31.7.99 Worms: Armageddon for the Amiga (really!)
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Hyperion acquires license to port Team 17's cult-game Worms: Armageddon to the Amiga.
Worms: Armageddon will be released for Amiga classic (68060 and PPC/WarpOs) and AmigaNG. The Amiga classic version will
require a graphics-board (AGA version under review) and will support soundcards through AHI. The game should be available
on CD around the end of the year. Read more.
Hyperion website
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31.7.99 World of Amiga '99 on two Tapes
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World of Amiga '99 EXCLUSIVE TWO TAPE SET contains: Amiga event Saturday night, July 24, 1999 with
opening remarks by Petro Tyschtschenko, The Amiga Video including the Transmeta reference, Jim
Collas' open speech and slide presentation, Top Ten Questions answered by Dr. Alan Havemose.
Amiga Inc. Press Conference Sunday, July 25th, 1999 with an intimate question and answer session
with Amiga Inc.'s Jim Collas, Alan Havemose, and more. On Saturday evening, Mr. Collas addressed
the European Amiga Community on such problems as the switch to Linux and more. He also gave the
Amiga Community a more complete view of the ultimate Amiga vision. This was followed by a session
of questions answered by Dr. Alan Havemose. Read more.
DonHicks
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31.7.99 Pianeta Amiga '99
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31.7.99 MIRA AMIGA 99
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The PAUG, Portuguese Amiga User Group is organising MIRA AMIGA 99. Amiga party will be held on September
25th in Mira, Portugal. Check the PAUG website for more details.
Miguel Gonçalves,
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31.7.99 REBOL Press
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REBOL Technologies today announced a publishing agreement with
Osborne/McGraw-Hill to publish REBOL Press, the first
authorized imprint to cover the new REBOL Internet Messaging Language. The series will kick off in
January 2000 with REBOL: The Official Guide, a complete book/CD-ROM toolkit that covers all REBOL
language features.
REBOL Press website
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31.7.99 The World Foundry News
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Development is flying along very nicely for Maim & Mangle there are more delays coding wise for E2260.
Programming on E2260 should recommence later this month. Check the
TWF August News. There are 4 new
screenshots on the M&M.
The World Foundry website
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31.7.99 Software News
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Pagestream 4.0 Beta Release 7 is now available. Pagestream4.0 features status & bugs
This major upgrade to v2.0 of AmTALK is free for all registered users.
AmTalk is a combined server/client for the Internet talk protocol for point-to-point online chatting.
The next version (3) of PFS (Professional File System) will be a major release and it is coming out at the end of this month.
Features: PFS Doctor - a repair program, user definable deldir up to 992 entries, extra long filenames (up to 100 characters -
optional), improved long term performance (PFS3 hardly fragmentates), HDInsttools for easy installation, new format command,
several bugfixes and more.
SoftLogik Publishing Corp. website
VaporWare website
Great Effects Development website
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30.7.99 WOA '99 & AmiWest '99
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30.7.99 STFax 4 Feature Preview
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30.7.99 Amiga Forever V3.0 has been released!
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29.7.99 WOA '99 & AmiWest '99
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29.7.99 OS3.5 News
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AmigaOS 3.5 Betatest Status: Since several weeks the betatest of the new AmigaOS3.5 is in operation. At present about 70 people
are taking part. The feedback of the testers is very good and accordingly the test is running successfully.
The advertising campaign for AmigaOS 3.5 is going on - now there is also a French ad.
Amiga OS3.5 website
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29.7.99 Lightwave for PPC Petition
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29.7.99 The "official" Tornado3D user site
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29.7.99 Software News
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HydraBBS v1.06 is now available here.
Updates include updated Dupe-Checker, fixed Control, XPR, Hydra and Accountedit.
The new UMAX scanner "Astra 2400S" is supported by ScanQuix now. This SCSI scanner uses
a resolution of 600 × 2400 dpi and allows a scanning size of up to 14 × 8.5 inch (35.5 × 21.5 cm).
With the optionl slide adaptor "UTA-2400S" (also supported by the ScanQuix driver), you can scan
transparencies with sizes up to 11.8 × 8.5 inch (30 × 21.5 cm).
2nd beta of the brand new cdda-ripper loader for SoundFX
is now available (030FPU, 060).
Photogenics 4.1 Release 56 is now available.
First you need to to get the executable files by emailing updates@paulnolan.com
with your name and the email address used when purchasing/registering Photogenics. Next, make a copy of your Photogenics
directory. Download the following files to a temporary directory, then extract them into the Photogenics directory.
HydraBBS website
rbm digitaltechnik website
Photogenics website
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28.7.99 QNX is hiring...
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QNX, former partner of Amiga, decided to go their own way some month ago, as Amiga chosen Linux kernel
instead of their Neutrino. QNX also offered free OS to the Amiga community, running on classic amigas.
QNX is now hiring for many positions. If it has anything to do with their Amiga announcement, it just
remains to be seen. You can read their
offer of work opportunities here.
Anyone interested? :-)
Tim Trepanier
QNX website
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28.7.99 Corel announces partnership with Amiga
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Corel Corporation has announced today its relationship with Amiga. The details on the port
of upcoming WordPerfect Office package for Linux will come later, as Amiga approaches the
release dates of the new Amiga Operating Environment and the Amiga MCC. You can read
whole announcement here.
Corel Corporation website
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28.7.99 AmIRC News
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If you are not sure about "Upgrading to AmIRC V3" or you think "AmIRC v3 Upgrade Is Too Expensive"
check this text from
Chris Wiles, project management and support, VaporWare.
VaporWare website
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28.7.99 Amiga Survivor Still Alive
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Despite rumours that have suggested otherwise, Amiga Survivor is still alive. After another three months of delay, Amiga Survivor return (again) with the latest issue.
If you're a subscriber to Amiga Survivor, read this
Amiga Survivor website
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28.7.99 Pagan News
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Pagan are still looking for 3D artists to join their group to work on commercial projects.
It is YOUR chance to work for a professional games company in your spare time NOW!
jobs@pagan-games.com
Pagan-games website
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27.7.99 Official AmigaNG computer pictures
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27.7.99 Fusion PPC Preorder details
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Microcode Solutions are concentrating their full efforts on the programming aspects,
they have asked Blittersoft to take on the processing of the orders on their behalf.
Read more.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
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27.7.99 Aminet CD 32
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Aminet CD 32, dated August 1999, contains nearly 1 gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in thousands of archives.
Since the release of Aminet Set 8 over 530 MB new software has appeared plus 190 MB of software, which didn't
fit on Aminet 31. The current edition includes the full version of the well-known text editor GoldED 4.7.3.
Read more.
Schatztruhe webpage
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27.7.99 Shogo progress report
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27.7.99 V³ Plugin API definitions
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27.7.99 Software News
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MasterISO v2.4, CD-R/RW writing software package, is now available.
A new beta version of the BGUI 41.10 the Amiga FREE BOOPSI user interface toolkit just uploaded. Several important
bugs were finally fixed. Some autodocs were added/updated by Jilles Tjolker. Most of the remaining bugs are not serious and will be fixed soon too.
Freedom Translator Client API v1.1 just finished.
It is is a API to use with the most important programs on amiga, like, email, irc, browsers, text editors to translate selected texts, support this languages English, French, German, Italian,
Portuguese, Spanish. Now support two sites: babelfish, translator.go. There is also surround.h library v0.3 to simplify all
work with C on amiga. Designed to run with SASC, StormC.
New IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 software update v37.10 is now available.
Aminet & inet
Asimware Innovations website
Surround page
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26.7.99 2 Amigos, 1 Amiga
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26.7.99 WOA '99 & AmiWest '99
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26.7.99 Sam Jordan: Analysing P5/QNX announcement
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We've already heard of QNX and P5 announcement, which should result in AMIRAGE K2 multimedia computer
from Phase5, running QNX Neutrino OS on current/future Amiga classic PowerPC architecture. Sam Jordan
from Haage & Partner raised some valid questions, regarding technical issues of such aproach.
You can read it here.
Petra Struck's Amiga news website
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26.7.99 Prerelease #1 not working with NetConnect 2
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It appears that the V3 prerelease 1 is not working with the NetConnect 2 key system.
This is a bug, not intentional, and will be fixed with the next prerelease.
Sorry to every NetConnect 2 user who downloaded the prerelease in vain.
V3·Portal website
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26.7.99 Foundation News (really good one)
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Things got changed! Paul Burkey visited WOA and had a discussion with another Amiga publishing house regarding the future of Foundation.
Foundation will make BIG return towards the end of 1999! This will not be a simple re-release of the game, it will be heavily targeted
towards those people who bought, and enjoyed the original Foundation and it will be designed to meet the needs of the modern (and future)
Amiga. No exact plans have been set out yet.
Checkthe list of targets and more.
Foundation Support page
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25.7.99 WOA '99 & AmiWest '99
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25.7.99 PicassoIV - VERY LAST CHANCE
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Village Tronic are not sure about their future in the Amiga classic market. Due to decreasing sales
they will cancel the productionline and sales of Paloma, Pablo and Concierto officially.
There is very last chance to preorder PicassoIV card. VillageTronic will produce the requested cards
in a VERY LAST assembly line so that the now preordered boards will arrive in distribution by the
end of september. After that VillageTronic will NOT sell ANY boards directly anymore to endcustomers.
They will definitely sell their AriadneII and the forthcomming 3d-Module add-on for PicassoIV.
Read more.
Village Tronic website
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25.7.99 Transmeta 'Part of Team'
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A video presentation of Amiga's partners was shown at WOA, and the webcam caught this frame,
naming Transmeta as part of the Amiga Team, along with Sun and Corel. This seems to be a confirmation the Transmeta is the chip. We'll confirm this
as soon as we can, although Dr. Havemose has said the CPU maker does not want to be named yet.
Amiga Central website
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25.7.99 VWP News
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To plan future-development of their products, VWP created a small form about the AmigaNG. Fill out
this form to support their software-development for Classic-Amigas and the AmigaNG.
Under www.VirtualWorlds.de/WTForum/wwwboard.html
you can find a special webboard for the WaveTracer DS and related questions
about sound and audio. Here you can ask questions, give tips and tricks, tell your opinion, make suggestions and much more.
This webboard should be used to get help when you have problems with the WaveTracer DS softwarepackage.
Virtual Worlds Productions website
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25.7.99 VaporWare News
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AmIRC 3.0 released! This major upgrade to
AmIRC offers many new features,
including WYSIWYG style and color input and output, timestamping, updated IRC server
support and more. There is also Contact Manager 1.4!
The all-round Bookmark and Addressbook Contact Manager
by Simone Tellini is now available in form of a MUI custom class to allow easier embedding in applications.
Get the updated VFlash, Shockwave Flash Player for
V³. This update fixes the reported bugs with AGA and some P96/CGFX
screenmodes. Note that the reported problems with <EMBED WIDTH|HEIGT=x%> are actually a problem
in the plugin interface in V³ itself, and need a Voyager update (tomorrow :)
VaporWare website
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25.7.99 STFax 4 News
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STFax 4 has been presented at WOA '99. Some of the new features are: great voice quality improvements
for USRobotics users (using GSM compression instead of ADPCM), brand new fax on demand system: more
professional, with document confirmation and option to forward the chosen docs to a user-entered number,
new Remote Access sytem, brand new phonebook with groups support, Distinctive Ring support, filters
for incoming faxes, over 60 professionally recorded voice messages and more and more ... :-)
Vaclav Misek
VaporWare website
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25.7.99 Vote for your favourite 3 Utilities of ALL time!
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AIO has set up a Utilities PD Toplist. So if you have three favourite utilities that you would like to give
credit to then why not show your support for those programs and send them your votes. All you have to do is
give 3 points to your favourite Util, 2 points to your second favourite and then 1 point to your third
favourite utility of all time. The only restriction is you can only vote of PD/Shareware type software and
not Commercial. By commercial is ment you don't register. It still holds it open to vote for Utilities like
Miami, AmIRC and the like. If you are interested, return the
form to this
address with subject: AIO Toplist. You can see the latest ratings in
the latest issue of AIO or on their website.
Aminet
Amiga Information Online website
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24.7.99 AmigaNG case prototype shown at WOA
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24.7.99 NIGHTLONG: union city conspiracy
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clickBOOM has signed a deal with Team 17 to convert NIGHTLONG: union city conspiracy advenure to the Amiga.
It should be the biggest game on Amiga - 3 CDs! Requirements and release date TBA. There will be separate
English and German versions. Check the Nightlong site for more info.
clickBOOM website
Team17 Nighlong website
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24.7.99 Interview with Dave Haynie
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Long time friend of us, Andrej bunta interviewed
Dave Haynie, and generated probably the longest
interview ever :-). One of its parts, commenting actual happenings in Amiga world, granted with
permission from Dave, can be found here.
Andrej bunta
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24.7.99 Village Tronic News
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Village Tronic is proud to release the name of their "3D-baby". Many people took the efford to invent
a name for forthcomming 3D-add-on board for PicassoIV based on 3Dfx Voodoo. And the name is:
"ParaGlide". The winner is Øivind Lunde from Norway. Congratulations!
Read more.
Village Tronic website
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23.7.99 V³ Prerelease
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A prerelease version of Voyager 3.0 is now available.
Together with launch of V³, VaporWarewe are opening new site v3.vapor.com
which ultimately aims at providing especially beginning users with a launchpad into the World Wide Web.
VaporWare website
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23.7.99 Open Letter to the Amiga Community
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This one is NOT from Jim Collas, AmigaInc but from Wolf Dietrich, phase5. Wolf Dietrich:
"In addition to our recent announcement about a cooperation with QNX Software Systems
Ltd. and our new AMIRAGE K2 project, this Open Letter shall address some of the
controversy questions that many of you are asking these days..."
Read more.
c.s.a.m & Fabian Jimenez
Phase5 website
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23.7.99 Next Team17 Joke
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WORMS ARMAGEDDON - THAT BIT BETTER!
Final beta testing is underway as the ST and Amiga versions of Worms Armageddon near
completion. So as not to disappoint hard-core Worms fans, all the new features of
the PC version have been crammed onto a stonking 17 disks! Get ready for some of the
very best 16-bit graphics and some great tunes composed by Dr. Awesome. They
probably think it's funny:-) To Team17: It's NOT:-)
There are also few interesting jpegs and info from history of Worms (Total Wormage).
Sinan Gurkan
Team17's www.worms2.com website
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23.7.99 Software News
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The latest version of Multifunctional commodity MCP V1.33 Alpha 34 is now available
here.
The first beta of DarcNES, multi
consol emulator for your Amiga is now available. This beta requires PPC (WarpUP) and CGX.
A new version (4.18.3) of the ScanExpress 600CP scanner driver is now
available.
This allows the use of the scanner with a Quaddddroport (clockport expander for IOBlix)
and supports newer version (37.9 and higher) of the IOBlix software.
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22.7.99 Amiga announces relationship with Corel Corporation
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Today, Amiga announced that they are working closely with Corel Corporation to insure that several of
Corel's award winning software applications will be supported on
Amiga's new line of products that are scheduled for release later this year.
Jim Collas: "We are extremely excited about our relationship with Corel and their entire product line.
This insures that our customers who purchase the new Amiga systems will have world class personal
productivity applications such as the upcoming WordPerfect Office for Linux."
Read more.
(italian transtation from AmigaPage)
Amiga website
linux.corel.com
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22.7.99 AMIRAGE K2 - Phase5 announces new computer systems
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Phase5 today announced new computer system, based upon QNX Neutrino RTOS, and powerfull hardware.
Harware wise, system description looks like combination of a\box and pre/box. What's more, in
the 2nd quarther of 2000, Phase5 is going to release Amirage LCU (Local Communication Unit),
inexpensive device for local video and audio output on separate monitors, TV sets, or other
video/audio devices. You can find
more information here.
(italian transtation from AmigaPage)
Phase5 website
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22.7.99 Announcement: QNX and Phase5 to team up to provide migration path for Amiga users
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QNX announced today its cooperation with Phase5, stating they will licence their multimedia OS to
Phase5, enabling them to port it to the current and future PowerUp boards. What's more important,
it is going to be completly FREE OF CHARGE. System is self hosted - no other platform to develop
next generation multimedia applications is needed. Phase5 will also deliver 68K emulator. Great
news for Amiga community. You can read
whole announcement here.
(italian transtation from AmigaPage)
QNX website
Phase5 website
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22.7.99 Driver Support for the QNX Neutrino® RTOS
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As Amiga stated, one of the reasons for Linux switch was lack of driver developments for QNX OS. QNX just released
interesting material, showing the list of drivers available
for many hardware components. Judge for yourself and let's just hope new Linux based Amiga OS will enable us to
start, stop and debug drivers, without the need to reboot, as QNX does!
Photon microGUI® - Preliminary Docs
QNX Amiga website
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22.7.99 T-Shirts from Cloanto
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Cloanto will present its Stylish Collection of T-Shirts at at the Weird Science stand,
at the World of Amiga show. On a hot summer day, while the rest of the industry was overloaded fixing Y2K bugs, Cloanto's
Software & Dreams department took a day off to design a series of T-shirts. Each T-shirt design features a different
message written by human programmers and output by machines. The story behind each message is explained in detail
here. In true programmer fashion, the different T-shirt styles are numbered
using hexadecimal notation ("0x...").
Cloanto website
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22.7.99 AmiJoe in Q3'99.
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Thomas Rudlof, Met@box AG confirms that the AmiJoe PPC card will come in Q3'99.
He is the man that "developed a lot for phase5" including Cyberstorm,
Cyberstorm MKII and the PowerUp developper board.
c.s.a.m
Met@box AG website
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22.7.99 VaporWare News
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Simone Tellini's .plan: STFax 4 is almost ready for release
Oliver Wagner's .plan: AmIRC 3.0 Release Test archive finally went out to the beta testers.
If everything goes straight(*), it will be available on weekend. Some of the more "major" changes:
color support, both input (WYSIWYG) and output, inline URLs, timestamping, many, many additions to the
plugin API, several GUI enhancements, including a completely rewritten prefs system, full support for
ircu 2.10.x and ircnet "e" and "I" modes (handled like "b"), fixes, cleanups, speedups and everything,
Frank Mosch's excellent documentation rewritten in HTML.
VaporWare website
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22.7.99 BGUI News
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A new beta version of the BGUI 41.10 the Amiga FREE BOOPSI user interface toolkit was uploaded to its
site. Final BGUI 41.11 release is expected to be ready in
September or no later than October. There will be an IRC conference of BGUI developers at WOA
next Saturday, 24th at 16h30 GMT. The channel is #woa and can be accessed via
Amiganet. Aaron Digulla of AROS development Team will joins
the channel as co-guest.
Manuel Lemos
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22.7.99 Delfina Plus upgrade for previous Delfina users
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Users of any previous Delfina card can now order a Delfina Plus
at upgrade price 175 euros (US 180$ US). For other than basic Delfina Plus option, 20% discount on total price
is applied. The user must send original system software disks to this address,
with credit card data, signature and shipping address.
Petsoff website
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22.7.99 AMIGAOnline.NET Posts List of Local Dial-up Numbers
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AMIGAOnline.NET, the Amiga ISP, have announced the posting of dial-up numbers across the continental
United States. Visit the site to check for phone access in your area. Look for AMIGAOnline.NET seminars at the AmiWest Show in Sacramento.
They also say that they will be announcing some very exciting promotions designed for the Amiga Community. You can see them in Sacramento
July 23-25. Sign up for one year of AMIGAOnline.NET and receive OS 3.5 free! All previous subscribers can upgrade to the OS 3.5
promotion by contacting AMIGAOnline.NET at os35promo@amigaonline.net.
Amiga Central magazine website
AMIGAOnline.NET website
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22.7.99 Amiga Watch: Tech Head Commentary On The Amiga Scene
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A New Vision/Rumble in Cyberspace, Amiga Watch Communique #3, has been posted on Tech Head Stories.
The communique examines cutting edge aspects of the current Amiga Inc technology plan and why it
rocks. Check tech-head.com/amiga.htm for more info.
Roger Wyatt
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21.7.99 H&P Special Summer Offers
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H&P are offering Genesis, TCP/IP stack for Internet & network
connection, and STFax 3.7, advanced fax program with many exciting
features both for DM79. Those prices are only valid for a limited time and when ordering online!
Haage&Partner website
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21.7.99 Amiga RC5 Team News
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Yesterday Amiga team passed the Japanese Linux team and thereby moved up into the 5th overall position. Well done folks! :-)
See the press release.
Amiga RC5 team website
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21.7.99 WOA News
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Haage&Partner hope to meet you all there!
Kato Development Group will visit the WOA too. They will
present some of their projects at the booth of Power Computing. Mark Wilson of the
AmiBench Team, will be there too. You can find him
on the Leicester Area Amiga userGROUP stand (LAAUG).
WOA website
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21.7.99 AmiWest Seminars
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Just a little notice: AmiWest '99 seminars
NOTICE: All scheduled times and events are subject to change without notice.
AmiWest website
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21.7.99 Visual Engineering News
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It's now possible to register Visual Border, Visual Logo and Visual Puzzle of Visual Engineering-scriptpack by major credit
cards or by phone or fax. If you still aren't familiar with these powerful scripts, then please have a look at the
website. Lots of graphics examples and 30 free scripts online.
Marko Seppänen, Visual Engineering
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21.7.99 Very Last Foundation News
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Now that Foundation is no longer commercially available and the games publishers Sadeness are no longer available.
There will be at least one more update. Author will do all he can to release the game in FULL in the near future.
There will NOT be a sequel to Foundation but author is making plans for a technical successor to the game.
This game will be aimed at the popular PC systems as well as the Amiga MMC.
Read more.
Foundation Support page
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21.7.99 Mage3D News
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Mage3D will charm Macintosh users beginning on September 30st, 1999 (later PPC Amiga users).
Previously set date was March 31st, 1999.
Mage3D website
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20.7.99 Communication with community
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Jim Collas: "I know that we still have to improve communication but visibly communicating
with a large community is difficult. I expend a significant amount of effort listening
to and understanding the Amiga community. I have spent 100s of hours in the last several
months listening to and corresponding with the Amiga community."
Read more.
c.s.a.m
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20.7.99 Nova Design Selects Eyetech Group to Distribute ImageFX/Aladdin 4D in UK
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The Eyetech Group Ltd, effectively immediately,
has begun handling all sales and distribution of Nova Design, Inc. products in the U.K.
and areas of Europe within their distribution network. Kermit Woodall of Nova Design
will be exhibiting Nova's entire product line at the upcoming World of Amiga show on
July 24th and 25th at the Kensington Exhibition Centre from the Eyetech stand.
This show will mark the European premiere of two new products from Nova. PowerStation
- the blazingly fast PowerPC modules for ImageFX as well as the all-new ImageFX 4.
AWD website
NovaDesign website
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20.7.99 SDS seeking Blitz professional
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Satanic Dreams Software announced Minimum Safe Distance, cross between Cannon Fodder, Worms and King Arthur's World
(SNES) or as Satanic Dreams prefer saying its "Worms in Real-Time".
Rob Hutchinson posted this cry for help to the Blitz Basic ML:
One of the programmers has had to drop out. Anyway, the game is already half-developed, I know there are a lot of
GREAT programmers on this list. And I wonder if there is anyone with good enough BLITZ-MODE/GameCreation skills
to work on a commercial game and jump into someone else`s work? Obviously it will require a reasonably high level
of mathematics. This will also REQUIRE you to be able to keep in contact with the other developers' (artists,
musicians, etc) DAILY, Not weekly or every other day. And be willing to drop all other projects to work soley
on Minimum Safe Distance. Also you must be able to give the game a reasonable amount of attention daily.
AmigaUni website
Satanic Dreams website
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20.7.99 T-zer0 News
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T-zer0 is finished, and will start shipping this week.
Preordering is available only until July 23 (Friday), with lots of special offers and
a chance to win a Mikronik Infinitiv Tower with Phase 5 CV64/3D card.
IMPORTANT: clickBOOM have signed another blockbuster game, but won't yet tell you what it is.
Instead, look for it at the back of the T-zer0 packaging! :) (Probably some adventure game)
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20.7.99 NewsRog Update
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The update 1.8 of NewsRog, most powerful usenet reader available for the Amiga, you can find
here.
This update is free to registered users of NewsRog.
NewsRog webpage
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20.7.99 FAST ATA2/EIDE software update v3.14
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There is FAST ATA2/EIDE software update for PowerFlyer Fast-ATA2/EIDE controller available in dowload section
of Javosoft website. New: small improvment in driver code.
Javosoft website
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20.7.99 Non-English Corner
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19.7.99 www.microsoft.hu HACKED
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19.7.99 Polish Amiga MAGAZINE closing down
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After exacly 8 years of regular issuing - Marek Pampuch, publisher of polish Amiga MAGAZINE, has
decided to close this magazine mainly due economic reasons. The last issue will be August 1999.
Marek Pampuch
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19.7.99 Note from Amiga R&D team
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Rick LeFaivre, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Amiga, posted "Note from Amiga R&D team" letter to
comp.sys.amiga.misc newsgroup. Rick is addressin Linux decision, gfx chip investigation,
explaining more is about to come which can't be discussed now and more. You can read Rick's
letter here.
GoodBye from Rick LeFaivre, Allan Havemose, and the Amiga R&D Team to the small number of individuals
who "don't like what they are doing" and leaving the Amiga community. Millions and millions of people
will purchase Amiga-branded and Amiga-compliant products over the coming years, and they are sorry
you won't be among them.
Rick LeFaivre, Amiga via comp.sys.amiga.misc
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19.7.99 Mandrake to meet Amiga
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The developer of the acclaimed Enlightenment GUI system for Linux, Mandrake (Geoff
Harrison), is meeting with Amiga. He says, "So sometime next week I'm going to meet with the VP of Engineering at Amiga.
That should be interesting. I wonder if I can get them interested enough in enlightenment that they would be willing
to donate programmers to the project. I have no idea how that would be. *shrug* -- if nothing else I'm curious to see
what they've been up to for the past couple of years." Aren't we all... As a side note,
QNX had previously offered him a job, working on Photon!
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19.7.99 Dimensions slashes GVP prices
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Dimensions Computers announces huge discount on GVP-m's A2000 68060/50
accelerator board ($599 USD). This professional card from GVP-m is the premiere accelerator/expansion card
for the Amiga2000. It boasts MC68060/50MHz, 4 standard 72-pin SIMM sockets (up to 128MB FAST Ram), 4 sockets
for 64-pin GVP type SIMMs, FAST SCSI-2 controller (internal 50pin and external HD50 connectors). Email:
sales@dcamiga.com - any questions about products or pricing
orders@dcamiga.com - to arrange an order or for order status
tech@dcamiga.com - for technical or repair related inquiries
Amiga Universe website
Dimensions Computers website
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17.7.99 Photogenics News
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Paul Nolan is pleased to announce Photogenics 4.1, featuring dozens of new and improved features, more tools,
online html help, and rock solid stability. It all adds up to the must have graphics purchase of the year.
To make this purchase even easier, you can now use your credit card to order using a toll free (US only,
international charges apply) order hotline, or online at www.paulnolan.com.
Read the full details.
Photogenics 4 CD-ROM (German version) has been released! Suggested retail price is DM 179.00.
Paul Nolan
Schatztruhe webpage
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17.7.99 Technology Brief Traslations
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17.7.99 Saku 99 Invitation Intro
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ESPOO, FINLAND - July 17, 1999 - Finnish Amiga Users Group announces the
Saku 99 invitation intro. The intro combines Saku 99 information, pictures
from previous events, and music, into a small multimedia presentation.
Read more.
Janne Siren
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17.7.99 KOSH Problems
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John Chandler: "The kosh.net domain name was deleted accidentally by InterNIC
a few weeks back, hence the KOSH website and mailing lists have been down. It was supposed to have been restored
within a couple of days of being deleted but nothing has happened yet. Just to let everyone know that KOSH
hasn't disappeared, only hindered by technical problems beyond our control."
John Chandler
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17.7.99 Jobs From Q-Lab
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Q-Lab has a number of vacancies available for staff to work on their upcoming games for the Amiga.
Q-Lab has a vacancy open for a programmer to work on their Amiga platform game, Po Po Chicken. The job will be paid, you will be
fully credited for your work, and you will receive a free copy of the game. C/C++/ASM preferred, but not necessary.
They are also seeking a C++ programmer to work on our Amiga/PC 3D adventure, WEL. As said with the other vacancy the job will be
paid, you will be fully credited for your work, and you will receive a free copy of the game. You must have experience programming
3D, and will be expected to work using an existing 3D engine.
Those people interested in the above jobs can e-mail Will Morton, Q-Lab.
Amiga Flame website
Q-Lab website
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17.7.99 Software News
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Updated PageStream4 b5 Amiga executable is now available.
New version 1.3 of Apdf,
an Amiga port of Xpdf-0.80, a PDF document viewer is now available here
(nofpu, 020/030/040/060fpu, PPC (PowerUp)).
Demoversion of the new WaveTracer DS Mark V is now available.
(020/030/040/060 and PPC WarpUP). The CD-ROM with the complete version of the *WaveTracer DS* should be available this month
from Nightshift.
SoftLogik Publishing
Aminet & VIRTUAL News
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16.7.99 UGN projects at World of Amiga 99
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16.7.99 Reaction To The Technology Brief
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16.7.99 T-zer0 out at World of Amiga
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clickBOOM is sponsoring the game arcade section of the World of Amiga show,
with the special T-zer0 competition, to celebrate the release of Amiga's best shoot-em-up. First 100 conestants
each day get the Quake Survival Guide book just by
entering the contest. So, hurry up, and get there early! You can play as many times as you want,
and try to make the highest score. At the end of the show, top 3 players will receive:
WINNER: Every clickBOOM game for life (this includes all released and future titles, ever)!
SECOND: Every released clickBOOM game (T-zer0, Napalm, Quake, Myst, Safecracker, Capital Punishment)
THIRD: A copy of T-zer0 What's the "?????" in adventure section on the
clickBOOM main page?
clickBOOM website
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16.7.99 The Last Seal Demo
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15.7.99 Amiga still hiring
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Patrick Anderson writes: "Yesterday I attended a huge high tech job fair in San Jose, California.
One of the participants was Amiga Inc. I picked up the flyer from their booth and have placed a
scanned image of it at
the link above. One interesting thing is that they are looking for a MIPS Port Engineer. Also, the guy
said that they signed the lease on the San Jose office this week. It is located very close to the airport,
which will make it easy to travel to and from San Diego. He said there are about 15 people currently
employed at Amiga. He explained to people that the computer as we know it was obsolete and Amiga wants
to revolutionize the computer. All of the booths at the job fair were pretty busy, and Amiga's booth
was no exception."
ANN website
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15.7.99 Pagan WoA Update
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Here's a list of Pagan people turning up for WoA: Liz Tucker, Jace "Caradog" Hayman, Rick Hodger,
Owen Bennett, Alan "alze" Knipmeyer and Trez. You will be able to find Pagan on the BRAINIAC
stand. Pagan will be demo'ing Dafel: Bloodline there.
Pagan Games website
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15.7.99 Daytona scheduled for late autumn 1999
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The Sun sourcecode based JavaVM "Daytona" by Nordic Global
will not, as originally planned, be available in summer '99, but is now scheduled for late autumn
1999. The delays are, among other reasons, due to Holger Kruse's participation in OS 3.5 with Miami.
The decission for using this TCP/IP stack for OS 3.5 has been made after the Daytona announcement on
the AmiWest '99, in part due to the opinions collected there asking for Miami as TCP/IP stack.
Amiga News & Stories website
Daytona Talk ML
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15.7.99 Fleecy Moss replies to Jim Collas mail
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Read the Fleecy's answer to Jim Collas mail.
comp.sys.amiga.misc
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15.7.99 Software News
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Another update for Visual Engineering. With Merge-script you can for example erge picture to above and leftside of another picture.
Visual Texture 2 is fully recoded. Carefully selected over 200
effects are waiting for you. The program these scripts are for (Image Engineer),
will get updated. More details later... Cnet.device v1.1, an experimental PCMCIA network card driver for the Amiga 1200 is now
available. Fixed few bugs. Full source code in assembler is included.
HydraBBS v1.05 is now available here. Updated the protocol doors, added
MakeFreeDL door and a few fixes. Current ToDo list
Marko Seppänen, Visual Engineering website
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14.7.99 199 000, 200 000 ...and the Winner is...
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200 000th visitor of our newspage and the winner of a special price is - Michael Grønne, Denmark.
Congratulations! Thanks once again to all of you visiting our news service! The prize will fly to happy winner as soon as possible!
Czech Amiga News team
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14.7.99 VIRUS WARNING
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A new trojan have been found in three Aminet fake releases:
name: Poolmem.lha | size: 67.918 bytes | desc: FastIPrefs 40.37 & FastWBPattern 40.06 |
name: FastIPrefs4037.lha | size: 41.583 bytes | desc: Memory defragmentizer/AllocP superset |
name: CMQ060.lha | size: 12.183 bytes | desc: Patch CopyMem/Quick for 68060(040) v1.5 |
This trojan will send an e-mail using bdsocket.library to the President of Amiga Inc, with a sick and senselles message. This is probably NOT the last
trojan of this kind this time, so be carefull what you download and install!
Virus Help Denmark website
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14.7.99 GoldED Summer Weekend Special
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For a limited period of 3 days, visitors of GoldED website
have the unique opportunity to purchase GoldED Studio 6 at a 50% discount ! This special offer starts on
Friday, 16/7/99 and ends on Sunday. To participate, request
your Summer Weekend Special ticket. Wait for the ticket in your e-mail, print it out and include it with your order
to get the 50% discount. The following conditions apply: (a) The number of tickets is limited and handed
out on a first-come-first-served basis. (b) One ticket per person. (c) Unused tickets expire after 12 days. (d) The
discount applies to the price of the software, not to p&p costs.
GoldED website
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14.7.99 Exodus Multimedia News
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Exodus Multimedia is pleased to announce the first AmigaNG-powered digital video workstation, Maverick!
Read more.
Exodus Multimedia website
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14.7.99 Further details on fxPAINT
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After the announcement of fxPAINT, there were still some questions remaining for many users.
The aim of this pressrelease is to clear up these
questions and give further details on fxPAINT...
Innovative website
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14.7.99 Interview with Pentagram
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Gary Storm spoke to Bob Brunner of Pentagram (Amiga NG designers) on the phone.
Read the interview initially done for Clubbed magazine.
Clubbed Issue 3 should be out really soon!
Gary Storm, SEAL
SEAL website
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14.7.99 WANTED: CYRIL DEBLE
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aPEX, author of Amiga version of WolfenDOOM, is looking for
an amiga-programmer with the name CYRIL DEBLE. He made the -DEH support in ADoom and he can
help him with his WolfenDOOM project that use the ADoom engine. His old E-Mail (from 1998)
cyril.deble@capway.com didn't work anymore. If you can help, write to
aPEX please.
aPEX
WolfenDOOM website
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14.7.99 Napalm Cheat
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Is Napalm too hard to win? Try Cheat.sx, the small cheater :-)
Now you can change almost everything: names of units or buildings, prices of units or buildings, units or buildings production
time, power of shield of units and armed towers, power of weapons of units and armed towers, units speed and weapon.
Then the game is quite playable :-)
Javosoft website
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14.7.99 Software News
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A new beta version of AmTelnet 1.36 released.
This update is available for registered users only.
The latest version of Multifunctional commodity MCP V1.33 Alpha 33 is now available
here.
New version 1.13 of Freedom Call
is now available here.
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13.7.99 Gateway's Amiga Due To Become Set-Top Box
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Confused headline? We hope so and the article
itself somewhat contradicts its own headline by stating that Amiga, "still plans to forge ahead with its multimedia convergence computer, which the
company says will eventually integrate with digital televisions, set-top boxes and other devices."
AWD website
NewsEdge NewsPage
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13.7.99 SpaceStation3000 delayed
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Digital Images reports that SpaceStation3000 comes later than expected.
We must wait until September/October 1999. But then we should get the best
strategy game for Amiga.
Vaclav Misek
Stuart Walker, DI
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13.7.99 STRICQ Beta
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New beta version of STRICQ 0.1441, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available.
Beta version is available here
(just exe file). history
STRICQ webpage
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13.7.99 MUIbase 1.2
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Version 1.2 of MUIBase, relational programmable database which uses MUI as user interface, is
now available here.
PLEASE register MUIbase otherwise Steffen Gutmann (author) would set more restrictions
or quit continuing MUIbase.
MUIbase website
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12.7.99 QNX Response to "Some clarifications from Amiga"
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12.7.99 Amigactive Magazine Dissects Amiga's Linux Announcement
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Amiga Active take a close look
at what the Linux announcement will mean - with a few clarifications, some interesting speculation
and opinion from Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.
(deutsch)
Amigactive Magazine website
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12.7.99 QNX «-» Linux special page
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There is a special page created by Petra Struck, where you can find everything releated to QNX «-» Linux topic
even in chronological order. If you are sure something important is missing there, contact
author.
Petra Struck's QNX «-» Linux page
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12.7.99 Amiga/QNX announces
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Beside the original english texts of the announcements of Amiga
and QNX about Linux/QNX also the German translation (thanks to
Carsten Schroeder's Amiga Aktuell) have been published. In the next days also other languages,
like italian, portoguese, danish, japanese, persian, ... should appear on
AmiWorld.
AmiWorld online website
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12.7.99 GoldED Studio 6.1.3
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GoldED Studio users can download the latest service
pack to upgrade from 5 or 6.x.x to the latest version 6.1.3 (download demo version).
New features include tab cycling for all gadgets, improved navigation in listviews and custom rendering routines (increasing scrolling performance
by up to 20%).
GoldED webpage
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12.7.99 Latest MCP V1.33 Alpha 32
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The latest version of Multifunctional commodity MCP V1.33 Alpha 32 is now
available.
Changes from Alpha 31 to Alpha 32: fixed a PowerSaver problem with Amiga
screens, WBTitleActivate should be working with DOpus.
aliendesign website
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11.7.99 Some clarifications from Amiga
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The president of Amiga Jim Collas posted this message in the comp.sys.amiga.misc
newsgroup clarifying some apparent misconceptions people seem to be having about the Linux decision.
Deja.com
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11.7.99 Petition to make Amiga reconsider QNX
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After the July 9 Linux announcement from Amiga,
many Amiga users around the world were shocked and disappointed. In an attempt to reverse this decision, a
petition has been launched.
Johan Rönnblom:"Many seem to have given up about Collas/Amiga, others believe that it's best to keep
quiet and hope that Collas/Amiga know what they are doing, even though it doesn't seem to be so. But the
Amiga has always had its problems with erratic management, this is no exception. If we want to affect the
future of the Amiga, the time to act is now. If Collas/Amiga on the other hand know exactly what they are
doing and have a masterful plan, it should not hurt to let them know the opinion of Amiga users and
developers anyway."
Johan Rönnblom, petition coordinator
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11.7.99 Amiga Competition phone line
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Amiga Information Online magazine is proud to present the
first Amiga only competition phone line open to users ALL over the world. This competition
line is sponsored by Access Technology. Each month they will be offering a main BIG prize
to the lucky winner who can answer the question required. As this is an Amiga competition line
there will be a BIG chance of winning. Phone numbers and more you will find here.
Chris Seward, Amiga Information Online
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10.7.99 Response to Linux Feedback
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10.7.99 AmiWest99 Update #4
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10.7.99 Software News
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A new beta version of AmTelnet 1.35 released.
This update is available for registered users only.
HydraBBS v1.04 is now available here.
Added new doors: FreeDL, Check_Corrupt, Adverts, as well as loads of new features, additions,
modifications and a few fixes. Current ToDo list
New IRC-Client for AmigaOS, BlackIRC
v1.1 is now available here.
Richard "Spy" Rozehnal & aminet & inet
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9.7.99 QNX statement: Where Do We Stand?
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Eight months ago we were chosen by Amiga as their foundation OS partner. Our development group
was thrilled to be part of the rebirth of such an innovative product. To meet the challenge we knew
it would take a tremendous effort on our part. We had a team of people in place working on our part
of the Amiga NG soon after the alliance was announced. Over the next few months we involved more and
more of our engineering resouces towards making QNX an advanced multi-media platform. Our investment
so far has been significant. These are costs we have born ourselves.
It is clear today from Jim's letter that we were not chosen for the next generation Amiga. Naturally
we're disappointed. So, where do we stand now? It is not our intent to confuse the Amiga community.
We are proud of what we have accomplished and want to include Amigans in what we've achieved. I did
make a promise to deliver an operating system and I intend on keeping that promise. I don't want to
split the community, nor do I wish to engage in a war of words. I don't ask you to "trust" me or to
take me at my word. Both QNX and Amiga have promised to deliver technology into your hands in the very
near future. I ask only that your assessment of QNX be based on what we do and what we deliver.
Thanks for the overwhelming support we have received so far.
Dan Dodge, CTO, QNX Software Systems
QNX website
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9.7.99 BLACK FRIDAY: Amiga divorces with QNX
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Amiga announced today their divorce with QNX.
Instead of scalable and highly acclaimed QNX kernel, new Amiga OE is going to get monolithic Linux
kernel. No detailed info about the reason for such decision was provided, but Mr.Collas hopes we will
understand one day why they do that. Latest
Jim Collas's Open letter to the community
is full of many empty words about great future of Linux and how much faster is the Linux kernel in
comparison to Windows NT. BeOs, QNX, Linux - what will be next?
Why is AmiCola alcohol free? WE NEED SOME DRINKS!
Amiga website
Czech Amiga News team
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9.7.99 Next Generation G3 Products from Phase5
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Phase5 made few conceptual changes to the design of the previously announced
CYBERSTORM G3/G4 and the BLIZZARDG3/G4 boards. A major change of the design of both
boards is that they have decided not to integrate SCSI and IEEE-1394 on the
products as standard, and therefore reduce the base prices of the products.
Features: PCI, MiniPCI add-on modules (U2W SCSI, Ultra SCSI, Ultra-DMA IDE/ATA,
IEEE-1394), two USB ports, two standard SO-DIMMs (SDRAM) banks and more.
Cards should be shipping early September (G3 only).
Read more.
phase5 website
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9.7.99 AMINET SET® 8
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AMINET SET® 8 is now available! Suggested retail price is DM 59.00 (US $31.00).
AMINET SET® 8 offers you everything that was added to the archive since AMINET
SET 7 was made, plus full versions of CygnusEd 3.5, ArtEffect 1.5, Gloom 3 und
Directory Opus 5.5. Read more.
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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8.7.99 Complete Amiga concept drawings released ...
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Czech Amiga News, with permission from Amiga, is releasing Amiga concept drawings,
as presented to Amiga press earlier last month. Just click on entire thumbnails to obtain high quality images. Enjoy.
Amiga website
Czech Amiga News Team
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8.7.99 QNX - "Delivering on our Promise to the Amiga community"
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QNX CTO, Dan Dodge, posted new announcement to their website, stating 40 people were silently
working at QNX over last 7 months, to bring the Amiga community new and exciting system.
QNX now opens Developers system for Amigans, and offers Amiga developers with registration.
Beta version of new system is going to be release as promised - at autumn.
You can read whole announcement here.
Michael Carrillo
QNX website
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8.7.99 REBOL 2.1 released
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REBOL Technologies released new version of REBOL (2.1) today.
This new version contains built in XML parser, several new usefull functions, whois and NNTP
protocols are also part of new REBOL release. There are now two versions of REBOL for Amiga:
68000 and 68020+.
REBOL Technologies website
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8.7.99 AmiWest Press Update 7/8/99
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8.7.99 The fxPAINT-pressrelease
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Innovative announced today their new most advanced and powerful project - fxPAINT, new image processing software for the AMIGA.
Read the annoucement here. Further information and screenshots can be found on their
completly redesigned website at www.innovative-web.de.
Innovative website
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7.7.99 RC5-64 News
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The RC5-64 effort has reached the 10% mark! Amiga RC5 team should pass the Japanese Linux team really soon!
Amiga RC5 team website
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7.7.99 AEQx suite for ProStationAudio
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AEQx suite for ProStationAudio is now shipping. The AEQx suite adds studio-accurate EQ capabilities to ProStationAudio:
64bit audio processing for true analog feel, frequency sweeps from 2Hz to 20000Hz (13 octaves !), frequency resolution
1/12th octave, autotrimming. The AEQx suite includes parametric, shelf, band & notch, low pass & hipass filters.
Early AEQx plugins available in the download area.
AudioLabs website
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7.7.99 Software News
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WHDL v10.2, AmigaOS friendly harddisk-install package, both usr and dev archives are available
here.
Cnet.device v1.0, an experimental PCMCIA network card driver for the Amiga 1200 is now
available.
This one works with the CNet CN40BC PC-CARD and others. Full
source code in assembler is included.
WHDL support page
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6.7.99 New Amiga member
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Dr. Richard Lipes, Director of Multimedia Services, is responsible for delivering 2D and 3D graphics,
audio and video streams, and special graphics effects for Amiga's products. He has over 20 years
experience in high performance computation on graphics, vector, and parallel computer architectures,
gained in large organizations as well as three startups.
Read more.
Amiga website
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6.7.99 YAM 2.0 Final
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The final version of YAM 2.0 ('Yet Another Mailer'), probably best mailer for Amiga,
is now ready and can be downloaded from here. YAM is distributed as Freeware,
so you don't have to pay anything for it.
Yam official support site
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6.7.99 Randomize Announces International Amiga 2000
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6.7.99 WinUAE programming help needed
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Brian King on the UAE forum: "I will be winding down the amount of time I spend on WinUAE over the next three months,
and am hoping for someone to take over the maintenance of the Win32 version of UAE. The reason is that I've gotten
a new job, and will be moving to Seattle (US) from Ottawa (Canada). With the move, leaving my current job,
and the hit of the new job - WinUAE will suffer..."
You must know how to program for Win32 in "C", and be aware of the EGCS and VisualC++ environments...
Read more.
ANN website
comp.sys.amiga.misc
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5.7.99 Heretic II for Amiga
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Hyperion acquires license from Activision to port Raven Software's "Heretic II" to the Amiga.
Heretic II is the sequel to Heretic and Hexen and is based on Id Software's advanced Quake2
engine. The Amiga version will require a PPC processor (WarpOS) and a graphicscard and will take full advantage of 3D accelerators
through Warp3D. The possibility of a 68060 version is under investigation but would in any case require 3D acceleration. Other
features include virtual 3D sound (supported through AHI) and network-play (internet, modem, LAN).
The Amiga port will be carried out by Peter Annuss (ADescent PPC, EGCS WarpUp), Joe Sera (AQCVid, Skyline II, ObjectWorkshop),
Hans-Joerg Frieden (Warp3D, ADescent W3D, Shogo) and others. Release is expected to be early to mid Q4 1999.
Hyperion website
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5.7.99 Wanna work in the game industry?
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Pagan are looking for dedicated professionals to work on 2 of their commerical projects (Scavengers, Magick).
You will become part of the Pagan Group helping to create the next generation of Amiga
and PC games. They are looking for artists, coders and desingers with experience of using
Amiga's, PC's or Unix vaiants. Amiga PPC WarpOS/3D coders welcome. PC/Unix coders with
Crystal Space experience welcome. They welcome interest from Scene Demo coders.
Read more.
Pagan-games website
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5.7.99 T-zer0 News
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The game is ready! T-zer0 CDs and packaging
went into production. Release day of this cool looking shoot'em up2000 :-) is
July 23. T-zer0 now offers several instalation sizes. You can play the
game straight from CD or choose anywhere from 50KB to 255MB to be installed to HD.
ClickBOOM website
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5.7.99 World Foundry News
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A decision on the new GFX artist(s) for Maim & Mangle strategic game will be made
this Monday/Tuesday. Two new early screenshots were added to the
screenshots page.
There are a few more buildings and units in there and a it of the 3D landscape can be seen.
The World Foundry Ltd. website
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4.7.99 BGUI News
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A new version of the BGUI - the Amiga FREE BOOPSI user interface toolkit -
was uploaded to its site.
There is now a page with screenshots of several example programs and tools
located here.
Read the BGUI Manifest text with the title -
Past, Present and Future.
Manuel Lemos
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4.7.99 WolfenDOOM News
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Now you can leech WolfenDOOM from new fast server located in Germany.
All levels for WolfenDOOM are ported already, but still required a programmer that can improve the -deh support
in ADoom. Than can be released the last levels. If you are interested, write to aPEX.
aPEX
WolfenDOOM website
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4.7.99 Fusion News
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Joseph Fenton is still working on FUSION 68K MAC emulator. Update should be
released sometime this summer or fall.
FUSION mailing list
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4.7.99 New VaporWare products
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Chris Wiles updated today his plan on the Vapor Team .plans page.
There he is talking about several products which you can see and probably buy on WoA show:
STFax 4 - this will be a CD only based product containing a number of new features, existing feature updates and
over 60 professionally recorded voice messages.
NetConnect 3 - containing Voyager 3, AmIRC 3, mFTP II, AmChat, NetInfo II, AmTelnet 2, WYSIWYG web editor and more.
VaporWare website
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4.7.99 AmigaAMP 2.6 Final
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AmigaAMP v2.6 Final is ready for download!
Two new plugins written by Martyn Capewell are available on the
plugins page.
Also, there's a new AREXX script written by Tommi Lempinen for creating skins easily with ImageFX on the
skins page.
AmigaAMP website
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4.7.99 Software News
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HydraBBS v1.03 is now available here.
Adds a New User Announcer and a fix to MailAdd and SysopListViewer.
Current ToDo list
New MESA only release of Amiga PPC port of Nintendo64 emulator TrueReality is now
available!
Author is currently investigating if a Warp3D version would be possible,
and if it would make TrueReality any faster.
Richard "Spy" Rozehnal & inet
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3.7.99 Prelude to World of Amiga '99
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3.7.99 Visual Engineering News
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New Visual Engineering script released! Visual Puzzle
lets you create a random puzzle. There's corner pieces, edge pieces and the rest. Script is actually quite smart.
Before piece is placed, checking is made, so it really fits to it's place.
Marko Seppänen
Visual Engineering website
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2.7.99 New Promotional Products
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Are you thirsty? Try AmiCola! New promotional products
will be available at the World of Amiga on July 24th and 25th. There will be the cool drink for all AMIGA freaks -
AmiCola, AMIGA shorts (sizes S, M, L, XL, und XXL, colors white and black), and socks carrying the AMIGA logo
Amiga website
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2.7.99 Miami Deluxe
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Miami Deluxe BETA version 0.9j, full TCP/IP router package for "power users", released. Registered users
can get it here.
Nordic Global website
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2.7.99 Software News
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HydraBBS is a BBS system made to replace AmiExpress
and all its clones. HydraBBS combines all the ideas of AmiExpress with new functions and commands.
HydraBBS v1.02 is now available here.
There are a number of fixes,improvements, speed gains and new features.
Current ToDo list
Cnet.device, an experimental PCMCIA network card driver for the Amiga 1200 is now
available.
Added support for multicasting, statistics, orphan packets, exclusive and promiscuous modes.
This version should now work with Shapeshifter!
inet & aminet
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2.7.99 Does Jim VonHolle help in Microsoft antitrust causa? :-)
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If Amiga's Jim VonHolle, vice president of Marketing and OEM Sales, is the same
person as James Von Holle as referred to in PC Week's article called
Gateway
exec recounts Microsoft threats, then Jim is the right person for
the Amiga. :-) Gateway last week released more complete, or just less
redacted version of Jim's deposition.
PCWeek magazine website
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2.7.99 More about Dave Curtis
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Dave Curtis is new member of Amiga Development team, responsible for object technology and transaction services.
If you are interested in reading more info about him,
look here.
Fabian Jimenez on c.s.a.m.
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2.7.99 New members in Amiga R&D team
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Amiga oficially announced two new members of their R&D team today. They
are: Dr. Jim Miller
and Dave Curtis.
Jim will work for Amiga as Director of User Experience R&D, while Dave
will hold position of Director of Object Technology and Transaction
Services.
Amiga website
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1.7.99 Amiga boss hints at Java-style technology
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The Register is bringing you an article reacting on today's letters of Jim Collas. The Register
is talking about mentioned Amiga Objects TM, suspecting them being Java based technology, and
sees not so easy path for Amiga here, as Sun is trying to achieve such goal for so long with much
bigger development team. They assume the processor of choice is going to be Motorola's soon to be
announced G4 processor. You can
read the article here.
The Register website
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1.7.99 Open Letter to the community, Update on major activites
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Jim Collas, president of Amiga, released today his monthly Open Letter to the Amiga Community and
Update to major activities of Amiga
on Amiga´s website. You can find more concrete info on AmigaNG concepts there, like
processor choice being announced at WOA and AmiWest shows, while not being x86 architecture,
mension of Amiga Objects TM technology, and introduction of new people with sounding background
now being part of Amiga development team. More information on AmigaNG technology will come next week.
Amiga website
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1.7.99 Amiga OS 3.5 packaging
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AmigaOS 3.5, is going to be oficially released at Amiga Downunder 99 show in Canberra, Australia,
on 21. August. If you would like to see, how its packaging is going to look like, you can
look here.
Amiga website
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1.7.99 REBOL 2.1 announced
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REBOL Technologies announced new version of REBOL today. New 2.1 version introduces built in XML
parser, refined security, such as sandbox directories, and new network features, such as direct
access to NNTP. Besides that, REBOL is now available for 30 platforms. You can read the whole announcement here.
REBOL Technologies website
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1.7.99 Diablo's Land in HI-Res.
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DDE finally found time to count the answers from their inquiry form and to prepare web page with
the results.
Based on the results of the inquiry form DDE have decided to make Diablo's Land GFX card version
in High-resolution (640x480) instead of low (320x256) that they have planed before. However AGA
version will still remain in 320x256 with 256 colors. DDE have start re-rendering the graphics
for High resolution and pictures will soon be posted to web site.
Digital Dreams Entertainment webpage
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1.7.99 Village Tronic moved
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Village Tronic moved from the little town Sarstedt to the big city of Hannover, the city of expo 2000
in the north of Germany. Village Tronic started Amiga buisness here about 15 years ago and now wants
to bring back the old spirit from where it started. New adress.
Village Tronic website
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1.7.99 GoldED Studio 6.1.1
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GoldED Studio users can download the latest service
pack to upgrade from 5 or 6.x.x to the latest version 6.1.1 (download demo version).
New features include tab cycling for all gadgets, improved navigation in listviews and custom rendering routines (increasing scrolling performance
by up to 20%).
GoldED webpage
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