10.Jun.2000
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Pictures from the Neuss show
Petra Struck has put together some pictures from the Word of Alternatives in Neuss and commented them.
More to come. If you don't need English comments for the pictures or cannot wait to see the pics, have a lock at the
Pictures from the first day of the show
and Pictures from Bill McEwen's presentation at the show
Translated comments are comming soon (mj)
Petro Tyschtschenko
spreads items for followers, unhandsomely |
Jens Langner
AmIDE und P96 Speed |
Jens Langer and Jens Troeger
J.T. (Installer) |
Haage & Partner Support-Team
Gunnar Gertzen
Martin Steigerwald
Sebastian Becker |
Stefan Robl
AmiCamedia Digicam software |
Christoph Dietz (AC + amiga-news.de)
Thomas Steiding (Epic)
Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.) |
T.o.T.-Team from Eternity
Martin Wolf (Idee/Konzept/Progr.)
Daniel Bindel (Animations-Progr.)
Markus Holler
(music)
Patrick Beerhorst (internet presence) |
Screenshots
Tales of Tamar |
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Virtual Dimension
Michael Schaefer
Dennis Pauler |
Amiga-Club
Werner Diesch |
Amiga-Club
Uwe Horn |
APC & TCP
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APC & TCP
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Screenshot T.o.T.
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Milan Computer
Axro GmbH |
Petro Tyschtschenko
autographs the SDK
spent for the lottery. |
Petro as fairy of luck
at the lottery of amiga-news.de |
Petra Struck gets an airbrushed tatoo
planted on her arm by Rolf Tingler (APT) |
Rolf Tinger
(Airbrush Paradise Tingler)
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Rolf acting |
Epic Marketing
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Stefan Ossowski
Schatztruhe |
Falke-Verlag
Nico Barbat
Ali Goukassian |
Tom Neidhardt
Workbench-Enhance-System |
Felix Schwarz
fxPaint |
KDH-Datentechnik
Mrs. Horbach and doughter |
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Haage & Partner |
Stefan Kost
SoundFX |
Stefan Kost
SoundFX |
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10.Jun.2000
Martin Baute
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Report about presentation at the Neuss show
More pictures of the presentation.
In a "conference room" (built out of some plastic walls which were put up, one desk, and an
insufficient amount of chairs) Bill McEwen was talking about Amiga's future for nearly 45 minutes. There
was a couple to listen to. So, let's rewind the dictaphones, and put together what was most imortant....
After the beamer could be woken up by the fifth trying, with plenty of drive and humor McEwen payed up (&qout;
Wellcome to the Amiga sauna...."). From the start he cleared the roumor that Amiga would be in delay of payment
for Gateway. Amiga owes Gateway no money. More than that, Amiga isn't in dept at all.
Further he introduced Dean Brown (DKB) as Director of Hardware once more. Mr. Brown would be responsible for
creating referenz hardware for interessted third-party developers to look about. A game handheld device would
allready be finished, which was in use by Amiga internally to impress interessted parties with the features
of the new operating environment. Based on a StrongARM with 250 Mips, a port for a Sony Memory Stick, and
a coloured display this device might figure well - and it was finished after one week of development!
About the new Vice President of Engineering McEwen showed himself mysteryous. This man might not get introduced
bevore the 10th of Juli, cause he still is employed by another company - "one that is large, and is in
trouble, you know...", and with this words a gesture of tearing something apart....
Further on information about the performance characteristics of the Java[TM] Virtual Machine - which is, acording
to Mr. McEwen 22 times faster in handling multimedia content than any other JVM does (!)
McEwen set clear too, that he wouldn't ask the Amiga Community for patience. The fact, that this show is
happening, that the audience is pressing into this (admittedly too small) room would argument enough that
Amiga users are patient - over 5 years, allready. But he continues to set clear, that he and his associates are
working for the same number of month to fulfill those high expectations.
As a first evidence of success Mr. McEwen took Amiga's SDK to the show, which - as he stated emphatic - still
would be very incomplete, and would target experienced developers in main. The end-users will still have to
wait for a seizable product for some time. E.g. there still is no sound support, streaming support or 3D graphics support
included with the SDK, which will follow later (e.g. 3D support after about 3 month).
In the case of the critical theme of marketing McEwen admited, he still didn't employe a VP of Marketing -
he thinks first to develope a product that would worth a respective marketing would be more important,
than making generous announcements which can't get fulfilled with the best Amiga tradition.
Next he talked about the original plans to provide a deverloper's box by combining hard and software together.
Because of the Amiga user's negative replies to this, they made up their minds - which required a lot of
changes an additional programs (e.g. installer scripts). Now the software of the SDK was released; the HW/SW
developer's box would follow after about 2 weeks.
Amiga would target "Ubiquity in Computing": mobile phones, PDAs, multimedia processor servers,
a new desktop, a new game console, all of that with the same operating environment - something like that
would never have been there.
Applications with this would be fully scalable. After a developer has decided were to put his applications,
this one application could climb up the ",Food Chain" as high as it was wanted to. So, a game coded for
a handheld would even run on a multiprocessor server. But on the other hand an application writen for a server wouldn't
run on a mobile phone - or better to say - only very, very slow....
Processors allready supported by the operating environment would be PPC, M.core, X68, StrongARM, ARM, Sh/3,4,5, MIPS
and a number of other CPUs, which they can't name (at this time), cause they are under NDAs with the
manufacturers.
At the end Bill was talking about the JavaOne, a show that happend in San Francisco last week, and at which the
Tao Group had a booth. The same demonstration shown here at the Amiga show there was running on a Sega DreamCast,
on set-top-boxes, a StrongARM notebook, and a X86 computer. Only this was enough to magnetise the audience, and then
they would have taken out a mobile phone on which a Pole Position clone could run, in spite of the low performance
of 3,5 Mips. This would have been the same mobile phone which Scott McNeilly (Sun) had with him when he entered the stage
at the CES in January, &qout;I've tolled you that once we will have Java[TM] running on such a device, once a day" - just,
that it wasn't Sun's Java[TM] Virtual Machine running on that mobile phone....
And Linux wouldn't be the only operating system that would come into question as a host for the new Amiga. Other hosts
would be Windows, WindowsNT, Linux, WindowsCE, QNX, and OS/9 (a market leading OS from Microware for set-top boxes).
Host support for iTron, Epoc, VxWorks, and PalmOS would be in development, and close to be finished.
The cooperation between the Tao Group and Amiga Mr. McEwen illuminated in quite another way. It wasn't necessary that
they would use only Tao's products. In fact they would have access to 50 developers at the Tao Group to create things
needed by Amga.
Furthermore the BOOPSI libraries were portetd. This porting would be allready finished. They would now do testings and
optimizations. The new scripting language (SHEEP) would also be finished during the next month - the rights for ARexx
belong to a third-party manufacturer, and because of that they would develope another language.
The catchword renderware was spoken, too. The new operating environment would be prepared even for this.
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And then Bill McEwen had a very special goody to offer: Once the single parts of the operating environment will be put together
there will be the AmigaOne - a new multimedia desktop, developed and designed by Amiga, even if manufactured by
thir-party manufacturers. McEwen didn't want to say more about that at that early stage, the way to go would still be
very long.
Since it is a few minutes after midnight, and tomorrow there will be another day of the show waiting I'll finish
for now. This was only the first half of the presentation. I'll report about the other half tomorrow....
...part two
McEwen continued on OEMs and ISVs - the latter being companies willing
to support Amiga, but unable to "take their eyes off" what they are
doing for a living right now. Eleven such ISVs had given their source
code to Amiga - free of charge, free to port.
Of course, the well-known partners of the Tao-Group were mentioned:
Sun, Sony, Motorola, JVC and others. McEwen recommended reading the
press release from the Tao site
(about the certification of their Java machine) - Amiga is in dealings
with all those companies mentioned.
Then, McEwen showed pictures of his former office, and of the new "Amiga
World Headquarter". Five other companies were located there, building
high-end electronics for other companies for demonstratiuon purposes -
with Amiga being able to use their equipment for free.
Then, Bill McEwen started demonstrating the new OS, hosted under Red Hat
Linux on a notebook. He stressed that there was no hardware acceleration
involved (which, as said before, will follow in August). It is difficult
to put into words, but we saw lightning-fast Java demos, some 2D games,
the well-known Boing demo, some free moving Boing balls you could grab
and shoot inot the air with the mouse, a unicode browser, 2D filters,
the transparent "Clock" window (where you could grab a ball through
the clock - everything running on top of Linux, without any flicker or
slow-down. Well, not true, I saw it flickering: when McEwen was
starting the OS a second time, in a different window, the first one froze
for a split-second, to continue as fast and fluently as before, while
McEwen started the same number of demos again in the second window.
The demo was very impressive given the early stage of development, the
pictures only grab a small portion of it.
McEwen was unable to elaborate on further plans, but recommended an article
in Byte magazine from 1994, linked from the Amiga homepage; some of these
things would redefine Distributed Computing completely.
Towards the end, McEwen answered some questions. I recorded the whole
presentation on tape, but some questions couldn't be heard over the
background noise, and some answers made no sense without the questions.
I transscribed what I could make sense of, and left out one or two
sentences I could not make sense of. As soon as I get my hands on the
right adapter cable, I will make a MP3 recording of the tape (which was
recorded with permission from Mr. McEwen).
F: What about the classic OS?
McEwen: We are using the pieces whereever it makes sense.
F: Will there be an emulation for it?
McEwen: We already have an emulator working. Testing is already done, we
are now optimizing it so it runs very very fast. You guys know Brian King? You
know where he works? He is a good man, Brian. He's helping us. So we're working to speed
it up right now, it's a little slow. So we are in the process of optimizing it.
McEwen: Before somebody asks, you're asking if I'm gonna porting it to PPC. No.
I'll tell you why. No matter who I've spoken with, R.J. Mical, Carl Sassenrath, Alan
Havemose, everyone of them has looked at this in the past. It's an 18-month to 24-month
process, and all of them agree it will only be 80% complete. Because I'd had to
re-engineer the AGA chipset, I'd have to re-engineer Agnus, Denise, all those things
are tied directly to the OS. In fact the hardest thing for Havemose in building the 3.1 were
all those bugs that were in those chips they have to account for. So right now it would be
too costly for us to make the moves necessary to capitalize on the market, we need to move forward.
It doesn't help me to be everywhere. It doesn't help me to build a scaleable operating system,
which is what we need to be to win.
Making just another system on a chip is not enough. We need to be able to go to Sony, go
to Panasonic, go to all those guys and say "pick your chip".
F: (Schlecht zu verstehen, Frage über die Hardware-Anforderungen des SDK, ob
es ein spezieller Prozessor sein muß.)
McEwen: The SDK, if you are able to run Red Hat Linux you should be fine.
We tested it on Red Hat and Corel. So you should be absolutely fine on that.
F: Will it also run on the Amiga?
McEwen: Not right now, no. We don't have anything on the 68000. We are hoping
to work with our other friends so when you got PPC, which we know Linux can run on
there, we can run on top of that. And we will be able to run native, on those, on the PPC
cards. That's one of our biggest problems right now, you've got commitments from
people delivering, and nothing is happening.
F: Do you plan to change the design of the interface?
McEwen: It is designed with the flexibility similar to today so you can make
it the way you want. There will be defaults, so an Amiga users might want to have
Workbench as their default, but for other consumers, they might to want it different.
You will have defaults with the flexibility to change it the way you want.
F: (nicht zu verstehen)
McEwen: If you are running Linux on a PPC card within an Amiga, alright? We
have not tested it yet, however the two manufacturers have tested it and said it can
run.
F: (nicht zu verstehen)
McEwen: Not with the first build, no. Part of it is a tools issue, the tools
needed to utilize it. We have two companies right now in the process of making an
IDE specifically for us, so that won't be required in the future. Everything is not
in here (SDK), we know that, and there are certaily things to change; however, we felt
it important enough to get people to understand writing for VP and some changes.
Chris Hinsley, who created this, as you know, is an Amiga gaming guy; and I think
you will find, as most have found as they began to play with this, it's extremly
similar, in many ways as we write today. So it will be a very wuick curve, but
there will be a curve. So we want it to get into peoples hands first, so they
can begin working with it, utilize it, begin writing some applications, you know.
Get familiar, so when we add the other components to it, you will be able to get
moving much quicker.
F: (schlecht zu verstehen, eine weitere Frage zur Kompatibilität mit
alten Anwendungen)
McEwen: In fact we already have an emulator that is working. It's not
in this build, since we are in optimization, yes. In fact we're also looking
into a hardware solution to do it.
F: Everything on the SDK is usable on an Amiga PPC?
McEwen: Nonono. What's on here is designed right now to work with
Red Hat on an x86 platform or on Corel, ok? When it's completed, and you have an
executive OS running, everything is fine, it can run. Again, we haven't
tested it yet, according to third parties it can run on a PowerPC accelerator
within an Amiga, as long as Linux is there. We haven't tested it yet, so I'm
not telling you yes it can. We want to test it first. We've got two machines
in the house we are doing it on.
F: (schlecht zu verstehen, eine Frage über die zu erwartende Verfügbarkeit
von Software für das neue System)
McEwen: We have 131 applications already dedicated.
F: Also games?
McEwen: Most of them are games. There is a very large Indian company who does a
lot of interactive games [...] they already commited to us and will be moving all
their games over to Amiga. They have 63 games themselves, all of them for multiuser
interactive gaming over the net.
F: (nicht zu verstehen)
McEwen: Oh, oh, the multiple screens? Yeah, that's fine. What you see
today from a visual perspective you still can get, ok? All the multiple layers,
etcetera, that's still here, that's ok. That's what you were asking, right?
Thank you!
There were presentations before this one. The first, at eleven, was missed
because I was still on my way to Neuss. The second one was so crowded I couldn't
get inside, but I managed to record some parts of his speech, enough to catch
up the fact that SUN will probably advertise the Amiga JDK to their
user base.
Report by: Martin Baute
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10.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News
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1000 pounds for a game
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd. is looking
for talented games devlopers for the Amiga sector and has initiated a contest to motivate
people that didn't think about game development before.
Whoever does send a finished game, or at least a demo, to CS&E by August 31st, 2000,
can win a contract as well as 1000 pounds advance payment. All other submissions accepted
by CS&E will recieve at least 100 pounds and a contract offer by the company.
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10.Jun.2000
Fun Time World
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New version of CGXReport
The version of CGXReport released June 9th, 2000 now supports CyberGraphX 4.2 pre7
cards and envs.
Download: CGXReport41g.lzh
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10.Jun.2000
Fun Time World
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HSMathLibs for MC68881/82 v44.41
On June 9th, 2000 CyberdyneSystems has
released version 44.41 of the HSMathLibs for the math co-processors MC68881/82. In
this version, all known bugs have been removed, and the Installer script reworked.
Download:
HSMathLibs_881-demo.lha (about 30 kB)
HSMathLibs_881-demo.lzx (about 20 kB)
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10.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Seal Show on September 10th, 2000
On Sunday, September 10th 2000, the South
Essex Amiga Link User Group is hosting an own show in Basildon, Essex.
The show will be sponsored by Analogic Computers
who, like Amiga Inc., will provide prices for the contests taking place during the show.
Analogic, Eyetech, FORE-MATT Home Computing, Crystal Interactive Software (Gilbert Goodmate)
and others have already announced themselves as exhibitors.
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09.Jun.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Aminet 37 CD-ROM available in time for Neuss fair
The Aminet CD 37 - June 2000 - contains almost a gigabyte (unpacked) of
software in thousands of archives. Since Aminet CD 36, more than 500 MByte
of new stuff was added. As special highlight, the Aminet 37 CD features
the unlimited full version of the 3D ego shooter Zombie Massacre.
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09.Jun.2000
Stefan Popp via eMail
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News from Escena
Escena writes:
Since the last announcements, several things have happened. Contrary to all
prophecies of doom, we are still sticking with the ambitious Brainstormer project.
Certain difficulties and situations sometimes demand a detour. We haven't
lost our aims from sight and follow them continously, even though often not with the
focus we would have loved to see.
You'll find the changes that were made during the course of development
here;
the current status here.
We will stay in touch and will give a few interim reports in this space
in future.
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09.Jun.2000
Elbox via eMail
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MEDIATOR PCI 1200 Busboard
On the "World of Alternatives" which starts tomorrow in Neuss, Germany, Elbox will
present at the booth of Vesalia the new MEDIATOR PCI 1200 Busboard.
Also the following Elbox products will be available for buying there:
Elbox Tower for A1200 and A4000, FastATA Controller, 16.6 MB/s with AllegroCDFS
for A1200 and for A4000, the Mroocheck PC-Mouse Interface, and the
4xEIDE'99 Interface with AllegroCDFS.
Return-Path: support@elbox.com.pl
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:21:27 +0200
Organization: ELBOX COMPUTER
Subject: MEDIATOR PCI busboard for Amiga 1200
Elbox Computer is proud to announce the new exciting product:
MEDIATOR
PCI busboard for Amiga 1200
MEDIATOR features:
* PCI busboard for Amiga 1200 in: E-BOX (Winner Tower, Power Tower)
and Infinitiv tower cases
* 4 PCI slots - PCI 2.1 compatible
* Transfer rates between PCI cards up to 132 MB/s
* Transfer rates between A1200 motherboard and PCI
cards
up to two times faster than between A4000 and ZORRO III cards
* Ready to run with existing Amiga 68k and PPC accelerator cards
* Two available hardware versions:
for A1200T (MEDIATOR PCI 1200)
for A1200T with ZORRO IV busboard (MEDIATOR PCI ZIV)
PCI - Amiga bridge is a PCI 2.1 compliant implementation for
connecting PCI devices, thus allowing expansion of Amiga with
all kinds of industry standard hardware products.
Elbox Computer will also be offering some cost-effective PCI
add-on modules:
* Graphic cards based on processors:
S3 Virge 8MB
3dfx Voodoo 3 16MB
3dfx Voodoo 5 32MB
* MPEG-2 hardware decoder based on EM8400 processor
* Ethernet card 100Mb/s
* Sound card based on Yamaha 744 processor
* USB Controller
For the add-on modules, Elbox Computer will provide the necessary
software tools and drivers.
MEDIATOR PCI ZIV will be available from Power Computing
and Vesalia Computer beginning with mid-July 2000.
MEDIATOR PCI 1200 will be available beginning with August 2000.
Best regards,
Darek Smietana
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Darek Smietana Sales Manager ELBOX COMPUTER
mailto:sales@elbox.com fax: +4812 6564981
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09.Jun.2000
Hynek Schlawack via eMail
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New patches for slrn+
I finally got around for putting the newest patches into my Amiga port of
slrn+ and it is available for download as release 4 on my homepage.
This time I haven't put the sources into the main archive so that people
who have no interest in the sources have to download only about 500,000 bytes.
The sourcecodes can be found on my homepage, however.
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08.Jun.2000
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Fair: Rolf Tingler brushes for you :-)
Maybe you already noticed by studying the hallmap
that airbrush booth besides the*AC#/amiga-news.de booth. We have convinced Rolf Tingler of the
Airbrush Paradise to show his airbrushing skills at a fair again after a long
time.
Rolf is known to many Amiga-users by his former appearences at fairs and he was the one who brought the
Amiga-design to the mobile phone housings.
At the fiar in Neuss he will, if you like, decorate your mouse with a nice airbrushed picture. The best you take your
Amiga mouse with you to the show for that. Also body tattoos, which will
disappear by itself after a while, are planned. The prices for that will be about DM 10,-.
At the fair you can take a close look at airbrushing and inform yourself about airbrushing, what airbrushing is,
and what you will need to do it yourself, how it is done, about what you have to take care for and what you better don't do.
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08.Jun.2000
AmiTrade Center
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New beta from ATC
Download: ATC_beta_07062000.lha
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08.Jun.2000
AAAudio Page
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Lame version 3.70 available
Download:
LAMEbin.lzx
LAMEdoc.lzx
LAMEsrc.lzx
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08.Jun.2000
Haage & Partner
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AmigaWriter 2.10 Patch online
The first patch for AmigaWriter can be loaded from the H&P FTP-Server. The printer works much better with TurboPrint.
The 68K-Version sometimes put the cursor at the wrong place or even ended up in an endless loop.
Download: AmigaWriter - Patch2.10.lha - 551 kb
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08.Jun.2000
Kai Mache per eMail
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LinuxPPC CD
The new Linux-PPC CD from Amiga Zentrum Thüringen e.V. is finished right
in time for the fair and will be presented at the booth of Titan
Computer.
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08.Jun.2000
Amiga Fair
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Fair news in short
The fair is soon to come and the news about the events spread. Enclose
the consised version. Follow the link of the headline to the "news" to
find more information.
- Events and list of activities loaded
- Youth hotels in Neuss and Düsseldorf are full
- Double rooms on privat available
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07.Jun.2000
Ali Goukassian via eMail
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Convention Neuess: New Exhibition Map available
Because of recent changes, a new exhibition map is available.
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07.Jun.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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CD32 Games Install Kit Bonus Programs published
At the AirSoft Website an archive is now available with Bonus Programs for
the CD32 Games Install Kit. These however are older versions and are
therefore quite useless.
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07.Jun.2000
Peter Glauser via eMail
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Anti-Trust Case: Judgement in Plaintext
Additional links on the Topic...
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07.Jun.2000
Michael Burkhardt in ANF
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Big Club event on Saturday
This is an open invitation to all Amigans that are unable to go to Neuss, to
come to our Open House on Saturday, June 10th. The Phoenix Computer Club
Hof e.V. is running an Open House from 10am to 10PM. There are many
highlights waiting to be discovered. Hof is in northern Bavaria and is easily
reached via the A9 Autobahn. A detailed route desription can be found at
thier website.
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07.Jun.2000
Hans-Joerg Frieden via eMail
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The 10th of June is H2-Day!
The wait has come to an End. Hyperions first game, Heretic II will be
released at the convention in Neuss. Heretic II is a next generation
fantasy 3D game and is based on the popular games from ID software. Those
that are interested in Heretic II should definatly stop by the Titan stand.
That is where most of the developers will be.
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07.Jun.2000
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Exhibition Flyer now in - Inexpensive travel arrangements
The Flyer for the Neuss exhibition is now in. The article concerning the
inexpensive travel arrangements especially caught our eye.
For 7 Marks to the Exhibition and back
As a train rider you have the least expensive option to come to the World of
Alternatives in Neuss. The Deutsche Bahn has a Weekend ticket for 35DM. With
this ticket you can travel all throughout Germany on regional trains without
a mileage limit. This ticket has the following restrictions:
It is valid from 12:00 AM to 3:00AM the following day on either Saturday or
Sunday. Up to 5 people can ride on on single ticket. This makes this the
cheapest way to get to the convention. More infos concerning this ticket at
Deutsche Bahn
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07.Jun.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Schatztruhe GmbH at the World of Alternatives in Neuss
For the first time Schatztruhe will be at the new "World of Alternative" in
Neuss. Just like previous conventions we will have many products at
special convention prices. We will also have the freshly pressed CD Aminet
37. It is definatly worth a visit. According to information of the
management, there will be demonstations and presentaions of the new
developer system. For more information go to www.amiga-messe.de.
The trip to Neuss is from all over Germany very easy to accomplish. The
vast autobahn network wll bring you irectly to Neuss. Just follow the signs
to the Congress-Hotel DORINT.
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07.Jun.2000
Jens Schoenfeld via eMail
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X-Surf Samba Install CD is done
Just in time for the convention the Samba-Install CD for the X-Surf
ethernet card is finished. On the Amiga side everything is automatic, so
there is no need to deal with complicated configuration files. A few clicks
and you can access harddrives and printers in the network. For Amiga-Freaks
that don`t care for Samba, NetFS will also be automatically installed. No
editing of configuration files. The access performance of amiga-amiga is a bit
higher. For the PC there isn`t a simple method of automation, but a HTML
installation guide includes screenshots of all the important settings.
The CD will be given to all X-Surf customers for free that are able to show
the original bill of sale. Those that aren`t able to be in Neuss will have
to order it from thier retailer. There are not any plans to distribute the
CD without a customer order. Since the CD only contains 5.5 MB data, it will
most probably be available on the internet after the convention. However it
will be a while, since everything is in German and many of the users would
not be able to benefit from it.
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07.Jun.2000
Ingo Kleefeld per eMail
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Software Piracy
In recent times we have become aware that there are an ever increasing
number of companies that are distributing our products on CD-R or CD-RW.
The proucts ArtStudioPro, ElasticDreams, FantasticDreams and
CandyFactoryPro are only sold on pressed CD`s. Any version on CD-R or CD-RW
are pirate copies. We are aware of companies in England and Germany. Anyone
with such a pirated copy should contact us at Motionstudios
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07.Jun.2000
Innovative per eMail
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Innovative AMIGA Newsletter
Updates at the World of Alternatives
As stated in the previous newsitem, Felix Schwarz will present Innovative's
whole productline at the booth of Coolbits at the "World of Alternatives" on
10th and 11th June. The following updates could be finished in time and will
be available at the show:
fxPAINT 1.5
An overview over the new features:
- includes all changes of EK 1 and EK 2 (alone more than 60 new features)
- Tutorials (Video & HTML) on the CD
- heavily improved fxALBUM with new presentation-functions and a new, professional HTML-overviewfunction
- improved palette with HTML-colorcode-export and colorchooser
- ARexx-Launcher
- new effect to reduce or remove JPEG-fractures
- DigiCam-support
- many small improvements
VHI Studio 5.2
The new version features faster MPEG-Export and the ability to create either
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2-files.
fxSCAN 2.0
New effects (incl. Sharpen and a high-quality scaling-routine as known from
fxPAINT), a direct link to fxPAINT and bugfixes are significant for this update.
If you want to buy an update at the show, please bring the original disk or CD of
the old version with you. The prices can be found in our online-shop.
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07.Jun.2000
Andreas L. im ANF
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Update for Dropout-Killer for Movieshop
Starting today the version 1.02 of Dropout-Killer for Movieshop is
available for download. This program repairs video scenes in which
individual frames where not correctly digitized. This tool can remove the
annoying "flashes" A new frame is inserted that is calculated from the
adjacent frames, without changing the scene length without it showing up in
the finished scene.
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06.Jun.2000
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc. names Eyetech as manufacturer of the first Amiga Developer machines.
Eyetech will manufacture "Next Generation Amiga Developer machines", and and will distribute those for England and Ireland.
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06.Jun.2000
Frank Zickmantel by e-mail
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Titan Computer Updates
Joyride:final demo version for CGFX and AGA available.
BurnIT:new drivers v2.71 and french translations by Stephane Payet available
ArtStudioPro:update v3.2 released
Download page
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06.Jun.2000
Pär Boberg by e-mail
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Famous Amiga Uses
Pär Boberg from Sweden has collected a list where you can see which
famous occassions, people, companies and movies employed or still employ
the Amiga. Most of them are people and companies from the TV and movie
industry, or the video editing business. The list is available as AmigaGuide
or plain text file.
Download: FamAmigaUses.lha
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06.Jun.2000
Tao Group
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Amiga is Back, and will change computing forever, again
Amiga, the creators of multimedia computing, have announced the release of their
developer kit for Amiga, Linux, and Java developers." Full article at the title
link.
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06.Jun.2000
amiga-news.de
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Did you send your postcard for the lottery?
If you want to participate in the big lottery and cannot bring your postcard
to our booth in person, you should hurry to the post office and send it to us :-).
Have a look at the fantastic prices following the title link! It's really worth
your while!
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06.Jun.2000
V³ Portal
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V³ 3.2.12beta
This new Voyager3 version is a "beta snapshot" showing the
progress made in bug fixes and improvements, but should be handled carefully due to
the beta status. THis version is only functional with a valid keyfile.
Download: v3_3212_beta.lzx
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06.Jun.2000
GoldED
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GoldED Studio 6 News
On the occassion of the World of Alternatives, Dietmar Eilert will be offering
GoldED Studio 6 for a special price. Make a note and order on these two days!
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06.Jun.2000
Thomas Steiding by e-mail
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Show news from Epic
Epic Marketing will participate in the World of Alternatives taking place next weekend
in Neuss. Attending at their booth will be Paul Burkey, presenting his new titles
"Foundation: The undiscovered Land" and "Foundation Gold Edition", explaining and,
upon request, signing it. All owners bringing their "Foundation Directors Cut" to
the booth will recieve the Gold Edition for a special price.
Aside from these two ready-to-sell new items we hope to be able to present beta
versions of "Dafel: Bloodline" and "Simon the Sorcerer 2". Of course we will have
all titles available from our house at the booth for attractive show pricing.
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06.Jun.2000
Michael Pfeiffer by e-mail
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VWP News: AudioCutter Cinema Preview v0.6 for Linux
At the title link, under "ACutter", the audio and sound processing software
"AudioCutter Cinema" is now avail- and downloadable not only in the Windows
version, but also in versions for 80x86 and PPC Linux. I am sorry that the
PPC version is in a somewhat more experimental state, since there are driver
problems with the testing system. The BeOS version is delayed until further
notice, since the BeKaffe Page
still has not gone online again, and BeKaffe is therefore unavailable for
the time being.
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06.Jun.2000
Andreas Magerl by e-mail
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APC&TCP News
On the Neuss show, APC&TCP presents another Amiga CD-ROM: "Amiga Game Guide".
Are you fed up waiting for cheats, walkthroughs and hints for your favourite game to show
up in game magazines? Are you interested in a game but are not sure if the graphics is
good or making you fall asleep during the game? You don't know which game supports your
4-player adapter, can be played with nullmodem or by Internet, and for which games
DataDisks were released? You need the universal Amiga game database, the "Amiga Game Guide".
The following features wait for you to explore them:
- HTML and AmigaGuide version (with extra part for CD32 games)
- Cheats, tipps and tricks for over 1600 Amiga games
- Over 500 reviews on about 250 games
- About 2500 screenshots from almost 500 games
- Further details on about all 1700 games listed (manufacturer, publisher, genre, year
of development)
- Saved games, HD Installer, game demos, PD games, additional levels, icons etc. - PC compatibility
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05.Jun.2000
AMIGA Inc.
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Espial opens Java Developers Portal for internet smart devices
Espial Joins with Technology and Media Innovators to Launch one of the First
Java(TM) Technology Developer Portals for Internet Smart Devices. Devicetop.com,
supported by Sun, Intel, Motorola, Amiga, Tao Group, IAN, Pointbase, Dr. Dobb's,
Java Report, and JavaWorld.com(tm), Marks Portal Launch. Further details under
the titlelink.
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05.Jun.2000
Kai Mache via email
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FUN OF COMPUTING NG news
On the internetpages of the fair -FUN OF COMPUTING NG- are many new exhibitors
added. Besides Petro Tyschtschenko and Titan Computer, Jürgen Haage of the company
Haage & Partner will be there. Informations about the topics of the discourses
are also available now.
The pages for the -FUN OF COMPUTING NG- will be updated regularly and will be
a good source for the planning of arrival and overnight reservations via internet.
The FUN OF COMPUTING NG will take place in Illmenau/Thüringen, germany from
June, 24th to 25th 2000. The admission is free and there will be a lottery with
interesting prices. Other exhibitors are contacted, so the visitor can be sure,
that this fair is a special one.
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05.Jun.2000
Thomas Steiding via email
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Epic Marketing news
Paul Berkey and Epic Marketing are announcing the "Foundation Gold Edition".
This game is a further development of the original with many new features,
easier gameplay, reworked graphical design and reworked userinterface. The
game will be available from June, 12th 2000, and needs AGA or a gfx-board
Amiga with 68030 and 8 MByte RAM. Further informations you will find in the
following days under projects.
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05.Jun.2000
Alexandros Pourikas via email
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AMIGA.gr internet-magazin online
After some hard work the free Amiga internet magazin «Amiga.gr» is now for
all Amiga-users online. There are many intersting topics like news, reviews,
old games, views, and announcements.
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05.Jun.2000
Jan Andersen via email
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VirusHelp Denmark: TCP trojan on the run
The coder of "SAFE" Zbigniew `Zeeball` Trzcionkowski has informed VirusHelp
Denmark that some new TCP-trojans are on the run:
Organization: Virus Help Denmark
From: "Jan Andersen" vht-dk@post4.tele.dk
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 08:29:40 +0200
Subject: [vht-dk] TCP Trojan's on the wild
Hi All....
Today we recived information from Zbigniew `Zeeball` Trzcionkowski the
programmer of "SAFE", that there is some new TCP trojan on the loose.
Please read the text that Zbigniew wrote:
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
TCP:4097 remote shell
and
LIBS:rexxfifo.library size: 1136
If You have such then please:
- delete this fake library
- repalce fake LoadWB with the original one
- reboot
The fake LoadWB don`t have $VER string, but to confuse user it have
size and parts of file from the original LoadWB v38.9.
The trojan is fake LoadWB that decrypts and executes rexxfifo.library
which hides original LoadWB also remote shell is opened - TCP:4097.
Installer: (faked YAM?)
Please wait to xvs.library will be updated to remove this in easy way.
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
TCP:2421 remote shell
...and maybe several infected files.
Yes. There is another link-virus. The memory patch is detected as
STD Vaginitis #1 and removed correctly by xvs.library.
The infected files aren`t.
The virus is changed only little bit and is almost same as Fungus
or Vaginitis. Even static crypt key ($DEAD) is same.
Installer: jizzer size: 15368
attacks C:mount as first (adds 700 bytes with virus)
Wait for xvs.library to be updated. To see infected files
look into Safe/VaginitisClone dir of this Safe release!
I wasn`t able to spread this virus to testfiles,
so maybe this is only used to infect c:mount,
so after analyzes of disassembly i`ll be able to say why.
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
TCP: 2001 remote shell
and
fake process called `SetPatch`
and
LIBSi:rexxfunc.library size: 1136
and
L:wb.handler size: 4716
If You have such then please:
- delete those fake library and fake handler,
- replace LoadWB with the original one
- reboot
The fake LoadWB looks like original one, but it is fake.
Installer: `miamispoof` size: 8468
(The file is StoneCracked and then modified to
prevent decrunching)
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
So to be sure please check Your system for:
LIBS:rexxfunc.library size: 1136
LIBS:rexxfifo.library size: 1136
L:wb.handler size: 4716
C:mount (is bigger)
...and wait for new xvs.library from Alex van Niel.
This text is public domain :-)
;---------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanx to Paul for sending the files and to Zbigniew for the text.
The warning from VHT-DK is atthaced to this email, please spread
the warning as much as you can...... ( Thanx).....
Kind Regards.....
Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
vht-dk@post4.tele.dk
http://www.vht-dk.dk
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05.Jun.2000
Euro Electronic Trade GmbH via email
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Amiga Fair in Neuss, Germany, June, 10th and 11th, 2000
At the Amiga fair in Neuss, Germany, the Euro Electronic Trade GmbH will sell
many many Amigagames and joysticks for low prices. A look will be worth it.
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04.Jun.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail
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CD32 Games Cheat & Info Kits released
The CD32 Games Cheat Kit and the CD32 Games Info Kit
have been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Both programs are add-ons to the
CD32 Games Install Kit, which has been available for download in an updated
version for a week now. The CD32 Games Info Kit offers informations and
pictures to many CD32 and CDTV games, while the CD32
Games Cheat Kit offers many cheats for CD32 games.
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04.Jun.2000
Frank Seidel by e-mail
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Homebanking2.2 finished
On my homepage and Aminet the latest version of Homebanking.lha is available. These are
ARexx scripts allowing to do homebanking by using AddressMaster and MultiTermKit. The
scripts are usable for Sparkasse and Deutsche Bank 24, but can be adapted to other banks
as well.
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04.Jun.2000
Ali Goukassian by e-mail
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Amiga Show News and room plan
Last evening, the up-to-date room plan for the "World of Alternatives" was finished. Some
exhibitors will probably join on short notice - updates as usual by means of the homepage.
The room plan is available as A4 graphic (about 270
kB).
Visitors of the World of Alternatives that don't know yet how to get there find
detailed route informations (German) here. There are routes for people traveling
by car, train and plane. Even detailed bus connections are available.
On the Milan side, there are the good news that the TV and the DSP card can be presented,
the 100Mbit network is working, and the new case designs have arrived in time for the show.
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04.Jun.2000
Ali Goukassian by e-mail
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World Launch of the NG AMIGA SDK on the show in Neuss
Bill McEwen confirmed it in his latest e-mail: AMIGA will present the new SDK (Software
Development Kit) for the NG AMIGAs for the first time worldwide on the show in Neuss
coming up next weekend. Bill himself intends to bring the SDK packs for the local
exhibitors. The expected price will be about 250,- DM.
As scheduled, Bill will present the new system in a conference room, report about
AMIGA's plans for the future, and answer user questions.
Bill only briefly attending on Sunday:
Since Bill has a very important interview with the New York Times on Sunday, he had
to cut back his attending to the show to Saturday. If he will be present at all on
Sunday, it will be only briefly. People focussing on the presentations should change
plans to arrive on Saturday. The SDK will of course be available on Sundays, too.
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04.Jun.2000
Frank Mariak by e-mail
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CyberGraphX 4.2 pre7 update available
On the CyberGraphX homepage, there is the latest CyberGraphX 4.2 pre7 update available.
Aside from several fixes, there are now A2410 and RainbowIII drivers included. Also there
is now an option to activate 56 kHz audio directly on CyberGraphX screens. For people
who want to overclock their BCPPV/CVPPC to get some more performance from their card, there
are now the according options too (requiring to actively cool your Permedia2 however). More
about that on the CyberGraphX homepage. As usual, the CyberGraphX v4 CD is required for the
update.
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04.Jun.2000
Ed Collins
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TWF News
Read news on the games Explorer 2260 and Maim & Mangle:
Date: 04-jun-00 00:23:10
From: Ed Collins collins-e@dnet.co.uk
Subject: [twf] June 2000 update
TWF News.
1. General Update
2. Explorer 2260 Update.
3. Maim & Mangle Update.
4. Next News Update
~~~~~~
1. General Update
May could have been better. There was numerous problems with compiler bugs
driving both chris and massi mad. The problems were traced to bugs in the
StormC V3 compiler which wasted a lot of their time chasing code bugs that
didn't exist. On top of that Rob had a harddrive failure which didn't lose
much work but the replacement drive refused to format and took over a week
to get his A4000 working again with the new drive.
2. Explorer 2260 Update.
News this month:
- Continuted working on MiniGL engine and object editor. Started
modifying MiniGL texture code to support more formats and
automatic card-friendly format conversion.
- Fixed some problems with parts of the interface code, began
an abstraction layer to make interface component handling
code easier to port to Linux.
- Extended object editor loading system to support plugin-style
load libraries.
3. Maim & Mangle Update.
News this month:
- There has been far too many problems with bugs in StormC V3. A lot of
development time has been lost due to these compiler problems. We are
switching development over to the GCC compiler (we may use StormC V4
when it is released if the bugs we've experienced have been fixed).
- The game engine is now running under miniGL, on both 060 and PPC.
- Work has started on conversion of our editor tools to use miniGL.
These should be ready within 2-3 weeks.
4. Next News Update
1st July 2000
All the best,
Ed.
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