14.Oct.2000
VMC
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VMC News
From now on, the VMC-ISDN and HyperCOM user-forums may again be used
without any problems. All of the links of our vmc.de domain have been
transfered to our usbhop.de until the definitive re-transfer.
Also, Mr. Frank of VMC asks Mr. Schönfeld of Individual Computers to expose
the true facts.
More infos at the title link.
Supplement:
Since amiga-news does not want to become the scene of such
conflicts, we would like to ask our readers, who want to be informed about the
process of this conflict, to get information directly on the websites of the relevant
companies:
VMC ./.
Individual Computers.
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14.Oct.2000
H&P
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H&P: New ImageFX Offers
For a limited period of time we offer all of the ImageFX packages (also all of
the updates) including the PPC-Expansion PowerStation. You can get an overview
on the offers in the press release at the title link.
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14.Oct.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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SWOS Tournament in Danger!
What a pity. It could have been so cool! Actually I had planned to host a SWOS
tournament at the AmigaMeeting. Sponsors had quickly been found. Now the whole
thing might not take place.
- My ride has jumped off: Persons from the region Aix-la-Chapelle/Cologne who want to go
there please contact me!
- Only 3 people (including me) have registered until now. All interested
people please register!
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14.Oct.2000
Frogger-Homepage
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FROGGER - New Beta-Version of the well known MPEG-Player
FROGGER a MPEG-Player for the AMIGA that allows acceptable replay
speeds even on slower cpus (68030).
The '1.62 beta 2' version of the program, a further development of the 68K-
and PPC-version, can be downloaded at the title link.
On the FROGGER download-site there is also a new FROGGER-Start-Pic.
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14.Oct.2000
AROS
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AROS: Development Status
On oktober 11th, 2000 AROS has released a status report about the current status of
this Open Source project. The changes concern mainly the AROS version for
x86 computers.
Cleaning-up of the AROS source tree by Bernardo Innocenti, simple hardfile
support of FFS formatted floppy disks (ADF) by Georg Steger, and better mouse
support for AROS native/x86 by Tobias Seiler (mouse buttons work now). Georg
threw in some additional code to change the position of the mouse pointer on
the screen, and now you can move the window around. Since VGA.HIDD doesn't
support the XOR drawing mode, yet there is still some graphics garbage when you move
the window, but that should be fixed, soon.
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14.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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StarOffice-Sourcecode Released
Sun has released the source code of StarOffice as Open Source on October 13th,
2000. This is the pre-release of StarOffice 6.0. The further development of
the package has been handed over to the OpenOffice-Project.
The source code is 400 MByte in size, and is available for download at the OpenOffice
website for download. It contains 35,000 files which count all together some
9 million lines of C++ code. A Pentium III computer with 256 MB RAM and Linux
would need some 20 hours to compile the package. The space required on the
harddrive will grow up to 2 GByte while doing this. Currently supported are
Windows, Linux, and Solaris. A version for Mac OsX, which is said to be still in an
earlier stade, should follow.
Sun themself will still participate in developing the Office package in the future
through their development department in Hamburg, and release official StarOffice
versions basing on OpenOffice. Those will also contain components which
Sun has acquired from thrid party companies and thus are not part of the
OpenOffice package. These components include the spell checker, the thesaurus
and the database Adabas D.
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14.Oct.2000
Martin "Mason" Merz in ANF
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MI News: AppMI - 5. Release
AppMI is a freeware collection of images and animations for toolbars with
GlowIcons design, which would perhaps become a standard for the Classic Amiga
System. The fourth update has been completed now.
The new archive contains 66 new or reworked images, 2 new animations and a
new HTML documentation for easier navigation. More informations about AppMI
are available here.
The archive for registered users will be sent to them by email soon.
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14.Oct.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail
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News about SView-Ports
SuperView is a well known graphics converting and viewing tool well knwon of the Amiga.
The author Andreas Kleinert is working on porting SView to other systems,
and publishes a status report:
The GUI preview of the planned WinSView tool kit still is
at alpha state while subject of intensive development. Hence it still is not available, but
by this you will get some initial impression on what it is about.
Development takes place on two levels:
- 1. The underlying C++ class library for image handling (loading, saving)
- 2. The program surface (GUI) in form of a MFC 4.1-based design
Both originally were developed using Watcom C/C++ - for the class library part
and for testing it we use the Watcom C/C++ V11 ability to develop 32 bit
software for the Win9x/NT character mode (DOS box), and for the GUI
part BlueSky's Visual Programmer is utilized.
But the design of the C++ classes is completely platform independent
(e.g. regarding endianess) and suitable to be ported for a wide range
of operating systems, e.g. certain Linux derives, BeOS or QNX. Additionally,
no compiler specific C++ specialities are used ("baseline C++") and utilization
from a clean C program is no problem.
More infos can be found at the title link.
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13.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
A-Fix_08102000.lha comm/ambos 77K+AmBoS-Fix Rel. 08102000 (Sunday 08-Oct-0
StrICQSnd1.lha comm/misc 86K+Sound's for StrICQ in WAV-format
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 10K+V1.2, YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 +
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 212K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.4 - *
CnS4.lha demo/mag 290K+CnS#4 - Diskmag with 4 new interviews!
BlitzLstSep00.lha dev/basic 349K+Blitz mailing list archives for Septembe
wla_dx_020_6.8.lzh dev/cross 298K+WLA DX v6.8 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816
Python16_Src.lha dev/lang 2.0M+Python language 1.6 (source)
SATKG2k-inv.lha docs/anno 920K+Satellite&Kindergarden-2000, invitation.
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
StarTrekCONN.lha game/misc 588K+Play in the StarTrek:TNG Universe
Skulpt_doc.lha gfx/3d 746K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
stlist.lha misc/emu 13K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
Obitus.lha mods/misc 80K+Custom module from "Obitus"
Protector.lha mods/misc 30K+Custom module from "Protector"
VictoryRoad.lha mods/misc 6K+Custom module from "Victory Road"
brm_cook.lha mods/techn 400K+DBM by brm.
brm_prop.lha mods/techn 758K+DBM by brm.
brm_refu.lha mods/techn 251K+DBM by brm.
brm_sala.lha mods/techn 519K+DBM by brm.
VR-family.jpg pix/art 11K+Jpg picture with fxPaint
AP11Recto.jpg pix/misc 84K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 11 Cover Recto
Epson_600.lha text/print 41K+Epson Stylus 600/700 Driver for WB V40.2
AutoRunNG_NO.lha util/cdity 1K+Norwegian catalog for AutoRunNG
Find.lha util/cli 30K+Find utility with many options
DirMaid.lha util/misc 12K+Sort your directories automatically.
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 62K+Report+ 3.5: 9-function utility
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 55K+V1.21 - Test and identify wb-program
arc2arc28.lha util/rexx 5K+Convert any archive format easily
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13.Oct.2000
Haage & Partner
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STFax 4.5 Available
Now that Haage & Partner took over the distribution of STFax (the powerful
fax and phone answering software), a new version is available. It now supports
ELSA Office modems. For customers of version 4.x, a free update is available
on H&P's FTP Server.
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13.Oct.2000
Amster Website
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Amster Website has Moved
The website for the Napster client for Amiga, "Amster", can now be reached
at http://www.amiga.dk/amster/.
Please, change your bookmarks.
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13.Oct.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail
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Elbox: SHARK ATTACK
Detailed information from Elbox
about their new PowerPC processor boards for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000. Announced
are PPC G3/G4 boards named SHARK with various processors which can be fitted
into the MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI A3/4000 bus boards:
Date Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:59:45 +0200
From ELBOX press@elbox.com
Subject SHARK ATTACK
ELBOX COMPUTER
Krakow, 12 October 2000
ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to announce the breath-taking new product: the
most powerful PowerPC accelerator for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000.
The new accelerator - SharkPPC G3/G4 board - is a pure PowerPC-based
processor card to be fitted in MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI
A3/4000 busboards.
SharkPPC G3/G4 cards give Amiga Classic computers the top performance of
the latest PowerPC technology and the power of the long-awaited next
generation computer.
New PowerPC750 processors installed in SharkPPC G3/G4 cards offer the
following performance: 17.4SPECint95@400MHz, 11.7SPECfp95@400MHz,
928DMIPS@400MHz, 22.4SPECint95@550MHz, 13.3SPECfp95@550MHz,
1276DMIPS@550MHz.
The SharkPPC G3/G4 design combines speed of PowerPC G3/G4 processors
with extremely fast on-board memory interface controlling two SDRAM
modules, up to 512MB each. The peak memory transfer rate reaches
582MB/s. The accelerator card takes control over the PCI busboard with a
66MHz PCI 2.1 compliant interface fitted with a two-channel DMA
controller.
Communication between the existing Amiga turbo accelerator and the
SharkPPC G3/G4 card is executed with the shared SDRAM memory and the
interrupt controller in the MEDIATOR PCI hardware. The new accelerator
offers excellent bandwidth to any PCI card: 264 MB/s (132 MB/s in the
system with 33 MHz PCI cards). This powerful performance in PCI graphic
cards enables development of new superb games/graphic applications in
the native PPC code.
All the currently available Amiga software may be executed in the 68k
processor with full use of all the PCI cards installed in the computer.
It is possible because both accelerator cards installed in the computer
access all the PCI cards independently.
On top of that, in new applications to be developed both accelerators
may enhance performance of each other just the same way as it is done in
advanced multi-processor systems. This is due to the fact that
processors in both accelerators (68k/PPC and SharkPPC) work fully
simultaneously, which is for the first time available for Amiga users.
The first SharkPPC G3/G4 cards for developers will be available by end
of November, with production planned to commence in January 2001.
When new speed versions of PowerPC processors are available, the
SharkPPC line will be expanded with more models.
The suggested retail price (VAT excl.) for the SharkPPC G3/G4
accelerators are:
SharkPPC G3/G4 750@400................ EUR 390.00
(PowerPC750@400MHz and 256KB@400MHz L2 Cache)
SharkPPC G3/G4 750@550................ EUR 520.00
(PowerPC750@550MHz and 256KB@550MHz L2 Cache)
Pricing of versions with other processors will be announced separately.
NEW
Please look for our further releases:
1. Development progress of PCI Sound and TV card drivers for MEDIATOR
PCI 1200.
2. MEDIATOR development line (A4000 and A3000).
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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13.Oct.2000
Thorsten Schölzel via eMail
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Amiga Shockwave-Player Support Page
Thorsten Schölzel writes:
Herewith I would like to announce the opening of the "Amiga Shockwave-Player
Support" page. On the support page, you will find a shockwave player for Amiga as
well as a configuration for the player under AWeb and IBrowse, so you can
finally see shockwave files through a browser.
Currently, the site is under construction, but more content will follow in
the next days.
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12.Oct.2000
tel. Harald Frank
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Heavy Domain Quarrel between VMC and Individual Computers!
Sure one ore the other usere already realized that the website of Harald Frank
VMC is taken by foreign content. The reader is
welcomed to a completely new pay system in the internet. As contact address
jens@jschoenfeld.de is given.
Calling Harald Frank provided clearness. A heavy domain quarrel between Individual Computers
and VMC is the cause. Until this is cleared up VMC will be accessible at
http://www.usbshop.de.
At the title link you will find the following statement by VMC:
«10-11-2000Unbelievable, www.vmc.de was stolen!
As we had to realize this afternoon the owner of our domain was, pretending wrong facts, renamed to
Mr. Schönfeld by the internet provider Schlund.
The internet pages viewed at the domain which was up to now our domain, have nothing to do with our
company, and also every e-mail to the addresses of VMC are sent to Mr. Schönfeld directly, by-passing
the mail secret.
Because of this we ask all of the customers to send their e-mails to our
usbshop.de domain which means to you, just to change the name vmc.de
into usbshop.de in the e-mail addresses for the next days.
According to information via telephone by Individual Computers Jens Schonefeld will use this campaign to force
a better position of him to the company VMC Harald Frank regarding wholesale prices for VMC driver software.»
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12.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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Get More Information about Amiga - The Next Generation Computing Platform
On the homepage of Amiga was an interesting article released about the past and future of
the Amiga. Included is a list of programs that will likely be ported to the
AmigaOne.
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12.Oct.2000
Jörg Dietrich at the ANF
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Opera Beta for Linux-PPC Available
Jörg Dietrich wrote:
And though it works: Opera runs on Amiga! Only on APUS, but better than nothing. The beta-version
of Opera, the commercial web-browser, is now for Linux PowerPC available (title link). It runs
on my Amiga 1200 with Debian Potato.
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12.Oct.2000
Pagan-Games
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"Earth 2140"-demo Released
Now there is a 13MB demoversion of the realtime strategy game "Earth 2140" available
for download. System requirements (min.) are a 040/25 processor (recommended: 060 or
PPC WarpOS), a gfx-board (CGFX & P96), 24 MB RAM (32 MB) and about about 20 MB space
on your harddisk.
You can download the demo version here.
Also Pagan-Games said the graphic for the game "Dafel:Bloodline" was nearly complete
so they can work now on the code for Classic Amigas, Mac and PC.
Supplement:
Thomas Steiding via eMail
Epic Interactive proudly announces
the release of the Amiga demo version of "Earth 2140", a port of a classic C&C clone.
You can find the demo at the download section. The complete game is about to be released
early November for DM 99,95. But you can preorder directly at Epic Interactive for
DM 89,95 (plus delivery and package). This offer is valid till October 25th, 2000. If the server is not accessible
you can download it here: http://www.pagan-games.com, the great boys who have ported
this game from PC to Amiga.
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12.Oct.2000
Peter Weigoldt
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Schlachtfeld V2.15
Due to some wrong set attributes during archiving problems appeared. The lha-archive
of the game "Schlachtfeld" was now completely new archived and was tested by Peter
Weigoldt.
Download: Schlachtfeld2_V2.15.lzx
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12.Oct.2000
Amiga Globe
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Drawstudio at Kickstart Amiga Group
The known paint-, illustrations- and presentation software
Drawstudio is from now on
again available at Kickstart. Because the developers have left the Amiga market
there will be no support and no updates for the product.
System requirements: Amiga with 68020 or better, Workbench 2.04 or better, 3 MB
free RAM, 2MB free HD space. FPU, gfx-board or AGA are supported but not necessary.
PPC is not supported.
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12.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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Interview with Fleecy Moss at "Temple Of Technology"
You will find an interesting interview with Fleecy Moss at the title link. Browser
without CSS-support (Cascading Style Sheets) can flush the background to be able to
read the article.
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12.Oct.2000
CGX
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CGX ViRGE V3 Driver tested with 4 MB ViRGE/DX
The free drivers CGX ViRGE V3 were tested with another two 4MB ViRGE/DX boards.
You will find the results on the Mediator page
and on the page of CGX supported gfx-boards.
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