News in brief

News in brief

AMIGA news

• Ateo Concepts wants to build a flicker fixer, if there are at least 150 orders in advance. The product is to be put on the market as an addition to the graphics board Pixel 64 as well as an A1200 version and an A2000/3000/4000 version. More informations can be found on http://www.ateo-concepts.com.
• Some days ago, a player for the multimedia format 'ShockWave' was published, which can be used in combination with the WWW browsers Voyager, AWeb and IBrowse. The ShockWave player can be downloaded from http://www.amigart.com, but doesn't offer sound output and is quite 'buggy' in the current revision.
• The aMozilla homepage moved various times in the last weeks. On the closing date it was on http://www.amozilla.force9.co.uk.
  A first of of the WWW package is expected to be released in April. aMozilla will not base on the Netscape source code, but include Amiga specific code due to speed and efficiency reasons. The integration of players for RealAudion and ShockWave has been planned.
• There's hope again, for an Amiga version of Opera! OperaSoftware is in negotiations with a German team, which works good. More informations can be found on http://www.operasoftware.com.
• The author of the multimedia player CyberQT and CyberAVI published the sourcecodes of his programs in Aminet (dev/misc/CyberXXXSrc.lha) to make future development possible.
• Warp3D v2 has been released in a beta version, which also supports the Permedia2 graphics processor, which is also on the CyberVisionPPC and the BVisionPPC. Download is possible on ftp.haage-partner.com.
• Samplitude Opus-SE 3.5R9 can be downloaded from http://www.act-net.com/Prelude/news.html for free.
• The Author of Jey Visual Pascal (Aminet: dev/lang/jvp.lha) summonses especially the programmers, to inform him per eMail (Shirdash@www.dci.co.ir), if the programming system is evaluated as useful. The result of this summons will make his decision, if the program is contienued or not.
• The Workbench extension MARInA has been renamed in EASys!. More informations regarding this shareware program can be found on http://www.amigaworld.com/image/easys!.html.
• Three messages from the Amiga Arena (http://online-club.de/~ARENA/):

  »Highlight -- Brandnew -- Exclusive

  THE catalogizer program for the Amiga Classic!

  CDCat Release 3 with PPC Support from now for a bargain price in the Amiga Arena!

  Amiga Arena offers CDCat 3 for 30 DM (approx. 15.31 Euros) to all visitors!«

  »WHDLoad The Installer Tool WHDLoad with more than 100 installers for Classic Amiga games now to be sold for 20 DM (approx. 10.20 Euros) in the Arena!

  MT Rechnung III From March 1, 1999 the management software MT Rechung III can be bought for 12 Euros exclusive in the Amiga Arena!!«

  (Source: Amiga Arena)

• On http://www.regensburg.baynet.de/cyco/linuxindex.html a support homepage for APUS, the Linux version for PowerUp Amigas has been created.

About DOSsers and apples (and other non-AMIGA-news)

• "Vote against SPAM" is the name of an initiative of the c't magazine and politic - digital, which targets the mobilisation of the users against the socalled spamming, which is the sending of advertising eMails. Everybody is sommonsed to support the petition with his vote. The result of this initiative is to be given to a member of the European Parliament. More (German) informations are on http://www.politik-digital.de.