From    Martin Baute solar@baud.de
To      Petra Struck petra.struck@online-club.de
Date    Sat, 07 Aug 1999 12:03:05 +0200
Subject Kriegs-Analogie
Name    Martin Baute


Hallo Petra,

auf ANN fand sich diese sehr treffende Metapher zur Situation, inklusive
einer Reaktion von Jim Collas. Ich habe beide für die Sonderseite übersetzt.

*** Deutsch, Englisch folgt ***

Posting von Paul E. Bell auf comp.sys.amiga.misc:

Hi Jim,

Nein, ich habe Deine Nachricht nicht zitiert, wie Gateway die
Informationen betrachtet, die Du ausgibst und die Leute, die Du
anwirbst und wie man sich wundert, was Du tust; oder Deinen Vergleich
mit anderen Firmen. Auf jeden Fall Dank Dir, daß Du uns diese Dinge
gesagt hast.

Verstehe das folgende nicht falsch, bevor Du alles gelesen hast:

Amiga und die Gemeinschaft befinden sich beide in einer schwierigen
Situation. Auf eine Art ist die Amiga-Gemeinschaft wie eine kleine
Armee, die jetzt schon seit Jahren von Notrationen lebt. Im Laufe
dieser Jahre sind Generäle gekommen und gegangen, und alle haben sie
Vollrationen und "echtes Essen" versprochen, gleich um die Ecke. Diese
Generäle haben auch neue Waffen versprochen, Verbesserungen der
jetzigen Waffen, und mehr und bessere Munition. Aber wir leben immer
noch von Notrationen, unsere Gewehre und Munition ist Jahre alt, und
unsere Stiefel sind durchgelaufen.

Jetzt haben wir einen neuen General, einen, der uns Vollrationen und
"echtes Essen" verspricht, gleich um die Ecke. Einer, der uns neue und
bessere Waffen verspricht, mit besserer Munition, und Fahrzeuge, nicht
weniger. Um dies zu erreichen, hat er sich mit einem Kommandostab
umgeben, wie wir ihn noch nie gesehen haben, auch wenn wir immer noch
nicht erkennen, wie diese Leute die neuen Waffen, Munition und Essen
heranschaffen sollen (etwas, was normalerweise von Forschern und
Entwicklern getan wird, und vielen davon), oder wie die
Nachschublinien zusammengestellt werden sollen (momentan scheinen wir
uns selbst zu versorgen, indem wir die umliegende Landschaft plündern,
zwischen spärlichen Nachschüben von Freiwilligenorganisationen und ein
paar Söldnereinheiten).

Der neue General versucht, näher bei seinen Männern zu sein, er
versucht, ihnen Einsicht in einige der Gedanken hinter seinen
Entscheidungen zu verschaffen. In der Zwischenzeit diskutiert das
Kabinet, was in aller Welt er da zu tun versucht, und warum er so
unorthodox ist. Sie machen sich Sorgen, daß der Gegner seine
Nachrichten abfangen könnte, und einen Gegenangriff startet, bevor die
kleine Armee ihre neue Ausrüstung überhaupt erhält. Der General hat
alle Hände voll zu tun, die Truppen und das Kabinet zur gleichen Zeit
zu beruhigen.

Wegen denen, die sich darauf vorbereiten, das Schiff zu verlassen,
sollte es vielleicht eine Navy/Admirals-Situation sein, aber das faßt
die Situation zusammen, exklusive den Abspringern.

Wenn ich es richtig verstehe, würde die Armee normalerweise von den
neuen Rationen erst erfahren, wenn sie da sind, nicht vorher.
Normalerweise wäre da vielleicht nicht einmal eine Armee, die auf die
neuen Waffen wartet, wäre es nicht eine alte, und hoch dekorierte
Armee, und eine, die einfach nicht aufgibt, selbst wenn ihre Anführer
sterben oder verschwinden.

Vielleicht verdient es diese Armee, besseren Nachschub zu erhalten, zu
wissen, daß besserer Nachschub unterwegs ist, oder zumindest
produziert wird. Auf der anderen Seite, vielleicht nicht.

Was wäre passiert, wenn Du bis zum Start geschwiegen hättest? Jene,
die das Schiff verlassen wollten, wären sowieso gesprungen; die, die
bleiben wollten, wären geblieben. Es gäbe immer noch Beschwerden über
den Nachschub, aber vielleicht hätte es weniger Verwirrung und weniger
Beschwerden über den General und seinen Stab gegeben.

Nachdem es gesagt wurde, können wir nicht mehr zurück, aber es sollte
uns klar sein, daß wir im Krieg sind. Vielleicht wissen wir nicht,
wen der General für den Gegner hält, aber es sollte uns klar sein, daß
es nicht gut ist, wenn wir selbst zum Gegner werden. Es sollte uns
auch klar sein, daß wir sehr kurz davor sind, jeden Tag. Ich weiß
nicht, was die Lösung ist. Ich weiß aber, daß ich, als Fußsoldat, die
ausgegebenen Informationen auf der Basis mußich_wissen_ beurteilen
sollte, und im Moment mußich_es_nicht_wissen_.

Was ist anders? Ich werde vom General nach meiner Meinung gefragt, wie
dieser Krieg zu führen sei, welche Waffen ich brauche, wie ich mein
Steak gerne hätte! Der General wird von Zeit zu Zeit von Soldaten in
den Schützengräben gesehen (wie macht er das), selbst spät in der
Nacht, oder in den Stunden der Morgendämmerung. Selbst einige hohe
Offiziere sind aufgetaucht, die Truppen zu inspizieren, Befehle zu
geben, Fragen zu beantworten. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, daß dies
zuvor oft passiert wäre, wenn überhaupt. Ja, die Analogie ist nicht
wirklich wie die Realität, aber sie erklärt meinen Standpunkt:
Normalerweise gäbe es gar keine Armee; oder, wenn doch, wäre sie mit
Waffen und Nachschub des letzten Jahres gut ausgerüstet, und wüßte
nichts von den neuen Plänen.

Amiga ist eine sehr ungewöhnliche Firma, die offensichtlich einen sehr
ungewöhnlichen Führungsstil verlangt. Ich hoffe nur, daß die Risiken,
die Du uns zuliebe eingehst, sich am Ende auszahlen. Vielleicht werde
ich mich weiter beschweren, während ich Rationen des Gegners verzehre
und eine Waffe benutze, die ich von einem Gegner gekauft habe, den ich
auf Fronturlaub in einer Bar getroffen habe. Aber ich kann, und werde,
darauf warten, daß die neue Ausrüstung hier eintrifft.

Danke im Voraus.
--Paul E. Bell Email and AIM: wd0gcp@millcomm.com
ifMUD: Helios | IRC: PKodon, DrWho4, and Helios
(I'd put my webpage here, if it had anything on it.)

***

Jim Collas' Antwort:

In vielerlei Hinsicht sind wir tatsächlich dabei, einen Krieg
anzuzetteln, in dem wir erheblich in Unterzahl sind. Ich habe ein
neutrales Schlachtfeld gewählt, auf dem wir eine Chance zu kämpfen
haben (Info-Appliances und Computing Devices der nächsten Generation).
Ich habe mächtige Verbündete gebeten, uns beizustehen (Linux, Sun, und
viele andere). Wir bauen einige einzigartige und mächtige Waffen
(Amiga NG Technologie). Wir haben eine Startegie, die sie überraschen
wird (noch geheim). Macht Euch keine Sorgen über das Kabinet. Der
Präsident hat versprochen, uns bedingungslos zu unterstützen. Denkt
daran, es ist nur eine Analogie. ;-)

*** Ende Deutsch, Englisch folgt ***

*** Englisch, Deutsch weiter oben ***

Posting from Paul E. Bell on comp.sys.amiga.misc:

Hi Jim,

No, I didn't quote your message about how Gateway is looking at the
information you are giving out and the people you are hiring and
wondering what you are doing, or your comparison with other companies.
Thanks for telling us these things, though.

Don't take the following wrong before you read it all:

Amiga and the community are in a hard situation for both. In a way,
the Amiga community is like a small army that has been living on
K-Rations for years now. Over the course of these years, generals have
come and gone, all promising C-Rations and 'real food' just around the
corner. These generals have also promised new weapons, upgrades to
current weapons, and more and better ammunition. Still, we live on
K-Rations, our guns and ammo are years old, and our boots are wearing
out.

Now we have a new General, one who is promising C-Rations and 'real
food', just around the corner. One who is promising new and better
weapons, with better ammunition, and vehicles, no less. To accomplish
this, he has surrounded himself with a command team like none we have
seen yet, though we still don't see how these people are going to get
the new weapons, ammunition and food developed (something usually done
by R&D people, and lots of them), or how the supply lines are going to
be put together (currently, we seem to be supplying ourselves by
looting the surrounding countryside, in between sparce transports from
volunteer organizations and a few mercenary groups).

The new General attempts to be closer to his men, he attempts to let
them in on some of the thinking behind the decisions he is making.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet is deliberating what in the world he is
attempting to do, and why he is being so unorthodox. They are getting
woried that the enemy might pick up on his messages and launch a
counterstrike before the little army even gets their new supplies. The
General has his hands full, trying to calm the troops and the Cabinet
at the same time.

Perhaps with those who are preparing to jump ship, it should be a
Navy/Admiral situation, but that about sums up the situation, not
including the ship jumpers.

Now, if I understand it corectly, normally, the army would be told
about the new rations when they got them, not before. Normally, there
might not even be an army to use the new weapons, if it weren't for
the fact that it is an old army, and well decorated, and one that just
won't give up, even when it's leaders die or disappear.

This army may deserve better supplies now, it may deserve to know that
better suppliess are on the way, or at least being procured. Then
again, it may not.

What would have happened if you had kept quiet until launch? Those who
were going to jump would have jumped anyway, those who would stay,
would stay. There would still have been complaints about the state of
supplies, but, perhaps, there would have been less confusion and less
complaining about the General and his commanders.

That said, we can't go back, but we should be aware that we are at
war, we may not know who the General thinks the enemy is, but we ought
to realize that it does us no good to become the enemy ourselves. We
also ought to realize that we come very close to it, every day. I
don't know what the solution is, I do know this, as one of the
footsoldiers, I should consider the information given me on a
needto_know_ basis, and for now, Idon't_need_to_know_.

What's different? I get asked by the General for my opinion on how to
fight this war, what weapons I need, how I like my steak! The General
is seen in the trenches (how does he do that) by soldiers from time to
time, even late at night, or in the wee hours of the morning. Even
some of the top brass have shown up to inspect the troops, give
orders, answer questions. I don't remember this happening much before,
if ever. Oh, yes, the analogy is not quite what the reality is, but it
makes my point, that there wouldn't even be an army normally; or, if
there were, it would be well supplied with last years weapons and
supplies, and oblivious to the new plans in store.

Amiga is a most unusual business, seemingly calling for a most unusual
way of running it. I just hope the risks you take for our sakes are
worth it in the end. I may still complain, as I am eating the enemies
food and using a weapon I bought from an enemy soldier I met in a bar
on R&R one day, but I can, and will, wait for the new supplies to get
here.

Thanks, ahead of time, --Paul E. Bell Email and AIM:
wd0gcp@millcomm.com ifMUD: Helios | IRC: PKodon, DrWho4, and Helios
(I'd put my webpage here, if it had anything on it.)

***

Jim Collas' answer:

In many ways, we are indeed preparing to launch a war in which we are
significantly outnumbered. I have picked a neutral battlefield where
we will have a fighting chance (info-appliances and next generation
computing devices). I have asked powerful allies to join us (Linux,
Sun, and many others). We are building some extremely unique and
powerful weapons (Amiga NG technology). We have a strategy that will
take them by surprise (still secret). Don't worry about the Cabinet.
The President has promised to support us no matter what. Remember,
it's just an analogy. ;)

*** Ende Englisch, Deutsch weiter oben ***

Mit freundlichen Grüssen,

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 => solar@baud.de <=     /// Newsmaster & VersionWatch at http://www.baud.de
Member of Team AMIGA \\\/// Member of the Bielefeld Amiga Users & Developers
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Date    Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:24:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From    Martin Sahlén
To  Petra Struck
Subject Re: AAA Award Sweden Information


AAA Award Sweden 1998 Winner Presentation

For Immediate Release
Permission Granted To Redistribute Without Alteration

Contact: Björn Axelsson - gecko@acc.umu.se, +46-90-19 11 73 President,
Amiga Computer Group


Stockholm, Sweden. Monday August 6, 1999.
The AAA Award Sweden for 1998 will be announced and presented at the
Great Nolia fair in Umea, Sweden on Saturday August 14, 15:00.

NOMINEES
The nominees for the AAA Award Sweden 1998 are
    Stefan Burström, for IBrowse
    Vidamus, for FinalWriter 97 Swedish translation
    Christian Nylen, for good customer support at Syscom


THE PRESENTATION
The AAA Award Sweden for 1998 will be presented Saturday August 14,
15:00 CET. Booth 6055 (Amiga Computer Group) at the Great Nolia fair
("Stora Nolia") in Umea, Sweden.


TO GET THERE
The Great Nolia fair is a huge fair with around 120.000 visitors.
Below are links to information about the fair. For more information,
contact us.
Homepage: http://www.nolia.se/stora/
Travel information: http://www.nolia.se/nav/index_resa2.html


CONTACTS

Björn Axelsson, President ACG   gecko@acc.umu.se, +46-90-19 11 73
AAA Awards, homepage            www.aaa-awards.org
AAA Awards, phone hotline       +46-90-71 00 20 (24 hours)
AAA Awards, fax                 +46-90-71 01 46


Acknowledgements

The AAA Awards is copyright © 1997-99 Amiga Computer Group.
The AAA Awards logo is copyright © 1997 Amiga Computer Group and Björn Hagström.
AMIGA® is a registered trademark of AMIGA International, Inc. / Gateway, Inc.


The AAA Awards 1998 are presented in association with AMIGA and Cloanto

From:    ThomasSteiding epic@swol.de
To:      team@amiga-news.de
Date:    Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:05:43 +0100
Subject: Preseerklärung

6. August 99

Paul Burkey und Epic Marketing geben Zusammenarbeit bekannt
**
Paul Burkey und Epic Marketing sind stolz eine langfristige Zusammenarbeit
bekannt geben zu dürfen. Das Ziel dieser Zusammenarbeit ist, hochklassige
Strategiespiele für den Amiga zu entwickeln und auf dem Markt zu plazieren.
Die ersten Früchte dieser Zusammenarbeit sind das Spiel "Foundation Directors
Cut", daß bereits in ca. 2 Wochen erhältlich sein wird. Dabei handelt es
sich um ein aktualisiertes "Foundation" mit allen veröffentlichten und einem
neuem Update, alles fix und fertig und ready-to-use auf CD installiert. Der
Directors Cut von Foundation ist vor allem an diejenigen User gerichtet, die
"Foundation" bisher noch nicht gekauft haben. Dazu soll Sie jetzt der neue Preis
von DM 49.- (Euro 25) ermutigen. "Foundation Directors Cut" kann bereits jetzt
bei Epic Marketing Germany (Hirschauer Strasse 9, D-72070 Tübingen, Tel:
07071 400492, Fax: 07071 400493, E-Mail:info@epic-marketing.de) oder
Epic Marketing UK (Tel:01793 432176, Fax: 01793 514187, E-Mail:
epicmarketing@dialin.net) vorbestellt werden.

Foundation ist ein Echtzeitstrategiespiel, das bekannte Strategiespielelemente
mit gänzlich neuen Konzepten verknüpft. Erfahrene Strategen werden

über das komplexe Ressourcenmanagement und die durchdachte Steuerung
erfreut sein. Anfänger werden sich über die leichte Zugänglichkeit zum
Spiel freuen, daß seinen Tiefgang nach und nach aufzeigen wird.

Die Features von "Foundations Directors Cut" werden sein:

* optimierte Grafikkartenunterstützung
* komplette Unterstützung von CyberGraphX, Picasso 96 und AHI
* neue Grafikeffekte wie Textureblending und Lighting/Shading
* Grafikkartenbesitzer können in einem Fenster auf der Workbench spielen
* AGA Unterstützung mit schneller c2p Routine, so daß AGA fast identisch wie
  RTG aussieht
* Nutzt vorhandenes Fast Ram für Grafik, so daß es keine Speicherprobleme mehr
  gibt
* optimierte Festplatteninstallation
* optimiertes Gameplay
* verbesserte künstliche Intelligenz bei Computergegnern
* Mehr Spielstatistiken und Steuerungsicons
* schelleres Gameplay, schnellere Laderoutinen
* noch vieles vieles mehr


Aber der Directors Cut ist nicht das einzige Produkt, das wir hiermit
ankündigen möchten. Am Nachfolger zu "Foundation" wird bereits kräftig
gearbeitet.
Mehr Details zu "Foundation`s Edge" erfahren Sie in Kürze auf diesen
Homepages:

www.epic-marketing.de
www.sneech.freeserve.co.uk/foundedge.html


Ferner werden Epic Marketing und Paul Burkey mit zukünftigen Projekten
vor allem den Amiga NG berücksichtigen. Auch hierzu werden Sie in Kürze
Details auf unseren Homepages finden.





EPIC MARKETING
HIRSCHAUER STRASSE 9
72070 TÜBINGEN

Tel: +49 (0) 7071 40 04 92
Fax: +49 (0) 7071 40 04 93
Mail:epic@swol.de

AMIGA gibt Gründung des Amiga Advisory Council (AAC) bekannt (06.08.99)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

»6. August 1999

San Diego, Kalifornien - Die Gründung des Amiga Advisory Council (Amiga-
Beirat) wird heute, am 6. August 1999, offiziell bekanntgegeben.

Die Gemeinschaft übermittelte uns hunderte von Nominierungen und auf Grund
Ihrer Eingaben freuen wir uns, folgende Mitglieder im Amiga-Beirat
willkommen heißen zu können:

Andrew Elia        Ben Vost         Bill Panagouleas     Cade Hannan
Carsten Schroeder  Chris Heereman   Christian Kemp       Christoph Dietz
Conor Kerr         Craig DeLahoy    Dave Law             Don Hicks
Gary Peake         Gunter Horbach   Heinz Wrobel         Holger Kruse
Ian Greenaway      Jeff Rose        Juergen Haage        Kermit Woodall
Luca Denelon       Malte Mundt      Randhir Jesrani      Thomas Frieden
Thomas Raukamp     Thomas Svenson   Tom Lively           Trish Zlotek
Wayne Hunt         Wayne Martin

Das Ziel des AAC ist es uns zu helfen, die Zukunft des Amiga durch
enge Verbindung mit Leuten, die als führend in der Amiga-Gemeinschaft
angesehen werden, zu planen. Alle Mitglieder des AAC haben mit Amiga
eine Vereinbarung zur Nichtweitergabe (NDA) getroffen und werden deshalb
Zugang zu vertraulichen Informationen über zukünftige Produkte und Pläne
haben. Dadurch kann Amiga geachtete Mitglieder der Amiga-Gemeinschaft
an diesen vertraulichen Informationen teilhaben lassen, ohne dass unsere
Pläne an die breite Öffentlichkeit gelangen.

Die Mitglieder des AAC wurden ausgewählt, um die unterschiedlichen Bereiche
innerhalb der Amiga-Gemeinschaft zu repräsentieren - die Presse,
Entwickler, Handel/Vertrieb und die Organisationen der Usergroups. Der AAC
wurde geschaffen, um einen Informationsfluss von der Gemeinschaft zum
Amiga-Management und von Amiga zurück zur Gemeinschaft zu ermöglichen.
Jedes der Mitglieder bildet einen "Draht" zur Gemeinschaft und dem Bereich,
den es vertritt.

Wir haben unsere ersten offiziellen Treffen mit dem AAC in London und
Sacramento abgehalten und es haben über 20 Mitglieder an diesen ersten
Treffen teilgenommen. Der AAC konnte viele der Wünsche und Bedürfnisse
der Gemeinschaft an Amiga weitergeben. Da wir auf den Start des Amiga
der nächsten Generation hinarbeiten, werden die vom AAC empfangenen
Eingaben eine Richtschnur für diese Entscheidungen sein.

"Wir heißen die Mitglieder des AAC als aktive Repräsentanten der Amiga-
Gemeinschaft willkommen und freuen uns darauf, viele der vorgeschlagenen
Programme in der nahen Zukunft zu verwirklichen," sagte Jim Collas,
"gemeinsam werden wir es schaffen, die Computer-Nutzung für immer zu
verändern."

Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie bei:

Bill McEwen
Amiga
bill.mcewen@amiga.com
Tel:425-413-2620
Fax:425-413-2640«




»August 6, 1999

San Diego, CA - The Amiga Advisory Council is officially launched today
August 6th, 1999.

The community submitted hundreds of Nominations, and based upon your input
we are pleased to welcome the following members of the Amiga Advisory
Council:

Andrew Elia         Ben Vost        Bill Panagouleas    Cade Hannan
Carsten Schroeder   Chris Heereman  Christian Kemp      Christoph Dietz
Conor Kerr          Craig DeLahoy   Dave Law            Don Hicks
Gary Peake          Gunter Horbach  Heinz Wrobel        Holger Kruse
Ian Greenaway       Jeff Rose       Juergen Haage       Kermit Woodall
Luca Denelon        Malte Mundt     Randhir Jesrani     Thomas Frieden
Thomas Raukamp      Thomas Svenson  Tom Lively          Trish Zlotek
Wayne Hunt          Wayne Martin

The objective of the AAC is to help us better plan the future of Amiga
through close communications with people who are viewed as leaders in the
Amiga community.  The members of the AAC have all executed non-disclosure
agreements (NDAs), with Amiga and will have access to confidential
information regarding future products and plans.  This allows Amiga to share
sensitive information with respected members of the Amiga community without
having to disclose our plans publicly.

The members of the AAC were selected to represent their different areas of
affiliation within the Amiga community - the Press, Developers,
Dealers/Distributors, and the User Group organizations.   The AAC is
designed to provide a flow of information from the Community to the Amiga
management team and from Amiga back to the community.  Each of the members
of the AAC will act as a conduit to the community and the areas that they
represent.

We held our first official meetings with the AAC in London and in Sacramento
with over 20 AAC members participate in these first official meetings. The
AAC was able to share with Amiga many of the desires, and needs of the
community.  As we work towards the launch of the Next Generation Amiga the
input received by the AAC will help guide those decisions.

"We are excited to welcome the members of the AAC as active representatives
of the Amiga community and look forward to implementing many of the programs
suggested in the near future,  stated Jim Collas, "together we will make a
difference in computing forever."

For more information please contact:

Bill McEwen
Amiga
bill.mcewen@amiga.com
Tel:425-413-2620
Fax:425-413-2640 

• Bugfix: Beim Verschieben der GUI wird der Hintergrund nicht mehr gelöscht. Dies funktioniert nun auch im Vollbildmodus.
• Bugfix: Weitere Änderungen am Quelltext-Archiv sowie zusätzliche Informationen zum Quelltext online unter http://www.CodePoet.com/UAE/source.htm.
• Bugfix: Um eine höhere Stabilität zu gewährleisten wurde der Speicherbereich von Zorro-III auf 64MB begrenzt.
• Neu: Zusätzliche Debug-Informationen über den Typ der, von DirectDraw, generierten Oberflächen.

• [1] UAE Home Page, http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
• [2] "Amiga Forever 2.0", AmZeiger 09/98, http://www.fh-brandenburg.de/~janssen/amzeiger/sw/9809fe.htm
• [3] "Emulator: Amiga Forever Online Edition", Power-Brei, 17-Jan-1999, http://www.amigaworld.com/power-brei/News/01-1999/NT.170119990FE.html
• [4] Andreas Neumann, "Test: Amiga Forever 1.0 Preview Edition", AmigaGadget, #33, http://www.amigagadget.de/33/t.cd.amigaforever.html
• [5] Andreas Neumann, "Test: Amiga Forever 2.0", AmigaGadget, #37, http://www.amigagadget.de/37/t.cd.amigaforever2.0.html

• Brian King, "WinUAE Home Page", WinUAE, 05-Aug-1999, http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 21:14:09 +0200
From: Georg Steger georg.steger@rolmail.net
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i686)
To: "Amiga News (Subject: News)" team@amiga-news.de
Subject: News

Ankündigung: ReqAttack 1.0 (Aminet: util/misc/ReqAttack.lha)

BESCHREIBUNG:
=============

ReqAttack, der Nachfolger von KeyReq, ist ein unglaublich cooles
neues Utility (vergleichbar mit ARQ) welches die Bedienung und das
Aussehen von Requestern, welche mit den standard Systemfunktionen
(EasyRequestArgs, AutoRequest, BuildEasyRequestArgs, BuildSysRequest)
erzeugt werden, verbessert.

FEATURES:
=========

o Konfigurierbare Requester Logos, die auch animiert sein können.

o Konfigurierbare Button Images und Button Aussehen.

o Konfigurierbares Hintergrundmuster.

o Erweiterte Tastatur Kontrolle. Man kann mit TAB, SHIFT TAB und den
  CURSOR Tasten durch die Buttons cyclen. Der hervorgehobene Button
  kann mit RETURN und einer weiteren konfigurierbaren Taste (Vorgabe:
  LCOMMAND v) aktiviert werden. Der Button ganz rechts kann mit ESCAPE
  und einer weiteren konfigurierbaren Taste (Vorgabe: LCOMMAND b) ak-
  tiviert werden. Es ist möglich, die Aktivierung eines Buttons abzu-
  brechen, indem SHIFT oder ESCAPE vor dem Loslassen der Button Akti-
  vierungstaste gedrückt wird.

o Requester können verschoben werden, indem in eine beliebige Stelle
  des Fensters geklickt wird.

o Möglichkeit, die Requester in der Mitte des Bildschirms oder unter
  dem Mauszeiger erscheinen zu lassen.

o Sehr spezielle bedingte Konfiguration.

o Man kann fast alles konfigurieren, wie zum Beispiel den Abstand
  zwischen den einzelnen Elementen des Requesters, deren Ausrichtung,
  die Farbe des Hervorhebungs Rechtecks und vieles mehr.

o Dokumentation in Deutsch und Englisch

Vor dem Download kann man sich ein paar animierte Preview Bilder
auf der folgenden HTML Seite ansehen:

       http://freeweb.dnet.it/steger/reqattack/reqattack.html

ReqAttack selbst findet man im Aminet: util/misc/ReqAttack.lha

                     *** ReqAttack ist Shareware ***

--
Georg Steger, Hochlercher 30, I-39030 St. Johann/Ahrntal
EMail: georg.steger@rolmail.net

• Bugfix: Die Picasso96-Bildschirmmodi werden nun durch die Größe des zur Verfügung stehenden RTG-Speichers limitiert. Damit kann z.B. bei 1MB-RTG-Speicher keine Darstellung mit 1600x1200 in 24-Bit mehr angewählt werden.
• Bugfix: Die TCP/IP Netzwerkanbindung arbeitet nun, in einigen Fällen, besser.
• Bugfix: .dms-Dateien funktionieren nun wieder. Vorausgesetzt xdms.exe ist auf dem eigenem System installiert.
• Bugfix: Wenn ein neues Verzeichnis von der Workbench aus angelegt und dessen vorgegebener Name geändert wird, gibt es keine Abstürze mehr.
• Bugfix: Einige Fehler des Dateisystems wurden behoben. Dazu gehören Probleme beim Unbennen von Dateien und obskure Probleme mit Unterverzeichnissen, die anscheinend gerade benutzt werden und damit nicht löschbar sind, auch wenn sie definitiv nicht benutzt werden.
• Bugfix: Obskurer Fehler, der mit dem Archiv-Bit im Zusammenhang steht und z.B. beim AmigaDOS PROTECT-Befehl auftrat.
• Bugfix: Und Korrekturen bei weiteren Dateisystemfehlern.
• Bugfix: Die Option zum automatischen Ausschalten des Sounds, wenn WinUAE ikonifiziert wird, arbeitete beim erneuten Start des Sounds nicht korrekt.
• Bugfix: Die MIDI-Auswahl ist nur noch dann in der GUI möglich, wenn die Emulation der seriellen Schnittstelle eingeschaltet ist.
• Der zweite Joystick-Knopf arbeitet nun auch bei einigen Spielen, die das POTGO-Register nicht korrekt initialisieren (z.B. B.C. Kid), problemlos.
• Bugfix: Der Zugriff aufs Dateisystem im Windowed-Modus ist nun schneller. Möglich wurde dies durch Benutzung des DirectDraw-Clippers statt dem eigenständigen Parsen der Clipliste. Anmerkung: Dies könnte auf einigen Systemen zu einem Geschwindigkeitseinbruch führen? Es wird daher um Feedback gebeten.
• Bugfix: Das Quelltext-Archiv wurde aktualisiert und enthält nun einige Dateien, die vorher fehlten.
• Neu: Die Geschwindigkeit der DirectX 6.x-Unterstützung für Picasso96 wurde erhöht. Hiermit sind im Vollbildmodus nun auch unterschiedlich Refreshraten möglich. Vorher gab es eine Beschränkung auf 60Hz.
• Neu: DirectSoundNotification Unterstützung, für einen besseren Double-buffered DirectSound unter Win98 und Win2000 (sofern die Soundkarte dies unterstützt).
• Neu: Der Inhalt des Windows wird nun aktualisiert, während die GUI über dem Window bewegt wird. Dies funktioniert derzeit nur im Windowed-Modus. Bei der GUI im Vollbildmodus werden die Bereiche weiterhin mit schwarz überschrieben.
• Neu: Unterstützung für serial-on-demand (shared serial-port) über die GUI. Anmerkung: Bisher nicht getestet! Es wird um Feedback gebeten.
• Neu: Enforcer-Hits generieren einen Piepston und lassen das Window aufblitzen.
• Neu: Amiga In A Box (AIAB) Link in About tab der GUI.
• Neu: About tab der GUI besitzt nun ein besseres Aussehen.
• Änderung: Der vorgebene Wert für den Line-Modus ist nun "Doubled", so daß die Höhe von Bildschirmen nun gleich korrekt ist.
• Änderung: Die Compiler-Optionen und der Quelltext wurden, zugunsten einer Geschwindigkeitserhöhung und einer Verminderung der Größe, verändert.

• [1] UAE Home Page, http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
• [2] "Amiga Forever 2.0", AmZeiger 09/98, http://www.fh-brandenburg.de/~janssen/amzeiger/sw/9809fe.htm
• [3] "Emulator: Amiga Forever Online Edition", Power-Brei, 17-Jan-1999, http://www.amigaworld.com/power-brei/News/01-1999/NT.170119990FE.html
• [4] Andreas Neumann, "Test: Amiga Forever 1.0 Preview Edition", AmigaGadget, #33, http://www.amigagadget.de/33/t.cd.amigaforever.html
• [5] Andreas Neumann, "Test: Amiga Forever 2.0", AmigaGadget, #37, http://www.amigagadget.de/37/t.cd.amigaforever2.0.html

• Brian King, "WinUAE Home Page", WinUAE, 05-Aug-1999, http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/

• Ein U2W SCSI Controller mit internem 68poligen Anschluß und aktiver Terminierung, Datenrate max. 80MB/sec, bis zu 15 Geräte anschließbar, für einen unverbindlich empfohlenen Verkaufspreis von EURO 150 zzgl. MwSt.
• Ein Ultra-SCSI Controller mit internem 50poligen Anschluß und aktiver Terminierung, Datenrate max. 20MB/sec, bis zu 7 Geräte anschließbar, für einen unverbindlich empfohlenen Verkaufspreis von EURO 80 zzgl. MwSt.
• Ein Ultra-DMA IDE/ATA Controller 66MHz mit zwei Kanälen (unterstützt bis zu 4 Geräte) für einen unverbindlich empfohlenen Verkaufspreis von EURO 80 zzgl. MwSt.
• Ein IEEE-1394 Controller mit zwei Anschlüssen und 400Mbps, für einen unverbindlich empfohlenen Verkaufspreis von EURO 100 zzgl. MwSt.

• einen schnellen 2D/3D Grafik-Chip mit einer 128bit 3D-Einheit verwenden
• ine maximale Auflösungen von 1920x1200 Pixeln in 32bit Farbe bei 72Hz Bildwiederholrate bieten
• über Hardware Video Beschleunigung für Full-Screen, Full-Frame DVD Wiedergabe verfügen

• PowerPC Accelerator Board für Amiga 1200 Tower-Systeme Basisboard im A1200-kompatiblen Formfaktor mit einem 288-poligen ZIF Prozessorsockel (Interposer-Standard) für gängige G3 Prozessor-Module (auch geeignet für zukünftige G4 Prozessor-Module)
• Bis zu 1GB Hauptspeicher auf zwei Bänken (Steckplätzen) unter Verwendung handelsüblicher SO-DIMM Module (100 MHz SDRAM)
• Zwei Standard Mini-PCI Anschlüsse für Mini-PCI Steckkarten, plus ein PCI-Erweiterungssteckplatz für eine dritte PCI-Karte oder eine aktive PCI-Erweiterung (z.B. PCI Expansion Board mit zusätzlichen Steckplätzen)
• Zwei unabhängige 12MBit USB Kanäle serienmäßig integriert, inklusive externem Steckanschluß
• Zwei MByte Flash-ROM für Systemsoftware, Bootmenü sowie OS-Software
• Das BLIZZARD G3/G4 wird inklusive dem Echtzeit-Mikrokernel-Betriebssystem QNX Neutrino und einer darauf aufsetzenden leistungsstarken 68k-Emulation für Amiga 3.x Legacy Support ausgeliefert
• Kompatibel zu den führenden PowerUP-Anwendungen mit zusätzlicher Leistungssteigerung in vielen Anwendungsbereichen
• Benutzung mit alternativer Systemsoftware anderer Anbieter problemlos möglich
• Zwei Jahre Garantie auf Teile und Verarbeitung

• PowerPC Accelerator Board für Amiga 3000(T)/40000(T)-Systeme Basisboard im A3000/A4000-kompatiblen Formfaktor mit einem 288-poligen ZIF Prozessorsockel (Interposer-Standard) für gängige G3 Prozessor-Module (auch geeignet für zukünftige G4 Prozessor-Module)
• Bis zu 1 GB Hauptspeicher auf zwei Bänken (Steckplätzen) unter Verwendung handelsüblicher SO-DIMM Module (100 MHz SDRAM)
• Zwei standard Mini-PCI Anschlüsse für Mini-PCI Steckkarten, plus ein PCI-Erweiterungssteckplatz für eine dritte PCI-Karte oder eine aktive PCI-Erweiterung (z.B. PCI Expansion Board mit zusätzlichen Steckplätzen)
• Zwei unabhängige 12MBit USB Kanäle serienmäßig integriert, inklusive externem Steckanschluß
• Zwei MByte Flash-ROM für Systemsoftware, Bootmenü sowie OS-Software
• Das CYBERSTORM G3/G4 wird inklusive dem Echtzeit-Mikrokernel-Betriebssystem QNX Neutrino und einer darauf aufsetzenden leistungsstarken 68k-Emulation für Amiga 3.x Legacy Support ausgeliefert
• Benutzung mit alternativer Systemsoftware anderer Anbieter problemlos möglich
• Zwei Jahre Garantie auf Teile und Verarbeitung

ADACSearch.lha       biz/dbase  110K+Example for mSQL++/ADAC
XsQL.lha             biz/dbase   16K+Execute a mSQL Text-Query
hpglowicons.lha      biz/haage  208K+GlowIcons for Haage&Partner programmes
Konwerter2.1.lha     biz/misc   133K+Convert files from Metastock and Omega t
eTeacherPL5.50.lha   biz/patch  534K+ETeacher PL 5.50 update pack
HydraBBS.lha         comm/bbs   2.2M+HydraBBS, Fantastic new BBS System
HydraBBSdc.lha       comm/bbs     3K+HydraBBS, Door coders wanted (C)
HydraBBSu6.lha       comm/bbs   315K+HydraBBS. Update V1.05 to V1.06
TeaBot.lha           comm/irc    37K+Feature packed IRC BOT addon for AmIRC !
YAM2MM16.lha         comm/mail   79K+MailMerging program for YAM v2+
dvbcontrol.lha       comm/misc  139K+V1.12 D-Box/Mediamaster Settings Editor
PalmBackup.lha       comm/misc  139K+1.5 - Backup/Restore/Install for PalmPil
uprc.lha             comm/misc   80K+Generates Aminet upload readme files
MM_ChkMsgDate.lha    comm/mmgr    5K+Fixes messgae dates >31 Dec 1999 in Mail
2b_Yam2NN_hrv.lha    comm/news    2K+Hrvatski catalog for YAM2NN (0.84)
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  238K+Offline Newsreader Version 1.12 (MUI)
AmiVNC.lha           comm/tcp   141K+Experimental VNC server for Amiga w/C so
haracz12.lha         comm/tcp    42K+V1.2+, Analizes Miami logfiles (Polish)(
SimpleFTP.lha        comm/tcp    73K+SimpleFTP - New and easy to use FTP clie
trp-siot.lha         demo/slide 1.3M+Something is Out There by Trip
DBIncACE.lha         dev/basic    1K+DBPlayer includes for ACE Basic
SaveWave.lha         dev/basic    5K+Save sample to .wav file
ClassFree_src.lha    dev/gui    426K+Final source release.
numconv.lha          dev/misc     7K+Simple DEC/HEX/BIN/ASCII/FLOAT converter
talk2me.lha          dev/misc    50K+Speech GUI - Save 50 Voices/100 Sentence
MCC_Envelope.lha     dev/mui     19K+MCC to edit envelopes as used by synthes
AT_ApolloDev.lha     disk/cdrom  23K+AT-Apollo.device replacement for Apollo 
PlextorControl.lha   disk/cdrom  14K+Sets Plextor CDROM parameters
Dkg-prices.lha       docs/anno    1K+DarkAge Software pricelist (June)
zorro.lha            docs/hyper  19K+HTML & Guide of ZorroII/III & Power_Conn
ukbbslst10.txt       docs/lists 112K+List of UK BBSes - Version 10 - Aug 1999
Aakt0899GFX.lha      docs/mags  623K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0899GUIDE.lha    docs/mags  185K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
ACNews_13.lha        docs/mags   68K+E-zine focused on Amiga News: #13-July 9
AIOV26T.lha          docs/mags   79K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 26 (July
amigapl.9804.lzh     docs/misc  503K+9804 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9805.lzh     docs/misc  524K+9805 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9806.lzh     docs/misc  595K+9806 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9807.lzh     docs/misc  618K+9807 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9808.lzh     docs/misc  620K+9808 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9809.lzh     docs/misc  613K+9809 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9810.lzh     docs/misc  921K+9810 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9811.lzh     docs/misc  840K+9811 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9812.lzh     docs/misc  669K+9812 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9901.lzh     docs/misc  471K+9901 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9902.lzh     docs/misc  573K+9902 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9903.lzh     docs/misc  935K+9903 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9904.lzh     docs/misc  766K+9904 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9905.lzh     docs/misc  849K+9905 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9906.lzh     docs/misc  973K+9906 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
amigapl.9907.lzh     docs/misc  615K+199907 [PL] Log of AmigaPL list
wfmh-ann.9802.lzh    docs/misc    9K+9802 [PL/UK] Log of WFMH-Announce list
wfmh-ann.9803.lzh    docs/misc    5K+9803 [PL/UK] Log of WFMH-Announce list
wfmh-ann199907.lzh   docs/misc   14K+199907 [PL/UK] Log of WFMH-Announce list
JamesBond_edit.lha   game/2play 247K+JamesBond Editing Tools update (Level Ed
F1GP_1999.lha        game/data    9K+1999 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (1 Augus
Arkanos.lha          game/misc  149K+Break out game with new features
calidan.lha          game/misc  643K+Realtime strategy game like dune2-NEW ve
Yahtzee.lha          game/misc  207K+Yahtzee 3.10... a dice game
cfme.lha             game/patch 494K+Cannon Fodder Map Editor V1.80
cthangband.lha       game/role  939K+Cthangband 1.1.2 - Roguelike solo RPG
Dunczone.lha         game/role  630K+Spoof translation of German game
WITC.lha             game/shoot 238K+WWI Dogfight/2d game for up to 8 planes
Mpeg2AniM14.lha      gfx/conv   612K+Converts MPEG animations into ANIM files
pdhfic.lha           gfx/conv    63K+Datatypes to Spectrum SCR/TAP/ZX82/TZX/b
AnimatED1_52.lha     gfx/edit   289K+Add events to your IFF-anims, v1.52
MangaCom20.lha       gfx/misc    33K+MangaCom v2.0 - Puts filecomments to you
ppmtoscr.lha         gfx/pbm     34K+PPM -> Spectrum SCR/TAP/ZX82/bytes/TZX
PiPView201.lha       gfx/show    17K+PictureViewer for PiP (P96 with PicassoI
Show040.lha          gfx/show   460K+Cybergfx only picture viewer (040) V2.7
ShowPPC.lha          gfx/show   442K+Cybergfx only picture viewer (PPC) V2.7
MCControl.lha        hard/hack  169K+V1.21 PSX MemoryCard Reader
Telemet-LDI.lha      hard/misc   75K+RS422-Interface for PC-Wetterstation
CGX_XVDs.lha         misc/emu     2K+ScreenCGX & WindowCGX XVD's for Flamingo
Flamingo_CGX_X.lha   misc/emu     2K+ScreenCGX & WindowCGX XVD's for Flamingo
imdbDiff990723.lha   misc/imdb  1.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
backtown.lha         mods/casef  97K+BACK IN TOWN mod by Case and Filippetto
belkzza.lha          mods/casef  97K+BELKZZA Module by Case and Filippetto
blownose.lha         mods/casef  83K+BLOW YOUR NOSE - Module by Case
bluemoon.lha         mods/casef  97K+ONE IN A BLUES MOON - Module by Case
brandnew.lha         mods/casef  82K+BRAND NEW BEND - Module by Case and Fili
browns.lha           mods/casef  82K+BROWN SUGAR -mod by Case
charts.lha           mods/casef  67K+CHARTS TUNE by Case
dontlook.lha         mods/casef  97K+DON'T LOOK HERE - by Case and Filippetto
dub.lha              mods/casef  55K+DUB - Module by Case
freefrom.lha         mods/casef  23K+FREE FROM YOU - by Filippetto
frei.lha             mods/casef  31K+FREIZEIT REVUE - Module by Filippetto
funkest.lha          mods/casef  80K+FUNKESTEIN Module by Case
funkyday.lha         mods/casef 163K+ANOTHER FUNKY DAY - Module by Case and F
funkyou.lha          mods/casef  62K+FUNK YOU! - Module by Case
happyso.lha          mods/casef  56K+THE HAPPY SONG - by Filippetto
howdoyou.lha         mods/casef 104K+HOW DO YOU FEEL? - Module by Case and Fi
imposs.lha           mods/casef  73K+IMPOSSIBLE DREAM - Module by Filippetto
leavin.lha           mods/casef  28K+LEAVING THE SCENE (NOT!) - Module by Cas
maddism.lha          mods/casef  93K+MADDISM - Module by Case (DJ MAD?)
medley.lha           mods/casef  95K+MEDLEY used in the Freedom Crack mag - b
modmach.lha          mods/casef  80K+MODERN MACHINERY - Filippetto
mrgomez.lha          mods/casef  50K+MR.GOMEZ  - by Case and Filippetto
nexttime.lha         mods/casef 153K+NEXT TIME - Module by Filippetto
noname.lha           mods/casef  77K+NO NAME - Module by Case
peppino.lha          mods/casef  84K+PEPPINO - Techno Module by Case
pickpock.lha         mods/casef 100K+PICKED POCKETS - Module by Case
recfeels.lha         mods/casef  68K+RECORDED FEELINGS - Module by Case and F
reminds.lha          mods/casef  58K+CARELESS REMINDS - Module by Case
roberto.lha          mods/casef  25K+ROBERTO - Module by Filippetto
rollball.lha         mods/casef  67K+ROLLERBALL - Module by Case and Filippet
smallwor.lha         mods/casef  60K+SMALL WORLD - Module by Filippetto
stonelov.lha         mods/casef  48K+STOLE LOVE - Module by Filippetto
stormy.lha           mods/casef  64K+STORMY AND CLEVER - Module by Case and F
suspect.lha          mods/casef  24K+SUSPECT- by Filippetto
thedeal.lha          mods/casef  69K+THE DEAL - Module by Case
titti.lha            mods/casef 102K+TITTI WANTS TO DANCE - Module by Case an
today.lha            mods/casef  84K+TODAY AND FOREVER - Module by  Filippett
vibratio.lha         mods/casef 127K+VIBRATIONS by Case and Filippetto - Firs
wildwave.lha         mods/casef  32K+WILD WAVE - techno mod by Case
xmas93.lha           mods/casef  74K+X-MAS 1993  ...  latin-funk module by Ca
8520.lha             mods/chip   23K+By racoon/WARD '96
amiga4ever.lha       mods/chip    8K+By racoon '95
bubbleman.lha        mods/chip   14K+By racoon/C-LOUS & FCN '99
2_hearts.mpg         mods/elbie 2.3M+2_Hearts a nice popsong by ElbiE^t13n!
aprils.lha           mods/funk   98K+By racoon/C-LOUS & DKG '98
lnsR26_turn.lha      mods/house 506K+Turn Around - house remix (Phatts'n'smal
lnsS6_Jbeat1.lha     mods/inst  532K+Jungle beats - sampel pack nr 1
lnsS7_Jbeat2.lha     mods/inst  444K+Jungle beats - sampel pack nr 2
lnsS8_Jbeat3.lha     mods/inst  452K+Jungle beats - sampel pack nr 3
nd-ark99.lha         mods/med   162K+11ch. OSS conv. of Arkanoid titlemusic
SH-Body_Heat.mpg     mods/mpg   2.1M+Industrial/EBM by MatriX Wired
nd-ark99.lha         mods/neuro 162K+11ch. OSS conv. of Arkanoid titlemusic
TristarTetris.lha    mods/pro    26K+Mod from Tetris-Intro by Tristar (1988)
Speak2Sample.lha     mus/edit    36K+Save Amiga speech as a sound sample
Amoralplay1.3.lha    mus/play   106K+-*AMOREL*- No fuss multiformat player(OS
Black_Energy.jpg     pix/art     17K+"Black Energy" created by Dr.Ferkel
CUFChirality.lha     pix/art    367K+Chirality kiss - WB Background
AmigaNGBoot.lha      pix/boot   156K+Damn cool boot-config for Rainboot2
LMFBoot.lha          pix/boot   141K+Light my Fire boot v1.1 for Rainboot2
Glow_Roketz.lha      pix/nicon    8K+2 GlowIcons for Roktez.(cool duel game) 
LucyIcons.lha        pix/nicon  524K+Loads of NewIcons for Games, Tools & Fun
VCIcons.lha          pix/nicon  581K+NewIcons for Games, Tools & Disks...
WReplaceIcon.lha     util/app    11K+Icon replacer with AppWindow
LzxRepacker.lha      util/arc     8K+Repack LHA/ARJ/ZIP/RAR/... to LZX.
boot-startup.lha     util/batch   6K+Programmable boot menu script v2
Cybermagic.lha       util/blank 542K+Blanker for Cybergraphix (0.4.0)
QSPBeta.lha          util/boot   44K+The Ultminate Startup-Sequence Manager (
SetMPort.lha         util/cli     3K+Selects Mouse Port
TDir2Guide.lha       util/cli    11K+Create AGuide from text dir scan
LSFileCut.lha        util/conv    8K+Cut data from FILE with position, and le
pc2doc.lha           util/conv    7K+Converts ASCII-Texts (PC/Amiga) into a f
DeleteSmall.lha      util/dir    17K+A 'Delete' Enhancer
akNAIL-dt.lha        util/dtype  90K+AkNAIL-dt V44.1 (NAIL, 68000-060)
TNM.lha              util/misc   17K+MUI Make ThumbNails and HTML files.
VisualGuide.lha      util/misc   22K+Make filelist in AmigaGuide format.
mr_wolf.lha          util/time   36K+Transparent, Cheeky speaking-clock v3.2.
SetDST.lha           util/time   51K+Adjusts time for Daylight Saving Time
DZT.lha              util/virus   2K+ZAKAPIOR TROJAN De-activator
Launch_2.3.lha       util/wb     46K+Nice Scrolling Program Launcher
sgrab_hrv.lha        util/wb      1K+Hrvatski catalog for SGrab 1.10a
StopMenu.lha         util/wb    501K+Very nice startbar with many options
StopMenuUpd.lha      util/wb     28K+Updates v0.94+ to v0.97b2

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990802

                   A M I G A   A B O U T   C O R E L

                   C O R E L   A B O U T   A M I G A

      G A T E W A Y   A L L I E S   W I T H   G E   C A P I T A L

      A M I W E S T   ' 9 9   A N D   W O R L D   O F   A M I G A

              A A A   C H O S E S   M A R C E L   B E C K

              J I M   C O L L A S   S O U N D S   O F F

                    P H A S E 5   E X P L A I N S

            F R O M   T H E   A M I G A   R & D   T E A M

        V O T E   F O R   F A V O R I T E   U T I L I T I E S

          S A S S E N R A T H   O N   T E C H   B R I E F ?

         A M I G A   F L E A   M A R K E T   I N   T E X A S

     A L L   C O M P U T E R   M E E T I N G   I N   F R A N C E

                   T H E   L A S T   P I C A S S O

                  E X O D U S   -   A M I G A   N G

                    P H O T O G E N I C S   4 . 1

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 World of Amiga has come and gone, as has AmiWest '99. Very
interesting announcements and speculation came out of the pair of
shows. Jim Collas continues to communicate to the community like no
other CEO of any company I'm aware of. He's even starting to get testy
when appropriate. Nice to see he's become that comfortable with
Amigans and good for him for doing so.
 We've got new software, a new classic OS coming - albeit probably a
bit delayed - mockups of new models, ties developing with some big
names in the larger computer world, and a plan for the future. It's an
exciting time to be following the Amiga.
 Nothing created by people will ever be perfect, however. Phase 5 and
QNX have their own plans for the future, long time Amiga developers
are justifiably concerned about where they will fit in the new age -
if at all, the Amiga market continues to shrink for the present and
answers to all sorts of questions won't be available for some time to
come.
 It's certainly not boring at the moment.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

Hello Brad
I was wondering if you could find out about omnipresence for me. They had a
mailing list support for Ibrowse, which I was removed from quite a while
ago. But each time I try to re-subscribe to the list, the mail always comes
back undeliverable. Plus, their web site doesn't seem to be up and running
any more. Any web site that I have been to with an Ibrowse link ( the link is
to omnipresence) doesn't work, including Hisoft!

Another problem I'm having is recently I haven't been able to get on aminet,
either through http or ftp. It says that logging on as anonymous is
forbidden! Do you know what's up with that?

Thanks for your informative newsletter, by the way! And the new Amiga's
sound like they're going to be awesome! Do you know of any websites that
have shots of the new prototypes and screenshots of the new environmennt in
action? Or will they be eventually on the Amiga website soon?

Regards

Peter
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Hello Peter,
 You're right about the Omnipresence site. However, work seems to be
going forward on IBrowse. We honestly don't know what's going on. Any
of our readers have more information?
 Your don't say how you're accessing Aminet, so I'm not entirely sure
what's happening. It sounds as if you're attempting an anonymous ftp
login. If so, that will only work with sites set up specifically for
anonymous ftp. Check your software preferences and disable anything
related to anonymous ftp and see if things improve.
 You can find shots of the new Amiga mockups that were shown at World
of Amiga on the Amiga.com site at:
http://www.amiga.com/diary/1999/990728.html
 I'm not aware of anyone with screen shots of the Amiga OE yet.
 Brad
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                   A M I G A   A B O U T   C O R E L

             Amiga announces relationship with Corel Corporation


 July 22, 1999 - San Diego California - Today, Amiga announced that
they are working closely with Corel Corporation to insure that several
of Corel's award winning software applications will be supported on
Amiga's new line of products that are scheduled for release later this
year.

 This announcement follows Amiga's recent announcement that they have
selected Linux as the OS kernel for the new Amiga Operating
Environment. "We are extremely excited about our relationship with
Corel and their entire product line", said Jim Collas, President and
CEO of Amiga, "This insures that our customers who purchase the new
Amiga systems will have world class personal productivity applications
such as the upcoming WordPerfect Office for Linux."

 Customers have made over 1 million download attempts for Corel®
WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® since Corel made the product available on
their web site last December. "We expected the Linux version to do
well," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, Chief Executive Officer and
President of Corel, "but one million download attempts is
extraordinary. Not only does it speak volumes for WordPerfect, I think
it is somewhat indicative of the growing popularity of Linux. We
expect the release of WordPerfect Office for Linux will be an even
greater success when we release it early next year."

 As Amiga approaches the release dates of the new Amiga Operating
Environment and the Amiga MCC (Multimedia Convergence Computer), we
will be announcing more details on these and other products and their
availability dates.


 About Corel Corporation

 Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized developer of
award-winning graphics and business productivity applications.
Development of market-leading products such as the CorelDRAW®line of
graphics applications and the Corel® WordPerfect® Suite of business
tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of the corporate,
retail and academic markets. Committed to value, compatibility, choice
and open standards, Corel develops products for the Windows®,
Macintosh®, UNIX®, Linux® and JavaTM platforms. For more information
about Corel, please visit their web site at www.Corel.com

 Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT and the Go Further
logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or
Corel Corporation Limited.
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                   C O R E L   A B O U T   A M I G A

Corel Is Pleased To Be Chosen By Amiga To Supply Linux® Applications
Corel and Amiga work closely to support new Amiga Operating Environment

 Ottawa, Canada-- July 27, 1999-- Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL,
TSE: COR) is pleased to announce that it has formed a new relationship
with Amiga, to ensure that Corel's award-winning software applications
will be supported on Amiga's new line of products that are scheduled
to be released later this year.

 Recently, Amiga announced that it has selected Linux® as the OS
kernel for the new Amiga Operating Environment. Amiga is developing
products and technology for current and future computing devices which
are focused on making computers and the Internet a natural part of
everyday life.

 ``Corel is dedicating extensive resources to develop Linux, and the
feedback from our customers has been tremendous,'' said Dr. Michael
Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation.
``Since December, our customers have made over 1 million download
attempts for Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux. We are pleased to have the
opportunity to bring our award-winning applications to an even wider
audience and to further the growing popularity of Linux.''

 As Amiga approaches the release dates of the new Amiga Operating
Environment and the Amiga MCC (Multimedia Convergence Computer), it
will announce more details.

 ``We are extremely excited about this new relationship with Corel and
its entire product line,'' said Jim Collas, president and chief
executive officer of Amiga. ``This ensures that our customers who
purchase the new Amiga systems will have world-class personal
productivity applications such as the upcoming WordPerfect Office for
Linux.''

 Corel Corporation: Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized
developer of award-winning graphics and business productivity
applications. Development of market-leading products such as the
CorelDRAW® line of graphics applications and the Corel® WordPerfect®
Suite of business tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of
the corporate, retail and academic markets. Committed to performance,
compatibility, value and open standards, Corel develops products for
the Windows®, Macintosh®, UNIX®, Linux® and JavaTM platforms. Corel's
common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol CORL
and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol COR. For more
information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com.

 Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW and the Go Further logo are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation
Limited. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a
registered trademark of The Open Group. All other product names are
trademarks of their respective companies. All other brands and
products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective holders.
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      G A T E W A Y   A L L I E S   W I T H   G E   C A P I T A L

23 Jul 1999

 "InformationWeek Daily" on-line newsletter for 23 July is reporting
that Gateway and GE (General Electric) Capital have formed a
partnership for enterprise system support. The short article notes
"Gateway has teamed up with services company GE Capital IT Solutions
to create a business model for the two companies sell customized
versions of their products and services to the enterprise. Under the
partnership, GE Capital IT Solutions will provide presale
infrastructure analysis, network and systems integration, and support
services. Gateway will then join GE Capital to assess the
organizations needs, from which Gateway will build to order the most
cost-effective system, customizing desktop, mobile and workstation
systems and servers to meet customer needs."

 "Gateway is hoping GE Capital's focus and penetration in the
enterprise market will open doors to customers that the company's
small sales force and lack of relationships in the market has
prevented. 'In the corporate sector Gateway is only about 2 years old,
and we have about 2% market share,' says Phyllis McCullagh, Gateway's
VP of corporate and partner sales."
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     A M I W E S T   ' 9 9   A N D   W O R L D   O F   A M I G A

By Brad Webb

 What follows is our impressions of the recent World of Amiga and
AmiWest 99 computer shows. We were unable to attend either show, so
have scoured the net and our mail to gather information on what
happened.
 First, it seems the World of Amiga was much the more important show.
This isn't too surprising. Despite the participation of Amiga in both
shows, WOA has a longer history and has been a key player in the Amiga
community for some time. We've seen almost no information from the
AmiWest show. There's been a lot from WOA. AmiWest will grow in
importance over time.
 AmiWest was clearly the smaller show, with most vendors concentrating
on the show in London. The folks at AmiWest were able to hear the
presentations from WOA, including the video presentation and speaches
by Amiga President Jim Collas, Dr. Rick LeFaivre, CTO and Dr. Allan
Havemose, VP, Engineering - after some initial technical difficulties.
Reports from the show indicated Mr. Collas's passion for the Amiga
came across clearly despite the round the world link. There were some
Amiga notables at the AmiWest, including Miami's Holger Kruse and Harv
Laser of the Amiga Zone.
 Over in London, the show seemed smaller than previous ones according
to many reports. Jace Hayman of Pagan Games had an interesting take on
that however:

 "I've heard people complaining a lot this year that it only took them
20 minutes to walk around the stands before they had covered the lot.
Well I've been to quite a few 'high profile' PC shows in recent months
and they were smaller and I walked around them in 10 minutes!"

 This is a quote from his show report, available on the Pagan Games
web site at www.pagan-games.com.
 If all you wanted to do was view the vendors and their booths, an
hour or less would have sufficed. Also, the "CyberCafe" wasn't, as the
needed parts and bits weren't delivered as promised. But there was
still a lot to see, including the presentations mentioned. The video
which preceeded the speeches included slides showing the logos of
Amiga partners. Companies mentined in the video or at the show as
working with Amiga included Corel, Sun and Pentagram, the folks
designing the new computers. The presentation slide that got the most
attention was the one with the logo of mysterious chip maker
TransMeta, employer of Linus Torvalds, the author of Linux. This has
led to much speculation that TransMeta will be the processor of choice
for the next generation, but that has not been confirmed by Amiga, and
probably cannot be confirmed by them at this point.
 Here's an interesting quote from the online site "The Register" for
July 27, commenting about Amiga and the TransMeta chip. It might be of
special interest to the Power PC fans among our readers:

 "It will be fabbed by IBM Microelectronics.
 "The IBM connection is particularly intriguing since many of
Transmeta's designers hailed from IBM's PowerPC development team, and
worked on a PowerPC chip, the 615, which had a bolt-on x86
compatibility module."

 Little that would be new to readers of "Amiga Update" was presented
at the shows, but the important thing was to hear the executives of
Amiga saying it with your own ears. For those who attended, that must
have been a stirring experience.
 The hoped for updates of IBrowse 2 and Voyager 3 were there only in
beta form. On the positive side, there were finished looking mockups
of the next Amiga itself and its monitor. Photos are available on
Amiga's web site (www.amiga.com). Interestingly, there was no keyboard
anywhere in sight, as nearly as we can determine.
 Good shows, good fun, good Amiga companionship. What more do you
need in life?
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            A A A   C H O S E S   M A R C E L   B E C K

London, UK. Saturday July 24, 1999.

 Marcel Beck, creator of well-known Amiga e-mail software "YAM",
received today the AAA Award International 1998. The award
presentation was held at the World of Amiga show in London, UK!


THE AWARD

 The AAA Award International 1998 consists of a custom designed
crystal glass Boing ball and a fine diploma. It was awarded through a
voting with Amiga users worl-wide. The AAA Award International is a
recognition from the Amiga Community of Mr. Beck's great software and
support.

 The winner was announced at the World of Amiga show in London, by
Petro Tyschtschenko, MD of Amiga International, Inc. Marcel Beck, who
unfortunately could not come to the show, stated in a previous phone
recording that he felt very honored to receive this award, and thanked
all YAM users around the world.


MOTIVATION

 The motivation, for which Mr. Beck received the AAA Award
International 1998: "For his creation of and continuing devotion to
YAM, Yet Another Mailer. Its many features, ease of use, stylish GUI
and stability make it an unparalleled e-mail client, which also is
completely free!"


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 The AAA Awards Committee wishes to thank all Amiga users who voted,
its Associates and Partners, and the World of Amiga management for
their support.


CONTACTS

AAA Awards, homepage            www.aaa-awards.org
AAA Awards, phone hotline       +46-90-71 00 20 (24 hours)
AAA Awards, fax                 +46-90-71 01 46
Marcel Beck, e-mail             mbeck@access.ch
Martin Sahlén, e-mail           director@aaa-awards.org
Petro Tyschtschenko, e-mail     ptysch@amiga.de



 The AAA Awards 1998 are presented in association with AMIGA and
Cloanto

The AAA Awards are copyright (c) 1997-99 Amiga Computer Group.
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             J I M   C O L L A S   S O U N D S   O F F

20 Jul 1999

Warning! I deserve to right to rant once in a while also so here I go:

 I know that we still have to improve communication but visibly
communicating with a large community is difficult. I expend a
significant amount of effort listening to and understanding the Amiga
community. I have spent 100s of hours in the last several months
listening to and corresponding with the Amiga community. Here are some
of the activities:

 1) I met with over 100 Amigans in multiple groups in St. Louis to
listen to input.

 2) I have met with multiple groups around the U.S. to get input. I
have held several press conferences to get input.

 3) I flew to Germany and the U.K. in May specifically to meet with 60
to 70 prominent Amigans and listen to input. Multiple feedback session
of several hours.

 4) I met with key Amiga developers in U.K. and Germany.

 5) I read the most popular Amiga newsgroups daily.

 6) We have started Amiga sponsored forums to get input.

 7) I read over 100 emails a day from the Amiga community and reply to
many of them.

 8) I talk to people in the Amiga community many times a week.

 9) Bill McEwen and Darreck Lisle read 100s of email a day and compile
the common inputs and questions fo me and other executives.

 10) We are establishing an Amiga Advisory Council consisting of
prominant Amigans that were nominated by the community.

 11) etc ...

 As you can see I have had 1000s of interactions with the Amiga
community. I wonder if anyone realizes how much effort this is on top
of running the company. I wonder if anyone realizes how much travel
this is away from my family. I do this because I care about what you
think. I listen to the community and think deeply about the input as I
set the plans. In order to better understand our plans, there are a
few things people should consider:

 1) There are many differing opinions in the community about what to
do. Many times people are pulling in opposite directions.

 2) There isn't a single consistent set of requirements from the
community.

 3) I am trying to make up for several years of flawed decisions. This
has made the situation very difficult. Because of the delay we can't
just evolve a product line like most companies would. This also means
I inherited a community with little patience (understandable).

 4) There are a significant number of variables to consider and its
impossible to communicate them all publicly.

 5) There are many things that the community doesn't know relative to
new technology advancements.

 6) We can't share all of our strategic plans publicly.

 7) This is an extremely difficult industry to compete in. There are
many big players with deep pockets. Microsoft just passed the $500B
value mark. We can't just waltz in with a "me too" strategy.

 8) We are basically building company from scratch, not just a
product. Do people realize how difficult this is to do quickly.

 9) There are constraints on budget and resources. We are working as
effectively and diligently as we can. 1 0) There are people that will
blast whatever we do. No matter what we do. It's unfortunate for me
but they are understandably fed up because of the past.

 I know it's frustrating but don't judge me on the last several years.
These were screwed up and I didn't have anything to do with it. Judge
me on the last 5 months. I am driving Amiga in a way that it hasn't
been driven in a long time. As an aggressive, independent, and
visionary company. I am balancing technology, business, marketing, and
industry dynamics to come up with a plan that gives us a great chance
at being a driving force in the computer industry again. We are in a
very difficult predicament and I am defining a very strong plan to get
us out. It is not easy to understand all of the variables that go into
this plan. It's even more difficult to communicate it publicly. This
plan requires complex compromises and prioritization and not everyone
will understand or agree. Also remember, the first product out is not
the end of our roadmap. The only thing I can assure you is that I do
care about the community and I listen. I will drive relentlessly and
aggressively to bring back Amiga as a driving force. There is 101
things I can do with my career but this is what I have passion for. I
need the Amiga community behind me on this or we will fail. We have
one last shot. We can't afford to be diverted or distracted. We MUST
stand united to succeed.

Thanks for listening.

Sincerely,
Jim
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                    P H A S E 5   E X P L A I N S

23 Jul 1999

Dear Amiga friends,

 in addition to our recent announcement about a cooperation with QNX
Software Systems Ltd. and our new AMIRAGE K2 project, this Open Letter
shall address some of the controversy questions that many of you are
asking these days. It contains my frank personal analysis and view of
the state of the Amiga market, the goals of AI and the general
situation, which are the reasons for our decision to take the chance
for the cooperation with QNX and to provide alternative solutions in
the future. If you are interested in these statements, I encourage you
to read and - especially if you are a developer - consider it
carefully.

 First of all, there is the question "why did they do that, why do
they split the Amiga market" in all of it's incarnations - often
combined with the assumption that we want to "steal away the Amiga" or
become the Amiga ourselves. The answers to that are fairly simple:

 1.We want to design a superior technology, which we believe is in the
spirit of the original Amiga, or, in different words, a technology
that many creative users would like to see. This includes innovation
in software and hardware. We don't want to make major compromises,
just to follow the mainstream or to do what everybody does.

 2. There is obvioulsy no place for phase 5 (as well as many other
developers, as I will outline below) on the roadmap of Amiga Inc.

 We are simply doing what we believe is the right thing in respect of
our vision, the technological goals we follow, and also the business
opportunities which we believe are the best for our future.

 From our point of view, AI will be developing and marketing a product
that has only the name in common with the original Amiga. They
probably have some nice ideas (although many details are still quite
vaguely described by common buzzwords at this time), but we can't see
any revolution in there - only evolution similar to that you can see
in many places of the computer industry today.

 Looking at the available information, to us it seems obvious that
Amiga will build an appliance based on Linux, incorporating JAVA
technologies and their extensions named AmigaObjects. It is an
appliance to "fulfill the promises of the information age". That's
nice, but there are others to do so, too.

 I strongly feel that the major revolution that Amiga is talking about
is the next marketing revolution, when you can sell "information
appliances" to those millions of people who are not computer users,
but shall be connected to the Internet just as they became connected
with telephones long time ago. There's nothing bad in this, but what
has it to do with an Amiga computer? What I feel most uncomfortable
with is the fact that there is obvious no intention to create
something new, spectacular, extraordinary because this is risky;
instead, the new product is intended to be sold to millions, requiring
to accept many compromises and to follow the mainstream.

 So, what has the upcoming AI product in common with the original
Amiga and it's spirit? It may be a nice product, that many people will
go for, but such are palm pilots, cell phones, playstations, stereo
systems, TV sets, beer and candy bars as well (I left out the
Wintel-based PC intentionally from this list). There's nothing wrong
at all when Amiga users are saying, "hey, this is a nice thing I'm
gonna buy it", just as there's nothing wrong in Amiga users buying
palm pilots, cell phones, playstations, stereo systems, TV sets, beer
and candy bars as well (I left out... uh, you know what I mean).

 Amiga has not been talking to us, phase 5, except than in a meeting
on Jim Collas' trip through Europe. Ever since then, there was not a
single email, contact, any information to us. They didn't supply us
with an NDA, allowing them to tell us more about their plans earlier,
and supporting us in making our decisions. Instead, they watch us
(where "us" means many other developers as well) supporting the "Amiga
Classic" and following the PPC route, while they are going to cut it
off again. Is that fair or loyal against the developers and users
supporting the Amiga platform with their efforts and their money? It
gives me the strong feeling that don't even care what happens with us.
There is no indication of any kind of partnership at all, so there
can't be any mutual loyalty either.

 I do not know which contacts have been made to other existing Amiga
developers. Many of them seem to be surprised by the latest
announcements, many dislike them, some may appreciate them - but if
so, did they think about their own future? Personally, I believe the
lately announced "contacts to Corel" are a significant message. Why
didn't we read "AI works closely with H&P to port Amiwriter to the
AmigaNG", "AI has choosen NovaDesign's ImageFX to ship with the MCC",
"AI and WorldFoundry announce availability of two hot 3D titles with
the release of the MCC" or similar announcements?

 It's simple: AI follows the industry standards. Just as they use
Linux and need the momentum from Linux to carry them forward, they
need the big names such as Corel to carry them forward. They don't
need, for example, phase 5 as a hardware company supporting their
projects, and I strongly believe they (at least think they) don't need
the Amiga S/W developers for their success. Jim Collas said in his
"Response to Linux feedback" of July 10:

 "I simply don't believe we can gain enough momentum without tapping
into the Linux momentum. Linux will give us continuous access to new
technology and components as they are released. With QNX we could get
out a new platform but I don't believe we would keep up with the rapid
technology changes in the computer industry."

 Can we read from this that all the active Amiga developers - who have
supported our platform with so many products and technologies that
make the Amiga still up-to-date and useable - are assumed to be unable
to provide the necessary software technologies on a new platform? I
think so. Jim Collas showed concern about the business success if
Linux hadn't been choosen. Obviously, the relationship with Corel
seems to be important to AI also, to support the business success. Who
will be the next important partner, preoccupying market segments on
the new Amiga platform? Adobe? ID Soft? Who knows.... Now, just a
thought: If there wasn't that Linux momentum right now, would then be
Windows compatibility important for the success? A question to the
Amiga developers: Do you appreciate that AI considers it important for
the success of the MCC, that the big names in industry come to the
platform to provide the technology/software products that - as it
seems - AI doesn't believe you could provide? And a question, to the
Amiga users: What is more important for you, the success (and
shareholder value?) of a company that carries the name Amiga, or the
technology that they bring to you?

 When the new AI MCC shall be sold in millions, the current Amiga
community will not be a sufficient market at all. I believe it is then
the latest, when AI's loyalty to the Amiga community will end - just
as AI's loyalty with the current Amiga developers has ended. The same,
I strongly believe, will be the case for the small remaining base of
dealers and distributors. What will count for AI is not the fact that
those have supported the Amiga many years - the business success will
demand that the MCC is sold by the BIG ones. And that's what it is all
about: becoming BIG, selling BIG, making BIG money. Nothing wrong
about it - but the loyalty of the Amiga community, which AI is surfing
on these days before their BIG take off, will probably not be
rewarded. And while AI teams up with the already BIG ones, the chances
of us small ones to grow big with the new Amiga generation are getting
smaller each day.

 Where does this leave us? From my point of view, there is no place
for us - and I mean not only phase 5, but most if not all of the
current Amiga developers - on the Amiga roadmap, and in the future
that Amiga wants to create. That also means for us as companies: no
more (Amiga) business. But with QNX, there is an OS solution that will
fulfill the promise of technological excellence - and we here at phase
5 are able to provide some really advanced hardware as well as
concepts for future computing.

 Just a side note: What Amiga today calls a revolution, are just
concepts (and some developments from such) which we have proposed
three years ago already. We proposed hardware-independent distributed
processing a long time ago, and we outlined our vision of application
tasks or threads (read also "Services" or "Objects" or "Revolutionary
objects" or "You-know-which-kind-of Objects") that run on different CPUs
or processors or appliances, somewhere in a box or a network, and
communicate with each other. I don't want to say that AI may not have
some additional and new ideas, but if they are so revolutionary
remains to be seen - and guess what remains there if you climb down
from the above-JAVA level to the underlying levels of software
technology....

 QNX Neutrino will allow fantastic software to be written, to support
similar revolutionary services, applications and developments. There
is new and stunning hardware technology available to us - PPC G4, the
stunning Altivec technology, multimedia processing in many kinds, and
the digital convergence (we talk about high-performance digital
convergence here, not about a fusion of a cell phone and a palm pilot)
- and this altogether can be the base for a wonderful platform for all
the creative users out there, as outlined in our latest announcements.
It can be a future that we design altogether - the users, the
developers, the user groups and all others who support the Amiga. We
definitely need to team up now and develop our future, instead of
waiting for AI's BIG thing we have been waiting for three years now.
And so I am asking you all out there, to make a stand and show your
position. I am asking you developers to show publicly your support for
the QNX Neutrino running on PowerUP boards, and our upcoming AMIRAGE
computer series (and maybe other hardware from other manufacturers,
too...). With 13 years of Amiga history and experience, I can only
underscore that the strong support of the majority of Amiga users and
developers for this new path will create succesful products, most
creative and stunning technology, and a growing and valuable market in
which all those who start now can become technology leaders. We all
have survived in a shrinking market for so long, and now we can decide
actively if we want to start off into a future that will realize
technological excellence and open up new dimensions for us, or if we
want to be lost in the mainstream finally, which we could have joined
many years ago already.

 BTW, I deny those assumptions saying we would split the Amiga market.
We are just offering the products that AI won't offer - and just
considering the features and price position, our product may initially
not be in competition with Amigas MCC (although we have not heard
about the MCCs price yet). We are following a path that AI has
obviously dropped, and we want to team up with those Amiga friends,
users and developers which Amiga wants to leave behind (maybe not on
purpose, but probably with a "hey sorry if you came under the BIG
wheel that we are turning now" attitude).

 I would also like to say some words about our former projects, the
A\BOX and the pre\box, in comparison the the new AMIRAGE K2 project
(BTW, we knew that some would read it as AMI-RAGE, and others as
A-MIRAGE, but we a) have no problems with some self-irony, and b)
recommend to speak it with a french pronounciation). There are voices
critizising us, blackening about the vaperboxes and such. It is true,
we failed to deliver these two products, while we - in contrary to
others - did at least provide the leading Amiga add-on technology,
continuously throughout the last years, in a difficult market. The
A\BOX development was delayed following the initial delays in the
PowerUP development. After PowerUP had been finished, the market
situation had changed significantly since Amiga had been sold to
Gateway, and many users and Amiga people were waiting for
developments/announcements at/from Amiga Inc. It was a logical
business decision to stop the A\BOX project, as we couldn't justify
continued development efforts and investments into it at this point.
Later, in March 1998, we announced the pre\box, a simpler and
easier-to-realize stand-alone product, planned to support MP and the
PPC transition, for which we also signed a license agreement with
Amiga for the OS 3.1. But shortly after the pre\box was announced, AI
announced on the WOA 1998 in London that they would not use the
PowerPC but the MMC chip instead, an announcement that significantly
hurt our business (as well as the business of many Amiga developers
and companies). As a consequence, the pre\box development was put on
hold and went back into the drawers later that year. I think that it
is obvious that our chances to succesfully realize the former
demanding projects - which would have required support of AI, the
developers and the community - have been badly influenced by such
external decisions. Today, with the AMIRAGE K2 development, we are in
a completely different situation, as the use of the QNX Neutrino OS
will allow us to focus on the hardware development, and exploit the
options that todays's latest silicon technology offers, without
drawbacks and compromises. We are convinced that we can deliver on our
promise with the dawn of the next millenium.

Hoping to see you in the future.

Yours sincerely
Wolf Dietrich

 {Editor's note: there are some interesting points made in the above
letter from Mr. Dietrich, and, though it is long, we felt we should
bring it to you in its entirety. However, we will not be covering the
QNX/Phase 5 aliance and its results in detail. Whatever they make, it
by definition will not be an Amiga. There may be irony in that, but
such is the case. We don't intend to ignore them, but our focus in on
Amiga, whatever it is and whoever makes it. Brad}
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           F R O M   T H E   A M I G A   R & D   T E A M

19 Jul 1999

 Very interesting and active debate over the past two weeks. We *love*
the passion of (most of ;-)) the on-line community. Linux? X- Windows?
PCI? USB? MIDI? Floppy Drive? ATI graphics, etc., etc. While an
overwhelming percentage of our email is quite positive about Amiga's
directions, there are those who have raised quite legitimate technical
concerns, and a small percentage who are just bashing everything we do
(more on them later). One positive aspect of the Linux announcement is
the huge influx of technical talent into the Amiga camp from the Linux
community. There are legitimate issues with Linux, as anyone with a
technical background will acknowledge. One positive aspect of the
Linux phenomenon is that there are hundreds of thousands of
programmers out there working to fix those problems. There are also
hundreds of companies working on applications and drivers (and
hardware) for Linux, that we can immediately tap into. Yes, there are
integration and testing issues to work on, but there are many, many
more positives than negatives. Please understand that the Linux
decision was not purely (actually not mostly) a technical decision. It
was a decision driven by a reasoned analysis of what underlying OS
would give Amiga the greatest chance to succeed in the marketplace,
and as a company.

 Also understand that we have not yet seen a single technical issue
raised in the news groups that we are not already aware of, and
working on either inside of Amiga or through partners. Will the Amiga
MCC under development be perfect? Of course not -- product development
is all about tradeoffs. When it is shipping, will it be at the heart
of the best distributed multimedia computing environment in the
marketplace in terms of price/performance/usability? Yes! Even more
important, the MCC is only one piece of a much broader strategy that
we have chosen to not really discuss yet. When Jim Collas talks about
revolutions, it's not a revolution in terms of what happens to be
inside the MCC box (although some of the unannounced components are,
indeed, revolutionary); it's the entire distributed home
computing/Internet environment and experience that will be
revolutionary as it rolls out over the coming year. DON'T JUST FOCUS
ON BOXES AND OPERATING SYSTEMS! (sorry for shouting.)

 So, to those of you raising legitimate technical concerns, we will do
our best to communicate solutions as they are worked out. Better yet,
help us track down those solutions. Linux is getting better every
week, with issues getting resolved at an amazing pace. ATI may not be
able to ship their new graphics/video accelerator (which looks great)
on time, and rest assured that we're also looking at 3dfx and NVidea.
Yes, there will be a floppy drive (probably a 1.44MB / 120MB combo).
We're working on the sound/MIDI requirements. We're listening to
proactive suggestions, and will do our best to manage the inevitable
tradeoffs to create the best next-generation system we can.

 To the small number of individuals who have been sending vulgar,
threatening hatemail because you don't like what we're doing, and have
announced that you're fed up and are leaving the Amiga community,
goodbye. Millions and millions of people will purchase Amiga-branded
and Amiga-compliant products over the coming years, and we're sorry
you won't be among them.

Rick LeFaivre, Allan Havemose, and the Amiga R&D Team
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       V O T E   F O R   F A V O R I T E   U T I L I T I E S

News Release 24/7/99
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Amiga Information Online has set up a Utilities PD Toplist. So if you
have three favourite Utilities that you would like to give credit to
then why not show your support for those programs and send us your
votes.

 It is very simple, all you have to do is give 3 points to your
favourite Util, 2 points to your second favourite and then 1 point to
your third favourite utility of all time.

 The only restriction is you can only vote of PD/Shareware type
software and not Commercial. By commercial I mean you don't register.
It still holds it open to vote for Utilities like Miami, AmIRC and the
like.

 If you are interested please return the form to the address below,

-Cut-

1st Util (3 Points) : [Enter util name here]
2nd Util (2 Points) : [Enter util name here]
3rd Util (1 Point)  : [Enter util name here]

-Cut-

Email : SnorsleX@Home.se
Topic : AIO Toplist

 You can see the latest ratings in the latest issue of AIO or on our
website,

Aminet:Docs/Mags/AIOV26.lha

or

http://www.aio.co.uk

Chris Seward
Editor of Amiga Information Online
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         S A S S E N R A T H   O N   T E C H   B R I E F ?

 {Editor's note: this exchange was found in an Amiga usenet group on
the net. There is no confirmation from Carl Sassenrath for this item,
so it must be considered a rumor. We invite comments from Mr.
Sassenrath if he so wishes, and would be happy to publish them. Brad}

21 Jul 99
>On the 20 Jul 99 05:38:34 +0000, Paul May said,
>>
>> to Quote: Carl Sassenrath on the Tec Brief, Amiga to use Linux.
>>
>> "I'm not impressed.  This crap is not in my future.
>>
>> I say: complexity begets complexity.

 >Um, Paul, do you have any opinion of your own rather than the dozen
or >so daily postings from famous amiga people that you keep sending
here >from the team Amiga maillist (have you permission to forward
their >mails to the newsgroups ?).

Hi Ed.

 Indeed, the answer to both questions is YES, i have many opinions but
rather than add my thoughts to the many good posts here, i prefer to
take the direct route and try to help everyone in both places to get
the bigger picture so as to have better Opinions by forwarding both
ways for thoughs people not on both the TAML or here.

 i hope you find it useful ?, if not then i'm sorry for wasting your
time making you read them.

 on the matter of a 'Dozen or so' thats not quite true, more like 6
perhaps seven and then not that many *every* day, even so at your
estimated dozen a day that is a very small ammount compared to the
traffic here on csam, to date no one on TAML as had any comp about me
forawarding Jim's and several other peoples usenet posts there other
than one person not being able to view my forward very easly.

 as for the TAML, everyones welcome there and it has from day one had
the policy that anything posted there is freely distributable, that
fact plus Team AMIGA mailing list has probably the highest
concentration of AMIGA Developers/resellers/service providers Ect
online, makes it a really good place for open peer review IMO OC, plus
TAML eventully finds its way to far more places (FIDONET for instence)
than csam so helping to spread the important
information/facts/announcments to those persons interested but without
Web access (many more than most web people realise).

--

 to Quote: Carl Sassenrath on Tec Brief Amiga to use Linux.

 "I'm not impressed. This crap is not in my future.

 I say: complexity begets complexity.

 Give me an OS that fits on a floppy. And you know what? It will work
better than their system ever could.

 Down with big systems. They are created by those who don't have a
clue what computing is really about: people".

--
 Paul May, Manchester, UK
 Team *AMIGA* , *OwlNet* , *REBOL* , *KOSH*
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         A M I G A   F L E A   M A R K E T   I N   T E X A S

July 18,1999

MCCC Announces Flea Market Extravaganza '99

Where : The Brookside Convention Center, Hurst, Texas

When : Saturday, September 25, 1999

Time : 12:00 to 4:00pm

Admission : Free

Amiga Computer Flea Market

 Hardware and Software for Amiga computers, from members and
non-members, will be for sale. The flea market will be open to members
for a fee of 5% on items sold. A fee of 10% will be charged to
non-members on items sold.

Sellers:

 Items for sale must be turned into a club representative. Prices are
set ahead of time and sales are handled by club representatives.
Arrangements MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE. Items will NOT be accepted on
the day of the show. There will be no exceptions. Items to be sold at
the flea market may be turned in at one of the chapter meetings or you
may make arrangements with one of these club representatives:

Mark Stodola Cedar Hill (972) 299-6824
Ned Kelly Arlington (817) 277-5825
David Owens Fort Worth (817) 847-5486
Dan Stockelman Dallas (972) 985-8522

Buyers:

 Cash and checks accepted from members. Cash only accepted from
non-members. Prices will be reduced at 3:00 pm.

Door Prizes

 Drawings will be held throughout the day. You must be present to win.

MCCC Amiga Library

 The entire MCCC library of Amiga computer disks, over 2,000 disks,
will be available.

Special Membership Offer

 13 months for the price of 12. This offer is good for new or renewed
memberships.

Classes

 A class/demo of the new 3.5 Operating System will be held, time to be
announced.

Amiga Wares Available

 Amiga Wares (shirts, caps and more) from Randomize, Inc., will be
available at the show.

3.5 Operating System Available

 Copies of the new 3.5 Operating System will be available for sale by
the club or a dealer to be announced.

Amiga Computer Raffle

 Details to be announced when finalized.

Amiga Computer Dealers

 Space is available to rent for dealers, companies or user groups.
Please inquire on rates.

Directions & Parking

 The Brookside Convention Center is located at 1244 Brookside Drive in
Hurst, Texas. To get to the Convention Center get to Highway 183/121
and take the Precinct Line Road exit and drive south on Precinct Line
Road. After approximately 0.3 miles turn left (east), on Bedford
Euless Road. Drive 0.4 miles to Brookside Drive. The Convention Center
is on the southeast corner. There is plenty of parking space, and
parking is free.

For more information email: mstodola@airmail.net
To be kept up to date as things develop, email: agm@startext.net

MCCC is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the support of Amiga
computers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
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     A L L   C O M P U T E R   M E E T I N G   I N   F R A N C E

25 Jul 1999

Hello,

 The "Byte Millenium" meeting will take place at Marck, in the north
of France (near Calais), from 27th of August to 29th. We want this
meeting to gather a lot of people from different computers (I was told
that there will be people with Amstrad CPC, Oric, MSX, Amiga, Atari,
PC etc.). During this meting we will have to show what your loved
computer is able to do : Lots of magazines reporters will be there
too.

 There will be a contest which aims to equalize the chances between
all the computers (eq you will need more imagination than Mhz).

 The entrance will cost 150 FF (for food, and the contest prizes).

 Hope to see you there !

One from MCHTML/CocOOn SySteM

NB : No lamerz/gamerz/swapperz please...
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                   T H E   L A S T   P I C A S S O


                         Our Amiga future?!?

 Our (Village Tronic) future in the amiga classic market is not clear
right now. We will definitely sell our AriadneII and the forthcomming
3d-Module add-on for PicassoIV but this doesn`t go for the sales of
PicassoIV, Paloma PAL, Pablo and Concierto. As the sales in the last
few month have dropped dramatically it`s no longer profitable for our
company to run other assembly lines.

 So we had to swallow the bitter pill and cancel the productionline
and sales of Paloma, Pablo and Concierto officially. You may find last
pieces of these products with our distributors though... If there is
someone interested in licenzing one of these products you can contact
us.

 For the PicassoIV we have another solution for our customers to have
a last chance to get one of these marvelous graphic-boards:

 To be sure to sell enough cards for an assembly-line and to make it
profitable for our distributors too, you can preorder your PicassoIV
with them. VillageTronic will produce the requested cards in a VERY
LAST assembly line so that the now preordered boards will arrive in
distribution by the end of september.

 Customers that have preordered their cards here directly with us will
get them as soon as we have enough on stock. After that VillageTronic
will NOT sell ANY boards directly anymore to endcustomers.

 This will definitely be the last order for PicassoIV. So please
contact our distributors for your LAST ORDER:
--------

America:

SoftwareHut
www.softhut.com
softhut@erols.com
Bolmar industrial Park
991 S. Bolmar St. units F&G
West Chester, Pa. 19382
United States
Tel: 800-932-6442 or 610-701-6301
Fax: 610-701-6306

England:

Blittersoft
www.blittersoft.com
sales@blittersoft.com
6 Drakes Mews
Crownhill Industry
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK8 0ER
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1908 261466
Fax: +44 (0)1908 261488

Italy:

Euro Digital Equipment
aorlandini@villagetronic.com
Via Dogali 25
Italy 26013 Crema

Germany:

Vesalia Computer
www.vesalia.de
order@vesalia.de
Industriestr. 25
46499 Hamminkeln
Tel: 02852/9140-10
Fax: 02852/1802

KDH-Datentechnik
www.kdh-datentechnik.com
bestell@kdh-datentechnik.com
Südring 65
72160 Horb
Tel: 7451/555111
Fax: 7451/ 555115

Ekkehard Brüggemann, Village Tronic Support Team
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                E X O D U S   -   A M I G A   N G

14 Jul 1999

 Exodus Multimedia is pleased to announce the first AmigaNG-powered
digital video workstation, Maverick! While still in the design and
engineering stage, we have committed to delivering this exciting new
concept to the video industry. Our decision to proceed with this
project was reached after a private meeting with Jeff Schindler and
Darreck Lisle at the St.Louis Amiga show. After talks with Amiga Inc.
which lasted into the early hours of the morning, it was decided that
the new OS offers significant advantages over other operating systems,
in terms of size, speed, reliability and flexibility. From its
inception, the AmigaOS was designed to handle full motion video,
graphics and animation. The AmigaNG version promises to improve on
this base technology and add features not seen on any other platform.
Our current line of digital video workstations is based on Windows 98
and NT plus the Newtek Video Toaster Flyer. While we are very early
into this project, we will provide more concrete specifications by
summer's end. The tower case will be based on the current design used
on our standard workstation, pictures of which can be seen on our web
page at www.exodusmm.com.

 "The Amiga has proven to be the leading OS for video production on a
large and small scale. To this day, there are 15 year old Amigas still
being used to do mainsteam video, while most other computing platforms
are obsolete within two years. It is our goal to take Maverick into
the 21st century with an OS and hardware capable of supporting new
standards like HDTV, DV and MPEG-2 all with realtime video effects and
transitions. The AmigaOS gives us that power!", said Stan Carver,
President of Exodus Multimedia.

 From the last poll, there were over 7 million Classic Amigas sold to
date. To show our support for the Classic Amigas, we have been working
with Mick Tinker of Access Innovation, a European company, to provide
a state of the art solution that would allow current Amiga owners to
take advantage of new technologies without sacrificing backwards
compatibility. Based on specifications provided by Exodus Multimedia,
the new motherboard will have a PowerPC processor, PCI slots and fast
SDRAM, in addition to Amiga specific devices like Zorro slots and an
high speed emulation of the custom chipset. Full Video Toaster and
Flyer support will be provided as well. The use of new technologies
will make way for devices currently on the Windows platform such as
FireWire, USB, pro audio sound cards and high end graphics cards to be
easily ported to the AmigaOS without having to redesign hardware. The
new Amiga-powered Maverick should be available 3rd quarter 1999.

 In the meantime, we have salesmen and service technicians that are
fully capable of supporting the Amiga community, as we always have. We
are now taking pre-orders for OS 3.5 and look forward to the new
AmigaNG with all of it's possibilities. We will post details on our
web page http://www.exodusmm.com/amiga/ as we progress with this
project- STAY TUNED!
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                  P H O T O G E N I C S   4 . 1

16th July 1999

 Paul Nolan is pleased to announce Photogenics 4.1, featuring dozens
of new and improved features, more tools, online html help, and rock
solid stability. It all adds up to the must have graphics purchase of
the year.

 To make this purchase even easier, you can now use your credit card
to order using a toll free (US only, international charges apply)
order hotline, or online at http://www.paulnolan.com. Please read the
full details below for more information.

 Photogenics 4.1 is a free upgrade to users of Photogenics 4.0, please
email your name and the email address used when ordering Photogenics
to updates@paulnolan.com.
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