Various news

8. News in Brief

• Aliendesign announced a new sound card for Zorro-Amigas, but wants 100 pre-orders before it will be brought on the market. More informations can be found on http://www.aliendesign.net/repulse/ .


• TigerTronics is currently developing an USB extension for the Amiga. Informations are available on http://hjem.get2net.dk/graff/tigertronics/.


• Village Tronic made a statement regarding the announced 3D extension for the Picasso IV (ParaGlide): The product is not ready, yet, because they did not find excellent developers and the project had no high priority. For completion the company is looking for an experienced PCB layouter, who uses the Protel-Layout-System.


• The further development of the PC emulator PCTask is cancelled.


• On http://www.vgr.com/v4/ there is an update (V4.2 pre3) of the graphic card driver software CyberGraphX, which is supposed to bring an improved AmigaOS3.5 support.


• AmigaMozilla for the xth time: On http://home.att.net/~Amiga401/amigamozilla.htm is a new website about this project. But this does not change the fact, that an Amiga version of the Netscape Navigator can only be realized, if there are programmers, who work on this job on a voluntary base.


• On the URL http://members.aol.com/freakamiga there is a new initiative, which wants to make AOL bringing their Internet software for an Amiga version on the market.


• Virtual Worlds cancelled the development of Imperium Terranum 3. Imperium Terranum 3 was begun in C/C++ - the base and the elementary functions are ready. Who wants to further develop IT3 should get in touch with the author Michael Pfeiffer (Oxygenic@t-online.de).«


• Lars Schimmer informs: »These are some infos about the club meeting of the AmigaClub in BTX & Internet. The meeting is from May 12th to 14th 2000 in Nuremburg, Germany. We will be present in a youth hotel and will have fun for three days. Things like these are planned: e.g. visiting the traffic museum, walking through downtown, network sessions and more. More (German) infos can be found on our homepage www.amiga-club.de, on www.kareth.com/clubtreffen.de or in the irc channel #amigaclub-btx in the EF-net.«


• Motorola bought a minor part of the Amiga partner TAO group.