September 1998
- 980930
- Added some more software on the software page.
- 980929
- A new unofficial QuakePPC has been released. This is QuakePPC10 (or FastQuake5). It's based on Quake v1.06 (the old one was v1.01), and you can change screenmode on the fly :)
- 980928
- J�rgen Haage from Haage&Partner held an IRC conference at Pianete Amiga Show in Italy. He discussed Amiga OS 3.5 PPC. Here is a log file from that conference.
- ClickBoom have put up a question on their webpage asking if you have a PPC-card. Every PPC-user should fill in this.
- Updated the Software page with a M.A.M.E area. And some links to great places where you can get M.A.M.E ROM's.
- 980926
- ClickBoom will release Napalm the Crimson Crisis at 01 November 1998, according to an email sent from ClickBoom to customers who preordered Napalm.
- 980924
- A new PPC (and 68k) mpeg video player has been released. It's called Ripley
- Titan Computer put up a webpage of their latest game Claws Of The Devil and it will use PPC :)
- Marble Eyes Development have released an update to Genetic Species which uses 24 bit graphics.
- There is a new mp3 player on Aminet called Amplifier V1.42 and it support skins and PPC through mpega-library.
- Haage&Partner have released a demo of their new word processor AmigaWriter.
- 980921
- The Amiga RC5-64 team are very close to the 6th place. Just a few more days and we will overtake the Linux team. So come on PPC-owners and crack some blocks. There are more than 300 PPC users in the Amiga Team now.
- CyberGFX v4 will be released commercially by Schatztruhe GmbH at the Cologne show.
- Amiga Inc has put up a very good page about the Amiga and Millenium bugs (Written by Olaf Barthel). Click here to get there.
- Holger Jakob has released another update of ADescentPPC with AHI support. This version seems a little more stable. Click here for his page.
- I've heard some rumours that FusionPPC will use WarpOS.
- A new version (v0.34.3) of MAMEPPC have been released. Click Here to go Triumph's site.
- 980916
- The CyberVisionPPC-card now comes with both the connectors, and will work in A3000 desktop and A4000T. Finally :)
- I've heard some rumors that BlizzardVisionPPC will be released on the 21 of september. Let's hope it's true :)
- Class X Development have announced X-DVE and Font Machine for PPC, they will use WarpOs.
- 980914
- A new unofficial version of QuakePPC has been released commonly refered to as FastQuake4. You don't need to have a huge stack anymore. The default value of 4096 bytes works just fine.
- 980912
- The ROM KERNAL MANUALS (RKM) is availble online from Amiga Inc. homepage
- 980911
- Holger Jakob released a PPC version of POV-Ray (raytracing program) on his site, and also a MIDI to WAV converter program. Click here for his page.
- 980908
- ClickBoom have released an update to the Napalm Demo, this update contains a few bugfixes.
- If you want an Official QuakePPC from ClickBoom, please fill in the form at WorldFoundry's homepage.
- 980905
- Holger Jakob have released ADescentPPC (Experimental, not stable), and new versions of UAE PPC v0.8.6, Ixemul, and the 8Hz mp3 encoder.Visit his page for this new programs.
- 980903
- VillageTronic will soon release their AriadneII ethernet card. The AriadneII is much cheaper than the normal one.
- Softlogik has announced Pagestream v4.0. A new version of their Desktop Publishing program. Click here for more info.
- A new "unofficial" PPC version of Quake have been released. Click here to download. It's named FastQuake3.
- 980902
- Sam Jordan of Haage&Partner says that their 68k emulator for PPC runs about the same speed as an 68040/25 mhz on an 200 Mhz PPC. Slower at certain things and faster on others.
- 980831
- There is a PC emulator with PPC support on Aminet. It only emulates 8086, so don't expect it to be useful. As the author says "Slow buggy PC emul."
Better wait for PCX with PPC support:)
Copyright 1998 Robert Nilsson