Innovative brings Digita(TM)-Power to the AMIGA!
Innovative has developed a driver for digital cameras, which are running with
the Digital(TM) Operating Environment. "Digita(TM)-enabled" digital cameras
show a much higher performance than everything else on the market, this times. Not only
that Digita(TM) is used with cameras from several manufacturers, but also these cameras
are running with Coldfire- or PowerPC CPUs and make it possible to run scripts, programms,
and games (incl. MAME!!) - what makes theses cameras particular interesting. The
producer of Digita(TM), Flashpoint(TM),
has set his target to make Digita(TM) the standard for digital cameras and therefor bets on
a standardised communikation protokoll between computer and camera. With the VHI driver now
available even Amiga users get access to these faszinating cameras, at last, and can download taken
pictures in a comfortable way and edit them. The following "Digita(TM)-enabled" digital cameras
are currently available:
P.S.: Digita(TM) has in this case nothing to do with the developers of Wordworth, but is
a productname for a product from Flashpoint(TM).
Heretic II for winning
playamiga.de arranges a SWOS tournament at the Amiga Meeting 2000.
the prime winning is a full version of Heretic II. The meeting will be held on October, 27-29th in Bad Bramstedt, Germany.
Well, if this is no reason to register, isn't it. ;-)
Free Amiga Jobs - Status Report
The Amiga market is moving. A look at Free Amiga Jobs, the free Amiga Job Stock Market, shows howmany
projects of established and new Amiga manufacturers are on thier way now or beeing planed. You can contribute
something to this positive evaluation: Act for the Amiga - also you!
These are the known changes since the last update:
"Free Amiga Jobs" is an initiative of Amiga plus and amiga-news.de.
Insider Section at individual Computers -
English
For programmers and such who wants to bekome one there now is a Insider Section on the support site.
Reference texts needed for programming close at the hardware of individual Computers' products are made
available there. Everybody who wants to write drivers for an alternative operatingsystem, such as Linux
or NetBSD, will finde all necessary information there. Also, native PowerPC drivers are conceivable -
I would like to answer your queries on the development, cause I know that hardware programming is not
pure delight.
DataM II 0.7 beta released
On the homepage of the Amigaclub Steinfurt, Germany (titlelink) a new official beta of my new
spreadsheet analysis DataM II was released.
The broken view of spreadsheets with Picasso96 should be fixed.
Rebol/Core 2.3 available
After several month a new version of Rebol/Core is available.
The development stage of V2.3 is now again up with Beta4.1 of Rebol/View.
MegaFonts - 5000 True Type Fonts -
English
MegaFonts is a unique collection of 5000 professional True Type Fonts for Amiga and PC systems. A big poster
showing all the fonts is included.
Amiga User List (AUL) Info
Soon me and my comrade will restart working on the AUL!
But I would realy like to know, how many of those who are NOT on the list (which exludes about 1000 Amiga users)
are interessted in an Amiga User Database. 2 to 3 issues more will released for sure. If there will be more
issues depends on the response. I would like to knwo too, whom of the people on the list is no lomger an Amiga user.
I request for eMails on the respective themes.
Amiga User Meeting Nord-Niedersachsen
The Saturday of the Amiga User Meeting in Nord-Niedersachsen, Germany, was over quickly.
Now I would like to know, who would like to attend such a meeting once more.
Of course those of you who did not take part of the meeting on June, 24th should write to me, however.
Please tell me too, which month (November 2000 to February 2001 is possible) would fit best.
Do not vorget to tell me how you liked the room, and the rest of that event - especially with
the meals (say if lunch and/or potluck). If all of you did not like the meals, this problem
will be prevented or corrected, next time. Oh, and the people who did not attend on Satruday
WITHOUT informing me might contact me, please (mail, phone, etc.).
AmigaActive Issue #10 on its way
Starting with June, 29th issue #10 of AmigaActive will be there to purchase. This issue contains reviews on
Pagestream4, fxPaint, and Cedric. Other interessting topics are MorphOS, QNX2000, and Neutrino, whereupon
a programmer's tutorial rounds off this theme. Additional to current news and many more items games, and
picture galleries will be introduced.
FusionPPC under final testing
According to Paul Lesurf from Blittersoft Fusion for PPC now is being under final testing and they anticipate
to finish it shortly.
ExoticA
ExoticA, the website full of musik, nostalgica, and many more round the Amiga, has been updated and is finally
available at http://exotica.fix.no/. Please, update your bookmarks.
CAD-Technologies - ACUP Status
The Imagine S.A.R.A. (Stand Alone Render Engine) has been send to the beta-testers.
All render funcitons of Imagine are allready supported by this release. By the following
updates client/server extensions, and PowerPC support will be added.
PowerPC rendering allready works in the current version of Imagine V5.18 (beta).
Fourth BAUD Hardware Meeting!
On the weekend from September, 15th to 17th the Bielefelder Amiga Users & Developers (BAUD)
will arrange their fourth Hardware Meeting. On Saturday September, 16th every interessted Amiga user
to stop by. You can ask questions, admire at a "heterogenous networkt" (with Amiga superior in numbers
of course), and in general at all BAUDies together at one place. You can eat pizza (no, not for free ;-)), have
a look at the running AmigaSDK, etc., etc.
You will find further information at the titlelink.
Though the "new" invitationsite is not finished yet (there the invitation of the last meeting still is
to find), registration, way of arrival, and proposition are the same. An updated page will follow within this week!
So, we´ll meet in Bielefeld, Germany....
The Forgotten OS - part 1
Hassan 'Karajorma' Kazmi has started a series of articles about the past, the
present, and the future of the Amiga. Read the first part following the titlelink.
First impressions of the "Fun of Computing" in Ilmenau, Germany
The "Amiga User Club Bautzen e.V." has visited the "Fun of Computing" in Ilmenau,
Germany, for the third time. You can read a short report about this year's event on our
homepage. A detailed issue with some photos will follow!
"Downloads without end.
The downloadarchive.de offers many downloads in many sections. It does not matter
if you are looking for freeware, shareware, or demos of comercial games or programs.
Here you will find it. Every program is listed with description and details about
system requirements, downloadsize and downloadtime, and so on. In short time downloads
for Mac, Linux, and Amiga will be available."
Another interesting detail on the website:
"I you are looking for a spare time job we want your short application to
jobs@downloadarchive.de! We need persons who are familiar with one of the sections
Mac, Linux, and Amiga."
PlayGui website news
There are some news on the PlayGui website. From now on the PlayGui forum is online.
Only some message boards are available for now but this section will be expanded soon.
Report and photos from the "Fun of Computing"
Juergen Mueller - many of you know him from our newsticker - has visited the "Fun Of
Computing" in Ilmenau, Germany, and made some nice photos and a detailed report (german)
of it.
Hyperion: Shogo status report
The development of Shogo is under good progress and goes on very well. They are
still thinking, if it makes sense to develop an AGA-version besides the gfx-board-version for the Amiga.
Orbit 0.5
At my homepage there is version 0.5 of the 'Space Combat Simulator' Oribt for free download available, now.
Additionally there is more information on Drake.
New Version of ´Dropout-Killers´
Ab heute kann die neue Version 2.01 des Movieshop-Tools bei Elastic Images
downgeloadet werden. Das Programm ist um eine Vielzahl von Funktionen erweitert worden:
Although the software still is in an early beta stage, it runs very stable and without errors, so far.
There is a special campaign for this programm: registered users of the free version 1.xx can order
thier personell keyfile at the prise of only 10DM (5EUR). But, this campaign only counts until 31 Jun 2000.
Nationals Amiga Developers Networks
Greek Amiga Developers Network is calling all amigans to form
nationals developers networks where programmers can help each
other through mailing lists. When you form a national ADN please
send us an e-mail to add you in our ADN's list.
Virus Help Denmark
A small update vor VT-Schutz has been released. IMPORTANT! To find linkviruses which are hiding BEHIND the 1. hunk FOR SURE,
you MUST use FileTest!
MusiXTeX T.99 available
A message maby still interessting for some user. At least at the sites of Amiga-Club some queries occured about
MuscTex, the precursor of MusiXTeX. This macripacket with ASCII files also runs with the TeX systems on Amiga
(PasTeX and AmigaTeX=MaxonTex). The latest version of the author Daniel Taupin
is available now. Since macro packets are from TeX ASCII code a porting to our Amiga - assuming a working TeX system -
should not be such a big problem. I'm working since many years with MusicTeX (the precursor) and will have a look at
MusiXTeX next times.
AmIRC V3.5 released
Version 3.5 of AmIRC was released, the Amiga client for chatting via IRC. This new version
uses distinct less CPU recources, has a enhanced query command, and many more. For registered AmIRC3.x user
this is a free update. AmIRC 1.x and 2.x users can get a low priced upgrade.
Free subdomains amiga-center.de
Now I have the permission of Gary Peake to offer subdomains with the syntax xyz.amiga-center.de, as long as there is no commercial
content! If you want to upload a non-commercial Amiga site with the domain yourname.amiga-center.de, can apply for/register a free
subdomain at the titlelink.
Other features:
Nothing is asked in return. We would be pleased for a link back to CGI-NOW.de.
News of CyberdyneSystems
Now there is a version (V.45.00 beta 3) of stormamige.lib V.45.00 for AmigaOS/68k and StormC. This version
contains many bugfixes and optimised functions.
DirScanner 2.10 available
At my homepage V2.10 of my DirScanner is avialable. I was forced to release this one, due to accumulating of double catalogs. :(
Amiga Future News
At the Amiga Future homepage there is an interview with Q-Lab. Additionally we started two new votes on the site.
If one begins at the start-site, now it is possible to make an English translation of the entire homepage.
And of course our Abo Campaign with additional free Abo Bonus still is going.
playamiga.de: Heretic II Review
After a long time of waiting since WipeOut 2097 on 10 June 2000 the second high-end Amiga game entered the stage. In the time
bevor there were much discussing on this game (mainly since the demo release). Do Heretic II worth those immense hardware requirements?
Since playamiga.de allready with the review raised tempered diskussions, here now the
test of the full version at last: Heretic II - Mispurchase of the summer or
rescuer of Amiga's game future?
FTW: fxPaint 1.5 Test
Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World die a extensive test of fxPaint 1.5 and was so excited, so that he gave this
resourceful programm an award.
New beta version of DiskMaster 2
At the titlelink a new official beta version of DiskMaster 2.5b along with the new DM2.guide, and the DM2_deutsch.guide
is available for download.
SoundFX V4 released
Stefan Kost makes SoundFX V4 with many new and powerfull features, and effects available for download.
24 Jun 2000
World of Alternatives Gleanings
I appologize for the much too long delay, but here it is. The English translation of Petra Struck's
"World of Alternatives Gleanings".
Heise: Internet Surfing with the "Breadbox"
«Maurice Randall is developing an internet browser for the Commodore64 homecomputer.
The C64, which was not manufactured since years, came in 1983 to the market and used 64KByte
memory - a vast amount of memory for homecomputers in former times. The fist version of the C64
adopted the slightly roundish design of its precursor VC-20 and thus was also called "Breadbox".
The second version, which turned up later, had got a more shallow case using the typical design of the 80th.
There were more other designs, such as a portable variant with build-in coloured monitor.»
DataM II Beta released
At the homepage of the Amigaclub Steinfurt there is the first official beta release
of the spread sheet software DataM II for download. DataM II, the new software project of Christoph Kirsch, the author of MUIVideo,
is a spread sheet software which shall become embeded in a relational databank system. The main attention was focused on the
user friendliness, and the printing function.
AmiWest 2000 Press Release 5
Petro Tyschtschenko will be guest at the AmiWest 2000, which will take place from 29 July to 30 July 2000 in Sacramento,
California. Please, read the entire press release at the titlelink.
Met@box News
At the titlelink Met@box answers a number of important queries about the AmiJoe project. Met@box
stated that the AmiJoe project was not quit, even though there are romours telling this time and again.
The developing department of Met@box, "CPU Upgrades", has other projects with higher priority.
Additionally a serious bug turned up in the Memory/PCI Bridge Controller, which necessitates a
redesign of the controller. Due to that the 68k emulation could not be creates as on schedule.
They set clear too, that there will be G3 cards for Amiga1200 only, which will be finished at the
end of this year or early next year, at the earliest.
Closing down of the "Amiga shop"
Rainer Benda wrote:
The decision is made. As for the current stage of affairs 09/20/00 will be the last day of my
active time with Amiga. After that day I will no longer offer Amiga articles. Discounts for
the sellout I will negotiate individually. Please have a look at the website for current
opening hours.
AmiTradeCenter website with new layout
The website of the neuw FTP client "AmiTradeCenter" comes with a new layout.
This site is also available at http://amitradecenter.net/
from now on. Since the day before yesterday the authores of the programm are to meet at their own
IRC channel: irc.uni-stuttgart.de, port: 6667, channel: #ACT
Planning of World Of Commodore Amiga
For the winter season 2001 a combined Commodore/Amiga show (WOCA 2001) is planned.
The show shall take place in western USA. Additonal informations will follow soon.
JST v3.4d available
Who wants to make old games running on newer systems will appreciate JST, cause many programms will become
playable again by little patches.
Scalos goes "C"
LoadWB and the preferences.library was allready converted to "C" to make updating and fixing of bugs
more easy. Sclaos shall be ported to "C" by and by. Since 560Kb of sourcecode has to be worked up
porting may take a bit longer.
Big Lottery for the - FUN OF COMPUTING NG -
The - FUN OF COMPUTING NG - will start next weekend and has to offer something
for everybody! Besides to many news of the exhibitors there will be a big lottery
with fantastic prices every day of this fair. Not only prices like joysticks, CDs
or mouses are waiting for you. Other prices are:
Amiga Arena news
Special price event with Neptun
The Amiga Arena made it possible to present the horoscope- and astrolgy-program
"Neptun" exclusivly for a special price! The special price is 15DM (normal
price 30DM). Further information at Amiga Arena under "Aktion".
Special price II
Also it is possible to register for PureBasic and Boulderdäsh for a special price
till the end of June.
Lottery
For the release of the Amiga Arena CD-ROM from APC&TCP Amiga Arena has arranged a
lottery that will last till 09/07/00! You find this lottery at Amiga Arena under
"cd version"!
+++ AMIGA-aktuell-SPECIAL +++
New York times: New Amiga will be released at the end of the year.
-------------------
The statement in the New York Times says, that the first AmigaNG-computers will
be available at the end of the year. The Computer with the name "Amiga One" is
build under usage of available hardware components and will cost about 700 US-Dollar
Further information are available in a detailed report under the URL
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/circuits/articles/22amig.html.
To get to this link, you have to register for free.
"Der Clou" manual as guide with passwords
Steffen Jahn has converted the manual of "Der Clou" into a guidefile and build
in the needed passwords. You can download the file via the titlelink.
Aminet uploads with comment
As anounced earlier, Alfred Strum will give comments to some programs uploaded
to the Aminet. For this first time Alfred has taken a closer look at "TURBOVAL"
of Zbigniew Trzcionkowski.
New polish printmagazin: Amiga Minus
For polish Amiga users ther is a new Amiga magazine available: Amiga Minus.
Further information you will find under the titlelink.
PPC-boards Poll Results
Fun Time World has started a poll about "Are you still interested in a PPC-board?"
on their website. 636 Visitors have taken part in it with the following results:
210 Visitors own a PPC-board
30 are not interested in a PPC accelerator any more
180 are very interested in a PPC-board
90 are not quite sure
126 are waiting for the new Amiga instead
Now there is a poll "How many Games for the Amiga will you buy this year?".
AmiJoe for A4000 in the 3rd quarter
On Czech Amiga News you can find quote from Susan Elzingre (Met@box) about the JoeCard.
It says that the card for the A4000 should be released at the end of the 3rd quarter.
An expert is working on the finishing of this card.
New MUIbase version 1.5
Since the fair in Neuss, Germany, the version 1.5 of MUIbase is available. Due to
minor problems with our website the "placing-in-the-net" of MUIBase was a little
bit delayed. At the fair were Steffen Gutmann (author) and me (webmaster) present
and felt well for the two days in the Amiga-community :-).
Download: MUIbase-1.5.lha.
Order of ISDN-surfer including VMCISDN in advance only available from VMC!
Harald Frank wrote:
As opposed to prior advertisements by Vesalia the new ISDN-card ISDN-Surfer is
only available by order in advance from VMC. Owners or advance orderers of the VMCISDN-software/ISDN-
Blaster will get a good upgrade offer from us.
If you are already offered this card by your dealer, that offer is unreliable. The
first one to know when this product will be finished are we who develop its software
and have produced every Amiga ISDN-card, from the ISDN-master-I/II to the ISDN-Blaster-Z2.
The reason that you can buy the card firstly only from VMC are the very high development
costs for the software. In this time we are working day and night for new software
updates of our products and some new great products. Priority has the VMCISDN-software
that is used from Jens Schönfeld under licence for his ISDN-Surfer card.
In the next days we will celebrate the VMC-powerdays where we will present every day
an update or a new product on our homepages.
EASys!-website now also available in English
Working on the english version of the EASys!homepage has been finished tonight. You can
find information and features about the product there (as in the german version). In
future you will be able to find servicepacks and addons there.
Of course you can order EASys! online from the homepage.
New Buy- and Sell Exchange for VHI-cards and digital cameras
Due to many requests we have decided to open an exchange for selling and buying
VHI-cards and digital cameras. It can be found on the VHI Studio homepage under
Support. The VHI-forum can also be found there.
New mailinglist: A-Dream
I have founded a new mailing list at egroups for Amiga users. It is called A-Dream
and should help get to know other users in person. You can talk about everything in
this mailinglist. If you want to talk about something else than only Amiga, feel free
to subscribe and be welcomed :-).
MiniGlowIcons-set 2
As a supplement for all the GlowIcon updates on my server I present a package
of 300 GlowIcons for OS3.5. Because of their size this icons can be used for
startbars like DirOpus or Screentab. The icons have only a fourth of size than
the original ones and are some new and many converted icons.
Virus Help Denmark: new virus and new "Safe" update
A new linkvirus has been found, it is named "Motaba" at this time none of the big antivirus
programs can find and remove this virus, But a new update if "Safe" has been released today
(v13.5), and it can detect this new linkvirus. Here is some info about the new Safe:
Program: Safe v13.5
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 29.448 bytes
Release date: 21 June 2000
Programmer: Zbigniew `Zeeball` Trzcionkowski
The Clou - list of passwords
The company Neo Software has recently released "The Clou". The game and the manual can
be downloaded at the titlelink. Unfortunatly the password inquiry is not ready, yet. Alfred Faust
was able to finde out some of the passwords using a HEX editor, and converted the
Manual (German). amiga-news.de got permission from Mrs.
Trofeit from Neo Software to post those passwords here. According to Neo Software after about two
or three weeks there will be a complete list of the passwords released at
www.clou2.de.
AMIGA Software in Vienna!
Austrian Amiga fans will be happy to hear that you can again buy Amiga software
in Vienna, even while choice is still limited. The shop A&M in the Millenium
City (subway station: Handelskai) already offers OS3.5, AmigaWriter, ArtEffect, and
the games Tales from Heaven, Foundation DC, Games Classix (Collection) - and
Simon the Sorcerer2, Foundation Mission Pack and Foundation Gold Pack will follow
soon.
Famous Amiga Uses
Pär Boberg again updated his list of Famous Amiga Uses. On this list, you
can see which famous occassions, people, companies and movies employed / employ
the Amiga.
Computer City offers Amiga Developer Box
Netherland retailer Computer City offers an Amiga Developer Box based on an
AMD K6/2 500 MHz. Further details at the title link.
About 30 programmers with knowledge in C/C++ (Assembler would be
an advantage), to port several games and standard applications from the Amiga
platform. Contact with the Amiga companies is established by us. As far as
we know for know, payment will be a percentage of the sales.
Developers planning their move toward the Milan market, who want their
software to be distributed professionally by companies.
If you are interested, contact: Ali Goukassian a.goukassian@milan-computer.de
Milan Computersystems An der Holsatiamühle 1, D-24149 Kiel, Germany
Phone: +49 (431) 20 99 034 Fax: +49 (431) 20 99 035
stormamiga.lib for SAS
It took a long time but now it is official - the stormamiga.ib for the SAS/C Compiler is to come.
Versions for MC68EC020+, MC68881+, MC68040+, and MC68060 are planed. Initial tests allready were
very auspicious.
Please, send questions and comments on this issue to Matthias Henze..
Alive Mediasoft Press Release
Alive Mediasoft close down both, the complete Amiga software and hardware area and intend to focus
on the new printmagazin "The Pulse".
AROS Status Update
Again a another software was ported to AROS: the freetype.library
(www.freetype.org), BGUI and SnoopDOS.
The port of DOpus is getting more and more usefull, too. Many bugs of the
gfx.HIDD have been fixed, and there is allready a version of the cybergraphx.library running.
The first version of the x86 native IDE driver has been released. As the trackdisk.device
exists now we can start porting the filesystem to AROS.
We are searching for someone to care for the Amiga version of BGUI.
(As for BGUI, we would like someone who will keep it alive on
Amiga (that is, make sure that our changes don't make BGUI
unusable on the Amiga). If you want to help, please contact
digulla@aros.org.
AMIGA aktuell international online
AMIGA aktuell International 06/00 is now online.
In addition to the latest Amiga news, curent tests of software, and many more
there is a workshop on building a network under AmigaOS and Linux included, too.
GlowIcon Collection II Preview
There is a free update for the
GlowIcon Collection. It includes
200 new icons. This update features a preview of a possible second release of the GlowIcons Collection, too.
#Miggy.De meeting
The +Miggy.De channel is paning a meeting on 07/15/00 in Bremerhaven. All chatters of that channel
are hearty wellcome to the meeting! If someone not belonging to that channel wants to attend the
meeting, please contact hansapils@businessnet.de
Registrations will be accepted until 07/01/00. Everybody registered will recieve a map describing your way starting from the
point where you will leave the Autobahn.
Addition: You can find #miggy.de in the Arc-Net at de.arcnet.vapor.com or uk1.arcnet.vapor.com, as well as
e us1.arcnet.vapor.com.
Amster V0.7
V0.7 of the napster client "Amster" for Amiga computer in now at Aminet for download.
Napster is a Community for exchange of MP3 files using a special client which supports features like
chatting, searching, download, announcement lists, etc.
Changes since V0.6:
Among other the Amiga version provides multithreaded downloads with the possibility to set priorities.
The software need AmigaOS3.x, MUI 3.8+, and MCC_NList V19.97+.
PIV-MooVId V1.3
On 06/18/00 V1.3 of the video player "MooVId" was realeased. The player supports the Indeo-Codec from Intel
inside the registered version.
AmTelnet 2.4 published
AMTelnet II is an Internet Client to log into a remote computer via telnet and SSH Protocoll.
New is the "Client Break" function that improves the interruption of commands that have a long output,
such as LS -lR. The Text output has also been optimized.
CD32 Games Install Kit NG v3.7 available
Version 3.7NG of Install Kit is now available at the Airsoft Software website, since the one released yesterday contained a small bug.
Many thanks to the users that reported the bug so quickly. There is also a HD patch for Guardian.
The new version of the integrated subsystem Install 2001 can now also emulate Joypads (via Keyboard and Joystick).
Also, a few new games are supported and older Installers were overworked. Version 3.6 is available for download.
Only a few days until the - FUN OF COMPUTING NG -
Only a few days until the - FUN OF COMPUTING - begins in Ilmenau/ Thueringen, Germany.
The Amiga Zentrum Thueringen invites all computer users to Ilmenau in Thueringen (June, 25-26th) to get infos
concerning diverse platformas and operating systems.
Volker Mohrs "A1200" on Amiga.com
Volker Mohr not only upgraded his A1200, but also gave it a 10.4" TFT-LCD monitor and made his own aluminum case.
He presented it in Neuss at the convention and now Amiga Inc. is featuring it.
Simple FTP 2.54
Rick Hodger has made on June, 16th version 2.54 of SimpleFTP available for download. It contains bugfixes and a few new features.
More concerning that inside the file archive.
SimpleFTP is a user-friendly FTP client that uses MUI for the GUI.
New Picture viewer ShowGUI
On my website I now have thee first version of ShowGUI available for downloading.
ShowGUI also supports external viewers, like MysticView, and Visage. ShowGUI is available at the titlelink and is freeware.
CDWriter: First public beta released
Willem Mestrom has made the first public beta of CDWriter available for download. Currently,
only TAO works and only a couple of writers are supported.
GAUHPIL News
I would like to inform you about some changes in the Geographical Amiga User Home Page
Internet List (GAUHPIL). Most pages are now translated to German and the navigation
links on most pages are set accordingly:
For the next three weeks, I'll be on vacation. Please continue to send me your updates
and tips. I will read them all when I'm back home. Thank you for your attention and support!
Informations from Gary Peake
Gary Peake posted an interesting article to the Open-Amiga mailing list which contains
interesting information about the new Amiga Software Development Kit (SDK), hardware,
developers and support of user groups.
Amiga Future interview with authors of ApanoSIN from LevelOne
Since ApanoSin is available from the retailers at last (detailed test report will be found in Amiga Future #26)
wie of course immediatly did an interview with the programmers. This interview can be found at the AKTION site
of Amiga Future (German). Furthermore we increased the "hefte; site. From now on you will be able to read
results of tests to be informed more quickly.
Neo offers "The Clou AGA" for download
After the MSDOS version of "The Clou" available for download since about half a year NEO now decided to offer the
Amiga version - BTW: which is even better than the MSDOS version - for free download. In this context I would like to remember
the Open Source Project; the mailinglist is activated now, and it would be nice to meet even more "Amigans&qout; there.
15 Jun 2000
Amiga Link Directory got an external rating feature
As mentioned in our show report (English translation is in process) we talked with many of our audience at the
Amiga show in Neuss and noticed some very good suggestions. Some asked to design the rating possibily inside
Amiga Link Directory (ALS) in a way that the webmasters are able to include a rating code directly into their
websites. Felix Schwarz from Innovative, who has written the ALD for
us, immediate put this query into action.
If you choose a single entry inside the ALD now, you will allways get a link to "HTML-Code for rate boxes four your hompage"
below "Rate this site!". At this you will be able to choose between three different layouts which will show up with the
relating HTML code below. Using cut &'n paste you than can easyly put your favourit HTML code into your homepage. Then the
visitors of your hompage will be able to rate your site! If you get an adequate number of ratings your site will get highlighted
inside the search result list!
Epic: Foundation Gold available now
The "Foundation Gold Edition" is now available by number of pices. You will find further informations about this cover at our homepage
at <<Products>>. The Gold Edition can be ordered from us, from the Amiga vendors or from the branchs of Weltbild Verlag.
Notice: This CD too has been produced orderly (silver CDs, printed cover and cellophane packing). If someone proffers you this product looking
different, please contact us at support@epic-marketing.de.
The Gold Edition is over a collection of "Foundation DC" and "The Undiscovered Land" as it offers new features, and
enhancements to the original game. The Gold Edition comes with a fully reworked control, all the graphics were reworked and
enhenced, incl. the animations of characters, buildings, trees, and every other object. There is a new "hard mode" with a
significant more intelligent acting computer. The visual displays were all over reworked, vital emended, and designed more predictable.
All the 80 missions included inside Gold Edition - 40 from the original game with little enhancements, and the 40 new missions from "The Undiscoverd
Land". You can read more information at the homepage of the developer,
Paul Burkey.
WarpSNES version 5.0 available
The long awaited version 5.0 of SuperNes emulator WarpSNES for power Amigas with WarpOS was
released. 99% of the games for SNES are playable now! That new version requires chunkyppc.library,
which you will find on Aminet.
Download: warpsnes.lha - 526 Kb
Digital Almanac III News
First the good news:
The Binaries of Digital Almanac are basically finished. Against my previous assessment
DA III will run on an 020 without an FPU. So now, Amigans with low-end hardware can run it.
The not-so-good news:
Because of unforseen private problems, it will be a while before I can release it. Sometime mid-end of July.
I ask the Beta-testers to please be patient.
Pre-orders however can be taken. Of course no payment is required. An email to me is sufficient.
AmiWest 2000 Press Release 4
On July 29th and 30th in Sacremento the Amiwest 2000 will be held.
Bill McEwen will be a special guest and report on the devepoments and the SDK.
Famous Amiga uses
Pär Boberg has updated his list of famous Amiga uses. This list contains info about what fils, people, companies used Amiga`s in thier projects.
Melody 1200 PRO available shortly
The high-end sound card for the A1200 is within the next 4 weeks available once again.
We are expecting the shipment any day now.Those that would like a Melody 1200 PRO should act quickly.
The current production run is almost entirely sold. Another production run will not be possible for a while
due to problems with the divilery of the required parts.
Amiga SDK without Linux Distrtibution / Download from the Internet
Amiga SDK ohne Linux-Distribution / Download aus dem Internet
Contrary to earlier reports, the Amiga SDK kit does not contain a Linux distribution, eventhough it is required for its use.
The recommended version of RedHat 6.1 is available for free download . You can find a list of mirrors
here. A few developers have succesfully gotten the SDK to run on other
Linux distributions. Amiga Inc. is considering supporting these.
Also, a less expensive student version is being looked at. The regular price is 250DM and it requires an x86 PC. The
SDK can be ordered through Amiga distributors.
Amiga Future News
At the Amiga Future website is a convention report from Neuss (German). It is a preview of the report due in issure 26.
In "Aktion" is the list of the raffle winners.
The pages of the Amiga Future have changed. A "Gimmicks" page has been added that will be expanded upon in the near future.
There is also now a "yellow" and "red" area. The yellow area concerns up-to-date information pertaining to this or
the next issue.
Red contains infomation pertaining to the website itself.
The Action Game Apano Sin for Amiga is done!
It is done. The Action Game "Apano Sin" forAmiga!
The game contains 6 worlds that require cleaning of Aliens and crazy machines. For this purpose the player has multiple weapins
at thier disposal. Additional power-ups can be gained during the game. Once you master the first 6 Worlds then you make your way
to the Aliens homeworld, APANO SIN for the final showdown.
Within Germany the game can be ordered from the Titlelink. For all other users a website is being constructed that will allow online
orders with a credit card. The game will of course also be available at Amiga dealers.
Big Amiga Metting in July
On July 22-23rd once again the APC&TCP is sponsering in Vellmar near Kassel (in Hessen, Germany) thier yeearly Clubmeeting.
Next to a lot of fun they are offering many interesting People - with a 90% chance that Petro Tyschtschenko will be among them.
Metting T-Shirts, CD`s and computers (some very rare models) Games, Workshops and much more. For only 10DM for both days
Accomadations are available.
For more information contact:
Sascha van Wähnem
Wesler Str. 7
D 46509 Xanten
Germany
and at the Titlelink.
Da Cool Booter V.1.7 available
On the Airsoft website Da Cool Booter is now available. This version is mainly a Bug Fix. An update is definatly worth it.
Alive Mediasoft activities
Since we warned on May 26th against buying Goal 2000 from Alive Mediasoft, more and more of
their dubious activies are coming to light.
First KDH Datentechnik stopped on May 27
reselling all products of Alive Mediasoft.
On June, 1st Darkage Software released a public letter to all distributors not to buy
"Extreme - Visual FX Generator" from Alive Mediasoft becuase ALive Mediasoft has not paid them.
In an article dated June 10th, Fun Time World gave the following pictures as proof
that Alive Mediasoft has been selling pirated software.
Today, Alfred Knoetig from Alf`s Corner in his rewsletter:
"Finally, everyone has seen the light! After ALIVE wanted to compensate me for damages they sent me software.
I was surprised to se that about half of what they sent was pirated. Alive Mediasoft was selling pirated software!
Proof was found at the convention. Check out www.funtime-world.de."
At the Website of Dietmar Eilert, the author of GoldED, we found the following warning:
"Alive Mediasoft - 6/2000 - FRAUD WARNING
Amiga users have reported that Alive Mediasoft (UK) are manufacturing and selling unlicensed copies of GoldED Studio 6
on CD-R. The disks are sold with a note inside saying people were to use their serial number because they were waiting
for a batch of new registration cards for GoldED to come in. Please be warned that Alive Mediasoft has no distribution
license for GoldED 6 and that a GoldED 6 CD purchased from Alive Mediasoft may be stolen property for which neither the
author nor the regular distributors have received payment. If in doubt, please get back to us with the serial number you were issued.
Alive Mediasoft has been contacted to resolve this issue, but has failed to respond as requested before a given deadline.
Customers who have purchased a GoldED Studio 6 CD from Alive Mediasoft are adviced to contact Alive and demand a refund."
VHI Studio 5.2 available
Since there wasn`t any time left before the "World of Alternatives" the new version wasn`t available until now.
This version offers faster MPEG-encoding and support for MPEG2.
Download: VHIStudio.lha
Important for all EASys customers!
Dear customers, this is an important note to all "old" and "new" Easyans:
On the installation of the system, the following broken entries in the User-Startup
might lead to severe problems: Especially Turboprint and some MUI installations
seem to have User-Startup entries that do start with ;BEGIN TurboPrint but don´t
have an ;END TurboPrint. This is not in line with the Commodore Amiga Style Guide
and, in the current implementation of the Installer script, does lead to an error
that leaves the new startup prodcedure of the system unstable. This can be fixed
as follows:
Systems already installed are best uninstalled with help of the Deinstall script
from the CD, rebooted, and their S:User-Startup modified according to the above.
Then, a new installation should work. Upon first install, do the modifications to
the S:User-Startup first. Ideally, every program installed should have an entry
like this (replace [Program] with the according program´s name):
;BEGIN [Program]
...assignments and commands...
;END [Program]
I want to say sorry for the trouble this might have caused! Please regard the note
in the installation guide that installations to PFS boot partitions leads to startup
problems due to bugs in PFS. A temporal installation to a FFS copy of the boot
partition and copying back the files afterwards helps in this case.
FreeCraft Amiga port?
Is already somebody working on a port of the OpenSource project "FreeCraft"? I could save
myself the trouble then... please mail me!
Epic News
"Foundation: The undiscovered Land", the Foundation mission CD, is now available. It can be
ordered from your Amiga dealer or the Weltbild Verlag.
The CD requires the "Directors Cut" or the original "Foundation". More information can be
gathered from the Products section of our homepage.
Important note: As we heard, there are some black sheep among the Amiga retailers, which also
sell our products as pirate copies. If you should have purchased a CD that was not properly
manufactured (printed cover, silver CD and cellophane covering), please report to
support@epic-marketing.de.
FGN: SoF Heads to Amiga
As already mentioned in our news and show report, Hyperion
Software will port the successful PC game "Soldier of Fortune" by Raven to Amiga and Mac.
Interesting is that this is even noted on FGN. The opinions
of several FGN readers are also interesting.
Rebol/View available for Amiga!
For over a week, the public beta 4.1 version of Rebol/View for AmigaOS is available
for download. Rebol/View is a variant of the Rebol scripting language, which also
offers commands for creating graphical user interfaces.
Petition to Village Tronic
Since Village Tronic (VT) has canceled production of the Picasso IV for some time already,
and doesn´t give hard information if and when defective PIVs will be repaired in the near
future (since one of the important persons so far managing the VT repair service has quit),
Paul Qureshi from the Picasso mailing list initiated a petition. The votes collected will
be presented to VT to motivate them to release documentation, so companies volunteering to
repair PIVs can do so.
If all links should fail, you can send an e-mail to the initiator of this petition:
Paul.Qureshi@btinternet.com. All PIV users
should participate, since only this way you could get VT moving. So far, there have been
less than 200 votes. If you consider there are over 500 pre-orders for the Paraglide
3D add-on, that´s not much :-(. What´s a functional Paraglide worth if your Picasso IV
doesn´t work anymore...
Turboland - Tracker´s Paradise
The Turboland is a support site for tracker composers of the Techno, Trance, House etc.
families (primarily Amiga :-). Originally, it was meant to introduce the mailbox going
under the same name, but meanwhile grew to a parallel project with several support acts,
like Techno Overdose, DJ Alle, Thunder, Ravebusters, Blaster One, ...
Moreover with a nice collection of Techno-, Trance- and House modules in various
tracker formats. Besides, we are always looking for new composers. :-)
AmigaSDK - Program Overview
If there should ever be a successor to the CD32 is depending
solely on if the new Amigas appear or not. At the Amiga show in Neuss, the AmigaSDK
(Software Devlopment Kit) has been presented to the public for the first time, and was
available for purchase. Now, we want to do our part to make the AmigaSDK and the new
Amiga a success, and so we decided to offer an AmigaSDK Program Overview. We took the PPC
Program Overview maintained by Carsten Schröder as a model.
We now call upon developers owning the AmigaSDK (and developing with it) to tell us
which project they work upon, which game they are porting or what kind of new software
they work upon.
12 Jun 2000
Fair report from amiga-news.de
Under the titlelink you will find a detailed report from the fair in Neuss, Germany and every relevant link to further reports and pictures.
(German only, translations will follow)
Amiga Times: Fair report
On the website of the AmigaTimes you will find a full report about the fair
"World Of Alternatives" and in the next days some photos. (German only)
12 Jun 2000
Fair report part 2
Read under the titlelink the second part of Martin Baute's report about the introduction of the Amiga Software Developer's Kit by Bill McEwen. This
report is written in German (an English translation will follow) but contains parts of the original English spoken sound recording. Martin has taken some
photos of this presentation.
part 1 of the report (English)
Earth2140 and Soldier of Fortune
Epic Marketing announces the realtime strategy game "Earth2140" that it will be available in short
for the Amiga.
Hyperion Software has gained a licence for Soldier of Fortune
from Activision/Raven. The game bases on a modified Quake2 engine and will be ported for Amiga and Macintosh by Hyperion.
Metaview Update
On my website I have
released the new version of Metaview. The most important new features are
the functionel picture index, the ability to send pictures to other
programs from the picture index and a better GM import - that now supports
mathematical coordinates.
Prelude 1200 Soundcard at the Convention
Eternity is offering the last production run (according to A.C.T.) of the
Prelude 1200 Soundcard.
- Internal design for the clock port
- up to 16bit/ 64khz sampling frquency
- Chrystal soundchip, full duplex
- inputs for Line, Aux, Mic (with pre-amp)
- throughput of the Paula signal
- AHI support
- includes drivers, libraries and software
Price 298,- DM
HiSoft build Network
HiSoft writes:
It doesn`t happen very often that one gets the chance to earn money with
such a small amount of effort. All that you have to do is to put one or
more of our products for sale on your website with the "HiSoft Affiliates
Network" button next to it.
The button will link to the product page of our website and send us your
"Highsoft Systems Affiliates ID" through which we will credit you a
commision.
How high can it be? Depending upon the product anyywhere from 5-15%
The "How-to-Page"
explains all the details and all the codes you need to guarantee your
commision.
If you would like to become a "HiSoft Systems Affiliate" just check out
this link and fill
out the form, and soon you will be ready to go!
SNES9xGUI V2.3 and TUP 1.8 released
Today a new versions of SNES9xGUI and TUP were released. The new SNES9xGUI
verison now supports AGA HAM mode. TUP now has a Tooltype that prevents it
from entering itself into the Tools menu. Bother new versions are available
for immediate download.
Amiga Survivor Relaunch
Crystal Software and Electronics will relaunch the print Magaine "Amiga
Survivor" at the World of Amiga Convention. It will be in A4 format and
will contain reports from well known and new writers.
As a warm-up there will be an A5 format release that will de distributed to
distributors and others that are waiting since May 17th for the proposed
first publication date.
Those that subscribe at the convention also get the chance to win a 2.5"
Harddrive and copies of Max Rally.
The Magaize can be ordered via the Titlelink in the CS&E store.
11 Jun 2000
Convention Links
At AmigaNation you will find a convention report and 2 MPEG`s from Bill
McEwens speech. More pages to be added soon.
Haujobb AmigaAfair: 3.4MB of convention pics Marcus Neeroort: Many picturees from the convention.
Also Amiga History from 1982-2000 and software to download. Fun Time World: report and photos amiga-news.de: report from Bill McEwen`s speech and pictures www.playamiga.de: convention report with emphasis on games Amiga-Online: four pics from the convention www.kultpower.de: Pictures from the convention in different resolutions.
11 Jun 2000
Convention Photos II
Todays Convention Photos have subtitles. We will follow up on yesterdays convention photos.
A detailed convention report is soon to follow.
Whoever does send a finished game, or at least a demo, to CS&E by August 31st, 2000,
can win a contract as well as 1000 pounds advance payment. All other submissions accepted
by CS&E will recieve at least 100 pounds and a contract offer by the company.
HSMathLibs for MC68881/82 v44.41
On June 9th, 2000 CyberdyneSystems has
released version 44.41 of the HSMathLibs for the math co-processors MC68881/82. In
this version, all known bugs have been removed, and the Installer script reworked.
The show will be sponsored by Analogic Computers
who, like Amiga Inc., will provide prices for the contests taking place during the show.
Analogic, Eyetech, FORE-MATT Home Computing, Crystal Interactive Software (Gilbert Goodmate)
and others have already announced themselves as exhibitors.
New patches for slrn+
I finally got around for putting the newest patches into my Amiga port of
slrn+ and it is available for download as release 4 on my homepage.
This time I haven't put the sources into the main archive so that people
who have no interest in the sources have to download only about 500,000 bytes.
The sourcecodes can be found on my homepage, however.
MEDIATOR PCI 1200 Busboard
On the "World of Alternatives" which starts tomorrow in Neuss, Germany, Elbox will
present at the booth of Vesalia the new MEDIATOR PCI 1200 Busboard.
Also the following Elbox products will be available for buying there:
Elbox Tower for A1200 and A4000, FastATA Controller, 16.6 MB/s with AllegroCDFS
for A1200 and for A4000, the Mroocheck PC-Mouse Interface, and the
4xEIDE´99 Interface with AllegroCDFS.
News from Escena
Escena writes:
Since the last announcements, several things have happened. Contrary to all
prophecies of doom, we are still sticking with the ambitious Brainstormer project.
Certain difficulties and situations sometimes demand a detour. We haven't
lost our aims from sight and follow them continously, even though often not with the
focus we would have loved to see.
You'll find the changes that were made during the course of development
here;
the current status here.
We will stay in touch and will give a few interim reports in this space
in future.
Aminet 37 CD-ROM available in time for Neuss fair
The Aminet CD 37 - June 2000 - contains almost a gigabyte (unpacked) of
software in thousands of archives. Since Aminet CD 36, more than 500 MByte
of new stuff was added. As special highlight, the Aminet 37 CD features
the unlimited full version of the 3D ego shooter Zombie Massacre.
08 Jun 2000
Fair: Rolf Tingler brushes for you :-)
Maybe you already noticed by studying the hallmap
that airbrush booth besides the*AC#/amiga-news.de booth. We have convinced Rolf Tingler of the
Airbrush Paradise to show his airbrushing skills at a fair again after a long
time.
Rolf is known to many Amiga-users by his former appearences at fairs and he was the one who brought the
Amiga-design to the mobile phone housings.
At the fiar in Neuss he will, if you like, decorate your mouse with a nice airbrushed picture. The best you take your
Amiga mouse with you to the show for that. Also body tattoos, which will
disappear by itself after a while, are planned. The prices for that will be about DM 10,-.
At the fair you can take a close look at airbrushing and inform yourself about airbrushing, what airbrushing is,
and what you will need to do it yourself, how it is done, about what you have to take care for and what you better don't do.
AmigaWriter 2.10 Patch online
The first patch for AmigaWriter can be loaded from the H&P FTP-Server. The printer works much better with TurboPrint.
The 68K-Version sometimes put the cursor at the wrong place or even ended up in an endless loop.
Download: AmigaWriter - Patch2.10.lha - 551 kb
LinuxPPC CD
The new Linux-PPC CD from Amiga Zentrum Thüringen e.V. is finished right in time for the fair and will be presented at the booth of Titan Computer.
Fair news in short
The fair is soon to come and the news about the events spread. Enclose the consised version. Follow the link of the headline to the "news" to find more information.
Innovative AMIGA Newsletter
Updates at the World of Alternatives
As stated in the previous newsitem, Felix Schwarz will present Innovative's
whole productline at the booth of Coolbits at the "World of Alternatives" on
10th and 11th June. The following updates could be finished in time and will
be available at the show:
fxPAINT 1.5
An overview over the new features:
VHI Studio 5.2
The new version features faster MPEG-Export and the ability to create either
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2-files.
fxSCAN 2.0
New effects (incl. Sharpen and a high-quality scaling-routine as known from
fxPAINT), a direct link to fxPAINT and bugfixes are significant for this update.
If you want to buy an update at the show, please bring the original disk or CD of
the old version with you. The prices can be found in our online-shop.
Update for Dropout-Killer for Movieshop
Starting today the version 1.02 of Dropout-Killer for Movieshop is
available for download. This program repairs video scenes in which
individual frames where not correctly digitized. This tool can remove the
annoying "flashes" A new frame is inserted that is calculated from the
adjacent frames, without changing the scene length without it showing up in
the finished scene.
Software Piracy
In recent times we have become aware that there are an ever increasing
number of companies that are distributing our products on CD-R or CD-RW.
The proucts ArtStudioPro, ElasticDreams, FantasticDreams and
CandyFactoryPro are only sold on pressed CD`s. Any version on CD-R or CD-RW
are pirate copies. We are aware of companies in England and Germany. Anyone
with such a pirated copy should contact us at Motionstudios
X-Surf Samba Install CD is done
Just in time for the convention the Samba-Install CD for the X-Surf
ethernet card is finished. On the Amiga side everything is automatic, so
there is no need to deal with complicated configuration files. A few clicks
and you can access harddrives and printers in the network. For Amiga-Freaks
that don`t care for Samba, NetFS will also be automatically installed. No
editing of configuration files. The access performance of amiga-amiga is a bit
higher. For the PC there isn`t a simple method of automation, but a HTML
installation guide includes screenshots of all the important settings.
The CD will be given to all X-Surf customers for free that are able to show
the original bill of sale. Those that aren`t able to be in Neuss will have
to order it from thier retailer. There are not any plans to distribute the
CD without a customer order. Since the CD only contains 5.5 MB data, it will
most probably be available on the internet after the convention. However it
will be a while, since everything is in German and many of the users would
not be able to benefit from it.
Schatztruhe GmbH at the World of Alternatives in Neuss
For the first time Schatztruhe will be at the new "World of Alternative" in
Neuss. Just like previous conventions we will have many products at
special convention prices. We will also have the freshly pressed CD Aminet
37. It is definatly worth a visit. According to information of the
management, there will be demonstations and presentaions of the new
developer system. For more information go to www.amiga-messe.de.
The trip to Neuss is from all over Germany very easy to accomplish. The
vast autobahn network wll bring you irectly to Neuss. Just follow the signs
to the Congress-Hotel DORINT.
07 Jun 2000
Exhibition Flyer now in - Inexpensive travel arrangements
The Flyer for the Neuss exhibition is now in. The article concerning the
inexpensive travel arrangements especially caught our eye.
For 7 Marks to the Exhibition and back
As a train rider you have the least expensive option to come to the World of
Alternatives in Neuss. The Deutsche Bahn has a Weekend ticket for 35DM. With
this ticket you can travel all throughout Germany on regional trains without
a mileage limit. This ticket has the following restrictions:
It is valid from 12:00 AM to 3:00AM the following day on either Saturday or
Sunday. Up to 5 people can ride on on single ticket. This makes this the
cheapest way to get to the convention. More infos concerning this ticket at
Deutsche Bahn
The 10th of June is H2-Day!
The wait has come to an End. Hyperions first game, Heretic II will be
released at the convention in Neuss. Heretic II is a next generation
fantasy 3D game and is based on the popular games from ID software. Those
that are interested in Heretic II should definatly stop by the Titan stand.
That is where most of the developers will be.
Big Club event on Saturday
This is an open invitation to all Amigans that are unable to go to Neuss, to
come to our Open House on Saturday, June 10th. The Phoenix Computer Club
Hof e.V. is running an Open House from 10am to 10PM. There are many
highlights waiting to be discovered. Hof is in northern Bavaria and is easily
reached via the A9 Autobahn. A detailed route desription can be found at
thier website.
CD32 Games Install Kit Bonus Programs published
At the AirSoft Website an archive is now available with Bonus Programs for
the CD32 Games Install Kit. These however are older versions and are
therefore quite useless.
Famous Amiga Uses
Pär Boberg from Sweden has collected a list where you can see which
famous occassions, people, companies and movies employed or still employ
the Amiga. Most of them are people and companies from the TV and movie
industry, or the video editing business. The list is available as AmigaGuide
or plain text file.
Amiga is Back, and will change computing forever, again
Amiga, the creators of multimedia computing, have announced the release of their
developer kit for Amiga, Linux, and Java developers." Full article at the title
link.
Did you send your postcard for the lottery?
If you want to participate in the big lottery and cannot bring your postcard
to our booth in person, you should hurry to the post office and send it to us :-).
Have a look at the fantastic prices following the title link! It´s really worth
your while!
V3 3.2.12beta
This new Voyager3 version is a "beta snapshot" showing the
progress made in bug fixes and improvements, but should be handled carefully due to
the beta status. THis version is only functional with a valid keyfile.
Download: v3_3212_beta.lzx
GoldED Studio 6 News
On the occassion of the World of Alternatives, Dietmar Eilert will be offering
GoldED Studio 6 for a special price. Make a note and order on these two days!
Show news from Epic
Epic Marketing will participate in the World of Alternatives taking place next weekend
in Neuss. Attending at their booth will be Paul Burkey, presenting his new titles
"Foundation: The undiscovered Land" and "Foundation Gold Edition", explaining and,
upon request, signing it. All owners bringing their "Foundation Directors Cut" to
the booth will recieve the Gold Edition for a special price.
Aside from these two ready-to-sell new items we hope to be able to present beta
versions of "Dafel: Bloodline" and "Simon the Sorcerer 2". Of course we will have
all titles available from our house at the booth for attractive show pricing.
VWP News: AudioCutter Cinema Preview v0.6 for Linux
At the title link, under "ACutter", the audio and sound processing software
"AudioCutter Cinema" is now avail- and downloadable not only in the Windows
version, but also in versions for 80x86 and PPC Linux. I am sorry that the
PPC version is in a somewhat more experimental state, since there are driver
problems with the testing system. The BeOS version is delayed until further
notice, since the BeKaffe Page
still has not gone online again, and BeKaffe is therefore unavailable for
the time being.
APC&TCP News
On the Neuss show, APC&TCP presents another Amiga CD-ROM: "Amiga Game Guide".
Are you fed up waiting for cheats, walkthroughs and hints for your favourite game to show
up in game magazines? Are you interested in a game but are not sure if the graphics is
good or making you fall asleep during the game? You don´t know which game supports your
4-player adapter, can be played with nullmodem or by Internet, and for which games
DataDisks were released? You need the universal Amiga game database, the "Amiga Game Guide".
The following features wait for you to explore them:
Epic Marketing news
Paul Berkey and Epic Marketing are announcing the "Foundation Gold Edition".
This game is a further development of the original with many new features,
easier gameplay, reworked graphical design and reworked userinterface. The
game will be available from June, 12th 2000, and needs AGA or a gfx-board
Amiga with 68030 and 8 MByte RAM. Further informations you will find in the
following days under projects.
AMIGA.gr internet-magazin online
After some hard work the free Amiga internet magazin «Amiga.gr» is now for
all Amiga-users online. There are many intersting topics like news, reviews,
old games, views, and announcements.
FUN OF COMPUTING NG news
On the internetpages of the fair -FUN OF COMPUTING NG- are many new exhibitors
added. Besides Petro Tyschtschenko and Titan Computer, Jürgen Haage of the company
Haage & Partner will be there. Informations about the topics of the discourses
are also available now.
The pages for the -FUN OF COMPUTING NG- will be updated regularly and will be
a good source for the planning of arrival and overnight reservations via internet.
The FUN OF COMPUTING NG will take place in Illmenau/Thüringen, germany from
June, 24th to 25th 2000. The admission is free and there will be a lottery with
interesting prices. Other exhibitors are contacted, so the visitor can be sure,
that this fair is a special one.
Espial opens Java Developers Portal for internet smart devices
Espial Joins with Technology and Media Innovators to Launch one of the First
Java(TM) Technology Developer Portals for Internet Smart Devices. Devicetop.com,
supported by Sun, Intel, Motorola, Amiga, Tao Group, IAN, Pointbase, Dr. Dobb's,
Java Report, and JavaWorld.com(tm), Marks Portal Launch. Further details under
the titlelink.
VirusHelp Denmark: TCP trojan on the run
The coder of "SAFE" Zbigniew `Zeeball` Trzcionkowski has informed VirusHelp
Denmark that some new TCP-trojans are on the run. Read the complete warning.
CD32 Games Cheat & Info Kits released
The CD32 Games Cheat Kit and the CD32 Games Info Kit
have been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Both programs are add-ons to the
CD32 Games Install Kit, which has been available for download in an updated
version for a week now. The CD32 Games Info Kit offers informations and
pictures to many CD32 and CDTV games, while the CD32
Games Cheat Kit offers many cheats for CD32 games.
Homebanking2.2 finished
On my homepage and Aminet the latest version of Homebanking.lha is available. These are
ARexx scripts allowing to do homebanking by using AddressMaster and MultiTermKit. The
scripts are usable for Sparkasse and Deutsche Bank 24, but can be adapted to other banks
as well.
Amiga Show News and room plan
Last evening, the up-to-date room plan for the "World of Alternatives" was finished. Some
exhibitors will probably join on short notice - updates as usual by means of the homepage.
The room plan is available as A4 graphic (about 270
kB).
Visitors of the World of Alternatives that don´t know yet how to get there find
detailed route informations (German) here. There are routes for people traveling
by car, train and plane. Even detailed bus connections are available.
On the Milan side, there are the good news that the TV and the DSP card can be presented,
the 100Mbit network is working, and the new case designs have arrived in time for the show.
World Launch of the NG AMIGA SDK on the show in Neuss
Bill McEwen confirmed it in his latest e-mail: AMIGA will present the new SDK (Software
Development Kit) for the NG AMIGAs for the first time worldwide on the show in Neuss
coming up next weekend. Bill himself intends to bring the SDK packs for the local
exhibitors. The expected price will be about 250,- DM.
As scheduled, Bill will present the new system in a conference room, report about
AMIGA´s plans for the future, and answer user questions.
Bill only briefly attending on Sunday:
Since Bill has a very important interview with the New York Times on Sunday, he had
to cut back his attending to the show to Saturday. If he will be present at all on
Sunday, it will be only briefly. People focussing on the presentations should change
plans to arrive on Saturday. The SDK will of course be available on Sundays, too.
CyberGraphX 4.2 pre7 update available
On the CyberGraphX homepage, there is the latest CyberGraphX 4.2 pre7 update available.
Aside from several fixes, there are now A2410 and RainbowIII drivers included. Also there
is now an option to activate 56 kHz audio directly on CyberGraphX screens. For people
who want to overclock their BCPPV/CVPPC to get some more performance from their card, there
are now the according options too (requiring to actively cool your Permedia2 however). More
about that on the CyberGraphX homepage. As usual, the CyberGraphX v4 CD is required for the
update.
Amiga Times 02/00 online
The new issue of the Amiga Times (02/00) can now be downloaded at the title link!
Have fun, and be entertained. Your Amiga Times editors.
It took more time than we eventually had in mind, but we have picked a winner from out of more
than 60+ contestors all over the World. The winner has already received word from us by email
and will receive his work printed and framed by the end of next week, together with a contract
for future partnership.
Originally one person would be all we needed, but as seen from all the artwork we have received,
it seems that most people are very good at a specific part of art, but we needed someone more
versatile. That is why we will contact a few more people in the next week, to ask if they would
like to work for us whenever there's need for their specific artwork (paid of course).
GNN: Amiga is Back - AmigaOS to run on any hardware
"AmigaOS Developer Kit for Amiga-, Linux- and Java-developers finished"
"In the book of Amiga Inc., the operating system AmigaOS will bring a revolution of
computer usage - like the Amiga computer did over 15 years ago. Since today, at least
the Amiga Software Developer Kit is finished, allowing interested developers to code
software that would run on almost every platform without needing to be recompiled, thanks to AmigaOS."
Full article (German) at the title link.
+++ AMIGA-aktuell-Special
New issue of Amiga World released
Yesterday a new issue of AMIGAs online magazine
Amiga World has been released, containing especially numerous informations for AmigaNG
developers. It is available in HTML format, a PDF version will follow soon.
Newsticker COOL bits
After all details concerning the Amiga show have been clarified, the
special page of COOL bits went online.
On this page, you can find informations where to find the booth, what is being
offered and what other highlights you can expect from the Amiga show in Neuss on June
10th/11th. (German)
Linux-APUS kernel for "Mac on Linux" PPC Emulator available
At the title link, the kernel (vmlinux_mol.lha) is available for download.
The kernel is required for executing the runtime patches for the PPC emulator
MOL "Mac on Linux". In this kernel version 2.2.10 there is currently only
support for the IDE interface compiled in. More informations about the kernel
modules are available in the ".config" file in the packet vmlinux_mol.lha.
Kernel with SCSI drivers and IDE+SCSI drivers will follow within the next few days. Since
I lacked the tile to recompile and reconfigure the PPC emulator, I would very much
welcome if somebody would send me a binary package and a configuration file, if
possible with a short manual in German. Moreover I would offer my cooperation
with other developers. Questions, hints or criticism can be send to my mail address
101.109037@germanynet.de.
AMIGA announces release of the Developer Kit
At the title link, you can read the official announcement of the Amiga Developer Kit.
Moreover, AMIGA has created a new game area
where you can find reports about games planned for the next Amiga generation. Soon
there will be a support area for developers under Support Net.
APC&TCP releases Digital Make Up
On the Amiga show in Neuss, APC&TCP will release another CD-ROM. More information can
be gathered from our homepage or directly from us. After the show, this CD-ROM will be
distributed like all our products:
Welcome to your workbench's wardrobe. The new "Digital Make-Up" CD is an
add-on CD with a collection of tools and utilities for customizing and making up your
Amiga operating system, sorted by subject. This does not only encompass powerful tools
really bringing AmigaOS up to speed and making everyday work easier - we also thought of
graphics material for the grey-in-grey workbench. Additionally, there is software for
implementing speech output. Of course accompaining speech and sound samples in several
formats aren´t missing either. Many datatypes, updated libraries, modern fonts, new
commands for the C directory and numerous other system extensions will bring any Amiga
system on the right course. New great screensavers and many icon sets for the NewIcon
system, or real new GlowIcons will make your Workbench look up-to-date. Some software
never released before can be found on this CD-ROM. The new AmigaOS version 3.5 got it´s
own drawer, where tools for the latest version can be found. A double-click on "Quickstart"
and you are right in the middle of it - the "Digital Make-Up CD"!
The "Digital Make-Up CD" is optimized for AmigaOS version 3.0 to 3.5. The major part
of the software on this CD-ROM can be started directly. Requirements: Amiga with 68020
CPU, 2 MByte ChipRAM, hard drive, CD-ROM drive, AmigaOS 2.05+.
Recommended: Amiga with 68040 CPU + PPC, 2 MByte ChipRAM, 4 MByte FastRAM, hard drive,
CD-ROM drive, AGA or graphics card, sound card, AmigaOS version 3.5.
Amiga Arena News
The Amiga Arena continues to offer special prices for Shareware!
PureBasic for special price!
The new programming language "PureBasic" is now available for a one-time special offer
exclusively at Amiga Arena.
BoulderDäsh campaign extended!
The game classic BoulderDäsh is available at the Amiga Arena until July 1st!
10 one-time offers!
10 special prices for Shareware are on the "Amiga Arena - CD ROM Edition"! (Available at APC&TCP)
The following programs are available for a special price on the CD:
CDCat - Database
Fiasco - Database
GeoWorld - Geography software
HomeBanking - HomeBanking for Multiterm Kit Special Pack!
MUIbase - Database
MusicManIII - Database
NewsCoaster - Newsreader
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow - Picture Catalog / Viewer
WHDLoad - Game Installer
Turboprint 7.11beta released
Turboprint 7.11beta with HP Deskjet 9xx and improved Epson drivers (English only) is available.
This beta version can only be used in combination with Turboprint 7.10, which is available
with many new drivers starting immediately.
New Maintainer for our English news site.
Hello everybody! From now on I'll try to do my very best to keep this site up-to-date. However, there might be
delays, cause we (me and the translators) are actually very busy.
The news on this site will be listed by the same date as in the German section.
CyberGraphX News
The final update of CGX V3 (CGX_r71) is available from the download area of the
CyberGraphX website. This version of CyberGraphX contains some bugfixes regarding
OS3.5 and the cgxsystem.lib 41.22. For CVPPC & BVPPC new drivers version 2.8
are available as well.
The download area was reworked and old single update files were removed.
If you are owner of VillageTronic hardware, the Service-Petition of
Paul Qureshi could be of interest
for you. With this petition, Paul wants to convince VillageTronic to release
the support documents to noted repair shops in different countries so that it
can be guaranteed that VT products will still be repaired in future.
Digital Dreams Entertainment DDE: Code name Hell Squad is finished!
As can be read on the start page of DDE,
the action game «Code name Hell Squad» has been finished.
Demo download: HSdemo.lha - 2,15 MB
The Cheating Utility
"Dwarf" is now available on my homepage for free download. It is a program in the
style of TrainerMaker and Cheater and allows the manipulation of memory addresses
(with search/compare/change as on the Action Replay). It is written entirely in C
and utilises a nice GadTools GUI.
A few weeks ago, we had to remove the CD³² Developer-Kit from our homepage,
as we were lacking the webspace and Gary Peake forced us to.
Now it's available again as we have webspace again and explained to Gary that we had
the permission from Petro Tyschtschenko.
_*CD³²-Allianz visits the Amiga fair in Neuss*_
We will visit the fair event in Neuss so that you can get in touch with us. There you can
discuss with us the future of the CD³², the current game situation of the CD³²,
CD³²-Allianz and the cooperation with amiga.topcool and so on. This is what we're
looking forward the most.
Of course we will also try to get in touch with companies, distributors and software
programmers and hope to present you positive news after the fair.
_*New distribution channels for CD³² Outside found*_
After the CD³² Outside can be found soon on the AmigaPlus- and AmigaFuture CD-ROM,
as well as in the CD³²-Corner, we are pleased that our magazine will soon be also
available on Aminet and the Aminet CD-ROMs. This will raise its acquaintance which should lead
to a higher interest in the CD³². From which the CD³² Outside will benefit
as well.
News from Alive Mediasoft
We too have received the eMails mentioned on ANN. Find above a direct link to the Alive
Mediasoft's answer at ANN so that we don't repeat them here and you can direcly participate
in the discussion on the theme.
03 June 2000, supplement:
Botherd Steven Flowers from Alive Mediasoft started his eMail with the words, "first of all I'm pretty pissed off", and wordy he explained why
Goal 2000 wouldn't be just a cracked version of Goal. There were many new features and possiblities comming with Goal 2000 not implemented in Goal,
and that cracked version was taken with the developer's consent, cause there wasn't any other version available at that time.
Might be that such procedures are being used with a release, but in my opinion this should be avoided as far as is possible, even though.
That's debatable. But I actually recieved eMails from ppl complaining about AM again and again during the last few month, e.g. developers who
either didn't get payed or even nobody asked them, if thier software may be distributed. In the past I allways replyed on those ppl, they should set their
problems clear direct with AM, cause I presumed them to be unsuccessful particular cases. Goal just overflowed the barrel, and put patience at an end.
(ps)
Neo
As it looks, the ingenious burglar simulation will become Open Source. The guys from Neo
are apparently preparing a sourcecode packet. Meanwhile, there are also many discussions
going on about it in the Neo Forum. Sadly I can't find any participation from Amiga
programmers. It would be nice if there'd be another Amiga release. For more information
follow the title link.
NEW JOBS AT NEO - Good chances for programmers to enter the Online Generation
Two new positions for C++ programmers are available from June on at neo Software in Vienna.
If you always dreamed of becoming a game developer you should take a look at the job
descriptions.
Amiga Trademark
Everybody who wants to use the registered trademark «Amiga» must apply for a license
at Amiga Inc. This application can be made via email to gary@amiga.com
and must have the word Trademark in the subject line. This helps to speed up the permission process.
