26-Mar-99:
joe goes Amiga
met@box will make an Amiga-version of
their joeCARD a Macintosh G3 accelerator.
The Amiga-joeCARD will be available for
almost all amigas.
joeCARD.com
and www.metabox.de
19-Mar-99:
phase5 steps forward
phase5 announced their new PPC-Board
the CyberStormG3/G4 new PPC board with an
UW-SCSI controller and PCI-Bus. phase5 ask
for 1000 preorders to realize this
project.
www.phase5.de
07-Jan-99:
Mozilla-Amiga 68k and
PPC
Is it coming, or is it not. That was
one of the questions Amiga users had to
ask themselves about aMozilla over the few
past months. Now its official, aMozilla
will come! The release date is, as
yet, not known. www.thelads.demon.co.uk
07-Jan-99:
MPEGA Library for
WarpUP
Steffen Häuser ported the MPEGA
library to WarpUP a few weeks ago. The
WarpUP version is already faster and more
stabile then the PowerUP version. You can
find mpega-warpup.lha in Aminet util/libs.
07-Jan-99:
Imagine5 goes
PPC
Imagine the Amigans favorite rendering
software goes WarpUP. We will give more
information on it as soon as we get it.
07-Jan-99:
Titan Warp´s
UP
All upcoming Titan Products will have
WarpUP support besides PowerUP, so the
user will be able to chose his favorite
kernel. The Game Claws of the Devil will
also support Warp3D. In the near future
already available title's such as Candy
Factory Pro and Fantastic Dreams will
feature WarpUP support. www.titancomputer.de
22-Dec-98:
ESCENA -
Brainstormer
ESCENA put a little information about
the latest BrainStormer development on
their homepage. www.escena.de
22-Dec-98:
Voodoo will
come!
3Dfx Voodoo Addon module for PicassoIV
will come! That is the official text of
the VillageTronic homepage. Link
20-Dec-98:
BlizzardVision
After a long wait its finally on sale.
The prices is around 150UKP or 220USD.
www.phase5.de
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18-Dec-98:
Release
of Warp3D and StormMesa
3.0
The first version of the hardware
independent 3D driver system Warp3D
is available. Finally there exists a way
to use the power of 3D graphics boards, as
it is done on other platforms for a long
time. More
14-Dec-98
EGCS for
WarpUP
Finally EGCS is able to compile WarpUP
compatible elf files. This ensures that
future EGCS Programs will be able to run
on any kind of PPC hardware (such as the
upcoming ESCENA G3 boards). EGCS - WarpUP
can be downloaded at cs.tu-berlin.de/~paladin
.
UPDATE: There is a tool (Elf2Hunk)
currently in development which will make
the WarpUP-Elf format worthwhile.
03-Nov-98:
G3 Accelerator Boards are
coming up
Thomas Dellert (DCE Boss) confirmed the
rumors. There will be
G3-Dual-Prozessorboards for the Amiga.
Dellert points at www.escena.de
where you will soon find more detailed
information.
26-Oct-98:
BVision release
delayed
The BVision release is now set for late
November ´98. phase5 also plans a new
cheaper price for the BVision in order to
make it more attractive for the
enduser.
13-Oct-98:
PPC support in AmigaOS
3.5
The long awaited AmigaOS 3.5 homepage
of Amiga Inc. has been unveiled. Here you
will find a first feature list which also
mentions PPC support. AmigaOS
3.5
08-Oct-98:
New PowerPC Games on the
Horizon
Summer is over but the winter could
become real hot for PPC gamers! There are
new games in the making such as Titan
Computer's "Claws of the Devil" - a Tomb
Raider clone, and their upcoming "Total
Combustion" (Car wars game). From the
English newcomers Q-Group we will see
"Fubar". Digital Images is going to
release 3 PowerPC games: "Digital
Fighter," "Digital Soccer" and "Jet
Stream". Then there's "Tales of Tamar"
(Strategy) from Eternity, "Phoenix" (3D
Space Action) from APC&TCP and
"Explorer 2260" from Vulcan-Software. If
you can't wait you can preheat your
PowerPC with Holger Jakobs PPC-Descent
port for the time being.
27-July-98:
Phase 5 have canceled the
release of the A2000 PowerUP
Board
Phase 5 are not going to release the
Blizzard 2604 Board since there is no
demand for such a board on the marked. The
free developer resources are going to be
used for future Projects.
03-July-98:
GameDev
Guide for PowerPC
Some time ago Sam Jordan - author of
WarpUP and PowerASM - released a complete
guide about how to write games for
PowerPC. Here you can get the archive that
contains just the guide in English and
German. The complete package with examples
and demos can be found in the WarpUP
release 3 archive. Download
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