01.Sep.1999
ZDNet
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Collas out as Amiga president
According to ZDNet, Jim Collas is no longer president of Amiga.
Summary of the article:
Jim Collas leaves the company for personal reasons, and has registered his 118.000
stock shares for sale. Moreover it is reported that Gateway paid 13 million US-Dollar
for 47 Amiga patents, and that Collas himself asked Gateway president Ted Waitt for
the Job at Amiga. He moreover asked to run Amiga as a seperate company.
Tom Schmidt takes over the post from Collas. Before his joining Amiga,
Schmidt has worked as General Manager for Allied Signal. He was not available for
comment.
PS:
CNet also reports:
Gateway's Amiga president jumps ship
The article states that Collas' leaving does not imply a change in plans, and the
planned route will be continued by Schmidt.
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01.Sep.1999
amigaonline.net
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AMIGAOnline.NET
Today, AMIGAOnline.NET is going online officially as Internet Service Provider
for Amiga users in the USA and Canada.
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01.Sep.1999
AHI
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AHI v4 - Status
Martin Blom reports back from holiday, and has good news for PPC users since
the PPC assembler mixing routines are much faster than the C version. Details
at the title link.
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01.Sep.1999
ZDNet [News]
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Coppermine early - Pentium III with 700 MHz comes in October
USB 2.0 being 40 times as fast as current USB
IFA: First DVD on Linux worldwide
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01.Sep.1999
v3.vapor.com
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V³ - TearOff classes not complete in archive
The TearOff-classes in the V³pre 1/2 archives are incomplete. Please download the
compete installation from either amiga.org.pl/~szulat/tearoff/
or VaporWare at MCC_TearOff.lzx
and install the new archive.
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01.Sep.1999
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise Newsticker (German)
IFA: DVD-Player for Linux
StarDivision takeover doesn't bother Microsoft
Sun: Into the Web with StarOffice
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01.Sep.1999
Fabian Jimenez
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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.
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01.Sep.1999
Magnus Rivertz Torgersen by eMail
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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.
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01.Sep.1999
HEW
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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.
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01.Sep.1999
Janne Siren by eMail
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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.
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01.Sep.1999
Volker Mohr by eMail
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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.
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01.Sep.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail
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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
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31.Aug.1999
Alexandros Pourikas by eMail
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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)
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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]
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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.
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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]
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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.
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31.Aug.1999
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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 -)
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31.Aug.1999
Amiga.org
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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".
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30.Aug.1999
Audio Evolution
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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)
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30.Aug.1999
AER
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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).
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30.Aug.1999
VirusHelp Denmark
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VirusExecutor new version 1.82e
Download: ve-182e.lha
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30.Aug.1999
Hyperion
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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.
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30.Aug.1999
StrICQ-Support
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New beta version 0.1485 StrICQ
Download: STRICQ.lha
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30.Aug.1999
Amigart
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MAME new version PPC 3.6b2
Download: mameppc36b2.lha (3.8 MB)
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30.Aug.1999
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame News
Michael Carillo Interviews Andrew Reed of Crystal Interactive Software
Delsyd Software Announce More Games
Alive Mediasoft Go Serious
Amiga Downunder Show
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30.Aug.1999
FutureZone
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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.
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30.Aug.1999
BGUI
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New BGUI version 41.10
Download: bgui.lha (333077 bytes) of August 30th, 1999.
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30.Aug.1999
PPCRulez
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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.
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30.Aug.1999
V3-Portal
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V³ image decoder and VFlash update
Download: v3_imgdecoders_73.lzx
and v3_vflash_014.lzx
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30.Aug.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Imagine Update
A new update for Imagine version 5.16 Amiga Constant
Upgrade Programm (ACUP) is available. Download page.
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30.Aug.1999
HiSoft
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iBrowse 2.1 to come this week
The beta test results have all arrived, and Stefan will remove the final bugs. If
everything runs smoothly, iBrowse will be released this week.
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30.Aug.1999
Andreas Küssner by eMail
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New Wildfire pricing and Wildfire for Movieshop Video!
Starting immediately, the recommended retail price for the award-winning special
effects software Wildfire, version 7\PPC, is cut back. This includes the bundle
"Wildfire for Movieshop".
Additionally, the example video "Wildfire for Movieshop" will be released
early September. In this video, all special effects offered for the Wildfire-Movieshop
combination are shown. The video runs for approx. 100 minutes. For the new pricing
and distributor pricing please directly contact Andreas Küssner. All programs
can be ordered directly from the Wildfire support:
Andreas Küssner
Marrinksweg 5
48531 Nordhorn
Germany
EMail: eksec@eure.de
Phone: +49 - (0)5921 / 330420 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, working days
Andreas Küssner, Wildfire Project Manager.
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30.Aug.1999
Andreas Kleinert by eMail
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GIF licence for Webmasters?
Are you a webmaster and want to get a web licence from Unisys for your GIF pictures?
No problem, Unisys offers a licence for webmasters for a meager 5,000.00 USD ;-).
Heise writes: Unisys wants to rip of websites for GIF pictures.
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30.Aug.1999
Guvenc Kaplan by eMail
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Free Amiga postcard service
Amigart started a free postcard service. Send your friends Amiga greetings.
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30.Aug.1999
Marc Albrecht by eMail
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A.C.T. new address
Finally, A.C.T. has completed its move and is from now on available at the following address only:
Albrecht Computer Technik
Glinder Str. 2
27432 Ebersdorf
Phone Hotlines:
Amiga and Web Service:
0700-ACT-AMIGA (numerical: 0700-228-26442)
Apple/Be/QNX: 0700-ACT-PHONE
(numerically: 0700-228-74663)
(Presumably available starting September 10th, 1999)
Office: +49-(0)-4765-8300-60
Fax: +49-(0)-4765-8300-64
Note: The old phone numbers will be redirected for some more weeks.
EMail: info@act-net.com and WWW offers:
support@level-2.com.
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30.Aug.1999
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon: Iwin, part two
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30.Aug.1999
Arne Hinrichsen by eMail
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userfriendly.org: Amiga logo in good company?
Aside from Arne, several other visitors have pointed to this cartoon in userfriendly.org;
as always in these cases, the first one is cited as "source".
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30.Aug.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail
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VMdriver new version 1.10
Stefan Robl writes:
The new version 1.10 of the FMdriver packet contains numerous innovations; e.g. the
limitation to graphic cards has been removed, programms are now running in satisfactory
quality in 2-256 colors (!!). New are the programms FMInit, FMGrab (great for WebCams!),
FMRecord/FMRecordDec and FMRecorder.
FMRecorder makes it possible to comfortably record videos with the FrameMachine.
The program contains, aside from an anim viewer, a converter to encode the video as MPEG
later on. You can download screenshots from the programs, and a MPEG animation recorded
with FMRecord (and encoded with CreateMPEG) from my homepage.
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30.Aug.1999
Robert Niessner by eMail
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PFS3 finished
The most important new features:
- PFS Doctor, a repair program for the difficult case
- expansion of the delete directory to up to 992 entries!
- extra long filenames, (optionally) up to 100 characters!
- HDInsttools for easy installation
- own PFS format command
- miscellaneous bugfixes
Available from Schatztruhe and other distributors.
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30.Aug.1999
Patrick Beerhorst by eMail
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Prelude library bug
Patrick Beerhorst writes:
Version 4.52 of prelude.library causes problems with the Prelude 1200 (card is not
initialised in certain circumstances). A fixed version v4.55 for both cards (Prelude
1200 and Prelude Z-II) solves these problems. Download:
PrlLib455.lha.
Additionally, there is a new Mixer v2.1 available from the homepage. Download:
PreludeMixer21.lha.
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28.Aug.1999
Carsten Schröder by eMail
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Tyschtschenko: No more Executive Updates for competition reasons
+++ AMIGA-aktuell-Special +++
Tyschtschenko: No more Executive Updates for competition reasons (27.08.99)
AMIGA Vice President Petro Tyschtschenko explained on request of AMIGA aktuell, that
Amiga decided to change information politics to avoid too many details of the AmigaNG
development reaching competitors, which would be a burden for the whole project. The
head of the German Amiga office stressed that other companies don't handle new
developments any differently.
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28.Aug.1999
Olaf Köbnik
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Amiga Arena News
Olaf Köbnik writes:
Complete full version on Amiga Arena!
The Amiga Arena reports back after the summer break directly with the highlight for 1999!
Exclusively and only at Amiga Arena, the best shareware space economy simulation
Imperium Terranum 2 is available as full version for download!
Info about the game and the archive for Imperium Terranum 2 (3.2 MB) are only
available from Amiga Arena! This one-time offer is only available for the next 21 days!
(Note: Message dates from August 28th). Amiga Arena says thank you to the team of
Virtual Worlds Productions, who made this offer possible!
TaskForce Version 0.38 online!
The latest version of the strategy game TaskForce is, as always - before Aminet - available
on the TaskForce homepage (title link).
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28.Aug.1999
Thomas Lorenz by eMail
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FusionPPC: Only 380 of the needed 500 preorders recieved
Thomas Lorenz writes:
There are still many preorders missing. Here the latest news from the Fusion mailinglist:
From: Jim Drew msdei@ctaz.com
Subject: [FUSION]: PPC upgrade status
This is an official announcement from Microcode Solutions...
As many of you know, Microcode Solutions has been trying to establish a base market for its new
emulations. We presented the public with a test marketting idea of pre-paying for a PowerPC emulation. We
reached our base goal of 500 units (actually we reached nearly 700), and then we announced that we were
now accepting the pre-payments. To date we have only 380 pre-payments (none of which have been
processed), meaning that we are still short 120 units before we can commit to producing this product.
It has been several months since we have been collecting actual pre-payments. We are spending an
incredible amount of time and resources on this project (which is 1/1000th the revenue of our PC market),
and we hope that we are not wasting our time by doing so. We ask that if you have not placed your order
yet, please do so now. If we do not reach the 500 unit goal, we will not release the product, no matter how
much we have completed so far... we will use some of the work for our PC version. x
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27.Aug.1999
Andre Beer
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Update GeoWorld
After more than half a year of work, today we finally finished the long-awaited update to
version 1.1 of GeoWorld. GeoWorld, probably the best geographical software for the Amiga,
has been expanded by the following features in version 1.1:
- adding a new generic search function in the maxi search, enabling for the first time the
search for special keywords in the additional databases like economy, history etc. (full text
search)
- complete rework and bugfixes
- NewLook-Menus for OS 3.0+ (no more changing menu colors)
- flashing pointer for cities and small countries now working correctly
- scrolling of the maps pixel by pixel per keyboard
- sorting speed-up due to presorted databases
- faster search functions (in Assembler)
- VisualPrefs now supported nearly completely
- GeoWorld-Fonts can now stay in the same directory
- interaction with all requesters now completely by keyboard
- option to give distances in miles instead of kilometers
- requester "no information available" now with configurable time-out
- reworked and expanded prefs window (among others display mode, font,
use, save or reset prefs)
- expansion of the city database for Austria, Switzerland, Brasil and US
cities (over 1100 cities with ZUP code, 6119 cities total)
- expanding the city databases with details about country / state capitals
- expanding the country databases with details about the Internet abbreviation (e.g. .de, .uk, .us)
- informations about the databases are now kept in a seperate GeoWorld.data file,
so an expansion of the databases does no longer imply a change of the main program
- expansion of the info requester
- rewritten and expanded online help
- reworked and extremly expanded data about the inhabitants of the countries (over 100 kByte
text!!)
The Update Nr. 9 and a up-to-date demo version are available from our
homepage (title link), and should appear on Aminet (misc/edu) in the next few days.
Download (Demo): GeoWorld_E.lha
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27.Aug.1999
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Redesign of the website and database ready
Amiga.org is here again full power, the website has a friendlier and cleaner layout now,
and it is (as before) possible requesting news sorted by subject from a database, like
hardware etc., seperately.
I am dreaming of a database like that, too, simply great :-). (ps)
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27.Aug.1999
Haage & Partner
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Haage & Partner News
Amiga No Piracy campaign
The campaign goes on: some more logos and the final one :) Discussion forum will start soon.
New 3D World-Logos
There have been yet more submissions for the logos. H&P initiated a
vote which kind of logo
you like best.
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27.Aug.1999
Markus Lunk by eMail
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ComputerWoche: Linux-based operating system competing agains WindowsCE
ComputerWoche writes: Amiga is not dead, new live as home information device
MUNICH (CW) - New details have surfaced about Amiga, the cult of the 80ies. It is intended
to be mainly used as Information Appliance in the future.
About two years ago, direct PC distributor Gateway purchased the rights of
the computing pioneer Amiga and its 47 patents from German Escom AG. Now, the name
shall be brought back to life.
Aside from PCs for the consumer market, future's Amigas will be mainly used
as information appliances in private households. CEO Jim Collas wants to present an
operating enviroment until the end of the year, and ship the first machines early 2000.
(Full story - German - at the title link)
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27.Aug.1999
Amiga
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No more executive updates
Amiga writes:
For the next several months, the Amiga staff will be focused on implementing our business
and product plans. We will not be discussing or commenting on future company directions during this time.
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27.Aug.1999
Compcity by eMail
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E4000
Computer City announces the availability of the E4000. The computer is based on a standard
A4000 mainboard with an Elbox tower and AmigaOS 3.5 (which will be delivered when available).
The processor boards are manufactured by Apollo / DCE. Technical specs:
- Midi tower with 230W power supply
- 68040 (40 MHz) or 68060 (50 MHz)
- 2 MB ChipRAM (on A4000 mainboard)
- IDE controller (on A4000 mainboard)
- SCSI2 controller (on the processor board) for hard drives and CD-ROMs
- 7 Zorro II/III slots
- 5 ISA slots (non-active)
- 2 video slots
- 3,5" floppy drive HD 1.76 MB
- original A4000 keyboard
- original Amiga mouse
- 40speed IDE CD-ROM drive
- 13.1 GB IDE hard drive
- AmigaOS 3.5
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26.Aug.1999
Future-Visions by eMail
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Info from Met@box about amiJoe PPC boards
Andreas Schmidt writes:
Today, I recieved some informations from Thomas Rudloff (Met@box) about the announced
amiJoe boards, including some price informations, which can be found on our webpage.
The title link is the German page, the English pages do not (yet?) carry this information.
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26.Aug.1999
Fun Time World
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Lame 3.25 Beta
Note: The Warp-Up version of this MP3 encoder can still crash at certain circumstances.
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26.Aug.1999
Amiga
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Pictures from the Downunder '99 Show
More pictures can be found at GP Software.
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25.Aug.1999
NewsTekniques TekTicker
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European Version of NewTek
European Version of NewTek.
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25.Aug.1999
Andreas Kleinert
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New ak-Datatypes Version 44.46
Download: akPNG-dt.lha,
akTIFF-dt.lha and
akJFIF-dt.lha as well as
akNAIL-dt.lha (44.3, from August 10th 1999).
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25.Aug.1999
AWD [News]
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Amiga Job offering, Amiga 2k announced, Amiga Downunder 99 show report
Various news from AWD:
Amiga Job Posting
Amigan-St. Louis is Proud to Announce Amiga 2K
Amiga Downunder '99 Show Report
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25.Aug.1999
Iwin
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Iwin: product specifications of A510MP and A1010MP online
At AmiUpdate, the entry in the
Sun Dealer Catalog is considered sufficient proof for the existence of Iwin. Here's the
entry.
At ANN, there are two more interesting postingsabout the subject: 1. The manufacturer of the tower casings has been found, it is the company Antec. 2.
Jeffrey D. Webster explains in a posting
to c.s.a.m. why it isn't that hard to get added to the Sun Dealer Catalog.
Comment about the technical specification: It reads all too well. You cannot run the
bus system with a 68060-50, however. You will never get the speed to the PCI bus to transport
the data fast enough for the pixel rates of the gfx card. Not to speak of AGP. I consider
that impossible with a 68060 CPU. A company without Amiga experience can never implement
this stuff. For this, the subject is far too complicated. And how is all this intended
to run without Amiga chipset?
Thomas Raukamp writes: About your
comment about bus speed - don't forget that the Milan
is running gfx cards on the PCI bus with 060, so it is possible. Far less likely is that
the emulation of the Custom Chips is possible without modification of the Kick-ROMs. If they
modify them, they break the licence since they have none. With this, Iwin would end in court.
Slashdot.org: Amiga 510 & 1010 released?
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25.Aug.1999
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Bernhard Hembach dead
Attorney and bancruptcy manager Bernhard Hembach has died on August 20th
at the age of only 55 by heart attack. Our feelings are with his family.
Mr. Hembach managed the bancruptcies of Commodore and Escom, and by his
casual approach did his part in keeping the Amiga alive.
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25.Aug.1999
Jan Andersen by ML
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Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor Update Version 1.82b
Name: VirusExecutor v1.82b
Archive name: ve-182b.lha
Archive size: 48.337 bytes
Date: 24 August 1999
Author: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes in this update:
- new prefs window added (BETA).
VE directly goes to the prefs window when new settings are added.
- hopefully fixed 'Error 12000'.
- vector check added. Not too well yet, but I'm working on it.
- VE can now display tasks, libraries and devices...
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