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M I D W E S T A M I G A E X P O S I T I O N U P D A T E . . .
. . . A N D A M I W E S T U P D A T E
L A S E R L I G H T S U P I C O A
S O F T W O R X S U P P O R T M A I L I N G L I S T
A G I F T F R O M C L O A N T O !
M U I B A S E D A T A B A S E M A N A G E R
T H E N E W S F R O M V A P O R W A R E
A M I G A S M A K E I N R O A D S I N B A N G L A D E S H
A M I N E T 2 5 A V A I L A B L E
A M I G A I N F O R M E R 1 4 A T D E A L E R S
A M I G A S I N A U S T R I A N S L O T M A C H I N E S
P O L I S H A M I G A S H O W A S U C C E S S
T S C T H A N K S M A N Y !
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
One great thing about being Editor is I can change my mind. After the
last issue, I had decided to not run further notes about Amiga's plan
for the future as announced at the London show. Well, there are two
letters in this issue on that subject. Both of them seemed compelling
enough to include for the discussion they may cause. Note that we will
almost never run a letter longer than 200 to 300 words because of
severe space restrictions. We did so in this case only because we
solicited such mail earlier.
On June 20, a copyrighted story appeared documenting a fine levied
against Gateway Inc., parent corporation of the Amiga, for selling
computers to Iran, Syria and 14 other countries in violation of U.S.
export law. We can't run the copyrighted story, but here are some
quotes:
"The Commerce Department said Gateway made the sales in 1992 and 1993
even though the North Sioux City, S.D., company knew they required
export licenses and in many cases falsified shipment declarations.
"Gateway's sales involved more than 80 computers worth $260,000 at
the time, the department said.
"The department started looking into Gateway's exports as a result of
a criminal investigation of a U.S. resident who was shipping computers
to family members in Iran, according to a department official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity. The criminal case was settled with a
probated sentence.
"Gateway agreed to pay the $402,000 penalty to settle the charges.
Gateway officials had no immediate comment on the case."
While it's disappointing to see "our" computer company involved in
such a case, we hope they've learned their lesson and we expect no
permanent damage to the company.
It's been a relatively quiet month in the Amiga community, but there
is still much to report. The biggest news is probably the gift from
Cloanto, details below. We have other stories of interest also,
including quite a bit of information on upcoming shows in the U.S.
We hope you enjoy this issue.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor
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Dear Brad,
I presently have a Win95 machine, I formerly had an Amiga 1200 but
due to a business problem at the time I had to sell my Amiga. I have a
P166 and there are lots of times I believe it is slower than my stock
1200 ever was. I am in process of selling my WIN95 machine to get an
Amiga.
About the new machines, I personally can not believe that Amiga Intl
isn't using the Power PC chip Macintosh did it and maintained
backwards compatibility, I think that is better than a Classic Amiga
card, if that is their idea of a fix I might as well keep my WINDOZE
machine because it would only be an Amiga by name. I have always been
a minimalist (not that I wouldn't upgrade) I try to get the most out
of my computer with the least available. The "Classic Amiga" knew how
to do this if you look at what it takes to run the Amiga Software
resource-wise as compared to the 10 Billion lines of Windoze code and
what it takes to run their applications you could see that the Amiga
already has quite an advantage now add to that a faster processor and
I believe you could smoke some PC's. I am also thinking of all the
companies that have readied themselves to jump on the Power PC wave
and then oops Amiga Intl wants to jump tracks. Look at the Power of
the machine in the Toaster/Flyer field the PCs are just now starting
to catch up for a lot more money!! I think the Amiga community needs
to be heard before this is all lost.
Patrick
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A lot of people are disappointed the PPC chip isn't being used.
However, it seems proper to me to see what Amiga comes up with. The
original machine was a huge leap forward, and that's clearly the goal
for now. In light of IBM pulling out of the PPC venture with Motorola,
the decision looks even better, though the PPC is bound to be around
for quite a while.
Keep in mind the next generation of Amiga is NOT a PC with an Amiga
card in it. It seems to be very hard to get this message out, but
that's the truth as it exists right now.
Hang in there with us!
Brad
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The following is a synopsis of a letter sent to the management of
Amiga Inc. dated 6 June 1998.
COMMENTS TO THE AMIGA, INC. MANAGEMENT ON THE NEXT AMIGA OS
WHATEVER THE VERSION
No one since the first appearance of Windows has really tried to give
MS a run for their money in dominating the OS products market, well,
except for the fragmented open systems market. Just think about how
far the penetration of the likes of Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. have
gotten in the last few years into the market, and these will not go
away anytime soon, because they cannot be stomped out by MS from
running on the same cheap hardware that MS windows does. It seems to
me that it is time for a creditable consumer OS offering to the world,
system configuration managed, nonpropriety and open like the GNU,
Linux, etc. software, and having a core set of key applications would
be able to compete with MS windows today. Such an OS should be
portable across many platforms with as small a kernel as possible. And
just as the Multiuser (preemptive multitasking, etc.) market is
between the WinNT and Unixes, with a few left over such as OS/2,
Rhaposdy (eventually), etc., so such a new OS should have all of these
same attributes, but lacking a few I believe to make it truly unique,
compact, and extremely fast when compared to all others.
What are the mininum attributes that such a system should have? And
shouldn't these OS attributes allow the system to be elegantly simple,
compact, and extremely fast and easy add on to, when compared to other
OSes. This means an OS that is flexible, compact and quick! Sounds
like AmigaOS already doesn't it. The minimal attributes I think
Pre-emptive multitasking with an elegant scheduler
Single user only, and user protective (*)
Protected memory (*)
Multithreading
Symmetric multiprocessing
Allow two user interfaces (i.e. a GUI, user's choice and CLI
capability)
OPEN, of course. That's about it!
I believe that this is where the PRESENT AmigaOS already shows itself
commendably except for the (*)ed items without the need for someone
else's kernel. The Amiga I believe does not need to have:
Virtual memory (or swap space).
I know that this is where I am going to get a lot of flak and
resistance, particularly from the Unix community, but I believe that
for the AmigaOS to be unique and still very fast, that this is one
area (just like RISC undercut CISC) where the system actually benefits
rather than looses. I submit that this OS should not be intended for a
server OS! Give the server market to the likes of WinNT and Unix. Just
let'em have it.
Why leave out virtual memory? I can think of many reasons but to be
brief I will only provide a few. If the system can be made to be ONLY
single user capable, and able to handle any address space (64bit or
larger), keeping extremely compact code with the only addition being
memory protection, then why not just load everything needed (and
shareable) as needed like AmigaOS already does? FORGET SWAP MEMORY!
Memory is going to continue to become cheaper and cheaper, and need
less and less board space. By Moore's law, we can all take this for
granted! So, I propose a modified open architecture AmigaOS, detached
from the special chips, but with single user protection and protected
memory features added.
Why single user multitasking? Well, if the system were modified to
honor ONLY a single user (logged in) at a time and only his files as
designated by him, then a greater protection can be inherently built
into the OS. And, if the system were to be modified to handle the ufs,
bfs, ms, NT, etc. storage file formats (as AmigaOS can do already) and
honor these other OS user protection settings, then only those files
world readable and directory listable would be accessable and
available. This means that only ONE user can be logged in at a time
(strict login capability with password protection). Maybe this sounds
very much like a single user bootable version of Unix, and so it is
except, the OS in this case has NO overhead multiuser or virtual
memory code builtin. What I am proposing here is an OPEN OS that is
compact enough and extremely quick, easily put onto your multimedia
internetted wristwatch, and NOBODY on the INTERNET can get into your
files.
When I have a machine working, I want it to be MINE and working for
ME as fast as it can, not somebody else. I also do not want the OS to
use a lot of MY application memory doing it. I do want it to protect
ME and MY files as securely as possible unless I intentionally wish
some things to be shareable, and here I want to have as complete
control over that as possible. I believe this is an inherent concept
to us all and that deep down we all share it!
I hope that this will provide a lively debate, but the main concern
is to have Gateway, and Amiga, Inc. realize that what the AmigaOS
provides is already a good start, and with a very small investment,
can be just the ticket for a next (backward compatible?) generation
AmigaOS.
So let us have this debate quickly! And let us reach an accord just
as quickly, because we all want something that we can buy with
confidence and that will provide a clear choice, and that is at heart
an Amiga.
Allen B. Reeves
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We couldn't begin to address all the thought in this note, but we're
pleased to help Allen get his ideas in front of the Amiga community.
Brad
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M I D W E S T A M I G A E X P O S I T I O N U P D A T E . . .
June 17th, 1998.
The Amiga Central Ohio Network is pleased to announce the recent
update to the exhibitor listings for the Midwest Amiga Exposition
along with the new face-lift our web site has recently received.
Our show this year is taking place at the Hyatt Regency Columbus,
which offers us almost 7,000 square feet of exhibitor space, making
this show THE largest show in North America this year and doubling our
show from last year! The Hyatt Regency is a perfect location for our
event and features dozens of downstairs restaurants and shops as well
as being close by many activities, restaurants, and micro breweries of
downtown Columbus. We are also proud to announce that IRC, Web cam,
and WWW access will be available from the show floor this year. We
will be setting up a dedicated lines for each of these allowing for
total participation from the Amiga community from around the world
with no interruptions!
You can check out who is going to be present at our show by visiting
http://www.amicon.org/mae.html and following the "Who will be there"
link. Right now, we've only listed a few companies and user groups who
have committed at this time. Many more will be appearing soon as the
show dates draw closer, so please watch for updates in the coming
weeks.
At this time the seminars are being lined up with the gracious help
of the ICOA (http://www.amiganet.org/icoa/) who have done an
outstanding job of coordination and scheduling past seminars at other
major Amiga events around the world. Our seminars page will be updated
soon with a list of times, costs, and descriptions of the seminars
that will be offered.
Vendors are encouraged to sign up soon and get your requests for
prime floor space in early. All vendors will receive detailed
instructions and floor specs as the show dates draw closer. Pipe and
drape is available for that "professional" look as well as dedicated
phone lines. Please visit http://www.amicon.org/mae.html and follow
the "Exhibitor Information" link to find out prices, selections and
other details.
For room reservations, please contact the HYATT REGENCY COLUMBUS at
(800)233-1234 or (614)463-1234 and tell them you will be attending the
Midwest Amiga Exposition on October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th to receive a
special show attendee discount. Also, please make sure you call the
Hyatt Regency Columbus and not the Hyatt of downtown Columbus. These
are two different places and we're not big enough to occupy both at
the same time (yet!).
Tickets are $12.00 for two days and $8.00 for one day, available at
the door of the show. Some seminars may be extra.
Grand prizes, games, new products, official press statements,
educational seminars, great people, great deals, and everything great
about the Amiga will be at the Midwest Amiga Exposition! So shouldn't
you be?
Visit our web pages at http://www.amicon.org, check out the show
details, send us mail about our typos ;) and if you don't see your
favorite Amiga vendor on the list, email us and we'll make sure they
know you want to see them at the 1998 Midwest Amiga Exposition!
If you have any questions about attending the show, seminars, or
about exhibiting for our show, please email David Pearce,
dpearce@amicon.org or Ronn Black, rblack@amicon.org. A phone number
will be available shortly to take inquires.
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. . . A N D A M I W E S T U P D A T E
26 Jun 1998
Banquet Tickets SOLD OUT!
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The AmiWest Banquet on Saturday night has been sold out! There was
only a limited number of banquet tickets available as seating in the
banquet area is limited. 100 people will be attending the banquet.
New Seminars have been added
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New seminars have been added and are shown on our web page. This can
be accessed directly at
http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/seminar.html
We have seminars by Holger Kruse (author of Miami), Chris Aldi
(author of Class Act), and Carl Sassenrath (on his new language ROBOL)
Paul Nolan will be here all the way from England for a PhotogenicsNG
presentation.
Tickets
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If you have not already done so, you should get your requests in for
passes to the show. Remember that show passes are available at a
reduced rate if your check and mailed request is received by July 1.
The advance ticket prices are:
Full show pass (admission to show floor both days).....$12.
One day pass............................................$8.
A form in text format that can saved and/or printed has been provided
on the web page at http://sacc.org/amiwest/TICKETFORM.TXT for ordering
tickets for the show. Since we are using a badge type of admission,
you will not receive actual tickets by return mail. Instead you will
receive an acknowledgement that you have purchased the type of pass
you requested. You will present this at the admissions desk and will
be given a show information packet which will include your admittance
badge and banquet tickets that you have ordered.
The first 300 people ordering tickets will get a free issue of the
latest "The Informer" magazine.
Persons with advance tickets will have a special line to reduce
waiting. Your check(s) should be mailed no later than July 1st or
there is a chance that they will not arrive here in time for the show.
Please fill out a form for each person that wants tickets. This will
allow us to print the name and affiliation for each person receiving a
badge.
Send your check for admission passes:
AmiWest '98
c/o Sacramento Amiga Computer Club
P.O. Box 19784
Sacramento, CA 95819-0784
Make checks payable to "AmiWest".
And as always, check out our web page at http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/
for the latest information.
And see our ads in the current issues of "Amazing/Amiga" and "The
Informer" magazines.
Thanks,
John Zacharias
jzachar@calweb.com
Alan Crandall
alanwall@sonic.net
"1998 is going to be a fun ride!" AmiWest98, get in, strap in, hang
on!
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L A S E R L I G H T S U P I C O A
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
22nd June 1998
Harv Laser elected as ICOA User Representative
The organisers of the 1998 ICOA User Rep election at the Jay Miner
Society today announced its results. These were as follows:
Bill Borsari 58
Craig Delahoy 42
Harv Laser 174
No evidence of voting fraud was detected, and no complaints have been
received by the election arbiters. Therefore Harv Laser is duly
elected to the position of User Representative on the ICOA Steering
Committee for a term of one year.
As User Rep, Harv Laser will have a full voting seat on the Steering
Committee, alongside four ICOA members chosen in the current internal
elections and a non-voting representative of Amiga Inc. His position
is intended to combine the roles of consumer advocate, opinion-
gatherer, strategist and community liaison. The whole Committee will
attend selected Amiga shows and will meet face-to-face roughly every 3
months.
For further information about the election, see the official web site
at <URL:http://www.jms.org/election/> or contact Ben Hutchings
<worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk> of the Jay Miner Society.
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The ICOA <URL:http://www.amiganet.org/icoa/> is a non-profit
organization which develops and promotes standards, and provides
support for Amiga developers. It has been chosen by Amiga Inc to
provide the official developer support program for the Amiga in
future.
The JMS <URL:http://www.jms.org> is a non-profit international user
group devoted to empowering Amiga users and fostering the spirit of
the Amiga. It created the ICOA initiative and launched it in May 1997.
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S O F T W O R X S U P P O R T M A I L I N G L I S T
23 June1998 PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX Announces Support Mailing List
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX, so far mainly known for their SuperView and
SuperView- Library related line of products, today announced a new
support mailing list for users of their freely distributable as well
as shareware software products, including - but not limited to - the
latter.
Two lists are made available to address different groups of
recipients:
ARK-DISCUSSION for discussing PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX programs and
related bugs and problems and for general support
ARK-ANNOUNCE for receiving the latest information and press releases
from PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX [read only]
To subscribe to one of the mailing lists, simply write an email to
LISTSERV@ML.amigos.line.org
with "ADD ark-discussion" or "ADD ark-announce" in the subject line
(leave the mailbody empty). To again unsubscribe, replace "ADD" with
"DEL".
Once you have successfully subscribed, you'll receive a confirmation
message from the server and may start writing your own mails.
Mails to ARK-DISC then have to be addressed to
ark-discussion@ml.amigos.line.org
For a nearly complete list of PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX software products,
visit
http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/support.htm
or the homepage URL listed below - it soon will allow to
subscribe/unsubscribe the mailing lists online from the WWW.
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Information on SuperView, SuperView-Library and ImageEngineer
registration:
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
Andreas R. Kleinert
Sandstrasse 1 Fax: +49-271-22869
D-57072 Siegen eMail: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de
Germany WWW:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Andreas_Kleinert/
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A G I F T F R O M C L O A N T O !
20 June 98
CLOANTO RELEASES PERSONAL PAINT 6.4 AS A FREE GIFT TO THE AMIGA
COMMUNITY, ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT OF VERSION 8
In the evolution of Personal Paint, which has become the leading
title for editing palette-based graphics, version 6.4 represents a
milestone in new features, reliability, diffusion and new code
written. In hindsight, it might have deserved a version number of "7"
(just as the features introduced in the latest version might have
justified an "8" release, instead of the more humble 7.1). The
particular release of Personal Paint 6.4 now on Aminet (biz/cloan
directory, PPaint64.lha archive, easy access from
http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/download.html) is little more than 18
months old, and includes support for anim-brushes and ARexx, which
were not supported by the first 6.4 release (also bundled with some
Amiga computers).
With few exceptions, such as the lack of full documentation and no
support for file formats such as GIF (which is included only with the
commercial package, under license of Unisys Corporation), this is the
full retail version of Personal Paint 6.4, including 20 different user
interface languages. Additional information on the distribution is
contained in the archive, as is a special upgrade offer to the latest
version 7.1. The version of Personal Paint 6.4 now released for free
download is not a demonstration version, but is fully functional, and
may be used without limitations for productive applications.
Personal Paint 7.1 remains the latest version, while we are working
on version 8, which however is not expected to be ready at least until
the second half of 1999. Personal Paint 8 requires a major re-write to
support features such as true color, layers, and advanced animation
functionality. At the same time, it is now very important that the new
code be written in a portable style, because it is still unknown what
the new Amiga OS will look like, other than it will not be the Amiga
that we are used to. Suggestions regarding the features of Personal
Paint 8 are very welcome, and can be addressed to
suggestions@cloanto.com (preferably containing "Personal Paint 8" in
the message title).
For additional information, please refer to the Amiga section of the
Cloanto web site at http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/
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M U I B A S E D A T A B A S E M A N A G E R
18 June 1998
MUIbase is a fast and very flexible database for the Amiga. It is for
users who want to manage data in a comfortable and easy way. MUIbase
is able to manage any kind of data, e.g. addresses, CD series, movies,
or your income and expense. The power of MUIbase lies in its clear and
powerful graphical user interface and its programming capabilities.
The latter makes it possible to automatically calculate and maintain
nearly everything, starting from automatically summing up values, e.g.
for calculating the total amount of income or the total amount of
recorded time of a CD, up to automatically creating and printing
letters for any purpose.
MUIbase is the successor of AmigaBase, a hierarchical programmable
database which is still available but considered obsolete with the
appearance of MUIbase. All registered users of AmigaBase can get a
free upgrade to MUIbase.
MUIbase offers the following features:
Handling of multiple projects at the same time.
Attributes can be of type string, memo (multi line text), integer,
real, date, time, bool, choice (one item out of many items), reference
(easy way to reference a record of another table), button (for
starting MUIbase programs), and virtual (compute value on the fly).
The string type can also manage lists of strings, files, and fonts.
An OS 3.x datatype gadget allows displaying external images.
Unlimited number of records.
Dynamic loading of records. Records which are not needed may be
flushed from memory (e.g. when memory is low).
Programmability. With the easy and powerful MUIbase programming
language complex tasks can be implemented. The language also includes
a SELECT FROM WHERE query for easy and fast data retrieval.
Ordering of records by any combinations of attributes.
Flexible and powerful search and filter facility.
Query editor which allows entering and managing of SELECT FROM WHERE
queries. The queries can be saved and the results can be printed.
Import and export facility.
Uses MUI as user interface. The interface is highly customizable.
External images can be included in the user interface.
Portability. MUIbase development has been done under the idea of easy
portability. The system/gui part has been separated from the ANSI/C
part such that porting MUIbase will result in only porting the
system/gui part. Hey, this is no promise that MUIbase will ever get
ported to another system, only the porting task has been made easier
but may still be complicated depending on the target system/gui.
The unregistered version of MUIbase is crippled in several ways.
For more information, contact the author:
Steffen Gutmann email: gutmann@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Zasiusstr. 75
79102 Freiburg
GERMANY WWW: http://www.amigaworld.com/support/muibase
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T H E N E W S F R O M V A P O R W A R E
16 Jun 1998
Hi folks,
a few personal words:
I've received about 5 million inquiries recently about what's up with
Vaporware. The following statements are NOT true:
a) I did NOT break my head by hitting it on the table too hard after
the AI WOA "announcement"
b) I did NOT buy my own carribean island from '97 reg fees to drop
out of everything
c) neither did my HD crash and take all sources with it (I've got a
backup anyway :-) [*]
Point is that I'm currently 150% busy working together with Active
Technologies UK to prepare the release of NetConnect 2 (I'm not
allowed to say this, but the gold premaster is being cut tomorrow).
Refer to http://www.active-net.co.uk/ for more information on NC2.
This also involved work on all the Vaporware products, including
furnishing of MD-2 1.0 (yeah!) and Contact Manager support in all the
current apps.
Another 150% of my time (besides my job, which takes 200% as usual)
is currently eaten up by work on a apartment me and Claudi are
building in my parent's house. This involves a nice few deadlines,
including being forced to leave the current apartment within the next
6 weeks due to canceled lease. Eeek.
So, my apologies for being totally unresponsive in the last weeks. I
currently really have no spare time left to answer "When will XYZ be
out?" messages, or to follow the mailing lists.
The first thing being done after NetConnect 2 will be the
long-awaited AmIRC 2.1 release (be happy, you will be getting both a
fixed lag gauge AND a single window mode) and, yeah!, MD-2 1.0 proper.
Olli
BTW, the online ordering web page is up again, too. I screwed the
config when updating the apache web server to a HTTP/1.1 compliant
version <sigh>. More stuff not to be done at 04:00 AM. Sorry, once
more.
[*] Incidentally, I just had a HD crash last week, which took my
linux firewall box apart. I had no backup of this, and I severly hated
to be forced to put a 4.3GB UW-SCSI drive into a machine which is
sorely forwarding IP packets. I also had a fun time teaching a RedHat
5.0 installation to do ISDN dialup. May the force preserve you from
going through this.
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A M I G A S M A K E I N R O A D S I N B A N G L A D E S H
June 25, 1998
First order of AMIGA 1200's to Bangladesh
Amiga International is very proud to report today that the first
shipment of A1200's directly to Bangladesh has been completed. Our
goal is to expand our distribution network worldwide.
We would like to be prepared for our new product range, which,
according to our R&D company Amiga, Inc., will be available by the end
of next year.
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A M I N E T 2 5 A V A I L A B L E
19 Jun 1998
Aminet 25 CD-ROM is available!
Suggested Retail Price DM 25.00 Subscription price DM 19.80
US$1 = DM 1.79 given current exchange rates.
Ordering information:
The most convenient method of placing an order is to use our
electronic order form located at http://www.schatztruhe.de/order.html.
You can also send an E-Mail to stefano@schatztruhe.de including your
address and the products you wish to order.
*************************************** Aminet CD 25, dated June
1998, contains 1 gigabyte (uncompressed) of software in thousands of
archives. Since the release of Aminet CD 24 more than 500 MB new
software has appeared. The current edition features a classic games
collection: Balls, PowerRoller, Taxi, PipeMaster II and Missile are
included.
Contents of Aminet 25
Directory Size Files Contents
biz 55 MB 51 Business software
comm 23 MB 151 Communications
demo 138 MB 92 Graphics & sound demo
dev 23 MB 75 Development software
disk 1 MB 23 Disk & HD tools
docs 57 MB 84 Documents
game 135 MB 213 Games
gfx 37 MB 70 Graphics software
hard 1 MB 11 Hardware related
misc 52 MB 101 Miscellaneous
mods 129 MB 317 Music modules
mus 10 MB 61 Music software
pix 235 MB 247 Pictures
text 32 MB 55 Text software
util 37 MB 261 Utilities
--
Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe Gesellschaft für Software mbH
Veronikastr. 33 - 45131 Essen - Germany
Phone: ++49-201-788778 Fax ++49-201-798447
mailto:stefano@schatztruhe.de http://www.schatztruhe.de/
Visit our Web site and join our mailing-list.
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A M I G A I N F O R M E R 1 4 A T D E A L E R S
26 Jun 1998
Greetings all,
Issue 14 of The Amiga Informer is now available at all our retail
dealers. To get an issue, you can either contact one of the dealers
listed in every issue of The Informer and on our website
(www.amigainformer.com), or call us toll free at 888-882-6442 and
subscribe.
You don't want to miss issue 14. We were at the World of Amiga show
in London and have a full report of all the exciting news coming from
Amiga Inc., including details on Classic OS 3.5, the 4.0 Developer box
and the 5.0 "Super System". Don't get your information from half-true
and premature internet reports. Instead, get it from The Informer. We
talked to all the staff at Amiga Inc., listened to all the public
announcements and spent many hours in personal conversations with the
people who are creating the future for the Amiga. Read what we learned
first hand in issue 14. You will be excited!
We also give you the latest details on the Access BoXeR and the
SiamesePCI project. Learn what these two exciting products have to
offer you. Issue 14 also contains an ICOA Update, information on the
Amiga News Feed effort and a feature on the Power and utility of
ARexx. You'll also find our regular columns, announcements and news
bytes and a new column, Audio Adventures. Also in issue 14 are seven
product reviews, including ImageFX 3.0, PageStream 3.3a, Control
Tower, AirMail Pro and Master ISO.
So, if you want to get a fresh view of what's going on in the world
of the Amiga, give us a call and subscribe. You'll be glad you did.
And if you are at the AmiWest in Sacramento, be sure to stop by our
booth.
Cheers,
Fletcher Haug, Editor
The Amiga Informer Magazine
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A M I G A S I N A U S T R I A N S L O T M A C H I N E S
June 22, 1998
Steinhaus/Wels, Austria, June 22, 1998 - Impera GmbH, a leading
manufacturer of slotmachines in Austria, will be using A1200 boards in
its machines.
Impera has used AMIGA technology in the past and has now reactivated
its business relationship with AMIGA. As a result, the first order has
already been placed. In the near future there will be a special
gambling software competition involving Impera in cooperation with
AMIGA International, Inc. and the AMIGA press.
Impera's "Powered by AMIGA" slotmachines will be demonstrated at
"Computer '98", the biggest AMIGA exhibition in the world (November 13
- 15 in Koeln, Germany). Mr. Burgstaller, Manager of Impera GmbH, and
Petro Tyschtschenko, President of AMIGA International, Inc., have
additional plans for the future.
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P O L I S H A M I G A S H O W A S U C C E S S
On June 20 and 21, the first AMIGA Show in Warsaw, Poland, took
place. It was organized by Marek Pampuch, Editor-in-Chief of MAGAZYN
AMIGA and Polish AMIGA distributor Andrew Lipiewski, of EUREKA.
About 1,500 AMIGA fans from all over Poland visited the show.
Although there was a railroad strike preventing more from attending,
the Show was still quite successful.
Companies EUREKA, ELBOX, AMIGO and Amiga groups including AIRI, APG
and W.F.M.H. attended the show. AMIGA International, Inc., represented
by Petro Tyschtschenko, donated three A1200 for a raffle. During his
opening speech, Petro explained the new Amiga product strategy.
Tyschtschenko also presented the AMIGA Theme CD "Back for the Future"
and the new "Keep the momentum going" poster. At the show Petro was
asked to sign CDs and posters by hundreds of enthusiastic users.
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T S C T H A N K S M A N Y !
29 June 98
The Transitional Steering Committee of the Industry Council Open
Amiga wishes to thank the following companies and people for their
hard work, dedication and services during the startup process of the
ICOA.
We wish to thank Finale Development (Alain Penders) for production of
and maintenance of the ICOA Web Pages and the ICOA Database.
We would like to think Ultima Thule (Petter Nilsen) for maintaining
the many ICOA mailing lists and for his assistance with the
programming of the needed ICOA database tools.
And we would also like to thank ZenMetal Software (Ray Akey) for the
use of their IRC network for ICOA Working Groups.
The cooperation, dedication, and hard work by these companies and
others have contributed to the success of the ICOA thus far and for
this we are most greatful.
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