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Archive 09/1999


30 Sep 1999
Urban Müller by eMail		 Aminet
Urban Müller writes:
Aminet is down. The main site has been hacked, and has to be completely reinstalled. This will start on Thursday. It's not under my control, so I cannot tell when it will be functional again.
30 Sep 1999
AmigaWorld online		 M.S.P.: New game Sports Time
M.S.P. will release their first game, Sports Time. As can be guessed by the name, it's a sports game, like HiperSports. The game will be released first quarter 2000. More informations at the title link.
30 Sep 1999
Titan Computer		 PowerOS preannouncement
Looks like we can look forward to a new PPC operating system :-). Titan writes: Pre Announcement PowerOS stay tuned Amigans. So far there is only the logo to be seen, which will surely change soon.
30 Sep 1999
Trogladite Software		 UnInstaller mailinglist created
UnInstaller has been released a couple of weeks ago, and has been downloaded 800 times since. Therefore Trogladite Software decided to create a mailinglist for this programm. You can subscribe at uninstaller-subscribe@egroups.com, or read the mailinglist directly online: www.egroups.com/group/uninstaller/
30 Sep 1999
apex designs		 New Logo for "Payback"
At the Payback site, you can have a look at the new logo. apex designs has created a mailinglist, too, but for announcements only.
30 Sep 1999
Darkage Software		 Darkage Software has opened a mailinglist
At the title link, you can join the mailinglist. Darkage Software has decided to stop development of the shoot'em'up game "Alive", since less than 100 people voiced interest in the game. The development of "Tales from Heaven" and "Land of Genesis" will of course be continued, with "Tales from Heaven" being almost finished.
30 Sep 1999
Fun Time World		 APC&TCP: The Best of Airsoft Softwair CD-ROM
Right on time for the Home Electronics World '99 in Cologne, the "The Best of Airsoft Softwair" CD-ROM has been released. The CD-ROM is a collection of nearly all programs ever released by the user group Airsoft Softwair. All shareware releases from Airsoft Softwair are of course included on the CD-ROM as unrestricted full versions. Many of the other programs have been reviewed and included in their latest version. (Details at the title link.)
30 Sep 1999
Haage & Partner		 H&P News: STFax 4.0 available, NetConnect 3 to be available soon
STFax 4 has been adapted yet more to the needs of private persons and small companies, like including 120 professional voice messages in German and English. Additionally, many fuctions have been considerably expanded and improved. More details.
  According to the manufacturer Active, NetConnect 3 should be available by early October. Aside from Voyager 3, AmIRC 3, NetInfo 2 and Genesis, the programs MetalWeb 4 (WYSIWYG HTML editor), mFTP 2 and WebVision 2 have been added. More details.
30 Sep 1999
Joern Plewka per eMail 		KATO
We support the attempt of Mr. Grabbe, who suggested a new, useful Amiga hardware. This suggestion isn�t new, but after the planless acting of AI, where even 5 years after CBMs bankrupt nothing happened (hardware), nonetheless actual. The big problem, which prevented us from integrating the Amiga into a standarized platform via slot card until now, is the problem with the drivers for plugin cards and on-board hardware. In the opposite to the name owners, who constantly states he doesnt need third party developers, we know that they cant make it on their own. Another problem is the Amiga Community, which can only be filled with enthusiasm for completly illusoric projects. Its not practical to try to compete with SGI, Sony or Apple, which are calculating millions of sold systems. Otherwise homecomputermainboards are classified to be useful enough to use modern RISC CPUs. The result are the well known "impotent" tower solutions. CPU top....envoirement flop. If there should be amiga developers, which dont want just want to tap money, they should use standard hardware. In the first point this would be a usual mainboard (Athlon/AlphaII) or a PPC-mainboard (IBM/MOT). Katodev has access to a bridge, which is used as adapter to use cards,build for 030 Macs, in PCI machines. The license fees should be really low. This would be a basis for a minimal Amiga mainboard without CPU, something a british company was unable to do. Amiga-floppy and sound would be 100 % compatible, the 68k would get emulated, for example via UAE, which is ,with a decent CPU, already fast enough. Everyone who wants cooperate with us, and Mr. Grabbe, should contact us. There are no detailed infos or product-announcements for end-user.
30 Sep 1999
Robert Kuehn per eMail		 New Amiga User List
Robert Kuehn writes: I created a homepage (titlelink), in which every Amiga user can enter himself and gets listed. So everyone has the possibility to find Amiga users near him.
30 Sep 1999
amiga-news.de		 Petro Seen In "Neues" On 3sat
On Monday in the evening Petro Tyschtschenko gave a short interview about the MCC not to be released. The interviewer asked what kind of strange game is played by Amiga Inc. in the USA. Petro explained that the current developement was a surprise for him too. He coorperated with Jim Collas very good and didn�t have a doubt that the MCC is going to be released. But he got used to surprises and stress situations, how everyone knows and this he will master the situation again. The interviewer: "This means to cry about our old, beloved Amiga again." Everyone who wants to see the interview again can watch the rerun on Saturday, the 2nd of October at 2.00 pm.
30 Sep 1999
Amigart [Classic]		 World Construction Set Render Engine Developement and Upgrades For The Amiga
30 Sep 1999
The World Foundry		 TWF-Poll: Do You Want a LINUX Version of Explorer 2260 ?
The news-page of TWF shows the results. Furthermore there�s a brandnew support-page e.g. with patches for TWF games. There �s a new CD player too.
30 Sep 1999
Andreas Falkenhahn per eMail		 Britney Spears Rainboot Bootup
Andreas Falkenhahn writes. Because of the sucess of the Alicia Silverstone Rainboot Bootups, there �s now a Britney Spears Rainboot at the Airsoft homepage. There are two versions for download: a light version without sounds, which is 550kb smaller than the full version with sounds.
30 Sep 1999
Linuxticker		 m68k Hacker Meeting In Oldenburg
LinuxTicker writes:
The Linux/m68k-hacker meet on the 15th and 16th of October in the university of Oldenburg (Germany) The meeting is mainly for developers. The official announcement including a registration form can be found under the titlelink.
30 Sep 1999
SEAL		 SEAL: Interview with Petro
30 Sep 1999
Jim Gunnell by eMail		 Byte.com: W(h)ither The Amiga? The curtain draws upon the storied platform
30 Sep 1999
Johannes Geiss by eMail		 Open Letter to Thomas Schmidt
Another one? Yes ;-). Johannes Geiss has written down his frustration about Amiga Inc. in his Open Letter. To not make this a permanent institution, we promise this is the last letter published here :-).
30 Sep 1999
Nico Barbat by eMail		 Game designers wanted
Eremation Entertainment is desperately looking for people for a commercial Amiga game, especially programmers and graphicians.
Informations: Nico Barbat, +49 - 221 / 4304656, +49 - 179 / 4932913, nico@barbat.de.
30 Sep 1999
Domenig Weyermann by eMail		 Linux Day in Feldkirch
The Linux User Group Vorarlberg (LUGV) hosts the LinuxDay on October 30th, 1999, in the Montforthaus Feldkirch (Vorarlberg, Austria, adjacent to Germany, Switzerland and Lichtenstein). We want to offer both private users and companies an opportunity to get an impression from the various operating fields of the free operating system Linux. Aside from a Linux installation party for beginners, we offer workshops and lectures about Linux as Internal Server (Windwows Connectivity with Samba, connecting Linux to Novell- and Mac-networks), External Server (WWW, FTP, Mail), Security / Firewalls / Internet with Linux, games, desktop environments...
  All interested in Linux, and those who want to learn more, are invited! We would be happy about Amiga freaks visiting us. Attendance is for free. More details at the title link.
30 Sep 1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail		 Show report Pianeta Amiga '99 by Thomas Steiding
Thomas Steiding by Epic-Marketing has attended the show, and summarised his impressions for us:

The third Pianeta Amiga took place in the small "exhibition hall" of the small city Empoli near Florenz. On both days, roughly 2500 Amiga users attended the show. According to officials, there were only 25 visitors less than last year. The nice thing with the Italian show is you can simply sit down on the grass outside of the building, enjoying the sun.
  About the exhibitors: These were less than last year. At the Amiga Int. booth, aside from A1200 for special pricing there was Ami-Cola to be enjoyed and fashion trends to be followed (Boing Boxershorts).
  Haage & Partner, at the NonSolo Soft booth, mainly presented AmigaOS 3.5. Naturally there was always a lot of people at this booth. The final version is scheduled for release early October.
  At the booth of Power Computing, you could purchase accelerator and interface boards. Additionally, the new strategy game Red Mars was presented. A talk with Toni Ilinari revealed that the game Golem was cancelled.
  At the joint booth by Epic Marketing and Darkage Software, several games were presented, like VirtualGP, Tales from Heaven and the PPC version of Eat The Whistle. Additinally, the effects software Extreme and the Darkage Developer CD were presented.
  Main attraction at Virtual Works was the beta version of Wipeout 2097, which should be in the production by now and available soon.   At Innovative (?), the latest Vapor products (Voyager 3.x, Microdot etc.) were available.   Additionally, the latest Amiga print magazine Enigma Amiga Life was to be appreciated, appearing in its first issue at the show. The magazine is distributed by Italias largest distributor for computer magazines, however they did not yet know about Collas leaving.
  A new innovative product is Amiga IT, an HTML magazine based on CD-ROM. The developers are considering German and English versions. The first issue has many great programs and Quake AddOns, like e.g. Quake Rallye.
  In the non-commercial hall, user groups and developer teams met, informing the public about their actions. The game Bubble Heros was on show, an innovative and addictive guessing games bound to be released by Crystal Software. Some demo coders showed what great effects can be done by the aging AGA chips. The hall was under the special motto Meet and Greet.
  On Saturday evening, there was a short press conference, with about 500 people attending. Petro Tyschtschenko, obviously exhausted by the ongoings of recent weeks, showed some videos from the Amiga past. He was unable to comment about the future, everything was unclear again, but that's familiar to us Amigians.
  Impressive for a German like me was the relaxed atmosphere of the show, perfectly reflecting Italian lifestyle. All in all, a nice experience.
Thomas, many thanks for your report, giving us a good impression of the show. (ps)
30 Sep 1999
Olaf Köbnik by eMail		 Amiga Arena News
Olaf Köbnik writes:
Current Situation - Amiga Arena!
  Right now a new concept for Amiga Arena is being worked on. The Amiga Arena Specials with special prices for Shareware programs will be continued, with not only German software being offered in the future.
  The information offers for games are extended. Only software with development really continuing for the Amiga will be supported.
Free Amiga Games!   Since there are no specials at Amiga Arena due to this right now, there are links to sites offering free Amiga Classic games for download legally! Games like Syndicate, Theme Park (AGA), Fifa International Soccer, Soccer Kid, Kick Off 2, Black Crypt, Arabian Nights, Sim City and many more are legally available from these sites.
30 Sep 1999
Thomas Lorenz by eMail		 New Versions of MOV/AVI player SoftCinema (V0.6) and MPEG player Frogger (1.3.5 beta)
Both packets are for PPC (PowerUP).
30 Sep 1999
Andreas Falkenhahn by eMail		 Rainboot News
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
A new Service Pack for Rainboot has been released: The Rainboot Service Pack #2 contains a new version of RCC (1.16), optimised Rainboot 2.67 data and updated German guides. As always, a password is required to use the Service Pack, since it is intended for registered users only. Registered users can order the password from me by eMail.
30 Sep 1999
Andreas Kleinert by eMail		 Amiga Future Statement
Following a recent trend :-) in the Amiga community, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX has released a statement about the Amiga future, too, which hones latest developments and initiatives, too.
30 Sep 1999
Andreas Frank by eMail		 AmigaOS 3.5 - A Point Of Criticism
At the title link, Andreas Frank explains (German, sorry) why he doesn't agree with the 2:1 ratio.

The following eMail was recieved concerning the topic, written by Andre Dörffler:
My name is Andre Dörffler, and I am working for Haage & Partner. You might have to rename the article AmigaOS 3.5 - A Point Of Criticism in:
Kickstart 3.1 - A Point Of Criticism
Since the criticism is about the window borders hardwired into the Kickstart 3.1. Since the Kickstart is not updated, but only the OS, it is not possible to change the window borders or system symbols. That would only be possible with a patch, which does not belong to an OS update because it is a HACK, and not system friendly.
Thank you for the clarification. (ps)
30 Sep 1999
Amiga Extreme		 Amiga Extreme: Interview with Insanity
Amiga Extreme was able to make an interview with Insanity, makers of "Enforce".
30 Sep 1999
ANN		 ANN was offline shortly
Dreamhost, the provider of ANN, was in trouble yesterday. Due to the fact that the server was restarted with a week-old backup, some ANN data has been lost.
  ANN applied for this year's LETZEBURGER WEB AWARD again. Here you can vote for ANN.
30 Sep 1999
Allan Odgaard		 New 68000 version of TextEditor.mcc available
Download: MCC_TextEditor_68000.LZX. Additionally, a new version of the iSpell documentation is available. Download: iSpell_Help.LhA.
30 Sep 1999
AmigaUpdate		 New Newsletter by AmigaUpdate
30 Sep 1999
Oliver Wagner by eMail		 ContactManager 1.6 available
ContactManager is some kind of addressbook for all important data like user information, web- and FTP-sites as well as IRC servers / channels. More information can be found at the ContactManager Product Site. Download: cmanager_16.lha.
30 Sep 1999
Jamie van den Berge by eMail		 mFTP-II 1.1 released
mFTP-II is Shareware. Registered users of AmFTP 1.x can order a cross-update online.
Download: mftp_11.lzx
30 Sep 1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail		 VirtualGP finally released
With VirtualGP, the probably best Formula One simulation for the Amiga has finally been released. The distribution of Paolo Cattanis Formula One simulation has been severly delayed by the CD manufacturer. The game requires an AGA Amiga with minimum 68030 and 6 MByte RAM as well as a CD drive. Graphic cards are supported. Distributors please contact GTI. More information about Paolo Cattanis VirtualGP can be found at the title link.
30 Sep 1999
Stefan Martens by eMail		 Amiga User List Germany
Stefan Martens writes:
I have decided to continue maintaining the Amiga User List [...] in cooperation with Robert. More info will follow when details are decided on.
30 Sep 1999
Nordicglobal		 Miami Deluxe BETA Version 0.9k1 released
Download: MiamiDx09k1.lha
An Miami 3.0 or better installation is required, then the MiamiDeluxe archive has to be installed on top of this. The latest beta version of MiamiDeluxe requires MUI and a 68020 or better CPU, and can only be used by registered users.
30 Sep 1999
Heise [Newsticker]		 Rumors about Microsoft game console confirmed
Heise writes:
Microsoft seems to plan to enter the exploding game console market this year. The software giant has been considering its plans for a Windows based system with Japaneese and American game companies, writes the US news service News.com, citing a source attending these talks. The source guesses that Microsoft will be able to announce the product by end of October.
Full article - German - at the title link.
30 Sep 1999
Oliver Wagner by eMail		 AmIRC version 3.2 released
Changes: Dynamic loading of PlugIns, conference mode, support for +h and +l channel modes, bugfixes.
Download: amirc_32.lzx (696484 bytes), amirc_32_68000.lzx (207814 bytes), complete archive required.
25 Sep 1999
Jan Andersen by eMail		 VirusCheckerII.Brain Update version V2.22
Download: vhtvb222.lha
Name: VirusCheckerII.Brain v2.22
Archive name: vhtvb222.lha
Archive size: 20.211 bytes
Date: 24. September 1999
Programmer: Alex van Niel
25 Sep 1999
Falk Lüke by eMail		 Eternity Special Week
The next 5 working days at Eternity will be completely dedicated to Mac games for 68k CPUs, which can be used with one of the known emulators on Amiga without problems. The weekend is for the Prelude Z2 add-ons! Mac games like Shine, Jack Nicklaus Golf, Deadlock, Titanic, Berlin Connection and Rombler can be purchased for special prices.
25 Sep 1999
HydraBBS		 New Version HydraBBS v1.12
25 Sep 1999
AMigaOS 3.5		 Latest about AmigaOS 3.5
Localising of AmigaOS 3.5 to French and Greek started. Here's the updated list of the ATO-Teams working on translations.
Morover, the new AmigaOS 3.5 advertisings are presented.
Latest pictures of AmigaOS 3.5
To give all interested users a better impression of the new interface of AmigaOS 3.5, and to present some of the new preferencers and applications, there is a picture gallery so far uncommented. (Careful, 1.4 MB data!)
25 Sep 1999
ttf website		 New ttf.library version 0.8.1
ttf.library is a truetype compatible font engine for Amiga OS. It functions in a manner compatible with the outline font engine standard established by Commodore with the bullet.library engine for compugraphic format fonts. Any Amiga application which uses normal system fonts can now use truetype format fonts.
25 Sep 1999
GoldED		 GoldED with new distributor: AmigaLand
From now on, GoldED can be ordered online from AmigaLand. Distributor requests wellcome.
25 Sep 1999
Jan Hendrik Mangold by eMail		 New AK-Datatypes and new version of akMPEG2
Download:
akJFIF v44.47 (23.9.99)
akPNG v44.47 (23.9.99)
akTIFF v44.47 (23.9.99)
akMPEG2 v3.01 (21.9.99)
25 Sep 1999
Rudi Rager by eMail		 Keys 10/99: Synthesizer Elektron SidStation
Good news for C64 fans: In the music magazine Keys issue 10/99, there is a several page long article about the new synthesizer Elektron SidStation, based on the C64 soundchip SID.
Short info:
  Concept: 3 voice synthesizer with SID chip
Technical: 3voice (poly mode) / monophone (single mode) sound synthesizing; voice architecture: 3 oszilators, syric, ring modulation, wavetable, multi-mode filer, [...] 4 LFOs; arpeggiato; 100 registers, conectors: Mono-Out, ext. audio In; MIDI-In/-Out/-Thru, ext. power supply (6V).
Distributed by Elektron, Göteborg, Sweden, price including shiping about 625 Euro.
Oh my, when it comes to audio technobabble, I am pretty lost. I hope I didn't make too many mistakes... (mb)
25 Sep 1999
alltheweb.com		 All the Web - fastest search engine
With "All the Web", a super-fast search engine has gone online that really shows results unbelievably quick. Take, for example, the keyword "Amiga": In only 0.003 seconds, 256564 entries are found! That's close to magic for me :-). Not so good, however, is the sorting of the found websites; e.g. amiga.de was not listed among the first 100 entries... the super-fast locating of sites is of little use if the most important sites are listed among "others"...
25 Sep 1999
Jan Andersen by eMail		 VirusExecutor Update Version 1.83a
Download: ve-183a.lha
Name: VirusExecutor v1.83a
Archive size: 120.303 bytes
Archive name: ve-183a.lha
Date: 23 September 1999
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Info: OS 2.0x or higher.
Changes: - "AMOS Joshua Clone Trojan" added
25 Sep 1999
Volker Mohr per eMail		 IMP Project News
IMP news again: Now we �re cooperating with the AROS team to ensure IMP not becoming a "LINUX Distribution with UAE" ,as some people said before, but a system with a real "AMIGA Feeling".
More important is the open source thought behind the project. In the meantime we contacted Fleecy Moss and the Phoenix Consortium. Whereas Fleecy supports our engagement, the answer from the Phoenix Consortium is still overdue. We �re not against Phoenix and we �re happy about every alternative to the "future plans" of Amiga that�s capable of being spread. So our LINUX choice as developing envoirement is not final in anyway, its just a base to start the multi-platform developement.
  More informations with the titlelink.
25 Sep 1999
Rainer Benda per eMail		 ComputerPartner 33/99: Drastic Change In Strategy Shocks Fans
Undertitle: Amiga Affair: Gateway Cancels Reanimation Plans
For completeness... the article is German.
25 Sep 1999
Haage & Partner		 3D World News
Three new software announcements and the new 3D World logos are online.
25 Sep 1999
Jochen Abitz per eMail		 Tornado-News From The Mailinglist
Sample from a mail, written by Massimiliano Marras, Eyelight founder and sole owner:
Just to clarify: there are no plans to drop Amiga development. Tornado3D is an Amiga product and will stay Amiga and Three-Oh will be released and I hope it will please (most) everybody. And there will for sure a 4.0 version next year. Those are official statements. Rest assured that present and future loyal T3D users will NOT be left out in the cold.
25 Sep 1999
Amiga Extreme		 Hyperion Interviewed By Amiga Extreme
25 Sep 1999
Andrea Kareth by eMail		 The Register: Amiga CEO confirms software-only strategy
23 Sep 1999
Jan Andersen by eMail		 Viruschecker.brain Update Version 2.21
Download: vhtvb221.lha
A new trojan virus has been discovered, too. The virus causes a Guru and reboots the computer, but has modified 'C:LoadWB' in the meantime (112,836 bytes), and added a file to WBStartup named "miami.config" (60.728 bytes, packed). Now, the trojan can play with your Amiga.
  Information about the archive:
Name: Sonic II
Trojan name: Amos Joshua Clone Trojan
Archive name: SonicII.lha
Archive size: 111,798 bytes
Trojan name: SonicIIAmiga.exe
Trojan size: 182,452 bytes
Files affected: C:LoadWB (122.836 bytes)
WBStartup:miami.config (60.728 bytes)
23 Sep 1999
Greg by eMail		 KOSH Update
After a long enforced break, KOSH is finally back! Discussion lists are running again, work is being done and the website is even being updated :) New members are welcome as ever, and we welcome all skill levels and platform advocates.
More at the title link.
23 Sep 1999
Rene Koenig by eMail		 Amiga Hard Hacks
On this homepage, you will find everything about Amiga hardware, like pin layouts, hardhacks, hard drives, error codes and jumper settings.
23 Sep 1999
The Amiga RC5 Team Effort		 RC5: Achievements
With 100,000,000 blocks cracked, the Amiga RC5 Team did set a mark nobody thought to be possible in the beginning. New team members are always wellcome.
23 Sep 1999
Titan Computer		 Titan to release Joyride
Joyride is a racing game. Programmers are Milan and Ivan Golubovic.
23 Sep 1999
Amiga Extreme		 AmigaExtreme interviews Titan Computer
"Claws Of The Devil" is one of the topics.
23 Sep 1999
Safe Harbor		 ImageFX 4.0 special offer
23 Sep 1999
Volker Grabbe by eMail		 IBM PowerPC Open Plattform as PPC-Amiga?
Volker Grabbe writes:
Who wants to help me using the IBM plattform to create an Amiga-compatible PPC computer? At the title link, IBM has released a PPC750 mainboard with AGP and everything.
  I am now looking for software developers helping me in writing an emulating environment enabling AmigaOS 3.5 and later (hopefully) to-be-released versions to run.
  I need programmers who know UAE, and the coding of graphic board drivers based on Picasso96. Informations about graphic chips, and developer kits for the board will be made available from me. Contact: Volker Grabbe.
23 Sep 1999
Andreas Falkenhahn per eMail		 Rainboot Bootconfiguration News
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
The Airsoft homepage actually gives a screenshot of every Rainboot bootconfiguration. So you can review your configuration before downloading it. Too bad you cant hear the many excellent sounds played during the booting.
23 Sep 1999
Jeffrey Webster in csam		 Poll for Phoenix and Amiga Inc.
Titlelink gives a poll concerning Phoenix and Amiga Inc.
23 Sep 1999
Marius Schwarz in dcsam		 Escena PPC-Board To Be Shown In Cologne
Refering to Marius Schwarz in csam, Escena plans to finish their PPC-board until the Cologne Exhib this year. Now they �re all busy with finishing the G4 supporting board, so they didn�t have time to update their homepage.
23 Sep 1999
AmiDog		 New Version 1.23 AmiDogs MoviePlayer
New: Microsoft RLE8 (8bit) AVI codec supported, audio speed significantly improved. Download: AMP123.lha
23 Sep 1999
Aaron Digulla in aros-user		 AROS:State Of Developement Of The IBM Version
The code to build AROS standalone (to boot an IBM compatible PC) is now much better integrated into the rest of the system. After boot, AROS opens a VGA screen (no use of the text mode just like on the Amiga) and you are in SAD. When the console is finished (should be just a couple of hours to finish... if someone has the time and the knowledge ?), we will have a new Amiga based on PC hardware.
23 Sep 1999
AWD		 ZDNet: ITG shopping list: Communications, consumer electronics
More rumors. An article speculates about a cooperation between Amiga and IBM. Another potentially major customer is Gateway Inc. The North Sioux City, S.D., company's Amiga division is developing a wide range of information appliances, including game players and Web access devices. A deal with Amiga would be a boost to ITG's plan to enable "pervasive computing." Gateway already has a cross-licensing agreement with IBM, but Gateway officials wouldn't say what the deal covers. Neither party would comment on a potential deal with Amiga.
23 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 Uninstaller Version 2 released
23 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 Frogger Version 1.3.1b Video MPEG player
Frogger is a Video MPEG player for Amiga PowerUP systems. Required is a PowerPC or 68k CPU with FPU, AHI, min. 4 MB free FastRAM, and of course a MPEG for playback
23 Sep 1999
Game News		 Digital Images: New URL: http://www.di-games.co.uk
Lambda: State Of Developement And Screenshots
Pagan Games: Scavengers: Work in Progress ...
Apex Designs: New Screenshots of "Payback"
DDE: New Screenshots of "Diablo´s Land"
Darkage Software: 2D-Graphican Federico Rutenberg is aboard
23 Sep 1999
ZDNet		 ZDNet: Apple has no G4-Chips
CNet: Apple stumbles, warns of lower earnings
Apple is going to deliver less G4 systems than expected, because they have too few G4 chips. Reading these news our only hope is that phase5 have their sheep dry.
23 Sep 1999
CNet		 CNet: Gateway's AMD decision reflects changing battle
Gateway seems to have entered a period of base decisions. The message has so far not been confirmed by either AMD nor Gateway, but it seems the chip question has been answered in favour of Intel.
23 Sep 1999
Janne Siren by eMail		 Pictures from Saku 99
23 Sep 1999
Jürn C. Schulze by eMail		 AmigaFanatic: My dream died
On September 21st, the author removed the pages from the web server.
23 Sep 1999
Robin Burmberger by eMail		 Tip: BVisionPPC with Overlay
Andreas Burmberger writes:
I have a little tip for BVision users who want to watch MPEG videos a little bit faster, with Overlay. To achieve this, you have to enter in the BVision monitor driver's tooltypes VLAYER=DESTRUCTIVE, and save it. The cgxvideo.library must be installed, and after a reset, the BVision can use the Overlay function with Frogger and IsisPPC.
23 Sep 1999
Achim Klopsch by eMail		 FAQ with hints and tips for iBrowse2
20 Sep 1999
Andreas Falkenhahn by eMail		 Rainboot new version 2.67
At the Airsoft Softwair Homepage, Rainboot v2.67 has been released. This version offers mainly bugfixes, but also some nice GUI improvements (especially with the USEDEFAULTS argument).
20 Sep 1999
Christian Runda by eMail		 SFS new version 1.78 available
Download: SFS178.lha
20 Sep 1999
Jan Andersen by eMail		 VirusChecker II Brain Update Version 2.20
Name: VirusChecker II brain 2.20
Archive name: vhtvb220.lha
Archive size: 63.502 bytes
Date: 19. September 1999
Programmer: Alex van Niel
Requires: VirusChecker V2.3
20 Sep 1999
Markus Ketterl by eMail		 Yahoo News: No multimedia console by Microsoft?
(IBN) Microsoft denied reports of the software giant cooperating with Intel, Dell and Gateway as well as graphics specialist Nvidia to build a multimedia console. American and British computer magazines have reported about the project dubbed "X-Box" and Windows CE.
20 Sep 1999
CUCUG		 The Status Register 9/99
In the latest issue of the Status Register, Kevin Hopkins looks at the latest happenings at Gateway and Iwin, and Gary Peake speaks about Bill McEwen's leaving.
  Additionally, there are recent Amiga news and articles about the G4 (Apple).
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 ANews in print again
Starting with the September issue, French Amiga print magazine ANews is again available from stores and abonement. The last issue was Nr. 120, April/May 1999.
  The magazine is created on Amigas with PageStream, and offers an easy usable cover CD.
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX with new post address
The new (snail-mail) address is:
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
Andreas R. Kleinert
Am Kornberg 48
D-57076 Siegen
Germany
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 Pagan wants 2D graphicians
For the 2D role playing game Bloodline, Pagan is looking for graphic artists.
  Aside from the Bloodline pages, the pages of Scavengers and Magcik have been expanded by further information and graphics.
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 GoldED Studio 6.2.0
For owners of GoldEd 5 and 6.x.x, Dietmar Eilert has released the V6.2.0 Update.
  The most important change is the improved interface for syntax parsing. Generic syntax parser are now supported.
  The 1.02 MB update can be downloaded from the Service Pack-Site (two different servers). This update does not work with the demo version of GoldEd.
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 NetConnect 3
Active Technologies announced NetConnect 3 for September 29th.
  The NetConnect CDs contain a collection of Internet software. The current V2.3 contains, among others:
- AmiTCP-Genesis
- VoyagerNG
- Microdot-II
- AmFTP
- AmIRC
- AmTelnet
- AmTerm
- NetInfo
- AmTalk
- X-Arc
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 AmigaAMP v2.7 BETA-6
Version 2.7 Beta-6 of the MP3-player is available for Download (408KB). Some bugs, previously discussed on the mailing list, have been removed.
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 New STRICQ 0.1515 Beta
Download
20 Sep 1999
Robert Wahnsiedler by eMail		 To: The Amiga Community
At Slashdot.org, a user with the nick Rusty has posted a satire on the Open Letters to the "Community": Amiga Announces "Cloud 1.0".
20 Sep 1999
Heise [Newsticker]		 Heise: Motorola promises G5 PowerPC with 2 GHz
(Title link is German article)
20 Sep 1999
The Amiga Alternative Audio Page		 Audio: RA and Lame now combined on one website
RealAudio and Lame are now combined on one site. New at the site is a SoX sound converter. Download: SoX.lzx.
20 Sep 1999
Chip online		 Chip online: Amiga is dead, long live Amiga!
Chip online writes:
"The Amiga will not be revived as planned. Instead of hardware and operating system, the company will now concentrate on the development of multimedial and Internet software running on a multitude of operating systems."
20 Sep 1999
Stefan Martens by eMail		 Amiga User List
Stefan Martens writes:
Due to the really stupid statement by Amiga I decided to close down my Amiga User List on September 30th. Until then, users can enter themselves on my homepage. Shortly afterwards, the last version is released a final time, and THAT'S IT. But one thing is clear, I will stay with Amiga. It's just that I see no sense in the list anymore when many registered users are no longer Amiga users.
20 Sep 1999
Jan Andersen by eMail		 VirusExecutor Update Version 1.83
Name: VirusExecutor v1.83
Archive name: ve-183.lha
Archive size: 119.903 bytes
Date: 18. September 1999
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
System: OS 2.0x or better
20 Sep 1999
Robin Burmberger by eMail		 OS 3.5 mentioned in 3D Live Magazine
Robin Burmberger writes:
I am Raytracer, and always buy the 3D Live Magazine. In the latest issue, at "new products", there is a report about the new Amiga OS 3.5. They write about the filesystem, the hd size etc. How nice to read about the Amiga in magazines like this.
20 Sep 1999
Colin-Stewart Bridge Deady by eMail		 KOSH summary 26
KOSH summary 25
After KOSH has resolved the problems with the DNS entry, and the mailing lists have been reactivated, we are again supplied with the summaries from the MLs. The KOSH website is available again. The URL is www.gpwebb.freeserve.co.uk/kosh/.
20 Sep 1999
AmiDog		 AmiDog's Movie Player PPC-Version 1.22 released
This version plays QT, too, so far only video. The program is still beta. Download: AMP122.lha.
20 Sep 1999
Jochen Abitz by eMail		 MakeCD Version 3.2b Update 1 released
Changes: Bugfixes and some new drivers. Details can be read in the history.
20 Sep 1999
AMIGA		 Executive Update: Open Letter to the Amiga Community
In this Update, Thomas J. Schmidt again speaks to the Amiga users. He regrets that his last Executive Update dating September 14th has led to irritations and frustration. In this latest statement Mr. Schmidt makes it clear that AMIGA, after a change in management, has decided to make no hardware on their own, but is open to partners who want to develop hardware under license.
More links on the topic:
CNet: gateway shelves plans for new Amiga PC
Businessweek: The Soul of an Old Machine
20 Sep 1999
Jürgen Lange by eMail		 Heise: USA: Unlimited Crypto-Export Possible
Heise writes:
Following the announcement, US export restrictions on cyptographic software will be softened, the Clinton gouvernment has now released details. According to the information given, US developers of cryptographic software can now sell it virtually unrestricted to other countries. So far, the maximum key length was limited to enable gouvernmental authorities to crack encrypted messages. This restriction has been removed: Software with keys up to 64 bit does no longer need to be registered; software with stronger (longer) keys can also be exported, however it has to be presented to the gouvernment for checking. Full article (German) at the title link.

PC-Welt also reports: USA softens crypto export regulations
PC-Welt writes:
Starting immediately, cryptographic software with arbitrary key length is allowed to be exported from the USA. Only seven countries are exceptions, since they, in the eyes of the US gouvernment, support terrorism.
20 Sep 1999
Schatztruhe		 Aminet CD 33 - 10/99 - now with Amiga News :-)
We again want to thank Stefan Ossowski and Urban Müller for the fantastic opportunity to bring our news to readers without Internet access. (ps)
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 Motorola CPU roadmap up to G6 released
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 Protest against Gateway
Deniz Turkmen expresses his protest in a cartoon :-).
20 Sep 1999
Trogladite Software		 Gateway Petition
Trogladite has initiated a protest petition against the latest descissions at Gateway. Everyone who thinks Gateway should reconsider their descissions can join the petition.
20 Sep 1999
Linux.de		 Happy Birthday, Linux
This very day eight years ago, Linus Torvalds has released his first Linux kernel version 0.01.
20 Sep 1999
Markus Fellhuber by eMail		 GIGA: New Amiga-Boss: Only Software
GIGA writes:
"(Ingo) The new Amiga-Boss and successor of Jim Collas, Tom Schmidt, has voiced his thoughts about the future of the Amiga company: Amiga Inc. sais good bye as hardware developer, and will concentrate on Software... [...]
The further development has to be waited for, originally Petro Tyschtschenko was scheduled to appear as a guest at GIGA. Sadly he canceled the date for obvious reasons."
Full article at the title link.
20 Sep 1999
Amiga.org		 4 new Amiga Audio CD's of F1 released
20 Sep 1999
PalmPilot		 PalmBackup Version 1.7 available
Download: PalmBackup.lzx
20 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 Delfina Software Updates
On Petsoff's Download Page, there are updates for the Delfina soundcard system software.
20 Sep 1999
Hyperion		 HereticII: 1st progress report online
20 Sep 1999
Amidog		 DarcNES / Amiga Multo Consol Emulator new version 990822c
With this version, AGA is supported too. Download: dn990822c.lha
20 Sep 1999
Michael Schäfer by eMail		 Othello now available
Michael Schäfer writes:
Our new game "Othello" is available for free download, as Freeware.
20 Sep 1999
FreeJack by eMail		 GNN: Strong change of course at Amiga Inc.
GNN writes:
After the mysterious next generation Amiga was planned to appear with an own, then with a specially adapted Linux, and everyone was waiting for details on the new, revolutionary hardware which should have been presented by the company last month, it seems like they changed all plans and directions. [...]
  Comment:
With a cry "long live Amiga!" the letter ends that will be seen as a big disappointment by many Amiga-fans, but sounds a reasonable decission from an economical point of view for sure. With this decission, however, Amiga should consider one thing: You cannot keep a fan basis with Internet Appliances, just like there are no refridgerator fan clubs. There is no bond anymore between the fans and Amiga Inc. [ck]"
Full article (German) at the title link.
20 Sep 1999
Heise [Newsticker]		 Heise: New Amiga - Vaporware again
Heise writes:
"The Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computer (MCC) recently announced by Amiga President Jim Collas will not become reality. Tom Schmidt, who took the place of the MCC visionist Collas in September, seems to have different plans. Amiga will not build own hardware, but will develop only software to offer OEM manufacturers." Full article (German) at the title link.
16 Sep 1999
Robert Niessner by eMail		 FusionPPC to come by end of November
Blittersoft has guaranteed the difference in orders so that FUSION-PPC can be finally created.
Rux writes in the Amiga-Club Forum:
PPC-Fusion and PPC-PCx
I just got a call by BlitterSoft (I ordered FusionPPC there, and there was irritation because of the Euro-Card number). FusionPPC will be shipped in 60 days!!!
My question what happened to PCx for PPC was answered that they so far have recieved only 400 pre-orders - so there is still hope. People, do yourself (and all of us) the favour to pre-order PCxPPC!
Thomas Lorenz writes on the topic:
FINALLY! FusionPPC is coming for sure...
Since Blittersoft guaranteed paying for at least 500 copies of FusionPPC, Microcode Solutions placed the deadline for shipment to 60 days after September 20th. Until then, the 50 UKP discount is valid, too. Source Fusion mailing list, Blittersoft homepage.
16 Sep 1999
Stefan Robl by eMail		 Data Rescue Successful
Stefan Robl writes:
After unnerving days, normality is now returning data-wise. Reason: The exchange of the controller board made access possible again to all data considered lost. Hendrik Hanke came to the aid by kindly supplying his identical hard drive - and made the data rescue possible. Many thanks, Hendrik!
  I'd like to thank all those other users that helped me with tips and hints! That I call a community - the legendary "Amiga Community"!!! :) Go on like this - and thanks again to everybody!
  PS: After I have my data cleaned up again, I will continue working on my programs full power!
16 Sep 1999
Andrea Kareth by eMail		 TIMEdigital: Interview with Transmeta CEO David Ditzel
Among others, this interview asks about the connection with AMIGA, since after the London show (where a Transmeta logo was visible in the background of a presentation) rumors have the MCC containing a Transmeta. David Ditzel assures that there are no connections to AMIGA.
16 Sep 1999
Jürgen Lange by eMail		 TextEditor.mcc Version 15.6
Download: MCC_TextEditor.LZX and iSpell_Help.LhA.
16 Sep 1999
Epic Marketing		 Shipment of "VirtualGP" delayed
Epic writes:
Since 4 weeks, we are waiting for the delivery of the game "VirtualGP" by the CD production company. Sadly, the shipment is still delayed further due to the incompetence of the producer. They are unable to track the CDs pressed, if they have been shipped already or even be produced at all. Last week we were told the CDs are ready and shipped; today, about a week later, it seems like nobody knows where the CDs are now.
  All preorders will include a little gift, when we finally recieve the CDs. We are sorry for the endless delays, but we couldn't imagine such incompetence from such a big company like this.
16 Sep 1999
Jürgen Lange by eMail		 Heise: New Linux for PowerPC
Heise writes:
LinuxPPC, the Red-Hat-based Linux distribution for Macs and other PowerPC platforms, is coming with special kernels for the latest blue-white G3 Macs and G3 powerbooks. (Full article at title link.)
16 Sep 1999
Slashdot.org		 Reactions by Slashdot readers
Slashdot.org is discussing the Amiga Executive Update by Thomas J. Schmidt agitatedly, too. Careful, the thread at the title link is rather long already (over 120 kB).
My personal favourite is: Amiga is not dead, but it is smelling very funny. (mb)
16 Sep 1999
Jan Andersen by eMail		 New Trojan Virus Appeared
A new trojan have been found on Aminet today. But it has been removed, but this might have been spread, so take care...
  The trojan will after it has been executed, replace the 'c:loadwb' with a new 'loadwb' with the size of 84.772 bytes, and create a file in your wbstartup drawer called "Workbench" (size 40.668 bytes, packed), and now the trojan is ready to 'play' with your Amiga. You can find this textstring in the file:
  GuRuX mEdItAtIoNz: [JoShUa`S tRoJaN]`/AdDrEzZ: [yOuR ComPuTeR]
  TaZk: [SyStEm KiLlEr]
  MoRe iNfOrMaTiOn: censored
This trojan is made with AMOS, and it is a lame trojan.....
  Here is some info about the archive:
  Name : New msx-2 Turbo R emulator
  Trojan name : Amos Joshua Trojan
  Archive name : msxR.lha
  Archive size : 124.196 bytes
  Trojan name : msxR.exe
  Trojan size : 128.800 bytes (144.320 bytes unpacked)
  Short desc : New msx-2 Turbo R emulator for 030 040 060
This trojan has been sendt to all the antivirus programmers and they will make recog. for this trojan in the next update.
  Thanx to Heiner Schneegold, Jan Erik Olausen and Alex van Niel for the fast test. And to Gringo, Urban for the first reports about this trojan.
16 Sep 1999
Petro Tyschtschenko by phone		 What does Petro say about the situation?
Yesterday, I talked to Petro on phone, and I want to thank Petro for taking the time answering some questions. Of course I asked him first about his judgement of the situation. I will try to say in my own words what Petro said about it. Collas resignment came as a surprise for him just like for us. He wouldn't comment on the background, but it became clear to me that he very much regrets Collas leaving.
  He could not deny that the current situation in the US is rather nebulous. However he expects a more precise statement to come sooner or later.
  I further asked him about the rumors that even OS3.5 and the Cologne show are jeopardised. He clearly denied this, however. OS3.5 will be available by end of September 99 as promised, and AMIGA will attend the Cologne show. Petro assured me that he will be trying everything he can to clarify the confusion, but things have to settle first. He will try to make our position clear. "I am used to critical situation, we will overcome this one, too". And he is probably right with this, because things will always go on somehow.
  Petro has postponed his appearance at Giga, since he has much work to do with meetings and talks, and has to get a clear picture himself first.
(ps)
15 Sep 1999
Newsmaster		 Open Letter to Tom Schmidt
The Open Letter has been re-edited, and moved to a different location (title link).

Old message:
The latest Executive Update leaves open questions, as always. :-(
Therefore, I wrote an Open Letter, that asks the one basic question I think most of us would ask if they had the chance...
15 Sep 1999
Carsten Schröder by eMail		 +++ AMIGA-aktuell-Special +++
AMIGA-CTO Dr. Rick LeFaivre: AMIGA stays on course (14.09.99)
-------------
Our co-worker Martin Henke, who translates AMIGA aktuell to English every month, has just called Dr. Rick LeFaivre, Chief Technology Officer of AMIGA, and talked with him about the current situation and future of Amiga, which he summarizes as follows:
  "The Executive Update by Tom Schmidt has agitated many. This agitation is unnecessary, however. As Dr. Rick LeFaivre assured be in a phone call today, plans have not been changed. AMIGA continues development of the new AmigaOE. However, AMIGA will not build own hardware, but there are contacts to companies on this topic. Details about which companies there are have not been given, however."
  Personal summary: By this time, I am under the impression AMIGA President Tom Schmidt does hardly know the plans and work of the development department. If you believe Dr. Rick LeFaivre, there are hardly any changes at all apart from the Amiga MCC not being produced by AMIGA themselves, but by partner companies. Another Executive Update clarifying the obvious misunderstandings seems to be necessary.

Also see the Open Letter to Tom Schmidt.
15 Sep 1999
Michael Pfeiffer by eMail		 VIRTUAL News
Since the latest Executive Update clearly shows that Gateway has no interest anymore in a decent computer platform, and the Amiga is absolutely dead, it is time for VWP to make decissions. All software projects are put on hold. There has been no final decission about further usage / giving away the source codes.
  An exception to this is WaveTracerDS, there will probably be another update for this. Virtual Worlds Productions says a warm thank-you to all Amiga users and loyal customers.
  PS: BTW, I will write a nice mail to the President of A**** Inc. about their politics - who else?
15 Sep 1999
B. van der Meer by eMail		 OS3.5 presentation in Benelux
On Saturday, September 18th 1999, Dirk Harlaar of Haage & Partner will present OS3.5 in Leeuwarden, Netherland. This will perhaps already be the final release. This presentation is organised by AGGF (Amiga User Groep Friesland) and ComputerCity, the OS3.5 distributor in the Benelux countries. More details, contact links etc. can be found at the title link.
15 Sep 1999
Rainer Benda by eMail		 Contents of BlackZone mailbox now completely online on Internet
Restructuring has been finished. The C= stuff from the box is now available on Internet. Details at the title link (at the bottom left).
15 Sep 1999
Marc Albrecht by eMail		 PHOENIX PLATFORM CONSORTIUM
Today, I phoned Marc Albrecht and asked for clarification about the idea behind the founding of the Consortium. He kindly summarised his thoughts and suggestions for us as follows:

Phoenix is not a miracle cure. The market power destroyed by Amiga Inc. in years gone by cannot be reestablished by Phoenix in any short time.
  But the assembly of developers and marketing people under the "Phoenix" banner has a clear goal as well as hard results to offer - other than Amiga Inc, which jumped from one virtual goal to another.

  a) Phoenix will create a system that integrates the "Classic" Amiga from the start. There will be a viable path to new platforms, the "compatibility" for existing hardware is not implemented afterwards, but is the seed.
  b) Phoenix will create a system which will be portable from the start thanks to the Neutrino core. So, PPC platforms can be served as well as Intel platforms. A wedding with some MCC is not necessary - but possible nevertheless.
  c) After just some days of official existence, Phoenix has already gathered all important Amiga application developers as well as some leading hardware developers. This way, there is know-how of the "Amiga Spirit" (whatever that may be) that can hardly be surpassed. If there is talk about an Amiga rebirth, it is by people who shaped today's Amiga - not managers that have to do reading about the matter.
  d) Phoenix is home for enough high-ranking software developers to make real applications available on a completely new system in a meaningful timespan. By embracing the "Classic", the number of applications can and will be maximised.
  e) Phoenix is no weird idea with all components yet to be developed - since the basic components like QNX (Neutrino), Rebol and others already exist, and are successful. This is not describing fantasy but reality.
  f) Phoenix already made contact to leading hard- and software manufacturers to present results in the shortest possible time. The names of companies involved are not "top secret" like elsewhere, but can be fount in the supporters list.

I am a very sceptical man myself, and usually wouldn't have my name added to the Consortium. The following points convinced me to put energy in this project:
  • no wedding with some limited platform (like Amiga Classic), but using the existing, expanding, and promising kernel from QNX
  • I prefer a real-time system from one manufacturer over the compilation of thousands of developers worldwide
  • extremly tight schedules for realization of results (announcements are made true in weeks, not years)
  • no fantasy products, but using existing technology like QNX, Rebol, probably ARTAS
  • realistic plans "behind the scenes", means: real plans building upon Phoenix' results


Please understand I am unable to answer private mail on this topic - reasons for this are solely due to schedules, I have too many projects running to write mails right now.
15 Sep 1999
Paul Nolan by eMail		 Paul Nolan releases Photogenics 4.2
With version 4.2, Paul Nolan releases another free update for registered users of Photogenics 4.x.
15 Sep 1999
Steffen Haeuser in c.s.a.q		 WarpSNES V4.0 released
Steffen Haeuser has released version 4.0 of the SNES emulator WarpSNES for PPC Amigas with WarpUp. This version is based on the latest SNES9x 1.23 source, while WarpSNES V3.5a still used version 1.10. The original Unix version comes from Jeremy Koot and Gary Henderson.
  Download - Aminet: misc/emu/warpsnes.lha (350K)
15 Sep 1999
Holger Kruse		 Possible downtime of nordicglobal.com
Due to the Florida weather forecast for the next days, caused by the Hurricane "Floyd", power and phone could be temporarily down from Tuesday 14th to Saturday 18th in Central Florida, which could affect the Internet connectivity of the Nordicglobal server (mailinglists, registering / update and website).
  If eMails go unanswered or do not appear on mailinglists during this time, it is therefore not necessary to send them again. They are automatically collected and processed later.
  If access to the website or the registering / update server fails during this time, please try again a little later.
15 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 Amiga Info/AI Echo discontinued
on September 10th, the only Swedish print magazine "Amiga Info/AI Echo" has announced it is discontinued. So, the March issue 19 was the last issue of the magazine, which has been founded 1996 by Thomas Svensson. With the March issue, the name of the magazine was changed from "Amiga Info" to "AI/Echo", and articles about Linux added, however the additional sales couldn't save the magazine. The website is however continued at www.xfiles.se.
15 Sep 1999
AROS		 AROS now completely online again
After troubles with the server hardware, AROS is now completely online again. You can subscribe to the user mailinglist at www.aros.org/mailman/listinfo/aros-user.   AROS is an Open Source project implementing a portable, reverse engineered AmigaOS, and is in an advanced state.
15 Sep 1999
Amiga.org		 The Phoenix Platform Consortium
A number of well known persons has assembled in this consortium, to give help and suggestions for the development of a reference platform for the Amiga users wanting to upgrade their Amiga. The goal of this group is taking the responsibility for this platform.
  The Phoenix Platform Consortium will therefore take over the responsibility to give Amiga users and developers help and recommendations for reference platforms.
  This will not bring about a "new" Amiga, but the road is set for a platform honoring the Amiga feeling. The member list is truly impressive and promising.
15 Sep 1999
Suite101.com		 UAE - The Amiga Emulator
Every month, John Chandler writes an article in Suite101.com. This month, he looks behind the scenes of UAE - The Amiga Emulator.
15 Sep 1999
AmiDog		 AmiDog's Movie Player PPC-Version 1.21 released
This version for the first time enables QT playback, right now as video only. The program is still beta. Download: AMP121.lha.
15 Sep 1999
Amiga.org		 IBrowse 2.1 JavaScript Update
A new Javaskript library set for IBrowse 2.1 is available. Download: jslibs.lha.
15 Sep 1999
AWD [News]		 Maxime Gambonis Website updated
All three program pages (picFX, Convertor and Birdie Prefs) have been updated.
15 Sep 1999
AWD [News]		 MP3 MPEG Hardware
Dirk Conrad has created a hardware allowing to play MP3/MPEG audio by the parallel port. The manual for the wiring and the necessary software can be fount at the title link.
15 Sep 1999
AWD [News]		 OS 5 reference also removed from AMIGA website
After the webboards, the American employees and the Amiga Advisory Council announcement can no longer be found on the AMIGA websites, now the OS 5 reference is removed from the products section. Amiga Web Directory has found an URL to an older version of the page.
15 Sep 1999
Guvenc Kaplan by eMail		 Amigart: New forum implemented
Amigart has implemented a new WWW board, where everyone can post messages to Jim Collas, and voice his opinion about his resignment.
14 Sep 1999
Amiga		 Amiga Executive Update
The new CEO, Tom Schmidt, speaks about the future plans (title link).
Nothing new, really, except it seems like hardware development has been contracted to "business partners". Have a look at the Newsmaster's Open Letter to Tom Schmidt, too. (mb)
13 Sep 1999
Amiga.org		 NewsCoaster
NewsCoaster, a new and very fast offline newsreader. Download: newscoaster.lha.
13 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 Payback
Apex Designs announces their first commercial game, Payback.
13 Sep 1999
v3.vapor.com		 V3 Voyager SSL library update
Download: voyager_ssl_83.lzx, unpack and copy to "PlugIn" drawer.
13 Sep 1999
AHI		 AHI V4 PowerPC status 12.09.1999
13 Sep 1999
AAAP		 New LAME beta Version 3.26
Download: LAMEbeta.lzx, LAMEdoc.lzx.
13 Sep 1999
Camouflage		 Latest info about CamX/Camouflage project 11.09.989
The Amiga development has been put on hold for the time being - but will be continued when some things have been clarified. Please no eMail inquiries on this subject!
13 Sep 1999
Volker Mohr by eMail		 new Project: IMP - Amiga as Open Source
Volker Mohr writes:
Some days ago, when Jim Collas (was made) left, I suggested to find a sollution saving the Amiga plattform as Open Source, even if the people at Gateway have different opinions of the future, or worse still, none at all.
  My original suggestion was using CHRP as hardware basis for new computers, simply because being independant from a single manufacturer of hardware. As OS, a specially modified and expanded version of an Open Source OS (Linux or a BSD) could be employed.
  Aside from criticism, I recieved much more support, have been contacted and mailed if I mean it seriously and how it could be done.
  A team has slowly emerged, which started a project with the preliminary title "Project IMP" (Independent Multimedia Platform). First ideas and plans have been collected by me in recent days, and released at the title link.
  If you want to participate, have own ideas etc. please contact me. Since we only have a chance if we make it public, I decided to to so after talking to two other team members. I think it's about time to take our favourite computer's fate into our own hands, and save what can be saved :-(

AROS, KOSH, AQUA, IMP, what's coming next? One of these projects could have been finished already if people weren't bickering about which project to join... :-( (mb)
13 Sep 1999
Stefan Instinske by eMail		 End of int. Amiga User-List
Stefan Instinske writes:
Due to the new situation, I hereby announce that I close down the international Amiga-User List. Even if the news are not correct (which I don't believe), I don't see any sense in such a list anymore, with Amiga users leaving daily, making the data quickly outdated. If someone is interested in continuing the list, please contact me, you will get all necessary data.
13 Sep 1999
Andre Beer by eMail		 GeoWorld News
Andre Beer writes:
After the release of GeoWorld version 1.1, we add yet more:
Starting today, the newly designed homepage is online at www.freiepresse.de/home/jubee/GeoWorld.html (title link). This offers a better layout, and the following new features:
  - the GeoWorld manual in HTML format
  - a new GeoWorld startup picture for download
  - an opportunity to subscribe to the GeoWorld newsletter (mailing list)
13 Sep 1999
Peter Elzner by eMail		 MasterBlaster now Freeware
This is a multiplayer game quite alike to the classic DynaBlaster. The MS-DOS Version is now also Freeware.
13 Sep 1999
Andreas R. Kleinert by eMail		 new Version akMPEG Player 3.00
It's not only extremely fast now, but also quite compact: the 8 players (4x68k, 4xPPC) have been merged into now only 2 remaining executeables, which brings the archive size down to only ~120 KB. Looping now is possible as well.
There also shouldn't be (m)any bugs left ;) Download: akMPEG2.lha
13 Sep 1999
Sven Drieling by eMail		 SEAL: Interview with Fleecy Moss
13 Sep 1999
Stefan Robl by eMail		 Wnated: Quantum Atlas II 2.1GB UW-SCSI
Stefan Robl writes:
Since my system disk, which contains all my software developments (including some larger, unreleased ones!!) is gone due to hardware problems with another hard drive, and unfortunately my streamer backup is corrupt, I ask for help here.
  A data rescue expert told me that an exchange of HD boards might help, so I could access the data again. My HD is a "Quantum Atlas II 2.1GB UW-SCSI".
  If anybody has this HD (working!) and is willing to sell it to me should contact me ASAP: Phone +49 - (0)9634 / 1539, eMail: stefan.robl@tirnet.de. I am willing to pay a reward for successful data restore. If you own a HD of this time, please contact me! Many thanks!!!
  PS: All my eMails are affected, too!! All users of my programs, please re-contact me, I also lost all addresses!!)
13 Sep 1999
Amiga Aktuell		 Is the AmigaNG coming or not?
In his Amiga Aktuell Special, Carsten Schröder writes:
  So far, the article from Businessweek Online, which drew so much attention recently, has neither been confirmed nor denied officially. Several sources, however, indicate that an official statement by AMIGA is planned for this Tuesday. Meanwhile, Stuart Walker of the programmer team Digital Images, which already has announced games for the Amiga MCC, is cited by a Gateway employee: "I am going to wait until we hear some news from within Amiga. I was told that the AmigaMCC was definitely going ahead". Shortly after Jim Collas resigning as AMIGA President and CEO, Digital Images had canceled Amiga MCC game development, only to take back this descission a short time afterwards.
  Bottom line, confusion is perfect. We will have to wait until Tuesday, to recieve clarification (at best) about the AmigaNG future.
13 Sep 1999
AmiDog		 AmigDog's Movie Player PPC-Version 1.20 released
For the first time, this version allows playing other formats (FLI/FLC/AVI). QT will soon be supported, too. These extra features are only available for registered users. Moreover, known bugs have been removed.
13 Sep 1999
Heise [Newsticker]		 Customers able to protest against credit card misuse
Heise writes:
"If you just give your credit card's number, you are not responsible for damage done by misuse." The usual contracts of credit card companies states that the customers are not made responsible if the payment was done without billing - means, no signature, no PIN. Full article - German - at the title link.
13 Sep 1999
Amiga.org		 Boxer now available!
Blittersoft announces the availability of the Boxer line. Right now, two different types are available. Details at the title link.
11 Sep 1999
Newsmaster		 Version Watch Offline... for duration?
I am frustrated. I am angry. I feel really sick about the ongoings - or lack thereof - at Amiga Inc.
  And I don't see any sense in investing considerable amounts of time in this Amiga-related project right now.   The Version Watch will be down until further notice. The only Amiga-related activity I will currently maintain is my work at amiga-news.de. If things brighten up at Amiga Inc., I will reestablish the Version Watch.
  If not, I might turn this into a Linux service. Perhaps. Maybe.
  Damn, they really killed me with this one. :-(

Martin Baute
Amiga Version Watch Maintainer
11 Sep 1999
Trogladite (Neil Bullock by eMail)		 Trogladite: Amiga's Turnaround
Neil Bullock writes:
Trogladite Software have set up a page on the main page of the website which allows you to enter your email address in a petition to stop the action.

Go to http://www.trogsoft.co.uk (title link) to fill in your address.
11 Sep 1999
Henning Thielemann by eMail		 New sound processing software: Assampler
Henning Thieleman writes:
  Sound processing more complicated than ever: Assampler
  Again a new sample editting software? I'm afraid, it is. But with a nice MUI GUI and a straight forward object oriented conception so that you have no other choice than testing it. A great toy for all sound inventors. Download: Assampler.lha, AssamplerExtra.lha and AssamplerDebug.lha.
11 Sep 1999
DDE		 Wasted Dreams: Online registering now available
Wasted Dreams, and of course other games too, can now be registered online. Registered users recieve discounts, and have other advantages. Users who already did send their registration card by eMail, will be notified by eMail.
  On the website, there are new screenshots of Diablo's Land.
11 Sep 1999
Amiga.org		 Amiga Yellow Pages back again
The yellow pages of Amiga present themselves in a new layout after two months downtime, and aside from news also offer columns.
11 Sep 1999
ANN		 BusinessWeek: Seems Gateway Isn't the Friend Amiga Fans Thought It Was
There is much discussion about this article at Slashdot.org, too.

It takes time to see what is true about the article. We have asked the article's author Steven V. Brull per eMail to tell us who gave these informations to him, because we have some clue due to the last paragraph... More soon at this theatre...
11 Sep 1999
amiga-news.de		 Iwin News
Yesterday, we reported:
  ...the second from the company Computer City, which recieved fotos from Martin Steinbach showing the Iwin offices. These fotos were made available by Computer City on their webpage at www.compcity.nl/amiga/iwin.htm.

The pictures have been removed today by Computer City. It was found out that the pictures showed the Ismaning-based company Merant...
10 Sep 1999
Amiga		 Amiga: Buletin Boards, US employees removed from webpage
Since today, the Buletin Boards and the list of US employees have vanished from the AMIGA website. Reasons for this are unknown.
10 Sep 1999
AirSoft		 Alicia Silverstone Bootup Archive updated
Unfortunally, the .lha archives offered for download last week both had CRC errors. At the download page, there are now two new Alicia Silverstone Bootups available.
10 Sep 1999
AmigaAMP		 AmigaAMP 2.7-Beta-5 available
Some bugs have been removed, and some features been added. Download: AmigaAMP27b5.lha
10 Sep 1999
Haage & Partner		 NoPiracy Discussion Forum temporarily closed
H&P writes:
Too late we discovered a security hole in the script for our webboard, which we have to close first before discussion may continue. We ask for your patience for some days.

The board has been hacked, and a malicious message left behind. Every time again when I read about such occurences, I cannot help but ask myself what motivates a Cracker to enjoy in such 'success', while he could use his knowledge to much more positive ends. Is the intention to be listed somewhere? Or is the intention to show security holes? I could consider this positive, of course if no damage is done. May that as it might, it will probably always remain a mystery for me. (ps)
10 Sep 1999
Andreas R. Kleinert		 New Version akMPEG Player 2.70
Download: akMPEG2.lha
10 Sep 1999
Michael David by eMail		 BattleDuel Version 1.7.105
Michael David writes:
A new version of BattleDuel is immediately available on Aminet (game/2play/BattleDuel.lha).   Changes have mainly been technical. This includes support for AHI, full support for Picasso 96 and CyberGFX (color depth > 8 bit).
  Detailed information about BattleDuel and the latest version at the title link.
10 Sep 1999
Czech Amiga News		 NovaDesign: ImageFX 4 Announced - Now with Animation!
10 Sep 1999
Dundar Unsal		 Amigart now with Amihoo!-service
You can now register your website with the service.
10 Sep 1999
AudioLabs by eMail		 Press Release by AudioLabs: NL-editing system for Amiga and DraCo
09 Sep 1999
Thomas Wenzel by eMail		 AmigaAMP 2.7 Beta
Thomas Wenzel writes:
The first public beta version of AmigaAMP v2.7 is finished and is available for download at . The most important changes are e.g. the Skin support for the playlist, switchable sollutions for the Analyser and a better handling of Plugins and Skins. Have Fun! If you find bugs, and I'm sure they are still numerous, please report to me!
09 Sep 1999
Amithyst		 Amithyst Online Magazine Issue 7 - Sept. 99
09 Sep 1999
Sid4Amiga		 Sid4Amiga version 3
After author Paul Heams has lost all source codes for his C64 Sidplayer due to a physical failure of his hard drive, he sat down and restarted with the original code from the Linuxpage, showing once again the importance of backups ;-).
  After all, the new Sidplayer is faster, has some bugs removed, and the AHI play routines are now functional. The author further writes that he nevertheless has much work left to do, since he also has to rewrite the complete GUI.
09 Sep 1999
Herbert Markart by eMail		 FutureZone: Give-Away-Trend reaches Color Laser Printers
FutureZone writes:
Manufacturer gives away devices for free | Customers have to purchase a given amount of color ink per year | So far only chosen companies in the USA
  Tektronix, second only to Hewlett Packard in the Color Laser Printers market, has announced to give away 840 devices including an unlimited amount of black ink and a three-year service packet to chosen customers for free.
09 Sep 1999
Thomas Schulze by eMail		 Dreamworld News: New "Between The Lines" site
Thomas Schulze writes:
The site for "Between The Lines" has been redesigned, and expanded with latest screenshots. "Between The Lines" is a realtime 3D roleplaying-game for PPC and Warp3D, and still in a very early stage of development.
08 Sep 1999
Innovative by eMail		 fxPAINT right on schedule
fxPAINT is right on schedule, and the project will be finished as planned for the Cologne exhibition. To show the progress made, some new screenshots and pictures are released in the gallerie, and a new press release containing further details.
08 Sep 1999
Paul Nolan		 Photogenics 4.2 shipped to betatesters
After Paul Nolan has finished his office's move, Photogenics 4.2 has arrived at the betatesters. If no unexpected bugs appear, this version will be available shortly.
08 Sep 1999
Ateo		 Ateobus.library version 3.0 now online
Download: ateobus.lha and the accompaining readme.
08 Sep 1999
Stuart Walker by eMail		 Wipeout 2097 can now be pre-ordered
Wipeout 2097 can now be pre-ordered from Blittersoft. Technical details of the game at the title link.
08 Sep 1999
Bruno Vaccaro by eMail		 SadJesterIcons Aurora Set Prerelease 3
Bruno Vaccaro introduces his new SadJesterIcons Aurora Set. The Aurora Set is a really nice mixture of NewIcons and GlowIcons. Those who already planned to improve their Workbench's look can now go active.
08 Sep 1999
Spielel [Netzwelt]		 Is the Microsoft Console coming?
Spiegel Netzwelt writes:
According to rumors, Microsoft is currently working on its own game console, which is reported to be similar powerful than Sonys announced PlayStation 2.
  The software company Microsoft is reportedly working on a game console code-named "X-Box". The TV expansion is meant mainly for games, but could have other functionality, too, reported US game magazine Next Generation in its October issue, citing unnamed sources.
  According to this article, the console will either run on a 500 MHz chip by Intel or an Athlon chip by AMD, with gfx technology provided by nVidia. As operating system, a modified version of Microsoft's Portable-System Windows CE will be employed. With this setup, the Microsoft console might be comparable in performance to Sonys announced Playstation 2, the article sais. As manufacturer for the Microsoft-designed console, Dell and Gateway might be possible partners. (Full article - German - at the title link).
More links on the subject:
CNet: Microsoft, Intel reportedly developing video game console
08 Sep 1999
Allan Odgaard		 New: TextEditor.mcc and HTMLview.mcc
Download: MCC_TextEditor.LZX Version 15.6 and MCC_HTMLview.LZX Version 12.5
07 Sep 1999
Jan Andersen by eMail		 VirusExecutor V1.82f released 
Name:          VirusExecutor v1.82f
Archive name:  ve-182f.lha
Archive size:  100.804
Date:          6. September 1999
Programmer:    Jan Erik Olausen
System :       OS 2.0x or better
07 Sep 1999
Stuart Walker by eMail		 Digital Images Update
We have been evaluating the current situation with Amiga and we are pleased to announce the continuation of AmigaMCC development.
07 Sep 1999
Markus Holler by eMail		 Siberian Sun MP3s
Markus 'Atroxis' Holler (Freelance Composer) writes:
On my homepage (title link), in the music section there are two songs from the realtime strategy game Siberian Sun for download as MP3. Both songs have been used in the presentation of the game on AmigaFormat #44, probably a goodie for those who don't have the CD (even while they cannot watch the accompaining trailer... ;).
07 Sep 1999
.AmiUpdate		 Iwin has two customers ;-)
Read in awe, the news platform of Iwin - .AmiUpdate, which by the way appeared like Phoenix at the same time as Iwin - announces that Iwin has created a new section on their website. And what does the interested surfer find: Iwin customers :-). Probably nobody is surprised by now that the customers don't have an eMail address, let alone a website. (ps)
07 Sep 1999
Holger Meier by eMail		 AMIGAspecial preliminary statement
German print magazine AMIGAspecial is folding for the time being. The title link leads to the statement by Holger Meier (German).
07 Sep 1999
Linux.de		 Windows 2000 Server hacked
Microsoft had made the Windows 2000 available for hacking. After having to withstand numerous Denial of Service attacks right from the start, and had to be rebooted due to system updates, now the Guestbook as Active Server Page component was the target of attacks, and this weekend, the server was hacked.
07 Sep 1999
AmigaOS 3.5		 AmigaOS 3.5 Status
The OS 3.5 project is in the final beta state. Up to 150 beta testers did a great job on testing all features and giving a lot of feedback. A very special thank goes to Martin Steigerwald for organizing the application and the beta reports.
07 Sep 1999
AMIGA		 AMIGA advertising for HEW'99 in Cologne
From November 12 - 14, the Home electronics world '99 will be held in Koeln (that's Cologne... ;-)), Germany. The exhibition, which was held last year under the name "Computer '98", will once again be the world's biggest exhibition for AMIGA.
06 Sep 1999
Carsten Schröder by eMail		 +++ AMIGA-aktuell-Special +++
Aside from the info about Tom Schmidts message, Amiga-aktuell has found the following change on the Amiga website:

'Giga' appearance by Petro Tyschtschenko postponed to 16.09.99 (06.09.99)
-----------
Due to his recent USA trip, the appearance of AMIGA Vice President Petro Tyschtschenko in the computer show 'NBC Giga' has been postponed to Thursday, September 16th, 6:00 PM. According to the following information, however, it's hardly the Amiga future which will be talked about, but more probably the history of our computer system:
>>24.08.1999 AMIGA International, Inc. at NBC GIGA-TB
NBC GIGA-TV has invited AMIGA International, Inc. (in person of Petro Tyschtschenko) to participate in a talkshow, since AMIGA has a very turbulent past, which is unique in computer history. In the show, which is more entertaining than technical, there will be talk (among other) about AMIGA in Commodore and Escom times. ANNEX will appear, too. The show will be broadcast on Thursday, September 16th, on 6:00 PM.<<
06 Sep 1999
Amiga		 Thomas J. Schmidt in Executive Update 
Dear Amigans: 

I wanted to make sure everyone knew that Jim Collas has chosen to leave Amiga to pursue
other interests and opportunities. I would like to personally thank Jim for the leadership
and vision he brought to Amiga and the entire Amiga community over the past eight
months. We wish him the best of luck in his new endeavors. 

I have been with Amiga since April of this year as the Chief Operating Officer and I
continue to be extremely excited about the plans and strategies we have been working very
hard on the past several months. Those plans will continue with a great business and
technology leadership team focused on the emerging Internet Appliance market space. As
we finalize our plans in this area, we will communicate those to the community. 

I would also like to thank Bill McEwen for his many contributions to the Amiga community
and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. Bill has been a steady and calming
voice to the community. 

Regards, 

Thomas J. Schmidt
President
06 Sep 1999
AmiSITE		 ARCnet Update
ARCnet, the Amiga Relay Chat Network, has two new servers. Ireland has been connected by ie1.arcnet.vapor.com, and the USA now have a third server at us3.arcnet.vapor.com.
06 Sep 1999
FutureZone		 Futurezone: This mail self-destructs in 5 seconds
FutureZone writes: Freemailer offers auto-shredder function - 50,000 USD for him who breaks the security mechanism - 448 bit Blowfish algorithm used
06 Sep 1999
H&P		 STFax 4.0 to be released soon
The new version 4.0 of STFax will be released in 2-3 weeks. Aside from a wealth of new functionality, a collection of professional samples for the speech functions like answering box and speech mailbox are included. Feature list.
06 Sep 1999
ICOA		 The man behind the new Amiga patents
06 Sep 1999
Tumult		 New MCC classes registered at Tumult
Tumult is collecting all information and news about MUI MCC-classes. As of late, MathString.mcc and GLArea.mcc have been added.
06 Sep 1999
Alexandros Pourikas by eMail		 amiga.gr now also available in English
06 Sep 1999
Amiga.org		 MIRA Amiga 99 in Portugal
06 Sep 1999
KATO		 New software for Twister 1200 version 1.36
The driver has been optimized. Download: twister.lha
06 Sep 1999
H&P [News]		 Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign
Haage & Partner has created an own domain for the NoPiracy campaign, which is available at www.amiga-planet.de/nopiracy/. Starting today, a discussion forum dedicated to this campaign is available.
Since we explicitely support this campaign, we have added a link to our Quick Link list, which can be found in the right-hand menu.
06 Sep 1999
Sinan Gürkan by eMail		 Zune - Open Source Reimplementation of MUI
Zune is a project to reimplement Stefan Stuntz' MUI as Open Source. To achieve this, the project makes use of the API and the freely redistributable includes of the MUI SDK only. The project is based on the LPGL.
  Currently Zune is developed under Linux. It is however planned to be portable to other Unixes and, if possible, more or less easily portable for Windows and BeOS.
  The project is 20% finished. This includes a good dozen key classes like Notify, Window, Group, Area, Text, Image and the dynamic loading of classes as well as other features.
  The current source code can be downloaded as tgz archive from the homepage. On this page, you can find some screenshots of the GUI system.
  A mailinglist is available from EGroups. Non-members have access to the archive, too. The list can be subscribed by sending an empty eMail to zune-subscribe@egroups.com or with the form on the bottom of the homepage.
  A CVS repository is planned, all participation is warmy welcomed.
06 Sep 1999
Janne Siren by eMail		 Saku 99: Petro Tyschtschenko about MCC and OS 3.5
Petro Tyschtschenko was unable to attend the Saku 1999 in Finland in person, but gave those present a short status report on development by phone, and made a point not to panic.
  Moreover, Petro Tyschtschenko said that he was not fired, and will have a meeting with the new President of Amiga soon. Additionally, he said that AmigaOS 3.5 will be shipped by end of September and that the MCC will appear, however the schedule might be delayed a little.
  More information about the meeting can be found at batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/. A MP3 (5 MB) with the speech of Petro Tyschtschenko is available for download: saku99sp.mp3.
06 Sep 1999
Andreas R. Kleinert		 New: akNAIL 44.4 and akMPEG (September 3rd, 1999)
Download: akNAIL-dt.lha
The akMPEG animation player has been released recntly (see Aminet: gfx/show). Several changes and improvements have been done in the meantime, bugs have been fixed etc. V2.60 of akMPEG2 contains, among others, a new GUI, PPC support, in-window and on-screen-player and an 8 bit AGA version. Download: akMPEG2.lha.
Regnet, register by credit card.
06 Sep 1999
Magnus Holmgren		 ReqChange Update Version 3.15
Download: ReqChange.lha
06 Sep 1999
Amiga Central		 New: IRC network irc.shagged.org
06 Sep 1999
TWF		 The World Foundry Update
The E2260 and M&M pages have been updated with the monthly news. TWF worked on the backgrounds, the Audio/CD player and the textures in Explorer 2260, and the internal data organisation has been changed in Mame & Mangle, explosion animations been added and some bugs removed.
06 Sep 1999
Virtual Dimension		 Update of feature list "Othello - the virtual boardgame"
"Othello - the virtual boardgame" is a modern variant of the old Othello game. New among the features is a highscore list, and an option for human opponents to take over a game from an artificial opponent.
06 Sep 1999
StrICQ-Support		 New beta version 0.1496 StrICQ
Download: STRICQ.lha
06 Sep 1999
Vapor.com		 AmigaNCP FileSystem upgrade
A new beta version (3.10) is now available, with now functional PsionToAmiga clipboard support. Download: filesys310.lzx
06 Sep 1999
Vapor.com		 AmTelnet 2.0 released
AmTelnet now supports SSH1 for secure remote administration. This update is free for AmTelnet 1.x users. Download: amtelnet_20.lzx
04 Sep 1999
Darek Dulian by eMail		 FastATA'99 & AllegroCDFS new software for PowerFlyer controller
ELBOX releases FastATA'99 version 4.x. FastATA'99 4.x is the fourth generation of the ATA/ATAPI controller software for ELBOX FastATA/PowerFlyer/Winner HighSpeed Controller for Amiga 1200. More information at the title link.
04 Sep 1999
Stuart Walker by eMail		 Press Release by Digital Images
Due to recent announcements and problems with Amiga, Digital Images regrets that we will be suspending all AmigaMCC projects including Sabrina Offline. Space Station 3000 and Wipeout 2097 will be released as planned, but we will be suspending all other Amiga developments until further notice.
04 Sep 1999
Rebol		 REBOL/core 2.1.2 released
Rebol has released version 2.1.2 of the REBOL Internet Messaging Language. The language is meanwhile available for 35 platforms.

Changes since version 2.1.1:

  - header expanded by needs-field
  - bugfix: delete to trap-error when opening a directory
  - bugfix: MIME version in system/standard/email corrected
  - bugfix: arguments to objects and functions now retain upper/lowercase
  - bugfix: system/console/tab-size
  - bugfix: find now works on ports
  - bugfix: copy now works on ports even when not copying to start of port
  - bugfix: problems with multiplication of money values
  - on reading an empty file, an empty string is now returned.
04 Sep 1999
CAD-Technologies		 Imagine: Update Version 5.16
The "new user" archive has been expanded by the PPC version of the effects.
04 Sep 1999
.amiupdate		 Perfect Paint Version 1.1
Download: PfPaint.lha - 486 KB
04 Sep 1999
Amiga		 Amiga News
Since today, the English Amiga news page carries the following:
Jim Collas has resigned.

Allthough it is now officially confirmed on the Amiga pages that Collas has resigned, it seems it doesn't qualify for a statement on their own, since the link leads to Yahoo news. I simply can't find words for this. (ps)
04 Sep 1999
Herbert Markart by eMail		 IBrowse2 available
04 Sep 1999
Andy Mueller-Maguhn by eMail		 CCC Press Release about MS Crypto API Backdoor
Press Information from Chaos Computer Club
Microsoft Operating Systems with builtin Backdoor:
Secure cryptography with Windows jeopardized
  By detailed research with the WindowsNT operating system by an American Security Software developer, a massive software backdoor could be revealed in the operating systems Windows95, 98, NT and Windows 2000 (beta), which is likely dating back to an initiative by the US secret service NSA. This has a heavy impact on Microsoft's operating systems security.
  After the initiatives of the American secret service NSA (National Security Agency) for worldwide communications control by means of internationally standarised regulation of encryption have suffered severe setbacks, now obviously it is attempted to reach the same goals by implementing backdoors in the American software products dominating the market. (Rest of the press release at the title link.)

I consider it a shame how US NSA (and German authorities, too!) violate the most basic civil rights "for the greater good". Even worse, they get away with spying on your eMail, your phone, your whatever, because they "are the good ones"... yeah, sure. (mb)
04 Sep 1999
Thomas Steiding by eMail		 VirtualGP
Thomas Steiding writes:
If everything goes right, our Formula One game "VirtualGP" will be shipped starting mid next week. More information about "VirtualGP" is available at News. There, you can also download the latest and last demo version for the probably best Formula One simulation for the Amiga.
03 Sep 1999
Stefan Instinske		 TGV Haupt: Z4 bus board available
The long waiting is over: the Z4 bus board is available
Z4-busboard for MicroniK, Elbox, Winner, Power-Tower
Features:
- 5 Zorro2-Slots
- 2 Z4-LocalSlots (double bus width (upto 19MB/sec) than Zorro3)
- 2 Zorro2-Slots switchable to Fast-Z2 (double speed) for specially adjusted boards, available in about 3-4 weeks: Buddha-FastZ2 (IDE-Contr.), CV64-3D-FastZ2
- Videoslot (video adapters necessary for activation)
- 4 Clock Ports
- compatible to all common accelerator boards with RAM in upper memory area
- P8/P9 power supply port for standard AT power supplies

Z4 Graphics Board for Z4-LocalSlot
Features:
- grafic chip Cirrus Logic CL5434GD
- max. 1280*1024 Pixels
- TrueColor (24Bit) Modes
- 4MB RAM
- automatic switch between Amiga & graphics board
- fast refresh by high-speed Z4 interface

Z4-FastIDE-Controller
- throughput up to 16.6MB/sec
Orders by eMail at michael@tgv-haupt.de or phone +49 - (0)5241 / 531102.
03 Sep 1999
Kamil Iskra in c.s.a.p		 gcc 2.95.1 for AmigaOS
Kamil Iskra has released the binaries of "gcc 2.95.1" for AmigaOS. They can be found on the GeekGadgets servers at amiga/m68k/alpha/misc/gcc-2.95.1-bin020.tgz (6.47 MB).
  They are compiled for 68020+ CPUs, and can be loaded residently. The sourcecodes are available by anonymous login from the GeekGadgets CVS server.
  With gcc version 2.95, the seperate branches of gcc and egcs are merged back together, so GeekGadgets again uses exclusively gcc.
  Improvements have been made e.g. in register handling, so the previously common "fixed or forbidden register was spilled" error should be less frequent with this version.
More informations about gcc 2.95 are available at gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/features.html.
03 Sep 1999
Thomas Rudloff by eMail		 Met@box: Informations about amiJoe1200
Some time ago, we asked Met@box about some info about the amiJoe1200 board, and recieved the following eMail by Thomas Rudloff:

This is the latest Info, newer will surely surface in one or two weeks based on the latest developments.

Up to 143 times as fast as an original Amiga(TM) 1200 (calculated by Motorola specifications at 333 MHz)

That's the amiJoe...
- the amiJoe1200 is the ideal CPU-expansion to bring the Amiga(TM) 1200 to the PowerPC(TM) era.

This does the amiJoe1200
By using the powerful PPC750 (G3) CPU, the high-performance backside cache and the PCI bridge, the Amiga(TM) 1200 turns into a modern computer. Due to the integrated 68k emulation, current Amiga software stays usable, while PPC(TM) native programs can make use of the full speed advantage.
  The RAM expansion to up to 512 MB is done with PC66 SO-DIMMs common to the laptop scene. Of course, the amiJoe1200 has a real-time clock.
(More information at the title link.)
02 Sep 1999
.amiupdate		 New Interview with Iwin
02 Sep 1999
Spiegel		 Spiegel: Birthday - Internet gets 30
In his article, Detlef Borchers describes the long way to the info highway.
  "Thirty years ago, US-American scientists for the first time connected a computer to an IMP (Interface Message Processor), and by this, created the foundation for today's networking technology. With the historical connection, the long birth of Internet began." (Full article - German - at the title link.)
02 Sep 1999
Amiga Nutta		 New "Virtual Grand Prix" demo released
The game has been completely reworked on basis of 'AlienF1', and is now available as demo from Aminet under the name Virtual Grand Prix Demo. Download: AF1last.lha (1.25 MB)
02 Sep 1999
SAKU		 Petro Tyschtschenko cancels visit at SAKU 99
Due to the resignment of Jim Collas, Petro Tyschtschenko cancelled his visit at the big Finnish event SAKU 99, which is taking place this weekend - he is flying to important meetings in the USA.
It has been confirmed today that Jens Schönfeld of individual computers, known for products like Catweasel, Buddha etc., will be attending SAKU 99.
02 Sep 1999
Pascal & Rainer by eMail		 driver software for laser
Bytei & McScotty (Pascal & Rainer) write:
For about 6 years we run a small laser show rental. Our lasers are exclusively driven by Amigas (1200 50 MHz 10 MB 68030+Co). Sadly, our driver software leaves a lot to be desired! The developer of the software (Edward Skorus) has given us sourcecodes and rights. For a long time now we are looking for alternatives or someone able to expand the driver software. Is there someone among your readers who knows this stuff, or knows someone who knows?
02 Sep 1999
Andreas Falkenhahn		 Alicia Silverstone Rainboot Configs
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
Starting immediately, two great Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) Rainboot configs are available for download from the Airsoft Softwair homepage. They have been done by Jean-Yves Auger of Pixel Art jauger@caramail.com. A must for all Alicia Silverstone fans...
02 Sep 1999
Peter Ratschiller by eMail		 Dr. Awesome released old Mods as MP3 files for download!
Peter Ratschiller writes:
I am a fan of Bjorn Lynne, aka Dr. Awesome (an old-time Amiga scene musician). On his homepage (title link) he now posted that he is reworking old MOD pieces and offers them for download on the MP3 page as MP3 pieces! Also available at http://www.amp3.net/drawesome/. He wants to bring some new pieces online every month!
02 Sep 1999
Foundation		 Foundation News
A new update will be released ASAP. The last version 1.25 was not released because this update has been done for the new version 'Foundation Directors Cut', and was not fully compatible to the old 'Foundation' version. Paul Burkey works on the new Update 1.26 and is trying to make this update compatible with the old version, too. Moreover, Paul informs also that he is increasing his work on 'Foundation's Edge', and that this work is taking most of his time.
02 Sep 1999
ADX (Mr. Dombrowski) by phone		 Phase5: Next Generation PowerPC G4 processor boards
Phase 5 writes:
TOP NEWS 02.09.99:Join the exclusive club of GigaFLOPS users now - with the Next Generation PowerPC G4 processor boards from phase 5 digital products!

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

Because of that, only with our new products series

  • Your Amiga will get the most up-to-date CPU which was ever available in an Amiga, including any upgrade processor boards
  • Your Amiga will offer a processing performance which is superior to nearly any available personal computer system today - supercomputer performance on your desktop! Plus even the option for symmetrical Multi-Processing with Dual-XPC7400 modules for those who need the real bang....
  • Your Amiga is technologically up-to-date - with powerful hardware, expansion options and the support of highly modern Operating Systems including backwards compatibility to the Amiga OS 3.x.
Please also take a look on the updated product specifications below, as well as on Motorola's website http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/ !

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

IMPORTANT: If you have already ordered a G3 board, you do not have to place a new order or act. All customers, who have ordered a 400MHz G3 version in the preorder program, will receive a 400MHz G4 version of the CYBERSTORM or BLIZZARD G4 board at no extra cost. Customers of a 300MHz G3 version will receive a separate notification from us.
01 Sep 1999
ZDNet		 Collas out as Amiga president
According to ZDNet, Jim Collas is no longer president of Amiga.
Summary of the article:
Jim Collas leaves the company for personal reasons, and has registered his 118.000 stock shares for sale. Moreover it is reported that Gateway paid 13 million US-Dollar for 47 Amiga patents, and that Collas himself asked Gateway president Ted Waitt for the Job at Amiga. He moreover asked to run Amiga as a seperate company.
  Tom Schmidt takes over the post from Collas. Before his joining Amiga, Schmidt has worked as General Manager for Allied Signal. He was not available for comment.
PS:
CNet also reports: Gateway's Amiga president jumps ship
The article states that Collas' leaving does not imply a change in plans, and the planned route will be continued by Schmidt.
01 Sep 1999
amigaonline.net		 AMIGAOnline.NET
Today, AMIGAOnline.NET is going online officially as Internet Service Provider for Amiga users in the USA and Canada.
01 Sep 1999
AHI		 AHI v4 - Status
Martin Blom reports back from holiday, and has good news for PPC users since the PPC assembler mixing routines are much faster than the C version. Details at the title link.
01 Sep 1999
ZDNet [News]		 Coppermine early - Pentium III with 700 MHz comes in October
USB 2.0 being 40 times as fast as current USB
IFA: First DVD on Linux worldwide
01 Sep 1999
v3.vapor.com		 V3 - TearOff classes not complete in archive
The TearOff-classes in the V3pre 1/2 archives are incomplete. Please download the compete installation from either amiga.org.pl/~szulat/tearoff/ or VaporWare at MCC_TearOff.lzx and install the new archive.
01 Sep 1999
Heise [Newsticker]		 Heise Newsticker (German)
IFA: DVD-Player for Linux
StarDivision takeover doesn't bother Microsoft
Sun: Into the Web with StarOffice
01 Sep 1999
Fabian Jimenez		 Another Loss 
* Forwarded from newsgroup "a Mail"
* Originally from: Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com)
* Original date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:01:48 -0400

Hello All,

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

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

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


With Bill, somebody is leaving who always had time to listen to users, and didn't hold back with informations. (ps)
September 2nd, 1999:
 Bill McEwen confirms at Cucug that he recieved a message on August 30th that August 31rd would be his last day at Amiga.
01 Sep 1999
Magnus Rivertz Torgersen by eMail		 Amitory/Oratory for Amiga released as shareware
Amitory/Oratory is a chat program for use on a LAN, and is probably the best chat program to use on a internal network between pc's and Amiga's.
01 Sep 1999
HEW		 Home electronic world in Cologne
The Amiga show so far known as Computer(xx=year) is named "Home electronic world" this year. It will take place from November 12th to 14th in the exhibition center, Cologne, in hall 11.2. The official website is online since today.
01 Sep 1999
Janne Siren by eMail		 Press Release: Finnish Saku 99 Event this Saturday
On Saturday, Saku99 will take place in Vantaa, Finnland. Petro Tyschtschenko will attend, AmigaOS 3.5 will be presented, and a Webcam as well as IRC channels are available.
01 Sep 1999
Volker Mohr by eMail		 Amiga Patents
At the title link, you will find a posting to comp.sys.amiga.misc, listing the patents filed by Amiga. We didn't take a closer look at the list, but perhaps one reader or another has the time to read them :-).
Comments are wellcome in the forum.
01 Sep 1999
Stefan Robl by eMail		 FMdriver Update Version 1.12
Stefan Robl writes:
The FMdriver packet has been improved further:
All programs can now save in IFF format, too (8 as well as 24 bit). All problems with flicker or lines in small resolutions should be fixed, the FPS rate now looks much more stable, too. A serious bug has been removed that occured when there was no Prism24 module connected. The FMRecorder now offers several file formats, so it will work with every video software. Small changes and bugfixes.
Download: FMdriver.lha


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