05 Feb 2000
amiga-news.de
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VillageTronic answers :-)
On February 3rd, the German main page of amiga-news.de
reported that, with a change in layout on the VT website, visitors get the impression that the
Amiga area is now only secondary for VT. Yesterday, Village Tronic spoke out about the ParaGlide
project. Since no excellent hard- and software engineer could be found in 1999, and ParaGlide was
not on top of the priority list, VT concentrated on other projects. ParaGlide has not been
cancelled, however, since the developers from the Amiga section would not have it.
Village Tronic is now looking for a ParaGlide fan who is an experienced PCB layouter, using
the Protel Layout System. Candidates please contact amigasupport@village.de.
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05 Feb 2000
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail
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Rainboot version 2.8 released
A new Rainboot version has just been released on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage. Version 2.8
offers some major improvements, like a completely new GUI. Some bugs have been fixed, some
parameters been added.
Download: Rainboot2_8.lha.
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05 Feb 2000
Thomas Steiding by e-mail
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3D jump-and-run "Tales From Heaven" already shipping
Epic Marketing released the game "Tales From Heaven" yesterday. Tales is the first
3D jump-and-run for the Amiga. It was inspired by the console classic Mario 64,
and requires a 030 CPU, AGA and 8 MByte RAM. Graphic cards are supported.
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05 Feb 2000
M. Wenngatz by e-mail
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Diavolo Update
Finally! Diavolo Backup 2000 and Diavolo Backup 2000 Terra (for DraCo) are shipped, starting
immediately. Of course there are updates for older versions. More info can be requested from
info@crevico.com. For more details see the news entry
from Frebruary 3rd, 2000.
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05 Feb 2000
Falk Lüke by e-mail
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Eternity expecting visitor number 20,000
The Eternity pages enjoy growing popularity, as we could see from our growing visitor numbers.
So there is stuff for free again for visitor number 20,000: If you can prove (screenshot and
time) that you were visitor 20,000 of the Eternity page, you can choose:
- a highspeed IDE controller or
- a game from our current offers
With the "proofshot" and the above data, you should contact the webmaster
(patrick@synotec-webdesign.com). If there
is more than one, the time of the visit decides. :-)
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05 Feb 2000
amiga-news.de
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amiga-news.de now with Amiga Link Directory (ALD)
amiga-news.de opened the new Amiga Link Directory (ALD) for the public on 23.1.2000.
The new directory`s aim is to become THE directory for AMIGA-pages.
Innovative, a software-company based in
Herzogenaurach/Germany developed the required technology for this exciting enterprise.
Entries are sorted by categories and letters or can be found easily via the available
search-function. In order to guarantee an always up-to-date database, entries can be
changed by the "owners" of the entry at any time via a previously defined password.
For every entry, if provided by the "owner", further information is available. This
can include, but is not limited to the postal adress as well as the phone-number,
email-adress and homepage.
The ALD will also partially be available via the popular Aminet-CDs (means: only entries
of "owners" who want their entries to be part of a "directory" on the Aminet-CD).
For the first time there will be a bridge between the AMIGA-online and -offline-world -
and it will be called ALD. This way communication within the AMIGA-community will
improve and companies can also reach users, that don`t have an internet-connection yet.
Help us building the greatest online-directory for AMIGA-websites worldwide and
add your website today.
The ALD can be found at: http://www.amiga-news.de/cgi-bin/anwd-db.pl
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05 Feb 2000
Ralf in ANF
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Amiga-PacketRadio - user search
Since there is no list of active Amiga Packetradio users, I created a list on the Alternative
Computerclub homepage, where all PacketRadio users can have themselves listed. I am curious
how many are still left...
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05 Feb 2000
Richard Inskip by e-mail
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Storm MP3 Digital Audio Decoder
Storm MP3/e is a device plugged into the parallel port, capable of MP3 playback even on an
accelerated A500, 286 or Archimedes (?). The device is powered by a 9V battery, powering up
and down together with the host computer. Expansion options include an IR port, memory expansion
(probably for internal MP3 use only) and radio reciever.
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05 Feb 2000
Stuart Walker by e-mail
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Digital Images job vacancy
There is currently a job vacancy for a C++ programmer to work on Space Station 3000.
You will require knowledge with GUI programming and AI.
At present, the position will be payed on royalties, but within the next few months,
we will be looking at providing monthly payments to senior members of the company as
well as having them working full time with us in Los Angeles.
If anybody is interested, please contact Stuart Walker directly via e-mail on
djstu@byke.com.
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05 Feb 2000
AppleInsider
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AppleInsider: Outlook for Faster G4 Systems Appear Gloomy
Obviously, difficulties with the G4 CPU layout resulted in a very poor yield in G4 CPUs
with more than 450 MHz (one or two per wafer). The situation will probably not change until
late fall, when new CPU versions (of the G4, not the successor G5!) will be released. Until
then, the G3 is the only PowerPC exceeding 500 MHz clock speed.
Full article at the title link.
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03 Feb 2000
AMIGA
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Executive Update by Bill McEwen
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03 Feb 2000
Aminet Recent
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New Aminet Uploads
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03 Feb 2000
Markus Fellhauer in ANF
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Diskmaster 2.54b4 (beta) released
Download: DM2beta.lzx
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03 Feb 2000
Suite101.com
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John Chandler: The Greenboy Interview (Part 1)
In cooperation with Andrej Bunta of Amiga Review, a Czech
Amiga magazine, John Chandler has interviewed Greenboy of Phoenix. Read part 1 at the title
link.
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03 Feb 2000
Titan Computer
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BurnIT version 2.65 released
BurnIt supports DAO 2448 Mode, well kown as CD+G copy mode, enabling 100% copies of any CD you like.
But pay attention that only a very limited number of CD-Recorders support this mode e.g. Mitsumi 4802
or Plextor 820 (you need a special CD-Rom drive for reading 2448byte datas, see BurnIT guide for
further details)!
Also new to this version:
- New or reworked drivers for Mitsumi4802, Yamaha6416, Yamaha8416, Plextor8220, Ricoh7040 and
many more.
- CD-cover printout with CD-Text support (Pagestream3 or greater required).
- AmigaOS 3.5 support upto 100 characters per file name possible.
- New and advanced read/write settings for individual handling e.g. Gap-Creation, special Error-Recover
routines and many more.
- CD-Text support read and write (your CD-recorder must support this feature).
- Full access to large internet AudioCD database for archiving and managing your Audio CD`s.
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03 Feb 2000
Haage & Partner
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Haage & Partner now with Online Shop
The new Online Shop has finally been finished.
It is based on the script language PHP3 and the database MySQL, running server-based. This way, it can
be used with all Amiga browsers. In the next weeks several expansions will be added to the shop, but
it is already fully functional.
Win ArtEffect or AmigaWriter
Haage & Partner looks forward to website visitor number 555,555 these days. To celebrate this, again
a software package can be won.
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03 Feb 2000
Ulrich Hambuch in ANF
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WBInfo V3 85% finished
We are 85% finished with the new OS3.5 version of WBInfo 3.0. We will start beta testing next
week, and we hope to release version 3 in two weeks at most. There will be a limited demo for
testing in Aminet as well as on our homepage. The registration fee will most probably be 7,67
Euro!
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03 Feb 2000
Markus Schmidt in ANF
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ICQ-Userlist
I am just expanding the ICQ userlist (on my homepage) by the homepages of the listed users.
Sadly I do not know all homepages. So I ask all listed ICQ users (and those who want to be
listed): Have a look at if your homepage is listed, and use the submission form to have it
listed.
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03 Feb 2000
Frank Busse in d.c.s.a.m
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PC-Task
Bad news for all PC-Task users hoping for a PowerPC version. Chris Hames cancels further
development of PC-Task since he lost
interest in the project.
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03 Feb 2000
Thomas Steiding by e-mail
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Epic Marketing website with new layout
The website of Epic Marketing displays in new glamour (not completely finished, yet), and
to celebrate, the news say that Simon 2 is definitely comming, despite preorders have not
yet reached the 500 mark.
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03 Feb 2000
M. Wenngatz by e-mail
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Diavolo Update
Finally! We are able to ship the latest version of Diavolo Backup. Some words on the handling
of distribution. Diavolo Backup 2000 will only be available as Pro version (71,07 Euro), or
for the DraCo as Terra version (152,36 Euro).
If you have a DB Standard Version, the update is 25.56 Euro.
If you have a DB Pro version, the update is 12.78 Euro.
If you have a DraCo Terra version, the update is 12.78 Euro.
If you have a DB Pro version and need Terra, the update is 81.30 Euro (DraCo only).
The update is send out as lha file. The update and support can only be handled by e-mail for
now. The update has to be payed by credit card or Eurocheque. Other ways of payment are NOT
available. The first shipping will take place on Friday, February 4th, 2000.
To order your update bindingly:
e-mail to info@crevico.com containing the following data:
Order:
Full Name:
Serial Nr. of your previous DB:
I pay by credit card, card nr., date
of expiry:
My e-mail address:
I pay by cheque.
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03 Feb 2000
Len Carsner by e-mail
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AmiTech Dayton Amiga Users Group Project for the A2K Show
An offer to put your advertising in the AmiTech newsletter, which will be handed out for free
to every visitor of the A2K Show, North America´s largest Amiga show.
Read the full press release at the title link.
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03 Feb 2000
Fun Time World
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The Ticker v1.0
With "The Ticker", Amiga Central is offering a new
service. Instead of visiting a web-site explicitly, the special Ticker program automatically
displays the current headlines. To read the messages, all you have to do is clicking on the
headlines.
The free program runs on Amigas with AmigaOS v3.x, 1 MB RAM, Internet connection and the Open
URL Library 2.x. It has been developed by Chris Page (The
World Foundry), the idea is from Chris Korhonen. Ports are planned for e.g. Linux, Windows
and BeOS.
Download: skin_dev.lzx
the_ticker.lzx
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03 Feb 2000
AROS
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AROS and OAF
AROS will become the development section of OAF. OAF is the
Open Amiga Foundation which COSA will turn into.
OAF will care about the public
relations and contact to Amiga. They will collect all informations and summarize them for
AROS, so AROS can concentrate on the development. They will also care about money and
legal matters, which means a lot less work for AROS.
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03 Feb 2000
Czech Amiga News
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World Foundry News from January 31st, 2000
Explorer 2260 Update, Maim & Mangle Update, TWF Opinion Poll - see the title link.
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03 Feb 2000
Czech Amiga News
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Delays with MorphOS
The developer package for MorphOS will not be released
this month.
Main reason for this is that Frank Mariaks CyberstormPPC failed in late
1999, and it took Phase5 two send-in/send-back cycles to realize that it is beyond repair.
Read the full article at the title link.
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