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01.Sep.1999
Fabian Jimenez


Another Loss
* Forwarded from newsgroup "a Mail"
* Originally from: Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com)
* Original date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:01:48 -0400

Hello All,

I regret to inform that Bill McEwen told me as of
Tuesday he will no longer be under contract at
Amiga.  Sigh.

I called him about some newsletter plans he had
in mind, only to receive yet another bit of
disappointing news.

Regards,
Fabian
--
Fabian Jimenez : fabian@cais.com : ICQ# 21377601
       Editor, Amiga Intuition Newsletter
National Capital Amiga Users Group, www.ncaug.org


With Bill, somebody is leaving who always had time to listen to users, and didn't hold back with informations.
September 2nd, 1999:
Bill McEwen confirms at Cucug that he recieved a message on August 30th that August 31rd would be his last day at Amiga. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Magnus Rivertz Torgersen by eMail


Amitory/Oratory for Amiga released as shareware
Amitory/Oratory is a chat program for use on a LAN, and is probably the best chat program to use on a internal network between pc's and Amiga's. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
HEW


Home electronic world in Cologne
The Amiga show so far known as Computer(xx=year) is named "Home electronic world" this year. It will take place from November 12th to 14th in the exhibition center, Cologne, in hall 11.2. The official website is online since today. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Janne Siren by eMail


Press Release: Finnish Saku 99 Event this Saturday
From:       Janne Siren siren@mikrobitti.fi
Reply-To:   siren@mikrobitti.fi
Subject:    Press release: Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
Date:       Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:18:34 +0300


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday

Webcam and IRC Channel Available

ESPOO, FINLAND - September 1, 1999 - Saku 99, the biggest Amiga event in
Finland this year, will be on this Saturday in Vantaa. The show starts at
12 o'clock and will feature Amiga related competitions, demonstrations,
retailers and video films. Amiga's Petro Tyschtschenko and AmigaOS 3.5
previews will be there as well. Attendance is free of charge.

For those who can't attend, the Finnish Amiga Users Group will be hosting a
webcam and an IRC channel (#saku99 at IRCnet) with live comments from the
exhibition place. Please note the Finnish timezone (EET, GMT+2). You should
also check out the Saku 99 invitation intro in Aminet for pictures and
other highlights (demo/intro/saku99.lha).

Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/english/, for further information. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Janne Sirén (siren@mikrobitti.fi).

About Saku 99

Saku 99 will be the biggest Amiga event in Finland this year. Following the
success of Saku 98, which was visited by some 500 Amiga enthusiasts, Saku
99 is aimed to be bigger and better than the previous events. Mr. Petro
Tyschtschenko of Amiga has already confirmed his presence and other great
highlights are planned. Saku 99 will be held on Saturday September 4th 1999
at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki.

About Finnish Amiga Users Group

Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after it's disk magazine, the group is trying
to accomplish it's goals by organizing meetings and by publishing a disk
magazine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and it's predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the disk magazine and held several
public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet,
a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.
(ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Volker Mohr by eMail


Amiga Patents
At the title link, you will find a posting to comp.sys.amiga.misc, listing the patents filed by Amiga. We didn't take a closer look at the list, but perhaps one reader or another has the time to read them :-).
Comments are wellcome in the forum. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail


FMdriver Update Version 1.12
Stefan Robl writes:
The FMdriver packet has been improved further:
All programs can now save in IFF format, too (8 as well as 24 bit). All problems with flicker or lines in small resolutions should be fixed, the FPS rate now looks much more stable, too. A serious bug has been removed that occured when there was no Prism24 module connected. The FMRecorder now offers several file formats, so it will work with every video software. Small changes and bugfixes.
Download: FMdriver.lha (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Alexandros Pourikas by eMail


amiga.gr online
Alexandros Pourikas has created an Amiga website in Greek language at www.amiga.gr. Aside from Amiga news and a forum in local language, there is an interesting picture gallery to be found here.

Since the website is completely written in Greek, I don't understand a word, but the graphics alone are worth a visit :-). (ps) (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]


Fast 3D gfx chip by nVidia
Heise writes, among other:
California gfx chip manufacturer nVidia presented the 3D chip for PC graphic gards previously dubbed "NV10" in Berlin. The GeForce 256 is the first graphic chip for consumer PCs that processes and displays 3D data mainly on its own.
With 23 million transistors, the GeForce 256 is more than twice as complex as a Pentium-III CPU (9 million transistors). Since it does geometry transformations and lighting calculations much faster than the PC CPU, it can create 3D objects and 3D virtual realities with much more detail and fluid moves. Thus, PC games can make use of curved and organic structures like in movies a la "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life". (Full article - German - at the title link).
Here is another interesting link on the subject. (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]


StarOffice goes OpenSource
Heise writes, among other:
As expected, Sun Microsystems today confirmed the purchase of the software company Star Division based in Hamburg, Germany. At the same time, Sun announced the office package StarOffice to be available for Internet download. (Full article - German - at the title link).
Bernhard Kuhn in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc posted more interesting details about the press conference, like StarOffice now being free for _commercial_ use, too. (ps)

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31.Aug.1999



Seybold Conference: First Macs with PowerPC G4 CPU
MacGadget, among others, writes:
As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented a new generation of Macintosh computers in his keynote to the Seybold Conference in San Francisco, which are powered for the first time by the top-performing PowerPC G4 CPU. Apple called the new Macs "supercomputers", offering significantly more speed than the current Power Macintosh G3 product line. Apple starts shipping the first 400 MHz G4 system today. Versions with 450 and 500 MHz are bound to follow in the next two weeks.
The main performance specs are a 2x AGP bus, integrated AirPort technology, an Ultra 66 ATA system and an accelerated PCI bus. Jobs spend special attention on the AltiVec technology. This especially speeds up operations heavy on numerical calculations, like graphic applications. A special AltiVec-optimised expansion to Photoshop is included with every G4 Mac. The new systems will cost between 1599 and 3499 USD. A PowerPC G4 with 500 MHz is said to be much faster than a Pentium III with 600 MHz. The Power Macintosh G4 will be shipped in the same casing as the current G3 line, but not in blue-white but silver-white.
The new configurations in overview:
Power Mac G4/400, 64 MB memory, 10 GByte-HD, 32speed CD-ROM; 1599 $
Power Mac G4/450, 128 MB memory, 20 GByte-HD, DVD-ROM; 2499 $
Power Mac G4/500, 256 MB memory, 27 GByte-HD, DVD-RAM; 3499 $
(More details at the title link - German -) (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Amiga.org


Amiga filed a Patent
At Nr. US5935230, the following patent has been registered: "Multiprocessor arrangement including bus arbitration scheme involving plural CPU clusters that address each other as "phantom" CPUs". (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Audio Evolution


Audio Evolution PPC
New PPC RTFX:
  • 3-band equalizer with mid-sweep (includes new GUI when version v2.0829 or higher is used)
  • low shelving filter (bass control)
    - high shelving filter (treble control)
(ps)

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30.Aug.1999
AER


A/NES 8-bit emulator for Amiga
A/NES CGFX Preview 2 released! Changes: bug fixes, and the emulator is much faster now. Download: anescgfx.lha (early beta). (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
VirusHelp Denmark


VirusExecutor new version 1.82e
Download: ve-182e.lha (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Hyperion


Hyperion brings "Smacker" to Amiga
"Smacker" is an industrial standard video codec, developed by RAD Game Tools and used in over 1400 games. Currently, Smacker is only available for MAC (68k and PPC), DOS, Windows 3.x, 95 and NT. At first, Hyperion considered developing an own video codec, but since Heretic 2 by Activision and Shogo:MAD by Monolith make use of Smacker, it was decided to save developing time and purchase the license for the port, since Smacker is really fast and efficient when used with only 256 colors. smacker.com. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
StrICQ-Support


New beta version 0.1485 StrICQ
Download: STRICQ.lha (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Amigart


MAME new version PPC 3.6b2
Download: mameppc36b2.lha (3.8 MB) (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
Amiga Flame


Amiga Flame News
Michael Carillo Interviews Andrew Reed of Crystal Interactive Software
Delsyd Software Announce More Games
Alive Mediasoft Go Serious
Amiga Downunder Show (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
FutureZone


Hotmail cracked completely
FutureZone writes:
Mail of every user readable | no password needed | details unknown so far | FutureZone has tested Exploit
The free mail service Hotmail has been cracked heavily today. With a web form it is possible to read any user's mail - without password. FutureZone has a corresponding link, first tests revealed: Every Hotmail account is readable. (Full article - German - at the title link.)
August 31st, 1999:
Heise writes, among others: Hotmail hole fixed for now
About twelve hours after the Hotmail hack became public, Microsoft reported the bug has been fixed. In the meantime, the Hotmail server was offline. Our editors however recieved messages until late in the night that readers were able to scan Hotmail accounts without the need for a password. After the Microsoft announcement at 2:00 AM local time, this seems to be impossible. Microsoft has not yet commented about the technical background making the attack possibe.
Spiegel Netzwelt, among others, writes: Hacker group claims responsibility for Hotmail hack
According to informations of the online news service "Wired", a so far unknown hacker group claimed responsibility for the move on Monday. The online magazine cites a Swedish spokesman that is reported to have made contact with "Wired". According to him, the group named "Hackers Unite" consists of a Swedish and seven US-Americans. The hackers made the backdoor public to bring attention to the insufficient security of Microsoft's products: "We didn't make this hack to destroy, but to show the world how bad the security really is at Microsoft, and that the company nearly has a monopoly on computer software", a 21-year-old group member is cited. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
BGUI


New BGUI version 41.10
Download: bgui.lha (333077 bytes) of August 30th, 1999. (ps)

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30.Aug.1999
PPCRulez


AmigaOS 3.5 preview with pictures
Steve Zoneff has attended the presentation of AmigaOS 3.5 at the Amiga Downunder in Canberra, and created this little preview with pictures. (ps)

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