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02.Sep.1999
.amiupdate


New Interview with Iwin
New Interview with Iwin. (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Torsten Dudai


New Cartoon: Amiga Airlines




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02.Sep.1999
Spiegel


Spiegel: Birthday - Internet gets 30
In his article, Detlef Borchers describes the long way to the info highway.
"Thirty years ago, US-American scientists for the first time connected a computer to an IMP (Interface Message Processor), and by this, created the foundation for today's networking technology. With the historical connection, the long birth of Internet began." (Full article - German - at the title link.) (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Amiga Nutta


New "Virtual Grand Prix" demo released
The game has been completely reworked on basis of 'AlienF1', and is now available as demo from Aminet under the name Virtual Grand Prix Demo. Download: AF1last.lha (1.25 MB) (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
SAKU


Petro Tyschtschenko cancels visit at SAKU 99
Due to the resignment of Jim Collas, Petro Tyschtschenko cancelled his visit at the big Finnish event SAKU 99, which is taking place this weekend - he is flying to important meetings in the USA.
It has been confirmed today that Jens Schönfeld of individual computers, known for products like Catweasel, Buddha etc., will be attending SAKU 99. (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Pascal & Rainer by eMail


driver software for laser
Bytei & McScotty (Pascal & Rainer) write:
For about 6 years we run a small laser show rental. Our lasers are exclusively driven by Amigas (1200 50 MHz 10 MB 68030+Co). Sadly, our driver software leaves a lot to be desired! The developer of the software (Edward Skorus) has given us sourcecodes and rights. For a long time now we are looking for alternatives or someone able to expand the driver software. Is there someone among your readers who knows this stuff, or knows someone who knows? (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Andreas Falkenhahn


Alicia Silverstone Rainboot Configs
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
Starting immediately, two great Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) Rainboot configs are available for download from the Airsoft Softwair homepage. They have been done by Jean-Yves Auger of Pixel Art jauger@caramail.com. A must for all Alicia Silverstone fans... (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Peter Ratschiller by eMail


Dr. Awesome released old Mods as MP3 files for download!
Peter Ratschiller writes:
I am a fan of Bjorn Lynne, aka Dr. Awesome (an old-time Amiga scene musician). On his homepage (title link) he now posted that he is reworking old MOD pieces and offers them for download on the MP3 page as MP3 pieces! Also available at http://www.amp3.net/drawesome/. He wants to bring some new pieces online every month! (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
Foundation


Foundation News
A new update will be released ASAP. The last version 1.25 was not released because this update has been done for the new version 'Foundation Directors Cut', and was not fully compatible to the old 'Foundation' version. Paul Burkey works on the new Update 1.26 and is trying to make this update compatible with the old version, too. Moreover, Paul informs also that he is increasing his work on 'Foundation's Edge', and that this work is taking most of his time. (ps)

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02.Sep.1999
ADX (Mr. Dombrowski) by phone


Phase5: Next Generation PowerPC G4 processor boards
Phase 5 writes:
TOP NEWS 02.09.99:Join the exclusive club of GigaFLOPS users now - with the Next Generation PowerPC G4 processor boards from phase 5 digital products!

Faster than expected just five weeks ago, Motorola's new PowerPC G4 (XPC7400) processor powerhorse is now shipping! We have therefore immediately decided to make this brand-new technology available to all Amiga 1200/3000/4000 users, by shipping all of our upcoming next generation CYBERSTORM and BLIZZARD boards with these new high-performance G4 CPUs!

Because of that, only with our new products series
  • Your Amiga will get the most up-to-date CPU which was ever available in an Amiga, including any upgrade processor boards
  • Your Amiga will offer a processing performance which is superior to nearly any available personal computer system today - supercomputer performance on your desktop! Plus even the option for symmetrical Multi-Processing with Dual-XPC7400 modules for those who need the real bang....
  • Your Amiga is technologically up-to-date - with powerful hardware, expansion options and the support of highly modern Operating Systems including backwards compatibility to the Amiga OS 3.x.

Please also take a look on the updated product specifications below, as well as on Motorola's website http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/ !

For all Amiga users, who now finally decide to buy a next generation CYBERSTORM or BLIZZARD G4 board, we have extended the preoder program with significant discounts one last time until October 15, 1999. Don't miss that final deadline!

IMPORTANT: If you have already ordered a G3 board, you do not have to place a new order or act. All customers, who have ordered a 400MHz G3 version in the preorder program, will receive a 400MHz G4 version of the CYBERSTORM or BLIZZARD G4 board at no extra cost. Customers of a 300MHz G3 version will receive a separate notification from us. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
ZDNet


Collas out as Amiga president
According to ZDNet, Jim Collas is no longer president of Amiga.
Summary of the article:
Jim Collas leaves the company for personal reasons, and has registered his 118.000 stock shares for sale. Moreover it is reported that Gateway paid 13 million US-Dollar for 47 Amiga patents, and that Collas himself asked Gateway president Ted Waitt for the Job at Amiga. He moreover asked to run Amiga as a seperate company.
Tom Schmidt takes over the post from Collas. Before his joining Amiga, Schmidt has worked as General Manager for Allied Signal. He was not available for comment.
PS:
CNet also reports: Gateway's Amiga president jumps ship
The article states that Collas' leaving does not imply a change in plans, and the planned route will be continued by Schmidt. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
amigaonline.net


AMIGAOnline.NET
Today, AMIGAOnline.NET is going online officially as Internet Service Provider for Amiga users in the USA and Canada. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
AHI


AHI v4 - Status
Martin Blom reports back from holiday, and has good news for PPC users since the PPC assembler mixing routines are much faster than the C version. Details at the title link. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
ZDNet [News]


Coppermine early - Pentium III with 700 MHz comes in October
USB 2.0 being 40 times as fast as current USB
IFA: First DVD on Linux worldwide (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
v3.vapor.com


V³ - TearOff classes not complete in archive
The TearOff-classes in the V³pre 1/2 archives are incomplete. Please download the compete installation from either amiga.org.pl/~szulat/tearoff/ or VaporWare at MCC_TearOff.lzx and install the new archive. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise Newsticker (German)
IFA: DVD-Player for Linux
StarDivision takeover doesn't bother Microsoft
Sun: Into the Web with StarOffice (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Fabian Jimenez


Another Loss
* Forwarded from newsgroup "a Mail"
* Originally from: Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com)
* Original date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:01:48 -0400

Hello All,

I regret to inform that Bill McEwen told me as of
Tuesday he will no longer be under contract at
Amiga.  Sigh.

I called him about some newsletter plans he had
in mind, only to receive yet another bit of
disappointing news.

Regards,
Fabian
--
Fabian Jimenez : fabian@cais.com : ICQ# 21377601
       Editor, Amiga Intuition Newsletter
National Capital Amiga Users Group, www.ncaug.org


With Bill, somebody is leaving who always had time to listen to users, and didn't hold back with informations.
September 2nd, 1999:
Bill McEwen confirms at Cucug that he recieved a message on August 30th that August 31rd would be his last day at Amiga. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Magnus Rivertz Torgersen by eMail


Amitory/Oratory for Amiga released as shareware
Amitory/Oratory is a chat program for use on a LAN, and is probably the best chat program to use on a internal network between pc's and Amiga's. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
HEW


Home electronic world in Cologne
The Amiga show so far known as Computer(xx=year) is named "Home electronic world" this year. It will take place from November 12th to 14th in the exhibition center, Cologne, in hall 11.2. The official website is online since today. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Janne Siren by eMail


Press Release: Finnish Saku 99 Event this Saturday
From:       Janne Siren siren@mikrobitti.fi
Reply-To:   siren@mikrobitti.fi
Subject:    Press release: Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
Date:       Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:18:34 +0300


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday

Webcam and IRC Channel Available

ESPOO, FINLAND - September 1, 1999 - Saku 99, the biggest Amiga event in
Finland this year, will be on this Saturday in Vantaa. The show starts at
12 o'clock and will feature Amiga related competitions, demonstrations,
retailers and video films. Amiga's Petro Tyschtschenko and AmigaOS 3.5
previews will be there as well. Attendance is free of charge.

For those who can't attend, the Finnish Amiga Users Group will be hosting a
webcam and an IRC channel (#saku99 at IRCnet) with live comments from the
exhibition place. Please note the Finnish timezone (EET, GMT+2). You should
also check out the Saku 99 invitation intro in Aminet for pictures and
other highlights (demo/intro/saku99.lha).

Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/english/, for further information. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Janne Sirén (siren@mikrobitti.fi).

About Saku 99

Saku 99 will be the biggest Amiga event in Finland this year. Following the
success of Saku 98, which was visited by some 500 Amiga enthusiasts, Saku
99 is aimed to be bigger and better than the previous events. Mr. Petro
Tyschtschenko of Amiga has already confirmed his presence and other great
highlights are planned. Saku 99 will be held on Saturday September 4th 1999
at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki.

About Finnish Amiga Users Group

Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after it's disk magazine, the group is trying
to accomplish it's goals by organizing meetings and by publishing a disk
magazine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and it's predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the disk magazine and held several
public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet,
a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.
(ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Volker Mohr by eMail


Amiga Patents
At the title link, you will find a posting to comp.sys.amiga.misc, listing the patents filed by Amiga. We didn't take a closer look at the list, but perhaps one reader or another has the time to read them :-).
Comments are wellcome in the forum. (ps)

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01.Sep.1999
Stefan Robl by eMail


FMdriver Update Version 1.12
Stefan Robl writes:
The FMdriver packet has been improved further:
All programs can now save in IFF format, too (8 as well as 24 bit). All problems with flicker or lines in small resolutions should be fixed, the FPS rate now looks much more stable, too. A serious bug has been removed that occured when there was no Prism24 module connected. The FMRecorder now offers several file formats, so it will work with every video software. Small changes and bugfixes.
Download: FMdriver.lha (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Alexandros Pourikas by eMail


amiga.gr online
Alexandros Pourikas has created an Amiga website in Greek language at www.amiga.gr. Aside from Amiga news and a forum in local language, there is an interesting picture gallery to be found here.

Since the website is completely written in Greek, I don't understand a word, but the graphics alone are worth a visit :-). (ps) (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]


Fast 3D gfx chip by nVidia
Heise writes, among other:
California gfx chip manufacturer nVidia presented the 3D chip for PC graphic gards previously dubbed "NV10" in Berlin. The GeForce 256 is the first graphic chip for consumer PCs that processes and displays 3D data mainly on its own.
With 23 million transistors, the GeForce 256 is more than twice as complex as a Pentium-III CPU (9 million transistors). Since it does geometry transformations and lighting calculations much faster than the PC CPU, it can create 3D objects and 3D virtual realities with much more detail and fluid moves. Thus, PC games can make use of curved and organic structures like in movies a la "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life". (Full article - German - at the title link).
Here is another interesting link on the subject. (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Heise [Newsticker]


StarOffice goes OpenSource
Heise writes, among other:
As expected, Sun Microsystems today confirmed the purchase of the software company Star Division based in Hamburg, Germany. At the same time, Sun announced the office package StarOffice to be available for Internet download. (Full article - German - at the title link).
Bernhard Kuhn in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc posted more interesting details about the press conference, like StarOffice now being free for _commercial_ use, too. (ps)

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31.Aug.1999



Seybold Conference: First Macs with PowerPC G4 CPU
MacGadget, among others, writes:
As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented a new generation of Macintosh computers in his keynote to the Seybold Conference in San Francisco, which are powered for the first time by the top-performing PowerPC G4 CPU. Apple called the new Macs "supercomputers", offering significantly more speed than the current Power Macintosh G3 product line. Apple starts shipping the first 400 MHz G4 system today. Versions with 450 and 500 MHz are bound to follow in the next two weeks.
The main performance specs are a 2x AGP bus, integrated AirPort technology, an Ultra 66 ATA system and an accelerated PCI bus. Jobs spend special attention on the AltiVec technology. This especially speeds up operations heavy on numerical calculations, like graphic applications. A special AltiVec-optimised expansion to Photoshop is included with every G4 Mac. The new systems will cost between 1599 and 3499 USD. A PowerPC G4 with 500 MHz is said to be much faster than a Pentium III with 600 MHz. The Power Macintosh G4 will be shipped in the same casing as the current G3 line, but not in blue-white but silver-white.
The new configurations in overview:
Power Mac G4/400, 64 MB memory, 10 GByte-HD, 32speed CD-ROM; 1599 $
Power Mac G4/450, 128 MB memory, 20 GByte-HD, DVD-ROM; 2499 $
Power Mac G4/500, 256 MB memory, 27 GByte-HD, DVD-RAM; 3499 $
(More details at the title link - German -) (ps)

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31.Aug.1999
Amiga.org


Amiga filed a Patent
At Nr. US5935230, the following patent has been registered: "Multiprocessor arrangement including bus arbitration scheme involving plural CPU clusters that address each other as "phantom" CPUs". (ps)

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