Amiga News
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This issues Amiga News in brief. If any news item has a larger story, you can click on it's title to read the larger story.

October 1999

iWin taken over?!
iWin finally belly up to the table?! Could this be their quick and easy scheme of getting out of what damages they did to the Amiga community?
Report
Takeover

Phoenix Platform Consortium web site now open!
The site has been established as a central resource for all Phoenix developers, and to serve as the voice of the Phoenix Platform Consortium. Their intention is to establish a migration path to a new Amiga-like platform and computing experience.
[http://owlnet.net/phoenix/]

Amiga Active magazine now on sale.
Issue one of Amiga Active magazine has been sent out to subscribers, and should be available through newsagents in the UK by the time you read this. Site has a couple of sneak preview pages online and they look great!

IWin press conference report.
Matthias Ortmann was one of three people to attend the latest IWin press conference slated for thirty people. In his report he tells exactly what happened.

StarGate 2.2 released
Toysoft Development Inc. is pleased to announce the release of StarGate v2.2. StarGate is an email and news client for Workbench 3.x and 2.2 has more new features and fixes than we could possibly list here. For more information please visit http://www.toysoft-dev.com/stargate.html

Imagine for Amiga still around
The folks over at CAD-Tech said that the Amiga version of Imagine (raytracer) is still in development. See their website for more details. [http://www.cadtech.demon.co.uk]

Sun Reiterates Plans To Open Up Solaris
Sun Microsystems Inc. reiterated on Friday that it plans to eventually make the source code of its Solaris operating system available to software developers, but its plans are still being defined.

OSCounter
At http://www.oscounter.org they count how many folks that are using different operating systems, and currently the Amiga is at #1!

IBrowse Evaluation Version Released
IBrowse 2 evaluation version can be downloaded at: http://www.ibrowse2.freeserve.co.uk/periman.lha

AmiNet Hacked!
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.

UnInstaller Mailing List
Since UnInstaller was released a couple of weeks ago, it's had just over 940 downloads, and as such, Trogsoft has decided to see just how much you use the product by setting up a mailing list which will announce updates, and allow you to discuss the program. Since the author will be on the list, you can also suggest improvements and report bugs, etc.

September 1999

AmIRC 3.2 released
A maintainance release to AmIRC 3.1, fixing several of the reported issues and adding some new features.

First Screenshots From Diablo's Land
First screenshots of Diablo's Land, an arcade-adventure game featuring many FRP elements, have been releaded. The game is under development by Digital Dreams Entertainment.
http://www.dd-ent.com]

Titan Computer Signs Joyride
Titan Computer has signed a publishing deal with the developers of Joyride, a racing game inspired by Xtreme Racing.

NetConnect 3 Info, Special Prices and Other Offers
With the forthcoming release of STFax 4 and NetConnect 3, both due next week, Active Technologies are celebrating by offering low low pre-order prices on these and other items, directly from their web site. Even better, you can order software via the web, securely, and they will be despatched without any postage charge! This applies to any address, anywhere in the world!

AMD Deal could help Motorola make G4 chips
Advanced Micro Devices and Motorola may be in talks to extend an existing agreement to include making Motorola processors at AMD's new factory in Dresden, Germany, analysts said. (Good news for users of Phase 5's new Amiga G4 boards?)

Augusts Main News

MCC Change of Direction
It seems that Amiga are no longer planning to manufacture the Amiga MCC. They say they might get someone else to manufacture, but they are still developing the Amiga OE, which is now designed to sit on top of other OS's, and maybe on the MCC if it is ever built.

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