22.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino via email
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AmigaOne Area at amiga.com
At the area products at
amiga.com is now a section specially for the AmigaOne.
There are news, information,
FAQs and a discussion forum at your disposal.
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22.Oct.2000
David Connoly via email
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CS&E: Software and Banner
CS&E will soon releae "Cosmo's Fun Class".
This is a education software package for children at the age of 4-9 years. It fosters
reading, calculating and the hand/eyes coordination and much more.. The software
runs on an A1200. It was developed by the team of
Electronics Dream Interactive.
In conjunction with an Amiga Survivor subscription the package is available at a special
price. To do a translation into German language CS&E needs 300 pre-orders. They expect 1000
pre-orders for the game "Carmageddon". All in all the people at CS&E hope to sell
5000 copies of "Carmageddon".
"Back in Time 2" however has been finished as is the English version of "Cosmo's Fun
Class", so they don't need any pre-orders for that. Details about pre-ordering are
available via email: csande@csande.com
and will be released soon in both, the print and online magazines of CS&E.
On the website of the Amiga Survivor
magazine is free room for small banners. Everybody interested may place
his/her banner there in exchange with banners by CS&E on their own
websites.
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22.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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ppclibemu v0.8c
Frank Wille has released the version 0.8c of the ppclibemu on 21. October 2000.
This software emulates the ppc.library by phase 5 under WarpOS and this way allows
the direct use of PowerUp-programs with WarpOS. This version patches the
Exec-functions FreeMem()/FreeVec() to avoid problems with bad coded programs
which free PPC memory using theses Exec-functions. This affects for example
TurboPrint.
Download:
The update contains solely the libraries. Everything else is included in the
complete archive of the version 0.7.
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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Super Expansion System
The new company Fastech announces an expansion on their website with the
following features: 3 PCI slots, 3 Zorro-III compatible slots, 1 AGP slot, 1
SDRAM DIMM slot, 2 CPU expansion ports, 1 A1200 clock port, 2 x serial and 1 x
EPP parallel ports. As CPU modules are a G4 module with 400 MHz and a Coldfire
module with 333 MHz announced. The expansion shall be released first for
A3000/T- and A4000/T computers and is in the alpha test stage at present.
While the G4 module is delayed to reach a higher performance via a rework of the
design the Coldfire module is in the test stage. As the Coldfire is not 100%
compatible with the 68k line OS patches and library patches are needed. They are
working on these at the moment.
Editorial note:
Hints strengthen that this website and so the report may be a fake. We can't neither
confirm nor deny this at the moment, but we'll continue our investigations.
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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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StrICQ v0.1728 beta
After a long time a new beta version of the ICQ client "StrICQ" for the Amiga
was released on 20. October 2000. This beta version 0.1728 is dated on 18.
February 2000. According to Czech Amiga News this version is supposed to work
better together with ICQ2000. Though it tends to crash the ICQ2000 client during
the chat initialisation.
Download: STRICQ.lha
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22.Oct.2000
CyberGFX
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Mediator Drivers
Already on 19. October 2000 the following information appeared on the CyberGFX
website: Elbox has sent an updated driver archive to the registered Mediator
users. This archive contains the Mediator system files, a SANA-II network driver
supporting many network chip sets and the CGX Virge driver.Those belonging to the
registered Mediator users may contact Elbox
regarding the latest drivers. The latest CGX Mediator drivers can be found on
the CyberGFX Mediator page.
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22.Oct.2000
ANN
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English Amiga Board
AmigaMos and
rck-power have joint and set up the
English Amiga Board.
This one aims to be as good as the German Amiga Emu Board.
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22.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Article concerning AmigaOne Games
Articles appeared regarding the games Europa Universalis, Echelon: The
Storm, Jagged Alliance 2, and Battle for the Globe at Amiga Flame.
The strategy game "Europa Universalis" will be ported by Hyperion-Software for
the Amiga. The games "Echelon: The Storm" and "Jagged Alliance 2" are listed on
the AmigaDE Software list
that was released by Amiga recently. "Battle for the Globe" is an
action-strategy game that is being developed at the moment by Nordicsoft for
PPC-Amigas and IBM compatible PCs.
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22.Oct.2000
Mirko Engelhard on ANF
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AmigaLand: 2 New Games
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Since today there are two new adventures on our site.
Beneath a steel Sky
and Lure of the Temptress.
Both games were made by the company Revolution Software Ltd.
who gave us the permission yesterday to offer these games for free download.
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22.Oct.2000
Stefan Schulze via email
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Screen Shots of Crossfire II
Stefan Schulze writes:
On our website are the latest screen shots of the action shooter Crossfire ready for
admiration. They are completely taken from the campaign mode.
Besides that it looks as if Jan Morgenstern (www.jm-music.de) will be supporting us as a
free lancer in the future. I'm really pleased that we don't have to rely on
Techno now. :)
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22.Oct.2000
ANN
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Nostalgia: Putty Squad Demo
On 20. October 2000 the demo of Putty Suqad was released in the Amiga
Rediscovery section of AmiHoo. This demo
was released as coverdisk. The game itself was never released by System 3 Software.
Amiga Rediscovery of AmiHoo has the conception
to rediscover some of the greatest Amiga games by playing the demo
versions which were released as cover disk years ago. So this site also calls to
share your thoughts about the games with others and to ask for help at comp.sys.amiga.misc.
Besides the demos of the recent months there's, among other things, a help file on
the page reachable on the page at the title link that explains how to unpack the DMS disk
archive.
Download: PuttySquad.dms
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22.Oct.2000
Schatztruhe
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Aminet Set 10
Schatztruhe announces the release of the 10. Aminet set by 2. November 2000.
This set contains all files that have been added since the 9. set and full
versions of Max Rally, Zombie Massacre, Personal Paint 7.1b, Pinball Dreams, Pinball
Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The Aminet CDs 36 to 39 are included in
unchanged. Altogether the set contains more than 3G of software in
almost 4000 archives.
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22.Oct.2000
David Connolly via email
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CS&E: Amiga Future and Games at the Shops
The english issue of Amiga Future will be available by February 2001 at the
newspaper sellers in Great Britain and Ireland. The price will be £5,99. A
six months subscription including coverdisk costs £29,99 and can be ordered
at CS&E.
In Great Britain and Ireland CS&E now also offers Amiga games via retail
chains like Dixons and Electronics Boutique. PC games will be ported to the Amiga
(and vice versa) and released as dual-format-package by CS&E. So there
are three possibilities for the Amiga user to buy games. 1) At the local Amiga
retailer. 2) Via retail chains like Dixons. 3) As download liable for costs via the
soon opened website http://www.pc-software.com/.
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22.Oct.2000
Jochen Abitz on ANF
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Merlancia Comments on Criticism
Merlancia Industries announced
some hardware for the AmigaDE some days ago covering computers from Palmtop over
laptops to PC-towers. This announcement caused some doubts. In the above
statement, dated 22. October 2000, Ryan E. A. Czerwinski from Merlancia comments
on the criticism.
Among other things it can be read that the release of the TORRO website took
place to give the Amiga community an idea now of what is in development.
For the COMDEX, in Phoenix, Merlancia announced the introduction of a working
Hurricane prototype and invited to an arrangement for a private talk at the
exhibition. They are working on the Hurricane board for eight months now. As
expected release date for the Hurricane and the eClips they named the second to
third quarter 2001. This date also depends on the release of the AmigaDE.
The complete statement
caters to further nine subjects.
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22.Oct.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanach III Demo Bugfix
Achim Stegemann wrote:
Everybody having difficulties with the demo of the planetarium program Digital
Almanach III can download a bugfix from my homepage. Unfortunately there was an
enforcer hit in the first demo version which caused problems on some few Amigas (020,030 ??).
Download: DA3Demo.lzx (2,5 MB)
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21.Oct.2000
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Olliweb.de back online
olliweb.de provides information covering the Amiga - Linux subject. After
the website was offline for quite some time, due to logistic and technical
problems of the provider, olliweb.de is available again from now on.
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21.Oct.2000
Amidog
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AMP 2
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has posted some important comments about his
movieplayer "AMP 2" on his website. Among other things he points out that the
prefs-format has changed. Therefore all the former AMP.cfg files must be
deleted before you can use the new version. Some option were had, names of options were
changed or options have been removed, and may not be used in the old way anymore. More
informations can be found under the title link at the "AMP 2" section.
Download current version 1.33: AMP2pre6.lha
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21.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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EU-Commission starts Poll about Software Patents
"The European Commission has started a poll about patents on computer programs,
so-called "computer-implemented inventions". Prior to this is the EU's fear
that the lack of EU-standard provisions of law in this sector could slow down
economic growth, competitive capacity and development of the internal market.
The commission has asked concerned institutions, companies, the public, and
the member-states to express themselves about a
probe document
from the commission's departements. The commission will state its final
position concerning this subject around beginning of 2001."
Complete article under the title link. (German)
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21.Oct.2000
amiga.org
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Merlancia Announces New Products Running on the AmigaDE
Merlancia announced a new product line that will run on the AmigaDE.
From the Palmtop PC to tower and laptops everything is represented.
In this context, it might be interesting to point out
Merlancia's Collection of Amiga
and Commodore antiques and curios and prototypes and his 1974 AMX. There
are lots of pictures of the prototypes.
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21.Oct.2000
Alfred Faust via eMail
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BlueRibbon Soundworks Inc. Is Alive ...
Alfred Faust wrote:
Nearly 5 years after the take over of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc. by
Microsoft, I received the official permission from Todor Fay (the former boss)
to post all of Blue Ribbon Inc.'s products for download on my newly created
homepage. Until now, the software could only be (officially and
legally) acquired if you happened to be a member of Compuserve.com (USA).
I'm very grateful to Todor Fay (and surely every other musically interested AMIGA-user does so)
for this permission, because in my opinion programs even though
those have great functionality never have achieved this level of
user-friendliness. They fit so nicely into the AMIGA system that they
run on OS 3.1 and on graphic-boards (promote with NewMode) without any problem.
Bars&Pipes can be expanded by its tools and accessories to such an extend
that it is in a certain way "updatable".
My new homepage concerns:
- Bars&Pipes 2.5 (German online-manual which is also downloadable as
AMIGA-Guide)
- DB-50XG (my Hardware-Hack, online and downloadable)
- TriplePlay3.1 (the same)
also planned or in preparation:
- SuperJAM! 1.1 (z.Zt. only program and styles downloadable)
- Rules for Tools (Toolscoding for Bars&Pipes - only as download for
now)
- Inovatools1 (Intuition-expansion - used in Bars&Pipes,
SuperJAM! and The PachtMeister , only as download for now)
- My own music made with Bars&Pipes - SuperJAM! - DB-50XG
- and more
As mentionned above the site has a huge download-area where you can
_l e g a l l y_ download all of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc.'s products.
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21.Oct.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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Five New Rainboot3 Configurations
On October 20th, 2000 Airsoft Softwair released 5 new
Rainboot3-configurations. There are Aladdin Boot, Beatbox Boot, Baaack Boot,
Lion King Boot and Windows Sucks Boot by Werner Henkel. You can find them at
the download
area of the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
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