Wieout2097 Screenshots You can find Wipeout screenshots now at the Digital Images website which can be found at www.digital-images.demon.co.uk
New Amiga Mag Finally, we're back up to two Amiga printed magazines (or we soon will be) as AmigActive is launched (hopefully) soon. It's website, however, is online now and can be visited at www.amigactive.com
Microde Solutions Anyone want a copy of Fusion or PCX for their PPC? Well, place a pre-order with Microde and you could well get one. Their site is at www.microde-solutions.com/amiga/amiga.html
MAYS AMIGA NEWS
Amiga.org News
Disgrace
The Amiga.org news database was disgracefully hacked in the
early days of this month. Hackers, who I believe aren't Amiga
fans, got very close to destroying Amiga.org's reputation by
hacking the database and posting an offensive mail about the
Amiga and the excellent Miami. Thanks to the Amiga.org teams'
quick action, the messages were removed and a prompt apology
posted on to the site.
Trogsoft Looking for
CGI
We're looking for people who can write Perl CGI scripts for
our site to do things. In particular we'll be wanting a page
where people can add links, a form emailer script, and a
number of scripts which we'll tell you about when we think of
them. Want to apply? Send an email to
trogladite@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk
Rebol for PPC
Looks like the Rebol team (you know, Carl Sassenrath etc. :)
are going to be making a version of Rebol for the PPC powered
Amiga. Good eh? :) Check out
www.rebol.com
Amiga Inc. Presence
Amiga Inc. will be present at Amiwest (in the United States)
and World Of Amiga 99 (no relation ). So expect some sort of announcement
and don't forget we'll have a report from WOA99 next issue.
Video Titling
Extreme 1.5 is now available. It can calculate backgrounds in
realtime and is perfect for all you video titling people out
there. Check out
www.idealia.net/darkage/extreme.html
AAA Awards Now Open
Yep, this years annual AA Awards are open for voting. This
year, the UK nominees are Ben Vost (Amiga Format Editor),
Neil Bothwick (of Amiga ISP Wirenet) and Chris Wiles of
Active Technologies.
www.aaa-awards.org - vote and you could win lots of
prizes!!!
New Amigas
Amiga Inc have released a concept sketch of a possible route
that they could take with the next Amigas. Take a look at
these URLs
www.amiga.de/pics/product/concept/01_kyoto.jpg
www.amiga.de/pics/product/concept/02_kyoto.jpg
ImageFX 4
For those of you who haven't heard, ImageFX 4 has been
announced and now supports Animation. I'm sure that'll please
a lot of you.
DOpus Update
You can obtain a Directory Opus Magellan II update free from
www.gpsoft.com.au
enjoy
Settlers 2 Abandoned
Titan Computers seem to have abandoned Settlers ][ project
because of Bluebytes decision to stop them. This is because
Bluebyte were afraid that they'd have to put in too much work
on the porting project, which is not the case, as Titan have
said all along. Check out our campaign to get Settlers back
on track.
Alive Mediasoft Have a new
website!
Yes, that's right, Alive have got their selves a new website
which can be found at
http://www.innotts.co.uk/alive-mediasoft/. Upon going to
visit the site (one of the perks of realising I could do some
articles in my spare time at college, and keep up to date
with my POP3 email at the same time), It seems very well
organised, and looks pretty good. Go check it out.
PCX, FUSION, PPC, Etc.
I love these acronym titles Ok,
basically, what I'm rabbiting on about is the fact that
Blittersoft are looking into making the PCX emulator for the
NG Amiga PPC variety of machines. Ang they're looking into
doing the same for the Fusion Mac emulator as well. Look
forward to them. Fill out Blittersoft's survey at
www.blittersoft.com/fusppcq.htm
Dreamcast Logo
Conflict
Apparently, the Dreamcast console may have to revise it's
logo because of similarities with Amiga company, Escenas. Of
course, I would have preferred it if they'd have released the
console with the logo, and Escenas sued them. But that won't
happen.
T-ZerO
The T-ZerO website is now open. The game, which is been
ported by Clickboom now has an official website. Check it out
at clickboom.com
Chief Technology
Amiga have some information about their new Chief Technology
manager. You can find the actual information in another
article in the news directory. Check it out.
Commonwealth Games
News
We have a lot of news from Amiga Inc. this issue. This latest
one is about the sponsorship which Amiga were giving to last
years commonwealth games. Wanna read the article, check out
the Amiga website
www.amiga.com)
Gloom3 Available for
Free!
Well, nearly. You have to buy AminetCD 30 and you get a
complimentary copy of Gloom 3 on the CD. Rest assured we have
asked Gaz about this in our extensive interview with him
which you can find in the Features directory.
Want OS3.5 First?
By the time you read this, OS3.5 will be in the Beta testing
stage, and while Amiga Inc. prevent me from telling you
anything about it, when Beta Testing is over, I will be
amongst the first to review AmigaOS3.5 for you. You can
pre-order OS3.5 from Blittersoft at www.blittersoft.com
WOA Reaches Record
Circulation
OK, There are actually no charts for readership statistics on
Amiga diskmags, but thanks to Amiga.org's wonderful news
service, WOA now have an incredibly high circulation figure.
With 45 downloads in the first 7 hours of WOA3 becoming
available, we are doing very well. And Issue 2 got nearly 400
readers (398 to be precise).
New WOA Staff
New this issue, please welcome 3 new writers to WOA. Frank
Mathieson, Joe Solinsky and Shawn McOwen who are all entering
as Technical writers. Joe will be treating you to a regular
Amiga related column and various features from time to time,
Frank and Shawn will be endeavouring to review loads of
serious products and will also be writing features from time
to time.
First PPC Commercial
Game
Eat The Whistle is being updated to support PPC. Therefore it
will be the first Amiga PPC commercial game, and based on
that, I would have thought that quite a bit of exposure would
be generated which can only be a good thing.
Bouncy Amigas
A new Amiga related Website has been set up called Amiga
Bounce which you can find at
www.freez.com. It's a place where Amiga owners can meet
up and chat about anything from Games to... er... well,
anything, really.
Amiga Matches?!?
Yes, it's true, in a particularly strange publicity stunt,
Amiga Inc have released the Amiga Matches. They come in Boing
Ball shaped packs, by the way
LhA Update
Version 2.1 of LhA is available now. You can get it from lha.warped.com
#trogsoft
Visit the Trogladite Software IRC channel from time to time
(particulary weekends) and you'll no doubt find one of the
WOA writers, or members of Trogladite Software there.
#trogsoft on Afternet.