• Eintragen: announce-request@ibrowse-dev.net
  (Im Betreff "SUBSCRIBE" eintragen)
  
  
• Austragen: announce-request@ibrowse-dev.net
  (Im Betreff "UNSUBSCRIBE" eintragen)
  
  
• Hilfe: announce-request@ibrowse-dev.net
  (im Betreff "HELP" eintragen)

• prm-rtl8029.device V1.2 (fixed bug - it will just fail with prometheus.library 1.x instead of hanging up the system)
• prometheus.library V2.3 - prepared for firmware upgrade and DMA handling, can be used on old firmware however with all the drivers not using DMA (10 Mbit ethernet, S3Virge, Voodoo3, 4, 5)
• PrmScan V1.5
• DMAList V1.2 - a tool displaying allocated DMA buffers (requires Prometheus firmware upgrade)
• prometheus.card V6.506
• 3dfxvoodoo.chip V6.412
• emulation.library V40.893
• fastlayers.library V40.48
• rtg.library V40.3992
• Newer "vendors.txt" file used by PrmScan for identifying of PCI cards.

Laut Ben Hermans wird Quake 2 mit allen bekannten Qualitätsstandards ausgeliefert, die Hyperion Entertainment im Amiga-Markt bekannt gemacht haben.

Anwender können eine Kopie von Quake 2 auf der Hyperion-Website unter dem Titellink registrieren, um Support zu erhalten und zukünftige Mods und Updates herunterladen zu können.

Die Systemanforderungen umfassen einen PowerPC-bestückten Amiga mit WarpOS, mindestens 64 MB RAM und eine Grafikkarte (3D-Beschleunigung wird unterstützt, ist aber nicht erforderlich).

• 07.10.02 New WHDLoad V15.1, minor fixes, manual translated to cz/de/fr, some changes on developer files
• 06.10.02 improved: Wild West World (Software 2000) supports another version
• 06.10.02 improved: Nebulus (Hewson) supports another version, new icons
• 06.10.02 fixed: Moonstone (Mindscape) intro sound fixed
• 06.10.02 improved: Maximum Overdrive 2 (Rage) interrupts fixed for 040/060, new icons
• 05.10.02 fixed: Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin) slave was missing
• 05.10.02 improved: A10 Tank Killer (Dynamix) another version supported

1. (1) Napalm - 140 pts
2. (4) Quake - 124 pts
3. (2) Payback - 118 pts
4. (3) Earth 2140 - 108 pts
5. (5) The Settlers - 103 pts
6. (7) Slam Tilt - 99 pts
7. (6) Heretic 2 - 77 pts
8. (8) Worms / Worms DC - 73 pts
9. (9) SWOS - 64 pts
10. (10) WipEout 2097 - 57 pts
11. (11) Foundation - 55 pts
12. (21) Fields Of Battle - 50 pts
13. (18) Xtreme Racing - 50 pts
14. (15) Colonization - 47 pts
15. (33) Simon The Sorceror 2 - 47 pts
16. (13) Civilization - 47 pts
17. (17) Exodus : The Last War - 46 pts
18. (12) Shogo - 43 pts
19. (28) Speedball 2 - 37 pts
20. (25) Nightlong - 35 pts

• Big!/Ephidrena
• Toxik/Amnesty
• Elektroboy Inside/Smoke
• Multica/ Andromeda
• Prism/Melon Dezign
• Roots 2.0/ Sanity
• Television/Bizarre Arts
• Guardian Dragon/ Kefrens
• Groovy/Lemon

1. Choosing a hard disk
2. Installing a hard disk in your Amiga
3. Partitioning a hard disk
4. Changing or Upgrading the FileSystem
5. Installing Workbench on your Hard disk
6. Installing software on your Hard disk
7. Looking after your hard disk
8. Problems that may occur
9. Using Large Hard Disks
10. List of SCSI and IDE Devices
11. About the author

• HardDrive.lha (AmigaGuide)
• UAEInstall.ADF

• SWFTools V0.4.2 (020/040)
• cURL V7.10

• Added stack config support.

• Added stack config stuff.
• Misc changes.

• Fixed a bug where the hub task wouldn't neccessarily fail out from the outer loop on hub removal.

• Added experimental quick & hacky wheelmouse support. Will probably only work with a few mice (the ones that report wheel movement in byte 4 even with boot protocol enabled -- works with my Sigma mouse, doesn't work with my Logitech wireless desktop (no wheelmouse data in boot protocol). Be sure you have MUIWheelPatch installed.
• Added class (defaults) and binding GUI to enable wheelmouse support.

• Booting from RDB implemented (added a flag for this in the GUI aswell). Thanks to Ralph Schmidt for contributing the CreateSegment() code.
• Misc internal changes.
• RDB Mounting added. Now RDB formatted partitions will be mounted automagically on media insertion aswell.
• Mounting is not done from the device task anymore (as this could cause a deadlock, if the filesystem wanted to do device IO before returning from the mount call), but from a tiny seperate task, living only for the moment :)
• Changed implementation of FIX_INQUIRY to fake inquiry. Old fix inquiry is still present for wrong inquiry requests. Fake Inquiry should fix a lot of broken devices.
• Added option to disable the initial bulk reset, as some broken devices seem to choke on it (and crash their firmware, stupid thing).
• Changed NakTimeout prefs value from ms to 1/10secs. This seems more reasonable. Please check your configs.
• Added option to delay the device startup. This is needed for some broken devices, which crash their firmware, if they receive commands during their setup (Nikon Coolpix).
• Added possibility to change the DOSType. If the DOSType is NOT 0x464154xx (FATx), LowCyl will not be 0 and autodetection of FAT95 will be disabled. This should allow the use of CrossDOS, but this has not been tested.
• Added saving of default prefs.
• Added default prefs GUI (class config).

• Added implementation of CMD_START/CMD_STOP.
• Added class GUI with two options: one disables the sending of the init sequence on Epson printers, the other one disables the SOFT_RESET command which causes problems on some broken printers.

• HMui v0.1
• NPMui v0.1
• SWFTMui v0.1
• WebaMUI v0.1
• MFWD v0.5ß

• Amiga Source is now mirrored on our site, thanks Scott!
• We still maintain site mirrors of the excellent Blitz Basic, Samplitude Opus (with software downloads) and Amiga Interactive Guide sites, too.

• National Amiga tech pages: these are full of great tech information, including pinouts, motherboard configs and lots of accelerator information - These were originally done by Greg Scott and used to be on National Amiga's website - thanks to Larry S. and Joe at Archtech in London, Ontario!
  
• Spock's Logical Amiga Pages: As many of you may remember, this was a great site that has been offline for some time, unfortunately due to its author, Eric Robertson, passing on last fall. Thanks to Donald Sowell for providing this data as hopefully a little memorial to Eric's fondness for the Amiga and his excellent site.
  
• Amiga Realm archive mirrors (12 of them) - Thanks to Paul Andrews for providing data to mirror their site archives!
  

• 303 Tracker - this is a cool Roland TB303 emulator you can run on your Amiga - software downloads included - thanks to Jeroen Schellekens for his site archive and software
  

• We have added an easy to find Events page for upcoming Amiga events & shows, and we pledge to keep it current! :) If you have an event or show coming up anywhere in the world, let us know so we can post it immediately.
  
• Thanks, keep on coming back and if you have additional Amiga sites for us to help you mirror or archive (to preserve them), just let us know when/how.

• 04.10.02 new: Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis Action (LucasArts) done by Galahad
• 04.10.02 new: Altered Destiny (Accolade) done by JOTD
• 04.10.02 new: Wicked Sensation (TRSI) done by Codetapper
• 03.10.02 improved: X-Out (Rainbow Arts) access faults fixed, new imager
• 03.10.02 improved: Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin) now uses KickDOS, new install script
• 02.10.02 new: Centrefold Squares (CDS) done by Psygore

• RealMedia V1.0
• Windows Media Audio/Video V.1-2
• AVI (DIVX-2-3),h263, h236plus
• MOV (DIVX)
• MPEG
• ASF
• MJPEG
• JPG
• PPM
• PGM
• YUV
• Rawvideo
• Shockwave Flash
• mpeg 1 layer 2
• mpeg 1 layer3
• ac3
• gif
• ffm
• wav
• au
• openDIVX

• Harvest 1.7.36
• flac 1.0.3/4 (020/040)
• eggdrop 1.6.12
• hotway 0.5

http://www.technomages.net/amigashow/

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

On Saturday November 9, 2002, the Amiga.info user group will be hosting the second Ottawa Amiga Show.  Once again, the show will be held at the Routier Centre, 172 Guigues Street, in the market of downtown Ottawa, Ontario.

With all of the interest in alternative operating systems, this is an excellent opportunity for the public to see the latest offerings from Amiga, Inc.  This includes the AmigaOne, the first new hardware for the platform since 1993, and the binary portable Amiga Digital Environment (DE), currently available for Microsoft Windows, x86 Linux systems, ARM and MIPS processors.

The following is a list of the show exhibitors:

ACK Software Controls from Niagara Falls will be demonstrating the AmigaOne, the first new Amiga hardware since 1993, and a modified Amiga 4000T, the last classic Amiga model produced.

Ottawa's own Technomages will be showcasing their latest Amiga DE software, such as Eric Schwartz Puzzles and Memory.  Their software will be running on a Windows x86 system and a portable MIPS based Windows CE system.

ZEE4 of Toronto will be on-hand demonstrating their brand new Amiga DE offerings.

There will also be three Amiga retailers at the show.  Cinereal of Ottawa, Downtown Amiga from Montreal, and Livewire Systems of Ottawa will be selling a wide range of hardware and software for Amiga computers.

Finally, Amiga.info will be presenting information about the user group and answering questions about the Amiga platform.

Despite the G20 meeting that was held at the same time as the Ottawa Amiga Show of 2001, the show drew Amiga users from as far away as Pennsylvania, New York, Toronto and Montreal.

The current position of the Canadian dollar makes coming to Canada an inexpensive proposition for our American neighbors.  At the time of this writing, $100.00 USD = $155.00 CAD.

Ottawa is about a two hour drive west of Montreal, five hours north-east of Toronto, and nine hours from Boston.  You can also get to Ottawa by flying into the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport.

There is a mailing list that you can subscribe to if you would like to be kept up to date on the show details.  To subscribe, send an email to oas-subscribe@technomages.net.

Any questions about the Ottawa Amiga show can be directed to amigashow@technomages.net.

About Amiga.info:
Amiga.info, pronounced "Amiga dot info", is a bilingual Amiga users group located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Formed in February 1995, Amiga.info is a non-profit resource for anyone interested in the Amiga computer.  Amiga.info meets on the third Wednesday of each month.  Membership is free.
http://www.technomages.net/amiga.info/

About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic. Its AmigaDE powered with intent(TM) from Tao Group enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, and Pocket PC. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at The AmigaDE Website. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at The Amiga Website. Amiga is a registered trademark of Amiga Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
http://www.amiga.com/

Details of the 2001 Ottawa Amiga Show can be found at :
http://www.technomages.net/amigashow/2001/

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Editors Gedanken und Einführung:
 Eine Menge News diesen Monat. Unglücklicherweise, obwohl keine als
"schlechte" News bezeichnet werden kann, ist das Meiste davon
unangenehm. Die Stimmung scheint diesen Monat kontrovers. Es gibt ein
rechtliches Statement vom MorphOS Team, ein anderes von Merlancia
anscheinend Elbox kontrovers involvierend und ein Haufen Unglück über
Amithlon. Ich dachte, alles wäre geregelt, aber nun kommt AmithlonXL
und die Kontroversität startet erneut. Wir sind nicht mal sicher, was
AmithlonXL ist. Wir haben bisher keine Pressemitteilung oder definitive
Information darüber erhalten. Was wir haben, steht weiter unten.
 Zwischenzeitlich gibt es einige interessante Stories über neue
Produkte und Amiga-Shows. Noch mehr Spaß "Stoff".
 Werfen Sie einen Blick auf die Stories, die wir für Sie haben, machen
Sie sich Ihre eigenen Gedanken über die Kontroversitäten und wenn es
Ihnen genauso geht wie uns, hoffen Sie auf einen positiveren Monat das
nächste Mal.

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A K T U E L L S T E S  E X E C U T I V E  U P D A T E  V O N  B I L L

September 5, 2002 - Vom Schreibtisch des Bill McEwen

Grüße an alle und jeden:

Ich würde erstmal all denen danken, die zu treffen ich die Chance in
Sacramento hatte. Während des kurzen Trips war es in der Tat ein großer
Spaß und ein echtes Vergnügen mich mit Ihnen allen zu treffen und nicht
nur die ermutigenden Worte zu hören, sondern auch unsere Sorgen, Wünsche
und Träume zu teilen. Wir werden weiter voranschreiten das zu liefern,
was wir mit Ihnen diskutiert haben.

Als wir Amiga von Gateway gekauft haben, gab es viele dort draussen
die sagten, wir würden fehlschlagen. Es gab viele dort draussen, die
gegen unsere Versuche gearbeitet haben und andere, die Fakten miss-
interpretiert haben und manipulierten priviligierte Informationen,
für ihre eigennützigen Zwecke. Es gab diese, die uns verfälscht haben
und uns Schaden zugefügt haben.

Aber, wissen Sie was? Wir sind immer noch hier! Wir liefern immer noch!
Wir werden hierbleiben! Amiga ist über Leute, Technologie, Exzellenz,
wir sind sehr zähe Leute und wir haben die Gemeinde zum Beweis(en?).
Ging es immer nach unserem Plan? Nein. Haben wir einige Veränderungen
an unserem Plan gemacht? Ja. Liefern wir immer noch nach unserem Plan?
Ja. Werden wir anderen erlauben, unsere Zukunft zu diktieren? Absolut nicht.
Punkt..

Wegen Ihnen lebt der Amiga-Traum, wegen Ihnen werden Amigas immer noch
genutzt durch die ganze Welt, um unglaubliche Aufgaben und Aktivitäten
auszuführen, und wegen Ihnen sind wir noch hier und gehen voran.

Amiga ist ein Gigant, Kräfte sammelnd für den Tag des Kampfes und der
stillen Erwerbung von Stabilität, dafür, wenn wir die Mission zusammen
in Angriff nehmen, wird uns nichts auseinanderreissen.

Danke Ihnen noch einmal für die Unterstützung von uns und das der
Welt Zeigen , dass was 1985 begann war wirklich nur der Anfang.


Bill McEwen, und das Amiga Team

Amiga Club Mitglieder:

Ich würde mir auch gerne eine Minute Zeit nehmen und ein special howdy
zu allen Club-Mitgliedern sagen. Es ist wirklich ermunternd all die
Aktivitäten und Beiträge von Ihnen zu sehen, betreffend dem Shirt-Design
und Namen für den Club. Der "I am Amiga"-Name war nicht so besonders wie
ich dachte, aber in den nächsten paar Wochen (nachdem wir ein OK von denen
bekommen haben, die den Namen bereits haben, der ausgewählt wurde) werden
wir den Namen und das Shirt-Design haben, welches uns glücklich macht es
zu tragen(?). Jedes Mitglied wird seinen ersten Newsletter in den nächsten
zwei Wochen bekommen, und es werden alles Arten von grossen Ankündigungen
und Informationen sein, sodenn haben Sie ein Auge auf Ihren Posteingang.

Zur Erinnerung, wir werden eine neue Verlosung für ein Amiga-ermöglichendes
Funktelefon(?) im September haben und würden diejenigen ermutigen wollen,
die noch nicht beigetreten sind, hereinzukommen und dieses zu tun.
Wir haben viele Pläne und Aktivitäten für den Club und noch einmal:
für nur $ 50.00 bekommen Sie einen Newsletter, Shirt und andere Spezielle
Vorteile. Das lebenslange-Mitgliedschafts Angebot ist beendet aber
wir würden Sie trotzdem ermuntern ein Teil von etwas wirklich aufregenden
zu sein, da die Mitglieder weiterhin spezielle Angebote und exklusive
Programme gerichtet an die Mitgliederschaft erhalten werden.
Wir werden mit einem "$50.00 weniger" Zertifikat die nächsten Mitglieder
belohnen belohnen, die beitreten bis zum Ende des September, wenn wir
die Verlosung für das neue Funktelefon(?) durchführen werden.

1. September 2002:

Wie bereits in Sacramento auf der AmiWest erwähnt, haben wir
Amnestie den Leuten/Firmen/Entitäten angeboten, die wissentlich
unsere IP gestohlen und für ihre eigenen Zwecke genutzt haben
oder die Produkte ausgeliefert haben im Wissen, dass dies illegal
bis Ende August bis sie sich fügten und legal zu werden(?).

Ich werde jetzt keine Namen nennen oder in einen öffentlichen Diskurs
gehen über das was passiert... Aber juristisches Vorgehen hat begonnen.
In den nächsten zwei Wochen werden Schriften rausgehen. Wir werden
einen Fall anvisieren in der Hoffnung dass dies ein klares Signal
setzt, dass dies ernstgemeint ist, nicht toleriert und gestoppt wird.

Dies ist eine nicht-öffentliche Aktion zwischen Amiga Inc und denen
die vorhaben diese Praxis weiterzubetreiben. Während wir öffentlich
unser Vorhaben angekündigt haben, so werden die Aktionen nicht öffentlich
erfolgen. Ich bin sicher dass jeder dies verstehen kann und hoffentlich
unterstützen wird.


AmigaOne Update:

Also, das erstaunliche Team von Eyetech und Hyperion machen einen
grossartigen job. Viele von Ihnen besitzen bereits AmigaOne Boards
und viele mehr haben die Hardware in Aktion gesehen. Dies ist in der
Tat ein weiterer grosser Sprung nach vorn, da wir sehr nahe am Release
der neuen Hardware und OS4.0 sind. Eyetech und Alan Redhouse machen
einen grossartigen Job bei der Information aller über den Fortschritt
und wir blicken in Richtung Produktveröffentlichung.


AmigaOS 4.0:

Hyperion und das Team machen unglaubliche Gallopsprünge hier.
Die Screenshots die wir alle sehen und die Updates von Ben und der
Leute, die daran arbeiten, zeigen einen grossen Fortschritt.
Ich weiss das sie hart arbeiten bezüglich der Integration in den
AmigaOne und ich sehe bereits alles zusammenarbeiten(?) und von
dem was ich höre, sind wir nicht weit entfernt davon, dass es
passiert. Mit diesem Statement haben wir mehr Oberflächen-shots
vom OS 4.0-Team erhalten. Sie können die neuen AmiDock-screenshots
hier sehen.


PDA/Cell Phone Update:

Wie bereits in Sacramento erwähnt, die Amiga Anywhere Content
Engine und damit verbundener Inhalt wird ausgeliefert im neuen
SendoTM SmartPhoneTM wenn es ausgeliefert wird. Jetzt zur Antwort
zu den vielen E-mails die ich über Sendo-phone erhalten habe...
ich weiss nicht, wann das Gerät kommerziell ausgeliefert wird;
es liegt in unseren Händen mit Bezug auf wann sie die Telefone
verfügbar haben. I werde Ihnen mitteilen dass, vor Ende des Jahres,
werden wir mindestens zwei weitere Cell-Phone-Ankündigungen
und mindestens zwei weitere PDA-Ankündigungen machen.

Wir fangen wirklich an es zu schaffen diese Geschäfte hinzubekommen
und es werden viele weitere Möglichkeiten für unsere Entwickler
existieren, um neue Produkte für diese Cutting-Edge Geräte zu kreiren.

 
 A Possible New Product Offering - Let me know your thoughts: In
recent dealings with one of our hardware OEM's they offered an
opportunity. This opportunity is for excellent laptop hardware at
excellent prices. They would be dual boot systems with Linux/UAE, and
Bernie Meyers product (formally known as Amithlon) pre-loaded on the
device. Here is a sample of some of the pricing that you could expect,
all prices quoted are in US$:
 
 Intel® 1.2GHz CeleronTM Processor 256MB RAM 15.0" TFT Active Matrix
20GB Hard Drive DVD Drive Linux/UAE Ami* $999
 
 
 Intel® 1.6GHz Pentium® 4 Processor 256MB RAM 15.0" XGA TFT Active
Matrix 20GB Hard Drive DVD/CDRW Combo Drive Linux/UAE Ami* $1579
 
 
 Intel® 1.6GHz Pentium® 4 Processor 256MB RAM SXGA TFT Active Matrix
30GB Hard Drive DVD/CDRW Combo Drive Linux/UAE Ami* $1679
 
 These examples are notebook computers. There are other options
available, but I am trying to find out how many of you would be
interested in purchasing these through your local Amiga dealer. Let us
know by sending an e-mail to interested@amiga.com. There are also
desktops and other configurations but I think that a notebook Amiga
would be compelling. Let us know.
 
 The Product Formally Know as Amithlo*: As mentioned before Bernie
Meyers has a wonderful product, and we expected it to be out by now.
However there have been a couple of delays, none of these are
engineering driven, that has delayed the release. I can tell you that
the new product will be out very soon, and will offer some new
requested features, and from what I understand is really going to
knock your socks off. We will have an update concerning the timing of
this release and the new name very shortly. So contrary to what you
may have heard, it will be available soon.

Developers:

 This message is an update for you. You have created some of the
greatest content that the world has ever known. Your skill sets and
your tenacity have overwhelmed many, and everyday you become more and
more important to the future.
 
 If you have been sitting on the sidelines I encourage you to jump in.
We are getting requests from many of our OEM partners with regard to
content that they are looking for on their devices.
 
 While it has been a slow start (as is always the case in developing a
market), this next quarter is going to see major movement, and
distribution. We have many programs ready to take place for the
Holiday season and we want you to be a part of it. So I encourage you
to jump in make contact with us. Join us in creating the future.
 
 In closing I wish to thank each and every member of the Amiga family
for their support and good wishes in this amazing journey that we have
embarked upon together. We are closer today than we were yesterday to
the dreams and goals of Amiga. Tomorrow we will be closer again, and
soon we can all share in the rewards.

Sincerely,

Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team
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           S E C O N D   O T T A W A   A M I G A   S H O W 

September 30, 2002

Amiga.info

http://www.technomages.net/amigashow/

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 On Saturday November 9, 2002, the Amiga.info user group will be
hosting the second Ottawa Amiga Show. Once again, the show will be
held at the Routier Centre, 172 Guigues Street, in the market of
downtown Ottawa, Ontario.
 
 With all of the interest in alternative operating systems, this is an
excellent opportunity for the public to see the latest offerings from
Amiga, Inc. This includes the AmigaOne, the first new hardware for the
platform since 1993, and the binary portable Amiga Digital Environment
(DE), currently available for Microsoft Windows, x86 Linux systems,
ARM and MIPS processors.
 
 The following is a list of the show exhibitors:
 
 ACK Software Controls from Niagara Falls will be demonstrating the
AmigaOne, the first new Amiga hardware since 1993, and a modified
Amiga 4000T, the last classic Amiga model produced.
 
 Ottawa's own Technomages will be showcasing their latest Amiga DE
software, such as Eric Schwartz Puzzles and Memory. Their software
will be running on a Windows x86 system and a portable MIPS based
Windows CE system.
 
 ZEE4 of Toronto will be on-hand demonstrating their brand new Amiga
DE offerings.
 
 There will also be three Amiga retailers at the show. Cinereal of
Ottawa, Downtown Amiga from Montreal, and Livewire Systems of Ottawa
will be selling a wide range of hardware and software for Amiga
computers.
 
 Finally, Amiga.info will be presenting information about the user
group and answering questions about the Amiga platform.
 
 Despite the G20 meeting that was held at the same time as the Ottawa
Amiga Show of 2001, the show drew Amiga users from as far away as
Pennsylvania, New York, Toronto and Montreal.

 The current position of the Canadian dollar makes coming to Canada an
inexpensive proposition for our American neighbors. At the time of
this writing, $100.00 USD = $155.00 CAD.
 
 Ottawa is about a two hour drive west of Montreal, five hours
north-east of Toronto, and nine hours from Boston. You can also get to
Ottawa by flying into the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International
Airport.
 
 There is a mailing list that you can subscribe to if you would like
to be kept up to date on the show details. To subscribe, send an email
to oas-subscribe@technomages.net.
 
 Any questions about the Ottawa Amiga show can be directed to
amigashow@technomages.net.

About Amiga.info:

 Amiga.info, pronounced "Amiga dot info", is a bilingual Amiga users
group located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Formed in February 1995,
Amiga.info is a non-profit resource for anyone interested in the Amiga
computer. Amiga.info meets on the third Wednesday of each month.
Membership is free. http://www.technomages.net/amiga.info/

Details of the 2001 Ottawa Amiga Show can be found at :
http://www.technomages.net/amigashow/2001/
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      W O R L D   O F   A M I G A   S O U T H E A S T ,   U K

16 Sep 2002 

 Ladies and Gentlemen: Welcome to the clash of the year, presenting,
In the Red Corner, all the way from Germany and the UK, with years of
experience, a true survivor - Amiga OS4 supported by AmigaOne!
Presenting in the Blue Corner, from Germany and France, the new young
pretender to the crown, MorphOS supported by Pegasos! The main event
will be held at the World of Amiga Southeast Show in Poplars Hall,
Brentwood, Essex, England, (UK) on Saturday November 2nd 2002.
 
 Don't miss this exciting one off spectacular clash, get your tickets
in advance from Fore-Matt Home Computing for only £3.50! This Action
packed event will feature Amiga veterans, Eyetech, Weird Science,
Fore-Matt Home Computing, ZeoNeo, Kicksoft, Thendic France, Mediator
Support Team and of course Amiga inc. themselves. Plus the infamous
Gaming Arena and the Mandatory After show speeches/demonstrations.

 This is a great opportunity to see AmigaOS4/AmigaOne Versus
MorphOS/Pegasos under the same roof on the same day.

For more information, please visit our temporary website
http://www.seal-amiga.com/woase

 For tickets visit http://www.forematt.co.uk or call +44 (0)8700 11 22
34

World of Amiga Southeast 2002, aren't you glad you are going?
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        M I N I   A M I G A   S H O W   I N   S L O V E N I A 

Sept. 09, 2002 

 The 4th Amiga Mini Show will took place on saturday, 19th october at
Krajnik racunalnistvo d.o.o., Kidrièeva 66/a in ©kofja Loka. Show will
begin at 10am. We are proudly to present AmigaOne, AmigaOS 4.0
(preview), USB products and more. Because of closeness of railroad
station (cca. 50 meters away) you can take a train to attend the show.
More infos about AMS will be released in the following days.

http://www.amiga-klub.si/
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    " A S K   P E T R O "   A N D   B E   I N   H I S   B O O K ? 


Sept. 14, 2002

 Petro Tyschtschenko, who worked at Commodore Büromaschinen GmbH since
October 1982 continues to work on his long-awaited memoirs. One of the
chapters planned allows Amiga fans to ask Petro questions, which he
will answer. Petro Tyschtschenko, a well-respected figure in the Amiga
community was chief of Amiga Technologies, a branch of ESCOM, which
bought all rights of Commodore and the Amiga in April 1995. As Escom
also got into bankruptcy 1996 Petro tried everyt hing to ensure the
survival of the Amiga and became chief of Amiga International, Inc.
after Gateway 2000 bought the rights in 1997. He encouraged the
further development of the AmigaOS, then released in version 3.5. In
April 2001 he retired o fficially from AMIGA Inc.. He has not left
altogether as he still goes to Amiga events to talk with Amiga fans
who were customers and are now friends. The Amiga Community now has
the opportunity to put forward some interesting questions about his
life and the Amiga. You can e-mail your questions to:
mail@commodore-amiga.de.

 {This item was taken from the Czech Amiga News site, at
http://amiga.realdreams.cz/index.html. As we've often said, that's a
site too good to miss, so stop by if you haven't. Brad}
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 P A G E S T R E A M   P L A T F O R M   S U R V E Y   /   A M I G A 

{An August story, but we just recently got the information. Brad}

August 12th, 2002 

 The results from our platform survey are in and counted! The volume
was higher than expected, and we thank those who took the time to fill
out the survey. The results of the survey distinguish three platform
choices above the rest. Amiga OS 4.0/AmigaOne PPC, Mac OSX, and Linux
i86 being the heads above the rest. Here is a loose review of these
three platforms and how development will be handled. {Edited,
eliminating all but the Amiga section. Brad}


 Amiga OS 4.0/AmigaOne PPC - Development for this "platform" has two
interesting twists to it. First, PageStream Amiga should run in
emulation mode on this system, so Amiga customers can leverage their
existing version of PageStream. Second, customers don't actually have
this "platform" yet, so while there is probably going to be a decent
installed base, there is of course currently no existing installed
base of customers! All that being said, if Amiga OS 4.0 and AmigaOne
PPC is released in a form similar to what is being talked about, and a
reasonable number of our customers get the "platform", we will be
developing a new version of PageStream which is compiled natively on
the PPC, and will use what OS 4.0 functionality is deemed appropriate
for PageStream. We also expect to make an i86 version of PageStream
for Amithlon as well. The costs to develop these versions and the
perceived demand will determine if they are bundled with the "classic"
Amiga version of PageStream, or sold separately. Most likely this
development will be done by Deron Kazmaier, as he is the most involved
these days with the Amiga libraries. Luckily for him, this development
can't begin until the new OS is released, since he has enough to keep
him busy right now.

http://www.grasshopperllc.com/
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      M O R P H   O S   T E A M   S T A T E S   P O S I T I O N 
 
 02-Sep-2002: MorphOS position paper about its legal status

 There have been many rumours regarding MorphOS and its legal
standing. After careful consideration, we have concluded that those
allegations are unfounded, those most frequently raised being the
following two.

1. Stolen code

 It has often been said that MorphOS is based on stolen source code.
Why would anyone go through the trouble of stealing a code, and
jeopardise his legal standing, when code sufficiently approximate has
been released to the public with the blessings of the holding company?

2. Unfair Competition

 It would be ideal for a company not to have competition but this is
not what free trade is all about. MorphOS however has up until now
competed with no other product simply because it is a work in progress
free product, with time limitations. The past beta version in
particular has relied on other true Operating Systems and their
presence, thus perhaps enhancing those OSs marketability through added
functionality. This however will not be the case when MorphOS is
released to the public as a final product. Competition should thus be
expected in the future.
 
 On the other hand, given the persistent empty allegations and actions
taken against MorphOS, we have a pretty strong case of anticompetitive
actions performed against us.
 
 Such actions, this not being a complete list, include the posting of
various messages delivering empty, repeated threats and the direct
involvement against MorphOS being presented in a TV show.
 
 Although it is clear to us that we can pursue legal action against
those defamatory acts, we prefer as a matter of policy to settle
accounts outside courts. Patience has of course its limits and since
we can afford a long legal battle, if forced, we shall take action.
 
 For those purposes we have taken the following steps:
 
 a) Analysed all data available to us, interviewed people involved,
and verified the consistency of all information. Although, as
anticipated, we found nothing new or contradictory, this is something
that we should do.
 
 b) Analysed all allegation raised and those which are possible to be
raised as a ``last resort'' attempt. Although allegations are easy to
be raised, and are thus many, we have concluded that they are weak, if
not unfounded, at the very best. Our analysis was based on MorphOS
past, present and future.

 c) Ascertained counter actions that will be spawned from filling an
action against us. Dragging people in court just in the vain hope to
intimidate them or disrupt their business does have consequences.
 
 d) Ascertained all harmful actions made against us, collected
defamatory statements, analysed further conduct. Additionally, we
investigated the possibility of intellectual property belonging to us
being unlawfully exploited.
 
 e) Prepared a full draft legal document, concerning the above points.
Emphasis has been given on countering the allegations, rather than
taking the offensive which is not within our current interests.
Despite that, the offensive part is sizeable.
 
 f) Preliminary consulted lawyers outside the company's resources so
as to verify some conceptions of ours.
 
 We are here and we are ready. Legal battles may not be our preferred
route of action but we can most certainly perform well if needed.

Best regards,

All of us...:)

Singleview
Thendic-France/bplan/MorphOS Team
D. Scheibler

http://www.morphos-news.de/
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      M E R L A N C I A   O N   I T S   L E G A L   S T A T U S 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

18th September 2002

Merlancia Industries
3516A West Cactus Road
Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA

1-877-53-AMIGA | ++1 602-789-0956
http://www.merlancia.com | RC@merlancia.com
--

 Merlancia Industries Clarifies Questions Regarding Current Legal
Status
 
 To all concerned with recent discussions and/or questions regarding
the current legal status of Merlancia Industries and all Merlancia
Companies:
 
 Merlancia Industries is still alive and functioning as a private
company. The mentioned corporate dissolution on ANN and possible other
internet sites has to do with a paperwork error on our behalf. All S
class corporations are required by the Arizona Corporation Commission
(ACC) to file annual repots on inner corporate activities for the
purpose of showing that the corporation is still in existence. The
purpose of this is to allow the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC)
to 'throw away' any dead companies in their database.
 
 It is a fact that this paperwork was not received by the Arizona
Corporation Commission (ACC) for this year. We are currently
investigating this, and will most likely have the situation resolved
in a matter of days.
 
 Dissolution is not the same as insolvency and/or bankruptcy.
 
 Merlancia still continues to function as a private company and will
regain its status as an Arizona Subchapter S corporation shortly.
Currently we are recognized by the state as a private company. The
only difference between the two is how the company is organized.
 
 Merlancia is not only alive, and in a state of financial solvency,
but we are working on both hardware and software products for the
industrial market. As soon as an OS solution is available to us for
the Amiga ® market, we will be ready to release product. Until such is
available, we will continue to offer support for current Amiga and
multimedia products, and continue to offer wholesale and retail
products for the multimedia and industrial markets. Any questions on
this matter should be directed to merlancia industries at the address
above.
 
 In the meanwhile...
 
 Please note the new www.merlancia.com website. There have been many
updates and changes, and the new graphic interface is almost out of
beta. All portions of the old merlancia.com website are now available
on the new, and the old site will be deleted shortly.

 Our software programmers are working on a new ordering system based
on Rebol ® technology which will become available in the coming weeks,
as well as other products including a new internet software suite to
be given away free as part of the AmigaZone Internet Services that we
offer. This software package is going to be freely distributable and
offered for free on CD-ROM which will ab available for the cost of
mailing or included with orders shipped from many Amiga ® dealers
worldwide.
 
 If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact us at
the addresses shown above, or via e-mail or telephone. Additional
contact information is available on the Merlancia.com website. Thank
you for your interest in Merlancia Industries.

http://www.merlancia.com
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         B E R N D   M E Y E R   O N   A M I T H L O N X L 

Sept. 28, 2002

              Regarding so-called "AmithlonXL"
              ================================

 * I have absolutely no knowledge of this "product" beyond that which
is publicly available on Amiga news sites.
 
 * I am not in any way involved with this "product".
 
 * At the current time, it is unclear (to me at least) whether this is
supposed to be an add-on for existing Amithlon users (akin to the
Elbox "Multimedia CD", simply offering a collection of new drivers),
or whether it is meant to be something including emulator executable
and ROM files.
 
 * If it is just a collection of drivers, I have no problem with it.
About bloody time, I'd say.
 
 * If, however, someone is planning to distribute my IP (as contained
in the emulator executable), I'd strongly advise to reconsider, as
neither Harald Frank nor Haage&Partner have any license to do so.
Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, neither of those parties
have a license from Amiga Inc for the distribution of kickstart
images.
 
 * The announcements on www.amiga-news.de and www.ann.lu also talked
about the demo machine being equipped with a Dual Head Matrox card. I
sincerely hope that this is not an indication that my multi-head
capable gfx driver for Amithlon is considered or presented as part
of"AmithlonXL", as the license attached to that driver quite clearly
prohibits it.
 
 * Let me also reiterate that of the contents of the amithlon_contrib*
packages released by me, ONLY the parts under the GPL are available
for inclusion with any Harald Frank or H&P product, and that inclusion
of those parts would require the strict adherence to the licensing
terms of the GPL.
 
 * Obviously, I won't be supporting an "AmithlonXL" which violates my
intellectual property rights in any way. This would certainly include
making sure that the proprietary parts of any further contrib packages
I release for the users of the original Amithlon would not work with
such an "AmithlonXL". Personally, I despise crap like that, but what
can I do?
 
 * I would finally like to ask everyone to recognize that at the
current time, to the best of my knowledge "AmithlonXL" is purely a
Harald Frank idea --- I have yet to see a single word about it from
Haage&Partner. So please don't abuse H&P over something they, for all
I know, might not even know about.


       Bernd Meyer, 

       Main Amithlon programmer
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       A M I T H L O N   X L   P R E M I E R   A T   O A S E 2 

Sept. 14, 2002

{While this item refers to a show now past, we thought we'd run it in
light of the press release from Mr. Meyer, above. We haven't found
much else "official" about AmithlonXL. Brad}

 AmithlonXL world premiere at O.A.S.E.2 event in Graz
 
 The O.A.S.E.2 event, which will be held this weekend in Graz, will
see the first public demonstration of AmithlonXL components. Some of
the parts shown would regularly be first available only with the
release of the announced OS4 operating system.
 
 The new stuff demonstrated there, will include Audio drivers for
SBLive, TerraTec Solo1, TerraTec 512i, CMedia and many many others.
However, because
 
 of the short time we had, we were unable to get all the hardware to
demonstrate all new Audio drivers.
 
 The Network connection will be established trough a RealTek 100Mbit
card controlled by the brandnew TCP/IP-Stack RoadShow from well known
Olaf Barthel. The features of RoadShow will include great services as
PPPoE, firewall and extended routing possibilities.
 
 The system will be presented by Mr. Schober on his AthlonXP 1800.
This machine will be equipped with SoundBlasterLive, RealTek 100Mbit
Network Adapter and Matrox DualHead graphics card.
 
 If possible, some benchmarks with the new FFS2 file sytem will be
made, but if time should prove to be short for those, we will deliver
their results on our Amithlon product home page later.
 
 More information about AmithlonXL and AmigaOS XL Updates will be
available shortly on the usual web sites of our distributor
Haage&Partner. Naturally these will also contain information about
pricing and availability.

Link to O.A.S.E.2 event http://www.oase.at/cgi-bin/start.cgi

Link to Amithlon/AmigaOS XL Homepage http://www.amithlon.de


Best regards

VMC Harald Frank, founder and developer of Amithlon
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                H   A N D   P   O N   A M I T H L O N 

19. September 2002:

 The current differences between every party involved with the
Amithlon project are by way not that easy as they are described in the
internet discussions - often from one perspective only. Our contract
regarding the distribution rights for Amithlon is still valid. We have
been reluctant with public statements, cause we try to resolve the
differencs between the parties privately. We want to resolve the
problem and would like to see the contract being fulfilled by all
parties. The internet audience can not help with these negotiations
and will often be used, to spread the own oppinions as the only ones
that are true. Also the one, who cries the loudest, just expresses the
own perspective. To solve the conflict round on Amithlon it is
important to mediate between the different perspectives in private
negotiations.
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  I N F O   O N   E L B O X   S P I D E R   U S B   P C I   C A R D 

Sept. 12, 2002

 Elbox Computer is proud to introduce the first USB 2.0 host
controller for the Amiga computers. The Spider USB 2.0 PCI card
provides a simple and affordable way to add five Hi-Speed USB ports to
Mediator-equipped Amigas.

 The Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI controller is backward-compatible,
which means it works also with older USB 1.1 peripherals.
 
 Features:
 
 · Four external and one internal USB 2.0 Hi-Speed forts
 
 · Compatible with both USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) and USB 1.1 (12 Mbps)
devices · Compliant with EHCI, OHCI and PCI 2.2 standards
 
 · All ports can handle high-speed, full-speed and low-speed
transaction ·
 
 Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices
 
 · Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port
 
 · Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
 
 · Hot Plug Capability
 
 Requirements:
 
 · One free PCI slot
 
 · Mediator Multimedia CD
 
 The package contents:
 
 · Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card
 
 · Mediator OHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack
 
 · Unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack
 
 Mediator EHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack will be shipped to
registered Spider Card users as a free update (when completed).

Pricing and availability:

 The Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card will be on sale as of 16
September 2002, at the suggested retail price of EUR 39.95 (VAT excl.)
To locate an authorized distributor or purchase the product visit the
Elbox Computer website at http://elbox.com/buy.html

Mediator users are the first, as always...

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com
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       E L B O X   E X P L A N A T I O N   O N   P O S E I D O N


URL  : http://amiga.realdreams.cz/local/20_9elbox.html
Title: Elbox explains Poseidon issue

Sept. 20, 2002

 This is an official statement on behalf of the Elbox Computer company
aimed at explanation of the recent misunderstanding concerning support
for the Spider USB cards in the Poseidon stack.
 
 Chris Hodges, author of the Poseidon stack, approached our company
several weeks ago with the proposal of co-operation. He suggested that
we prepared hardware drivers for Mediator for the Poseidon to enable
operation of USB cards, the support to which under our own USB stack
was to be released in a short time.
 
 The proposal from Mr. Hodges was analysed in detail and accepted
after many additional mutual considerations.
 
 Its basic principles were presented in the mutually accepted
announcement: http://www.elbox.com/news_02_09_11B.html
 
 To clarify the issues once and for good:
 
 1. The number of models / types / of USB PCI cards supported by our
drivers was never the subject matter of the mutual considerations.
Elbox, the party who prepared the drivers, decides which cards to
support.
 
 2. One of our proposal: bundling by us or by our distributors the
registered version of the Poseidon stack with the USB PCI cards, was
rejected by the author of the Poseidon stack. And we accepted it.
 
 Two days ago, we were surprised with the message signed by Mr.Hodges,
but posted by the producer of the USB card for the Zorro II slots. Mr.
Hodges has not contacted us since the Sunday presentation of the
Spider card in which he participated. Therefore, yesterday we asked
him to provide explanations on his part. We have received his reply
today.
 
 We understand from his explanations that the whole misunderstanding
is due to the fact that Mr. Hodges did not know that almost all the
objections in the Mediator list were posted against him by people who
do not have Mediator busboards and do not want to have them.
 
 Those who shout loudest "on behalf of Mediator users" own other PCI
solutions, which are not produced by Elbox, or they do not even have
Amiga computers at all.
 
 There were messages in the list from just a few "loud" people. On the
other hand, the messages coming in recent days to us express huge
support and satisfaction from our releasing the Spider USB 2.0 card.
 
 It should be clear to everybody that the registration method chosen
by Mr. Hodges for the Poseidon stack, directly with him, is the most
advantageous option for Mediator users (when price is concerned). In
this way they avoid all taxes and similar extra fees, which would have
to be added when registration is performed by the companies selling
the registered Poseidon with the USB hardware.

 I hope this explains everything.
 
 Let me take the opportunity to inform you that Spider USB 2.0 cards
are now on their way to our distributors and will be available from
them as of the coming Monday.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
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   M E D I A T O R   U S B   D R I V E R S   F O R   P O S E I D O N

11 September 2002

 Elbox Computer is pleased to announce that its drivers to PCI USB
cards in the Mediator busboard operate under the Poseidon USB stack.
 
 These drivers have been prepared by Elbox programmers as a result of
co-operation started a few weeks ago by Chris Hodges, author of the
Poseidon stack.
 
 As the Poseidon stack is already supported by authors of third-party
commercial software, we have decided that releasing another, our own,
USB stack for Amiga under such circumstances would mean doubling
effort of Amiga programmers.
 
 We are sure that high-quality software included in the Poseidon stack
package and our hardware-optimised drivers resulting in high
performance achieved by PCI USB cards in Mediator will satisfy even
the most demanding users.
 
 The unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack will
be available in the Mediator Multimedia CD. Registration of the
Poseidon stack for Mediator users will be provided by Chris Hodges.
 
About Poseidon:

 The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with
USB interface, ranging from mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks,
printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flash card readers, zip drives,
floppy disk drives, harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters,
scanners and audio adapters to less common things like power supplies,
GPS location devices or finger print readers. It is intended to be a
solution for all systems. For more info about Poseidon stack please
visit Chris Hodges' website.

About Mediator:

 The Mediator PCI busboard line is designed so as to enable expanding
the Amiga computers with a wide range of standard PCI cards like
Graphic cards, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet network cards, Modem cards,
ISDN cards, USB and SCSI cards, Sound cards and Multimedia cards: TV
tuner and MPEG-2 hardware decoders. Expanding the Amiga with the
Mediator PCI busboard opens the way to employing the power of the
latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors in Amiga, around which SharkPPC and
SharkPPC+ cards are based. For more info about Mediator please visit
Elbox website.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department

http://www.elbox.com/
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 W I L D   F L Y E R   F O R   V I D E O   T O A S T E R   F L Y E R

Sept. 22, 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DiscreetFX Announces Wild Flyer For The Amiga Video Toaster Flyer®

 Our beta testers have reported no major problems with the latest
build of Wild Flyer so we will be shipping it shortly to our Video
Toaster Flyer customers. What is Wild Flyer you ask? It is a Front End
application to the very powerful and often misunderstood program Wild
Fire. Wildfire 7 is ADO animation sequencing, 3D effects, transitions,
and animation package by Andreas Maschke. It can be compared to SGI
Flint or Flame systems and it is capable of creating amazing 3D
effects by mapping video sequences.
 
 The bad news about Wild Fire has always been the steep learning curve
and very difficult to understand user interface. Wild Flyer changes
all this. It uses all the power of Wild Fire as its background render
engine. Wild Flyer gives this amazing German application an easy to
use storyboard interface. All actions happen within the Video Toaster
Flyer screen. Users can just drag and drop the ADO animation sequences
within their Flyer and Wild Flyer takes care of the rest.
 
 Imagine the power of an SGI Flint or Flame system but on your Amiga
VT Flyer! And it is very easy to use unlike these high-end SGI ADO
solutions. WF attains its speed by using the power of a PowerPC
processor as its rendering effects engine. The PPC processor does not
have to be in your Amiga. It can be a networked Amiga One or Pegasos
computer. If you already have a Phase 5 CyberstormPPC card in your
Amiga this will also work but will be slower. One of our beta testers
reports on the Pegasos Betatester system he is getting near real-time
ADO Effects from Wild Flyer.

Wild Flyer features include

 1. Height-field deforms, cubes that automatically unfold and fold
again.
 
 2. Lightwave object support.
 
 3. 3D magnet effects, 3D transitional morphing, unlimited
mathematical deformations, twists, sphere mapping, twirling, water
transitions, perspective transforms and more!
 
 4. Easy to use interface that opens on the Video Toaster Flyer
screen.
 
 5. All effects are pure 24bit, no pixelizing or jaggie edges.
 
 6. Full support for all Amiga PowerPC solutions
 
 a. Amiga One running Amiga OS 4.0 (We hope, need OS 4.0 to test this)
 
 b. Pegasos running MorphOS 1.0 (Tested and working)
 
 c. SharkPPC (We hope, we need one to test it)

 d. Cyberstorm PPC running PowerUP (Tested and working)

Minimum system

 Amiga 4000 with CyberstormPPC card, Video Toaster 4000 & Flyer card,
18MB RAM, 1 GB Harddisk.

Recommended system

 Amiga 4000 with Mediator PCI busboard and SharkPPC card, Video
Toaster 4000 & Flyer card. Or Amiga 4000 with Video Toaster 4000,
Flyer card and Network card that supports TCP/IP networked to Amiga
One or Pegasus computer system.
 
 ***More information coming soon***
 
 http://www.elbox.com/products/mirage_4000_pro.html
 
 http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/300502update.php
 
 http://photosamiga.free.fr/Thendic0802/album.html
 
 Get Wild Flyer and let your Video Toaster Flyer go wild.
 
 Best regards
 
Bill Panagouleas
CEO
DiscreetFX
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           P I X L O A D   2 . 1   I S   A N N O U N C E D

Sept. 19, 2002

DESCRIPTION :

 This loading "bar" allows you to launch any program or script by one
click on icon. A bubble help tells you the name of loaded program.
Three help files (GUIDE, HTML and PDF) are available.


CHANGES :


 - Drag and drop is now available on Pixload bar and also on each icon
(three first icons from left, others detect file types)
 
 - Icons are scalable
 
 - All settings of each icon are saved and can be loaded again



WHAT ABOUT :

 It is a borderless window with buttons including IFF pictures. Each
click on button, loads a command line which loads a program. Drag and
drop is also available. It makes in AREXX, RXMUI and MUI for graphic
part. You can modify everything (colors, aspect, etc.. from the
Pixload contextual menu).



CONFIGURATION :

There are 3 elements to configure :


 - Icons (IFF Pictures in Pixload/icones folder). First color of each
icon will be TRANSPARENT !!!
 
 - MUI (look at documentation). You can configure MUI from Pixload
contextual menu (MUI settings) .Prefs files (Pixload.1.prefs and
Pixload-prefs.1.prefs) are located at SYS:prefs/env-archive/mui and
RAM:Env/mui
 
 - The Pixload from Pixload-Prefs, which loads the configuration
program (look at help bubble)
 
 - click on Pixload.prefs in the Prefs folder and choose :

 - if you want to display Pixload horizontaly or verticaly
(horizontaly by default)
 
 - if you want sound or not - numbers of enabled icons (15 by default,
but if you choose 10, the five lastest icons will be saved but
disabled) - size of icons (%) - name and path for each programs used
by drag and drop for reading text, picture and music module - for each
line, path and name of programs and bubble help content. - sounds for
each programs launched (listen to it !!)

MUI settings, is available from the Pixload contextual menu.

 N.B : If you drag and drop file on 1st, 2nd or 3rd icon, program
linked to this icon will be launch and your file. A popup window will
appear with the linked program bold name.
 
 By example : Drag and drop a icon of text file on 3rd icon will load
EDITPAD and your file.
 
 If you drag and drop this icon anywhere else on Pixload bar, there
will be a filetype auto detection and, from your settings, a text
viewer will be load, otherwise it will be Multiview. A popup window
will appear with the filetype name found, in bold.
 
 If you drag and drop a removable disk icon (CD Rom, Zip, etc), it
will be ejected
 
 By default, Pixload analyses some file types (thanks to Filetypes
file in S folder) but it only reacts for : GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, 8SVX,
IFF, ILBM, ILBM24, Rexx, Text, Mod, Mods, Modules, MP3
 
 You must have all datatypes for each file types listed above in
Devs/datatypes and Classes. For reading MP3 files, OS 3.9 is required
because Amplifier is used for this.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pixel-art
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    V H I   S T U D I O   5 . 7 ,   D I G I C A M   P A C K A G E 

10 Sep 2002    

 We´re proud to announce you the availability of a new and expanded
version of VHI Studio today.
 
 New features/improvements in VHI Studio 5.7:
 
 * USB-support (Digitalkameras, Webcams)
 
 * new, integrated FTP-client for the webcam-functionality
 
 * completly newly written .mov-animationexport
 
 * automatic framerate-recognition
 
 * an ARexx-port has been added
 
 * heavily advanced webcam- and timelapse-functionality
 
 * example-webcamfiles with elegant design in the archive
 
 * extended PPC-support (e.g. JPEG-decoding)
 
 * now uses fxWARP 9 technology
 
 * native CPU-modules for PPC (PowerUP, WarpUP, MorphOS) and x86
(Amithlon)
 
 Along with the availability of the new version we also have
relaunched our VHI Studio-pages.

 VHI Studio is the award-winning software for videoboards, digicams,
webcams and other video sources on the AMIGA with the broadest
hardware-support. Functionality includes recording and cutting of
videoclips, download of images from digital cameras,
still-picture-grabbing and their optimization, watching TV on the
Workbench, a full-blown webcam-software (besides, this feature also
works with videoboards, digicams, etc!) and the easy creation of
timelapse-animations.

----
IOSPIRIT Felix Schwarz
Am Gründla 3
D-91074 Herzogenaurach
Germany

EMail: info@iospirit.de
WWW:   http://www.iospirit.de/
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• Serielle Schnittstelle
• USB UHCI
• USB-Tastatur
• USB-Speichergeräte
• PS/2-kompatible Tastatur
• i8259 Interrupt-Controller
• 3com 3c920 Ethernet mit vollständigem Busmastering
• VIA IDE-Controller (Revision A und B)
• Echtzeit-Uhr (RTC)

• x86 BIOS-Emulator, in der Lage, beinahe alle auf den Chipsätzen von ATI, nVidia, 3DFX, S3, 3DLabs (Permedia), Trident etc. basierenden PCI- und AGP-Grafikkarten zu initialisieren und zu nutzen.
• Automatische Erkennung von SDRAM-Speichermodulen
• Automatische Erkennung von Bus- und CPU-Geschwindigkeit
• Unterstützung für PCI und AGP
• Allgemeine Unterstützung von ArtiticaS
• Allgemeine Unterstützung der VIA686 Southbridge (686A und 686B)
• IDE-Unterstützung (Booten von Festplatte und CD-ROM)
• Floppy-Unterstützung
• Booten über Netzwerk

• Unterstützung für Kickstart V1.3 RDB-Hardfiles (Autoboot/Automount).
• Die Tastatur-, Maus- und Joystick-Verarbeitung wurde für DirectInput neugeschrieben. Die Sondertasten können ohne Seiteneffekte ausgeschaltet werden und weiteres.

• 'Unbegrenzte' Größe des Hardfiles (2GB Limit wurde beseitigt). Das uaehf.device unterstützt nun die 64 Bit Adressen von TD64 und NSD. Hierfür wird das NTFS-Dateisystem benötigt (FAT32 unterstützt maximal 2GB pro Datei).
• Möglichkeit zum Mounten echter Festplatten mit kompletter RDB-Automount/-Autoboot-Unterstützung.
• Unterstützung für Amithlon-Partitionen (nicht getestet).

• Harddrive-Configuration-Window
• HDToolbox

• Geringe Performance von Festplatte, CD-ROM etc. im Non-CPU-Idle-Modus.
• CPU-Idle Tweaks.
• Ein weiterer Bugfix bei der Disk-Emulation.
• In der Konfigurationsdatei fehlten Einträge.
• Die 68000 "more compatible"-Checkbox wurde ignoriert.

• Thylacine1.1a.lha
• Thylacine1.1a.dms

• No more messy channel directory
• Kanalwahl-Gadgets im Fensterrahmen
• Einfache Kanal-Einstellung
• MUI-Preferences
• Randloser Vollbildschirmmodus
• Tastatursteuerung
• Neu: ARexx-Port

As always, doors will be open at 12 Noon, However, like last year we anticipate a large queue at opening time. So if you want to waltz past everyone, why not get your tickets before the show?

Buy five tickets or more and you pay only 3.00 GBP each instead of the usual 3.50 GBP per ticket.

Tickets can be purchased in advance from the following Amiga dealers;

Forematt Home Computing: http://www.forematt.co.uk
(Visa, Mastercard and Cash)

Kicksoft: http://www.kicksoft.com
(Visa, Mastercard, Delta, JCB, Solo, Switch and Cash)

ADocArtMI   - neue Toolbar Images für AutoDocArt
AmfMI       - neue Toolbar Images und Ein Icon für AMF
DBackupMI   - neue Images für Daily Backup
FFNewsMI    - neue Toolbar und Status Images für FFNews
mapMlugMI   - neue Toolbar Images für MapPlug
moreHTMLMI  - neue Toolbar Images für moreHTML
MReaderMI   - neue Toolbar und Status Images für MagicReader
MUISearchMI - neue Images für MUISearch
pEditorMI   - neue Toolbar Images für pEditor
PintMI      - neue Status Images für Pint
PlotterMI   - neue Buttons für Plotter3D
PoWinMI     - neue Images und ein Icon für Power Windows
ProRenMI    - neue Toolbar Images für ProRen
ScalosMI    - das fehlende 'ShowAll' Image wurde ergänzt 
TransCatMI  - neue Toolbar Images für TransCat
VoimariiMI  - neue Toolbar Images für Voimariini
UpdaterMI   - neue Toolbar Images für WordPad

• AmigaOne mit AmigaOS 4
• Pegasos mit AmigaOS 4
• Pegasos mit MorphOS
• Amithlon

• 2002-09-25 22:49 - UAE 0.8.14 with CD32 joypad support
  SixK has modified UAE 0.8.14 to use lowlevel.library. You will now be able to play UAE with a CD 32 pad and maybe in a near futur with a PC Joypad connected to your sound blaster card...
  Download: uae_0.8.14.lzx
  
  
• 2002-09-25 00:13 - SDL Games: pachi_demo 0.1 available for 68k
  You will find Pachi_Demo 0.1 jump&run game inspired from games like jetset willy. Run fine on Amithlon, too slow on 040.
  Download: pachi_demo.0.1.lzx.

checkwww.lha                 24-Sep-2002 18:49  1.4K
dcreset.lha                  24-Sep-2002 18:49  580
IBnotWin.lha                 24-Sep-2002 18:50  9.8K
LosColonos.lha               24-Sep-2002 18:50   11K
MRea.lha                     24-Sep-2002 18:50   18K
retardcmd.lha                24-Sep-2002 18:50  827
retardcmd2.lha               24-Sep-2002 18:50  1.0K
SubNewS.lha                  24-Sep-2002 18:50   24K
amtelnet.catalog.lha         24-Sep-2002 18:50  3.1K
bwin.catalog.lha             24-Sep-2002 18:50  1.0K
cc.catalog.lha               24-Sep-2002 18:50  1.4K
facts.catalog.lha            24-Sep-2002 18:51  2.0K
mill.catalog.lha             24-Sep-2002 18:51  3.7K
MUI_.MiamiPanels.catalog.lha 24-Sep-2002 18:51  3.2K
rxmui.catalog.lha            24-Sep-2002 18:51  876
soundconvert.catalog.lha     24-Sep-2002 18:51  1.9K
tsgui.catalog.lha            24-Sep-2002 18:51  1.1K
VirusExecutor.catalog.lha    24-Sep-2002 18:51  6.0K
yam2nn.catalog.lha           24-Sep-2002 18:51  4.1K
abcm2ps-3.1.8.lha            25-Sep-2002 09:14  127K
anubis-3.4.9.lha             25-Sep-2002 09:25  1.3M
cave-1.0a.lha                25-Sep-2002 09:25  125K
hypermail-2.1.5.lha          25-Sep-2002 09:31  268K
integrit-3.02.lha            25-Sep-2002 09:32  178K
muhstik-3.14.2.lha           25-Sep-2002 09:33   84K
nmap-3.0.lha                 25-Sep-2002 09:36  420K
Speex-0.8.1.lha              25-Sep-2002 09:38  282K
webalizer-2.01.10.lha        25-Sep-2002 09:53  1.0M
Dicci-1.8.lha                25-Sep-2002 10:26  420K
dicci-upd.lha                25-Sep-2002 10:26   18K
webalizer-2.01.10-040.lha    25-Sep-2002 10:52  1.1M 

integrit v3.02
webalizer v2.01.10
hypermail v2.1.5
cave v1.0a
Speex v0.8.1
muhstik v3.14.2
nmap v3.0
Anubis v3.4.9
abcm2ps v3.1.8
Dicci v1.8
MRea v1.0
SubNewS v1.0 

• 1 x Virtual Karting 2
• 1 x Amiga Tools 2 CD & Tele-Info 2 CD
• 1 x Workbench Design CD & Steuer Profi 96 CD

• akJFIF-PPC.lha 0K
• akPNG-PPC.lha 0K
• akPNG-WOS.lha 0K
• akTIFF-PPC.lha 0K
• akTIFF-WOS.lha 0K

• Amerika
• Europa
• Liste neuer Links
• Historie 2002

• psdFreeVec() was broken (freed 4 bytes less than allocated). I am really sorry about this. Pfuschwork orange.
• Added class config reading and writing.
• Added interface/device config reading and writing.
• Added some more support functions to the library.
• Internal variables/flags added for USB2.0 support (although, there is no working USB2.0 support right now).
• Added NAK timeout (5 secs) on EP0 while enumerating, as there seem to be badly broken devices out there, doing NAKs forever, blocking out the stack until the device is removed again.
• There were some global fields in the library data section which caused LoadModule by THOR to remove the resident tag because the checksum was wrong. Hopefully, this is now fixed.
• Licence check was broken. I forgot an if-clause, which caused the single user keyfile being killed after the verification (i.e. click on online/offline/online and you were back to demo version). Sorry to Mediator users.

• Added calls to open class config windows.
• Fixed some gadgets in device window not being ghosted.
• Added 'Settings' gadget in device window.
• Added speed output of USB 2.0 highspeed devices (no support in the stack, yet).
• Added calls to open binding config windows.
• Added some gadgets in device info window.
• Increased stack to 16KB as it was nearly running out of stack.

• Lots of internal changes to be more extensible (via a DoMethod vector).
• Changed classes to use the new FindEndpoint and FindInterface support functions. Saves a few bytes, makes classes more robust.
• Bailing out code introduced with release V1.27 was broken and would always have crashed the machine on failing allocation. Fixed.

• Bugfix: With a device with multiple LUNs, Permit() was called more often than Forbid(). Could have caused all kinds of havoc. Fixed.
• Data overflow is now being ignored in the data phase. This fixes some broken devices.
• Added device config GUI. I hope you enjoy it. If there's something missing, please let me know. Remember that automounting of RDB partitions still doesn't work, even if there's a switch already.
• On response timeout errors and multiple LUNs, access to unit could be locked, hanging the other LUN tasks. Stupid bug, which is now fixed.
• CB/CBI recovery handling didn't work in some cases.
• Added CBI_RESET (maybe this helps?).

• Added class config GUI. The configuration settings include turning on/off of ResetHandlers, setting the time until the machine reboots (in case of resethandlers installed) and an alternate caps lock mode.
• Added ISA keymap option, aswell as an option to disable the extra key translation functions (like page up/down).
• Extra key translation did not send events for up-qualifiers, therefore shift (or amiga or control) were still pressed after using keys like page up/down. Fixed.

• Fixed a possibly wrong PPC gate function.

• 18/September/2002: Updated epic4 to v1.1.7
  (IRC-Client)
• 16/September/2002: Updated mpgtx to v1.3
  (MPG Manipulator)
• 16/September/2002: Updated xlHtml to v0.5.1
  (Convert Excel/PowerPoint files to HTML)
• 16/September/2002: Updated NcFTP to v3.1.4
  (FTP Client and Tools)
• 16/September/2002: Updated HTMLDOC to v1.8.22
  (HTML Processing Program)
• 16/September/2002: Updated pdfToHTML to v0.34
  (Convert PDF Documents to HTML)

• 25.09.02 improved: Numb (Movement) various improvements
• 25.09.02 updated: Sonic Attack (Dual-Crew Shining) new icons
• 25.09.02 updated: Chromagic (Dual-Crew Shining) new icons
• 25.09.02 updated: Thug Life (Essence) colour bit fixes
• 24.09.02 new: Incredible Shrinking Sphere (Electric Dreams) done by Psygore - congratulations! 100 installs!
• 23.09.02 new: Mesmerized (Pure Metal Coders) done by Galahad
• 23.09.02 improved: Impossible Mission 2025 (Microprose) now supports ECS version
• 22.09.02 new: Alien Legion (Pegasus) done by DJ Mike
• 21.09.02 new: Grid Start (Anco) done by Psygore
• 21.09.02 new: Turrican 3 Demo (Factor 5) done by Psygore
• 21.09.02 new: Sound Of Silents (Silents) done by Psygore
• 17.09.02 new: Pod (Shaun Southern) done by Codetapper
• 17.09.02 new: S.O.S. (Melon Dezign) done by Psygore
• 17.09.02 new: Man From The Council (Pumpkinsoft/Tynesoft) done by Codetapper
• 17.09.02 new: Giddy 2 (Phil Ruston) done by Codetapper
• 17.09.02 new: Game Of Harmony (Assembly Line/Accolade/US Gold) done by Codetapper
• 17.09.02 new: Duck (Gremlin) done by Codetapper

• Amigan.org: Messebericht von OnyxSoft
• AmigaRulez: Messebericht von Johan "Graak" Forsberg

• gfx/show/swfplayer.lha (138K), Readme
• gfx/show/swfplayersrc.lha (380K), Readme

• DestraCity.lha (38K)
• AlabastraCity.lha (9K)

• LjngWOS.lha
• LjngMOS.lha

• Netgear EA101 und EA101C
• Paracom Enet und Enet2
• 3Com 3C19250
• Linksys USB10T
• D-Link DSB-650 und DSB-650C
• AOX USB ETHERNET
• ADS USB-10BT
• Entrega E45
• SMC 2202USB
• Correga K.K.

• Actionspiele
• Adventurespiele
• Aufbauspiele
• Ballerspiele
• Brettspiele
• Jump&Run
• Online-Spiele
• Rollenspiele
• Simulation
• Ich spiele nie!

• IBrowseMI - neue Default Images und eine neue Transferanimation
• ScalOSMI - Images und Icons im GlowIcons Design

• 12.00 h: Show-Eröffnung.
• 12.30 h: Kjell Breding/AmiGBG und Gunne Steen/GGS-Data halten eine kurze Willkommensrede.
• 13.00 h: Ole-Egil aus Norwegen und Justin aus Dänemark werden den AmigaOne präsentieren und anschließend Fragen beantworten.
• 13.45 h: Alan Redhouse von Eyetech hält einen Vortrag und beantwortet im Anschluss Fragen.
• 14.30 h: Gunne Steen/GGS-Data zeigt Teile des AmigaOS 4 auf seinem Amiga 4000 CyberStormPPC, eventuell zusätzliche Seminare.
• 17.00 h: Show-Ende, Gespräche zwischen Besuchern, Ausstellern und Sprechern.
• 17.30 h: Räumung des Veranstaltungsortes.

• Das italienische Printmagazin Bitplane präsentiert Amiga Anywhere Content Engine (AACE).
• Folgende italienische Amiga-Usergruppen werden präsent sein: AGI (Amiga Group Italia), Notizie Amiga, ATML (Amiga Transactor Mailing List) und ATO (Amiga Translators Organization).
• Die italienische BeOS-Group wird als Aussteller anwesend sein.
• Virtual Works zeigt erstmals in Italien den AmigaOne.

• Benötigt min. OS 3.5, MC68020 und ein paar MB Speicher
• Ansprechendes und funktionelles MUI-Interface.
• Basiert auf GNUChess 5.04 (aktuelle Version).
• Auswechselbares Design der Figuren mittels Skins.
• Figurensteuerung mittels Drag&Drop.
• Laden und Speichern von Spielen bzw. Stellungen im PGN- und EPD-Format ( Standardformate).
• Einstellung der Spielstärke entweder nach Suchtiefe (in Zügen) oder nach Zeit (Sekunden pro Zug).
• Riesige Eröffnungsbibliothek (ca. 11 MB an Spieldaten!). Eröffnungsdatei kann manuell erweitert werden.
• Zugrücknahme.
• Abschaltbare Anzeige der besten Zugfolge mit Bewertung.

• Prozessor: 750CXe, 750FX oder MPC7450
• FSB: 133 MHz
• Speicher: 3 Sockel für PC-133 SDRAM für bis zu 1,5 GB
• Speicherbandbreite: 582 MB/s

• Prozessor: 750CXe, 750FX oder MPC7450
• FSB: 133 MHz
• Speicher: 2 Sockel für PC-133 SDRAM für bis zu 2 GB
• Speicherbandbreite: 582 MB/s
• 2x AGP-Slot
• 2-Kanal UDMA-100 Controller
• AC97 Sound Subsystem
• Optional:
     USB 2.0 Controller

• Die ganze Vielfalt
  ARexx-Bibliotheken in der Praxis
• Viel schneller speichern
  Vorstellung: SCSI-IDE-Adapter
• PHP - als Mailsender
  Formulare mit PHP
• Klein und schnell
  Kurs: Programmierung mit MiniGL (Folge 1)

• Satirische Simulation des Spiele-Business
• Einfacher Spieleinstieg
• Erstellung eigener Spielkonzepte
• Zwei clevere Computer-Gegner
• Verschiedene Szenarien oder freies Spiel
• Komfortable Bedienung dank Point'n'Klick
• Aufstellung von Arbeitsplänen
• Fiese Sabotakeaktionen
• Zahlreiche Gebäude wie Games-Shop, Spielehölle, Kino, etc.
• Interaktion mit anderen Charakteren
• Detaillierte Hi-Res-Optik
• Stereo-Sound, Sprachausgabe und fetziger Soundtrack

• fxSCAN Update 4.04
  Das Update behebt einige kleinere Probleme im Zusammenhang mit Turboprint und führt zu erheblichen Verbesserungen der Erkennungsrate der 68K-Versionen der OCR-Engine.
  
  
• IOUSB System Update auf 2.1
  Dieses Update hebt einen "Portleak"-Bug in der iousb.library, der zu Problemen u. a. mit Epson Perfection 1650 Scannern geführt hat.
  
  
• VHI Studio 5.71
  Der integrierte FTP-Client ist nun toleranter im Umgang mit FTP-Servern, die sich nicht FTP-standardkonform verhalten.

• Bugfix: 'Swap' did not initialise empty dirs. Thanks for reporting to: Richard Mattsson!
• Bugfix: 'Swap' did not update the gadgets properly.
• Added a trailing "/" to "%d" - at least LHA seem to need it. Thanks for reporting to Jean Marie Boucher!
• Bugfix: the arrow gadgets did not do anything. Thanks for reporting to: Richard Mattsson!
• Korrektur: 'Swap' hat leere Verzeichnisse nicht initialisiert.
• Korrektur: 'Swap' hat die Gadgets nicht korrekt erneuert.
• Habe einen "/" an "%d" angehaengt, zumindest LHA scheint das zu brauchen.
• Korrektur: Die Pfeil-Gadgets sahen nur noch gut aus...

                          XzentriX Treffen 2002
                 _  __ ____  _____  ___________   ____ _  __
                | |/ //_  / / __/ |/ /_  __/ _ \ /  _/| |/ /
                |   /  / /_/ _//    / / / / _, /_/ /  |   /
               /   |  /___/___/_/|_/ /_/ /_/ |_/___/ /   |
              /_/|_|     T R E F F E N  2 0 0 2     /_/|_|

                  Die Computerparty gegen den Strom ...

                  Neue Webseite: http://www.xzentrix.de


Systeme:           8-Bit-Computer, z. B.:   BBC, CBM (VC20, C64, C128, C*),
                                            CP/M, CPC, Dragon,
                                            Epson PX8/HX20, Joyce, MSX,
                                            Sharp, TI 99/4A, Atari XL,
                                            ZX 81, ZX Spectrum ...

                   16- und 32-Bit-Computer: Amiga, Apple, Atari, Sun,
                                            NeXT, Archimedes/RiscPC

                   ... bringt mit, was gut und exotisch ist!

Veranstaltungen:   10.000 Meter Event - Der große Daddel Event am C64
                   SPIEL-Premiere - Schwimm-Games für den C64
                   Wahl zum Xzentriker des Jahres
                   ... natürlich gibt es auch etwas
                   für Sammler interessantes zu gewinnen

                   Am Samstag großer Computer- und Elektronik-Flohmarkt
                   Teilnehmer der XzentriX können dort kostenlos
                   verkaufen oder mit Einkäufen ihre Sammlung erweitern!

Datum:             Freitag, 04.10.2002 ab ca. 15.00 Uhr
                   bis Sonntag, 06.10.2002

Ort:               Mehrzweckhalle in Seeshaupt, Oberbayern

Kontakt:           Robert Sterff           Stephan Sommer
                   Bahnhofstrasse 14       Am Ock 1
                   82402 Seeshaupt         82418 Murnau
                   Tel. 0 88 01 / 26 15    Tel. 0 88 41 / 67 22 32
                   xzentrix@ccs.stoeni.de

                   Mailbox CCS-Base BBS 08801/2453
                   (ISDN: X75, Analog: V90, V34)

Infohomepage und
Onlinezusage:      http://www.xzentrix.de

Übernachtung:      Schlafsack vor Ort oder in einem Hotel

Kosten:            10 Euro für die gesamte Veranstaltung,
                   inkl. Frühstück in der Halle für Schlafsack
                   Computer Touristen. :-)
                   optional plus Hotel

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- Bringt eure 8-Bitter, Amigas, Archimaedels und was ihr sonst noch
  so habt mit, es ist genug Platz für alle da!

- Windows ist generell nicht erlaubt, StandardPCs sind nur
  zur Emulation und Unterstützung o.g. Systeme erwünscht, aber
  nicht für diese grässlichen 3D-Ballerspiele. Wer Windows auf
  der XzentriX startet, erklärt sich bereit, anstelle dieses
  Betriebssystems Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 installieren zu lassen.

- Jeder Partyteilnehmer kann kostenlos auf dem Computer-Flohmarkt
  am Samstag verkaufen!

- Verlängerungskabel und Verteilerdosen nicht vergessen!

- Wer auf der Party übernachten will, sollte Schlafsack,
  Luftmatratze und Isomatte o.ä. mitbringen; Duschen sind vorhanden.

- Frühstück besorgen wir und ist im Preis enthalten, ansonsten
  sind Lebensmittelläden, Sportgaststätte und Pizzeria in wenigen
  Minuten zu Fuß zu erreichen.

- Für Getränke und Computer-Futter ist natürlich gesorgt und ist direkt
  in der Halle zu bekommen. :-)

- Seeshaupt hat auch einen Bahnhof. Wenn wir wissen, wann Du ankommst,
  holen wir Dich gerne ab.

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Wegbeschreibung:

- Autobahnausfahrt Seeshaupt raus
- immer Richtung Seeshaupt fahren
- 5-6 km nach der Autobahnausfahrt im Ort links Richtung Penzberg abbiegen
- die nächste Straße rechts Richtung Bahnhof
- nach dem Fußballfeld rechts in die Einfahrt rechts einbiegen
- jetzt einfach hinterfahren und schon seht ihr die Mehrzweckhalle.

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Hiermit melde ich mich zum XzentriX Treffen 2002
vom 04.10.2002 bis 06.10.2002 an.

Name: _______________________________________________________________

Anschrift: __________________________________________________________

Telefon: ____________________________________________________________

Email: ______________________________________________________________

Uebernachtung: [ ] vor Ort (Schlafsack und Isomatte mitbringen!)
               [ ] Hotel Einzelzimmer
               [ ] Hotel halbes Doppelzimmer
               [ ] Um die Uebernachtung kuemmere ich mich selbst.

Tag der Anreise: [ ] Freitag, 04.10.2002
                 [ ] Samstag, 05.10.2002

Ich brauche Platz für __ Rechner.

Datum, Unterschrift: ________________________________________________

(Formular einfach per Post oder Mail schicken.)

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• The Citadel - 3D-Shooter
• Erben der Erde - CD32-Adventure
• Fears - CD32-3D-Shooter
• Testament - A1200-3D-Shooter

• Power Play 9/93 - 3D0 wird vorgestellt
• ASM 3/92 - Mega Drive CD-ROM wird vorgestellt. Passend dazu gibt es noch einen Testbericht von Sol-Feace für den MD-CDROM.

• MPEG1/2 Video mit Sound (optional)
• MP2/MP3 Audiostreams
• AC3 Streams
• (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD

What:             Metroplex Commodore Computer 
                  Clubs 16th annual show
                  and Flea Market
Where:            Brookside Convention Center, 
                  Hurst, Texas
When:             Saturday, October 19, 2002
Time:             1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Admission:        Free
Club web address: www.AmigaMCCC.org
Contact person:   Ned Kelly, 
                  email: nedkelly@ticnet.com

1. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 - Barry Leitch 4:26
2. Lionheart - Matthias Steinwachs 5:08
3. Final Countdown - Torsten Gellrich 3:06
4. SWIV "Decimation" - Andrew Barnabas 5:41
5. Body Blows - Allister Brimble 3:59
6. Carcharodon - Torsten Gellrich 3:27
7. Jim Power - Chris Hülsbeck 4:36
8. Z-Out "Level One" - Rudolf Stember 4:22
9. Shadow of the Beast 3 - Tim Wright 5:54
10. James Pond 2 - Richard Joseph 3:58
11. X-Out - Chris Hülsbeck 4:07
12. Battle Squardron - Ron Klaren 8:28
13. Lethal Xcess - Jochen Hippel 7:05
14. Hero Quest "Ingame" - Barry Leitch 3:04
15. Bonus Track: Rain - Jan Zottmann 4:31

              Regarding so-called "AmithlonXL"
              ================================

* I have absolutely no knowledge of this "product" beyond that which is
  publicly available on Amiga news sites.

* I am not in any way involved with this "product".

* At the current time, it is unclear (to me at least) whether this is
  supposed to be an add-on for existing Amithlon users (akin to the
  Elbox "Multimedia CD", simply offering a collection of new drivers),
  or whether it is meant to be something including emulator executable
  and ROM files.

* If it is just a collection of drivers, I have no problem with it.
  About bloody time, I'd say.

* If, however, someone is planning to distribute my IP (as contained in the
  emulator executable), I'd strongly advise to reconsider, as neither
  Harald Frank nor Haage&Partner have any license to do so. Furthermore,
  to the best of my knowledge, neither of those parties have a license
  from Amiga Inc for the distribution of kickstart images. 

* The announcements on www.amiga-news.de and www.ann.lu also talked about
  the demo machine being equipped with a Dual Head Matrox card. I sincerely
  hope that this is not an indication that my multi-head capable
  gfx driver for Amithlon is considered or presented as part of
  "AmithlonXL", as the license attached to that driver quite clearly
  prohibits it.

* Let me also reiterate that of the contents of the amithlon_contrib*
  packages released by me, ONLY the parts under the GPL are available
  for inclusion with any Harald Frank or H&P product, and that inclusion
  of those parts would require the strict adherence to the licensing
  terms of the GPL.
  
* Obviously, I won't be supporting an "AmithlonXL" which violates my
  intellectual property rights in any way. This would certainly include making
  sure that the proprietary parts of any further contrib packages I release 
  for the users of the original Amithlon would not work with such an
  "AmithlonXL". Personally, I despise crap like that, but what can I do?

* I would finally like to ask everyone to recognize that at the current
  time, to the best of my knowledge "AmithlonXL" is purely a Harald
  Frank idea --- I have yet to see a single word about it from Haage&Partner.
  So please don't abuse H&P over something they, for all I know, might not 
  even know about.


       Bernd Meyer, 

       Main Amithlon programmer                                                  

• Ich spiele HiltII und möchte weitere Missionen übersetzt haben.
• Ich spiele HiltII nicht, denke aber, es wäre gut, wenn weitere Missionen übersetzt werden.
• Ich spiele HiltII nicht und habe auch kein Interesse in Zukunft daran.

• Four external and one internal USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports
• Compatible with both USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) and USB 1.1 (12 Mbps) devices
• Compliant with EHCI, OHCI and PCI 2.2 standards
• All ports can handle high-speed, full-speed and low-speed transaction
• Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices
• Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port
• Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
• Hot Plug Capability

• One free PCI slot
• Mediator Multimedia CD

• Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card
• Mediator OHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack
• Unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack

• Externe Programme, z. B. Apdf, können von Next aus gestartet werden.
• Verbesserte Wheelmaus-Unterstützung.
• Blockgrenzen sind nicht mehr auf Zeilenanfang bzw. -ende beschränkt. Ein Block kann weniger als eine Zeile umfassen.
• Das Kopieren von Blöcken ins Clipboard erfolgt direkter.
• Ein Bug wurde entfernt, der beim Entpacken von Archiven mit Unpack all bzw. Unpack select zum Absturz führte.

• hochauflösende Grafik
• 3D Raytracing-Optik
• animierte Übergangs-Szenen
• gesampelte Klänge
• einfache Zeige und Klick-Steuerung
• Speichern und Laden jederzeit im Spiel
• jede Menge Interaktion
• Ich-Perspektive
• ScreenMode-Requester
• Multitasking
• AGA- und RTG-kompatibel
• AHI-Sound
• UAE-kompatibel

• Gerald Carda (bPlan)
• Ralph Schmidt (bPlan)
• Rakesh Raghoebardayal (Thendic)
• Sharwin Raghoebardayal (Thendic)
• Teemu Suikki (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer)
• Harry Sintonen (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer)

• austria (aus diesen drei Karten wird nur eine "Austria")
• austria_plus (mit höchster Datendichte und wahlweise dem)
• austria_special (Reiseführer mit Europakarte entstehen!)
• belgium (geht in der neuen BeNeLux auf)
• D_CH_A (Altlast...)
• germany (dafür gibt es die "Germany_Special", ansonsten)
• germany_global (sinngemäß wie bei "austria" bzw. "switzerland")
• germany_small (dito)
• netherlands (geht in der neuen BeNeLux auf)
• switzerland (aus diesen drei Karten wird nur eine "Switzerland")
• switzerland_special (mit höchster Datendichte und wahlweise dem)
• switzerland_standard (Reiseführer mit Europakarte entstehen!)

• FastEthernet.device
• sb128.audio
• tv.library
• Voodoo.card

• pci.library
• MediatorNET.device
• Voodoo.card

• USB-Unterstützung (Digitalkameras, Webcams)
• eigener, integrierter FTP-Client für die Webcamfunktionalität
• komplett neugeschriebener .mov-Animationsexport
• automatische Frameratenerkennung
• ARexx-Port hinzugefügt
• stark erweiterte Webcam- und Zeitraffer-Funktionalität
• Beispiel-Webcamfiles mit edler Oberfläche im Archiv
• ausgebaute PPC-Unterstützung (z. B. JPEG-Dekodierung)
• Verwendung der fxWARP 9 Technologie
• native CPU-Module für PPC (PowerUP, WarpUP, MorphOS) und x86 (Amithlon)