Competition

2. Introduction of the new prizes

And this is everybody's new chance for 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

Andreas Kuessner gave an updateable copy of Wildfire 5 in the 68k and one in the PowerPC version for the competition to us:

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Wildfire 5 (English manual )	Wert ca. 100 DM (approx. 51.13 Euros)
Wildfire 5 PPC (English manual)	Wert ca. 110 DM (approx. 56.25 Euros)

The pricewinning predecessor of Wildfire7, THE special effect program for editing animations and single pictures! The revisions of this competition are *FULLY UPDATEABLE* to Wildfire7\PPC for the price of 170 DEM (approx. 86.73 Euros).

Wildfire 7 is one of the best programs for editing animations and single pictures in the whole computer world! (This is a assesment of the trade press) With Wildfire you can compute unique effects for your animations and this is mostly with a few mouse clicks! It offers e.g. these possibilities:

Effekt-Generator with time dependent variables using `envelopes'

A large selection of special effects (more than 100!), which can combined nearly free

Some really unique effects

3D-engine with various light sources, phong-shading and transparency

Overlaying of 3D effects (PowerPlugs!)

Overlaying of Lightwave objects and pictures in threedimensional space

3D texts

Full PowerPC and CyberGraphX support

(Really) easy to use MUI interface

Preview for nearly any effect (also in REALTIME possible!!!)

Transition-Maker for the simple creation of fadings between pictures or animations

Easy to use Player interface

AnimInfo funktion, which shows size profiles and other data

Gadgets, which can process mathematic expressions instead of simple numbers

ARexx port

Import of pictures from other programs

Quick and comfortable converter:

Input : YAFA, ANIM5/7/8, MPEG, Bild-Sequenzen, QT, AVI

Output: YAFA, ANIM5/7/8, MPEG, Bild-Sequenzen

and many more

Since revision 7.13 there is a direct Movieshop support. You get the update automatically when orderin the Movieshop operator (approx. 30 DEM /approx. 15.31 Euros) for Wildfire. So you can get really unique effects from your Amiga resp. DraCo without knowledge of picture editing!

If you have questions regarding Wildfire, please contact:

Andreas Kuessner
Marrinksweg 5
48531 Nordhorn
Germany

eMail: eksec@eure.de (Wildfire support of any kind)

Telephone: +49(0)5921/330420	6 p.m. - 8 p.m. CET on working days

Wildfire 7 can be purchased from Oberland Computer.

Oberland Computer
In der Schneithohl 5
61476 Kronberg
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)6173-6080
eMail: info@oberland.com«

Frank Weber gave his program AFiloFaxPro for our competition to us:

»AFiloFaxPro manages your daily life. It offers a huge filofax function and additional features like an electronic notepad and statistical functions which enables you to protocolize the daily run time of your computer. (Supports MUI)«

A demo of AFiloFaxPro is available in the Aminet.

The author of AFiloFaxPro can be contacted under this address:

Frank Weber
Schlizstrasse 53
74076 Heilbronn
Germany

eMail: fweber@amigaworld.com

»Diamond Caves II is a derivative of Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash. You have to collect all diamonds of the cave, numberous objects like doors, energy shields, dynamite and bombs as well as different opponents make some levels really tricky. There's also a Two-player-mode (simultanously) as well as a comfortable level editor.

Requirements: Amiga with OS 2.0, min. 1 MB Chip-RAM and 1 MB Fast-RAM fast processor recommended, MUI is required for the level editor.
Unregistered version: 50 level, editor has restricted functions Registered version: DM 40.00«

A demo can be downloaded from http://www.diamond-pro.com.

The author of Diamond Caves II can be contacted under this address:

Peter Elzner
Grudene 6a
58644 Iserlohn
Germany

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

Malte Eller gave his program MEAutoStart for the competition to us:

»	MEAutoStart emulates the AutoStart function of Windoze 95/98.
	But there are some more possibilities than the original has:

For each volume a file can be defined, which is executed by inserting or removing it from the drive (Shell script as well as WB start).
(As a standard the file MEAutostart.File is searched on the volume)

It is possible to exclude volumes from the start

It can be used for all removable media like CDs, disks, removalbe hard disks,....

It is a commodity with GUI«

A demo version of MEAutoStart can be downloaded under util/cdity/meautostart.lha.

The author can be contacted under this address:

Malte Eller
Moislinger Allee 99
23558 Luebeck
Germany

eMail: eller@informatik.mu-luebeck.de
Internet: http://www.informatik.mu-luebeck.de/~eller

Our thanks goes to all donators!