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guardamy.lha         comm/www   217K+V1.01 Watch web pages for changes (BUGFI
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LittelComp.lha       dev/lang    18K+LITTEL language v0.13b MAJOR update!!
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iron_maiden.lha      docs/hyper 136K+Iron Maiden Guide V2.7
GamesLists.lha       docs/rview  30K+37 (!!!) lists of Amiga games
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SetupIOBlixUpd.lha   hard/drivr  45K+IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 setup program bu
CSPPC233Fix.lha      hard/misc   13K+Workaround for CSPPC/233 hardware bug
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JMG_Icons.lha        pix/nicon   83K+Icons package (GlowIcon format)
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PCD-DT.lha           util/dtype 132K+Datatype for Photo-CD Images (43.12)
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• Adventure: e.g. Black Dawn, MadHouse, Legend of Elves, Sheperd
• Arcade: e.g. Blitz Bombers, Sneech, Deconstruction, Blob Kombat
• Classic: e.g. Deluxe Galaga, Deluxe Pacman, Zaxxon, Popeye, Donky Kong
• Platform: e.g. Diamond Caves, FaYoh, Santa&Rudolph, Wizzys Quest
• Puzzle: e.g. UChess, Powerball, Tetriz, Dr.Mario, HiltTiles2SE
• Racing: e.g. Aerial Racers, Screech AGA, Monaco, DreamCars
• Shoot em ups: e.g. Alien Bash2, Zombie Apocalypse, MegaTyphoon, Scorched Tanks
• Workbench: u.a. ASobokan, WBomber, InvaderZ, 4inaRow

• Errors while formatting Amiga DD/HD disks - fixed
• Crashed with Buddha Flash - fixed
• detection of Catweasel Z-II S-class

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rNO-L013.lha         mods/misc  928K+Rno-label release no.13 by zubspace (eas
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af-warrior.lha       mods/techn 1.1M+DBM 6ch ->Acid Frog<- acid 148bpm
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Figaro.lha           mods/voice 239K+Wiener Lied by R.KAPP
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mpdecode.lha         mus/edit    16K+MP3 to AIFF decoder (multiple files)
mtrs_v2_demo.lha     mus/edit    88K+8-TRACK (and more) HardDiskRecorder MTRS
GMP-G.lha            mus/midi   121K+GUI for GMPlay V1.3(a)
Med2Xm-GUI.lha       mus/misc   116K+GUI for Fileformatconverter Med2Xm
samplecruncher.lha   mus/misc    21K+Samplescruncher - Sample distortion usin
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AmigaAMP.lha         mus/play   421K+MPEG audio player with GUI (68k/PPC)
Amoralplay1.4b.lha   mus/play   107K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   196K+Finally!Modplayer with AmigaAmpSkins!
Prayer2.lha          mus/play   347K+MPEG audio player with fancy GUI and mor
9erPool.lha          pix/3dani  1.2M+Animation (FLC) of a Poolshot by MadMan
TopFun.lha           pix/anim   914K+1200 FPS Anims on 030??  AGA/ECS by Olly
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MuSetCacheMode.lha   util/boot   93K+MMU tree adjustment tool for experts
ASCIITable.lha       util/cdity  18K+Gives codes of all Amiga character set
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GetSize_dt.lha       util/cdity  13K+German catalog for GetSize v1.0
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r.lha                util/cli    43K+V1.50 Just in time GUIs for every DOS co
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easyconvert.lha      util/conv   14K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
AmyTree23b.lha       util/dir   281K+Graphics Tree Browser Free!
FM30B23_HU.lha       util/dir     6K+Hungarian locale for FileMaster 3.0 2.3
ilbmdt44.lha         util/dtype   8K+Improved ilbmdt (44.20)
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Miggy1ENG001.lha     util/misc   10K+Better artificial intelligence - Olly
Passy.lha            util/misc   88K+Nice and simple Password Protection 
PW_RecentHU.lha      util/misc    3K+Hungarian catalog for Power Recent 4.00
VisualGuide.lha      util/misc   21K+Make filelist in AmigaGuide format.
ShowMem.lha          util/moni   13K+Shows memory fragmentation via gfx
XPKatana.lha         util/pack  104K+XPK (un)packer with complete GUI, ARexx 
cliped112a.lha       util/rexx    5K+Edit Arexx internal cliplist from GUI
RexxMathLib.lha      util/rexx   21K+Faster & shorter math support for ARexx.
ShellScr.lha         util/shell 120K+Devote a whole screen to your shell
68040Lib.lha         util/sys   118K+A MuLib aware 68040.library
PoolMem.lha          util/sys    71K+Memory defragmentizer/AllocP superset
RAWBInfo.lha         util/sys    18K+ReAction based icon information (1.5)
bitime.lha           util/time   13K+V1.76;Swatch Beat,auto DST,alarms,clock,
DRemind.lha          util/time   94K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.51!
DRemind_HU.lha       util/time    7K+Hungarian (magyar) catalog for DRemind 1
Safe.lha             util/virus  25K+Best new linkviruses detector v11.7
VirusZ.lha           util/virus 191K+VirusZ II 1.45 & VirusZ III 0.93a 
DefIcons44.lha       util/wb     12K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.1)
OpenDrawers.lha      util/wb      3K+Opens drawers on wbstartup for you (1.0)
outlinefont12.lha    util/wb      5K+Draws outline/shadow on WB icon text
ProcessIcon.lha      util/wb     18K+V1.16 CLI tool to manipulate icon data
Scalos-ECM.lha       util/wb     15K+Scalos 'Execute Command' Replacement
TweakWB12.lha        util/wb     71K+Great WB 3.5 commodity, deficons, MWB ic
wbthemes.lha         util/wb    370K+Theme for Workbench, like Dopus

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        P A X T R O N   B O U G H T   B Y   C E N T S I B L E

               G A T E W A Y   A N D   A O L   D E A L

               O S   3 . 5   A V A I L A B L E   N O W

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

                    A M I G A   2 K   N E W S

         R E P O R T   -   I W I N   R E S U R F A C E S

                    L A T E S T   O N   I W I N

         O P E N   S O U R C E   G R O U P   A C T I V E

         O P E N   L E T T E R   T O   T H E   P R E S .

                      P R O J E C T   I M P

  U P D A T E   O N   " A M I N O   -   T H E   C O M P A N Y "

  A M I G A   P R O D U C T   P L A C E M E N T   S E R V I C E

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

          O P U S   M A G E L L A N   A T   C O L O G N E

 N O V A   D E S I G N   D I S T R I B U T O R   F O R   O Z ,   N Z

                D I G I T A L   A L M A N A C   I I

       A W E B   3 . 2   T O   3 . 3   U P D A T E   P A T C H

                E L B O X   P R O D U C T   N E W S

                        B O X E R   N E W S

                        Q N X   U P D A T E

                    I M A G E F X   R E B A T E

                   H & P   A N D   I M A G E F X

          H & P   R E L E A S E   D E V E L O P E R   C D

            N E W   P I C A S S O   9 6   V E R S I O N

     A   N E W   A M I G A   S T O R E   I S   L A U N C H E D

                       U N I T Y   B O A R D

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

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

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 The big Home Electronics World show has come and gone (November 12 -
14, in Cologne, Germany), and there were interesting items for Amiga
users. Amiga International had their large booth set up, and seemed to
generate a fair amount of interest. We weren't there, but are told
Petro Tyschtschenko was (almost) as upbeat as ever. However,
reflecting reality, there were fewer vendors than last year. The mood
was reportedly less positive, but that seemed to be based mainly on
there being no clear direction to the future, not fears of an imminent
death of the Amiga market.
 The folks at Haage & Partner demonstrated a 400 Mhz G3 Power PC
board, based on the IBM CHRP spec. It also featured PCI and AGP slots.
There are rumors a native PPC based AmigaOS port is being considered
for this board. If so, that's the most realistic possibility for a
future Amiga system we've seen yet. We understand the board was
presented as a development system though, not as a future Amiga.
However, and perhaps very significantly, Petro T. is quoted in an
article about HEW on the amiga.org website as stating "My first
priority now is to convert the OS to the PowerPC." Indications are
that Haage & Partner are willing to do the conversion. Is Amiga
willing to license it, providing the formal approval to call it Amiga?
We don't know, but feel this would be important to keep developers
focused, instead of trying to cover many different future
possibilities and spreading themselves too thinly.
 If CHRP can be abandoned in order to bring down the price of a PPC
board, then the future looks even better for a PPC system. There are
indications that this could become possible, with IBM leading the way
to a less expensive PPC standard. As we hear more about possible Amiga
PPC futures, we'll let you know.
 The Met@Box (AmiJoeG3) G3 Board for the A1200 was also demonstrated
at the Cologne Show. This is a PowerPC based accelerator, which does
not sport a 68K co-processor.
 Also of interest was the Unity Net Ethernet card. We've a story on
that product below.
 Finally, once again there was no BoXeR Computer to be seen, or so
we've been told.

 Over at Deja.com, a poll is being held on the most popular operating
system. Looks like the voting may be in several stages on different
features. Regardless, when we checked in Amiga OS was actually leading
the voting! It was way ahead of MonopolySoft's Windoze, and even ahead
of Linux. Most interesting and yes, it left me with a very smug
feeling.
 And, despite the current situation in the Amiga market, there's a lot
for you to read in this issue. We hope you enjoy it.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:


19 Oct 1999

Brad ,

 Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you do to publish
this newsletter to all of us die hard Amiga Fans, I am truly sorry to
hear what Gateway has done to this fine machine. I just wonder what
the cutoff point for that company was, all that money, time and effort
just to throw it away when they were close to releasing the next OS ,
and all the other interesting B.S info they leaked to the press.

 But as Any Modern Day Technical Guru , I own Amigas , Mac's and PC's
, I use all the Operating Systems, Linux 6x , BeOS ,Amiga OS ,
winblows 95/98/nt/2k whatever, I try not to bash each OS for what it
Cant do, just appreciate all that they can do... But I will never Ever
Buy anything gateway again for what they have done...

Iceman.
~~~~~~
Iceman,
 A lot of us have tried to figure out what Gateway was trying to
accomplish and how things ended up as they did. I personally believe
it was a combination of loss of nerve in the face of Microsoft, and
internal Gateway corporate politics. Sad to say but many far reaching
decisions have been made with even less reasoning. The bottom line is
simply - will the company stay profitable?
 As you, I will not buy anything Gateway made at this point. Thanks
for the kind words!
 Regards,
 Brad
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5 Nov 1999

Hi Brad
    I have appreciated this resource of amiga news, please keep up the
excellent work. But, I have a question about one of the statements you made
a couple of months ago. It was in response to another readers letter and
concerned other attempts to revive the amiga other than the official Amiga
company. You stated that you didn't think that it was appropriate for this
news-letter to cover the other attempts to revive the Amiga such as the
A.R.P. or the work at QNX. Why not? Doesn't this put all your eggs into one
basket? And also is this the only feasible way that the best solution to
reviving the Amiga will be attained?

Thanks - Jim
~~~~~~
Jim,
 First, my apologies for shortening your letter, but space
considerations made that necessary.
 You ask a very good question. What I had to do to your letter points
to the answer - we just don't have the space to cover all the
permutations out there. We also don't have the staff or the time. I
wish we did. What we will do is cover the Amiga itself, whatever that
might be going forward, until such time as it seems appropriate to
drop the Amiga entirely in favor of something else - if that ever
happens. (If we do get to that point, we'll share the decision with
you, the readers.)
 We will also cover whatever looks to us to be the leading efforts in
the "alternative Amigas" field. And finally, we will also cover to
some extent significant events in all Amiga related areas, where these
events seem to have some real promise for the Amiga community. This is
a pretty complicated mission statement, but we've actually been doing
this for some time and it seems to be working. I have no doubt we
could miss something significant along the way but we'll try to avoid
that. If we do, I'm pretty sure some readers will call our attention
to the event, and we'll then try to get the word to the rest.
 Regards,
 Brad
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19 Oct 1999

 While in St Louis last March conversing with Petro, it was stated by
him that, "the shipment of containers from Quikpak of the remaining
parts had been received and inspected. It contained less than 2 dozen
usable 4000 motherboards." Now this was casual conversation between 4
of us, but I have no reason to doubt it's truthfullness. Petro did
make it possible for me to launch the CDTV 3.1 upgrade project, and
that was all verbal between him and me in March of 98.

Ben Deemer "thedoctor" not MD.
~~~~~~
Ben,
 Thanks for answering Mike's question from a previous issue.
 It's very disappointing there weren't more resources available for
making A4000s - I suspect Amiga could still sell quite a few.
 Regards,
 Brad
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19 Oct 1999

    There used to be a document on the Amiga Inc. web page
concerning Y2K issues with the Amiga.  I haven't been there in quite a
while, so I don't know if it's still there.  If it's not still there,
I'm sure there are plenty who know all the gritty details.  But...
    As far as I can remember, Workbench will have no trouble, but
AmigaDOS itself doesn't handle four digit dates.  You might get
invalid date stamps on files.  Hopefully the guys at H&P have
addressed this in OS 3.5 or working on it for 3.6(?).
 As for the RTC {Real Time Clock, we presume. Brad}, that's another
issue. As I recall, the document stated that the RTC found in the
A2000 is not Y2K compliant. The only possible fix is a software patch
to the OS.

Carlos
~~~~~~
Carlos,
 The Y2k page is still available at amiga.com, and has a link right
off the first page after the home page. Anyone with Y2K questions
should refer to that document for information. We didn't notice
anything in particular about the A2000, but the different versions of
the operating system, the clocks, etc., have different considerations.
 Thanks for your help in answering a reader's question.
 Regards,
 Brad
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        P A X T R O N   B O U G H T   B Y   C E N T S I B L E

28 Oct 1999

{Posted to the net by Bill Griffin. Thanks, Bill}

 Centsible Software has just recently bought out Paxtron. Right now,
they are in the midst of moving all the inventory from New Jersey to
Berrien Springs, Michigan. It should take about 2-3 weeks to get it
all sorted, catalogued counted, etc. After that, things should be back
in full swing from the new location.

 In the meantime, if you have any queries or parts needs, you can
Email Scott (the owner of Centsible Software) at support@centsible.com
{Note: since obtaining this information, we have been informed
"Paxtron" has dropped all Amiga support. We have not yet confirmed
this. Brad}
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               G A T E W A Y   A N D   A O L   D E A L

 On October 20, CNET News ran a story by Jim Davis and Michael
Kanellos detailing an agreement reached by Gateway and America On
Line.
 The deal will bring an $800 investment in Gateway from AOL. AOL
becomes the Internet service for Gateway customers, and the backbone
of Gateway.net.
 The following quote from the story should be of interest to Amigans:

 " Many observers have speculated that hardware companies will have to
hook up with service providers to make money on appliances. Under the
new alliance, Gateway will begin to market devices for the "AOL
Anywhere" strategy.

 'There's clearly a possibility that Amiga will play a part in this
marketplace,'" according to Jeff Weitzen, chief operating officer of
Gateway.
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           O S   3 . 5   A V A I L A B L E   N O W

18. October 1999:

     AmigaOS 3.5 is available !!!

 The delivery of AmigaOS 3.5 started punctual. The first packages were
sold at an Amiga show in The Netherlands last weekend. Delivery of all
orders might last about 1-2 weeks. The areas for registrations and
support will be opened in a few days.
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            A M I G A   V O L U N T E E R   P R O J E C T

16 Nov., '99

The long version

 Today is there pretty much Amiga software and there is new software
coming but it takes long time and it might result in lots of bugs. We
started to discus whatever there was a way that we could do something
about that problem and after some long hours we found the answer in
TAVP. Now we are in a early stage and we need your support because
that is what this project feeds on. Right now we are contacting all
kinds of Amiga developers about if and what area they need help. We
need people that are prepared to work for no pay but only for the good
will and you dont have to be an expert in whatever you do. We want
everything, coders, musicians and so on because there is always
someone that needs that. We are also contacting different PC
developers about ports to the Amiga that we can sell so the project
might get some money(no of the founders will get any money)that might
be used to different things.

 We as mentioned before that this project depends your support and we
hope that as many of you skilled persons out there will join us.

 The short version

 What is TAVP(The Amiga Volunteer Project)?

 The TAVP is an non profit project that will support the development
of new software to Amiga. What you have think of before you join is
that you will not be paid because as mentioned before is this an NON
PROFIT organisation.

 Why do we do it?

 We are all long time Amiga users and decided that now was the time
for us to active support the Amiga. At the moment there is pretty much
software but the development takes long time but if this project works
it will maybe speed up the development a bit.

 How will we do it?

 to make this project come true we need you. We need skilled amigians
in any directions and you dont have too be the best coder in the world
you only have to be pretty good. If you are interested go to the join
section and fill out the form and we will contact you or send a mail
to denebis@algonet.se.

 What will we do?

 As mentioned before we will support the Amiga market by helping
different developers with skilled people but that is not the only
thing that we will do. We will also try to convert PC software to the
Amiga.
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                    A M I G A   2 K   N E W S

6 Nov 1999

Hello Amiga fans,

 Just to let you know two items about Amiga 2K, the latest Gateway
Computer Show hosted in St. Louis by Amigan-St. Louis. {Note to
non-Americans: NOT Gateway the company. Gateway in this case comes
originally from St. Louis as "the gateway to the American West" and
later the Gateway Computer Club of St. Louis. Brad}

 1. The show dates are Saturday April 1 & Sunday April 2, 2000.
 (If you didn't hear, we changed them due to a conflict with NAB.
 That's the National Association of Broadcasters show, also in
 April.)

 2. Petro Tyschtschenko has agreed to attend our show. Petro said
 he wouldn't miss a show that we put on.

 Please visit our web site at: http://www.amiga-stl.com for more
information as it becomes available.

 If you wish to exhibit, please fill out the exhibitor form. We are
accepting exhibitors now. If you cannot do this, or you have a
question, then please email me at bscharp@icon-stl.net.

Best Regards,
Bob Scharp

Owner
Amigan-St. Louis
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      R E P O R T   -   I W I N   R E S U R F A C E S

5 Nov. '99

 Robert Jant, chief of a group of former Iwin employees, has announced
today that he together with other former Iwin employees and with the
help of a large German bank has bought back the rights for the
Internet domains www.iwin-corp.com and www.iwin-corp.ge, furthermore
the rights for the name Iwin Corporation and for the projects of the
C-Series and Server computers.
 "It was a logical decision" said Robert Jant. "Focke Systems didn't
want to continue development of the C-Series and Servers and didn't
want to sell them either.
 "This is the reason why we have decided to try to buy back the rights
on them. We were working very hard for a long time on these projects
and didn't want to see them frozen. We know that it will be a very
hard way to finish the projects and bring them into the stores.
 We won't bring these computers into the stores as it was initially
planned, but we are sure they will be successful."
 Iwin Corporation will open again on the 15 of November 1999 and will
also ship the first computers on this date to dealers. On the 15 of
November, Iwin Corporation will also again be reachable by phone, fax
and email.
 {Since this press release was issued, Iwin sites are indeed back in
operation. The computers now include something called the G-MCC, I-MCC
 and iPhantom computers all of which reference Amiga compatibility. It
is unclear what the Amiga compatibility actually is - it appears to be
some sort of software emulation, perhaps UAE. Brad}
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                    L A T E S T   O N   I W I N

6 Nov. 1999

 Iwin Corporation has been split into three independent firms.

 1. The Software business was sold to ``Focke Systems'' and will now
    be fully integrated into this firm.

 2. The Consulting business was also sold to ``Focke Systems'' and
     will be ``Focke Consulting'' in the future.

 3. The Hardware business was first also sold to ``Focke Systems'' but
    then bought back by some former Iwin employees. This firm will now be
    called ``Iwin Corporation''. This website will be the future site of
    this firm. The new firm will start business on the 15th of November
    1999 and will sell various graphic workstations based on x86 and PPC
    technology as well as server computers.

 For all people asking about the announced ``Amiga compatible''
 computers, please use these contact possibilities in the meanwhile:

 Either by FAX in the US: (208)-279-6497. Your question will be
 answerred within two work days. Please understand that currently we
 cannot answer any questions by email or phone. On the 15th of November
 this site will have changed to the new Iwin site and will contain a
 toll-free (US and Germany only!) number for your questions regarding
 the Amiga compatible workstations and all other hardware products.

 If you need help or sales support for former Iwin software products,
 please refer to Focke Systems.
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          O P E N   S O U R C E   G R O U P   A C T I V E

19th October 1999

About Us

 The Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS is a coalition of individuals,
organisations and user groups from the Amiga, Open Source and Linux
communities. The Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS was formed on the 4th
October to bring together these usually unrelated groups for a common
cause: to present our case to Amiga, Inc. for open sourcing the Amiga
operating system.
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           O P E N   L E T T E R   T O   T H E   P R E S .

Open Letter to Amiga, Inc. President Thomas Schmidt

October 18, 1999

Dear Mr. Schmidt:

 First of all, we want to congratulate you on your new position as
president of Amiga. We are sure that you have many exciting plans for
the future of Amiga, Inc. and that we can expect many new innovations
from your company in the months and years ahead. This is indeed an
exciting time for the computer industry, a time of great upheaval and
change, and holds much promise for the success and growth of ambitious
upstart companies like Amiga, Inc.

 We have been following the recent events at Amiga, Inc. with great
interest. We feel, like many, that the recent resignation of Jim
Collas was unfortunate. Many people in the community trusted Collas to
successfully lead the company into the future. Wherever he is now, and
whatever he is doing, we in the community wish him well.

 But this is not a time to be looking back on events of the past. It
is a time to be focusing on what lies directly ahead in the future of
the computing industry. We feel our organisation is unique in the
Amiga community. We have tried to understand both the needs of the
Amiga community, balanced against the needs of Amiga, Inc.

 We do not believe, like some in the community, that the wishes of the
Amiga community and the needs of Amiga, Inc. are mutually exclusive.

 Likewise, we do not believe that success of Amiga, Inc. as a company
is mutually exclusive with satisfying the needs and expectations of
the Amiga community.

 Our group was formed with a simple goal: to find a
mutually-satisfactory solution to current tensions that exist between
many in the community and Amiga, Inc. - a solution that would be
satisfactory, indeed beneficial, to both groups.

 We believe, after several weeks of discussion and exchanging of
ideas, that we have found such a solution. We believe that this
solution is to open-source the Amiga operating system.

 We present our reasons for believing this in our report, "AmigaOS:
The Case for Open Source," a copy of which should have been sent to
you alongside this letter, by Amiga Vice President Mr. Petro
Tyschtschenko.

 Our report is the result of several weeks of work and consultation
with many individuals in the Amiga, Open Source and Linux communities,
including famous open-source advocate Eric Raymond, who acted as a
consultant for Netscape on their open-source strategy.

 We believe our report presents a powerful case that open-sourcing the
Amiga operating system would bring many advantages, and future
business opportunities, to Amiga, Inc. and would at the same time
satisfy the needs of the Amiga community for continuity and continuous
improvement of the Amiga operating system.

 We therefore respectfully submit our report, "AmigaOS: The Case for
Open Source," for your review and consideration.

 We, of course, do not expect the report to fully and complete answer
each and every question you may have on the subject of open-source, or
why we believe it is the ideal solution to the current volatile Amiga
situation - but we do, however, believe it is a good start, and we
hope that you will be made curious enough by the contents of the
report, to establish a dialogue with us on the matter, and to consider
working with us in an attempt to find a mutually satisfactory solution
to the current Amiga situation. Your nomination to president of a
young, ambitious, innovative upstart company like Amiga, Inc. could
not have come at a better time. The next several months and years will
be an exciting time to be a player in the ever-changing fast-paced
computing industry.

 Whatever direction Amiga takes, we wish you and Amiga, Inc. every
success in the future.

 We look forward to your response.

 Respectfully,

Steve Crietzman (president@savetheamiga.org.uk)
President, Campaign to Open Source AmigaOS
http://www.savetheamiga.org.uk/
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                       P R O J E C T   I M P

23 Oct. 1999

 "News from Project IMP - the Independent Multimedia Platform

 We have now our own webserver: www.project-imp.org, or for german
visitors www.project-imp.de. The website had been completely
redesigned and you will find there lots of new information about the
project. Most important news are our support for the Campaign To Open
Source The AmigaOS (www.savetheamiga.org.uk) and AROS (www.aros.org).

 About Project IMP: Project IMP had been founded just after Jim Collas
left Amiga and the AmigaMCC had been canceled. It is our intention to
keep the Amiga platform alive and give it a future. This goal can only
be reached by making the operating system and the hardware open
source. Without getting the rights at Amiga to do so, we have to write
our own, free OS which will be as much as possible compatible to the
existing AmigaOS as a basing for further developments.

 We will support any group or project that is working in that
direction in order to organize and bundle all developments. If you
have further quistions, just mail to me: postmaster@project-imp.org

Sincerely,
Volker Mohr
Initiator of Project IMP
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    U P D A T E   O N   " A M I N O   -   T H E   C O M P A N Y "

21 Oct 1999

{Post to the Team Amiga site from Fleecy Moss. Brad}

 We are legal now -Bill {McEwen} gave me the wa.gov website which I
have now lost where you can find out all about us is splendid
Interneticolour.

 Everything is ready to go from a partner, technology, and employee
perspective. We are tying up the financial side.

 Unfortunately ppl don't just give you millions because you have a
good idea.
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    A M I G A   P R O D U C T   P L A C E M E N T   S E R V I C E


Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany 19. October 1999 :

 OPEN OFFER FROM GTI GRENVILLE TRADING INTERNATIONAL GMBH, SPECIALISED
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR OF AMIGA PRODUCTS

 GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH, the German-based
international distributor of Amiga products today made an open offer
to those manufacturers of Amiga products looking for increased sales
worldwide.

 OFFER TO MANUFACTURERS OF AMIGA PRODUCTS LOOKING FOR INCREASED
INTERNATIONAL SALES

 GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH distributes Amiga products
(main emphasis - software) to Amiga re-sellers on an international
basis. Our customers are based throughout Europe, and in North America
and Australasia. With 12 years of experience in the Amiga market, and
having built up a ongoing network of clients on a wholesale-only basis
(we do not sell to end-users) over the last five years, GTI Grenville
Trading International GmbH is in a unique position to ensure
availability of Amiga products to Amiga businesses in many countries.
Currently well over 250 Amiga products are listed and distributed by
GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH.

 As the market decline of the Amiga has continued, dealers have found
it increasingly difficult to source and stock Amiga products.
Manufacturers have found it well nigh impossible to supply the
thinly-spread network of Amiga dealers with product.

 GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH now makes the following
offer to manufacturers of Amiga products worldwide.

 We will stock your Amiga products on a turnkey basis ! This basically
means that we are prepared to list and sell Amiga products on your
behalf to our network of Amiga dealers on an international basis.
Under this scheme, we are willing to price products according to
manufacturers preferences, and remit proceeds of sales minus an agreed
commission fee back to manufacturers on a regular basis.

 We offer producers the possibility of reaching a large number of
Amiga dealers with the minimum of paperwork and fuss. We are happy to
list Amiga products and sell on your behalf without ANY minimum
quantity - thus enabling even specialised products to obtain an
international listing and succeed by their own quality. This scheme is
particularly suited to North American manufacturers looking for
increased sales of their products to the European Amiga trade and
thereby to European Amiga users.

 Additionally we are able to offer support to those manufacturers
offering their products directly to end-users through the internet.
Our logistics facility offers a centralised European warehousing for
your products, and delivery to end-users on your behalf throughout
Europe. We are also able to supply invoicing, cash-collection,
marketing, and translation services as and when required. This scheme
is particularly suited to North American manufacturers looking for
increased sales of their products through E-Commerce to end-users
throughout Europe.

 We would like to invite producers of Amiga products looking for
increased product sales to take advantage of one or both of the above
schemes and contact us with a view to expanding their market presence
on an international basis.

 CONTACT INFORMATION : Richard Small, Managing Director, E-Mail :
amiga@grentrade.com

GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH
Carl-Zeiss-Str. 9
D-79761 Waldshut-Tiengen

Tel : +49 7741 83040
Fax : +49 69 25577025
UK Tel/Fax : +44 207 6813472
US Tel/Fax : +1 212 504 2719
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                  N E W S   F R O M   G A U H P I L

30 Oct 99

Göttingen, Germany

Dietmar Knoll

Hi Amiga-Fans!

 Here are some news about recent changes on the GAUHPIL, the
"Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List", which holds
currently more than 850 homepages of Amiga users!

 The GAUHPIL has moved again. Now it is free of any commercial banners
- at the 7th URL!!!

 The redirector-URL is still valid. You should never have problems to
find the GAUHPIL at:

 http://GAUHPIL.home.pages.de/

 During the last months, I did some checking and changing. I found the
first ever Amiga user in Antarctica! And now I added the 35th country:
Philippines! Some names are new on the list, some others disappeared.
You find some of the latter on the Lost Links List.

 There is also one totally new page: the New Links List, which shows
recently added/changed names on the GAUHPIL.

 If you didn't visit the GAUHPIL in the recent time, you might be
interested in the References List and the Related Sites page.

 Please note, that my e-mail address has also slightly changed. Please
update your addressbooks now, to the following address:

 dknoll@myokay.net

 Thanks a lot for all your suggestions, comments and hints in all
those years!

 Special thanks to those of you that linked the GAUHPIL on your site.
You are listed on the "Hall of Fame" (see: References & Banners page)
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         O P U S   M A G E L L A N   A T   C O L O G N E

8 Nov. 1999

Opus Magellan 5.82 with OS 3.5 Support to be Shown at Cologne

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 GPSoftware is proud to demonstrate its continuing support for the
Amiga with the release of a new version of Directory Opus Magellan
which supports the new palette mapped icon system of OS 3.5.

 The product will be demonstrated on the Schatztruhe stand at the
Cologne show, November 12-14th November 1999 by Dr Greg Perry.

 Opus Magellan is available world-wide from good Amiga dealers and
GPSoftware distributors. Or you may support the developers by
purchasing direct.

 Free Update Patch available.

 OS 3.5 causes some superficial problems with earlier versions of Opus
because of the new palette mapped icon system which is not
transparently compatibility with earlier programs. With the help of
Olaf Barthel, we have now added support for the new V44 icon library
in OS 3.5.

 A free update patch from Opus 5.81 is available from our web site at

http://www.gpsoft.com.au
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 N O V A   D E S I G N   D I S T R I B U T O R   F O R   O Z ,   N Z

8 Nov. 1999

 Effective immediately, Amiga Innovations has begun handling sales and
distribution of Nova Design, Inc. products in Australia & New Zealand
and areas of Asia Pacific within their distribution network.

 Nova Design are the creators and publishers of ImageFX, the Amiga's
top selling and top rated image editing and special effects package,
and Aladdin 4D, the Amiga's coolest and best entry-level 3D modeling,
rendering and animation package.

 If you've been thinking about buying ImageFX 4.0 with the new
animation features, now is the perfect time to do so! Nova Design,
Inc., in cooperation with Amiga Innovations and all participating
dealers, is offering an Instant $40 Rebate when you buy ImageFX v4.0.
However, this special offer is for a limited time only!

 Amiga Innovations can be found at:

Amiga Innovations
P.O. Box 114
Osborne Park,
Western Australia
Ph./ Fax +61 (08) 9349 0889
Mobile: 0408 929 827

Contact: Dwayne Osborne
Email: dwark@vianet.net.au
Internet: http://surf.to/amigainnovations

Nova Design can be found at:

Nova Design, Inc.
1910 Byrd Avenue, Suite 204
Richmond, VA 23230

Ph.(804) 282-1157
Fax.(804) 282-3768
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               D I G I T A L   A L M A N A C   I I

Digital Almanac II is available!
Suggested Retail Price DM 69.00
US$1.00 = DM 1.82 given current exchange rates.

******
Ordering information:

 The most convenient method of placing an order is to use our
electronic order form located at http://www.schatztruhe.de/order.html.
You can also send an E-Mail to stefano@schatztruhe.de including your
address and the products you wish to order.

******
Digital Almanac II

 Digital Almanac is an astronomy program which offers lots of
possibilities. The program is permanantly improved, so that new
versions are at your disposal.

Digital Almanac offers:

 o Star database with ca. 500,000 stars up to 16m.
 o Cross-index for SAO, PPM, HD, YBS und GC catalogs.
 o About 40000 deep-sky objects (Messier, NGC, IC, UGC, Abell, Zwicky
and other misc objects).
 o More than 55000 minor planets and asteroids as well as the comets
Halley, Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp.
 o Highly accurate calculation of Moon and planets with JPL's
integration tables (DE404). Accuracy partly «0.1'' over a period of
some thousand years !!

 o Jovian, Saturnian and Uranian moons.
 o Textures for all planets and moons.
 o Milky way structure.
 o View the sky from any solar system object.
 o Save animations in IFF-ANIM, QuickTime or MPEG format.
 o Loading and saving of configuration files.
 o Highly optimized algorithms for maximum speed, mostly written in
   assembler. Recognizes CPU for maximum speed.
 o Lots of configuration possibilities.
 o Online and menu help with HELP-key and MUI's bubblehelp.
 o Full Drag&Drop support.
 o Creation and export of ephemeris tables.
 o Picture galery creation.
 o User editable database of orbital elements.
 o Implemetation of the Hubble GSC starc catalog.
 o Control program with ARexx scripts.

Supported software:

 o CyberGraphX for true/hicolor screens.
 o Xpk system to store images in IFF-RGFX format.
 o Turboprint V3 or higher.

Minimum system configuration:

 o OS 3.0 + AGA
 o MC68020/68881 (FPU required!)
 o 4 MB free FastRAM
 o Harddrive
 o MUI 3.8 (included)

Recommended system configuration:

 o OS 3.1
 o MC68040 or MC68060
 o 16 MB FastRAM
 o Graphic card with CyberGraphX 3.x/4.x

******

Stefan Ossowski
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      A W E B   3 . 2   T O   3 . 3   U P D A T E   P A T C H

17 Oct., '99
3.2 to 3.3 Update Patch

Some of the new features:

   o Menus are fully configurable.
   o Navigation buttons are fully configurable, and can be hidden.
   o Displayed pages can be saved as IFF.
   o Improved JavaScript handling.
   o Option to suppress advertising pop-up windows.
   o Handles more JPEG formats.
   o Passive FTP option for better operation through firewalls.
   o Better cookie compatability.
   o Additional ARexx commands.
   o ... and more.

 This is an incremental upgrade from AWeb-II 3.2 to 3.3, you should
only use this patch over an existing AWeb-II 3.2 install. You will
also need the original AWeb-II 3.x disks during the installation.

 Here's all the other 3.3 updates in one place:

Name Version Size (bytes) Description:
======================================

 AutoSearch 3.0 10380 Enhances the AWeb 3.x autosearch function.

 AWebNews 1.98 57697 AWeb News client.

 CacheControl 1.4 37180 (3.3 only) A new GUI with advanced controls
for AWeb's caching.

 DropZone 1.2 35437 (3.3 only) Drag and Drop on WorkBench even if AWeb
is on its own private screen.

 HTTX 2.0 88965 HTML to TEXT converter

 Netsearch 11085 Query multiple search engines.

 Modes 1.2 34310 (3.3 only) Change various AWeb modes from a brand new
GUI window.

 ToolBar 1.3 39408 (3.3 only) Add a floating Tool Bar to control all
your AWeb windows.

 Translate 1.4 37308 Language translation plugin.

 GIF plugin 1.8 16123

 JFIF plugin 1.8 39674

 PNG plugin 1.8 41284

http://www.amitrix.com/aweb.html
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               E L B O X   P R O D U C T   N E W S

9 Nov., '99

ELBOX FastATA4000 Controller is finally available! Features:

 * High-speed FastATA-3/EIDE Controller for Amiga 3000/4000.

 * Fully autoconfig ZORRO III card.

 * The first Amiga 3000/4000 EIDE controller supporting fast PIO-3 and
   PIO-4 modes (for up to 16.6MB/s).

 * Data transfer is several times faster than in any ZORRO II or Fast
   ZORRO II EIDE controllers.

 * Compatible with PIO-0 to PIO-4, UDMA-33, UDMA-66 devices.

 * Two 3.5" IDE ports allow to connect 4 EIDE devices (HDD, CD-ROM,
   CD-R, CD-RW, ZIP, LS-120, DVD) working at full speed.

 * Autobooting from ZIP and LS-120 drives enabled.

 * Supports HDDs > 4GB (SPLIT to 4 GB, NSD, TD64, DirectSCSI).

 * The set includes very advanced FastATA4000 software for controlling
   EIDE devices and the fastest CD file system: AllegroCDFS.

 * More than one ELBOX FastATA 4000 controller can be installed
   simultaneously.

FastATA'99 & AllegroCDFS

 ELBOX Computer are very pleased to provide you with the latest
version of software for ELBOX FastATA(PowerFlyer/Winner) High Speed
EIDE ontroller for A1200. FastATA'99 v4.7 is 100% OS3.5 compatible.

 In FastATA'99 you will find the automatic update for the newest
version of the fastest Amiga CD file system - AllegroCDFS. AllegroCDFS
is over twice as fast as other Amiga CD filesystems. Automatic updates
will work only if you own a registered AllegroCDFS.
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                        B O X E R   N E W S

October 12th, 1999

AntiGravity.com Announces 4 new BoXeR Models

 Anti Gravity Products announces 4 new BoXeR models. The Base model
will be similar to those sold in Europe with a wide variety of upgrade
options available. The Neila Phase-498 will be available only to those
who preordered them. Visit our new Build-A-BoXeR page under the BoXeR
button at AntiGravity.com for more details.

 Everyone who preordered an Alien BoXeR system will be given the
option to receive a BoXeR configured closely as possible to the
original Neila Phase-498, or switch to one of the current models. More
information will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.

 Access and Blittersoft indicate the the BoXeR is on schedule to ship
at the end of November. Prototypes will be in the hands of the Beta
Testers by the end of October, with the Home Electronics Show in
Cologne, the third week in Novmber, as the likely launch date. Stay
tuned...
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                        Q N X   U P D A T E

 November 1, 1999

 Here's an update on what has been happening since we made the
announcement to release the QNX development system to Amigans:

 How is the Phase 5/QNX alliance proceeding?

 We are currently waiting for boards from Phase 5. Due to the delay we
don't expect to have a Phase 5 solution this year. We will continue to
provide status updates as we know more.

 How will the beta program be handled?

 Historically, we have always had small beta programs because it
allows us to spend more time with each beta developer to better
address their issues and suggestions. We plan to do the same with this
upcoming beta. We will expand the group quickly as we progress.

 The first beta release for the initial smaller group is planned for
early November. This beta will be a full-featured self-hosted
development environment. Over the ensuing months, we will be updating
the betas with more tools, drivers, and applications.

 What will the beta development package include?

 Our first beta is targeted at x86-based computers.

 The beta will contain:

 o QNX Neutrino operating system, including tools and drivers.
 o Photon microGUI windowing system, including a suite of
applications, drivers, and development tools
 o x86-hosted development environment for x86 targets (compiler will
be GCC with GBD for debugging)
 o Online documentation
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                    I M A G E F X   R E B A T E


 If you've been thinking about buying ImageFX 4.0 with the new
animation features, now is the perfect time to do so! Nova Design,
Inc., in cooperation with your favorite Amiga dealers, is offering an
Instant $40 Rebate when you buy ImageFX from any participating dealer.
However, this special offer is for a limited time only!

 ImageFX 4.0

 This new release of ImageFX adds built-in features for editing
animations that are easy to use and powerful. They can be used for
editing Amiga ANIMs, video animations, or web animations. Keyboard
controls, visual controls, and VCR-style controls let you access your
animations easily. ImageFX animation features are built on the amazing
ImageFX layering system which can also allow you to build up complex
images from layers of composited imagery that can be individually
altered anytime you need. Of course ImageFX has all the other features
that have made it the Amiga's Top Rated image editing and special
effects package. Paint tools, image file format conversion, batch
processing, and amazing special effects that are in use by
professionals worldwide.

 Upgrading Old ImageFXs

 If you own a version of ImageFX prior to version 2.0 your upgrade
price is only $149.95. ImageFX 2.x owners can upgrade for only $99.95.
ImageFX 3.x owners can upgrade to ImageFX 4 for only $79.95. Shipping
adds $10 in the continental US, $15 everywhere else in the world.

 Remember though, the rebate does not apply to the upgrades - only to
new purchases! You can order via 1-800-IMAGE-69 in the US and Canada
or call (804) 282-1157 elsewhere. Orders can also be faxed to (804)
282-3768 or mailed to our address.

 Offer Details

 To qualify for the Instant $40 Rebate offer you must buy ImageFX from
a participating reseller, in the U.S. or Canada, between September
20th and December 31st at their regular pricing. The rebate will be
applied immediately at the time of purchase - you will not have to
send anything in and you will not receive anything in the mail, and
you'll get a $40 rebate instantly.

 You can buy ImageFX with this instant rebate at Software Hut, Safe
Harbor and many other Amiga resellers.
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                 H & P   A N D   I M A G E F X

Nova Design, Inc. teams up with Haage&Partner

 November 5th: Nova Design, Inc. and Haage&Partner announced today
that they have teamed up for the distribution of ImageFX in Germany.
Nova Design, Inc. and Haage&Partner are the two largest Amiga
developers worldwide and collectively make and distribute most of the
Amigas top imaging applications software.

 This partnership will enable ImageFX to reach new markets and new
users in Europe. ImageFX has been the Amiga's leading image editing
and special effects application for over six years since it's
introduction and is the flagship product of Nova Design, Inc.

 ImageFX will be immediately available for purchase from Haage&Partner
at their booth at the Home Electronics Show in Cologne, Germany this
November. Haage&Partner will also be selling upgrades from previous
versions of ImageFX and will also be carrying PowerStation - the
PowerPC module package for ImageFX.

 Other exciting announcements regarding ImageFX and the German market
will be made at the Cologne show and the news will be released
afterwards on the Internet as well.

 Haage&Partner is the leading manufacturer of Development Systems and
Applications for the Amiga family is also the developer and/or
distributor of several cutting edge applications including: StormC,
WarpUP, AmigaWriter, and many others. Our mission is to provide the
Amiga market with the most effective tools and applications possible.

 Nova Design, Inc. is the developer and producer of the Amiga's
leading graphics applications: ImageFX, PowerStation, and Aladdin 4D.
Our longtime presence in the Amiga developer community have put us in
the forefront of many Amiga developments, and our involvement and
background in the Amiga community itself keep us traveling worldwide
supporting Amiga events and promoting our products.

Nova Design, Inc.
1910 Byrd Avenue, Suite 204
Richmond, VA 23230 USA
Customer Support: (804) 282-6528
Business: (804) 282-5868
Fax: (804) 282-3768
www.novadesign.com Haage&Partner Computer GmbH
Schlossborner Weg 7
61479 Glashuetten, Germany
Phone: +49 (6174) 966 100
Fax: +49 (6174) 966 101
www.haage-partner.com
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          H & P   R E L E A S E   D E V E L O P E R   C D

4 Nov., '99

AMIGA Developer CD 2.1

 This CD contains all the material you need to start developing
software for Amiga computers. This includes:


 The new 3.5 Native Developer Kit:

 o Updated and revised `C' and assembly language header files and
   linker libraries
 o Updated and revised system documentation and tutorial texts
 o Example code covering the AmigaOS 3.0, 3.1 and 3.5 features
 o The NewIFF v39 package
 o The AmigaGuide adn DataType documentation and example code
 o WarpUP (PowerPC) developer documentation and examples


 Additional developer material:

 o BOOPSI gadget and image classes

 ReActor BOOPSI toolkit and example code

 o The AmigaOS 2.04 example code, as part of the original 2.04 Native
   Developer Kit
 o The RKM 2.04 code examples
 o Tables listing which operating system modules were added, removed
   or updated in subsequent AmigaOS releases
 o The complete set of registered IFF forms
 o IFF example and stress test files
 o All IFF packages released by Commodore-Amiga, Inc., covering 1986
 through 1992
 o The camd v37.1 MIDI developer kit
 o The SANA-II standard package and developer kit
 o The Installer v43.3 package
 o The CDTV developer disks



 International support material:

 o Sample text using the full ISO-8859-1 character set
 o Translation guidelines



 Reference material:

 o The collection of Amiga Mail Volume 1 articles, covering Spring
   1987 through January/February 1989
 o The complete Amiga Mail Volume 2 articles in AmigaGuide format,
   covering January/February 1990 through March/April 1993; also included
   are the printable issues in PostScript and PageStream format
 o The Includes & Autodocs in AmigaGuide format.
 o Revised Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals in AmigaGuide format

 HTML versions of all AmigaGuide format manuals



 Historical developer material:

 o DevCon Disks (1988-1993)
 o The CD32 developer package
 o 1.3, 2.0, 3.1 Native Developer Kits

 Packages contributed by 3rd parties:

 The StormC 68K C/C++ developer package

 o The WBPath and ActionFSSM packages, courtesy of Ralph Babel
 o The Personal Paint, CopyIcon, MailBX and DirDiff packages, courtesy
   of Cloanto
 o The INet 225 developer kit, version 2, courtesy of Interworks, Inc.
 o The Picasso96 developer kit, courtesy of Alexander Kneer and Tobias
   Abt
 o The Miami SDK, version 2.1, courtesy of Nordic Global, Inc.
 o The CyberGraphX V4 developer kit, courtesy of Frank Mariak
 o The MMUlib package, courtesy of Thomas Richter; this package
   includes the MuForce tool which is derived from the Enforcer package
   developed by Mike Sinz
 o The Kiskometer and MakeCD packages,courtesy of Angela Schmidt
   and Patrick Ohly
 o The Enforcer v37.64, courtesy of Mike Sinz
 o The Envoy v3.0 developer kit, courtesy of Heinz Wrobel
 o The Wipeout, Blowup and Sashimi debugging tools and the
   "CheckGuide" AmigaGuide file syntax checker written by Olaf Barthel


 The AMIGA Developer CD 2.1 will be officially available beginning
November 15th. It will first be sold at HOME electronics world in
Cologne.

Price: 49 DM (~27 US$)

Haage&Partner Computer GmbH
Schlossborner Weg 7
61479 Glashuetten, Germany
Phone: +49 (6174) 966 100
Fax: +49 (6174) 966 101
www.haage-partner.com
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             N E W   P I C A S S O   9 6   V E R S I O N

 Version 2.0, November 16th 1999:

* version bump due to large improvements.

* first Draco Altais support.

 o *NEW FEATURE*: added functionality to patch the most common native
 Amiga chipset screen modes to use a Picasso96 board to ease use
 and installation of Picasso96 on systems that don't have a native
 Amiga chipset (like the Macrosystem Draco) or that have no monitor
 attached to the native chip set signal connector or that don't
 have a flicker fixer and no 15 kHz capable monitor. To enable
 this feature add the tool type "FakeNativeModes=Yes" to the
 monitor driver of one of your cards (defaults to "Yes" with the
 Draco Altais and "No" for all other cards) and remove all native
 Amiga monitor drivers (!). Now, when the system uses one of the
 native Amiga screen modes (currently only LowRes, HighRes and
 SuperHighRes and their interlaced counter parts), a 640x480 31kHz
 60Hz screen mode on the graphics card will be used. Note: this
 mode is not configurable and it is not intended to be, because
 you should use real Picasso96 screen mode IDs whenever you can.
 Its only intention is to get the workbench on a VGA compatible
 screen when the current screenmode.prefs contains an invalid mode
 id. May also be useful for some (stupid) programs that default to
 a custom screen with a native Amiga screen mode after
 installation.


 o *NEW FEATURE*: software sprite routines will use on-board blitter
 when available. Therefore boards which have a blitter reserve
 about 12 KB of their memory for sprite and back buffers. This
 might affect the size of the largest screen that can be opened in
 some systems (mostly with 1MB cards).

 o *NEW FEATURE*: alerts (Alert(), DisplayAlert(),
 TimedDisplayAlert()) now are rendered into the front most screen
 if it is a Picasso96 one. After termination of the alert, the
 display is restored.

 o *NEW FEATURE*: board drivers can now prevent the loading and
 attaching of settings files. Useful for the UAEgfx driver that
 creates its own modes and cannot use standard settings
 definitions at all.

 o *NEW FEATURE*: new environment variable "DisableAmigaBlitter"
 which even forces blits on standard planar Amiga bitmaps to be
 performed by the CPU. Set to 'yes' to enable this feature. If you
 don't use native Amiga screens, this could improve some operations
 on fast processors. On the other hand, Amiga screens will be
 slower. Defaults to 'No'.

 o *NEW FEATURE*: new environment variable "PlanesToFast" which when
 set to 'Yes' will allocate planar bitplanes to fast memory except
 when the caller requested a visible or standard bitmap. Defaults
 to 'No'.


 o *NEW FEATURE* user can now allocate private bitmaps that do not
 need to be locked. Especially useful for programs that need
 temporary fast memory bitmaps for rendering.
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     A   N E W   A M I G A   S T O R E   I S   L A U N C H E D

16 Nov 1999

 A new Amiga store is open in Phoenix, Arizona. We have Amiga
computers, software, peripherals, and more! New A4000Ts! O/S 3.5, etc.
Visit www.merlancia.com/store.html for details. Also check out
www.merlancia.com for more info.

-Ryan E. A. Czerwinski
Merlancia@aol.com
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                        U N I T Y   B O A R D

16 Nov., '99
                            Unity Overview

Abstract:

 Unity alias Zorro1200 is an Autoconfig(TM) board for Amiga. It makes
it possible to use Melody1200 and other expansions initially done for
A1200's clock port for ZorroII/III Computers.

 A special property is variable bus speed. It's possible to run
expansions nearly as slow as in A1200 but it's even possible to go up
to twice that speed known from old Zorro boards like Melody-Z2 or
Prelude.

 Why it's a must have:

 Unity together with:

 o Unity-Net 10 results in an efficient, small low-priced 10Base-2 or
10Base-T solution for Amiga different to other solutions Full
Duplex-Mode (20Mbps) is supported.

 o Unity-Net 100 probably is the first and only 10/100BaseTx solution
for Amiga. It's unique!

 o Melody1200 gives the final move for Melody 1200. being the market
leader regarding audio precission + bandwidth inside every Amiga. Load
is much lower compared to the traditional clock-port connection at
A1200. This even means there is room for a Multichannel variant
Melody1200. Do you want ous to do such solution? Tell ous!

 o Twister1200 primary results in higher throughput. The mayor topic
is having a real Serial High-End Interface at Zorro-Amiga by not
wasting a Zorro slot (since there is the possibility of having an
on-board interface that option should be taken first loosing no
connector). If there is anybody out there who likes to have three very
fast serial interfaces this is possible now.

 o combinations of these and future boards gives maximum flexibility
by using only one Zorro slot

 Features:

 o Zorro2 Autoconfig(TM)
 o Up to 3.5 MB/s bus bandwidth to CPU causing low system load, only
 o two connectors for Melody1200, Twister1200 and other boards
 o 16bits connector intended for Networkoption Unity-Net 10 or 100.

Board is prepared (production time) for mounting further devices:

 o Twister1200-style HighSpeed Serial Interface Onboard
 o xxxx Interface Onboard (secret up to the show;-)

 Requirements:

 o Amiga mit Zorro Slot
 o oder Amiga 1200 mit Bus-Erweiterung

 Status:

 o very early prototype was presented at Computer'98, Cologne
 o final design presented at Home Electronics World in Cologne 1999

http://www.katodev.de/english/unity.html
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           W I P T E O U T   2 0 9 7   O N   M A R K E T

9 Nov 1999

WipeOut 2097 (PPC) is available!
Suggested Retail Price DM 99.90
US$1.00 = DM 1.88 given current exchange rates.

*****
Ordering information:

 The most convenient method of placing an order is to use our
electronic order form located at http://www.schatztruhe.de/order.html.
You can also send an E-Mail to stefano@schatztruhe.de including your
address and the products you wish to order. {Available from other
Amiga dealers also. Brad}

*****
WipeOut 2097

The famous 3D anti-gravity racing game!

 You'll need lightning fast reflexes in this high speed race-n-chase
thriller. Your goal is to stay in first place and defend your glider
against the other pilots. Extreme hairpin turns, gut-wrenching drops
and jumps are boosting the gameplay, while you blast your opponents
with incredible weapons.

/Specifications/

 o Highly detailed 3D graphics
 o 8 tracks with up to 15 ships racing
 o 3 race modes (timetrial/arcade/challenge)
 o 4 racing classes
 o 5 ship models with different characteristics
 o 8 weapons/extras
 o 9 CD audio tracks +- 16 bit sound fx
 o MPEG animations
 o Configurable control via Keyboard/Mouse/Joypad

/Amiga specific features/

 o Runs in a resizable workbench window
 o Supports triple buffering for maximum speed
 o Increased view distance during a race
 o Fogging effect
 o Mip mapping/trilinear filtering (with suitable hardware)
 o Gamma correction
 o Optional frame rate limitation
 o Brings optimum PPC and 3D gaming to the Amiga for the first time!

/System Requirements/

 o PowerPC 603e or better
 o 3D graphics card such as CyberVision64/3D, CyberVisionPPC or
BVisionPPC
 o 1Mb hard drive space (minimum)
 o 24Mb Fast RAM (minimum)
 o CD-ROM drive
 o OS 3.0 or better
 o CybergraphX/Picasso 96 software
 o WarpUP V4 software (included)
 o Warp3D V2 software (included)
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              M I K R O   M O R T A L   T E N N I S

28 Oct., '99
You wanted it here it is.

 Mikro Mortal Tennis aims to become the craziest game ever in the
videogame history!! As you can guess from the title, it is basically
founded on tennis game, but its goal is to eliminate your opponents,
not simply to defeat them!!!

 To this purpose, players might make use of loads of Mortal-Kombat and
Street-Fighter-like special moves, in addition to many others,
directly taken from lots of famous videogames or films. Besides, there
are bombs, Fire'n'forget rockets, heat-seeking missiles at their
complete disposal... The game boasts an amusing animated intro which
will explain the reason of such a strange tournamnet - by the way,
your order is to climb a high mountain, just like the second episode
of the Mortal Kombat saga; moreover, it features several victory and
defeat pictures and an even more crazy final sequence than the intro!!

 Players can choose their characters from a range of twelve different
guys, each distinguished with typical characteristics, which can be
edited in the proper menu. Beyond every human conceiving, the game is
spangled with lots of mad things, like referee-slaughtering, animals
which will appear in the field, VIPs which will perform during the
match, and a mysterious tapir named Fart (main character of the game,
as you can be able to guess from the introduction) which will perform
in a number of funny anims.. At the beginning of the match the players
will enter the field and choose the field in which play with an
incredible money trowing!! Of course, the sporting side of the game is
not to be under-stimated.. You'll always have to win your match!! From
this point of view, the game is classicaly structured: pitch type,
number of sets to win, type of game (single, double or training),as
well as the type of tournament to join; you'll be able to select, in
addition to the above-mentioned MK-style tournament, an UNFRIENDLY
tournament in which up to eight human players are allowed to take
part, or a full season, where player will have to win as much as
possible to travel all over the world, and in order to buy weapons and
points which will help him in his short career. It's possible to save
and subsequently restore your season from disc as well as every change
made in the players editing menu, where you're able to change the
name, the characteristics and the shirt colour of all the
characters...

 Well, that's all, there's nothing left but wishing you to enjoy Mikro
Mortal Tennis! Mikro Mortal Tennis supports all Amiga models with at
least 1 Meg of Ram.

 Mikro Mortal Tennis authors are:
 Coding: Davide Mancusi - Marco Pacifico
 Graphics: Marco Pacifico - Sergio Rocco
 Additional graphics: Enrico Zerbo
 Musics & sfx: Alex Ascione
 Storyboard: Valerio Massari - Stefano Gualeni

The game is expeceted to retail around the 15 ukp mark.
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From:     "Colin-Stewart Bridge Deady" csbdeady@mythicz.u-net.com
Date:     21 Nov 99 20:15:46 +0000
Subject:  [KOSH] Summary 28
To:       kosh-general@iconimaging.net
Reply-To: kosh-general@iconimaging.net

Hi all

Enclosed is Summary no. 28 - at last. Apologies for the long wait.

I feel I may not have done justice to a couple of the concepts present
- if so please post a reply with suggested ammendments and I'll
incorporate them.

-Bridge

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Amigan | Vegan | KOSHan - "across the crocodile pond with
nitroglycerine on a pogo stick" http://www.iconimaging.net/kosh/
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KOSH [Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware]

Summary

Inclusive of Dates: 25th September 1999 to 20th November 1999

Number: 028

Mailing List: kosh-general@iconimaging.net

I'm happy to receive comments on this summary (and corrections if I have made
mistakes). Email me (Bridge) at kosh-scribe@mythicz.u-net.com

In the mailing list these last few weeks, the following items were discussed.


a)

Subject: Formalising past KOSH discussions

Summary of debate: It was discussed at length that there is a need to look over
                   past debates on items relevant to KOSH and to present these
                   in a more formal manner. One of the main reasons for this is
                   in order to prevent information relevant to KOSH from being
                   lost in historical records. Instead we would like to take
                   these ideas and cement them into positive feedback for the
                   KOSH project as a whole as an aid to providing further
                   direction for KOSH.

                   In order to accomplish this, it was suggested that voluntary
                   Working Groups be organised, each of which would present a
                   document on a selected topic - based mainly (but not
                   exclusively) on the summaries and other documents from the
                   various mailing lists.

                   Alternatively a more fluid approach could be used in which
                   each person who was interested in contributing to a document
                   on a particular subject would hold the document for a week
                   or two at a time, add their own ideas and correct the
                   previous holder's mistakes (changes being discussed and
                   agreed to by both parties), then pass it on to the next
                   person. When passed around a turn without getting any more
                   changes, the document would be trimmed, signed and posted on
                   the ML where a few additional changes could take place
                   before it is put on the website.

                   It was suggested that working groups can on occasion be
                   inefficient due to large numbers of people being involved.
                   Therefore perhaps 3-6 people should be the limit per topic.

                   A small group of KOSHans is looking into this.


b)

Subject: KOSH Introductory Website

Summary of debate: Marcus Petersson has written some material for an
                   introductory website to KoshOS (thanks Marcus) - if anyone
                   has any information which would be useful for this worthy
                   project please contact Marcus via the ML.


c)

Subject: Connection troubles resolved

Summary of debate: Between the last summary and this one there have been a
                   couple of instances when access to
                   kosh-general@iconimaging.net vanished. Thanks to Jason
                   Radford for putting the bits back in place. Certainly for
                   the last few weeks there have been no connection problems
                   (to my knowledge).


d)

Subject: GPL

Summary of debate: The idea of the Gnu Public Licence was discussed in
                   depth. It was suggested that KOSH should be put into GPL,
                   and this received a mixed response. It was stated that
                   distributing GPL items along with private items is OK as
                   long as clear notices are maintained in the appropriate
                   places.

                   It was further stated that any software programs
                   including or derived from GPL source must be covered by the
                   GPL itself. That doesn't mean that whole suites would become
                   GPL, but would mean that the relevant subsystem would.

                   It was felt by some that GPL could be contrary to the aims
                   of KOSH and therefore should be avoided.

                   However there is also the LGPL or Library Gnu Public Licence
                   which applies to libraries. This licence exist to guarantee
                   that the user still has the ability to modify the library
                   under LGPL but not the product using the library (although
                   the product can be GPL).

                   You can charge for distributing LGPL and GPL software
                   as long as this is limited to things like covering media and
                   postage costs for example.

                   See http://www.gnu.org for more information on Gnu.

                   This debate (as with many) is set to continue.


e)

Subject: KOSH Contacts database

Summary of debate: Suggested was a contacts database for KOSH that would
                   include all "known" KOSHans, others who have a slight
                   interest, developers, newspapers, magazines, etc.

                   This would be useful in two ways. Firstly (and obviously)
                   that it would enable easy dissemination of information
                   relevant to KOSH. Secondly it would be a tool to demonstrate
                   that KOSH is definitely alive and well.

                   Part of this information is available at
                   http://www.iconimaging.net/kosh/kommunity/developers.html


f)

Subject: K and C

Summary of debate: For those that may be wondering, "Kommunity" on the KOSH
                   website is now "Community" due to Babelfish translation
                   problems. KOSH is still KOSH and not COSH as a COSH involves
                   to clubbing people.


g)

Subject: "KOSH UK" meet.

Summary of debate: John Chandler and Greg Webb and I (Bridge Deady) seem to
                   have become "KOSH UK" in that we are all ahem in the UK,
                   are thinking of KOSH at World of Amiga 2000 in the UK and
                   we also recently took part in a KOSH Q&A session via IRC
                   hosted at the Cologne Fair in Germany.

                   If anyone else is in the UK (or abroad and is willing to
                   fly over) and is interested in a "get together" sometime
                   please let us know as this is something we are thinking of.


h)

Subject: User Interface Website

Summary of debate: See http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm which covers
                   examples of good and bad user interface design.


i)

Subject: KOSH Virtual Credits and taxation

Summary of debate: A query was raised concerning tax laws in countries such as
                   the UK and the KOSH Virtual Credits scheme. In the UK
                   (amongst other countries presumably) virtual credits would
                   be liable for tax but that tax would have to paid in UK
                   pounds sterling.

                   It was discussed that if sales are made to EC countries
                   above a certain threshold (apr £70,000 p.a. for the UK) then
                   the seller must register for VAT in that country.

                   This is something to bare in mind but won't become an issue
                   for a while yet.


j)

Subject: KOSH web site updated

Summary of debate: The KOSH website at http://kosh.convergence.org and
                   http://www.iconimaging,net/kosh amongst others has been
                   updated a number of times since the last summary. Feel free
                   to have a quick browse.


k)

Subject: EROS goes GPL

Summary of debate: EROS have gone GPL. See:
                   http://www.eros-os.org/ and for a discussion on this,
                   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/28/0151212&mode=nes


l)

Subject: Licencing parts of KOSH

Summary of debate: It was suggested that we could make a simple policy over
                   licensing of our software. Whenever any module is withdrawn
                   from our distribution it could be put on a countdown for a
                   fixed period. We have the duration of that period to reverse
                   the decision and put it back in under our own terms, but
                   once that period has expired, the source and binary are
                   released under a simple freeware licence.

                   A similar idea was previously discussed in that software
                   developed for KOSH could be given a particular licence that
                   stated the software would lapse into the public domain if
                   certain criteria had not been fulfilled.

                   At the very least the sources released would be of
                   educational use and would hopefully spark off further
                   development. This idea of software licencing received a
                   favourable response from those that commented on it.

                   It was further suggested that some sort of "auction" of old
                   code could take place to generate funds for KOSH (and the
                   author of the code) before it was placed into a free-ish
                   -ware state. This could however allow large corporations to
                   take over KOSH and therefore a limit on the size of bids
                   would be needed. Even so this could cause problems.

                   If an "auction" was implemented then to prevent corporations
                   from buying code and then leaving it dormant a clause in the
                   auction could be that if a new version of the code updated
                   from the original is not forthcoming after a specified time
                   then the code reverts to being the property of KOSH.

                   Overall the idea of code becoming freeware under a licence
                   as discussed initially received a more favourable response
                   than that of an "auction" based system. None of this is
                   supposed to remove the rights programmers have over their
                   own code.

                   It was then suggested that a version of the Mozilla Public
                   Licence may be appropriate. This allows retention of
                   copyright but opens up the potential for others to develop
                   the code.


m)

Subject: KAROS (KOSH hosted on AROS)

Summary of debate: A discussion on hosting KOSH on AROS was held. At least
                   two ideas were forthcoming:

                   1) AROS can either run standalone or on another OS such as
                   KOSH (once KOSH itself is running of course),

                   2) AROS could be used as  a basic services provider for
                   KOSH allowing us to implement other things without having to
                   spend a large amount of time getting a filesystem, device
                   drivers, etc written first.

                   This is not to detract from the thoughts on hosting KOSH on
                   Linux, AmigaOS, MacOS, Win32, etc. but merely adds another
                   possibility.

                   AROS is available from: ftp://www.aros.org/pub/aros/


n)

Subject: Distribution format

Summary of debate: It was suggested that KOSH could be distributed on DVD
                   rather than CD which would then enable a program on the DVD
                   to create a hosted-KOSH CD for any given OS. This would
                   enable one DVD to contain versions of KOSH for a large
                   number of systems.

                   However it is hoped that KOSH will be compact enough not to
                   require a DVD for distribution! It was also mentioned that
                   DVD is still not commmonplace everywhere.


o)

Subject: Linux, GPL and KOSH

Summary of debate: It was queried as to whether an OS running hosted through
                   Linux automatically GPL'd? While the LGPL only covers the
                   module concerned, the GPL infects everything it touches.


p)

Subject: KOSH featured at the Cologne Fair.

Summary of debate: KOSH were kindly invited by Hendrik Hoener of Amiga UGN
                   Germany to take a slot in an IRC conference that they are
                   hosting during the Cologne fair. We were represented by Greg
                   Webb, John Chandler and myself (Bridge Deady). We were
                   slotted in directly after Petro Tyschtschenko of Amiga which
                   provided us with a prominent mid-afternoon position.

                   The log of the session, while being a little bit difficult
                   to follow in places (due to three people answering different
                   questions at the same time) can be found at
                   http://ugn.amiga.org/events/hew99.shtml - (Scribe's note: if
                   it becomes unavailable, email me and I'll send you a copy).

                   The main issue that came to light was that a lot of people
                   simply did not know what KOSH is. We fielded a lot of
                   questions to this effect. We gave plenty of references to
                   the website and this ML as well as providing both short and
                   lengthy descriptions.

                   Various other items of great relevance were discussed - and
                   it was mentioned to those online at the time that KOSH will
                   consider these. There will be a threaded summary of the
                   proceedings available from myself in the near future which
                   we can all digest.


q)

Subject: Formalising documentation of past discussions

Summary of debate: Greg Webb, John Chandler and Marcus Petersson have been
                   discussing a proposal for a system to make it easier for
                   more than one person to work on a document. If you would
                   like to be involved in this please contact one of the above
                   via the ML.


r)

Subject: KOSH IRC

Summary of debate: A KOSH IRC session in the nearish future was proposed. This
                   is under consideration.


s)

Subject: KOSH at World of Amiga 2000

Summary of debate: This has been suggested on numerous occasions and hopefully
                   we will have more news on this idea soon.


t)

Subject: Protecting systems with an "undo" feature

Summary of debate: It was suggested that
                   http://www.powerquest.com/en/secondchance/index.html and
                   http://www.go-back.co.uk/start.htm should interest people as
                   they do this. GoBack may be a better model to work from as
                   it uses it's own partition structure to store the data,
                   while SecondChance just uses ordinary files which need
                   clearing out and cannot be so easily overwritten if the user
                   needs the space.

1. As previously announced, FusionPPC for Amiga was not released on November 20th as scheduled.
2. FusionPPC development for Amiga is continuing as normal.
3. Jim Drew explained that the project is in advanced state of completion, and everything is done to have a release version ready by christmas.
4. Like stated in the prepayment contract, all customers are free to cancel the contract with Microcode Solutions in writing. The money is transferred back within 30 days after recieving the cancelling note. This was stated clearly on the webpage, top of the online ordering form.

• reworked shell user interface
• completely rewritten AmigaOS code
• MPEG: VLayer support
• MPEG: some optimizations in the decoder
• MPEG: faster YUV->RGB converting
• MPEG: greyscale window on Workbench with 15/16/24 bit
• MPEG: 2-width HAM about 40% faster
• MPEG: greyscale playback about 20% faster
• QT: index creation many hundred times faster
• QT/AVI: CVID decoder bugged in v1.26
• QT/AVI: YUY2 decoder playing movies upside down
• bugfix: a char array being copied to unallocated memory

• paying back the prepaiments, aborting the project!! (NO!!)
• continuing the project, finishing by christmas. BUT: Only for those who pre-ordered and pre-payed (hardware dongle) (not so great either)
• bumping the price to 299 USD (probably by christmas, too) (oops, expensive...)
• hoping that those who stated interest in FusionPPC will finally place their prepayment so the project can be finished quickly by external reinforcements.

• make the name and person Karsten Obarski known for what he did and which music he created
• collect as many greetings for him as possible
• make contact with him and deliver the greetings

• Canon BJC 1000, 2000, 4400, 6100, 7100
• Epson Stylus Photo 750, 1200
• Epson Stylus Color 460, 660, 760, 860, 900

• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday
• Special: AmiJoe A1200 G3 board

• bugfix in 68060 version; some games showed gfx bugs (Ashguine; MonMonMonster; SuperRambo)
• fast gfx output for screens 5 & 7 (CybergraphX)
• definite speed increases when using on workbench

• improved, faster console (editing and input capabilities)
• security aspects expanded
• personal settings offer more flexibility
• new functionality and improvements in all previously implemented functions

• SvIV-1.lha
• SvIV-2.lha
• SvIV-3a.lha
• SvIV-4.lha
• SvIV-5.lha

• device now 68000 compatible
• A600 adapter supported
• crashes with Z4 board fixed
• Installer script optimized
• successful installation can now be checked by the power LED "morse code" even without a 15kHz monitor

• Bugs have been removed. There have been problems with collision control. It now works faster and more reliable, but needs some more work.
• The sound mixing code has been implemented. It is a very flexible system. A total of 12 sounds can be mixed with their exact 3D position, and be reproduced in stereo via the inverse square law. Moreover, a realistic doppler effect simulation is available. All this runs on the Amiga soundchip "Paula", and will be optimised by Assembler code.
• Talks have been made with several bands about the soundtrack. Perhaps more in the next update.

• VRML
• PDF (Acrobat)
• Quicktime VR
• RealAudio
• VFlashPPC

• Networking mode now functional
• new c2p RTG-Master graphics mode "Lucy"
• numerous bugfixes

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         P U R E   B A S I C   I S   A V A I L A B L E

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Our last issue carried the first statement from Amiga's new
President. There were probably some readers who thought our reaction
overly negative. That number may increase after reading his second
statement, below. However, most of our readers seem to feel as we do,
that with the latest moves at Amiga, there is no more future for an
Amiga we would recognize. At least, none with the company which
carries the name.
 While Mr. Schmidt talks of licensing others to make Amiga computers,
he doesn't make any references to maintaining the standards for
hardware and operating system within Amiga. He speaks only of the
specifications for the MCC itself. It's vital for such standards to be
maintained if there's to be any kind of an Amiga computer at all. This
is our main concern with recent events, not the fact that Amiga won't
make any computers themselves. Yes, that bothers us also, since they'd
indicated they would actually build some at least. However, the real
key is to ensure clone compatibility with a meaningful standard. So
far, what we're seeing gives us little hope for such control. And
pulling away from making any computers, which would provide a standard
for clones, is a very strong negative statement. Also, remember Amiga
OS 5 has disappeared from the Amiga web site. Folks, these are pretty
strong indications, and they don't indicate good things. If Amiga
proves to actually license and maintain meaningful standards for next
generation computers, then we'll reverse our opinion of them gladly,
and be happy to admit our misjudgement. We doubt we'll have to "eat
crow" though, to use an old American saying.
 We also find it disingenuous for Amiga to say that bringing the MCC
to market was beyond them. If so, buy stock in Dell and sell any you
have in Gateway. There certainly are risks, but the approach Amiga was
persuing would not be beyond Gateway, and only beyond Amiga if Gateway
chose to make it so. We suspect there were people within Gateway who
didn't see the worth, and did see the risks. This is common when a new
opportunity collides with a company that's lost the entrepreneurial
spirit and can't recapture it. Especially if there were pressure from
Microsoft, as has been alleged in some quarters.
 We feel it's still possible for Gateway/Amiga to come up with
something that will please the Amiga community down the road. We also
feel the odds are greatly against it. If the Amiga is to survive as a
computer platform, it probably is in the hands of the community. This
is a heady and heavy challenge. We hope the people trying to make this
work will succeed, and we stand ready to help them get the word out to
you as they go forward.
 There are many efforts being launched by the community. Besides the
"Phoenix Consortium" mentioned in last issue, there's AQUA (a software
architecture whose name stood for Amiga QNX Uniform Architecture, at
least originally, and maybe still does), Amino (an Amiga like company
name being discussed by former Amiga Inc. employee Fleecy Moss), and
TAC (Team AMIGA Central). Despite requests for information to
individuals identified as participating in these groups, none of them
has responded to "Amiga Update" at this time. Some of the e-mail just
bounced from the addresses we found on mostly empty web sites. Other
e-mail went unresponded to. The reason for silence mentioned in the
few public statements made is that pieces aren't in place yet to
provide information properly, or that nothing is yet ready and there
will be no premature announcements. Both are good reasons, but the
situation does leave us unclear on who'll be doing what and what the
relationships among groups is. As the picture clarifies, we'll bring
you information. Well known Amigans such as Fleecy Moss and Bill
McEwan have their names associated with much of the activity. Fleecy
has given a long interview on some of what's underway. It can be found
at http://www.williams.demon.co.uk/seal/fleecyint2.html as I write
this.
 From where we sit, it's all very confused at the moment. Lots of
acronyms, lots of good intentions, too early for anything real or any
idea if there ever will be anything real. We do hope so. But we still
have the standards issue ...

TransMeta - No Betta' Than Gateway?

 Recently the CEO of TransMeta was quoted as saying there was never
any connection between the secretive company and Amiga. The name
TransMeta appeared at World of Amiga only because it was in the
background of a picture of Linus Torvalds, the inventor of Linux, who
works for TransMeta. Unfortunately for that story, there were many
Amigans watching, some of whom captured images of the presentation,
who will be happy to state the name was on the list of partners, not
in the background at all.
 Maybe we're better off without TransMeta, whatever they're doing. One
thing we don't need more of is "untruths".
 We hope you enjoy this issue.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

10 Sep 1999
Hello Brad,

 I am the manager for the San Francisco State Univ. Residential
Network (ResNet). We have ~1500 kids in our networked dorms. Each
semester I get asked by kids and their parents what computer should
they get. Well guess what, after two years of suggesting Gateway
computers...All of a sudden my opinion has changed...Gateway?!...No, I
think you would be much happier with a Dell :)
                                     Kind Regards,

                                    Harry
==
Harry,
 Thanks very much for the note and permission to print it. To the
readers: Harry's note is in response to our last issue in which I
mentioned I expected a backlash against Gateway that could be
surprising to them because many Amigans are involved professionally
in the IT industry in one way or another. I'm sure Harry isn't alone
in his response and I must admit it brought a smile to my face.
 Brad

~~~~~~
16 Sep 1999
Dear Brad,

 The one thing that is very obvious about Mr. Schmidt's release is
that it is classic double-speak: it takes great pains to really say
nothing at all.

 My counter to this release would be to tell Mr. Schmidt and Gateway
to go ahead with their next millenium multimedia "appliance" and if
they really need to call it "Amiga", then do so, but they could at
least show some respect for the Amiga community by releasing the
rights to the old OS and hardware so that someone (maybe this Phoenix
group) can try to continue on our own path even if it's not called
Amiga but something else.

 I've been using Linux now for most of the year. I think Linux shows
us how to almost but not quite get it right. The Open Source concept
is the key element that could resurrect the Amiga if anything can.
What Linux lacks is anything beyond all the excited geeks who really
believe in it. There is a pretense of support for Linux in all of its
"documentation", but the documentation is largely a barely readable
diverse collection of highly technical information, a lot of which is
outdated and incorrect as far as newer releases of the kernel go.

 I have Wordperfect 8 for Linux and it works pretty well. It appears
that Corel feels that because they allow it to be downloaded for free
that they don't need to fix some of the glaring glitches in the
display that are quite annoying (makes it look like a beta version). I
even paid for a licensed copy of Wordperfect 8, and noted after I
bought it that the CDROM manual that comes with it is for Wordperfect
7, and because of MANY differences in the operation of 7 and 8, it is
virtually useless -- fortunately the written manual is correct. I
wanted to email them to let them know about these various problems,
but I can't find any email address on their website to send it to --
I'm certainly not going to pay for a phone call just to tell them all
these problems. I keep wondering, where are the fixes?

 So the gist I get is that the commercial players are using Linux for
two things: 1)to get back at Microsoft, and 2)to save money by not
having to finish and support their products. Doesn't sound like the
beginning of a success story to me.

 Personally, I view Linux as a way to keep myself intellectually
occupied as I fumble my way around its innards. Meanwhile, I'm trying
to learn Perl.

Greg
==
Greg,
 If Linux is to continue its growth, it's going to have to address all
problems of the nature you describe. It's too bad the Amiga will not
be in a position to help.
 As for releasing the source of Amiga OS, that might indeed help. Just
because Amiga OS is old doesn't mean it's bad. One reason many
professionals in the IT world prefer UNIX to NT, and that includes me,
is because UNIX has been around long enough to become very stable and
mature. Amiga OS needs improvements in key areas, but it's also been
tempered by time.
 Brad
~~~~~~

15 Sep 1999
        ...say it ain't so, Brad...

 I'm having trouble believing that Amiga is dead again. I need to hear
it from Gateway. Yeah, I'd love to hear them admit that they did
something so massively stupid. They came along at a time when
MicroSoft was starting to show the strain; they found and bought a
technology that had the potential to finally loosen ol' Visa Bill's
grip on his monopoly; they set up a company to develop it, put their
best people in it, poured dump truck loads of money into it; then,
mere months before this shining hope was ready for release, they took
the very part of the technology, (controlling internet appliances),
that Microsoft already has wrapped up and chucked the whole rest of it
in the dumpster! Irving Gould and Medhi Ali weren't _that_ stupid!

P.S. Do you know off hand what the status of OS3.5 is?

Allan
==
Allan,
 I think you echo questions a large number of Amigans are asking. As
for OS 3.5, as nearly as I can tell it's real and coming. I have my
copy on order.
 Brad

~~~~~~

15 Sep 1999
Hello Brad

    After constructing a long response to Tom Schmidt's statement,
  I decided to erase it and just say I think he's "full of beans".
  It's discouraging that he can't tell the difference between
  hundreds versus thousands of e-mails as it is quite a large
  gap.  He says "Long live Amiga" but Gateway-Amiga has only
  orphaned it once again in the same fashion of Commodore and Escom
  have done with broken promises, mis-management, and greed.
    THE real Amiga has been the devotion, work, and sacrifice of
  designers, programmers, developers, and users.  They support and
  appreciate this "box and O/S" which makes their lives better.
  It's a wonderful workhorse and work of art.  I personally want
  it spread again so that everyone has the opportunity to at least
  know what it is.  I don't care if it's the number one seller, but
  I do care if its decendant is still around for us to use.  So
  call me selfish.....
    Thank you very much for your newsletter, and thanks for posting
  the Phoenix information.  They have my full support.

    - Lars
==
Lars,
 Like you, we wish the Phoenix consortium the best. They have a very
difficult road ahead of them. On their side is that fact that no-one
else has ever done what the Amiga community has already done. This
computer has largely been kept alive by the community for years. Now
it looks like it much be 100% a community project.
 Brad
~~~~~~

14 Sep 1999

 I'm not so sure this is all that bad. Months ago, Gateway said they
weren't going to make the AmigaNG computer, just license the Amiga
technology/OS. Collas said the same a few weeks ago. So now we're back
to the same story.

 What has happened is that Amiga Inc./Gateway has gone into stealth
mode after a lot of publicity, after saying earlier they didn't want
to tip their hand to possible competitors (e.g. Microsoft) who could
thwart their plans. Could not recent events serve to conceal Gateway's
true plans, plans more to our liking than some are willing to admit?

 Maybe we'll find out in "two more weeks" (OK, 4 more months) :-)

Gary
==
Gary,
 We honestly didn't pick and chose our letters for this issue to set a
theme, the tone you see here accurately reflects how our readers feel.
Thank you for providing a counterpoint view. We actually find it a
positive thing that there are still some with hope for the future, and
hope in Gateway/Amiga. However, for the reasons I state in my
editorial above, I really don't expect anything from them. Here's
hoping I'm wrong and you're right.
 Brad

~~~~~~

11 Sep 1999 21:11:31 GMT

Congratulations Ted,

 Your silence is dammning. you most likely will be remembered as the
man who finally laid Amiga to rest.

 I suspect that we are so firecely protective of the Amiga because ALL
of the alternatives, despite their dazzling specs are still
"un-satisfying" to use.

 I run a growing business here in Japan using Amigas...it is quite
difficult to to get hardare and software at times but I persist
because all the Macs and PCs just do not "cut it"

 In closing, I wonder how my business would fare with you as the CEO.
Judging by the track record thus far, I shudder to think.

 Congratulations Ted.

 It's an odd an unfamiliar feeling to say that even though I do not
know you and most probably will never meet you in your lofty
circles...I don't like you.

 In the end, you are responsible. That is how I personally see it.

 The Amiga is not a token in a Monopoly game to us.

Michael
==
Michael,
 I doubt Ted Waite reads "Amiga Update", but I wish he did. As you
say, in the end it's his company. Maybe in Waite/Schmidt we'll have
another pair to place besides Gould/Ali. In truth, we're not quite at
that point yet. There still is a very slim possibility Gateway/Amiga
will do something the community will applaud. I'm not holding my
breath waiting, however.
 We hope you'll forgive us for excerpting your letter. We had to do
that to many of the notes above also, and some letters we couldn't fit
in at all. For some odd reason, the old mailbox at "Amiga Update" is
more full than it's been in a long time ...
 Brad
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September 17, 1999

Open Letter to the Amiga Community

 There has been a great deal of confusion and frustration expressed in
the news groups and via email over the past several weeks. I apologize
that we have not been more direct in our communications, and I want to
set the record straight.

 First, per my previous messages, I continue to be impressed with the
passion and commitment of this community. You have "hung in there''
through a number of upheavals over the past years, and through several
false starts on next-generation Amiga platforms. You deserve better. I
have received many, many emails over the past two weeks, expressing
your opinions and frustrations. Let me try and summarize what I have
heard.

 Many of you acknowledge the fact that we are focusing on software for
the coming generation of "Internet appliances.'' We are very excited
about the new Amiga Operating Environment, the work we are doing with
Linux (and other operating systems that support Java), and the huge
growth curve in Internet appliances that we are going to ride. You
have gracefully wished us well in this endeavor, for that, I thank
you. As you know, we announced in July that we were pursuing the
development of a "multimedia convergence computer'' that would serve
as the next-generation Amiga desktop computer. After the change in
management at Amiga, we reviewed all our product plans. To be honest,
the ability for us to deliver the MCC was unrealistic. Furthermore, I
have fundamentally decided that it would be better to partner with a
wide variety of hardware partners, rather than compete against them
with a product of our own.

 From your perspective, one big problem exists. Sounds great, but what
does this new direction have to do with the original Amiga computer?
Quite honestly, nothing! We realize that this does not satisfy the
desire of the Amiga community for a next-generation Amiga. In
response, I remain committed to seek out partners who are interested
in developing a next-generation Amiga computer and operating system.
We have been following the discussions amongst the newly formed
"Phoenix Platform Consortium'' and talking to companies interested in
supplying the next-generation Amiga. We are open to the possibility of
licensing the MCC product specification and design that is now on the
shelf to companies that are interested in further developing the Amiga
desktop computer product line. We believe that this could be an
attractive business opportunity for another company.

 In summary, we are continuing to focus our resources on setting
software standards for the coming generation of Internet appliances.
We are not planning to offer hardware devices, but will work with
hardware manufacturers who want to license our technology. As far as
offering next-generation Amiga systems, we are open to talking to
companies who want to offer such a product. For those of you who are
excited about the Amiga Operating Environment running on a wide
variety of future Internet appliances, we invite you to track our
progress and activities over the coming months. The Internet appliance
software model that we are putting together will open up an exciting
new era of software development that we think will be very interesting
to the type of innovative thinkers who were drawn to the Amiga
computer in years past.

Best Regards,

Thomas J. Schmidt
President and CEO
Amiga, Inc.
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Motorola PowerPC Microprocessor Strategy (32K pdf)

      Motorola Discloses New PowerPCTM Microprocessor Strategy Roadmap

      Customers announce products based on the MPC7400 microprocessor

 Austin, TX - September 13, 1999 - In a move to demonstrate their
strong long-term commitment to the PowerPC architecture as a strategic
solution addressing multiple markets, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today
revealed its PowerPC Microprocessor Strategy Roadmap. Details included
information on the future direction for development of leading-edge
microprocessors, integrated devices, innovative design methodologies
and manufacturing processes, as well as an aggressive strategy for
rapid reuse of these technologies. The new products, all to be created
at Motorola design centers worldwide, expand the PowerPC portfolio
providing solutions for the networking, telecommunications, computing,
transportation and other high-end embedded markets. The announcement
was made during the keynote address at the company's Horizons '99
event, where several customers demonstrated new products based on the
recently announced MPC7400 PowerPC microprocessor "The
high-performance embedded space craves raw MIPS processing and
sophisticated integration for its products," said Daniel Artusi,
Motorola vice president and general manager of the Network and
Computing Systems Group. "The large and influential base of customers
using PowerPC-based designs must be able to create flagship products
and move them into the market rapidly. We've dedicated enormous
resources in research and design to ensure that our PowerPC-based
microprocessors continuously deliver best-in-class customer solutions
for all of our target markets."

 As illustrated by Motorola's PowerPC Strategy Roadmap, the PowerPC
core design facilitates ease of reuse for integrated devices or
semi-custom applications. System level reuse of intellectual property
results in faster time-to-market. In 1998, Motorola captured 36% of
the 32-bit embedded processor market and the PowerPC architecture was
rated the #1 choice for new 32-bit embedded applications*. Coupled
with state-of-the-art design methodology, the PowerPC technology reuse
strategy will further strengthen Motorola's already dominant market
position.

 "The PowerPC roadmap underscores a renewed vigor by Motorola to
advance the PowerPC family," said market watcher Will Strauss,
president of Forward Concepts (Tempe, AZ). "Applying the most advanced
0.15-micron copper HiPerMOS process to the product family indicates
Motorola's substantial investment in advancing the PowerPC
technology."

 Today TeraGLOBAL Communications Corporation, CSP Inc. and DY 4
Systems Inc. announced products based on Motorola's MPC7400 PowerPC
microprocessor with AltiVec technology. These products join other
MPC7400-based solutions recently introduced by Mercury Computer
Systems, Inc. and SKY Computers, Inc. The MPC7400 processor with
AltiVec technology also powers all of Apple's newest and most powerful
desktop computers, the Power MacTM G4 series.

 As the worlds's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's
Semiconductor Products Sector offers multiple DigitalDNATM solutions
which enable customers to create new business computing,
transportation, and wireless communications markets. Motorola's
worldwide semiconductor sales were $7.3 billion (USD) in 1998.

 Motorola is a global leader in providing integrated communications
solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 1998 were $29.4
billion. For additional information regarding Motorola PowerPC
microprocessors, visit http://motorola.com/PowerPC.

 *Source: Cahner's MicroDesign Resources The Microprocessor Report,
January 1999.
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14 Sep 1999

 It's about time the "big boys" came out to play.

 This has happened before. But unlike before, there truly are some
heavyweights among the rebels (or is that REBOLs?)

 We're going to follow this one closely. It opens so many new and
exciting doors. Maybe we (Mirada) won't have to do a 100% port to
Linux after all (?) ;)

 To show our support, any of you weary may submit your support at our
web-page and we will then forward it to "greenboy". And, to further
show our hearts are in the right place, we will give the
administrators of this project full access to the database via a web
interface.

 Fleecy? Bill?

 We are only asking for the exact information that was asked for on
the TA Mailing List.

Point your browser to the form at:
        http://www.mirada-innovations.com/amigang.phtml

 NOTE: This is not yet officially endorsed by Amino or the "Phoenix
Consortium", we are only doing it in support of the effort, all
information is for the SOLE purpose of this effort. It will be
forwarded to the E-Mail address in the TA Mailing List E-Mail
(greenboy@bigsky.net)

Regards,
Jeffrey D. Webster
Mirada Innovations
http://www.mirada-innovations.com/polls/poll.phtml
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24 Sept. 1999
                            Amiga Extravaganza 99


 WHEN:

October 8th (setup) and get acquainted
Sat Oct 9th: 10am-6pm EST
Sun Oct 10th: 10am-4pm EST

 WHERE:

National Guard Armory 3912 West Minnesota St
Indianapolis, IN

HOW MUCH:

$8 in advance
$10 at the door (2 free tickets with purchase of 1 or more tables)



 Who Will Be There?

 If the vendor has a (*) by the name they are not totally committed or
 pending, this will change.

 Digital Arts

 Amiga, NewTek, DeskStation dealer located in Bloomington, IN
*Seminare

 * ImageFX

 Computer animation and graphics for broadcast television, multimedia
and the Internet

 SystemsForTomorrow

 Hardware and software for Amiga. Located in Independence, MO.

 * Token Media

 Video Imaging Studios has served as the Twin Cities full service
video production center.

 Onyx Technologies

 Telecommunication solutions provider for the small to medium business
"an authorized Altigen Communications Dealer"

 Amazing Amiga Magazine

 The World's First Monthly Amiga Magazine *Seminare

 * John Zacharias

 Author of AEMail, email client for the Amiga

 * Cloanto

 Italian makers of the high-quality PPaint, PSuite and Kara Collection
font/etc. package.

 FWD-Computing

 Mail-order CD-ROM software for Amiga computers

 CompuQuick Media Center

 Hardware, software and peripherals in central Ohio.

 Dan's Deals

 Specializing In Amiga Components and Systems, located in NE Ohio

 Macrohard Computers

 Amiga Hardware dealer out of Ohio, Owner Laurent Arseneau

 Discount Computer Supplies

 Printing and computer supplies, Amiga compatible. Will be presenting
a seminar about re-inking cartridges, creating your own designs for
mouse pads, T-shirts & Cups.

 Details

 Show Space 99ft x 104ft (over 10,000 sq. ft!)

 Iteneriary

 Near by lodging ($ave with our group rate)

 Comfort-Sleep Inn

 Online Application Forms for Vendor/Dealers and User Groups. Vendor
Space (8 ft tables - no limit on the # of tables) this price includes
2 free tickets All fees cover both Saturday and Sunday.

 If you are a User Group please click here, All Vendors/Dealers you
need to click here. Please use one of the links above to apply for
show space. Cost of Booths: $300 (Hurry!! deadline Sept 28th)

 Seafood Newburg & Prime Rib, click! Banquet

 All-U-Can-Eat Buffet $25 per person (Waterfront Inn)

 If you are interested in attending our show and you are not a vendor
or part of a user group please click on the following form. ($ave
Now!)

 AE Shows User Form

Make All Payments Payable To:
  ARCUG, Indianpolis
  Att: Amiga Extravaganza A word from the President of ARCUG
  4007 Lawndale Ave ,Suite A
  Indianapolis, IN 46254

http://www.midlink.com/amiga/aeshows2.html
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            S W E D E N ' S   A M I G A   M A G   D I E S

13 Sept., 1999

 The only printed Swedish Amiga magazine - "Amiga Info/AI Echo" -
announced on September 10 that it has ceased publishing. It was
started in 1996 by Thomas Svensson and the final issue (19) was
published in March of this year. The final issue saw a name change
from Amiga Info to "AI/Echo" to better reflect the magazine changing
from an Amiga-only magazine to one also covering Linux. Although that
meant an increase in sales it was not enough to save the magazine.
AmigaInfo/AI Echo's web site will live on at www.xfiles.se.
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                  W A S T E D   D R E A M S   C D

 Winnipeg, MB, September 11, 1999 Power Solutions announces the first
of its imported titles: Wasted Dreams CD for $49.99 CAD. With its hand
drawn locations, digital speech, 3D rendered animations, strategy
action, and logic puzzles it will keep players busy for some time.
Wasted Dreams will work on any Amiga with 2MB Chip ram and 1MB Fast
ram. It will utilize faster CPU's, more memory, and the AGA chipset if
available.

 As well, our efforts to reduce old inventory continue. The 50% off
sale is still ongoing. Buy Distant Suns CD v5.01 for $29.99 CAD and
receive a 50% discount on all other products in our online ordering
catalog. This discount does NOT apply to the Wasted Dreams CD. Power
Solutions is an Amiga only Canadian company. Access our software
catalog at http://www.powersolutions.mb.ca/cat_sw/

http://www.powersolutions.mb.ca/
info@powersolutions.mb.ca
1-204-453-0527
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       D I G I T A L   I M A G E S '   W I P O U T   2 0 9 7

 September 8th, 1999 - Blittersoft have announced today that we are
now taking pre-orders for the famous Anti-Gravity Racer WipeOut 2097.

 This game needs little introduction, already proving a smash hit
success on the PlayStation and PC platforms. We expect full release in
October.

 At last a game is available on the Amiga that will really show off
the power of the PPC platform and 3D capable graphics hardware.

 For further information and pre-order details, please visit the Store
area on our Website.

http://www.blittersoft.com

Specification:

Highly detailed 3d graphics
8 tracks with up to 15 ships racing concurrently
3 racing modes (time trial/arcade/challenge)
4 racing classes
5 ship models with different characteristics
8 weapons/extras
9 CD audio tracks + 16 bit sound fx
MPEG animations (no external player required)
Keyboard/Mouse/Joypad control (fully configurable)

AMIGA-specific features:

Runs in a window on the workbench (incl. resizing)
Supports triple buffering for max. performance
Increased maximal view distance during the race
Fogging effect
Mipmapping/trilinear filtering (if supported by hardware)
Gamma correction
Optional frame rate limitation

Requirements:

PowerPC 603e CPU (recommended: 604e CPU)
3D gfx card (minimal: CV3D, recommended: CVPPC/BVPPC or newer)
recommended: sound card
minimal 1 MB free HD space (recommended: 70 MB)
24 MB RAM (recommended: 32 MB RAM)
CD-ROM drive
OS 3.0 (recommended: OS 3.1)
CyberGraphX/Picasso96 software
WarpUp V4 software (included)
Warp3D V2 software (included)
recommended: AHI software
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              N E W S C O A S T E R   R E L E A S E D

11 September, 1999

NewsCoaster, Offline Newsreader Available

 Announcing the release of NewsCoaster, a new shareware offline
newsreader for the Amiga. The unregistered version can be downloaded
from Aminet, in comm/news/newscoaster.lha

Minimum Requirements:
- 68020 or better
- MUI
- 4MB RAM (absolute minimum)
- OS3.0 or above

Features:

 - Powerful control over which posts are downloaded (eg, set a maximum
number of posts to download) - can configure for each newsgroup
individually - Killfile on any header - Automatic killfile creation,
based on a particular message (eg, kill this thread, or kill all
messages from this author) - Choose not to download messages greater
than a certain number of lines - Email support to reply to sender -
Automatic rewrapping of text when replying - no more overspilling
lines - Multithreaded interface - view messages whilst replying to
others, and having preferences windows open, continue to use the
program whilst uploading and downloading news - Import function which
reads in all news items from a given directory (and all
sub-directories) allowing you to easily import news from your old
newsreader - MIME Version 1.0 for decoding files - can decode
Quoted-Printable, base64 and uuencoded messages - Attachments - base64
encoding - Search facilities - can search in a particular header, or
in any header, the message body, or the entire message - *, / and _
are converted to bolds, italics and underlines - but this can be
turned off (no more unreadable programming NGs that you get in some
newsreaders...) - You can have eight signatures, with a default
specified for each newsgroup - Easy to use interface - AmigaGuide
documentation - Download Group list option - Many more features..

Please visit http://members.tripod.com/newscoaster for more details.

Thanks,

Mark Harman
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       F U S I O N   F O R   P P C   I N   P R O C E S S

                      FUSION-PPC in the works!

              Deadline for release: November 20th, 1999


17 Sept., 1999

 Microcode Solutions is pleased to announce that the 60 day count down
for the release of the PPC module will begin on September 20th, 1999.

 The PC version is being worked on at the same time as the Amiga
version, so the expected release date will be close to the Amiga
version.

 Although we have 60 days to complete the product, it may be that it
is done much sooner... especially in light of the competition between
Microcode Solutions and Emulators, Inc. to release a PPC version for
the PC.

 The retail price for the PowerPC upgrade module is $199.95. If you
pre-pay before the release of the product (regardless of the stated
release date), you will be charged only $149.95.
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                   P H O T O G E N I C S   4 . 2

15 Sept., 1999

 Paul Nolan is pleased to announce Photogenics 4.2, another free
update to existing users of Photogenics 4.x.

 The main new features in 4.2 are Tool Tips for quick and easy
explanations of all of the items in the tool bar, a Media Cache for
improved Media loading times, and new paint on image processing modes
such as: Gamma, Sharpen, UnsharpMask, BizarrePixelize, Randomize, and
Channel Randomize. Blur, Convolve and RadialBlur have been rewritten
for more speed, features and options. In particular Blur is now
incredibly fast. Processing a 50x50 pixel blur on a 800x600 image now
takes less than 2 seconds on an 060, with a huge 500x500 pixel blur
taking just 3 seconds, and is fast enough to apply with the AirBrush!

 Several minor changes include an enhanced Scale with improved quality
and feedback, an improved Text tool, a reduction in the memory need by
Photogenics by one megabyte (now uses just two megs with no images
loaded), various overall speed improvements, keyboard shortcuts for
zoom and pan, plus tweaks to the user interface.

 Price

$99.99 US Dollars.

Upgrade from Photogenics v1.x or v2: $75 US Dollars.

How to purchase Photogenics

 You can securely order online with your credit card by going to
http://www.paulnolan.com and clicking on Purchase, or by calling the
StarByte order hotline toll free on 1 800 243 1515, extension 400.
Outside of Northern America, please prefix this number with the
necessary dialing code (00 from the UK), and note that international
call charges will apply. If upgrading, you will need your registration
code, type it into the field labeled Comments or tell the salesperson.

 Photogenics is also available fully localized in German, with
distribution in Germany courtesy of Schatztruhe,
http://www.schatztruhe.de.

 For screen shots, a gallery, and even more information please visit
the Photogenics website at http://www.paulnolan.com

 Photogenics is a registered trademark of Paul Nolan. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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          P U R E   B A S I C   I S   A V A I L A B L E

11 Sept., 1999

 Pure Basic is brand new 'high level' programming langage based on the
previoulsy etablished B.A.S.I.C rules. It ensure a good compatibility
with similar basic compiler independement of the computer. The
learning is easy, as basic has been created for beginner and the
development time is really fast.

 This software has been developed for the Amiga with the Amiga
enviromment in mind. We have put lot of effort in its realization to
produce fast, reliable and system friendly langage. The respect of the
OS is always the master word, and you couldn't write bad software with
the basic commandset provided. Of course, you could add any other
functions to bash the hardware and use all the Amiga power, if you
need it.

 The syntax is easy, but the possibilities are huge because some
'advanced' functions has been added to this langage like pointers,
structure, procedure, dynamic linked lists, and more.. For the
experienced coder, there is no problem to access any of the legal OS
structures or amiga objects.

 Finally, Pure Basic support the 680x0 processor and in early stage
the PowerPC. The PowerPC processor is not fully working yet because we
don't have any PPC accelerator at the Fantaisie Software team to
achieve the tests. The 68000 part has been very optimized to output
the best code as possible, but we're sure we could do even better !


 Look yourself at the main features of Pure Basic:

 - 68000 and 68020+ support (PowerPC in progress)

 - Built-in Array, dynamic linked list, complex structure, pointer
 and variable definitions

 - Supported types: Byte (8 bit), Word (16 bits), Long (32) and user
 defined ones (structures)

 - Signed (finished) and unsigned (partially) support for standard
types

 - Built-in strings type

 - Constants, binary and hexadecimal numbers support

 - Very good expression reducer by grouping constants and numeric
numbers together

 - Standard arithmetic support with respect of signs priority and
parenthesis:
 +, -, /, *, and, or, lsl, asl, lsr, asr

 - Compile about 30 000 lines/min on a 68030/50 (with PoolMem
installed)

 - Procedure support for structured programming with locals and global
variables (not fully finished)

 - All Standard BASIC keywords: If-Else-EndIf, Repeat-Until ...

 - External libraries support to manipulate easily objects like IFF
pictures, screens, windows, gadgets...

 - Precompiled structures and constants files for extra fast
compiling.

 - Cool debugger to stop the program execution and trace the bugs
easily.

 - Configurable CLI compiler

 - System friendly, easy to install and always under development


 Visit our site web at: http://www.citeweb.net/fantaisi/

 Enjoy the Amiga power !

 © 1999 - Fantaisie Software -
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