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951026
N E W P R O D U C T A N N O U N C E M E N T S
We've never sent new product announcements via this newsletter in the
past, but we have several in hand right now so I thought we'd try it. Let
me know if you don't want to see such things.
For you power graphics users, check through the list and you'll see two
ways to use the 64 bit DEC Alpha processor with your Amiga, one in the
announcements and one my note to that announcement.
Brad
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F O R C D - R O M U S E R S
TITLE: AsimCDFS
VERSION: v3.4
COMPANY: Asimware Innovations Inc.
600 Upper Wellington St., Unit D
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L9A 3P9
Phone: (905)578-4916
Fax: (905)578-3966
EMail: info@asimware.com
AsimCDFS v3.4 Maintenance Release
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We would like to announce the availability of AsimCDFS v3.4, which
was released as of October 24th, 1995. This is a maintenance update
for the AsimCDFS v3 package.
The update highlights include:
- support for Rock Ridge volumes;
- additional support for the Sanyo 254 CD-ROM drive;
- support for the Pioneer DRU-124X CD-ROM drive;
- support for the Nakamichi MBR-7.4 quad-speed 7 disc changer;
- the addition of some newer AmigaDOS packets; and,
- a few minor bug fixes.
Registered users can obtain this release via our BBS or ftp site.
- ftp: ftp.asimware.com
- BBS: 905-332-9207
In either case, you will need your AsimCDFS serial number to obtain access.
About AsimCDFS v3...
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The AsimCDFS software package is a CD-ROM control system which allows the
user to read most CD-ROM discs with an Amiga computer and a suitable
CD-ROM drive.
AsimCDFS is equipped with the following advanced features:
- access to ISO 9660, High Sierra, Rock Ridge and Macintosh HFS
CD-ROM formats;
- FishMarket, a CD-ROM disc containing the public domain Fred Fish
collection;
- AsimTunes, an audio librarian/controller providing advanced
librarian and playback features;
- support for direct digitizing from standard audio CDs and playing
audio via the Amiga hardware;
- CDTV and CD32 emulation modules, complete with autobooting from
CD-ROM discs;
- integrated support for Kodak and Corel PhotoCD discs. Colour
WorkBench icons are created for easy identification. Support for
resolutions from 192x128 up to 3072x2048;
- preferences editor for all AsimCDFS settings; and,
- full ARexx command set available for all programs.
Asimware Innovations Inc. is an Amiga software development house
specializing in CD-ROM and CD-Recordable technologies. Our current
product line includes AsimCDFS, MasterISO, Texture Heaven,
Texture Heaven 2 and PhotoCD Manager.
Sincerely,
Paul Reeves
Asimware Innovations Inc.
October 24th, 1995
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C O N T E S T A N D N E W R E N D E R S A U R U S !
( Y O U ' L L H A V E T O B E Q U I C K ! )
Anti Gravity Products is happy to announce a special contest to
celebrate the launch of Anti Gravity Labs. Get over $500 in free
Amiga software including Snap Maps Super Bundle, if you design the
best Rendersaurus Logo for the front of the machine. You must act
fast because this offer ends on Friday, October 27, 1995. This is a
great opportunity for the next brillant Amiga graphics artist to show
their stuff to the whole world .
Entries must be in IFF24 format only. No JPEG's, PCX, BMP etc. --
this is not for PC artists!!! Don't forget...coming soon is the new
Rendersaurus plug-in Amiga card. Believe it! DEC ALPHA 275MHz on the
Amiga working from AmigaOS - NOT Windows NT! All entries become the
property of Anti Gravity Labs and can be used for promotional
purposes.
{Note: another way to get Alpha power with AmigaOS is through the
German made Draco Amiga compatible computer. It can be purchased with
an optional Alpha co-processor chip. Brad}
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2 4 B I T P A I N T P R O G R A M E N H A N C E M E N T
TITLE
UniversalXiPaintModule for XiPaint 3.x
VERSION
2.0
AUTHOR
Helmut Hoffmann
Rubensstrasse 4
41063 Moenchengladbach
Germany
EMail: hhoff@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
DESCRIPTION
An universal picture loader module for XiPaint supporting over
20 file formats. Module is designed for very high loading speed
and support of many picture file format variants (see below
for detailed list).
In addition the module supports loading of pictures by
Datatypes.
Internally supported formats for loading:
1) IFF-ILBM (1 to 24Bit incl. HAM6/HAM8)
2) PhotoCD (Base format 768x512 or 512x768 (portrait))
3) PPM/PGM/PBM (P1&P4 b&w, P5 grey, P6 color)
4) QRT (also known as dump format by PD raytracers as POV-Ray)
5) Targa (compressed & uncompressed)
6) PCX (compressed & uncompressed)
7) BMP (compressed & uncompressed)
8) TIF (packbit-compr./uncompr.)
9) EGS7.x window icons
10) DEEP (compressed & uncompressed)
11) YUV
12) VLAB raw
13) RGB
14) HHsYUVSq sequence format
15) IFF-PBM (DPII)
16) ACBM
17) FBM
18) Sun raster (uncompressed)
19) MacPaint (b&w compressed 1Bit format; datafork only)
20) HHsXRL formats
21) binary-EPS bitmaps (RGB and CMYK)
22) TBCPlus frames
The additional DataType support extends this list by many
formats; DataTypes can e.g. be found on Aminet in util/DType.
The DataType support is very fast, so that you can also view
pictures in GIF or other formats quite fast for which Datatypes exist.
The module can be used with both older XiPaints (3.0/3.1:
invocation of the module with an included ARexx script) and
newer XiPaints (3.2 and up: direct support of external
loader modules).
NEW FEATURES
New since V2.0: Direct external module support for XiPaint 3.2
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
XiPaint 3.x (commercial painting program)
AVAILABILITY
Any Aminet site
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gfx/misc/xipaintmodul20.lha
PRICE
Shareware fee:
Special add-on price: 10DM or 8US$ (only valid if you order the
module together with one of my shareware
programs EGS-TV, EGSPhotoAlbum or CyberShow)
Registration of just the module: 20DM (europe) or 18US$ (worldwide)
Registration of the module if you are already registered user
of one of my shareware programs EGS-TV, EGSPhotoAlbum or CyberShow:
15DM (europe) or 13US$ (worldwide)
DISTRIBUTABILITY
Copyright by Helmut Hoffmann 1995
Limited demo version is freely distributable; registered users
will receive a keyfile which enables all features.
OTHER
The freely distributable version has some restrictions
(all pictures will only be loaded in greyscales) which
disappear after you pay the shareware fee and receive a special
personal keyfile (together with the latest version). Once
registered, you can use new freely distributable versions as
update with your keyfile.
A similair loader module is also available for ImageFX
(FastIFXModules46) and PhotoGenics (UniversalGIO 2.0).
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