Preface

Preface

Welcome to the first edition of AMIGA aktuell international this year and to the first international version.

Pre-Preface

Basically the international version is a translation of the German version, but some articles of German interest only have been remove and, if possible, replaced by articles of international interest. AMIGA aktuell international will be available approx. two weeks after AMIGA aktuell. So, I hope you have fun with AMIGA aktuell international.

And now our editor in chief has the word:

This time you have to be satisfied with a quite lean edition. It seems that after the "headline month" November the firms, developers and users have to regain strength... Maybe this was the silence before a new storm. Maybe, and that is more likely, it is just the X-mas month December.

At least one theme played a major part in December: 3D! And there were three major events to happen:

• The release of BVisionPPC, a graphics board with the 3D-chip Permedia2
• the announcement of Village Tronic, to bring a 3DFX add-on for the graphics board Picasso IV on the market, soon

and last, but not least

• the release of Warp3D, a driver system for 3D hardware. Even in this moment a number of game developers announced their support, which means the breakthrough for 3D hardware for the Amiga is not far away.

The interna of this edition:

• It is the time again, to appeal to you, to help us with AMIGA aktuell international. We try to make a magazine as good as possible, each month. But if each of you, who could help us would help us, AMIGA aktuell international would be larger and better. There are more than enough areas of responsability. For example, the number of tests of commercial products isn't satisfactory at all. Each month there are new applications and hardware products, and it's proven they are bought by one or the other AMIGA aktuell international-reader. Is it too much work to write a test report? You don't do a favor just to the other readers and us, but you could find your article in one of the most-read Amiga news magazines.
• Ralf Kaiser wants to have a test "Linux for Amiga". Who is interested in doing this test? Meanwhile Schatztruhe GbmH released a new Linux-CD. eine neue Linux-CD herausgebracht.

• We are looking for someone, who wants to do his/her own AMIGA aktuell international column, that informs about software updates. Each month there are new revisions for countless FD and commercial AMIGA programs. This new column should list the most important improvements of new software updates.
  Who is interested in, to do that?
• We are still looking for testers of freely distributable software. Everybody who wants to do this job is filled into a special distribution list, and gets ideas for tests in unregular intervals. You aren' obliged to perform the tests.

  Of course, we are happy about tests of commercial products as well. Write an eMail to aakt@gmx.de .

• We repeatedly receive request from foreign countries, if there isn't an english version of AMIGA aktuell international. Now there is! (you read it, you know ;-) If you discover any errors, please write to Martin Henke

Truly yours,

Carsten Schroeder