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30.9.98 REBOL(TM) - The Language of the Free(TM)
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REBOL(TM) will be released in the next few hours ...
We are ALL waiting!
REBOL Technologies
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30.9.98 Fusion & PCx together #2
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Blittersoft have announced today that limited offer of the excellent
emulation software package (Fusion and PCx) was extended to the end of October.
You can buy the pack for just 19.95 UKP!
Blittersoft webpage
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30.9.98 IRC sessions to be held from MAE show
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The Amiga User Group Network will be hosting IRC conferences and a live
Web-Cam from the floor of the Midwest Amiga Exposition this weekend.
More about it here.
Amiga Inc. website
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29.9.98 VULCANOLOGY
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VULCANOLOGY is the MiniSeries compilation consist of
10 award winning games which cover, flight simulation, car bashing, speech adventuring, platform romping,
strategic warfare, logical puzzling and seaside simulation from Vulcan history.
It will be limited edition collectors item and will be produced 500 copies for retail only.
Vulcan software
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29.9.98 Vulcan News
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Vulcan's favourite announcement is that development of the game has been ceased
due to "the economic realities of the Amiga´s constantly eroding user base."
Next canceled game is Hard Target, Virtua Cop clone.
Some of the cancelled Amiga games like CaveMan Species, (realtime strategy game), will be released
by Vulcan for PC platform.
Vulcan Software
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29.9.98 Former CU Amiga columnist joins NewTekniques team!
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Dhomas Trenn, a longtime contributor and columnist for the popular
CU Amiga magazine, before it closed down last month,
has joined the NewTekniques team as a regular columnist.
Trenn will write a new column called "Amiga In Motion," which will
appear in the on-line bonus area for readers every issue.
Read more
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28.9.98 GoldED Studio 5 update
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Registered GoldED Studio 5 users can download the latest service
pack here to upgrade from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1.
GoldED webpage
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28.9.98 Napalm release date
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ClickBOOM will release Napalm
the Crimson Crisis, realtime strategy game, at 01 November 1998, according to an email sent from ClickBoom to customers who preordered Napalm.
PPCRulez webpage
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27.9.98 ClickBOOM & PPC
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ClickBOOM is now doing research about how many their potencial customers have got PPC boards.
Maybe the result of this research will change their opinion and we will
see some PPC games created by ClickBOOM in near future :)
So if you got the PPC, get the BOOM# and reply!
ClickBOOM website
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27.9.98 ClickBOOM's BOOM#
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In order to process requests, orders and general data tracking more efficiently,
ClickBOOM will give a BOOM NUMBER (BOOM#) to each of their Amiga players.
BOOM# will be your unique ID number at ClickBOOM, and you will be using this number
every contact with them. Get the BOOM# here.
ClickBOOM website
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27.9.98 SheepShaverPPC
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Mac Hellwig reported, that there is a LinuxPPC port of SheepShaver in the works.
SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS under development by Christian Bauer and Mar"c" Hellwig
and runs both PowerPC native and 68k Mac applications.
With a LinuxPPC version Amiga PowerUP users should finally be able to use a
working PowerMAC emulator. For more information about SheepShaver
look here.
PowerUp mailing list (Joachim Vollmar)
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27.9.98 Interview with Fleecy Moss
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Amiga Flame exclusive interview
with Fleecy Moss,
project manager of Amiga Inc concerning in particular the Amiga
games market and concerns raised by the Amiga community.
Amiga Flame
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27.9.98 Various ISDN Packs
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UK Internet users are most likely aware of the recent launch of
BT's 'HomeHighway',
which is a lower cost ISDN service for the home user.
Amiga users can take advantage of ISDN, despite the fact that BT
claim you 'need a PC to use HomeHighway'. Active Technologies have
created various ISDN packages
that will connect your Amiga quickly and cheaply.
Active Technologies webpage
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26.9.98 The Dark Secrets of CU Amiga
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26.9.98 AmIRC 2.1
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VaporWare is proud to announce the release of AmIRC version 2.1.
Oliver Wagner is
developing AmIRC since 1996 and still adding new features.
AmIRC is one of the best IRC clients on any paltform.
VaporWare webpage
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25.9.98 The Official Word on Confusion over IRC
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25.9.98 Melody 1200 base/pro soundcards available
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Charles Petterson from Midian Studios forwarded announcement regarding Melody A1200 sound cards done by
Kato Development Group to Team Amiga mailing
list. Both cards are available now. Read more about it here.
Team Amiga mailing list (Charles Petterson)
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25.9.98 Amigas used by NASA at Cape Canaveral
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Hal Greenlee, NASA-retired
tell us that there is an elaborate system of Amigas
used by NASA at Cape Canaveral, Hangar AE since 1987. The Amigas should be on the job
at Hangar AE for several more years, even if no new Amigas appear!!!
For more informations look here.
Amiga International, Inc.
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24.9.98
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Andrej bunta, editor of czech amiga diskmag AmigaCS asked Dave Haynie
many interesting questions and gave exclusivity for publicing them
on Czech Amiga News. Thanks Andrej, and Dave of course too :)
Andrej bunta
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24.9.98 Team Amiga preparing series of interesting IRC conferences
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Gary Peake today announced Team Amiga is preparing series of IRC
conferences to be held on Team*Amiga IRC help channel (BeyondIRC.net).
Such conferences will cover many topics in relation to Amiga. Look at the details here
and if you are skilled enough, you can even become speaker of one of them.
PowerUp mailing list (Gary Peake)
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24.9.98 NewsRog1.2 update
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Update of NewsRog, the most powerful Usenet software available for the Amiga from ShadowWorks Software,
to version 1.2 is available and brings many improvements and bugfixes.
Registered users can download it here for free!
NewsRog webpage
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24.9.98 Cerberus
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Blittersoft and Weird Science
have announced that they are to release a new machine, Cerberus.
Cerberus is a totally integrated PC based Multimedia Home Entertainment System with DVD technology.
Cerberus has the ability to run most Amiga and Macintosh software with the built in 'software' Amiga and optional 'software' Macintosh.
Blittersoft webpage
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24.9.98 Problems with aliens? Call Ripley...
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Ripley is the name of new mpeg video player done by Defect Softworks, known
for ArtPRO gfx-converter, currently in its beta stage. You can visit
it's homepage here.
Frank Pagels (Defect Softworks)
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23.9.98 Genetic Species goes 24bit
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Marble-Eyes Development is proud to announce the release of a new Genetic Species AddOn.
24bit screenmodes in Genetic Species! 16777216 colours per pixel!
All the functions which access the display screen was rewrited.
AddOn get here.
Marble Eyes webpage
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23.9.98 Claws of the Devil
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For more information and screenshots of Tomb Raider clone called
Claws of the Devil, published by Titan Computers, looks
here.
Titan Computer webpage
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23.9.98 #AmIRC and #AmigaGames IRC channels
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23.9.98 New linker & libs for StormC
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23.9.98 AmigaWriter1.04 demo
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23.9.98 BVisionPPC to be released late October?
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Friend of Sinan Gurkan (A.T.O Turkish admin) is a dealer of Phase5
and so asked, when the long awaited BVisionPPC gfx card is due to be out.
According to P5 retailer/sales department the card will be released late
October.
Power-Up mailing list (Sinan Gurkan)
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22.9.98 Expect news for MAE show!
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According to Fleecy Moss,
project manager of Amiga Inc., we can expect some nice news to be announced at
Midwest Amiga Exposition in Columbus,
which "... should really make the community smile again." Stay tuned!
Amiga Inc., Fleecy Moss
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22.9.98 Midwest Amiga Exposition
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For the latest information about upcoming Midwest Amiga Exposition (October 2nd, 3rd & 4th in Columbus, Ohio)
look here.
Amiga Web Directory
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21.9.98 MAME 0.34.3
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New version of MAME 0.34.3 for Amiga (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), now based on 0.34 beta 3 ver., released.
There are 030, 040, 060 and PPC versions.
MAME Amiga homepage
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21.9.98 VaporWare online orders
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VaporWare, creator of many well known internet programs for Amiga like Voyager, AmIRC and others,
is now capable of handing ONLY credit cards for online order operations.
All credit card orders are processed through the UK registration site, Active Technologies.
VaporWare webpage
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20.9.98 TIFF datatype
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There is new TIFF datatype called akTIFF.datatype, which is based on the
latest TIFF reference sources (libtiff 3.4beta037), from Andreas R. Kleinert.
Reading of LZW compressed TIFF graphics is disabled because of legal reasons :-(.
There are 68000, 020/030, 040 and 060 versions, plus PPC ELF module.
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX (Andreas Ralph Kleinert)
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20.9.98 The Year 2000 problem and the Amiga
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Although the Amiga does not suffer from the vast number of Year 2000 headaches that plague the PC industry,
it's important to know the effects the year 2000, and beyond, will have on your Amiga. For more informations
and pre-2.1 system installations patch look here.
AmigaInc. webpage
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20.9.98 FinalOffice 1.0
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SoftPartners is a new private company
established to serve the software needs of different computer platforms.
Initial software release will be the FinalOffice 1.0 for the Amiga. This software
package shall contain Final Writer 97, Final Calc, Final Data, Final Writer for Windows, and the Holiday Cliparts.
FinalOffice 2.0 will not be released if FinalOffice 1.0 does not sell in sufficient quantities to justify the expense
of developing for the entire Final Series for the Amiga by SoftPartners.(???)
All "Final" programs were created by SoftWood Inc.
(Their web site is not for unknown reasons temporarily available.)
SoftPartners webpage
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19.9.98 PFS2 discussion group
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There is hypernews discussion group where registered users of PFS2 can discuss about Professional FileSystem2,
questions can be asked and early announcements will be made. This support network is for
members only. For more info look here.
PFS2 webpage
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19.9.98 Fusion PPC
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Fusion PPC is already done and is in beta testing stage now.
Beta testers told that speed of programs on Fusion PPC is almost the same as
on PPC Mac. FINALLY !!!
Amiga Nutta mailing list
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18.9.98 CybergraphX v4 commercial?
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According to Stefan Ossowski (Schatztruhe), the CybergraphX v4 is
going to be released at Collogne show as a commercial software. Work is
still ongoing on this product and so no specs were released yet.
Power-Up mailing list (Sinan Gurkan)
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18.9.98 ClickBOOM forum
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There are three discussion forums provided by ClickBOOM: general, Napalm and Quake.
Forums are meant for users' discussion only, ClickBOOM WILL NOT answer any of the questions.
ClickBOOM website
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17.9.98 Newtek leaves Amiga completly
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The era of Toastar as we know it today, seems to be over. Newtek thinks
of new directions and future seems to be clear for them now - new
Toaster based on HDTV and PC Windows. Let's hope AmigaNG can provide
them better machine for their new Toaster in the future.
Joe Tracy (NewTekniques)
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17.9.98 Descent PPC port
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New version of Descent PPC port by Holger Jakob is available.
Now is more stable and supports sounds (AHI)!.
Holger Jakob's page
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16.9.98 Quake PPC Petition
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If You are interested in *LEGAL* Quake PPC port fill in the form
on AmigaNutta or World Foundry pages. All replies will be forwarded to the co-oridinator
of this petition, Chris of the World Foundry and he will then in turn forward them to clickBOOM.
AmigaNutta
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16.9.98 CU Amiga END
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The final issue of CU Amiga magazine is out now. The END is here with October 1998 issue.
GOOD BYE!
CU Amiga Online
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15.9.98 GoldED Studio v5.0 available
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GoldED Studio 5 has been released for AmigaOS 3.
The CD-ROM includes GoldED 5, the HTML publishing tool Webworld, Roget's English Thesaurus,
the spellchecking module Joyce and various other add-ons.
Now you can download GoldED 4.7.3 version for free. It is meant as demonstration for GoldED Studio 5.
I am using GoldED4 for editing Czech Amiga News web pages. It's great!
GoldED support page
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15.9.98 STRICQ 0.722
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New version of STRICQ 0.722, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface,
is available here.
STRICQ webpage
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15.9.98 Welcome kiddy Amigan :-)
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In the name of Czech Amiga News, we would like to send congratulations to
Fleecy Moss,
Amiga Inc. project manager, he and his wife brought us new
member to our community. Her name is Evie and you can enjoy
her photo on AInc.'s web site.
Team Amiga IRC help channel (Gary Peake)
AmigaInc. website
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15.9.98 Java IRC conference
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The log from IRC Amiga help channel conference concerning JAVA and it's
relation to future of Amiga can be found here.
Anyway, don't expect too much new info regarding new Amiga :-)
Team Amiga mailing list (Gary Peake)
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14.9.98 World's first 4x-rewrite CD-RW drive
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Yamaha introduces the world's first 4X rewrite CD-RW drive CRW4416S (SCSI interface)
and the CRW4416E (EIDE interface) with 4X write, 4X rewrite and 16X read speeds.
Infoseek news
YAMAHA Systems Technology Inc.
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14.9.98 Wasted Dreams Demo
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13.9.98 More prizes from ClickBOOM
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More prizes for those who preorder NAPALM, best realtime strategy game for Amiga:-), added.
You can win 1,000 C$, every future clickBOOM's game for free,
commanding general of human troops in NAPALM will have your name
or robot rebel leader in the game will have your name! Look here!
ClickBOOM website
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13.9.98 FastQuake4 illegal PPC port
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Illegal versions of Quake for PPC are probably responsible for the lack of an official PPC version from Clickboom but
one of them - FastQuake4 is getting really cool. On PowerUp mailinglist Morten Tørrisen reported
11,50fps on 800x600 CVPPC, A4000T 604/200MHz. Boris Bojic reported
31fps on 320x240 CV64/3D, A4000 604/233MHz.
PowerUp mailinglist
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13.9.98 World of Amiga '99 official website
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Following the success of the 1998 World Of Amiga show in London,
WOA'99 is on the way. No dates or venue have been confirmed as yet
but the 1999 show is aimed to be the best WOA ever!
Official
website was moved from CU Amiga and is now hosted by Infinite Frontiers,
publishers of the Amiga fanzine Amiga Energy.
Infinite Frontiers
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12.9.98 Factor5 games
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Factor5, company no longer developing for Amiga, shows their old Amiga hits like Katakis and all Turricans
on their download page for free download. These copies are supplied as ziped ADF files strictly for
archival usage to owners of the original games.
Amiga Web Directory
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10.9.98 RKM's online!
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Finally, some support for Amiga Classic line appeared on the AInc.'s
website. Anyone interested in RKM's (ROM Kernal Manuals) look
here.
Amiga Inc.
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9.9.98 PreludeA1200
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PreludeA1200 will plug into the A1200's realtime clock port
along with a connection terminal in the rear expansion booth.
It has an active microphone input with pre amplifier and power supply for condenser microphones. All the other features are almost
identical to the Prelude.
Release date is November 1998, at the Computer98 fair in Cologne.
Thomas Wenzel webpage
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9.9.98 STRICQ 0.688
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New version of STRICQ 0.688, ICQ clone based upon MUI interface,
is available here.
STRICQ webpage
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9.9.98 Opus Magellan II ("Fernando")
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The development of the new version of Opus Magellan II ("Fernando") is continuing and the product is in final beta testing.
It will be released at the Cologne Amiga show in November.
GPSoftware webpage
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9.9.98 Amiga parallel Zip drive interface
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Blittersoft offers very easy to use ZipPar interface and software solution for connecting
Iomega external parallel Zip drive.
Works with any Amiga and simply plugs into parallel port and game port.
Blittersoft webpages
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8.9.98 Safe Harbor new look
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Safe Harbor Computers's web page Sharbor.com
has a whole new look. Save Harbor is mail-order company focused on digital video
market for Amiga, Windows, Macintosh, and DEC Alpha computers.
Sharbor.com
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7.9.98 Dave Haynie - PCI vs ZorroIII - hw or sw?
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On general ML of ICOA appeared some discussion regarding ZorroIII bus
beeing better than PCI. So, for all interested, you can read a long
email from Dave Haynie explaining the hw, but also sw (OS) issues.
Interesting reading!
Dave Haynie
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6.9.98 COUNTERS
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The counters on our web page are finally up.
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6.9.98 Transcript of Bill McEwen's speach at AmiWest
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I joined Team Amiga IRC help channel today and was suggested (by Gary
Peake) to visit Team Amiga web site, where
transcript of Bill McEwen's
speach from AmiWest can be found. So, enjoy...
Team Amiga website
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5.9.98 More games updated
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5.9.98 TIFF & BMP datatype survey
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If enough people are interested in registering for PPC versions
of TIFF and BMP datatypes, for the same price as akJFIF/PNG, then the datatypes will be programmed.
Read the survey and write to Andreas Kleinert.
Power-Up mailing list
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4.9.98 Pagestream v3.4 available
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3.9.98 Warp-Up official kernel for PPC Amiga?
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After some indications it seems we will hear final decision of AInc.
regarding OS 3.5 very soon. Ed Collins told us on Power-Up mailing list,
AInc. choosed Warp-UP. Is Wolf Dietrich's (Phase5) unsubscribtion from
the ICOA mailing list and Ralp Schidth's unsubcribtion from Power-Up
mailing list just another indication of mentioned decision?
Power-Up mailing list
Ed Collins
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3.9.98 Short description of HP 68K emulator functionality
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If you want to read more of how the emulation of 68K from
Haage & Partner
is working, click here.
comp.sys.amiga.misc
Sam Jordan, Steffen Haeuser
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3.9.98 The final decision regarding OS 3.5 next week?
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According to Steffen Haeuser, the final decision regarding AmigaOS 3.5
will be announced soon, probably next week. AInc. sent some letter to
both - Phase5 and Haage & Partner already. Stay tuned!
comp.sys.amiga.misc
Steffen Haeuser
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3.9.98 The.Newt's first issue
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The.Newt (not the news) is a brand new online Amiga publication devoted to giving
the inquisitive Amiga owner some insight into the news, rather than news alone.
David Stroud - editor, is proud to announce the first issue.
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3.9.98 Pagestream v4.0 announced
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SoftLogik is proud to announce new version of PageStream, best DTP software for Amiga.
PageStream v4.0 is the first major update to PageStream in over 3 years.
The first testing version will be up on the SoftLogik secure ftp site September 4, 1998.
comp.sys.amiga.misc
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2.9.98 PowerUp mailing list
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Ralph Schmidt, software developer for Phase5's PPC boards,
today leave PowerUp mailing list because he hate mails about "other company´s product" (H&P's WarpUp solution for PPC) in mailing list.
PowerUp mailing list
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2.9.98 JForth official web site
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After successfull release of JForth as a freeware on 10th August, 1998,
there is now available JForth web site at
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jforth.
In the 21-days since the JForth release, the primary download site at http://www.softsynth.com/jforth
has had 931 downloads of JForth. New manual in HTML format is beeing prepared.
Team Amiga mailing list
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2.9.98 Two new articles on Amiga Inc. web site
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2.9.98 Relaunch of Scala Multimedia 400 for Amiga
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The full version of Scala MultiMedia MM400 is finally available with a
full manual. The official distributor of MM400 is Software Hut Inc.
comp.sys.amiga.misc
Scala website
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1.9.98 IBM releases first copper chips tomorrow
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New copper technology will enable 33 percent speed improvement for the
same existing PowerPC processors. In addition, IBM also will announce
the availability of the fastest embedded processor on the market, a
400-MHz PowerPC chip.
C/Net News
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1.9.98 Foundation v16b update
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1.9.98 HISTORY
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News from August you can find in Execute History section of Czech Amiga News.
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