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A N E W C E O A T A M I G A ?
A M I G A ' S C E O W I L L A T T E N D A M I W E S T
I T I S N ' T 1 9 9 9 A N Y M O R E
A M I W E S T U P D A T E
G E N E S I I N T E R E S T E D I N A M I W E S T
N E W V E R S I O N O F Y A M M A I L E R R E L E A S E D
C R O N O S O F T - N E W S O F T W A R E H O U S E
A M I P R I M A G E L A Y E R
D E L F I N A I N T R O D U C E D A T A M I G B G
S P I D E R I I U S B F R O M E L B O X
I N C A G O L D A N D H Y P E R I O N I N K D E A L
N E S E M U L A T O R W O R K S O N P I C A S S O 9 6
N E W V E R S I O N O F P E R F E C T P A I N T A R R I V E S
A M I N E T R A D I O F R O M A M I G A Z E U X
W I N U A E N E W V E R S I O N A N N O U N C E D
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Well now, this has been a very strange month. At present time, there
are two Amiga products - game packs - on the shelves at CompUSA. If
you check it out at one of their stores, or company website, you'll
see them listed with "Manufacturer: MicroSoft". In fact, they're Amiga
products being resold by MicroSoft. I find that both encouraging and
amusing.
Just plain strange is the affirmation by the folks who run Genesi
(makers of the pseudo Amiga Pegasos computer and MorphOS) that there
is a new CEO at Amiga. We have a carefully worded message from Fleecy
Moss below in answer.
Actually, if Amiga were to bring a new CEO on line that could well be
a good sign. The first thought would be the company had grown too
large for Bill McEwen to handle everything himself. Fleecy's note
seems to indicate similar thoughts. According to Genesi, the new CEO's
name is Garry Hare. Time will tell.
Interesting things in this issue, we hope you enjoy it.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:
15 Apr 2003
Brad, Thank you for your continuing work on the newsletter. Its about
all that I receive that keeps me "in the know".
I have a question.
I am using "cloanto's Amiga Forever" and it is a daunting task to
understand the ways to get it working with my favorite Amiga programs
and, of course, there is no one available to help when I am stumped.
I would like to install Final Writer and have transferred the info
from the amiga disk to a PC formatted disk. However, when I try to
unpack & install within Amiga Forever page I get an error. Thank you
for any thoughts you may have or direction you can point me towards!
Nelson
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Nelson,
Thank you for the kind words. As for your question, let's toss that
out to our readers. There's bound to be someone who can help with this
particular software mix, since I don't use "Amiga Forever". It would
help, though, to know the exact error message. Lacking that, perhaps
someone could send a set of instructions on how one goes about getting
"Final Writer" working with Amiga Forever.
Brad
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{Rumors have been circulating this month that there is a new CEO
taking office at Amiga Inc. The rumors seem to have originated from
people associated with the Pegasos/MorphOS products (Genesi). Below is
a responce from Amiga CTO Fleecy Moss. We have seen this post on more
than one website, but it seems to have been first posted at AmigaWorld
(URL at end of item). Brad}
"Has Amiga Inc changed CEO?"
Fleecy: As of this moment Bill McEwen is the CEO of Amiga and if a
new CEO was to be brought in, it would be because of Amiga expanding
as a company and Bill needing to concentrate on being Chairman and
President - currently he is CEO as well and three top jobs in a
company that is attracting the attention we are is at least one job
too many.
Any CEO to be brought in would be as part of the team and would be
totally in sync with the current strategic direction of the company.
If someone is posting information to the contrary then it can only be
for ulterior motives.
http://www.amigaworld.net
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A M I G A ' S C E O W I L L A T T E N D A M I W E S T
Bill McEwen - President/CEO of Amiga, Inc. to attend AmiWest in
Sacramento
Snoqualmie, WA 98065 - Amiga, Inc. announces that Bill McEwen the CEO
of Amiga, Inc. will once again attend AmiWest.
"There is a great deal of activity going on at Amiga, and I am
looking forward to sharing it all with you. We have kept ourselves
focused and stayed the course toward success. I look forward to seeing
all of you again in Sacramento."
><> Bill McEwen ><>
President/CEO
Amiga, Inc.
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I T I S N ' T 1 9 9 9 A N Y M O R E
{Last month we mentioned the "Ask Fleecy" feature now running weekly
on AmigaWorld.net (URL in previous item). We won't be bringing you all
the postings there, as they would easily fill the newsletter and we're
not sure of the legality of running the entire thing. However, the
following recent answer from Fleecy is one we couldn't pass up. Under
"fair use" rules, we think we can pass this along to our readers. Food
for thought.
We strongly encourage you to stop by the AmigaWorld website to check
out the information Fleecy provides. This is an excellent service to
the community, much to the credit of AmigaWorld.net. Brad}
5) ssolie: Does Amiga Inc. still plan to take back control of the
AmigaOS 4.0 source code (i.e. purchase it back from Hyperion) and
produce your own releases beyond AmigaOS 4.0?
Fleecy: Absolutely. The transfer of AmigaOS4 to Hyperion was done for
a number of strategic reasons, one being to protect the AmigaOS for
the community and prevent it being left in limbo if anything should
happen to the parent company as was witnessed after Commodore and
Escom went bankrupt. We will reassert ownership when both Hyperion and
Amiga judge the time to be right, and there are certain less than
obvious benefits to maintaing the current situation.
The location of ownership has nothing to do with the future plans.
Amiga Inc is fully committed to the development and expansion of
AmigaOS way beyond AmigaOS4.0. Detailed planning and design for
AmigaOS4.1 is already underway alongside the parallel path of AG2. AG2
technology will be rolled into the AmigaOS4 release family as and when
it is ready but the two will not be dependent on each other - in other
words potential delays in one will not affect the other. Contrary to
the occasional speculation that Amiga doesn't care or has no plans for
the AmigaOS, that product line is and always has been vital to our
future success. Back in 1999, it would have been impossible to gain
interest and investment in a company offering a desktop competitor to
Microsoft and so our public strategy had to be tailored to fit that
reality.
It isn't 1999 anymore.
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A M I W E S T U P D A T E
4 Apr 2003
From the beginning of the AmiWest shows, certain goals and objectives
have been in evidence. While those who have been connected with the
show are aware of most of those goals and objectives, many of you who
attend may not be aware or may be new to the show. So for you (and to
remind others), here are the things we are trying to accomplish with
each and every AmiWest show.
1. First of all, we are providing a place for the Amiga community to
gather. This gathering takes place from among a worldwide community of
developers, users, retailers, and others interested in our great Amiga
computers. Old friendships are renewed and new friends are made among
the many attendees at AmiWest. User groups are especially encouraged
to come and exhibit through a user group special rate policy detailed
on our website. (see www.sacc.org/amiwest/exhibform.html#pricing)
2. Second, we provide a place for breaking news announcements of
interest to the Amiga community. Amiga Inc. has always sent a
representative to our show and other companies who are part of the
Amiga marketplace have also sent their representatives to announce
significant developments.
3. Third, we provide an encouraging, peaceful atmosphere where even
those in conflict can come, bury the hatchet, and meet in a
high-energy environment for exchange of ideas. We tell those that are
in conflict, legally or otherwise, to please leave their conflicts for
other arenas.
4. Fourth, we provide a place where vendors can come to sell the
latest and greatest Amiga technologies as well as some of the best
tried and true Amiga hardware and software. Each has its advocates and
we support the efforts of our vendors who support our show and make it
possible.
5. And fifth, we try to be as educational as possible along the way.
We're working on a few surprises this year as we try to do every year.
We're also continuing our practice of giving qualified presenters a
platform to demonstrate what the Amiga can do.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So remember,
AmiWest 2003 is rolling! The facility is reserved and the vendors
are notified! Keep watching for these releases and tell everyone
that you know - the Amiga and the Amiga community is alive and
well!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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G E N E S I I N T E R E S T E D I N A M I W E S T
26-Apr-2003: Genesi wants to attend at AmiWest show
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco today announced that Genesi wants to
attend at the AmiWest show, held in Sacramento, CA on July 26th and
27th 2003. Genesi wants to present the new G4 CPU card for the
Pegasos1, the new software bundle and maybe also a prototype of the
Pegasos2 motherboard and of course MorphOS.
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N E W V E R S I O N O F Y A M M A I L E R R E L E A S E D
26 April, 2003
The YAM (Yet-Another-Mailer) open source team is pleased to announce
the release of version 2.4 of the well-known AmigaOS Email client
(MUA). After 18 months hard work this new version features tremendous
bugfixes and enhancements to once more stable it's leadership on the
AmigaOS based MUA clients. YAM (short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a
MIME-compliant Internet mailer written for AmigaOS computers. It
supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP,
unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, configurable GUI, ARexx
interface.
NEW FEATURES
* Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be arranged into groups,
and nested at the user's discretion
* SMTP & POP3 TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using
AmiSSL.library
* Email address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last N
used recipients if they don't appear in the address book
* More powerful recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases, real
names and email addresses "on the fly" as they are found in the
address book or the email cache
* Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists
* Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant for
cyrillic users.
* Reworked status bar
* Automatically finds the suitable mailing list support settings
* Extended support for mailto: links
* Search function in the Write window
* Customizable size format and localized unit display
* Individual appicon stats for folders, with an user-definable label
* New hidden option "JumpToIncoming"
* Deleting a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a
"[...]" marker
* Built-in mouse wheel support
* New "marked" status
* "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types
* Extended documentation
Yeah, Amiga is still alive and will be forever !!
http://sourceforge.net
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C R O N O S O F T - N E W S O F T W A R E H O U S E
24 April, 2003
CRONOSOFT is a new software distributor for NEW software or Old
UNreleased software for older platform systems, whether commercially
unsupported or still supported, as with the Amiga for example.
CRONOSOFT invites anyone, from any part of the world, who still
develops software and wants to sell it ( Games, Utilities, etc. ) but
doesn't want the hassle of packaging and distributing it to buyers
themselves, to submit their programs for evaluation. If accepted, your
software will be sold via the main website, and other outlets such as
eBay for example, complete with color inlays or covers, which can be
created for you at no extra cost if you don't/can't provide your own,
plus documentation, etc. also at no extra cost to you.
The average 8bit game cassette is sold at a standard price of £2.99,
however this is not set in stone and the price at which you would like
your software to be sold can be discussed with us. Of course more
powerful systems, especially larger programs sold on CD, have a higher
standard price. Once again the price is negotiable, but CRONOSOFT
would like to make software as affordable as possible to be able to
distribute it to a large number of potential buyers.
CRONOSOFT makes its income by sharing the profits with you. So far
the software currently available has had very good sales, and
extremely good sales considering it has only started a little over a
month ago! There are also many other titles to come besides what is on
the Future Releases page and we'd like your software to be among them!
Systems currently supported are the following:
3DO
Amiga ( Upto 3.9 )
Amiga CDTV / CD32
Amstrad CPC
Atari 400/800/XL/XE ( Tape )
Atari ST
Commodore 16 ( Tape )
Commodore 64 ( Tape or disk )
Commodore Vic 20 ( Tape or disk )
Dragon 32 ( Tape )
Oric/Atmos ( Tape or 3'' / 3.5'' disk)
Sega Mega CD / Sega CD
Sharp MZ ( Tape )
Sinclair ZX Spectrum and compatibles ( Tape, +3 disk, Microdrive,
Tr-Dos BetaDisk )
Sinclair ZX81 ( Tape )
Tandy CoCo ( Tape )
Please note that CRONOSOFT may support a wider range of platforms in
the future. Newer OSs such as Windows, Linux, Mac etc. may also be a
possibility. If you have software for another system please don't
hesitate to get in contact with us for possible inclusion. If it is
not possible at this time then perhaps in the future.
For more information and ways to contact please visit
http://www.cronosoft.co.uk/
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A M I P R I M A G E L A Y E R
1 April, 2003
Introduction
AmiPR ImageLayer adds the feature of previewing images in the
standard Workbench directory lister to the Amiga. The program creates
thumnails of the picture for every image in the selected path and
stores it in a separate directory for quick display. Your old
Workbench icons will not be deleted.
AmiPR ImageLayer needs OS 3.5 as the Preferences tool is based on
Reaction.
http://mason.home.bei.t-online.de/AmiPRIndex.html
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D E L F I N A I N T R O D U C E D A T A M I G B G
03 April, 2003
Our new soundcard Delfina was introduced successfully last weekend at
the AmiGBG show in Gothenburg, Sweden. Meanwhile, all important
European dealers have been supplied, so the anticipated delivery date
of April 7th can be kept without problems.
The module that is available now is ready to be used on nearly any
Amiga. The included 22-pin cable for the A1200 clockport can also be
used to connect to an X-Surf Ethernet card in a "bigbox" Amiga.
Probably the most important reason to buy this card is the DSP, the
digital signal processor. For example it allows playing back MP3
nearly without CPU load. MP3 is a popular audio format that is also
used by artists to put demos on the internet. Free music samples and
full titles are available on sites like Entertainment-Mafia. With the
Delfina, an Amiga can playback MP3 even without an accelerator in the
best possible quality.
individual Computers
Roermonder Str 228 | 52072 Aachen | Fax: +49 241 12088
http://ami.ga
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S P I D E R I I U S B F R O M E L B O X
8 April, 2003
Elbox Computer is proud to announce release of Spider II--the new
version of the ground-breaking Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed controller.
Spider II is based on the newest USB 2.0 PCI chipset, improving data
transmission by up to 20 percent of bandwidth as compared with the
previous USB 2.0 chipset.
The Spider II USB 2.0 PCI card is a simple and affordable way to add
five Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports to Mediator-equipped Amigas or to
computers running AmigaOS under the Amithlon emulation.
USB 2.0 is the fastest USB standard ever, supporting data speeds up
to 480Mbps. That is 40 times faster than USB 1.1, making USB 2.0 ideal
for external storage devices, scanners, CD-RWs, printers, cameras, and
more.
The Spider II USB 2.0 PCI card gives your computer the highest USB
speeds available today.
The Spider II USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI controller is backward-compatible,
which means it works also with older USB 1.1 peripherals.
Features
· Five USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports: four external and one internal
· 32-bit 33MHz DMA host interface compliant with the PCI 2.2
specification
· Compliant with the EHCI (USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1) specifications
· Consists of three independent host controllers: two OHCI (Open Host
- Controller Interface) and one EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller
Interface)
· All ports can handle high-speed (480Mbps), full-speed (12Mbps) and
- low-speed (1.5Mbps) transactions
· Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices
· Supplies 500mA power to each USB port
· Supports the PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
· Includes drivers for AmigaOS for all Mediator busboards and for
Amithlon
· Amiga support works under the Poseidon stack
Requirements
· One free PCI slot
· Mediator Multimedia CD (for Mediator based systems)
Package contents
· Spider II USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI card
· CD with Mediator and Amithlon EHCI (USB 2.0) drivers for Poseidon
Pricing and availability
The Spider II USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card will be on sale as of 15
April 2003, at the suggested retail price of EUR 49.95 (VAT excl.)
To locate an authorized distributor visit
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