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N E W A 1 2 O O T O W E R F R O M U K
A I L I C E N S E S V I D A M U S
B L I T T E R S O F T N O W A I D I S T R I B U T O R
N E W G A M E F R O M S A D E N E S S
M A D E F O R K I D S C A M P A I G N
P I O S G O E S P U B L I C
P . O S P R E - R E L E A S E
A M I G A R E V I E W D I E S
A M I G A I N F O R M E R I S S U E 9 I S O U T
A L A D D I N 4 D 5 . 0 S H I P P I N G
P O W E R P C B O A R D S R E L E A S E D
V D I S K 2 . 7
C A L L M A N 1 . 1
D I S T A N T S U N S - N E W D I S T R I B U T O R
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Lots of stories for you this time - and some we can't tell. There
have been a number of rumors lately of meetings with Gateway 2000 by
Amiga community notables - that's nothing new, but we are sure
something interesting is developing. For a variety of reasons, it's
inappropriate to put anything about them in this issue. However, we
hope to have some fascinating information about the future for you
soon. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, we have several stories about expansion moves in the
Amiga market - a new tower kit, and new licensees from Amiga
International. Good news, all. There is also a press release on the
interesting "Made for Kids Campaign", a market enhancer in it's own
right.
Next, two stories on Amiga inspired operations. We spotted a recent
posting annoucing PowerPC computer maker PIOS going public and
reproduce it below. We also have an release on the distribution of the
pre-release version of p.OS from proDAD, which runs on PIOS equipment.
Two stories deal with publications. First is the death of British
magazine "Amiga Review". The article was written by the Editor. His
feelings definitely show. At the same time, IDG has announced the end
of British magazine "Amiga Computing". The last issue will be number
117, the October issue.
Things are better on our side of the pond. We have more good news
from our unofficial allied publication, "Amiga Informer". The new
issue is out and we have the press release about it below. You might
want to visit the "Informer" web site to check on their subscriber
specials, as well.
Finally, some good product news to finish the stories. The new
release of Aladdin 4D is featured, as are VDisk and Callman, and one
of my personal all time favorites among Amiga programming efforts,
"Distant Suns" has a new distributor.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE
While we have mostly good news, and there are good things in the air
for the future of the Amiga, there's one area of concern we'd like to
mention. It's no longer a secret that NewTek, long a premier Amiga
company, has dropped support for Lightwave on the Amiga. The Toaster
and Flyer continue, but problems may be looming there as well. We have
it on good authority that NewTek is having problems locating qualified
Amiga programmers to keep these products alive. If you're a first rate
Amiga programmer and interested in work, why not contact them? We have
no idea if they're actively looking at this point, but it can't hurt
to have your resume on file there. And it may help a great deal.
Resumes can be faxed to 1-913-228-8099. They can also be sent to:
NewTek
Human Resources
1200 SW Executive Drive
Topeka, KS 66615
Keep in mind that NewTek is relocating to San Antonio, Texas, so
that's where any new jobs would be.
As always, we hope you enjoy our latest issue.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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N E W A 1 2 O O T O W E R F R O M U K
Chroma Announces a New and Affordable Do-It-Yourself A1200 Tower Case
THE CHEAPEST A1200 TOWER IN THE UK ?
Chroma announces a new DIY A1200 tower case which undercuts the rest
by POUNDS.
The T-CASE
The full size tower will take an A1200 motherboard, complete with its
plastic base, allowing complete access to the ports at the rear of the
machine. The user is still able to install a complete PC system or
Zorro slot array with the Amiga in place.
Versatile cable arrangements allow the use of the internal PSU or
original "powerbrick" for motherboard power and the PCMCIA slot is
still accessible for use with a Squirrel or similar device.
The tower, which has the same case as another leading "easy-fit"
design, is available in an inexpensive DIY format (for the user to
convert for Amiga use) with a comprehensive illustrated printed
conversion guide, or in fully converted form.
The imposing tower has ten drive bays and comes complete with 230
watt PSU, UK mains plug, screws/spacers/cable ties/2-part
stand/guide.To complete a tower system, a keyboard+adapter and floppy
drives+adapter are required along with any IDE or SCSI
peripherals/interfaces.
Prices: UKP 79.99 (DIY)
UKP 105.99 (Converted)
Plus delivery charge
The same case design is also available for IDE or SCSI towers, in
desktop, mini or miditower formats.
Contact:
Steve Hall
Chroma
153 Holt Road
Fakenham
Norfolk NR21 8JF
UK
Tel: 01328 862693
E-mail: chromanet@aol.com
Details and picture on Chroma`s website
http://members.aol.com/chromanet/
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A I L I C E N S E S V I D A M U S
Amiga International, Inc.: Vidamus licensee
July 31st, 1997
Vidamus Multimedia licensed to manufacture and distribute
merchandising items Vidamus Multimedia, Sweden, is licensed by AMIGA
International, Inc. to manufacture and distribute AMIGA merchandising
items.
Contact:
Vidamus Multimedia
Idrottsvagen 3
915 31 Robertsfors
Phone +46-934-553 33
Fax 7 +46-934-554 85
Mail: info@vidamus.se
About Vidamus:
"Vidamus was founded in 1991 and are located in the northern part of
Sweden.The company works within four main areas. These are Internet,
Multimedia, Education and of course Amigatrade. All work for Internet
and Multimedia are done by Amiga computers. Education are given to PC
and Macintosh companies (since they need all the help they can get ;-)
). Vidamus distributes a wide range of Amiga products, mainly
software.
Vidamus believes in the future of Amiga and will continue to produce
and sell Amiga specific products. You can contact us at our website
www.vidamus.se."
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B L I T T E R S O F T N O W A I D I S T R I B U T O R
Amiga International, Inc.: Blittersoft distributor
August 7th, 1997
Blittersoft to distribute MicroniK Tower in the UK
Blittersoft, UK, is now licensed by AMIGA International, Inc. to
distribute the MicroniK Tower in the UK. Blittersoft are currently
negotiating with companies for quality software to be offered with the
MicroniK Tower.
Contact:
Blittersoft
6 Drakes Mews
Crownhill Industry
Milton Keynes
MK8 0ER
United Kingdom
Phone:
Sales: 01908 261466, Technical: 01908 261477
Fax: 01908 261488
Mail: sales@blittersoft.com and technical@blittersoft.com
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N E W G A M E F R O M S A D E N E S S
Sadeness Software Announces New Game Title
We (Sadeness Software) have signed the second product to our new
games publishing label. We have been in negotiations with the
Hungarian group 'Invictus Team' for several months now, and finally
they signed a publishing contract with us for their new action
adventure game onEsacpee.
The release date for onEscapee will be September/October 97, look out
for media coverage soon, demos will also be available on Magazine
cover CDROMs as soon as possible.
More information is available from our web site, along with four
screenshots.
http://www.sadeness.demon.co.uk/
An on-line pre-orderform for onEsacpee and 'Foundation' can also be
found on our web site.
--
Richard Brown
SAdENESS Software
13 Russell Terrace, Mundesley, Norfolk, NR11 8LJ, UK
Rich@sadeness.demon.co.uk
URL: http://www.sadeness.demon.co.uk/
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M A D E F O R K I D S C A M P A I G N
Movement Aims to Increase Awareness of Children's Amiga Titles
Hello Everyone!
As you all know, the Amiga is a great computer on many fronts bar one
- its lack of support for children.
In a bid to rectify this situation for good, both for the benefit of
the existing user base and also to help promote the new range of
Amigas in an increasingly PC-oriented World, the Made For KiDS
campaign has been launched.
The Main Aims of this campaign being:
* To gather together a range of quality Amiga software for children.
* To make this range of software freely available via a NEW section
on the Aminet - misc/kids.
* To promote the use and development of quality Amiga software for
children.
* To make sure that when the new range of PowerPC based Amigas are
released (whatever form they may take) that these Amigas are able to
compete with PCs on ALL fronts - the new Amigas must be a computer for
all the family, children included.
A lot more information about the campaign and details of how YOU can
help are available at the Made For KiDS home pages.
By helping this campaign you are the helping the future of our
favourite computer...
Thanks,
Conor Kerr, Director
Mystique Corporation
(Hosts of the Made For KiDS campaign)
http://www.mystcorp.u-net.com/madeforkids.html
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P I O S G O E S P U B L I C
{Posted 11 August}
Hildesheim, July 1997
Since more than one year, PIOS Computer AG is commited to design,
manufacture and distribute a broad range of multimedia computer
systems. While the assembly and distribution of PowerPCs is a well
established business, PIOS is getting a huge demand on the new CHRP
systems designed by the engineering team led by Dave Haynie, one of
the "Godfathers of the Amiga".
The development of this new exciting technology is meanwhile
completed; now the company is going to raise additional capital to be
invested in marketing and increase the manufacturing facilities.
PIOS Computer AG publishes all information and documents regarding
this Initial Public Offering on its Web site. The offering is going to
happen under the jurisdiction of the Federal Republic of Germany. The
prospectus(in German language) was filed to the authorities at the
Bundesamt für den Wertpapierhandel. Interested investors can also
order it by mail at the company´s offices.
The investment into PIOS shares offers the chance to participate in
the fast growing market of multimedia applications.
Shares are available in two different packages:
2,000 packages of 50 shares of common stockeach, at a total price of
DEM 1,000 per package and
130 packages of 100 shares of preferred stockeach, at a total price
of DEM 1,500 per package.
We beg your pardon, but all further information and documents are
only available in German language, with regards to legal requirements.
Important Notice:
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "UNITED STATES ACT"), OR
QUALIFIED UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND SUCH SECURITIES MAY NOT
BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES OR ANY STATE THEREOF OR TO
U.S. PERSONS.
THE SECURITIES OFFERED HEREBY ARE SPECULATIVE, INVOLVE A HIGH DEGREE
OF RISK AND ARE SUITABLE ONLY FOR PERSONS WHO CAN AFFORD THE TOTAL
LOSS OF THEIR INVESTMENT. SEE "RISK FACTORS".
THE SECURITIES OFFERED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED
BY THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (THE
"COMMISSION") OR ANY US STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION AND NEITHER THE
COMMISSION NOR ANY SUCH STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS PASSED UPON
THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS DOCUMENT. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE
CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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P . O S P R E - R E L E A S E
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe Announces p.OS PreRelease
Essen, 08/01/97
The long awaited p.OS Prerelease finally started shipping.
Since its first introduction this new operating system, an innovation
started on the Amiga platform, gained tremendous interest from the
Amiga community.
With this prerelease every user gets the opportunity to take a closer
look into the philosophy of p.OS - the operating system which will
soon be available for the Amiga and many other platforms.
The prerelease is a nearly complete operating system at a reduced
introductory price! You may also upgrade this version to the final
release without having to pay more than the difference in price.
For the price of DM 49 you'll obtain the p.OS PreRelease on CD ROM or
on floppy disc. And as a special introduction bonus you receive - for
free - additional demos and tools, which demonstrate the abilities of
this operating system. An online tutor introduces you comfortably and
with the greatest of ease to all the technical innovations and allows
you to become immediately familiar with this powerful operating
system.
An excerpt of the features of the prerelease (CD ROM version):
Complete p.OS workbench
* Powerful and comfortable workbench with
* Taskmanager,
* Taskbar,
* polished Drag&Drop- and windows technology
* Powerful p.OS shell
* Many commands with extra options for controlling the DOS
* Comfortable extras like a history slider and Drag&Drop technology
in the shell make its use absolutely simple.
* Easy to use p.OS filer Powerful program for organising your files
and drives e.g. highly comfortable
* copying
* viewing
* searching of files and drives
* Drag&Drop into other tasks like e.g. the shell or picture viewers,
sound players etc.
* incl. pOS-DOS fast DOS system with compatibility to AmigaDOS
* incl. demos
* various WB games
* fractal demos
* creation of animations with effects
* picture viewers for different formats e.g. IFF, JPG, GIF PNG etc.
* PhotoDirectory
* Text viewer
* Guide viewer (compatible to AmigaGuide)
* HTML-Viewer
* UNIX emulation
p.OS PreRelease is distributed by
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe GmbH
Veronikastr. 33
45131 Essen
Germany
Phone ++49-201-788778
Fax ++49-201-798447
Email stefano@schatztruhe.de
WWW www.schatztruhe.de
Stefan Ossowski
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A M I G A R E V I E W D I E S
Sadly, after just one year supporting the Amiga,
Amiga Review has had to close, and all our future developments for
the Amiga have been suspended. Sales were growing for us until we were
refused advertising from the mainstream glossy magazines, closing out
a large percentage of the market, and since then, despite efforts to
promote the magazine elsewhere, due to declining sales, we have
decided to close the magazine.
It was hoped that by splitting Amiga Review into two different
magazines as mentioned recently, we would overcome the `competition
threat' towards the glossies. Our aim was to advertise Gamer and Amiga
Review separately, and as they were aimed at different markets, we
hoped that advertising space would again be accessible to us. Sadly
this did not happen. We investigated newsstand distribution, but after
long consideration, decided this would not be viable. After all,
newsstand magazines are closing rapidly.
All good things come to an end. I find it a great shame that in this
continually declining market, those that do wish to support the Amiga
are `controlled' by the larger companies/magazines within the
market.It is a democratic world, free speech and all that, but when it
comes down to the business world, money is the be all and end all.
However, by closing off those who attempt to support the Amiga, the
entire market will lose out in the long run. But then the large
companies don't care, as they have milked us of our money and walked
away to the next victim.
As a publishing house we are not dead, we are now simply moving to
another market after six months reorganisation time. And I find it
ludicrous that we will still be using Amigas in our production rooms
to publish other material, yet unable to publish for the computer we
are actually using. All the best to Amiga International, and thanks to
all of you, our readers,and the companies who supported us, especially
Vulcan Software's Paul and Lisa, and the rest of you, you know who you
are. David Pettifer, Editor
Telephone: +44 (0)1983 867377 Ext 1001
Facsimile: +44 (0)1983 867482
Pager: +44 (0)1426 141249
MediaSoft Magazines is a member of The David Group Limited.
Registered Office: Communications Hse, Isle of Wight, PO37 7LU URL:
http://www.mediasft.demon.co.uk/
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A M I G A I N F O R M E R I S S U E 9 I S O U T
7 Aug 1997
Holy cow! Issue 9 of The Amiga Informer Magazine is now at the
printers and will be available by the end of August. It's our biggest
issue yet and we've packed all 48 pages with information that will
help every Amigan stay connected and informed.
Issue 9 has lots of news. We don't just reprint internet press
releases, but investigate the stories and give you a commentary voice.
You'll find our lead story covers Amiga licencing and the many new
clones becoming available. We have an exclusive discussion with Petro
Tyschtschenko and a synapsis of what it all might mean. There's also
an inside story on the Lotus Pacific licencing flap with Gateway 2000.
In addition, we keep you up to date on the success of the Industry
Council of the Open Amiga and the newly elected steering committee
that is working with Gateway. Finishing up the news is an on-hand
accounting of the new Siamese System, an in-depth report on Aurora
Development, the open house at National Amiga and a whole bunch of
informative news bytes.
Our regular writers once again bring you their insightful columns.
Brad Webb goes in-depth on using WBStartup+ to get your system in
shape. Davis Sprague guides you through "Talk", the real-time terminal
to terminal protocol. Davis also cuts through the confusion of the
many available compression routines and provides a useful cheat sheet
on how to make them all work. Oleg Moskalensky, aka Dr. Amiga, answers
several vexing questions in his new Question and Answer column that
will appear in every future issue.
We've really gone full speed ahead with the reviews too. You'll find
ten reviews, five summaries and one preview in this issue, including a
new Game Zone section. Among the products reviewed are PC Task v4.20,
Pagemonster, Electrics, MRBackup and Nemac IV: The Directors Cut. Our
reviews are done by independent free-lance writers who evaluate and
grade products without interference from The Informer's editors, so
you get fair appraisals of all tested products.
In addition to our numerous product announcements, you'll find a
company profile of DKB, information about ShadowWorks Software,
several handy tips, and numerous listings of dealers, user groups and
dynamite Amiga web sites. In the Action section, you'll find contact
information on Amiga International and NewTek and how you can contact
them and help the Amiga cause. To top it all off, you can find great
deals on used Amiga products in our Marketplace section.
There are several ways you can get your hands on Issue 9 of The Amiga
Informer. You can purchase it at the cover price from one of our many
retailers, hope to get lucky and receive an issue when you buy a
product from one of our few distributors, or you can subscribe. If you
choose the later, you can call toll free 1-888-88-AMIGA to subscribe
by Visa or Mastercard. If you prefer, you can fill out the on-line,
no-risk no-obligation "bill me" form at
www.amigainformer.com/subscribe.cgi and we'll send you an issue.
Either way, you'll find The Informer to be a great source of useful
information and insights. We've been producing issues for over 18
months and plan to continue doing so well into the future. I hope
you'll give us a try.
Thanks for your support,
Fletcher Haug, Editor
The Amiga Informer Magazine
eldritch@mhv.net
www.amigainformer.com
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A L A D D I N 4 D 5 . 0 S H I P P I N G
Nova Announces Aladdin 4D 5.0 Now Shipping
For Immediate Release
Monday, August 04, 1997
Contact: Bob Fisher
Nova Design, Inc.
804-282-5868
Aladdin 4D 5.0, possibly the most anticipated upgrade to a consumer
3D package on the Amiga, is now shipping!
Aladdin 4D is the Amiga's fastest 3D modeling, rendering, and
animation package currently available. It's integrated particle
systems and volumetric gases along with it's support for Lightwave 3D
and the Video Toaster make it an ideal addition to both the consumer
and professional markets!
Here is just a small sampling of some of the new features
incorporated in Aladdin 4D 5.0:
* Dongle copy protection - GONE!
* All-new AmigaDOS 2.1/3.1 style interface. The completely
configurable interface has been designed to make using Aladdin 4D's
modeling, rendering and animation tools easier to use than ever
before!
* Support for all Amiga display modes, CyberGraphX displays, Toaster,
DCTV and more.
* Full support for the MAGIC image buffer system to allow integration
with ImageFX for amazing post-processing and special effects.
* New lighting such as spotlights, negative lights, and completely
configurable photorealistic soft-edged shadows!
* Two lens flare systems!
* Support for Newtek's Video Toaster and Lightwave 3D object loading
* Hierarchical, spline based, motion paths.
* ARexx support, instant texture previewing, interactive help system,
multiple level anti-aliasing, motion blur and more!
The upgrade price from any previous version of Aladdin 4D is only
$99.95. This upgrade brings you the all new Aladdin 4D 5.0 and a
completely new manual for less than $100.00!
This offer won't be available forever. Call today and order yourself
Aladdin 4D 5.0!
Call 1-800-IMAGE-69 or (804) 282-1157, to order your upgrades/
crossgrades to Aladdin 4D and ImageFX on this special offer, or fax us
at: (804) 282-3768.
ImageFX and Aladdin 4D are trademarks of Nova Design, Inc. All other
trademarks are held by their respective owners.
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P O W E R P C B O A R D S R E L E A S E D
Randomize Goes Direct with the Release of PowerPC Boards
Toronto, ON, Canada -- August 31, 1997 -- Randomize, distributors of
Phase5 accelerator and graphics boards, now offers direct sales
accompanying the launch of Phase5's new PowerUP line of PowerPC
accelerator boards; all through Randomize Direct.
The Cyberstorm PPC, for the A3000(T) and A4000(T) is the first of
PowerUp board providing PowerPC 604e acceleration in co-operation with
a 68040 or 68060 CPU. The Cyberstorm PPC features 4 SIMM slot
accomadating a total of 128MB of Ram, and Ultra Wide SCSI controller
and a expansion connector for the to-be-released CyberVision PPC 24
Bit graphics board. Configurations include any combination include of
the following CPUs:
680x0 PowerPC
25Mhz 68040 150Mhz 604e
40Mhz 68040 180Mhz 604e
60Mhz 68060 200Mhz 604e
PowerUp boards will be available for the A1200 (the Blizzard 603e and
Blizzard 603e+) and for the A2000 (Blizzard 2604) to be released late
summer/early fall. Complete product information is available from
Randomize's website at www.randomize.com.
Randomize now makes these, plus other products distributed by
Randomize, available directly to end-users providing superior access,
product knowledge and pricing.Randomize's website is located at
www.randomize.com and can be emailed at sales@randmize.com. Randomize
Direct pricing is available at www.randomize.com/rdpricing.html.
Randomize
R.R. #2
Tottenham, Ont.
Canada L0G 1W0
Toll Free Order Line - 1-888-Randomize (726-3664)
Technical Support Line - 905-939-8371
Fax Line - 905-939-8745
Email - sales@randomize.com
website - www.randomize.com
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V D I S K 2 . 7
6 Aug 1997
TITLE
VDisk v2.7 (Update from v2.6)
AUTHOR
Etienne Vogt <Etienne.Vogt@obspm.fr>
DESCRIPTION
vdisk.device is a driver for a recoverable RAM disk. Main features
are:
- Up to 16 units with virtually unlimited size (512 MB)
- Dynamic memory allocation and (optionally) de-allocation
- Full support of all AmigaDOS filesystems
- Will survive the heaviest system crashes as long as its own data is
not corrupted
- In case of a recovery failure, the cause can be reported by a
support command
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
VDisk requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher (v37).
AVAILABILITY
On any Aminet site. It was uploaded to:
ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/pub/aminet/disk/misc/vdisk27.lha (22630)
PRICE
Free.
DISTRIBUTABILITY
Freeware (C) Copyright 1994-1997 by Etienne Vogt.
CHANGES
Fixed a stupid bug that caused crashes when odd unit numbers were
used on a 68000 system.
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C A L L M A N 1 . 1
1 Aug 1997
TITLE
CallMan 1.1
AUTHOR
Alexander 'Sascha' Fichtner
Vulpiusstr. 99
81739 Muenchen
Germany
fichtner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
DESCRIPTION
CallMan is an integrated phone dialer, logfile analyzer, and cost
calculator.
CallMan uses MUI.
CallMan saves you the time looking for your address book. CallMan
allows you to save the essential informations (incl. phone number)
on your friends/relatives/etc. in a (quite primitive) database.
Using a modem connected to your Amiga you can now let CallMan
dial up any of these persons. As soon as dialing has been
completed the phone call will be passed on to your telephone. The
most important informations on each phone call (date, time,
duration, conversation partner) will be saved to a logfile.
CallMan can later analyze this logfile. You can view a list of
all phone calls, the total time of all calls, and their total
costs. You can restrict the analysis to a certain timespan and to
a certain conversation partner.
Furthermore CallMan can switch to "TelephoneBill" mode,
calculating the total costs of your phone calls within regular
(free adjustable) intervals. As a bonus CallMan can analyze the
ASCII logfiles of the TCP/IP stack Miami, the terminal programs
NComm, Term, the fax software MultiFax, and the BTX software
MultiTerm/Kit. Their costs will be added to your total costs.
NEW FEATURES
- device name, unit and serial speed are now configurable
- supports "OwnDevUnit.library"
- user now can specify an (almost) unlimited number of modem
logfiles to be scanned; their individual costs will be summed
up to the total modem costs
- new logfile scanners: NComm/Term, Multifax
- rates files now support additional costs for e.g. Internet
charges
- several bug fixes
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Requires: AmigaOS 3.0, MUI 3.3+, 1 MByte RAM, a Hayes-
compatible modem and a telephone hooked to the same phone
line.
- Recommended: AmigaOS 3.1, hard drive, additional memory, and
an accelerator.
AVAILABILITY
Available via FTP from Aminet sites. e.g.
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/comm/misc/CallMan11.lha
(143.906 bytes)
PRICE
Shareware registration fee is $15 or DM20 (or equivalent).
DISTRIBUTABILITY
Shareware. Archive is freely distributable.
CallMan is Copyright (C) Alexander 'Sascha' Fichtner 1997
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D I S T A N T S U N S - N E W D I S T R I B U T O R
6 Aug 1997
Winnipeg, MB, August 1, 1997 - Power Solutions has reached agreement
with Chaocity to acquire world wide distribution rights for Distant
Suns. NTSC and PAL OEM versions of the CD-Rom are available, as well
as a floppy disk version. All versions are aggressively priced at
$27.75 CAD. Dealer and distribution inquiries are encouraged. Distant
Suns is a "Desktop Planetarium", which has won many awards in the
past. Power Solutions is a new, Amiga only, Canadian company.
www.powersolutions.mb.ca
info@powersolutions.mb.ca
1-204-453-0527
ABOUT DISTANT SUNS
Distant Suns is a virtual planetarium, like having a high powered
telescope on your desktop. With Distant Suns, you can display up to
10,000 stars and galaxies, nebula and star clusters. Comes with 25
full screen images and over 200 smaller deep sky images. Displays
images in 256 colours on machines with AGA compatability. Animate
planets, asteroids and comets as they travel around the sun.
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http://www.amigacom.com (in ASCII text)
Australian Mirror Site: http://www.comcen.com.au/~paulm/index.html
All back issues available (in ASCII text) at:
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