====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || -News and Rumors- / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_|| (An Occasional Newsletter) BACK FOR THE FUTURE || ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga Technologies, GmbH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 970302 A M I G A ' S P R E S I D E N T S P E A K S - I N G E R M A N P H A S E 5 ' S B L I Z Z A R D F O R 1 2 0 0 I B R O W S E 1 . 1 A V A I L A B L E - D O E S F R A M E S I S T A R - I D E A S P R O C E S S O R - D E S C R I B E D " I N T E R N A U T S " A T A M I G A ' 9 7 S H O W L O N D O N T O H O S T W O R L D O F A M I G A R U M O R - Q U I K P A K C A N ' T D O I T ? R U M O R - N E W A M I G A A T L O N D O N S H O W A M I G A C L I S P A N N O U N C E D F T P O F F - C O M I N G S O O N F O R A M I N E T A M I B A S E V 2 . 4 A N N O U N C E D R O F I L E M A N A G E R A V A I L A B L E P I O S T O S H O W A T C E B I T ' 9 7 Editor's thoughts and introduction: I hate to do it but I'm going to - run a story I can't read. Petro Tyschtschenko, CEO and President of Amiga Technologies, today released a statement on the Amiga's situation and the status of the buyout of AT. It DOES NOT mention a new owner, only that Mr. Tyschtschenko expects matters to be resolved soon. We have no one here to translate this into English, so we're running it in German. If one of our readers can send us a good translation quickly, we'll send it back out to everyone post haste. How's that for interactive journalism? There is an admittedly shaky translation to English on the Amiga Web Directory, but they ask that it not be distributed so we won't. We did learn (or think we did) a few things by fighting our way through the German as best we could. It seems VIScorp is officially out of the running (no surprise). Amiga Technologies itself is apparently down to only three employees (remember, they subcontract the manufacturing of the computers). Apparently the distribution network continues to grow, having expanded to Russia and Malaysia. The company is managing to stay alive, and hopes the purchaser will want the Amiga as an entity, not just pieces of the technology. Finally, thanks are expressed to the Amiga faithful for support so far. This announcement shouldn't be a surprise. While everyone hoped for word of a new purchaser at the end of February, it was unlikely everything would be settled by then. As soon as there is an announcement of ownership status, we'll bring it to you. We have other news of interest also; news we are a bit more sure of. There's too much to describe in detail here, so here are some highlights. The Power PC board for A1200s has been announced by Phase 5. The Amiga now has two frames capable browsers with the new upgrade to IBrowse. There's a fascinating knowledge base product called Istar describes below. We think you'll like its price, too. We also have several product announcements from the Usenet, and a couple of very interesting rumors pulled from the newsgroup discussions. One relates to a new model Amiga supposedly due for introduction at the upcoming London World of Amiga show. We have information on that, too. Finally, the folks at Pios are inviting everyone to meet them at Germany's CeBIT. Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S T A T E M E N T B Y A M I G A ' S P R E S I D E N T STATEMENT VON PETRO TYSCHTSCHENKO, GESCHÄFTSFÜHRER VON AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES, BENSHEIM, 21.02.1997 Liebe Amiga Fan-Gemeinde, lange ist es her, daß Sie eine Nachricht über unsere Homepage bekamen. Seit Oktober hat sich nichts mehr getan, so scheint es zumindest. Aber ganz so ist es ja nicht. Erst einmal möchte ich mich für die zahlreichen e-mails bedanken, die Sie an mich gerichtet haben. Natürlich habe ich auch Kritik einstecken müssen für mein langes Schweigen, aber meistens bekam ich motivierenden Zuspruch! Dafür bedanke ich mich recht herzlich. Es ist wirklich ein tolles Gefühl, zu wissen, daß man sich auf die Amiga Gemeinde immer noch verlassen kann. Was hat sich jetzt so zwischenzeitlich ereignet? Ja, zunächst ist VisCorp ganz offiziell aus dem Rennen. Es gibt zwar immer noch hartnäckige Gerüchte, daß VisCorp an AMIGA interessiert ist, aber offiziell gibt es nichts konkretes. Gott sei Dank habe ich beim Konkursverwalter durchsetzen können, AMIGA zunächst nicht zu zerschlagen. Seit Konkurs, dem 15.Juli 1996, haben wir unser Geschäft unter den gleichen Bedingungen weiterbetreiben können, als hätte es den Konkurs nie gegeben. Unser Distributorennetz hat sich sogar vergrößert, in Rußland gibt es jetzt einen neuen Amiga-Distributor und in Malaysia ist einer hinzugekommen. Das Preisgefüge unserer Produkte ist auf dem gleichen Niveau wie vor dem Konkurs. Mit unserem Umsatz können wir uns selbst am Leben erhalten und das ist großartig, unter diesen schwierigen Umständen. Ein Dank an alle AMIGA-Freaks, die durch den Kauf unserer Produkte am Erhalt unserer Gesellschaft aktiv mitgewirkt haben! Seit dem Ausscheiden von VisCorp sind eine Reihe von sehr interessanten Übernahmeangeboten für AMIGA beim Konkursverwalter eingegangen. Er hat sich bis jetzt noch nicht festgelegt, aber so wie ich die Situation einschätze, wird es kurzfristig zu einer Entscheidung kommen. Bei den Übernahmeangeboten sind Firmen involviert, die AMIGA weiterführen wollen und durchaus in der Lage sind, eine Zukunft für AMIGA sicherzustellen. Es gibt natürlich auch Firmen, die nur Teile von AMIGA erwerben möchten. Letztendlich ist es die Entscheidung des Konkursverwalters, wem er den Zuschlag gibt. Diese Entscheidung richtet sich nur nach der Höhe, die für AMIGA gesamt erzielt werden kann. Das höchste Gebot ist ausschlaggebend, vorausgesetzt, es ist finanziell abgesichert. Wir blicken sehr spannenden Wochen entgegen. Unsere Firma wird zur Zeit noch von drei Mitarbeitern aufrechterhalten: Axel Krämer und Andreas Steep in Braunschweig und mir. Ich bin mittlerweile umgezogen und habe mein Domizil in dem ehemaligen Gebäude der ESCOM AG. Von dort aus versuche ich so gut wie möglich, AMIGA am Leben zu erhalten. Weitere Mitarbeiterdetails entnehmen sie bitte der "Mitarbeiter"-Page. Sobald es eine Entscheidung gibt, wer der erfolgreiche, zukünftige AMIGA-Eigner ist, werde ich Ihnen weitere Details zukommen lassen. Bis bald Ihr Petro Tyschtschenko ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E - M A I L T O T H E E - D I T O R Brad, I'd really like to get my hands on a Topolino PC-Amiga mouse adapter device. Can you send me any information on price/availability? Thank you. ramiro ramiro@calweb.com ----- Ramiro, All we can suggest is to contact your nearest Amiga dealer or check the ads in the two American Amiga publications, "Amazing Computing" and "The Amiga Informer". We've included your e-mail address above. If any dealer who has this product available would like to let Ramiro know, we suspect there's a sale in it for you. There's a list of Amiga dealers in our issue number 961025 that may be of help also. Brad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P H A S E 5 ' S B L I Z Z A R D F O R 1 2 0 0 phase 5 News Product News about the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board Accelerator for Amiga 1200 Oberursel, February 25, 1997: phase 5 digital products is proud to announce the upcoming BLIZZARD 603e Power Board, a PowerPC-based accelerators for Amiga 1200 and A1200-based Tower Systems. With this innovative and powerful new accelerator a new dimension of performance is brought to the Amiga 1200, with performance increases of multiple times beyond the performance of the fastest 68k based accelerators available today, for a sensationally low price that is perfectly targeted at the A1200 upgrade market. Primarily being designed as an upgrade board for existing Amiga systems, the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board incorporates phase 5's innovative dual-processor technologie, where a fast PowerPC RISC processor is combined with a 68k processor, in case of the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board a 68030 CPU. Both CPUs dynamically share the memory and system busses, what is necessary for a true multiprocessor behaviour. While the original AmigaOS 3.x continues to run on the 68030 CPU - as well as all existing applications do, what provides 100% compatibility - the PowerPC 603e CPU is supported by a comprehensive PPC Library developed by phase 5, which provides all functionality to integrate the PowerPC into the Amiga multitasking environment. Software developers can easily optimze their programs step by step by porting single tasks to PowerPC code, which then can run parallel with 68k tasks. Many important Amiga software vendors are preparing ported or optimized versions of their software packages already, so it is expected that a large quantity of software products supporting the PowerPC will be available soon. The BLIZZARD 603e Power Board will be availabe with the fast PowerPC603e processor at a clock speed of 120 MHz; a socket is provided for the 68030 companion processor in a PGA housing. It provides a fast memory expansion option which uses standard PS/2 type SIMMs. The memory is dynamically shared by the two CPUs on the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board . As an option, as very inexpensive Fast SCSI-II controller will be available for the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board, which combines transfer rates of up to 10 MB/s with the flexibility and expandability of the SCSI standard. With it's 120 MHz 603e processor the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board provides - only on the PPC side - a raw performance of approximately 170 MIPS or approximately 3.5 SPECint95 and 2.8 SPECfp95 (estimations based on Motorola/IBM manufacturer specifications) - a blistering performance that can compete with most of the fastest PC systems available today. with this performance the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board is ready for the most demanding applications such as 3D rendering and high-speed 3D gameplaying, image manipulation, animation, video applications, and many other demanding applications that depend on fast CPU performance. The BLIZZARD 603e Power Board will be delivered with a comprehensive software package, which includes the PPC library as well as tools for creative users, among them a Public Domain GNU C compiler for PowerPC (including sourcecode) and many demo programs and utilities with sourcecode; in addition to this software free developer support is available via the phase 5 FTP site. Last not least a PowerPC-optimized version of CyberGraphX V3 with RISC-optimized CyberGL/3D and MPEG functions and libraries is included (with a special GGX driver to support the AGA chipset) - of course with comprehensive documentation. The BLIZZARD 603e Power Board will be selling for a price that can be called sensational, offering a superior price/performance relation. The suggested retail prices are as follows: BLIZZARD 603e Power Board w/ 120 MHz 603e processor DM 699,- / GBP 279.00 / USD 399.00 Note: All prices are recommended retail prices. English and german price include local VAT, the recommended US price does not include local taxes. The prices are without the 68030 CPU which is necessary to operate the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board. 68030 processors from existing processor boards can be used on the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board by pluging these into the provided socket. If you don't own a 68030 CPU already, ask you local dealer for an attractive bundle offer. Registered owners of a Blizzard 68030 board will - within the PowerUp upgrade program - receive special, attractive upgrade offers by mail during March 97. The handling of these upgrades will be done via local appointed representatives. The delivery of the BLIZZARD 603e Power Board is scheduled for late May 1997. Availability for the A1200 desktop system is depending on the finalization of the CE approvals until that date. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I B R O W S E 1 . 1 A V A I L A B L E - D O E S F R A M E S Omnipresence International and HiSoft are pleased to announce that IBrowse 1.1 is now shipping. This upgrade features major new functionality, including frames, cookies, client pull, image dithering and a host of other new features. For existing purchasers, IBrowse 1.1 is available as an online update: http://www.hisoft.co.uk/ibrowse/support.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I S T A R - I D E A S P R O C E S S O R - D E S C R I B E D DATE: 28 February 1997 ISTAR - KNOWLEDGE BASED SOFTWARE AND IDEAS PROCESSOR FOR THE AMIGA The Amiga has long lagged behind other platforms in availability of software for Knowledge Based Systems (KBS). Istar starts to help the Amiga catch up - but does more than catch up. Istar contains unique features not found on any other platform, that have been made possible by the Amiga's unique hardware-assisted scrolling and graphics, and by a radical new approach to user interfaces. It was acclaimed in two recent papers of international repute, in the August 1996 issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and the thinking behind its design has been explained in the Nov 1966 issue of Expert Systems. It has been very well received at the Expert Systems '96 conference in the U.K. and the recent workshop on Thinking With Diagrams. ISTAR, THE KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEM Istar allows you to *draw* your knowledge base as a box and arrows diagram, and then immediately run it as an inference net. This means you can encapsulate human expert knowledge to create an intelligent advisory system. When the user presses the 'InferGoals' button it will ask a sequence of questions in order to arrive at a conclusion. Its backward chaining algorithm ensures it will only ask the user relevant questions, and suppress irrelevant ones dynamically. Its forward chaining algorithm ensures that any information entered will be propagated automatically throughout the knowledge base. Istar is designed to work in ill-structured domains of knowledge, in decision support mode - such as calculating whether the shares of a company are worth buying. To this end it offers a wide range of data types, including probabilities and bayesian evidence. It has automatic check for and prevention of infinite loops. In its inference mechanism Istar is *FAST* - faster even on a standard Amiga 1200 than on many Pentium(tm) systems. This is because of its careful internal design and because the kernel routines are written in assembler. ISTAR, THE IDEAS PROCESSOR In addition to giving support for developing knowledge base systems, Istar also acts as an Ideas Processor, allowing you to 'sketch out' your ideas as items linked with arrows - as a semantic net. For instance, to set out your ideas of what factors have contributed to the recent decline in profits of your company. Istar has a number of facilities to examine the knowledge you have built up. Press a key and Istar will show only those items that contribute to the item you are interested in, hding all others. Press another, and it shows only those that your current item contributes to. Press another button, and it shows all items relevant to a topic of your choice - such as finance, personnel, etc. New facilities are being developed all the time. Its highly 'proximal' user interface makes it supremely easy to draw your knowledge and alter it at will, as new factors come to mind. (Even the normally cumbersome process of shifting a link from one box to another is a simple fluid movement.) Thus it is posible to construct a large knowledge base that richly expresses your knowledge - at the time it comes to mind. Istar has a number of unique clutter-handling facilities. (A large knowledge base in a structured domain tends to become cluttered if this is not managed.) Boxes can be moved around and links bent with consummate ease, all the while maintaining the semantics of the knowledge base. Empty space can be opened up. ISTAR, TO AUTHOR DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS Istar was originally built to aid the INCA (Intelligent Contract Authoring) research project, funded by the U.K. Engineering and Sciences Research Council (to whom we acknowledge thanks for funding, as project GR/J 17982). The research was carried out by the Universities of Salford and Glamorgan, and allowed the participants to explore new ways of authoring construction contracts from the requirements of the parties involved, rather than from standard forms. This required the facility to intelligently choose those clauses that must be included in a contract, and then assemble them as text in a contract. Istar thus was designed with a *dynamic document generation* facility integrated with its inference net. Though not as advanced as the main knowledge handling facilities, it still provides a useful document generation facility. Every time is run the knowledge base is activated to produce a different document. Once generated, the document can be exported in HTML - especially useful for intelligent construction of Web pages, that are tailored to the user. The dynamic document facility is being developed. WHERE CAN I GET ISTAR ? Istar is *FREE*, available from Aminet. Version 1.06 can be found in dev/misc/Istar.lha. Version 1.05 can be found in biz/misc/Istar.lha. It is also available for downloading from the INCA Web page: http://www.salford.ac.yk/iti/projects/inca/. Istar comes with installation script and full documentation. The documentation not only tells you how to 'drive' Istar, but also how to get good use out of it. The documentation includes a set of small tutorial sessions which introduce you to Istar's features and uses in a progressive manner. Three sample knowledge bases are included, to evaluate shares, to show how various philosophers influenced each other until the middle ages, and to show how many issues in artificial intelligence are linked. Istar is still under development. You can guide the course of its development by emailing Istar@basden.demon.co.uk. Though currently in the public domain, Istar might be of interest to commercial organisations, and future alternative development plans are being drawn up. Download Istar today, and try it out. Have fun. ------------------------ Dr. Andrew Basden, http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/basden.html Information Technology Institute, University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT U.K. http://www.salford.ac.uk/iti/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- " I N T E R N A U T S " A T A M I G A ' 9 7 S H O W PRESS RELEASE 28 February, 1997 InterNauts luncheon at Amiga '97 "Just who do you think you're talking to?" Did you, as an Internet user, ever wonder who you were talking to at the other end of the proverbial "line"? If you're like most of us, you spend an amazing amount of time online. You send tens, possibly even hundreds of messages to fellow Amigans across the country, BUT! Can you put a face to the name? Now's your chance. World-Wide Amiga Online! and the North Alabama Society of Amiga Users (NASAU) are planning a round table discussion "lunch meeting" to take place at the Amiga '97 show in St. Louis. It'll be a great way to shake hands, make friends, and establish contacts with the people you deal with online. Poised for the start of the show, it's a great way to make the show a better experience. After all, what's a better way to see the show than with a lot of friends? Some of the Answers you'll need: When? : Saturday, March 15th, 1997 - 11:30 am until we get tired of eating and talking! Where? : The Pavilion Restaurant in the Harley Hotel (where Amiga '97 is taking place) Why? : Meeting your fellow Internet Amigans can help to solidify and strengthen the friendship and cooperation between friends on the Internet. It will also allow you the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas to some of today's premier Amiga webmasters and news makers, such as Kevin Hisel of CUCUG and Wayne Hunt of World-Wide Amiga Online!. Come by and enjoy the team! Cost? : Unfortunately, there really isn't any such thing as a free lunch. There's of course no entry fee into the Restaurant, I'm afraid the crazy chef (you know, the big guy with the stainless steel meat cleaver) still likes being paid... The average lunches range from $ 5.00 on up... What we Need... If you're interested in joining us or have any questions whatsoever, please send an e-mail to Wayne Hunt (wayne@amiga.org) with your name, number of guests, and e-mail address so he can let the Restaurant set another place at the table... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L O N D O N T O H O S T W O R L D O F A M I G A The World Of Amiga Show Is Back Again PRESS RELEASE 14TH FEBRUARY 1997 Following its spectacular success last year, The World Of Amiga exhibition is coming back. The two-day show will be held at the Novotel Exhibition Centre in Hammersmith, London, on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th May. All the latest developments in Amiga technology will be on display, with major hardware and software launches anticipated from the leading UK and German developers and manufacturers. Admission prices are £8 for adults and £6 for children. "After last year's smashing success which saw the re-birth of confidence in the future of Amiga technology, The World Of Amiga 1997 is set to further enhance the machines' resurgence," said Peter Brameld, head of show organiser PBA Events. "With even more hardware and software developments this year than last, there are lots more reasons for Amiga users to come along to this unique showcase." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- R U M O R - Q U I K P A K C A N ' T D O I T ? Hi As of 21.2.97 news from the AMIGA PLUS (German AMIGA mag) say they have heard that QuikPak can't get the money for the AMIGA! And that there were 10 bidders for the AMIGA techno. At the moment Hembach is in the USA to check the different bidders. the date 28.2.97 for the final buyout could be possible. Who knows something about this rumors/news? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- R U M O R - N E W A M I G A A T L O N D O N S H O W On 20-Feb-97, Phil Ayres wrote: Hi there, Thought you all might like a few teasers on a new Amiga to be released SOON!! And no, its not the ABox! Rough idea on specs as follows: Full tower case. 7 x Zorro slots PCI slots. 2 x video slots. 64 bit 3D graphics card - video in workbench capabilities. 060 processor, possibly with new "booster" card, accelerated beyond capabilities of P200 Pro!! 1 Gig HD 22Mb RAM 8 x CD ROM drive. Monitor. 16 bit stereo sound output. World preview at the World of Amiga Show - UK, May 1997. ------------------------- The price should be at most a 1000 ukp. Phil Ayres writes that he will be working with one within 4 weeks. It is not Quikpack who is the producer. Unfortunately Phil will not reveal more. Join the Pure Amiga mailing list, to get the latest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A C L I S P A N N O U N C E D Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:47:36 GMT TITLE Amiga-CLISP binary and source VERSION based on CLISP-1995-05-30 source AUTHORS Bruno Haible and Michael Stoll. Amiga-port by Joerg Hoehle DESCRIPTION CLISP is an implementation of Common Lisp. Common Lisp is a convential programming language and an AI language. It is interactive. It has automatic garbage collection and can protect resources (e.g. free them even in case a computation is aborted with an error). Common Lisp programs are easy to test (interactive), easy to maintain (depending on programming style) and portable (there is a standard for the language and the library functions). CLISP needs just 2 MB of memory (it will allocate more for large applications) and implements 99% of the CLtL1 standard, as well as some extensions and a large part of the CLtL2 standard. CLISP contains an interpreter and a compiler, CLOS, a small ARexx interface and a foreign function interface with which to call any function from almost any shared library. CLISP is safe to use, for any integer, array, string etc. manipulation is checked: your application won't write past a string, overflow an integer or dereference a NULL pointer, generating Enforcer hits. NEW FEATURES Amiga foreign function interface (AFFI) CLtL2 logical pathnames CLtL2 LOOP macro SCREEN package for (K)CON: cursor control -wide version that works with VMM optimized -00 version for 68000 processors SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Since this release, Amiga-CLISP requires at least OS 2.04. AVAILABILITY Main CLISP site and it's Amiga subdirectory: ftp://ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/lisp/clisp/ ftp://ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/lisp/clisp/binaries /amiga/ The author's Amiga-CLISP Home Page and directory: http://zeus.gmd.de/~hoehle/amiga-clisp.html In the dev/lang/ subdirectory of Aminet, for example: ftp://ftp.netnet.net/pub/aminet/dev/lang/CLISP960530-#?.lha PRICE Amiga-CLISP is and has always been free software. DISTRIBUTABILITY Slightly modified GNU Public License Joerg Hoehle. Joerg.Hoehle@gmd.de hoehle@zeus.gmd.de Author of Amiga-CLISP, a Common Lisp implementation Maintainer of fifolib, shared library and FIFO: DOS-handler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- F T P O F F - C O M I N G S O O N F O R A M I N E T 28 January, 1997 FTPoff is an application that allow you to select aminet files offline then download them next time you are online. !!! Not available yet !!! Purpose FTPoff has been developped to choose Aminet files offline. That permit users that pay for accessing the Internet to acces Aminet at full speed. Functions of FTPoff : o Select Aminet files offline then download them next time you are online o The user interface of FTPoff is MUI based. The windows can be easyly resized o Easy install thanks to the Installer script News: o January 21, 1997 1. Developpment of FTPoff is paused from now to Februar 16, 1997. 2. Searching for Beta-testers. © Laurent Kempé ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I B A S E V 2 . 4 A N N O U N C E D Date : 24 Feb 1997 21:41:53 GMT TITLE AmigaBase V2.4 AUTHOR Steffen Gutmann Langstr. 11 D-79331 Teningen-Nimburg GERMANY Email: gutmann@informatik.uni-freiburg.de DESCRIPTION AmigaBase is an easy to use programmable database with a graphical user interface. Data can be stored in fields of type STRING, INTEGER, REAL, DATE, TIME, BOOLEAN, CHOICE (one item out of many items) and MEMO (multiline text). Records are organized in a hierarchy, this allows an easy implementation of 1:n relations, e.g. for managing music titles on different music cassettes, etc. By programming AmigaBase, the user has the ability to create custom print or import/export routines, or to recalculate some fields when changing the value of a field. This gives high power to AmigaBase. NEW FEATURES since V2.3 There are only few changes in AmigaBase V2.4. The main work is now concentrated on finishing a new, relational, and MUI based database. o New icon set. o Some minor bug fixes. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Harddisk and Workbench 2.1+ recommended. AVAILABILITY AmigaBase V2.4 can be found in the Aminet, e.g. ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/aminet/biz/dbase/AmigaBase24.lha (512542) DISTRIBUTABILITY AmigaBase is shareware. If you use it, you have to register as an AmigaBase user. The requested shareware fee is DM 70,-- or US $50. On registration you will receive the latest version of AmigaBase along with the (English or German) user manual which contains about 100 DIN A4 pages and includes several screen dumps. AmigaBase is (c) by Steffen Gutmann 1989-1997. PRICE Shareware fee is DM 70,-- or US $50. -- Steffen Gutmann gutmann@informatik.uni-freiburg.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- R O F I L E M A N A G E R A V A I L A B L E Date : 21 Feb 1997 00:18:19 GMT TITLE RO VERSION 1.25 AUTHOR Oliver Rummeyer Hochbergstrasse 49/1 D-88213 Ravensburg Germany/Europe http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_orumme/ DESCRIPTION RO is a Intuition-controlled, fully user-configurable file manager for OS 2.04 and newer. You can use RO to copy, move, rename or delete files, and you can perform a filetype sensitive action command (e.g. show pictures or texts, play sounds, etc with one single command button) on files via GUI. Some features are: o uses MUI o very small executable o highly configurable o user configurable filetypes o supports datatypes o supports XPK, PP and ARCHandler o path name completer o more than 50 internal commands o user menu support o hotkey & hotdir support o powerful arexx port o very fast directory and file operations o appicon launches progs for defined filetypes o english, french, german and swedish documentation & catalog o supports middle mouse button o nice preference program o dynamic listviews o drag & drop NEW FEATURES - Version 1.25 (20.2.97) o Requires MUI 3.6 or better. o Fixed a major bug. o Fixed some minor bugs. o Catalog files changed. o New internal Function LFOLD. o Other minor changes. REQUIREMENTS RO requires Magic User Interface (MUI) version 3.6 or later. AVAILABILITY http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_orumme/RO_v125.lha (346177 Bytes) RO is also available on Aminet, e.g. ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/util/dir/RO_v125.lha PRICE Shareware fee US$ 20 or 30,- DM DISTRIBUTABILITY Shareware, RO 1.25 is (c) 1994-1997 by Oliver Rummeyer -- Oliver Rummeyer oliver.rummeyer@student.uni-ulm.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P I O S T O S H O W A T C E B I T ' 9 7 PIOS at the CeBIT 97 PIOS Computer AG invites all interested people cordially to visit us on CeBIT 97. We will be present as guests on the PowerPC booth of Motorola. Date: 13th - 19th March 1997 Precise location: Exhibition area (Messe) Hannover, Hall 12, Booth E24 (Motorola) [CeBIT hall map] Our main feature will be PIOS ONE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: some issues available at: http://www.sharbor.com/amiga/news/ (in html format) 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: http://www.globaldialog.com/AdventureCentral/AU.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1997 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. ====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || Brad Webb/AmigaUpdate /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || bandr@globaldialog.com / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || ======================================================================