clubbed
magazine, are proud to announce that we will be holding an Amiga show in Basildon, Essex
Sunday the 10th of September 2000. We hope the show will provide an enjoyable event for Amiga
users in Southern England (and even further afield) with a chance to meet other Amigans,
pickup some bargains, and take part in games competitions and demonstrations.
Read more
Mick Sutton, SEAL
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8.6.2k AntiGravity Comments on Wired.com Article
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Anti Gravity Products wants the Amiga community to know that the comments made in the recent Wired.com article,
"Amiga Looks Like a Duck", do not reflect
the views of the Anti Gravity Team. Read more
The Anti Gravity Products Team
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8.6.2k Amiga Survivor
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David Connolly: "Crystal Software and Electronics took over Amiga Survivor magazine in good faith.
We had hoped that Amiga companies, distributors and Amiga themselves would take an interest in a
magazine with hundreds of subscribers and potentially thousands of readers.
I was so saddened
by the lack of response from businesses that I considered pulling out of the Amiga market, but
the reaction from readers has been absolutely tremendous. I want to thank all the existing and
new readers for your wonderful support. Read more
David Connolly, CS&E
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8.6.2k Eurostores Amiga Trade organisation
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Following reports of bad practises from some other companies in the Amiga market, Crystal Software and
Electronics along with several associates is taking action by forming an Amiga trade organisation with other
reputable Amiga companies to help fight piracy and provide good customer service and fair trading practises.
Anyone interested in a trade organisation which will provide better quality service to the consumer and take
serious action against bad trading practises can register their support by e-mailing
eurostores@csande.com with their details. Eurostores will have its own
domain at http://www.eurostores.co.uk
CS&E website
Eurostores Amiga Trade organisation website
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8.6.2k Schatztruhe News
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Aminet CD 37 now available. Dated June 2000, contains
nearly 1 gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in thousands of archives. Since the release of Aminet 36 over 500 MB
new software has appeared. The current edition includes the full version of 3D ego shooter Zombie Massacre.
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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8.6.2k AmigaWriter 2.10 Patch
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8.6.2k Small Amiga article in Computer Buyer magazine (UK)
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Mike Clarke: "Computer Buyer has added a small news item concerning the new Amiga.
Go to the Computer Buyer site to read it. You normally
have to login, but the link should use my user name (if it hasn't set a cookie)."
Mike Clarke via ANN
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8.6.2k H&P on Amiga Show in Neuss, Germany
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7.6.2k Tao's intent(TM), Java(TM) Technology Edition Now a Sun Authorized VM
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JavaOneSM Conference, San Francisco, Ca. June 6th 2000 -- Tao Group today announced that its multimedia
system for enhancing JavaTM technology based applications, the intent, Java Technology Edition, has
been awarded Sun Authorized Virtual Machine status by passing Sun's comprehensive PersonalJavaTM test
suites.Read more
Tao website
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7.6.2k Kickstart Show Review
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7.6.2k Innovative AMIGA Newsletter 6/2000
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Felix Schwarz will present Innovative's whole productline at the booth of Coolbits
at the "World of Alternatives" on 10th and 11th June. The following updates
could be finished in time and will be available at the show: fxPAINT 1.5, VHI Studio 5.2 and fxSCAN 2.0.
Read more
Innovative website
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7.6.2k Heretic II: The Wait Is Over!
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Hyperion Entertainment Software is proud to announce that its first product, Heretic II, has been completed,
with all necessary licensor approvals over code quality and box art, and is now ready to ship! The game,
a high-spec pseudo-first-person 3D action game, will be officially launched at the
World of Alternatives show in Neuss, Germany!
To kick off
Hyperion's entry into the Amiga games market, at least six of Hyperion's "dream team" of expert coders and
organizational wizards will be on hand for the event, so come on out and meet the people behind the ports!
James Sellman via ANN
Hyperion Software website
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6.6.2k Amiga Inc. and Eyetech Form Partnership
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June 6, 2000 - Snoqualmie, WA USA - Amiga Inc. of Snoqualmie, WA is pleased to announce a strategic relationship with Eyetech Group Ltd. of Stokesley,
North Yorkshire, UK to manufacture the first release of the Next Generation Amiga Development Machines and to distribute these in Great Britain and
the Republic of Ireland. Read more
AmigaInc website
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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6.6.2k Amiga in the press
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6.6.2k Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko
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6.6.2k Software News
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There's a new version of bbamigo's Speaker-Plugin v0.6 for AmigaAMP.
Two animated speakers that automatically attach to your AmigaAMP window in an intelligent way!
AmigaAMP homepage
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5.6.2k Amiga Partners to Launch Java Developers Portal
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One talented developer will help us celebrate by driving home a brand new BMW Z3 Roadster in a contest to develop new Java(TM)-based
smart device applications. Read More.
AmigaInc. website
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5.6.2k Trio touts multicore parallel processing architecture
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TOKYO - A trio of companies is ready to debut an approach to parallel processing that can combine multiple cores of different
microprocessors on a single chip to create solutions flexible enough to meet a range of next-generation networking and
information appliances. Read more
Jean-Pierre
EETimes.com website
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5.6.2k Foundation Gold
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Paul Burkey and Epic marketing announced Foundation Gold edition. The game should contains complete
Foundation of all times (80 missions), all features of the mission CD (Undiscovered Land),
revision of the in-game gfx, animations of the figures, more beautiful buildings, revised user
interface, improved AI of the computer opponents. The game will be available since 12.6.2000 and
require an Amiga with 68030, 8 MB RAM and AGA or GFX card.
Paul Burkey's pages moved to www.shoecake.com. There you
will find the latest info about Foundatin and Foundation's Edge.
Amiga-news.de website
Epic marketing website
KDH datentechnik website
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5.6.2k Amiga Show News and room plan
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Last evening, the up-to-date room plan for the "World of Alternatives" was finished. Some exhibitors
will probably join on short notice - updates as usual by means of the homepage. The
room plan is available as A4 graphic
(about 270 kB).
Visitors of the World of Alternatives that don´t know yet how to get there find
detailed route informations (German) here. There
are routes for people traveling by car, train and plane. Even detailed bus connections are available.
On the Milan side (Atari), there are the good news that the TV and the DSP card can be presented,
the 100Mbit network is working, and the new case designs have arrived in time for the show.
Amiga-news.de website
World of Alternatives website
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5.6.2k TCP Trojan's on the wild
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5.6.2k GoldEd Studio SPECIAL OFFER
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On occasion of the World of Alternatives show (10.-11.June), vistors of GoldED Studio web site
will have the opportunity to purchase GoldED Studio 6 at a reduced exhibition price on these two days.
More information
If you bought GoldED Studio 6 from Alive Mediasoft with a note inside saying "people were to use their serial number because they were waiting for a
batch of new registration cards for GoldED to come in" you should contact GoldED Support
to register your claim. Please provide information on when the disk was purchased, how much you have paid (receipt required) and what serial number
was issued to you.
GoldED Studio homepage
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5.6.2k CyberGraphX 4.2pre7
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CyberGraphX 4.2pre7 has been released. New features: support for the Rainbow III and A2410 have been added. New ENV 56KHZAUDIO.
For Expert users: New Tooltype MEMCLOCK for all CirrusLogic cards (Inferno, PicassoIV, Piccolo, Spectrum 28/24, Picasso II(+),
Pixel64 and Piccolo SD64). For SUPER Expert users: New Tooltype MELTDOWN and IINSTALLEDAFANONMYPERMEDIA2 for Permedia2 cards
(CVisionPPC, BVisionPPC). This is like MEMCLOCK for the other cards but because the Permedia2 already runs super hot the
tooltypes have new name. NOTE: You most read and understand the MELTDOWN section on the CGX Settings Page!! This is SERIOUS!
You could ruin your card and have to buy another one! You MUST have extra cooling for the Permedia2 chip!! USE IT AT YOUR OWN
RISK! Make sure you read all if the MELTDOWN and IINSTALLEDAFANONMYPERMEDIA2. You will need to anyways to use the
IINSTALLEDAFANONMYPERMEDIA2 tooltype anyways. Read and understand! New Tooltypes for A2410, OSC1, OSC2 and GREENSYNC.
Other fixes. You will need your CGX V4 CDROM to update.
CGX homepage
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5.6.2k Free Amiga Internet Magazine
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Alexandros Pourikas: "[..] Free Amiga Internet Magazine from AMIGA.gr
after hard work is now available for all the Amiga users. With a lot for interesting subjects like
News, Reviews, Old games, Opinion, Advertisements. We hope you will enjoy it."
Alexandros Pourikas, AMIGA.gr
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5.6.2k Digital Almanach News
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4.6.2k Amiga Support Network Opened
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Amiga Support is basically being divided into three categories: developers, betatesters and user groups.
A fourth "user support" will be added soon. If you have suggestions or concerns e-mail
Amiga Support Network.
The Developer Support Site will go password protected. Only developers who have purchased the SDK or
a Dev box will have access to the Developer Site. Registration will be done live through
a web interface.
Amiga Support Network
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4.6.2k Official World Launch of the NG-Amiga SDK
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As Bill Mc Ewen confirmd with his last eMail, the official World Launch of the new NG-Amiga SDK (software
development kit) will be at the big Amiga-Show in Neuss near Düsseldorf (Germany). This show will take
place the 10th an 11th of June in the Cityhall of Neuss (so called Stadhalle Neuss) and about 20
exibithors of the international AMIGA-market will present the latest stuff.
But the most important for
the visitors will the the attendance of Bill Mc Ewen who will for the first time present the new
Amiga-system and -concepts as well as make the brand new SDK available.
For further information please visit www.amiga-messe.de or write
an eMail to: a.goukassian@falke-verlag.de.
Andreas Magerl, APC&TCP
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4.6.2k Trogsoft Insider Issue 1
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The Trogladite Software Insider newsletter has been relaunched and the brand new issue is out now.
It contains the second weekly update to the Trogsoft Awards, plus our development strategy and
much more! It can be found here.
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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4.6.2k Voyager³ 3.2.12beta
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V³ 3.2.12beta - new version of popular web browser for Amiga.
This is a beta snapshot, handle with care. It's mostly bug-fixes and speed improvements.
V3·Portal
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4.6.2k Palm Desktop for Amiga
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Spitfire² is a Palm Desktop for the AmigaOS. It provides a connection to 3Com's Palm computer or compatibles, and allows
a user to HotSync these devices with their Amiga. The Spitfire² package provides the following main capabilities:
Allows working with PalmOS applications on your Amiga. Spitfire² provides Date Book, Address Book, To Do List, and Memo
Pad applications of the PalmOS so you can view, enter and modify any data stored on your handheld device.
HotSync synchroniztion which enables you to backup the data stored on your handheld device, and synchronize the data with
Spitfire². Import and export capabilities so you can use existing database files as the basis of Address Book or Memo
Pad entries.
It may be downloaded from Aminet, PalmGear H.Q., or from
http://www.winsdsor.igs.net/~torchia/spitfire2.html.
Ralph Torchia
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3.6.2k Amiga Software Developers' Kit Introduces the Next Generation Amiga
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Bill McEwen has posted promised press release announcing the new Amiga Software Developers Kit (SDK)
for Amiga, Linux, and Java developers. It provides the initial tools and examples for developers to create exciting multi-media content for multiple devices and
computing environments. The unique strength of the New Amiga comes from the partnership with the Tao Group in Reading England providing a foundation where developers
are able to take advantage of a ubiquitous computing environment.
Product information will be posted shortly. In the meantime, here's a
list of dealers that will be selling the SDK shortly.
AmigaInc. website
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3.6.2k If You Aren't Having Fun, Something is Wrong
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Just behind the recent release of the Amiga Software Developers' Kit are the denizens of entertainment
software development, cracking out new game code to reach the newest, most demanding generations of
gamers. Enter Amigatainment.
AmigaInc. website
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3.6.2k Want to Know what the AmiVerse is?
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3.6.2k Winner(s) Graphical Artists competition revealed
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C&C·Logo and Design today announced the winner(s) of the Graphical Artist competition.
"It took more time than we eventually had in mind, but we have picked a winner from out of
more than 60+ contestors all over the World. The winner has already received word from us by
email and will receive his work printed and framed by the end of next week, together with
a contract for future partnership.Read more
Martina Kramer, C&C·Logo and Design
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3.6.2k The World Foundry News
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3.6.2k Resident Evil on Amiga?
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Alpha Software have begun negotiations with Capcom Inc,
for the license to port Resident Evil 1 to Amiga PPC. Nothing is final yet but it is looking a lot more promising than when they tried this
around 1.5 years ago.
Gaz Murfin: "We don't yet even know what language it was programmed in, but I'm guessing at C/C++. If you know either
of these languages and would like to help port a classic to the Amiga then email me at
gazy@globalnet.co.uk and I will add you to the list and keep you posted."
Alpha Software website
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3.6.2k DocDatatypes
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DocDatatypes (v39.25) is a set of Datatypes classes for documents, they are sub classes of the text.datatype.
There are currently 5 datatypes which support the following formats: DosWord 4, 5 and 5.5; WinWord 1, 2, 6,
95, 97, 2000; Write 3.1; MacWord 4, 5, 98; MS Works 3, 4; OS 2 Word; AmiPro 1, 2, 3; WordStar 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
WordStar 2000 1, 2, 3; WordPerfect 5, 6, 7; Amiga WordPerfect 4.1; WordPerfect Notebook; WordPerfect Program
Editor/Ed Editor; WordPerect Macro Editor; Plan Perfect; DataPerfect; Mail; LetterPerfect; RTF Format
Version 1 and xyWrite III.
Jim Ross via ANN
Amiga DocDatatypes homepage
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3.6.2k Software News
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ppclibemu V0.7f (01.06.00) - ppc.library emulation under WarpOS
(libs only this time).
Frank Wille: "Users reported crashes with SuperView, GLQuake and WipeOut, which didn't occur
with 0.7d. So I removed all the changes again. This version should be the same as 0.7d."
Frank Wille's homepage
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2.6.2k Code Name HellSquad
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2.6.2k Alive Mediasoft: We Will Never Stop NEVER - or not ?
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Steven Flowers: "Let me give you somthing real to right about Alive will close very soon"
Early today Steven tried to explain that THERE IS Goal 2000 on the CD and why the game
comming with cracktro inside. You should check it too.
Steven Flowers, Alive Mediasoft
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2.6.2k CS&E News
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It's very exciting that CS&E Deutschland is arriving soon. CS&E definitely
wants to be in contact with the good people of Germany but being able to work only
from the UK in the English language has made this difficult in the past. Following
on from the opening of our German office, Amiga Survivor and our future software
will be produced in both English and German. You can expect to see this for Back
in Time 2, Cosmo's Fun Class and Amiga Survivor Issue 10 in due course.
Read full pressrelease
CS&E website
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2.6.2k Digital Make Up
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APC&TCP release at the Amiga Show in germany (10.jun.2000) a new cd-rom: Digital Make-Up.
It's an add-on-cd sorted by themes, with tools and utilities for embellishing and tuning
the AmigaOs. There are not only assambled powerful tools, which speed up the AmigaOs and
simplify the daily work - there is a lot of graphic material for the normaly grey looking
Workbench, too. Additional, there is software to realise speech issue.
Read more
APC&TCP website
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2.6.2k RELEC annonce the SDK AMIGA
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RELEC Software & Hardware AMIGA is pleased to announce the distribution of the new SDK AMIGA for Switzerland,
France...! This SDK is available for Developers (AMIGA, LINUX, UNIX...and all curious).
You can pre-order the SDK for CHF 160.-
RELEC Software & Hardware website
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2.6.2k New Amiga English2English Dictionary - Mentat 0.4
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Mentat is an English2English dictionary with a bit less then 60000 words. Now in current beta state can
be download here. In future (only if there will be
people willing to do new dicionaries) Mentat will translate using two dictionaries at once - Eng2Eng
& English2Native (optional).
Adrian "Sauron" Siemieniak, Mentat
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1.6.2k Alive Mediasoft
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In last two days we've received HUGE response to Alive mediasoft "causa", from both - developers and customers,
all of them claiming their "disappointment" with the company. So be carefull!
Czech Amiga News team
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1.6.2k Darkage & Alive Mediasoft
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Paolo D'Urso: "Today, 1st June 2000, the contract with Alive Mediasoft ltd for the distribution in the United Kingdom of "Extreme - Visual FX Generator" is broken.
We would ask you to STOP BUYING it from Alive-Mediasoft. If you desire to continue distributing it, you can buy it from us (at a cheaper price than
before!); we prepared a brand new cdrom package, including the new version 2.0. This upgrade will be FREE for all the Extreme users, and it'll be
available in some days on our website or from Aminet, in biz/dkg."
Read more
Paolo D'Urso, Darkage Software
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1.6.2k REBOL/View beta 4.1 released for public download ...
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1.6.2k Gilbert Goodmate & Dark Millennia News
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Michael Carrillo: "Crystal Interactive Software are still going strong and I am pleased to show you all
some exclusive new screenshots plus a mini interview with Andrew Reed for you to read and catch up with
what's been happening at C.I.S.
Also, Amiga Rediscovery continues, this month we feature the classic
Psygnosis hit, Hired Guns Demo. Probably their greatest ever release, now available for you to
download and enjoy.
Is there still enough of interest out there, to encourage developers to finish their products?
Michael Carrillo, Amiga Transition
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1.6.2k Blittersoft News
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The new Amiga Software Delelopment Kit shipping soon. Blittersoft is pleased to announce the imminent release of the AMIGA SOFTWARE DEVELOPER KIT (SDK).
This is the beginning of the "New AMIGA". For ALL of you Serious Developers, Hobbiest or just the plain "curious", we are now taking
pre-orders.
Blittersoft website
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1.6.2k Gateway/AOL announce new Internet appliance
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According to the Norwegian News Portal, digi.no, the new computer from
Gateway and AOL, based on
Linux and the Transmeta chip is to be released in the fourth
quater this year. It is this project, that Linus Thorvals has been working together with Transmeta
on. The computer will be laptop size and is going to compete with Intel and Microsoft (it won't be
just another Internet TV VisCorp kind-a-thing). If you speak a bit Norwegian, read the
full article here.
Mikkel Gravgaard
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1.6.2k Boing Attack issue 6
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Plagnol Ludovic: "Boing Attack issue 6 is now available. Boing Attack is a French Amiga printed magazine.
The suscription cost 120 FF for 6 issues of Boing Attack. You can find more
information about our magazine on our website."
Plagnol Ludovic
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1.6.2k Titan Computer News
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