Amiga News
In association with Amiga.org [www.amiga.org]
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.
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?)
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.