Various news

5. Haage & Partner-News

And these are the latest news of the company:

»April 2, 99: Revised support area

Nearly all support pages have been updated to a new look. There are also new FAQ pages which we will extend in the near future. Support

02 April 99: 350.000 access on the homepage

Our homepage is getting more and more popular - we have about 850 visitors per day. We are very happy about that and want to know what you think we could improve: survey99-d.htm

April 9, 99:First results of the survey 99

April 12, 99: Changes of the homepage

As announced last week, we did some optical and in the contents changes on our homepage. You have certainly seen the new icons and besides we worked on nearly all FAQ areas which are now handled by a database. BTW, more than 400 Amigans already took part in our Survey 99. Thanks a lot for all your help :)

Hint: If you are interested in AmigaOS 3.5 Beta-testing, then have a look at www.amiga.de

12 April 99: Starbirds - Update

There is an update patch for owners of a BlizzardPPC. You will find it in the download area. Starbirds

19 April 99: Result of the survey 99

Over 650 Amiga fans took part in that survey. Many thanks to all of you. The analysis shows that you are rather satisfied with the contents and the overall appearance of our site. You also gave us many comments and suggestions for improvements. A lot of those changes have already been done during the last days.

B>We just uploaded the locale files for Czech, Dansk and Francais to our ArtEffect FTP area. Support

21 April 99: AUGS-Meeting in Zofingen

On 17. and 18. of April this year's Amiga User Group Switzerland Meeting took part in Zofingen. Haage&Partner showed an early pre-version of AmigaOS 3.5. More

22 April 99: WarpUP Release 4

After intensive work and countless tests the new release of WarpUP can go public. The text describes the news and the new tools. You will find the release and the update in our support area. Download

23 April 99: Tornado3D v2.0 SE

This special version of Tornado3D has all you need to create breath-taking 3D graphics and animation at a very reasonable price and with a full upgrade option. Includes PowerPC and Virge3D support. You can get this outstanding 3D package for >only 199 DM (approx. 101.53 Euros). Offer

This is a list with the most important features of Tornado3D 2.0 SE:

• Volumetric light


• PowerPC support using special optimized modules for 603e and 604e


• Real-time 3D-Preview in colour


• Interaktive real-time rendering


• Virge3D-Support


• Splines


• Automorphing


• Projekted light


• shadow, clipmapped shadow


• Selektive raytracing for reflections, refraction and shadow


• Kubic reflections and refractions


• Additive and normal transparency


• Pose manager


• Lens flares


• Import of Postscript (tm) fonts


• Import of Lightwave objects


• DXF import and dxport


• Import of Imagine objects and groups


• Metameshing with adjustable edge tension


• Procedural textures


• Multiple Shader (mafrosted, dimmed, plastic, metal, glas)


• Unlimited number of maps and texture for each surface


• Calm and moving 3D nebulae


• Linear, early, late and user defined nebula types


• Dot, spot beam, dimmed and remote light sources


• Animatable volumetric hyper textures


• Extrusion, rotating object, replication and arraying


• Spline modelling


• Nurbs polygoniation


• Interactive animation setting


• Interactives moving, scaling, rotating, bending, turning, shearing, off-leveling,...


• Inverse Kinematik


• Interpolated shadow creation


• Soft shadows


• High quality shadows with clipping for rotoscoping


• Dividing, fracturizing, triangulizing, normalizing, refining


• Graphics board support


• Datatype V43 support


• Internal loading and saving modules for TGA, JPEG and RAW


• ...and many more

The very topical wARPgATe homepage now has its own domain www.w-9.de. You can access the WarpUP/Warp3D area directly.<

April 29, 99: "Best Features" reward

An action of Trogladite Software rewarded us with the "Best Features" reward for our homepage. We thank Neil Bullock of Trogsoft and the participants for this reward :)

April 30, 99: Our new (German) ad

To give you an idea on our new ad that we are running in Germany, we are presenting it here. Your comments are welcome :)

(Source: Haage & Partner)