20.Nov.1999
Fred Fish in gg-ML
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Coordinator wanted for AmigaOS Geek Gadgets
Since Fred Fish is lacking the time and motivation for some time now to look after the
AmigaOS version of Geek Gadgets, a new coordinator is wanted for the Amiga version.
If you are interested in taking this job, you should have good organisational
and communicative talents, being an active member of the Amiga community, and have enough
time to look after all aspects of AmigaOS GG.
Additionally, someone is wanted who can generate a new snapshot on regular basis.
For this, an Amiga 68060 would be nice, since a 68040 takes several days for compiling all
sources, so creating a snapshot can take several weeks. Even while there is no need for
manual editing most of the time.
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20.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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MPEG+Sound module project for CV64/3D
The Cybervision64/3D offers a S3-Scenic-Highway (LPB) bus. This allows for adding useful
expansions like a MPEG decoder or such. While the hardware is readily available, the
needed Amiga software is missing. Those interested in writing such software, can get
further informations about the project from the title link, or write an e-mail to
rob@vgr.com.
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20.Nov.1999
Fun Time World
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fxPaint test and MP3 software overview
At Fun Time World, a review of the image processing software
fxPaint and an
overview over MP3 software have been released.
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20.Nov.1999
Dimitris a Gourlis in c.s.a.g.
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Cinemaware Webring
Dimitris a Gourlis has created a webring about the games by Cinemaware (It came from
the Desert, Defender of the Crown). You can join this webring at the title link.
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20.Nov.1999
Amiga.org
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HEW '99 report by Caghan Demirci
The article is very detailed, and contains one piece of information or
another that escaped some people so far. Like, Epic's "Simon the Sorcerer 2"
might be released early next year as Amiga version if at least 500 preorders
are recieved.
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20.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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JST v2.9
The degrader "JST" has been released as version 2.9. It now offers an emulation of the
CD32 joypad. Download: jst.lha
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20.Nov.1999
AWD [News]
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Eyelight - Millennium Amiga Poll
From November 19th to December 19th, Eyelight
is conducting the Millennium Amiga Poll.
Reason for this poll is to find out how many Amiga users there are, and what they
want. To encourage participation, Eyelight offers prices for more than 5000 USD.
Every day, a PowerPack Volume I + bonus cupon, a Tornado3D t-shirt + bonus
cupon and a bonus cupon are given away. Every week, a Tornado3D SE package + bonus
cupon can be won.
The detailed form can be downloaded from the title link.
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20.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Atéo Concepts News
The serial driver of the AtéoSer/AtéoIO card now works correctly. Error
handling took so much time since it was both a soft- and hardware issue. As a fix for
the software there will be an update at the
Atéo Concepts website next week.
The hardware issue makes a small modification of the Atéo bus necessary, which
can be done by yourself - there will be a manual on the website, or you can send in
the board after calling in (phone +33 (0)2.40.85.30.85).
Atéo has a limited number of A4000 keyboards in stock, which can
i.e. be connected directly to the Atéo tower. Price is 36.90 Euro.
Atéo bus works correctly with OS 3.5. If problems should occur,
the usual patches are to blame. Otherwise try an additional "COLD" argument when calling
the 'StartAteoBus' command.
Release of the scandoubler has been delayed due to the AtéoSer issues
and the prototype being delivered early September instead of end of July, but should
be available by the end of the year.
Atéo Concepts warns that Picasso96 V2.0 does not work with the Pixel64 due to
a bug in the files. When the bug is fixed, a P96 update will be available in the
download area. On the other hand, CyberGfx does also support the Pixel64
now.
Development of an audio board with DSP, MIDI, MPEG compression etc. is planned.
Suggestions and ideas can be send to Atéo Concepts.
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19.Nov.1999
Sid4Amiga
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Sid4Amiga version 3.24 released
Download: Sid4AmigaV3_24.lha
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19.Nov.1999
amiga-news.de
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HEW '99 Special
First short previews 12./14.11.1999
Pictures of the first day Impressions - 12.11.1999
Details and pictures of the Met@box processorcard for A1200 - 13.11.1999
Pictures of the second day Impressions II - 13.11.1999
Pictures of the last day Impressions III - 14.11.1999
HEW '99 Report from Caghan Demirci - 29.11.1999
Links to other reports and pictures:
UGN IRC Logs
Pictures from Virtual Dimension
Livereport and Annex
Performance from Amiganation
Pictures from javosoft Computer
Pictures from AmigaImpact
Report in german and pictures from AmigaLand
Detailed report
(Translation by Martina Jacobs - Thank you very much!)
AMIGA International, Inc.
The booth of Amiga International was way the biggest and most beautiful one the fair.
It took a compressor eight hours to pump up that tremendous Boing-Ball.
The Amiga museum was very interesting, where in addition to all the Amiga models ever made
the "Walker" were exhibited, which never came to production. The presentation of the operatingsystem
update AmigaOS 3.5 was the highlight and of course it was sold at the show. Also A1200 machines
and the popular Amiga merchandising products were sold.
There were no new Amigas to show and the MCC was off topic, as it became clear during the weeks
before the fair. However, there was a developer machine by Haage & Partner exhibited inside of
a displaycase at the AMIGA booth. This machine was a POP board from IBM (CHRP), which can be licensed
by any developer who wants to produce a big number of pieces. During an interview Jürgen Haage
said that Haage & Partner is planing a nativ PPC port of AmigaOS after developing AmgaOS 3.5.
The cooperation of AMIGA by giving Haage & Parter the necessary licenses to do so, is the most
important assumption to make this come true. Haage & Partner already negotiats with AMIGA.
Inside the AMIGA booth guests of Tanja and Taras, Petro's children, were supported with tasty sausages,
coffee and other drinks in an outstanding way . Petro Tyschtschenko, president of Amiga International,
answerd numerous questions. Many users in a distinct manner showed him their frustration and temper about Gatway's decision
to drop the MCC . Various users felt downright cheated by those many not fulfiled promises.
All this temper were shaked out on Petro. Surely not an easy job, but in the meantime Petro calles himself a
"manager of crisis". Unfortunatly many users don't think of, that Petro was the only one who put something into
production, for he cared for the development of the operatingsystem update AmigaOS 3.5 and pushed it.
Certainly not to leave behind the music group ANNEX,
who delighted the visitors of the fair with several songs an their dance-perfomances. In any case to mention is
the visit by Diana and Bob Scharp, who are organizing the
Gateway Computer Shows in St. Louis. Furthermore there were many
small sub-boothes with Amiga, e.g. the one of Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet and the internet café, which was
organizsed by UGN and where the IRC conferences were held - in the meantime usual for any big show. The IRC
conferences were organized by Hendrik Höner and Christoph Dietz. The machines for the conferences were
at their disposal by Amiga International. At other sub-boothes Amiga magazines like
amigaOS,
Amiga-Magazin and
AmigActive from England were introduced.
AmigaPlus were represented at another booth. More sub-boothes are
discribed seperately below.
Haage & Partner
At the booth of Haage & Partner users got the occation to buy a lot of good software. Jürgen Haage, his wife an Markus
Nerding as well as many co-workers answered questions of numberless users. For almost every product
presentations were shown at the booth. Survey following:
STFax 4.0, the ultimate fax solution with 120 professional announcement texts in both, German and English. Many of
the features have been enhanced, e.g. remote access, fax on demand, forwarding of faxes and background printing.
Furthermore this version contains an enhanced support for USRobotics with improved quality of sound.
NetConnect 3.0, the all-in-one internet bundle with Voyager 3.0 incl. Java-script, AmIRC 3, NetInfo 2, the new mFTP as
well as MetalWeb, the WYSIWYG HTML editor.
Warp3D, the highly optimized 3D driversystem for CyberVison 3D/Virge3D and others.
WaruUP, the hightspeed PowerPC kernel for Amiga.
StromMESA, an OpenGL compatible graphics library.
H&P advertises: The combination of PowerPC, 3D graphics card, WarpOS, Warp3D and StormMESA/OpenGL makes your
Amiga a highend machine.
Storm DSK, the developer survival kit, containing everything indispensable for professional development. The bundle includes:
StromC 3.0 68K ANSI C/C++ Compiler, StormC 3.0 PowerPC ANSI C/C++ Cross-Compiler, StromPowerASM 68K and PowerPC
Cross-Assembler, StormWIZZARD V2.2 as current version of the desktop tools, StormMesa - 100% compatible OpenGL library for
68K and PowerPC, Developer CD V1.3 incl. the Amiga Refernz Manuals as AmigaGuide, PowerPC 68K Emulator Beta-Programm.
amigaWriter, the Word Processor with multilingual word-division,
chapter-management, automatic list of contents, WYSIWYG style
footnotes,
extensive DTP funktions, pattern documents, enhanced printing, spell
checking with correction propositions and support for TrueType.
Unfortunatly version 2 wasn't finished in time before the show.
Tornado 3D Version 3.0, the incredible 3D rendering and animation
programm with complete new GUI and an enormous number of features:
clothes
and threads, mannequins (human figures), improved particle system/force
fields, extended inverse cinematic, sculptor (form editor), support
for
3D sounds, animation control assistent, project planer, render engines
and much more.
For graphics the classics VideoFX 2, X-DVE, FontMachine and of course
ArtEffect 3.0 were sold at the show. The grahics programm for picture
and
video editing and creation of animations, as well as file convertion,
ImageFX Version 4.1 is new on the list of H&P.
Also PageStream 4.0, the all-in-one DTP bundle incl. drawing funktions,
index and list of contents, PDF export, HTML import/export, chapter
dependent
stile patterns and variables, multiple chapter/page number, manual
printing, overview printing, visitingcard and lable printing.
The AMIGA Developer CD 2.1 containing all the news for AmigaOS 3.5 and
for the previous versions of the operatingsystem was dearly desired.
This bundle
even includes the StormC 68K C/C++ Compiler Version 3.0 among other
software and files . However, the CD doesn't contain the
PowerPC-Compiler and
Power-Assembler, but if you purchase the CD you obtain the opportunity
to get StromC Version 4.0 for a special price.
Even a few hardware were offered. One could buy the graphic tablets and the multi I/O card HyperCOM 3+ from VMC, too.
Schatztruhe
At the booth of Schatztruhe of Stefan Ossowski one could see numerous
software and among this a real feast for the eyes: the hand-airbrushed
Micronik-Tower
of Heinz Andreolla from Rüti in
Swizerland. This tower is absolutly unique. Heinz took the tower
completely apart, and
brushed and painted multiple layers inside and outside of it. The
Boing-Balls are sometimes raising, somtimes falling, sometimes smaller,
sometimes bigger, sometimes
more pale, and sometimes real colourful, telling the history of Amiga,
which raised in the begining, then was colourful on top, and - as it
looks like by now - slowly
disapears into the underground again.
A special gimmick on the tower is a little Boing-Ball, which rotates
around it's diagonal axis. This ball is driven by a 3.5 voltage
ballbearing-engine. It took Heinz two
month to work out the tower. Also Heinz together with Oliver Tacke
is painting new GlowIcons. Some of
the first icons
one could already admire at the show. Unfortunatly a few of the icons
are still faulty (too small), but those will be corrected and available
soon.
One could find Urban Müller (Mr. Aminet) at the booth of Schatztruhe,
too. We were able to ask him a number of questions about Aminet,
which he moderates
together with Matthias Scheler. We were interested in who is permitted
to upload files to Aminet. Urban explained this to us, and we continued
to write notes on it
which we tell you in a summary below.
First of all everybody is of principle permitted to upload an archiv to
Aminet. The archives are collected inside a special directory on the
server in Paderborn. Before the
archives get on Aminet - and by this on all mirrors - those are beeing
checked for viruses and corrupt files. Above all they are verifying if
the readme-files are proper.
By the way Urban called our attention to the bad habit to include the
version number with the filename. A lot of programmers are not able to
give up this habit. There are
two reasons why this is not good. First the filenames are changing
continously and by this programms are hard to link to each other, and
second it becomes harder to
search for previous versions, cause previous version have to become
deleted in order not to let burst the Aminet. So, it would be kind if
the
version number could be
place inside the readme-file.
Further we asked Urban, why he dosn't agree with LZX-archives inside the
Aminet, since LZX-archives are smaller than LHA-archives. Urban
explained, he will agree
with LZX-archives on Aminet as soon as LZX will be 100% portable to any
operatingsystem. Unfrotunatly this is not possible, yet. What means
that a few operatingsystems
would be locked out from using LZX-archives.
Dr. Greg Perry from GP Software answerd questions of DirOpus users. A patch which fixes problems with
AmigaOS 3.5 can be
downloaded at the mentioned webside.
individual computers - Jens Schönfeld
Jens Schönfeld and Jörg 'Schueschmie' Sendrowski showed us the prototype
of the new ethernet card. This is a full-sized
Zorro card containing
10MBit ethernet and the "usual" expansionports. The card uses RJ45
("Twisted Pair") as well as BNC ("thin
ethernet" or "Lakritz")
connectors. Also interesting is the SilveSurfer, a serial port for A1200
and Buddha. For the SilverSurfen even an adapter for A600 is
available. This serial port makes up to
460800 Baud, is MIDI compatible and keeps big Fifos for low CPU charge.
Additonal to this hardware there was a SCMS-Copybit-Killer. The
Copybit-Killer allows multiple digital
copying via TOSLINK optical cables between Minidisc, DAT, DCC, CDR and
that is the reason why it is only usable for privat purposes.
Eyetech Group Ltd
Alan Redhouse showed us varaible hardware which is mainly used for
industrial applications. Those are several components and modules which
are
to plug into the floppy port.
Those keep an image of a bootdisk. He showed us a karaoke machine which
used a small LC display and Scala to display the text of a song, while
the music was played from
an integrated CDRom drive. The necessary hardware sticks into a 19"
shelf, hence is optimal for any insdustrial application. According to
Allan Redhouse the Amiga Operatingsystem
proved itself as definite stable and reliable, whereas the use of other
systems brought up problems and crashes again and again.
Amiga Zentrum Thüringen e.V.
Wie talked to Kai Mache and Rolf Hoffmann. The AZT, surely known by
some users from the "Fun of Computing" , mainly calls themself
an address for users wanting to meat and get
to know other users, in oder to discuss about their favourit subject and
to help each other with problems. The subject of AZT's little
sub-booth at Amiga definite was Linux. They lend help and the club also
created a CD with all the necessary files to install Linux. Of course
there are thorough manuals on the CDRom, too. The CD can also be
ordered after the show from
Thomas Mache, Lindenberg 59, 98693 Ilmenau, at a price of 25,- DM
KATO Development Group
Jörn Plewka, Thorsten Gruner and Thorsten Hansen showed us the new
Twister 1200 NG, which is produced by DCE. A multi I/O card with
automatic dataflow control and 460800 baud
independent from the CPU in use. Twister 1200 NG is compatible to the
Melody 1200 soundcard.
Further we could astonish at the new Zorro 2-fast-ethernet card Unity
Net. Here some of the specifications: 100 Mbps and 10 Mbps (100Base-TX
and 10Base-T), 64kB databuffer, auto-negotiation IEEE 802.3, full
autoconfig (no harware settings needed), full duplex in 10Mbps mode,
RJ-45
connection (Twisted Pair), automatic speed detection inside the network
and SANA 2-driver. This card will be available in late january 2000 at
the earliest.
EASys! by Tom Neidhardt
EASys! builds an OS enhancement for the standard Workbench, which is
100% compatible to OS3.5, and holds many additional features. Here some
of the features: multithreading on WB, www pages as icon, send WB files
as email, internet doc (unfoldable), office doc (unfoldable), system
doc including drag 'n drop docs for presentations, editor, printing, and
global help, and many many more. Further details are available by the
link above. EASys! Version 4.6 coming soon on CDRom together with
extended background stuff. Innovativ (Felix Schwarz) will deal with the
sales. There is a test report for version 3.5 in amigaOS' issue from mai
`99. The provisional product "MARInA" fits well as demo for
snooping into the software, and is available on Aminet in the
aminet/util/wb directory.
Vendors
We had no extended look at the vendors, but tenor of the conversations
was, that there were not enough hardware for sale. Only a few PPC
cards, graphics cards and accelaration cards were available at the fair.
Nevertheless, the turnovers weren't lower than the year before at
all, what after all means that the turnovers might have been much
bigger, if there were more hardware for sale at the show.
At the booth of COOLbits people could purchase software updates from products of IrseeSoft. Further there were Bühler Elektronik, TGV-Haupt,
ACT electronic and Elbox at the show.
RBM digitaltechnik
First your eyes were catched by the coloured tower cases, which RBM will
soon offer painted with any colour wanted. We couldn't disregard the
"Swopper", which has nothing to do with Amiga at all but nevertheless is
interesting. "Swopper" is a chair like seat,
which works like a big round ball, but doesn't roll away. Unfortunatly
at a price of 800 to 900 DM this is a quite expensive fun.
Certainly ScanQuix 5 were presented. ScanQuix now supports the ICS
colour management and offers further new features. The power failture
system AmstroNG and Towerhawk 1200/4000 were shown, too.
Felix Schwarz von Innovative
presented his new graphical editing programm fxPAINT at the booth of
RBM. fxPAINT offers everything necessary for todays professional
designers: painting tools and surfaces, highly comfortable to operate,
many
special effects, open concept for enhancements, integrated modules for
convertion and administration of pictures, webdesign tools. fxPAINT is
furthermore the first application fully using the features of OS 3.5 and
of course supports PPC. Felix did an extented presentation for us and
we realy were filled with enthusiasm.
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet
The Amiga-Club im BTX und Internet takes the task to help Amiga users
with all their problems concerning Amiga. It is important that the
members help each other, by that contacts become closer and a good
community is builded. To do so on the websides of the club a number of
forums are available and thats also why the club were at the show. At
their booth at the fair users could ask questions about any subject,
many small problems could be fixed at the booth. The booth had a lot
visitors, and many peoples who knew each other only by the forums had
long conversations. Volker Mohr presented an Amiga laptop, which he put
together himself laborious.
Aaron Digulla presented AROS. AROS is
an new implementation of AmigaOS, which is open-source. Linux is used
as developer system, cause it is available for free and stable, and
allows a quite comfortable development of its own source code. AROS is
to
imagin as a kind of emulator, emulating the features of AmigaOS similar
to UAE in which UAE builds a hardware emulation, whereas AROS actualy
emulates the operatingsystem.
This project gets ahead only slowly at this time. About 60 % of the work
is done, which mainly is due to that of 60 registered developers only
a hand full gets active on this regular. Many developers are motivated,
but there are problems with time. After all the project progressed
far enough that we were able to play a mine-game. We asked Aaron who
else he would like to have in the team, and of course he said that Olaf
Barthel would be great. :-)
APC&TCP Computerclub
The APC&TCP Computerclub offers many performances. Some of this are
directly deald by the central office, others by several members of the
club. And quite that is the power and of course the main meaning of a
computerclub. A lot of members like to help other members. This is done
at the users' home or by the club magazine NoCover, which one could get
on disk, via email or from the homepage of the club.
APC&TCP-sale cares for updates and patches for many programms, and
supports developer of games. At their booth one could purchase a lot of
games. Markus Pöllmann showed a demo of Phoenix, a outerspace game.
Epic Marketing
Epic-Marketing presented the new game "Dafel Bloodline". That is a Zelda
like role game which will support AGA and graphics cards,
will use a new sourround sound system and will contain many aktion
elements.
Lukas Hartmann told us about his realtime strategy game "Soeki - The
plague", which he together with Atomatirx (4 ppl) are
developing on BeOS and will then be ported to Amiga, if there will be
any moving on. The story of the game is very extended. It starts with an
over-populated earth and a group of peoples getting teleported to a
planet far away. That planet is build out of five islands, of which one
is
contaminated radioactive. Of course the people have to wear protection
suites on that contaminated island what later turns out as a good
thing, cause there enrages a virus on each of the islands turning human
into monsters. Only the people wearing protection suites don't get
affected by that virus. Everybody can imagin how the story continues....
We also met Paul Burkey, the programmer of Foundation (now Foundation -
The Directors Cut) at the booth of Epic Marketing. An update for
Foundation - The Directors Cut which will fix little bugs will be realeased
soon.
Titan Computer
The highlight at the booth of Titan surely was the presentation of the
demo of Heretic II. This game is beeing ported to Amiga by Hyperion Software.
The programmers Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden as well as Christian Sauer
told us, that a fast PowerPC and for the best a 3D graphics card
is recommended for the game, as for Shogo.
Ingo Kleefisch presented his morphing programm "Fantastic Dreams", which
now even can save single sequences as animations. Also the
programmers of the well known CDR-software "BurnIt", Michael Siegel and
Axel Deising, were at the booth of Titan. Michael Garlich,
the chief of Titan-Computer, told us the decision of Gateway not to
develope the MCC anymore put him to worse, cause he believed in those
promises and invested a lot of money for licenses.
Summary
As you surely could read between the lines of the short previews,
the show wasn't a
"banger". All in all less visitors, only on saturday there were a quite
good visitation. This time appearently only those people
have come to the show who realy wanted to buy someting or to talk to the
developers and to meet other Amiga users. As one could imagin before
there were no single sign of the revolutionary development we heard
about long time ago. Nevertheless, there are some good starts, but
unfortunatly all this is still not "to hand", nothing we would be able
to buy here and today. I talked to many users who came with a
lot of money to the show, but left it again with the money. This in mind
I'm astonished by the vendors beeing quite satisfyed by their
turnovers not less than previous jear. This shows definite that there is
a existing marked. It would be nice if something "real"
would be brought t
ging new starts (PPC) would realy come to development, because for me
I'm fed up with those keep-up-slogans any way. OS 3.5 is a begining,
but now the developers of hardware must come along.
This show was a great experience for me. I got to know an incredible
number of people personaly who I only knew by email or phone before. I
had a lot of intense and extended conversations, which gave me a better
understanding of a number of interrelations. I want say thank you
very much for the kindness I recieved everywhere. This all was great fun
for me and motivated me to go on with Amiga News.
One word about those many rumours at the show, as usual at any show.
Certainly I've heard some, but I rather stick to facts and will wait
until I'm able to report facts.
I hope that I didn't forget anybody or anything important, and that I
didn't confuse specifications or anything else. If so, please sent me a
short email.
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Benjamin Dauhrer in ANF
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PowerOS mailinglist
Due to the many e-mails every day with questions about PowerOS, a PowerOS mailinglist has
been opened. More informations available from posinfo.listbot.com.
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FusionPPC - remark and request
The article below is taken from the Fusion mailinglist.
Since so far only a quarter of the placed preorders have been backed up with payments
(which results in Microcode Solutions having to write the whole code themselves ->
delays in Amiga and PC version), Jim Drew sees four options for the Amiga version:
- paying back the prepaiments, aborting the project!! (NO!!)
- continuing the project, finishing by christmas. BUT: Only for those who pre-ordered
and pre-payed (hardware dongle) (not so great either)
- bumping the price to 299 USD (probably by christmas, too) (oops, expensive...)
- hoping that those who stated interest in FusionPPC will finally place their
prepayment
so the project can be finished quickly by external reinforcements.
Jim Drew is ready to hear other suggestions. Due
to the large investments done so far, he is reluctant to drop the project.
Read the original message from Jim Drew:
"Well, as the clock winds down, we realize that we are not going to meet the
deadline for the Amiga PPC release of FUSION. There are numerous reasons,
with the most significant reason being that we have received only a small
portion of the funds from the 500 that were require to pre-order. We were
to use this money for hiring outside sources for writing portions of the
code, which we have now been doing ourselves. This whole thing upsets us
very much, as if we had known that the pre-payments were never going to
arrive, we would have spent the time on the PC version and have it available
already (we will always re-coup expenses in the PC market). We are
disappointed that less than 1/4 of the people who pledged to pre-pay have not.
Because of this, we have only a few choices:
- Completely abandon the project and refund the money to those individuals
who did pre-pay.
- Continue the project with our normal staff and have the emulation available
by Christmas, only to those who pre-paid (no sales to those who did not
pre-pay... and use a hardware based dongle to eliminate piracy).
- Continue the project with our normal staff, and raise the price of the
emulation now to $299.95.
- Please with the public to pay if you pledged to pre-pay and hope that the
money comes in so that we can send out some of the work to expidite the
process.
We don't know what to do. We have a ton of work done, and we don't really
want to toss it away. Any suggestions?
Jim Drew, Microcode Solutions"
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19.Nov.1999
Total Vision
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Total Vision News
An update for the video MPEG player Frogger version 1.43 and an update for
SoftCinema (version 0.7) is available for download.
(ps)
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18.Nov.1999
Daniel Schulz by e-mail
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ANNEX not splitted!
In the net there is a rumor that ANNEX has split. I do not know who tells such
rumors, or what for, but it is 100% sure that ANNEX has NOT split, and does not
plan to do so for a long time.
There have been only three of us in Cologne, but you can read that
on our homepage. On the contrary, we are planning to present a vinyl release to
the market, and to announce this on this occassion, too!
If you want to get an impression how things are going on at ANNEX,
you should have a look at our homepage. ANNEX is continuing, and will not split
as long as there is an Amiga user left on the world!!! Even if that user has to
be myself!! :-) See ya at the next big show.
(ps)
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18.Nov.1999
Roman Schaub in ANF
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PTOW now freeware
The periodic table of elements (short: ptoe) is a list that shows all the known
elements in a certain order. This program shows such a list and the information
about the elements contained in it.
(ps)
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18.Nov.1999
Vapor.com
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AmTelnet version 2.1.3beta released
Download: amtelnet_213beta.lzx
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18.Nov.1999
Markus Fellhauer in ANF
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A/NES emulator CGFX version 1.10
Download: anescgfx.lha - 72 kB.
(ps)
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18.Nov.1999
Detlef Zirpel in ANF
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Which OS is the best?
At the title link, you can vote what you like about which Operating System
and what you dislike. The Amiga - OS dropped from position three to position
six during the last months. Whoever agrees with me that the Amiga - OS is
better should announce it there as soon as possible. And then lets see ...
PS: Thanks to Detlef's call, AmigaOS is back where it belongs :-) (ps)
(ps)
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18.Nov.1999
Jens Schönfeld by e-mail
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individual Computers says thank-you
Silversurfer number 400 has just left the house, which proves: the Amiga market is alive!
Independant magazines in Germany and Great Britain have tested the product to be bug-free
and absolutely outstanding. The fact that there's another card on the market which is an
exact copy of the Silversurfer from the outside is a compliment for me: there's nothing
to improve!
Of course, the EOF mode of Miami was supported from the beginning, but since
I consider this self-explanatory this feature was not advertised big-time. The next version
of Miami will auto-detect the Silversurfer, and use the EOF mode without the user having
to activate it manually.
There has been much positive feedback on the HEW '99. Only the length of the
supplied cable (25cm) was reason for criticism. Since this was known before, starting
November '99 the Silversurfer is shipped with an adapter cable which reaches the backside
of really every tower. Starting mid December '99, there will also be a slot back allowing
to attach the serial port alongside the A1200 mouse port - but there will be seperate
news available then.
(ps)
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18.Nov.1999
amiga-news.de
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IWin... a neverending story
In a record time of under six weeks, Iwin has changed it's complete product line, has been sold
to Focke, but former employees have bought back the company. Well done, other companies take
months, if not years for this. To set this in the right light, Iwin-Corp. of course did not
forget to register well-sounding domains like iwin-amiga.de or iwin-mcc.de. At least that's
what's described on the web pages. As we already expected from IWin, big words raise hopes
that they would soon deliver THE ultimate Amiga system, soon...
Once more, dear IWin Corporation: After the last
press conference, which could
safely be described as disaster, here's our request: Show us your miracle systems, let us
participate in your unbelievable developments; as said so many times before, a well done
website in combination with good PR does not convince us. We want to see the system, be able
to check it technically, and only then we will stop calling it a fake.
(ps)
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18.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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SoftCinema v0.7
On November 15th, version 0.7 of the animation player SoftCinema
has been released. The shareware program supports several codecs of AVI and QuickTime (QT/MOV).
This includes IntelIndeo (3.1, 3.2, 4, 5), SMC and RLE.
It rund on an Amiga with PPC (ppc.library), AGA or CGX, AHI and 8 MB free RAM.
The unregistered version is limited to 20 seconds playback. Download:
SoftCinema.lha
(ps)
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