19 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
NewTekniques Magazine Oct/Nov 1999
Details about the latest issue of the NewTekniques
Magazine can be found at the title link.
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19 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
GoldED v6.2.4 released
Dietmar Eilert has released a new Update
for the text editor GoldEd Studio 6 (version 6.2.4).
The update does not work with
the demo version of the editor.
Download: sp624.lha (1.02M)
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19 Oct 1999
ANN |
Demoguide online
The Demoguide assembled by
Dreyer is now also available online in the WWW at
www.sunsite.auc.dk/demo.guide/.
It currently contains almost 400 reviews of demos as well as further informations.
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19 Oct 1999
ANN |
AmigaOS: Open Source Campaign
With the title "AmigaOS: The Case for Open Source", the Open
Source Campaign in person of Petro Tyschtschenko has send a report to Tom Schmidt (Amiga Inc.)
on October 18th.
The initiative was founded on October 4th, 1999.
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19 Oct 1999
Newsmaster |
New amiga-news.de forum
At www.amiga-news.de/forum/index.html, a new
discussion forum has been installed for amiga-news.de, which, after one day fixing and patching by Petra,
hopefully runs flawlessly now.
Don't be intimidated by the German submissions. English posts are welcome, too! (mb)
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19 Oct 1999
Silvio Schurig in ANF |
Survey: Which Amiga-PR-software?
Silvio Schurig writes:
I started a survey on my website,
and hereby call upon all users using Packet Radio on their Amiga to participate. The goal is to find out
what is the most commonly used PR software.
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19 Oct 1999
Halil Ibrahim Tasova in ANF |
darkNESs v0.30
After almost a year, on October 16th, version 0.30 was released as new update for the NES emulator
darkNESs.
This version fixes some smaller bugs, and adds sound support.
The emulator runs with AmigaOS 2.0 and a 68020 CPU.
Download:
darkNESs0.30.lha
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19 Oct 1999
Matthijs Schonewille in ANF |
PopStats v0.51
At popstats.pop-mart.com, the first information about
the real-time webtracker "PopStats" have been released. This webtracker has been developed on Amiga,
and is only intended for websites about Amiga. The first few of the bigger Amiga sites are meanwhile
testing version 0.51 of the program.
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19 Oct 1999
Dennis Pauler in ANF |
Virtualdimension website updated
Dennis Pauler writes:
Update of the feature list of "Bomb Square" and "Hall of Fame"
installed
At our homepage (www.virtualdimension.de),
there now is the Hall of Fame with the all-time high scores for our games - have a look and
participate! Moreover, there is an update of the feature list for our Minefield clone "Bomb Square".
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19 Oct 1999
Oliver Roberts in csag |
7th Amiga Internet F1GP Championchip
On October 23rd, 1999, the 7th Internet Championchip in "Formula One Grand Prix" (F1GP)
is taking place. Details at the title link.
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19 Oct 1999
Michaela Prüß by e-mail |
Michaela Prüß homepage (vbcc-libs and more)
Michaela Prüß writes:
After several rearrangements, my pages are available
again at a new URL: amigadownload.amiga.webjump.com/.
Since October 18th, the complete BBS-system "Gateway-5" is available in the
download area.
The formerly commercial program is now freeware, key included.
Installation is (until now) manually, with support from my side.
Moreover, all my programs and other files have been updated on 18th (VersCheck,
VersCheckGUI, vbcc link libs and several other tools).
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19 Oct 1999
Michael Pfeiffer by e-mail |
WaveTracer DS Mark V - V5.1 Beta
Michael Pfeiffer writes:
Version 5.1 beta is available for download from the VWP
homepage, download area. It's free for registered users of the full version.
Changes include some new and some improved effect modules, and a more
efficient main program with more optimized subroutines for several CPUs (of course
including PPC).
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19 Oct 1999
Robert Niessner by e-mail |
AmigaScene site updated
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18 Oct 1999
Stefan Ossowski by e-mail |
Aminet 33 CD-ROM is available!
Product information
Aminet CD 33, dated October 1999, contains 1 gigabyte (uncompressed) of
software in thousands of archives. Since the release of Aminet CD 32 more than
800 MB new software has appeared. The current edition features the full version
of Marblelous 2, the very popular commercial game. The complete Amiga-News.de
web-site is also included so that you are always up to date regarding the most
recent developments in the Amiga world.
Contents of Aminet 33
Directory Size Files Contents
biz 25 MB 66 Business software
comm 37 MB 120 Communications
demo 117 MB 70 Graphics & sound demo
dev 25 MB 93 Development software
disk 1 MB 18 Disk & HD tools
docs 95 MB 122 Documents
game 90 MB 114 Games
gfx 27 MB 98 Graphics software
hard 12 MB 18 Hardware related
misc 57 MB 46 Miscellaneous
mods 300 MB 203 Music modules
mus 27 MB 40 Music software
pix 73 MB 81 Pictures
text 3 MB 24 Text software
util 41 MB 176 Utilities
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18 Oct 1999
AWD [News] |
Pictures of the Amiga day in Leeuwarden
Here are some pictures
with Petro Tyschtschenko from the Amiga day in Leeuwarden, October 16th.
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18 Oct 1999
Michael Clasen |
BBS: System-X v1.08 beta3
On October 13th, version 1.08 beta 3 of the BBS software System-X has been released.
Conference passwords should be functional in this version.
System-X is a freeware BBS software for the Amiga, just like old AmiExpress.
System-X is in many things compatible to AmiExpress, and aside from the
door ports for XIM/AIM also supports CLI/STDIO, DayDream and DayDreamRexx doors,
MAXS, and an experimental Famedoorport.
Peter Zelesny, currently programmer of XChat for Linux, started the project
1996, which is today continued by Michael Clasen and Eric Beragg.
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18 Oct 1999
Thomas Wenzel in ANF |
AmigaAMP v2.7b8 released
Thomas Wenzel writes:
I just released the new beta version v2.7b7 of AmigaAMP on my
homepage. Because of the persistent
troubles with the datatypes I now try to work around this with the guigfx.library. If
this should lead to more troubles instead of less troubles, this can be switched of with
the NOGUIGFX tool type. The guigfx.library however contains several workarounds for
errors in the datatypes, so it should run better.
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18 Oct 1999
Jens Schoenfeld |
Silversurfer 2.101 and howto
Jens Schoenfeld
Changes from 2.99 to 2.101: Silversurfer and Catweasel MK2 can be used on the same clock port.
This however requires some modifications to the Silversurfer - better directly order a readily
modified Silversurfer from your dealer.
Second change: the limited edition of the Silversurfer is recognized on the MK2,
without modification! The Catweasel MK2 also has a 26pin expansion port, which I did not really
make use of so far - the limited edition is the first product to run on it.
"howto"-area
On my website, at "support", I added a "howto" area. Here I am posting tips and manuals about
my products. For starters, I posted how to install a hard drive with TD64, since I keep recieving
e-mails about it. In the future, I will answer questions I recieve by e-mail in readable text and
post it here, to create an archive that (hopefully) answers all problems, even when I am not
answering e-mails for some days.
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18 Oct 1999
Felix Schwarz in ANF |
fxPAINT 1.0 coming
Felix Schwarz writes:
Only a short message that the fxPAINT master has been send in for
replication Monday 1999-10-11. fxPAINT will be shipped starting November 1st. Be informed
that preordering is possible until November 1st.
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18 Oct 1999
Andreas Falkenhahn in ANF |
AHelp v1.4 released
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
A new version of AHelp has just been released on the
Airsoft Softwair Homepage. This version
now finally runs with VisualPrefs and offers only small bugfixes besides.
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18 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
V3 status
Czech Amiga News have posted a submission of Oliver Wagner to the Voyager mailing list (title link),
where he explains why little has changed from pre2 to pre4 in terms of JavaScript support.
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18 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
fMSX v2.3 beta 2
The MSX emulator "fMSX" has been released in version 2.3 beta 2, which can be downloaded
at the title link. Changes include:
- bugfix in 68060 version; some games showed
gfx bugs (Ashguine; MonMonMonster; SuperRambo)
- fast gfx output for screens 5 & 7
(CybergraphX)
- definite speed increases when using on workbench
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18 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
Book about Neutrino 2
At the title link, information is available about the book on QNX Neutrino 2.
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18 Oct 1999
Fun Time World [News] |
PowerLAN
For the A1200, PowerComputer offers the PowerLAN package.
It contains of a PCMCIA ethernet card (10 MBit/s), an adapter for connecting the card with standard ethernet
cabling (available seperatly), and a disk set which supports installation of a network. Price is 49.95 UKP.
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18 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
WHDL v10.4
WHDL enables numerous games and demos to be installed to hard drive. The current version 10.4
for users and developers is available from the link above.
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18 Oct 1999
ANN |
Only 200 prepayments so far for FusionPPC
According to Paul Lesurf of Blittersoft, the current count of prepayments for FusionPPC
is very low. While 600 promised to place a prepayment, only about 200 have actually done
so so far. Read the complete statement at the title link.
While Amiga users have been wailing about empty promises by Amiga Inc. and other
companies, it's a shame that an effort to bring a professional software product to the
Amiga market is rewarded with just the same kind of empty promises. Support the companies
that support us, and stay true to your commitments!(mb)
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18 Oct 1999
Image Engineer |
ImageEngineer V3.41 WR2
on October 16th, the Wision Release 2 of ImageEngineer v3.41 has been released. This release,
among others, integrates ARexx scripts by Visual Engineering, and two new scripts have been
added (DeInterlace.rexx and Interlace.rexx).
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18 Oct 1999
Steve K. in csam |
NewsRog v1.8b update available
ShadowWorks Software has released
the update to version 1.8b for the NNTP client NewsRog. This update contains 15 changes to v1.8
(details at the link above).
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18 Oct 1999
Rebol by e-mail |
REBOL/Core 2.2 beta release
On October 16th, Rebol has released a new beta version
of REBOL/Core.
Among others, this version contains the following changes:
- improved, faster console (editing and input capabilities)
- security aspects expanded
- personal settings offer more flexibility
- new functionality and improvements in all previously implemented functions
The Rebol team asks for feedback to this beta (feedback@rebol.com).
REBOL/Core 2.2 will provide the foundation for REBOL/Command.
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18 Oct 1999
Markus Fellhauer in ANF |
Diskmaster 2 v2.5b2
On the homepage of Rudolph Riedel,
there is a beta version 2.5b2 of the directory utility "Diskmaster 2" for download. The
current release version is 2.4.
Download:
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18 Oct 1999
Wolfgang Krause in ANF |
MagicMenu 2.29beta
Wolfgang Krause writes:
Since 1999-10-15, there's a new beta of MagicMenu available for download.
For changes, consult the readme.
Download page.
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18 Oct 1999
WinUAE |
WinUAE 0.8.8 R8
WinUAE version 0.8.8 R8, released October 14th, contains numerous bugfixes.
Download:uae.cgi
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18 Oct 1999
Andreas Kleinert by e-mail |
SViewIV released
SViewIV is now available for download from Aminet. For a minimum installation, you need the
following archives:
- SvIV-1.lha
- SvIV-2.lha
- SvIV-3a.lha
- SvIV-4.lha
- SvIV-5.lha
The modular picture viewer and converter with
image processing capabilities runs with OS 2.04 or higher, and a 68000. OS 3.x features
and faster CPUs (68020+ as well as PPC) are supported.
Download:
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16 Oct 1999
Jens Schoenfeld by e-mail |
Silversurfer Update
Jens Schoenfeld writes:
Sales of the Silversurfer started surprisingly well. Preorders have been catched up, so there
will be no more delays for orders.
Since October 15th, there is a software update available from my
website.
Changes:
- device now 68000 compatible
- A600 adapter supported
- crashes with Z4 board fixed
- Installer script optimized
- successful
installation can now be checked by the power LED "morse code" even without a 15kHz monitor
Start of delivery for the A600 adapter is November 10th, 1999. Preorders are not accepted, to
avoid confusion with people who placed pre-orders but bought one at the Cologne show.
Available since Thursday is the Silversurfer limited edition. It has a 26pin
port for connecting with old Buddha controllers (those with a green board) or the Catweasel
Z-II (all versions). The number is limited to 88. The limited edition is not available
in shops, but only by fax order from individual Computers.
Due to the small numbers, the price is ~40 Euro plus ~5 Euro P&P.
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16 Oct 1999
Nico Barbat by e-mail |
Cologne Conference 99
nico@barbat.de writes:
Parallel to the Home Electronics World 99 in Cologne, there will again be the computer party
"Cologne Conference" taking place. The party, hosted
by three well-known scene groups, lasts from November 13th to 14th, and runs under the motto
"fun over commerce", with remarkable contests all around computers and a big lottery. We
expect visitors of all systems all over Europe.
Contact:
Nico Barbat
Tel. +49 - 221 / 430 46 56
e-mail: cc@scenet.de
WWW: www.scenet.de/cc/
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16 Oct 1999
Apex Designs |
Apex: Payback status report 2
There is a new status report about Payback from
Apex Designs.
- Bugs have been removed. There have been problems with collision control. It now
works faster and more reliable, but needs some more work.
- The sound mixing code has been implemented. It is a very flexible system. A total
of 12 sounds can be mixed with their exact 3D position, and be reproduced in stereo
via the inverse square law. Moreover, a realistic doppler effect simulation is available.
All this runs on the Amiga soundchip "Paula", and will be optimised by Assembler code.
- Talks have been made with several bands about the soundtrack. Perhaps more in the next update.
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16 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
Future of Amiga Nutta
On his Amiga Nutta website, David Flaherty re-and previewed games for 3 years now.
The statement on his website tells, why his motivation lets down now.
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16 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
2 New Maim & Mangle Screenshots
TWF released another two screenshots of their upcoming 3D realtime strategy game
Maim & Mangle.
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16 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
glTron
glTron by Andreas Umbach is another 3D port of the well known racing scene from the
movie "TRON". The game is available for download for Amiga, BeOS on x86, FreeBSD, Mac OS, Linux,
and Windows 9x/NT. The Amiga port is being done by Oliver Schuler. It requires a 68060
or an WarpOS PPC Amiga and a 3D graphics board.
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14 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
2nd beta of AHI/PPC
Martin Blom has released a new beta of AHI for PPC. This version supports WarpUp,
but right now is 35% slower than the PowerUp version. Therefore you shouldn't expect
much speed from this version, but simply tell Martin Blom if it runs.
Due to a recently discovered bug in WarpUp, AHI is kept from using the
cache like it is supposed to. AHI will either provide a workaround for this, or
require a newer version of WarpUp.
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14 Oct 1999
V3 |
V3 plugins poll
There is a form on the V3 homepage asking "which plugin do you want the most
for V3?". You can choose from:
- VRML
- PDF (Acrobat)
- Quicktime VR
- RealAudio
- VFlashPPC
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14 Oct 1999
Christoph Kimna in ANF |
Napalm Update to v1.4
Christoph Kimna writes:
It's there! On October 12th, the long-awaited Napalm update to v1.4 has been released!
- Networking mode now functional
- new c2p RTG-Master graphics mode "Lucy"
- numerous bugfixes
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11 Oct 1999
Newsmaster |
Why no updates...?
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11 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
Clickboom looking for BVision board
Clickboom is urgently looking for
a BVision board. If you have one for sale, contact info@clickboom.com.
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11 Oct 1999
AWD [News] |
Diavolo Backup Update in November
Since September 8th, a hint can be found on the Computer Corner
news site
about a new version of Diavolo
Backup will be available by November.
Registered customers will recieve the update for 20,- DM. It will support
hard disk partitions >4GB, if the new file system from Amiga has the appropriate
features. Aside from other improvements, Catweazel support is planned.
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11 Oct 1999
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF |
Rainboot v2.69 released
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
A new update for Rainboot has been released: Version 2.69. This version
contains some bugfixes and small improvements, and can be downloaded from
the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
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11 Oct 1999
AWD [News] |
XLight / LaserMax
XLight is a soft-/hardware project by Christian Entrup for controlling
lighting systems for small and large events. On the homepare the following
information is available in adition to the manual and screenshots:
Right now, ony a demo version of this software is available. It is a demo
version WITHOUT HARDWARE OUTPUT on the parallel port. The subroutines for
driving the hardware are missing in this version! The software is fully
functional, however, including writing and saving lighting skripts. Sadly,
the switch group and strobo group with their abilities cannot be marveled
at, since there is no graphical representation on the user interface for
them. Registering is not planned right now. A full version is not yet
delivered. Since I am not sure about how to distribute the hardware
(own manufacturing, construction set, giving out layouts, or...) and the
hardware tests are not yet finished, this is delayed, since quality and
safety are #1 issues.
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11 Oct 1999
V3 |
V3pre4
The latest version removes numerous bugs. It is recommended to reboot after
installation to make sure no old libraries remain in memory. Additionally, V3
now sports a demo mode, so the program can be tested without keyfile for 30
minutes; and a new toolbar by Loonstar.
There is a seperate PPC version of VFlash V3.0pre3 is now available.
The current V3 versions are prereleases meant for testing and
locating bugs; they are not final versions with more or less guaranteed stability.
Download:
v3_prerelease4_101099.lzx (1.3M)
VFlashPPC-0.16.lzx (117K)
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11 Oct 1999
ANN |
GoldED Virus Warning
Two hacked versions of GoldED Studio 6 have surfaced recently, 6.2.0 and
6.2.1. The latter seems to be virus infected.
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11 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
Interview with Carl Sassenrath
Rediff has released a throughout
interview with
Carl Sassenrath (Amiga-Exec, Rebol) about
the programming language "Rebol".
The interview contains information about the history of Rebol and
Carl Sassenrath (among others), and describes, whta makes Rebol different to
other languages.
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11 Oct 1999
ANN |
World of Amiga #5 released
On October 9th, the 5th issue of the World of Amiga
magazine has been released.
Contents:
- Program a multiuser 3D Environment!
- iWin feature
- The Direction Changers
- iBrowse Rundown
- And More!
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11 Oct 1999
ANN |
Spoletium2 - demo party on November 1st/2nd
The italian demo group Darkage hosts
the Spoletum2 on November 1st
and 2nd.
The party will be Amiga only, and submissions (intro, demo,
gfx, 4-channel audio) can also be submitted by e-mail.
Details about the party are available at the title link.
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11 Oct 1999
ANN |
Edgar M. Vigdal's homepage - Deluxe Galaga
Since early September, Edgar M. Vigdal
has his own homepage. Here, you can
e.g. download the shareware
version of Deluxe Galaga, Deluxe Pacman (both in ECS and AGA versions) as well as Tetriz.
Especially his interpretation of Galaga is one of the top FD Amiga games.
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11 Oct 1999
Markus Fellhauer on ANF |
MCP V1.33a35 released
Aliendesign has released the alpha
version 1.33a35 of the multi commodity
MCP.
Changes from 34-Alpha include WBGauge being deactivated under AmigaOS 3.5
and a corrected dispose option during hotkey definition.
Download: MCP133a35.lha (245K)
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11 Oct 1999
Czech Amiga News |
Frogger V1.3.9
The MPEG 1&2-player "Frogger" has been released in version 1.3.9 on
October 8th, 1999. Changes to the last version are two removed Enforcer
hits (display code, end of data stream) and the corrected 68k version of
the yov->8bpp conversion.
The player can be downloaded from the above URL for PPC and
68k CPUs (68030 + FPU or better).
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11 Oct 1999
Urban D. Mueller in dcsam |
Aminet Status
Urban Mueller writes in dcsam that right now there is no way to say when
Aminet will be running again. Older files can be downloaded from the usual
servers, new uploads are still not exchanged between servers.
Reason for the trouble is that the main server in Paderborn has
been hacked, and has to be completely rebuild.
If Aminet should stay down for duration, the main server will be
transferred back to wuarchive, which would however take some time, too.
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08 Oct 1999
Newsmaster |
Sorry...
...for falling behind events so much. But I am enjoying what will be
the most holiday-like time for the next 12 months, and there is no way
I can catch up with past news in any reasonable effort. I will return
on Monday, and continue making updates starting then.
I surely hope noone is much too angry with me for taking some days off...
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05 Oct 1999
PC-Welt |
PC-Welt: Transmeta unveiled: Patent for cheap CPU
PC-Welt writes:
The mysterious company Transmeta, having Linux developer Linus Thorvalds on their
payroll, has filed a patent for a processor emulating an Intel chip. As US news
service CNet reports, it is a combination of CPU and software behaving like a
X86 CPU. The software translates Pentium commands in a way that the chip can
parse them.
The Patent is available online.
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05 Oct 1999
V3 |
V3 pre3 available
This version is only for registered Voyager 3 users. Download:
v3_prerelease3_011099.lzx.
The Popplaceholder.mcc for MUI seems to be missing. Download:
MCC_Popph.lha
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05 Oct 1999
Martin Strobl by eMail |
COOL bits Newsticker
Martin Strobl writes:
- first, despite the latest news from America (Gateway, Amiga Inc., Collas, etc.)
we will of course continue to support the Amiga :-)). If our business can remain
"Amiga only" (well, and a little bit Casablanca :-) ), is very uncertain currently,
however :-(. No matter what might be our new business, it won't be PC :-)))).
All in all, I think the future for the Amiga (or whatever it will be
called) lies in the PowerPC (603/604 - G3/G4). I don't believe anything usable will
come from Amiga Inc. any more :-(. I'd like to be convinced otherwise.
I recommend all Amiga users join the PPC movement, or at least wait
until the Amiga show (Home Electronics World) in November before deciding to change
platforms.
- our homepage is undergoing a complete restructuring right now, so there
are no updates for now. I home the new homepage to be online in about two weeks.
I'm on holiday this week, and won't be answering emails before it's over.
Our shop remains open, of course :-)
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05 Oct 1999
Screens |
Screens: Now more than ever
Due to the unfortunate decissions of Gateway, the Screens development team will
work harder than ever for this project (Amiga PPC operating system) to become
reality. A beta version is not yet available, but it's worked upon.
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05 Oct 1999
Camouflage |
Latest info about CamX/Camouflage project
Amiga development has been put on hold, sadly. We no longer sell to customers.
The decission of Gateway / Amiga Inc. has been accepted with great regret -
really disappointing. CamX will be developed for BeOS and Linux - with unclear
priorities so far. Registered Amiga / Camouflage users can cross-update.
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05 Oct 1999
GoldED |
GoldED Studio 6.2.1
Download: sp621.lha (1,02 MB)
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05 Oct 1999
Daniel Bindel by eMail |
Hyperion News
Hyperion will port the plus pack "The Heretic Fortress" for the game "Heretic II".
A connection with a PC is possible. For owners of the full version "Heretic II" for
Amiga, it will be released for free download.
A new status report
about "SHOGO" is online.
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05 Oct 1999
Ralph Debusmann by eMail |
EasyPlayer
"EasyPlayer" is a configurable GUI for all shell based music players. Be it
"mpega", "SIDPLAY" or "GMPlay" or any recently released shell-based player -
with "EasyPlayer", you get a unified interface with playlist (load, save,
append, shuffle...) and all eytras. It's a totally free software ("open source"
style).
You will be able to get EasyPlayer form Aminet soon, or at the title link.
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05 Oct 1999
Jochen Abitz by eMail |
Eyelight development
Jochen Abitz writes:
Mage for AmigaPPC has been canceled. :(
Eyelight has released a demo of Gamma on their website: www.eyelight-it.com. The
development has been put on hold, and will only be continued if 500 people preorder
Gamma.
Here's the original text from the demo:
Gamedemo for CGX3Drave, (c)1999 Eyelight
This is a rather old "game-like" demo for CGX3Drave that showed off the
basics of Gamma, the 3D games construction kit from Eyelight. It requires a CVPPC
since the software engine we developed for CGX3D rave is not available to the
public.
Being completly unoptimized and running on 68K only, it still shows off
nicely what could have been possible with Gamma. Source code (in C but is actually a
direct translation from Golem, Eyelight's scripting language used in Tornado3D) that
creates the whole game is provided. As you can see it is rather simple, and the
scripting environment made Gamma easy to use even for people with no 3D graphics
programming experience.
Unfortunately Gamma has been canceled for the Amiga, due to the many
shakes the market suffered. If there is enough interest and at least 500 Amigans
pre-order Gamma for as low as 50.00 EURO/ US Dollars, we'll still produce it both in
68K and PPC versions.
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05 Oct 1999
Martin Baute by eMail |
Version Watch: We'll be back!
The Amiga Version Watch,
which has recently been put on hold, will be continued. The software,
which automatically offers the versions of numerous programs as a
website, will be reworked and improved by Martin Baute and Lucas von
Stockhausen as project within their studies. We will report as soon as
the Version Watch returns to functionality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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30 Sep 1999
Amigart [Classic] |
World Construction Set Render Engine Developement and Upgrades For The Amiga
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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.
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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.
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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.
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30 Sep 1999
SEAL |
SEAL: Interview with Petro
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30 Sep 1999
Jim Gunnell by eMail |
Byte.com: W(h)ither The Amiga? The curtain draws upon the storied platform
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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 :-).
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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)
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30 Sep 1999
Amiga Extreme |
Amiga Extreme: Interview with Insanity
Amiga Extreme was able to make an interview with
Insanity, makers of "Enforce".
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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.
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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.
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30 Sep 1999
AmigaUpdate |
New Newsletter by AmigaUpdate
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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