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960208
S P E C I A L " G E T A W A Y F R O M W I N T E R "
( A T L E A S T Y O U C A N D R E A M A B O U T I T " )
I S S U E ! ! !
The weather's been terrible all over the country, it's the beginning of
February, there are several weeks of winter left - phooey! Here's a set of
Amiga news stories to turn your minds to travel and escape (even if one of
the places is Norway, maybe not the best for a winter retreat?) Included is
an announcement of a new e-mail package for the Amiga in case all you can
afford is to send mail to these places, like most of us. I notice that the
mailer package has the same name as the one in the Surfer (see last issue).
Have fun and hang in there - Spring's out there somewhere!
And just because we need reminding once in a while, I've included a recently
encountered list of just what makes an Amiga worth owning. The information
provided comes from the Amiga Technologies Home page.
Brad
W O R L D O F A M I G A - L O N D O N
EVENT NAME
World of Amiga Show - London
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
An Amiga only consumer and trade show.
LOCATION
Novotel Exhibition Centre,
Hammersmith, London.
Press Enquiries to Ken Highes at Cape Cowley Associates;
+44-(0)161-4809811
Trade Enquires to Peter Brameld at PBA Events;
+44-(0)1462-480024
TIME
Two days;
Saturday, April 13th.
Sunday, April 14th.
CONTENT
From the World of Amiga press release, main features;
- A games arcade.
- Competitions Galore.
- Retail area.
- Presentation theatre.
- High End Applications.
Amiga Technologies is said to attend.
ENTRY PRICES
#7.00 for adults
#5.50 for children.
Advance booking credit card hotline; +44-(0)1369-706346
Cheques and postal orders made payable to 'The World of Amiga'
can be sent to PO Box 9, Dunoon, Argyll, PA23 8QQ.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
I'm a staff writer for CU Amiga Magazine and I'm responsible for
much of our coverage of the technical side of things.
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/\/\(-) | @ cu-amiga.demon.co.uk
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" T H E G A T H E R I N G " F O R 1 9 9 6
This is a preliminary official invitation to The Gathering 1996
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Introduction
CRUSADERS Productions ARE BACK!!!
AND THROUGH THE KANDU ORGANIZATION THEY ARE QUITE DETERMINED TO MAKE THE
GATHERING 1996 INTO SOMETHING DIFFERENT ALTOGETHER. We have heard your
complaints about bad choice of locations, loss of power, poor networking,
expensive entry fees, prizes that were not paid until many months after the
party and so forth...
AND WE CORRECTED THEM ALL (well, most of them anyway).
By using only professional companies instead of doing everything ourselves,
everything you need for a great party will be there.
IN TIME, IN PLACE and IN A WORKABLE ORDER
Together with some the largest companies around, we're going to make the THE
GATHERING 1996 more fun, more non-stop action, more no-holds barred computer
action than any other party!
Just a pie in the sky? Read on...
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Hot Spots
LOCATION:
"VIKINGSKIPET" in Hamar, north of Oslo, Norway. The main hall from the '94
Olympics in Norway.
(If you don't know what the Olympics are, you are just the guy we want at TG,
and believe us, the hall is big!!!)
12.000 square meters of pure pleasure
3000+ seats, tables and SEPARATE poweroutlets available.
Every person gets a seat, every person gets a tablespace and every person gets
his own grounded poweroutlet.
(1 outlet per person, bring your own grounded multiple
power outlets to have more than one item connected at a time).
More than 20 seperate wardrobes with 4-10 showers per wardrobe. Don't panic,
bring your own towel.
Catering will be provided. In our next info, prices and a day-to-day menu will
be included. Junkfood and not-so-junk food will be served at your leisure.
Silicone and methane lifeforms make special arrangments.
PARKING:
Big parking facilities available immediately outside the hall at no extra
charge. Will take any kind of possible vehicle you can arrive in.
Extraterrastials call ahead for separate reservations.
Limousine service available.
DATE: Easter'96
System Boot : Tuesday 2 April 1996 00:01am
System Shutdown : Saturday 6 April 1996 11:59am
PRICE:
More than 100 hours of party for maximum 200 NOK! (About US$ 30)
As usual, girls and non-Europeans are let in for *FREE*.
ET's also have free entrance but have to provide their own phones.
Prices MIGHT change for the lower, but no promises yet.
NETWORK:
1500++ Ethernet connections with high speed internal and Internet party network
from day 0 at NO EXTRA CHARGE!!
98% COAX connections, bring your HUB's for TP-connections.
You just need a PC with an Ethernet-card, or buy one from us for 250 NOK (US$
35) (16bits NE2000 cards for ISA-bus only).
This is non-profit way for us get YOU onto the network if you don't already
have a Ethernet card. You get to keep the card after the party. No rentals or
credit plans available.
Major body parts acceptable as a shortterm deposit.
POWER:
Seperate poweroutlet per person, 20 persons per breaker switch.
3000 Amps available instantly, and our special TECH task force will be
monitoring the powergrid at all hours.
The hall itself is providing this as a courtesy service, so it's not us
spending the week putting the power up. It's in place the week BEFORE the
party.
COMPOS:
Demo, intro, music, gfx and wild competitions will be held, plus a few
surprises... See separate paragraph for more info.
VIDEO:
Hot new movies and all the old goodies will be shown at regular intervals, 24
hours a day, all week.
A special auditorium with 200 quality seats and superb audiovisual equipment
provides the quality experience for all of you moviebuffs.
If it's good enough for Olympic hot-shots it's certainly good enough for you.
SLEEPING:
Special arrangements with the local fire department allow sleeping inside the
hall. (No more sleeping outside in a tent, we're computer freaks and not
Grizzly Adam's fans.)
CONTACT:
For more detailed ad updated information, you may:
* See our web pages at http://www.coming.soon
* call CRUSADERS BBS at # +47-22 10 46 46
Conference Name TG96
* call Infolink BBS at # +47-22 57 16 00 or 04
Conference name: Gathering96
* Contact Vegard Skjefstad voice at # +47 90119966
* or Geir Allstedt voice at # +47 90086488
Write to:
Crusaders Productions
Stasjonsvn. 56
N-2010 Strømmen
Norway
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Competitions
As this is only a preliminary invitation, most of the details have not been
"nailed down" yet. More detailed info will be made available as soon as
possible, so keep in touch.
General rules:
All entries will be presented in the best true form available. To allow us to
do this, please follow the written rules or provide us with the
hardware/software to show the entry in it's best form. All entries will be put
on a (or more) CDROM and run from here. Contributions will be awarded royalty
from this based upon contribution.
PC DEMO
* 486 DX2-66 or above (Pentium support recommended)
* 8Mb RAM
* SVGA by VESA 2.0 support or similar
* Must run under standard Win-95 DOS-shell
* Max 550K conventional memory requirement
* Standalone executable with or without data files
* Max 10 minutes shown
* Max 5 Mbytes packed
* Loopable only by choice (-loop parameter)
* Exits demo by pressing ESC-key at any time
* - Exits demo at end automatically
* Must run from harddisk
* Must run from CD-ROM
* Soundblaster or above supported
* Gravis Ultrasound supported optionally
* Silent mode supported (-nosound parameter)
AMIGA DEMO
* Amiga 1200/4000
* AGA
* 2Mb Chip
* 2Mb Fast
* Standalone executable with or without data files
* Max 10 minutes
* Max 5 Mbytes packed
* Harddisk , floppydisk and CDROM installable/runnable.
* Exits demo at end
* Exits demo by mouseclick
* Loopable only by choice (-loop parameter)
* Should pass Enforcer-test
PC 4K INTRO
* 486 DX2-66 or above (Pentium support recommended)
* 8Mb RAM
* SVGA by VESA 2.0 support or similar
* Must run under standard Win-95 DOS-shell
* Max 550K conventional memory requirement
* Standalone executable with or without data files
* Max 10 minutes shown
* Max 4096 bytes packed
* Loopable only by choice (-loop parameter)
* Exits demo by pressing ESC-key at any time
* Exits demo at end automatically
* Must run from harddisk
* Must run from CD-ROM
* Soundblaster or above may be supported
* Gravis Ultrasound may be supported optionally
* Silent mode supported (-nosound parameter)
PC 64K INTRO
* 486 DX2-66 or above (Pentium support recommended)
* 8Mb RAM
* SVGA by VESA 2.0 support or similar
* Must run under standard Win-95 DOS-shell
* Max 550K conventional memory requirement
* Standalone executable with or without data files
* Max 10 minutes shown
* Max 65536 bytes
* Loopable only by choice (-loop parameter)
* Exits demo by pressing ESC-key at any time
* Exits demo at end automatically
* Must run from harddisk
* Must run from CD-ROM
* Soundblaster or above supported
* Gravis Ultrasound supported optionally
* Silent mode supported (-nosound parameter)
AMIGA 40K INTRO
* Amiga 1200/4000
* AGA
* 2Mb Chip
* 2Mb Fast
* Standalone executable with or without data files
* Max 10 minutes
* Max 40960 bytes
* Harddisk , floppydisk and CDROM installable/runnable.
* Exits demo at end
* Exits demo by mouseclick
* Loopable only by choice (-loop parameter)
* Should pass Enforcer-test
GRAPHICS
* Image will be shown for 60 seconds
* TIFF or IFF formats allowed
* Max 24 bit color depth (16.7 M colors)
* Max 1024x768 resolution allowed
* Any technique(s) allowed, must be stated
* Machine format unlimited
* No colourcycling effects allowed
ANIMATION
* Max 15 minutes
* Contribution must be provided on a harddisk
or VHS-tape (Harddisk media will be returned)
* FLI, FLC, MOV or AVI formats allowed
Other formats supported by contributors at time of
entry into the competition
* Max 24 bit color depth (16.7 M colors)
* Max 800x600 resolution allowed
* Any technique(s) allowed, must be stated on competition
entry form
* Contributions may be presented with a commercially
available soundtrack chosen by the author(s)
4 CHANNEL MUSIC
* Max 3 minutes
* Max 4 channels
* S3M, MOD, PAC, XM and MID formats allowed
* Entries will be played on an AWE32 using SB Studio 3.0
MULTICHANNEL MUSIC
* Max 3 minutes
* Max 32 channels
* S3M, MOD, PAC, XM and MID formats allowed
* Entries will be played on an AWE32 using SB Studio 3.0
WILD!!
* Max 15 minutes
* Bring your own hardware and *contact us*
SCREENSAVE COMPO
* Windows or Windows 95 *.SCR format
* Amiga Garschnev blanker or similar
* Macintosh After Dark-format
* Other formats by providing similar support
MACHINE DESIGN
* External design (Colours, art, features or similar)
* Internal design (Colours, art, features or similar)
USELESS UTILTY COMPO
* Well, the name is enuff!!!
CODER-HAT COMPO
* Design
* Features
* Wearability
* Power-consumption
GROUP T-SHIRT COMPO
* Slogan
* Design
* Wearability
* WET T-shirt allowed
Soccer-compo, Frogger-compo, C-Robot AI Compo (PC/Amiga/Unix/SGI/HP/SUN)
Poetry/limerick computer compo
Descent/Doom/Worms/Deadly Skies/Command & Conquer/Netgames competitions
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Transport
How to get there:
From Oslo:
- Drive E6 north (towards Trondheim) from Oslo for about 75 minutes, and follow
the signs to "Vikingskipet Olympic Arena".
If you miss it, make your driver wear larger glasses!
If you miss it twice, make your driver wear dark sunglasses and white cane.
- Trains for Hamar depart from Oslo Central station every hour, the hall is
located about 500 meters from the station.
- Bus transports will be scheduled, contact us for booking information.
- If you arrive by plane or boat in Norway, follow the above directions from
Oslo or call us for further instructions.
From Trondheim or northern Norway:
- Drive E6 South (towards Oslo) and follow the signs again.
From Sweden or Finland:
- Drive until you hit E6 in Norway and turn either South or North depending on
your location. Ask the nearest gas station.
As several hundred thousand people made it during the Olympics, and nearly
every person in Norway know where Hamar/Vikingskipet is, ASK!!!
Map will be available at a later date at WEB-site and in the written
invitation.
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Rules
General rules that really should be obvious...
* Political, racist and religious activities will not be tolerated.
The organizers reserve EXCLUSIVE right to determine what will be tolerated
or not.
* Commercial activity or trading will not be allowed without prior written
permission from the organizers. (And a proper bribe of course).
* Alcohol, drugs, firearms, projectile weapons, fireworks and nuclear
devices not intended for transportation are not allowed inside or immediately
outside the hall.
* We will not be held responsible for damaged or stolen property.
* Software piracy, hacking and illegal swapping will not be
tolerated.Hacking the network is probably fun, but so is living the rest of
your life without any testicles!!
Remember!! Norwegians eat Rudolf's testicles for X-mas.
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Technical Stuff
* All electrical equipment must be properly put together following normal
electrical regulations. Equipment not following this easy rule will not be
allowed to hook up to the power grid.
* Microwave ovens, grills, toasters, refridgerators, electric chairs and other
equipment that may cause electrical noise, power surges or electrocutive
experiences will not be allowed inside the party hall.
* The party network will be based upon a 100 Mbit backbone. However, we will
only be able to connect you to it via standard 10 Mbit COAX BNC connections at
each table.
IPX/SPX and IP protocols are the only protocols supported.
* ANY AND ALL network connections are to be made by TECHNET crew personell. The
only thing you should do yourself is installling your own networkclient at your
workstation. The Tech Crew will be provide assistance for those who need it to
get you onto he network.
* Tampering with the network or power system will not be accepted!! Time and
technical restrictions makes this a FRIENDSHIP rule.
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Alternative Easter
Why not combine THE GATHERING with your normal Easter holiday?
About two hours of driving from Hamar, you find HAFJELL and KVITFJELL, the
arenas that hosted the alpine diciplines during the 1994 Winter Olympics.
These are two of Scandinavia's most modern alpine centers today, well suited
for those family members who don't want to spend the entire week indoor.
As well is Hamar a tourist site in itself. Olympics arenas and scenic nature is
just part of what makes Hamar interesting.
For those of you above 18, Hamar also provides a semi-interesting nightlife.
Remember that drunken bastards will not be let into the hall, so behave
yourself a bit.
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KANDU
KANDU (Kreativ Aktiv Norsk Data Ungdom) would translate into "Creative Active
Norwegian Computer Youth" was formed by Crusaders, Cryptoburners, ATC and a few
other groups in order to show people outside the scene what we are capable of,
a vital step in the process of getting economical support for a project of this
magnitude.
You may join KANDU through our web site, or by contacting us directly.
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Last but not least
Remember, this is only a preliminary invitation file, and all information
stated above may be subject to change without notice. If you have any
suggestions or comments, please feel free to contact us as stated elsewhere in
this document.
No warranties are expressed or implied...or something like that.
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V O O D O O M A I L
TITLE
Voodoo - A multithreaded GUI E-Mail reader
VERSION
1.103 (First Aminet release)
AUTHOR
Osma Ahvenlampi
E-Mail: Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi
DESCRIPTION
Voodoo is a GUI E-Mail reader for AmigaOS 3.x with many unique
features. Among these are multithreading (you can read several
folders at once, or even write several messages at once), the
best MIME support to be seen on Amiga yet (attachments are
displayed right inside Voodoo using the Datatypes), and an Amiga
User Interface Style Guide compliant GUI.
Voodoo uses the ClassAct GUI toolkit. All necessary class
libraries are included.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Voodoo requires AmigaOS 3.0 or later, at least 2 megabytes of
memory, and a hard disk. It will work with any kind of an
Internet connection, from UUCP to AmiTCP to Inet225.
AVAILABILITY
ftp://ftp.warped.com/pub/amiga/voodoo/
http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~oahvenla/voodoo/
Any Aminet site: (430K archive)
ftp://ftp.aminet.org/pub/aminet/comm/mail/Voodoo-1.103.lha
PRICE
Shareware, 150 FIM, 35 USD, or 50 DEM.
DISTRIBUTABILITY
The demo version is freely distributable through non-commercial
channels. More information in documentation.
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W H Y H A V E A N A M I G A , A N Y W A Y ?
Qualities which make the AMIGA such a unique Computer:
* AutoConfig (TM)
* Preemptive Multitasking
* Asynchronous Floppy Access
* Long Filenames
* Two User Interfaces
* Localization
* Diskette Capacity
* Alternative Operating Systems
* Emulation of most different Hardware Platforms
* ARexx
* Datatypes Concept
* Video Compatibility
* Programmable Videologics Chips
* Software Situation
* Stereo Sound
* Working Storage
* HAM Graphics Mode
* Screen Concept
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AutoConfig (TM)
Fully automatical recognition and OS mounting of hardware expansions during
system start.
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Preemptive Multitasking
Reliable operation and blazingly fast switching between tasks also in low
memory conditions, and all this since 1985...
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Asynchronous Floppy Access
Read, write, copy, format, while you can work on.
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Long Filenames
In its current implementation, the AMIGA file system works with 32-character
long filenames, for which on low-level even 127 characters are reserved.
Filenames are allowed starting with '.' like under UNIX or include multiple
extensions: Archive.v102.tar.Z.
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Two User Interfaces
Graphical User Interface (GUI) Workbench and text- or commandline-oriented
Shell (CLI), comparable with UNIX Shells.
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Localization
AmigaOS 3.1 or its graphical user interface Workbench can get switched among 10
different languages providing full localization through a preferences editor,
and all this without re-installation of the operating system! Workbench offers
this localization mechanism also for applications programs for these languages:
Dansk, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederland, Norsk,
Português, and Svenska.
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Diskette Capacity
880 KB instead of 720 KB or in the HD floppy case even 1.76 MB instead of 1.44
MB, and all this still with longer filenames etc.
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Alternative Operating Systems
Aside from AmigaOS, Amigas also can be run under different UNIX derivatives
like LINUX, NetBSD, Minix. Further operating systems through Emulation of
following computers:
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Emulation of most different Hardware Platforms
* VIC-20
* C-64
* Apple-II
* MSX 8-Bit Computer
* Sinclair Spectrum
* Sinclair QL
* Oric-1
* Nintendo Gameboy
* Atari ST
* Apple Macintosh
These all work as pure software solutions, of course also multitasking among
each other.
MS-DOS and also MS-Windows can also get emulated by software on comparably
powerful Amiga models, but it makes more sense to use a PC Bridgeboard - as
available since 1987 as hardware expansion cards.
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ARexx
ARexx is available in AmigaOS as a system-wide macro language and a means for
communication of programs among each other.
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Datatypes Concept
Programs under AmigaOS can use these Datatypes system-wide to work with most
different kinds of data like audio, text, graphics, animation or data formats
like GIF, PCX, AVI.
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Video Compatibility
The Amiga is video compatible from start for simple use with TVs, for
professional video presentations, or for video editing and/or video titling in
home or professional quality.
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Programmable Videologics Chips
Practically freely programmable from video compatible to ergonomic displays; in
normal, overscanned, or (through 'draggable' screens) mixed form.
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Software Situation
Unique through a comfortable price niveau and an unbelievably big offer in the
Shareware or Free Software area.
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Stereo Sound
4-channel stereo sound standard, expandable through expansion cards, but they
are not needed to provide sound at all.
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Working Storage
AmigaOS shows special qualities in economic use of resources and non-existance
of 640 KB barriers etc., thus a linearly useable address space. An Amiga can
already work comfortably with 2 MB RAM, on the other hand an Amiga 4000 can get
equipped nowadays with RAM of more than 1 GB!
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HAM Graphics Mode
In last consequence, you can imagine it as memory saving, hardware supported
data decompression.
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Screen Concept
Every program can open an own 'screen' when necessary with custom resolution
and/or color choice, or put differently: with optimization for speed, memory
use, or color display, respectively. You can drag screens down like rollos to
expose those in the background.
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