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A M I W E S T ' 9 8 R E P O R T
Q U I K P A K S U I T H U R T S A 4 0 0 0
S C H I N D L E R I S I N T E R V I E W E D
I N T E L E A R N I N G S D I S A P P O I N T
C L O A N T O S P E A K S O U T
A M I G A Z O N E L O W E R S P R I C E S
O P E N L E T T E R F R O M P A X T R O N
S T F A X S U P P O R T S I O M
A M I G A S Q L M A I L I N G L I S T
A M I G A T O P C N E T W O R K I N G
A M I G A S U R V I V O R A V A I L A B L E
A I R M A I L P R O 3 . 1
P C M C I A E T H E R N E T C A R D
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
A great deal has happened in the first half of July, and yet not all
that much which would make you sit up and take notice. We think it may
just be that way for some time, perhaps until the bridge machine sees
the light of day in November.
Probably the most anticipated event was the AmiWest show in
Sacramento. There had been hopes of a major announcement there but
none was made. Or maybe there was. It depends on what you consider
major, I suppose, but I found the announcement that the the kernal of
the new Amiga operating system would be - the kernal of the old Amiga
operating system, to be very interesting at least.
It seems Amiga Incorporated decided against buying someone else's
kernal after all. The kernal is the heart of the operating system but
lives "under the hood" ("under the bonnet" for British readers?) and
is largely invisible to the user. For whatever reason, it looks like
AI will be sticking with the homegrown product. I can't exactly
determine why I should feel this way, but I find it comforting.
We have a good show report below by Asha DeVelder, whom we thank very
much for permission to run her story. The main presentation at AmiWest
was by Amiga Inc.'s Bill McEwen, who gave by all accounts a fine talk.
He discussed some details of the upcoming new generation of Amigas,
but did not reveal the much speculated on new chip which will power
the computers. As more information is posted we'll include what we can
here for those who can't obtain the information any other way.
There's much more to read below, including a whole series of short
reports from other publications. Enjoy!
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor
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The Amiga Works Just fine
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Dear Mr. Webb,
Thanks again for the Amiga Newsletter. It is very welcome on my
computer.
I don't intend to buy MSDoz, in fact I recently purchased AWEBII, so
my family should be surfing the net soon, on my 68030 50mhz 10MB
memory machine (such puny resources would render MSDoz useless, but
with the Amiga, I can do most anything except render the next Babylon
5 exterior shots).
Best regards,
Mike Phebus
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Exactly. Amigas simply work, and work well without tons of resources.
This needs to be kept in mind as we move on to the next generation of
Amigas and I'm sure it will be.
Thanks for the kind words and have fun surfing. The Amiga proves to
be quite good at that, too.
Brad
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A M I W E S T ' 9 8 R E P O R T
13-Jul-98 02:00:01
By Asha DeVelder
I've been back from AmiWest '98 for a few hours now. It was hot. :)
The show was held in the Ramada Inn in Sacramento. The Inn is a small
hotel but cozy. AmiWest took up (at least) three rooms for the three
day show. The main room had about two dozen (guesstimate) booths and
there were two seminar rooms in use almost constantly.
In the main room, Holger Kruse (Miami) was there, as was Chris Aldi
(Finale Development, New York, Quill, Voodoo, etc..), Kermit Woodall
(ImageFX, Aladdin4D) as well as Paul Nolan (Photogenics_NG) and a few
others I can't remember (sorry), various magazines (Amazing, Informer)
and services (Amigazone--Harv Laser), and the user groups also had
booths as well as a few retail outlets (I got Genetic Species).
Business seemed to be brisk; people were walking around with bags full
of stuff and wearing new t-shirts as well.
The seminars seemed to be well attended. I sat in when Carl gave his
second talk about REBOL, and also the demos/discussions with Chris
Aldi and Paul Nolan (I *really* want Photogenics_NG!!) and the rooms
were packed.
The mood was very positive and upbeat in stark contrast to the last
show I attended in '92 (WOA) Pasadena.
Neither Jeff Shindler, Joe Torre, Fleecy Moss, nor Alan Havemous
could attend. We were told they were at very important
meetings/negotiations but no more than that. Attending from Amiga Inc
were Darrick Lisle, Events Co-ordinator and Bill McEwen head of
marketing and software evangelist.
The following, in no particular order (I've only had 8 hours sleep in
the past three days) is the information I gathered while there:
The rumor of an IBM buyout of Gateway is false
The rumor of BE buying out Amiga Inc is false
The information in the "Investment Business Weekly" was badly
misquoted and therefore is not correct.
Gateway is not for sale. Amiga Inc. is not for sale. (Carl added that
REBOL isn't for sale either)
Speaking of REBOL, there should be a general version available early
in the fall, with Amiga one of the first platforms supported.
Re: OS5.0
The kernal to be used is the Amiga kernal. They will be using Exec.
There will be direct Java support (JVM) as well as support for OpenGL.
A developer program will be set up soon, projected date August (this
year). Amiga Inc wants ALL developers and developer wannabees to come
and sign up on their site. There will be a special area (password
protected) for developers to get and exchange information. Anyone who
is even slightly interested is encouraged to sign up (this was
emphasized).
I don't have much on the MMC. There were some rather specific specs
shown but I couldn't get them written down fast enough... (sorry) they
will also be posted on Amiga Inc's pages soon {when they are, we'll
include some or all of them in an issue of AU. Brad}. We were told the
chip was NOT being made by Intel, Cyrix (sp?) or AMD. When I get more
specific information I shall, of course, post it.
We were also told that Windows would NOT be on the development
machine (Amiga Bridge OS4.0). "No money to Microsoft" is a direct
quote.
Bill McEwen said that if anyone had any questions, he'd be more than
happy to answer them. You can contact him at bm@amigainc.com. He said
he would answer all polite mail. He also said he'd not answer any rude
or nasty mail but that *he would keep it*.
Speaking of development. Olaf Bartel (sp?) has been doing extensive
work in the Development CD and the RKMs, they have been bugfixed and
upgraded (now version 2.1). This should be available soon.
Dave Haynie has also released a lot of information. It can be found
on http://www.thule.no/haynie/. There will be more.
Denny Atkins is coming back to the Amiga.
There might be a bit more, but I'm getting really tired... If I
remember more, or get more clarification, I shall pass it on to you. I
did have a wonderful time, despite the heat and some physical
problems, and I feel more hopeful than ever about the future of the
Amiga.
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Q U I K P A K S U I T H U R T S A 4 0 0 0
"NewTekniques Magazine"'s Editor in Chief Joe Tracy, in a copyrighted
story dated July 3, states that a lawsuit against Amiga manufacturer
QuikPak has caused grave problems for those who want Amiga 4000
models. QuikPak has built the 4000 in several variations over the
years, and is licensed by Amiga International, Inc. to build them.
However, according to the story, the lawsuit brought by Dr. Bernhard
Hembach, the German court's ESCOM bankruptcy trustee has prevented the
building and shipping of product. The dispute apparently centers on
the stock of A4000 parts supposedly provided to QuikPak by ESCOM.
Many dealers who rely on NewTek Video Toaster and Flyer bundles which
include the A4000 have been hurt by the dispute. NewTek itself
apparently has a fall-back plan which has allowed it to ship its own
bundles which include A4000s, but with a significant delay. Even Amiga
International itself is unable to get units.
The story concludes with the note that Amiga Inc. is trying to help
settle the dispute.
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S C H I N D L E R I S I N T E R V I E W E D
The June 30 issue of "Investor's Business Weekly" (or is that
"Daily"?) carried an interview with Jeff Schindler, head of Amiga
Incorporated. In the interview, Schindler made some statements which
have raised eyebrows thoughout the Amiga community.
Schindler confirmed that Gateway's initial goal was just the Amiga
patents. However, the company found they had more opportunity than
expected.
He referred to something called the "Amiga Classic Card" which will
fit into the next generation Amigas and allow them to run software
designed for current models.
Schindler made the perhaps controversial statement that the bulk of
the target market for the upcoming Amiga OS 5.0 machines will be
people looking for simplicity at a low cost. The magazine carried this
quote:
"We're looking for the percentage of the market that says, 'I'm
intimidated by computers and I don't want to spend that much.' These
are people who say, 'I'm mainly using my PC in home for entertainment
and for general tasks.' The new Amiga will offer Internet access for
people who don't need a full computer and don't want to spend much."
However, he was also quoted as saying:
"We'll always have the high end. The Amiga design is scalable (can be
made more powerful if needed). But this market is not the bulk of our
target." which should prove reassuring to the Amiga faithful.
The interview indicated that several existing PC manufacturers had
been contacted about building the new Amigas. This may include Gateway
itself.
See also the comments above in Asha's story on AmiWest.
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I N T E L E A R N I N G S D I S A P P O I N T
The lead story in July 15th "Information Week Daily", a daily e-mail
newsletter from "Information Week" magazine, carried this leader -
"Intel's Second Quarter Disappoints"
The story itself noted that Intel's earnings for the quarter were
slightly down from expectations, earning 66 cents a share instead of
the anticipated 68 cents. This represents total earnings of $1.2
billion, still a very respectable showing.
Intel cited improved sales in the Americas and Japan, flat sales in
the remainder of Asia, and declining sales in Europe.
We suspect that Amiga owners were among the least disappointed.
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C L O A N T O S P E A K S O U T
Cloanto Answers Some Common Questions
From time to time we become aware, through direct user emails and
newsgroup posts, of some questions related to our Amiga products and
projects. We always answer directly to all inquiries, but we would
also like to publicly try to answer and clarify some of the more
popular issues.
No doubt, a frequent question is about our plans with respect to
PowerPC Amiga expansion boards. Last year, when we released a PowerPC
version of the Personal Paint blitting library, we were very proud to
be among the first to release some PowerPC code for the Amiga. Since
then, we did not port entire packages to the PowerPC. This is because
porting a complex program like Personal Paint, for example, is not
just a matter of simply "recompiling" it, or at least it is not with
the development tools and the PowerPC libraries available so far. We
still plan to do this for Personal Paint 8, which is designed with
more code portability in mind, if the PowerPC will be accepted and
endorsed as an official Amiga platform, or if tools emerge that make
it possible to port Personal Paint to a PowerPC system by using the
same code as for the 68K version. In this latter case, we might even
port Personal Paint 7.x.
Another issue is that the original Personal Paint PowerPC blitting
library released last year does not work with newer PowerPC expansion
systems. This blitting library was tested both by
http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/ Cloanto and by the manufacturers of
the boards (who were aware of our release plans), and originally
worked flawlessly. After the release of the library on the Personal
Paint 7.1 CD-ROM, the PowerPC expansion systems were changed in a way
that created incompatibilities with existing PowerPC software, such as
this library. We changed the code twice, and released it on Aminet, in
the biz/cloan directory, and we also shared our source code with the
developers of the expansion systems, but given the continued and
repeated incompatibilities, we now feel that the maintenance overhead
does not justify the performance improvement, and, as explained, we
are looking at the whole matter from a broader perspective. To
completely solve this issue, we recommend to use the standard 68K
blitting libraries, which are used by default by the program. In our
tests with Amiga systems having both a PowerPC and a 68060 CPU, the
68060 blitting library was only 10% slower than the PowerPC library.
It is to be expected that PowerPC Amiga systems will only be able to
express their full potential when the complete Amiga OS and all new
software are entirely compiled for the PowerPC. Before this occurs,
and unless it can be verified that at least some software which can
justify the overall investment is available for the PowerPC and runs
considerably faster than on a real or emulated 68K Amiga, we recommend
to use 68K Amiga systems such as the 68060, or emulation.
It is no secret that, while the power of the CPUs used in PCs doubles
about every 18 months, we became aware of the fact that an Amiga can
now be emulated quite well by other systems. In some cases, which can
only increase rapidly over time, emulated Amiga systems are already
cheaper and/or faster than silicon ones. Whatever the official Amiga
of the future will be, whether it will be based on a PowerPC, or on a
different (non-68K) CPU, it will need emulation to run the current
Amiga OS and applications (which have now officially been defined as
"Classic Amiga").We plan to continue supporting Amiga emulation and
other means of integrating the Classic Amiga with different platforms,
as we have successfully done with the Amiga Forever package. We will
also continue to invest in the Amiga, preferably by focussing on
development on one official platform, rather than politics related to
the use of one CPU or the other. In any case, we plan to release new
Amiga products before next Christmas.
These are hard times for commercial Amiga software developers: sales
are low, and the uncertainty about the future has never been as high
as it is now, since we don't even know what the new Amiga OS we have
to write software for will look like. We hope that we had a chance to
clarify some doubts about our own future, and we thank all users for
their patience and continued support. It appears that it is now our
turn to be patient and wait to see what the future will bring.
For additional information related to these topics, please refer to
the following recently-updated documents:
Personal Paint Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/faq.html
Amiga Emulation: Good or Bad for the Amiga?
http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/forever/emulation_good_bad.html
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A M I G A Z O N E L O W E R S P R I C E S
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sacramento, CA. USA
July 12, 1998
AmigaZone, the online service for Amiga owners and users, announces
that it has dropped its price to only $12.95 per month.
This new low price gets you full 24/7 access to all AmigaZone
features including:
FIVE different ways to access the Zone! Members can use any or all of
them, even simultaneously:
* Use any terminal program or telnet client and telnet to
"amigazone.com"
to use our comfortable, hotkey driven, text-style BBS interface to
access everything.
* Use any web browser and surf to http://amigazone.com/
http://amigazone.com/ to use our members-only Web interface to access
everything.
* Connect with an FTP program or client to "amigazone.com" to snag
files from our huge library of over 40,000 files, including tons of
stuff you won't find on Aminet or anywhere else!
* Connect your POP email client to "pop.amigazone.com" to read and
send mail to and from your own amigazone.com address.
* For our members who own a Gates Crate (Windoze computer ;-) -
download the free "Wildcat Navigator" program which has multiple
clients specifically designed to use AmigaZone's message bases, file
libraries, CD ROM collections, live chat area, email, door games, and
more. (WCNav is NOT required to use AmigaZone. It's merely an option
for those of you who must or want to use a PeeCee to log in)
AmigaZone has dozens of message areas including our own local areas,
Amiga Usenet newsgroup feeds, Amiga Fidonet "echo" feeds, and over a
dozen Amiga-specific mailing lists fed into their own message bases,
each holding weeks or months of postings. Use our insanely fast search
functions to find what you're after in over 30,000 articles, online at
all times, with new stuff feeding in 24 hours a day.
Our file library is absolutely enormous - over 40,000 files online
all the time, and thousands more on our multiple CD changer.
We have friendly, live, interactive chats seven nights a week, and
the Sunday chat always features at least two prize contests, open to
all members - we've given away thousands of buck$ worth of Amiga goods
- it's an AmigaZone tradition.
$12.95 a month gets you ALL of this - there are NO extra cost or
optional areas. Our web inteface has NO annoying, ram-eating,
time-wasting banner ads. You pay for Amiga news, information,
entertainment and files and that's exactly what you get.
And you can log in from anywhere in the world. All you need is an
account with any local Internet Service Provider (ISP), and any
terminal program or telnet client, or any browser.
"AmigaZone Plus" option:
You can also choose to bundle AmigaZone with a full CalWeb Internet
Services UNIX shell account too - this "AmigaZone Plus" package gets
you the full AmigaZone account PLUS the CalWeb UNIX shell, including
all the usual UNIX shell tools (news, mail, etc.) plus 10 meg of free
online storage and web hosting for your own personal web site.
AmigaZone Plus is $19.95 per month. Again, no hidden costs.
To sign up for AmigaZone or AmigaZone Plus, just visit
http://www.amigazone.com and click on the very obvious "JOIN NOW!"
link or image near the top. This will transport you to our secure
signup page (SSL required - works with all Amiga browsers).
You'll have your account within one or two working days and then you
can enjoy all the features and benefits of being an AmigaZone member.
AmigaZone, founded in 1985, is run by Harv Laser, well-known Amiga
writer, advocate, and (recently elected as the User Rep. for the
ICOA/JMS).
AmigaZone is a Trademark of Harv Laser.
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O P E N L E T T E R F R O M P A X T R O N
17 Jul 1998
Although it is unusual, we feel compelled at this juncture to write
an open letter to the Amiga community concerning the present state of
affairs. There is a lot of confusion floating around the Internet and
e-mail regarding the status of the last few Amiga dealers and their
ability to procure certain products. In order to alleviate the
confusion we have elected to briefly cover the problem areas and
discuss Paxtron's present status with relation to Phase 5, Apollo
(ACT), Paxtron repairs and part shortages.
There are a lot of misunderstandings out there concerning the
Motorola 68060/50 CPU chips used on accelerator boards. For two months
neither Phase 5 nor Apollo (ACT) had the 68060/50 in stock. Paxtron in
anticipation of this purchased quantity of the CPU's and then had
trouble getting the manufacturer to make additional boards because
Paxtron was the only one with 68060/50 chips. Regardless of the rumors
that were heard on the Internet, all 68060/50 CPU's are new and have
not fallen off a truck, or gray market, or not stolen. A few end users
called Motorola on their own and were told that they had never been
backordered and this is not necessarily true. The reason why the CPU's
were impossible to get is that companies buying from Motorola direct
were required to purchase either 500 to 1000 pieces at a time and for
a period they weren't making any. The next level of purchase was the
distributor and that is how Phase 5 and Apollo ran into difficulty as
these people were out of stock. Another reason why you buy through a
distributor is the price must be kept down to keep the accelerator
board within reason. If one goes directly to Motorola to buy 10, 20,
or 30 units the price of the 68060/50 would be over $400.00. The
distributor channel for the CPU's has recently opened again and the
units have been made available to Phase 5 and Apollo. As we said
earlier don't listen to rumors ask us.
There are only two authorized legal direct distributors in the U.S.
for Phase 5. If a Phase 5 product is defective or if it is purchased
from another company other than Paxtron or Software Hut it can be a
big problem later. Only the authorized distributor can either repair
or exchange the broken accelerator board in question or has the
authority to return the unit to the manufacturer. We have received a
number of broken Phase 5 and accelerator boards from end users who
have purchased these boards from companies who have gone out of
business or are non-authorized distributors and this has created a big
problem. We suggest that the Amiga users give serious consideration to
not jumping at the idea of saving $15 - $20 by buying a board from a
non-authorized distributor and having serious service difficulty
later. Another consideration in buying direct is the delay time in
getting something repaired if the purchase is not from a direct
distributor. Remember, Phase 5 will only accept repairs from
authorized distributors.
We are frustrated with not having a continual flow of accelerator
product from Phase 5 and Apollo. Paxtron does not purchase an
accelerator when an order comes in. We try to keep an abundant supply
in inventory and this has been very frustrating to say the least. One
shipment alone worth $14,000 was lost by UPS and this was very
upsetting to some Amiga end user's that paid for these items and were
told UPS lost them. To complicate things more, the replacement of the
product from the manufacturer took up to four weeks. Paxtron tries
it's hardest to keep the highest level of customer satisfaction but
dealing with certain companies at this junction is not easy and we ask
that the public understand this. Paxtron is at the front line, "we are
your soldiers" and we are doing our best in a very difficult time in
the life of Amiga.
We have heard people complain that our phone lines are either always
busy or we are curt on the phone. While it is true that our lines have
become more active, we do not mean to be short on the phone. One out
of every nine phone calls that we receive is for something that we
sell at Paxtron. The balance of these calls appear to be people
wanting to know the latest news on Amiga Technologies and new products
that Gateway is coming out with, etc. At the present time Paxtron has
six 800 toll free lines for a total amount of nine phone lines and our
phone bill has increased significantly due to all these superfluous
calls. Nearly all the lines get filled at one time. In addition, we
have run into a new phenomenon with the disappearance of most dealers
and Amiga end users becoming more frustrated and angry. Finding the
availability of parts and delayed Amiga service has infuriated end
users and a lot of people have run out of patience and take it out on
us as we are one of the few companies left. Besides what we explained
above we are faced with another serious problem. Amiga users are
constantly calling us on the toll free lines to ask us to repair
boards or answer questions about some other items for their Amiga that
were not purchased from us and were bought from companies that have
gone out of business. It takes a lot of time and patience to be a
central information system and certainly in an area that we can not
make money on or even lose with people calling on the toll free lines.
We try to be as helpful as we can but we can not be held responsible
for people who have bought boards from GVP, DKB, ICD, etc.
As an authorized service center for Amiga Technologies we again
strive to turnaround repairs within 48 hours. Since most of the
service centers have disappeared we are pretty much the only one; we
are overwhelmed with the response. We have increased our service
department and now have two (SMT) surface mount repair work stations.
We are also inundated with people sending in product for repair
without calling for a (RMA) Return Material Authorization. To
complicate things more, people are sending in product not purchased
from Amiga and we can not fix them. Without having the schematics of
product from a company that has gone out of business for example GVP
we have no way to do the repairs.
We call upon each and every one of you to support Paxtron during
these vulnerable times. Without companies like us doing advertising
and keeping the Amiga community alive we doubt very much that Amazing
Computing magazine will continue publishing. We hear a lot of rumors
and we get a lot of phone calls and e-mails from "crazies" that the
frustration has sent some people off the deep end. It is best that if
you need help with a non Amiga product maybe we can direct you
somewhere but we ask that you e-mail or fax us. Paxtron can not become
the central communications center for Amiga Technologies or Gateway.
We call upon everybody to understand where Paxtron is coming from and
to bear with it until things improve. By badmouthing the manufacturers
or ourselves will cause harm to everybody in return. By supporting the
balance of the dealers, Amazing Computing magazine will stay in
business and make sure the Amiga users have a place to go.
WE WELCOME YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS ON E-MAIL
"paxtron@cyburban.com".
Paul Landau
Vice President of Operations
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S T F A X S U P P O R T S I O M
Amiga Press Release - 13/7/98
The recently released STFax Professional v3.3 now supports the
Independent Operation Mode found within the PACE 'Solo'
(http://www.pacecom.co.uk/) and 3-Com Message Plus modems.
Independent Operation Mode allows you to use the modem as a digital
answer and fax machine without the need for your Amiga to be switched
on! The modem will answer with a greeting, the caller can leave a
message as per a normal answer machine and, if they are sending a fax,
the modem will automatically switch into fax mode and receive the fax
transmission.
These voice and fax messages are then stored on the modem and, the
next time you run your Amiga and STFax Professional (v3.3+), these
messages are automatically downloaded to your machine. You are then
able to play/view/print/delete the messages.
STFax Professional supports the more advanced Independent Operation
Mode features only found within the PACE 'Solo' modem. For instance
you can remotely retrieve you messages, you can use the 'follow me'
option to call you on your mobile and play important messages and so
on.
Please note: that you need the PACE 'Solo' or 3-Com Message Plus
modem in order to use the independent support within STFax
Professional v3.3+. We currently do not support the Olitec 56K or the
new 3-Com Professional Message Plus modem. We hope to add support for
these modems in the future, within a new update.
NetConnect v2 Special Pre-Order Price Available
The long awaited NetConnect v2 is due for release on the 21st of July
1998. You can pre-order the new CD before release and save £10.
NetConnect v2 is the easiest and most comprehensive Internet
compilation designed to enable any Amiga user, from novice to expert
level, to get onto and use the Internet.
The CD is based around eleven commercial programs, debuing
AmiTCP-Genesis, X-Arc, Microdot-II v1 and Vapor's new 'Contact
Manager'. You are given all you will need to get the most from the
Internet. By using the new Genesis Wizard, a user should be able
connect to the Internet in a matter of minutes. Ideal for both an
Internet and/or local area network connection (due to Genesis' ability
to support multiple interface connections) and for an advanced or
novice Amiga Internet user.
For further information:
Active Technologies
113 Victoria Road
Darlington
County Durham
England, DL1 5JH.
Tel : +44 (0)1325 460116
Fax : +44 (0)1325 460117
http://www.active-net.co.uk/
e-mail : sales@active-net.co.uk
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A M I G A S Q L M A I L I N G L I S T
7 July, 1998
Hello,
I'd like to inform you that a new mailling list was just setup: The
Amiga mSQL Mailing List!
mSQL is the first (and only) available SQL database server running on
Amiga.
Since there're more and more people using mSQL on Amiga, i've setup
this ml to exchange help and experiences on this subject.
You can get more information on http://altern.org/amsql
Regards,
Christophe
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A M I G A T O P C N E T W O R K I N G
Toronto, Canada - July 6, 1998
Randomize, Inc. now offers the easiest and most complete Amiga-to-PC
networking package available.
Our bundle includes everything you need to get connected quicly
including:
* Hydra Ethernet Card (10 baseT, BNC and RJ45) - For Amiga
* GVC PCI Ethernet Card (10/100 baseT, BNC and RJ45) - ISA Version
also available - For PC - Miami (TCP/IP) - For Amiga - Amiga Forever
(Networking Software and Amiga Emulator for PC) - 20' BNC Networking
Cable including connectors and terminators - Complete Setup
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A M I G A S U R V I V O R A V A I L A B L E
Amiga Survivor Magazine Begins Distributing First Issue
Hi friends!
May I take this opportunity to announce to you all that the very
first issue of AMIGA SURVIVOR is now available.
This brand new, A5 40-page print magazine dedicated to the world of
Amiga games was (finally) released on the 14th July 1998, after a few
teething problems by its printers!
I'm happy to say that the final outcome is hunky-dory, complete with
a full color cover.
It retails for 2.95UKP in the UK, but can also be purchased outside
the UK by credit card. For more information, e-mail Robert Iveson at:
thedomain@enterprise.net. Or visit Amiga Survivor's website at:
http://www.crystal-software.com/survindex.html
Also at this website you can find some information regards Crystal
Software, who help publish Amiga Survivor.
All the best!
Robert Iveson,
Managing Director, Amiga Publishing Department,
Crystal Software International.
To contact Amiga Survivor, then you can do so by directly e-mailing:
thedomain@enterprise.net
You can write to me, at:
Robert Iveson,
Amiga Survivor,
41 Wellstone Garth,
Swinnow,
Leeds,
West Yorks,
LS13 4EJ.
ENGLAND.
If you would like to contact Crystal Software International regarding
the publication, then the man to write to is:
Alex de Vries,
Crystal Software International,
Leemveld 158,
9407 GE Assen,
The Netherlands.
E-Mail: CrystalSoftware@hotmail.com
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A I R M A I L P R O 3 . 1
2 Jul 1998
Air Mail Pro v3.1 MUI the ultimate email package for the Amiga is now
available for download at http://www.toysoft-dev.com
Free upgrades are given to current Air Mail Pro v3.0 users. Please
contact danny@toysoft-dev.com for details.
New features in 3.1.
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o BCC has been added.
o New NList listview. Easier sorting, Horiz. and Vert. scrollable
listview. Draggable colunms.
o New speech preference. Yes! you can now tell Air Mail Pro to speak
your message to you.
o More stable version of Super Mail Box
o Preference loading is now sync'ed between Air mail Pro and Super
mail box
o More forms. Forms now include sounds. Very Cool!!! Only Air Mail
makes it possible!
o Proxy server feature added.
o Added end with remark.
o Better URL support
o and many more
Regards,
Danny
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T O Y S O F T D E V E L O P M E N T I N C.
E-Mail: danny@toysoft-dev.com
WWW: http://www.toysoft-dev.com
Voice: 1-403-680-1656
Calgary, Alberta Canada
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P C M C I A E T H E R N E T C A R D
National Amiga Announces NIMIQ PCMCIA Ethernet Card
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 17th, 1998
NIMIQ: An Inuit word for any object or force that unites or binds
them together.
The Amiga 600 and 1200 have a PCMCIA ethernet card slot on the side
of it that has yet been exploited for use with a cheaper ethernet
card, until now.
The NIMIQ card from National Amiga offers ethernet connectivity for
the Amiga 600 and 1200 at a cheap price.
The card has been fully tested to work with INet, Envoy and Miami,
the most common networking packages available for the Amiga.
It uses the standard cnet.device SANA2 device driver and later a
specialized version will become available for registered users that
will add more SANA2 functionality and speed.
A complete installation manual is included that also covers basic
networking to help answer many questions and get you up and running.
Features:
* 10-base-T RJ45
* 10-base-2 BNC/Coax
* FCC and CE approval
* 16K buffer for maximum data throughput
* Auto senses between 10-base-T and 10-base-2
* Does not require power supply
* Link and activity lights
* Works with CPU caches turned on
* Standard SANA-II device driver for use with Envoy, INet225, AmiTCP,
Miami
* Compliance with PCMCIA Release 2 Type II and JEIDA V4. standard
* Compliance with IEEE802.3 10-base-2 and 10-base-T Ethernet
standards
Price:
* $129 Canadian Dollars
* $89 US Dollars (approximate)
For more information on the NIMIQ PCMCIA Ethernet card, please
contact us:
National Amiga
A Division of ARCHTECH Incorporated
111 Waterloo St. #101
London, Ontario
N6B2M4
Phone: 519-858-8760
Fax: 519-858-8762
email: sales@nationalamiga.com
http://www.nationalamiga.com/
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Amiga Update on the net: some issues available at:
http://www.sharbor.com/amiga/news/ (in html format)
Australian Mirror Site: http://www.comcen.com.au/~paulm/index.html
All back issues available (in ASCII text) at:
http://www.globaldialog.com/AdventureCentral/AU/index.html
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Copyright 1998 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified.
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