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   T A O ,   B A B Y !   T H E   P A R T N E R   A N N O U N C E D

       A M I G A   I N C .   T O   B E   A T   A M I G A   2 K

           N E W S R O G   D E V E L O P M E N T   E N D S

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Below we have the second big announcement in recent days by the
reborn Amiga Inc. This one concerns the "content platform foundation
partner" for future development. Not sure yet what all is covered by
that mouth numbing phrase but I am sure it will be interesting and, I
hope, encouraging to watch this relationship.
 There seems to be much more a feeling of relief in the shrunken Amiga
Community at this ownership change than there was when Gateway took
over, and that's as it should be. If we don't make it this time, at
least we finally have some Amigans with vision giving it a try. If
only that had happened back in 1994 ...

 We don't have an actual story on it, but if you read the items below
carefully you'll see that Amino is now Amiga. The change took place on
January 6. They'll be at the Amiga 2000 computer show this spring in
St. Louis, USA, and I can hardly wait. I believe this will be the
first chance for the newest Amiga Inc. to address a large body of the
community. If you can get there, it should be well worth your time.
 If I have my Amiga history right, this is the third Amiga Inc. to be
set up. The original development company (or were they not an Inc.?),
Gateway's, and now the former Amino. Correct?
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

5 Jan 2000

brad,

 just a quick note to say "keep up the good work" ! i enjoy receiving
this e-publication. also, let me add that i prefer this "e-mail style
" as opposed to the old "download style "!!!! makes it easier for me
to read.

best,
dave
~~~~~~
Dave,
 Thanks very much for the note and the vote of confidence. Not sure
who's old download style you mean as we've always been e-mail based,
but I think I know what you're getting at. It's always been one of our
goals to get the news out to people, rather than wait for someone to
come to a website. We think the Amiga community needs both, and our
method can help get the message to people who would never see the
websites.
 Brad

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1 Jan 2000

On 31-Dec-99, Brad Webb wrote:

> The transaction, effective immediately, includes the transfer of
> all Internet domain names related to Amiga which Gateway had held.
> Gateway retains ownership of all patents acquired when it bought
> Amiga in 1997.

 In other words, they have the right to develop something and call it
an Amiga, but not to make or sell any of the old hardware, possibly
the OS either. Then again, that might not to be a bad thing. We all
know how far behind the current hardware and OS are.

 When Tom Schmidt announced that Amiga wasn't going to be a computer
platform anymore, I started looking at the alternatives. I figured
there were three; Linux, Mac and (GULP!) Windows.
 - Linux is a Unix variant at heart. Switching to it meant night
school courses just to learn to use it. (I still haven't entirely
ruled that out.)
 - My GF uses a Mac and she's happy with it. I looked at the new iMacs
and they're nice machines, reminiscent in some ways of my good ol'
A1200, and the price wasn't too bad, considering what it was. Then I
took a gander at the software and nearly had a coronary! $800 for a
paint program???
 - Then there's Windows. I tried to look it up on the 'net. At first
all I found were jokes pages. I surfed over a few of them. It was
educational; nobody likes Windows! At last I found MS's homepage. The
first thing I saw there was ol' Visa Bill Gate's editorial about
"freedom to innovate," (whinging over the Anti-Trust Court obviously.)
By this time I was wondering what had possessed me to even consider
doing this to myself!

 I hope to heck Amino makes a go of Amiga. There are no good
alternatives out there.

        Allan
~~~~~~
Allan,
 I certainly agree with the sentiment in your last paragraph. It's
very early to have a feel for how Amino - now officially Amiga Inc. -
will do, but they've got the community in mind and that's a real plus.
 You do have one misconception in your note. Amiga Inc. has a license
from Gateway to the old patents, so there's really nothing stopping
them from doing just about anything they want to, including building
"classic" type machines if they wish.
 With the new Amiga in place, I think there's at least a good
possibility we won't need an alternative.
 Brad
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   T A O ,   B A B Y !   T H E   P A R T N E R   A N N O U N C E D

 Las Vegas, January 8, 2000 - Amiga Incorporated, a privately held
company based in Maple Valley, WA, has entered into a strategic
relationship with the Tao Group as the new content platform foundation
partner for the new Amiga. Terms of the transaction were not
disclosed. Bill McEwen, Amiga President/CEO, said that the company
selected Tao as the foundation partner for the new Amiga after
reviewing numerous other potential partners. "After extensive research
trawling the markets we found that Tao had the greatest similarities
and strengths with our vision, and the capabilities to get the job
done". McEwen said. "Amiga with Tao together will bring a new level of
capabilities, portability and scalability never available before."
"Tao has its roots in the Amiga so this is particularly satisfying for
us" said Francis Charig, Chairman and CEO of Tao Group. "What makes
this relationship so exciting to Tao is the relationship we can enjoy
with Amiga and the Amiga Community. The world has changed radically in
the last few years and there is a vacuum in terms of content and
software environments that meets the needs of the mass market. The
skill sets of the Amiga community combined with the power and
flexibility of Tao's software infrastructure means that the New Amiga
can create the most compelling content for the emerging digital
services and content markets."


ABOUT AMIGA

 Amiga Incorporated is dedicated to the development, design, and
implementation of components, services, and models that support the
digital experience of tomorrow. Amiga lead the world into the
multi-media experience in the early 80's, and will lead it into the
Digital content universe of the future.

ABOUT TAO

 Tao Group is an intellectual property generator and software company
specializing in technologies for home and mobile networks.
Incorporated in 1992, the Company provides leading edge products for
the emerging markets of intelligent consumer devices. The company's
philosophy is based on providing powerful frameworks for use right
across the range of networked appliances from smart phones to digital
television into which Tao's clients can build in their own branding
and incorporate their own added value. Tao's clients include blue chip
technology corporations in the United States, Japan and Europe.
Motorola and Sony are investors in Tao Group. Tao is headquartered in
Reading, United Kingdom, with representation in Japan and the US, and
its staff includes more than fifty world-class software engineers. Tao
is a Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Winner and has won a series of
innovation
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       A M I G A   I N C .   T O   B E   A T   A M I G A   2 K

January 6, 2000

 Amino Development Corporation, renamed Amiga Inc. on Jan. 6, will
exhibit at the Amiga 2K show.

 In a conversation today with Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amino,
now Amiga Inc.,stated that they will definitely exhibit at the Gateway
Computer Show - Amiga 2K, April 1 & 2, 2000.

 Things are happening with Amiga 2K, just as we promised. Stay tuned
for more information on the largest and best Amiga show in the
Americas... Amiga 2K.

 Amiga 2K will be held on Saturday April 1st - Sunday April 2, 2000,
in St. Louis Missouri, U.S.A. at the Henry VIII Hotel.

Bob Scharp
Amigan-St. Louis
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          N E W S R O G   D E V E L O P M E N T   E N D S

04-Jan-2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 ShadowWorks Software regrets to announce the end of the NewsRog
project for the Amiga. NewsRog is an NNTP News client running on Amiga
personal computers.

 Unfortunately, due to a combination of factors which include the lack
of a market for Amiga software, obsolescent hardware, and a recent
increase in piracy and fraudulent credit card orders, it is no longer
financially possible to continue developing NewsRog. The last version
stands at 1.8b, and the update is available to all registered users
via the web page below:

     http://www.frii.com/~srk/ShadowWorks/Preview/NR.html

 ShadowWorks Software is proud to have pioneered a large number of
news client features that have yet to be duplicated in any other
software that we are aware of. We regret that it was not possible to
continue development of the software, since there was a great deal
more planned for the future.

 ShadowWorks Software wishes to thank all of our loyal customers who
have supported our attempt to bring the Amiga a world class NNTP news
client.
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Amiga Update on the net:
 All back issues available at:
    http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html

Stop by and check out our archive!
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Copyright 2000 by Brad Webb.    Freely distributable, if not modified.
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000104

           T H E   W O R D   F R O M   A M I N O   A M I G A

                  C O S A   O N   T H E   B U Y O U T

        A M I G A   W E B   D I R E C T O R Y   G O N E   . . .

       . . .   A S   I S   " A M A Z I N G   C O M P U T I N G "

     E X H I B I T O R S   S I G N   U P   F O R   A M I G A   2 K

           M O R E   A B O U T   S T .   L O U I S   S H O W

              S T I L L   M O R E   O N   A M I G A   2 K

                  A M I R C   3 . 3   R E L E A S E D

           M O R P H O S   P R O J E C T   A N N O U N C E D

            V O Y A G E R   V 3   F I N A L   R E L E A S E

         C S & E   A   E U R O P E A N   D I S T R I B U T O R

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Wow...
 So much has happened recently, it's hard to know where to start.
 Allright, the bad news first. The first Amiga monthly magazine,
"Amazing Computing" is dead. It was also the last US Amiga magazine.
This is incredibly sad, especially as it just missed making it into
the new era of "Amiga by Amino", as announced in our recent special
edition. We don't know the details, and I'm not sure I want to. It
would be depressing. However, this is a real loss for North American
Amigans and the hurt will be felt for a very long time.
 Also sad, and this for the entire Amiga community, not just us North
Americans, is the death of CUCUG's Amiga Web Directory. The
cornerstone of the Amiga community on the web, it also just missed the
new era. Rumor has it other sites offered to take the Web Directory
over, and were turned down. If true, that's mind numbing. We really
don't know the details here either, but we will miss them.
 Now, the good news. There really is some, and it's quite good!
 The Amiga Community will survive, for some time to come. The computer
has a new owner, with a plan for the future (that's almost enough to
cause shock in old time Amigans) and a genuine, deep respect and love
for the Amiga and the Community. This is a bit hard to cope with after
recent events, but it's true.
 It's also true they have a rough road ahead of them. Success is by no
means guaranteed. But they'll be traveling the road with the best
computer community that ever existed. If that combination can't build
a meaningful future, then there's very little that can.
 The plan will be revealed to us in the next few months, and
apparently goes well beyond desktop machines. It's going to be an
interesting new era - we'll keep you posted.
 Finally, this new era seems to have room for Petro Tyschtschenko and
his work in Germany. In our opinion, while Jay Miner is the father of
the Amiga, Petro is the godfather or something similar. We're pleased
to see he's still involved. There's no one who's worked harder for the
Amiga's future over the years.
 While we're at it - for you gamers, the library of Quake related
games have been released for people to port, and work is well underway
for PPC Amigas. For those who love these games, the fun is just
beginning.
 Below, the first Executive Update from the Amiga web site, now under
the control of Amino Development.
 We love it!

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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           T H E   W O R D   F R O M   A M I N O   A M I G A

January 3, 2000

YeeHaw and welcome to the year 2000;

 I want to make something very clear from the beginning we have been
told, that Amiga was purchased by Gateway because of the Patents, and
that there were not even aware of the Amiga installed base, or the
people.

 Gateway purchased Amiga because of Patents, we purchased Amiga
because of the People.

 Without the people standing behind, developing, creating, purchasing
and continuing to believe in the Amiga there never would have been
anything for Gateway to purchase. We recognize this, and it is because
of you, and what you have continued to accomplish with Amiga that we
have purchased the company.

 I want to make sure that everyone knows and understands what this all
means to you the true Amigans.

 Here is what was acquired from Gateway:

 1. All trademarks logos etc.

 2. All existing inventory of Amiga International

 3. All existing licenses.

 4. License to All Amiga patents (Gateway still owns the patents, but
we are able to use them).

 5. All web sites, and registered domain names.

 6. The Amiga OS and all that is associated with the OS.

 7. The Amiga operation as it exists today.

 Specific details of the developer system, the OS partners and how one
can begin developing will be released in the next couple of weeks.

 We will be making an announcement on January 8th, 2000 with one of
our partners at CES in Las Vegas, and more details will follow that
release.

 Fleecy, Myself, Petro, and the rest of the team are not going to make
promises and create presentations and demos. We are going to deliver
products, services, and the rest of the world will know what you have
already known.

 We will be officially changing the name of Amino Development
Corporation to the Amiga Corporation this week, and we will let
everyone know of this change shortly once it is officially completed.

 I want to thank all of you for your continued support we will make
Amiga what it should have been, and more importantly what it will be.

 Keeping the faith,

Bill McEwen President/CEO
Amino Development Corporation
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                 C O S A   O N   T H E   B U Y O U T

COSA Reaction to Amino Purchase of Amiga Rights

January 2, 2000

 Within the past few days, ownership of the Amiga rights, trademarks
and technology passed from Gateway to Amino Development. People have
asked for COSA's opinion on the sale, and for comments how this
affects the campaign to open-source the AmigaOS.

 We believe the sale of Amiga to Amino is a good, positive step
forward for the Amiga community, and that the new owners of the Amiga
technology rights are the right people to steer the Amiga technology
into the new millennium.

 COSA have known Fleecy Moss, co-founder of Amino, for quite some
time, and have been in e-mail discussions on a number of matters of
mutual interest, including Open Source, for quite some considerable
time. We have a good working relationship, and a mutual understanding
of what needs to be done to bring the Amiga into the new millennium.

 COSA is confident, based on our discussions with Fleecy, that Amino
has the vision and direction necessary, to take the Amiga into the new
millennium. The major difference to their predecessors being that
Amino truely understands the Amiga technology, and is receptive to the
needs, ideas and inspirations of the Amiga community. (The management
of Amino are, afterall, Amigans themselves.)

 We await the announcements from Amino in the weeks and months ahead
with much anticipation, and look forward to a hopefully long and
productive working relationship with them.

Congratulations, Guys!
Steve Crietzman, and the team at COSA
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       A M I G A   W E B   D I R E C T O R Y   G O N E   . . .

 January 1, 2000 - The Champaign- Urbana Computer Users Group (CUCUG)
announced today that it has retired its popular, award-winning Amiga
Web Directory (AWD) web site.

 Citing continuing declines in the Amiga marketplace and Gateway's
failure to deliver new Amiga computer systems, CUCUG reluctantly
decided to discontinue its popular web site link directory and news
service on January 1, 2000. It was felt that while CUCUG could
continue with the AWD for several months, it was better to retire now
rather than allow the site to slowly decline with the market. CUCUG is
hopeful that the latest owners of the Amiga can turn this market
around for the developers and users who have held on throughout all
the past ownership changes and other difficulties the Amiga has faced.

 For over five years, the Amiga Web Directory served as one of the
most-visited Amiga-oriented web sites on the Internet. Its carefully
cataloged listings of Amiga web sites was the most-respected
collection of its kind. Each site in the AWD's listings was reviewed
by the CUCUG webmaster to ensure quality and Amiga orientation. Site
descriptions were carefully prepared by hand, resulting in accuracy
not possible on other machine- driven sites or those which allow site
owners to write their own descriptions.

 The AWD's Amiga news pages became one of the most imitated features
in the Amiga web community. Dozens of Amiga news sites were inspired
by the success of the Amiga Web Directory's hugely popular news pages.

 A well-known offshoot of the Amiga Web Directory was "Agnes" the
Amiga web searching service. Agnes was also a cartoon character which
personalized the searching service. In addition to the over-2000 Amiga
sites cataloged in the Amiga Web Directory, Agnes could search the
general Internet for Amiga content, newsgroup messages, CUCUG Status
Register newsletters and other Amiga-oriented materials.

 The Amiga Web Directory was one of the first member-supported Amiga
web sites. Amiga enthusiasts joined the CUCUG organization to show
their support for the efforts of the group. These memberships covered
the costs associated with running the popular web service and other
CUCUG activities. CUCUG is very grateful to its members' support which
it has received over the years. The group also acknowledges the many
Amiga-oriented companies which have given assistance.

 CUCUG, which has been supporting local computer users in the
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois area since 1983 will now focus its efforts
on local user group activities.
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      . . .   A S   I S   " A M A Z I N G   C O M P U T I N G "

31 December, 1999
 "Amiga Update" has received confirmation from several sources that
PIM Publication's "Amazing Computing" has recently filed for
bankruptcy. "Amazing" was the first - and the last - monthly Amiga
magazine in the US and its presence will be sorely missed.
 While it is certainly possible for businesses to survive a bankruptcy
and continue into the future, we have no indications that such will be
the case with "Amazing". It is ironic that as Amiga itself is in the
process of a potential rebirth, we have lost both CUCUG and "Amazing
Computing"
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     E X H I B I T O R S   S I G N   U P   F O R   A M I G A   2 K

December 26, 1999


 Amigan-St. Louis announces it's first group of exhibitors for "Amiga
2K". These companies are listed on the Gateway Computer Show's - Amiga
2K© web site. You can view this site by typing in the following
address on your web browser.

 http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html

 These companies are just the first in many that are signing up to
exhibit at this exciting event. Please check the show pages every week
to see the latest news.

 The Gateway Computer Shows are the largest and the most interesting
Amiga shows in the Americas. More products, updates, plans, ideas and
other exciting events have been released, announced and planned at
these shows than anywhere else.

 Amiga 2K will be hosted at the Henry VIII Hotel, on Lindbergh Ave.,
in St. Louis, MO. U.S.A. Show dates are Saturday April 1 through
Sunday April 2, 2000.

 Please check the web site for more information about the show and the
hotel. Come join Petro, myself and many other Amigans at Amiga 2K.
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          M O R E   A B O U T   S T .   L O U I S   S H O W

December 31, 1999


 Amigan-St. Louis is happy to announce the addition of Nova Design,
Inc. to it's growing list of exhibitors.

 The ever popular Gateway Computer Shows, including the new Amiga 2K
show in St. Louis on April1 & 2, 2000, have always been very popular
with Amiga Computer fans.

 This newest addition of Nova Design, Inc. and others is just one more
step in the growing list of companies that will exhibit at the largest
Amiga show in the Americas. Please see the "Show" page in the site
listed below.

 In additon, you can find the "Club Table Contest" described on the
"Contest" page of the Amiga 2K site. This is an excellent chance for
an Amiga Club to showcase it's abilities, and show off the Amiga,
while possibly winning a prize for their efforts.

Please check our site at: http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html
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        S T I L L   M O R E   O N   A M I G A   2 K

January 3, 2000

 Amigan-St. Louis is pleased to announce a discount for clubs
exhibiting at the Gateway Computer Show - Amiga 2K©. The discount is
40% off of the normal price. This is a substantial discount, that is
only available to clubs, and only available when utilizing an eight
foot table. It is a limited time offer.

 The pricing can be determined by looking at the price guide for eight
foot tables under the "Exhibitors" button on the show page at:
http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html Then simply multiply 60% times that
price to determine the price a club would pay.

 Example: An eight foot table space is 9' x 6' or 54 square feet. The
price per square foot is $6. So 54 x 6 = $324. That's the normal
price. Then multiply $324 x 60% to get $194.40. This is what the club
will pay for their table. Eight foot tables can be shared by two
groups if necessary. This would further reduce the cost to a club. The
cost of the table does not include any admissions to the show. All
persons in the club must purchase an admission.

 All in all, this is a substantial discount. It is being given due to
the tremendous support clubs have given to the Amiga. Without the
clubs, there would be no Amiga. So to reward them and their hard
working members, we are giving this discount so they will not deplete
their club treasury to exhibit at Amiga 2K

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                   A M I R C   3 . 3   R E L E A S E D

991227

 AmIRC was the first VaporWare application to be shown to the Amiga
world. Its author, Oliver Wagner, has worked too many late nights on
the program to count, and continues to update it to this day.

 AmIRC's main strengths lie in its interface - it's one of the easiest
IRC clients to use on any platform, yet it also keeps the power users
happy with advanced ARexx scripting and its plugin API, allowing
unique new features to be added. It also features a URL grabber to
capture any URLs mentioned in any channels or query windows, a
lag-o-meter to measure your system's lag from the server, and strong
builtin flood protection including a staggered output queue to stop
you flooding yourself off the server.

 For IRCing on the Amiga, AmIRC should be your number one choice.

 Please remember, AmIRC is shareware. If you use it, please register
the software and help support Amiga software development.

 Download AmIRC 3.3 and see why it's the best IRC client for the
Amiga. If you registered AmIRC 1.x or AmIRC 2.x, you can update to
version 3.3.

 There is an AmIRC Mailing List run by VaporWare for users to discuss
the software. Please feel free to sign up for it, your question may be
answered there.

Features

 o Advanced Low Level Plugin API.
 o Single Window Iconification.
 o Lag-o-meter shows lag from the server
 o Individual window logging.
 o Intuitive channel window with userlist and mode display.
 o Builtin high speed DCC drivers, incl. Secure Chat.
 o ARexx port includes event trapping.
 o IRCNet and UnderNet extensions.
 o Oper and clone announcement.

 o Builtin IdentD, disables itself if needed.
 o Bind sound effects, auto deiconify or ARexx to events.
 o Last nick history, TAB key cycles through.
 o URL grabber saves any URLs to send to your web browser.
 o Supports colored text for both input (WYSIWIG) and output.
 o CTCP/DCC flood protection.
 o Timestamping of lines and inline clickable URLs.

http://www.vapor.com/
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         M O R P H O S   P R O J E C T   A N N O U N C E D

Thursday, 23rd December 1999

 Today we announce the availability of a new Amiga next generation
PowerPC OS project, called MorphOS, to the public.

 In its current state it provides a modern memory protection
microkernel which runs a virtual amiga emulation. This microkernel
will be the base for a new OS layer.

 Research for this project started in early 1998, while at the end of
1998 an early implementation was ready. In 1999, we started on the
virtual amiga emulation to make the current AmigaOS available without
requiring 68K hardware. The basic design goals behind MorphOS are

- memory protection
- resource tracking
- asynchronous message system
- low interrupt latency
- virtual memory (optional)
- distributed computing
- symmetrical multi processing (SMP)
- recursive memory management
- task/thread and clan/chief model
- clean design with an elegant API
- micro/pico kernel mixture

The developer release is planned for end of January.  Minimum system
requirements are
- A4000 with CyberStorm PPC/604e and Symbios 770 SCSI
- CyberVisionPPC
- at least 32MB memory installed
- Kickstart 3.1 (Version 40.68) and Workbench 3.1 or up
Hardware requirements might change as soon as more hardware setups are
tested and implemented.

 As the success of this project will also depend on your
feedback/support, we suggest that interested developers visit our
project webpage for a general MorphOS overview and information on how
to join us to help.

Feel free to enter the project webpage at

http://www.morphos.de or
http://www.morphos.ch
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         V O Y A G E R   V 3   F I N A L   R E L E A S E

28 Dec 99

V³ 3.0 final released

 Here it is: the final version of V³

 Core changes since pre5:

 o now remembers FORM contents on back and, erm, window resize

 o HTTP/1.1 Accept-Language: support

 o Support for URL-embedded password support in HTTP URLs

 o Image information summary added

 o New Search Central plugin

 o The usual load of bugfixes and minor enhancements.

 This release does not include a new VFlash plugin. It is currently
undergoing final testing, and will be released individually within the
next few days.

http://v3.vapor.com
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        C S & E   A   E U R O P E A N   D I S T R I B U T O R

CS&E to concentrate on Amiga Distribution 2000

04/01/00

 I am writing to you for the good of the Amiga in the UK and beyond.
We have many great publishers and retailers and now two dedicated
magazines, but no independent distributor. I can announce to you that
CS&E will step in to independently distribute. We will reach both mail
order and high street retail from our warehouse in Birmingham which is
shared with the likes of Eidos.
 All products are delivered next day across Europe with many
guarantees for both the publisher and retailer. We hope that this step
will prove to be a great benefit for the whole Amiga community and
urge everyone to come together on this issue. Retailers please let us
know your full contact details for regular updates with your fax
number and e-mail and postal address. Publishers please also get in
contact to maximise your sales. A starter pack outlining our aims is
being prepared which will be sent out to all known contacts worldwide.
UK Amiga users can already feel proud by supporting some of the most
innovative companies around, we hope that this link will prove
valuable to all and our aim is to assist this good work.

David Connolly
Kind Regards,

CS&E sales:
7 Glyme Close, Woodstock, Oxon, OX20 1LB, Great Britain
+44 (0) 1993 812685
visit our website at http://www.csande.co.uk
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PhoneInfo_16.lha     comm/maxs   65K+Tells users how much their call costs, 1
UserbaseExplr.lha    comm/maxs   52K+Explore the BBS user database, 1.1
cim_v3.lha           comm/misc  1.1M+CIM - Caller Id Manager V3 r34 incl HTML
SnoopTAT.lha         comm/misc   25K+Internet Dial Cost V1.23 By 41 (Italian)
AmiComSys1.30a.lha   comm/net   315K+V1.30a Personal Communicator like ICQ (M
plnk.lha             comm/news   14K+Plonk script for Yam2NN 0.85 (version 0.
SimpleFTP.lha        comm/tcp   130K+SimpleFTP v1.85 - Easy to use FTP client
dcf2_10.lha          comm/ums    28K+Radio clock receiver
CompressHTML.lha     comm/www   128K+HTML (De)Compressor/Preprozessor (German
HTTPResume_Por.lha   comm/www    24K+Portuguese localization for HTTPResume v
HTTPResume_Swe.lha   comm/www     2K+Swedish localization for HTTPResume v1.8
HTTX.lha             comm/www    88K+V2.0b, HTML to formatted text converter
JohnnyTransfer.lha   comm/www   174K+Digitized Johnny Bravo Transferanim for 
MetalWEB4_pre3.lha   comm/www   869K+V4.0pre3 WYSIWYG Html Editor!
XClock13.lha         comm/xeno   11K+XClock V1.3 / Nice Clock-Door
XDoubleCh26.lha      comm/xeno  178K+Sysop split-screen chatter
XInfoNodes27.lha     comm/xeno   12K+Tells when a new user is logging in
XMultiCh38.lha       comm/xeno   83K+Multiline chatter with split-sreen
XOnliner26.lha       comm/xeno   30K+Shows the online user activity
865163186pe.lha      demo/aga   1.0M+"865163186pe" by PAS MAS (2nd at VEP'99)
HVR-Overt.lha        demo/aga   1.1M+Overt Enemy (AGA dentro) by HARVESTER
HVR-Sehnsucht.lha    demo/aga    63K+Sehnsucht (AGA intro) by HARVESTER
iq2k-ms.lha          demo/aga   1.7M+"mankind suckz" FINAL by iq2000 (1st at 
wpz-frozen25.lha     demo/aga   939K+Frozen#25 - The Party 9 Edition
xtm-revision4k.lha   demo/intro   5K+4k intro Revision by Extreme - 4th at TP
ADV-ITA.lha          dev/amos   235K+Italian adventures creator
modifile.lha         dev/amos    67K+File modifier written by AMOSPro
samplesm.lha         dev/amos    92K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
clockita.lha         dev/basic   24K+Italian digital clock + source code
PacketPointSrc.lha   dev/basic   28K+Source code for Packet-Point (BlitzBasic
crc32.lha            dev/c        2K+Implementation of CRC32
measureconpup.lha    dev/c       16K+Example for measuring PUP context-switch
amiga10.lha          dev/cross   72K+LUnix SDK (binary distribution)
2b_CreativE.lha      dev/e       98K+AmigaE compiler [binaries]
2b_CrtvE_src.lha     dev/e      169K+AmigaE compiler [sources]
powerd.lha           dev/e      243K+New programming language based on E
gdbm.lha             dev/misc   188K+GNU's set of database routines
ST_uk2gr.lha         dev/misc     5K+UK2GR phrasebook for use with SimpTrans
TransCat121.lha      dev/misc   128K+MUI Editor Catalog (.cd .ct)
PFS3ud.lha           disk/misc  115K+PFS3 undelete 
SmartInfo.lha        disk/misc   36K+SFSQuery and SFSdefragmentGUI replacemen
UnADF.lha            disk/misc   12K+Extract files out of DOS ADF files.
AmigaInfo.lha        docs/hyper 233K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Gennaio 2000
AIOV31.lha           docs/mags  336K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 31 (Dece
gadget43.lha         docs/mags  405K+German Freeware Magazine
StarMag21.lha        docs/mags  485K+Ultimate German Diskmag, last issue :-(
3DWorldArc1199.lha   docs/misc  179K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 11/99
sharksaga.lha        game/actio 293K+Great Action-diving now AGA !
Dc_slk2.lha          game/data  247K+50 NEW & Old levels for Diamond Caves 1
simpsonvictims.lha   game/data   45K+Simpson victims for Revenge
Xtr_slk.lha          game/data  732K+17 Extra Tracks for Xtreme Racing
fu_smfc.lha          game/misc  774K+Football management game.
jst.lha              game/patch 192K+JOTD Startup for HD Installs & Degrader 
malicemod.lha        game/patch 273K+Malice (Quake TC) bot-mod & fpsbooster  
Reboot-StartV4.lha   game/patch  37K+Degrader & run any game from Workbench
MasterOfTheDee.lha   game/role   98K+Master Of The Deep -  COOL ! new RPG gam
Muscarine.lha        game/role  1.7M+...pretty weird graphic adventure. *FREE
awinquake.lha        game/shoot 559K+Amiga 68k and PPC ports of winquake
awinquake_src.lha    game/shoot 2.2M+Source code of awinquake 0.2, a68k/ppc
battalion.lha        game/shoot 1.3M+A giant monster game in OpenGL
QuakeTFtricks.lha    game/shoot 266K+QuakeTF demos showing some tricks.
stefadv.lha          game/text   23K+Little italian text adventure
stefadv2.lha         game/text   66K+2nd little italian text adventure
Cribbage.lha         game/think  75K+A card game versus the computer V1.0
MUI_FreeCell.lha     game/think 288K+Amiga MUI version of well-known solitair
Patience.lha         game/think 102K+19 games of patience V1.1
startrekprg.lha      game/think 2.0M+-Star Trek-, Fixes all known bugs
psycho.lha           gfx/3dobj  269K+Model of Hitchcock`s Psycho-House in Cin
psymat.lha           gfx/3dobj  399K+Materials and textures for archive "psyc
psytree.lha          gfx/3dobj  461K+Model of a tree for archive "psycho.lha"
R4_Excelsior.lha     gfx/3dobj  808K+U.S.S. Excelsior (Star Trek) for monzoom
LGFlatron795FT.lha   gfx/board    1K+Monitor preset for BVision + LG Flatron 
Mpg-anim.lha         gfx/conv   614K+Converts MPEG movies into ANIM files V1.
pic2icon.lha         gfx/conv     8K+Convert pictures to icons (OS 3.5)
PfPaint_Cnv.lha      gfx/edit     5K+30 Convolutions for PerfectPaint (24bits
GaussianBlurAE.lha   gfx/misc    39K+Gaussian Blur - PlugIn for ArtEffect2+
MakeSuffix.lha       gfx/misc    17K+Script who makes the Suffixs for Graphic
Prograb2ADP.lha      gfx/misc     4K+Prograb24RT Adpro loader
SvIV-1.lha           gfx/misc   318K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 1/8
SvIV-2.lha           gfx/misc   218K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 2/8
SvIV-3a.lha          gfx/misc   136K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 3a/8
SvIV-3b.lha          gfx/misc   222K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 3b/8
SvIV-4.lha           gfx/misc    43K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 4/8
SvIV-5.lha           gfx/misc    60K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 5/8
SvIV-6.lha           gfx/misc    62K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 6/8 (opt
SvIV-7.lha           gfx/misc   116K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 7/8 (opt
SvIV-8.lha           gfx/misc   221K+SViewIV V9.06 (1.1.2000) - Part 8/8 (opt
akMPEG2.lha          gfx/show   127K+MPEG player for CyberGfx/AGA V3.07 (68k/
akMPEG4.lha          gfx/show   133K+MPEG player for CyberGfx/AGA V4.01 (68k/
i2clib40.lha         hard/hack  120K+I2C-bus hard/software interface project.
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  223K+V1.36 PSX MemoryCard Reader
ASpEmu.lha           misc/emu    38K+V070. ZX Spectrum 48K emulator.
BSNESFrench.lha      misc/emu     3K+French Catalogs for BlackSNESGui
DarcNES.lha          misc/emu   136K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/Coleco emulator v9
DarcNESGUI.lha       misc/emu    13K+GUI for the DarcNES emulator
Spectrum128.lha      misc/emu   100K+Spectrum 128K emulator V0.3 
imdbDiff991224.lha   misc/imdb  563K+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Prime.lha            misc/math   12K+Calculation of primenumbers, V7.0
AmiSuperLotto.lha    misc/misc   49K+V0.93d-SuperEnalotto for Amiga!
ASuperLottoPPC.lha   misc/misc   57K+V0.93d-SuperEnalotto for Amiga!
Tottogol2.lha        misc/misc   69K+V2.6d-Italian prog for Totogol
Tottogol2PPC.lha     misc/misc   83K+V2.6d-Italian prog for Totogol
ay-colly7.lha        mods/chip   92K+Collection of the best AY musics for DT.
VartiMods.lha        mods/chip    7K+8 THX tunes by Varthall/BoyzOut
VK-GdI.lha           mods/jungl 146K+HipHop/D&B/Jungle...who knows that schon
ataruita.lha         mods/midi   33K+Urusei Yatsura GM italian song
rNO-L020.lha         mods/misc  1.2M+Rno-label release no.20 by roz.kure.tang
AmerikanskiT.mpg     mods/mpg   1.1M+210BPM-Gabber-MPEG audio by "Borschtsch"
rNO-L019.mpg         mods/mpg   7.1M+Rno-label release no.19 by zubspace (psy
NMS-ChMedley.lha     mods/pro    79K+Christmas Medley - By Nemesis/Zenon^Dyna
NMS-Y2K.lha          mods/pro   205K+Millenium Y2K - By Nemesis/Zenon^Dynamic
Med2Xm-GUI.lha       mus/misc   117K+GUI for Fileformatconverter Med2Xm
MP3I.lha             mus/misc    18K+Writes the Title, Author, etc into MP3s
MUImp3.lha           mus/misc    33K+OS 3.5,MUI Encode mp3 from cd or file
resample.lha         mus/misc    65K+Change sampling rate of digital audio
Amoralplay1.4.lha    mus/play   108K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EasyPlayer.lha       mus/play    87K+The alternative music player, v1.01
Equinox.jpg          pix/mark   533K+Happy new millennium!
SJI-AuroraPre4.lha   pix/nicon  753K+SadJesterIcons Aurora Set Prerelease 4.
SJI-IngridPre1.lha   pix/nicon  198K+SadJesterIcons Ingrid Set Prerelease 1.
psypic.jpg           pix/trace   23K+Picture of the Bates` house (Psycho) ren
LastSunset.lha       pix/views   99K+Two pictures of the last sunset of the p
drHWBGrab99.lha      pix/wb      56K+MY last WBGRAB for 1999 ;-)
SertyWB.lha          pix/wb     212K+My beautiful Wb 3.5 in 16bit running Wip
VeloxWb.lha          pix/wb     135K+My nice Wb with Blizzard Vision in 16bit
Change.lha           text/misc   38K+V2.36 change text/data in all files
OlivettiJP.lha       text/print  14K+Olivetti JP WB Driver  40.2
OlivettiJP790.lha    text/print  13K+Olivetti JP 790 (HPDJ560C) Driver for WB
prtman39.lha         text/print 159K+Printmanager for AmigaOS3 (39.30)
prtman39_gr.lha      text/print  20K+Greek Translations for Printmanager39
FileInfo.lha         util/app    15K+An AppWindow, for informations about fil
Cybermagic.lha       util/blank 1.3M+Blanker for Cybergraphix (0.5.1)
MatrixBL.lha         util/blank  26K+Matrix Screen Blanker
MTX.lha              util/blank  28K+Matrix Screen Blanker
FText.lha            util/boot    3K+Render text in fastram with FBlit
QuickBC.lha          util/boot    2K+Optimized BltClear() patch
RemAPollo.lha        util/boot   46K+A1200 040\060 MMU Apollo Turboboard Rema
ShowAmiga96.lha      util/boot  496K+Picasso96 bootpic viewer v2.3a
ShowAmiga96_Up.lha   util/boot  334K+Picasso96 bootpic viewer update 2.3a
AHelp15.lha          util/cdity  94K+The Ultimate HELP: Manager v1.5
RC6.lha              util/crypt   3K+RC6 RSA block En/DeCrypter
cli_dtc39_7.lha      util/dtype   6K+Cli.datatype - recompiled for working wi
PlayMidi.lha         util/dtype  11K+V1.0b Plays MIDI Files via GMPlay & cli.
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype  38K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (WarpOS/PPC) V44.3
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype  44K+PNG image datatype (WarpOS/PPC only) V44
xpm-dt.lha           util/dtype  15K+A datatype for XPM graphics files
NewIconEmu.lha       util/libs    2K+Newicon.library replacement for os3.5
GH_Browser.lha       util/misc   14K+A simple Browser for the GuruHistory fro
HunkReader.lha       util/misc   14K+V1.6, Executable file examiner (w/src)
EqFiles.lha          util/rexx   26K+Find all duplicates in any set of files
AT.lha               util/time  102K+German database and reminder (freeware)
dcf.lzh              util/time   12K+DCF77 - time signal receiver; Y2k-Bug fi
serdate382.lha       util/time    8K+Display locale formatted date and time
simpleclock.lha      util/time   13K+A analog clock for OS 3.5
WBUhr.lha            util/time   10K+WBUhr V1.0 Clock for the WB-Titelbar
Safe.lha             util/virus  30K+Best new linkviruses detector v12.2
CondenseIcon.lha     util/wb      3K+Os3.5 tool to make .info files smaller
CopyIcon44.lha       util/wb      3K+CopyNewIcon clone for os3.5 (44.0)
Dynamite.lha         util/wb     37K+Start button, browser, fast icon/thumbna
Gurus2000_1701.lha   util/wb    802K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
Ico2Info.lha         util/wb      2K+Converts .ICO files to os3.5 color-icons
MUISearch12.lha      util/wb     25K+Mutli Files Finder with MUI interface
sgrab.lha            util/wb     47K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.13)
THE.lha              util/wb    102K+Prefseditor for Tools-Menu and Hotkeys

• Featureliste:
• GFX-Board- und AGA-Support
• Support für PIP (Picasso 96) und WB Window
• Double- und Triplebuffering
• Sound
• CD Audio Support
• Mouse, Joypad und Joystick Support
• In-Game Video-Optionen
• Network Support
• QuakeWorld Support (Client und Server)

• ASM-One Update zur Version 1.42 RTG - Download: asmonev142rtg.lha
• Barfly Version 2.1 - Download: Barfly2_1.lha - 624 Kb, readme.
• DarcNES/Amiga Version 9a0101a
  Download: dn9a0101a.lha
• LAME Beta Version 3.58 3/4, asyncio.library läuft nun mit PPC.
  Download: LAMEbeta.lzx - 460 Kb
• MetalWEB Update, überarbeitete Version, die für OS 3.5 fit gemacht wurde und das Vapor Auto Update System integriert hat.
  Download: MetalWEB4_pre3.lzx - 824 Kb

• Soundprobe - Aufgrund zu geringer Nachfrage steht eine neue Amiga-Version noch immer in Frage.
• Olivetti Druckertreiber aktualisiert
  1. Olivetti JP Inkjet Treiber V40.2 - Download: OlivettiJP.lha
  2. Olivetti JP790 Treiber V40.4 - Download: OlivettiJP790.lha
• GoldED Service Pack 15, Download nur für registrierte User.
  Download Demo: golded6.lha.
• AmiMasterGear V0.81 - Download: AmiMasterGear.lha
• AmiComSys 1.30a - Download: AmiComSysMUI1.30a.lzx - 260 Kb und AmiComSysMUI1.30a.readme.

• Einige der vielen Features:
• Dutzende von Nachrichtenquellen
• Über 40.000 Files zum Donwnload (keine Duplikate vom Aminet)
• News aus Amiga Usenet und Amiga Fidonet
• "QWK"Mail- und Newsdownlaod
• CD ROMs online
• 14 Mailinglisten für Amiga senden direkt in Ihre Nachrichtenbasis
• Online-Thumbnail-Erzeuger für GIF und JPEG
• Live-ChatRooms
• Private FTP-Seite und POP3-Mail-Server für Mitglieder
• Freier Email-Account (YourAccountName@amigazone.com)

• Sid4Amiga: Update Version 3.28 - Download: Sid4AmigaV3_28.lha
• Aminet: Awin-Quake von Peter McGavin für PPC und 68k - Download: awinquake.lha
• Frank Mayer-Pfauder Software Support: YAM2AmIRC V2.2 - Download: YAM2AmIRC.lha - 23 Kb
  Die neu gestylte Software Support Site, mit NetStat2AmIRC, Online-O-Meter und der neuen Version von YAM2AmIRC ist seit zwei Tagen online. Natürlich im OS3.5-Look :)
• PPT: Bugfix für Bildbearbeitungsprogramm PPT (text.effect) - Download: text.lha
• V3·Portal: V³ 3.0a Bugfix erschienen - Download: v3_30a_update.lzx - 315 Kb
• OsaMatic: Die Funkuhr mit Amiga-Software DCF77, Update für Version 3.x - Download: dcf77update.lha

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991231

            A M I G A   S O L D   T O   A M I N O ! !

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 Happy New Year everyone! Some of you will see this on the last day of
1999, some on the first of 2000 - either way, you have another reason
to celebrate today! We've been waiting and practically twitching to
get this information to you.
 We still don't have a press release directly from Amino, but as the
following information is now available generally on the wire, we owe
it to our readers to get it to you as quickly as possible. If we do
get a press release from Amino/Amiga we'll also get that to you right
away.
 Looks to us like both Gateway and the Amiga Community win with this
deal.
 Big smiles around here today!

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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            A M I G A   S O L D   T O   A M I N O ! !

Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory From Gateway

 SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 -- Amino Development Corp., a privately held
company based in Maple Valley, Washington, has purchased from Gateway
its Amiga trademarks and Amiga computer systems. Terms of the
transaction have not been disclosed.

 According to Peter Ashkin, Gateway senior vice president, Gateway
chose to sell the name after deciding to fold Amiga's software
engineering function into Gateway's product development. This merger
of development activities is part of Gateway's overall strategy to
develop and market the coming generation of "Internet appliances".

 "Amiga, as a personal computer brand, has a loyal following of fans
around the world," Ashkin said. "Under Gateway's wing, Amiga morphed
into a software development company working on a new Internet
appliance operating environment software. Now that we're bringing that
development work into Gateway product development, it made sense to
find a buyer for Amiga."

 "Yee-haw " said Bill McEwen, president and CEO of Amino. "This is a
very exciting day, and now an even more exciting tomorrow. Now we can
finish the job that was started 15 years ago."

 The transaction, effective immediately, includes the transfer of all
Internet domain names related to Amiga which Gateway had held. Gateway
retains ownership of all patents acquired when it bought Amiga in
1997.
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Amiga Update on the net:
 All back issues available at:
    http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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Copyright 1999 by Brad Webb.    Freely distributable, if not modified.
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        S P E C I A L   I S S U E        ||       Newsmagazine)
======================================================================
        AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc.
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991231

            A M I G A   S O L D   T O   A M I N O ! !

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 Happy New Year everyone! Some of you will see this on the last day of
1999, some on the first of 2000 - either way, you have another reason
to celebrate today! We've been waiting and practically twitching to
get this information to you.
 We still don't have a press release directly from Amino, but as the
following information is now available generally on the wire, we owe
it to our readers to get it to you as quickly as possible. If we do
get a press release from Amino/Amiga we'll also get that to you right
away.
 Looks to us like both Gateway and the Amiga Community win with this
deal.
 Big smiles around here today!

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
----------------------------------------------------------------------

            A M I G A   S O L D   T O   A M I N O ! !

Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory From Gateway

 SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 -- Amino Development Corp., a privately held
company based in Maple Valley, Washington, has purchased from Gateway
its Amiga trademarks and Amiga computer systems. Terms of the
transaction have not been disclosed.

 According to Peter Ashkin, Gateway senior vice president, Gateway
chose to sell the name after deciding to fold Amiga's software
engineering function into Gateway's product development. This merger
of development activities is part of Gateway's overall strategy to
develop and market the coming generation of "Internet appliances".

 "Amiga, as a personal computer brand, has a loyal following of fans
around the world," Ashkin said. "Under Gateway's wing, Amiga morphed
into a software development company working on a new Internet
appliance operating environment software. Now that we're bringing that
development work into Gateway product development, it made sense to
find a buyer for Amiga."

 "Yee-haw " said Bill McEwen, president and CEO of Amino. "This is a
very exciting day, and now an even more exciting tomorrow. Now we can
finish the job that was started 15 years ago."

 The transaction, effective immediately, includes the transfer of all
Internet domain names related to Amiga which Gateway had held. Gateway
retains ownership of all patents acquired when it bought Amiga in
1997.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Amiga Update on the net:
 All back issues available at:
    http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 1999 by Brad Webb.    Freely distributable, if not modified.
======================================================================
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• Aurora Set Prerelease 4 SJI-Aurora-Pre4.lzx
• Aurora Set Variant 'B' Prerelease 4 SJI-AuroraB-Pre4.lzx (downloadbar ab 05.01.2000)
• Aurora Set Variant 'C' Prerelease 4 SJI-AuroraC-Pre4.lzx (downloadbar ab 05.01.2000)
• Paola Set Prerelease 4 SJI-Paola-Pre4.lzx (downloadbar ab 06.01.2000)
• Ingrid Set Prerelease 1 SJI-Ingrid-Pre1.lzx

• StrICQ Version 0.1669 - Download: STRICQ.lha und Betaversion des Einstellungsfensters - Download: ZodiacImages.lha
• Arcadia gibt bekannt, dass zwei neue Archive im Downloadbereich bereit liegen. Zum einen handelt es sich um einen Patch für alle Leute, die die Demo von Bubble Heroes von der Amiga Format CD nicht zum Laufen gebracht haben. Zum anderen steht die dritte öffentliche Demo von Bubble Heroes zum Download bereit. Das vierte und letzte (AGA) Demo wird im Januar 2000 fertig werden. Arcadia wünscht allen ein frohes neues Jahr. Download: AFBHDemo-patch.lzx und BHDemo3.lzx

mpprosp.lha          comm/bbs    35K+V1.7 - File_ID.DIZ creator for Mods - ph
p_hc183.lha          comm/bbs    31K+V1.8.3 - Uploadchecker for PMBS - Update
GoFetch.lha          comm/net   331K+V1.0 Specialised FTP/HTTP Client designe
samba_2.0.6.lha      comm/tcp   3.1M+Port of the free SMB client and server
js_umsrfc.lha        comm/ums    21K+Umsrfc update (1.2)
MCD_DirList.lha      disk/cdrom  15K+Generates file lists for MakeCD
Pranger.lha          game/misc  106K+Cheap 1ply game- get 2 ships to collide
Zubspace-Psyco.mpg   mods/mpg   581K+Rno-label release no.19 by zubspace (psy
gothbench3.lha       pix/back   1.2M+Darker than ever.
mr_WBench.lha        pix/wb     862K+Workbench For Every Day
picsize.lha          util/dtype  15K+Shows picture dimensions using datatypes
calculator.lha       util/misc   14K+Fully functional calculator
TweakWB14.lha        util/wb     97K+Great WB 3.5 commodity, icon converter, 
yStart.lha           util/wb     17K+Start menu for standard WB icons

• Duff: ImageManager.library V 1.1 - Download: ImageManager.LZX
  Mailingliste zum Thema:
  Subscribe unter IM_Lib-subscribe@onelist.com und
  Unsubscribe unter IM_Lib-unsubscribe@onelist.com.
• StrICQ Version 0.1667 - Download: STRICQ.lha
• Atéo: AteoNet.device - Download: installateonet.lha - readme

2b_XBaseSP.lha       biz/dbase    9K+Spanish catalog for XBase 6.0 v1.0
addidevV1.19.lha     biz/dbase  131K+Sourecode for Addipro in MaxonPascal
addiproV1.22.lha     biz/dbase  116K+German Adress database OS2.X written in 
OnyxBase.lha         biz/dbase   73K+Great address book manager with lots of 
TCom202DEMO.lha      biz/demo    63K+An Amiga order program, (COMMESSE ITALIA
TFat280DEMO.lha      biz/demo   105K+An Amiga Invoice program, (FATTURE ITALI
dvbcontrol.lha       comm/misc  286K+V1.25 D-Box/Mediamaster Settings Editor
nc_update.lha        comm/news  133K+Newsreader Version 1.23 (MUI)
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  280K+Newsreader Version 1.23 (MUI)
slrn.lha             comm/news  1.4M+Slrn 0.9.6.0 (slang 1.3.10)
vlink.lha            comm/tcp    27K+AmiTCP<->MacTCP via virtual ethernet
thor26upd.lha        comm/thor  320K+Upgrade of Thor 2.6
HTTPResume_Fre.lha   comm/www     3K+French localization for HTTPResume v1.8
nah-speed49.lha      demo/mag   1.2M+Speed #49 packmagazine by Nah-Kolor
obligement18.lha     demo/mag   826K+Obligement #18 - Famous FRENCH fanzine !
powerd.lha           dev/e      235K+New programming language based on E
PPC_in_E.lha         dev/e       48K+PowerUp PPC includes converted to E
MCC_TipOfDay.lha     dev/mui     52K+V15.6 - 'Tip of the day' class (MUI)
MCC_TipOfDay_S.lha   dev/mui     51K+V15.6 - 'Tip of the day' class (SRC)
SortCopyGUI.lha      disk/bakup   6K+ReAction GUI for SortCopy
LS_Mac.lha           disk/misc    2K+LS-120 MAC4: Mountlist
LS_Mount.lha         disk/misc    3K+LS-120 DF4: & PC4: Mountlists
stccg.lha            docs/hyper 1.4M+AmigaGuide to Star Trek CCG from Deciphe
Zorro.lha            docs/hyper  15K+HTML & Guide of ZorroII/III & Power_Conn
Greetings.lha        game/gag    55K+Virtual Christmas Card
Colmaped.lha         game/hint   60K+YEAH! >>> map editor for 'Colonization'
WDreamsSolv.lha      game/hint   36K+WastedDreams Solution
ParrotIsland.lha     game/role  1.4M+Full release of the Adventure
cybershow94.lha      gfx/board  138K+SlideShow&Viewer(incl.PCD)for CybGfx&AGA
SmartScale.lha       gfx/conv    11K+A CLI program used for graphics conversi
REDFiX.lha           gfx/ifx    135K+Powerful ImageFX v1.5...v4.1 enhancer. v
photoalbum65.lha     gfx/misc   229K+Picture management (incl.PCD) for AGA&Cy
Frogger.lha          gfx/show   340K+Ultimate MPEG video player (68k & PPC v1
SoftCinema.lha       gfx/show   325K+Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.8
IOBlixUsr.lha        hard/drivr 287K+V37.13, IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 software
Spitfire.lha         hard/drivr 426K+A Palm Desktop for the Amiga!
BSNESMagyar.lha      misc/emu     3K+Hungarian Catalogs for BlackSNESGui
FusLoadPatch.lha     misc/emu    10K+Workaround for FUSION DMA loding problem
SavagePPC.lha        misc/emu    10K+The PPC VideoDriver for ShapeShifter (4/
imdbDiff991217.lha   misc/imdb  2.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Xmas99.lha           misc/misc  148K+Decorate your own x-mas-tree!
DAlmanac_Exe.lha     misc/sci   1.0M+Next Generation Planetarium (1.7.7)
FireIce_Xmas.lha     mods/demo   22K+The great Fire&Ice Christmas music
VK-WSDM.lha          mods/house  17K+Housy 8bit
VK-Herbst.lha        mods/jungl 141K+Jungle/D&B 6+2bit
VK-NMP2.lha          mods/jungl 172K+Jungle/D&B 16bit
rNO-L017.lha         mods/misc  557K+Rno-label release no.17 by roz (techno/t
rNO-L018.lha         mods/misc  260K+Rno-label release no.18 by tang (funkyho
lnsM10_selo.mpg      mods/mpg   5.0M+Selofan clouds - ambient record (part 4/
lnsM11_read.mpg      mods/mpg   5.6M+Thought reader - ambient record (part 5/
lnsM12_time.mpg      mods/mpg   5.5M+Timelords - ambient record (part 6/7) 
lnsM13_misp.mpg      mods/mpg   1.9M+Misplaced - ambient record (part 7/7) 
lnsM7_lostm.mpg      mods/mpg   5.0M+The lost machine - ambient record (part 
lnsM8_sleep.mpg      mods/mpg   5.8M+Sleeping on a mule - ambient record (par
lnsM9_narco.mpg      mods/mpg   4.8M+Narcosis - ambient record (part 3/7) 
LoveMeTender.lha     mods/pop   361K+Superficial but nice Love-Song by R.KAPP
DJH_OFRM.lha         mods/sidew 257K+Merry Christmas '99!  (OctaMED SoundStud
crs_50th.lha         mods/techn 2.1M+CRS00050: megamix anniversary release
crs_awak.lha         mods/techn 1.6M+CRS00051: 'awaken' ep by phase
lns64_blaa.lha       mods/techn  18K+Blaa opt - hard minimal acid by Maytz
EP_RobHubbardO.lha   mus/play     3K+EaglePlayer "Rob Hubbard Old" external r
XMasRachel99.jpg     pix/art    294K+Rachel Raccoon Lights up her tree
gdnsnail.jpg         pix/fauna  192K+A garden snail facing some serious troub
LS_Glow.lha          pix/icon     4K+LS-120 GlowIcon for OS3.5
LaptopTr.jpg         pix/trace   81K+Ray Traced LapTop (Lightwave Quickie)
swglacier.jpg        pix/views  181K+Glacier in Switzerland
db-socwb.lha         pix/wb     274K+Screenshots of sOCIETY/rSE wB3.5
BlizKick.lha         util/boot  162K+MapROM tool for Blizzard turbos. V1.19.
fixfile.lha          util/cli     6K+FixFile: Fixes downloaded files
FixNI.lha            util/cli    12K+Fix NewIcons for OS3.5
RCD10.lha            util/cli     7K+Smallest CD Player
VersCheckV2.lha      util/cli   830K+Check your libs,MUI,devs,dtypes,classes,
MIDI2asm.lha         util/conv    2K+Convert MIDI data to assembler source + 
AmyTree24.lha        util/dir   126K+Tree FS Explorer
calculator.lha       util/misc   14K+Fully functional calculator
xfdmaster.lha        util/pack  216K+Rel1.29 Decrunch packed files (exe/data)
rxmui.lha            util/rexx  142K+RxMUI 2.3 - MUI gui in ARexx
splitter.lha         util/sys    26K+Multiplatform secure JOINER and SPLITTER
WBCtrl.lha           util/sys     3K+Controls undocumentated wb3.5 features (
backclock.lha        util/time  126K+Transparent clock. You must try this !!!
Safe.lha             util/virus  30K+Best new linkviruses detector v12.2
IconHandler.lha      util/wb     20K+V1.9 Drop file on AppIcon to change icon
NewInstaller15.lha   util/wb    460K+THE Ultimate Addon Tool for C= Installer

• AudioPage: Lame Version 3.58 1/2 - Download: LAMEbeta.lzx
• Vapor: AmIRC 3.3 - Download: amirc_33.lzx
• StrICQ: StrICQ Version 0.1656 - Download: STRICQ.lha
• Airsoft Softwair: AHelp Version 1.5 und Fire & Ice Christmas Preview - Download: AHelp1_5.lha und FireIce_Xmas.lha
• Trogladite Software: Neue Versionen von MakeDir, KalbOS, HandleMyClip
• Picasso96 [Latest]: Neue rtg.library Version 40.3992 vom 25.12.99 als Fix zur letzten Version - Download: rtg.lha
• ZeusBBS: ZMailer Update Version 1.3.1 - Download: zmailer1_3_1.lzx
• Jens Schönfeld: Die ersten Ethernet-Karten sind bereits beim Kunden, und es ist ein kleiner Fehler aufgetreten: Mit 68030 Prozessoren war das x-surf.device nicht immer zu öffnen. Der Fehler ist in xsurf.lha mit x-surf.device V1.1 behoben. Vielen Dank an die Firma Eternity, die beim Aufspüren des Fehlers behilflich war!
• Mark Sheeky: Mark Sheeky von Scorpius Software machte uns ein wunderbare Weihnachtsgeschenk und veröffentlicht "Blade" als Freeware. Vielen Dank an Manfred Müller für diese Info.
• clickBOOM: News zu TNT, PPC-Support und Nightlong Spezifikation
• Ralph Debusmann: EasyPlayer Version 1.0 - Rechtzeitig zu Weihnachten ist Version 1.0 des alternativen Musikabspielers EasyPlayer fertig. - Download: EasyPlayer.lha.bin
• VWP: TCounter 1.0 für Java®, zusätzlich zu der unverändert aktuellen Version des TCounter in nativem Code für AmigaOS® ist jetzt eine plattformunabhängige Variante für Java® verfügbar. Diese kann von der VWP-Homepage als Version für die JRE® (Java®-Basisinstallation) und Swing® oder nur für die JRE® heruntergeladen werden. Eine ausführliche (deutsche) Anleitung zur Installation von Java® mit Links zu den kostenlos verfügbaren Java®-Paketen ist ebenfalls auf der VWP-Homepage zu finden.
  Der TCounter ist ein Zähler für Onlinegebühren, der für die Tarife von T-Online® vorbereitet wurde, aber auch für andere Provider verwendet werden kann, da die Daten für die Gebühren frei editiert werden können.
  Friendly Links: Um einen Überblick zu artverwandten oder ähnlichen Seiten zu erhalten, gibt es jetzt die Friendly Links. Das ist eine spezielle Linkliste mit den Top 20 der Seiten, die User zur VWP-Homepage schicken. Diese Liste wird von einem CGI-Script automatisch generiert. Je mehr User von anderen Pages nach http://www.VirtualWorlds.de geschickt werden, um so höher klettert der entsprechende Link in der Liste.
  FTP-Server zeitweise down: Wegen fälliger Wartungsarbeiten kann es in nächster Zeit vorkommen, das der FTP-Server (Link auf der VWP-Homepage) nicht erreichbar ist. Downloads sind aber trotzdem per HTTP von unserer Homepage oder aus dem Aminet möglich.
• Vapor: Microdot-II Version 1.4.4 (Y2k-Fix) - Download: md2_14.lzx
• EmuClassics: A/NES CGFX Version 1.17 - Download: anescgfx.lha
• SecondSpin - Downloadseite - (alte URL funktionierte nicht), siehe auch SecondSpin Diskussionsforum
• Nils Görs oder AWNPipe: T.H.E. Version 1.2 - Download: THE.lha
• Frank Fenn: Beta-Trial-Version von AmiMDC800, einer Software zur Steuerung und zum Imagedownload der Mustek MDC 800 Digitalkamera - Download: amimdc800.lha
• Thomas Wenzel: AHIRecord Version 1.7, Diese Version unterstützt jetzt auch 24-bit AIFF Aufnahmen, sofern der selektierte AHI Treiber diese Auflösung liefert. Beim demnächst erscheinenden Arpeggiator-2496 Modul für die Prelude wird das der Fall sein. Download: AHIRecord17.lha
• Thomas Wenzel: PreludeAHI v2.32, dies ist eine erste Version des Prelude AHI Treibers mit eingebautem Support für das Arpeggiator Modul. Sowohl 24-bit als auch 96 kHz werden komplett unterstützt. Da der Arpeggiator noch nicht verfügbar ist, lonht sich der Einsatz dieses Treibers nicht wirklich. Ich habe jedoch auch die generellen 16-bit HIFI Übertragungsroutine etwas optimiert. Wer also schonmal testen möchte, kann den Treiber ruhig schon installieren. Wenn's Probleme gibt, bitte kurze EMail an mich.
  Da Aminet zur Zeit wegen Wartungsarbeiten down ist, liegen die beiden neuen Versionen zunächst nur auf meiner Homepage. Der deutsche Link dorthin ist: http://www.act-net.com/wenzel/PrlSoft_d.html

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                  K R U S E   N O W   A   R E B O L

     C O S A   L A U N C H E S   O P E N   A M I G A   G R O U P

         F R E E   A U C T I O N S   A T   C L I C K B O O M

    C O S A   R E P S   F O R   G E R M A N Y ,   P O R T U G A L

     C H R I S T M A S   G R E E T I N G S   F R O M   A M I N O

       A M I G A   F O R E V E R   H O L I D A Y   B U N D L E

        A M I G A   A C T I V E   D E C E M B E R   I S S U E

         A M I G A   C D   M A G A Z I N E   I N   I T A L Y

          W I N   W I P E O U T   2 0 9 7   F R O M   A Y P

      T U R B O P R I N T   V .   7   N O W   A V A I L A B L E

   " I M M O R T A L "   -   A M I G A   G A M E   M U S I C   C D

                    A U D I O L A B S   O F F E R

        " F R E E S P A C E "   C O M I N G   T O   A M I G A

      " I N F R A B O X "   -   I N F R A R E D   C O N T R O L

              M K / 2   K E Y B O A R D   A D A P T E R

       A E M A I L   V .   2 . 2 0   N O W   A V A I L A B L E

            M I C R O D O T   I I   1 . 3   V E R S I O N

          M E T A L W E B   4 . 0   P R E R E L E A S E   2

         M I L L E N N I U M   F O R   T H E   T O A S T E R

               N O T   M U C H   T I M E   L E F T ! !

               S E C O N D S P I N   F O R   M P E G S

               S I M O N   T H E   S O R C E R E R   2

              N E T I N F O   2 . 5   A V A I L A B L E

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 The old saying "the only constant is change" is certainly true in the
Amiga community. It sometimes seems that you can't count on anything
staying the same from one day to the next.
 Unfortunately, much of the change we've seen in this year now ending
has been anything but good. The most recent change seems to be the
sudden vanishing of the "Amiga's" only remaining North American print
publication.
 We can tell you this, however. There are a lot of people working very
hard to make changes that will ensure a future for the Amiga. There's
just not much to say about these activities right at the moment. We'll
keep you informed as we are able.

Take a look at Amiga Realm
--------------------------
 Received a note a while back from our friend Paul Andrews in the UK
suggesting we take a look at his site "Amiga Realm". He reports he's
been working long and hard on it in the last few months. The effort
shows. It's well worth your stopping by if you haven't, with a wealth
of Amiga information. Find it at:

http://www.amigarealm.com

 We have a wide variety of stories to bring your way this time, and
it's all pretty much positive for once! Hope this brightens up your
day. For those of you celebrating one holiday or another at this time
of the year, we wish you all the joy such holidays can bring! To all
our readers, we say thanks for being with us throughout 1999, and we
hope to have a prosperous, pleasant and re-invigorating last year of
the century with you and Amiga in 2000!
 Best regards,
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

15 Dec 1999

Hello Brad,

 Any idea as to what has happened to Amazing? I haven't received any
mag. for three months I have made 5 or 6 calls to their phone # and
all I get is a taped message to fax or E-Mail. I've e-mailed Don Hicks
several times and have gotten no response.

 PS thanks for keeping Amiga Update going I feel like it is the only
Amiga resource I can depend on.

Kind regards
--
Don S.
~~~~~~
Don,
 I have no idea - and I did try to find out. We've received several
letters similar to yours. It's very disappointing - and disconcerting
- to have the venerable "Amazing" just pull an amazing vanishing act.
 Don Hicks, are you still there?
 Brad
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                K R U S E   N O W   A   R E B O L

The following announcement was posted recently on the web site of
Holger Kruse, developer of many of the Amiga's best pieces of
software:

Changes for the year 2000

 I am happy to announce that starting January, 2000 I will work for
REBOL Technologies in the capacity of Director of Network
Technologies.

 For those of you who have not heard about that company before: REBOL
Technologies (www.rebol.com) is a privately held company that was
founded by Carl Sassenrath, one of the premier developers of AmigaOS.
REBOL Technologies develops and distributes the scripting language
REBOL, a very intuitive programming language and run-time environment
with built-in Internet support and messaging capabilities. REBOL is
available for over 50 computer platforms, AmigaOS being one of them.
The basic version of REBOL is available for free, extensions are
available for license fees.

 Declining revenues from Amiga software sales and increased software
piracy in 1999 finally forced me to look for a full-time job outside
of my own company. Between several job offers I decided to accept the
offer by REBOL for several reasons. The most important one is that in
my opinion REBOL is currently one of the few truly innovative products
in the software market, and with Carl Sassenrath's history with
AmigaOS his company and its product in many ways reflect and represent
the Amiga spirit.

 With my background in AmigaOS and TCP/IP I am excited about the
opportunity to participate in the development of REBOL, in particular
in the improvement of its networking capabilities, the AmigaOS port
and ports for possible Amiga successors.

 I am afraid this new job means that I will no longer be able to work
full-time on my own Amiga software (Miami, Daytona etc.). This does
not mean that the software becomes unsupported or that I am leaving
the Amiga platform though. I intend to still provide updates and
support for existing software, as my time permits. Here are some
details about current plans for my Amiga software:

 - AmiWin: still supported. An update with 24-bit support and a newer
X11R6 kernel is still planned, but unlikely to be ready soon.

 - Daytona and related products: I am afraid Daytona and its planned
extensions have to be cancelled. There are two reasons for this: one
is lack of time: with my new full-time job I have to cut back
somewhere, and doing it on a project that is still in development
seems to be the most reasonable solution. The other reason is a
possible conflict of interests, because Java and REBOL are competitors
in the market of languages for distributed computing, which may make
it unethical for me to remain involved in Java-related software. I
have not yet determined what will happen to the Daytona sources. There
are several options, somewhat restricted by Sun's licensing
conditions, and I will try to find a solution that will somehow still
allow the existing Java VM of Daytona to be released to the Amiga
community, without future involvement or support from me though.

 - Miami: still fully supported. Version 3.3 is planned for release in
the year 2000.

 - Miami Deluxe: fully supported. After several delays and many
improvements the first full release including documentation will
probably be ready before Christmas, and after that development will
continue. Subject to demand the planned improvements for future
versions may include IPv6, IPsec, named, extensions to IP-NAT and
possibly dial-in support.

 - MiamiSSL: fully supported. A new version that incorporates the
latest OpenSSL changes and protocols is planned.

 - MiamiTelnet: fully supported, as part of the Miami Deluxe package.
Telnet encryption and support for running in a shell window are
planned for future versions.

 - ppp.device: still supported, but no new versions are planned. Miami
and Miami Deluxe should be considered successors of ppp.device.

 - ReOrg: not supported at this time. A version with support for NSD
and disks > 4 GB is something I am considering though, time
permitting.

 I will also have to move my residence from Winter Park, Florida to
Ukiah, California, where REBOL headquarters are located. This means my
LAN will have to move as well, including the server that handles Miami
registrations and orders. Because of that there will be some service
outages affecting my Internet presence during the months of December
'99 and possibly January 2000. Please see my separate announcements
about that. On the up side, chances are my LAN will get a DSL
connection in Ukiah, which should provide better reliability and much
faster responses, in particular for mailing lists, than the current
56k connection.

 Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and a successful year 2000.


Holger Kruse
Nordic Global Inc.
kruse@nordicglobal.com
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     C O S A   L A U N C H E S   O P E N   A M I G A   G R O U P

 COSA HEADQUARTERS -- December 22, 1999 -- COSA (the Campaign to
Open-Source AmigaOS) today officially launched it's new sister
project, the Open Amiga Group, at Amigakernel.org.

 The Open Amiga Group has been created, in the spirit of the Christmas
season, to encourage and help developers, by providing a system where
Amiga projects and applications can be openned up to the contributions
of a team of Amiga developers, using the open-source model as a guide.
It is hoped this will lead to the creation of new high-quality Amiga
applications, and to the revival of stalled or abandoned projects,
which could be continued by a team of open-source Amiga programmers.

 Amiga developers will be able to use the Amigakernel.org website to
join existing projects (currently aMozillaX and AROS, with AmigaOS "in
reserve"), or to easily create projects of their own using the forms
available on the Amigakernel.org website.

 Through a variety of mailing lists, the Open Amiga Group will keep
developers who have registered with us informed of the latest projects
that are being set up, and in contact with other developers working on
the same projects. (It is our intention there be a mailing list for
users and a mailing list for developers for each project hosted by the
Open Amiga group.)

 Open-source projects can then either be hosted by Open Amiga using
our own resources - website, mailing list and tools (and the resources
of sourceforge.net), or we can simply provide links and references to
your own websites, mailing lists and tools.

 The Open Amiga project is a natural extention of COSA's charter,
which is to promote open-source within the Amiga community, and to
campaign for the release of the Amiga operating system as open source.
(It should be noted that negotiations with Amiga Inc's Tom Schmidt on
this matter are ongoing.) We also felt it would be wasteful not to
offer the 130 developers who have already registered with COSA as
"probable developers for an open-source AmigaOS" a chance to work on
other projects.

 For more information, or to register as a developer, or register an
existing open-source Amiga project on our pages, please visit
http://www.amigakernel.org to visit the Open Amiga Group's website, or
http://cosa.amigakernel.org for more information on COSA, the Campaign
to Open-Source AmigaOS, and for the latest news on the status of our
negotiations with Amiga Inc.

 In the spirit of this season of co-operation and friendship, we wish
the Amiga community a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May
the millennium mark a turning point in the Amiga's history, where we
finally reap the mainstream attention and respect that our platform
and it's powerful, speedy OS deserve.
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       F R E E   A U C T I O N S   A T   C L I C K B O O M

FREE AUCTIONS FOR EVERYONE
============================

 Starting 16 Dec. 99, and for the next 60 days after, holding an
Auction at clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions is absolutely FREE for everyone!

 There are no limits to what you want to sell, how many Auctions you
want to hold or how long you want them running. Use all three types of
Auctions, use photographs, layouts, all FREE !


GAME AUCTIONS
===============

 But, that's FAR from everything.

 We want you to come every day and check the latest Auctions.

 Every day, for the next 15 days, we will auction one copy of each of
our games!

 The highest bidder takes it, so you can walk away with a brand new
clickBOOM game of your choice for as low as a few dollars !!!


COMPARING CLICKBOOM AMIGA AUCTIONS TO EBAY
==============================================

 Sure, eBay is the name in online auctioning, however, when it comes
to selling Amiga goods, clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions are simply a better
choice:

 1. Amiga Auctions are free !

 2. Auctions held at Amiga Auctions actually have a better selling
rate than eBay !

 3. Amiga Auctions support English and German !

 4. Amiga Auctions have several layout designs to choose from !

 5. At Amiga Auctions you can choose from a list of Amiga hardware
photographs, and having a photo Auction is free !

 6. Amiga Auctions show approximate price in 3 other currencies !

 7. Amiga Auctions are ran by the Amiga community, for the Amiga
community !

 Bidding, of course, as always is free, so come to
http://clickboom.com/auctions and get in on the Auction action.
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   C O S A   R E P S   F O R   G E R M A N Y ,   P O R T U G A L

New COSA Country Contacts for Germany and Portugal

December 7, 1999

 COSA are pleased to announce the creation of two new "country
contacts". Country Contacts are COSA members who have volunteered to
act as representatives for COSA in their home country and provide
translation services.

 There are current two Country Contacts. They are Volker Mohr from
Germany, who runs the Project IMP website, and Rui Manuel, from
Portugal.

 If you speak German (Deutsch) or Portugese (Portuguese), you should
feel free to contact either Volker or Rui and discuss any comments,
questions or suggestions you have about COSA or Open Source with them.
They'll be happy to help you.

 COSA wants to take this time to thank Volker and Rui for their help,
and for providing this valuable service. With their help, COSA is also
to reach out to people in other countries.

 Volker and Rui are also helping to translate the COSA webpages into
German and Portugese, and these translations will be put online when
they are ready. But this is hard work, so why not drop them an e-mail
and thank them? Or offer to help? They'd like to hear from you!

 English-speakers should still feel free to write to me, Steve
Crietzman. I will try my best to respond as quickly as I am able.

 Once again, our thanks to Volker and Rui! Welcome aboard the COSA
Team! :-)

-- Steve, Volker, Rui, and the ever-growing COSA Team

 {NOTE: the story didn't give information on how to contact these
folks. You might start at http://www.savetheamiga.org.uk and work from
there. Brad}
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    C H R I S T M A S   G R E E T I N G S   F R O M   A M I N O

{The following little note was posted to the Team Amiga list by
Amino's Fleecy Moss. We thought it would brighten everyone's week,
whether you have holidays to celebrate or not, so we're including it
here. Brad}

23 Dec 1999

 Fleecy Moss

 ...to everyone here.

Just to let you know that Amino is still working away
at trying to provide a real future for the amiganauts,
and that this list is one of our inspirations, showing that
there is still talent, passion, nutjobs, and fun, and that the
flame of the Amiga is still burning despite the best efforts
of some to put it out.

Happy holidays to all, and here's looking forwards
to a better tomorrow.

Cheers

the three Aminos...
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       A M I G A   F O R E V E R   H O L I D A Y   B U N D L E

 For all Amiga emulation enthusiasts who ever wondered what Workbench
1.0 looked like, or what the late Jay Miner, "Father of the Amiga",
has to say in his own voice about the Amiga and other interesting
issues, Cloanto just released the Amiga Forever Plus Pack, which
contains new Amiga ROM, Workbench and MP3 audio files! The Plus Pack
joins the Amiga Forever family of emulation and support products,
which are officially licensed by Gateway's Amiga companies.

 Only for the next few days, the Online Edition of Amiga Forever 3.0
($29.99 stand-alone) and the Amiga Forever Plus Pack ($14.99) are
available in a special holiday bundle for only $34.99!

 The Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle includes the Amiga Forever Online
Edition package, with its preinstalled Amiga emulation environment
(1.3 and 3.1 Amiga ROM and OS) and the Amiga Explorer networking
software, plus the following new items, which are part of the Plus
Pack:

- Amiga Workbench ADF files v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.04 and 2.1
- Amiga ROM files v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 2.04 (WB 2.1 uses 2.04 ROM)
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 1: Birth of the Amiga
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 2: Computers and Society
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 3: A New Job
- New HTML pages, including instructions to play MP3 audio files

 For download convenience, the items are archived in two files which
can be downloaded separately, also with the help of an optional
download wizard. It is always possible to resume an interrupted
download, or to download the same file again at no additional cost.
The Plus Pack is cross-platform, while Amiga Forever Online Edition is
for Windows systems only.

 The Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle is available now from the Amiga
Forever Home Page at http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/

 The Cloanto Team wishes all Amiga fans great holidays and a very
happy New Year!
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        A M I G A   A C T I V E   D E C E M B E R   I S S U E

26 Nov., 99

 The December 1999 issue of Amiga Active magazine is out now in
newsagents around the UK. Visit our web site (and click the "issues"
button) for more information about what's in this jam-packed issue -
it's definitely one you shouldn't miss, and we're not just saying that
- take a look for yourselves!

 http://www.amigactive.com

 If you can't get hold of Amiga Active locally, you can now order
individual issues to anywhere in the world, direct from the
publisher... read on...

 *** Credit Card Subscriptions and Backissues

 Pinprint Publishing are pleased to announce that credit card
subscriptions to Amiga Active magazine can now be taken out online,
simply by filling in a form. You can also phone us, or send us your
credit card order by post.

 For more information about how you can order individual issues as
well as subscriptions to anywhere in the world via credit card, visit
the web site!

    http://www.amigactive.com
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      A M I G A   C D   M A G A Z I N E   I N   I T A L Y

November 5, 1999

        Softwave Announces a new CD based Amiga Magazine


Dear Amigans,

 My name is Giorgio Signori, and I am the director of Softwave, a new
company born in Italy this summer. I have been writing on the only
Italian Amiga magazine, Enigma Amiga Run, in the past years, and I am
in Amiga environment since years. After years writing for Amiga, I
decided to build up a new company to publish an Amiga-only, CD-based
magazine. After a lot of work, at the Amiga show Softwave was there
with the first issue of Amiga.it, showed during the conference with
Petro Tyschtschenko. After this, we decided to publish Amiga.it, under
the name Amiga.news, also outside Italy. We put much effort in this,
translating, for now, the whole magazine in English. We will show and
sell the first issue of Amiga.news at the next Home Electronics World
of Cologne, on 12-14 November.

 We hope that the public response will be enough to convince us to
keep doing a multi-language magazine also for the next issues. If so,
since the 3rd issue, we will translate it also in German, as many of
you already requested. In the next days in this site will be published
the summary of the first issue.

 But now, some of the highlights of Amiga.news:

 The magazine part count many important writers here in Italy. Editors
like ing. Massimo Gais, system administrator of the Italian Aminet
node and of the Astronomic Observatory of Naples, like ing. Alessio
Cappelli, expert in Amiga and NetBSD environments. People like Massimo
Marino, writer for the biggest selling videogames magazine in Italy,
The Games Machine, and Nick Mordock, experienced Amiga writer since
years. Not to mention Andrea Favini, the 3000+ staff and Laura
Falzone, writers of proved experience.

 The CD part of Amiga.news differs from what we are used to see on the
market. it will not be a simple shareware collection. Of course it
will contain the recent shareware software from month to month, with
index and search function, but it will be thematic. The first issue of
Amiga.it, published only in Italian, had Linux as theme of the month,
with a RedHatPPC distribution and a serie of articles dedicated to
installation of Linux, but not only. Every month a different theme
will fill the CD. I can anticipate that on the issue that will be
presented at Cologne, there will be a much requested Linux68k/RedHat68
distribution, and a special on Star Wars on Amiga.

 I am available for every question, I will be happy to give all the
answers you may need, if you are a user or an Amiga
distributor/reseller. You can find me at the mailbox yurex@tin.it.
Website: http://www.skylink.it/ear

 Giorgio Signori Director of Softwave
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         W I N   W I P E O U T   2 0 9 7   F R O M   A Y P

22 Dec 1999

 Finally our 26,000 hit is almost upon us! (It would have been 25,000
but the Amiga used to update Amiga Yellow Pages broke - OK?)

 To celebrate this great occasion, Amiga Yellow Pages have teamed up
with Amiga retailer FORE-MATT Home Computing to give away a copy of
WipeOut 2097.

 Don't despair if you already own it or don't have the required specs,
because those nice people at FORE-MATT will let you take your pick
from their £30.00 range which includes hits such as Wasted Dreams,
T-Zero and many more. Or even better! you can opt to choose two games
from their £15 pound range, with a choice of Foundation DC, Moonbases,
Pheonix Fighters and many more.

 Take a peep at the FORE-MATT Home Computing advert, on Amiga Yellow
Pages http://ayp.amiga.tm and take your pick. Alternatively why not
download their December catalogue which contains more goodies than the
advert.

 To Win.. Just save the 26000 counter as a gif file and email to A.Y.P

 FORE-MATT Home Computing can also be reached by telephone on: +44
(0)1793 853802. Mon-Fri. or by email to: sales@forematt.idps.co.uk

 Best wishes for the festive season and all the best in the New Year,
from every one at FORE-MATT Home Computing and Amiga Yellow Pages!
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    T U R B O P R I N T   V .   7   N O W   A V A I L A B L E

9 Dec., '99


 NEW: Turboprint 7.09beta2 with new drivers for BJC1000, BJC2000,
BJC6000 and BJC7100 for download is now available! From IrseeSoft

Features in the brand new version 7 are:

 o Interface to Postscript interpreter "GNU Ghostscript" makes every
printer Postscript compatible.

 o Print Postscript and PDF files from the Internet or a CD, improved
quality and speed with many programs like Final Writer, PageStream (24
bit / 16 mio. colours!), TurboCalc or Wordworth.

 o GNU Ghostscript and 35 fonts are included in the package.

 o New GfxText mode: Print scalable Intellifonts with any printer,
print text on printers that support only graphics (e.g. Canon BJC7000,
Epson StylusColor300)!

 o Zoom function in GraphicsPublisher: Magnify the page view as
required, make precise alignment of pictures or work with smaller font
sizes more comfortable.

 o TurboSpool printer spooler can now produce multiple copies in one
go. As a result, output speed in copy mode is drastically improved.

 o New printer drivers

 o Lots of other improvements.

http://www.irseesoft.com/
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   " I M M O R T A L "   -   A M I G A   G A M E   M U S I C   C D

17 Dec 1999

Hello!

 I'm pleased to announce that "Immortal" - The Amiga game music album
has been released and is now available to order from
http://www.monteiro-music.com


 'Immortal' is a music CD featuring some of the best soundtracks ever
composed for Amiga games. Includes the full soundtrack from "Shadow of
the Beast", as well as the best music from "Superfrog", "Turrican",
"Space Station 3000", "Utopia", "Harlequin" and other all-time great
Amiga games.

 The CD also includes a 3D rendered video clip, allusive to the theme
of the album.

 For more information, please visit our website at
http://www.monteiro-music.com


All the best,

Ruben Monteiro
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                 A U D I O L A B S   O F F E R

December 1999:

 To celebrate the last ProStationAudio release of this millennium,
AudioLabs is offering, until December 27th 1999, the fresh new
ProStationAudio v2.50 with a special discount.

 When ordering before the deadline, you can get v2.50 for US$299
instead of US$395.

 Starting January, AudioLabs will expand the ProStationAudio family of
products for AmigaOS with the hi-end ProStationAudio Millennium. The
new version, among other features, includes 32 channel support on the
timeline, by handling 16 stereo tracks.

http://www.audiolabs.it
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 " F R E E S P A C E "   C O M I N G   T O   A M I G A

15 Dec., '99

 Hyperion is pleased to announce it has acquired a license from
Interplay to port Volition's best-selling space-combat simulator
"(Descent) Freespace: The Great War" to the Amiga.

 System-requirements include PPC processor (WarpOS), graphics-card
(AGA under review) and 32 MB RAM with full support of 3D accelerators
through Warp3D. A 68060 version is not ruled out but would most likely
require 3D acceleration. The game is tentatively slated for release
early Q2 2000 and will be published by Titan Computers.
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     " I N F R A B O X "   -   I N F R A R E D   C O N T R O L

7 Dec., '99

 HILVERSUM, The Netherlands - Amiga developer
 Leon Woestenberg is pleased to announce that
 the infrared tranceiver hardware called
 InfraBox for Amiga computers is now
 available.

 Together with the freely available InfraRexx
 and InfraFace software, it allows Amiga
 users to use their Amiga's for infrared
 remote control. Users can control their
 consumer electronics such as Compact Disc
 players, video cassette recorders, tuners,
 television sets etc. from the Amiga
 Workbench. Or, from any other application
 that supports ARexx or the
 infraremote.library that comes with
 InfraFace.

 Also, in the other direction, Amiga
 applications can be controlled using a
 consumer electronics remote commander.

 The InfraBox, InfraRexx and InfraFace
 products further enhances the Amiga's
 strength in the field of multimedia and
 system interconnectivity.

 The author has been developing infrared
 remote control applications for the Amiga
 since 1994, and is dedicated to support
 Amiga, AmigaOS and Amiga users well beyond
 the current millenium into a next exciting
 era of computing.

 Leon Woestenberg,
 InfraRexx and InfraFace author, InfraBox
 hardware designer

 InfraBox support website:
 http://www.esrac.ele.tue.nl/~leon/infrabox/
 InfraFace support website:
 http://www.esrac.ele.tue.nl/~leon/infraface/
 InfraRexx support website:
 http://www.esrac.ele.tue.nl/~leon/infrarexx/
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            M K / 2   K E Y B O A R D   A D A P T E R

10 Dec., '99

 This model is specifically for the Amiga 2000 and 3000.

 Need a new keyboard for your Amiga? Find out its next to impossible
to get them anymore? How about a mouse? Same deal, and you cannot just
plug in one of those common PS/2 devices that you would find at your
common PC shop.. until now..

 The InsertMK/2 adapter will adapt a PS/2 mouse AND a PS/2 keyboard to
your Amiga 1200, 2000, 3000 4000 (* adapters needed for 1200/4000 *)

 Plug a PS/2 mouse and keyboar dinto this small 6x6x3cm box, then plug
the cables from the box into your keyboard adn you are set.

 The Amiga keys are now mapped to the Winodws keys on your standard
104-key Windows keyboard. The extra keys can be specifically
programmed with software at a later date

 The mouse adapter is unique. You can use a standard PS/2 mouse
(Logitech, Genius, Microsoft, etc..) and even one with a scroller
wheel. The whell is mapped to the up/down cursor keys. Its quite cool
to scroll through a webpage in your browser this way. :)

 They are also flash upgradable. Meaning any changes and upgrades
needed in the future can be performed with a simple flash upgrade
(just like a flash BIOS on a PC)

 This product is now in testing and is scheduled for release in late
December 1999. In the mean time, we need to know how many parts to
order to start assembly with!

 Dealer and distributor enquiries for quantity pricing is welcomed.
60.84 USD $89.95 CAD

Other Related Items:
· MK/2 Keyboard Adapter for Amiga 1200 (2000/3000)
· MK/2 Keyboard Adapter for Amiga 4000 (2000/3000)

Contact Us:

URL  : http://www.nationalamiga.com/
Sales Questions
Technical Support
Phone: +1-519-858-8760
Fax: +1-519-858-8762
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       A E M A I L   V .   2 . 2 0   N O W   A V A I L A B L E

16 Dec., '99

 AEMail Version 2.20 is now available. It can be obtained from AmiNet
or my web page:

 http://www.calweb.com/~jzachar/

 My web page is probably the best source for the AEMail archive since
it is "up to the minute". With AmiNet, it can take some time for the
archive to be replicated to the various mirror sites.

 AEMail Version 1.51 is a minor upgrade that corrects some last minute
bugs found after Version 1.50 was released. It also adds an additional
ARexx script "Addtogrp.aem" to the ARexx directory.

 AEMail Version 2.20 is a major revision of AEMail. This version has
restructured the Menus in AEMail providing a separate menu for
ARexx/DOS commands. It also allows you to call ARexx or DOS commands
from a menu list in addition to the function keys. The ARexx/DOS menu
has also been added to the "Edit and save message line to clipboard;
set ARexx variable" requester.

 AEMail Version 2.20 now also allows you to re-arrange your folder
lists and has added the "Move..." menu item to the Folders menu.
Additional edits have also been added when creating new folders to
prevent assigning illegal names to the folders. Any folder containing
the special characters :, \, or / are illegal as well as the name
"folder".

 The folder strip when, it extends beyond the visable window, is now
correctly displayed on systems using display boards and CyberGraphX
software. Previous versions displayed garbage in that part of the
folder strip when it was moved into the visable portion of the window.
Also, instead of specifying a display mode in the Configuration
Edit/General Page, you can select a clone of the workbench display
mode. Whatever you have selected as the display mode for the workbench
(from the Preferences/Display Mode setting) will be used for the
display mode for AEMail.

 Mime attachments that use the "multipart/alternative" mime
type/subtype are now correctly handled. This mime type/subtype is
widely used in the Macintosh and PC world. Also, headers using
Quoted-Printable notation are correctly handled.

 AEMail Version 2.20 also corrects some bugs found in Version 2.01.

 A complete list of new features, changes and the bugs corrected with
version 2.20 is given at the end of the AEMail.readme file. The readme
file is given in the AEMail archive and can also be found on my web
site which can be displayed with a browser.

 With the release of Version 2.00 at the Amiga '99 show in March of
this year, AEMail now utilizes ClassAct which has become part of the
new Amiga OS 3.5. The ClassAct Classes required are included with the
archive for OS Versions before 3.5. Amiga OS 3.5 includes the required
classes as part of the OS.

 For those of you with a version of AEMail prior to 2.00, AEMail no
longer automatically sends the special "Notification" message when you
send your first message. Instead, when you first load the new version
of AEMail a special requester will appear asking if you want to send
the notification message for updates and giving you the ability to
select what information you want to send. You can cancel this message,
but if you do, the requester will appear each time you load AEMail. Tf
you are a registered user and you cancel, you will be given the
opportunity to suppress the message the next time you load AEMail. For
unregistered users the requester will appear each time you load AEMail
whether or not you send the notification or cancel.

 The installation script also had been completely re-written starting
with AEMail 2.00 to allow you to create multiple icons for multiple
users of AEMail. Please read the INSTALL.TXT document before
attempting to install this version of AEMail.

Thanks,

John
====

From: John Zacharias
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           M I C R O D O T   I I   1 . 3   V E R S I O N

 Microdot-II is an integrated email and news program, using the same
familiar interface to to integrate news, mail and mailing lists 'as
one', performing real threading of email or news correspondence to
make it easier to follow conversations between multiple people.

 Under development for some time by Oliver Wagner, Microdot-II 1.0 was
released in the NetConnect v2 package from Active Technologies.
Updated beta versions have been available to the public in beta form
for some time, and version 1.3 has just been released.

 Microdot-II is easy to use for the novice user, with the most common
functions assigned to toolbar buttons at the bottom of each window.
These toolbars are fully configurable for the power user, and may be
set up to perform any function they like, including the use of ARexx
functions from Microdot-II's large function base.

 Please remember, Microdot-II is shareware. If you use it, please
register the software and help support Amiga software development.

 Download Microdot-II now, and try out the Amiga's professional email
and news client.

 There is a Microdot-II Mailing List run by VaporWare for users to
discuss the software. Please feel free to sign up for it, your
question may be answered there.

Features

   o Easy to use!
   o Powerful filtering system
   o Multiple POP Accounts
   o Full PGP support
   o High speed message database
   o User-configurable buttons
   o User-configurable shortcuts

   o Interaction with other Vaporware programs
      o Voyager - email
      o AmIRC - notification
   o ARexx Port
   o Flexible sorting of messages
   o Fully supports Contact Manager

http://www.vapor.com/
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          M E T A L W E B   4 . 0   P R E R E L E A S E   2

17 Dec., '99

MetalWEB 4.0 Prerelease 2
=========================

 MetalWeb is the first WYSIWYG HTML editor for AmigaOS. The philsophy
behind the software is that you should not need to understand HTML in
order to create pages within MetalWEB. You can create web pages via a
DTP style editor or the 'old way' via a tabbed, coloured text based
source window. Indeed, like the award-winning Dreamweaver you can
open both the edit and source window, work within one of the windows,
whilst the other window updates, automagically!


 Programmer: Pedro Luis 'MultitasK' Mieza
 <multitaskers@retemail.es>
 <multitask@vapor.com>

 Co-Programmer: Josep 'MetalGear' Rubiralta
 <pep-multitask@retemail.es>

 Even better, highlight an area (ie. some text) within the editor
window, and the specific HTML source is updated concurrently.

 MetalWeb also ships with a MetalMap module, allowing you to create
advanced imagemaps, via an easy to use interface.

 Please don't use a pirated copy :(.

New Features:
=============

    - Memory Use Reduced a lot (Requires 2 megs aprox)
    - Drag'n'drop keep out
    - Cursor to edit text as a DTP editor
    - Mark option enable to cut, copy and paste
    - New Imagemap Editor
            now it's an external program linked by arexx commands
    - Speedbar.mcc
    - TearOff.mcc
    - TextInput.mcc
    - Nlist.mcc
    - New Source Editor.
            With coloured html tags.
    - Cut, Copy, Paste to clipboard.
    - New WYSIWYG <-> Source
    - Single edit window
    - New Colourtext Class
    - Visual Size image edition
    - Visual Size table edition
    - Wordwrap


Features:
=========

    - Support most important HTML tags
    - WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
    - Easy Graphic Interface
    - Use datatypes to see pictures
    - No HTML knowledge
    - FRAMES support!
    - HTML 3.2 parser
    - Direct edition on final window
    - Metatools editor
    - Complete Documentation (comming separately "metalweb_docs.lha")
    - Embed object soported
    - Source edition
    - Recent files option
    - Print Source
    - Easy WYSIWYG Imagemap edition!
    - Arexx Commands
    - Resize Images supported
    - Font Colors
    - Font Size
    - Horizontal Bars support
    - Bold, Italic, and Underline on direct edition!
    - Basic TABLE Support
    - MetalWEB could be linked with Amiga best browsers using Arexx



Metalmap 1.0 features:
======================

    - Imagemap can be loaded/saved in HTML format ready to be added
        on your HTML documents.
    - Supports Rectangles, Polygons and Circles.
    - WYSIWYG
    - Arexx
    - Speedbar.mcc



System Requirements:
====================

    Minimum:
        - 2MB of free memory
        - 68000 processor
        - ECS
        - MUI 3.8

    Recommended:
        - 4MB of free memory
        - Hard drive
        - 68060 processor
        - Workbench 3.0
        - Gfx card
        - MUI 3.8
        - PPC Card with PPC datatypes



 To get more information about MetalWEB and another Multitaskers
projects please visit:

    http://www.earthcorp.com/multitask
    http://personal3.iddeo.es/multitaskers
	http://www.vapor.com/metalweb

There is also a mailing list devoted to discussing MetalWEB specific
issues; please see

    http://www.vapor.com/lists/


Or ask me by email:

    multitask@earthcorp.com
    	or
    multitask@vapor.com


Enjoy it!
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        M I L L E N N I U M   F O R   T H E   T O A S T E R

11 Dec., '99


Nova Design and Newtek Announce Availability of Millennium

The Millennium is Here!

 Millennium for the Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer is here now. It's
extremely cool, it's wildly powerful, and it will give your Toaster
and Toaster/Flyer amazing new powers to help you make your work look
better than ever before!

 The Millennium package is presented by Newtek and has been produced
by Nova Design, Inc. in cooperation with all prominent Toaster/Flyer
developers. It is not to be missed.

What's Inside

 Millennium is not merely a single package. It is a collection of
software, scripts, effects, fonts, backgrounds, and other content
designed to update your Video Toaster and Flyer dramatically.
Millennium was designed to be the largest, most comprehensive, upgrade
you could put on your system. Millennium is for the Toaster owner as
well as the Flyer owner.

 You'll find some old favorites are now part of the Millennium
package. Some packages you will be familiar with and some will be
brand new to you. Some existing packages have been upgraded
significantly for the Millennium release and some have been made
Toaster-friendly and Flyer-friendly as well. Here is a list of what
you will find in Millennium.

 o Wipe Studio - You may be familiar with the 'lite' version-but this
is the complete package! Use it to create your own wipes and effects
for the Toaster and Flyer.

 o RenderFX - Upgraded for Millennium, this package allows you to
render your FlyerClip sequences down to a new FlyerClip. You can then
layer more video, CG, and effects for a far more impressive
production.

 o Flyer Utilities - Includes utilities for converting Toaster wipes
between 3.x and 4.x formats, Undeleting FlyerClips, Timecoding and
much more.

 o ProMix - Also upgraded for Millennium, this package provides audio
tools to let you add audio to video, import/export audio formats, add
audio to FlyerClips and animations, and more.

 o Fast Frames - Allows you to 'Toasterize' your Video Flyer by
pre-recording CG sequences, Framestore montages, and create flying CG
effects and more.

 o Fast Fuel - Adds video deck control to the Toaster/Flyer interface
for automatic clip recording.

 o Electric Scene Knife - This can save you literally hours of work.
The Knife can take a FlyerClip and automatically find the different
scenes within it, mark them, and even offer to cut them into separate
FlyerClips for you.

 o Flyer Backup - A script based system that can backup your actual
FlyerClips to a hard drive or to removable media.

 o CGPilot - The famous CG ARexx scripts that automate many time
consuming CG tasks.

 o Toaster Wipes and Effects - There are hundreds of these and most
are available for both Toaster 3.x and 4.x so both Toaster and Flyer
owners can use them. These include wedding wipes, fire wipes, basic
animated wipes, cool soft gradient wipes, and fully rotoscoped motion
matte wipes.

 o MegFX - 41 Flyer-project croutons, which produce real-time
dual-stream split-screen effects and real-time layer-mixed dual-stream
effects directly in Flyer projects.

 o Backgrounds - Hundreds of full color, professionally drawn,
backgrounds for you to use in your CG pages or in ToasterPaint.

 o Control Tower - Adds tons of new effects and macros to your Flyer
 system.

 o Full motion backgrounds - FlyerClips of animated scenes, fire, and
more. You can use these with your Flyer for CG backgrounds or as
royalty-free stock footage.

 There are many other features of Millennium. We've really just
touched the surface of all the tools and content that are included in
Millennium to make your Toaster and Flyer more productive for you.
Millennium also includes hundreds of new ARexx commands for scripting,
programmer's manuals for the ProMix and RenderFX tools and more.

The package will include three CDROMs filled with wipes, effects, fonts,
backgrounds, software and more; full printed documentation, a video tape
containing demos of the package, tutorials, and promotions for other
Toaster/Flyer products.

Check this out!

 Millennium is available from your favorite Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer
reseller. The suggested resale price is only $349.95 and you can order
now!

 This upgrade is the largest-ever for the Toaster and the
Toaster/Flyer. Order today!

 For more information or to order Millennium for the Amiga
Toaster/Flyer directly, you can call 1-800-462-4369 Monday-Friday or
fax at (804) 282-3768.

 You can also find information, and screenshots, on Newtek's web site
and Nova Design, Inc.'s web sites at http://www.newtek.com/ and
http://www.novadesign.com/ on the Internet.

Welcome...the new Millennium!
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               N O T   M U C H   T I M E   L E F T ! !

17th December 1999
For Immediate Release

 Due to the huge success of the 5th anniversary special offer, it has
now been extended until December 25th. Paul Nolan would like to thank
those who have purchased Photogenics for their support, and wishes
everyone a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

 For those who missed the sale details, they are as follows. Paul
Nolan is offering the full version of Photogenics 4.x at a 25%
discount. This brings the price down from $99.99 - to $75, or just $65
if upgrading from a previous version of Photogenics. The special is
only available direct from Paul Nolan Ltd, either online at
http://www.PaulNolan.com, or the StarByte order hotline on 1 800 243
1515, extension 400. Callers outside of North America should prefix
this with their international dialling code for the US (for example
dial 00 1 800 243 1515 from the UK).
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             S E C O N D S P I N   F O R   M P E G S

11 Dec., '99

 SecondSpin is a fully working freeware project to give the complete
conversion sollution to mpeg audio. It's mainly meant to help you to
make perfect mp3 files easily with your amiga, but it's also able to
decode mpeg audio back to aiff files to be burnt back to a cd.

 The program is already almost 100% to completed and is currently in
heavy betatesting stage in order to make it commercial quality. It's
really absolutely free and will always be so. The current release can
be downloaded at many unofficial places, like the one here plus the
docs are online here to give you some impression of what to come. I'v
decided to put online some kind of online forum to help us all to
discuss about SecondSpin. If you've got good ideas, what approach
should we use, please contact me

 o will easily convert audiocds (CDDA) to mpeg audio files or
additionally only leech the tracks as aiff files.

 o will also easily convert your existing AIFF or WAV files to mpeg
audio

 o also converts mpeg files back to AIFF for general use.

 o outputs mpeg audio layers 1, 2 (mono/stereo/j-stereo and 3
(mono/stereo/j-stereo) with bitrates of 320, 256, 192, 160, 128, 112,
96, 64, 32, 24, 16, 8 kbps

 o a full fontsensitive and easy GUI

 o supports all amigas (with or without fpu) as well as amigas
equipped with a ppc.

 o supports www.cddb.com, so it's able to fetch track information from
the site.

 o fully localized

Contact:  second.spin@pp.inet.fi / lauri.ahonen@pp.inet.fi
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               S I M O N   T H E   S O R C E R E R   2

20 Dec., '99

 Yeah!!! that`s right Simon the Sorcerer 2 is finally being released
on the Amiga, and about time too.

 Reserve your copy now. There will be a limited number manufactured -
So chances are if you don`t reserve your copy, you won`t get one.

 Simon the Sorcerer 2 - This isn't just any old 'Child in fantasyland'
story. For starters, no other kids have to put up with useless old
wizards, unattractive heroines, baddies that simply don't know when to
stay dead and being the last one in school to discover puberty.

 Armed with a pointy hat (stupid looking), a pony tail (even more
stupid looking) and a tendency to irritate people twice his size,
Simon returns in this action packed sequel which promises to be more
entertaining, amusing and fun than any other adventure of it's type
(allegedly). It's amazing the sort of rubbish you can read on these
sales leaflets. `s right Simon the Sorcerer 2 is finally being
released on the Amiga, and about time too.

 Reserve your copy now. There will be a limited number manufactured -
So chances are if you don`t reserve your copy, you won`t get one.

 Simon the Sorcerer 2 - This isn't just any old 'Child in fantasyland'
story. For starters, no other kids have to put up with useless old
wizards, unattractive heroines, baddies that simply don't know when to
stay dead and being the last one in school to discover puberty.

 Armed with a pointy hat (stupid looking), a pony tail (even more
stupid looking) and a tendency to irritate people twice his size,
Simon returns in this action packed sequel which promises to be more
entertaining, amusing and fun than any other adventure of it's type
(allegedly).


 So stop hanging around looking blankly at your monitor, like a total
anorak. Order the game! Who knows, you might even enjoy it.

 Technical Specs:

 * Fall a long way and go 'splat!

 * Meet pirates and take the mickey out of them!

 * Puke until your shoes are full!

 * Admire the pseudo-gothic architecture!



              Epic Club CARD Holders, Reserve your copy for £25

              Not a Club CARD Holder? Reserve your copy for £30

            Specs: 030 or better AGA or GFX Card  8 meg of memory

 Reserve your copy with Credit/Debit card - No money will be taken
until day of release.

                      Estimated release date: Feb 2000*

//www.epicmarketing.ltd.net/amiga/newpage/cd960.html
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            N E T I N F O   2 . 5   A V A I L A B L E

20 Dec., '99

From VaporWare

 NetInfo-II is a network information viewer utility. It integrates the
functionality of the well known standalone Traceroute, Ping, Whois and
Finger programs into one seamless GUI application.

 Instead of gathering the information about a host and the Internet
route to it manually, you just enter a hostname and click Start.
NetInfo-II does the rest for you!

Features

 o "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick succession to
get a route overview very fast, then does accurate timings for the
individual hops

 o graphical display of hop min/last/max timings

 o integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on a IP, Host or
Network column to automatically receive WHOIS information for the
given object. NetInfo determines the WHOIS host to query.

 o automatically retrieves WHOIS network information for hosts

 o automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP server
versions

 o history for all queried hosts

 o integrated FINGER client

 o integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache

http://www.vapor.com/products/
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