Amiga buyout fake (26-Mar-97 )

Stefan Mueller denies a rumour that said that a consortium of investors, amongst them the [German] Metro-Gruppe, will "have bought" the Amiga on the 28.03.97 [notice, the mail was written before that date and despite that is using the past tense]. This is not possible, because the 28.03 is a bank holiday in Germany.

 · Posted by Stefan Mueller in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Almathera's future (25-Mar-97 )

According to Jason Compton, who heard it from a collegue, Grandslam has picked up Almathera's product line, as well as Jolyon and Paul Ralph.

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

News on the buyout (25-Mar-97 )

Art Skiles phoned Amiga Technologies and was told several interesting things. First, Hembach is apparently on vacation until April 7. There are several bidders, but "they" are talking to one bidder in particular. It should be finalized in about two weeks. QuikPak is apparently no longer in the running.

 · Posted by Art Skiles in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

New cheap accelerator? (24-Mar-97 )

Madhu Surendranath reports that at Amiga Computing's News page a new accelerator is mentiones, which is being developed by IAT International and which will enable speeds of up to 200MHz for all Amiga's with 020+. It is said to retail for about 120 UKP [±190 USD]. Madhu suspects that this may be an April Fool's Joke.

 · Posted by Madhu Surendranath in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Open Letter to Amiga Magazin (24-Mar-97 )

"Michael" forwards an Open Letter to German Amiga Magazin, which is based upon a survey on the Internet. Some of the criticisms expressed in the letter are that the articles sound like advertisements, that 1/3 of the mag is "wasted" for the magazine "Amiga-Games", that the layout of the game magazine does not match the rest of the pages, that many reviews have been announced but never written, that there are no criticisms against advertisers, that the cover CD is not interesting and up-to-date, that workshops are spread about many issues and that there are too many articles about the Internet.

 · Posted by Michael in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Modular systems (23-Mar-97 )

Dave Haynie explains the advantage of modular computer systems. I have 13 separate audio/music components here in my office, not counting computers. The modular approach is the right one. I don't have to replace may amp or mixer just to change to new montiors or a new DAT deck. Additionally, not everyone wants or needs the same things, a modular system is more easily tailored to your needs.

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Fourth Level Developments ripp-off (23-Mar-97 )

According to Dave Haynie, Fourth Level Developments only paid for about 50 copies of DiskSalv 4, selling much more. Dave repeadely asked them to pay and finally pulled their copyright authorization last fall. He strongly urges anybody with DiskSalv4 from FLD to demand a refund. These guys are criminals, and they have been stealing from the Amiga industry way, way too long.

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Haynie comments (23-Mar-97 )

Building PowerUp boards is no more difficult than the A3000+ system I did in 1991. This kind of thing [PowerUp] is a one man project. Doing a whole new system [A\Box] at the complexity level they're talking about would take way more people. Never having done this before will be a problem for them somewhere along the project. Phase5 have scrapped all their previous research for a UNIX kernel - although Dave points out that all their research may have been a port of the Exec running on the 68K. He doesn't think Phase5 wanted pOS at any time. But since proDAD can support the OS on anyone's PowerPC system, they have a much greater potential target [than Phase5]. [There's more stuff in the article, but since this month's file is already way too large I won't cover everything. Sorry.]

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

PIOS ONE rumours (23-Mar-97 )

"dos" cites a mail by "E.F.C." [can't these guys use real names?] that says that PIOS never planed to include a MacOS because the license fees would be too high; that's why they asked Christian Bauer who now works on a MacEmu for the BeOS. "dos" aks where "E.F.C." can possibly get these internal informations from.

 · Posted by dos in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

News from Eagle (22-Mar-97 )

In reply to a post stating that there is a link on Eagle's site hinting at a a cooperation between PIOS and Eagle (Siamese and PIOS ONE), Gert Rene Schmidt says that Eagle are currently rebuilding their pages, inclduing French translations. The site should be operational within a week.

 · Posted by Gert Rene Schmidt in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

New Installer? (22-Mar-97 )

Daniel Kasmeroglu says that he's currently developing a new Installer. He's working on two programs: a normal installer complete with Saveable Preferences and an Install-script creator. He says he only recently started programming and asks for comments and suggestions.

 · Posted by Daniel Kasmeroglu in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

QuikPak not out? (21-Mar-97 )

According to Jason Compton, QuikPak are not out, apparently they did not withdraw their bid.

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

#Amiga97 apology (19-Mar-97 )

Jason Compton apologises for not being able to make it to his own schedules conferences from the Gateway show. Apparently, the hotel wasn't very cooperative and there was no standard phone line to the conference area. He was able to get online for a few minutes from the sixth floor, thanks to some other users. The second day, they had a line, but problems with the ISP setup and connecting to IRC servers.

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Java on the Amiga (19-Mar-97 )

Eric Giguere forwards an interview with Alain Penders, Vice-President of Finale Development, a new company working on porting Java to the Amiga. They are developing new browser with a "Java Virtual Machine", called MOca.

 · Posted by Eric GIGUERE in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

PIOS One and AT buyout (19-Mar-97 )

According to Stephan Sauermann, the PIOS ONE is "just standing" at the CeBIT... It is not yet working. Apparently, QuikPak are out, there are 3 remaining lawyers bidding for AT, plus there is Eagle, although Stephan thinks these three lawyers are simply bidding for licenses and patents, [not for continuing Amiga development].

 · Posted by Stephan Sauermann in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Quasar terminates French Distribution agreement (17-Mar-97 )

According to a official press release, Quasar Distribution terminates their distribution agreement with France Festival Distribution due to piracy of PC-Task 4. Owner Serge Hammouche was selling pirated copies of PC-Task updates and full packages. His company is no longer authorised to sell any Quasar products, French users can upgrade directly at Quasar. Quasar point out that all PC-Task versions are sold with printed manuals and a properly printed disk label.

 · Posted by Peter Fregon in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

#Amiga97 IRC channel (17-Mar-97 )

Apparently, there wasn't said anything useful on #Amiga97, an IRC channel that had been created for the Amiga show in St. Louis. There wasn't a connection from the show floor [which had been planned], so that Jason Compton was only online for about 15 minutes each day [of the 2 days]. About the only interesting thing that was said [and it sounds quite sad] is that Carl Sassenrath had to sell his car to keep going. [Don't forget that Carl Sassenrath requires contributions to continue his work. Details are available on www.rebol.com.]

 · Posted by gregh in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Almathera is gone (16-Mar-97 )

Almathera no longer exists. Apparently, there will be no future updates of Photogenics. [One other article states that the main cause for Almathera going down is.... VIScorp (who did not pay the biolls)...]

 · Posted by Jernej Pecjak in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

PIOS ONE on VOX (15-Mar-97 )

Rainer Benda reports that German TV channel VOX had a 50 second newsflash about the PIOS ONE. Dave Haynie spoke about the concept and mentioned the A2000 and exchangable CPU cards as model. Three operating systems will be available and existing Amiga users can continue using their programs on this machine (along with BeOS and MacOS). 2000 DEM [1200 USD] were mentioned as price, the machine should be available in April.

 · Posted by Rainer Benda in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Browser usage (15-Mar-97 )

Amicrawler.Com announces the result of a week long study concerning the wevb browser share for Amiga computers [based upon visits on the amicrawler.com website]. Topping the list is IBrowse with 68.5%, followed by AWeb (16.1%) and Voyager (14.6%). Older browsers score less than 1%. The most popular browser version was IBrowse 1.02 (7850 visitors), followed by Voyager 2.10 (2557), IBrowse 1.02demo (2433) and AWeb 2.1 (1967). A total of 23566 visitors were included in the survey.

 · Posted by David Tiberio in comp.sys.amiga.announce [L].

New Internet concepts (14-Mar-97 )

Holger Kruse presents some relatively new Internet concepts. He explains how they works and he points out that the Amiga could again play a major role on the Internet if it supported these concepts soon enough. Miami will support them as soon as possible and he invites authors to start developing programs that take advantage of them, too. He offers his help to anybody who is interested.

 · Posted by Gerard Cornu in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

MUI news (14-Mar-97 )

Stefan Stuntz says there are currently no optimized versions of MUI for 020+ processors. These are planned for later releases and as a special bonus for registered users. He adds that it is now possible to use First Virtual for secure internet registration.

 · Posted by Stefan Stuntz in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

PIOS ONE not ready (14-Mar-97 )

Dr. Peter Kittel reports that the PIOS ONE is not yet running for the CeBIT. The article was written 13th March at 10:43, ie. nearly two hours after the CeBIT opened. Apparently they are still in Hildesheim; with Dave Haynie and Andy Finckel busy working on getting it working.

 · Posted by Dr. Peter Kittel in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Amiga Magazin 4/97 (12-Mar-97 )

There are currently a lot of criticisms about german Amiga Magazin floating on the net. Just one of the many posts is from Angela Schmidt who complains that one third of the magazine is advertisements, the second third is occupied by "Amiga Games" and only 33 pages are "real" articles. She also says that articles are badly reasearched and heavily influenced by advertisements. One example that she cites is that of CD-Creator, which has already been dedicated 20 pages in recent issues, while other programs are simply ignored.

 · Posted by Angela Schmidt in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

VIScorp 1997 (11-Mar-97 )

According to Jason Compton, not much happened at VIScorp during 1997. Late January Bill Buck resignated and was replaced by Larry Siegel, who was President of Atari (Jason is not sure which division) between 1988 and 1992. VIScorp will move to LA in the next month or two. That's it. ;-)

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

AmiOPEN and AmiOS (10-Mar-97 )

Nicholas Blachford posts a proposal for a potential hardware and manufacturer independent Amiga based operating system. He speaks of possible market fragmenting and what can be done against it. The Hardware should be accessed via a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and there should be an Amiga Programming Specification (APS). He then describes how this could be achieved and closes his post with specifications [much like the "Multimedia PC" rating on the PC, where MPC1 is a 386, MPC2 is a 486 with more stuff etc.]

 · Posted by Nicholas Blachford in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Return of the Jedi (10-Mar-97 )

Dale Larson thinks it's ironic that the release of the special edition of Return of the Jedi [Star Wars 2] has been moved to the same weekend as the Gateway Computer Show/Amiga 97 (Return of the Amiga)?.

 · Posted by Dale L. Larson in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

ProDad vs. phase5 (10-Mar-97 )

According to Bernhard Lindner, who forwards a reply to a mail he sent proDAD; Phase5 didn't have much developer support in the past, so that proDAD was forced to get all their information through Haage&Partner. They say that since delivery of the card 4 months ago, nothing new has been developed and they assume that the only explanation for this is "bye bye". proDAD are still interested in working together with Phase5, though.

 · Posted by Bernhard Lindner in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Phase5 in Oz (09-Mar-97 )

According to Navroz Sethna who contacted Australian Phase5 distributor Sigmacom, it was impossible for the company to deal with Phase5. They had practically given up trying to get their products in AUstralia (after many attempts at trying)..

 · Posted by Navroz Sethna in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Nazi Fakes (09-Mar-97 )

In reply to recent posts, Michael Ulbrich denies that Rainer Benda has any relation to Nazi groups on the Internet, a fact which has also been confirmed by German magazine Chip. Apparently somebody created a fake rumour...

 · Posted by Michael Ulbrich in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

LZX on the PC (08-Mar-97 )

According to Jonathan Forbes, LZX has been discontinued on the Amiga, but he had ported it to Java and it will be released as part of Microsoft's class librairies.

 · Posted by Eric GIGUERE in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Two PIOS One (08-Mar-97 )

There will be two different variants of the PIOS ONE, this concerns both the null series and the "normal series". There will be a "transAM" with pOS and BeOS (for the Amiga market) and a "Maxxtrem" with MacOS and BeOS (for the Mac market). There will be minimal differences in hardware, ADB will be used instead of PS/2.

 · Posted by Dr. Peter Kittel in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Myst on the Amiga (07-Mar-97 )

After several rumors, there is a real announcement of the forthcoming Amiga port of Myst by clickBOOM.

 · Posted by Eric GIGUERE in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

"In the spirit of the Amiga" (07-Mar-97 )

Dave Haynie claims that the Amiga spirit came from the people who made the Amiga what it is and that simply buying the name can't recapture that spirit. He points out that he never said that PIOS is the next Amiga, but that they are building Amigas in the spirit of the Amiga, a next generation replacement.

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Amiga Nazis? (07-Mar-97 )

Gerhard Mueller forwarded a rather long article about right-wing exremist activities on the Internet. The names "Rainer Benda" and "Amiga" occur several times, so this may be interesting to read if you understand German.

 · Posted by Gerhard Mueller in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Cookies (06-Mar-97 )

Victor Ducedre corrects some mistakes concerning Cookies that were posted in reply to the IBrowse 1.1 announcements (which supports Cookies). He reminds people that Cookies are not PC or Netscape specific and that they are neither programs nor viruses. They are like a token or passport containing specific information that a server gives to a client. Cookies do not provoque more advertisements and they can't run programs on remote computers. Cookies are merely bits of information.

 · Posted by Victor Ducedre in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Educational Amiga, PC advantages and Amiga history (06-Mar-97 )

Dave Haynie thinks that the Amiga would be perfect for a course in operating systems. It does most of the things right, in a modern way, and it doesn't tie the hands of the programmer. He adds that the good thing about PC's is that you can drive 5-10 miles to Computer City or 30 other stores and buy a PClone, which is no longer possible with the Amiga. On the other side, the Amiga system is smart enough to avoid the question, it doesn't matter how well it's supported at the computer store, since the customer is fat and happy at home, getting real work done, playing the game, and probably oblivious to the problems PC folk have. He then points out once again that the Amiga is fairly old; that the last major high-end work was done in 1989 and 1990. AGA in 1991 and 040 boards in 1992 were the last real projects, the time between then and The End was split between "polictical delays" and "stuff you'll never really see"....

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Amiga Successors (06-Mar-97 )

Dave Haynie philosophises about the possible Amiga successors. Only the marketplace can name the true Amiga successor. He adds that PIOS originally intended to help the new owners [of AT] to port the OS to RISC; but since that wasn't possible, they have chosen to back other OS's. pOS hold the best promise for making an instantly recognized AmigaOS environment on the PowerPC, while the BeOS is the most forward looking OS around on any CPU, and also very true to the goals of the AmigaOS, if not pre se an API-compatible implementation of those ideas. He finishes with the interesting remark (or suggestion?) that the marketplace will crown the new king, or maybe even elect a congress instead..

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

New PPC chip (06-Mar-97 )

Carl Muller posts informations about a new PowerPC chip code-named "Arthur". It will start at 250 MHz and will be available by midyear. It should be 90% faster than a 603e and 40% faster than a 604e (integer speed). Other advantages are a new L2 cache interface, a smaller surface and less power consumption than Intel's Klamath and a top speed of 350 MHz.

 · Posted by Carl Mueller in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Amigas being manufactured (05-Mar-97 )

Dr. Peter Kittel says that Amigas are still being manufactured at QuikPak, but that Solectron no longer builds them [QuikPak = A4000, Solectron = A1200]. He points out that QuikPak's home is in Pennsylvania, USA, which is indeed near West Chester.

 · Posted by Dr. Peter Kittel in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

IRC not reliable (05-Mar-97 )

One more example that shows you can't trust IRC as secure information provider: Somebody said on IRC that Dr. Peter Kittel had mailed him and said the Amiga bid was over and would be official within 2 or 3 weeks. In reality, Dr. Petter Kittel never said anything like the mentioned stuff above. He agrees that such rumours from IRC are about as believable and relaible as when someone would write "... a fortune-teller predicted...".

 · Posted by Dr. Peter Kittel in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Haynie comments, part 2371 (05-Mar-97 )

Dave Haynie again, this time he comments on the Alpha processor and possible uses for a QuikPak machine running NT on the Alpha side of the computer (AmigaOS on the other). He also comments on the PPC, stating that the PPC603 successor will be at least as fast as the Klamath [Intel's new processor]. He then compares the market of Alpha's and PPC's and concludes that only the PPC marked is reasonable. According to Dave Haynie, the reason QuikPak's 4000T models are so expensive is that A4000 machines are inherently expensive and QuikPak can't perform miracles. He says that because of Ali and Sydnes, the A4000 was pretty similar to the 1989 A3000 and differences in the A4000, even trivial stuff like AA support, IDE, etc. had to be hacked in. The CPU board was never integrated as planned, so it stayed slow and expensive, even though the replacement design would have paid for itself in two months production, and offered much faster systems..

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Two versions of the ONE (05-Mar-97 )

Clemens Dumas reports that PIOS is intending to release two systems; the TransAM and the Maxxtreme. The second one looks like the ONE while the second is supposed to run a ROM-independent MacOS.

 · Posted by Clemens Dumat in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Do Phase5 think the Amiga is dead? (05-Mar-97 )

Rudi Chiarito talked to Ralph Schmidt on #Amiga (IRC). Using his nick Laire, Schmidt said that P5 won't use pOS, so it won`t run on any P5 hw. He said they won't give ProDad any help, but are instead including a Unix kernel. When asked whether the A\Box OS will have commodities, datatypes and other amiga-like capabilities, he replies that it will only have an Amiga Emulation...AmigaOS itself will die with 68k. You have to realize that AmigaOS was killed some years ago...and it will never be revived. [Phase5 repeatedly pointed out that opinions of individual employees are not necessarily those of Phase5 -Y].

 · Posted by Samuel Devulder in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

Draco reviewed (05-Mar-97 )

Eric Giguere reports that the Draco was reviewed in the March issue of Camera Video (issue 103), a French magazine. If you understand French, the article is worth a read. According to the magazine, the Draco is a pretty nice system both for novices and professionals.

 · Posted by Eric Giguere in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

Atari vs. Amiga (04-Mar-97 )

Yoda thinks that the PIOS ONE vs. A\Box war that will be taking place is actually in many ways a case of history repeating itself. He thinks that the PIOS ONE is similar to the Atari ST in spirit (off-the-shelf parts, an off-the-shelf OS) while the A\Box is an Amiga in spirit (a more expensive machine, with custom hardware, and a Unix-like OS developed in-house).

 · Posted by Yoda in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

MUI registration (04-Mar-97 )

A rather amusing story comes from Nathan Black. He tells that he registered MUI in December 1995 (at the US registration center). He didn't receive the keyfile, so he send a complaint to Stefan Stuntz who promptly sent him the keyfile. The amusing part is that the keyfile from the US registration center arrived now - 15 months late.

 · Posted by Nathan Black in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

A2000 11 years old (04-Mar-97 )

Somebody said it's a pity that there won't be an A2000 version of the P5 PPC accelerator. Jason Compton replies to this that, after all, the A2000 is eleven years old, based on a 68000 and the slow Zorro II bus. The A2000s of the world have had a very good run, [..] They [Phase5] have decided that it is not a good choice for PPC.. He adds that this is hardly a shock, as this decision was taken back in 1995 and perhaps influenced by the fact that fitting a Caipirinha on the PPC expansion port would not be a physical or technological fit for the A2000.

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Amiga survival (04-Mar-97 )

Jason Compton thinks that the Amiga will not only survive as software emulation. If the 8-bit machines of the 80s are any indication, all that's left of the Amiga will not just be software emulation. I think computer platforms are surviving far beyond what anybody had ever dreamed.

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Filing system expiring (04-Mar-97 )

Garry Stasiuk reports that the v43.11 BETA version of the fastfilesystem now pops up a yellow alert saying that it has expired.

 · Posted by Garry Stasiuk in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

VIScorp definately out (03-Mar-97 )

In reply to the post just below, Gilles Bourdin says that VIScorp is out, definately. He says that there hasn't been any contact between them and Tyschtschenko since November. He adds that VIScorp and the people working there are a joke, that there is no money and no plan. The "good" people there left soon, those who remain are not worth the trouble talking about them. He ends his post with the words it would be nice if the name of this ridiculous company and their apostles would be removed from any chronics.

 · Posted by Gilles Bourdin in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

VIScorp officially out (03-Mar-97 )

According to Petro T., VIScorp is officially out, but that there are rumours that they are still interested, though nothing concrete has been said. Eric Giguere adds that it's interesting to see that Amiga Technologies has evolved during the bankruptcy, with new distributors for Russia and Malaysia amongst others.

 · Posted by Eric GIGUERE in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

Phase 5 news (02-Mar-97 )

Phase 5 published lots of press releases and comments on their website at www.phase5.de. One of the many news is the announcement of a DM 699 PPC603 card for the Amiga 1200 and a PPC604 card for the A3000/4000. There will also be an add-on card for PPC-Cyberstorms in the second half of this year featuring the CAIPIRINHA chip(set).

 · Posted by Eric GIGUERE in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

PIOS ONE distribution info (02-Mar-97 )

It has not been concrectely decided which gfx card will ship with the PIOS ONE. The null series will be directly distributed by PIOS, all later machines via dealers. Dr. Peter Kittel points out that PIOS already have international contacts, they will publish infos about them as soon as the machines become available.

 · Posted by Dr. Peter Kittel in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Dave Haynie comments, part 3 (02-Mar-97 )

One more post from Dave Haynie. This time he compares the I/O handling of the Amiga chipset to the methods used in the Mac and the PC. Concerning the PIOS ONE, he says that its DMA will be better than on most Amigas. He agrees with another poster that the chipset was what made the Amiga a good multitasker, but he points out that it's just how bad the other systems were in 1985, or how good the Amiga designers were. I don't think you will EVER again see as many advanced technologies, never before seen in a personal computer, all showing up in one system at once, as they did on the A1000. Most of the aspects of the Amiga live on, in standard hardware, only somewhere between 5x and 100x+ faster.

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Dave Haynie comments, part 2 (02-Mar-97 )

Dave Haynie seems to be fairly busy commenting posts... ;-) This time he spoke about RTG and the advantages that would have resulted if the Amiga had had implemented this. He says that Zorro 3 is as fast as EISA and would have been as cheap as PCI; but only if the volume had been there. He said he picked PCI as the winner the day [he] read the first specs [..] in 1992.
Now we have a system that's in all ways superior to the PC, while at the same time using their best advantages, like cheap I/O chips, for ourselves. Life's getting good, even if I only get 2-3 hours sleep a night..

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Dave Haynie comments (02-Mar-97 )

In a recent article, Dave Haynie commented on a lot of subjetcs, among others the A\Box, Unix, the AmigaOS, AGA, AAA, PCI.... The article is far too long to mention everything here, and it is full of sentences that could be quoted here. Instead, please check out the real article, it's definately worth reading:

 · Posted by Dave Haynie in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

frames-capable browser (02-Mar-97 )

Colin Thompson reports that a new version of Omnipresence's IBrowse is available on Hisoft's page at www.hisoft.co.uk/ibrowse/support/. Amongst others, it features frames, cookies and new interbal decoding modes. [The update is only for registered users, not for users of the freely distributable demo version.]

 · Posted by colin in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Hembach... (02-Mar-97 )

According to Jason Compton, Hembach seems to have a wide latitude to do what he sees fit; the process is not entirely transparent to Jason. Hembach is running his own show and it's not really transparent to us.

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

GVP revival (02-Mar-97 )

A new company has been founded in the USA, called GVP-M. INC.. They purchased the intellectual rights from the former GVP and also the product line. There are no former employees there, but the new company works together with some of them.

 · Posted by Robert Wahnsiedler in de.comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Java on the Amiga! (02-Mar-97 )

At www.IAEhv.nl/users/weertj/KOFFIE/KOFFIE.html you can see more information about KOFFIE, the first Java-compatible Virtual Machine for the Amiga.

 · Posted by Eric Giguere in fr.comp.sys.amiga [L].

ToolManager 3.0 not widely accepted (02-Mar-97 )

Just one of the many negative comments about the new version of ToolManager... I removed V3 the day after I installed it. :(.

 · Posted by Lorenzo Morselli in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

No news about new Amiga (02-Mar-97 )

Jason Compton doesn't know much about the new Amiga that will supposedly be produced by Direct Software either. He says he just received the spec sheet we've all seen by now, but that his reply mail to Direct Software in the UK bounced, so that he doesn't really know anything, too.

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

QuikPak not paying bills? (02-Mar-97 )

As it seems, QuikPak did not yet pay Silent Paw for the LCD Panels they used in their prototypes. The bill amounts to US$ 3000 and is oustanding since last November.

 · Posted by Fabian Jimenez in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

PIOS ONE advantages (02-Mar-97 )

The main difference between the PIOS ONE and the Motorola or IBM PPCP motherboards is the different architecture of the motherboard. There are all the experiences from nearly 10 years of Amiga accelerator boards gathered, in that you better put the main performance determining parts like RAM local on this board.

 · Posted by Dr. Peter Kittel in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

75 MHz no solution (02-Mar-97 )

According to Dr. Peter Kittel, using a 75 MHz CPU to further reduce costs of the PIOS ONE is impossible, as the 133 MHz version is already the slowest and cheapest available currently. He says that he can imagine the 133 MHz CPU will fade out soon, so that it begins at 200 MHz.

 · Posted by Dr. Peter Kittel in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Conspiracy theories (02-Mar-97 )

Yet another conspiracy theory... I'm beginning to wonder if there are people getting their pockets padded and making a good living keeping the Amiga tied up in limbo? Sometimes it sure seems like it! :(.

 · Posted by CMM in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

Amiga purchase put back a week (02-Mar-97 )

Philip Kaulfuss says that he heard the Amiga purchase would be put back a week. [That would be now ;-) ]

 · Posted by Philip Kaulfuss in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].

No 28 Feb deadline (02-Mar-97 )

Jason Compton insists on the fact that there was no magical "deadline" on February 28th. He says that at this date they just would have liked to have an answer, nothing else.

 · Posted by Jason Compton in comp.sys.amiga.misc [L].