05.Apr.2000
Roman Schaub in ANF
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New AMIGA Website online
Since the new IP address has not yet been added to all Domain Name Servers, the "new" www.amiga.com
page can be visited at http://209.15.87.244. "New" in quotes because the layout should be well-known
from Schindler times.
Changing IPs the week after such an important event; the information given at the show still not
available from the website; switching back to a year-old layout, looking even less professional than
before... I hope Amiga is better at R&D than they are at PR... (mb)
(Translation: mb)
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05.Apr.2000
Andreas Magerl in ANF
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Interview with CS & E
Amiga Future did an interview with the UK software company CS & E, which gained popularity
with games like "Hong Kong Mahjong" and "The Fugitive" for the PC and "Max Rally" for the Amiga.
The interview can be found in the Aktion area at the title link (German).
(Translation: mb)
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04.Apr.2000
Sanface Software in ANF
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txt2pdf Version 3.3
txt2pdf on the Amiga? Read more about this in an article in the
Amiga-Magazin (German). Txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 programm
with which you can convert ascii text files to PDF. Read the full press release for
more details:
"txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program
(5 penguins at LinuxBerg, 5 cows at TuCows Mac and BeOS).
It's a converter from text files to PDF format files.
Why do you need txt2pdf?
Most of your documents are text files.
Usually, your reports from legacy applications, DBs, ERP applications,
datawarehouse are textual txt2pdf is a PERL5 script, so you can use it in every
operating systems supported by PERL5 (View the list of OS tested) txt2pdf
is a native converter, you don't need to pass through PostScript format.
txt2pdf is specific for text to PDF conversion, so
you can mark yellow, red, green, blue or bold, italic, bolditalic
(with PERL regular expression) words in the produced PDF files
you can produce a 2-columns PDFyou can add page number in every page
you can add text at the beginning and at the end ofevery file.
You can add a border to every page
every word like http://... ftp://... mailto:... https://...
file:... ldap:... news:... will become an URL
you can create a link to a specific page within a PDF document
http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark
every word like mime:... will become a link that
launch the correct application and opens the file
you can use a few parse commands (e.g.[!blue]...[!/blue])
you can use background and foreground layers
txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT
the fee for every licence is $55
SANFACE Software is going to give you a free licence for every good
idea or for every good modify
txt2pdf is shareware
The txt2pdf source code is our company core business.
We trust you.
You can test text2pdf and modify it.
You can't use a modify version of txt2pdf for production purpose.
You can't resell txt2pdf or a modify version of it without SANFACE
Software authorization.
You can't copy part of it to include in your source without SANFACE
Software authorization.
What's new in this version
Full Screen page mode support
Possibility to select the page layout from Single Page (deafult),
One Column, Two Column Left, Two column Right
Test txt2pdf 3.3!
You can find it in our new site http://www.sanface.com"
(Translation: mb)
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04.Apr.2000
Stefan Martens in ANF
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One Year Amiga User List
12 Months have now passed. Exactlky on April 4th 1999, the first issue of
the AÄUL went online. Now there is an update and many user wishes have
been made a reality. There will soon be a version for MUIBase (also for the
unregistered version). There are also buttons available that can be used on
a persons webpage.
(Translation: mb)
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04.Apr.2000
Dirk Stoecker via Email
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XAD-System Version 6
Verison 6 of the archiving extraction system "xadmaster.library" is
available. Important new features are the support for Arj, Arj-EXE,
RAR-Exe, Zip-Exe and BZip2. Currently 38 archive types are supported.
However is not familiar with XAD should take a look at it.
There is also a new freeware GUI available called Voodoo-X for all those
that don`t like shell tools.
Reminder: When you use free software, drop the author a line and inform
them of your appreciation.
Download:
Aminet: xadmaster.lha
Aminet: Voodoo-X.lha
(Translation: mb)
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04.Apr.2000
Frank Mariak via Email
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MorphOS News
Despite diverse announcements by Amiga Inc. the
work on MorphOS continues. As we have already announced a number of
developers have already recieved a test version and are checking it for
compatibility with existing hardware and expansion cards. We will publish a
compatibility list and information at www.morhos.de shortly.
Also available: is Barfly
2.2
(Translation: mb)
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04.Apr.2000
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Amiga2K reports from various sources
Hot: Amiga
New start with Linux based OS
GNN: Amiga introduces
development system - Red Hat as Partner
Amiga is developing Hard,- Software)
Picture report by Onyxsoft
Pictures
from the A2K show in St. Louis
(Translation: mb)
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04.Apr.2000
Jon Peterson
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amiga-news.de Picture report of the A"K show in St. Louis
Jon Peterson has brought us this exclusive pictured report from the Amiga 2000 Show in St. Louis:
1) AmigaActive magazine. Group from UK with outstanding publication. Comes with cover CD each month. This month features the full version of Scala 1.2. Very well done publication for the Amiga. Representing the company were Mark Hinton.
2) Amiga concept design for a tower config. This model shown at the banquet.
3) Another concept design for a desktop model. Just throwing out some ideas..
4) Some of the BoXeR cases being displayed at the show. BoXeR received some very good "promises" of support from AI at the show. Let's hope to see it out...........soon!
5) CompuQuick booth at the show. The largest booth with hundreds and hundreds of CDs as well as just about anything you are looking for in Amiga hardware. Give them a call.
6) Bill McEwen makes the opening speech at the Developer's Conference.
7) Fleecy Moss takes the microphone for the full commitment to a crowded developer's room.
8) Individual Computers from Aachen, Germany that produces the Buddha products represented by Jens Schönfeld and Sarah Wittermann with the SoftwareHut folks. Some outstanding hardware products made available for the Amiga. Take a look at their ethernet boards with IDE controller(s) onboard. Amazing!
9) Jürgen Haage and Markus Pöllmann preparing for demonstrations of wares from Haage & Partner. StormC, AmigaWriter, and ArtEffect v4.0.
10) Hyperion gaming wares.
11) Kermit Woodall of NovaDesigns gives an outstanding demonstration of the ImageFX v4 capabilities.
12) Holger Kruse of Nordic Global giving lessons and demonstrations of
Miami Deluxe. The first non-beta version will be available this week.
13) Holger Kruse and Jeff Kreis of Rebol demonstrating some scripts.
14) Mr. Hardware - another great booth exhibiting at the show. Most of the
software for Amiga was available.
15) Nova Designs owner Kermit Woodall and Corianna Cohn representing the company. Demos for both ImageFX and Aladdin were run during the show.
16) Petro Tyschtschenko awards a crystal plaque to A2K show organizer Bob Scharp at the opening ceremonies.
17) Opening day setup for the show. Crowds made it a traffic jam.
18) Petro Tyschtschenko and Jürgen Haage in discussions prior to opening ceremonies.
19) Paul Nolan of PhotoGenics with his lovely wife Ela demonstrating v4.5 of the program. PhotoGenics was very well received and Paul sold out for the show.
20) Markus Pöllmann of Haage & Partner giving a demonstration of StormC compiler during the show.
21) Bob Scharp and Bill McEwen make opening day presentation during the show.
22) Deron Kazmeier of Soft Logik showing off the latest version of the program for the big three OSs. Version 4.5 available shortly. Deron received the AAA award for outstanding Amiga software at the show.
One more thing I just remembered. I was talking to Paul Brestyanszky of AntiGravity at his booth in A2K show. They have purchased the Boxer board and technology effective now. He also received a very good promise of support from Bill McEwen during the show. He mentioned that he had made some good connections during the show to locate hardware for completion of the board which will enable them to (hopefully) get it completed quickly (this year?). (Translation: mb)
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03.Apr.2000
amiga-news.de
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More Amiga2K Reports
Czech Amiga News:
Amiga2k Picture Report #2
ANN:
Banquet Report by Mark Abraham
(Translation: mb)
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03.Apr.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga2K: BoXer News
Roger Wyatt reports: "Anti-Gravity Products, Santa Monica, California bought the BoXer Technologie from Access Innovations. Blittersoft will manage the worldwide retail.
Paul Lesurf of Blittersoft will become the boss of the office in England. Mick Tinker will work as manager of the BoXer developer section for Anti-Gravity. The BoXer will be manufactured by Anti-Gravity in California (in Los Angeles or Palmdale).
Paul B. of Anti-Gravity has presented the BoXer at the banquet of the
Amiga 2K Show. One could see that this computer is far beyond the
prototyp status. Actually the developing is in its final and test phase.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Apr.2000
Ray McCarthy in ANF
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Kickstart Show Update
Kickstart amiga user group based in Surrey, England are pleased to
announce more details of their forthcoming show on saturday 27 may 2000.
You can win a A1200 just by attending the show or win a hard drive if
you win one of the games competions. For more details please goto our
website.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Apr.2000
Andreas Magerl by eMail
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Chat with the editors of Amiga Future
We, the editors of Amiga Future, have often been asked if we could be
met in an IRC channel to chat. In the future this will be no problem
anymore. If you want to contact us, come to the #AmigaFun channel on the
irc.germany.net server. The best time to meet us there is Thursday an
Sunday from 21 o'clock on.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Apr.2000
LinuxInfo.DE by eMail
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Tested: RedHat Linux 6.2
LinuxInfo.DE Announces:
In our reports area a small test report about the new RedHat Linux 6.2
has been put online. The downloadable GPL version of the operating
system has been tested.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Apr.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga companies developing for the new OS
Czech Amiga News seems to be the only source of information about the
Amiga 2K show. Roger Wyatt posts a list of Amiga companies developing
for the new OS.
Epic, ACT, DCE, Met@box, Scala, Amiga Development, Titan, H&P,
Digital Images, Hyperion and Crystal Software will apparently port or
develop a total of 117 softwares for the new OS.
(Translation: mb)
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03.Apr.2000
Michael Burkhardt in ANF
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Miriam 2.0 Homepage reworked
The layout has been reworked by IOM and the screenshot have been shrunk. The main page is now using Javascript.
Miriam 2.0 is a software which controls Lanetco
videosplitt computers like those used in monitor walls. Since the
original software runs under MS-DOS, a software had been especially
developed for the Amiga and used during the Amiga International Inc.
Apparition at the Computer '98 fair. In the meanwhile this software has
been improved and developed further and has now more functionality than
the DOS version. The communication with the splitt computer is also
faster th
an under MS-DOS. So Miriam is an powerful Amiga software which can be
used in professional presentation business.
(Translation: mb)
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02.Apr.2000
Czech Amiga News
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More details on AMIGA's plans
At Czech Amiga News, Roger Wyatt tells more news from the Amiga show
in St. Louis, USA, according to statements made by AMIGA President Bill
McEwen.
I can remember one statement from the last Executive Update: "If it
is not from our (Amiga Inc.) website, it is not true."
It is quite possible that some details from the Amiga 2K turn out to be
April Fool's jokes, or wishful thinking. However, this cannot be all made
up. Great things are moving, and I really look forward to the official
confirmations on these details... (mb)
(Translation: mb)
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02.Apr.2000
John Chandler [Suite 101]
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Amiga Are No April Fools
In his monthly article at Suite101, John Chandler focusses on the happenings
on the Amiga 2K in St. Louis.
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02.Apr.2000
Fun Time World
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New demo version of Audio Evolution
The demo version of the sample software Audio Evolution now supports multiple
samples in each track. Additionally, new screenshots can be seen.
(Translation: mb)
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02.Apr.2000
Neo in AC
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Transscript of IRC Conference with Fleecy
Transscript from Harry "Piru" Sintonen
from Finland, who by the way offers many useful tools on his website.
It is astounding how the important messages always come as celebrity numbers.
The Amino / Amiga buyout was (almost) message number 2000 on this site. The last
Executive Update was #2500, and this is #2700. No kidding! ;-) (mb)
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02.Apr.2000
Amiga.org
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Amiga2000 Show News by Wayne Martin
Amiga2000 Show News by Wayne Martin.
(Translation: mb)
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02.Apr.2000
Carsten Schröder by e-mail
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Fleecy Moss informs about developer system and plans
+++ AMIGA-aktuell-Special +++
AMIGA Vice President Fleecy Moss has just informed about the Amiga Developer System and the
company's plans on an IRC conference taking place on the Amiga show Amiga 2K taking place
today in St. Louis, USA. The important details folow:
- The Developer System contains an AMD K6 (500 MHz), 64 MB RAM and GeForce 256, which runs
the Tao System very well.
- However only the Virtual Processor is of importance, which already runs on x86, PowerPC,
MIPS, ARM, SH4 and other mega-CPUs which will be announced soon.
- The Developer System currently runs "hosted" on a Linux kernel.
- Tao only provides the core for the new OS.
- The kernel has a size of 25 Kb, the whole OS including GUI and Java needs 3 MB RAM.
- The GUI system is seperated, making it possible to add multiple GUI modules.
- The first GUI model will be very different from today's AmigaOS GUI, but users are free
to create whatever they want.
- The Developer System should be available in two to four weeks, for everyone.
- The end-user system is scheduled for this year.
- Two user groups are targeted: The "digital adventurer" (an expansion of the miga market today)
and those who basically don't like computers (Domestic Digital Habitat).
- The new Amiga website (http://www.amiga.com) will go online in a few days.
- Developer software will be available from a support website.
- Later on, the developer software should run on any PC with the named specifications, but
support will only be offered for those purchasing the system from AMIGA.
- Today, partnerships with multi-billion dollar companies will be announced.
- The Amiga technology will be available for licensing for any company with a good
idea and a little money.
- Today, there will be an announcement concerning AROS (Amiga Replacement OS).
- AMIGA itself is currently not working on an 68k emulation, but is in contact with
several companies willing to take over this job (but for different goals).
Well, I'd like to mention my article
posted a few days ago, for those users who have not read it already and now are disappointed
by this announcement. (And no, I didn't know anything more than a casual reader of the
news and Executive Updates... ;-)) (mb)
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