Amiga aktuell international competition

2. Introduction of the new prizes

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

VMC - Harald Frank - gave the A1200 interface board Hypercom 1 for the competition to us:

»We hit your needs

Our super fast HyperCOM 1 interface board was designed especially for users, who want to use a modem or ISDN terminal adaptor, only. 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.
• 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

Hardware compatibility

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:

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)

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 Programm CDCat in the brandneuw revision 3 for the competition to us:

»CDCat Release 3 (MUI) is the PPC/68k CD-ROM-catalogizer for the Amiga. In addition to that 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 (PPC; 68k: 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 3.0. More informations regarding CDCat Release 3 can be found on the support page http://www.amigaworld.com/support/cdcat

New with the revision 3 is e.g. the PowerPC support, the catalog manager for the reorganisation of the catalogs, filter functions, etc.

The author can be contacted under this address:

Frank Weber
Schlizstrasse 53
74076 Heilbronn
Germany

eMail: frank@weber.org«

»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.

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

Christian Steiner gave his program Sharks! for the competition to us:

»SHARKS! is a game of skill, which acts under water. So our brave diver has to check the bottom of the sea for treasures. But the area is "contaminated" with sharks... so: CAUTION!!! Get as many treasures as possible and take care of the sharks!

Good luck!

SHARKS! should run on any Amiga with OS 3.0 or better. SHARKS! can also be played on the Amiga emulators (Win UAE or MAC UAE).

Limitations and registering...

The game SHARKS! is shareware!... The unregistered version is limited this way:

1. You get just one live
2. Only 2 levels can be played

To enable all function you need a key file, which can be gotten by the author.

To get it send 10 DEM or 5 US-$ (approx. 5.10 Euros) with

• Your given name and your last name
• Your complete address
• Your eMail address (IMPORTANT)

You will get the key file without delay per eMail.

If you don't want/can't get the key file per eMail I request 15.00 DEM resp. 7 US-$ (approx. 7.65 Euros) for disk, post and package.

My address:

Christian Steiner
Hansastrasse 65
48465 Schuettorf
Germany

eMail: C-Steiner@t-online.de
homepage: www.t-online.de/home/C-Steiner

Our thanks goes to all donators!