Amiga News - Archive 08/1999

`31 Aug 1999` Alexandros Pourikas by eMail	amiga.gr online Alexandros Pourikas has created an Amiga website in Greek language at www.amiga.gr. Aside from Amiga news and a forum in local language, there is an interesting picture gallery to be found here. Since the website is completely written in Greek, I don't understand a word, but the graphics alone are worth a visit :-). (ps)
`31 Aug 1999` Heise [Newsticker]	Fast 3D gfx chip by nVidia Heise writes, among other: California gfx chip manufacturer nVidia presented the 3D chip for PC graphic gards previously dubbed "NV10" in Berlin. The GeForce 256 is the first graphic chip for consumer PCs that processes and displays 3D data mainly on its own. With 23 million transistors, the GeForce 256 is more than twice as complex as a Pentium-III CPU (9 million transistors). Since it does geometry transformations and lighting calculations much faster than the PC CPU, it can create 3D objects and 3D virtual realities with much more detail and fluid moves. Thus, PC games can make use of curved and organic structures like in movies a la "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life". (Full article - German - at the title link). Here is another interesting link on the subject.
`31 Aug 1999` Heise [Newsticker]	StarOffice goes OpenSource Heise writes, among other: As expected, Sun Microsystems today confirmed the purchase of the software company Star Division based in Hamburg, Germany. At the same time, Sun announced the office package StarOffice to be available for Internet download. (Full article - German - at the title link). Bernhard Kuhn in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc posted more interesting details about the press conference, like StarOffice now being free for _commercial_ use, too.
`31 Aug 1999` N.A.	Seybold Conference: First Macs with PowerPC G4 CPU MacGadget, among others, writes: As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented a new generation of Macintosh computers in his keynote to the Seybold Conference in San Francisco, which are powered for the first time by the top-performing PowerPC G4 CPU. Apple called the new Macs "supercomputers", offering significantly more speed than the current Power Macintosh G3 product line. Apple starts shipping the first 400 MHz G4 system today. Versions with 450 and 500 MHz are bound to follow in the next two weeks. The main performance specs are a 2x AGP bus, integrated AirPort technology, an Ultra 66 ATA system and an accelerated PCI bus. Jobs spend special attention on the AltiVec technology. This especially speeds up operations heavy on numerical calculations, like graphic applications. A special AltiVec-optimised expansion to Photoshop is included with every G4 Mac. The new systems will cost between 1599 and 3499 USD. A PowerPC G4 with 500 MHz is said to be much faster than a Pentium III with 600 MHz. The Power Macintosh G4 will be shipped in the same casing as the current G3 line, but not in blue-white but silver-white. The new configurations in overview: Power Mac G4/400, 64 MB memory, 10 GByte-HD, 32speed CD-ROM; 1599 $ Power Mac G4/450, 128 MB memory, 20 GByte-HD, DVD-ROM; 2499 $ Power Mac G4/500, 256 MB memory, 27 GByte-HD, DVD-RAM; 3499 $ (More details at the title link - German -)
`31 Aug 1999` Amiga.org	Amiga filed a Patent At Nr. US5935230, the following patent has been registered: "Multiprocessor arrangement including bus arbitration scheme involving plural CPU clusters that address each other as "phantom" CPUs".
`30 Aug 1999` Audio Evolution	Audio Evolution PPC New PPC RTFX: - 3-band equalizer with mid-sweep (includes new GUI when version v2.0829 or higher is used) - low shelving filter (bass control) - high shelving filter (treble control)
`30 Aug 1999` AER	A/NES 8-bit emulator for Amiga A/NES CGFX Preview 2 released! Changes: bug fixes, and the emulator is much faster now. Download: anescgfx.lha (early beta).
`30 Aug 1999` VirusHelp Denmark	VirusExecutor new version 1.82e Download: ve-182e.lha
`30 Aug 1999` Hyperion	Hyperion brings "Smacker" to Amiga "Smacker" is an industrial standard video codec, developed by RAD Game Tools and used in over 1400 games. Currently, Smacker is only available for MAC (68k and PPC), DOS, Windows 3.x, 95 and NT. At first, Hyperion considered developing an own video codec, but since Heretic 2 by Activision and Shogo:MAD by Monolith make use of Smacker, it was decided to save developing time and purchase the license for the port, since Smacker is really fast and efficient when used with only 256 colors. smacker.com.
`30 Aug 1999` StrICQ-Support	New beta version 0.1485 StrICQ Download: STRICQ.lha
`30 Aug 1999` Amigart	MAME new version PPC 3.6b2 Download: mameppc36b2.lha (3.8 MB)
`30 Aug 1999` Amiga Flame	Amiga Flame News Michael Carillo Interviews Andrew Reed of Crystal Interactive Software Delsyd Software Announce More Games Alive Mediasoft Go Serious Amiga Downunder Show
`30 Aug 1999` FutureZone	Hotmail cracked completely FutureZone writes: Mail of every user readable \| no password needed \| details unknown so far \| FutureZone has tested Exploit The free mail service Hotmail has been cracked heavily today. With a web form it is possible to read any user's mail - without password. FutureZone has a corresponding link, first tests revealed: Every Hotmail account is readable. (Full article - German - at the title link.) August 31st, 1999: Heise writes, among others: Hotmail hole fixed for now About twelve hours after the Hotmail hack became public, Microsoft reported the bug has been fixed. In the meantime, the Hotmail server was offline. Our editors however recieved messages until late in the night that readers were able to scan Hotmail accounts without the need for a password. After the Microsoft announcement at 2:00 AM local time, this seems to be impossible. Microsoft has not yet commented about the technical background making the attack possibe. Spiegel Netzwelt, among others, writes: Hacker group claims responsibility for Hotmail hack According to informations of the online news service "Wired", a so far unknown hacker group claimed responsibility for the move on Monday. The online magazine cites a Swedish spokesman that is reported to have made contact with "Wired". According to him, the group named "Hackers Unite" consists of a Swedish and seven US-Americans. The hackers made the backdoor public to bring attention to the insufficient security of Microsoft's products: "We didn't make this hack to destroy, but to show the world how bad the security really is at Microsoft, and that the company nearly has a monopoly on computer software", a 21-year-old group member is cited.
`30 Aug 1999` BGUI	New BGUI version 41.10 Download: bgui.lha (333077 bytes) of August 30th, 1999.
`30 Aug 1999` PPCRulez	AmigaOS 3.5 preview with pictures Steve Zoneff has attended the presentation of AmigaOS 3.5 at the Amiga Downunder in Canberra, and created this little preview with pictures.
`30 Aug 1999` V3-Portal	V³ image decoder and VFlash update Download: v3_imgdecoders_73.lzx and v3_vflash_014.lzx
`30 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	Imagine Update A new update for Imagine version 5.16 Amiga Constant Upgrade Programm (ACUP) is available. Download page.
`30 Aug 1999` HiSoft	iBrowse 2.1 to come this week The beta test results have all arrived, and Stefan will remove the final bugs. If everything runs smoothly, iBrowse will be released this week.
`30 Aug 1999` Andreas Küssner by eMail	New Wildfire pricing and Wildfire for Movieshop Video! Starting immediately, the recommended retail price for the award-winning special effects software Wildfire, version 7\PPC, is cut back. This includes the bundle "Wildfire for Movieshop". Additionally, the example video "Wildfire for Movieshop" will be released early September. In this video, all special effects offered for the Wildfire-Movieshop combination are shown. The video runs for approx. 100 minutes. For the new pricing and distributor pricing please directly contact Andreas Küssner. All programs can be ordered directly from the Wildfire support: Andreas Küssner Marrinksweg 5 48531 Nordhorn Germany EMail: eksec@eure.de Phone: +49 - (0)5921 / 330420 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, working days Andreas Küssner, Wildfire Project Manager.
`30 Aug 1999` Andreas Kleinert by eMail	GIF licence for Webmasters? Are you a webmaster and want to get a web licence from Unisys for your GIF pictures? No problem, Unisys offers a licence for webmasters for a meager 5,000.00 USD ;-). Heise writes: Unisys wants to rip of websites for GIF pictures.
`30 Aug 1999` Guvenc Kaplan by eMail	Free Amiga postcard service Amigart started a free postcard service. Send your friends Amiga greetings.
`30 Aug 1999` Marc Albrecht by eMail	A.C.T. new address Finally, A.C.T. has completed its move and is from now on available at the following address only: Albrecht Computer Technik Glinder Str. 2 27432 Ebersdorf Phone Hotlines: Amiga and Web Service: 0700-ACT-AMIGA (numerical: 0700-228-26442) Apple/Be/QNX: 0700-ACT-PHONE (numerically: 0700-228-74663) (Presumably available starting September 10th, 1999) Office: +49-(0)-4765-8300-60 Fax: +49-(0)-4765-8300-64 Note: The old phone numbers will be redirected for some more weeks. EMail: info@act-net.com and WWW offers: support@level-2.com.
`30 Aug 1999` Arne Hinrichsen by eMail	userfriendly.org: Amiga logo in good company? Aside from Arne, several other visitors have pointed to this cartoon in userfriendly.org; as always in these cases, the first one is cited as "source".
`30 Aug 1999` Stefan Robl by eMail	VMdriver new version 1.10 Stefan Robl writes: The new version 1.10 of the FMdriver packet contains numerous innovations; e.g. the limitation to graphic cards has been removed, programms are now running in satisfactory quality in 2-256 colors (!!). New are the programms FMInit, FMGrab (great for WebCams!), FMRecord/FMRecordDec and FMRecorder. FMRecorder makes it possible to comfortably record videos with the FrameMachine. The program contains, aside from an anim viewer, a converter to encode the video as MPEG later on. You can download screenshots from the programs, and a MPEG animation recorded with FMRecord (and encoded with CreateMPEG) from my homepage.
`30 Aug 1999` Robert Niessner by eMail	PFS3 finished The most important new features: - PFS Doctor, a repair program for the difficult case - expansion of the delete directory to up to 992 entries! - extra long filenames, (optionally) up to 100 characters! - HDInsttools for easy installation - own PFS format command - miscellaneous bugfixes Available from Schatztruhe and other distributors.
`30 Aug 1999` Patrick Beerhorst by eMail	Prelude library bug Patrick Beerhorst writes: Version 4.52 of prelude.library causes problems with the Prelude 1200 (card is not initialised in certain circumstances). A fixed version v4.55 for both cards (Prelude 1200 and Prelude Z-II) solves these problems. Download: PrlLib455.lha. Additionally, there is a new Mixer v2.1 available from the homepage. Download: PreludeMixer21.lha.
`28 Aug 1999` Carsten Schröder by eMail	+++ AMIGA-aktuell-Special +++ Tyschtschenko: No more Executive Updates for competition reasons (27.08.99) AMIGA Vice President Petro Tyschtschenko explained on request of AMIGA aktuell, that Amiga decided to change information politics to avoid too many details of the AmigaNG development reaching competitors, which would be a burden for the whole project. The head of the German Amiga office stressed that other companies don't handle new developments any differently.
`28 Aug 1999` Olaf Köbnik	Amiga Arena News Olaf Köbnik writes: Complete full version on Amiga Arena! The Amiga Arena reports back after the summer break directly with the highlight for 1999! Exclusively and only at Amiga Arena, the best shareware space economy simulation Imperium Terranum 2 is available as full version for download! Info about the game and the archive for Imperium Terranum 2 (3.2 MB) are only available from Amiga Arena! This one-time offer is only available for the next 21 days! (Note: Message dates from August 28th). Amiga Arena says thank you to the team of Virtual Worlds Productions, who made this offer possible! TaskForce Version 0.38 online! The latest version of the strategy game TaskForce is, as always - before Aminet - available on the TaskForce homepage (title link).
`28 Aug 1999` Thomas Lorenz by eMail	FusionPPC: Only 380 of the needed 500 preorders recieved Thomas Lorenz writes: There are still many preorders missing. Here the latest news from the Fusion mailinglist: From: Jim Drew msdei@ctaz.com Subject: [FUSION]: PPC upgrade status This is an official announcement from Microcode Solutions... As many of you know, Microcode Solutions has been trying to establish a base market for its new emulations. We presented the public with a test marketting idea of pre-paying for a PowerPC emulation. We reached our base goal of 500 units (actually we reached nearly 700), and then we announced that we were now accepting the pre-payments. To date we have only 380 pre-payments (none of which have been processed), meaning that we are still short 120 units before we can commit to producing this product. It has been several months since we have been collecting actual pre-payments. We are spending an incredible amount of time and resources on this project (which is 1/1000th the revenue of our PC market), and we hope that we are not wasting our time by doing so. We ask that if you have not placed your order yet, please do so now. If we do not reach the 500 unit goal, we will not release the product, no matter how much we have completed so far... we will use some of the work for our PC version. x
`27 Aug 1999` Andre Beer	Update GeoWorld After more than half a year of work, today we finally finished the long-awaited update to version 1.1 of GeoWorld. GeoWorld, probably the best geographical software for the Amiga, has been expanded by the following features in version 1.1: - adding a new generic search function in the maxi search, enabling for the first time the search for special keywords in the additional databases like economy, history etc. (full text search) - complete rework and bugfixes - NewLook-Menus for OS 3.0+ (no more changing menu colors) - flashing pointer for cities and small countries now working correctly - scrolling of the maps pixel by pixel per keyboard - sorting speed-up due to presorted databases - faster search functions (in Assembler) - VisualPrefs now supported nearly completely - GeoWorld-Fonts can now stay in the same directory - interaction with all requesters now completely by keyboard - option to give distances in miles instead of kilometers - requester "no information available" now with configurable time-out - reworked and expanded prefs window (among others display mode, font, use, save or reset prefs) - expansion of the city database for Austria, Switzerland, Brasil and US cities (over 1100 cities with ZUP code, 6119 cities total) - expanding the city databases with details about country / state capitals - expanding the country databases with details about the Internet abbreviation (e.g. .de, .uk, .us) - informations about the databases are now kept in a seperate GeoWorld.data file, so an expansion of the databases does no longer imply a change of the main program - expansion of the info requester - rewritten and expanded online help - reworked and extremly expanded data about the inhabitants of the countries (over 100 kByte text!!) The Update Nr. 9 and a up-to-date demo version are available from our homepage (title link), and should appear on Aminet (misc/edu) in the next few days. Download (Demo): GeoWorld_E.lha
`27 Aug 1999` Amiga.org	Amiga.org: Redesign of the website and database ready Amiga.org is here again full power, the website has a friendlier and cleaner layout now, and it is (as before) possible requesting news sorted by subject from a database, like hardware etc., seperately. I am dreaming of a database like that, too, simply great :-). (ps)
`27 Aug 1999` Haage & Partner	Haage & Partner News Amiga No Piracy campaign The campaign goes on: some more logos and the final one :) Discussion forum will start soon. New 3D World-Logos There have been yet more submissions for the logos. H&P initiated a vote which kind of logo you like best.
`27 Aug 1999` Markus Lunk by eMail	ComputerWoche: Linux-based operating system competing agains WindowsCE ComputerWoche writes: Amiga is not dead, new live as home information device MUNICH (CW) - New details have surfaced about Amiga, the cult of the 80ies. It is intended to be mainly used as Information Appliance in the future. About two years ago, direct PC distributor Gateway purchased the rights of the computing pioneer Amiga and its 47 patents from German Escom AG. Now, the name shall be brought back to life. Aside from PCs for the consumer market, future's Amigas will be mainly used as information appliances in private households. CEO Jim Collas wants to present an operating enviroment until the end of the year, and ship the first machines early 2000. (Full story - German - at the title link)
`27 Aug 1999` Amiga	No more executive updates Amiga writes: For the next several months, the Amiga staff will be focused on implementing our business and product plans. We will not be discussing or commenting on future company directions during this time.
`27 Aug 1999` Compcity by eMail	E4000 Computer City announces the availability of the E4000. The computer is based on a standard A4000 mainboard with an Elbox tower and AmigaOS 3.5 (which will be delivered when available). The processor boards are manufactured by Apollo / DCE. Technical specs: - Midi tower with 230W power supply - 68040 (40 MHz) or 68060 (50 MHz) - 2 MB ChipRAM (on A4000 mainboard) - IDE controller (on A4000 mainboard) - SCSI2 controller (on the processor board) for hard drives and CD-ROMs - 7 Zorro II/III slots - 5 ISA slots (non-active) - 2 video slots - 3,5" floppy drive HD 1.76 MB - original A4000 keyboard - original Amiga mouse - 40speed IDE CD-ROM drive - 13.1 GB IDE hard drive - AmigaOS 3.5
`26 Aug 1999` Future-Visions by eMail	Info from Met@box about amiJoe PPC boards Andreas Schmidt writes: Today, I recieved some informations from Thomas Rudloff (Met@box) about the announced amiJoe boards, including some price informations, which can be found on our webpage. The title link is the German page, the English pages do not (yet?) carry this information.
`26 Aug 1999` Fun Time World	Lame 3.25 Beta Note: The Warp-Up version of this MP3 encoder can still crash at certain circumstances.
`26 Aug 1999` Amiga	Pictures from the Downunder '99 Show More pictures can be found at GP Software.
`25 Aug 1999` NewsTekniques TekTicker	European Version of NewTek
`25 Aug 1999` Andreas Kleinert	New ak-Datatypes Version 44.46 Download: akPNG-dt.lha, akTIFF-dt.lha and akJFIF-dt.lha as well as akNAIL-dt.lha (44.3, from August 10th 1999).
`25 Aug 1999` AWD [News]	Amiga Job Posting Amigan-St. Louis is Proud to Announce Amiga 2K Amiga Downunder '99 Show Report
`25 Aug 1999` Iwin	Iwin: product specifications of A510MP and A1010MP online At AmiUpdate, the entry in the Sun Dealer Catalog is considered sufficient proof for the existence of Iwin. Here's the entry. At Antec. 2. Jeffrey D. Webster explains in a posting to c.s.a.m. why it isn't that hard to get added to the Sun Dealer Catalog. Comment about the technical specification: It reads all too well. You cannot run the bus system with a 68060-50, however. You will never get the speed to the PCI bus to transport the data fast enough for the pixel rates of the gfx card. Not to speak of AGP. I consider that impossible with a 68060 CPU. A company without Amiga experience can never implement this stuff. For this, the subject is far too complicated. And how is all this intended to run without Amiga chipset? Thomas Raukamp writes: About your comment about bus speed - don't forget that the Milan is running gfx cards on the PCI bus with 060, so it is possible. Far less likely is that the emulation of the Custom Chips is possible without modification of the Kick-ROMs. If they modify them, they break the licence since they have none. With this, Iwin would end in court. Slashdot.org: Amiga 510 & 1010 released?
`25 Aug 1999` N.A.	Sad News Attorney and bancruptcy manager Bernhard Hembach has died on August 20th at the age of only 55 by heart attack. Our feelings are with his family. Mr. Hembach managed the bancruptcies of Commodore and Escom, and by his casual approach did his part in keeping the Amiga alive.
`25 Aug 1999` Jan Andersen by ML	Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor Update Version 1.82b Name: VirusExecutor v1.82b Archive name: ve-182b.lha Archive size: 48.337 bytes Date: 24 August 1999 Author: Jan Erik Olausen Changes in this update: - new prefs window added (BETA). VE directly goes to the prefs window when new settings are added. - hopefully fixed 'Error 12000'. - vector check added. Not too well yet, but I'm working on it. - VE can now display tasks, libraries and devices...
`24 Aug 1999` wARPgATe	Statement about the current status of the warpTrans project by WARP9 Full text translator for English-German, German-English (details at the title link). Since January 1999, a team based in Netherlands is working on the program. Based upon a already finished dictionary the implementation has been possible at all. The language recognition is almost finished, and is unique so far on the Amiga in its high quality. An integration of this system into other applications is also possible. To bring the warpTrans project to a final version, the time until November should suffice. Despite announcements, feedback of interested users has been sparse. While everybody is calling for new, innovative software... One ought to think that such a program deserved more attention. This does not seem to be the case. It seems like everything is already there and no one needs something new? (Full text - German - at title link).
`24 Aug 1999` AudioLabs	ProStationAudio version 2.01 Demo released Download page
`24 Aug 1999` Camouflage	First screenshot of CamX Transport Window
`24 Aug 1999` Alex Kazik by eMail	RC5: Bielefeld Amiga Users & Developers (User Group) reached 500.000 blocks More infos at the title link or the statistics page. For having "only" five people cracking on it, a very fine achievement. Congratulations!
`24 Aug 1999` N.A.	AmigaOS 3.5 briefly presented on TV Among others, the new HD-Toolbox was shown, which will support hard drives >4GB, SCSI and IDE. Aside from Internet funtionality and online manual, the Preferences were also shown. Although it wasn't a lengthy report, but it's great that the Amiga is seeing more and more media attention. Thomas Nosutta wrote on the subject: Since there have been a report about the Amiga as well as about the Computer Games Museum in Berlin, I wondered that the rest of the world would like to know more about it. So here are two links for those interested: 8-Bit-Nirvana (German) and Computer Games Museum.
`24 Aug 1999` Amiga [Events]	Saku 99 On September 4th, 1999, Finland's largest Amiga show "Saku 99" is taking place in Vantaa. Read the event's press release.
`24 Aug 1999` M&M	New screenshots from Maim & Mangle
`24 Aug 1999` AmiDog	New Version 1.10 AmiDog's MoviePlayer Download: AMP110.lha
`24 Aug 1999` Amiga	Petro Tyschtschenko at NBC GIGA-TV NBC GIGA-TV, a private TV station located in Duesseldorf, Germany, invited AMIGA International, Inc. (represented by Petro Tyschtschenko) to take part in a talkshow of rather entertaining than technical character. AMIGA's eventful past and its unique history in computer business will be part of the talkshow which will be broadcasted on September 7th at 7pm.
`23 Aug 1999` KDH	KDH on holiday From August 31st to September 15th, 1999, KDH is on holiday. Have a good time :-)
`23 Aug 1999` NewsRog	NewsRog: Patch for version 1.8 available This patch resolves the "memory corruption" problem, and should be installed by all users using version 1.8. Download: Patch1.8A.lha.
`23 Aug 1999`	Cracker group Digital Corruption: OS3.5 cracked? Set aside the fact that you shouldn't use pirate copies at all (they are illegal, and severly harm the Amiga), we can only warn of this cracked version, since it contains some nice backdoors for sure (like those viruses that appeared on Aminet recently, which did send out eMails unnoticed).
`23 Aug 1999` Delsyd Software	Delsyd Software News After it has been quiet around Delsyd Software for months, yesterday two new games have been announced at once: "Pimpin' Ain't Easy" and a "Syndicate" clone so far without a name.
`23 Aug 1999` Sunsite	New Linux-Apus kernel
`23 Aug 1999` Justine de Jong by eMail	Iwin people: Put an End to This! We have recieved several eMails by people who asked Tulip about the actual state of talks about the Commodore logo. All recieved the same answer by Tulip: "Dear Sir, This is not true, the only thing that has happened is, that iwin has contacted us with this request. However, we have not even had a first meeting to discuss this possibility. Kind regards, Justine de Jong With other words: Except for a request by Iwin, there's nothing to put a hand on.
`23 Aug 1999` Ron van Herk by eMail	Audio Evolution now distributed commercially by Computer City Audio Evolution (better known as PlayHD) is now available as PPC version. The commercial distribution is now in the hands of Computer City in Rotterdam. Details about the program and the distributor at the title link.
`23 Aug 1999` Vapor.com	Voyager3: Second prerelease available Major changes since the first public prerelease include: configurable toolbar, allowing for custom Rexx or Javascript commands and custom imagery major speedup in layouting complex tables VFlash now compiled for different architectures, and supporting sound (using AHI) Bugfixes galore. Download: v3_prerelease2_220899.lzx
`22 Aug 1999` Vapor.com	Contact Manager 1.5 The allround bookmark and addressbook by Simone Tellini is now available as MUI custom class. Download: cmanager_15.lha.
`22 Aug 1999` V3.Vapor	Voyager3 website in new glamour :-)
`22 Aug 1999` X-Arc	X-Arc new beta version 1.4beta2 Changes: better subroutines, less bugs, new GUI design. Download: X-Arc1_4beta2.lzx.
`22 Aug 1999` Hyperion	Info about Worms: Armageddon
`22 Aug 1999` TWF	New screenshots of Maim & Mangle Those who have tried to subscribe to the M&M mailinglist without success can contact collins-e@dnet.co.uk to be added manually.
`22 Aug 1999` Davy Wentzler	Audio Evolution PPC Audio Evolution (better known as PlayHD) is now available as PPC version. More informations about the program.
`22 Aug 1999` AWD [News]	First report from Downunder '99 The AmigaOS 3.5 was presented, and it's release scheduled for end of September.
`22 Aug 1999` Markus Fellhauer by eMail	Diskmaster2 new beta version 2.5b1 Download: DM2beta.lzx.
`22 Aug 1999` Marc Albrecht by eMail	Opera for Amiga Marc Albrecht writes: Just for your information: 1998 and 1999, we (A.C.T. and ETERNITY) have officially offered OPERA to make the port of the Amiga version on our own - for payment as well as without payment for royalities. We were informed the Amiga port was underway, and therefore they had no need for our services. With other words: Forget about Opera - it will never come.
`21 Aug 1999` Martin Endres by eMail	News from Camouflage MIDI/Audio sequencer Martin Endres writes: The price has been cut back (including cross-update to CamX). CamX (the successor) will probably be released in autumn/winter in German as well as English. The first version will be for Amiga68K only, with a Linux86 and perhaps an AmigaNG version coming later (if AmigaNG is already available by then).
`21 Aug 1999` cucug.org	Cucug: The Status Register - August, 1999
`21 Aug 1999` Vapor.com	Bug Tracking System by VaporWare now online
`21 Aug 1999` Amiga.org	geeknews: Q & A with Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner Q: Will we see a project from Opera to support the upcoming AmigaOS? A: We will have to wait and see. At this time we do not know what will happen with the new Amiga and what it really means. I have had my share of Amigas in the past and I still have a couple at home so I would love to see the Amiga prosper. At this time, however, we do not know what is going to happen. There have been a lot of announcements without results from Amiga Inc. and we are still waiting to see real results. If they deliver we will consider a port. geeknews has not forgotten to ask about an Amiga version of Opera. As before, the situation is such that there is no development taking place.
`21 Aug 1999` WHOTA	WHOTA Volume 2 - Issue 21 online
`20 Aug 1999` Amiga Universe	Amiga Universe closed down until further notice Amiga Universe Gone, but not forgotten. On the AU website today there is only a hint that a decission has been made to close down AU. For now, perhaps they will reappear with the AmigaNG, maybe they reappear next week. We hope for next week...
`20 Aug 1999` AmiDog	New Movie Player Beta Version Note: AmiDog has decided to release this beta version to get feedback. Please note that crashes are possible, and there are still bugs left. Download: AMPbeta.lha.
`20 Aug 1999` Thomas Steiding by eMail	Best of Gremlin On the BEST OF GREMLIN you will find around 30 full games that have been published by english Software company Gremlin for the Amiga. Most of the games can be started direct from the CD. Where available both AGA and ECS versions of the game have been included. This is what you will find on the CD among others: * Combo Racer (Racer) * Disposable Hero (Shoot em Up) * H.A.T.E. (3D Shooter) * Harlequin (Platformer) * K 240 (Strategy ala Sim City) * Litil Devil (3D style Platformer) * Plan 9 from outer Space (Adventure for the worlds worst movie ever) * Premier Manager I-III (Footballmanager) * Shadow Fighter (Beat em Up) * Super Cars I & II (Race and Fight on the Highway) * Switchblade I &II (Action RPG) * Top Gear II (Racer, follow up to Lotus) * Utopia (Strategy) * Video Kid (Cute Platformer) * Zool I & II (Best Platformer for the Amiga - EVER!) Price: 45,50 EURO Systems: all Amigas; Pentium 16 MByte akMPEG Animation Player version 2 Andreas R. Kleinert by eMail mailto:Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de http://www.ar-kleinert.de/ Andreas R. Kleinert writes: The akMPEG2 animation player is now available from my homepage. The archive contains an 68k version (040/FPU or better) and a PPC version, both as Overlay and 24-Bit In-Window version. Changes since version 1.00: Version 1.00 had only a 68k version and used the mathffp.library instead of the CPU, some bugs removed. P.S.: I know the program does not support sound (MPEG Video with audio part). This will not change ;). Download: akMPEG2.lha. In the next few days, the program will be available from Aminet.
`20 Aug 1999` Stefan Robl by eMail	New programs: FMdriver and AVL Stefan Robl writes: FMDriver: Since the company electronic-design has stopped soft- and hardware development for the FrameMachine, and the software had some troubles on modern systems, ED gave me permission to continue development of this card's software. The result is FMdriver, a completely rewritten driver tuned for high hardware compatibility and speed (including PPC!). The package contains a config tool and FMTV, which allows TV to be watched high-speed with CGX/P96 on the WB. More about it on my homepage. Download: FMdriver.lha. AVL: AVL is a simulation of self-learning bacteria on the WB. The user can influence it any time (feeding etc.). Guaranteed addictive! ;) Download: AVL.lha.
`20 Aug 1999` StrICQ	New beta version StrICQ 0.1473 Download: STRICQ.lha.
`19 Aug 1999` Amiga.org	Amiga Downunder '99 starts this weekend The Amiga Downunder '99 will take place this weekend, August 21st-22nd in Canberra, Australia. We will report about the highlights of the show.
`19 Aug 1999` Darkage Software	Darkage Software looking for programmers Wanted: 68k C and Asm programmers. Contact Paolo "Mod3m" D'Urso.
`19 Aug 1999` c.s.a.m.	Jim Collas in c.s.a.m.: Iwin response
`19 Aug 1999` Andreas R. Kleinert by eMail	akMPEG akMPEG has been released. It is a programm for playing MPEG animations on 68k Amiga systems with CyberGFX (CgxVideo/Overlay recommended, CPUs 040 and better). Download: akMPEG.lha. The archive will be available from Aminet in the next few days.
`19 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	Dave Haynie on Team Amiga Mailinglist On the Team Amiga Mailinglist, Dave Haynie speaks out about interesting subjects like which CPU might be used in the AmigaNG, and Iwin is discussed too.
`19 Aug 1999` Amiga Extreme	Review of the A4000 Power Tower The author of the tower test has asked some questions towards Elbox, read their answer here...
`19 Aug 1999` Haage & Partner	Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign More and more, pirate copies jeopardise the existence of Amiga companies. Especially with games and applications, pirate copies are the reason for new projects never seeing the light of day. It is high time for a combined effort...
`19 Aug 1999` StrICQ	New beta version StrICQ 0.1467 Download: STRICQ.lha.
`19 Aug 1999` Thomas Steiding by eMail	Movieplayer MooVID on CD Thomas Steiding writes: Epic Marketing has the full version of Movieplayer MooVID available on CD. MooVID features: - 100% Assembler code - support for AVI and MOV files - support for INTEL INDEO format 3.1 & 3.2 - nice, VCR-like GUI -extremly fast playback - fast c2p algorithms for smooth ECS/AGA playback - ECS support (16 greyscales), AGA (256 colors, Ham8, 18 bit) - support for CyberGFX and Picasso96 - system friendly In addition to the MooVID executable, the CD contains dozens of movie clips in different formats. More informations available from our homepage shortly (title link).
`19 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	Dave Haynie on Team Amiga Mailinglist Dave Haynie speaks out about interesting subjects on the Team Amiga Mailinglist, e.g. which CPU might be in the AmigaNG, and Iwin is discussed, too.
`19 Aug 1999` Titan Computer	NcordeR version 1.5 available Changes: 5 % more speed for PPC Amigas, Picasso96 picture.datatype issue solved, bugfix for 604 WarpOS, reworked GUI, two new skins. Remark: There are still issues with 603 WarpOS systems. Download page.
`19 Aug 1999` Amiga Nation	New compiler ASMBasic by Daniel Schwab Amiga Nation writes: Daniel Schwab is currently working on ASMBasic, a compiler oriented at Basic and Assembler. Programming is done in userfriendly Basic style. Full article at the title link (German).
`19 Aug 1999` Amiga Central	Iwin plans to present the new computers in Germany In a posting to csam Iwin states that they will release further technical details on their website within the next two or three days, and that Martin Steinbach has agreed with Thomas Raukamp of the German "amigaOS" print magazine to make a presentation in Germany shortly before the official release date. Thomas confirmed the agreement. Still, we stay very wary, we can still imagine this could be a well-done hoax, and will only be convinced otherwise when we have seen the promised machines in action.
`19 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	Swedish magazine x-files media interviews Stefan Burström The swedish magazine x-files media has interviewed Stefan Burström, author of IBrowse and winner of the swedish AAA Award. The interview is Swedish, but contains several interesting screenshots of IBrowse 2. Page 1, page 2 and page 3
`19 Aug 1999` Jan Andersen per eMail	VT Update version 3.16 and VirusCheckerII Update version 2.03 Name: VT v3.16 (Main archive) Archive name: vt316k.lha Archive size: 424.640 bytes Date: August 16th, 1999 Author: Heiner Schneegold Name: VT v3.16 (Doc. archive) Archive name: vt316dok.lha Archive size: 503.934 bytes Date: August 16th, 1999 Author: Heiner Schneegold Name: VirusChecker II v2.03 Archive name: vht-vc23.lha Archive size: 590.966 bytes Date: August 16th, 1999 Author: Alex van Niel
`19 Aug 1999` Gaddar by eMail	Amimaniacs is looking for Opus Themes Gaddar writes: In our online magazine, we have opened an area (link: Desktop) for Opus Themes. (Themes are preconfigured layout presets for DOpus 5.8x). The themes already available are looking great and we hope we can upload many more Opus Themes.
`19 Aug 1999` Michael Burkhardt by eMail	Important info for DraCo users Computer Corner in Munich just informed us that there is now a new library for Diavolo Pro Terra. So, MovieShop 5.2 users can make backups of their audio and video partitions again. The library is free for registered users and can be ordered from Computer Corner by eMail. Phone Computer Corner: +49 - (0)89 / 7141034 eMail address: computer.corner@crevico.com At the same time, Eiperle CGM informed us that a free update is offered for the CGM DVE Vol. 1 CD-ROM, so the included macros can continue to be used with MovieShop 5.2. If that ain't good DraCo news for a change.
`19 Aug 1999` GoldEd	GoldEd Update version 6.1.4 Download: sp614.lha
`19 Aug 1999` Paul Nolan	Photogenics 4.2 to appear soon Photogenics 4.2 will be free for registered users, and offer many new features. Large parts of the image processing mode have been reworked / rewritten.
`19 Aug 1999` Robert Niessner by eMail	AmigaScene 0x10 (July/August) online Robert Niessner writes: We are pleased to announce finally that the latest english issue of the AmigaScene (0x10 July/August) is online now. Contents: - 2 comments on Amiga goes Linux - mECH Tornado3D workshop - MP3 basics - interview with Petra Struck from amiga-news.de - and more
`17 Aug 1999` Marc Albrecht by eMail	Visitor number 250.000 has been found :-) Marc Albrecht writes: After I sorted all seven submissions of screenshots showing the webhits counter at 250.000 by the TIME given, the one with the EARLIEST hit is DIRK DOCKBREYDER A Prelude1200 including Samplitude Opus Lite will be send to him ASAP - congratulations!
`17 Aug 1999` Iwin-Corp.	Iwin announces new computers based on Amiga On the website, two new Amiga-based computers are announced. For one the A510, which is planned as a workstation with Motorola 68k (M-version) or PowerPC (P-version) CPU. The other is the A1010, with special CPUs for Java and multimedia applications added. More links on the subject: The Register and AmiUpdate interview with Martin Steinbach. Since the Iwin-Corporation (? I win?) is completely unknown to us so far, we did some research on our own. The domain iwin-corp.com has been registered on June 21st, 1999, by Martin Steinbach, 85375 Neufahrn, Germany. The given phone number is a mobile. The phone register does list neither a Mr. Martin Steinbach nor a company called Iwin-Corporation. The Iwin-Corporation is not registered as a licensee by Amiga. The software named is non-existant. The trademarks A510 and A1010 do already exist. Due to this, we think this website is a fake.
`17 Aug 1999` Thomas Wölflick	Jason Kroll: BeOS Release 4.5 Thomas Wölflick writes: I have found an interesting article in "Be Magazine" at www.bemagazine.com/articles/beos-4.5.html (title link). There, Jason Kroll writes about the BeOS Release 4.5 in whole, its chances and future. Especially interesting was the honorable mention of Amiga in the paragraph before the last one. Here, he writes: ..."One impediment to development, and to users switching to BeOS, is that we don't know for sure how secure the future will be. For one thing, Amiga, supported by Gateway, is probably in cahoots with Transmeta, and based on the free Linux kernel, is about to make a monster reappearance, supposedly based on technologies we have never seen in home computers. How will BeOS fare against competition from the rebirth of the original multimedia machine?"... Preliminary congratulations, fear of an undead, or how would you call it?
`17 Aug 1999` Matthias Münch by eMail	New Amiga User Group: AUG99 Matthias Münch writes: A few weeks ago, I announced the appearance of a new Amiga User Group - AUG99. After some days and nights, not to forget my trusted friend caffeine, the homepage is finally finished. All further details about AUG99 can now be read from the homepage.
`17 Aug 1999` Virtual Dimension	Othello - the virtual boardgame "Othello - the virtual boardgame" is currently in beta stage, scheduled release date is September 1999.
`17 Aug 1999` HydraBBS	New version HydraBBS 1.10
`17 Aug 1999` StrICQ	New beta version StrICQ 0.1466 - August 15th, 1999 Download: STRICQ.lha
`17 Aug 1999` Fun Time World	New mouse adapter: Punchinello from Power Computing Power Computing offers a new adapter that allows Microsoft two-button mice, Logitech three-button mice, serial mice and trackballs to be used. The adapter is called Punchinello.
`17 Aug 1999` TWF [M&M]	Maim & Mangle mailinglist implemented The World Foundry has implemented a new mailinglist for Maim & Mangle. Here you will find reports about the development progress, and suggestions and ideas for the game can be placed, too.
`17 Aug 1999` Jens Schönfeld by eMail	Wanted: Name for a serial port add-on Jens Schönfeld is looking for a name for his new high-speed port card via amiga-news.de. Details at the title link. The first submissions have been recieved, Jens summarized and commented them, to be found at the title link, too. There are some really good suggestions among them, others did not find Jens' approval. The special, with prices to be won, is continuing; if you have a good idea, send your submission to: namescout@nostlgic.oche.de. When the special is over (August 20th), the readers of amiga-news.de will be able to choose the final name from the submissions.
`17 Aug 1999` Oliver Wagner by eMail	AmIRC version 3.1 released This update fixes small issues with AmIRC 3.0. Download: amirc_31.lzx.
`17 Aug 1999` Jürgen Reinert by eMail	Product info: ViperTools version 1.0 Jürgen Reinert writes: Status: Freeware Short: installing the ISDN DataBox "Speed Viper" Functions - changing presets (locale, MSN etc.) - showing and resetting fee counters - resetting to factory presets - loading new firmware to DataBox Features - GUI - does work without MUI - comfortable choosing of serial port - supports 300 to 115200 Baud Requirements - Amiga with AmigaOS 3.0+ - DataBox "Speed Viper" - hard drive
`17 Aug 1999` Markus Fellhauer by eMail	New version Aimcik 0.7 Beta 5 Download: Aimcik.lha
`17 Aug 1999` Steve Darksun by eMail	RefTools! pages closed down Steve Darksun writes: Sad but true. The RefTools! pages have been closed down due to lack of interest from the sponsor. Read the title link.
`17 Aug 1999` Jan Andersen by eMail	New VirusWarning.Guide version 2.8 Name: VirusWarning.Guide Version: v2.8 Archive name: vht-vg28.lha Archive size: 81,591 bytes Date: August 14th, 1999 Author: Virus Help Denmark
`14 Aug 1999` Patrick Beerhorst by eMail	New prelude.library version 4.52 Patrick Beerhorst writes: New prelude.library V4.52 at the A.C.T. homepage. The new version fixes several bugs concerning the Rombler module for the Prelude ZII. Download: PrlLib452.lha.
`14 Aug 1999` Fun Time World	unIQue is looking for excellent musicians and 2D/3D graphic artists unIQue is looking for excellent musicians and 2D/3D graphic artists for the shoot'em'up game ACSYS. Candidates can contact christian.sobotta@rz.tu-ilmenau.de. The development status indicator is at 25%.
`14 Aug 1999` Christian Zimmermann by eMail	AWeb 3.3 to be released in a few weeks Latest info by AmiTrix concerning AWeb 3.3: On August 12th, William Parker replied to the question when AWeb 3.3 is scheduled for release: AWeb 3.3 is almost done and we will be releasing it in a few weeks. Free to AWeb 3.x owners. Thanks for your patience. Bill
`14 Aug 1999` Yves Crevecoeur	IBM Opens PowerPC Design to Apple Rivals Yves Crevecoeur found on MacWeek this news brief that discusses IBM's action to open the PowerPC platform. These machines will not run MacOS, however they will run Linux PowerPC and, we hope one day, BeOS. This newly opened design with a 450Mhz G3 (aka. PowerPC 750) was shown in the IBM booth at Linux World Expo. Systems using this design should begin shipping in Q1 2000 at earliest, no OEMs have (of yet) jumped on board the PowerPC Bandwagon says IBM. -snip- This sounds quite like the Pios One, doesn't it? It would be interesting for sure to see the P5-QNX running on this box, with boot menu for Linux and BeOS :-)
`14 Aug 1999` Stefan Werner by eMail	Macromedia wish list for Dreamweaver Macromedia Wish Lists Stefan Werner writes: This news I found at benews.com, but it should be interesting for Amiga users, too: Macromedia (creators of Dreamweaver, a WYSIWYG HTML editor and Flash, the industry standard web plug-in, among others) have two wishlists up at the moment for future release features. If you would like to see BeOS ports of these products, let them know! -snip- An Amiga version of the two programs wouldn't be bad either, would it? I, for one, work with Dreamweaver for Windows professionally, and IMHO Dreamweaver is the best HTML editor there is!
`14 Aug 1999` Roman Schmid by eMail	Tornado3D user-site online! Roman Schmid writes: Here you find: tutorials, textures, objects, materials etc. for download.
`14 Aug 1999` Titan Computer	Titan RC5 team delivered over 1 million keys :-) With this, Titan Computer now takes 1st place in the Hall of Fame. Congratulations! The online order page of Titan Computer is now functional.
`14 Aug 1999` AmigaNation	AmigaNation and AUGS present Amiga meeting in Z�rich On Saturday, September 4th, starting 2:00 PM, swiss Amiga users are meeting in the buildings of the ISP EUnet near Stauffacher in Z�rich. AmigaNation together with AUGS is hosting a little meeting where Amiga users from the region can meet and get to know each other, exchange experiences or simply chatting. This meeting is schdeuled to become a regular, alike to the AUGS meetings in Wil and Basel. More information at the title link.
`14 Aug 1999` Future Zone	New security hole in internet protocol Future Zone writes: Windows 95, 98, 2000, SunOS and Solaris affected \| hackers can read all outgoing data \| MS says internet protocol to blame. Full article at the title link.
`14 Aug 1999` Thomas Lorenz by eMail	Fusion Preorder has to improve Thomas Lorenz writes: Source: Fusion-Mailinglist At Blittersoft only 200 users have changed their "statement of interest" in FusionPPC into a "real" preorder. The preorders can be placed at the title link. Since the given deadline of 60 days for project realisation to availability will only start when 500 real orders (level 2) are collected, all who stated their interest, and all who would like to see FusionPPC come true, should order at Blittersoft ASAP. Blittersoft has taken over managing the preorders, so this is the only place you should turn to for a preorder (and not directly to Microcode-Solutions). Orders can be placed by snail mail, too; Blittersoft accepts EuroCheques. For other ways of payment contact Blittersoft by eMail.
`14 Aug 1999` N.A.	amiga-news.de celebrates 1st anniversary We have grown up and learned running. Yes, parents among you will know that babies usually learn running with 13-14 months, but we are of the quick type :-). Meanwhile amiga-news.de consists of a team of nine, all of which are working on the news enthusiastically and with fun. We have learned much this year, some ideas are implemented, others are waiting under the desk. Until we get "adult", there will surely be many news coming your way, in both meanings of the word. For the statisticans among you, some data: On August 13th, 1998, the first news was posted: "CU Amiga Magazine cancelled". Back then we had a great 200 readers per month. September 98 they were 1000, October 98 1800, November 98 2700, in December 98 5400, January 99 11,000, February 99 16,500, in March 99 even 23,900, in April 99 again a great increase to 31,900, in May 99 36,800, in June 99 37,200, in July 99 47,000, and this month we will surely reach 50,000 readers :-) We are very excited about this success, and will keep pressing it. On this opportunity, we want to say a global thank you to all who contributed to this site one way or another. Special thanks goes to all the other news services; without them, collecting the news would be much harder. We are also very thankful to all the attentive Amiga users and developers supplying us with news by eMail. We would be very happy about birthday greetings in our guestbook :-).
`14 Aug 1999` Linux Ticker	LinuxPPCs CrackThisBox contest over Linux Ticker writes: The contest to crack linuxppc.org to win the machine is over, without anybody managing to crack the box. The reason given by the maintainer is (among others) that simply too much bandwith was wasted, and some people tried to crack systems of the ISP and its other customers. (Full article at the title link.)
`14 Aug 1999` QNX	QNX: QNX Neutrino® RTOS Documentation
`14 Aug 1999` Amiga Central	First CD from Jogeir Liljedahl released Jogeir Liljedahl, possibly the best known Amiga MOD musician, has released his first music CD. Jogeir has composed e.g. Guitar Slinger. Download: GuitarSlinger.lha
`14 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	X-Arc beta version 1.4 beta 1 released Registered users can test this beta version. A version for NC2- and Demo-users is not available. Download: X-Arc1_4beta1.lzx.
`14 Aug 1999` CGFX	CGXVideo.library Update Version 41.12 (V3) Download: cgxvideo4112.lha
`14 Aug 1999` Rainer L�bkemeier by eMail	clickBOOM News Rainer L�bkemeier writes: At the GO-section of the clickBOOM portal, an update (360 kB) for T-Zer0 is available (v1.01). It should remove the audio problems with the IDEfix. Moreover, there is an update for the manual.
`14 Aug 1999` Thomas Wenzel by eMail	New Play16 (Eclipse Edition) Thomas Wenzel writes: While porting my audio software to 24-bit, the first thing to do was the ages-since-last-updated Play16. The new version 1.9, which has been completed yesterday, can now process 24-bit AIFF data. The playback, however, is still 16-bit. Next is an AHI-Record and AmigaAMP, and of course the AHI driver for the Prelude. As soon as the digital interface is available, the full resolution can be used with the appropriate equipment (external 24-bit converter). Play16 is available from play16.amiga.software.com (title link), and soon from Aminet. Aside from the expanded AIFF support, nothing much has changed however. There are more detailed error reports if you try to play back unsupported formats or compressions, and that's it. Please don't bombard me with eMails, what else weird features I should be implementing, I have no time for it :) I consider the project closed, and do only detail refining.
`14 Aug 1999` Alexander Kurtz by eMail	AminetGUI updated Alexander Kurtz writes: My AminetGUI has been updated. I now added a new link area. Aside from little improvements of the design, the most important change is that the GUI now has a mirror. It can now be reached at: Mirror 1: fly.to/aminet/ Morror 2: mercury.spaceports.com/~aminet/ If anybody has ideas or suggestions, please contact aminet-ideen@lxk.findhere.com Mirror 1 is having troubles, but this will be resolved ASAP.
`14 Aug 1999` Paul Nolan	Again new update for Photogenics version 4.1 release 57 The old update program did have troubles with very old versions of Photogenics 4.0. The again reworked update is now online (download Update57.lha) including the reworked update-program, or Update.lha for older revisions of Photogenics 4.0.
`14 Aug 1999` The World Foundry [News]	Maim & Mangle goes 3D hardware only To really get the most out of Maim & Mangle, a "high spec" Amiga is required. Too many features are simply invisible without 3D hardware. So, we desided to support M&M for Amigas with 3D hardware only. The 68k version requires an 060.
`14 Aug 1999` Steward Walker by eMail	Digital Images website updated Steward Walker writes: The website of Digital Images has been updated. The URL of the website will change shortly. We will inform you. New infos about Wipeout 2097 and Space Station 3000 are available.
`14 Aug 1999` Dietmar Knoll by eMail	GAUHPIL Press Release August 12th, 1999, Göttingen, Germany: Dietmar Knoll announces the fifth online anniversary of the Geographical Amiga User Home Page Internet List (GAUHPIL). The GAUHPIL is a moderated list of private Amiga users homepages. It was created in 1994. Today, a major update has been released. The list now contains 785 private homepages of Amiga users in 33 countries on six continents! Since July, there is a cooperation between the GAUHPIL, the Amiga Head Count by Stefan Instinske and the Amiga User List by Stefan Martens. The adresses can be found on the German pages. All Amiga users are wellcome to send infos about their private homepages, so they can be added to the list. Please consider putting a link on your site, to bring attention to this service!
`14 Aug 1999` N.A.	Amiga getting more and more media coverage Heiko Krappmann writes: In the issue of PC-Praxis before the last one, there has been an article about AmigaOS 3.5. The report was about technical details and the release date. The MCC was mentioned briefly, too. The latest issue of the PC-Joker printed a small article about our Amiga, too, sounding like this: "Did you already know that Amiga is to release a new computer with Linux, appearing this year?" At Giga, Michael Labiner stated once that they would possibly switch to Amiga if there would be enough games to fill an issue. The video is available from PC-Joker, issue 7/99, MPEG format. Also many VIPs are "coming out" as Amiga fans, like Oliver Kahn (German soccer pro) at Giga. He said he had an Amiga once, and is missing it :-). Rudi Rager writes: In the August issue of the P.M. magazine, our Amiga is mentioned twice in the scope of a raytracing special. Quote: "Oberland Computer now offers the made-in-Germany monzoom 3d for Windows, originally developed for the legendary Amiga computer." Further down the text, it reads: "One of the dream applications for pros, Cinema4D, developed by Maxon Computer also originally for the Amiga, is now available as an entry version." The article starts on page 88, the Amiga is mentioned p.90f. Speaking for myself, I am very happy about little things like this :-). Dirk Baeyens found the following article from ZDNet.com: Gateway to bring back Amiga. More articles can be found on the Linux Special Page, where we collected all interesting articles about AMigaNG/Linux/QNX sorted chronologically (Wall Street Journal, ZDNet.com, ZDNet.de, FutureZone, Computerwoche etc.).
`12 Aug 1999` Fun Time World	Now it's official, Urban! Rüdiger Engel did mention it in his WoA-report, but now clickBOOM has officially announced the winners, and who is listed as the best gamer? Our "Mr. Aminet" Urban Müller himself. Urban is awarded clickBOOM games for a lifetime, including all past and future titles. Sarcastically, clickBOOM adds that now everybody knows what Urban is doing when the Aminet is down again, or the last CD is delayed ;-). Runner-ups are Jamie Sheralt, who won the MicroniK Infinitiv-tower including Phase5 CV64/3D, Luke Stowe and Daniel Platt. Congratulations.
`12 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	Amimaniacs: Interview with Dirk Harlaar of H&P
`12 Aug 1999` Crystal Interactive Software	New website from Crystal Interactive Software online Even with a full-screen browser at 1024 x 768, you have to scroll both vertically and horizontally in the center frame. The webmaster has much room for improvement ;-).
`12 Aug 1999` ZDNet	Solar Eclipse: Pictures from Germany ZDNet has posted a picture album of the millenium happening.
`12 Aug 1999` Thomas Steiding by eMail	Starfighter - D'Yammen's Reign Thomas Steiding writes: Starfighter is a Wing Commander clone, which requires an ECS or AGA Amiga with 2 MByte Chip and 4 MByte Fast RAM as well as OS 2.x +. Starfighter features are: * 110 missions to choose from * free choice of gameplay: training, arcade, single, campaign * spoken mission briefings and soundtrack * storytelling animation seqeunces completely rendered in Lightwave 5.5 * choose your favourite from 8 battle fighters * interactive radio * choose your side: play the good guys (confed) and beat Gyan. play the bad guys (DYammen) and destroy the confederation The "full campaign" option lets you relive the "D'Yammen" saga. * 3D sequences adjustable to your system configuration * pure space combat action The game costs 30 Euro and can be ordered directly from Epic Marketing. UK inhabitants please dial 01793 432176 or send eMail to epicmarketing@dialin.net, snail mail to Epic-BSS House, Area 50, Cheney Manor Trad. Est., Swindon, Wilts.
`12 Aug 1999` Erik Zühlke by eMail	Report in IT-sales week Erik Zühlke writes: In the latest issue of the IT-sales week, there has been a report about the Amiga NG on the first page (bottom left). A picture showed the Amiga MCC (already) known to us, and talk was about it's Linux future. Say what you might, the Amiga definitely is present in the print media right now :-).
`12 Aug 1999` Nico Barbat by eMail	Scenet has moved Nico Barbat writes: Scenet, the world's largest collection of eMail and hotlinks from the szene, has moved. The new URL is www.scenet.de (title link). Nico Barbat, Lars Sobiraj
`12 Aug 1999` Paul Nolan	New update for Photogenics Version 4.1 Release 57 The old update program had troubles with very old versions of Photogenics 4.0. The new update is now online. Download: Update57.lha
`12 Aug 1999` Andreas Weyrauch by eMail	Amiga offering new jobs
`12 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	YAM Wishing List
`12 Aug 1999` Jens Schönfeld by eMail	Wanted: Name for a new serial port Jens Schönfeld has developed a new high-speed serial port for the Amiga1200 and the clock port of the Buddha Flash. Now a name for it is wanted. There are prices to win :-). Read the full details under the title link.
`12 Aug 1999` Sinan Gürkan by eMail	Amigart: AmigaNG GFX chipset survey Which gfx chipset should be used in the AmigaNG? Available answers: 3D Labs, 3DFx, ATI, Bitboys Glaze 3D, Custom Chipset, other industrial chipset, nVidia, no idea. Intermediate results are also available.
`12 Aug 1999` REBOL	Rebol version 2.1.1 available Meanwhile, Rebol is available for 33 platforms.
`12 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	Operation: Counterstrike cancelled Since Sadeness, distributor of the realtime strategy game Operation: Counterstrike does not exist any longer, the game has been cancelled. Blue Black Solution is planning to continue developing the game nevertheless, and distribute it under the name of "Siberian Sun". Many OC subroutines have been improved and new features been added.
`10 Aug 1999` Prelusion	Prelusion is looking for betatesters Prelusion is looking for betatesters for the adventure game Gilbert Goodmate.
`10 Aug 1999` Andreas Kleinert	ak-Datatypes version 44.44 of 18-Jul-1999 Download: akPNG-dt.lha, akTIFF-dt.lha and akJFIF-dt.lha as well as akNAIL-dt.lha (44.2).
`10 Aug 1999` Felix Schwarz by eMail	VLRec NG 3.2 is available Felix Schwarz writes: Only one month after the release of VLRec NG, there is a little big update available with VLRec NG 3.2. For the first time, you are able to simply record movies with the VLab, saving them as MPEG or IFF Anims in full color. NTSC is now correctly supported, too. Addittionally, many suggestions have been regarded and the "workflow" been improved. Download now from www.innovative-web.de (tilte link), and of course tomorrow or the day after tomorrow from Aminet.
`09 Aug 1999` Andreas K�ssner by eMail	Wildfire Mailinglist Andreas K�ssner writes: A mailinglist has been set up for Wildfire. At the address www.egroups.com/list/wildfire3d/ (title link) you can join.
`09 Aug 1999` Andreas R. Kleinert by eMail	Maintenance / Not Available Andreas R. Kleinert writes: To - citing the provider - ensure more performance and lower risk of failure for the future, our webserver will be umgraded tonight. This might lead to limited availability of the domain. www.ar-kleinert.de will be, partially or wholly, be unavailable for WWW and FTP in the night from August 9th to 10th, 1999, starting 0:00 AM, and August 10th from 2:00 to 2:30 PM. I apologize for the inconvenience.
`09 Aug 1999` Herbert Markart by eMail	FutureZone: Linux-Party in Vienna Herbert Markart writes: The First Linux Installation Party will take place in Vienna on August 27th. If you bring your system, you will get Linux installed. More links about it: Registration and the map how to find it.
`09 Aug 1999` Thomas Steiding by eMail	Press release by Epic Marketing Pagan Games and Epic Marketing announce their cooperation. Read the press release unter the title link.
`09 Aug 1999` Newsmaster	A word about eMail submissions... Several companies and individuals have me on their eMail distribution lists. Due to general chaos on my Workbench, and the trouble moving / changing the Amiga News & Stories into amiga-news.de/english/, most of these mails never made it into the headlines. This will change from now on. Hopefully. ;-)
`09 Aug 1999` Trogladite Software	Job offers... Trogladite Software are looking for yet more staff. - 2 2D Graphicians Needed to do 2 dimensional graphics for games and applications - 1 3D Graphician We already have two. We used to have 3 but one's gone AWOL, so we need another. - 1 2D Icon and Sprite Designer Needed to design attractive MWB AND NewIcons/GlowIcons for our products - 2 AmigaGuide documentation writers For writing documentation for our products based on text we give you. Other things will be required of you too, not just documentation writing. - As many permanent beta testers as we can find To test our products... - 2 HTML Expert For use on new projects, Possible online documentation creation too. - Developers Any programming language at all! You get an idea for a product, you have the rest of Trogladite Software at your disposal to help you make it. - 1 Admin Assistant Required to help with user interaction and questions. - Ideas people! Just give us ideas on what to make! - Musicians To create music for our games, etc. MED and Tracker formats only. If you want to apply, send an email to join@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk telling me which post you want, and I'll get back to you within two days. Thanks. Neil Bullock, Trogladite Software
`09 Aug 1999` Heise [Newsticker]	Heise: Hackermeeting hacked? From the Heise article about the Chaos Communication Camp by the CCC: The ports of the camp systems connected to the network have been scanned far and wide since Friday evening, to find the weak spot in the "enemy" system. The organisers had warned all "green" users to do Telnet sessions with encryption only, to make life not too easy for the password sniffers. But about 6:30 PM, the catastrophy happened: the systems suddenly denied any exchange of data with each other or internet. The Network Operation Center (NOC) at the campsite surrendered and issued a "Red Alert". Even in the early morning of Saturday, the NOC was still offline. Further links (all German only): Heise: Wild guessing about network failure in the CCC Camp Camp-Website Chaos Computer Club
`09 Aug 1999` HydraBBS	Update HydraBBS Version 1.08 This update fixes a broken HBBS_SaveFile() function in the HBBSCommon.library, version 1.07. If you use HydraBBS and have not yet registered, please do so, because the author is unwilling to continue development without registrations.
`09 Aug 1999` Amiga Web Directory [News]	Aqua - new game under development by Emerald Imaging Aqua is an adventure game being developed by Emerald Imaging. Details about the game will not be released before the financial side is cleared. Forums will be implemented on the website.
`09 Aug 1999` Kai H�lzel by eMail	Small report from the GuruMeditation with more pictures Kai H�lzel writes: With this we want to say thank you to all those who supported us. A small summary of the event can be found at the title link. The report is German.
`09 Aug 1999` Michael Pfeiffer by eMail	WaveTracer DS Mark V now available Michael Pfeiffer writes: WaveTracer DS Mark V is now available on CD-ROM! Please order from our distributor Nightshift. The CD-ROM with the WaveTracer software packet of course contains special versions for 68020 and 68040 CPUs as well as a PPC version (WarpOS)!
`09 Aug 1999` Matthias Henze by eMail	First public alpha version of stormamiga.lib V45 Matthias Henze writes: After a long time, we have something new again. stormamiga.lib is now available as first public alpha version of V45.
`09 Aug 1999` Andreas Falkenhahn by eMail	AHelp Version 1.3 Andreas Falkenhahn writes: A new version of AHelp has been released. Version 1.3 is from now on available from the Airsoft Softwair homepage, and soon from Aminet, too. The version offers several improvements and bugfixes. Additionally, French and Spain catalogs are available. Download: AHelp1_3.lha, readme: AHelp1_3.readme.
`09 Aug 1999` Thomas Claus by eMail	First pictures from GuruMeditation in Göda
`09 Aug 1999` Paul Nolan	Photogenics 4.1 Release 57 available You can download the update from the download page (title link). To install the update: unpack the archive; Photogenics 4.x must be running; run the update from the Update57 directory, reboot.
`09 Aug 1999` freeamiga.org	aMozillaX - Status Report
`09 Aug 1999` CGX	CyberGraphX: Graphic card diagram CGFX has commited a survey, which gfx boards are used. Response has been very good, you can look at the result either as text or graphic. Those who have not yet filled out the form can of course still do so.
`09 Aug 1999` Amiga Central	Mandrake was at Amiga Mandrake, co-developer of the Window Manager for X (Enlightenment) was invited to a meeting at Amiga. Here his statement from his website: Today I, raster, nettwerk, kainx, and chris dibona went over to amiga to have a little chat with Allen Havemose (VP of Engineering) and Richard Lipes (Director, Multimedia Services) of Amiga. We talked about a few interesting things. I promised I wouldn't say too much about what they told me on my web site, but they might be holding a couple of tricks up their sleeve yet. I also got to leave with a bunch of Amiga paraphanalia - which in and of itself is kinda cool. I don't know what all I can talk about q uite yet, but I'll find out. They were pretty impressed with enlightenment, which is cool - but we did make sure they realized it IS only beta (at best) code and we're not anywhere near done with it yet. We'll see where this goes from here. But I'm pretty excited about maybe working with them on a few things. This is a repost, the original message had the links screwed up.
`07 Aug 1999` Martina Jacobs by eMail	Provider-Info: Biggest search engine worldwide goes online From the article by Provider-Info: New FAST search index now contains over 200 million web pages, the whole web in one year. The unique parallel architecture based on the Dell servers offers the fastest, latest and most relevant search results. Fast Search & Transfer^tm (FAST^tm - developer of the leading search engine technology for the internet - presented FAST Search^tm, The Worlds Biggest Search Engine^tm, to be found at www.alltheweb.com. FAST is the first company to develop a search engine with the final goal "All The Web, All The Time"^tm. FAST Search is the result of over a decade of research in the area of optimizing search algorithms and their architectures, a project originally initiated by the Norsk Institute for Technology, Trondheim. Full article see title link.
`07 Aug 1999` ANN	AmigaNG mentioned in "The Star Online", Malaysia: Guess who's back?
`07 Aug 1999` Camouflage	Latest info about Camouflage project Camouflage AB development is discontinued. Camouflage AB will be completely replaced by CamX. Camouflage AB users can upgrade to CamX for free. CamX will be much more intuitive, flexible, stable and future-oriented. CamX is developed system-independent. So, CamX can be used on any multitasking-system (Amiga68k, AmigaNG, Linux, BeOS, QNX). Free Amiga68k/Bete-versions will be available on the homepage first. More details at the link above.
`07 Aug 1999` Kai Hölzel by eMail	Don't forget: August 7th-8th, Guru Meditation in Göda near Bautzen, Germany The Amiga party in eastern Germany on August 7th-8th in Göda Start: Saturday, 10:00 AM, End: Sunday about 2:00 PM
`07 Aug 1999` CCC	The big Chaos Communication Camp is underway For this huge event, CCC has put a dedicated website online, which you can find at www.camp.ccc.de (link above). There, you can get in-depth information about the camp.
`07 Aug 1999` Marc Albrecht by eMail	A.C.T.: Samplitude Special and amiga-news.de - lottery! Marc Albrecht writes: I offer the following SPECIAL until August 11th, 1999, for all who state "Amiga-News-Aktion" as subject of an ordering eMail: - Samplitude Opus FULL VERSION for 127,82 Euro (instead of 204,01 Euro) including p&p within Europe - Samplitude Opus UPDATE from LITE or MS to FULL VERSION: 102,26 Euro (instead of 152,88 Euro) including p&p within Europe Additionally, visitor #250.000 of amiga-news.de recieves a Prelude1200 plus Samplitude Opus LITE (combined value: 203,49 Euro) Marc, a great idea :-). The relevant counter is that from WebHits, on the left. This counter has a reload lock of several hours, so it's not possible to hit reload repeatedly! Screenshot, with time send to albrecht@act-net.com.
`07 Aug 1999` Andreas R. Kleinert	akNAIL Datatype registering at RegNet Andreas R. Kleinert writes: All people who registered for the bundle with the akNAIL datatype at RegNet (while I have to admit they weren't that many ;) and miss the keyfile for akNAIL, please download the latest version of "DeRegNet" from my homepage, and simply type in the registration code once again...
`07 Aug 1999` Martin Sahlén by eMail	AAA Award Sweden 1998 winner presentation The winner of the Swedish AAA Award will be announced on Saturday, August 14th 1999, on the Great Nolia Exhibition in Umea, Sweden. Press release see link above.
`07 Aug 1999` Epic Marketing	Press release: Paul Burkey and Epic Marketing announce cooperation
`07 Aug 1999` Bill McEwen (Amiga)	Amiga Advisory Council Press Release
`07 Aug 1999` Foundation	Foundation News Two Foundation products have been announced for this year. First there �ll be "Foundation: Directors Cut" which is a re-release of the original Foundation, containing version 1.25, supporting graphics cards, gouraud shading and more special effects. Regarding the very low price (�14.99) of the re-release this is the chance for everyone who "forgot" to buy this game �til now. The second one will be "Foundation Edge", which is Foundation, completely rewritten in portable C++ (which could mean a PPC version of Foundation) and a totally different interface. The Foundation's Edge Homepage is already online. More information will be available there by the end of the week. Update News: In the next days a new update will be released. Paul Burkey is working on version 1.25, which will be included on the CD "Foundation: Directors Cut". The support for Foundation and FoundationDC will be continued. Paul Burkey answered to an eMail: >I read with much pleasure, that the development of > Foundation will go ahead :-). And I am just curios > for the new Foundation�s Edge and I will certainly > buy it. Great! You will certainly not have to wait quite so long for this new game to arive! You'll be playing it for christmas! > One thing is not clear for me: Have I to buy the > promised updated or is it free for owners of the > Foundation-CD? Please answer asap, because I want > to explain it in the german Amiga News. The re-release CD, "Foundation: Directors Cut" will be released as soon as possible. I'm currently compiling the CD myself. It will contain the original game but with the next update (V1.25) already installed. If you already have the original Foundation CD then you can download the update from the Foundation Homepage or possibly fond it on a PD disk or cover of a Magazine. However the price of "Foundation: Directors Cut" will be much cheaper than the original Foundation (Probably 50 DM) so for anyone who doesn`t yet have Foundation, this is an ideal chance to get it. Foundation's Edge will be a whole new game. More details of both products will be made available in the next week. Also, you might like to know that Foundation is now published by Epic Marketing (Islona). This will be announced in the next few days but you are free to publish that information if you wish.
`07 Aug 1999` Jan Andersen by eMail	Update Virus Executor Version 1.82a Name: Virus Executor v1.82a Archive: ve_182a.lha or VirusExecutor.lha Archive size: 45.255 bytes Date: August 3rd, 1999 Author: Jan Erik Olausen Download: ve_182a.lha
`07 Aug 1999` AmiDog	AmiDog arranged Emulation Corner AmiDog summed up all its emulation in "Amidogs Emulation Corner" with a news section on the main pages. New versions of DarcNES/Amiga und AmiGenerator can be downloaded.
`07 Aug 1999` RC5	Myzar 2.0 available Download: Myzar_v2.0.lha
`07 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	AmiWest �99 Report by Floyd Diebel
`07 Aug 1999` Marc Albrecht by eMail	Heise: Sun Plans Multimedia Processor Sun Microsystems announces a processor supporting JAVA directly. SUN is partner to AMIGA Inc. Some related links: The Register: Sun preps Net box-oriented CPU The Register: Sun MAGC CPU set for Java-style public licencing ZDNet: Sun brings Java-Multimedia-Chip (German) CMPnet: Sun conjures Java CPU for media apps FutureZone: Sun Develops Multimedia-Processor (German)
`07 Aug 1999` Robert Wahnsiedler by eMail	Flightsimulator "Flight Gear" Is Open Source Amiga game writers should have look at the titlelink, where source code of the flight sim "Flight Gear" can be found. A hardware accelerated MESA or Open GL is required, so this should be an ideal project for a Warp3D powered MESA PPC Amiga.
`07 Aug 1999` Robert Wahnsiedler by eMail	Amiga in K1 Reportage (German TV) Robert Wahnsiedler writes: Yesterday, about 1:00 AM, I stumbled across a repeat of "K1 - Die Reportage", and what did my tired eyes see in a report - an Amiga 4000. :) -. It was about payment on internet by credit card, and how easy it is being cheated. They showed an interview with Evrim Serim (sp?), a long-standing Amiga user and co-author of the book Hackerland. It was briefly shown how easy it is for a "pro" to hack into a simple site, and read out the credit card data. The interview was made in his room, where he sat in front of an Amiga 4000, which was easily recognized by keyboard and desktop. :) The screen was not that much visible, but the great Boing ball sticking to the monitor :). Great advertising for insiders... :).
`07 Aug 1999` Dirk Baeyens	amiga-news.de now in Vlaams, too :-) Starting August 3rd, Dirk Baeyens from Belgium started translating the Amiga News to Vlaams. With this, our news are already available in four languages. We are very happy about it, and warmly wellcome Dirk in our team :-).
`05 Aug 1999` phase 5	G3 devlopment update
`05 Aug 1999` Andreas Falkenhahn	Rainboot 2.65 released / Original Windows98 Bootup for Amiga? Andreas Falkenhahn writes: 1) Rainboot 2.65 released: On the Airsoft Softwair website, a new version of the famous multimedia bootup Rainboot has just been released. For the first time, the new version offers support for multiple background pics and other new features / improvements. 2) An original Windows98 Bootup for Amiga? That's possible now, of course simulated only :-) At the Airsoft Softwair website, the WindowsSimulator Bootconfig for Rainboot has been released. This looks almost 100% like the Windows98 original (start screen, cycle, desktop, icons, taskbar, sounds). A Windows98 startup is faked, leading to a rare Exception suggesting to rather use AmigaOS. The bootup is great for impressing PC friends, at least it worked for me. Rainboot 2.65 is required, since new features of this version are used.
`05 Aug 1999` Chip	Dangerous tips for solar eclipse There are hints going around on internet that you could use a floppy disk instead of a special eclipse glass for filtering sunlight - which is not without risk! If you thought about doing so, read the above article by Chip magazine (German, sorry).
`05 Aug 1999` Amiga Universe	New columns at Amiga Universe At Amiga Universe, you can read the monthly columns of Chris, James, Tecno, Fleecy and Lennart.
`05 Aug 1999` Amithyst	New issue of Amithyst Online Mag
`05 Aug 1999` linux.de	LinuxPPC and Microsoft invite hackers He who succeeds breaking in at crack.linuxppc.org wins a system as reward. Microsoft offers www.windows2000test.com for cracking, but as opposed to Linux demands adherence to certain rules ;-).
`05 Aug 1999` H&P	H&P: 3DWorld Logos online
`05 Aug 1999` CyberGFX	New feedback form for gfx cards CybergraphX has reworked the feedback form (link above) for gfx cards. Here you can report which gfx card you are using. These informations are important for programmers wanting to optimize their software. You can get the results here.
`05 Aug 1999` CCC	CCC: Chaos Camp Shuttle The big weekend is drawing near, the big Chaos Camp is taking place. Departure times for the Camp Shuttle Bus are available from the Camp Update.
`05 Aug 1999` Amiga Extreme	Lambda: News There are new screenshots and a status report of Lambda on the developer page. The PC development has been put on hold, the game is still being developed "only" for Amiga.
`03 Aug 1999` Linux Ticker	Unreal engine ported to Linux According to Epic, the porting of the 3D game engine Unreal to Linux is almost completed. More information at the link above.
`03 Aug 1999` Titan Computer	Titan Computer: New Website Titan Computer has improved their website with a new layout. Highlight: A news page, where all news can be found at a glance from now on, without having to search all subpages :-). And here two news: Titan announces cooperation with Hyperion Software. BurnIT Version 2.50 available.
`03 Aug 1999` Uwe Prieth (User EMail)	Heise: New Amiga with Transmeta-CPU and Linux? Heise (producers of the reknown computer magazine c't) writes: Another veil of secrecy around the company Transmeta was lifted by the ClieNT Server NEWS in their issue 310, dated August 2nd, 1999. There, it sais that the Californian high-tech company has won its first OEM customer in Amiga. Officially, both companies remain quiet, Amiga just hints at the hardware used in a Product / Technology Brief.
`03 Aug 1999` Pagan Games	WoA 99: Report by Pagan Games
`03 Aug 1999` AmiSITE	WoA 99: Report with pictures by Rosande
`03 Aug 1999` Maxon Infoservice	Cinema4D: New tutorials on MAXON websites On the MAXON website, there is a collection of handy tips & hints for Cinema4D available. With many pics and exsample animations, the BASIC tutorials are equally interesting for beginners and pros. The tutorial area is continuously updated.
`03 Aug 1999` Martin Endres (User EMail)	Latest info about Camouflage project Martin Endres writes: Camouflage will appear in a substantially improved version for LINUX. A first concept study "Camouflage NG/CamX" will be available shortly at www.work.de/camouflage/. There will be a "normal" Linux- and a "special" AmigaNG-version. 68k-Camouflage users can upgrade to CamX upon availability. Suggestions, ideas stc. are always wellcome at endres@work.de. 68k-Camouflage AB development will continue - don't panic. Scheduled release date for the first CamX version: 1st quarter 2000.
`03 Aug 1999` c.s.a.m.	Jim Collas in c.s.a.m.: Re: Let's have a little more FAITH! In this posting, Jim Collas does speak earnestly about the reactions of the Amiga community to his way of managing Amiga. Required reading, IMHO.
`03 Aug 1999` Martin Sahlén (User EMail)	AAA Award International 1998: Marcel Beck among the winners :-) Among other things, Martin Sahlén writes in this press release: Marcel Beck, author of the reknown Amiga EMailer "YAM", has been decorated on July 24th, 1999, at the WoA in London with the AAA Award International 1998.
`03 Aug 1999` Visual Eng.	5 new tutorials
`03 Aug 1999` Amiga Central	More delays for aMozillaX Ben Rothwell writes in this press release that several circumstances lead to the initial release of aMozillaX being delayed yet again. He stresses that the project is not being dropped, just that it could not be finished as fast as planned. Coders willing to participate are wellcome. Write to ian@freeamiga.org.
`03 Aug 1999` Amigart	LinuxPPC 5.0 Install-Guide When, with help of the installation guide mentioned above, you succeeded in installing LinuxPPC 5.0, you can go on trying the MythII: SoulBlighter Demo for LinuxPPC 5.0.
`03 Aug 1999` APC & TCP	Titan Computer recieves license for Phoenix on Mac. Titan Computer has been licensed by APC & TCP to port the Amiga game Phoenix, which is scheduled for release this year, to the Mac. The Amiga version is done by Future Tales.
`03 Aug 1999` Michael Pfeiffer (User EMail)	VWP: Virtual News Michael Pfeiffer writes: Temporary result: AmigaNG survey The survey on the subject AmigaNG has a temporary result. The new Amiga might - at least among the users already possessing an Amiga - become a full success. Over 64% of all users want to buy the new powerhorse directly when available or within 3 months. Those who have probably been set back by the Linux announcement and do no longer want to own an Amiga are a minority of under 5%. The survey, which gives important information to VWP for their future software development, is continuing (link above). New: Browser hit list The VWP homepage now collects statistical data on the browsers used. This statistic is different from others in that it recognizes browsers spoofing as Mozilla (like AWeb, Voyager and MSIE). So, there is a hitlist available offering a real insight in market shares and usage of browsers in the Amiga szene. This hitlist can be found at the link above, under "statistics". New: WaveTracer DS & AudioForum The VWP homepage now offers a special forum for the WaveTracer DS and related Audio questions. Here, you can state questions, post hints, give tips and state your POV. This forum should prove being a quick help with problems related to WaveTracer.
`03 Aug 1999` Czech Amiga News	The World Foundry: News E2260: Sadly not making progress as planned, but programming should continue at the end of the month. Maim & Mangle: This is looking much better. Development is making good progress. Details about the work already done can be found at M&M, beside this there are four new Screenshots to marvel at.
`03 Aug 1999` Oliver Wagner (User EMail)	AmTALK II - 2.0 available Download: amtalk_20.lzx (542065 Bytes) or amtalk_20.lha (587241 Bytes). You can also get AmTALK by EMail. To do this, send an EMail to: fileserv@vapor.com, and write "SEND AMITALK" in the message body.
`03 Aug 1999` Amiga Flame	Amiga Flame: WoA 99 Report
`03 Aug 1999` Andreas R. Kleinert (User EMail)	New akDatatype: akNAIL Andreas R. Kleinert writes: I have uploaded a new datatype to Aminet, called akNAIL. Since it is a "special manufactured" datatype for IFX thumbnail files with .info extension, it was released as Shareware. Registering by RegNet is only possible bundled with the other three datatypes - other than this, there are the usual bundle offers.
`03 Aug 1999` Andreas Falkenhahn (User EMail)	AirSoft Softwair News Andreas Falkenhahn writes: on the Airsoft Softwair homepage (link above), two new boot configurations for Rainboot2 have just been released. For one an update to my boot configuration "Light my Fire", which now offers better sounds and effects, and another bootup by Pixel Art, which is called AmigaNG Boot and is really cool.

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