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By the time you read this, a long day of meetings at VIScorp will have ended, meetings between corporate officers and bankers, all working out the terms of the Amiga purchase. It will soon be time to close the book on another brief chapter in Amiga history and start working to make sure that the next 12 months are entirely unlike the last 12. In the meantime, life goes on. Katherine Nelson and I will be at Amiga Convention '96 in Montreal next weekend--I hope to see as many of you there. AWeb II has finally been released commercially, and I'm hearing tales of IBrowse's release as well. Perhaps the best news in a long time is that since the release of the Amiga Developer CD last month, over 2,000 have been sold. To me, that says there are at least 2,000 people who are incredibly anxious to develop better software for the Amiga. Laid end to end, those people would stretch over 2 miles. More importantly, their efforts will give us all something new to do for quite a long time to come. I hope everybody still has their seatbelt on from last year. Things are only going to get more interesting, I think. Sure, things aren't perfect. I wish I had the answers to all of the policy questions we all want to hear addressed. After talking with Don Gilbreath and Raquel Velasco of VIScorp today, a few more things are falling into place. So sit back and enjoy. Jason ========================================================================== Reader Mail =========================================================================== From: penguin@isns1.shasta.com (Larry Penland) Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 02:59:31 Subject: The Winning EDGE ONLINE Hello Jason, I read the letter from Michael Ingleby in AR4.09. It struck me that while a MIDI interface built into the NEXT GENERATION AMIGA is a good idea, it is less than a winning strategy for the future. The great majority of the public "don't know from Midi and could care less". What the Amiga has needed for a long time is built in connectivity (read networking) but that is not a killer either. Most Amigas will live far from one another. There is a technology coming on line that could be the next killer application, CABLE MODEMs. Motorola (among others) has started producing new modems to connect over cable television. Each manufacturer has his own take on what they are but there seems to be some common specs. Fiber optic cable will carry the information from system to system,and into the Internet, but coax cable will carry television and digital information from the system headend to the home. Coax has a theoretical bandwidth of 30 megabits per second (30Mbps), but actual throughput will be lower because the bandwidth is shared among the cable subscribers. The Motorola Cybersurfer cable modems have the ability to download from the cable headend at 10 Mbps and to upload from your computer at 768 kilobits per second (768 Kbps). This compares to 33.6 Kbps for the current fastest analog telephone modems, and 128 Kbps for ISDN. Television cable systems will have to rebuild their systems to allow bi-directional amplification and communication, and many are making plans to do that. Then each system will need to choose the modem technology that they will use. TCI, the largest cable company in the world is getting ready to launch the @HOME network. It seems to be supporting several modems,including the Motorola. The articles and advertisements that I have seen do not list how these cable modems will connect to the computer. So in search of more info, I got onto the @HOME webpage (www.home.net). The specs listed there call for a minimum system (PEE CEE of course) that includes a 10 base Ethernet networking card. For those who don't know,10 Base is 10 Mbps. Sound familiar? So it appears that the cable modem connection is going to be via ethernet interface. If this is the case, and since the Amiga could use good networking in professional arenas, a built in 10base ethernet on the low end machines would position them for the new high speed connections into the Internet via cable modem and on University and College networks. For the highend machines it would be nice to have the interface easily upgradable to the newer 100 base ethernet. A MIDI interface would be nice but since the cable modem would allow a permanent connection into the internet it will touch many more needs in the future. Of course both would be even better. --- --- --- --- --- Date: 10 Jul 96 17:18:34 +0500 From: george@aic.net.au (George L) Subject: ImageFX upgrades Jason, I'd like to publicly say thanks to Nova Design Inc for a great product (ImageFX) and even better support. A few weeks ago, I purchased ImageFX 2.1a from a local Amiga dealer for the full price of $400AU. After reading AR408, I learned that version 2.6 was available and that ver2.1's price had been reduced. I wrote a letter to Nova Design enquiring about the upgrade deal, and from 'outta the blue' I promptly received a free upgrade to version 2.6 Its service like this that makes me proud to own an Amiga... Keep up the good work, Regards, George. --- --- --- --- --- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 09:21:05 -0700 From: Dean Husby Subject: Reader Mail I just read the article 'EZ135 Follow up' in AR4.09. I thought Paul's review the first time was based on greed. More speed and megs... But, you have to give someplace for that extra speed. In this case, as poor Paul found out, was quality. It sounds like he's bent his drive head out of alienment. A Syquest repair. He should ship the drive to them demanding it to be repaired... He claims the Zip to be 'Dog Slow' and is too light. (That I agree on. You cannot use it in the upright position because it will fall over. ((I use Both cable ports))) To fix this problem, you can buy a LEAD strip and attach it to the back/side of the drive if you feel it's that needed. But 'Dog Slow'? Not quite! The Zip drive runs at about 940k on my A3000 (sysinfo) and does have a access time of about 29ms. IF you optimize the disk it runs much quicker since it's the search time that slows down the drive and not the actual Data Transfer rate. I've owned my Zip: Drive since DEC. '95 and have 7 disks currently. I have it chained to 4 other devices in my external SCSI case. (easy to make!) With No problems in Set up/formating/conflicts. I have dropped 3 of my Zip: Disks about 4 feet onto tile with NO DATA loss. This proved my choice was the right one. Spin up and loading/unloading are a dream. 4 seconds until I can use it. Paul also said that the ZIP was the way to go in the end, I'm glad he's seen the light, but with more and more Amiga users hailing the JAZ drive now, with it's fast speed and 1 gig space... I do hope people listen and not buy the Syquest rip off coming out... Thanks Dean (TFM on #amiga) --- --- --- --- --- From: rknop@mop.caltech.edu Subject: Reader Mail Hi Jason -- this for either the "Reader Mail" or the "Opinion" section of AR, whatever you think best. These are just some thoughts I had seeing Robert Davis' article on being on the internet in AR409. I think that many people, Amiga users in particular, underestimate the value of a Unix shell internet account. There are three primary advantages to such an account. (1) It's easy to set up. (2) It's fast. (3) It's available from anywhere you have a computer with a modem and any plotz terminal program. Sure, it's limited, and sure, it doesn't cost that much more to have a PPP account nowadays. However, there is much to be said for it, and you can do _most_ of what you end up really wanting to be able to do with an internet account anyway. As regards the first point. On a local BBS I call, every so often somebody will log on and post how they are having a terrible time getting AmiTCP to work. Invariably, the sysop or somebody else suggests that I might be able to help, since I'm a bit of an AmiTCP junkie. (Not only did I write a few small pieces of Napsaterm, but I've got AmiTCP running both on an A3000 with an ethernet card (tmnwh.caltech.edu) and over a PPP account.) And, invariably, I fail to get the poor chap going. Always, I know going into it, that the only way for me to really help would be to go to his computer, sit down, and futz around until I got things working. With a shell account, you run your terminal program. Lots of people know how to run terminal programs. It's trivial in comparison to getting AmiTCP running. You log on, and things work. Sure, Unix isn't intuitive, but if you are an Amiga shell user, you won't find Unix that prohibitive. And it has perfectly usable E-mail programs (I recommend Pine) along with a host of other utilities. The second point, speed. This is the most significant one. When people discuss the internet account they're trying to get, I suggest perhaps a shell account. They always say, oh, no, you can't do the internet without graphics nowadays. Well, sure, there're a lot of graphics out there. But IMHO the most important part of the internet is E-mail -- which is text, text, text. Even cruising the web, sure, the graphics are pretty, but most of the _information_ you're actually after is text based. Now, here's the rub. If you're using a 14.4K modem, or even a 28.8K modem, a web page with big graphics -- the sort of page which inspired you to get a graphical internet connection in the first place -- will take bloody _forever_ to load. When I use AWeb or another Amiga browser from home, I generally turn off automatic image loading and only load a few of the images I think I want to see. With a Unix shell account, you can run lynx, which is a perfectly effective world wide web browser. No graphics, but all the text. And, it's faster! On two or three fronts. One, you don't wait for the graphics to load. Two, rendering the plain ASCII text is faster for lynx than rendering the fonts is for graphical browsers (this is a minor effect). Three -- and I doubt most people fully appreciate this -- if you visit a long document, the whole document doesn't have to go through the 14.4Kbaud or 28.8Kbaud bottleneck that is your modem. You visit a 100Kbyte text document, being interested in only a small piece of it. If you are running the browser on your computer over a PPP connection, the full 100K has to be sent over the modem to your computer. If you're running Lynx on a Unix shell account, the server you have your shell account on gets the 100K document, and all that gets sent over the modem is the text that's visible on your screen. The third point, availability. Once you've finally got your Amiga set up to run your PPP account, you can probably fairly easily access it -- from _that_ Amiga. A Unix shell account, you can access from pretty much any terminal. You can even telnet into it, generally, from another account (e.g. a friend's)! If your Amiga has a hard drive crash, you don't have to be disconnected from your E-mail when all you can do is borrow your friend's PC. So, this has become long and rambling. But, to summarize my point, yes, there are things a PPP account has to offer, and advantages to having your Amiga fully "on the internet." On the other hand, for most of what most people do on the internet, a text-based shell account is a perfectly fine solution -- and it's easier, often somewhat cheaper, and faster than a PPP account. If what you want is to be able to cruise the web to look for textual information there, and to receive and send E-mail, don't a priori eschew a Unix shell account because it's not "the hot thing." -Rob Knop --- --- --- --- --- From: jmason@dynanet.com Subject: I think I know what the problem is with the EZ135 or AR Mail Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 16:34:17 GMT I own several computers, and while I haven't encountered any problems using the EZ on my A2000 yet, I expect I will. I hope to make this story as short as possible, but I must say that it is complicated. In fact, reading this from bottom to top may be a good idea... My troubles all started when I decided to re-tool my substandard 486DX2/66. I bought a SCSI controller, a replacement EIDE controller, and the EZ. I installed the SCSI card, its drivers and the EZ, and its drivers first... Surprisingly, there were no headaches involved in this process. So I thought to myself, "Great, my luck must have changed, usually this requires hours of tinkering because of IRQ conflict this, EMM386 that, and HDD failure 'what?'" Well, the EIDE controller fix that notion right quick. After installation everything seems fine. Until the SQDRIVER.SYS line in my CONFIG.SYS, then my machine hangs... Well after a long exchange of email with EIDE card's tech support people, we came to the conclusion that it was fault in the motherboard (it's motherboard from hell BTW). I also called Syquest around this time and was told to try using the software supplied with my SCSI card. Things were fine and I was told that there shouldn't be a problem using the SCSI card's software. Now here's the bit that will be of interest to AMIGA users with EZ135 drives. Recently, cartridges formatted after I began using the generic driver have become grossly unreliable. I became very concerned and started by contacting Syquest. I asked them if it could be electromagnetic interference affecting the drive or the SCSI cable, I asked if it were possible brownouts were the cause, I also asked if it were because I was using generic drivers and disk utility software. All the tech support representative I sent email to could come up with was "You could get the cartridges replaced by calling ourcustomer [sic] service @ 1 800 245-2278." That didn't tell me if there might be a fault in my EZ Drive, or the cartridges, the SCSI cable, the placement of the drive (relative to other equipment), or the software I was using. So I started to re-evaluate the situation, and I stumbled onto what I think is the answer. I started trying to recover the data on the cartridges before I reformatted them to see if the problem was consistent. And then I noticed it. A consistency between all the cartridges with errors. They all had roughly 50MB of space remaining. Then it struck me. When I was using the Syquest software, the drive didn't seem to actually get formatted. Instead it seems as if the software altered the file structure. After all, how can you have IBM software "hidden" on a Macintosh formatted cartridge. When I used the generic software, it too seemed not to physically format the drive, it only partitioned it (I'm assuming that's what it did). This leads me to believe (and reading the little insert that comes with each cartridge supports) is that that portion of the cartridge containing the Mac/DOS/Windows software still exists and this is what causes the problem. I can't say if a low level format will solve the problem, or if it will simply cause more problems. What I think the AMIGA community needs to do is let the folks at Syquest know they are not amused. And see if whoever developed the Zip tools for the Iomega Zip drive can create similar software for the EZ135 Drive. I've tried sent email to Syquest and to Adaptec (the makers of my SCSI card) but have yet to receive a reply. So if I find out anything new, I'll let you know. =========================================================================== Notes From The Frontier Frank Salvatini franksal@xnet.com =========================================================================== NFTF 7/96 So I'm all freeze-frame, snapshot, bound-up in limbo-like nowheresville. I feel like a passenger during a Transporter malfunction. You know, dust all over the place, but going nowhere at the speed of light. This is the emotional condition of Amiganauts everywhere. As I talk to fellow club members and Amiga users around the world via the internet newsgroups, I find a general ennui, a malaise vaguely reminiscent of post-traumatic stress disorder. In fact, I'd probably call it that except the trauma is far from "post", and way the hell past "pre". We're definitely adrift in the middle of a huge sea of trauma, latitude 0, longitude 0 (isn't zero-zero island supposed to be around here somewhere:^). Anyway, a good number of Amiganauts seem rather despondent at the Viscorp-Escom receedings (as opposed to PROceedings). What with AT and Viscorp both spewing uncertain directions, vague promises, and NDA excuses, and Amigans riding roller-coaster rumors and swinging on vines of hope (what do you think would have happened to Tarzan if his vines were made of hope?), there are a hell of a lot of desertions to the PC and Mac platforms. Desertions by still loyal Amigans who look back with longing at the tombstones of dead girlfriends, knowing full well that they're settling for security and stability and mediocrity, and that the wilder, more passionate ride is over. They're doing a dead man's float in their individual pools of grief and anger and loss. Yup, this is the climate of the Amiga frontier. And, I say, to hell with it all. I'm tired of watching legal, and corporate and technical developments like an entymologist studying his bugs. Bugs disgust me and so do the latest "press releases," the hyper-hopeful-hype, and the killer app vaporware that has been the Amiganaut's steady diet for the last three years! I'm tired of being asked to visualize the large, juicy steak I'll be getting from the bone fragment I'm tossed. Now don't get me wrong. I've nothing but praise for the likes of the loyal companies that put their money where their mouth is. Hooray and extremely high kudos for Nova Design, and Stylus, Inc., and Wonder, and Safe Harbor and Software Hut, and Paxtron and Pios and Phase 5 and Oregon Research, and Chaocity and Quikpak and Softwood, and Softlogic, and Digita and Cloanto and Almathera and, yes, even NewTek and Scala,Inc.,(boy, I'm starting to feel better as I type this list:^). Well done, people. And Because you stuck with us thru thin (was there ever "thick"?), I'm sticking with you. That's right. I'm not jumping ship. I'm not deserting. Oh, sure, I use Mac's and PC's at work, but that's because I have to. I realize that though the press hype is all about those platforms "catching up" to the Amiga's capabilities, the fact - yes, fact - is that they are not there yet! Understand? NOT THERE YET! Win95's interface is still in your face, and Macintosh still makes me feel like I'm in a bicycle race with my training wheels on. No, it's only the Amiga that causes me to choose to be at the computer instead of having to be. With all the above metioned companies, I have software that I'll be using for years to come to produce what I both need and want to produce. But the big difference is that I'll enjoy doing it on the Amiga! The above lament was simply a plea to Viscorp or AT or Escom or whoever the hell owns our beloved technology, that time is getting to be more and more a commodity we have less and less of. We just don't have the time (or the inclination) to read or listen to your bullshit anymore. What set-top box? The idea of browsing Internet Web Pages on my TV set may give my Optamologist wet dreams, but not me! Who do you think is going to read text on TV's - especially text that's been created for SVGA output? Who do you think is going to RENT pieces of software for their everyday needs at what will no doubt be usurious prices? Perhaps you believe that marketing (a synonym for hype and lying) will create a demand for these useless products and methods. After all, look how Wild Bill Gates managed to convince the sheep that Wintel is the cat's meow. How Apple convinced the Graphic Arts industry's lambs that their overpriced, overprotective, memory-gluttonous hardware and software should be the industry standard. ("Hey, I'll just pass the cost on to the client, heh..heh.."). Well, I've said this before but it bears repeating: "Amiga users are not sheep, they're wolves." Remember that as you pick up your shepherd's staff. Now, Viscorp, or At, or Escom, if my "take" on this is ill-informed, or uninformed, or misinformed then please understand it is because I've been informed by you. Ciao for now... Frank Salvatini - The Prez - The Amiga Connection - Roselle, Illinois. =========================================================================== New to the Amiga scene is The Informer Newsletter. The Informer is a print newsletter devoted to the Amiga user. In this time of uncertainty for the Amiga, it is hard to know what is fact and what is fiction in the Amiga community. Many users have difficulty finding support or getting help for their problems, or just finding infor- mation on the Amiga in general. In some areas, it is even difficult to find an Amiga magazine. What The Informer does is supply you with information about the Amiga in a concise, capsuled format. We'll help you get in touch with dealers and developers, provide you with info on development projects, and help you come to grips with the internet. You'll read about useful programs and how to get them. We provide Email ad- dress, BBS listings, Web page URL's, phone numbers, and other means to communicate with Amiga companies and people. In addi- tion, you'll get the latest news about the Amiga computer and the Amiga community at large. And to top it off, everything from start to finish is produced using only Amiga computers, proving the versatility of this wonderful machine. If you would like to receive a free sample issue of The Informer (in the US or Canada), send your postal mailing address to: The In- former, PO Box 21, Newburgh, NY 12551-0021 or Email it to: fletcher.haug@bbs.mhv.net. -- Fletcher Haug, user of the UniBoard System @ mhv.net E-Mail: Fletcher.Haug@bbs.mhv.net The Official Info Pack on the Amiga Convention '96 Release 2.1 ========================================================================== ESCOM Bankruptcy ========================================================================== July 8, 1996 Escom Lays Off Employees As Stock Investigation Begins A WALL STREET JOURNAL News Roundup Escom AG, the giant German computer retailer that filed for protection from creditors last week, said it plans to lay off 1,900 of its 4,440 European employees and close an undisclosed number of stores. Meanwhile, Germany's Securities Trading Supervisory Office confirmed Friday that it is investigating alleged insider trading in Escom shares. The regulator said it had noticed a suspicious surge in the number of Escom shares traded, and a plunge in the stock's price, in the weeks preceding the company's announcement last Wednesday. "The turnover seen was very suspicious in comparison with previous levels," Anke Reeh-Schild, a spokeswoman for the office, said in response to an inquiry from Reuter News Service. Volume Jumps Ninefold She said that in the three weeks before Escom's announcement, volume in its shares had risen eight or ninefold from previous average levels. "The probe could take a few months," Ms. Reeh-Schild said. "At the moment it is a routine investigation against persons unknown." Escom could not be reached for comment. Separately, an Escom spokeswoman told the Associated Press that Chairman Helmut Jost is planning on a 1997 payroll of 2,500 European employees, 43% less than current staffing. In Germany, as many as a dozen of Escom's 130 stores could be closed, said Marc Ullrich, head of the Escom Computervertriebs-GmbH subsidiary. Escom has more than 450 stores across Europe and earlier this month announced it was closing 65 of its 235 U.K. branches. The company, Europe's second-largest computer retailer, with an estimated 2.35 billion marks ($1.55 billion) in sales last year, filed for creditor protection to save it from bankruptcy after a new estimate put its 1995 losses at 180 million marks, up from a March forecast of 125 million marks. Ms. Reeh-Schild said the insider-trading investigation would first center on electronically analyzing transaction volumes and price movements. Then banks would be asked for the names and addresses of customers on whose behalf the shares had been traded. Generally Illiquid Between June 3 and July 2, the day before Escom made its announcement, the company's share price slumped 49% to 4.63 marks from 9.15 marks. It ended trading Friday at 2.85 marks. A total of 105,128 Escom shares were traded on June 3, and in the following weeks volumes in the generally illiquid share surged, reaching more than one million shares on several days. Insider dealing was outlawed in Germany in 1994 as part of a drive to make the German financial center more attractive to investors and traders. The maximum punishment is five years in jail, but so far prosecutors have resorted to fines, with four sentences passed to date. The highest fine was imposed on the son of an owner of beverage machinery manufacturer Krones, who was ordered to pay 600,000 marks last year and risk paying an additional 1.8 million marks if he breaks any laws within the following two years. ============================================================================= TITLE McFiler VERSION 4.1 AUTHOR Roberto Bizzarri E-Mail: robiz@mbox.vol.it FidoNet: 2:332/901.31 DESCRIPTION This program was born to achieve a better way to catalogue and archive files on your floppies, although it can be used as well with files stored on any other media device. It features functions able to quickly trace, view, unpack, rename, discard a file, as well as hide it from your list. You'll have at your disposal two nice routines, "FitDisk" and "SingleFit", which will allow you to optimize your collection of files to fit in the least possible number of disks. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS McFiler requires OS 2.0+ (v37+) and "reqtools.library" v38+ ((c) by Nico Francois - included in the archive). AVAILABILITY ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/biz/dbase/McF41.lha (157Kb) ...and the bugfix (v4.1a): ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/biz/dbase/McF41a.lha (58Kb) PRICE Requested shareware fee is $10 US. The sole limitation of the unregistered version regards the maximum capacity of archiving: the program won't go farther after having stored 250 files. DISTRIBUTABILITY This piece of software is to be distributed "as is" with no warranty of any kind. The author won't be held responsible for any damage occurred by its [mis]use. If you do not want the Shareware version, take a look to v3.2 ("McFiler3.2.lha" or "McF32.lha" on Aminet). OTHER For any question or suggestion please email me! Roberto Bizzarri E-Mail: robiz@mbox.vol.it FidoNet: 2:332/901.31 ======================================================================= TITLE Image Engineer 3.0 AUTHOR Simon Edwards Email: sbeyallara.cs.rmit.edu.au DESCRIPTION Image Engineer is a shareware image processing application. It can be used for tasks varying from converting images between different file formats, rendering 24 bit images down to standard Amiga screen modes, enhancing badly scanned images, applying special effects even up to advanced image composition. What you can use it for is basically limited by what you can think of. - Very fast, coded in 100% 68020 assembler - Multiple image editing - Dithered Colour or grey preview images. - Zoom in preview images. - Processing done in 8 bit grey or 24 bit colour - ARexx support - Thumbnail previews shown for most effects. - Font sensitive, resizable GUI with keyboard shortcuts, using the BGUI Library. - User configurable menus. - Uses the Superview Library for loading and saving. Superview currently supports:- BMP (Win,OS/2) IFF-YUVN (misc) PNM (*nix) C64 (Koala, Doodle) IMG (GEM/V*nt*ra) QRT/POV EPS(F)-Header JPEG (JFIF) SGI FBM (*nix) MAC (MacPaint) SunRaster (RAS) GIF upto 89a PCD (PhotoCD) SVG Graphics Icon (W*nd*ws) PCX upto V3.0 Targa IFF-ACBM PICT-2 (Mac) TIFF (V5.0) IFF-DEEP Pictor/PCPaint/PIC Utah RLE IFF-ILBM PNG (Network Gfx) WPG OS3-DataTypes picture.datatype V43 - Can display images using Superview Library. Superview Library currently supports ECS, AGA, EGS7, OpalVision, Retina, CyberGraphics, PicassoII, Merlin. - Supports AGA where available. - Render images to standard Amiga screen modes including HAM6 and HAM8. - Dither images using Floyd-Steinberg, Burkes, Stucki, Sierra, Jarvis and Stevenson-Arce error diffusion algorithms. - Image processing effect implemented as disk based modules. Modules exist for:- Autocrop Hue Brightness Local Contrast Stretch Bulge Lowpass filter Composite (with alpha channel) Maximum filter Contrast Median filter Contrast Stretch Minimum filter Convert To Colour Negative Convert To Grey Posterize Convolve (user defineable) Reflect X Displace (with alpha channel) Reflect Y Histogram Equalisation Remove Feature False Colour Resize Gamma Rotate Halftone Saturation HighBoost filter Scale Highpass filter Sharpen Histogram Threshold Twirl More to be released in the future. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS - 68020 or higher processor. - OS V2.04+ - 2Mb of RAM bare minimum, at least 4Mb recommended. - Superview Library to be installed. Available by FTP/Internet: AmiNet and mirrors ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gfx/show/SView541.lha AVAILABILITY FTP/Internet: AmiNet and mirrors ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gfx/edit/ImEngV3.0.lha (773893 Bytes) Available via WWW on the Image Engineer Support Page: http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~s9407349/ PRICE The unregistered version is limited to images of size 400x400. Registration for a keyfile is only 35 US dollars. DISTRIBUTABILITY The unregistered version of Image Engineer V3.0 is freely distributable as long as no charge is made for it other than a small fee for the cost of the media. Copyright 1995-96 Simon Edwards. All rights reserved. OTHER Information about the current status of Image Engineer, work in progress and on-line documentation is available on the WWW. (See AVAILABILITY) ========================================================================= VIScorp News: July 24, 1996 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Chicago, IL July 24, 1996 Permission Granted to Distribute without Alteration VIScorp Proceeds with Amiga Acquisition On Thursday, the 18th of July, 1996, the final contract of purchase was signed between the bankruptcy trustee solicitor, Bernhard Hembach, and the president and CEO of VIScorp, William Buck, with approval of the 'pool of banks' for the entire remaining inventory and intellectural property. Until the 18th of August, 1996, VIScorp has time to establish the necessary companies to carry on with its current business. In the meantime, the business will be run with the approval of the bankruptcy trustee Hembach under the name AMICA Technologies GmbH i.K. From the 19th of August, 1996, the business will finally be run under the name, control and ownership of VIScorp. Contact: Florine Radulovic, Director of Communications, VIScorp flo@vistv.com At the Financial Relations Board Contact: Ted Gage, General Information tjg@chi.frbd.com Contact: Bess Gallanis, Media bag@chi.frbd.com ========================================================================== VIScorp Message: July 24, 1996 Chicago, IL July 24, 1996 An Open Message to the Amiga Community from Bill Buck, CEO, VIScorp: 1. Escom AG and Amiga Technologies GmbH are in bankruptcy and will cease to exist as corporate entities. VIScorp has reached an agreement with the Trustee for the liquidation of these companies and with the creditors of these companies for the purchase of "Amiga." There were at least eleven different banks or companies that had claims to be "owners" of the technology and/or the inventory. Escom had liabilities of over $250 million. Imagine the confusion... 2. The steps that we had to follow through the last three months were painstaking. As the situation at Escom deteriorated, we had to continually re-negotiate our purchase contract. We could not speed-up the process. Many things we wanted to begin immediately we have had to delay. The situation at Amiga and Escom were extremely troubled. This was in part because of the difficult financial and management situations at Amiga and Escom, but also because of how poorly organized the intellectual property had been under Commodore. In the course of the Commodore bankruptcy many problems developed that were never repaired. 3. The final (and last of three) purchase contract was signed on Friday, 19 July. It cannot be changed; it has been executed. The intellectual property of the former Commodore and the inventory of the former Amiga Technologies will be owned finally by VIScorp. The final paperwork will be completed in the next 30 days. During this month, VIScorp GmbH will be registered and Amiga Technologies will continue to operate temporarily in bankruptcy for VIScorp. 4. Petro Tyschtschenko and his staff will continue to operate from Germany. Raquel Velasco and Petro Tyschtschenko will be the new General Managers of Amiga, to be known as VIScorp GmbH. Al Duncan, a former General Manager of Commodore will join VIScorp to manage the sales and distribution of VIScorp and Amiga products in North America. Petro will continue to operate from Germany and manage the existing business. Raquel is looking for someone from the community to manage the re-organization of the sales and distribution in Europe. Please contact Raquel if you are the right person for this job. 5. The engineering efforts of the former Amiga Technologies and the on-going engineering of VIScorp will be combined and professionally managed. We intend to begin to implement the plans we outlined in Toulouse very shortly. 6. Please excuse our lack of communication with the community over the last months. We were severely restricted from communicating our activities. Please resend your emails to any of the VIScorp staff if they have not been answered by this letter. We simply could not answer all the emails. 7. Do not expect miracles from VIScorp, expect slow, but steady progress. Thank you for your continued support. Best Regards, Bill Buck ========================================================================== Phase 5 News ========================================================================== 040-ERC Boards With the beginning of July 1996, phase 5 digital products will release the Blizzard 1240 T/ERC, a low cost 68040 based accelerator board especially for tower housed Amiga 1200 main boards. Due to the mechanical dimensions and the high power consumption together with the heat emission of the 68040 processor and the therefor needed active cooling cap the board will not fit into standard A1200. The abbreviation ERC stands for EcoReCycling meaning the processors used on this board are recycled and tested 68040 processors operating at 40MHz with MMU/FPU. By using these processors a very competitive pricing of DM549,- for the Blizzard 1240 T/ERC is possible. The board is axpandable to a total amount of 128 MB of RAM by standard 72 pin SIMM. All other specifications are the same as those for the well known BLIZZARD 1260; so later upgrades to the 68060 processor can be easily done. Like it's Big Sister the, Blizzard 1240 T/ERC can be expanded by the SCSI Kit IV. Also good news for all A2000 users. A Blizzard 2040 ERC will be available equipped with the same recycled and tested 68040 CPU eith MMU/FPU running at 40 MHz clock frequency. All other specifications are exactly the same as for the BLIZZARD 2060. The Blizzard 2040 ERC will be sold for DM 699,-- and like the Blizzard 1240 T/ERC upgradeable to the 68060 processor. Last not least with release date in September the ERC version of the Cyberstorm MKII board will be available. The Cyberstorm MKII 040/40ERC will have the same specifications as the 68060 version. This turbo board can be used in all A3000, A3000T, A4000 and A4000T and can hold up to 128 MB local Fast RAM. Off cours this board can also easily upgraded to the 68060. The pricing for the 68040 version with MMU/FPU running at 40 MHz will be DM 749,--. Additional information: phase 5 digital products In der Au 27, 61440 Oberursel Tel +49 6171 583787 Fax +49 6171 583789 ========================================================================= More Phase 5 News ========================================================================= Oberursel, July 96: With the beginning of August 1996, phase 5 digital products will release a new generation graphics board, the CyberVision64/3D at a very competitive pricing. Designed for use as either a Zorro-II or Zorro-III board it will work in all Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000(T) series models as well as with tower modifications of Amiga 1200 series models equipped with Zorro-II backplanes. CyberVision64/3D's modular design allow low entry prices at high end perfomance and optimal expandibility. Core of the new board will be the new graphics chip Virge with 3D capabilities produced by the well known manufacturer S3. The chip is able to do complex 3D functions in hardware, like shaded and textured surfaces with trilinear filtering as well as shading and fogging for very realistic real tome 3D rendering. In conjunction with the new CyberGraphX 3D library CyberVision64/3D is offering a wide range of complex 3D functions for software developers reducing development time and expense for developers supporting the new CGX3D standard. In addition to those features, a MPEG decoder can be added to the feature connector allowing real time MPEG audio and video decoding at full size custom screens or in workbench windows, allowing high quality display by using the 16 and 24 bit modes of the workbench provided by CyberGraphX. For stereo audio output a dedicated line output jack is provided. The second optional expansion will be a monitor switcher with integrated scan line doubler designed to fit into the Amiga's slot providing automatic switch over from the Amiga's original Signal to the CyberVision64/3D's output. Mechanical dimensions of the switcher and the CyberVision64/3D allow the use of both cards in th lower slot of A3000 / A4000 models keeping 3 Zorro-III slots free for other expansion boards. With all these features the CyberVision will be available in Germany at suggested retail prices of DM 449,- with 2 MB and DM 599,- with 4 MB video RAM. The MPEG module expected to be released at the same time will be available at DM 349,- and the scan doubler / monitor switcher is will cost DM 149,-. Developers registered in the PowerUP program can purchase the CyberVision64/3D at a special developers price. A very special offer will be available for users of the CyberVision64. There will be no MPEG modul available for the predecessor, since the add on bus of the Trio64 used on the CyberVision64 is no longer supported by S3 and other manufacturers. Due to the immense development required for the implementation of that add on bus a MPEG module would have to be sold for more than DM 500,-. Because of this, CyberVision64 users who wish to use MPEG can purchase the CyberVision64/3D together with the MPEG module for DM 499,- from phase 5 digital products. Additional information: phase 5 digital products In der Au 27, 61440 Oberursel Tel +49 6171 583787 Fax +49 6171 583789 =========================================================================== Amigas At Disney By: Jason Compton =========================================================================== On our (Amiga Report Assistant Editor Katherine Nelson and I) recent vacation to Orlando, Florida and the Disney World theme parks, about the LAST thing I expected to see was an Amiga. I always HOPE to see one, but honestly, I wasn't hoping too hard. After all, it's not every day someone will leave one sitting out as obviously as the 1084S at the Ontario Science Center (last winter) or in the recent movie Brain Candy (also a 1084S)... But I was wrong. We were watching the Indiana Jones Stunt Show, roughly in the center of the audience area seating, when Katie leaned over to me, pointed at the show control area in the front aisles of the seating and said, "Hey, is that a 1084?" Intrigued, I looked down there. I spotted a 14-inchish monitor, beige in color, but with a blue screen and some sort of white text on it. We couldn't make anything out from the distance, and while at first I thought it might indeed have been a 1084, I decided it was probably just a VGA monitor on a PC. It sorta looked like they were just running a DOS application in a white-on-blue text mode. But after the show was over, we had to know for sure. So we made our way down close enough...and sure enough, there was a 1084. Under it was a dirty, beat-up, but still functional Amiga 2000 (with a keyboard whose spill-guard skin was so old it was brown). In the center of the equipment (lots of switches and knobs, of course) was another 2000. There was a tech still at the first 2000's chair. "Do you mind me asking what you're using your Amigas for?" I asked him, hoping that our amazing recognizance of the machines would put a smile on his face. Well, it didn't. It turns out that our new friend wasn't exactly an Amiga person himself, just one of the guys who runs the show. But he was at least familiar with what he was working on. The first machine we spotted, the one with the blue and white display, was running a microphone-monitoring program. Basically, it kept track of the activity and level of all of the cast and crew microphones for the show. The software, so we learned, was designed by Sennheiser. While I didn't press him to let me play with the machine, it looked rather 1.3ish. The other system, he explained, was using a setup designed by Richmond Sound and was in effect the control center for the entire show, accepting relay triggers from the various cues and touchplates on the stunt show stage and handling them in the proper manner with the rest of the equipment. Quite a job, if you ask me. We never quite figured out if there was a third system up and running. Our friend told us that the systems had been in place for a good 7 or 8 years and that the original crew who had them installed were all long gone--which might explain why I had a really tough time getting him to give me the name of a person I could talk to discuss the quite impressive fact that Disney/MGM Studios puts one of their biggest draws in the hands of a computer that far too few people own. By one of the most interesting coincidences I've seen in quite some time, Richmond Sound of Canada just put a Web site online. In an interesting move, Richmond has chosen the URL http://www.show-control.com/ as their own. (Pretty clever, if you ask me.) The site profiles their three major product lines for show and effect control--all of which are Amiga based, a fact RSD states quite proudly. The site also lists some of Richmond's clients--quite an impressive resume, for both Richmond and the Amiga. If you need a reason to feel a bit better about the impact Amigas have made on technology in real life, pop by and take a look. I've gotta tell you, sometimes when I see or hear of an old A2000 at a company, I wonder if it's really in use, if it might be able to find a better home. But the folks at Disney/MGM, courtesy of Richmond Sound, seem to be putting theirs to pretty good use. If you're at Disney/MGM in the future, do me a favor and do as I did, pop down and just mention to the techs there that you noticed their Amigas. Who knows? They just might figure it out. :) =========================================================================== Review: Video Backup System 3.2 from LSP By: Jason Compton =========================================================================== Ask me--or just about anyone else--what the most important thing you can do with your hard drive is, and they'll tell you it's to make frequent backups. And what's the thing that so few people actually do? Yes, the same. Let's face it...making backups is a pain. You can back up to a big old stack of floppies...but this is very tedious for any sizable amount of data. You can back up to a tape drive or removable media drive like a Zip...which isn't quite as bad, but that's an extra hardware cost for a lot of people. Enter the concept of Video Backup. Lots of us computer enthusiasts have purchased a VCR at SOME point in our lives. And videotapes are significantly less expensive than a Zip cartridge. So, even though they're a bit bulky, why not put them to good use? The VBS comes as three components. The sole floppy disk contains the VBS software for both 68000 and 68020+ Amigas. A standard double-male RCA cable is included for connecting your Amiga's composite video output (standard on some machines, or requiring an A520 adapter on others) to your VCR, and a special serial port device with two male RCA leads connects to both a video monitor and your VCR's video out. (Neat, huh?) VBS' interface is easy enough to use on a high res (non-laced) video screen, although the 1702 I was forced to use made it just a tad blurrier than I would have liked. (It was also a bit too low on the screen.) The short of it is that you can select to back up any number of files from the hard drive partition of your choice onto video cassette. The software visually represents the programs (which looks quite interesting on your monitor) and the display is recorded by the VCR. The tape can be stored more or less indefinitely, and can be restored to any other partition or device you choose at a later date. VBS will help you keep track of your backups by creating log and report files recording the files stored on video. You can use counter references to find the correct area of your tape for each backup (the program puts a short title before the actual program code so you can scan through the tape visually if necessary. The process of making a backup does take a little getting used to. Since VBS cannot actually control your VCR, you have to hit record on your VCR and then commit to the backup by clicking the mouse, after VBS goes through its preparatory steps for creating backups. With just a bit of practice, you'll be able to use VBS to backup at any time by using its timer feature in conjunction with the one on your VCR. Obviously, this is useful if you can't watch the Amiga all day. Restoring backups is a bit more confusing. VBS stores the directory tree data at the start of the recording. VBS reads this information off of the tape when you want to restore it, but because of the way the video monitor is set up, VBS can't actually TELL you when it has all of the info it needs. (The documentation leads me to believe that you can, but I'm not clear on it.) So after a few seconds of playback, you need to stop the tape and return to the VBS screen to select the files for recovery. After rewinding the tape a bit (just to be sure, in case you overshot the mark), you can commence the restoration. Floppy backups are possible--VBS will even store them track-by-track, so presumably you could store your demo collection on VHS. (Of course, you may get better mileage just recording your demos...) On a 68020, you can compress data and get on average 85 megs per hour of videotape. (While I've heard of using the tapes in LP mode, I chose to go with SP for my review.) This puts a $2 VHS tape at about 170 megs of storage--better than a ZIP or EZ135 disk that costs several times more and holds less. On the other hand, these drives communicate with your Amiga in hundreds of k per seconds. At 85 megs per hour, the VBS is significantly slower. Cost versus convenience, isn't that always the way? In my tests of VBS, involving backing up both binary and text files from one drive and restoring on another, I had absolutely zero hitches, in both Fast and Compressed mode. If anything is going to convince me to do backups, this will. Speed aside, the only minus to the VBS is the length of the two cables on the serial device. You need to have your computer, monitor, and VCR all VERY close to each other. My Toshiba TIMM was absolutely useless for this package, it was just too big to get the cables around. (They're roughly 3 feet in length) Of course, the same goes for a Zip or EZ135, but they're smaller. The provided manual is sufficient, but if I ran the world I would have laid it out a bit differently, categorizing by "Backup" and "Restore", rather than by "Disk" (floppy) and "File". It's usable. LSP's Video Backup System is about the cheapest way I can think of to reliably back up your hard drives--and it really does work. Physically, it's a bit of a pain, and it will require you to have some sort of composite-out capabilities (For 3000 users, a special video board is available) as well as to boot your machine in a video configuration. I strongly recommend you consider this an alternative to removable media if backups are your priority. Lyppens Software Productions 152 E. 84th St. #2D New York, NY 10028 USA 212-744-0973 voice | The most downloaded files from Aminet during the week until 8-Jul-96 | Updated weekly. Most popular file on top. | |File Dir Size Age Description |----------------- --- ---- --- ----------- ar409.lha docs/mags 82K 0+Amiga Report Magazine, June 30, 1996 PictDT43.lha util/dtype 259K 0+Picture.datatype V43.751 for AGA/CGr libg++-WARNING.txt dev/ade 1K 6 Recompile instructions mcx255.lha util/cdity 75K 0+Multi Function Commodity MagiC64.lha misc/emu 284K 0+The fastest C64 emulator for Amiga V NewsAgent14.lha comm/tcp 50K 1+NNTP News header/article browser. MiniMail.lha comm/mail 103K 0+V1.4b - An integrated E-mail system mcxp318.lha util/cdity 72K 0+MUI Preferences for MultiCX Visage.lha gfx/show 168K 0+Picture viewer for OS 3.0+. 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"Aminet Charts: 22-Jul-96" | The most downloaded files from Aminet during the week until 22-Jul-96 | Updated weekly. Most popular file on top. | |File Dir Size Age Description |----------------- --- ---- --- ----------- FastIPrefs4028.lha util/boot 31K 0+FastIPrefs 40.28 & FastWBPattern 40. PictDT43.lha util/dtype 260K 0+Picture.datatype V43.753 for AGA/CGr VoyView.lha comm/www 11K 1+A file Viewer/Player for Voyager. V1 megafloppy.lha disk/misc 18K 0+Save 1120 kb on a floppy !! BETA MPEGIntuition.lha gfx/show 175K 0+Ver 2.4 MPEG with SOUND (GUI 4 mp & mwm108.lha comm/www 122K 0+Magic Web Maker v1.08. TheHuntIsOn.lzh game/shoot 338K 1+New 3D Maze Game for All Amigas amicdfs231.lha disk/cdrom 123K 0+AmiCDFS (AmiCDROM) v2.31 CedFix.lha biz/patch 3K 0+A patch for CED 3.5c & CGraphX CheckMMU.lha util/moni 2K 0+Checks if your CPU really has an MMU FX111.lha util/wb 72K 0+Workbench Soundeditor, supports up t VT2.86.lha util/virus 793K 0+V2.86 of the famous Viruskiller by H Pseudokick.lha util/boot 3K 0+A powerful Kickstart loader MacWB.lha util/boot 66K 0+The successor of WB95 conquers the W ShShSurvey.lha misc/emu 3K 0+Shapeshifter-Survey,PLEASE ANSWER qlib-v100.lha util/wb 31K 0+Show Ver/Rev of DTypes,Classes,Libs AnimInWindow.lha gfx/show 38K 0+A animation player in window IBrowseButtons.lha comm/www 3K 0+IBrowse replacement Navigation/Pictu | The highest rated programs during the week until 22-Jul-96 | Updated weekly. Best program on top. Please rate all the programs you | download. To do so, send to aminet-server@wuarchive.wustl.edu : | RATE | where is the file you want to judge and is a mark from 0..10 | with 10 being the best. You can rate several programs in one mail, but | don't rate your own programs. Example: RATE dev/gui/mui23usr.lha 8 | |File Dir Size Age Description |----------------- --- ---- --- ----------- SneechV1_5.lha game/2play 390K 18+NEW Vers of *THE BEST* Multi Snake G Base64Coders.lha comm/mail 10K 3+Fast base64 (MIME) decoder/encoder. MagiC64.lha misc/emu 284K 2+The fastest C64 emulator for Amiga V AlgoMusic1_6.lha mus/misc 654K 3+Plays great algorithmic techno tunes AWeb.lha biz/demo 436K 1+AWeb 1.2b DEMO, limited features Morton.lha game/demo 430K 4+Cute but tricky platformer amimsx23.lha misc/emu 266K 4+Great MSX/MSX2 emulator for Amiga Co GMPlay12_Upd.lha mus/midi 25K 3+GMPlay update V1.1 -> V1.2 Executive.lha util/misc 527K 34+UNIX-like task scheduler (V1.30) ar409.lha docs/mags 82K 2+Amiga Report Magazine, June 30, 1996 NH32P1v2.lha game/role 1.0M 2+Official Amiga Nethack 3.2.1 binarie metaview.lha gfx/conv 35K 8+MetaFileViewer-Convert AMF,WMF to CG GMPlay12.lha mus/midi 1.4M 3+Plays MIDI-Files with your Amiga (02 aplay211.lha mus/play 589K 2+APlayer - An allround Amiga music pl Esprita4000.lha pix/back 33K 4+Incredible 800x600 8-colour WB backd Heil95.lha pix/misc 18K 7+A new true Win 95 logo. Heil Bill! mcx255.lha util/cdity 75K 2+Multi Function Commodity mcxp318.lha util/cdity 72K 2+MUI Preferences for MultiCX YAM12.lha comm/mail 135K 18+MUI Internet mailer for AmiTCP AmiFTP-1.607.lha comm/tcp 271K 2+Easy to use GUI FTP client for OS 2. xtrdem2a.lha game/demo 482K 6+XTreme Racing Demo2, including new V AmFTP153.lha comm/tcp 196K 19+AmFTP - ftp/Archie/ADT/ADT-Find Clie Testament1.lha game/demo 693K 1+Preview of 3D action game. AGA only. navpro.lha gfx/3d 128K 4+Visualiser of the Navigator VR Rende MKL_Match.lha pix/art 108K 3+Great picture of a flaming match by Visage.lha gfx/show 168K 2+Picture viewer for OS 3.0+. V39.9 killhappy.lha util/virus 11K 5+Removes the "Happy New Year 96" viru shocon12a.lha comm/tcp 6K 4+Displays hardware config. to remote =========================================================================== -=NEVADA=- Safe Harbor Computers W226 N900 Eastmound Dr Waukesha, WI 53186 Orders: 800-544-6599 Fax: 414-548-8130 WWW Catalog: www.sharbor.com =========================================================================== News & Press Releases =========================================================================== VIScorp Amiga Acquisition Signed, sealed... Message to Community VIScorp's CEO speaks out Escom Lays Off Employees The beginning of the end... 040-ERC Boards Phase5's new low cost boards CyberVision64/3D Wow! 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