To:         "amiganewsfeed"@phoebe.hosting4u.net
Subject:    [ANF] (fwd) Amiga 2K Press Release 8
Date:       Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:17:16 -0600

PRESS RELEASE:
Amiga 2K - Banner Year Rewards

January 19, 2000

Let's make this a banner year for Amiga and Amigans.
Place the Amiga 2K show banner on your web sites, and
or distribute flyers for the Amiga 2K show. All Amiga
clubs, companies and individual Amigans can enter this
promotion. The more folks that see the banners and elect
to come to Amiga 2K, the better it will be for the Amiga.

To encourage the distribution of the Amiga 2K brochures
that we have printed, and the placement of our show banner,
located at:  http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html
we are offering the following incentive.

WIN A "MAGICAL AMIGA MUG"
(You can view this mug at: http://www.amiga-stl.com)
(click on the "Products" page)

First way to win: Banner Placement

Place the Amiga 2K show banner on your website and keep
it there until after the show. Fill in the information
below and email it to me.

Second way to win: Brochure distribution

If you have an Amiga club, or an Amiga company, and you
distribute Amiga 2K flyers prior to the show, I will
enter you in the drawing. Fill in the information below.

Each week, at random, I will draw a name for a cup.
Winners will be notified by email or U.S. mail if
no email address is available.

Drawings will continue until the week of the show.

It is possible to win more than once. It's possible to
win every week, as all names will be put back in the hat.

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Banner Year - Banner Placement

I have placed the Amiga 2K banner on the following
site and wish you to enter my name in a drawing for
a "Magical Amiga Mug"

Individuals Name:

Site Name:

Site address: http://

Banner placed where on the site:

Full mailing address:


Phone number:

email address:

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Banner Year - Flyers

I wish to distribute flyers for the Amiga 2K show.
Please send them to me at the address provided, and
I will distribute them. You must distribute a
minimum of five flyers.


Individuals Name:

Full mailing address:


Phone number:

email address:

Please send me _____ flyers.

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To obtain the banner, go to the following website. At the
bottom of the page is the banner. Save it to your Amiga
and place it on your site.

Thanks for your help, and your interest. I wish I had
more mugs to give out, but we are running out of them.
If you are interested in viewing what the mugs look like,
check out: http://www.amiga-stl.com  Click on the
"Products" page. A picture of the mug is displayed.

These are five color high quality porcelain mugs with
gold rims and four finger handles. They have two unique
designs, one on each side of the mug. The designs are
heat sensitive, so when hot liquids are added to the
mug, the design changes. The mugs are microwave safe.
They should not be washed in the dishwasher however.
It affects the magic ink, fading it, and eventually
affecting the gold rim.

See you at Amiga 2K, April 1 & 2, in St. Louis, MO. The
largest Amiga show in the Americas. Check out the show
site at http://www.amiga-stl.com/show.html

Good luck, and thanks.

Bob Scharp
Amigan-St. Louis

bscharp@icon-stl.net
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Bob Scharp,              WOW! Amiga 2K is going to be HUGE!
bscharp@icon-stl.net     Almost 1,200 people attended Amiga 99.
Amigan-St. Louis
P.O. Box 672             You've just got to check it out at:
Bridgeton, MO 63044          http://www.amiga-stl.com
U.S.A.                   Amiga 2K, the next Gateway Computer
                         Show - April 1 & 2, 2000.

• XAD-System version4
  Dirk Stoecker writes us by e-mail:
  Version 4 of the archive extractor "xadmaster.library" is ready. This system allows to extract archives of different formats (LhA, LZX, RAR, Zip, ...). Additionally, disk archives (DMS, Zoom) can also be extracted, even enabling to extract files from such archives without needing a disk (or ram drive). The original archiver programs are no longer needed, but are replaced by internal subroutines.
  
  Right now, only the included shell tools fully support the system, but a Reaction GUI is in the works, modules for DirOpus and other programs are already existing or currently under development.
  
  The system can be downloaded from Aminet at util/arc/xadmaster.lha, and some additional informations are available at the title link. The antivirus tool CheckX is a good suplement (Aminet util/arc/CheckX.lha), checking whole hard drives and CDs including the file and disk archives with the help of XAD.
• Douglas F. McLaughlin: StrICQ Version 0.1702
  Download: STRICQ.lha
• AmiDog: TrueReality Version 990629.2
  Download: TrueReality.lha
• Peter John Hutchison: New HP Deskjet 870C driver v40.11
  Drivers for HP 810C, 850C, 870C, 880C, 890C and compatible (not 820C)
  Download: HP_Deskjet870C.lha
• Frank Fenn: WBStartup++ version 1.0
  Download: wbstartup++.lha - 6 Kb
• Imagine Amiga Constant Upgrade Program (ACUP) version 5.17
  The update can be downloaded by registered ACUP users from the usual download area. New: 24bit datatype system supported for Brushmapping, OS3.5 compatible, new GUI and fuctionality of the zoom function, improved MPEG generator, new GUI and functionality of the Bevel- and the Frame-goto-function.
  More details at the title link.

• people interested contact the coordinated
• ideally, the coordinator should be able to offer a WWW site where results can be posted
• ideally generated with a sample list of JPEG and PNG files from Aminet (different sizes, from pix/misc), PNG perhaps from the Cloanto package (AFAIK PPaint comes with several of them).
  
  
• several configs should be used:
• A1200 with 020/030 and 040, 060
• A1200 with PPC
• A4000 with 030 and 040, 060
• A4000 with PPC
  
• the results should be updated regulary (with new releases)
  
• together with the results it should be listed:
  
• system configuration (CPU, RAM, graphic board)
• operating system (3.0, 3.1 - picDT V40, 43, 44)
• datatypes config

• Danny Hamon wrote us by e-mail:
  I got myself the tool "MCControl". With this tool, the Amiga can read the memory card of the Playstation, and can seperately save settings. So old settings are not lost when overwritten with new ones.
  
  The tool supports DexDrive, and you don't have to be great in fixing things to build a memory card reader for your own. A manual for the build-it-yourself kit is included in the archive. Download: mccontrol.lha.
• Oliver Roberts:
  WarpPNG.datatype version 44.3 - download WarpPNGdt.lha
  WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.7 - download WarpJPEGdt.lha
• Douglas F. McLaughlin: StrICQ version 0.1698
  Download: STRICQ.lha
• Haage & Partner has new drivers for the graphics tablet Wacom-Graphire. H&P writes: Finally, Amiga fans can enjoy the new graphics tablet, too. The drivers support the pressure sensitive pen as well as the included cordless mouse including its scroll wheel.
  More details.
• The number of preorders for the Amiga version of "Simon The Sorcerer 2" from Epic Marketing is currently 346. Just to remember, 500 preorders are needed to realise "Simon The Sorcerer 2" for Amiga. Preorders can be placed here.
• Christian Sharnbeck wrote us by e-mail that since beginning of this year, the latest version of the (to him) best known shareware program for maintaining your household money, UltraAccount v5.0, can be downloaded from Richard Smedley. You can also register online there.
  
  All possible transactions, and later corrections, are easily done. Maintaining seperate accounts is possible. Totals are always available for all accounts. Several languages. With a little trick, UA5.0 now also works with the Amiga emulator UAE for PC: Ask the author or Chr.Scharnbeck@t-online.de.
  Download: ultraacc.lha
• Dundar Unsal tells us in ANF that at Amigart, the Amster Web Page is the ultimate source for music online. New released is Amster version 0.4.
  Download: amster.lha.