30.9.99 GoldED Studio 6.2.1
GoldED Studio users can download the latest service pack to upgrade from 5 or 6.x.x to the latest version 6.2.1 (download demo version).
Major new feature is an improved syntax parsing interface supporting generic configurable syntax parsers (screenshot) and "rules" to use filetypes based on the contents of a file.

GoldED webpage
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30.9.99 Is Amiga really dead?
Read short letter from J. R. Wilson, president of ARCUG, Indianapolis, and think about yourself. If Amiga is not about hardware nor software (like Mr.Schmidt explained to us in his last open letter to the community) it's all about us :-) And if we are not dead, nor AMIGA IS!

J. R. Wilson
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30.9.99 Eyelight News
Now you can get Tornado3D v2.1 with FREE upgrade to v3.0 and an extra 10% saving when buying direct! (EXTENDED to October, 21th!)
Gamedemo for CGX3Drave, (c)1999 Eyelight is a rather old "game-like" demo for CGX3Drave that showed off the basics of Gamma, the 3D games construction kit from Eyelight. It requires a CVPPC since the software engine they developed for CGX3D rave is not available to the public. You can get it here.
Unfortunately Gamma has been canceled for the Amiga, due to the many shakes the market suffered. If there is enough interest and at least 500 Amigans pre-order Gamma for as low as 50.00 EURO/ US Dollars, we'll still produce it both in 68K and PPC versions.

Eyelight website
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30.9.99 Amiga Version Watch 'll be back
Martin Baute: "Some weeks ago, I put the Version Watch on hold. Amiga future seemed bleak at the time (and still does), and I was not willing to invest yet more of my spare time into this project." Things changed and now it will be even the school project of "special team" :-) Read more (german).

Amiga Version Watch
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30.9.99 Insight into the new Workbench
Amiga's 17 recently released patents contained some very interesting info on interfaces for "convergence systems", among other things. This article discusses lenticular-like interfaces briefly AND in standard English.

Amiga.org website
AmigaNationNews website
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30.9.99 Games News
The second Shogo progress report by Thomas Frieden is online. "On the 16th of September a PC client was able to connect to a networked game hosted on an Amiga for the first time."
Hyperion Software and Wankeroo have reached an agreement, that Wankeroo's Heretic II addon The Heretic Fortress will be ported to Hyperion's upcoming Amiga-port of Heretic II. Every owner of the full version of Hyperion's Heretic II port will be able to play "The Heretic Fortress". Networking with the PC version is supported. "The Heretic Fortress" will be available for free download to owners of the Amiga version of Heretic II.

Hyperion website
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29.9.99 PowerOS
Titan Computer just pre-announcement PowerOS. There is now just good looking logo :-) Stay tuned.

Titan Computer webpage
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29.9.99 UnInstaller Mailing List
Since UnInstaller was released a couple of weeks ago, it's had just over 800 downloads, and as such, Trogsoft has decided to see just how much you use/like the product by setting up a mailing list which will announce updates, and allow you to discuss the program. Since the author will be on the list, you can also suggest improvements and report bugs, etc. Join either by sending a blank email to uninstaller-subscribe@egroups.com or going to www.egroups.com/group/uninstaller.

Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
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29.9.99 The Best of Airsoft Softwair CD-ROM
At the Home Electronics World `99 in Cologne the 'The Best of Airsoft Softwair' CD-ROM will be released. This CD-ROM is a collection of nearly all programs, which have ever been released by the usergroup Airsoft Softwair. All Shareware releases by Airsoft Softwair are as full versions on the CD-ROM of course. Many of the programs have been reworked and are available in brand new versions on the CD-ROM now. Read more (german/english).

Fun Time World website
APC&TCP website
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29.9.99 Mitchy wants to know: Which OS for the Future?
Ahhh, the operating system (or environment). Here's a chance to let people know your choice for the OS best suited to the Amiga of the future. One that will evolve and with some appeal to other non-Amiga users looking to un-Microsoft-ize themselves. Just remember, these polls are not official, and are just meant as an indicator of what the Amiga market wants.
There is NO contact to maker of this site. Any idea ?

Amiga.org website
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29.9.99 PPC680x0 Development
It has been about a week ago since the test sessions of PPC680x0 have started. There was a little problem with the '(f)scc' command which has been fixed now. Also, detecting and calling 68K library functions from the PPC side has been tested and works correctly. We are planning to show how to convert 68K executables to PPC executables (by reassembling the executable and convert it) at the Computer 99 show and will show them running on WarpUp after conversion. Currently, we have started development of DevPac- and PowerAsm- compatible macro support for PPC680x0. We hope to have AltiVec support as well before the end of this year. The new Aminet promo will be released this week.

S. Raghoebardayal, Coyote Flux
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28.9.99 Explorer 2260 for Linux ?
There is a new opinion poll on TWF news page. Is a Linux port of Explorer 2260 a good idea?
There is also new support page, where you can get new free CD player.

Ed Collins, The World Foundry Ltd
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28.9.99 Games News
Darkage Software decided to quit the development of Alive shoot'em up due small interest of players. Two other games Tales from Heaven (out very soon!) and Land of Genesis are still under development!
They also got a new graphician Federico Rutenberg and new mailing list.

The Apex Designs' mailing list has been set up to let you know when the site is updated, when the Payback demo is released, when the final game is available...

Freeciv is a multiplayer game. Now there is Amiga native port (v1.0) based on Freeciv 1.8.3beta. Ixemul.library or a XServer are needed anymore.

Paolo D'Urso, Darkage Software
James Daniels, Apex Designs
Sebastian Bauer's Homepage
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28.9.99 Questar Productions = 3D Nature
Questar Productions, developers of great photorealistic terrain modeling, visualization, rendering and animation software World Construction Set, got new name: 3D Nature.
WCS 4.5 for the Amiga should be under development.

Amiga Network News website
3D Nature website
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28.9.99 STFax 4.0 available
STFax 4 was written with the intention of creating a centralised communications tool for the consumer and SOHO market. The main intention of STFax 4 is to offer advanced features, yet retain ease of use, supporting a number of different communication mediums, such as fax, voice, data, and later email and GSM/SMS. More Details

Haage&partner website
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27.9.99 Amiga On The Net
BYTE.com - W(h)ither The Amiga?

Jim Gunnell
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27.9.99 Petro talks
Petro Tyschtschenko has answered a few questions by Gary Storm. There is also short personal opinion of Gary Storm regarding possible future of Amiga Germany and Gateway's next move.

Gary Storm, SEAL
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26.9.99 PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX Amiga Future Statement
Following a current trend :-) in the Amiga community, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX as well did a statement regarding the future of Amiga, that also takes the current developments and initiatives. (deutsch)

Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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26.9.99 Another AmigaExtreme Interview
Do you remember the game Enforce? A demo and few screenshots were released a few months ago, but since then, everything has been quiet, only a new website has appeared. Now you can read an interview with main and only Insanity coder. They also need some help with level designers (mostly), so help them out if you think you are good enough :-)

AmigaExtreme website
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26.9.99 AmiBench Press Release
Mark Wilson: AmiBench - The worlds best Amiga online Adverts site is having some technical problems. Can we reassure the community that we have not closed down, nor do we intend to. The simple truth is that our provider DreamHosts seems to have suffered a hacking problem. You will notice that this outage has caused problems for other Amiga sites like ANN (ExiE: ANN is already online again). We have no other details at the present time as to when it will be fixed. As soon as the service is back up and working 100% normally, We will inform all good Amiga news sites.
AmiBench was supposed to be celebrating its second birthday today, but due to reasons beyond our control we have postponed them, please check AmiBench.org when full services are running to find out more.

Mark Wilson, Public Relations for AmiBench
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26.9.99 VaporWare News
mFTP II v1.1 is all-new FTP and ADT client by Jamie van den Berge and Michael Neuweiler replaces the now outdated AmFTP. Download mFTP-II now.
There is also Contact Manager v1.6! The all-round Bookmark and Addressbook Contact Manager by Simone Tellini has been updated.

VaporWare website
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26.9.99 New Freedom Translator Client API
FTranslator API - this program is a API to use with the most important programs on amiga, like, email, irc, browsers, text editors to translate selected texts, support this languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. Check this site to see new features of version 1.2.

SuRRouND
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26.9.99 Virtual GP finally available
Virtual GP is finally available. All preorders are shipped now. The game can be ordered from Epic Marketing Germany here or for customers who want to pay by credit card, please contact Epic UK here.
System requirements: AGA or GFX card Amiga, 6 MB RAM, HD.

Epic Marketing website
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26.9.99 Analyzing Amiga: The Transcripts
The transcripts from the World of Amiga 99 speeches were recently released on CUCUG. Here is the edited, broken down version with commentary.

AmigaNation News website
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26.9.99 Movie Players
SoftCinema (0.6) is shareware Movie/Animation player for PowerPC based Amigas. It supports QuickTime Movie (QT/MOV) and Video for Windows (AVI) file formats. Support for variuos codecs (including IntelIndeo 3.1, 3.2, 4, 5)
Frogger (1.3.6beta PPC) is video mpeg player (MPEG 1 and 2) for PPC/68K Amiga systems.
AmiDog's Movie Player (AMP) v1.24 is now available. This release adds QT audio support and fixes some audio related bugs.

Total Vision homepage
AmiDog's Movie Player website
ExiE
 
26.9.99 Software News
New beta version of STRICQ 0.1541 (26.09.99), ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available here (just exe file). Release Notes
Miami Deluxe BETA version 0.9k - just replaced yesterdays archive by new one with fixed installer inside.
Updated iSpell documentation and added a plain 68000 version of TextEditor.mcc.

STRICQ webpage
Nordic Global website
Allan Odgaard's website
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25.9.99 AmIRC Update
AmIRC 3.2 released. A maintainance release to AmIRC 3.1, fixing several of the reported issues and adding a few nifty new features. mFTP first release and V3pre3 are in the queue for tonite or tomorrow.

VaporWare website
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25.9.99 Miami Deluxe
Miami Deluxe BETA version 0.9k, full TCP/IP router package for "power users", released. Registered users can get it here.

Nordic Global website
ExiE
 
25.9.99 Amiga Extravaganza 99
Amiga Extravaganza 99 is Indiana's first Amiga show and we desire all of your support in our venture. It's a 100% Amiga Event.. October 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1999. Check the website for more info!

Amiga.org website
Amiga Extravaganza website
ExiE
 
25.9.99 Maestro Pro channel swaping fix
Some Maestro Pro sound cards don't seem to be able to sample digital Audio without the channels swapping. This page can show you possible solution.

Simon Noble
ExiE
 
25.9.99 Software News
After being quite disappointed with the performance of the earlier versions of PPC680x0, a program to convert 68K assembly source-codes to PPC source-codes as well as a 68K backwards-compatible assembly language, we (Coyote Flux, the authors) had decided to do everything to make it much better. The latest version, 1.10, has the ability to even convert 68K library so that they can be called from the PPC side, allowing programmers to convert their 'old' 68K programs with ease. A new Aminet promo-version will be released next week, when all the final test-sessions are finished.
HydraBBS V1.12 update patch out now to fix a small bug :-) Please register HydraBBS ASAP!

S. Raghoebardayal, Coyote Flux
HydraBBS website
ExiE
24.9.99 AmigaOS3.5 News
To give you a better impression of the new GUI look of AmigaOS 3.5 there are some screenshots (1,4MB) of preferences, tools and few other OS parts.
The advertising campaign for AmigaOS 3.5 is going on - now there is also a new French, UK and Spain ad.
Two more languages will be supported by upcoming AmigaOS 3.5 - French and Greek. Here is the updated list of the ATO teams that care for these translations.

Amiga website
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24.9.99 AMD deal could help Motorola make Mac chips
According to c|net News.com AMD and Motorola may be in talks to extend an existing agreement to include making Motorola processors at AMD's new factory in Dresden, Germany. Read more.

Amiga.org website
ExiE
 
24.9.99 Doctors Rick LeFaivre and Alan Havemose Q&A
Quite outdated now but still interesting: transcript of the Doctors Rick LeFaivre and Alan Havemose Q&A session from the Amiwest show.

AWD website
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24.9.99 Special Offer for Amiga Users From Impulse
Over the years as Impulse has moved from one version of Imagine to another they've sometimes offered the previous version to magazines as a cover mount cd. Readers get the software for free, but the problem is that they don't have any manuals to learn how to use the software. Learning a complex 3D package like Imagine without a manual is difficult at best. The Imagine Bible - Ifiles, detailed Imagine reference guide.

Amiga.org website
ImpulseInc. website
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24.9.99 Vapor Mafia .plans :-)
Chris Wiles: STFax 4 went to press at the beginning of last week and is due back Wednesday the 29th of September. Still only 35 upgrades and about 10 pre-orders. Anybody interested it this great software? NetConnect 3 is progressing well and will go to press on Monday. This will contain the forthcoming Voyager 3 pre-release 3, the excellent mFTP-II, the latest AmIRC v3, MetalWeb 4 and many more.
You can now upgrade from any serial code version of Genesis to NetConnect 3, for a very special price. More information, and prices, can be found on the NetConnect 3 page.

VaporWare website
Active Technologies website
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24.9.99 GoldED Studio News
GoldED Studio can now be ordered online from AMIGALAND, Butzenstr. 1 (Postfach 332), 8060 Zürich, Switzerland. Phone: ++41-1-482 47 61, Fax: ++41-1-482 47 50. Dealer inquieries welcome.

GoldED webpage
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24.9.99 Software News
New versions of akPNG 44.47 (23.9.99), akJFIF 44.47 (23.9.99) and akTIFF 44.47 (23.9.99) datatypes and JPEG-Box, PNG-Box are available here.
Online registration site is waiting for your visit.
New versions 0.8.1 of ttf.library, truetype compatible font engine for Amiga OS, are now available for download (optimized 000/020/030/040/060 versions).


PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX webpage
ttf.library webpage
ExiE
23.9.99 REBOL news ...
REBOL Technologies changed look of their main webpage. It now contains some hints on future REBOL directions, as implementation of LDAP and more protocols, asynchronous messaging, app-talk - concept of communication between the applications. More scripts showing capabilities of REBOL dialecting are on the way. As for REBOL/Media, due to be out early next year, it should "blow your socks off", with things like realtime image processing. Stay tuned, as the best scripting and messaging language was created by Amigan! Thanks Carl :-)

REBOL Technologies website and REBOL ML
-pekr-
 
23.9.99 Even more REBOL news
Silicon Valley refugees develop new programming language, Links of the week and Programming for dummies are names of articles, bringing another positive news on REBOL. Especially the first one is written in the curious way .... Ah, and Carl assured us on the REBOL ML, they are not going to be bought by Hewlet Packard. :-)

REBOL Technologies website
-pekr-
 
23.9.99 Another AmigaExtreme Interview
Jason Hayman of Pagan Games answered few questions about their two titles Magick and Scavengers.

AmigaExtreme website
ExiE
 
23.9.99 3D World News
New 3D World logos are finally online.
There are three more announcements of products with Warp3D support on Warp3D Projects list.

Haage&partner website
ExiE
22.9.99 AmigaExtreme Interviews
Hyperion Software answered some questions about Shogo, Heretic2 and AQUA asked by Stefan "Syke" Falk.
He also fired off some questions to Titan Computer regarding their Tomb-Raider Style RPG game Claws Of The Devil. The project is still on, read the interview here.

AmigaExtreme website
ExiE
 
22.9.99 The Phoenix Platform Consortium webspace
Lars Nelson: The Phoenix Platform Consortium webspace has appeared. It states that the site should be available in the next few days.

ANN website
ExiE
 
22.9.99 KOSH News
After a long enforced break, KOSH is finally back! Discussion lists are running again, work is being done and the website is even being updated :) New members are welcome as ever, and we welcome all skill levels and platform advocates. Read more.

KOSH website
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22.9.99 Escena PPC boards in Cologne?
According to this mail Escena is hard working to get PPC board (G3/G4) finished for Cologne show in November. However they can't promise that.

amiga-news.de website
Escena website
ExiE
 
22.9.99 Titan signs up Joyride
Joyride is a new racing game, inspired by Xtreme Racing and developed by Milan & Ivan Golubovic.

TitanComputer website
ExiE
 
22.9.99 HydraBBS Update
HydraBBS V1.12 update is now available here.
Please register HydraBBS ASAP!

HydraBBS website
ExiE
 
22.9.99 AROS Status Update
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla, AROS Head of Development: "The code to build AROS standalone (to boot an IBM compatible PC) is now much better integrated into the rest of the system. After boot, AROS opens a VGA screen (no use of the text mode just like on the Amiga) and you are in SAD. When the console is finished (should be just a couple of hours to finish... if someone has the time and the knowledge ?), we will have a new Amiga based on PC hardware. Promising :-)"

AROS website
ExiE
21.9.99 Gateway Ends Plans For Next-Generation Amiga PC
Yet another article on Gateway's cancellation of Amiga HW plans appeared on the net, exactly on NewsEdge Newspage website. Even Czech Amiga News seems to be referred to as a source of user's dissappointment with current situation :-) Read the article here.

Dissappointment? Check this letter sent to Thomas J. Schmidt, President & CEO Amiga Inc., originally written by Aaron Ruscetta.

Skal Loret on Team Amiga ML, Jerry Smith
NewsEdge Newspage website
-pekr- & ExiE

 
21.9.99 Amiga listed on ITG's shopping list?
Another article on the topic of so called information appliances appeared on PCWeek's website. The article is mentioning Amiga in relation to ITG, sadly, not reflecting happenings of last weeks, which brought us cancellation of Amiga HW products. You can read the article here.

Skal Loret on Team Amiga ML
PCWeek website
-pekr-
 
21.9.99 Elbox News
Check the news about new hardware for A4000 like ELBOX FastATA 4000 Controller, Tower E/BOX 4000 or 4xEIDE'99 and AllegroCDFS.
There is an update 4.5 of PowerFlyer FastATA-2/EIDE Controller International software available in dowload section of Javosoft website. You can always find the latest version of this software there.

Javosoft website
ExiE
 
21.9.99 Active Technologies News
NetConnect 3 information about the contents, release date and special pre-order prices can be found here.
To celebrate the forthcoming launch of NetConnect 3 and STFax 4, special pricing has been made available on a number of products from Active Technologies. This special offer is limited and also remember that by ordering via the web site, securely, you can also take advantage of free worldwide postage on software items, saving you even more money!

Active Technologies website
ExiE
 
21.9.99 Software News
New beta version of STRICQ 0.1525 (21.09.99), ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available. Beta version is available here (just exe file). Release Notes
AmiDog's Movie Player (AMP) v1.23 is now available. Support for a new AVI codec, Microsoft RLE8 (8bit) has been added. Also improved the audio speed quite a lot. Author is currently working on a new GUI which should be ready soon.
Boring, isn't it?

STRICQ webpage
AmiDog's Movie Player website
ExiE
20.9.99 Movie Players
SoftCinema (0.5b) is shareware Movie/Animation player for PowerPC based Amigas. It supports QuickTime Movie (QT/MOV) and Video for Windows (AVI) file formats. Supports a lot of video and audio codecs (incl. Intel Indeo up to 5.0).
Frogger (1.3.1b) is video mpeg player (MPEG 1 and 2) for PPC/68K Amiga systems.

Aminet
Philippe 'Elwood' FERRUCCI
ExiE
 
20.9.99 Saku 99 Pictures
There are now some pictures taken at the Saku 99 event on September 4th 1999. Saku 99, organized by the Finnish Amiga Users Group, was the biggest Amiga event in Finland in 1999. Pictures by Johanna Makkonen, Janne Sirén, Tapani Tanskanen and Toni Walther.

Janne Siren
ExiE
 
20.9.99 iBrowse2 FAQ
If you are experiencing difficulties downloading, installing or using iBrowse 2, check out the iBrowse FAQ page.

HiSOFT website
ExiE
 
20.9.99 UnInstaller v2
UnInstaller v2 has been released after 2 months in development. It has a completely new design, and some brand new features. You can download it here.

Neil Bullock, Trogladite software
ExiE
 
20.9.99 Digital Dreams News
Second Diablo's Land screenshot posted to Diablo's Land page. Please note that DD are still working on characters, so this is not their final look.

Digital Dreams website
ExiE
 
20.9.99 Software News
New beta version of STRICQ 0.1524 (20.09.99), ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available. Beta version is available here (just exe file). Release Notes
New BETA version 1.78 of SmartFileSystem is ready for download.

STRICQ webpage
SmartFilesystem website
ExiE
19.9.99 ANEWS is back
ANEWS, the French Amiga computer magazine is back. After a few months'absence, from september 1999, ANEWS magazine, created entirely on Amiga computers, using PageStream, is once again available from news-stalls in France. It is also available by subscription, both in France and abroad. The magazine is deliver with a ready-to-use and interfaced cover CD-ROM. Read more (french).

Eric GIGUERE
ANEWS magazine website
ExiE
 
19.9.99 PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX'address changed
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX' address has changed as follows as with 18 September 1999:
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
Andreas R. Kleinert
Am Kornberg 48
D-57076 Siegen
Germany

PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX website
ExiE
 
19.9.99 Pagan News
In a move to increase productivity, Pagan Games are looking a 2D artists to join the Bloodline team. They are looking for people able to create and understand the mechanics behind creating repeatable map blocks for levels.
They are also looking for 2D animators to continue work carried out on their full game Manga animation's.
The games pages for Bloodline, Scavengers and Magick have been updated with new details and graphics.

Pagan-games website
ExiE
 
19.9.99 GoldED Studio 6.2.0
GoldED Studio users can download the latest service pack to upgrade from 5 or 6.x.x to the latest version 6.2.0 (download demo version).
Major new feature is an improved syntax parsing interface supporting generic configurable syntax parsers (screenshot).

GoldED webpage
ExiE
 
19.9.99 NetConnect 3 Release Date Announced
Popular Amiga all-in-one Internet package NetConnect has reached version 3, which will be released on the 29th of September. See the Active Technologies website for details.

AmigaCentral website
ExiE
 
19.9.99 Software News
AmigaAMP v2.7 BETA-6 is now available for download. Fixed some bugs that have been discussed in the AmigaAMP mailing list.
New beta version of STRICQ 0.1511 (18.09.99), ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available. Beta version is available here (just exe file). Release Notes

AmigaAMP website
STRICQ webpage
ExiE
18.9.99 Amiga On The Net
ZDNet - Jilted again! Amiga scraps PC plan
AmigaNationNews - Could AMIGA be SUN's desktop star?

inet
ExiE
 
18.9.99 Wipeout 2097 finished
Wipeout 2097 for PPC Amiga development is now finished. Soon the master cd will be sent to cd pressing factory. Here`s the picture of back cover of Wipeout 2097 Amiga CD. Don`t miss this great game when it is released...

gameart website
Digital Images website
ExiE
 
18.9.99 PowerPack Volume I is ready and shipping!
Hundreds of megabytes of texture maps, animated sequences, 3D datasets all bound together by an easy to use HTML navigator. No public domain stuff in this series of CD-ROMs and the material is licensed both for commercial and non commercial use. Power Pack Volume I: Image Maps is now available.

Eyelight website
ExiE
17.9.99 Open Letter to the Amiga Community
Another empty open letter to the Amiga Community by Mr.Schmidt. "...what does this new direction have to do with the original Amiga computer? Quite honestly, nothing!" Dunno why they still need Amiga name.

Amiga website
ExiE
 
17.9.99 Amiga On The Net
C|NET news.com - Gateway shelves plans for new Amiga PC
TheRegister - Transmeta CEO scoffs at Amiga connection claims
heise online - Neuer Amiga -- wieder nur Vaporware (german)
TheRegister - Amiga boss charts software-only course (15.9.99)
Amiga Nutta - Editorial - 15th September 1999

inet
ExiE
 
17.9.99 The Trouble With Windows ...
The Trouble With Windows is the name of the article, describing how other OSes could mean possible danger to Windows because of price policy of Microsoft. AmigaOS is mentioned in the article too. Sadly the info was not appropriate.

Jim Mackoy on Team Amiga ML
WinMage magazine website
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17.9.99 Aminet CD 33
Aminet CD 33, dated October 1999, contains nearly 1 gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in thousands of archives. Since the release of Aminet 32 over 500 MB new software has appeared. The current edition includes the full version of the tricky and entertaining game Marblelous II.

Schatztruhe webpage
ExiE
 
17.9.99 New REBOL examples...
REBOL Technologies released a few more new examples to their website's script library. Such new examples are marked "NEW" in red colour. Most of them show how to properly handle and filter e-mails.

Carl Sassenrath on REBOL ML
REBOL Technologies website
-pekr-
 
17.9.99 Software News
AmiDog's Movie Player (AMP) v1.22 is now available. This release has window support. Author is currently working on a new GUI which should be ready soon.

AmiDog's Movie Player website
ExiE
16.9.99 Motorola CPU roadmap up to G6 released!
Everyone interested in PowerPC CPU family should look for new PPC CPU roadmap, released by Motorola, or download the .pdf file directly. You can also read the announcement here.

Motorola PowerPC website
Jim Mackoy on Team Amiga ML
-pekr-
 
16.9.99 Have Amiga had any intention in using Transmeta CPU?
If you consider question mentioned in the header of this news article, you will probably think - yes, or that is what we've been told by Amiga. Time Digital's article called Silicon Secrets seems to be stating something different on its third page. Who knows whose story is true? And today also probably - does it matter anymore?

Time Digital website
-pekr-
 
16.9.99 Protest against Gateway? :-)
Well, happenings of this week in regards to AmigaNG, AmigaOE and simply whole set of promissed Amiga products were very sad for thue amigans. In this situation, short, but nice comics can help to improve your mood. Time to start having a fun?

Deniz Turkmen on c.s.a.m.
-pekr-
 
16.9.99 Games prices too high?
Read a short brainstorming on the issue of the prices of high-end games ported from PC.

Steffen Haeuser
ExiE
 
16.9.99 Trogladite News
Neil Bullock: "Firstly, we have received a lot of mails from people asking if we were going to leave the platform, or suspend development. I suspect this came from our long period of inactivity which has hopefully passed now. To answer the main question, publicly, though; No, we are not intending to leave, now, or hopefully ever!" Read more.

Neil Bullock, Trogladite software
ExiE
 
16.9.99 FusionPPC 62 day count down?
Microcode Solution promised to deliver FusionPPC in 60 days. 60 day count down for the release of the PPC module will begin on September 20th, 1999 and deadline for release is November 20th, 1999. IT'S 62 DAYS. Probaly small bug. Let's hope it will not happen with Fusion code :)))

Julian Cassin
Microcode Solutions website
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16.9.99 MakeCD Update
New version of MakeCD 3.2b update1, considered beeing one of the best CD writer software for the Amiga, is now available. More information on its features and availability can be found here.
FlashROM (v1.2) is a tool to update the flash ROM of a SCSI or ATAPI drive. At the moment it supports Plextor and Yamaha CD writers.

MakeCD website
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16.9.99 Software News
Small off-topic news: Worker is a filemanager for X-Window (Linux) looking like Directory Opus 4.x.
Uploaded a new version of TextEditor.mcc, powerful editor class for MUI. MCC_TextEditor.LZX V15.6 (139.3 Kb, 15-Sep-1999). If you want to use iSpell as spell checker then you'll find all the info you need in the iSpell_Help archive (81.7 Kb, 15-Sep-1999).

Manuel Lemos
Allan Odgaard's website
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16.9.99 Games News
Check the first Heretic II progress report by Hans-Joerg Frieden.
AmigaExtereme master fired off a few questions to The World Foundry about their upcoming game Maim & Mangle, here's a snip from the interview.

Hyperion website
AmigaExtreme website
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16.9.99 AHI PPC
Martin Blom, AHI/PPC: "I've heard that the beta crashes less if you first remove ENV:Sys/ahi.prefs. I don't know if this is true for all of you, or if so, why, but it's worth a try. I've verified that my PPC code does not work very well with AmigaAMP, at least not when using the PPC decoder. I've no idea why yet. I also found the (embarrassing, as it turned out) ELF loader bug yesterday, so I can now finally finish the WarpUp support."

AHI homepage
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15.9.99 FUSION-PPC in the works! HURRAAA!
Microcode Solutions: Deadline for release: November 20th, 1999!!!
Microcode Solutions is pleased to announce that the 60 day count down for the release of the PPC module will begin on September 20th, 1999. The PC version is being worked on at the same time as the Amiga version, so the expected release date will be close to the Amiga version. Although we have 60 days to complete the product, it may be that it is done much sooner... especially in light of the competition between Microcode Solutions and Emulators, Inc. to release a PPC version for the PC. The retail price for the PowerPC upgrade module is $199.95. If you pre-pay before the release of the product (regardless of the stated release date), you will be charged only $149.95.

According to Jim Drew Everyone should thank Blittersoft by placing their order. (and think about buying own copy of FusionPPC from Blittersoft).

Jim Drew
Microcode Solutions website
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15.9.99 AmiDog's Emulation News
New versions of DarcNES/Amiga (990822c) - Multi Consol emulator and Handy (v1.03) - Atari Lynx emulator are now available. AGA support added.

AmiDog's Emulation Corner website
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15.9.99 Rick LeFaivre - AmigaOE still in course?
Amiga Aktuell brings us a small update on the current situation. Martin Henke gave Dr. Rick LeFaivre a call and he stated AmigaOE is still in production and also hardware will be produced by 3rd parties. The question is, - does it explain anything?

Amiga Aktuell website
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15.9.99 Photogenics News
Would you like to know, how Ela, the wife of Paul Nolan, looks like and accassionally see the look of a graphical illustration of the pain-on image processing effects in Photogenics 4.2? :-)))

Photogenics homepage
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15.9.99 Delfina Software update
New Delfina system software is available in the Petsoff's file area (Whole Delfina install floppy #1 or Delfina install package, user files; Delfina install package, developer files). Changes include an important bug fix for all 74MHz Delfina models.

Petsoff website
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14.9.99 Latest Executive Update
Check the latest EXECUTIVE UPDATE from Thomas J. Schmidt, new Amiga President & C.E.O. (German translation)
"The reports of Amiga's death have been greatly exaggerated" said Thomas J. Schmidt and killed Amiga with his executive update. (Yes. The news is not in black. We got other chance, just look below)

Amiga website
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14.9.99 The Phoenix Platform Consortium
"The Phoenix Platform Consortium will assume responsibility for aid and recommendation for reference platforms for the Amiga users who wish to upgrade their present Amigas, as we establish an open migration path to a new platform." Read more.

Amiga website
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14.9.99 Open Letter to Tom Schmidt
The latest Executive Update left just the same question unanswered as all those initial announcements by new CEO's before. Therefore, Martin Baute, newsmaster of Amiga News & Stories, wrote an Open Letter, that asks the one basic question...

Martin Baute
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14.9.99 OS3.5 demonstration in the Benelux
On saturday the 18th of september Dirk Harlaar of Haage&Partner will give a demonstration of the new OS3.5 in Leeuwarden, located in the Netherlands. Propably this will be the final salesversion. This day will be organized by the AGGF and ComputerCity, the OS3.5 distributer in the Benelux. Read more (+Dutch translation).

Vitrual Worlds Productions website
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14.9.99 VIRTUAL News
After the last executive update it's completely clear, that the Amiga is dead - or better now we know he is dead for 4 years. VWP spops all software projects immediately.
Only for the WaveTracer DS at least one update will be available.
Vitrual Worlds Productions has to thank thank all his clients. (Czech Amiga News Team thanks to Amiga/Gateway for this)

Vitrual Worlds Productions website
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14.9.99 Photogenics 4.2
Paul Nolan is pleased to announce Photogenics 4.2, another free update to existing users of Photogenics 4.x.
The main new features in 4.2 are Tool Tips for quick and easy explanations of all of the items in the tool bar, a Media Cache for improved Media loading times, and new paint on image processing modes such as: Gamma, Sharpen, UnsharpMask, BizarrePixelize, Randomize, and Channel Randomize. Blur, Convolve and RadialBlur have been rewritten for more speed, features and options. In particular Blur is now incredibly fast. Processing a 50x50 pixel blur on a 800x600 image now takes less than 2 seconds on an 060, with a huge 500x500 pixel blur taking just 3 seconds, and is fast enough to apply with the AirBrush! Several minor changes include an enhanced Scale with improved quality and feedback, an improved Text tool, a reduction in the memory need by Photogenics by one megabyte (now uses just two megs with no images loaded), various overall speed improvements, keyboard shortcuts for zoom and pan, plus tweaks to the user interface.
Check the full press release and download the update.

Photogenics homepage
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14.9.99 AHI PPC
Martin Blom: "Many people seem to have trouble with the latest AHI PPC release. Make sure you save your old version of ahi.device. If you have trouble, try to remove the ahi.elf file from DEVS:. That will disable the PowerPC code and make AHI use the m68k only. When reporting bugs, please include the full version number of ppc.library and the audio mode used. I'd also like you to try the Paula and Filesave drivers, in case you're using a sound card."

AHI homepage
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13.9.99 Sweden's only Amiga magazine is no more
The only printed Swedish Amiga magazine Amiga Info/AI Echo announced September 10 that it has ceased publishing. It was started back in 1996 by Thomas Svensson and the final issue (19) was published in March of this year. That final issue saw a name change from Amiga Info to AI/Echo to reflect the magazine going from being an Amiga-only magazine to also write about Linux. Although that meant an increase in sales it was not enough to save the magazine. AmigaInfo/AI Echo's web site will live on at www.xfiles.se.

P-G Eriksson
The Amiga Info/AI Echo/XFiles homepage
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13.9.99 A Tribute To Jim Collas
Amigart.com: "We opened a message board for people who want to express their feelings about Jim Collas' sudden resignation. He was with us for a little while, but he was WITH us. Please drop by the "A Tribute To Jim Collas" and write a few words to be delivered to him later." Click Here

Guvenc Kaplan, Amigart website
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13.9.99 Latest Events Harms Amiga Community
Stefan Instinske: "Due to the new situation, I hereby announce that I close down the international Amiga-User List. Even if the news are not correct (which I don't believe), I don't see any sense in such a list anymore, with Amiga users leaving daily, making the data quickly outdated. If someone is interested in continuing the list, please contact me, you will get all necessary data."

Martin Endres, CamX/Camouflage developer: "The Amiga development has been put on hold for the time being - but will be continued when some things have been clarified. Please no email inquiries on this subject!"

Martin Baute: "I am frustrated. I am angry. I feel really sick about the ongoings - or lack thereof - at Amiga Inc. And I don't see any sense in investing considerable amounts of time in this Amiga-related project right now. The Version Watch will be down until further notice. If things brighten up at Amiga Inc., I will reestablish the Version Watch."

amiga-news.de website
Amiga-User List website
CamX/Camouflage website
Amiga Version Watch website
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13.9.99 Amiga's Operating System Page Changed
Link to OS5 has been removed from ..Operating System page of the Amiga website. Copy of the original page.

We are not 100% sure but it was the reference to OS5 based on QNX. The page was not updated after kernel switch.

AWD website
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13.9.99 AHI PPC
New AHI-PPC preview is now available (source code). The beta does not work with the ppc.library emulation, and probably never will.
Check the AHI/PPC page for current status report.

Arnljot Arntsen
AHI homepage
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13.9.99 Master Blaster Is Now Freeware
MasterBlaster, multiplayer game based on the classics Bomberman and DynaBlaster created by Alexander Ivanof, diamond productions, is now freeware.

amiga-news.de website
diamond productions website
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12.9.99 AQUA News
Few people asked us to bring more info about AQUA. Read the interview with Fleecy Moss from Clubbed magazine. The answer is in!

Gary Storm, SEAL
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12.9.99 Payback
Apex Designs are proud to announce Payback, their first commercial game. It's a gangster warfare 3D simulator with some serious attitude. More info and specs here.

Apex Designs website
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12.9.99 Browsers News
A new set of JavaScript libs (10.9.99) for iBrowse 2.1 are now available.
Get an updated voyager_ssl.vlib and replace the old one from V3pre2 archive. This library is now based on OpenSSL 0.9.4 and should fix the reported problems with connection establishment with certain servers (notably Netscape Enterprise, for example used on www.amazon.(com|de|co.uk).

Amiga.org website
V3·Portal website
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12.9.99 Interview with author of PfPaint
Check an interview with the author of Perfect Paint Georges Halvadjian; from .AmiUpdate page.

.AmiUpdate website
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12.9.99 Software News
Mp3 encoder LAME v3.26beta is now availabe. PPC stability is greated enhanced. Better, faster, stronger - what more could you want?
New version 3.00 of akMPEG2 (12.9.99 - 68k+PPC) mpeg animation player is now available. It's not only extremely fast now, but also quite compact: the 8 players (4x68k, 4xPPC) have been merged into now only 2 remaining executeables, which brings the archive size down to only ~120 KB. Looping now is possible as well. Online registration site is waiting for your visit.
AmiDog's Movie Player (AMP) v1.21 is now available. The latest release fixes some bugs and adds QT support (registered version only). The QT support is currently video-only and should be cosidered as beta.

The Amiga Alternative Audio Page
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX webpage
AmiDog's Movie Player website
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11.9.99 AQUA
Is it our future?

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11.9.99 Statement on Tuesday of Next Week
Amiga will make an official statement next week about the changes in direction. Read more.

AWD website
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11.9.99 UAE - The Amiga Emulator
A brief look at UAE, the multi-platform Amiga Emulator. UAE - The Amiga Emulator, new article on suite101.com.

John Chandler: "Apologies to those waiting for my next article. It's been a hectic few weeks, and a car accident recently really didn't help matters!" (John is OK and lookin' for a new car:-))

suite101.com website
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11.9.99 Gateway Isn't the Friend Amiga Fans Thought
Trogladite Software have set up a page which allows you to enter your email address in a petition to stop the action. "Gateway appears to have changed direction for the worse (BusinessWeek - Gateway Isn't the Friend Amiga Fans Thought), meaning that the AmigaNG will not be as expected. Infact, it sounds utterly crap! Please leave your email address and name. Various people are collecting email addresses to present to Gateway to stop this outrage!"

Neil Bullock, Trogladite software
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11.9.99 iBrowse2.1 Review
Check .AmiUpdate's review of the full version of iBrowse 2.1 web-browser.

.AmiUpdate website
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11.9.99 Digital Dreams News
From now it's possible to register all DD products online! As a registered user you'll get discounts on their future releases, as well as some other privileges.

Diablo's Land new screenshots! All the background graphics was converted to high resolution and now characters and additional graphics (weapons, spells, shields, etc.) are processed. Each week they will post a new screenshot from the game to Diablo's Land web page, so you can see the progress of the game and tell authors your opinion, comments or suggestions.

More outstanding news from DD next week!

Digital Dreams website
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10.9.99 Seems Gateway Isn't the Friend Amiga Fans Thought
Strange, strange, strange. What to think about article, stating Gateway is NOT interested in building AmigaNG computers? After happenings of last month, it's not probably something we would not expect. Time to find another Amiga? ;-)

BusinessWeek website
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10.9.99 Bulletin Board & stuff
Amiga Inc has removed all names and profiles of their US staff from their Staff & Addresses page. The bulletin board section has disappeared too. Hmmm.

Amiga website
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10.9.99 BoXeR-4 & BoXeR-6
Blittersoft is offering BoXeR-4 (BoXeR tower computer with 68040/40) and BoXeR-6 (BoXeR tower computer with 68060/50).
Read more about the Boxer.

.AmiUpdate website
Blittersoft website
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10.9.99 Heretic II and Shogo Preorders
Steffen Haeuser: "I just saw in the latest issue of the german mag Amiga Plus that it's now possible to preorder Heretic II and Shogo at Titan Software. The price is 89 DM for preorders, later 20 DM more expansive.
Heretic II is announced for November release, Shogo for late November. The advert of Titan was a full-page-ad in the magazin."

Steffen Haeuser
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10.9.99 Amiga Sports game
Dimas Caparrós: "My company, M.S.P., last year were making an Amiga Sports game (as HiperSports) but it was stopped (my wife had a baby!). Now, we plan to continue developing it, but we need a 3D artist, preferably used to LightWave. He have to be capable of making men running and so, although not very detailed. Interested ones, please, email us at: dcaparros@readysoft.es."

Dimas Caparrós
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10.9.99 Software News
AmigaAMP v2.7 BETA-5 is now available for download.
Fixed bugs: Drag&Drop on playlist window; Playback restart when adding files to playlist
New features: Debugging information at startup (Will be removed from the final version); ID3 tag display in playlist once the file is opened; Included non-fpu version
AmiDog's Movie Player (AMP) v1.20 is now available. The first release which support other movies than MPEG. This release has FLI/FLC/AVI support, and QT support will be finished very soon. These extra features are only available for registered users.

Arnljot Arntsen
AmigaAMP website
AmiDog's Movie Player website
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9.9.99 Amiga Active's Andrew Korn at ANT this weekend!
Amiga North Thames are proud to announce that Andrew Korn, Launch Editor of Amiga Active Magazine will be their special guest this Sunday the 12th of September. Andrew, will be showing them some of the actual pages that will be appearing inside the magazine when it launches at the end of September 1999. So if you are in the North London area pop in between the Hours of 1-5pm and see another bit of Amiga history in the making.

Michael Carrillo
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9.9.99 Amiga Software via the A.N.T. Shop
The full range of A.N.T. software catalogue will be available during the meeting (Sunday the 12th of September) for purchase, pop in, get a bargain and save the P&P! Full details on how to get there and the software catalogue can be found on the Amiga North website.

Michael Carrillo
Amiga North website
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9.9.99 Amiga Yellow Pages is back!
Yes, after a two month absence AYP is back, with a new look and a *competition* where you can win a CD game from the Fore-Matt Home Computing £15.00 (UKP) range. Full details can be found within the MIB page at ayp.amiga.tm. Don't forget, Amiga Yellow Pages is the ideal website to advertise/list your company/services/usergroup to the whole Amiga community - all For Free!.
AYP also hosts the latest online copy of Amiga Update Magazine, as well as Amiga Rediscovery by Angus Manwaring - The Amiga Nostalgia gaming site. This month Amiga Rediscovery takes a trip back in time to the ZeeWolf1 demo disk days. Download the disk and discuss it on comp.sys.amiga.games with other Amiga gamers. Full details on the Amiga Rediscovery web page.
Amiga Yellow Pages - Serving the Amiga community through thick and thin.

Michael Carrillo
Amiga Yellow Pages
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9.9.99 Amithyst is online with the September issue!
Check the Amithyst Online Magazine Issue 7 - September 1999.

Amithyst Online Magazine website
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9.9.99 More Iwin
Iwin has released some more photos of their new office through Computer City page.
10.9.99 Computer City: "Since putting the pictures we received from Iwin apparently did not convince anyone and only brought more questioning we decided to take them off."

Check this small page with images that show a strange thing on the recently posted Iwin office photos. Created by Lukas Hartmann.

Amithyst Online Magazine website
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9.9.99 ProStationAudio
AudioLabs is proud to announce ProStationAudio, the ultimate NL-editing software for AmigaOS-based systems. Read the press release.

dr. Maurizio Ciccione, AudioLabs, Digital Audio Engineering
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9.9.99 PowerFlyer FastATA-2/EIDE software update
There is an update 4.4 International of PowerFlyer FastATA-2/EIDE Controller software available in dowload section of Javosoft website. You can always find the latest version of this software there.

Javosoft website
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8.9.99 What's the Cause If You're Without REBOL?
Yet another positive article covering REBOL appeared on the Tech Sighting's Site of the Day.
"REBOL (pronounced REB-el)stands for Relative Expression-Based Object Language. It's a programming language similar to PERL, but lighter-weight and extremely cross-platform capable. Developers and hobbyists alike will enjoy the straightforward simplicity of this relatively new language."

REBOL website
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8.9.99 Iwin News
What does the press say about Iwin ... Thera are few pages about Iwin and their products that appeared in a french magazine, Login. Iwin are working on translations to English and German.
page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6

Iwin Corporation website
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8.9.99 Software News
First public beta of AmigaAMP 2.7 is now available for download. The most important new feature is skin support for the playlist window, of course. Others include waveform display for plugins, new AREXX commands, selectable resolutions/appearances of the spectrum analyzer, etc.
New version 2.70 of akMPEG2 (8.9.99 - 68k+PPC) animation player is now available.
Online registration site is waiting for your visit.

AmigaAMP website
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX webpage
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7.9.99 ImageFX 4 - with Animation - Shipping!
Nova Design, Inc. announced today that all preorders of ImageFX have now been shipped. All of the new orders are now being shipped, typically, within just a few days of the order being placed. Read more.

Kermit Woodall, Nova Design website
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7.9.99 Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign News
The "No Piracy" site has been hacked by Digital Corruption.

Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign introduction text (polish version).

Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci
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7.9.99 fxPAINT on schedule
fxPAINT will be available at the Cologne Show (Home Electronics World). In order to document the progress, authors have put some new screenshots and pictures online. Furthermore, a new pressrelease has been released, containing new details. Everyone who wants to save 40.- DEM when ordering fxPAINT, should preorder fxPAINT until 1st of November 1999 - the preorder-offer will end then.

Innovative website
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7.9.99 Updated MCC_TextEditor & MCC_HTMLview
Uploaded a new version of TextEditor.mcc, powerful editor class for MUI. MCC_TextEditor.LZX V15.6 (273.3 Kb, 7-Sep-1999)
There's a new update available for HTMLview.mcc, MUI class that will load, parse and display HTML formatted text, this time it's the full archive, though without an install script. MCC_HTMLview.LZX V12.5 (140.8 Kb, 7-Sep-1999)

Allan Odgaard's website
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7.9.99 Wipeout 2097 Pre-Ordering
Wipeout 2097 can now be pre-ordered from Blittersoft for £29.95! Read more.

Stuart Walker, Digital Images
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6.9.99 First Words From New President
Check the first executive update from Thomas J. Schmidt, new president of Amiga. He thanks to Jim Collas for the leadership and vision he brought to Amiga and Bill McEwen for his many contributions to the Amiga community. He is also extremely excited about the plans and strategies they have been working very hard on the past several months.

Amiga website
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6.9.99 Amiga - The Truth Is Out There
Amiga Nutta - Editorial - 6th September 1999
Amiga Flame - Staff Change At Amiga
Ripper ML - "True story" about Why Jim left Amiga

Some people are starting to loose faith in the Amiga again:-(

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6.9.99 Petro Tyschtschenko's Saku 99 Speech Now Online
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 6, 1999 - Petro Tyschtschenko spoke briefly at the Finnish Saku 99 event on September 4th via telephone. He discussed Jim Collas' resignation and the future of Amiga. The speech is now available for download in MP3 format at the Finnish Amiga Users Group web site. Read more.

Janne Siren
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6.9.99 AmigaOS 3.5 Status
The OS 3.5 project is in the final beta state. Up to 150 beta testers did a great job on testing all features and giving a lot of feedback. A very special thank goes to Martin Steigerwald for organizing the application and the beta reports.

Amiga OS35 website
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6.9.99 Home electronics world '99
From November 12 - 14, the Home electronics world '99 will be held in Koeln, Germany. The exhibition, which was held last year under the name "Computer '98", will once again be the world's biggest exhibition for AMIGA. Further information as well as the official Home electronics world '99 website will be published soon. Ad for the Cologne Show in November

Amiga website
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6.9.99 Games News
Stuart Walker, DI: "We have been evaluating the current situation with Amiga and we are pleased to announce the continuation of AmigaMCC development." What did change your opinion? "I recieved some e-mails from Amiga - I can't really say what they were."
Paolo D'Urso, Darkage Software: "We won't support AmigaNG until they decide to give us technical specs and developer machines. Yes, we're working on a new, secret title, and there would be no problems to do an AmigaNG version as the code is very portable, but after the Bill Mc Ewen and Jim Collas' departure, we're sorry to say that the only Amiga we support is the "classic" one. We will finish our current titles and then see what the market will offer us. It's hard for a small company to survive developing software for Amiga, and if we don't receive support from Amiga Inc., we can't think anymore to write games and programs for this machine."
Markus Holler, freelance composer, placed on his page two mp3 songs taken from the realtime strategy game Siberian Sun, developed by BlueBlack Solution.

Digital Images
Darkage Software website
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6.9.99 STFax 4.0 to be released soon
The new version 4.0 of STFax will be released in about 2-3 weeks. It will contain a lot of new features and a collection of professional samples for the voice functions. Full list of features.

Haage&partner website
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6.9.99 AmiJoe1200
Check the latest info about amiJoe1200 accellerator. Up to 143 times faster than your Amiga1200. (based upon Motorola specifications at 333MHz)

Met@box website
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6.9.99 STRICQ News
New beta version of STRICQ 0.1506 (6.9.1999 22:37:18), ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available (just exe file). Release Notes

STRICQ webpage
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5.9.99 AmigaOS 3.5 Offers
H&P are taking preorders for AmigaOS3.5. The new OS update for the Amiga with many exciting new features and extensive improvements. (CD-ROM only!) ...99,50 DM
You will absolutely need the Kickstart 3.1 ROMs! A bundle of the extensive OS update and the Kickstart 3.1 ROMs for your Amiga ...starting at 145 DM.

Haage&partner website
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5.9.99 "No Piracy" discussion forum opened
The discussion forum is now open and the logo campaign can start finally.

Haage&partner website
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5.9.99 Petro Tyschtschenko Spoke To Saku 99 Audience Via Telephone
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 5, 1999 - The biggest Amiga event in Finland, Saku 99, was held yesterday and turned out to be success, even though Petro Tyschtschenko of Amiga had cancelled his visit a couple of days earlier. The show was visited by approximately 400-600 people during the day. Read more.

Janne Siren
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5.9.99 iBrowse YES or NOT?
A small article about iBrowse 2.1 discussing wether the upgrade was worth it after all. Read more.

.AmiUpdate website
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5.9.99 Iwin News
Iwin Corporation has announced that because of the latest things happend with Amiga Inc. there is no longer need for the Commodore brand. Negotiations with Tulip will stop.

Iwin Corporation website
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4.9.99 Amiga Boots Two Execs
Wired News - Amiga Boots Two Execs
Why would the two top Amiga executives suddenly leave the company to "pursue other options?" And does the parent company, Gateway, think anyone will believe that? Jim Collas, a seven-year veteran of Gateway and president of its Amiga subsidiary for nine months, suddenly left the company on 1 September without explanation. Also departing was Bill McEwan, the marketing and software evangelist and one of the most visible proponents of the Amiga platform. Gateway spokesman Brad Shaw said both Collas and McEwan left "to pursue other options," and would not comment on the circumstances behind the departure of the two. McEwan said that's flat out not the case. "I didn't leave," he said. "I did not leave Amiga; Amiga left me."

inet
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4.9.99 DI News
Due to recent announcements and problems with Amiga, Digital Images regrets that they will be suspending all AmigaMCC projects including Sabrina Offline. Space Station 3000 and Wipeout 2097 will be released as planned, but they will be suspending all other Amiga developments until further notice. Read more.

Stuart Walker, Digital Images
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4.9.99 VaporWare News
AmTelnet 2.0 released. AmTelnet now features SSH1 support for secure encrypted remote administration. This update is free for all AmTelnet 1.x users!
A new beta version (3.10) of the AmigaNCP FileSystem is now available, now with working PsionToAmiga clipboard support.

VaporWare website
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4.9.99 Between the Lines Game
Dreamworlds Development is developing Between The Lines, a 3D real-time action RPG. It will require a PowerPC processor, 32MB Ram with the engine using Warp3D. They also plan to develop the game for the AmigaNG. The Between the Lines page has been completely redone, including more details and new screenshots. Have a look at it!

DreamWorlds Development website
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4.9.99 PHOENIX News
Emmanuel Henne: "Here are some new engine-shots (pic 1, pic 2, pic 3) off our testing-pipeline of PHOENIX, an upcoming space game for Amiga (minimum 040) and Mac. We're at the moment working on finishing the engine and the scripting language. We have included "level of detail"-features to allow a fluid gameplay on weaker machines (slow PPC, 060, 040). The game will feature fully animated CG-scenes and a boombastic soundtrack to support the immersive storyline. We're also evaluating the possibility of using speech throughout the game (loads of speech, that is!)."

Emmanuel Henne, Future Tales
PHOENIX website (APC&TCP)
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4.9.99 Software News
New beta version of STRICQ 0.1497 (4.9.1999 14:38:19), ICQ clone based upon MUI interface, is now available (just exe file). Single chat mode is fully working again. Release Notes
New serial driver (1.36) for Twister 1200, very fast serial interface (A1200), is now available. The driver is more optimized. Native 'Miami EOF Mode' supported now.
ReqChange v3.15, program that replaces several common requesters with the ones ReqTools offers, is now available. Fixed a bug in the patch handling code that made it difficult for the program AWebResume to work properly.
New versions of akNAIL 44.4 (3.9.99 - 68k) and akMPEG 2.54 (1.9.99 - 68k+PPC) are available here. Online registration site.

STRICQ webpage
KATO Development Group website
Magnus Holmgren's page
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX webpage
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3.9.99 First info from Amiga
Amiga News & Diary: Jim Collas has resigned
It's just the link to "Gateway Says President Of Amiga Unit Quits" Yahoo! News.

inet
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3.9.99 iBrowse²
HiSoft: It's been a long time coming, but now it's here and we know you are going to LOVE it! Of course the big new feature in iBrowse² is JavaScript support.
YES! iBrowse² is finally available!

HiSOFT Systems website
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3.9.99 Will Gateway build and sell Microsoft's set-top-boxes?
Next Generation magazine has revealed that Microsoft is working on a set-top games playing console, code named X-Box. According to the article, Dell and Gateway will probably build and sell their consoles. Is everything OK with Gateway in regard to its subsidiary Amiga company? Who knows.

someone via Team Amiga ML :-)
Next Generation magazine website
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3.9.99 Pagan News
Thank you to everyone who applied for a job at Pagan. New Pagan Members: Greg New - 3D artist working on the Scavengers Project; Ken Heslip - 3D Artist working on Scavengers/Magick; Lee Crawford - Lead Designer for Magick; Andrew Bell - In-house coder.
The Pagan Discussion board is now open. Feel free to join the conversations. This is a moderated board so rules have been made. Before you can enter the discussions, you must first abide by these rules and register yourself as a user.

Pagan-games website
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3.9.99 P5 G4 cards in North America
Randomize provides pre-order discount offer for new Phase5 G4 Accelerators. 5% discount for those pre-ordering and a 10% discount for those pre-paying (pre-paid orders will have highest shipping priority). Based on the recent announcment from Phase5 to go directly to the new G4 CPU, Randomize changed Genesis Odyssey specs. Genesis Odyssey G4 should be fastest Amigas ever made using the G4 at 350Mhz and 400Mhz.

Randomize website
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3.9.99 FastATA'99 ver.4.x
ELBOX Computer is proud to present FastATA'99 ver.4.x. FastATA'99 4.x is the fourth generation ATA/ATAPI control software for ELBOX FastATA/PowerFlyer/Winner HighSpeed Controllers for Amiga 1200. With this software the newest PowerFlyer/FastATA/Winner High Speed Controllers with new EIDE/UltraATA HHDs may reach over 10 MB/sec. (Sysinfo, DriveSpeed) and with new CD-ROM drives may exceed 7 MB/sec. Read more.

ELBOX website
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3.9.99 Foundation & Foundation DC News
'Foundation DC' contains the latest (V1.25) of the game which is optimized for GFX Cards and features the new rendering system with Gouraud shading, texture blending, transparency and lighting effects. The game is now available with a Suggested Retail Price of £14.99 or 49DM.
Update V1.26 should be compatable with all currently available versions of the game (original Foundation & Foundation DC). Support will continue as final optimizations and gameplay changes are made. However author is finding less time to work on these updates ad the work on Foundation's Edge takes up most of his time.

Foundation website
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3.9.99 Imagine 5.16
A new update release of the Imagine Amiga Constant Upgrade Program (ACUP) is now available - Imagine V5.16.
Updated the V5.16 "new user" archives (PPC versions of the effects were missing...).

CAD-Technologies website
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2.9.99 WHAT's WRONG ?
c|net News.com - Gateway's Amiga president jumps ship
ZDNet - Collas Out as Amiga President
TheRegister - Amiga president bails
ZDNet - Schmidt Appointed New Amiga President    Amiga Corporate page: Tom Schmidt
ZDNet - Amiga chief resigns unexpectedly
ZDNet - Dave Haynie comments

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2.9.99 Another Interview with Iwin
Check the new interview with Iwin Corporation.

.AmiUpdate website
Iwin Corporation website
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2.9.99 New REBOL
REBOL version 2.1.2 is now available for free download (000,020+).

REBOL website
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2.9.99 More Relevant Amiga Patents
System for Combining Electronic Program Guide Data
Multichannel Conflict Resolver for Convergence System
Associating Web Sites to Television Programs
Scheduled Caching of In-band Data Services
Internet Source into TV Program Database
System for Invoking Chennel and Event Functionality
System for Managing Favorite Channels
Multipurpose Channel Banner
Graphic Layout Controller for Television Environment
Individualized Parameter Control for Multiple Media Sources
Channel Tuner for Television (Convergence Devices)
Event Time Shifting for Convergence System
Channel Map for Multiple Input Devices
Reminder System for Scheduled Recordings
Architecture for Convergence Systems
Displaying Layered Information Using Lenticular-Like Interfaces
Mutatably Transparent Displays

The man behind the new Amiga Patents. This page talks about various HTML/TV info, all of which sound similar to the patents Amiga just filed. It also goes on to say that Ted is the chief engineer at 'Over the Moon productions', a wholly owned subsidiary of Gateway. Wugofski is an active contributor to the ATSC T3/S17 specialist group defining digital television software environments; his latest contribution being a specification for Broadcast HTML.


Fabian Jimenez
ICOA website
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2.9.99 GREAT NEWS: Blizzard/Cyberstorm G3 Cancelled
Faster than expected just five weeks ago, Motorola's new PowerPC G4 (XPC7400) processor powerhorse is now shipping! Phase5 have therefore immediately decided to make this brand-new technology available to all Amiga 1200/3000/4000 users, by shipping all of our upcoming next generation CYBERSTORM and BLIZZARD boards with these new high-performance G4 CPUs ! For all Amiga users, who now finally decide to buy a next generation CYBERSTORM or BLIZZARD G4 board, they have extended the preoder program with significant discounts one last time until October 15, 1999. Read more.

Arnljot Arntsen
Phase5 website
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2.9.99 Petro Tyschtschenko cancels his Saku 99 visit
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 2, 1999 - Amiga's Petro Tyschtschenko cancelled today his planned attendance at Saku 99 this Saturday, the biggest Amiga event in Finland. The resignation of Amiga president Jim Collas forces Mr.Tyschtschenko to attend important meetings in the U.S. this weekend. Amiga assured that this is not to be taken as a sign of them closing down. Read more.

Janne Siren
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1.9.99 AMIGAOnline.NET Goes Online
AmigaOnline.NET, the first international Amiga-centric internet service provider, will go ONLINE today. In less than two months they have increased from 150 dial-up network phone numbers to more than 550 and will exceed 600 in just a few weeks. American and Canadian subscribers will receive unlimited access, 5 megs of web space, email, news, and a unique boingsphere of influence, which shifts control of the internet experience to the your computer making it the first operational AmigaObject (TM). Read more.

AmigaOnline.NET website
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1.9.99 Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 1, 1999 - Saku 99, the biggest Amiga event in Finland this year, will be on this Saturday in Vantaa. The show starts at 12 o'clock and will feature Amiga related competitions, demonstrations, retailers and video films. Read more.

Janne Siren
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1.9.99 V³ Incomplete TearOff classes
The TearOff MUI classes included in the V3 pre1/2 archives are incomplete and are missing some vital parts. Please download the complete TearOff installation and install it.

V3·Portal
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1.9.99 FusionPPC News
Joseph Fenton:"Although AmigaOS doesn't officially support the MMU, WarpOS does, which is why WarpOS will be required for the initial release of FUSION PPC. Also, all new PPC cards will come with the needed HAL for WarpOS; any PPC should work with WarpOS with only the HAL being changed (which is why Sam did the HAL). WarpOS is the official PPC OS of AmigaOS 3.5, so I would guess that most PPC manufacturers will support it. I guess there will be two camps, AmigaOS/WarpOS, and QNX/PowerUP. We will look into a QNX version of FUSION PPC when QNX becomes available."

Fusion ML
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1.9.99 AHI News
The PPC assembler mixing routines are much faster than the C version, although there is still plenty of room for improvements. It's also stable now, which means author will release a beta version in a couple of days. This is a "incomplet and incorrekt" list of what's left to be done (until I'll release the final version of AHI/PPC, that is. There is still much to be done to AHI itself, of course):
Add PPC assembler mixing routines for 16 bit samples (resolved before the beta is released)
Add m68k assembler mixing routines (8 and 16 bit)
Add WarpUp support (partly done)
Considered adding non-hifi mixing routines when the new mixing code has stabilized


AHI homepage
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1.9.99 Games News
Goal 2000 is a rework of the old classic, Goal. Alive are currently saying that the game will see the light of day sometime in September.
A new and final demo of Virtual Grand Prix has just been released on Aminet (1.25MB). The game that was originally released in demo form under the name of AlienF1 a few years ago has now reached the end of its development. The game should be released withing the next few days. A quick update on the features of the game reveals such things as all 16 circuits from the 1998 GP season, telemetry, 3D rendered animations, digitised speech and of course, the most realistic racing simulation ever. Development doesn't end completly here though as the author plans to improve it with one of the first additions hopefully being PPC support which may allow 640x512 resolutions.
The World Foundry News - Latest Explorer 2260 and Maim & Mangle infos.

AmigaNutta website
The World Foundry website
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1.9.99 August News
News from August '99 can be found in Execute History section.