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30.9.2k Pianeta Amiga 2000 News
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Come and see MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard with Voodoo3 PCI graphics card working with CyberGraphX in the "Pianeta Amiga 2000"
fair in Empoli at the Power Computing stand. Mediator PCI 1200 is available for you to buy in this stand.
ad
Paolo D´Urso from Darkage and Thomas Steiding from epic interactive
will present the demo of Earth 2140 for the first time at the Pianeta Amiga 2000 which takes place in Empoli, Italy, this weekend.
Earth 2140 is the conversion of one of the most successful realtime strategy games for PC up to this date. The original PC version was released
by Topware. Earth 2140 requires an Amiga with graphics board, an 68040 minimum, and 24 MByte RAM. PPC and more RAM are supported of course.
In two weeks, the 25 MB large demo will be available for download on the epic interactive website.
Darek Smietana, ELBOX Computer
Amiga-news.de website
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30.9.2k Majesty - The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
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Acording to Jay Adan, Cyberlore Marketing Director Linux and Amiga versions of Majesty game will be
published by Titan Computers. The Linux version is being ported by Tribsoft and Amiga version is
being ported by Hyperion. The game should be ready
for the Amiga in 2001.
Majesty features 19 Epic Quests including a random map generator. It has
18 different classes including Rangers, Warriors and Wizards along with 32 different types of enemies.
There 30 different building types to fortify and enhance your kingdom.
Majesty Dragon page
Amiga Flame website
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30.9.2k APC&TCP has just one single distributor: GTI
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Andreas Magerl: "Epic Marketing UK (not Epic Germany!!) hasn't been our English distributor for a long time
and hasn't been supplied by us with anything. Epic UK does also not receive any legal software from our
company by other middlemen. Epic UK should not have one single product of APC&TCP in their stock after
a whole year (products which haven't been payed for anyway), so they can't offer nor sale any of our
products. If this should be the case anyway - well, it should be clear enough what exactly is sold there :("
Andreas Magerl, APC&TCP
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30.9.2k New 3D Engine Reveal Soon
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R&S. Raghoebardaya: "Since it was no longer possible for the organizers of the Bizarre show to arrange
an Amiga for displaying demos, Coyote Flux has decided not to visit this event anymore.
However, some screenshots of the 3D engine will be released during the following week and a public release
of a running preview is on it's way as well."
R&S. Raghoebardaya, Coyote Flux
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30.9.2k fxSCAN SE no more part of ScanQuix 5
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Felix Schwarz: "Some time ago, RBM decided to stop buying serial numbers for fxSCAN SE from us. As a consequence
of this and the fact, that RBM has produced ScanQuix-CDs in great numbers some time ago, the currently delivered
ScanQuix-CDs still contain fxSCAN SE but no serial number, as RBM no more has any license from us for these.
Please don't send us email asking for a serialnumber for fxSCAN SE, as no license for these fxSCAN SE-versions
exists and RBM hasn't paid for them. We therefore ask for your understanding, that we can not give out free
serial-numbers on request. From now on, fxSCAN can only be bought in its full version. Please don't use
serial-numbers from others, as this is illegal."
Innovative website
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29.9.2k Eyetech's Website Partially Unavailable
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Eyetech have discovered that their website and email facilities have been partially unavailable between Friday 22nd September and today,
Friday 29th September. If you have sent them an email during this period you should re-send it to the appropriate email address as below.
Sales Enquiries - sales@eyetech.co.uk
Technical Support - tech@eyetech.co.uk
Other Enquiries - info@eyetech.co.uk
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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29.9.2k Amiga Future: Backing Wanted
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Amiga Future (German Amiga print magazine on games) urgently are looking for backing of their team.
Wanted is someone who will energetic support our layout designer from the first issue, already.
Please contact the editorial office as soon as possible.
Amiga-news.de website
AmigaFuture website
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28.9.2k Active Technologies Surrenders STFax and Genesis to H&P
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Active Technologies and Haage&Partner Computer GmbH have come to a mutual agreement where the publishing rights
to the fax/voice software, STFax Professional, and the copy and publishing rights to the TCP/IP stack, Genesis, are
passed from Active Technologies to H&P.
Read more
Active Technologies website
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28.9.2k Windows Version of AmigaSDK and Next AmigaSDK-Linux Update
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Gary Peake (Amiga Inc.) announced "The first release of the Windows hosted version of the SDK is imminent.
It is now in QA. I suspect early to mid-October. It will come with more of our own work. There will also
be an update offered for the Linux hosted version that will be available free at the same time to keep
both versions in sync." on Open Amiga mailing-list.
Amigart website
AmigaInc. website
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28.9.2k Haage&Partner News
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Due to works on their office building their phone lines broke down. So H&P could only offer limied phone
and no e-mail contact form Thursday to Monday. Now everything is in order again.
During the last days H&P did some changes on their homepage. They added copyright and privacy notes and
also new text links at the end of all pages. They also reworked and updated many pages, e.g. the
FAQ pages.
You will find the current "Sale of the week" on the starting page of
H&P's Online Shop. This week it's Wacom Graphire incl. pen and
mouse, Amiga drivers and ArtEffect SE for DM 229.00.
Haage&Partner website
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28.9.2k AMIGA aktuell International 09/00
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AMIGA aktuell International 09/00 is online (http://www.aakt.de).
In addition to the latest Amiga news, software tests and many more there is a detailed summary of
the current edition of AMIGAs online-magazine »Amiga World« as well as the results of the survey
from AMIGA aktuell International 06/2000. Furthermore as it is in each edition of AMIGA aktuell
International there is a list with the available AmigaNG software.
Carsten Schroeder, AMIGA aktuell
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28.9.2k Problems with Amiga SDK on RedHAT 7.0 ?!
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Seems to be a small problem with the SDK under RedHAT 7? Each time a Linux-window moves in front of Amiga SDK, the sdk screen
gets messed up... More on this available at amigasdk.com.
Boingworld website
amigasdk.com
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28.9.2k New AmigaDE Software Licence now available.
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28.9.2k Motorola announces MPC7410 processor
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Another chip has joined the PowerPC family. Motorola announced the MPC7410, a cousin of its famous 7400 (G4) processor.
It is the first processor Motorola has made with the HiPerMOS 6 (HiP6) 0.18-micron copper fabrication process.
The result: a G4-class chip that's half as big as the original 7400, draws only 6 watts of power, and features
Motorola's AltiVec technology. Currently available at 400, 450, and 500 MHz, a 550 MHz version is expected to be
available soon. Read more
Amigart website
Motorola website
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28.9.2k Amiga Arena News
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The Amiga Arena presents two new special offers for shareware software! Now VisualPrefs and
xadmaster.library are available in the Amiga Arena for much lower prices. XAD is powerful
unarchiving system and VisuelPrefs can help you configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
Support shareware!
Olaf Köbnik, Amiga Arena
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28.9.2k Software News
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Teemu Suikki has ported NetHack 3.3.1 to MorphOS. You can find the
archive here (1.5MB).
NetHack is a single player
dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical
and text interfaces all using the same game engine.
Trogladite Software Sender 1.0
is out now. It allows copying, moving and other file manipulation (using plugins) all with the aid of
a single AppIcon.
MorphOS website
Trogladite Software website
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27.9.2k Nova Design's 'Super Insane ImageFX sale'
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Nova Design, Inc., the award winning leaders in graphics software for the Amiga, is pleased to announce
a special bundle and sale on ImageFX for the holidays! This is a big league sale.
For the first time ever, they're going to lower the price of ImageFX ($299.95) and PowerStation ($99.95, the PPC modules for ImageFX)
bundle to only $199.95 for direct or reseller sales! Read more
Amiga.org website
Nova Design, Inc. website
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27.9.2k MooVID Pro 2 Available
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MooVID Pro 2 is now available at KDH DatenTechnik, and the cost is DM 49,-. It's movie player for
Amiga 68K & PPC (WarpOS und PowerUP) coded 100% in assembler. Support for AVI and MOV files
(Quicktime), INTEL INDEO 3.1 & 3.2, Video Overlay for CV64 3D, Picasso IV and CV/BVPPC.
KDH DatenTechnik website
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27.9.2k All-time Favourite Amiga Demo
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Vote now for your all-time favourite Amiga demo by going to www.amigactive.com
and following the Surveys link. The most popular demos will appear on AACD14 and one lucky voter will receive an
exclusive Amiga Active T-shirt, as modelled by "the World's sexiest Amigan" :)
Neil Bothwick, Amiga Active Magazine
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27.9.2k Linux driver for X-Surf Ethernet
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jens schoenfel: "Geert Uytterhoeven from Belgium has done a patch
for his Ariadne II driver. This patch lets you use the driver on the X-Surf Ethernet board. It has not been
tested yet, therefore we'd like to recieve a short note from everyone who has tried it. You can find the
patch in the support-area of this site! Geert had a knee surgery a short time ago, so he can't work on a
computer during the next few days. We wish you a speedy recovery!"
individual Computers website
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27.9.2k Directory Opus 4 Plus
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27.9.2k Games News
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HellCoder: "I would just like to inform you that a newer and much better version of BruceLee
game is available for the Amiga 68K/AGA. Features: 4 player support with parallel adapter, 12 levels, lots of sound, 8 channel!, normal and crazy
modes! Get it here
HellCoder, HellHound
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27.9.2k WarpGIF News
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Accrding to Warp9 at the moment the author of WarpGIF
includes the support of GIF-anims with OS3.5 (picture.datatype V44). This should be a solution to show GIF-Anims with AWeb.
Warp9 homepage
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26.9.2k AmiBench Is 3 Years Old Today!
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Mark 'tecno' Wilson: "To celebrate the third birthday of AmiBench, we've teamed up with
those nice people at Amiga Active and Amiga Inc. to offer you the chance to win two
super prizes:
* A 6-month subscription to the excellent Amiga Active magazine
* A brand new boxed NTSC A1200
So come on over to www.amibench.com on our special
day and try your luck... you never know, you may win a prize!
We would like to thank
Amiga Active for and Amiga Inc. for providing these fantastic prizes to celebrate our birthday.
Everyone at AmiBench expresses our gratitude to the Amiga community!
Full pressrelease
Mark Wilson, AmiBench
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26.9.2k FUSION PPC As XMas Present ?
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It's almost one year since we paid for Fusion PPC. The main problem with finishing FUSION PPC was "that most
of the folks that promised to pre-order failed to do so. We were unable to hire the extra programmers -
hence the delay in getting it out." explained Joseph Fenton. One of the payers wrote "To sum up I will be
giving it to Xmas then looking for a refund." Joseph answerd only "Thank you for the patience."
Joseph Fenton via FUSION ML
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26.9.2k New Amiga Site for Kids
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Mr.Tao: "Just a few short lines to inform you that our site www.magicalkingdom.co.uk is now on line.
Although it is not directly an Amiga related site, however, most of the graphics and animation as well as some midi and sound files were originally
constructed with an A1200/30/50 Blizzard Amiga. Most of the contents were originally intentionally developed for an Amiga interactive multimedia
CD-Rom for kids. Therefore, I can honestly say that Magical Kingdom is an Amiga site for kids. There will be possible future development for the
new Amiga platform. If you have any suggestions or comments please contact us at
info@magicalkingdom.co.uk."
Tao, Magical Kingdom
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25.9.2k QNX Realtime Platform Ready
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get.qnx.com is the download site for QNX realtime platform (RTP). You can now download
QNX RTP free for non-commecial use. There are a self-installing exe file for Windows (24MB) or a CD-ROM image (91MB).
Or you can also order QNX RTP on CD for $29.95 US.
Don't forget to consult Supported Hardware section
for a full list of platform-compatible hardware.
get.qnx.com
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25.9.2k Few Words from Marko
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Marko Seppänen: "I am still behind the words, which were reply to a question from ExiE of Czech Amiga News.
After that I've received many emails where people ask possibility to get the keyfile for Image Engineer
and full versions of Visual Engineering plugin scripts. There have also been emails, where some of you tell
me things about my mother, that I didn't even know. Gladly there have been many positive toned comments,
too. Thanks for those. Read more
Marko Seppänen
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25.9.2k Amiga Update Newsletter
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25.9.2k AmiBid (Amiga Auctions) Version 2.0 Launched
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AmiBid (Amiga Auctions) Version 2.0 Has been released. Due to problems with the first release and some
missing vital features, AmiBid V2.0 has arrived. New features include, improved layout, improved
Category and Item Information and an on site Forum. Please note that Amibid has moved to different URL
so it is now accessable with any web browser, and Yes it's still FREE.
David Cross, AmiBid
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25.9.2k epic interactive News
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epic interactive is a software house that will support the non-mainstream computer platforms with original and ported games.
New pages are online but not yet completely finished.
The Amiga version of Earth 2140 is in beta testing stages. You will find regular diaries on the development of Earth 2140 on
www.amigafire.com.
epic interactive website
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25.9.2k Advertise free on the Amiga Resource
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25.9.2k H&P Are Cut Off
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H&P: "Unfortunately our phone lines broke down due to work on our building on Thursday last week
and German Telekom was still not able to fix it. For that reason we do not have access to our
e-mails and we can only offer basic phone support. We all hope it will be fixed by Tuesday or
Wednesday."
Haage&Partner website
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25.9.2k Software News
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Another new version of AmiDog's Movie Player 2 - AMP 2 pre5
has been released. This releases adds seeking in MPEG system (audio and video) streams.
Fixed a few sync problems and rewrote parts of the MPEG audio decoder to properly handle syncing. Optimized the MPEG
video decoder a little (3-5%) and changed the way the syncing is performed by the video decoder, this should
hopefully make playback smoother, but the video is allowed to be a little off sync. Some speedups to the buffer
handling. Feedback on the performance compared to other previews is much
appreciated.
AmigAIM V0.9392 BETA- an AIM Client for
the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II. history
The latest version of DocDatatypes is v39.60. The major change from version
39.50 is the new datatype to handle Mac Write files. Also the MS-Word datatype has been updated for better support
of older(less than version 6) documents.
Other supported formats include MSWord(Win, Dos, Mac, OS2), Write,
MSWorks, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, WordPerfect(Unix, Dos, Win, Mac, Amiga), RTF, XyWrite, Psion Quill Doc,
Palm Doc, 1ST Word(plus).
AmiDog's Movie Player homepage
Official AmigAIM page
Amiga DocDatatypes homepage
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24.9.2k GoldED Stusio Discount Tickets Expire Soon
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This week is the last opportunity to upgrade at a reduced price from the free GoldED 5 distribution
(released earlier this summer) to the latest release. To get the discount, please contact GoldED
Support with the discount ticket that was issued to you. Unused discount tickets expire on 30/Sep/2000.
After that date upgrading will no longer be possible.
GoldED Studio homepage
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24.9.2k ARexx.com needs help!
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Arexx.com is a website aiming to be a library for all arexx scripts in the world,
but, due to lack of users who knows it exists, their library is growing very slowly. Soo, you can help them out by
sending your arexx scripts to scripts@arexx.com. If we all doesn't help,
the site could die because of lack of interest, that would be bad.
Boingworld website
Arexx.com page
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24.9.2k Amiga Survivor update
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Unfortunately the delicate machinery which hosts Amiga Survivor was severely damaged in transit when it was on its way
to our layout artist. The result of that is an unavoidable delay while the A4000 that hosts Amiga Survivor is patched
up. We are trying to arrange the layout files to be sent to our experienced graphic designer as soon as possible, and
two issues are ready to go out when the machinery is repaired. They are Issue 9 (scheduled for August 10th) and Issue
10 (October 10th issue). We are also working on a Christmas special at the moment.
Read more
David Connolly, Amiga Survivor
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24.9.2k AmigaSoc Is Back
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After several months worth of unscheduled silence, AmigaSoc is back! In fact, we were never really gone!
The primary reason for our apparant absence was lack of time.
Read more
Andrew Elia, AmigaSoc
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24.9.2k Software News
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VirusExecutor v2.05 (size: 223.114B) - virus killer
that's meant to be easy to use. Automatically analyzes an unknown bootblocks, checks memory, executables and data files,
LHA/LZX/ZIP archives, supports xvs.library, and contains huge patch data base and bootblock database.
Virus Help Denmark website
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23.9.2k New Amiga Games site just launched
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www.amigagames.co.uk is the latest amiga games site to be launched
in the UK. amigagames.co.uk boasts one of the largest selections of Amiga games currently available, it has a
full search facility, All the latest and classic releases. You can also join the mailing list, and you'll be
informed of any new releases.
The "find a game" feature is especially handy for people who have had
problems finding a particular rare game. At amigagames.co.uk we use our extensive supplier database to search
for the game for you, as well as this we have over 500 different floppy disk based games and over 250 Amiga CD
titles allways available from stock.
amigagames.co.uk also will also have regular special offers and Amiga
games news.
Amiga Games.co.uk
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22.9.2k QNX RTP's release date verified
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September 26th, 2000 has been confirmed as the official planned release date for the QNX RealTime Platform. It will
be downloadable free of charge for non-commercial use at get.qnx.com and the
5,000 free CDs should be shipped soon after. Further information can be found in the General Discussion Forum.
QNXstart website
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22.9.2k G-Rex: Another PCI
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DCE has released news about the G-Rex PCI expansion for the Amiga. 3 different models should be available:
G-rex PCI 4000D for all Amiga 4000-Desktop model with CyberstormPPC/Mk III, Daughterboard
G-rex PCI Light for all Amiga 3000(t)/4000(t) with CyberstormPPC/Mk III adapter cards
G-rex PCI 1200 for all Amiga 1200 (in the infinitive -, EZ or Winner Tower) with BlizzardPPC/NG
You can read the complete German press release here
or check this ad for the G-Rex in .pdf format
or converted to a .jpg file.
Amiga-news.de website
CyberGraphX homepage
DCE Computer Service homepage
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22.9.2k Bubble Heroes released
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Bubble Heroes is a puzzle/adventure game in the same style of the popular Puzzle Bobble, but with a lot
more complex structure. The story mode is set in four different worlds, where you have to free the
jailed Nimphs from Gonzul's bunglers.
With addictive gameplay, excellent graphics (AGA and graphics
cards) and professional CD audio soundtrack, Bubble Heroes will keep you entertained for many hours.
The game includes advanced CPU AI, smooth 50fps action and numerous gameplay modes. Take a look
at some screenshots and a more in depth look at the game features
click here.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft website
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22.9.2k Schatztruhe News
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Aminet CD 39, dated October 2000, contains nearly 1 gigabyte
of (uncompressed) software in thousands of archives. Since the release of Aminet 38 over 500 MB new software has
appeared. The current edition includes the full version of the fantastic pinball games Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies
and Pinball Illusions. All three games are playable directly from CD or harddisk.
Aminet Set 10 will be announced soon!
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe website
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22.9.2k Looking for Voices
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BlueBlack Solution, are currently looking for volunteers to offer their voices for inclusion
in their realtime strategy game Operation: Counterstrike. They are very interested in a male
Russian accent, who can speak English, and preferably German, but not essential. Full list
of requirements can be found here.
Daniel Allsopp, BlueBlack Solution
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22.9.2k Amiga Realm News
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AmigaWatchDog has merged with Amiga Realm
to bring a new interactive amiga retailer watchdog service to its users.
AmigaWatchDog is devoted to making sure Amiga users make the right choice when buying products from a retailer.
It aims to expose shoddy companies for what they are and congratulate those companies that excel.
Amiga Realm website
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22.9.2k Asimware discontinues Amiga Support
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Len Carsner: "After recently purchasing MasterISO 2.6, I emailed Asimware with a question concerning
a problem I was having. I received a form letter which stated "Effective September 6th, 2000 all
production, development, and support for Amiga products is discontinued. Sales of MasterISO will
still be available through Software Hut. Our Amiga products will NOT be released to the public
domain. Thank You for eight great years." At the end was a statement promoting their PC software."
Official announcement No, we don't enjoy Asimware's
products for the Windows platform, we got our Amigas. [ExiE]
Len Carsner via ANN
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22.9.2k Games News
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Latest developer release of Freeciv v1.13 available.
Freeciv is a turnbased multiplayer strategy game, released under the GNU General Public License. It is generally
comparable with Civilization II®, published by Microprose®.
Freeciv Site
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21.9.2k Official Announcement From Elbox
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[..] For several weeks now, the Eyetech company has been involved in a propaganda action against our
breakthrough product for Amiga computers: the MEDIATOR PCI. Eyetech publish and disseminate untrue
views on MEDIATOR, the exceptional busboard, and compare this high-end product with their announced
device. Full announcement here
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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21.9.2k Blittersoft sign strategic distribution agreement with Crystal Interactive Software
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Blittersoft and Crystal Interactive Software are please to announce that they have signed a world wide
distribution deal for Amiga game software.
Crystal Interactive Software Sign Strategic Distribution
Deal for Amiga Developments With Blittersoft. The deal gives Blittersoft exclusive distribution of all
Amiga games produced by Crystal Interactive Software. It will also mean joint development on some
future products. Both companies are also seeking game development on the new Amiverse OS.
Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft website
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21.9.2k Interview with Hyperion Entertainment
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Andreas Magerl: "On the Homepage from Amiga Future is an
interview with Thomas Frieden,
Hyperion Entertainment, developers of top PPC Amiga, Linux and MAC games. English speaking users
can translate the page with a translate-tool on the
startpage. The interview is in the AKTION-part from AF page.
Andreas Magerl, Amiga Future
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21.9.2k Spo3 Amiga-only Demoparty
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21.9.2k Finnish Amiga Users Group Announces User Group Meeting
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Finnish Amiga Users Group will host its annual user group meeting on Saturday September 30th
from 14:00 to 17:45 in Espoo, Finland. The event will start with a formal meeting, and an
informal part will follow after 15:30 o'clock.
An Amiga dealer will be present with
various Amiga items for sale. The user group will also demonstrate the Amiga Software
Development Kit on Linux. Other highlights include various Amiga magazines for reading,
demonstration of licensed Amiga mobile phone covers and plenty of good company.
Admission is free of charge and free soft drinks will be available.
Read more
Anu Seilonen, Finnish Amiga Users Group
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21.9.2k AmigaWares Inventory Clearance
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AmigaWares: "It's time to move some inventory to make room for new fall and winter stock. This is the best
time to get some classic AmigaWares with special deals on our Polar Fleece and Polo Zip Sweats with an
extra special offer on our Powered-by-Amiga T-Shirt and Premium Baseball Caps."
Amiga.org website
AmigaWares website
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20.9.2k SimpleBox Internet Devices Powered by Amiga
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Targeting the millions of computerless and offline consumers worldwide who will soon be broadband
enabled, Amiga and MeterNet have teamed to develop and deliver a series of broadband SimpleBox
Internet Devices powered by the next generation Amiga.
Read more
MeterNet Corporation website
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20.9.2k Gamesmania Article
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20.9.2k AWeb-II News
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For a longer time there were no news about AWeb-II, a browser by Yvon Rozijn, distributed by Amitrix Development.
Michael Lange informed us about some reports about a AWeb 3.4 betaversion at the AWeb-mailinglist. But he has no
informations about new features. You can find a new norwegian version of the AWeb-II localization catalogues
and updateted versions of some plugins. Furthermore they have now an extra page for the
AWeb-Mailinglist.
Amiga-news.de website
Amitrix Development website
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20.9.2k The End of ImageEngineer
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I've asked Marko Seppänen, developer of ImageEngineer
(very interesting GFX package for Amiga), why he left Amiga-community and here is
his answer. (Good Bye Marko, we'll miss you! [ExiE])
Marko Seppänen
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20.9.2k Software News
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Bugfixed WarpGIF.datatype v40.3 - the first PPC-WarpOS
GIF.datatype by Achim Stegemann.
AmigaAMP 2.8 BETA-8 is now available!
Thomas Wenzel: "This release was done in a bit of a hurry because my Amiga needs urgent repair / maintenance. It might take
me a week or two until I'm fully able to answer your emails again. Finally there's a new config editor made by Daniel
Westerberg. Thanks a lot, Daniel!"
WarpGIF Datatype homepage
AmigaAMP homepage
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19.9.2k Pianeta Amiga 2000 News
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Darkage Software is pleased to announce its presence at Pianeta Amiga 2000 expo, held on 30th September-1st October in Empoli, Italy.
They'll have available all their products and they'll show the previews of Powerball, Supreme and also other stuff under development.
And, most important, they will present the new staff :-)
Darkage Software website
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19.9.2k VMC´s Technical Library is Online
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Harald Frank: "Since today our hardware dictionnary is online at last, where every in our products technical
interested user or programmer may find everything what is needed to write drivers for Linux, NetBSD or other
operating systems which exist for Amiga.
Should there be a lack of important information or you have some ideas
and suggestions concerning these sites, then please write an email to
support@vmc.de.
If you know a Linux or NetBSD programmer who is capable of
porting drivers to one of these systems or, even better, has already written successfully own drivers, then inform
him kindly about our new dictionnary pages with the request for a port of the missing drivers. We´ll give as much
technical help as is possible to everybody who wants to do this.
I think, with your support we´ll be able to
point all waiting users to new drivers for Linux and NetBSD."
This leads you to the
Technical Library.
Amiga-news.de website
VMC - Network & Communication Solutions website
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19.9.2k Interview with Schming Productions
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Andreas Magerl: "On the Homepage from Amiga Future is an
interview with Matt King,
Schming Productions, developers of Nobby and the TV Nightmare adventure. English
speaking users can translate the page with a translate-tool on the
startpage. The interview is in the AKTION-part from AF page.
Andreas Magerl, Amiga Future
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19.9.2k New TaskiSMS
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A new version of TaskiSMS has been released. In version 2.0 many new functions has been added.
Now, thanks to the new plug-ins the program is able to send SMS to 896 cellular networks in
120 countries all over the world. It can be downloaded from
ftp://taski.com.pl or from AmiNet.
Pawel Filipczak
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19.9.2k Software News
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Fixed and improved WarpGIF.datatype v40.2 - the first PPC-WarpOS
GIF.datatype by Achim Stegemann.
Another new version of AmiDog's Movie Player 2 - AMP 2 pre4
has been released. This releases adds seeking in MPEG system (audio and video) streams.
Seeking using the slider wasn't working in v2pre3, this has been fixed. The AC3 decoder already present in the v2pre3 executable has now
been activated and you should now be able to listen to AC3 streams in DVD clips and separate AC3 clips. A few problems with the demuxer
has been fixed. If you still have an MPEG which AMP doesn't handle, let the author know!
WarpGIF Datatype homepage
AmiDog's Movie Player homepage
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18.9.2k ACE 2000 (Australian) Amiga Computer Expo
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Michael Czajka: "ACE 2000 (Australian) Amiga Computer Expo has just confirmed attendance of Rebol, Power Computing and Empire
Video (Draco based Video editing). Check out the web site www.ace2k.net/ for the much
expanded exhibitor list. More overseas exhibitors are pending. We've got full page ads going into the computer press and
expect to get 5,000-10,000 people through the doors. We expect it to be the worlds biggest Amiga event this year!"
Michael Czajka, ACE 2000
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18.9.2k S-FILE 6: TATTOO TIME
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Sofia: "Last week Trecision approved Nightlong, so we immediately produced gold masters and took them
to our CD duplicators. It's all in their hands now. That means as soon as the CDs are duplicated and
tested they will be packaged and sent to all of you. The manual and trayliners were printed back in
February(!), so Nightlong is ready to go. PPC versiuon is finished and approved, too, so all of you
who preoredered PPC version will get the code at the same time you get the game."
ClickBOOM will reveal the identity of the toughest Amigan next week, but today there is
AVI movie of the toughest Amigan in the world.
S-FILE 6
clickBOOM website
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18.9.2k Flea Market Extravaganza '00
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Mark Stodola: "Our Amiga Club is holding an Amiga Show Flea Market Extravaganza '00 on Saturday,
October 14, 2000 in The Brookside Convention Center, Hurst, Texas." Read the
whole press release here.
Mark Stodola, AmigaMCCC
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18.9.2k Ateo Bus Installation Guide
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18.9.2k Virus Warning
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According to DanDude DalHelper.lha on Aminet, "an interface to Dalnet Services",
is actually a backdoor which gives out, among other things, your irc passwords.
DanDude via ANN
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17.9.2k ParaGlide News
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Blittersoft have this week received news with confirmation of the ParaGlide project.
They have been urged to keep pre-orders open so if you wish to secure your unit on release, be sure to pre-order now!
ParaGlide is a new add on board for the PicassoIV that brings 3Dfx technology to Zorro III equipped Amiga's.
Blittersoft website
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17.9.2k PSXPort News
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After some delay Blittersoft are pleased to announce the availability of PSXPort.
With much improved software (full installation and test) it is a great way to enjoy quality PSX controllers on your Amiga.
Blittersoft website
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17.9.2k New User Group
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Rudi Butler: "A new user group is being started for Amiga users in Hampshire and surrounding area. Meeting place yet
to be decided but is likely to be somewhere within a few miles of Southampton. If you are interested in joining
mail me."
Rudi Butler
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17.9.2k Cinemaware's Future Plans
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That old resurrected games company Cinemaware will have an old Amiga/C64 favorite; "The Three Stooges"
out for Gameboy Color as well as playable over the Internet by October using Shockwave and Java.
Cinemaware's first major internal game production, "Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown", is currently
in development at the company's main headquarters in Redwood City, California.
Read more
There is also an interview with Randy Platt,
lead programmer os Amiga classic "It Came From The Desert" and its sequel "Antheads."
Per-Gunnar Eriksson
Cinemaware website
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17.9.2k AMI Sector One has been updated
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Bernd Gmeineder: "This time we have got permission from the companies Polarware
and Talking Birds to upload their Amiga games on our site. Some of the concerning games like "Oo Topos"
(adventure which was already coded in 1986) and "Der Trainer" (phantastic football manager game which got very good reviews in the press) can already
be downloaded. Of course we have also added other games like "Thromulus", "High Reflection" and many others. Please check our newspage for a detailed
list of new additions. Besides credits for further 200 Amiga games have been added. Also the muic section has been updated with many new soundtracks
of Amiga games in the original format. Coverscans (front and back) for another 30 classic Amiga games complete this update.
Bernd Gmeineder, AMI Sector One
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17.9.2k Keep Your Miggy Protected
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A new update of VirusWarning.guide has been released today,
the code has been clened a lot and also new things has been added.
Safe v14.2 - virus detector.
readme
It's not file checker or cleaner. It only informs about attack and removes virus from memory if possible!
Virus Help Denmark website
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17.9.2k MI News: AppMI - 2nd Update
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AppMI is a collection of toolbar images and animations in the GlowIcons design, witch will maybe found a standard
for the ClassicAmiga system. The secound update of AppMI is now ready to ship. The new archive contents 64 new or
reworked images and 4 new animation.
There is a special toolbar image collection in the GlowIcons design for
the users of Photogenics included. This archive will also be available as soon as possible on the Aminet.
Martin Mason Merz, Mason.Home
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16.9.2k SEAL-O-RAMA! report
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Gary Storm: "We didn`t know whether our first show would be a success or not. As far as we were
concerned if we could get around 150 people coming through the door it would be a great start.
If we didn`t get any more than a hundred it would probably be our first and last show :)
As it was we had nearly 100 Amigans rush the gig in just half an hour after opening..."
Exclusive SEAL-O-RAMA!2000 show report by Gary Storm.
Gary Storm, SEAL
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16.9.2k Clubbed Issue 6 Is Out Now
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South Essex Amiga Link (SEAL) are happy to announce that the latest issue of our quarterly subscription
Amiga magazine, Clubbed, is now available. Issue 6 was available at our SEAL-O-RAMA show on Sunday and
all subscriber copies were posted on Monday the 11th of September. This issue is our biggest ever with
48 A4 pages (up from 40) packed with news, features, reviews and tutorials all written by Amiga users.
Read more
Robert Williams, SEAL
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16.9.2k PLANET is Back
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Joël "Falcon-1-" Ehret:"PLANET, the well-known french Amiga magazine, is back on the web after 4 months of silence,
due to some technical problems. Please visit our updated website. You will be
able to read the summary of the 5th issue. So don't panic after this silence, we're back definitively for YOU."
Joël "Falcon-1-" Ehret, PLANET
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16.9.2k Bubble Heroes Released
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Bubble Heroes a puzzle/ adventure game in the same style as the popular Puzzle Bobble has been released
following the completion of development by Arcadia Developments with publishers Crystal Interactive
Software having it on sale at the SEAL Show in the UK.
Read more
Amiga Flame website
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16.9.2k Interview with Mark Sheeky
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Andreas Magerl: "On the Homepage from Amiga Future is an
interview with Mark Sheeky,
developer of Blade and many other Amiga games (Do you remember Hilt 1&2 [ExiE]). English
speaking users can translate the page with a translate-tool on the
startpage. The interview is in the AKTION-part from AF page.
Andreas Magerl, Amiga Future
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16.9.2k HyperCOM Magic Update with IOBlix Emulation
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With the new HypeCOM update they are making a lot of new functions official at once, hence there
is a big chance for problems to occur which they did not realise up to now. As substitute for
the old SilverSurfer software we are now officially offering a support via the hyperCOM1.device
from version v2.96B1, which has been enhanced or made faster in all parts compared to the old
silversurfer.device.
On of the most important new functions now is an implemented IOBlix software
emulation, which allows some programs and drivers to be used with the extremely compatible HyperCOM
boards, at last. Here are some examples on what already works: ScanQuix5 parallel Scanner-Support,
Camouflage 8x parallel Midi-Interface, RBM AmStrong USV, IOBlix ioblixzip.device for IO-Mega parallel
ZIP-Drives. Within the next days the technical part of the emulation will be enhanced further, so
that surely even more applications and drivers can be used with the HyperCOM boards.
Amiga-news.de website
VMC - Network & Communication Solutions website
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16.9.2k UnInstaller v3
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UnInstaller version 3 is currently in the works, and is coming along very nicely indeed.
It has a brand new 'future-proof' command set, and the ability to convert all your old
scripts to new ones, along with many new and improved features. Just a week or so, and
it'll be ready...
Trogladite Software website
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15.9.2k AROS News
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Aron Digulla: "The native version of AROS boots (you can move the mouse and you will see some windows)
but since there still is no filesystem, you cannot run any programs. We try to get the sources for SFS
to fix this. The author has been positive to open the sources but he wants to clean them first. [..]
Some bugs were introduced into BGUI by porting it to AROS but these were squased. BGUI now compiles on
AROS and AmigaOS. We plan to develop our version of the Workbench with it.
On a sad note, the
AROS project at my company, the Sowatec AG has not started. On
the positive side, it has not been dropped, either. The problem is that we simply cannot find enough
people to staff it. So if you're living in Europe, interested in the Amiga and willing to work with PCs
and Unix, please get in contact with us."
Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci
AROS website
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15.9.2k The Pulse Issue #16
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15.9.2k ArtEffect Workshop reworked
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Due to the development of ArtEffect there were some inconsistencies in the old workshop, but those are settled now.
We also redesigned the complete website. In 12 chapters you experience the amazing functions and effects of
ArtEffect. ArtEffect Workshop
Haage&Partner website
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15.9.2k New Unofficial Amiga Designs
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Jeffrey Ham: "A new website is running at the address
below containing unofficial designs for new amigas, by a product designer called Zenon Olenski."
Jeffrey Ham
Amiga Design Centre
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14.9.2k Predator PCI/AGP, SDRAM, G3/G4 Expansion Board Update
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Eyetech has released news regarding their Predator board, featuring PCI, AGP, SDRAM, and a G3/G4 version.
Read moreDetails are on their website at
Eyetech Group Ltd website
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14.9.2k www.commodorebillboard.com Launched
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The internet's largest collection of Commodore adverts, brochures and TV-commercials has been
launched yesterday.
The intention is to
preserve this valueable material from the early days of Commodore computing, before the
originals get lost. High quality, full screen scans only.
Soren Ladegaard, The Commodore Billboard
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14.9.2k Back to the Roots Amiga News
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Back to the Roots Team: "Today we want to give you a good example, that "Back to the Roots"
is international, that this site is something for everyone on this planet, for every nation. It doesn't matter which language you
speak. Everyone who's interested in Amiga, Amiga emulation or the Demo Szene, can find something for his pleasure there.
Read more
Back to the Roots website
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14.9.2k Earth 2140 News
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Epic interactive announces portation to the Amiga of the successful realtime strategy game "Earth 2140". Epic has got the
license from Topware Interactive AG to port the game from Windows to Mac and Amiga. The Amiga version is currently at an
early beta state and release is estimated for early November.
Since the game runs in 16Bit it requires high level hardware:
at least an Amiga with 68040 processor, graphics board and 16MB of RAM. But recommended is an Amiga PPC with graphics board
and 32MB of RAM. Earth 2140 plays in the year 2140. The earth is controlled by two competing forces, the Eurasian Dynasty (ED)
and the United Civilised States (UCS). Both are at war with each other fighting for the last remaining raw materials on earth...
The Amiga version comes with different localisations, including German.
Amiga-news.de website
Epic Interacticve website
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14.9.2k New version of Mentat
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New Mentat v0.5.2 (english2english dictionary based
on Longman Natural English Dictionary.) is now available. New in this release: search options
(single/group option), localization, 2 language documentation, bug fixes etc.
Adrian "Sauron" Siemieniak, Mentat
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13.9.2k Petro Tyschtschenko Speaks
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Kleng Hodnefjell asked Petro if "Is it true that he quit ?" Here is the answer:
"Sorry but I have no plans to quit. I have only invested 50 % in Power Service, which is a company
I believe in. It is no Computer Company and no competition... Power Service is a Job agency for IT
Specialists. I will continue with my beloved AMIGA. Best regards and thanks for your mail...Petro"
Kleng Hodnefjell
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13.9.2k REBOL the rebel article ...
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13.9.2k muFS Update
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muFS453p.lha is a patch to create a NSD compatible MultiUserFileSystem
from the FastFileSystem provided with AmigaOS 3.5, allowing to use MultiUser with disks bigger than 4 GB. Consequently you
must own a copy of AmigaOS 3.5 to use this patch. Note however that the MultiUserFileSystem generated through this patch will
work on any Amiga with OS 2.04 or higher and also on 68000 systems. This patch again requires AmigaOS 3.5 and
Multiuser 1.8.
readme
Multiuser homepage
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13.9.2k Swap.pD Needs U.K Authors for Forthcoming Project
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Lee Hesselde: "Swap.pD is a small P.D. Library which has been running since late 1998. The collection
has increased in size over the years and the company has built up a large customer database. At the
moment, Swap.pD only distributes P.D. software (shareware etc.) and used software. Swap.pD would like
to expand to develop a licenceware scheme, whereby authors can submit software to Swap.pD with
a suggested price (royalties per sale). If Swap.pD thinks the title will sell they will add a small
handling fee to cover P&P, and disk costs, and they will try their best to sell as many copies
as possible.
Swap.pD is interested to hear from any people who would be interested in joining the
scheme. If possible please email or post a demo disk. See
our website for address details. Please join
the 'swap.pd' mailing list at egroups.com or send emails to
gimmeloads@beer.com. Swap.pD look forward to hearing from you.
Lee Hesselden
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13.9.2k Software News
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Turboprint 7.13beta contains:
improved drivers for Epson Stylus Photo, Photo700, PhotoEX (1440dpi)
improved drivers for HP DeskJet 890 and 895 (works also for DJ 810, 830, 840, 880)
better duplex support for HP DeskJet 970
Napster changed server IP's. You can download an updated Amster.servers
or download the script that generated it.
Perfect Paint v2.2 - proggie for painting, animation and manipulating pictures
from 1bit to 24bits. Requirements 030 + FPU, AmigaOS 3.x, CGX or P96, Render.library, Jpeg.library and XPKmaster.library.
Changes
IrseeSoft website
Amster homepage
PerfectPaint homepage
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12.9.2k Epic Marketing Germany Say GoodBye
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Epic Marketing Germany waves goodbye after 4 years on the Amiga market, our company is set to close on septembre 30.
But this is no reason for despair. From Octobre 1st there will not be one but two new epic companies hitting the market.
epic interacticve entertainment software will primarily focos on the
development and distribution of top notch games for the Apple Macintosh market. The Amiga One and the Atari Milan
computers will be supported once they see the light of day.
epic multimedia will enter the market in Octobre too. You will find
information on their products, which will include games, infotainment and edutainment for various computer systems
(Apple Mac, Windows, Linux, Amiga One, Milan) on our webpage from mid octobre.
For the Classic Amiga epic interactive will develop and distribute the titles "Simon The Sorcerer 2", "Earth 2140" and
Dafel: Bloodline". If they will continue to support this platform in the future is heavily depended on the success of
these titles. "Earth 2140" can now be prebooked for DM 89.95 until Octobre 15th, after that it will cost 99,95.
Read full pressrelease or check EM's special prices of their
Amiga games.
Epic Marketing website
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12.9.2k Interview with Achim Stegemann
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12.9.2k SEAL-O-RAMA! 2000 Pictures
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12.9.2k Petro T. founds new company
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According to this item at Amiga-news.de, Petro Tyschtschenko
of Amiga Deutschland has founded a new company together with one Frank Basta, called Power Service GmbH. Apparently
the company deals in the supply of workforce for software companies.
Reaction of Bill McEwen, CEO Amiga, Inc. to this news: "I would be shocked and personally hurt to find out that Petro
has not been making Amiga his first priority, and that he has been using his Amiga paid trips to India for his own
personal gain. We pay him a wonderful salary, we pay for his Mercedes, his cell phone, and his beautiful offices.
He has never spoken to me about any issues or problems, and if he has truly been using our money and time to promote
his own company I will be extremely disappointed. I hope that Amiga-News is wrong in their findings."
ANN website
Amiga-news.de website
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12.9.2k New Projects
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Oliver 'Lucy' Gantert updated his Projects section
with some more information about the things he is working on. He started on porting to PPC Amiga Bochs,
because he don't believe that PC-Task PPC will ever see the light of day. (He is right [ExiE])
Bochs is GNU licensed x86 emulator, originally written for Linux.
He is also working on The Clue (Der Clau), classic from NEO Software, released as Open Source.
Oliver 'Lucy' Gantert's page
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12.9.2k UAE News
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WinUAE 0.8.14 Release 2 - official port of
- official port of UAE for Win95, Win98, WinNT, and Win2K. Toni Wilen will soon take over WinUAE
development. Changes
A new UAE JIT "bleeding edge" patch is available. You should get it as a patch
against the sanitized Derby County release (3rd alpha). JIT UAE adds just-in-time compilation to the Linux version of UAE, making it a lot faster
than the classic UAE.
It fixes some DGA and DGA2 related problems. It also adds a fallback solution for the JIT compiler's memory access,
essentially obsoleting the whole comptrust* stuff (you can now set them all to "direct" and be done with it ;-). Also, it has what should be more
precise timing code for the cpu_speed=max setting, as well as some minor P6 optimizations. All in all, lots of weird and wonderful new stuff...
WinUAE Home Page
Bernie's at-uni machin
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12.9.2k Another Graphics Artist Wanted
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HellCoder, developer of Virtual Fighter like game for PPC Amigas called Virtual Fight,
is looking for a good graphics artist and 3D objects modeler. If you are interested email him!
HellCoder, HellHound
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12.9.2k Pegase mp2 Encoder
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Marcel Rohles writes: "Didier Levet released four updates of the MPEG-Layer-2-encoders Pegase
between 31.08.2000 and 09.09.2000. In addition to bugfixes and little changes, the audio-model has been improved. Now there is nearly no difference between
original and copy with a 160 kbit coded AIFF.
Unfortunately there were no responses during the last weeks, so he thinks that noone uses Pegas e anymore
or there is no interest in further versions. Especially on pure 68k-Amigas there is in my opinion no alternative to Pegase - MP§-encoding without PPC takes
too much time. Pegase offers compression-times of 2:1 on my Cyberstorm MK I (50 MHz) and a really good quality of the encoded songs, often even better than
free MP3-encoders..."
Amiga-news.de website
Pegase homepage
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12.9.2k The fastest Driver for ISDN-boards Ever!
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Harald Frank wrote: Many did not thought it to be possible, any more. After 1 1/2 years there is a new update
for the ISDN-boards driver software VMC-ISDN for any Amiga ISDN-board. Due to the partly loss of source code,
and some small technical problems we could not release a new version for the ISDN driver over a long period of
time. Some customers even suggested that we would have stopped working on it..., but once again we are able to
offer to you a masterly achievement of Amiga software, which is only to describe using the words better,
faster and turbo.
Please, prove us that did not spend so many month full of work for this costly software for
nothing, and if you know another one owning an Amiga ISDN-board, so tell him of the new driver, cause we depend on
every support from you. It would be a pitty, if would not be able to finace this software any more in default of
interest. So, come on and register for the new beta test, now."
Amiga-news.de website
VMC - Network & Communication Solutions website
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12.9.2k Software News
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Many of the PPC ONLY MorphOS IXEmul programs and tools have been updated. Read the
readme.11-Sep-00 for more information.
SoundFX 4.1 preview can be seen exclusively at the BAUD-Meeting
(16.09.2000) in Bielefeld. Improvments of usabillity; batch processor; even more bugfixes (and even more
thanks to the SoundFX-mailinglist).
MorphOS website
SonicPulse website
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11.9.2k Innovative presents its future plans
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In this press release
Innovative announces fxSCAN V3.0 with OCR-engine, writes about the future of its AMIGA-products and the plans of the enterprise for the future with a new technology (InNT)!
Innovative website
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11.9.2k SCSI card for the AteoBus
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The SCSI card for the AteoBus is now available... Price is 450FF. The card own an external SCSI port (SUB-D25)
and an internal SCSI port (50pts). Good to plug a CD-Rom burner, a ZIP drive, or a scanner....
Ateo Concepts website
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11.9.2k Virtual Fight
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Work is being done on a Virtual Fighter like game for PPC Amigas with CyberGraphX GFX board.
The game is written in 100% PPC assembly and should be very fast! Check this
page for more info and first
screenshots.
HellCoder, HellHound
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10.9.2k Amiga Fire is back
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10.9.2k CGFX Virge/DX PCI driver
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The CGX V3 driver now supports PCI cards based on the ViRGE/DX 82C375 chip. You can view the complete list of tested boards
on the updated Mediator page.
Harald Kanning
CyberGraphX homepage
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10.9.2k CTCPman - patch to avoid CTCP commands
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CTCPman is a software that filters all the CTCP
VERSION commands received by your IRC client so that it doesn't reply to them. It's freeware!
Download
Enrico Altavilla, Low Level Production
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10.9.2k Software News
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Second preview of AmiDog's Movie Player 2 - AMP 2 pre2 has been released.
Preview 2 adds AHI support as well as triple buffering (currently only for CGFX).
Andreas Falkenhahn: "After a long time of hard work, I am finally proud to present you the new generation of Rainboot -
Rainboot3. It's more than just a major update; so much things
have been reworked and there are many new features including cool Multimedia ones, so that the new Rainboot3 slogan is "Multimedia
Has Got A Name". Just have a look at the demos to see what you can do now with Rainboot. Multiple anims, cycles, modules, user
controls, screen wipes etc. is no more a problem for your favourite multimedia viewer!"
Readme
AmiDog's Movie Player homepage
Airsoft Softwair homepage
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9.9.2k Help The Amiga RC5 Team
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This week the Dutch Power Cows and Team Warped (OS/2) overtook Amiga RC5 Team effort in RC5-64 contests (currently ranked #8).
Many of you have now purchased PCs besides your Amigas. What about try how fast your PCs are by running a client...
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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9.9.2k Coyote Interview with Bill McEwen Transscript
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9.9.2k Epic News
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After a long time, there's some news from Epic:
Virtual Ball Fighters, the action game for the Amiga is finally available. VBF requires an Amiga with AGA or graphics card,
a 030 CPU and 8 MByte RAM. PPC and soundcards are supported.
The successor to MooVID Pro is coming soon: MooVID Pro 2 will be shipped from September 18th on. Beside many optimizations,
MooVID now supports the PPC (WarpUP and Power Up). Owners of the previous version get a cheaper update from Epic.
Amiga-news.de website
Epic Marketing website
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9.9.2k Mr. Hardware News
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Russ Norrby: "Mr. Hardware Computers is happy to announce our new web site www.mrhardwarecomputers.com.
Soon we will have online ordering so you can order 24/7." On their site you can find SBase4Pro - relational database for the Amiga, MRKH-1 - keyboard
adapter to use any windows 95/98 keyboard with any Amiga or wireless keyboard/mouse combos...
Russ Norrby via ANN
Mr. Hardware Computers website
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9.9.2k HomeLand Demoversion
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9.9.2k Remembering Amiga's Glory Days
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8.9.2k SEAL-O-RAMA! 2000 Update
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Gary Storm: "Blittersoft have confirmed that they will be making the first public demo of the Mediator
PCI board in action, with a Virge 3D graphics card.
Eyetech have also confirmed that they will be
showing a d'Amiga devbox, running the new SDK under Linux. They`ll also be donating a copy of STFax 4,
an EZLink, PortJnr, and a 20% discount voucher off an EZTower as prizes.
Just a couple of days to go :-)"
Gary Storm, SEAL
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8.9.2k LinuxPPC 2000 - Installer Now Available
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The LinuxAPUS team is proud to announce the release of a LinuxPPC 2000 installer for APUS!
Go to their site and select the installers
option from the title bar to get to the LinuxPPC installer ramdisks. This, coupled with
the latest 000815 kernel image gives Amiga PPC owners an alternative OS option that runs
happily on their hardware :-)
Alan Buxey
LinuxAPUS development list
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8.9.2k Software News
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New beta release of ATC (AmiTradeCenter) is ready for download.
changes. ATC is powerful FREEWARE! FTP-client with ADT support.
Application Library SDK for PageStream (Amiga/MAC/PC) available.
The includes, prototypes, utilities, and what little documentation exists for the Application Library is there.
ATC homepage
Grasshopper LLC website
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7.9.2k REBOL/View pre-beta 5 for Amiga released
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Latest experimental release of pre-beta version of REBOL/View was released. Many new changes since last Amiga release,
especially to VID (Visual Interface Dialect), networking internals, and more. New start panel was added too. You can
download REBOL/View from here.
REBOL Technologies website
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7.9.2k Coyote Flux Interviews Bill McEwen
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An interview with Bill McEwen has been added
to the temporary website of Coyote Flux. They would like to hear
some especially technical reactions from the Amiga-users, please note that their mail-address has changed to
coyoteflux@chello.nl.
Also available on the website is a new example for PPC680x0: The freeware program "The Guru" has been ported
in less than 30 minutes using PPC680x0, and the entire process of porting has been added to the archive.
Sharwin & Rakesh, Coyote Flux
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7.9.2k First Wildfire, Now Taifun
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Get ready for the new high-end in video and animation special effects. WK Artworks, creators of the much-acclaimed
Wildfire effects software, is developing the new state of the art--Taifun--only for the Amiverse.
Read more
What are "all Amigable Computers" ? :-) [ExiE]
AmigaInc. website
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7.9.2k Haage&Partner Hiring
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Further co-workers wanted. For proof-reading of our website texts, press releases and manuals we are looking for
an additional English native speaker. A good knowledge of English grammer etc. is essential.
Read more.
H&P increases personnel. In October of the past year, they already hired a new programmer, namely Markus
Poellmann. He mainly cares for StormC, and also works on AmigaWriter. At the beginning of 2000, a new co-worker
was found, Ute Gottschalk, who takes care of accounting and datatyping. Stefan Robel has just finished a
practical period for his computer studies, in which he created a new and portable version of StormRexx. At the
beginning of September, Alexander Bramm and Simon Neumann brought two new co-workers. Their main concern is
support, and managing of new projects.
Haage&Partner website
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7.9.2k Mediator Poll
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Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci: "Elbox will release the Mediator PCI board with some drivers. Others will
be available from third party developpers. Obviously every card won't have drivers but only the most
widely used cards. So I think it will be interesting to know which Gfx, Sound, Ethernet or Video card
you plan to use on your Mediator PCI board."
Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci, Mediator Poll
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7.9.2k Graphics Artists Found
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7.9.2k New Unofficial AmigaSDK site
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6.9.2k Interested in a Port of Postal?
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Chris Kelley: "We are investigating the possibility of porting the PC and Mac cult sensation, Postal, to the Amiga and
Linux platforms. We are in talks with the Running With Scissors
team, the owners/developers of Postal. Nothing is set in stone at the moment, but we want to gauge interest in a
possible port. Feel free to check out their website at www.gopostal.com.
If you think this port is a good idea,send an email to vdesire@rspinc.com
and tell him why Postal should get ported.
Chris Kelley
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6.9.2k SView C++ Image Loaders
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Andreas Kleinert: "The SView Class Library was successfully ported to Linux x86 (GCC). It formerly
was based on Watcom/C++ 11 for Win32 (Win9x, WinNT, Win2000) but now can be built from the same
source tree for every Linux platform as well.
This would allow for backports to ADE 68k, PPC or
MorphOS as well as ports for Linux 68k or AInc's VP platform.
In the future, binary and even
source code licenses may be granted, so feel free to ask early.
Andreas R. Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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6.9.2k Kindergarden scene party in Norway
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Concrete/Contraz: "It's happening again! Friday September 29th to Sunday October 1st, we will arrange
Kindergarden again, here in Norway. This scene party will have an 18-year age limit, to prevent
"unwanted elements" (read: gamers and porn-swappers)."
Concrete/Contraz
Kindergarden 2000-1 website
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6.9.2k Trogladite Software require developers
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Neil Bullock: "Trogladite Software are currently looking for more developers. We are not funded in any way,
and you will be generally working for free communicating with the other members over the internet. We need
people who have a fair amount of free time as we will be coming up with various new projects to create
very soon. If you're interested, email neil@trogsoft.org.
C or C++ skills preferred."
Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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6.9.2k Future of Explorer2260 & Main and Mangle.
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The World Foundry LLC is no longer responsible for the production of the games Explorer2260
and Main and Mangle. Details on development time line and team will be given in a public
statement to be released shortly.
The World Foundry website
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5.9.2k SEAL-O-RAMA! 2000
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Gary Storm: "Make sure you get to the deals, demonstrations and prizes at the last British Amiga
show of the year! Every exhibitor will be donating prizes, which means you all have a great
chance to win!" Read more
Gary Storm, SEAL
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5.9.2k TLAS Is Overstocked
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TLAS have just reduced prices on hundreds of Amiga Software titles. They are OVERSTOCKED and much of this
inventory MUST go this year. They will continue dropping prices on many of these titles untill they move
it out. Be sure to look in all categories since nearly every title is reduced.
Amiga.org website
Turtle Lightning Amiga Software website
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5.9.2k Voodoo5 5500 PCI vs AGP
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"[..] The Voodoo5 5500 PCI is the perfect video card for users with a motherboard without an AGP slot. [..]
The frame rate between the Voodoo5 5500 AGP and Voodoo5 5500 PCI never differs by more than 4fps...
Read the whole story
Budda via ANN
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5.9.2k Software News
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First preview of AmiDog's Movie Player - AMP 2 has been released.
This preview will most likely contain lots of bugs so use with care. To play a VCD you must give vcd as the filename.
Updated, optimized, and bugfixed version of ac3dec v0.7
(Amiga PPC - PUP) - Dolby Digital decoder is available. There are also Frogger (Amiga PPC - PUP) v1.61 beta 3,
Frogger (Amiga PPC - WOS) v1.61 beta 2 and Frogger GUI v 1.6 (Argue) ready for
download.
Just short Imagine Constant Upgrade Program (ACUP) status update: PPC version of the SARE (Stand Alone Render Engine)
updated, Effects also work. Procedural textures not fully functional. Issued to beta testers.
DOpus 4.15 - improved version
of great filemanager from GP Software.
readme
AmiDog's Movie Player homepage
Frogger homepage
CAD-Technologies website
Directory Opus 4 Support pages
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4.9.2k STOP MEDIATOR PCI Rumours
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Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX: "The breakthrough product developed by us: the MEDIATOR PCI, has caused many
changes in the Amiga world. Changes for better, one has to admit.
People who cannot approach this
excellent product with honour and respect due to its design, spread rumours, which give false
information to Amiga users.
In order to make this situation clear and show our respect to all those
dedicated users of Amiga computers, we feel obliged to
clarify the information.
Elbox also published detailed photos of Mediator 1200 PCI board
running S3 Virge or Voodoo3 gfx boards and Ethernet cards.
ELBOX Computer
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4.9.2k SEAL-O-RAMA! 2000 News
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From Forematt Home Computing: FORE-MATT Home Computing will be selling the latest blockbuster games
to hit the Amiga market including Hell Squad from Digital Dreams Entertainment and Heretic 2 from
Hyperion as well as the full range from clickBOOM. On the serious side we will have the excellent
new EASys! System Enhancer as well as PhotoCD Manager, VHI Studio, FXPaint 1.5 and a selection of
titles from the Darkage studio, so visit early as stocks are limited! Of course we will also have
samples of our vast range of software on offer at unbeatable prices!
Gary Storm, SEAL
Forematt Home Computing website
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4.9.2k StormC 4 Announcement
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The new version of the well-known development system will be a quantum leap: Network capabilities, distributed Make, CVS,
modified GCC compiler with Amiga Hund format, global full text search, extended editor, debuging of tasks and shared
libraries and the new StormDOC. The price of StormC 4 will be around 500,- DM. Customers of older versions of StormC
can get an update for the price of only 198,- DM. However, the finished product will first be available in October 2000.
Read more
Haage&Partner website
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4.9.2k AmiBid - Amiga auctions Launched
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AmiBid is an Amiga only online Amiga auction site,
with almost all the features of eBay and others. What's more it's totaly
FREE to buy and sell items, so come on register and start buying and selling today.
David Cross, AmiBid
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4.9.2k CGX News Update
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UPDATE to the last CGX (VooDoo) news below. There is no VooDoo9, except maybe in the minds of the 3dfx chip guys. :)
A quick trip to 3dfx site will show that. There has been zero work on VooDoo5
drivers. As you can see the VooDoo5 is a "full length" dual
GFX CPU PCI card with 64MB of memory. VooDoo 3 drivers are being worked on currently with no set release date.
VooDoo1 module is dead in the water at this point.
CyberGraphX homepage
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4.9.2k Amiga.to service cancelled
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Tobias Ander: "Due to lack off intresst in amiga.to and lack of money we've decieded to not renew the Domain Fee.
That mean in short words, that we doesn't support amiga.to anymore."
Amiga.tm
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4.9.2k AmiPak - A New Standard Archive Format For The AmigaOE ?
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Wayne Martin and Patrick Roberts are working on an AmigaVP compressed archive file format called AmiPak
(files are .amp). This format has many features over any existing compression format available (higher
compression ratio, fast speed, reliability). For more detailed info read following
announcement.
Amiga.org website
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4.9.2k Interview with DRAKE developer
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4.9.2k New Look AmiPal Website
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Paul Laycock: "Welcome to the new, improved AmiPal!
The new site has gone up later than I orginally intended, but it's here now, and here to stay. Now that
the site is operational, I can devote more of my time to writing articles and putting in news items, some
of which have been lacking of late. You may notice that some pages are still under construction, while
others are missing entirely. I'm still in the process of converting some of the old site into the new style,
so, as and when the pages are completed, I'll announce it on the news page. Other news is that AmiPal should
be moving to a dedicated server soon, with a proper domain name, so get ready to change those bookmarks!"
Amipal website
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4.9.2k Software News
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YaQuZa is another Sony Playstation emulator for PowerPC based Amigas.
Right now there is only PowerUP running version, final release should be available for WOS, MorphOS and PowerUP.
Following text should give you idea about current status of this
project incl first screenshots.
DarcNES/Amiga 9a0901 (000904) - Multi Consol emulator.
The Amiga version is up to date again. This version has PCE CD support which requires a PCE syscard ROM image
to work. Also remember to tell DarcNES/Amiga which device and unit to use for the PCE CD emulation.
CheckX v1.79 - virus killer using
xfdmaster.library, xadmaster.library and xvs.library for dearchiving, unpacking and virus scanning.
readme
YaQuZa homepage
AmiDog's Emulation Corner website
Virus Help Denmark website
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3.9.2k Merlancia Industries Announces PS/2 Mouse Adapter
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Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the Mr. Mysza PS/2 Mouse adapter.
Finally! After all this time, all Amigans can now share in the world of PS/2 devices made for IBM/PC
compatible systems! The Mr. Mysza supports up to four buttons and the scroll mouse (utility drivers
included) for additional ease of use. The Mr. Mysza will be available in about 7 to 14 days for ~25 DM.
Read more
Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, Merlancia Industries
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3.9.2k MorphOS akDatatypes
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3.9.2k AmigaImpact.com Back Online
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After several weeks of trouble, AmigaImpact.com, the website
only devoted to the French-speaking Amiga community is finally back online with a new design !
AmigaImpact.com provides a daily updated news-service, and a lot of usefull features like classified
ads, forums, mailing-lists, ... Keep an eye on it, as some new services will be launched very soon !
Stéphane "SteaG" Campan, AmigaImpact.com
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3.9.2k Amiga Arena News
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Sharks (ECS) Full Version!
The Amiga Arena presents full ECS version of Sharks (v1.3) game!
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
Special Offer for Sharks AGA and CD 32 version online!
Amiga Arena Interview Action!
New Interviews with Stefan Blixth, OnyxBase (english)
and Thorsten Passow, developer of StartAmPlan
spreadsheet (german).
Amiga Arena website
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3.9.2k CGX News
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VooDoo note from CGX main author: The current VooDoo5 drivers for CyberGraphX4 are frozen and most likely
the VooDoo5 drivers will not be worked on again. Work has begun on the VooDoo9 (???) drivers using the
new VooDoo prototype cards. VooDoo3 drivers are still in the works. VooDoo1 support for
Rave3D is still up in the air awaiting the VooDoo1 module
from VT.
(Stop development of Voodoo5 drivers is very bad idea IMHO [ExiE])
CyberGraphX homepage
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3.9.2k 2nd Alpha of JIT UAE
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3rd alpha so called Derby County version
of UAE-JIT is available. JIT UAE adds just-in-time compilation to the Linux version of UAE,
making it a lot faster than the classic UAE. This time it's patch against UAE v0.8.15.
Bernie's at-uni machin
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3.9.2k Software News
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From today we will inform you about every new or updated antivirus program to help keep your Miggy protected against viruses!
VirusExecutor v2.04 beta - virus killer
that's meant to be easy to use. Automatically analyzes an unknown bootblocks, checks memory, executables and data files,
LHA/LZX/ZIP archives, supports xvs.library, and contains huge patch data base and bootblock database.
readme
There will be no further development of a PPC version of the stormamiga.lib. There has been only little or no interest in
stormamiga.lib for AmigaOS/PPC and StormC. Thus, author decided not to support this version any more. If you have
questions or comments regarding stormamiga.lib contact
Matthias_Henze@CyberdyneSystems.de.
Simone Tellini: "It seems I broke CM_StartManager() afte all. This is why CM couldn't be started from IBrowse anymore.
Anyway, I've fixed it (honest) - you just need to download CManagerLib.lha
I'll take this chance to stress one thing: MUI applications which use CM should really use CManager.mcc instead of
CManager.library: this allows for a nicer integration of CM into the application, less hassle and happier users."
DiskMaster v2.5b7 - freeware directory utility by Rudolph
Riedel. English documentation in Amiga-Guide.
(german one)
Virus Help Denmark website
CyberdyneSystems website
Simone 'wiz' Tellini in his .plan, V3 portal
DiskMaster2 homepage
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2.9.2k More Predator PCI/AGP News
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Eyetech now has a page with info on the Predator. PCI/AGP. Predator will come in separate versions for the A1200
and A4000 desktop (an A4000 tower version will be produced later if there is sufficient demand). Each will come
equipped with 3xPCI slots and 1xAGP (graphics card) slot (with an additional regular A4000 video slot in the
A4000 version). In addition there will be a single SDRAM (PC100 DIMM) socket for up to 256MB. As the bus is
fully PCI 2.1 compliant, including bus mastering and DMA facilities, this SDRAM can be used directly by either
or both of the PPC CPU and the AGP graphics card. Read more
Eyetech Group website
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2.9.2k CGX News
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The free S3 ViRGE 86C325 CGX V3 driver that will come with the Mediator
is a reference driver and should work with just about any S3 86C325 PCI card. The CGX team is keeping a complete
list of cards that work with the driver. The expanded CGX V4 package will
have a custom named driver for each card that works with CGX. Of course we can not test every 86C325 card out
there so we are offering a custom named V3 driver for free if you can give us the information and maybe a nice
picture of a 86C325 card working with the reference driver that is not on the supported
list already.
Worlds first snap shot of Workbench running on a PCI card,
in the Mediator. Have a look here.
CyberGraphX homepage
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2.9.2k New Crystal Interactive website
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2.9.2k Trogladite Software Website with New Layout
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2.9.2k hittp.com
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Alexandros Pourikas: "I am writing to announce the beginning of our brand new site hittp.com.
It is an interesting site which deals with news, informations, advertisments and e-letters about all platforms. It is
worth of saying that it includes the amiga.gr site which is transfered in hittp.com and all of its material is there now in
html form. I also wanted to point out to the fact that hittp.com is now hosted in a really very fast server which gives the
opportunity to users to access a lot easier."
Alexandros Pourikas, hittp.com
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1.9.2k REBOL/View beta5 pre-release rulez!
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Although not yet for AmigaOS, REBOL/View beta5 pre-release is out. It got some very interesting changes,
especially to VID (Visual Interface Dialect), which is now more advanced. Would like to see new design?
Then look here. REBOL/View beta5 should
be the last beta before official release. REBOL/Express e-commerce solution is based upon beta5. I dare
to say REBOL/View is the most advanced visual scripting language ever created. And what's more - it's
just a dialect, so roll your own one if you want to ;-) REBOL deserves its acceptance in computing
world, so if you care - spread the word - tell your friends. Scripting visual interfaces was never
easier! (New VID docs should appear on developers site
soon ...)
REBOL Technologies website
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1.9.2k AmiBench: We're back!
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Yes. After a month of problems the AmiBench.org domain is now back
in action meaning it should be usable now. However, it could take upto 72 hours for it to filter through
worldwide DNS servers.
We are very sorry for the confusion that the domain name issue has caused.
While we have you're attention, don't forget that AmiBench 2 is due very soon, so keep an eye out for
more exciting details coming your way. Thank you all for your continued support!
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, AmiBench
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1.9.2k OpusMI - Final Update released
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The final Update for OpusMI is now available on Aminet and Mason.Home
for download. OpusMI is a icon collection for DirectoryOpus 5.82 in the GlowIcons design with now 450 icons and several other specials
like default icons for DOpus. The Author would like to thank everybody who supported the project.
Martin Mason Merz, Mason.Home
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1.9.2k Nordic Global: Problems Solved
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Holger Kruse: "The technical problems described here (damaged hardware)
have been mostly solved now, and I have started responding to the accumulated email. Things are going to get back to normal now.
Nordic Global website
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1.9.2k Famous Amiga Uses Updated
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Famous Amiga Uses (big document, that contains
information about famous Amiga uses around the world) by Pär Boberg has been updated again!
Pär Boberg, Bobbens homepage
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1.9.2k Digital Dreams Entertainment News
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1.9.2k Amiga is looking for Adresses of CVS-/FTP Uploads
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Amiga is organising their own CVS and FTP server available for uploading AmigaNG software. Gary Peake,
Director of Support at Amiga Inc., is now asking to give a postal address with uploaded software to
him, when ever possible. The following information is needed:
Name:
Dev ID:
Postal Address:
Apps Ported or written:
To show appreciation Gary Peake is keeping ready a little surprise.
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Support Network
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