Amiga aktuell international competition

2. Introduction of the new prizes

An this is a new chance for all of you to win a prize:

VMC - Harald Frank - gave the ZorroII/III interface board Hypercom 3+ for the competition to us:

»We hit your needs

Our super fast HyperCOM 3+ interface board was designed especially for users, who need more than a serial or parallel interface. Due to the highspeed driver you get the maximum possible speed when transmitting and receiving.

That our drivers are the result of year of experience you will quickly find out of the low CPU load. Changing screens will never result in a CRC error with Z-Modem.

If you ever used this super fast interface you never want to miss this speed and the low CPU load again.

Record performance

Ultra high-speed up to 460.800 Bits pro Sekunde (~44Kb) maximum
Twice Term 4.7 on Workbench, nullmodem connection 460.8KBit, 1Kb Z- Modem ~25.000 CPS
Twice Term 4.7 on Workbench, nullmodem connection 460.8KBit, 8Kb Z- Modem ~43.000 CPS (with executive in background)
The bi-directional parallel port is able to send data with up to 800 Kb per second.

Intelligent features

Z-Modem optimized transmit functions with up to 20% more speed
PPP and TCP/IP optimized transmit and receive routines speed up your Internet connections
From revision 3.00 on integrated PC-mouse driver for each device unit (not yet available)
Minimum of interrupt load due to the integrated hardware FIFO.

Moneysaving speed, connectivity and flexibility

Get the maximum of speed with each modem or ISDN terminal adaptor.
Printing documents or graphics is up to four times faster than with the internal parallel port!
The ideal interface solution for any home user, which fits your needs.
Due to modular drivers scalable up to 5 HyperCOM 3+ per computer.

Technical data


Interface	:	Zorro II/III
Ports	:	2 * RS232 SUBD-9/25 (~11.7-13.65 inch flat cable + mounting tin)
Ports	:	1 * LPT bi-direktional PC/AT SUBD-25 (~11.7-13.65 inch flat cable + mounting tin)
Flow control	:	Software xON/xOFF and Hardware RTS/CTS
Speed	:	Minimum 50, up to maximum 460.800 bits per second
Serial FIFO	:	Each port has 16 Byte transmit / 16 Byte receive FIFO

Hardware compatibility


Turbo boards	:	Compatible to all known models
Serial	:	Amiga internal serial port can be used at the same time
Parallel	:	Amiga internal parallel port can be used at the same time
Tower	:	Compatible with RBM, Eagle, Micronik and Draco tower solutions

Device compatibility

Compatible with all programs, which follow the RKM guidelines.

Chanes without prior information reserved. All named trademarks are property of their owners.«

VMC - Harald Frank
Ringstr. 26
68789 St. Leon-Rot
Germany

Telephone: + 49 (0)6227/88046-0 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Telefax: + 49 (0)6227/88046-4 24 hours
Mailbox: + 49 (0)6227/88046-4 24 hours
eMail: info@vmc.de

Frank Weber gave his program CDCat for the competition to us:

»CDCat (MUI) is THE CD-ROM catalogizer for the Amiga, but you can use it also for archiving all hard drives, floppy disks and directories (e.g. with many graphic files).

It is also quite valuable for Aminet-CD's because age, size and archive descriptions are considered. CDCat offers a super fast search mode (85% inline assembler!), in addition you archived CD's can be viewed by the browser without put into the drive.

CDCat is also able to unarchive, view pictures, etc. But you can still configure any program.

More features:

XPK support
notepad for management of found files
DiskIDs for quick identification of the CDs, etc.

A demo version of the program is available in Aminet. The current revision is 2.2. A (German) test of CDCat can be found under http://www.amigaworld.com/support/cdcat/C_test_de.html abrufen.

Revision 3.0 will be released, soon. It will contain PowerPC support, catalog manager for reorganizing the catalogs, filter functions, etc.

The author can be contacted under this address:

Frank Weber
Schlizstrasse 53
74076 Heilbronn
Germany

eMail: frank@cc86.de	«

Peter Elzner gave his program ManiacBall for the competition to us:

»ManiacBall is based on the classic Breakout, where you have to hit stones with a ball beaten by a paddle and get various extras, which make your life easier. ManiacBall offers as an extension the possibility of more paddles and balls on the playfield and a funny two-player mode (at the same time!) and a lot of extras, like laser, shields, and many more. Who gets bored of the delivered levels can create own levels with the level editor.

Requirements:	Amiga with Kickstart2.0, 1MB memory.
	Graphic boards are supported,
	MUI is required for the editor
Unregistered version:	25 levels, restricted editor functions
Registered version:	25 DM«(approx. 12.76 Euro)

A demo version can be found on http://www.diamond-pro.com.

The author can be contacted under this address:

Peter Elzner
Grudene 6a
58644 Iserlohn
Germany

eMail:	order@diamond-pro.com (orders) resp.
	peter.elzner@diamond-pro.com (questions)

Andreas Etzrodt gave his program HomeCINEMA for the competition to us:

»HomeCINEMA is a video database, which is - at last - easy to use. It is not overloaded with functions, but offers all necessary functions, you would like to have. A demo version is available on: http://sharksoft.notrix.de.«

In addition Thomas Hasemann gave the paint program "ImageFX" to us for our competition to us.

Our thanks goes to all donators!