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This is AmyNews 17
News always start from the begining of this file.
These are only a fraction of what developers are developing for the Amiga
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- The German company Escom has bought Commodore International for a price
  of $12 milions US. At the time of this writing (950426) Escom promiss
  to write cotracts with Amiga developers, develope Amiga further, license
  the Amiga technology and software etc.

- OctaMED Pro Sound studio is under development and due for release in
  early 1996. Some of the MAJOR features so far:

  - Even more compatability with Aura Toccata etc.
  - Full seperate screen Stave/Editing
  - Enhanced sound support
  - Further MIDI support.
  - Full Sonix® type notation editor, features so far:
    - Full 16-bit resolution
    - Fully selectable mixing rate up to ~50 kHz
    - Far more than just the present eight channels
    - Individual volume control for all channels
    - Several output devices (including Toccata)
  - And much much more

  Technical matters and suggestions:
  RBF Software, Teijo Kinnunen
  Oksantie 19
  FIN-86300  OULAINEN
  FINLAND
  EMail: [e-mail]

- The good people at SAS Inc. are currently working on a bug fixed version
  6.56 of the SAS C/C++ Amiga development package. The patch will be
  relative to the 6.55 executables (rather than relative to the 6.50
  original disks).

  SAS Institute, Inc.
  Book Sales
  SAS Campus Drive
  Cary, NC 27513
  USA

  Phone [phone]
  Fax   [phone]
  World Wide Web Pages: http://www.sas.com
  Email [e-mail]
  EMail (Doug Walker) [e-mail]
  EMail (Jim Cooper)  [e-mail]

  SAS Institue Gmbh (Euroep)
  Postfach 10
  53 07D-6900
  Heidelberg 1
  Germany
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- William Hawes the auther of Arexx and WShell is currently working on an
  updated version of Arexx which is reported to be much faster, sports GUI,
  ect.

- There are a lot of falsk rumoures around about Nico Francois not
  developing the mailer package any further. This is not true. Nico
  Francois is currently developing the next generation Spot for the Amiga.

- US company Blue Ribbon is marketing a new an add-on for Bars & Pipes Pro
  2.5 (not earlier Versions!) called "Toccata Tools" that provides HD
  Recording integrated with the MIDI Sequencer tracks. "Toccata Tools"
  supports 6/8 track playback and 2 track recording simultanously, given
  CPU and hard disk are fast enough.

  The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks LTD
  Post Office Box 8689
  Atlanta, Georgia 31106-0689
  USA

- After one year in the development the state of the art Sequencer/Tracker/
  Sampling software for the Amiga, OctaMed, is now finally released in an
  all new version 6.0. Summary of main features in the new version:

  - Dynamic Screen mode selection, RTFSWB:
    RTFSWB stands for "Real Time Font Sensitive Window Builder". It is a
    simple GUI design "language" which contains commands like GBOOL
    (creates a boolean gadget) or TXT (creates a text item). When a window
    is opened, RTFSWB does the layout of the window according to the
    currently selected font. As the name says, it is fully font sensitive,
    supporting both non-proportional and proportional fonts. RTFSWB greatly
    improves the outlook of OctaMED, especially on high resolution screens
    with bigger fonts. There are some more GUI changes besides RTFSWB;
    there is no longer a default backdrop window, but all parts of the user
    interface are now in windows for better configurability. OctaMED screen
    has also become public; other applications may open windows on it.
  - ARexx:
    Yes, as most self-respecting applications, OctaMED now has an ARexx
    port! Most features of OctaMED are available for use by external
    programs or scripts. This means that users can add new features by
    simply writing an ARexx script. In version 6.0, OctaMED's keyboard
    shortcuts are also totally implemented via the ARexx interface; each
    shortcut is mapped to an ARexx command. The shortcuts are user-
    modifiable. You can use the AREXX port to make your own tools. As a
    simple example of using AREXX port of OctaMed you could subtract five
    from all instances of the 0Cxx command on instrument 5 - and
    automatically set up the program when you start it up.
  - Improved soundcard support:
    The last V5 revisions added Aura support. V6 supports MacroSystem's
    Toccata as well. Currently only one sample can be played through it at
    a time, but this will change in the future (see below).
    Both soundcards support stereo output, and OctaMED now supports stereo
    samples (They can be used even without a soundcard).
    Because 16-bit samples are now becoming more and more common on the
    Amiga, OctaMED supports many new sample formats: MAUD (Toccata's file
    format), Audio IFF (perhaps the most common multi-platform sample
    format) and RIFF WAVE (these are the PC .WAV files).
  - Improved sample editor:
    The sample editor has a lot of new features. The sample display is now
    significantly faster and it has a new zooming slider. The speed
    improvement is optional, however, as it consumes some memory.
    New editing operations include an overwriting Paste, vertical
    adjustment of the sample, tuning tone, Add Workspace window, plus more.
    Also, the ultra-slow sampling Monitor window has been replaced with a
    faster monitor screen.
  - File handling:
    Packer support is now "finished", I suppose (nothing more to add). XPK
    is supported for both compression and decompression, with a parameter
    window for selecting the compression type. A similar window exists for
    PowerPacker parameters.
    Standard MIDI File (SMF) saving was added during Spring -94. Due to
    lack of time, I didn't intend to add SMF loading to V6. However,
    eventually Ray decided that this feature should be added, so it exists
    now, and it seems to work pretty well, although SMF->OctaMED conversion
    is not quite straight-forward.
    A popular request to Ray was the ability to save modules directly as
    executable files, and this is now possible.
    Executables are about 12 kilobytes longer than the corresponding module
    itself and they cannot be loaded and re-mixed by other composers and
    then re-released then anothers work.
    Many users have the need of writing information about a song or its
    author, or perhaps about the MIDI setup the song uses. You can now
    embed text files in modules.
    Finally, OctaMED now uses four different icons for different types of
    files. The icons now have eight colours, and they can be modified/
    replaced by the user.
  - Player
    There are no new player commands, however, One feature is worth
    mentioning, you can now have several commands besides a note. This is
    carried out by having "command pages". Each block can have 1 - 32767
    pages, each one containing a different set of commands (usually no
    more than three are used), Shift-Tab cycles between the command pages.
    For example, to combine slide, vibrato and volume change, you could
    have the following command pages:
    Page 1 (slide):     Page 2 (vibr.):     Page 3 (vol chg):
    C-2 10000       04A6            0D01
    --- 00102       0400            0D01
    --- 00102       0400            0D01
    --- 00102       0400            0D01
    --- 00102       0400            0D40
  - Miscellaneous:
    - You can free and reallocate audio channels at any time. This is handy
      , as you don't need to quit OctaMED in order to use another program
      that requires the audio channels.
    - Slow HQ allows pre-V5 HQ mode tempo compatibility. Speaking of tempos
      , there's a new window for rough tempo conversions between SPD<->BPM
      and four channel <-> eight channel modes.
    - Instruments can be disabled. This is much like setting the
      instrument's volume to 0, but not quite, as the default volume
      setting can be overridden with player commands. By the way,
      Instrument Parameters window updating has been optimized, and it's
      now faster.
    - A new Miscellaneous Options window with a lot of miscellaneous
      options such as: Close Workbench, Overwrite Requesters, Use ReqTools,
      Warn if Disk Full etc.
    - Block/track/range editing operations now have three separate buffers.
    - The Block List window can mark unused blocks, if desired.
    - From now on, OctaMED requires operating system 2.04 or later, but
      OctaMEDPlayer, although upgraded, still only requires Kickstart/WB
      1.2 or higher to run.
    - OctaMED and OctaMEDPlayer now support the AmigaGuide® system to
      provide on-line help, allowing you to press HELP at any time to get a
      complete manual in hypertext format.

  Priced at only £40.00 UK, this excellent packages may be ordered directly
  from:

  RBF Software.
  169, Dale Valley Rd
  HollyBrook
  Southampton S016 6QX
  England
  Phone/Fax: [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]
  Support BBS on [phone]

  ABF computer Gbr (German version)
  Postfach 40 01 43
  70401 Stuttgart
  Germany
  Phone: [phone]

  France Festival Distribution (French version)
  3, Rue Anatole France
  Fr 13220 Chateuaneuf-Les-Martigues
  France
  Phone: [phone]

  Technical matters and suggestions:
  Teijo Kinnunen
  Oksantie 19
  FIN-86300  OULAINEN
  FINLAND
  EMail: [e-mail]

- The German AlfaData is now the handling development, marketing, and
  support of BSC products.

  AlfaData
  Fax: [phone]

- Oliver Kastl is currently working on atapi CD-ROM device driver for the
  Amiga. Atapi device works with the A600, A1200, and A4000 IDE port and
  AlfaData Amiga 500 controllers (bsc AT-Bus 508 and AlfaPower).
  With a special cable you can use 2 IDE harddisks and 2 CD-Roms
  simultaneously. The finished product will be available soon from Hirsch
  & Wolf OHG, Germany.

- Utilities Unlimited International, inventer of the Amiga Emplant
  technology is working on a new version of Emplant's e586DX (IBM PC)
  Emulation Module. The new emulation which is completely different
  code from the previous Amiga version features:

  - Corrects the MMU problems associated with some versions of Windows and
    some memory extenders
  - Size of the executable program down to 1Mb from 1.7Mb
  - Has the all important bug-fix to run Windows etc
  - 20%-200% faster than the v1.1 version (without CPU transcription)

  Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
  1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
  Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone] BBS
  EMail: [e-mail]  - UseNet
  EMail: j.drew2 - GEnie

- State of the art text editing package GoldEd is now available in a new
  version 2.20. The new version features:

  - API client mirror faster (2.1.0)
  - New ARexx commands/options:
    Option:  EOLWRAP/K (MODE)
    Option:  WAIT/N    (TASK)
    Option:  UPPER/S   (CODE)
    Option:  LOWER/S   (CODE)
    Option:  INDENT/S  (GOTO)
    Command: SESSION
    Option:  ALL/S     (QUIT)
    Option:  NOSAVE/S  (QUIT)
    Option:  CURSOR/S  (BLOCK)
    Option:  FILE/S    (RX)
  - New French translations
  - Line scrolling faster (2.1.2)
  - Improved window handling
    - Window resizing blocked during execution of arexx macro (2.1.2)
    - No border distortions due to window resizing (2.1.2)
    - Faster window activation (2.1.2)
  - Display requester: public screen list (2.1.2)
  - Session support: load/save size & position of open text buffers (2.1.2)
  - Config/Misc: AutoDesktop option (2.1.2)
  - AutoBackup events include frozen buffers (2.1.2)
  - GUI requester: user may set global default console (2.1.2)
  - Redesigned GUI requester (2.1.2)
  - Redesigned ASCII table (2.1.2)
  - Undo/redo faster (2.1.2)
  - Internal text format has been changed (2.1.0)
  - API interface modified. Recompilation required (2.1.0)
  - Screen didn't close properly after visitor windows sometimes (2.1.1)
  - QuickStarter (STICKY option used) didn't return after NEW NONAME
  - No window switching during AutoBackup events (2.1.2)
  - Date display has been moved to clock window (2.1.2)
  - Config/display: extra text spacing slider (2.2.0)
  - Find & replace requesters: move-block-to-gadget option (2.2.0)
  - Left handed users: LCommand may be used to select menus (2.2.0)

  EMail: [e-mail]
  Phone: [phone]-(pause)-22
  FAX:   [phone]

- There are a lot of falsk rumoures around about how fast a Pentium can
  render a pictures using LightWave. A Motorola 68060/50 MHZ is 20% to 30%
  faster than an Intel Pentium 90 MHZ. At the latest CeBIT they
  demonstrated it. An Amiga equipped with a Cyberstorm 68060/50 MHZ run
  LightWave faster (55 sec for the test frame) than the Pentium 90MHZ
  (70 secs for the same frame).
  Imagine Amiga version 3.2 was also 30% faster on the 68060/50 MHZ
  Amiga compare to imagine running on an IBM PC clone equipped with an
  Intel Pentium 90 MHZ.

- A new version 40.46 of the Cybergraphics intuition WB Emulation system is
  now  released. The cybergraphics system was designed to define an
  independant graphics standard for graphics boards. The developers
  included all their knowledge of about 3 years of gfx board software
  development (wb-emulation of visiona, domino, picasso and CyberVision64).
  CyberGraphics is based on hardware dependant monitor drivers and hardware
  independant libraries. This has some advantages: Bug fixes in the
  workbench emulation or speed optimizations is of benefit for ALL gfx
  boards that are supported by the CyberGraphics system. There is no third
  like XpERT or Village-Tronic inbetween developers and users. That
  guarantees bug fixes and continued development of the software in the
  future. CyberGraphics allows using of 15/16/24 screens independant of the
  used color model. You are able to use the cybergraphics.library functions
  to modify this screens. At the time of this writing there are drivers for
  Maxon Cinema,Real 3D, ADPro, AmaxIV, PhotoWorx, Emplant, ImageFX and
  Photogenics available. There is also a picture viewer called CyberView
  which can be found on AmiNet. Cybergraphics is the nicest, most promising
  RTG systems the Amiga has ever had. Because CyberGfx runs on nearly ALL
  gfx cards floating around, you'll get much more support for drivers.
  Applications using CyberGfx are raising, begining with ShapeShifter.
  Cybergraphics is not only a card-independent system (allowing one product
  to work on a variety of different graphics cards) but it is actually
  significantly faster than the hardware specific drivers provided with
  most graphic cards. Cybergraphics is what EGS should have been - a FAST
  and simple extension to the standard Amiga libraries to allow programs to
  be converted simply to take advantage of 24-bit graphics, and still
  maintain standard system compatibility with the same executable code.
  Support for Retina Z2, A2410, and Merlin graphic board are planed for a
  future version. Cybergraphics currently features:

  - Stable Workbench emulation
  - Dragable screens
  - No chipmem required for screen display
  - Modular design, it is possible to use multiple (and different) gfx
    boards at one time
  - CyberGraphics based vilintuisup.library. As long as there exist not
    much cybergraphics 15/16/24 bit applications the old picassoII drivers
    may be used.
  - Uses cirrus blitter for plane to chunky conversion
  - The current version supports the following graphic board:
    - CyberVision 64
    - Picasso II (unsegmented mode)
    - GVP Spectrum
    - Piccolo Z2/Z3
    - Domino
    - Retina Z3
      Much better software that Macrosystems RetinaEmu version 2.3.
      Supports screen dragging enabled, screenmodes support etc. Support
      for Retina Blitter is comming with the next version of Cybergraphics.
    - Piccolo SD-64

  A demo version of this excellent package me be downloaded from AmiNet.
  Priced at $40 US this package me be ordered directly from:

  Europe/Africa/Aisa/Australia/Antarctia distribution

  Frank Mariak
  Klosterstr. 7
  44135 Dortmund
  GERMANY

  Thomas Sontowski
  Bensberger Marktweg 15
  51069 Koeln
  GERMANY

  North-America/South-America distribution

  Robert Reiswig
  5396 Norma Way
  Livermore, California 94550-3802
  USA

- Soft-Logik announces Digita Organizer, a new personal information manager
  (PIM) for Amiga computers. Organizer is the first professional Amiga PIM.
  It uses a tabbed notebook metaphor with spiral bound pages to simplify
  organizing appointments, tasks and addresses.
  Digita Organizer can remind users of appointments and can repeat events
  with any frequency.  It allows users to manage to do lists and keep track
  of addresses.  Custom pages can be printed for Day-Timer(tm), Filofax(tm)
  , Rolodex(tm), Time Manager(tm) and other paper oganizer binders.
  Events can be imported from Day-By-Day(tm) diaries, and Organizer
  addresses can shared with Datastore(tm) or mail merged with Wordworth(R)
  or PageStream(R). Supplemental information including conversion tables,
  dialing codes, time zones and other useful information is included. The
  calendar can be set to various themes including public holidays,
  celebrity birthdays and religious events.
  Digita International is the leading publisher of Amiga productivity
  software in the United Kingdom, and Soft-Logik Publishing is the leading
  publisher of Amiga productivity software in the United States. Soft-Logik
  will sell and support Digita Organizer in the United States and Canada,
  while Digita International(R) will sell it in other countries. Soft-Logik
  currently sells Digita's Wordworth word processor and Datastore personal
  database in North America.
  Digita Organizer is expected to be available in North America at the end
  of April. The suggested retail price is $160. Owners of other Soft-Logik
  programs can order it directly from Soft-Logik for $85 plus $6 shipping
  and handling ($7 to Canada).

  Soft-Logik Publishing
  315 Consort Drive
  St. Louis, MO  63011
  USA

  Soft-Logik Publishing
  PO Box 3838
  Ballwin, MO  63022-3838
  USA

  Phone: [phone] (Sale)
         314-256-9595
  Phone: [phone] (Technical Support)
         314-256-9333
  Fax:   [phone]
  BBS:   314-256-8971

- Wolf Faust announces the availablity of a new version 2.04 of the higly
  professional, Studio, Printing Software. The new version features 40-50
  percent speed increase while using the printing programs Blue Noise
  dither methods. For ordering information please contact MacroSystem
  Germany or:

  arXon GmbH
  Assenheimer Str. 17
  D-60489 Frankfurt
  Germany
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- Data Compression Technologies is now working on the next version of the
  new, powerful Amiga archiver LZX. The new version is reported to be even
  faster, requires less memory, and can decompress Lha & Lzh files.
  Decompressing of LHA files using LZX is 35% FASTER than the registred
  version of LHA 1.50.

  Data Compression Technologies
  383 Lawrence Avenue West
  Toronto, Ontario
  M5M 1B9
  Canada
  Phone: [phone]
  FAX:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Didkovsky/NerveWare is now shipping Deluxe MIDI for creating MIDI files
  from any Deluxe Music 2.0 score. Deluxe MIDI Converter reads in your
  entire Deluxe Music score via ARexx. It then automatically converts the
  score to a meticulously crafted MIDI file. No ARexx programming required.
  You will be able to play back your score with Amiga sequencers such as
  Dr. T's "KCS" or Blue Ribbon Soundworks' "Bars and Pipes". Other
  programs on other platforms, like Cakewalk for the IBM family of
  computers, will be able to play and edit it, too. If professional scoring
  is your interest, you should know that high end music publishing software
  such as Finale on the Mac, and SCORE for IBM compatibles import MIDI
  files, offering you the possibility of producing professional,
  publishable scores. Deluxe MIDI features:

  - Deluxe MIDI Converter translates your DMusic2 scores to MIDI files.
  - The MIDI file is meticulously crafted, properly translating all
    durations, tuplets, dynamic markings, ties, instrument changes, and
    play styles.
  - Export your Deluxe Music compositions to high end sequencers like
    "Bars and Pipes Pro" and "KCS" on the Amiga.
  - Cross platforms: Deluxe MIDI Converter has allowed our users to
    easily transport their compositions over to Cakewalk, Metro, and
    Vision.  Any sequencer on any platform that can read "Type 1" MIDI
    files will work.
  - Export your Deluxe Music 2.0 compositions to high end music publishing
    software in other platforms like Finale (Mac), and SCORE (IBM family).
    Deluxe MIDI Converter makes it possible.
  - The MIDI file contains an extra "conductor track" which contains tempo
    changes and time signature changes for smooth and accurate translation.

  Priced at only $49.95 US, this package can be ordered directly from:

  Didkovsky / NerveWare
  118 East 93rd Street, Apt 9C
  NYC NY 1O128
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Jacco van Weert of Maverick Software Development is currently working on
  MIDI-Project with a new, powerful MIDI library. More about this product
  in a later issue of AmyNews.

  Maverick Software Development
  EMail: [e-mail]

- SoftWood, Inc. (makers of the Final Writer, Final Data, and Final Calc
  products) has signed on as North American distributors for Phase 5/AS&S
  products (including the CyberStorm and CyberVision 64 cards).
  SoftWood is now official owner of New Horzon's Amiga products. ProWrite
  users will in short receive information about how they can switch from
  ProWrite to Final Writer for a reasonable uppgrade fee.
  SoftWood is currently working on uppdated versions of Quarterback and
  Quarterback Tools. More about new SoftWood releases in a later issue of
  AmyNews.

- Martin Gierich ([e-mail]) has just released a new version
  2.4 of ZShell, the powerfull Shell for the Amiga. ZShell is a small (30K)
  , fast and powerful Shell with 65 built-in commands. So it replaces most
  of the commands in the C: directory. It has powerful editing & history,
  file name completion, review buffer, some Kickstart 2.0/3.0 specific
  features and a lovely LIST command. For programmers ZShell has things
  like showing EXEC-lists and the task list, memory dumping and execution
  checking. You can switch off the internal command-line-editor to use
  ZShell with console handlers like KingCON. ZShell features:

  - Usage is similar (or better) to the standard AmigaDOS shell
  - Supports the standard housekeeping commands which are builtin,
    so no disk access is necessary eg. list, dir, cd, assign, delete, copy,
    move, path, info, type
  - A total of 65 built-in commands
  - About 30K small (pure assembler code, source included)
  - Starting from Workbench (!) or CLI. No installation needed
  - File name completion by simply pressing TAB; shows all matches
  - Review-buffer to see again what scrolled out of the window
  - Some commands and debugging features for programmers
  - Command line editing better than OS2.0 Shell
  - Support of OS2.0+ and OS3.0+ specific features
  - DIR and LIST both sort (by default) and show file sizes
  - Wild cards and recursive processing
  - Makes itself resident for quicker starting and memory saving
  - Real (!) RUN and NEWCLI command that reenters ZShell quickly
  - Application-Window/-Icon
  - Simple 'MORE' type text viewer
  - Online Help function and AmigaGuide documentation with examples
  - Can create and show Hard- and Softlinks

  The new version 2.4 features:
  - Support for OS2.0+ specific stuff (MALELINK, MAKEICON, ASSIGN ADD,
    Application-Window etc.)
  - Totally rewrote PATH, COPY, DELETE, PROTECT, MOVE and JOIN
  - Bugfixes

  ZShell is available through Aminet:
  ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/util/shell/ZShell24.lha (197510)

- Black Belt Systems has finally released the long awaited Imagemaster R/t
  version 1.60 for the Amiga. IM R/t 1.60 expands the software's already
  impressive array of special effects to include enormously powerful
  powerful plasma tools, other operational enhancements, expanded interface
  controls and additional documentation.
  Black Belt Systems continues to enhance Imagemaster R/t product, still
  the most flexible and powerful image manipulation system available for
  the Amiga, as well as offer full time technical support to the customers.
  More important reasons why Imagemaster R/t is the right choice for your
  Amiga image manipulation software! The new version of IM R/t features:

  The plasma suite can generate flame events in still frames or over
  time. A number of useful types of flames are available, including gas
  flames, candles, log and forest fires, and even the oil wick of a
  hurricane lamp.  This is only the tip of the iceberg, however, as all
  flame parameters are settable by the user. For instance, independent
  control over the flame's base, middle, end and tip colors allow you to
  tailor the burn even to rare metals such as sodium or magnesium with
  no trouble. You have control over how much the flame distorts the
  background behind it, turbulence within the flame and much, much more.
  Also in the plasma suite is an extensive electrical generator which
  excels at lightning and other electrical effects. Preset or "canned"
  effects include Summer Storm, Windstorm, Fibrous and Gamma Bursts. As
  with the flame capability, these are only a hint of the range of
  effects available. You have direct control over color, glow, zagging,
  saturation, taper, width and more.  As with the flame tools all
  controls may be animated over time using ARexx, resulting in
  travelling bolts and strikes with an astounding level of realism.
  IM R/t 1.60 contains many other changes and improvements, including
  the ability to force all screens to 4-bit, 8-bit, or AGA, something
  that should help the performance of many of the weaker AGA emulations
  for the various graphics boards available for the Amiga.

  Black Belt Systems, Inc.
  398 Johnson Road
  RR1, Box 04272
  Glasgow Montana 59230
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  World Wide Web Pages:   http://www.blackbelt.com/blackbelt/bx_top.html
  Software Demos:         ftp.blackbelt.com/corporate/blackbelt/demos
  Additional Information: [e-mail]
  Technical Support:      [e-mail]
  Marketing:              [e-mail]
  Sales:                  [e-mail]

- A new version 1.5 of InfraRexx and a new version 3.1 of InfraJoy is now
  released. The InfraRexx software along with the InfraJoy hardware serve
  as an ARexx-Infrared interface, that adds the function of an infrared
  remote controller to your Amiga, and more. With the software and hardware
  you can:

  - Control external audio/video devices via ARexx commands.
  - Control Amiga programs via a common remote control unit.
  - Learn and edit new remote control infrared commands.

  For example you can control a moduleplayer via your compact disc player
  remote control unit. Or, control your video tape recorder via a graphic
  user interface or an ARexx script.

  The main features are:

  - Seperate editor (with learner) and ARexx host commodity.
  - Multitasking-friendly infrared sampling monitor, with very
  - low system overhead during monitoring; can also be disabled.
  - Font-sensitive, style-compliant graphic user interface.
  - Supports localization under Workbench 2.1 (or better).
  - Uses 3.x functions and gadtools features if present.
  - Lowcost hardware for joystickport, with optional throughput.
  - Uses the Amiga Installer Utility to install onto (hard)disk.

  The new version 1.5 features:

  - Added some user requested features. Removed reported bugs.
  - Swedish language catalog included.
  - Completer codesets. Added JVC codeset.
  - Included RexxEvent; links ARexx commands to input events.

  The freeware software is downloadable from AmiNet.

  EMail: [e-mail]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Stefan Osowski's Schatztruhe is now shipping 2 new disks:

  - The Beauty of Chaos. This CD contains 507 fractals from the
    Mandelbrot set, complete with the formula used for each. Every
    fractal is rendered in three resolutions (640x400, 1024x768, and
    1140x890), all 256 color GIFs. In addition, 20 of the best ones are
    packaged as 24-bit TIFFs. The CD comes with considerable background
    information on fractals, including the theory behind their existance
    and the method used to generate them, not to mention the triple-
    platform viewers on the disc.

  - The Light Works CD. The disc is comprised of a great number of
    prerendered scenes and animations, as well as objects in Cinema4D,
    Reflections, and Imagine To facilitate dabblers, demo versions of
    Cinema4D and Reflections are included. The collection is primarily
    the work of Tobias Richter, famous for his Star Trek renders.

  Stefan Osowski's Schatztruhe
  D-45131 Essen
  Germany

  Amiga Library Services (North American Distribution)
  602-917-0917
  [e-mail]

- Good news for all Primera and PrimeraPro owners who run their printers
  from an Amiga. FARGO has now completed and is distributing FREE a new
  24-bit Amiga printer driver. Previously, only 12-bit color was available
  from the Amiga due to limitations of the operating system. Running the
  new driver, the dye-sublimation and wax thermal output is now nothing
  short of spectacular.
  To receive your copy of the driver, call FARGO's Tech Support Department
  at [phone] or FAX [phone] and they will mail you a copy
  immediately. For the records, be sure to tell them which Amiga you're
  using and if you've got a Primera or PrimeraPro. Include a complete
  mailing address and phone number.

- Steve Worley of Apex Software Publishing is currently working on a
  updated version of "Understanding Imagine 2.0" for the latest version
  of Impulse's Imagine 3.2.

  Apex Software Publishing
  405 El Camino Real
  Suite 121, Menlo Park
  CA 94025
  USA

- Another Macintosh emulator has just arrived into the Amiga land.
  ShapeShifter version 2.0 writen by Christian Bauer,
  [e-mail], is a multitasking Macintosh-II
  emulator for the Amiga. It allows to run Macintosh software
  concurrently to Amiga applications without hardware add-ons or
  modifications. Some of the emulation's features:

  - Color display up to 256 colors on AGA Amigas (16 colors on ECS) and up
    to 16,7 million colors on graphics cards (Picasso-II, EGS and
    CyBERgraphics cards are supported)
  - No MMU required, even runs on A1200
  - Macintosh hard disks can be simulated in Amiga files or Amiga hard disk
    partitions
  - Can use Amiga floppy drives, serial, parallel and SCSI ports from the
    Mac
  - Mac HD disks can be read directly with an HD floppy drive, Mac 800K
    disks cannot be read, Mac 720K disks, however, can
  - Multichannel sound output and parallel-port sound digitizers supported
  - Text clipboard sharing between Mac and Amiga
  - File handler to access Macintosh volumes from the Workbench
  - Speed comparable to a real Mac with equivalent hardware

  The new version 2.0 features:

  - Pre-emptive multitasking
  - Quickstart now works reliably
  - Bug in stack handling corrected
  - Graphics cards in 24 bit address space work with ROM 34
  - CyBERgraphics 15 and 24 bit modes now work, selecting a CyBERgraphics
    mode will automatically set the color depth
  - Needs no special ROM sub versions any more
  - Setting for task priority removed
  - Macintosh reset routine revamped
  - Italian catalog files
  - When the selected amount of Mac memory is not available, you can choose
    to use the largest free block
  - Numerous internal corrections and improvements
  - SCSI IDs individually switchable, an error when accessing ID 0 will no
    longer cause the other IDs to be skipped
  - The graphics refresh is now done by a subtask, enabling the Amiga mouse
    pointer will prevent any refreshes
  - ROM write-protection is now choosable
  - The FileDisk driver will no longer open files with empty names

  - Requirements:
    OS2.1, 68020 processor, 4MB of RAM, HD floppy drive recommended.
    A copy of a Macintosh 512K or 1MB ROM and the Macintosh system
    software are not included, but required.

  The demo version of this excellent package may be downloaded from AmiNet.

- Markus Moenig is currently working on the very long awaited MainActor
  Broadcast, a commercial sucessor of MainActor which should be released in
  June 95, featuring 19 Sound Modules, Effect Modules, full AVI + Quicktime,
  new user interface, dithering and much much more.

  EMail: [e-mail] (Work)
  EMail: [e-mail] (Private)

- The totaly rewriten Directory Opus version 5, king of DirUyils on any
  platform, is now shipping. Prices are $129 US for the full version, and
  $55 US for upgrades from version 4. These distributors have signed on:

  Small-Biz Software
  PO Box 24
  Golden Beach
  Qld, Australia 4551
  Australia
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

  Wizard Developments
  PO Box 490
  Dartford, Kent
  DA1 2UH
  United Kingdom
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

  Schatztruhe
  Veronikastr 33
  45131 Essen
  Germany
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

  Micro R&D
  721 'O' Street
  Loup City
  NE 68853
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- Paul Kolenbrander ([e-mail]) has just released a new version
  1.1 of HTML-Heaven. HTML-Heaven is a suite of _four_ programs intended to
  make the creation and maintenance of WWW (HTML) pages easy. The programs
  in the suite interface with your favorite editor (providing it supports
  text insertion via ARexx) to provide you with a very comfortable
  environment. Now inserting HTML commands is as simple as point and click.
  The new version 1.1 features:

  - A new, very powerful ARexx script for TurboText 2.0.
  - An info requester giving the ARexx Hostname, the window's x and y
    position as well as width and height. Very useful in setting up your
    HTML-Heaven environment. (tooltypes etc.)
  - HTML-Wizard, This new addition to the suite is functionally the same as
    HTML-Genie, but it uses cycle gadgets instead of listview ones.
  - All four programs now have an ARexx host built-in.

  HTML-Heaven requires:

  - Workbench 2.04 or above
  - ARexx (bundled with Workbench 2.04 and above.)
  - Around 1MB of free memory
  - About 300KB of floppy or harddisk space. (installing the entire
    suite and docs.)

  A demo version of this product is available through:

  - ftp://ftp.iaehv.nl/pub/users/paul/amiga/HTML-Heaven.lha
  - http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/index.html
  - Most Aminet sites. Examples of which are:
    USA: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/aminet/text/hyper/HTML-Heaven.lha
    EUR: ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/aminet/text/hyper/HTML-Heaven.lha

  Paul Kolenbrander
  Turfveldenstraat 37
  NL-5632 XH  EINDHOVEN
  The NETHERLANDS
  Email : [e-mail]

- Graphic Detail is now shipping LIGHT-ROM CD Issue 2. LIGHT-ROM 2 has
  around 350 megs of new data. It is 100% Lightwave and Toaster material.
  There are around 3,700 Lightwave objects. There is a new collection of
  Textures, Images and Animation Maps. As usual, everything has a
  thumbnail rendering. The thumbnail renderings are much easier to access
  thanks to user suggestions! The Thumbnails are now in their own
  directories and are much easier to access.

  Graphic Detail
  4556 South Third Street
  Louisville, Ky. 40214   USA
  Phone: [phone]
  EMail: michael @iglou.com

- An all new version of MovieGuide now as MovieGuide Professional version
  1.02 is now released. The MovieGuide Pro is an Amiga only program that
  in many tests has been rated better than Cinemania and CineBase for the
  the IBM pc. MovieGuide Pro, Your guide to the movies features:

  - More than 21.000 titles, containing title, dk title, director, cast,
    origin country, release year, genre, length in minutes, color or b&w,
    number of chapters (series only)
  - Now more than 1000 danish titles, more than 900 european. this version
    has a lot of new u.k. titles!
  - Search on director, cast, title, dk title, composer, editor, producer,
    director of cinematography, production-designer, writer, screenplay,
    movie-series (through topics)
  - Crosssearching using year-criteria
  - Up-to-date. many titles from 1995 are already in there - many of them
    still in production in the USA
  - Plot summaries on more than 2000 titles!
  - Browser - lets you find a title in a hurry. now with 'scan all'
    function.
  - Mini-lexicon containing information on various relevant subjects,
    for a movie freak - what's a computer coloured film? what is dolby
    surround? wide-screen? cinemascope? etc etc
  - Topics - find all movies in a series of movies, e.g. the '007, james
    bond' movies, the 'columbo' series, the 'kojak' series. also more
    unofficial series, like the 'jack ryan' films.
    Which was the first featurelength animated film? which film is
    the greatest economical success? these, and more odd and
    interesting information, can be found here
  - Sequel/prequel icons, for fast & easy walkthrough of a series of
    movies, e.g. the 'indiana jones' movies
  - Feature/serial icons, for movies which has later turned into a series,
    or a series turned into a feature film
  - Recommend good movies, using "video movie-guide" rating and internet
    recs.arts.movies rating!
  - Today - shows todays anniversaries on industry-persons!
  - About 5000 movies rated, using the ratings from the "video movie guide"
    by mick martin & marsha porter.
  - Oscars! what movies won how many oscars, and how many nominees did it
    get?
  - Awards - all oscars from 1984 to 1993 are complete! oscars/golden
    globes/bafta awards on technical credits included!
  - Biographies on more than 8.700 movie-industry persons! click on a
    name, and you'll get information about that person (if available)
  - Trivia information, errors (goofs), and remarkabel quotes from loads of
    movies!
  - Pictures of persons (biography) and movies. Many included in this
    version!
  - Compatible with all existing amigas, including A1200 and A4000
  - Amiga only!
  - Requires 1.5mb ram!

  MovieGuide Pro version 1.02 is a freeware software distributed on 16
  disks. The latest update to this powerful program is always avaiable in
  the MICRO AMIGA BBS [phone] (24h, 2 nodes, 28k8, 16k8 DUAL).

  Svend Erik Poulsen
  Marbaekvej 4b, Lime
  Dk-8544 Moerke
  Denmark

  Simon Ravn
  Frederikssundsvej 193A, 3. TV
  Dk-2700 Broenshoej
  Denmark

- HarmonySoft, is now shipping a new version 3.1 of Rashumon, the Multi-
  lingual graphic word processor for the Amiga. Rashumon supports languages
  written from right to left as well as left to right. Rashumon can be used
  as a regular graphic word processor as well. It supports graphics import
  and export, importing files from Mac and PC as well as exporting, high
  quality printing, table generator and much more. The new version 3.1
  features:

  - Keymaps can be edited externaly
  - Much faster
  - New enhanced Print Requester
  - Full Postscript level 2 support (including 1.6m color and gray scale
    support
  - You can change selection's text size to any size without effecting the
    fonts it contains
  - You can change selection's fonts to a certain font without effecting
    character's sizes

  Priced at $50 US, Rashumon may be ordered from:

  HarmonySoft
  69 Jabotinsky st.
  Givatayim 53319
  ISRAEL
  Phone/Fax: [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]
  Contact: Michael Haephrati

- Ensemble Verbes is now available in a new version 1.3. Ensemble Verbes is
  a program to help students practise and master French verbs in the most
  common tenses of the language.  It is designed to support classroom work,
  not to replace it. Ensemble Verbes features:

  - Over 75 verbs, including -er, -ir, -re, reflexive and irregular
    conjugations
  - Seven tenses: present, compound past, imperfect, future, conditional,
    subjunctive present and present participle
  - Full online, context-sensitive help via AmigaGuide tm
  - Close adherence to Amiga User Interface Style Guide
  - Sound support
  - Support for international keyboards
  - Locale support (English, French, Norwegian and Spanish catalogs
    included)
  - Optional French Student's Dictionary & Guide, a 150-page book
    featuring:

    - French/English and English/French sections
    - Most commonly used vocabulary, in context
    - Many easy-to-understand examples to help in selection of vocabulary
    - Many idiomatic expressions
    - Regular and irregular verb charts
    - Reference grammar guide
    - Over 5500 entries

  Peter Edward Janes
  6868 Egremont Road
  R. R. #8
  Watford, Ontario, Canada
  N0M 2S0
  E-mail: [e-mail]
  WWW home page: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~pejanes/

- German based company MAXON Computer Gmbh is currently working on a new
  version of Maxon C++ (currently version 3.0) development package for the
  Amiga. Maxon C++ understands the AT&T 3.0 Standard (templates and
  exceptions) and comes with very powerfull classes designed especially for
  the Amiga. The new version will directly support Motorola's 68060 CPU.

- Brian J. Cerveny is working on a new version of Grapevine, the best IRC
  client avaialble for ANY platform. The new version features:

  - Reorganized interface
  - ARexx interface
  - Event trapping
  - Ignore, aliases
  - Programmable f-keys
  - Notify
  - Tabkey messaging
  - Auto-opened query windows
  - Better /list and /ban handling
  And much more

  Brian J. Cerveny
  Software Engineer, Motorola Inc., European Cellular Subscriber Division
  600 N. US Hwy 45
  Libertyville
  Illinois 60048
  USA
  Phone: [phone] (Work)
  FAX:   [phone] (Work)
  Internet: [e-mail]

- Jason Compton, editor-in-cheaf of Amiga Report announce the availablity
  of the very long awaited Amiga Report Technical Journal Issue number 1,
  dedicated to Amiga developers. Subscription requests can be directed to
  [e-mail].
  Amiga Report Tech Journal is available on Aminet and for WWW access.
  On any Aminet FTP site, AR Tech should appear as: docs/mags
  ARTv1i1H.lha for the HTML version
  ARTv1i1A.lha for the AmigaGuide version
  The main WWW site is http://artech.warped.com/artech/main.html

- C-Born Software Systems has just released a new version 1.42 of AmigaFax.
  The new version has support for Class 2 Fax like USR fax modems.
  AmigaFax is a software package that, in combination with a FaxModem,
  allows you to send and receive facsimile information from your Amiga.
  Received faxes can be viewed, printed, forwarded to other fax machines,
  and saved as ILBM files. You can transmit text, ILBM graphics, and
  combinations of these as faxes. Using the AmigaFax command language
  you can add text from any Amiga font, along with logos and ILBM graphics,
  to create high quality multi-page fax documents. AmigaFax can be set up
  to automatically send documents to multiple recipients, to send faxes at
  or after set times, to answer incoming fax calls automatically, and even
  to forward received faxes (useful as a vacation mechanism). AmigaFax is
  highly configurable, allowing you to set up a custom environment that
  best suits your hardware and way of working. The current version of the
  AmigaFax features:

  - Automatic Reception:
    AmigaFax may be configured to receive faxes in the background, or to
    answer an already ringing line in Fax mode. Autoanswer may also be
    integrated with a UUCP or BBS environment, where incoming calls may be
    Fax or data, by using a specially modified version of the getty program
    that recognises Fax calls.
  - Automatic Transmission:
    Faxes may be queued for transmission after a particular time, to
    take advantage of lower off-peak telecom rates, for example. You
    may specify the number of times to try before giving up on
    transmission, and the period at which retry attempts should be
    made. All call progress is logged, and progress may be monitored
    from the main program. Call logging displays when attempts were
    made, the success or failure of the call, and the Called Number ID
    of the remote Fax machine reached.
  - Multiple Recipients:
    Fax numbers may be entered either directly, or using defineable
    aliases. Therefore instead of sending to `99123456', you could
    send it to `Fred'. In the same way, an alias can refer to a list
    of other aliases, or numbers, so that one fax could be sent to
    `Customers', representing a list of customers.
  - Flexible Fax Viewer:
    The Fax viewer allows you to view a fax document at scales of from
    1:1 to 1:8. A 1:3 scale igenerally gives a quite readable image
    while still fitting the entire Fax width across a standard Amiga
    screen. You can easily zoom in on areas of particular interest if
    required. The viewer may be configured to take advantage of new
    display modes (eg Productivity) and add-in high resolution display
    cards (eg Retina).
  - Powerful Document Builder:
    This allows you to mix any Amiga font or ILBM graphic on a page,
    to include text, ILBM, Fax, or AmigaFax command files anywhere on
    a page or in a document, perform alignment at character or pixel
    level, justify text regardless of font size, automatically add
    standard information such as address, signature, logo, and current
    time/date. Text conversion includes selectable fonts size and
    styles, including underline, bold and italic.
  - TeX to fax conversion:
    The `dvifax' program (registered version only) allows TeX `dvi'
    files to be converted directly to fax files.
  - Fax Printer-Driver:
    The fax printer driver allows the output of wordprocessing, DTP,
    painting and drawing programs to be converted directly to fax
    files.
  - Highly User Configurable:
    The configuration file allows you to set the system up to suit your
    requirements. You can define your prefered editor for text and for
    graphics, set a standard file to use as a template when creating
    new Fax documents, customize your dial type (pulse/tone, special
    prefix to get outside line, etc), set the Caller ID string to
    identify yourself to remote Fax machines, define the modem type
    you are using, and set many system default values.
  - Multiple Serial Port Support:
    Using the A2232 multi-serial port card, AmigaFax can support
    multiple FaxModems simultaneously, each modem being able to
    transmit and receive facsimiles and data.
  - Uses Preferences Printer:
    Because the Amiga Preferences printer is used to print out the
    documents, you can tradeoff speed for resolution as you require.
  - Workbench or CLI interface:
    AmigaFax can be run either from the workbench, or from a shell or
    CLI interface. In either case, an easy to use graphical
    presentation makes operation straightforward.

  Priced at $50 US, this nice piece of software may be ordered directly
  from C-Born Software Systems. Payment may be via MasterCard, Visa,
  BankCard, or Bank Cheque, in Australian dollars.

  C-Born Software Systems
  59 West Fyans St
  Geelong 3220
  Victoria,
  AUSTRALIA

  Phone: [phone]
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Jeff Shepherd announces the immediate relase of the Amiga port of Pine
  (tm) version 3.91. Pine is an integrated mail/news client for UNIX and
  now the Amiga. With Pine you can read your mail either locally or
  remotely with little work. Pine comes with a built-in editor for
  composing email or news replies or you can use your personal editor.
  Pine has the ability of placing attachments to your email using MIME
  and spawning external viewers to view attachments you have received.
  Pine can use SMTP to post your message or use another mailer if you
  desire.  Pine has a wide variety of options and has built-in help for
  all the supplied functions and options. Pine is the best software
  packages to use with smtp/nntp (like Elm and Grn).
  Pine will be freeware and will need AmiTCP in order to work. Since this
  is a UNIX port, 2M is probably the minimum you will need for Pine to
  work. Once released, Pine is downloadable from Aminet.

  Jeff Shepherd
  EMail: [e-mail]
  World Wide Web Pages:
  http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jsshephe/index.html

- Joshua Galun, Editor in Chief of Amiga Link, announces the availablility
  of a new on line magazine that will cover latest Amiga news, reviews, and
  previews. This magazing is published in AmigaGuide format. To have the
  issue sent to you by email, mail [e-mail]
  And in the message type: ADD "your email address", NOTE:  Your e-mail
  address should not be in quotes.  For example, if your address is
  [e-mail], you'd type ADD [e-mail] in your message.
  You can also find Amiga Link using a WWW browser such as Lynx or AMosaic
  at http://ramiga.cts.com
  The latest second issue of the magazin has following articles:

  - A review of the Emplant e586 PC emulator
  - A review of PageStream 3.0g
  - A review of Pinball Illusions
  - A review of Reunion
  - The LATEST info on the C= buyout
  - Continuation of the Coder's Clinic, How to Install Your Emplant, and
    Some Bits of Treasure series.
  - Thoughts on the importance of the CD32 to the Amiga's future.
  - Thoughts about a future Amiga laptop
  - An analysis of Jim Drew.
  - A COMPLETE list of EVERY CD32 game out and coming out in 1995!

- Oregon Research announces the release of the GameSmith Development
  System for Professional Game development version 2.0. Over three years in
  development, the GameSmith Development system gives you the low level
  power to create the masterpiece of your dreams. With GameSmith you can
  easily create anything from arcade shoot 'em ups to graphic role
  playing adventures, from fast scrollers to hair rasing strategy games.
  The only limit is you imagination. Among other features Oregon Research
  mentions:
  - Complete animation system with double buffering
  - Prioritized object display
  - Custom Object/Object & Object /Background Collision Detection &
    Response
  - Automatic placement and Animation of Multi-Sequenced animated objects
  - Chain Objects, animating one animates the whole chain!
  - Automatic Virtual Space object handling
  - Dynamic Animation Control
  - Easy to use Joystick polling routines
  - Very efficient ILBM picture loader
  - Optional custom encryption to protect your artwork and sounds
  - Fully AGA compatible
  - Transparent double buffering
  - Hardware level smooth scrolling on a per viewport basis
  - Independently scroll playfields in dual playfield mode
  - Parallax scrolling
  - The interactive character animator CITAS for Building up animations
    graphically
  - Allow the creation of single object addressable by the system.
  - Over 350 pages of documentation fully describing the system, utility
    functions, and over 130 library functions complete with a detailed
    tutorial and many examples.

  Oregon Research
  16200 S.W. Pacific Hwy., Suite 162
  Tigard, OR 97224
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  FAX:   [phone]

  Internet  : [e-mail]
  GEnie     : ORA
  CompuServe: 71333,2655

  Contact Information (europe):

  HiSoft
  The Old School
  Greenfield
  Bedford
  MK45 5DE
  U.K.
  Phone: [phone]
  FAX:   [phone]
  Internet: [e-mail]

- Software Results Enterprises, SRE, has now taken over devlopment,
  marketing and support for GoldenGate II bridgeboard for the Amiga.
  Using GoldenGate ZORRO board, Zorro Amigas can use IBM PC cards like
  multi serial, and network boards as Amiga boards.

- An all new version 2.0 of Q-Blue, the popular offline mail reader for
  Amiga, by Paul Kienitz is now released to the Aminet.
  Q-Blue has long been the leading offline mail reader for Amiga computers,
  and version 2.0 represents a very substantial improvement over Q-Blue 1.0
  , the last official release. It handles both Blue Wave mail and QWK mail
  packets. It requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or newer. Q-Blue 1.0 is still
  available for those using older AmigaDOS versions.  But Q-Blue's strength
  has always been in how it handles the basics. Its user interface sets a
  standard for clarity and efficiency, it has gained a reputation for
  dependability and robustness even in early versions, and the thorough 136
  page user manual, noted as one of the best written of its kind, is now
  clearer and better organized than ever. Some of the features that put
  Q-Blue 2.0 ahead of the competition include:

  - Full support for Fido netmail even with QWK packets
  - Configuration options that can be set differently for different BBSes
  - Remembers your place in a packet when you close and reopen it
  - You can copy text to the system clipboard with the mouse, and...
  - Paste from the clipboard into any string gadget
  - Run multiple processes safely and with no inconvenience
  - Messages can be sorted according to thread links
  - Support for PCBoard 15.x long subject lines with QWK mail
  - Conversion of ANSI-cluttered messages into clear readable text
  - A powerful word search function that can be used in any scrolling
      list window as well as on the text or header info of messages
  - A "twit filter" with options for finely selective filtering
  - Quoting for replies that knows how to reformat paragraphs to a
    user-settable margin before adding ">" markers along the left edge (try
    it, and soon any offline reader without this feature will drive you
    crazy!)
  - More sophisticated text editor support than other offline readers, with
    sections in the manual on taking maximum advantage of the special
    features of popular editors like CygnusEd and TurboText
  - Automatically keeps backups of old reply packets
  - You can write messages to upload without any downloaded mail packet
  - Full ability to move, re-edit, delete, and undelete your replies, reload
    unfinished reply packets, and flip instantly between a reply and the
    message it's responding to
  - QWK netmail support now handles the MKQWK door
  - The window that lists available mail packets tells you how much of each
    packet has already been read, and has a file delete option
  - A "Reply to addressee" command
  - A "stealth" mode that suppresses identifying brag lines at the ends of
    messages (for registered users only)
  - Several improvements to the tagline feature, including a sequential use
    option
  - Support for high resolution video modes
  - Word search can filter previous search results with new criteria
  - Search "hits" in message text are visually highlighted
  - Tagline and signature-block support built in
  - Customizable headers on quoted messages ("John said to Mary...")
  - "Carbon copy" function with its own customizable header
  - It can now display messages 8000 lines long
  - Workbench AppIcon and commodities-style popkey
  - Single-key command to append messages to a preselected text file
  - The twit list can now restrict exclusions to specified message areas
  - Load configuration files even while a mail packet is open
  - "BBS Information" window with useful facts about the mail packet and
    the BBS it came from

  The demo version of Q-Blue may be downloaded from AmiNet.

- Iomega Zip drive is a new 3.5" removeable media drive that stores 100MB
  on each disk. The drive only costs $200 and the disks are $20 each.
  Iomega in Denmark help Amiga users to get their Zip drives works in the
  Amigas.

  Iomega Denmark
  Phone: [phone]
  World Wide Web Pages: http://www.iomega.com

- Just to make it clear; RCS managment in Montreal are in business and
  are developing their promissed 68060 board for desktop Amigas. The
  Motorola's 68060 containf a FPU, an MMU and a new feature called
  SuperScalar, which enables the unit to detect, dispatch, excute and
  return from more than one instruction during each cycle. Registered
  users of Fusion Forty should contact RCS for uppgrade information.
  RCS Managment.
  Phone: [phone] <- NEW NUMBER
  FAX [phone].

- Supra corporation has released a new VFC (1.000-04) and V34 (1.000-15)
  flashers for the Supra 288 modems. Amiga version of the flashROM is
  available through Supra's BBS, Compuserve Forum, and AmiNet.

- The UK company Almathera Systems Limited is developing an update version
  1.2 to it's wonderful paint and image manipulation package Photogenics.
  New version 1.2 will be available in mid to late May and will features
  support for Harlequin and other Grafexa-style graphics cards to the new
  render-able boards, support for CyberGFX system that allows the owner of
  all CyberGFX supported graphic board to use Photogenics with milions of
  colors (painting directly onto CyBERgfx screens in upto 24bit), painting
  in upto 16 dithered colors on all ECS Amigas, new paintmodes, GIO
  (graphic input/output) loaders, plug-ins, Scanner drivers, Support for
  plug-in type modules (effects), PCHG (Palette Change Hires) support, a
  'datatype.gio', a new multiple-positionalbe-distortable-layers system
  etc.
  Almathera is also working on a new version of "Video Creator CD", the
  companie's very populer multimedia sofeware. NTSC is one of the major new
  features.

  Almathera Systems Limited
  Southerton House
  Boundary Business Court
  92-94 Church Road
  Mitcham, Surrey
  CR4 3TD
  ENGLAND
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]
  EMail: [e-mail] for questions

- Geodesic Design is currently working on an uppgrade version of MindLight
  for the Amiga. MindLight is a hardware/software combination that allows
  you to feed music into an Amiga and get random color patterns out of it.

  Geodesic Design
  Mark Adams
  P.o.box 956068
  Duluth GA 30136
  USA

  Phone:   [phone]
  BBS/FAX: [phone]
  EMail:   [e-mail]

- The MediaPhile Desktop System for the Amiga allows videographers to use
  any Amiga to produce videos. This system which includes the MediaEditor
  software and MediaPhile controllers for $295 US, interfaces your Amiga
  with video devices such as the Toaster, Sony, Panasonic, JVC and Canon;
  camcorders, video decks, both consumer and industrial.
  A truelly spectacular hardware accomplishment.
    For information send email or fax your address to:
  Fax: [phone] Dean

- Stuart Ferguson one of the developers of LightWave 4.0 has re-written the
  screen-handling and display routines under 4.0 so they will work with the
  Picasso II graphic board.

  Stuart Ferguson
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Never powerpack DeluxePaint 5.0 executable. DeluxePaint require that its
  hunk structure remain mostly intact so it can locate user registration
  information. PowerPackers stripping hunks function will certainly cause
  trouble for DPaint. Source, Dallas Hodgson, of of DPaint's programmer.

- Ais2 is an all new database managment system for the Amiga. Ais2 is
  currently a Swedish program only and the following press release is in
  Swedish language:

  Amiga Isam System 2 eller kort och gott A.I.S II är ett nytt
  databasprogram help på svenska för den svenska Amiga marknaden. Det är
  helt svenskt och innehller massor av vettiga funktioner för dig som
  behöver lagra och/eller sortera större mngder information. Kanske ett
  bokregister eller varför inte cd-skivor och disketter.
  Fördelarna mot vanligare och mer kända databasprogram är fljande:
  - Helt och hållet på svenska (det finns engelsk version ocks).
  - Priset är endast 350 kronor, detta trots att i stort sett alla
    funktioner som du normalt kan hitta i kommersiella databasprogram
    också finns här, och lite till.
  - Support ges via post (snail-mail :) eller flera svenska bbs:er.
  - De funktioner som Programmet presenterar är väl genomtänkta och
    konsekventa. De är även anpassade för både dem som har mycket minne
    och hårddisk eller bara en extra diskettstation.
  - Demodisk (pd-version minus vissa funktioner) finns att få tag på från
    svenska bbs:er eller genom att skriva till:
    Göran Gustavsson
    Bondegatan 32
    641 46 Katrineholm
    Sverige
  - Manualen är skriven på svenska och enkel att sätta sig in i trots att
    den tar upp programmets samtliga funktioner. Den är inbunden och
    omfattar för närvarande ca 70-talet laserutskrivna sidor.
  - Hastigheten är på diskettbaserade register markant snabbare än
    konventionella databasprogram.
  Har du en Amiga och är i behov av en bra men billig databas-hanterare så
  håll utkik efter detta i svensk såväl som engelsk Amigapress samt diverse
  svenska bbs:er.

- RealSoft announces April 95 release of the very long awaited Real 3D
  version 3.0. The new version features:

  - Triset meshes allow colorization of individual faces -> better support
    for converted triangle objects
  - New normal orientation feature to fix phong shading problems of
    converted objects (Modify/freeform/Surface type)
  - General polygonal conversion enables more complete object export
  - Backdrop image is visible through clip mapped surfaces
  - Settings/attributes allows definition of default depth and name of
    objects
  - Repeat last action feature with a hot key
  - Edit primitive geometry for accurate numeric editing of primitives
  - Automatic field Interlacing feature for field to frame conversion
  - Interactive hierarchical skeletons with better IK control and angle
    constraints
  - Improved Inverse Kinematics method accepts multiple parameter curves
    and snaps automatically to the nearest joint
  - Draw as bounding box - object attribute
  - Fast background image drawing function
  - New window type, toolbar, which includes useful creation and modelling
    features such as:
    - Coordinate input
    - Creation depth input by value and by a user defined line
    - Angle input for rotations
    - Important hot-key functions like Tab=Center Del=Undo-one-step etc.
      available as buttons for easier 'getting started'
  - New 'key frame' animation method:
  - Saves memory, because key positions are represented as coordinate
    systems
  - Does not generate unintentional elastic stretches on target objects
  - Shrink wrap available as an animation method A new 'Surface' method,
    which makes rotating, walking etc. objects automatically move along
    surfaces
  - Much improved key editor:
    - Anim playback control
    - Integrated interface for creating and editing most animation methods
    - New key creation and deletion control
    - 'Redistribute evenly' function
  - Envelope control for accurate key frame animation editing
  - Discrete morphing for immediate shape changes
  - Complete tag morphing support can be used to e.g. dissolve objects
    by morphing the new fade property
  - Curve knot timing of path based methods is now possible 8 bit alpha
    channel output in IFF file rendering
  - Non-adaptive, super sampled rendering for best anti-aliasing quality
  - Open post-processing interface for various special effects like lens
    flares, global fogs etc. The interface allows third party developers
    to hook post-effect libraries to Real 3D
  - New 'fade' object attribute, which enables easy fade-in and fade-out
    of objects, quickly rendered transparent layers etc.
  - 'Glow' material property for creating coronas, fire, laser beams etc.
    New material color handler for defining a constant material color
    which replaces object's original color.
  - New 'Roughness. mathematical bump map, with density and bump height
    control
  - New 'Dither' mathematical color map with density and bump height
    control
  - Additional Edge X/Y gradient control for texture gradients allows
    sharp texture map edges with interpolated texture map interior
  - Infinite tiling is now possible also when applying FreqX/Y feature
    to make texture Denser - this fixes the 'seam' problem in spherical
    mapping.
  - Much faster clip mapping
  - Round modify function for easy edge rounding of curves, polygons etc.
  - Primitives can now been edited using accurate numerical Interface
  - RPL has been extended much, especially GUI programming is now possible.
  - Camera view mode windows are now updated instantly when a camera object
    has been modified, not only during animation play.
  - Improved FLI/FLC support
  - A feature to project mouse coordinates to existing objects: this enables
    e.g. drawing a curve directly on the surface of another object.
  - Modify/Special/Reflect feature makes it possible to place a highlight
    from a light source to a location pointed by a mouse click.
  - Special/Vectors/Deselect Group can be used to exclude overlapping points
    when creating sub groups
  - Fractal generator (Tree/Landscape) parameter loading and saving
  - A new animation method attribute to torn off Inheritance of time
    modifications
  - Plug-in support for post-processing effects (i.e. lens flares),
  - Essence textures will implemented via an external "plug-in" called
    Realize! (which will also include such effects as lens flares)
  - Numeric input for many tools
  - Background images to align objects
  - Constraints for object joints.
  - Much faster (up to 5 times in some cases) B-Spline rendering
  - Better DXF format object conversion
  - rewritten clip mapping
  - Interactive hierarchical skeletons
  - Skeletal constrains, min/max angles of rotations, 2D & 3D joints
  - IFF file in the background
  - Shrink Wrap animation method
  - Much better TRUE keyframing
  - Along surface animation method
  - Envelopes
  - Open post-processing interface for special effects like fog, lens flare
  - Object fading
  - "glow" parameter in material editor
  - New antialiasing
  - "Round" function in modelling
  - full GUI addition to RPL
  - Camera view are updated constantly
  - New animation methods.

  And the bug fixes:
  - Saving/reloading links no longer makes links 'read-only'
  - Box rendering to a file uses now box dimensions as it should
    (this bug was only In Windows version)
  - Deleting/adding points from/to multiple freeform objects work
    correctly now.
  - Field rendering bug fixed (odd fields were shifted up!)
  - Boolean rethink bug of cut pyramid fixed
  - Ellipsegment wireframe problems fixed (Lathe tool sometimes produced
    invalid wireframes, which could not be recreated after reloading)
  - Invisible compound objects are invisible in modifications also after
    saving and reloading.
  - The font curve extractor creates only spline curves Previously some
    characters of certain fonts produced polygonal outlines that could
    not be extruded (Windows version)
  - Font curve extractor/Scandinavia character map bug fixed
  - Box rendering sometimes created errors on the right and bottom edge
    of the box This is now fixed
  - Anti-aliasing to backdrop image works now properly also in Amiga version
  - Backdrop image is now visible through clip mapped surfaces
  - Parallel curve for polygonal lines works better now
    Modify/Freeform/Distribute works now properly also with complex curves
    with over 200 points
  - Environment rendering set environment gradient automatically This does
    not happen any more.

  Registered users will receive an update offer, a bundle with TVPaint 3.0
  will be available as well.  Prices are not known yet.

- The Netherland based company Lyppens Software Productions announces the
  release of Video Backup System, VBS, version 3.1. For more information on
  VBS and the 3.1 upgrade package contact:

  Lyppens Software Productions
  Generaal Coenderslaan 25
  5623 LT  Eindhoven
  The Netherlands
  Phone/Fax: [phone]

- After 3 years of developments, Musicline Editor version 1.0, the new
  flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use musiceditor for the Amiga is finaly
  released. An unregistred demo version of Musicline Editor is released to
  AmiNet. The current version features:

  - 4/8 channels
  - 5 octaves
  - 1024 parts
  - 128 steps maximum part length (flexible)
  - 256 sequencer steps
  - 255 instruments
  - 255 wavesamples
  - Separate sequencelist for each channel
  - Realtime part transpose
  - Separate speed/groove in each channel
  - 127kb maximum sample-size
  - 5 effects per notestep
  - 256 subtunes per module
  - Flexible instrument structure:
    - Each wavesample can be used in multiple instruments
    - 16/32/64/128/256 bytes waveform length for realtime effects
    - Volume
    - Semitone
    - Finetune
    - Auto glide
    - Transposable on/off
    - Envelope (ADSR; Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release)
    - Vibrato
    - Tremolo
    - Arpeggio (with multiple subeffects)
  - Realtime waveform effects:
    Transform
    Phasing
    Mix (can be used as a Chorus)
    Resonance
    Filter (resonance & normal)
  - Animation (create a sample of your synthetic sound)
  - Playloop (put realtime effects on samples, like phasing & timestretch
    etc.)
  - Sample start & end offset
  - Loop (multiple directions)
  - Protracker module loading compatible

- Advanced Systems & Software, AS&S, Germany, the maker of CyberVision and
  CyberStorm 68060 for the Amiga is currently developing 2-GO!, an all new
  DSP-Board for the Amiga.
  The Zorro-III DSP Board allows you to greatly speed up your Amiga. MPEG/
  JPEG coding and decoding is possible in real time.
  The 2-GO! processors are freely programmable, so one could use it as a
  render engine, port OpenGL to it, do audio processing etc.
  The hardware consists of a very fast Zorro-III interface (up to 34MB/sec)
  , 64 bit DSP memory, a 64bit port to the CyberVision64 graphics board and
  audio/video in & output.
  The board is powered by a DSP (max.  2 billion instructions/sec), a
  master RISC CPU (50 MIPS) and a floating point unit (100 MIPS). This is
  enough number crunching power for MPEG/JPEG de-/encoding, or for
  rendering 750.000 gourard shaded polygons/sec to the Cybervision.
  The software is planned to include a MPEG/JPEG tool, interfaces to 3D
  renderes and image processors and libraries for you project developement.
  The 2-GO!  should be released during the second half of 1995, at a
  projected price of $2600 US.

  Phase 5 digital products (used to be Advanced Systems & Software, AS&S)
  Homburger Landstrasse 412
  60433 Frankfurt am Main
  Germany
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- Digita International has just released a free patch that will uppgrade
  DataStore, the Amiga personal database manager, 1.0 Release 1 to Release
  3 version 1.0r3.

- A new version 1.4 of GfxCon, the image format converter for the Amiga is
  now released. GfxCon is a powerful and easy to use image converter that
  is totaly freeware. it features:

  - Supports ILBM, LBM, RGB8/RGBN, PCX, IMG, BMP/RLE4/RLE8, GIF, TIFF, JPEG
    Targa, RGB-Raw, Postscript image formats.
  - Virtual memory on any Amiga even those without a MMU
  - Multiple language support
  - Several kinds of common image modifications are supported like
    changeing the resolution, contrast of the image or numerous color-
    effects and more.

  Dirk Farin
  Kapellenweg 15
  72070 Tübingen
  Germany

  EMail: [e-mail]

- A new freeware (current version 42.0) drop-in replacement for the C=
  Translator Library is now uploaded to the AmiNet. This library features:

  - Replaces Commodore's translator.library
  - Provides multi-lingual text-to-speech support. The following languages/
    dialects/accents are currently supported by this library:
      - English
      - American
      - Italiano
      - Cymraeg
      - Maori
      - Suomi
    - Swedish
  - Works with all OS versions
  - Allows language to be specified in the text to be translated
  - 100% compatible with the C= translator library

  Francesco Devitt
  EMail: [e-mail]
  Phone: [phone]

- Soft-Logik Publishing has now released the seventh free update patch
  version 3.0G to the king of DTP programs, PageStream. The new version
  features:

  - Added a tip number indicator to the Navigator. Now it will say
    "5 of 103" in the Navigator when you are reading tip 5 out of a
    total of 103 tips.
  - Lessons 1, 2 and 5 can be successfully completed with this version
  - TEXT:
    - Implemented quadruple click to select an entire article
    - Starting a new text frame or object while text is highlighted
      will now deselect the text
    - You no longer have to press Return in the Tab requester's text
      gadgets for your changes to take effect.
    - Fixed applying of style tags spelled with characters greater
      than 128
  - FONTS:
    - Large and complex PostScript fonts that did not work with
      previous versions of PageStream3 should now work
    - Fixed some character mapping problems (apostrophe types,
      centered periods etc)
    - Fixed the display of the closesnglquote character for PostScript
      fonts
    - Fixed oblique PostScript fonts. Characters were backslanted
      instead of slanted
    - Rendering a PostScript or DMF font (the first time before it is
      cached) is up to 15% faster now, depending on your processor
    - Fixed slanting and twisting of Compugraphic fonts beyond 50
      degrees
  - PRINTING, ALL TYPES:
    - Fixed printing of chapter level pages
  - POSTSCRIPT PRINTER DRIVER:
    - Fixed printing of color separations, merged paths, arrowheads, bitmap
      fill patterns
    - When you choose a PPD file, the default filename will now be the
      last used PPD file
    - Thumbnail printing: now inserts 15% as the default scale so that
      you don't accidentally print 100% thumbnails. Correct page
      numbers are now printed with crop and reg marks for thumbnails
    - Fixed an obscure dashed line problem
  - ALL NON-POSTSCRIPT PRINTER DRIVERS:
    - Implemented landscape printing to non-PostScript printers
    - Implemented faster and better quality Floyd-Steinberg dithering
  - EPSON PRINTER DRIVER:
    - The Epson driver no longer has a 1/2" margin at the bottom for
      continuous paper
    - Added more Canon models to the Model list
  - FARGO PRINTER DRIVER:
    - The Fargo driver now supports the PrimeraPro as well as the Primera
    - Improved color correction has been implemented for wax thermal
      output on the Fargo Primera and Primera Pro
    - Improved 4 color output has been implemented for the Fargo Primera
      and Primera Pro
    - Fixed the stop problem with the Fargo driver
  - IFF ILBM PRINTER DRIVER:
    - Corrected the B4 and B5 output sizes for the IFFILBM printer driver
    - Modified the black&white and grayscale output for the IFFILBM
      printer drivers to make it compatible with programs that do not
      properly support all IFFILBM options.
  - OBJECTS:
    - Improved the speed of object drawing and selection by 10%
      compared to PageStream 3.0f. The amount of change will depend on
      your processor and the type of object
    - Improved the speed of the Transform command. It is now up to
      eight times faster than 3.0f and three times faster than 2.2. A
      busy pointer has been added while the copies are being created
    - The Transform requester now displays the last values entered
      rather than resetting them to the defaults each time its used
    - Due to popular request, a Crayons color library has been added to
      match the color Crayon64 color palette from 2.2
    - Make Drawing now updates the menus and Edit palette correctly
    - Fixed applying of colors spelled with characters greater than 128
    - Grid objects are now limited to 99 cells as documented in the manual
  - GRAPHIC IMPORT/EXPORT:
    - Fixed a problem with Freehand EPS files crashing during import
  - PAGESTREAM3 DOCUMENT OPENING/SAVING:
    - Fixed the document naming problem
    - Changed Save as Template to work as described in the manual
  - PAGESTREAM2 DOCUMENT OPENING:
    - Fixed converting of document, color and style tag names containing
      characters greater than 128
  - PROPAGE DOCUMENT OPENING:
    - Much improvments have been done; Fixed paragraph indents, leading
      (line spacing), paragraph spacing, character mapping problems, the
      new line vs new paragraph problem, rotated columns which imported
      unrotated, text wrap problems, the column count problem
  - MISCELLANEOUS:
    - The Edit/Undo and Redo command names will change to reflect what
      you are undoing or redoing
    - Fixed problems with undoing scaling, appending and saving color
      palettes (from Settings/Colors), enforcer hits related to the page
      palette, the use of special characters (including accents) in color
      names, bullets and filled tabs
    - Added alert requesters for accessing the help system when AmigaGuide,
      the help files, or a help node cannot be found
    - Create Columns will now display a busy pointer while the column
      frames are created
    - Edit palette coordinates are now shown for the Magnify tool
    - Exporting a macro script now defaults to the macro name, not the last
      used file
  - SEND TO EDITOR & TEXT CODES:
    - New Feature! You can now return to PageStream from PageLiner,
      TurboText or BME by just closing the article or picture window.
      This will leave the editor open when you return to PageStream
    - When text is sent to the editor, the cursor in PageLiner or
      TurboText now appears after the <PageStream3.0> header instead
      of before it
    - Fixed paragraph indent text codes; indented text sent to PageLiner
      would return with incorrect indent values
  - OTHER MACRO SCRIPTS:
    - Added two new features to the Print Font Specimens macro script
      (FontSpec.rexx). You can now select the fonts to print specimens for,
      and choose to print 6 font samples on a page instead of one per page
    - Improved Go to Master Page script (GotoMasterPage.rexx)
  - MACRO COMMANDS:
    - New commands: loadprintprefs, saveprintprefs
    - New parameters for: selecttext, getpagemasterpage, scaleobject
    - Fixed the scale parameter for scaleobject
    - Corrected documentation for: settoolmode, settypestyle,
      addarexxgadget, setarexxgadget
    - Added some instructions to the help system on using requesters from
      macro scripts. Choose Macros & ARexx from the main help contents
      screen, and then choose Using Requesters in a Macro from the next
      screen
    - Added an example to the help system of how to create a string
      sensitive alert requester function
  - HELP SYSTEM:
    - Added instructions for installing additional fonts.
  - BME:
    - The Edit/Undo and Redo command names will change to reflect what
      you are undoing or redoing
    - The selection marquée in non-active windows is now shown differently
      from the marquée in the active window to avoid confusion
    - Closing a window with a selected area is faster
    - Fixed a problem with running out of memory while making a selection
    - Fixed a problem with redoing an erase operation
    - No longer records 'setbrushsize' when opening or creating a picture
    - Some redundant redraws have been removed
    - Undoing a deselect is now faster
    - New macro command: getpicture
  - PAGELINER:
    - New macro command: getarticle
    - Saving settings no longer deletes the PUBSCREEN item from the pref
      file
  - TECHNICAL NOTES:
    - The PageStream3.printprefs file is no longer used. Printing
      preferences are now saved in the main PageStream3.prefs file

  SoftLogic is now shipping a JPEG import/export filter for PageStream3.
  A new Wordworth document filter (which will open entire Wordworth
  documents as opposed to importing text into a text frame) will be
  available during May 95.

  Soft-Logik Publishing
  315 Consort Drive
  St. Louis, MO  63011
  USA

  Soft-Logik Publishing
  PO Box 3838
  Ballwin, MO  63022-3838
  USA

  Phone: [phone] (Sale)
         314-256-9595
  Phone: [phone] (Technical Support)
         314-256-9333
  Fax:   [phone]
  BBS:   314-256-8971

- AmyNews normaly doesn't cover game news but we just love TextDemo version
  5.7 and we want to let you know that there are currently 2 games under
  development using the same engine. Shade is a fantasy game with a great
  storyline. Mystic Tanks is a BattleZone clone that uses TextDemo engine
  and has support for multiple players etc.

- A new version 3.10 of the PC-Task, the software only Intel 80X86
  emulator, is now released. The new version features:

  - Changed Advanced Video Options Mode heading to PCMode to avoid
    confusion
     - Now displays current mode in Advanced Video Options in color 1!
  - Advanced  video options now goes to start text mode of graphics
    adapter
  - Fixed two sound bugs
  - Finally seem to have all programs recognizing VGA is present
  - Windows   3.1  Video  7  640*480*256  800*600*256  1024*768*256
    drivers work
  - Fixed problem when video driver memory couldn't be allocated
    -    Fixed top of display trash when turning on internal mouse driver
    - Fixed garbled problem with 800*600*16 screen on AGA machine
  - Fixed Internal stack overflow with keyboard interrupt
  - Fixed   problem   with   more  than  one  colon  in  CONFIG.SYS
       PCTCDROM.SYS line
  - Included  known  upper  case  CDROM  devices  to  allow opening
    correct name
    - Fixed problem with jumping to BIOS reset with <1Meg allocated
    - Fixed  problem with internal mouse driver enabled coming out of
      windows
    - Fixed a problem with internal mouse driver and WP51
    - PC reset now sets timer tick interrupt back to normal
    - Create  HardDiskFile  can  now handle 64 to 255 Meg by using 16
      heads
    - Fixed  MDA  Palette  routine  problem  that  could  crash under
       Kickstart 1.3
    - Many other smaller changes.

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- A new version 1.84 of Dust for Imagine and LightWave is now released.
  Dust is a programmable F/X-generator for Imagine and Lightwave, such F/X
  as Morphs, Waves, Particles, Mathematical distortions, etc are supported.
  Dust is a F/X-software manipulating 3D-objects. So it's a perfect
  completion for your modelling-program and comes with many features that
  no modelling-program has. Dust version 1.84 features:

  - Dust is fast, has no ugly GUI - there are about 200 commands you can
    enter interactively or execute from batch-files
  - Dust has an Arexx port
  - Full Imagine3.0-texture and brush support
  - Full LightWave support
  - You can open as many preview windows as you want (real Multitasking)
  - Online-Help like UNIX-like programs, command-completion, etc
  - Loops and global variables like mathematical software
  - Loading, saving and viewing of object-sequences
  - Metamorphosis between any two objects
  - Particle-system: exetremely simple structure, allowed by the object-
    modelling never seen effects
  - Realistic explosions (gravity, stokes-friction, ...)
  - Realistic water-waves (3D-unharmonic waves)
  - 1D-,2D- and 3D-waves, transversal, longitudinal, including particle-
    waves
  - Mathematical distortion of points, face-colors, particles, so you can
    use Dust as simple function-plotter, too
  - Every programmer can create various particle-effect in an easy way,
    the knowledge of the TDDD-format (or object-structures etc.) is not
    necessary
  - Every face can have an own color, every edge has a sharp/soft-flag,
    this data is kept creating particle-objects
  - Handling and changing of Imagine3.0-textures and -brushes
  - Sphere-objects: particle-Objects made of real spheres
  - Creation of objects from external programs
  - User-defined variables, mathematical expressions instead of plain
    numbers as arguments, loops
  - Very flexible preview-function
  - Online-help
  - Command-, Parameter- and help-topic-completion (ala Unix)
  - With Dust you can linear-combine all kinds of effects
  - Create very realistic water-waves, WATER and WATERFRAME

  Andreas Maschke
  Zenkerstraße 5
  06108 Halle/Saale
  Germany
  Phone: ++49 (0)345/5170331
  EMail: [e-mail]

  An unregistred demo version of Dust is released to AmiNet.

- Ralph Schmidt annouces the release of CyberGuard mainly for the
  Cyberstorm 060. Cyberguard has the same functionality as Enforcer
  V37 (by M.Sinz) with the enhancements of a build in a disassembler
  and a GuardianAngel mode. GuardianAngel mode means that it can
  writeprotect free memory pages to detect random write bugs that are
  rather difficult to find.
  So programmers won't miss their most used debug tool, Enforcer, when they
  develop 68060 applications. CyberGuard is uploaded to AmiNet.

- Stefan Becker has released a minor upgrade version 2.1a to the all time
  best Amiga utility ToolManager v2.1. The new update patch features:

  - toolmanager.library v3.1, Added support for ScreenNotify
  - screennotify.library v1.0, Notify on screen close/private/public
  - WBStart-Handler v1.4, Fixed path problems
  - toolmanager.doc, Missing AutoDocs for toolmanager.library

  Stefan Becker
  Verkehrstrasse 11
  D-44809 Bochum
  GERMANY

  EMail: [e-mail]

- The Amiga raytracing software, Imagine from Impulse Inc. is now released
  in a new version 3.2.

  Impulse Inc.
  8416 Xerxes Avenue North
  Minneapolis, Minnesota 55444
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Phone: [phone]

- The Amiga music package OctaMED version 6.0 is under development.

- Sandra Woodruff of the Amiga game company Happy Puppy Software announces
  the companie's intereset in publishing Amiga games. More information
  can be obtained from the WWW Page:
  http://www.power.net/users/HappyPup/amiga/

- A new version of ParNet, the low cost Amiga networking solution has been
  developed and is due to immediate release.

- A Linux/68k X-driver for the DMI Resolver graphics board is currently
  under development. DMI Resolver is a graphicsboard based on the TMS
  34010 processor. Unlike most of the new graphicsboards DMI board has a
  real-processor on the graphicsboard, that has its own addressspace etc.
  The board carries both DRAM (for code) and VRAM (for the display).
  The board can do upto 2048 x 2048 in 256 colors if you got enough VRAM
  installed.

- Lars Lindstrm has developed AmiSMS, an Amiga program for sending SMS
  (text) messages to GSM mobile phones. This program is currently under
  further development but the current version 0.91ß available for FREQ
  from 2:201/411 and the archive name is AmiSMS-0.91b.lha

  BBS: 08-59140072

- WWW Page: http://far0066.urh.uiuc.edu/aos/aos.html contains information
  about the new AmigaDos compatible Operating System that a group of
  developers are currently developing.

- Jeff Blume of Stylus, Inc., one of the good Amiga developers in Colorado,
  USA, announces the Apr-95 release of the very long awaited vector based
  drawing package for the Amiga, Provector 3.0. The Pro-Pak includes
  ProVector 3, StylusTracer, PSImport, and RexxRequest. Suggested list
  price for the package is $299.95 US. For a limited time, the Stylus
  Pro-Pack will be available directly from Stylus, Inc. at an introductory
  price of $199.95. Registered ProVector 2.1 users who have also registered
  PSImport can upgrade to the Stylus Pro-Pack for $99.95. Registered
  ProVector 2.1 users without PSImport can upgrade for $129.95. A Power-Up
  offer has been established which allows owners of earlier versions of
  ProVector, Art Expressions, Professional Draw, DesignWorks, or Aegis Draw
  , to upgrade for $149.95. These special offers will only be available
  through June 30, 1995. Upgrade and power-up requests with a check drawn
  on a US bank, or international bank draft, should be sent to:
  att. Stylus Pro-Pak Upgrade
    Stylus, Inc.
    P.O. Box 1671
    Ft. Collins, CO 80522
    Phone: [phone]
  along with registration numbers or proof of purchase as applicable.
  Please include $7.00 for domestic shipping of new purchases; $10.00 for
  Canada and Mexico; $20.00 for all other international destinations.
  Include $5.00 for domestic update shipping; $10.00 for international
  update shipping.  Colorado residents must include sales tax.

  ProVector version 3.0 features among others:
  - OS 2.04+ only but will take advantage of WB2.1 and WB3 features
  - AGA support
  - Good looking, easy to use, and much improved 3D user-interface with
    2.04+ look and feel
  - Using the ASL standard requesters and other standard bits
  - Improved tool control
  - Gradient fills
  - Object shearing & warping
  - Object blending (morphing from one object to another)
  - Improved text support
  - LightWave file exporting
  - Export Adobe Illustrator (all versions)
  - StylusTrace, a dedicated high quality auto-tracing program (converts
    bitmapped images into structured drawings) much better (faster, more
    accurate, more features) than the autotracing used by other programs
    on Mac/Amiga/IBM/Unix.
  - Extensive online help system using standard AmigaGuide
  - Support for all knwon Amiga graphic boards/accelerators
  - Stylus has worked close with SOFT-LOGIK to make the all new ProVector
    a good completation for PageStream 3.0, the king of DTP programs.

  for newcommers to vector based drawing softwares and ProVector, version
  2.1 of this excellent program features:

  - ProVector has a very complete and exellent Arexx interface and is fully
    programmable and extendable through Arexx As complete as you could want.
    You can do anything via ARexx that you can via the interface, and more.
    You can manipulate ProVector's internal data structures fairly directly
    , create your own custom object types (a physicist customer has created
    Feynman diagram objects, for example), create your own custom object
    operations, etc. This in one of the most configurable Amiga software,
    since it has a very full featured ARexx implementation for user
    customization and communication with other programs. The package
    includes many useful ready-made ARexx macros.
  - ProVector comes with 2 HP-GL driver which can be and has been used to
    drive various sign cutting engines (vinyl cutting) like most Roland
    plotter. The IFF-DR2D format is directly supported by many curring
    devices like Sign Engine. In addition to the tiling HP-GL driver,
    another feature of ProVector that sign-cutters have found very useful
    is the floating point math version of ProVector. Tiling of large pages
    to multiple output pages allows you to make VERY large signs, page
    sizes, like 15 miles x 15 miles :-)
  - The input/output formats are Encapsulated PostScript (true PostScript
    editing), EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) created on all the personal and
    workstation computer platforms, IFF-ILBM (including 24-bit, ANTI-
    ALIASED ILBM), HP-GL, Illustrator/EPSF, Multiple Layers support for
    IFF-DR2D (Amiga standard format for structured drawing developed openly
    and in cooperation with the Amiga community by Stylus). It can also
    print to any Preferences-supported printer.
    The postscript handling in ProVector is remarkable. It can save PS or
    EPS to PAR: SER: or a file.
    ProVector can be used for drawings to include in LaTeX documents and it
    works great. Specially because it provides the drawing with a correct
    BoundingBox (one that adjusts to the drawing) so dvips can position the
    figure correctly.
    That kind of data import capability is really useful when integrating
    the Amiga into today's work environment, an environment filled with a
    variety of computers running a wide spectrum of software.
  - Very fast freehand drawing tool
  - Very flexible spline tool
  - Other tools for boxes, ovals, polygonal shapes, fill control, line
    control, text, etc.
  - Multiple projects open on-screen at one time. Multiple drawings are
    open in separate windows and cut and paste between them is supported
  - Cut-and-paste to the Amiga clipboard
  - 255-level Undo
  - One of the fastest Amiga program, optimized for speed even on slower
    Amigas. It uses less memory than any other vectorbased graphic package.
  - Text effects
  - Three version of the program for integer, floating point and 68020
    and up processors)
  - ProVector uses amiga multitasking enviroment very effectively. For
    example, when redrawing a screen you can go ahead and select your next
    operation and the redrawing will be aborted.
  - It supports 8 bit (256 color) per drawing out of 16 million colors via
    dithering. You can create custom fill patterns from any object.
  - It can rotate objets, text and also will "flow" text around any
    outline. You can rotate about any point you desire, as well as rotate
    with clone, rotate by fixed increment, etc.
  - It has Splines curves Bezier cubic splines. It also can interpolate
    curves from a polygon.  It also supports elliptical arcs.
  - ProVector comes with a utility to convert PostScript Type 1 fonts to
    ProVector format, so you have quite a variety of fonts to choose from.

  AmyNews sidenote:
  We work with ProVector as well as many other structured drawing programs
  for many different platforms and we wish to mention that ProVector,
  assumimg that you can use it's exellent Arexx interface, is the fastest
  and most powerful structured drawing programs on any platfrom. We would
  like to rate the softwares that we use as follows:

  - ProVector, Amiga
  - Aldus Freehand, Mac
  - Adobe Illustrator, PC
  - Corel Draw, PC
  - MicroGraphx Designer, PC
  - Art Expression, Amiga

  If you need something for your technical drawings, something that can
  deal with EPS clipart created on any platform, something that will let
  you create your own using sophisticated structured drawing tools,
  something that will work with your other programs like Pagestream and
  FinalWriter, and that is actively supported and developed for the Amiga,
  you ought to look at ProVector.
  Stylus has been selling and supporting ProVector for years and is
  actively supporting and improving this software, and provids an excellent
  solution to people who need to work with structured drawing for things
  like video graphics, desktop publishing, technical drawings, and sign
  making.

    Stylus, Inc.
    P.O. Box 1671
    Ft. Collins, CO 80522
  USA
    Phone: [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- InLine Services is now shipping Aurora version 1.0, the all new moduler
  screen saver for AGA and OpalVision Amigas. Aurora features:

  - Modular blanking routines.
  - Modular retargetable display drivers.
  - Hotkey enabled preferences/configuration editor
  - Module variable editor with Arexx script
  - generation
  - Full Arexx interface
  - Optional Workbench status window
  - User defined inactivity period
  - User selectable screen resolutions
  - User selectable unblanking events
  - Multiple module variable definitions
  - NTSC/PAL timing
  - Screen resolutions of any installed monitor
  - System password protection
  - Unblanking Input Events using serial port
  A demo version of Aurora may be found at AmiNet.

- Dr Greg Perry of GPSoftware announces the April 95 release of
  DirectoryOpus version 5.0. The new version is priced at $129 US and will
  be handled by the following companies:

  Germamy:   Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe
  England:   Wizard Developments
  USA:       Micro R&D
  Australia: Small-Biz Software

  GPSoftware
  PO Box 570 Ashgrove,
  Qld Australia 4060
  Australia
  Phone/Fax: [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- The all new version 3.0 of Amiga Real3D will be released in the mid-april
  1995.

- A portable PowerPacker decruncher for people who have to unpack
  PowerPacker files (like SoundTracker modules) on Unix machines is now
  uploaded to AmiNet as ppunpack-1.0.tar.Z

- Data Compression Technologies has just release a new version 1.1 of the
  new, powerful Amiga archiver LZX. The new version, in addition to all
  known buggs fixed, features:

  - The 68000EC version of LZX compresses about 5% faster.
  - The 68020/68030 version decompresses about 8% faster.

  Data Compression Technologies
  383 Lawrence Avenue West
  Toronto, Ontario
  M5M 1B9
  Canada
  Phone: [phone]
  FAX:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- The 24 bit paint package for the Amiga, XiPaint, is now available in a
  new version 3.1. MacroSystem Germany distributes this program. The US
  distributer for MacroSystem Germany is NoahJi's Inc.

  MacroSystem Germany
  Phone: [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]
  Mailbox/Fax: ++43-1-2714549

  NoahJi's Inc.
  3591 Nyland Way
  Lafayette, CO 80026
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  BBS:   [phone]

- A new buggfixed version 4.3a of the excellent communication package for
  the Amiga, term, has just been released. This new update patch is
  downloadable from AmiNet and features:

  - Fixed a bug in the review buffer code
  - Nonzero background colours no longer spell trouble when scrolling,
    refreshing and mucking with the terminal display
  - `term' now uses the "official" way to determine if there are any
    visitor windows open on its very own public screen
  - cleaned up all invocations of the MsgQueue routines
  - Some of the text editing fields had the maximum number of chars they
    should be able to hold set to 0
  - The screen left edge snap is finally fixed
  - The hotkey panel text editing fields now automatically translate your
    keyboard input into hotkey specifiers
  - Recompiled the program using SAS/C 6.55

  Olaf Barthel
  Brabeckstrasse 35
  D-30559 Hannover
  Federal Republic of Germany
  EMail: [e-mail]

- The very long awaited ScalaMM (king of multimedia applications) new
  version 4.0 is finally released. Among other improvments, this version
  features:
  - ScalaType: Allows you to resize Compugraphic/Intellifont scalable fonts
    on the fly, plus change the aspect-ratio of the font
  - Several new "Curved Fly-On" Scala text wipes.

  Scala As, R & D
  Wdm. Thranesgt. 77
  N-0175 Oslo
  Norway
  Phone: [phone]

  Scala Inc., Research & Development
  1 East Uwchlan Avenue, Suite 420
  Exton, PA 19341
  USA
  Phone: [phone]

- Electronics Art has just released the very long awaited DeluxePaint
  all new version 5.0. Among other new features, Electronic Arts mentions:
  - ARexx, Full command set, recordable and saveable macros
  - 24-Bit RGB Support in any screen mode. 24 Bit Backing Store - 24 Bit
    data creation, editing, loading, saving
  - Multiple Palette Animation, Every frame can have a separate palette
  - Variable Rate Animation, Every frame can have a custom frame rate/
    pause
  - Natural Media, Textured backgrounds and media libraries for painterly
    and illustrative looking drawing and animation
  - Texturing, Media libraries - Used in conjunction to create
    naturalistic art
  - Camera Moves, Automatic Camera Pan/Zoom animation creation
    animations
  - Gradient Translucency/Fade, Create gradient translucency fades
  - AnimBoard(tm), Print animation storyboard in multiple layouts
  - Soft Edge Airbrush, New editable Airbrush has a natural look and
    feel
  - Creation and editing of larger than screen animations
  - LightTable Enhancements, multi levels of dim, user defineable
  - Move Requester Enhancements, Key Frame Animation, Animated Fades

  Priced at $150 US, the upgrade for registered owners of versions 4.X is
  $79 US.

- The new real version 1.26 of ASM-One is under development and is to be
  released soon.

- Kermit Woodall of Nova Design, Inc. annouces development of an upcoming
  free upgrade to the ImageFX version 2.0, the Amiga Image Processing
  software. The new version will feature:
  - Enhanced Toaster support - previews, etc.
  - Blue/Green Screen Compositing - Full control, soft edging with
    variation, image processing-can create alpha channel mask and key out.
    Can composite to self, or put out key and matte. Can protect
    foreground colors.
  - Support for Primera Pro, Picture 310 Fargo printers.
  - Film grain, sparkle effects.
  - CyberGraphics 24-bit windowing previews.

  Nova Design, Inc.,
  1910 Byrd Avenue,
  Suite 214, Richmond,
  Virginia  23230
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- The very long awaited SAS C Amiga Developement package version 6.55 is
  now finally released. This patch may be found in AmiNet. The new version
  features (summary):

  - SE will now optionally display a C file in multiple colors for the
    different token types. You can select the foreground, background,
    and style (bold, italic, underline or normal) for each of the
    following nine catagories: Plain Text, C Comments, C++ Comments,
    Double quoted strings, Single quoted strings, Numerical constants,
    Keywords, Identifiers, and Preprocessor Statements. There are two
    new menu items to control this in the Configuration Window.
    Colorize C Files -  when set will cause all new files opened that
    end in .c* or .h to be colorized. Changing this will not effect
    any windows currently open in SE.
    Colorize C Prefs - will bring up another window and allow you to
    change the display attributes for any of the nine catagories.
  - A new profiler has been added that works like the SPROF profiler, but
    provides a graphical user interface to the profiling process.
  - Example code is provided in SC:EXAMPLES/AMIPROC that forks a
    subprocess with its own near data section.  This will allow you to
    share code between processes but still use external data in each
    subprocess.
  - Example code is provided in SC:EXAMPLES/MOUNT that mounts and
    dismounts a file system node on the system list WITHOUT using the
    AmigaDOS Mount command.  This will allow you to code a file system
    as a regular C program, invokable from command line or workbench.
    Since it's a regular process, it will be able to use printf() or
    other library I/O and be easily debuggable with CPR in any usual
    fashion.
  - Three new messages have been added to the C compiler: 188, 189,
    and 113.
  - Built-in preprocessor symbols (like _SHORTINT, _UNSCHAR, etc.)
    were not added to the GST in previous versions.  In 6.55, they
    are added.
  - The built-in memcpy function can copy certain structures more
    efficiently now since the compiler retains more information on
    the alignment requirements of the structures.  This also
    benefits structure assignment and call-by-value.
  - The layout of bitfields was inadvertently changed between 6.0 and
    6.50, which meant that structures containing bitfields were
    incompatible between the two versions.  Bitfields now use
    the 6.0 method, with the exception of bitfields of size :0.
    :0 bitfields exhibited a bug in 6.0-6.3 and added extra unusable
    bytes to the structure.  6.55 bitfields do not add these extra
    bytes.  Note that the bitfields in 6.51 and 6.55 are identical;
    this change only affects users upgrading from 6.50.
  - The compiler now defines a preprocessor symbol __AMIGADATE__.
    This preprocessor symbol resolves to a datestamp string in the
    format required for the AmigaDOS VERSION command.  The format is
    "(dd.mm.yy)", where dd is the day (1-31), mm is the month (1-12),
    and yy is the year. __AMIGADATE__ is available from both C
    and C++.  Version 6.51 had some bugs in the __AMIGADATE__
    processing which have been fixed for this patch release.
  - The macros for some functions defined in the C header files are
    now not defined if compiling C++.  They conflicted with the names
    of some member items of C++ classes in <iostream.h> or
    <complex.h>. Problem functions are <string.h>/index(),
    <math.h>/min(), max(), <fcntl.h>/open(), read(), write(),
    close(), <stdlib.h>/abs().  Many of these have alternate names
    using preceding underscores that can be used instead.
  - The priority of the autoinit functions for utility.library and
    the various Commodore math libraries were changed from 250
    to 100 in versions 6.51 and 6.55.  This allows the autoinitializer
    for the SPROF and GUIPROF profilers to use utility.library if it
    is compiled with UTILLIB.
  - And more new features + all known buggs are now fixed.

- Nino Brunori of the Visionary Unlimited is currently developing Coleco/
  ADAM computer Emulator. AmyNews will inform you when the release version
  is shipping. For more information please contact:

  BBS:   USA [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Due to the populer demand; Blittersoft in England is the European
  distributors for Utilities Unlimited (Emplant) products and UK Support
  for Village Tronic (Picasso II)

  Phone/Orders:       [phone]
  Phone/Tech/Queries: [phone]
  Fax:                [phone]
  BBS:                [phone]
  Compuserve:         100523,2224
  EMail:              [e-mail]

- Endicore Technologies Inc. is selling Workbench printer driver for the
  Epson Stylus Color printer.

  Endicore Technologies Inc.
  P.O. Box 29000 #355
  San Antonio, TX 78229
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  EMail [e-mail]

- Tahoe Software, Etc. announces the release of QuickText, the interactive
  desktop video program designed to easily develop and display almost any
  type of graphic screen, including titles and credits, pictures, and even
  animations. Other features include full ARexx support, auto screen
  sequencing, on-screen timer, text and numeric variables, a recordable &
  replayable "doodler", and an easy-to-use point-and-click interface.
  QuickText has been used for 6 years in a "down-stream" computer with a
  simple genlock in a daily, live newscast and in taping sports events for
  local TV cable.
  It can be used as an overhead projector, reader-board, silent pager,
  or teleprompter.
  Soon to be released, QuickText PRO will feature remote-control via modem,
  time-of-day slots, and tiled backdrops.
  You can get a FREE demo from Tahoe Software, Etc., or from the Aminet
  biz/demo/QuickTextdemo.lha

    Tahoe Software, Etc.
    PO Box 9236
    South Lake Tahoe, CA  96158
  USA

  Phone: [phone]
  Phone: [phone]

- The UK company Helios Software has just released a new version 6.06 of
  HeliOS Amiga, the interactive programing language.

  HeliOS Software
  163 Huthwaite Road
  Sutton-in-Ashfield
  Nottinghamshire
  NG17 2HB
  England

  Phone: [phone]

- The good people at Nova Design, Inc. has just released the ImageFX 2.0
  developers kit. ImageFx is by far the best image processing software for
  the Amiga. Developers kit is available through Nova Design, Inc. or
  AmiNet (ifx20sdk.lha).

  Nova Design, Inc.,
  1910 Byrd Avenue,
  Suite 214, Richmond,
  Virginia  23230
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- Andreas M. Kirchwitz has upgraded Urban D. Mueller C-Shell to version
  5.40. C-Shell is a replacement for the AmigaDOS command line interface.
  C-Shell features many builtin Unix-like commands, very fast script
  language, filename completion, command-name completion, comfortable
  command line editing, pattern matching, AUX: mode, object oriented
  file classes, abbreviation of internal and external commands, support
  for multiple users, ease of installation and use, and online help for all
  commands, functions and various subjects. The new version features:
  - Fixed error message for builtin command "copy": if no special error
    message was available, always the string "(no mem)" was output.
  - New placeholders "-1" and "-2" for builtin command "window".
  - Increased maximum value for window dimensions from 1023 to 32767 for
    builtin command "window".
  - Environment variables LINES and COLUMNS override window bounds from
    Amiga console.device. (if env vars are set, no CSI sequence is sent)
  - Builtin command "mem" now shows size of largest available memory block.
  - Various minor changes/enhancements to existing commands.
  - Miscellaneous minor bug fixes.
  The new version of C-Shell is located in AmiNet.

- Good news. Softwoods very long awaited program, FinalCalc (FC), the
  high-end spreadsheet that aims at providing the Amiga with something to
  compete with the top spreadsheets in the 'outside world' is in it's
  final development phase.

- Tomi Ollila of Network Solutions Development, Inc. has released a new
  free uppgrade patch version 4.2 for the AmiTCP version 4.1.
  AmiTCP is a full TCP-IP implementation. It can be both client and server.

  EMail: [e-mail]

- A new version 1.5 of the awesome all new swedish text editor FrexxEd is
  released. Version 1.5 features:
  - Danish users are now able to register in Denmark using danish currency
  - Rexx/ShowFPL.rx by Edd Dumbill is an *EXCELLENT* tool for all of you
    out there, who are not quite certain of which FPL programs to execute
    and which you shouldn't execute at startup. Try it!
  - Visible is appended to the top of the default file to make executions
    of it look much better after FrexxEd is started.
  - MenuSelect is a new exception that occurs when a menu item is
    selected.
  - New functions: "GetFileList()" , "MenuRead()" and "MenuDelete()"
  - The execute file requester now remembers the directory.
  - Functions.guide now has the node-names without the 'node_' prefix
  - GetByte(column, line) returns the byte position of the given parameters
    or the current position. Like GetCursor() but the other way around!
  - MenuAdd() now accepts optional coordinates where to add the menu item!
  - New 3D style sliders while on screen.
  - WindowToFront() with parameter -1 makes a WindowToBack
  - ExecuteFile() now accepts a file pattern to be executed
  - The 'copywb' setting is removed, the function CloneWB() is to be used
    to copy the public screen information to the FrexxEd settings.
  - An 'R' in the status-line shows if the buffer is read-only
  - The screen will beep if you try to edit a read-only buffer
  - FlipComment.FPL is made to "Flip comments around C-lines"
  - Addition of the so far pretty simple FPL debugger 'FPLdb' to the
    FrexxEd:bin/directory as well as an FPLdb.doc file. That file improves
    FPL debugging capabilities.
  - FrexxEd now allows buffer executions to export/cache FPL programs. That
    means you can write your FPL program in a buffer when debugging it. Re-
    executing the same buffer will make FrexxEd first flush the old program
    and then run the buffer again.
  - WordWrap.FPL is updated. It doesn't leave any trailing spaces at the
    end of lines any more. Requested by Svante Hedin.
  - Update the docs. New chapters about macros appeared and updated the
    regular expression chapter
  - New version 1.1 of the fpl.library
  - New set of FPL programs:
    - DeleteSpaceEOL.FPL:
      An entirely new beast. This scans and removes white spaces at the
      end of lines before saving them if the toggle buttons says so.
    - RememberView.FPL:
      Make FrexxEd remember the view positions when "amiga 1" is pressed.
      "amiga 2" restores the views back as they were!
    - ISpell.FPL:
      ISpell interface
    - CheckLinks.FPL:
      Amigaguide document link control
    - GotoLabel.FPL:
      Collects all assembler labels in a list and lets the user select one
      to jump to. A poor man's 'ETags'!!
  - LoadSaveProject.FPL is now updated.
  - Save As... now uses a "save-style requster".
  - SASC.FPL.README has more information.
  - ResizeView() now accepts a buffer ID parameter.
  - top_offset is a new setting (info variable). If contains the line of
    the window the current view starts at. The variable is writeable.
  - Activate() accepts a new parameter: buffer ID of the buffer that the
    new view should originate from.
  - ReplaceMatch() now accepts two new additional parameters: range and
    flags.
  - ETags.FPL and the etags archive was added. A major help tool to any
    programmer using FrexxEd.
  - Escape is now equivalent to 'q' in replace prompts. Request.
  - And all known bugs are fixed.
  The crippled SHAREWARE version may be doenloaded from AmiNet.

- Utilities Unlimited International, inventer of the Amiga Emplant
  technology is now shipping e586DX (IBM PC) Emulation Module. The e586DX
  package came with a replacement GAL chip. Due to complications in trying
  to obtain several different BIOS licenses, UU have decided to write their
  own BIOS, which is currently being worked on. Until the UU BIOS is
  released, users will need to find a suitable BIOS. You can use any FLASH
  ROM upgrade (a BIOS image) with the e586DX emulation.

  Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
  1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
  Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone] BBS
  EMail: [e-mail]  - UseNet
  EMail: j.drew2 - GEnie

- Black Belt Systems is currently working on a EGS version of the companies
  populer image processing package ImageMaster R/t.

  Black Belt Systems
  398 Johnson Road
  RR1, Box 04272
  Glasgow Montana 59230
  USA
  Phone: [phone]

- A new version 2.06 of Xv 3.10a, a MUI application that is the Amiga port
  of Xv for the Xwindow system is now uploaded to the AmiNet. It displays
  and manipulates images in GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap,
  Utah Raster Toolkit RLE, PDS/VICAR, Sun Rasterfile, BMP, PCX IRIS RGB,
  XPM, Targa, XWD, PostScript, and PM formats on workstations and terminals
  running the X Window System. This is an excellent piece of shareware
  program.

- Amazing Comuting, the leading US Amiga magazing will restart publishing
  the long awaited Amazing Comuting's TECH magazing soon. This is a very
  welcome news to all Amiga programmers. More info about AC's TECH in a
  later issue of AmyNews.

  PIM Publications Inc.
  Currant Road
  P.O. Box 2140
  Fall River, MA 02722-2140
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Phone: [phone] (Toll free US and Canada)
  Fax:   [phone]

- The new and complete CanonDisk version 3.01 is now uploaded to AmiNet.
  The package contains excellent printer drivers for most Canon printers.
  It also contains the unregistered version of CanonStudio, IFF printing
  software for use with these drivers.  The disk is free, and you can
  register CanonStudio for $35.

- Gary Huber, President of Questar Productions announces the availability
  of version 1.1 of the World Construction Set. The new version does,
  among other improvment, feature "Contour", a new map drawing style in
  the Map View Module. When selected it will give you a real contour map
  presentation. It works best at map scales larger than 2. The contour
  inteval is set by the Exag field in the Map View Control window. It is
  the same interval as is used for the "Multi" gradient drawing style.
  The units are in meters. It is sometimes difficult to see the
  Interactive elements (Camera, Focus, Haze, Sun) in Map View against one
  of the gray-scale topographic backgrounds. Contour style lets you see
  some of the elevation information while clearly letting you see the
  Interactive elements. This can be a big help when laying out key frames
  for an animation. For uppgrade information and ordering please contact:
  Questar productions
  1058 Weld Co. Rd. 23
  Brighton, CO 80601
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

  Look what Amiga World reviewer write about World Construction Set:
       ______________________________________________________________
      |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
  ____| Belonging to a specialized group of programs commonly known  |____
  \   | as landscape makers / terrain renderers,  World Construction |   /
   \  | Set (WCS) is arguably the most powerful and complex package  |  /
    ) |     on the Amiga or any other personal computer platform     | (
   /  |______________________________________________________________|  \
  /_______)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(_______\

  Another Amiga program that outperform anything on any other platform.
  Go Amiga Go ....

- Prolific, Inc. is working on new versions of the companie's PCB layout
  programs Pro-Net and Pro-Board. The new versions are reported to be much
  faster. More information about these new releases in a later issue of
  AmyNews.

- The very long awaited telser.device is now released. telser is a modem
  simulator over a TCP telnet/rlogin connection. It simulates basic modem
  commands, so you can use telecommunication programs over a network
  connection. To your comm  program, it thinks it's talking to a modem.
  Terminal emulation, file  transfers, scripting, etc.  are all handled by
  your comm  program. Connecting to a host is as simple as typing "ATDT
  abc.edu,23" or even simpler if you add the host to your comm's phonebook.
  telser supports most of the telnet/rlogin negotiation commands and
  options.  For example, you may elect to notify the remote host on
  changes to your terminal emulation type, and window size.  An intuitive
  "gadtools" graphical user interface is supplied to control your
  connections. You also have the option to automatically connect to a host
  after starting up your comm program. Instant logins at the click of a
  button!
  telser can also run in host mode, which means it would accept incoming
  telnet/rlogin calls. Calls may be tracked by telser's caller ID feature.
  You can easily set up a "multi-line" BBS over the internet!
  telser is capable of unlimited device units, which means you can have
  unlimited incoming and outgoing connections. It supports both TCP/IP
  packages on the Amiga, namely AmiTCP (tested with 3.0b2 and 4.0/4.1)
  and AS225r2. A demo version of the package may be downloaded from AmiNet.
  EMail: [e-mail]

- The New Meeting Pearls CD-ROM Volume II is to be released very soon.

- A new version 2.9 of the excellent full featured QWKMail offline message
  reader for the Amiga, `AmiQWK II', is now uploaded to the AmiNet.
  AmiQWK II from version 2.9 is a freeware program.

- Digita International has just released a free patch that will uppgrade
  DataStore, the Amiga personal database manager, 1.0 Release 1 to Release
  2 version 1.0r2.

- Syndesis Corporation is selling "SYNDESIS 3D-ROM", a CDROM collection of
  more than 500 3D models, all  present in AutoCAD DXF, 3D  Studio,
  Wavefront .obj, Video Toaster LightWave and Impulse's Imagine PC/Amiga
  formats.  It's also got  more than 400  tileable, wrappable texture maps.
  It includes a fully indexed, cross-referenced catalog of the objects.
  The 3D-ROM is a  demonstration of the translation abilities of
  InterChange Plus, Syndesis's system for converting between 3D file
  formats. InterChange Plus translates between  AutoCAD DXF, 3D Studio,
  Digital Arts, Wavefront, Swivel, Sculpt, VideoScape, LightWave, Imagine,
  CAD-3D, PAGErender and Vista DEM formats. Soon to come is support for
  StereoLithography, Macromedia 3DGF, Super 3D, Alias StyleGuide, Topas,
  Softimage, Inventor and Vertigo formats. All material and hierarchy
  information is preserved as best as possible. This ISO-9660 disc is
  fully accessible from Atari, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Amiga and Unix
  workstations.

  Syndesis Corporation
  P.O. Box 65
  235 South Main Street
  Jefferson, WI 53549
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  FAX:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- A new version 3.0 of VMM, the excellent virtual memory manager for the
  MMU equipped Amigas is now released. The new version includes the ability
  to swap out program code, memory tracking, better MMU support, an ARexx
  port and some other new features.

  Email: [e-mail]

- Those of you who are using Hydra Systems Ethernet board, should call
  Hydra Systems to get a new SANA-2 compatible hydra.device for the board.

  Hydra Systems
  Wyndrushe House
  Red Lane
  Kenilworth CV8 1PB
  England
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- Fourth Level Developments announces the release of PFS, Professional File
  System for the Amiga. PFS in it's current HardDrive version 12.1/12.2
  supports HardDrives of up to 2 giga bytes and autobooting. The latest
  Floopy version is still version 9.5. ProfessionalFileSystem features:
  - Read and write operations: upto 2 times faster
  - Directoryscan: 10-20 times FFS, 3 times FFS-DC
  - Delete/rename/protect etc: 10-20 times faster
  - Full AmigaDos compatibility
  - Better faulttolerance
  - Parralel access almost without performance loss
  - Disks NEVER get invalidated

  Fourth Level Developments
  31, Ashley Hill
  Montpelier
  Bristol
  BS6 5JA
  England
  Phone:  [phone]
  Fax:    [phone]
  E-Mail: [e-mail]

- Parcon Software announces the release of LogicBBS version 1.0. LogicBBS
  is a Bulletin system with a wide range of functions, supporting 33 nodes
  , with support of 65535 message & file base areas. The system is based
  on the Ami-Express method of working with setups and message/file areas,
  and 95% of all doors used with Ami-Express can be used with LogicBBS.
  Supports extracting of file_id.diz in filebase, uses extra tasks to
  multitask the extract / checking process. Files are being examined
  during upload process, saving the users time waiting for system to
  validate files. All configuration is done using ASCII textfiles and can
  be edited using normal text editors. ARexx, C, and Assembly programming
  support + developer documents are included in the package. Priced at
  $75 US, the package may be oredered from:
  Parcon Software
  Michael Pendec
  Islandshoejparken 14, 3.tv.
  DK-2990 Nivaa
  Denmark

- Amigo Business Computers of East Northport, New York has announced two
  PCMCIA products for the Amiga 1200 and 600 computers.
  The Amigo PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter is designed to provide ethernet local
  peer-to-peer net-working on the PCMCIA slots of the A600 and A1200.  The
  adapter works with Amigo's network software and adapters from CBM (A2065)
  and Elastic Relality/ASDG.
  The Amigo PCMCIA Serial Communications Adapter is designed to add a
  serial port on the PCMCIA slots of the A600 and A1200.  The package comes
  with software which provides additional serial ports for modems, credit
  card readers, motion detectors, printers, touch screens, etc.

  Amigo Business Computers
  192 Laurel Road
  E. Northport
  NY 11731
  USA

- Black Belt Systems is selling "BOARD MASTER", a PCB board layout
  software. Priced at only $39.95 US, "BOARD MASTER" features full auto
  router, etc.

  Black Belt Systems
  398 Johnson Road
  RR1, Box 04272
  Glasgow Montana 59230
  USA
  Phone: [phone]

- Pino Aliberti announces the release of "Mail Manager" version 1.0, the
  all new fully Integrated Tosser/Scanner/Editor/Tick Processor for Points
  and Nodes. The public version is available through and features:
  - Is Faaaaaaaast.  Up to 3 times faster than Spot or EMS.
  - Is easy to configure.
  - Is fully localized ( Kickstart 2.1 or higher).
  - Is able to manage Tick Files.
  - Is able to manage Echo File Attached.
  - Is able to automatically create new Echo Areas.
  - Is able to manage 4 different types of message bases.
  - Is able to manage 3 different types of Mail Packets.
  - Is able to use full 5 dimensional addressing.
  - Has a powerful ARexx interface.
  - Has a powerful OnLine Help.
  - Has a powerful Threads management.
  - Has a powerful NetMail Routing management.
  - Has powerful Search/Sort/Show functions.
  - Has powerful Quoting routines.
  - Supports multiple character sets.
  - Supports the Nodelist and the Userlist.
  - Uses fast Memory Pools functions.
  - Uses fast asynchronous I/O functions.
  - Is a  MUI  Application
  - and much more

  Pino Aliberti
  2:335/602.2@fidonet
  39:102/10.0@amiganet
  [e-mail]

- Oregon Research is currently developing an updated version 1.1 of,
  TERMITE, the state of the art communication package for the Amiga. The
  new verion will among other improvments sport more AREXX commands,
  much faster ASCII Send etc, a print screen function.

  Oregon Research
  16200 S.W. Pacific Hwy., Suite 162
  Tigard, OR 97224
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  FAX:   [phone]

- Tensor Productions announces the availability of CyberScape version 2.5.
  CyberScape software is currently being used on commercial and research VR
  projects around the world. It is a cost-effective and non-intrusive
  alternative to the more expensive and cumbersome goggle/glove VR systems.
  CyberScape uses the "projected reality" metaphor by which the person or
  subject is immersed in the virtual world through real-time video input -
  the same metaphor used in VIDEOPLACE and VIDEODESK systems by Myron
  Krueger and Mandala (R) systems by the Vivid Group.
  CyberScape is a script-based, event-driven, multi-threaded authoring
  software that takes advantage of a physically based 2D animation system.
  For example, a complete two-team volley ball experience can be
  constructed with only about 100 lines of code. CyberScape can be used for
  many types of applications like Interactive Music and Video Performances,
  Kinetic Scuptures and Cybernetic Arts, Interactive Learning and Training,
  Virtual Reality Constructions, Hypermedia Presentations, Interactive
  Video Games etc. CyberScape version 2.5 features:
  - Inputs:
    2 video inputs (NTSC or PAL), PowerGlove in hi-res mode, 2 mouse
    inputs, 2 MIDI inputs, and 2 ARexx inputs.
  - Outputs:
    Serial device, Parallel device, MIDI output, ARexx output, and laser-
    disk player controls.
  - Collision Detections:
    Inter-object collisions, boundary collisions, multiple collision
    classes.
  - Object Dynamics:
    Velocity, acceleration, damping force, gravitational force, spring
    force, constrained string force, etc.
  - Event Triggering:
    Object grab and release, scene transition, timed sequence, arithmetic
    and logic operations.
  - Graphics:
    640x400 (up to 20% overscan), 8-bit (256 colors) or HAM8 (256K colors),
    standard picture, brush, and animation files.
  - Audio:
    Standard sampled sound file, MIDI output, synthesized speech.
  - User Extensions:
    Linkable object library and interface source code included.
  New features since version 2.5:
  - Amiga AGA support
  - Real-time clock support
  - Laserdisk players support

  Priced at $495.00 US for AGA version and $245.00 US for non-AGA version,
  CyberScape is available directly from:
  Tensor Productions (Joseph Chung Shen)
  819 Gwyne Avenue
  Santa Barbara, CA 93111
  Phone: [phone]

  Tensor Productions following other products for the AMiga too:
  - MIDI-Mice: MIDI to Amiga keyboard/mouse events driver
  - VIDI-Mice: Live! (tm) to Amiga keyboard/mouse events driver
  - DIGI-Mice: PowerGlove (tm) to Amiga keyboard/mouse events driver

- LHA v3.0 (the release version is probably named v3.1) is under beta
  testing. It features amoung other things, a very user configurable GUI
  and up to 30% better compression ratio. A little version 3.0, basically
  with the new engine but without the long waited GUI is to be released
  during Mar-95. The complete version will be avalable in 2 or 3Q95.

- AmiGadget Publishing Company announces the release of Panorma version 4.
  Panorama is a fractal landscape generating program that allow the user
  sculpt a landscape by applying a variety of fractal parameters to initial
  data that can be graphically edited by moving peaks and valleys around on
  the screen with the mouse.  The program also imports data, including DEM
  (Digital Elevation Map) data for real places around the planet (or others).
  Panorma supports unattended operation for the creation of animations of
  any length, generated and recorded automatically, including automatic
  support for single-frame video recording.  So, you can conduct a fly-by,
  or a fly-through, or follow a river as it meanders through lush, green
  valleys. Panorama can be entirely controlled and operated with software
  through its ARexx port. An extensive ARexx command structure provides
  control over everything Panorama does. The Arexx functionality also
  permits support of the VideoToaster and image processing software.
  Animation of finished landscapes can be achieved through an internal
  scripting language which includes the magic command "Tween" for easy
  scripting. Any feature can be animated, especially the program's awesome
  skies, and its waves and waterfalls (AmyNews: Amazing feature). Panorama
  can simply record a script as you work the program.  You can then edit
  the script if you wish, to add Tween and other powerful functions.
  New new version 4.0 contains many enhancements and additional features
  over the previous versions.  Panorama supports 24-bit pictures of any
  resolution, up to more than 8,000 by 8,000 pixels.  The program will work
  directly to several of the available frame buffers - OpalVision, Retina,
  and Picasso - and Version 4.0 has much better support of AGA machines.
  In addition, you can create and save AGA-only picture formats from
  Panorama running on non-AGA Amigas. It has added fractal dithering and
  textures. These can be applied to anything in the program for which
  texture or dithering is appropriate - including tree leaves, water,
  clouds, etc. The program includes some features normally associated with
  raytracing, such as shimmering reflections of the sky in the waves.
  The program lists for $99.95 US.  It is available direct from AmiGadget
  Publishing Company for an introductory price of $69.95.
  Updates from any previous version of the program are $35 US (+ $4
  shipping), which includes the entire package: 5 floppy disks and the
  completely revised manual.  Updates from any version of Genesis, add an
  extra $5.

  AmiGadget Publishing Company
  P.O. Box 1696
  Lexington, SC 29071-1696
  USA

- The famous terminal communication software for the Amiga, term is now
  available is a new version 3.0. Please check AmiNet for availability.

- Jason Compton of the Amiga Report Magazin announces the inception of a
  new magazine to fill the need in the Amiga development and programming
  community. The first issue of AR Tech Journal that the new magazin is
  called is expected to be released in early April. The monthly magazine
  will be authored in AmigaGuide format and distributed along the same
  channels as Amiga Report-an E-Mailing list, FTP, World Wide Web, and a
  network of online services and BBSes worldwide.
  Subscription requests can be directed to [e-mail].
  Correspondence to the editor, including articles for submission, can be
  directed to [e-mail].

  Amiga Report Magazine
  1203 Alexander Ave.
  Streamwood, IL  60107
  USA
  Fax:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Into the Light is a newsletter dedicated to LighWave and sowfware used
  with LightWave. It has tutorials, new product releases, tips & tricks,
  ways to output LightWave work, bussiness advise, product discounts,
  clasified, news. Subscription fee is $25 US for 12 issues. $15 US
  introductory price (good till Aprill 1)

  Jose Burgos
  262 92nd Street
  Brooklyn, NY 11209
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Erik Quackenbush of Quackenbush announces the release of pcmcom.device,
  Amiga PCMCIA driver for modems & serial ports.
  The pcmcom.device let's you use most PCMCIA modem and serial port cards
  in your PCMCIA equipped Amiga.  The driver emulates the Amiga's 'serial.
  device'.  Any communications program that supports alternate device
  drivers will work with the package.
  The driver supports the hardware FIFO buffers that are built into most
  PCMCIA modems to achieve error free communication at high speeds.  The
  driver supports connect baud rates up to 115.2 Kbps.  The package
  includes a preferences program that allows extended baud rate selection.
  The software supports the X-Jack modems from Megahertz, and the Smart
  Serial Port card from Smart Modular Technologies.  Most other PCMCIA
  modems and serial port cards are also supported.

  Quackenbush
  524 Crooked Lane
  King of Prussia, PA 19406
  USA
  Phone/Fax: [phone]
  EMAIL: [e-mail]

- Jack Radigans awesome communication package for the Amiga, Terminus
  is now available in a new version 2.0E
  The unregistred version may be downloaded from AmiNet.

- German based company MAXON Computer Gmbh announces the new release of
  the companies relational database Twist.

- Barnie Productions (The Netherlands) announced the release of IPR, Image
  Processing Revelations version 1.0. IPR is a NEW, FAST and INTUITIVE
  image processing package with features not seen in any other image
  processor! Fast operation and the easy, intuitive control of the image
  processing are IPR's major advantages.
  - Supported file formats:
    BMP, GIF, IFF, JPEG, TIFF, PCX, TARGA, Datatypes (*), Multipic (*)
    (*) Special Amiga-libraries, allowing further loading of PBM, VLAB,
    YUVN, PGM, PPM, QRT, SunRaster, XIPaint, and others.
  - Internal screengrabber.
  - Support for all Amiga chipsets (screen modes PAL, NTSC, DblPAL,
    DblNTSC, VGA, MULTISCAN and others).
  - Easy-to-master, intuitive, consistent interface.
  - Color manipulations on one of (or a combination of) the red, green or
    blue components of the picture.
  - Color manipulations on specified color registers.
  - Real-time color manipulation.
  - Brightness, BroadCast, ColorFilter, Contrast, GammaCorrect, GrayScale,
    Intensity Range, Negative, Palette, Posterize, Arc, Fisheye, Flip,
    Mirror, Rotate, Shear, Sinewave, Pixelize, Spotlight, De-interlace,
    LineArt, Relief, Sharpen, Smooth, ColorReduction, Make 24-bit, Palette
    optimization, RenderHAM, CropRectangle, Scale, and more!
  - Each function has a built-in demo-mode, showing the user the
    possibilities of that function.
  - Extended, easy to access, fully supported AREXX-interface, clearly
    documented with lots and lots of examples.
  - Integrated viewer.
  - IPR comes with an extensive manual covering a lot of examples.
  Priced at $200 US the package can be ordered from:

  Barnie Productions
  P.O.Box 172
  2270 AD  Voorburg
  The Netherlands

  Phone/Fax: [phone]
  EMAIL: [e-mail]

- The US company Intangible Assets Manufacturing announces the
  availability of Amiga Envoy version 2.0, the least expensive and most
  tightly integrated commercial peer-to-peer networking software for the
  Amiga. New features include support of AmigaOS 2.04 DOS packet types
  (including notification and record locking), support for removable
  media, enhanced reliability and robust recovery, localization,
  AmigaGuide documentation, and more. List price for the version 2.0 is
  $59.95 US. Uppgrade fee for current Envoy user is $25 US
  Intangible Assets Manufacturing
  828 Ormond Avenue
  Drexel Hill, PA  19026-2604
  USA
  Phoe:  [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  WWW:   http://www.iam.com/iam
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Stefan Ossowski announces the release of CDBoot version 1.02.
  CDBoot is a tool for booting almost any available CD32 game on any A1200
  or A4000. CDBoot works with any AT/SCSI/PCMCIA CD-ROM drive and any
  available CD-ROM filesystem. It is possible to create config files for
  each CD, where a specific joypad emulation and language selection can be
  saved. The emulation supports up to four joypads, as planned by
  Commodore.
  Game high scores are saved to floppy or hard disk (if high score saving
  is supported by the game), with the nonvolatile RAM emulation. Priced at
  69- DM, the package can be ordered directly from:

  Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe GmbH
  Veronikastr. 33
  D-45131 Essen
  Germany
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- The US company Quadrant International has just released Cardcam, Amiga
  PCMCIA video capture card version 1.0.
  CardCam: VideoIn adds real-time video capture capability to PCMCIA
  equipped Amigas.  CardCam captures 24 bit color images from any video
  source and saves them as standard Amiga IFF24 picture files for later
  manipulation with paint and image processing software.  CardCam has
  sofware selectable composite and S-video inputs, and can capture from
  both PAL and NTSC video sources.  CardCam can capture at full video
  resolution (640x480 NTSC w/overscan, 576 lines in PAL mode), and the
  software supports on-screen preview of live video.
  Quadrant International
  65 Valley Stream Parkway
  Malvern, PA 19355
  USA

  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  BBS:   [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]

- Mike Witbrock and the rest of AMosaic, Amiga Mosaic crew are currently
  working on a new browser that will among other features incorporate
  forms and HTML3. There are currently 4 other browers under development
  too. IBrowse, Tesseract och WebLink, Lynx a text only WWW.

- The US company Elverson Puzzle Company has just released Elversound,
  Amiga PCMCIA audio Card.
  Elversound is a multi-function audio card for any PCMCIA equipped Amiga.
  It was designed by the same engineers responsible for the DSS8+ sound
  sampler.  Hardware features include:
  1. Stereo CD quality 16 bit sound.
  2. Separate stereo line level and stereo microphone inputs.
  3  Separate stereo line level and stereo headphone outputs.
  4. Built in multi-channel stereo mixer.
  5. Built in 4:1 ADPCM compression hardware.
  6. Sampling rates up to 48KHz in 16 bit stereo.
  Selected software features:
  1. Record, playback, and edit samples from disk or RAM.
  2. Plays standard Microsoft Windows (tm) .WAV files.
  3. Built in signal processing routines for special effects.
  4. ARexx interface allows customization and integration with other
     software.

  Elverson Puzzle Company
  P.O. Box 258
  Elverson, PA 19520
  USA
  FAX: [phone]
  EMAIL: [e-mail]

- Urban D. Mueller (the father of AmiNet) announces the release of Aminet
  Set, the complete Aminet on four new CDs. The Aminet Set contains close
  to 4 gigabytes (more than 2 gigs compressed) of freely distributable
  software on 4 newly mastered CDs. There are 12500 archives from the
  following categories:
  4600 Utilities
  2600 Modules
  1000 Games
  1000 Communications programs
   900 Graphics programs
   800 Images
  ... and more.
  The AmiNet Set features:
  - Amigaguide based user interface, allows easy unpacking and viewing
    using a single mouse click.
  - Extensive search facilities. Finds words in descriptions or readmes,
    and outputs matches as an index that allows direct viewing.
  - Special support for the following categories of files:
    - Modules. Can be viewed and played from an index that is sorted
      by music style and subsorted by rating.
    - Images. Can be previewed in a database of thumbnail versions, and
      a double click on the thumbnail shows the full size image.
    - Games. Can be started using a single click from an index that lists
      all games that can be run on accelerated Amigas, with the best games
      on top. Degrading software started as needed.
    - Demos. As the games, they can be started using a single click.
      Demos with a quit function are listed separately.
    - Charts. A list of the most popular programs is on the CD, sorted
      by category.
    - Fish disks. You can find any of the programs on Aminet using the
      number of the Fish disk it can also be found on. All 1000 Fish
      disks are part of the Aminet CD.
  Priced at only $39.95 US, the package can be ordered from:

  Stefan Ossowski
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]
  Germany

  Fred Fish
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]
  USA

- A new version 1.4 of the awesome all new swedish text editor FrexxEd is
  released. Here is the features list for FrexxEd:
    - 100% recursive undo, changeable undobuffer size and on/off toggle
    - Unlimited number of buffers/blocks/macros in memory
    - Unlimited line lengths and buffer sizes
    - 100% programmable, everything can be done by a script instead of
      Interactive
    - *very* C-like programming language (FPL)
    - Clipboard support, export to/import from any unit
    - Uses V39-style memory pools
    - v39 aware, uses V39 functions when available
    - appIcon/AppWindow support
    - window/Screen/Backdrop
    - File name extension aware icon usage
    - Supports locale library, 7 languages are supported at the moment
    - Easy macro record/edit/view/play/save/load
    - Customizeable look of any ASCII character (to i.e enable the inverse
      CED-look or the \xxx Emacs-look or...)
    - Programmable keyassigns, make any key do anything
    - Programmable mouseactions, make any mouse action perform whatever
      you want it to
    - Rectangular/column style block marks and block pastes
    - Programmable menustrip, make it contain whatever you please!
    - Supports XPK and PowerPacker compression/decompression and
      encryption/decryption.
    - Startup-script that loads any file into a running editor
    - >400K documentation in amigaguide format
    - Works just as good used with gfx hardware like Retina, GVP Spectrum,
      Piccolo, Picasso II, A2024, AGA, ECS or OCS...
    - ARexx port, capable of reading and writing ARexx variables!
    - A *LOT* of additional scripts that perform a multitude of different
      things. From mousedragging-style blockmarking, archive-flag removal
      when saving, center line, binary editor, snake game, incremental
      search, interactive C indenting and word wrap to generic assembler
      filters, bookmarks, backup, autosave and programs that easy
      interfaces RCS...
    - Supports file comments
    - Custom keymap support
    - Optional "safe save", save with temp name and then rename
    - Easily exchangeable images for icon creations/usage
    - Binary loading/editing/saving
    - Unlimited key sequence lengths
    - Ability to clone the public screen when opened as a window on such
    - Font sensitive GUI
    - Line number mode supported, start each line with the line number
    - Ability to replace/change the workings of any internal function
      through an advanced hooking procedure
    - Mailing list and other eletronic mail support
        o runs smoothly with virtual memory managers like VMM
        o search/replace history
    - CursorActive() controls the cursor visibility

    Addition to the FPL programs:
  - Doubleclick on appicon generates an exception which does a
    WindowToFront() by default.
  - Full regular expression search/replace, Emacs/UNIX style.
  - RequstWindow() supports listviews sent as string arrays from FPL
  - Smaller and faster executable
  - fpl.library v10 with lots of new features (100% ANSI C style when
    dealing with the &&, || and ?: operators, built-in sprintf() and
    more).
  - Now supports backwards replace.
  - Time controlled function invokes! Once or repeated.
  - Doubleclick on appicon moves FrexxEd to front!
  - "YankBuffer" is now viewable/editable/controllable like any other
    named block buffer.
  - KeyPress() receives the FPL program assigned to a key sequence.
  - Sort() sorts the items in a string array.
  - ReplaceMatch() performs a sort of manual replace substitution.
  - Bsearch() binary searches in a sorted string array
  - Stcgfn() and Stcgfp() returns the file or path part from a specified
    file name string.
  - and much, much more...

- "Tecsoft Images", France announces the release of TVPaint, the
  professional and most powerful 24-bit paint package for the Amiga,
  version 3.0. Tons of new features are prommised.
  Tecsoft Images
  19, Rue Dupont des Loges
  F-57000 METZ
  France
  Phone: [phone]

- Data Compression Technologies has just release an all new Amiga packer
  called LZX. LZX is a brand new data compression program developed on and
  for the Amiga, sporting mind-blowing compression rates, and brain-
  staggering speed. LZX uses compression technology that is absolutely
  state of the art, and offers a compression/performance ratio superior to
  that of all other programs for the Amiga, as well as to all programs for
  ms-dos. Aming tons of features LZX sports File merging, a feature which
  enables compression to be increased, often very significantly, by
  allowing data from one file to be compressed using the knowledge of
  previous files in the archive.  This feature, unique to LZX on the Amiga
  , often improves compression by 300% or more!
  Registred 68000-68060 Turbo Optimized version are available from:

  Data Compression Technologies
  383 Lawrence Avenue West
  Toronto, Ontario
  M5M 1B9
  Canada
  Phone: [phone]
  FAX:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- The UK company Almathera Systems Limited has just released an update
  version 1.1 to it's wonderful paint and image manipulation package
  Photogenics. The new version features:
  - Toolbar Changes
    - Smear
      Smear is a new powerful effect. When selected, the standard drawing
      options will smear the picture rather than applying a paint effect.
      Unlike other paint effects (eg. Negative) Smear does not use the
      standard system of operation where you can rub-out your work with the
      right mouse button. Both buttons do the same during smear. If you
      have undo enabled you can use the Undo option from the menu to undo
      the LAST APPLIED smear operation. As smear affects the 24-bit data
      directly make sure you have a back-up of your image (either by
      cloning the buffer or by saving to disk) before you start using
      Smear! Smear uses the current brush, so different effects can be
      used with other brush types like Chalk Pastel.
    - Colour Picker.
      Previosly this had no image.
  - Blur Paint Layer
    A new option has been added to the Alpha/Paint Layer menu called 'Blur
    Paint Layer'. This option will 'blur' the edges of the selected paint
    (without needing to fix it). If you draw a solid shape like a filled
    circle it normally has sharp, unnatural edges. By choosing this option
    the edges of this (and any other unfixed paint) are blurred so they
    will blend into the background.
  - PCD.gio
    You can now load Photo .PCD files directly into Photogenics. Only the
    lowest three resolutions in .PCD (192x128, 384x256, and 768x512)
    are currently supported. This .GIO file loads and can automatically
    detect .PCD files
  - Close Workbench
    A new option to the settings menu, allows you to close workbench.
    Select 'Close Workbench' if you are running short of memory.
  - Tolerance Fill
    This has been renamed 'Fill Similar'.
  - Colours Window
    If you press the 'Colours' button in the palette requester, you can
    now access the Colours window.  This lets you create spreads of
    colour, and also lets you see what palettes were saved with any images
    you may have loaded.
  - Greyscale
    The greyscale paintmode now has more options. Previously it had two
    different methods of calculating a greyscale picture. Now it has no
    less than eleven: Video Weighted, Simple Average, Brightest, Darkest,
    Median, Red Filter, Green Filter, Blue Filter, Cyan Filter, Magenta
    Filter, Yellow Filter
  - Brushes
    Four new brush types have been added to the program:
    - BallPen: Simulates a ballpoint ink pen. Like real pens the colours
               mix differently to normal paint.
    - Calligraphy: A simple angled nib calligraphy marker.
    - MarkerPen: Simulates a thick marker pen. Colour mixing works in a
               similar way to BallPen.
    - SprayCan: Spray can works like the airbrush but has a higher
                pressure and defaults to continuous mode. Useful for
                highlighting areas for image processing.
  - Clock and Memory Display
  - Opalvision
    There are now two Opalvision displayers included Opal_Low and Opal_
    High. These replace the single displayer previously found in the
    program.
  Almathera Systems Limited
  Southerton House
  Boundary Business Court
  92-94 Church Road
  Mitcham, Surrey
  CR4 3TD
  ENGLAND
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- We just recieved a fax from Advanced Systems & Software, AS&S, Germany,
  the maker of CyberVision and CyberStorm 68060 for the Amiga. The Amiga
  4000 version of the CyberStorm is shipping now! The release date for
  Amiga 3000 (YES, IT'S TRUE) is mid Feb 95! Also SOON! This baby sports a
  massive 85 Mips even in it's 50 MHZ (currently shipping). The CPU is
  simply upgradable to the 80 Mhz version. The 80 Mhz 68060 will does apr.
  130 Mips! To get an idea how FASSTTTTT this babies are consider that an
  Amiga 3000/ 25 MHZ 68030 does apr. 7-8 MIPS. A4000/25 MHZ 68040 does apr
  18-19 MIPS. CyberVision 64, the fastest Amiga graphic board sporting S3
  technology is also shipping now for all ZORRO-III Amiga.
  Phase 5 digital products development team (developer of Cyber products)
  , Official Motorola Beta Site Developer, is a leading technological
  developer in the AMIGA sector. This has already been demonstrated with
  products such as the Fastlane Z3 or the Blizzard Series.
  Here is complete release information for these 2 Cyber products:
  - CyberStorm Amiga accelerator system sporting 68060 CPUs from Motorala
    This util consists of several modules but each CyberStorm system
    contains a Carrier Board, a CPU Module and a Memory Board. The CPU
    module can be exchanged for another version at any time without having
    to change any of the other components.  This concept guarantees optimal
    access speed and the greatest possible performance at each CPU speed.
    The CyberStorm System is not linked to any particular type of CPU.
    Processor modules with other than 680x0 processors can be installed at
    any time, as long as they are supported by the Amiga operating system.
    Wherever the future of the Amiga may lead, you can be assured that the
    CyberStorm will keep apace of technological advances.
    - CyberStorm Carrier Interface Board
      Inserts into the 200 pin Amiga Fast-Slot and contains ports for the
      CPU Module, Memory Board and the I/O Module. Fully asynchronous
      interface between the modules. Extremely fast programmable logic,
      selected A-Grade FCT circuit logic, high-class high density connector
      Slot for 68060 software Boot ROM (or Flash ROM) or Ethernet Boot ROM
      (used with the CyberStorm I/O Module) to boot up the computer from a
      network hard drive.
    - CyberStorm CPU Module:
      Optimally tuned to the processor used and its speed Prepared for CPU
      clock speeds up to 80 MHz. Active CPU cooling, uncoupled CPU voltage
      supply with 5 or 3.3 Volt Voltage control at 3.3 V for 68060 version.
      Bi-directional high speed buffering with expensive A-Grade FCT
      switching logic 120 pin high density port for Second Level Cache
      Module or other expansions.
    - CyberStorm Memory module
      Slots for 4 SIMM modules in 32 bit technology standard 72 pin modules,
      Sizes: 4, 8, 16 and 32 MByte per module, freely mixable, maximum
      configuration 128 MByte. Fully DMA capable memory, also supports
      Zorro3 DMA access. Fast 2-1-1-1 Burst Mode access when reading and
      3-1-1-1 when writing at 25 MHz RAM speed with 60 or 70 ns RAM)
      achieving data transmission greater than 50 MByte/sec measured or
      effective value) Independent of CPU clock speed.
      The asynchronous interface concept also applies to the memory: the
      bi-directional buffer logic allows the CyberStorm CPU asynchronous
      access to the memory which operates at the AMIGA system speed of
      25MHz. This principle makes the memory transparent to other system
      components which access it by DMA, and avoids possible problems that
      can arise with so-called local memory designs which, for example, are
      directly linked with a CPU clock.  There is no principle speed
      disadvantage over designs which operate the memory at higher clock
      speeds, as 25MHz is the upper limit for memory access without wait
      cycles (even for 60ns fast D-RAMs), which is performed on the
      CyberStorm in Burst Mode Access. With a data throughput that is
      nearly independent of the processor frequency of up to 66.66 MB/s in
      Burst Mode Access even a CyberStorm System clocked at 25 MHz
      demonstrates clear acceleration, especially when working with large
      amounts of data.
    - CyberStorm I/O Module (Optional)
      Fast SCSI-II interface with internal and external 50 pin SCSI
      connector. Data transmission in the full address area using its own
      32 bit DMA channel, FIFO buffered, bandwidth >30 MB/s. Asynchronous
      to 7 MB/s, synchronous to 10 MB/s data transmission on the SCSI bus
      with minimal CPU loading. The know-how gained from developing the
      Fastlane Z3 (the world's first 32 bit SCSI Controller for the Amiga)
      was used extensively in the design of the SCSI interface, which has
      mature driver and utility software amongst other features. Extensive
      software including CD-ROM Filesystem, dynamic caching software and
      various SCSI Tools.
      10 MBit/s Ethernet controller. SANA driver for transparent linking to
      various network systems. High speed due to its FIFO buffered, 32 Bit
      DMA channel Coaxial (BNC) and Dsub15 ethernet connector (Thin Ethernet
      /Standard Ethernet).
      Serial high-speed interface RS232 with 115kbaud, with its own FIFO
      buffer has also been integrated in the I/O Module to guarantee
      problem-free operation of fast serial devices without data loss.
    - CyberStorm Cache Module (Optional)
      No further information currently available.
    The CyberStorm CPU Module also offers another High Speed Connector with
    direct processor connection through which, for example, cache memory
    and boards with second processors (e.g.  DSPs) or other high speed
    expansions can be connected. All CyberStorm components are manufactured
    in Germany to the highest industrial quality in modern Fine Pitch SMD
    technology and are subjected to complete functionality test prior to
    delivery. A3000 and A4000T versions have limited modularity and
    expansion capabilities.
  - CyberVision 64, ultrafast 64-bit graphic acceleration system for Amiga:
    The CyberVision 64 satisfies the most demanding requirements on
    performance and system conformity because of its combination of an
    extremely fast 32 bit Zorro-3 interface, a 64 bit wide graphics
    controller and exceptional software. Based on the highly integrated
    graphic chip Trio64 from the renowned manufacturers S3, which
    integrates an expensive graphics processor, a complex 64 bit wide
    Blitter as well as a highly efficient 24 bit converter for D/A
    conversion, the CyberVision 64 can offer a video band width of 135 MHz.
    It will, therefore, support a variety of resolutions in True Color,
    High Color and 256 colours. The CyberVision 64 32 Bit Zorro3 interface
    is highly optimised and allows transmission rates from the AMIGA main
    memory to the graphic memory of up to 16 MByte/sec - an exemplary rate
    that sets new standards. Data transfers within the CyberVision 64
    video memory are executed by the 64 Bit Blitter at speeds above 100
    MByte/sec, practically in an imperceptible amount of time, resulting
    in extremely fast shifting operations, for example. Another special
    feature of the CyberVision 64 is its hardware support of Planar-to-
    Chunky Conversion which, with Amiga graphics cards, often takes up most
    of the time required for emulation/representation of the Amigamodes.
    This hardware solution is some 6-8 times faster than typical software
    solutions which considerably accelerates the emulation and
    representation of Amiga modes and especially the representation of 8
    Bit graphics. Complementing this efficient hardware is excellent driver
    software which fully utilises the performance of the card for unusual
    system conformities. The CyberVision 64 screen modes are installed via
    the CyberVision 64 monitor files, are available via normal ASL-
    Requester (e.g.  in screen mode in PREFS) as "normal" system
    resolutions, and for common applications operating under OS3.0 or 3.1
    require no additional driver.
    The CyberVision 64 has an expansion bus through which additional cards
    such as JPEG or MPEG cards can directly access the fast video memory
    making the CyberVision 64 suitable for future developments. The
    combination of the attention that has been paid to necessary details,
    such as slipped through AMIGA video signal and integrated, loss-free
    electronic switching, default-monitor-timing on system start-up or
    simple expansion of the 2MB version to 4MB with common memory modules,
    with the usual high quality of phase 5 products will be able to satisfy
    even the most demanding user.
    Resolution Noninterlaced: up to 1280x1024 pixels in 8 bit, up to
    800x600 pixels in 24 bit; Interlaced: up to 1600x1200 pixels in 8 bit,
    up to 1024x768 pixels in 24 bit. 135 MHz Video DAC Planar-to-chunky pixel
    conversion using special hardware (RoXXIer chip). Slip through Amiga
    signal with loss-free, electronic switching Digital video bus for optimal
    expansion (shared memory bus) with access to the video memory. System
    local software with Workbench emulation, Support Library, linking via
    monitor files CyberVision 64 screen modes including standard Amiga
    resolutions).
  For ordering information please contact your Amiga dealer or:

  Advanced Systems & Software, AS&S, Germany
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

- A free upgrade patch for CanDo, the Amiga authoring software, version
  3.003, is available directly throug Inovatronics, Inc.

  Inovatronics, Inc.
  8499 Greenville Ave.
  Suite 209B
  USA
  Voice      : [phone]
  FAX        : [phone]

- We are proud to include promised information about DraCo, the first
  real Amiga clone developed by MacroSystem GmbH Germany in this issue
  of AmyNews:
    DraCo fulfills the dream of an affordable, powerful, and professional
  video and graphics workstation. DraCo offers perfect quality animation
  recording, non-linear editing, and animation rendering. DraCo is not an
  Amiga.  But you can run most of the Amiga hardware and software
  applications with astoundingly dramtic results.
  DraCo is an Amiga OS compatible computer that doesn't use the Amiga
  custom chip set.  These chips are replaced with powerful software and
  hardware combinations.  The blitter, for example, is replaced by the
  powerful NCR 53C720 chip which is used, for example, in the Warp Engine.
  DraCo is based around the Motorola 060 processor, UNIX and UNIX clone
  support are included as well. This workstatation is certainly the most
  powerful video and graphics computer in this price category. (priced in
  the same equipped A4000 range)
  Technical data:
  - Processor:  Motorola 68060
  - Operating System:  Amiga OS & various UNIX Systems
  - Case:  Full size tower
  - I/O:  Fast SCSI-II with NCR 53C720 & Parallel Port
  - Slots: Two DraCo direct 32 bit interfacws dedicated for the Retina
    BLT and VLab Motion. The retina is standard in every computer, the
    VLab motion is optional. Five Zorro II slots for boards like the
    Toccata, Emplant, Ethernet, VLab Y/C, serial ports, additional
    parallel ports, etc.
  - Drive: Triple speed CD ROM drive standard, other SCSI devices optional
  - Graphics:  DraCo Retina BLT with 120 Mhz pixel frequency and data rate
    of over 180MB/Second in 24 bit
  - Memory:  4MB standard, expandable to 128MB
  - Software Compatibility:  All system compatible programs that runs on
    graphics cards like the Retina will work.
  - Hardware Compatibility:  All hardware products that are custom chipset
    independent. This includes the Toccata, Emplant, etc.

- Todd Vierling announces that a gamma version 0.9.1 of AmiNIX, a new
  implementation of BSD UNIX is now released. It runs on any 680x0 series
  processor, and does not require either an MMU or FPU. It does not have
  the superstrict protection that NetBSD or Linux have, and is not
  designed for that; AmiNIX is designed for UNIX compatibility on few-to-
  one-user systems and for restricted remote use (via rksh and the like).
  AmiNIX is an ``extension'' that gives UNIX ability to AmigaOS. The
  release version 1.0 is under development.
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Powerful GUI-builder program for the Amiga, VisualArts, is now
  available in a new version 2.1. VisualArts allows you to actually DRAW
  a user interface to your program. New features in version 2.1 includes:
  - Amiga OS 3.0 compitable
  - More window types
  - Extended String gadgets support
  - 'Test GUI' function to preview your design in real time
  - Console window support - you can now add a console to your GUI
  - Speech - make your application talk, very easy!
  - Better code generation includes both WB2.1 and WB3.1 and automatically
    generates a makefile for your project.
  - Modifying your custom codes will not affect the GUI and you can make
    as much change as you like.
  - And more ...
  A demo verion is available in AmiNet.

- Hisoft of the UK is now selling "Squirrel", a SCSI2 PCMCIA interface
  that suports up to 7 SCSI devices allowing connection of up to 7 SCSI
  devices to the Amiga at the same time. A CD-ROM, a SyQuest removable
  drive, a DAT drive, a Magneto Optical and a Tape Streamer, all on-line
  and all available at any time. The Squirrel comes complete with SCSI
  software drivers, a host of useful SCSI programs including an audio CD
  player, a CD-to-HD sampler and easy to use SCSI drive mounting software.
  Fully tested with a wide range of SCSI & SCSI 2 peripherals, the Squirrel
  supports data transfer speeds of up to 1.3Mb/sec on a standard A1200 and
  reaches an incredible 3Mb/sec with a 68030-accelerated A1200.
  To complement the SCSI interface HiSoft has released a number of quality
  SCSI peripherals - including double-speed & triple-speed CD-ROM drives
  and 88Mb & 270Mb SyQuest drives; these packages are shipping now at very
  competitive pricing.
  The Squirrel features 'hot' plug and unplug meaning that it is feasible
  to remove and install the interface at any time and the Squirrel software
  will automatically unmount and mount devices.
  The package comes complete with a 50-way SCSI connector cable, full
  instruction manual, warranty/registration card and easy-to-install
  software. The Squirrel SCSI is available for the Amiga A600/A1200 and is
  priced 69.95 UKP (inc VAT) + P&P.

- Those of you that are in need for a decent but low cost graphics tablet
  for your Amiga should take a closer look at "Tabby". It work on any
  desired screen size and is about 4"x5" (13x10cm). The driver software is
  surprisingly goo for the lowe price of the device and is capable of
  changing the sampling methods. Different methods affect the amount of
  jitter when the stylus is between cells.

- The US company Quackenbush announces the release of pcmcom.device for
  the Amigas equipped with PCMCIA port. The pcmcom.device let's you use
  most PCMCIA modem and serial port cards in your PCMCIA equipped Amiga.
  The driver emulates the Amiga's 'serial.device'. Any communications
  program that supports alternate device drivers will work with the
  package. The driver supports the hardware FIFO buffers that are built
  into most PCMCIA modems to achieve error free communication at high
  speeds. The driver supports connect baud rates up to 115.2 Kbps. The
  package includes a preferences program that allows extended baud rate
  selection. The software supports the X-Jack modems from Megahertz, and
  the Smart Serial Port card from Smart Modular Technologies. Most other
  PCMCIA modems and serial port cards are also supported.
  Contact Quackenbush for ordering information:
  Quackenbush
  524 Crooked Lane
  King of Prussia, PA 19406
  USA

  FAX:   [phone]
  EMAIL: [e-mail]

- A new version of EGS-SpactraPaint is under development by it's auther,
  Pat Hager.

- Joosen Software Development is now selling a CASE package for the Amiga.
  This is compatible with companies windows version. Contact Christian
  Joosen, '[e-mail]' for further information.

- Wolf Faust announced that a new version of his higly professional
  ,Studio, Printer Software, "Studio Professional II" version 2.0 is
  released now. This version includes among other drivers, the HP 560C
  printer. Studio allows the user to print 24 Bit colors picture using any
  Amiga. The package includes a complete set of printer-drivers for all HP
  DeskJets, LaserJets, Epson and Canon printers, and utilities to print
  graphics like IFF, JPEG, Targa, GIF, etc. and it also contains a CMS
  (Color Management System).
  For ordering information please contact MacroSystem Germany or:
  arXon GmbH
  Assenheimer Str. 17
  D-60489 Frankfurt
  Germany
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- Toccata is a new music board from MacroSystem Germany. Toccata gives you
  the power to 32 chanels HD playing, 16 bit stereo, 48KHz sampling, DSP
  Digital Signal Processor, Integreret mixer, HD recording, and more.

- Those of you who use Wacom ArtPad with your Amiga should call German
  Wacom BBS and download the new version of the software now available
  free of charge.
  Wacom BBS: (Germany) (213) 1120317

- The UK company Almathera Systems Limited is developing a new version of
  their best selling CD³² software "Video Creator CD" ,also compatible
  with all CD-ROM equipped AGA Amigas.
  The current version, priced at only £39.95 UK, allows you to create
  videos to be used with your favorite CD titles. Programs interface looks
  like Scala and is very easy to use. Videos are tracked down to the
  millisecond, and effects can be inserted using the editor at any point
  desired. Tons of effects are available, from the usual assortment of
  screen wipes and fades which are faster that you can imagine, to
  animations and plasmas, to "psychoflicker."  There's no shortage, and
  the animation feature is impressive, allowing you to tile it on the
  screen in various combinations, including upside down and opposing.
  Effects can be overlaid for extra depth.  FMV,Full Motion Video ,
  providing you have the module and a disc to pull the FMV from, can be
  used in your video as well. The CD includes a complete set of materials
  that you will ever need in your video production. From stop signs to
  animations of houses to German phrases to pictures of exploding
  aircraft, there's a LOT of eye candy pre-installed. Loading is
  supported using AmigaDOS paths, meaning that you can pull whatever you
  like off of any valid device. You can test the outcome of effects while
  you're in the editor, incidentally. The setup ensures you'll never run
  out of possibilities and combinations.
  Almathera is olso offering regular newsletters for "Video Creator CD"
  registred users. There are notes in the newsletters suggesting using
  the Random Rave feature for parties, instant, effortless visual effects
  that will really fit the mood and even impress some people technically.
  Video Creator is a load of fun. It's flexible and powerful and very well
  supported. The new version will include much more outstanding effects
  and a lot more pictures. Contact Almathera for ordering information:
  Almathera Systems Limited
  Southerton House
  Boundary Business Court
  92-94 Church Road
  Mitcham, Surrey
  CR4 3TD
  ENGLAND
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- The German company MacroSystem GmbH has developed the new version 2.3
  of the SoftWare for Retina Graphics cards.The new version is faster
  and better compatible with AmigaOS version 3.1.

- Douglas Stockman, the auther of "Simple Stat Graph (SSG)", Amigas
  statistical and graphical data analysis program announces development of
  an all new version 2.0 that will among other features include multiple
  regressions, true 3-D graphs with real-time rotation and more.
  "Simple Stat Graph" currently in version 1.0a, requires 4 MB memory, a
  HardDrive and AmigaDos 2.04 or better. It supports all basic graph types
  and include one way ANOVA's. It comes with a 200 page manual and on-line
  AmigaGuide help. For ordering information please contact:
    Neil Palumbo
    P.O. Box 354
    North Greece,
  NY 14515-0354
  USA

- SoftWood is currently working on the next generation FinalWriter that
  will among tons of other features, implement proper import/export
  capabilities for documents created on the most populer programs on
  otehr platfrom. SoftWood's online support is expanding too. More SofWood
  news in a later issue of AmyNews.

- Utilities Unlimited International, inventer of the Amiga Emplant
  technology has released the new version 5.1 of the software for the
  Macintosh emulation module. The new version mainly fixes several small
  bugs in version 5.0.
  The uppgrade software is available through UU BBS or AmiNet.

- The excellent "Wolf Faust's printer drivers" package is now released in
  a new version 2.1. Now only the package allow usage of some new printers
  like CanonBJ series, but it addes print speed and total control of the
  Amiga's printer port.

- Digital Creations's John Botteri announces the offering of a new
  complete package, "SuperGen SX Studio" for the Amiga. Prices at $799 US,
  the package is the new low-cost, broadcast quality genlock, titling,
  paint and animation system, designed to work on all Amigas in both AGA
  and ESC modes, PAL & NTSC. It lets you overlay titles, create amazing
  animated boarders and graphics, and fade between any video source and
  Amiga graphic. SuperGen SX Studio consists of:
  - Stand alone, S-video version of the bestselling Amiga video peripheral
    of all time, the SuperGen genlock.
  - Innovision's Broadcast Titler, one of the Amigas most popular character
    generator.
  - Digital Creation's Brilliance 2.0, one of the Amigas's fastest and most
    powerful paint and animation system.
  Digital Creations
  2890 Kilgore Rd.
  Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
  USA
  Phone: [phone]

- The Smartplay crew has just released a new replacement program for SM,
  AccessiblePlayer v1.1. APlayer features:
  - Supports 33 different module formats.
  - Recognizes and unpacks 150 different cruncher types (using the
    Unpack.library.
  - Favourite Song System
  - Play samples by the keyboard while listening to the module.
  - Save samples, can be used to rip your favourite samples, even if you
    don't own the actual music program.
  - Can play modules from Fast memory, saving your sparesome Chip memory.
  - App-Icon and App-window.
  - Full commodity interface. Depending on your system.
  - Supports Lha files, including extract pattern.
  - Supports Public Screens.
  - Make your own favourite lists of modules with the APML system.
  - Early load system which kills the waiting time between the modules.
  - Full ARexx interface
  - All functions in the main window is accessible via hotkeys.
  - New players added in version 1.1:
    FTM, Whittaker, TFMX 1.5, Hippel, Hippel-COSO, PumaTracker, IFF-AIFF
  - RIFF-WAVE now support 16-bits samples.
  AccessiblePlayer is available through AmiNet.

- The US company "Micro R&D" is selling a super cooling kit for the
  4000. The kit includes 3 fans and a premade wiring harness for easy
  installation. The cost for the kit is $60 US or you can send the cover
  to your machine to them and for $100 US they will install the fans onto
  your cover. Please contact George Graham of the US "Micro R&D" for
  more information about the kit. Micro R&D is also selling the best
  selling opto-mechanical Amiga mouse, Swifty 3-buttons, with lifetime
  guarantee.
  Micro R&D
  PO Box 130
  Loup City, NE 68853
  Phone: [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Intelligent Design Inc. annouces the release of Pretium, companie's new
  checkbook accounting software for the Amiga. Pretium is personal
  accounting package designed to organize finance quickly and efficiently.
  Attractive charts and graphs provide an at-a-glance view of the user's
  financial standing.
  Intelligent Design Inc. (IDI)
  5742 Old Cheney Hwy,
  Orlando, FL 32807
  USA
  Phone: [phone]

- Super DJC3 and Super LJ4 from Creative Focus will put your Amiga in the
  driver's seat of your Hewlett-Packard color printer. The Super DJC3
  driver is compatible with all DeskJets, including the 1200C, 520 and
  560C. Super LJ4 is for use with all HP LaserJets, even the new 4L and
  4P. Each driver provides direct Preferences access to at leat 14
  different typefaces and offers extended commands for text output and
  ink control.
  Creative Focus is also selling other drivers like one for Canon BJC-600.
  Creative Focus
  P.O. Box 580
  Chenango Bridge, NY 13745
  USA
  Phone: [phone]

- Scala, Inc. is currently developing the Studio 16 AD516 EX module for
  the Scala MM serie programs.
  AD516 from SunRize Industry is the state of the art 16-bit sound card
  for the Amiga. The AD516 has a DSP that allows replaying more than
  two tracks at once without using the CPU for mixing.

- The US company "Dimension Technologies" is offering "Composite Studio".
  Composite Studio is an image composition program that takes control of
  ToasterPaint/OpalPaint and allows you to quickly and easily arrange
  framstores or IFFs. Priced at only $100 US, the package is perfect for
  CG pages, multimedia and video. Use one of the 40 predefined templates
  or create custom beveled bars. Composite Studio allows you to batch
  process your finnish framstores and IFFs in unlimited number.
  Composite Studio includes QuickBrush, a CD with over 100 custom hi-res
  24-bit brushes.

- NSDi has just released the all new version 4.0 od the AmiTCP. AmiTCP is
  an implementation of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
  (TCP/IP) for the Amiga. A demo version of the AmiTCP 4.0 may be found
  at AmiNet.

  NSDi - Network Solutions Development Inc. Oy
  P.O. Box 32
  FIIN-02151 ESPOO
  Finland

- MaxDOS version 2.1 from the US company Media4 Productions is now
  released. It allows you to read write Mac data using your Amiga. The new
  version offers transparent handling of MACBinary files, display the
  MAC's icons on the WorkBench and touts a completely rewritten manual.
  Media4 Productions
  2800 University Ave.
  Suite H1B-101
  West Des Moines, IA 50265
  Phone: [phone]

- Dr Perry of the GP Software, Brisbane, Australia, announces the
  development of a new updated version of the GPFax software that will be
  available throug a free patch and will among other features, fixes the
  problem of printing of faxes to the prefs printer, especially those in
  fine mode and has support for among other boards, Picasso II graphic
  boars. GP Software's new software Wombat program is also under
  development to support the Picasso II graphic card. GP Fax suuport:
  Voice - [phone]
  Fido: 3:640/304 - Greg Perry

- A new version 1.1 of the must have utility CPUBlit has been developmed.
  Check AmiNet for immediate release of this program and use it!

- CrosMAC by the Consultron, the maker of CrosDOS, is released now.
  The package features:
  - File System Features:
    - Read/Write Mac low and high density floppies, including AMAX and
      Emplant disks.
    - Read/Write Mac hard-drives including SyQuest and Bernoulli
      cartridges and AMAX and EMplant partitions.
    - Read MAC HFS CD-ROMs.
    - Data and Resource forks as separate files.
    - Mac icons displayed under WorkBench.
    - Full Mac file names.
    - MacBinary file support.
    - Optional Amiga<>Mac character translation.
  - File System support utilities:
    - Format, diskcopy and check the integrity of Mac disks.
    - File salvation program to try to recover files from a corrupt Mac
      disk.
    - Resource extractor to view or copy individual resources from a Mac
      resource fork.
    - Easy hard-drive configuration program.
    - Other valuable utilities.
  Consultron even offer "CrossFS pro Pack" that combines CrossMAC and
  CrossDOS 5 PLUS for one special low price.
  Consultron
  8959 Ridge Rd.
  Plymouth, MI
    48170-3213, USA
  Phone: [phone]

- We just got this very first hand information about a company that is
  currently developing a low cost adapter that will allows connection of
  any clone keyboard (mi*rosoft new ergonomic keyboard) included to any
  Amiga. This is a new product and we will carry more informaton about
  it in a later issue of AmyNews. Stay tune.

- Asimware Innovations announces the release of several new Amiga prodcust:
  - NEW ASIM CDFS version 3.0 software, Amiga CD filesystem, features:
    - Reads ISO-9660, High Sierra and MAC HFS CD-ROMs.
    - Includes ASIMTunes music CD player and ASIMPhoto PhotoCD Manager for
      the Amiga.
    - Fixes problems with GVP SCSI devices.
  - MasterISO sofware for mastering the CD-roms. Priced at $500, the Master
    ISO CD-ROM Writing Software features:
    - Control a CD-ROM recorder to create custom CD-ROM and CD-Audio disks
    - Formats in Universal ISO-9660 compatible with all systems
    - Supports Pinnacle single-speed & Yamaha 4x-spin CD-ROM Recorders
    - Each CD-ROM disk has a capacity of 540MB to 650MB at 2.6 cents a
      megabyte!
    - Create custom solution without taking up hard drive space
  - PhotoCD Manager CD32. prices at $35 US this software features:
    - Full graphic interface
    - Brings up HAM8, HAM or 24-Bit thumbnails of images.
    - Allows the user to view individual images in Low, Medium or high
      resolution.
    - Allows the creation of slide shows of selected images.
    - Text titles can be added to any image in slide show
    - Works with CD32, or any CD-ROM equipped Amiga.
  - Texture Heaven CD, over 500 images in 24-bit format
  - Texture Heaven CD 2, new version with over 164 Abstract and computer
    Generated Color Textures. Includes thumbnail preview images. Images
    come in IFF, HAM, FrameStore, JPEG, PCX, BMP and GIF formats

- Soft-Logic announces the immediate release of the patch file version
  3.0e for the best Amiga DeskTop Publishing program ever, PageStream 3.
  The new patch will in addition to tons of other stuff, implements
  all text fill/color/stroke attributes, including the Reverse, Outline
  and Shadow type styles.

- The US company "Desktop Video Systems" is selling Drive-In which offers
  a complete hard-drive expansion system for your Video Flyer and other
  nonlinear editing systems. It includes a heavy duty case, 250-Watt power
  supply, internal SCSI cabling, external SCSI pass true connectors, SCSI
  ID switches, power/hard-drive activity LEDs and three cooling fans. The
  Drive-In supports several Flyer-compatible hard-drives, CD-ROM drives,
  and Tape drives. An optional adapter kit lets you access all three
  SCSI-2 controllers included with the Flyer. The Drive-In is available in
  several different configurations and as a pre-configured system with
  hard-drives installed and ready to go.
  Desktop Video Systems
  14121 W.95th St.
  Lenexa, KS 66215
  Phone: [phone]

- Eyetech Group Ltd announces that thet are selling "Fitting kit for 1200'
  s" that actually fit in the case properly complete with a 32 page
  pictorial booklet showing you how to do it, step by step and some useful
  PD software and Workbench version 3.0 pre-installed. Installation takes
  about 20 mins. Also available for A 4000's.
  Current prices are : 260MB  £159
                       420MB  £199
                       540MB  £229
  inclusive of VAT & UK shipping.

  Alan M Redhouse
  Eyetech Group Ltd
  Stokesley, N Yorks  UK
  EMail: [e-mail]

- "Sterling Connection" has just released "QwikForms CD-ROM", another MUST
  HAVE CD-ROM for business applications. The CD Includes:
  - 125 ready-made page layouts for PageStream, including legal documents,
    business letters, page layouts, animation cue sheets, flyers, video
    production planners, music sheets and many more.
  - 5300 state of the art clip art images.
  - 550 Type 1 fonts with AFM files included
  - 190 Gifs
  - 160 GDOS
  - 140 DMF fonts
  - 230 CFN Calamus fonts
  - 722 EPS postscript clip art
  - 700 business letters in TXT, ASCII format
  - 110 spreadsheet templates suited for TurboCalc and ProCalc
  Priced at only $40 US, the package includes printed graphic
  representations of all materials on the CD.

- "Legendary Design Technologies Inc." is offering "Sound Effect Library
  Vol. 1". The CD includes 300 effects in digital and standard CD-Audio
  format. 8- and 16-bit Mono/Stereo versions. Manufactored by Sound
  Ideas, the world's largest producer of commercially available sound
  effects.

- The Amiga raytracing software, Imagine from Impulse Inc. is now released
  in an interim version 3.1 that is supposed to remove all known bugs from
  version 3.0 and add a few new features in the following areas:
  - About box; addition.
  - States; in version 3.0 of Imagine, you were not able to morph certain
    aspects of each state, now you can morph almost everything.
  - DXF; DXF handler is much improved it the new version.
  - Backdrop Images; is useful for makeing logos and the like in the
    Spline editor and for creation of animations that have a moving
    backdrop image.
  - FLC and ANIM brushes; you can now map to any object a FLC or ANIM.
  - SHOW PIC and ANIM; with the simple click of a mouse button you can
    have Imagine show you any image in the formats that it reads, Anim
    files and FLC files.
  - Field Rendering; useful for single frame recorder, of digital
    animation system like the Personal Animation Recorder from DPS.
  - Stage Attributes; much improved.
  - Light Source and Object Viewports; view what other objects or lights
    would be seeing if they were the camera.
  - SMART BONES; much improved.
  Impulse Inc.
  Phone: [phone]

- Synergy International has released it's long-awaited HollyWood FX for
  LightWave and the standalone LightRave.
  Priced at $250 US, HollyWood FX features:
  - Dozens of effects including multiple full motion video windows, 3D
    morphing transitions, particle effects and more.
  - Ability to batch render both HollyWood FX transitions and your own
    LightWave scenes.
  - Post processing with the Elastic Reality (former ASDG) Art Department
    Professional provides users with unique rotoscoped effects (e.g.
    processing video through the oil paint or fresco operators).
    Also allows conversion for playback of effects or animations at HAM
    and 256 colors screen resolutions.

- Fred Fish announces the development of an all new version of the
  mkisofs, the CD-ROM mastering software that uses RockRidge extensions.
  The new version will be released sometime in early February 95. The
  new version will among fixing all bugs in the software, include a
  graphical user interface, the capability of the CD-ROM creator to
  specify the precise name mapping between ISO level 1 names in the
  regular ISO data structures, and the names used in the RockRidge
  section.

- The 16Bit Microdeal Soundcard, titled AURA, is now on sale. AURA,
  Advanced Sound Sampling for your A600/A1200, is a brilliant new
  concept in high-performance, yet affordable sound sampling. The
  revolutionary hardware plugs into the PCMCIA slot to achieve extra-
  ordinary sampling performance in glorious 12-bit stereo, with optional
  direct-to-disk recording. Aura features:
  - The Software:
    - Record/Play/Edit 16- or 8- bit, mono or stereo sounds to memory or
      direct-to-hard disk.
    - Real-Time monitor of audio input with moving spectrum analyser and
      oscilloscope displays.
    - Amazing range of editing facilities including cut, paste, insert,
      delete, fade and volume. Editing controls work on both samples in
      memory and on hard disk.
    - Record samples into memory at rates in excess of 60KHz (A1200, 12-
      bit stereo) and direct-to-hard disk recording at rates in excess
      of 40KHz (A1200 12-bit stereo with Fast RAM).
    - 15 fully programmable, single source (one tap) sound effects can be
      used in real-time and on samples held in memory or even on hard
      disk, plus effect preview.
    - Block-orientated Sample Sequencer built-in.
    - Advanced digital filtering with 3-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform
      (FFT) interactive display.
    - Real-Time playback of samples under MIDI control (requires extra
      MIDI interface and keyboard).
    - Load and save IFF, RAW and AIFF sample formats.
    - Over 60 fully programmable, MULTI-SOURCE, sound effects on samples
      in memory, in real-time and to memory or hard disk (with effect
      preview); a unique feature.
  - The Hardware:
    Aura is supplied with 12-bit stereo sound sampling inputs and outputs
    to obtain the ultimate digital quality of your recorded soundtrack,
    all in an attractive case.
    - Achieves a signal-to-noise ratio of 72-db - equivalent to most
      computer based 16-bit systems at a fraction of the cost.
    - PCMCIA credit card connection for maximum performance and
      expandability.
    - 12-bit quality sampling with 8/12/16-bit and mono/stereo versatilty
      built into the software.
    - Enhanced 12-bit quality phono outputs with Amiga audio mixed through
      as well.
    - Very high sample record/playback speeds (over 60KHz in 12-bit stereo
      mode on A1200).
  Package includes:  Aura hardware, complete software, comprehensive 130-
  page manual, stereo phono-to-phono lead and registration card.
  Octamed version 5.02 and above include a dedicated 16-bit sample editor
  which is 100% Aura compatible and can play 16-bit samples through the
  Aura hardware while sequencing MIDI and normal Amiga 8-bit sounds.
  Priced at only £100 UK; this powerful combination provides stunning
  performance and sound quality for maximum impact.
  HiSoft/Microdeal
  The Old School
  Greenfield
  Bedford,
  MK45 5DE
  UK
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- The US company Syndesis is offering several CD-ROMs for Amiga 3D artists
  - 3D-ROM Vol. 1, 580 Objects and 400 Texture Maps.
  - 3D-ROM Vol. 2, 200 3D Objects in LightWave, WaveFront and other major
    formats.
  - Avalon Internet Object Collection, a compilation of a section of the
    Internet called Avalon designed for animators. Contains many 3D
    Objects and other helpful animator programs. Hundreds of 3D Objects
    in various formats, texture maps, conversion utilities, 3D Source code,
    FAQs, file format specifications and much much more. A must have!

- US company SaxMan System announces the rework and release of a new set
  of business and accounting packages for the Amiga. Among tons of other
  features in it's business applications, SaxMan mentions; cash
  processing and credit sales, general ledger, invoices and statements
  printing, payroll, inventory control, accounts receivable, accounts
  payable, payroll and job cost analysis.
  Professional quality is promissed for all packages. All packages are
  based on the Oxxis SBase Professional (former SuperBase Professional
  4 from Precision SoftWare).
  Michael Winokur of SaxMan can even customize user defined, professional
  SBase pro appications for you.
  Phone: [phone]

- Mike Smithwick of Virtual Reality Labs. announces that the Amiga
  astronomy software Distant Sun is released in a new version 5.01. The
  new version has among other features support for Mac data files from the
  DS/Mac CD-ROM. Owners who want to upgrade to version 5.01 can then get
  the DS/Mac version direct from VRLI for a discount.
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Paul Kolenbrander announces the release of HTML-Heaven version 1.0,
  suited for creating and maintaining HTML documents. The package includes:
  - HTML-Genie Opens a window containing 6 listviews with HTML commands
               grouped by category.
  - HTML-Heaven Open a window containing a number of buttons for access to
                the most commonly used HTML commands.
  - ToolKit    Opens a window with 2 listviews. One contains the same HTML
               commands that HTML-genie does. The other contains HTML
               commands or strings definable by the user.
  A demo version of the package is downloadable from Aminet. An EGS
  version is under development.

- Software Technology announces the continuing development of the
  companie,s bussiness package for the Amiga, "BEST Business Management".
  It is a full double entry system capable of controling inventory,
  invoices, P.O.'s and more.
  Phone: [phone]

- "Alpha Paint" from InnoVision, the maker of Montage 24, is a new powerful
  24-bit paint package and a replacement for the "Toaster Paint". Priced at
  $585 US, "Alpha Paint" features:
    - Full-Screen RealTime 24-bit painting.
    - 12-bit Alpha Channel for Anit-Aliasing, Blending and Compositing.
    - Full-screen WYSIWYG with multiple Undo/Redo - no more wating for
    render or HAM artifacts.
    - Complete utilizationof the Toaster's hardware Video Mixing Alpha
    Channel for soft-edge feathering and Transparency effects over any
    live video source.
    - Advanced set of brushes, effects and tools including Airbrushing, Oil
    Paint, Rub-Through etc.
    - Full Text support for Toaster, Chroma and Postscript fonts, including
    XYZ Rotation, Circular Wrap, Glow, and Neon effects.
  - Supports pressure-sensitive drawing tablets.
    - Compatible with Toaster 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, and 4000.
  InnoVision Technology
  1933 Davis St.
  San Leandro, CA 94577
  USA
  Phone: [phone]

- Computer Answers is selling 2 new Amiga clones as follow:
  - Amiga model A2200-1:
    - 68020 CPU
    - 2 MB 32-Bit Chip Ram & 2 MB of Fast RAM
    - 3.5 Floppy & 210 MB HD
  - Amiga model A2200-2:
    - 68030 CPU & 68882 FPU @ 40mhz
    - 2 MB 32-Bit Chip RAM & 4 MB of Fast RAM
    - 3.5 Floppy & 420 MB HD
  Both models features:
  - Kickstart 3.1 Built In
  - Detachable Keyboard, 94 Keys, w/Function, Numeric & Cursor
  - Hi-resolution, Opto-Mechanical, Two Button Mouse
  - Seven Slots: One local BUs Slot (150 Pin Amiga 1200 Compatible)
  - One Compatability Slot for 486+ Card
  - One CPU slot for future expansion
  - Four IBM PC/AT compatible Slots
  - Interfaces: Mouse, Joystick, Lightpen, Graphics Tablet (X2), Serial,
    Parallel and CD-ROM ports, Composite Video, SVHS Video and RGB video.
  - Graphics: AGA chipset
  - Dimensions: 40cm Deep, 42cm Wide & 12cm High.
  - Power: 155/230 Volt, 50/60hz, 200 watt (CSA Approved)

- Thomas Dorn, the auther of the paint package XiPaint version 3.0,
  distributed by MacroSystem Germany, is currently developing the next
  major version of XiPaint. XiPaint is basically a paint program as fast
  as TVPaint, has much more features, works with multiple projects, brush
  and pen queues, has multiple undo/redo, etc.
  EMail: [e-mail]
  Mailbox/Fax: ++43-1-2714549
  MacroSystem Germany Phone: [phone]

- When we first during the last months of the last year, informed you
  about the release of the must have program Pegger, the Amiga Image
  Compression Software, version 2.0, we forgot to include the press
  release for the new version. Ok here it is.
  Heifner Communications Inc. is proud to announce the availability of
  V2.0 of their product, PEGGER, an automated image compression system for
  Amiga computers. PEGGER version 2.0 brings powerful new features to
  improve the performance and useability of their already popular product.
  New features in version 2.0 include:
  - SNOOP By Program
    This incredible new SNOOP mode allows the user to specify the
    compression and decompression mode on a program-by-program basis. Now,
    many different programs can read compressed images from the same
    directory but using different file formats!
  - Incredible Speed Improvement
    Pegger is now roughly twice as fast as the original Pegger and
    certainly the fastest image compression/decompression system on the
    Amiga!
  - New File Formats
    Pegger now supports Impulse RGB8, IFF 8-bit color, IFF 8-bit greyscale
    (useful for texture maps alpha channel images), JPEG greyscale, TARGA
    Color, and TARGA Greyscale, and NewTek Toaster CG Framestore Pages.
  - Full Network Support
    Pegger now has fully tested network support. We have tested the
    network support with ParNet, ENLAN-DFS, and Novell.
  - More configuration options
    More configuration options for starting Pegger have been added as
    TOOLTYPES in the Pegger icon.
  - Of Course, Lots of Bug fixes!
  Original Features of Pegger Include:
  - ARexx support.
  - Support for NewTek Framestore, 24-bit IFF, DCTV, and HAM8 images.
  - PEGGER can process images up to 32000 pixels wide using less than
    4 MB of system RAM.
  - AmigaDOS 2.0 & 3.0 compatible.
  - Follows all AmigaDOS programming guidelines.
  - Adjustable priority for JPEG compression and decompression.
  - PEGGER is designed to multi task in the background using minimal
    system resources so a 3D rendering or graphics program can also run at
    the same time.
  - Snoop feature allows PEGGER to compress the output of your 3D
    rendering or graphics program into a JPEG file automatically.
  - JPEG code has been optimized in 100% 68000 assembly for speed.
  Uppgrade fee for curent Pegger user is $15.00 US + shipping/handling.
  For more information please contact Chris Minshall / Ivan Moore at:
  Heifner Communications, INC.
  4451 I-70 Drive NW
  Columbia, MO  65202
  Phone: [phone]
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Yes, the very long-awaited CyberPicasso, Picasso II graphic board
  replacement software, is now released. More about this wonderful
  software in a later issue of AmyNews. A demo version is avilable through
  AmiNet.

- We have just been informed that 3 wonderful CD titles has been reworked
  to take advantages of AGA chipset in the newer Amiga:
  - Insight: Technology
    From household appliance to high-tech science . A fashinating look
    inside the way things works with sound, images, videos and text.
  - Guiness Book of the World Record (new version), over 6000 recores
  - Crollers Encyclopedia 2
    A must have, awared winning reference work using CD-ROM and MultiMedia
  For availability and price please contact your Amiga dealer.

- Dr Perry of the GP Software, Brisbane, Australia, maker of the Amiga FAX
  software GPFax, announces the release of the companies bussiness package
  "General Ledgers". Jonathan (DrirectoryOpus) Potter has partly been
  involved in development of this package.
  Voice - [phone]
  Fido: 3:640/304 - Greg Perry

- Eureka's president Frank Hoen release information about current Eureka's
  products and the products under development:
  - Communicator II, the improved version of the very popler Communicator
    for CD32 is now available. The Communicator II makes CD32 an
    intelligent 2 way computer with CD-rom controlled by the amiga.
    Highlights for the new Communicator II are:
    - Software improvments:
      - Speed:
        Transfer speed can be reached of upto 210000 baud.
      - Virtual disk:
        Using non-volatile ram of the CD32, the user can select which menu
        program he wants to boot with.
      - User Interface:
        The Bootup Menu and Communicator program are integrated into 1
        easy to use program.
      - Visual Feedback:
        Visual feedback is given when the CD32 receives commands. Examples
        of visual feedback are playing CD's, setting the baudrate, showing
        when files are being transferred etc.
      - File Transfer:
        The Communicator II now has 3 ways of transferring files; Safety,
        CD-rom and High-speed CLI.
      - CD32 AGA viewer:
        View pictures and animations from CD or amiga in 16.7 Million
        colours. The viewer functions as framebuffer for non-aga machines
        enabling you to view AGA pictures in 16.7 Million colours.
      - WorkBench:
        A newer version is installed for improved compatibility.
      - MediaPoint and Scala drivers:
        Included the Scala driver, the new Communicator II is now supplied
        with the new Mediapoint Full motion video (needs Full Motion Video
        cartridge); Mpeg, and Audio Xapp offering advanced audio and video
        control.
    - Hardware improvments:
      - The new Communicator II hardware case has an extra A2000/3000 key-
        board plug next to it's standard CD32/ A4000 keyboard plug.  Also
        the serial cable to the amiga is now a DB25 serial to RJ10 jack
        (telephone) plug.  The serial cable can be easily changed and has
        a cable guard.  The Communicator to CD32 connector is strengthened
        even more and the Communicator's LED's are now on the front for
        even better visibility.  This added to the steel plated case makes
        for a very robust design.
    The low cost Communicator Lite II has the same features as the full
    blown Communicator II except it doesn't have LED's, a MIDI, keyboard
    interface and the advanced power control of the Communicator.
    For Communicator users software upgrades can be obtained from their
    Communicator dealer or directly from Eureka at extra charge.
  - Further products from Eureka are the Afterburner 50mhz 68030 turbo for
    the A4000/A3000 and Photolite PhotoCD software for CD32.
  - The all new version of the Helm, Amigas authoring program, is soon
    available through to all Euro Amiga users.
  For more information concerning Eureka products, please contact:
  Eureka, Frank Hoen
  Adsteeg 10
  6191 PX Beek (L)
  The Netherlands
  Voice: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]

- Amiga E Compiler package, the natural source for the Amiga E programmers
  is now available in an all new version 3.1a. The Amiga E Compiler was
  developed over the course of more than three and a half years, after the
  author's idea of a good programming language, and a quality amiga-
  specific compiler for it. It was programmed (as you might have guessed)
  in 100% assembly. All other support programs were written in E itself.
  E is an object oriented / procedural / unpure functional higher
  programming language, mainly influenced by languages such as C++, Ada,
  Lisp etc. It is a general-purpose programming language, and the Amiga
  implementation is specifically targeted at programming system
  applications. The number of features of the language is really too great
  to sum up entirely and include:
  speed of >20000 lines/minute on a 7 Mhz amiga, inline assembler and
  linker integrated into compiler, large set of integrated functions,
  great module concept with v39 includes as modules, flexible type-system,
  quoted expressions, immediate and typed lists, low-level and object
  polymorphism, exception handling, inheritance, data-hiding, methods,
  multiple return values, default arguments, register allocation, fast
  memory management, unification, LISP-Cells, (macro-) preprocessor,
  source-level debugger, and much more...
  The new version 3.1a among a lot of bug fixes features:
  - SourceLevel debugging! option DEBUG/S and external debugger EDBG
  - Built-in preprocessor! (conditional compilation & macro
    preprocessing), Mac2E and Cpp compatible
  - The SUPER keyword allows calling of superclass methods
  - Some new example sources, new tool modules (FilledVector, EasyGUI
    and more)
  - new versions of Aprof and EE
  - docs updated: new features, FAQ etc...
  Amiga E is shareware and can be registred directly by it's auther. A
  demo version is available in Aminet. For registration and further
  information, please contact:
  Wouter van Oortmerssen
  Levendaal 87
  2311 JG  Leiden
  HOLLAND
  EMail: [e-mail]
  EMail: [e-mail]

- CyberCall is selling CyberEdit Pro version 2.26 which is suited for
  using the Video Toaster with Future Video edit controllers. Priced at
  $999 US, CyberEdit Pro bring professional, cuts-only editing to the
  masses. Used in conjunction with a Future Video edit controller like
  Future Video's Edit Link 3300, your Amiga, a Video Toaster and a couple
  of industrial VCRs become a capable edit system.
  CyberCall
  20 Cleveland Awe.
  Highland Park, NJ 08904
  USA
  Phone: [phone]

- German based company MAXON Computer Gmbh is currently developing a new
  version of MAXONWord, the companies very populer word processor. The
  current version features:
  - Supports endnotes/footnotes on screen in real-time WYSIWYG mode.
  - Style settings: character and paragraph attributes can be applied by
    dragging their icon out of a list and dropping it on the paragraph/
    marked block.
  - Standard Amiga bitmap and ColourFonts
  - Compugraphic fonts supported (and all other fonts using Amiga's font
    scaling subsystem (diskfont.library >= V37), i.e. CG fonts with
    bullet.library, others with their own "bullet.libraries".
  - Adobe Type 1 font-rasterizer (similar to Adobe Type Manager on Mac and
    Windows). Directly supports PC and NeXT Type 1 fonts, Mac fonts after
    conversion. The included fonts are in PostScript Type 1 format.
  - Support for printer build in fonts.
  - Output to maximum resolution of any printer with a Workbench driver.
    Colour printers supported too.
  - Index/Table of contents generation.
  - IFF ILBM, GIF, DR2D graphics import.
  - Each page can have an unlimited amount of text boxes, which can be
    placed in columns, rows or whatever (ala DTP). Column style boxes can
    be generated with a layout-generator.
  - Configurable menus and hotkeys.
  - Spell-checking in five languages.

- Data Managment and Research is selling MultiFinder, an all new database
  package for the Amiga. More news about this new software in a later issue
  of AmyNews.

- A new version of the Amiga Mosaic version 1.3 is currently under
  development. A beta version of this software is obtainable from
  max.physics.sunysb.edu/pub/amosaic.

- The Canadian Computer Answers is selling the new Amiga 2200 in a low end
  and a high end version.
  - Model A2200-1 Specifications, the low end one
    - CPU:     68020 CPU
    - RAM:     2 MB 32-Bit Chip Ram and 2 MB of Fast RAM
    - Storage: 3.5 Floppy and 210 MB HD
    - Price:   $1199 US
  - Model A2200-2 Specifications, the high end one
    - CPU:     68030 CPU & 68882 FPU @ 40mhz
    - RAM:     2 MB 32-Bit Chip RAM and 4 MB of Fast RAM
    - Storage: 3.5 Floppy & 420 MB HD
    - Price:   $1599 US
  Common Features for both models:
  Kickstart 3.1 Built In
  Detachable Keyboard, 94 Keys, w/Function, Numeric & Cursor
  Hi-resolution, Opto-Mechanical, Two Button Mouse
  Seven Slots: One local BUS Slot (150 Pin Amiga 1200 Compatible)
  One Compatability Slot for 486 and better Card
  One CPU slot for future expansion
  Four IBM PC/AT compatible Slots
  Interfaces: Mouse, Joystick, Lightpen, Graphics Tablet (X2), Serial,
  Parallel and CD-ROM ports, Composite Video, SVHS Video and RGB video.
  Graphics: AGA chipset
  Dimensions: 40cm Deep, 42cm Wide & 12cm High.
  Power: 155/230 Volt, 50/60hz, 200 watt (CSA Approved)

  Please understand that these are not Amiga Clone as the MacroSystem's
  DraCo but redesign of the Amiga computers to suit the markets demand.
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- MUI, MagicUserInterface, the powerful object oriented GUI builder for
  the Amiga is now released in a version 2.3. Being writen by Stefan
  Stuntz, the MUI v2.3 is a SASG product. From  a programmers point of
  view, using MUI saves a lot of time  and  makes life much easier.
  Thinking about complicated terms like window resizing or font
  sensitivity is simply not neccesary. On  the  other hand, users of MUI
  based applications have the ability to customize  nearly every pixel of
  a programs interface according to their personal taste. A demo version
  of this wonderful product is waiting for you in your favorite Amiga FTP
  site :-)

- New Zealand company ACID software is developing version 3.0 of it's
  powerful Basic package BlitzBasic. The new package will contains Acid
  Blitz Compiler version 2.0 which features:
  - An all new manual, and 100's of new commands that have been added to
    the language over the last 12 months.
  - Full support for Intuition programming
  - Workbench 2 and 3 support
  - Complete AGA control
  - Inline assembler
  - New BlitzOS, GadTools and ASL command libraries
  - Beta of Blitz3D to be included
  - New upgraded debugger
  BlitzBasic ability to mix assembly language with compiled BASIC in the
  one environment has given Blitz the cutting edge for Amiga developers.
  There are currently a set of sofwares developed using BlitzBasic. The
  list includes SkidMarks version 2.0 Super SkidMarks, CenterCourt Tennis,
  Guardian2 and more. Super SkidMarks features:
  - New 8 car mode for AGA machines
  - Shared screen mode for up to 4 player team racing
  - Triple split screen mode for three players on one Amiga
  - Caravan towing
  - 12 new tracks as well as the original 12
  - New cars including Mini, VW, F1, Cow and Midget
  - New Acid Intelligence technology for computer drivers
  - Super view mode for locally linked AGA machines
  - Improved comms support for local and remote linking + internet support
  - Competition play with a multitude of challenging series
  - Imagine->SkidMarks car converter for user defined cars
  ACID software is currently developing: Blitz3D, Gloom, Blitz-Jaguar.
  Fax:   [phone].
  Email: [e-mail]

- US based company Oxxi announces the release of it's powerful Database
  Managment System, SBase Professional version 1.30n (former SuperBase
  Professional 4 from Precision SoftWare). SBase currently offers enhanced
  ARexx control, printer support and DML commands. It includes logical
  fields, query across relationships and multiple files, store & recall
  report and query formats, definition for up to 60 function key commands.
  Oxxi offer a range of other Amiga products related to DBMS and
  networking:
  - Sbase 4 LAN adds the ability for Sbase Pro to work over a network of
    computers using either Sbase for the Amiga or SPC's Superbase Windows.
  - Developer's Extension adds; a runtime module to SBPro 4 which allows
    stand-alone applications to be written.  The runtime-module is an
    unlimited license and costs $399.95.
  - Oxxi client software; allows Amigas to hook into a Novell Netware
    network with Macs and PCs.  The server must be running Netware 2.15
    or higher. The Amiga retains all multi-tasking capabilities and Oxxi
    includes a number of Amiga-specific network utilities. Price depends
    on the number of Amigas.
  Any Oxxi software that requires a dongle to operate can be upgraded to a
  non-dongle version for $10.00.
  Upgrade fee for current SBase 1.X owner is $10. More about this release
  in a later issue of AmyNews.
  Oxxi Inc.
  Box 90309, Long Beach,
  CA 90809, USA
  voice  310-427-1227
  fax    [phone]

- US based company Silent Paw Production is shipping the first Portable
  Amiga WorkStations (PAWS). We are afraid that we currently can not give
  you any more information about PAWS.
  Silent Paw Production
  P.O.Box 1825
  Manassas, VA 22110
  USA
  Phone/Fax: [phone]

- PhoneBill, the Amigas log file analyzer is now available in a new
  version 3.2. PhoneBill scan log files generated by a terminal program or
  a mailer, extract all information about calls you have made by using
  your modem, and store this in its own (short) format. After extracting
  the calls PhoneBill can generate various reports in which you can find
  information on duration and costs of the calls. Version 3.2 features:
  - Added scanners for AmiTel, Off-line Amiga, DreamTerm, ISDN-Master-
    Telephone-Log.
  - Added a new cookie for fido-style addresses to the scanner. If you
    have `traplist' installed the address found will be used to find the
    real name and phonenumber of the host.  You'll need to configure the
    "Nodelist path" (see miscellaneous settings).
  - Phonebill has become a commodity.
  - Added: if you want to rescan the log files you won't have to go
    through the trouble of removing the signatures with a text editor,
    just use the new `Rescan logs' menu item.
  - New option for disabling writing signatures to the log file
  - New report presets for the scan range and groups.
  - New hosts can be automatically added by supplying the rate(s) with
    a pattern to match certain area codes.
  Priced at only $10 US, the package is downloadable from following Hosts:
  Grafix Attack (Sysop: Kees Huizer)
    [phone]   (V32Bis)
    [phone]   (19k2 ZyXEL)
    [phone]   (28K8)
    FidoNet:   2:286/407.0
    AmigaNet: 39:153/201.0
    NLA:      14:101/200.0

  Decades BBS (Sysop: Thomas Andersson)
    [phone] (USR 28.8 V.Everything)
    FidoNet:   2:203/625.0
    AmigaNet: 39:160/105.0

- Gordon Harwood Computers are distributing the Imagine 3.0 Enhancer CD,
  produced by the German company OberLand. This disk contains several
  hundred models, textures and fonts, including a selection of rather
  nice images of clouds, sunny beaches and the like for use as backdrops.
  The famous German Imagine user Horst Kolodziejczyk has contributed a
  selection of objects and some excellent renders of them. The disk costs
  £49.94 UK and is available in the UK from Gordon Harwood.
  Phone: [phone]

- German based company Corporate Media announces the release of PhotoWorx
  Professional. The new version supports Kodaks new professional
  resolution; 4000*6000 and have built in virtual memory support.
  Corporate Media is also selling FolioWorx. FolioWorx supports Kodaks
  all new portfolio format. Kodaks Portfolio format is suited for multi-
  media applications and has support for 24-bit images and 16-bit sound.
  Corporate Media
  Phone: [phone]
         511-661042
         511-661043
  Fax:   [phone]

- the US company DarkSoft computers announces the release of a new version
  1.2 of the companie's low cost multiple platform graphic conversion and
  processing software, Transition. Priced at only $40 US this powerful
  software features:
  - Converts images to and from 24 bit, IFF, GIF, JPEG, PCX and more.
  - Resizing, precise scaling, color correction, batch processing etc
  - Super easy, point and click environment
  - Configurable image output options

- Questar Productions announces the availability of the prerelease version
  of the World Construction Set version 1.0, priced at $195 US. List price
  for the release version is $250 US. Questar Productions is currently
  updating the manual for the release version of the Questar.
  The World Construction Set is a so called terrain renderer or scenery
  generator/animator with promissing features. Highlights of WCS include
  the abililty to render the entire earth, true spline motion paths with
  a graphic editor, a complete key frame animation system with over 150
  parameters that you can animate, the ability to load and save LightWave
  motion paths, photographic rendering quality, the ability to load
  standard USGS DEM files, a style guide compliant windowing interface,
  support for high res graphics cards, and the proverbial "much more". :)
  World Construction Set (WCS) is the next generation of computer
  terrain modeling software. WCS' powerful renderer sets new standards
  in photo-realism, producing images that are often mistaken for actual
  photographs. WCS' ecosystem modeling approach combines familiar 3D
  imaging techniques with Nature's own processes to deliver scenes of
  sublime beauty and lifelike detail to your Amiga.
  World Construction Set is like nothing you have seen befor!
  Questar productions
  1058 Weld Co. Rd. 23
  Brighton, CO 80601
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  Look what Amiga World reviewer write about World Construction Set:
       ______________________________________________________________
      |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
  ____| Belonging to a specialized group of programs commonly known  |____
  \   | as landscape makers / terrain renderers,  World Construction |   /
   \  | Set (WCS) is arguably the most powerful and complex package  |  /
    ) |     on the Amiga or any other personal computer platform     | (
   /  |______________________________________________________________|  \
  /_______)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(_______\

  Another Amiga program that outperform anything on any other platform.
  Go Amiga Go ....

- Jason Compton, the Editor-In-Chief of the online Amiga Magazin, "Amiga
  Report Magazine" is helping to organize a fact-finding and project-
  development campaign for ISDN technology and the Amiga. Giorgio Gomelsky,
  is leading the campaign. His primary goals are to gather as much
  information about ISDN and ISDN technology application (he already has
  experience in the area), and then to develop feasible and useful
  products to incorporate the Amiga into this growing market.
  If you can help, please mail him at [e-mail].

- Will Bow and Colin Thompson of the "BOTH Software" announce the
  developmet of the Amiga COMAL programming language. COMAL isa also
  known as the Readable C. COMAL version 2.0 for the Amiga is currently
  under betatesting. This version has all the looping structures, I/O,
  Turtle Graphics, and sprite control. The public version is an
  Interpreted Language. A commercial version that can be compiled is
  currently developed.

- Brian Aagaard Petersen annouces the release of the very long-awaited
  EqEd, the Amiga mathematical equations and expressions Editor. EqEd,
  using MagicUSerInterface lets you design your expressions in a easy to
  understand WYSIWYG manner, and export it for insertion in your favourite
  wordprocessor like FinalWriter, WordWorth or a DTP-program like
  PageSetter. EqEd in it's current version features:
  - WYSIWYG editing. No need remember how a fraction or integral is done.
  - Supports "Multiple lines" and "Multiple lines"
  - Unlimited nesting of fractions, roots etc
  - Output in "LaTex", "PostScript" and "IFF" formats
  - Unlimited size of equations
  - Userdefineable shortcut keys
  - A nice and clean GUI using the MUI
  - Intensive Online help
  - Clipboard support

- Utilities Unlimited International, inventer of the Amiga Emplant
  technology has released the new version 5.0 of the software for the
  Macintosh emulation module. here is the feature list:
  - New multi-os.device
  - New empser.device
  - New amia.device
  - New Jam.library
  - New EMPLANT.library
  - More OS2.x compliant user interface
  - New RsrvMemV
  - Fixed a problem with HardFileSetup
  - Fixed icon image data for floppy devices using multi-os.device with
    the emulation
  - Reduced maximum device transfer size to 64K
  - Massive re-write of AmigaDOS device support
  - Created 'empdisc.device'
  - Added support for AmigaDOS removable media devices such as Syquests,
    Bernoullis, and CD-ROM drives (using empdisc.device and empcd.device)
  - Corrected a major problem with System 7.5 support
  - Overall cleanup of the emulation's interface code
  - New video drivers for PiccoloSD64 video board
  The uppgrade software is available through UU BBS or AmiNet.

- Ben Williams, President of the Black Belt Systems announces a Feb 95
  release of the companies Amiga image manipulation software Imagemaster
  R/t. Feature list and upgrade info in a later issue of AmyNews.

- Digita International, announces a Feb 95 release of Wordworth that will
  support the Picasso graphic board from Villiagetronic.

- EGS, Enhanced Graphics System, all new version 7.0 is now available for
  all Amiga non-EGS graphic boards. EGS currently supports these Amiga
  graphic cards: Merlin, EGS-110, Retina, Domino, Rainbow, Picasso,
  Visiona, IV-24. EGS German distributor, DTM,
  Fax #: [phone].

- German based company MAXON Computer Gmbh announces the release of
  the companies relational database Twist version 2.0.

- The dutch company MacroSystem GmbH announces DraCo, the first Amiga
  clone. DraCo is a powerful Graphics and Video Workstation based on the
  Motorola 68060, Retina BLT over a direct bus with data rates of over
  20MB/second and the Amiga Operating System. All system freindly Amiga
  program that don't requires the custom Amiga chip are compatible with
  this new workstation. More about this new baby in a later issue of
  AmyNews.

- Jack Radigan of DynaLogic announces the immediate release of DynaLogics
  telecommunication software, Terminus, version 2.0e.
  DynaLogic BBS has got a new number which is: 914-934-5922.

- We are proud to announce the availability of another all new powerful
  personal finance management tool for tracking assets and liabilities,
  CheckItOut. CheckItOut! is an extremely fast finance manager that
  currently features:
  - Multiple account types: Checking, Savings, Credit Card, Cash, Asset,
    Liability.
  - Many accounts can be managed simultaneously.
  - Flexible categorization of spending and income, including multi-level
    categories.
  - Extremely fast data entry using SmartType(TM)
  - Fast fund transfers from one account to another.
  - Very convenient account reconciliation with bank statements using
    intuitive windows.
  - Numerous reports are available analyzing personal finances.
  - On-Line HyperText Help with Context Sensitive Help
  - Imports/Exports transactions and categories in .qif format, a
    defacto industry standard compatible with Quicken and
    Microsoft Money programs.
  A full demo version of the program is available on AMINET. For price
  and ordering information please contact:
  Bug Free Development
  P.O. Box 7042
  Nashua, NH  03060
  USA
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Final Writer version 3.0, the powerful Amiga word processer is now
  released. Woody Williams, SoftWood's President says the new version
  makes FW easier to use. Upgrade cost for owners of Final Writer 2 will
  be the modest $5. Version 3.0 features:
  - Drag and drop text editing
  - Type and spell--option to spell check as you type
  - Dictionary hyphenation option
  - Easy page numbering without the need to know about master pages
  - Easy header/footer setup without the need to know master pages
  - Enhanced text selection including triple-click, quad-click, shift
    extended selection, and enhanced text selection while dragging mouse
  - "no warning" auto-save option
  - Polygon and beizier special shape drawing tools
  - Selective display of master page items on first only, all but first, and
    all pages of section
  - Enhanced page number formatting
  - More precise "snap to" grid for graphics and text blocks
  - Ability to use more than one language for spelling and typing (requires
    purchase of extra dictionarys)

- The german-based "Vector HARD & SOFT" reports that a new ROM for the
  "Vector Conn", multi-serial/parallel port is under beta testing. "Vector
  Conn" is a Zorro-II board for the Amiga that comes with 2 parallels and
  4 serial ports. Contact "Vector HARD & SOFT" for more information:
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

- Voyager, the Dynamic Sky Simulator, version 2.0 is under development.
  Voyager version 1.0 and 1.1 as it was released during 90-92 became the
  choosen Amiga software of the year and set the standard for astronomical
  software. Voyager brings a dynamic universe to your Amiga, re-creating
  the sky for almost time and any location. It's an incredible learning
  tool for astronomers. Fast enough to show eclipses; Voyager is indees
  the fastest astronomy program on any platform. Contact Carina sodtware
  for more information:
  Carina Software
  830 Williams Street
  San Leandro, California  94577
  Phone: [phone]

- Michael Meshew announces the release of a new "Light-ROM" CD for 3D
  artists. This is a 647 Mb CD dedicated to 3D artists all over the world,
  and contains Lightwave objects (and other format) each with thumbnail
  pictures, scene files, textures, bump maps (JPEG, IFF, & TARGA), fonts,
  thumbnail renderings, and text files with advice from the rendering
  pros.  It also contains a "Showcase Directory", displaying the talents
  of selected Lightwave artists from all over the world. LIGHT-ROM will
  be updated at approximately 6 month intervals. Priced at $35 US, the
  CD can be obtained from:
  Fred Fish
  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]

- Fred Fish announces the release of the second pressing of the Meeting
  Pearls CD.  This CD contains about 150 high quality and high resolution
  fractals, a ready to run version of PasTeX which includes fonts for FAX
  and 600 DPI printers, a ready to install version of the Amiga NetBSD
  port, and many other ready to run applications including UMS, DaggeX, a
  lot of utilities, games, etc.
  Fred Fish
  Tel:   [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]

- Daniel S. Milling Jr. announces the release of RenderCalc version 1.46,
  the ultimate multimedia tool for 3D artist that want to know the number
  of frames it would take for an object moving X miles per hour to move Y
  feet. RenderCalc features:
  - Ability to enter values for Speed and Distance and receive output
    telling the user how many total frames, seconds, minutes and the
    length of time, in the specified time code format, that the motion
    will take.
  - The Speed, Distance and Length Input Gadgets have Cycle gadgets
    attached to them which allows you to change the units of the entered
    number 'on the fly.' This gives you instantaneous updates without
    having to re-type the number.
  - Table of conversions between units of length.  Supported units are
    inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, meters and kilometers.
  - Ability to change the units of ANY inputted number and have all of the
    values update, relative to the new units, on the fly.  This saves
    having to re-type the values.
  - If you want to convert a number to different units, you may enter
    that number into the Length gadget and see the printed results in the
    conversion table below.
  - The table of conversions is linked to the Distance and Length gadgets,
    which means that any number entered in either gadget will be converted
    and printed into the table.  The reason for this is that if you enter
    a number into the Distance gadget and would like to know what it
    converts to in units of a different system, you don't have to re-type
    it into the Length gadget.  It is automatically calculated and printed
    for you.
  - SMPTE non-drop frame, EBU and Film time code supported.  SMPTE drop
    frame is NOT implemented at this time.
  - Ability to enter Time Code In and Out points as well as a Duration.
    The time code values are printed out under the Time Code Output
    section. The time code input has two modes of operation.  You may
    enter Time Code In and Time Code Out points which results in Duration
    being the final output value. You may also enter a Time Code In and a
    Duration which will give you the Time Code Out as your final value.
  - Ability to add/subtract either timecode values or a number of frames
    from any of the Timecode Input values.  This saves a lot of time and
    comes in quite handy when you need to alter an already inputed value.
  - Ability to enter a decimal frame value and have it converted to the
    appropriate time code, relative to the current Time Code Type.
  - Ability to change the Time Code Type 'on the fly.'  This means that
    you may switch between the supported time code formats and see the
    updated results immediately without having to re-enter the values.
  - And more.
  A full demo version of the program is available on AMINET.

- Ok, the wait is over. AmyNews is very proud to announce that the very
  long- awaited Tower JFIF DataTypes Class & Tower JPEG Codec Class v1.0
  from Christoph Feck, TowerSystems, is now finally released.
  Christoph Feck
  TowerSystems
  Balbierstrasse 6
  D-67663 Kaiserslautern
  Germany
  Email: [e-mail]

- The long-awaited MathScript version 1.0 is now released. MathScript is
  a formula editor, which is used to integrate mathematical formulas into
  word processors. MathScript version 1.0 features:
  - With MathScript, it is very easy to create complex formulas. To insert
    them into word processors or DTP programs they are saved as graphic
    files. To garantee the highest possible quality they are saved as
    vector graphics in the EPS format. They can be loaded into all word-
    processor and DTP programs which support this format (FinalWriter,
    PageStream etc). They can be printed out by PostScript printers and
    through software PostScript interpreters on all printers.
  - Extensive amount of mathematical and physical symbols
  - Control codes for formatting (super-, subscript, fractions, roots)
  - Easy input via Workbench GUI
  - Export in the EPS format
  - ARexx port
  - support for the locale.library (beginning with OS 2.1). Available
    languages are english, german, french.
  MathScript is a shareware product priced at $15 US and is obtainable
  from:
  Simon Ihmig
  Beim Rauhen Hause 30
  22111 Hamburg
  Germany
  EMail: [e-mail]

- ImageStudio version 1.2.1 is now released. ImageStudio is the low cost
  solution for image processing on the Amiga. The new version features:
  - Improved speed of preview redraw.
  - Added greyscale JPEG read / write.
  - Improved speed and quality of HAM6 and HAM8 file creation.
  - Improved speed and quality of 24bit internal viewer.
  - Now uses ASL screenmode requester with Workbench2.1+.
  - Added dynamic range expansion effect.
  - Now sets program stack size within the program - no need to set the
    stack from the CLI.
  - Fixed bug which caused the FlipX effect to work incorrectly with
    24bit images.
  - Fixed bug which caused non-AGA Amigas to think that they could view
    64, 128 and 256 colour pictures directly.
  - Few minor bug fixes and improvements.

- Douglas M. Dyer announces the realease of amiCheck, checkbook/account
  manager, version 1.31. amiCheck is doubtless, one of the best checkbook
  program for the Amiga or anyother platform. It has a very solid but
  simple to use GUI and is superbly suited for the professional Amiga
  users. amiCheck has extensive automation capabilities and can be driven
  almost entirely by keyboard if desired. The interface is font-sensitive
  and on the workbench so graphics board compatibility is high. Release
  note for new version 1.31:
  - Interface
    - Floating palette window of templates.
    - Various GUI improvements
  - Preference menu
    - Two register styles (toggle showing memo)
    - Configure double-click action on transactions
  - Summarize multiple accounts
    - View total current or statement balances, tax deductions
    - Make project files with account lists
  - Filtering
    - Use AmigaDOS pattern matching on payee and memo fields
  A full demo version of the program is available on AMINET.

- Bruce Dawson from Cygnus Software (he wrote the wonderful CygnusEditor,
  CEd) announces the release of a new version 2.01 of the best fractal
  exploration program for the Amiga, Mand2000. Mand2000 draws pictures of
  the Mandelbrot set and other fractals on your Amiga and allows you to
  explore them by doing animated zooms towards interesting areas. Mand2000
  combines speed, power and simplicity with a few unique features, all
  designed to make it easy for you to discover uncharted regions of the
  Mandelbrot set, Julia set and other fractals. Feature list:
  - Point and click animated zooming, the most intuitive way of exploring
    the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. Just point and double click.
  - Mand2000 allows you to pan across fractal images using your keyboard,
    mouse, or joystick.  Plug in your joystick to scroll and zoom your way
    around the most complex object ever seen.
  - Mand2000's multi-pass drawing lets you see an approximation of the
    final picture in a fraction of the total calc time.  Even for pictures
    that will take several minutes to complete, you can get a good idea of
    what your picture will look like almost immediately.  This allows you
    to quickly decide whether to keep zooming, or wait for the completed
    picture.
  - Mand2000 has a multi-window, multi-requester design.  You can adjust
    parameters and see the changes in real time as Mand2000 continues
    calculating while you use the requesters.  Leave as many requesters
    and fractal windows open as you want.
  - Mand2000 lets you calculate fractal zoom movies quickly, by
    calculating key frames and letting Mand2000's TweenPlayer create the
    intermediate frames at playback.
  - Mand2000 has full AGA support, compatibility with the all third party
    graphics boards in up to 256 colour mode, literally dozens of
    different assembly language math routines for accuracies ranging from
    16 bit to 1000+ bit, on-line help, printing, multi-level undo, built
    in locations to start you searching, full featured ARexx support,
    several ARexx scripts supplied, graphical displaying of your location,
    etc.
  - Mand2000 supports rendering fractals in HAM, HAM8, and dithered 256
    colour.  This allows you to display your fractals in thousands of
    different colours - on ANY Amiga.  The entire user interface will now,
    optionally, run in these modes, allowing a separate palette for each
    fractal window, each palette consisting of thousands of colours.
  - Mand2000 creates anim files directly.  Iteration movies, Julia seed
    movies, morph movies, and whatever animation types you feel like
    adding. All of these are written out in the standard anim format, for
    immediate playback with any animation player.
  For more information please contact:
  Cygnus Software
  33 University Square, #199
  Madison, WI, 53713
  USA
  Phone: [phone], 12:00 to 8:00 PM, Central Time
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Soft-Logik Publishing, maker of the DTP program PageStream has moved to
  a new building.

                     OLD STREET ADDRESS       NEW STREET ADDRESS

                     11131F South Towne Sq.   315 Consort Drive
                     St. Louis, MO  63123     St. Louis, MO  63011

                     OLD POST OFFICE BOX      NEW POST OFFICE BOX

                     P.O. Box 510589          not yet available
                     St. Louis, MO  63151     St. Louis, MO  63011

                     OLD PHONE NUMBERS        NEW PHONE NUMBERS

  SALES              1-800-829-8608           1-800-829-8608
                       314-894-8608             314-256-9595

  TECHNICAL SUPPORT  1-800-829-5816*          1-800-829-5816*
                       314-894-0431             314-256-9333

  FAX                  314-894-3280             314-256-7773

  BBS (2 lines now!)   314-894-0057             314-256-8971**

  *  for paid technical support only
  ** ringdown 2 nodes BBS

- GVP announces the release of the PhonePak software version 2.5. Phone-
  pack is the ultimate Information System/Answering Machine/Fax Machine
  soulution for all ZorroII equiped Amigas. There are tons of improvments
  and addition to the software; just to mention some:
  - VFX Control Panel
  - Database
  - Fax Display Screen
  - Operator
  - New Operator Commands
  - Switchboard
  - Message Forwarding
  - Interface Changes (LineMan program)
  - Call Handling (LineMan program)

- Stefan Becker report that he is currently writing an update version of
  the ToolManager, the must have Amiga program that is widly known as one
  of the best Amiga utilities ever. For feature list of the new version,
  please consider reading one of the later issues of AmyNews.
  There is currently a hacked/patched version of the toolmanager.library
  floating arund in the German BBSs. Please remove it from your system.

- Erik Quackenbush of the Scala, Inc. announces the immediate release of
  the very long-awaited PCMCIA driver for all Amigas with PCMCIA port.
  The driver allows you to connect any 14400 and 28800 modem to the Amiga
  PCMCIA port. It also supports PCMCIA serial port cards, which can go up
  to 115.2kbps. The driver have been tested with among other, a serial
  card from Smart Modular Technologies and it works great. For a complete
  release info please read one of the later issue of AmyNews.

- The best Directory Utlity program (no matter what platform you are
  thingking about), DirectoryOpus in an ALL NEW version 5.0, is due to an
  immediate release during the first months of 1995. A demo version 5.0
  was shown in the WoA Dec 95 in London. The program is now mainly
  REWRITEN! Here is the feature list so far:
  - The most striking new feature on DOpus 5 is that it looks much like
    your WorkBench! In this new upgrade, each disk volume would have it
    own icon which can be clicked to display its own column, and files
    can be left out of the drawers like in WorkBench.
  - Complete online help
  - Datatyppe support
  - Drag and drop for application icons
  - Full multithreaded internal processes (internal multitasking), e.g
    each file display is now launched as a separate processes.
  - And more.
  Estimated upgrade price is the moderate $30 US.

- Utilities Unlimited International, inventer of the Amiga Emplant
  technology is announcing the new version 5.0 of the software for the
  Macintosh emulation module. Jim Drew of UU, showed "e586DX", the IBM-PC
  module for the Emplant at the Dec 94 Word of Amiga Show in London.
  The software emulates a Pentium chip (without the bug :-). The  CPUID
  instruction  returns  "Amiga  Inside"  as vendor information :-)
  The emulation requires a GFX board with a VGA controller, like the
  Picasso  or Piccolo. The emulation works  very stable. All x86
  instructions are translated 1-to-1 on the fly, so the speed of the
  emulation depends on the type of  operation. On the test machine at
  the show, memory moves were 2.5 times faster than on a 486DX2-66, but
  computational intensive instructions are slower.
  The PC emulator will be available in mid  January 95.  It will require
  a replacement of a logic chip on the Emplant board  and the emulation
  software.

- Helmut Hoffmann announces the release of EGSPhotoAlbum version 1.7, the
  comfortable picture management and presentation software for EGS
  equipped Amigas. Here is a list of improvements in version 1.7:
  - User interface
    There is now a page menu in the preview page window, which allows to
    flip the pages without use of the control window. The menu entries
    also have keyboard shortcuts.
  - Remove function
    The delete function of V1.5 has been extended by a remove function,
    which does not actually delete files on disk but just removes pictures
    from the preview page
  - Separate directory for preview files selectable
    You can now select a separate preview file directory. This allows
    usage of the fast preview files also with readonly media as CD-ROMs
  - Different preview file formats which can save disk space
    You can now select different preview file formats to optimize speed
    or disk usage (former versions only used the fast but uncompressed
    P6 format; now IFF or JPeg can also be used for preview files).
  Helmut Hoffmann's wonderful EGS-TV is now available in a new verison
  3.6b. EGS-TV now officially support the ImpactVision IV24 framegrabber.
  The ImpactVision IV24 users can use EGS-TV for:
  - A fascinating Blue Screen Keying effect
  - Record sequences of video directly to harddisk
  - Comfortably grab an unlimited number of single pictures, view them in
    separate windows in 24Bit quality in high speed, save them in many
    formats (e.g. JPeg, IFF24, ...) or transfer them to other programs

- Robert Wiliamson announces the release of several new XPR libraries
  for XPR awares programs.
  - xprzedzap.library 3.4
    ZedZap, ZedZip, DirectZap, Zmodem, SZmodem with dual-status display
    support
  - xprslk.library 1.1
    SeaLink OverDrive for EMSI
  - xprfts.library 1.1
    Xmodem, Sealink, Telink, MDM7, DieiIFNA for FTS1
  - xprclock.library 0.4
    get time from an atomic clock

- Ramiga International i offering another tower system upgrade for A1200
  and A4000 owners. The Ramiga Z5 A1200T comes with 5 ZorroII slots and
  3 5.25" and 5 3.5" drive bays.
  The Z7 A4000T has 7 ZorroIII slots, 2 Video slots, 5 PC slots, 6 5.25"
  and 4 3.5" drive bays.
  Both system were shown at WoA Show, Dec 94, London.

- A new must have program for all Amiga music fans, AlgoRhythms 3.1, an
  update to AlgoRhythms 2.0, improvises music over the audio device and a
  MIDI interface connected to the serial port, is now released. Features:
  - overhauled GadTools interface
  - Arexx
  - AmigaGuide help
  - asl file requester
  - AlgoRhythms as default tool on form file icons
  - 20 voices
  - 21 scales
  - save output to standard MIDI files
  - plays 400+ notes/sec on a 68030/68882 at 25MHz
  - Uses flat pseudo-random numbers to make a variety of music.
  Check AmiNet for availability.

- Oxxi reports that the long awaited text editor TurboText TT is now
  finaly out in version 2.0! upgrade fee for the current owners is 20$.
  There are litterally hundreds of enhancements throughout the new version
  , but the main improvments are:
  - Performance has been substantially increased throughout, in virtually
    every area.
  - The ASL file, font, and screen mode requesters are now used.
  - The user-interface is now fully font-sensitive.
  - There is full on-line AmigaGuide documentation and help.
  - The program generally uses much less memory, especially with large
    documents in systems that run MungWall.
  - Each document window can now have its own menu strip, font, text color,
    keyboard bindings, etc.
  - Each document window can now be opened on separate public screens.
  - The Find and Find & Change windows now feature history in their text
    gadgets.
  - TurboText takes advantage of AmigaDOS 3.0/3.1 features, such as new look
    menus, system busy pointer, full system pen selection support,
    multi-character menu shortcut keys, and other miscellaneous items.
  Oxxi Inc.
  Box 90309, Long Beach,
  CA 90809, USA
  voice  310-427-1227
  fax    [phone]

- Peter Deane announces the release of the BBS program OzMetro version 2.0
  Key features for version 2.0:
  - Very easy to run setup program for initial configuration
  - Ability to recover online user after a reboot
  - Powerful "Amigatised" sysop maintenance program with menus, gadgets,
    etc
  - Fully configurable file areas with control over uploads, downloads and
    "listabilty" for every area
  - Abilith optional MicroWeave printing.
  Resolutions are selected by the Preferences density setting:
    Density 1       180x180
    Density 2       360x180
    Denisty 3       360x360
    Denisty 4       360x360, MicroWeave
    Denisty 5       720x720
    Density 6       720x720, MicroWeave
    Density 7       720x720, MicroWeave (identical to Denisty 6)
  The driver implements horizontal and verical whitespace stripping, as
  well as Epson compression mode 2 ("TIFF v4.0 packbits mode") to minimize
  the amount of data that must be sent to the printer and improve printing
  speed. A beta tester reported speed on an Amiga 3000 comperable to that
  of a 66MHz 486 with Epson's MS-Windows driver.
  The driver implements a very simple color correction for 720dpi modes to
  prevent them from printing excessively dark.  This gives results similar
  to other drivers on the same printer (for example, the PageStream 2.x
  LQ2550C driver). "Endicor Technologies, Inc." is investigating a future
  update with improved color correction, which will provide more accurate
  colors and better gradation.
  Contact Endicor Technologies, Inc. at:
  P.O. Box 29000 #355
  San Antonio, TX 78229
  USA
  Internet:  [e-mail], [e-mail]
  Voice/Fax: [phone]

- The US company Softwood is working on a new spreadsheet program for the
  Amiga. It will blow away anything out for the Amiga to date. Supposedly
  it will be on the scale of Excel. FinalCalc (FC) is a high-end spread-
  sheet that aims at providing the Amiga with something to compete with
  the top spreadsheets in the 'outside world'.
  Its main formula recalc engine has been written to be significantly more
  powerful than the current generation of spreadsheets.  The engine always
  does a 'natural' recalc.  i.e. formulas are evaluated in the order of
  their inter-dependancies, no matter how complex, making sure that the
  result of a formula is correct.
  The recalc engine always runs in the _background_.  The user never waits
  for FC to recalculate.  You keep on editing cells while FC chugs along
  in the background, catching up and updating the display as you work.
  This is very smooth and has to be used to be believed.  Even with this,
  the recalc code itself is very fast anyway, recalculating only what has
  changed or needs to be recalculated, not the entire project.
  FinalCalc's user interface is designed to be both easy to use, and
  power-user friendly.  Everything is keyboard/hotkey driven as well as
  mouse driven. Almost every function, requester, feature can be
  controlled from the keyboard without using the mouse.  The user
  interface can come up on any screen mode and use any Amiga font, even
  changing the screen mode and/or the user font on the fly.
  FinalCalc supports multiple sheets per 'Project'.  (a project can
  consist of 1 to 254 sheets, each containing a maximum of ZZZ (18277)
  columns and 65000 rows.)
  FinalCalc has very powerful printing features, great 2D and 3D graphs,
  more than 630 arexx/script commands, and tons of features.

- The WARP System, a Transputer System for the Amiga, from the US company
  Cybernetic, is now released. The specs for the WARP are very impressive.
  WARP basically allows you to load off cpu intensive tasks to Transputer
  boards using the Warp OS. You can add as many boards as you want to
  your system, increasing performance proportionally.  The base board does
  around 50 Mips and installs in a Zorro slot.  The other boards (Warp
  Twin 70 Mips, Warp Tripple 105 Mips) are then connected to the base
  board. System comparisons to an Amiga 4000/40 are quite impressive, a
  render that take around 1 hour on an A4000/40, take around 50 seconds
  on a 1000 Mips Warp system. A Warp System adapted (rendering engine)
  for Adspec's Aladdin 4D is available, others including Real3D and
  Lightwave are to follow. Cybernetic also announces Cybernetica's
  "Reality Prime Engine Series" of software, a system of modules designed
  to work initially with Warp System, and later with other software on a
  standard Amiga. These releases, each with the engine tag, will add a
  host of options for 3D animators. The lineup is slated LighEngine (for
  ray-tracing and radiosity), Physics (for animation control), Paint (for
  image-processing, compositing and painting), Modeling, Animation,
  Morphing, Particle, Sound, Video and more. The releases will be
  staggered.  The Light Engine and Cybernetica's Newton's Law (animation
  module for LightWave) have already been released.

- The German company Irsee Software announces the release of it's printing
  program TurboPrint Professional version 3.0. The new version has among
  other imrpovments the following features:
  - 16 Milions colour support
  - 256 greyscales for 8 bit b/w pix
  - Support for GFX boards
  - Gammacorrection
  - Support for the new inkjets from HP (600x360dpi), Canon (600x360 dpi)
    , Epson (Stylus Color 720x720 dpi) etc
  Contact IrseeSoft at:
  Am Schlachtbichel 1,
  D-8951 Irsee
  Germany

- The US company FutureVideo announces the release it's all new V-Station
  3300 for the NewTek's Video Toaster. The A/B roll hardware/software
  video editor combines the power of a multitasking, multiple event editor
  with the versatility of the Video Toaster's effects, character
  generation and framestores. V-Station 3300 is capable of direct AREXX
  communication with the Toaster, allowing all of the Toaster's settings
  to be read directly back to the V-Station and saved as part of the event
  record.
  Using intuitive, point-and-click interface and armed with an online
  help system, easy-to-read software screens, and a built-in Tape
  Logging capability, video editing has never been easier.
  V-Station 3300 is compatible with various "prosumer" VCRs and camcorders
  fitted with Panasonic's Control-M or Sony's Control-L (LANC). Powerful
  options including VTR Driver Kits, SMPTE/EBU time code (LTC) readers,
  uppgradeable software and controller firmware are also available.

- PRESS RELEASE! This info directly from Intellegent Designs, Inc.
  AmiBack version 3.0 will support the new parallel port tape drives.
  Intellegent Designs, Inc. (IDI) has now taken over Moonlighter's
  products (AmiBack, TapeWORM etc) and announces the continuing
  development of the AmiBack 3.0 and TapeWorm 2.0. Contact them at:
  Intellegent Designs, Inc.
  2925 East Colonial Drive
  Orlando, FL 32803

- CanDo, the Amiga authoring software, version 3.0 with a lot of new
  features is now released. The most welcome addition is a new debugger
  for debugging CanDo multimedia applications and 53 window/screen
  transition effects. The long awaited CanDo Debugger is now available
  from Inovatronics, Inc. too.
  Inovatronics, Inc.
  8499 Greenville Ave.
  Suite 209B
  USA
  Voice      : [phone]
  FAX        : [phone]

- The TypeSmith 2.5a update is now available from SoftLogic. Version
  2.5a is aminly a bug fixed version that fixes a few small problems
  including the Print Overview.
  TypeSmith is SoftLogics Powerful font designer. TypeSmith converts
  MacBinary or PC TrueType fonts to any other format (PostScript Type 1
  and Type 3, Intellifont, IFF RFF, DMF). Also, it can export any font
  as a high quality TrueType font with instructions (hints). Another
  nice feature is the automatic point reduction algorithm which allows
  you to clean up badly designed fonts. The new overview printing feature
  prints complete character set tables to any printer. The new version
  2.5a can, using it's all new extensive Batch Convert AREXX macro,
  convert entire directories of fonts at the press of a function key.
  This enable you to include fonts from any format into programs such as
  PageStream, Art Expression, Professional Page, DeluxePaint, Final Writer
  , Brilliance, WordWorth, LightWave and the Toaster character generator.

  Soft-Logik Publishing
  315 Consort Drive
  St. Louis, MO  63011
  USA

  Soft-Logik Publishing
  PO Box 3838
  Ballwin, MO  63022-3838
  USA

  Phone: [phone] (Sale)
         314-256-9595
  Phone: [phone] (Technical Support)
         314-256-9333
  Fax:   [phone]
  BBS:   314-256-8971

  Martin A. Blatter (TypeSmith programmer)
  EMail: [e-mail]
  Phone: [phone] (office)
  Phone: [phone] (home)

- We have been informed that the OWL Software company has released yet
  another educational Amiga software, Physics Laboratory in Mechanics.
  The PLM covers kinematics, dynamics, statics, universal gravitation,
  work and energy, impulse and momentum, and rotation. 3 experiments
  ,easy/medium/hard, are given in each subject area, with a logical
  progression between them. One part of the program is the history and
  picture section, with a summary of the basis of the experiment and
  either its creator or the scientist who developed an important concept
  behind it.
  Contact OWL Software and the auther of the mention package, Lori
  Vinciguerra at:
  OWL Software
  460 Summer Avenue
  Reading, MA  01867-3819
  EMail: [e-mail]
  BBS: 617-942-7216

- The German based company MacroSystem has finaly released it's long
  awaited nonlinear editing system, V-Lab Motion. The board fits in
  any Zorro equipped Amiga and can record full-motion, high quality
  video to your harddisk from any source. It offers JPEG compression/
  decompression via a high speed integrated circuit for real time results,
  genlocking, chromakeying and a very powerful editing system.
  For more information contact MacroSystem.
  FAX: Germany-2302-80884

- The new multimedia authoring software for the Amiga, InterPlay for the
  Amiga 2000/3000/4000, allows creation of MultiMedia CDs. InterPlay
  features an intuitive point-and-click WYSIWYG interface and requires 4
  MB of memory to operate.

- The wait is over ;-) The UK based company Almathera is finaly due to
  the immediate release of it's long-awaited program, Photogenics. Being
  called "The Next Generation Image Processor", Photogenics is a hybrid
  of an image processor and paint package. Photogenics combines the
  features of a powerful image manipulation package with the ease-of-use
  and creative freedom of a traditional paint program.
  You can load a variety of different images (JPEG, GIF, IFF, etc.)
  and save them in different formats, but Photogenics is much more than
  just a simple conversion system.  Artists will love the multiple built
  in natural brushes (chalk, pencil, pastel, etc...), or you may perfer
  to retouch pictures with the airbrush.  Through the variety of
  operations and the powerful visual alpha channels, image manipulation
  has never been so enjoyable.
  You can edit multiple images - each in its own resizable window.  The
  realtime HAM-8 display gives you full-colour painting without needing a
  24-bit graphics board.
  Photogenics's interface allows you to work on several images at one time
  by opening a re-sizeable window for each one. Thanks to the program's
  open architecture, you will be able to add your own effects, loaders
  and savers.
  Designed for graphics artists and serious painters, Photogenics gives a
  professional working environment offering many features not even found
  on PC or Mac packages.  The open-architecture design gives programmers
  the freedom of writing their own loaders, savers or effects.
  Photogenics will be introduced at the World of Amiga show on Dec 94.

- SunRize Industries announces the release of it's SoundSwitch eight
  channel audio mixer. It puts the Video Toaster in complete control of
  up to four stereo sources so you won't have to click on a Crouton while
  moving slider controls on a mixer simultaneously. Just plug SoundSwitch
  into your floopy drive port, click on a Crouton, and voila... you've
  switched your audio with your video. It automaticaölly switches to the
  correct audio sources when you do a transition and performs cross-fades
  flawlessly. SoundSwitch sounds even better than your CD player with it's
  dynamic range of 95! decibels. SoundSwitch includes the Mixer, Meter
  and SMPTE modules from SunRize's studio 16. It's compatible with any
  edit controller for the Video Toaster, including NewTek's Video Toaster
  Flyer and RGB's AmiLink.

- An all new version of the wonderful DiskSalv 3.0 version 11.32 (4Q/94),
  the original Amiga disk recovery tool is now released. Developed by Dave
  Haynie and published by Intangible Assets Manufacturing, it is the
  fourth major revision of DiskSalv, and it offers features never before
  found in DiskSalv or other Amiga disk utilities. DiskSalv 3.0 v11.32
  features:
  - A Hot New Look
    The old user interface has been completely reworked. While the best
    features have been retained, much has been improved. The font
    sensitivity is better than everThe overall look is cleaner, with
    graphical queues throughout that enhance operations without making
    undue demands on your system's memory or pretending to be a video
    game. Gadgets and help texts are context sensitive.  Device selection
    throughout is drag-and-drop, though of course enhanced list selection
    is still available for the asking. Interactive AmigaGuide links are
    provided for every gadget and menu function.
  - An Ounce of Prevention
    A disk can now be checked for troubles without actually making any
    repairs, for extra confidence. Deleted directories, files, and data
    can be permanently erased for added security, program releases, etc.
    Traditional full or incremental backups are supported, in the same
    style as DiskSalv's recovery functions.
  - And a Pound of Cure
    You still get traditional DiskSalv functions, only better.  Undeletes
    can often be performed in-place.  A fully redesigned filter mechanism
    supports pattern matching on full pathnames, file notes, dates, file
    sizes, and/or protection bits.  Pattern matches can be used to include
    a file in a scan, exclude it, or stop a scan on a match.  Any number
    of filter groups may be active at the same time, and such groups may
    be loaded from disk.
  - When Time Counts
    A new intelligent prefetching disk cache, buffered file I/O, and
    improved internal design makes DiskSalv faster than ever. The scroll
    bar calculations have been refined for greater accuracy.
  - There's Nothing to Lose
    Device description editing and volume searching functions have been
    greatly enhanced.  DiskSalv can freely convert between its internal
    device format, standard Amiga ASCII format (DOSDrivers files), and
    Rigid Disk Blocks (the standard autoboot format).
  - Going by the Book
    A complete, on-line AmigaGuide manual is included to aid both beginner
    and advanced user. Details range from the basics through a complete
    theory of operation. Decriptions of all DiskSalv file formats and
    associated C Language "include" files are also supplied.
  For more information contact:
  Intangible Assets Manufacturing
  828 Ormond Avenue
  Drexel Hill, PA  19026-2604
  USA
  Phone [phone]
  fax: [phone]

- SoftWood new Database program for the Amgia, "Final Data" version 1.0
  is now released. Final Data is an easy-to-use, flat file data manager.
  Final Data's purpose is to provide a simple, yet powerful way for people
  to orgainize and print lists of information on their Amiga. It is ideal
  for tasks such as:
  - name and adress lists (friends, customers, business contacts, etc.)
  - collections of any type (video, CD, stamp, coin, etc.)
  - reference material such as titles of books and periodicals
  - home inventory, bills, birthday reminders, and appointments
  A Final Data database appears on the screen as a table with rows and
  columns similar to the way a spreadsheet looks.  Viewing a database in
  this manner lets you look at a lot of information at the same time.
  Columns may be narrowed or widened by dragging a column's border with
  the mouse.
  Data is entered into cells in a similar manner as entering data into a
  word processor or text editor. As you go from cell to cell entering data
  the program verifies that the information you enter is consistent with
  the type of information expected.
  Final Data can arrange data in any desired sequence. A unique feature
  gives you the option of sorting either an entire database or only
  selected rows.  The search and replace feature lets you make changes in
  the same manner as in a word processor.
  You can print a database in either label or columnar report format.
  Final Data prints reports complete with page headings that included
  title and page number. Reports may also be printed with totals and row
  counts.
  Labels can be defined in a variety of user-defined formats. Labels can
  be printed from one to many across a page.  Final Data uses a printer's
  built-in fonts for maximum speed and readability.
  Final Data was programmed fromthe beginning with ARexx in mind. There
  are over 75 Final Data ARexx commands that you can use to develop
  scripts. There is also a user-defined ARexx menu you can use to access
  your scripts.

- Just a note for those of you interesting in genealogy programs. The US
  based company "The Puzzle Factory, Inc." distributes "Origins", the
  original genealogy program for the Amiga and the first one of it's kind
  to supports multiplatform file format "GEDCOM". Contact The Puzzle
  Factory, Inc. for more information:

  Puzzle Factory
  Veneta, Oregon
  USA
  Phone: [phone]
  BBS:   [phone]
  EMail: [e-mail]

  Puzzle Factory European distributor
  Helios Software
  163 Huthwaite Road
  Sutton-in-Ashfield
  Notts. NG17 2 HB
  England
  Phone: [phone]

- A new version 3.0 of the PC-Task, the software only Intel 80X86
  emulator, version 3.0 is now released The following features are
  included in release version 3.0:
  - Switchable Intel X86 CPU emulation
  - Support for up to 16MB RAM (15MB extended)
  - Up to 2 floppy drives and 2 hard drives supported
  - Supports hard disk files and hard disk partitions
  - High density floppies and CD-ROM support
  - Select from MDA, CGA, EGA, VGA and SVGA (512K-2MB) video modes
  - Support for up to 256 colours on AGA machines
  - Compatible with graphic boards (eg. EGS Spectrum, Picasso)
  - Parallel, Serial and PC speaker emulation
  - Mouse support, including Serial Mouse emulation
  - Run multiple PC-Task processes on the same machine
  - Run MS-DOS applications in a window on a public screen (eg. Workbench)
  - Transfer files between your Amiga and MS-DOS
  - Support for David Salamon's GoldenGate bridge cards
  - Compatible with MS Windows 3.0 - 3.11
  for more information contact:
  Quasar Distribution                                   __
  P.O. Box 188                                         / /\
  Southland                                       __  / / / A
  Victoria      3192                             /_/\/ / / G
  Australia                                      \ \ \/ / I
                                                  \ \  / M
  Phone [phone]                             \_\/ A
  Fax   [phone]
  BBS   [phone]

- The Edge text editor for the Amiga is now available in an all new
  version 2.0. Edge 2.0 features among other improvments:
  - Addition of the all new Quick Tools. Quick Tools allows the addition
    of a DockMenu (a'la ToolManager) for the most used functions.
  - Asyncrons windows.
  - Additional configurability
  - Unlimited numbers of view for unlimited numbers of windows!
  - You can now assign a title to each "Mark Locations"
  and more

- MacroSystem Develpment Inc is working on it's 68060 version of the
  "Warp Engine". TransWarpEngine, the 68060 baby, will be available
  for Amiga 2000/3000/4000

- Digita International, the good company that gave us the mind blasting
  program, WordWorth, announces the release of an all new personal
  database manager, named DataStore, for the Amiga. DataStore's main
  features include:
  - Toolbar
  - VCR button style Navigator
  - Form design tools to draw fields, boxes, graphic and text frames
  - Form design grid
  - EasyStart Templates (recipes, address book, gardener's guide,
    home inventory, magazine guide, CD/video catalog, Amiga product
    guide, club membership)
  - AmigaGuide help system
  - AmigaDOS3 Datatype compatible
  - Insert text clips (Librarian)
  - Multiple file editing
  - AutoBackup
  - Unlimited records (limited only by ram)
  - Create new database file from selected records
  - Add, edit, resize or remove fields at any time
  - Field types: text, numbers, currency, true/false, yes/no, date
  - Mail-merge with Wordworth
  - Forms with text and graphics
  - Sophisticated queries
  Datastore will be available in mid-December at a direct price of $95.

- Xa-qwk.library, an Amiga shared run time library that allows for the
  manipulation of QWK message packets, is released now. The package
  features among others:
  - The ability to translate and generate the <area>.ndx files.
  - The ability to read, parse and write the control.dat file.
  - Load the message header and text in one function call.
  - Write the message header and text in one function call.
  - And more

- US company Blue Ribbon is marketing a new music board called "One-Stop-
  Musioc-Shop". Being a Zorro 2 board, it features:
  - Midi interface with 48 channels (== 4 seperate MIDI outs)
  - A synthesizer consisting of the Emu Protheus sound engine and 4 MB
    ROM Samples from the Protheus and Emulator libraries.
  - fully support by Bars&Pipes Pro (instead of MIDI output or internal
    Amiga 8bit-sound.)
  - Integrated DSP for onboard F/X (also from the Protheus).

- The very long awaited Amiga port of the XV, the interactive image
  display for the X Window System X11, is now released. Amiga Xv, now in
  version 1.12 is an AmigaDos 3.X program that features among others:
  - Display an image in a window on the screen
  - Display an image on the root window, in a variety of styles
  - Arbitrarily stretch or compress the image
  - Rotate the image in 90-degree steps
  - Flip the image around the horizontal or vertical axes
  - Crop a rectangular portion of the image
  - Magnify any portion of the image by any amount, up to the size of
    the screen
  - Determine pixel values and x,y coordinates in the image
  - Adjust image brightness and contrast with a gamma correction function
  - Apply different gamma functions to the Red, Green, and Blue color
    components, to correct for non-linear color response
  - Adjust global image saturation
  - Perform global hue remapping
  - Edit an image's colormap
  - Reduce the number of colors in an image
  - Dither in color and b&w
  - Smooth an image
  - Crop off solid borders automatically
  - Convert image formats
  - Generate Encapsulated PostScript. The Automatic Checkbook Balancing
    Module still isn't completely debugged, and is planed for the next
    version.

- Walnut Creek announce the release of 2 new CDs for the Amiga.
  - "Internet Info" CD contains 12000 FAQ about all different subjetcs.
  - "Space & Astronomy" CD contains 1080 picture of the Earth etc and
    5000 text files with everything you want to know about Astronomy,
    NASA's press releases since 1962 etc.

- Pure Logic Software (Quincy, CA, USA) is shipping On The Ball version
  1.3: a calendar, addressbook, notepad, todolist personal information
  manager program for the Amiga. Among new features for the new version
  Pure Logic mentions:
    - Over 50 new features, enhancements, and fixes over the previous
      version, v1.20.
   - Smart Reminders
     - Ability to create shadow appointments.
     - Ability to see reminders from when computer was off or OTB was not
       running.
     - Ability to set/disable all reminder options attributes globally or
       to individual appointments.
   - Addressbook Printouts
     - Create custom phone or address lists in addition to custom mailing
       labels.
   - Modular Save files
     - Save selected entries into a new project file.
     - Merge a project into the current one.

  On The Ball, may be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from Pure
  Logic Software for $40.
  Pure Logic Software,
  789 Butterfly Road
  Quincy, CA  95971  USA

- Cloanto from Italy announces the release of it's low cost painting
  package, Personal Paint version 6.1. The new version supports among
  other improvments, animation with StoryBoard, complete support for
  ALL Amiga graphic boards, virtuel memory managment, possibility to
  print 24 bit picture and is reported to be much faster.
  EMail: [e-mail]

- ImageStudio version 1.1.0 is now released. ImageStudio is the low cost
  solution for image processing on the Amiga. It features among other:
  - General:
    - Full 24-bit image buffers, with optimizations for colour-mapped
      (palette based) images.
    - Up to 100 levels of undo / redo.
    - User configurable virtual memory.
    - User saveable preferences.
    - Operations applicable to the whole image or a selected region.
    - Up to 256 greyshade preview window (with optional dither).
    - Zoom on preview window.
    - Internal / external viewers (external for 3rd party 24-bit graphics
      cards).
    - Loading / saving / manipulating of AGA image formats (e.g. 256
      colours, HAM8) on non-AGA machines.
    - Max image size of 32000 x 32000.
    - Copy / paste to / from the system clipboard.
    -  Runs on all Workbench 2.04+ Amiga's - utilises AGA chipset if
      available.
    - On disk AmigaGuide, ASCII text documentation, TeX `.dvi' and
      PostScript.
    - Multi-level help error requesters.
    - Standard Workbench2 interface.
    - Public screen.
    - Requires no third party libraries or utilities.
  - Import:
    - IFF-ILBM formats (Standard palette based, HAM6, HAM8, extra
      halfbright, ILBM24)
    - BMP
    - GIF (conforming to GIF87a)
    - JPEG (conforming to JFIF standard)
    - PCX
    - Targa
    - Any installed Amiga datatype (with Workbench 2.1+)
  - Export:
    - IFF-ILBM formats (Standard palette based, HAM6, HAM8, extra
      halfbright, ILBM24)
    - BMP
    - EPS
    - GIF (conforming to GIF87a)
    - JPEG (conforming to JFIF standard)
    - PCX
    - Targa
  - Colour Balance:
    - All operations are available to the R,G,B components separately.
    - Brightness ( upto ±100%)
    - Contrast (non to full)
    - Gamma ( + and - )
  - Convolution:
    - Built in convolutions: Blur, Sharpen, Emboss, Raise, Edge detect.
    - User definable convolutions, load and save to disk.
  - Effects:
    - Built in effects: FlipX, FlipY, RollX, RollY, Negative, Greyscale,
      Highlight, Shadow, Random, Pixelize, Remove isolated pixels.
  - Scale:
    - Crop to selected region.
    - Increase / decrease scale by percentage or absolute image size.
    - Simple scale or colour averaged.
  - Colour reduction:
    - Increase colour mapped images to 24-bit.
    - Decrease number of colours in 24-bit or colour mapped images via
      Heckbert median cut algorithm.
    - Dithers available for colour reduction: None, Floyd-Steinberg,
      Burkes, Stucki, Sierra, Jarvis, Stevenson-Arce.
  - Palette:
    - Edit palette colours and ranges.
    - Save current palette.
    - Force palette onto current image, dithering if necessary (all
      dithers available).

- The French company Archos is the maker of the "OverDrive CD" for the
  Amiga 1200. "OverDrive CD" is suited for connection to the Amiga 1200
  using Amiga's PCMCIA port. It's multisession and Kodak PhotoCD compatible
  drive and sports 300 KB/Sec. It understands the audio CDs and CD+G
  format and can even emulate an CD32. Most CD32 games works using it.

- Amiga Library Service announces the release of it's "Fresh Fonts CD-
  ROM, Volume 1". Most of the fonts on the CD are made available in
  different file formats:
  - Adobe (can be used on any system, also used for Postscript)
  - Truetype (native fonts of PC-Windows)
  - Intellifonts (Agfa Intellifonts, native Amiga format, also common
      on Mac)
  - Amiga Bitmap (Amiga computers only)
  - DMF (Amiga DTP program Pagestream 3.0 format)
  This makes the CD apparently very useful in multiplatform environments
  found in design and video studios, as well as private use at home.
  The fonts covers the largest part of the CD, with about 400 MB. The rest
  is covered by programs for Amiga, Mac, Acorn and PC.
  Contact address:
  Amiga Library Services
  610 North Alma School Road , Suite 18
  Chandler, AZ 85244-3687
  USA
  Telephone: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

- Bruce Smith Books has published yet another Amiga book. This time "Amiga
  Assembler Inside Guide", ISDN: 1-873308-27-2.
  "Amiga Assembler Inside Guide" writen by the Amiga Guru Paul Overaa learn
  programing 680X0 on the Amiga in a system freindly manner.
  Other Amiga titles from Bruce Smith Books are:
  - Mastering AmigaDos 2, Vol 2
  - Mastering AmigaDos 3, Tutorial
  - Mastering AmigaDos 3, Reference
  - Mastering Amiga C
  - Mastering System                            __
  - Mastering Assembler                        / /\
  - Mastering Amos                        __  / / / A
  - Mastering Arexx                      /_/\/ / / G
  - WorkBench 3.0 A-Z                    \ \ \/ / I
  - Assembler Inside Guide                \ \  / M
  - Amiga 1200 Insider Guide               \_\/ A
  - Amiga 1200 Insider Next Steps

- WordWorth version 3.1 from Digita International is out now. Upgrade fee
  from version 3.0 is £14.99. The version 3.0 of WordWorth has these
  specification:
  - DISPLAY
    - Always WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) display from screen
      to printed page.
    - Tool bar which may be costomised from a range of large or small
      icons. Perform over 100 tasks by simply clicking an icon.
    - Human Interface Protocol(tm) v2, combines Workbench look and feel
      with the new super-intuitive HIP(tm) style.
    - Zoom magnification from 25 to 400% in 1% steps.
    - Sizes: A3, A4, A5, US standard and legal, wide tractor (132
      column), custom, facing pages.
    - Columns (1-32),with variable gutters.
    - Tableswith calculations
    - Personalised standard letters with mailing database (mail merging)
    - Margins left, right, top, bottom (optional show or hide).
    - Multi-line, mixed font, headers and footers (left and right)
      displayed on screen.
    - User definable colours for background and text, with background
      cocktail colour themes.
    - Switch screenmodes at any time. All Amiga resolutions supported.
    - Screen saver, clock and playtime game.
    - Comprehensive settings so that you can customise Wordworth just
      the  way you like it.
  - EDITING
    - Cut,copy, paste, erase text; drag and drop editing.
    - Copy and paste paragraph format.
    - Undo or repeat last operation.
    - Go to page, bookmark and endnote.
    - Find and replace (word, typeface, stype and special characters).
    - British English Collins spelling checker provided by Proximity
      Collins Linguibase.
    - 110,370 word dictionary with hyphenation.
    - 26,000 Merriam-Websters legal medical supplement.
    - Check word, document, or as you type.
    - Foreign language dictionaries available.
    - British Collins Thesaurus provided by Proximity Collins with
      826,000 synonyms.
  - Digisense - built in intelligence:
    - Auto correct, corrects as you type.
    - Librarian, like a real library, lets you store text from documents
      and easily recall it at any time.
    - Table of contents and list generator.
    - Index creator.
    - Endnotes and bookmarks.
    - Speech - speak selectio, whole document, speak as you type.
    - Optional display for hidden codes like carriage return, tabs,
      spaces and special codes.
    - Full support of Commodore keypad commands (PageUp, Help, etc).
    - Swap adjacent characters.
    - Case conversion.
  - TEXT FORMATTING
    - Agfa® Intellifont® technology, which provides scalable fonts from
      3 to over 1,000 points in size.
    - Font support includes Compugraphic® outline fonts, Adobe PostScript
      fonts, TrueType® fonts, Amiga bit-mapped fonts, and Printer fonts.
    - Styles bold, italic, underline, plain, subscript, superscript.
    - Kerning (two styles), character tracking and paragraph spacing
      control.
    - Automatic and manual line spacing.
    - Alignment left, centre, right, justified.
    - TextEffects(tm), create eye-catching effects with text, colours and
      shadows, including rotation, corcle, spiral and arc.
    - Text frames.
    - Widow and orphan control.
    - Hyphenation by paragraph.
    - Text sorting.
    - Indents from left, right, first line.
    - Vertical and horizontal rulers (optional show or hide).
    - Measurements in inch, cm, mm, pica, point.
    - Tabs left, right, centre, decimal (with custom spacing character).
    - 5 Time styles (fixed orupdating).
    - 10 Date styles (fixed or updating).
    - Page numbering (5 styles), with auto count.
    - Text statistics include (for all or selected text) number of pages,
      paragraphs, lines, words, characters, pictures.
    (An Amiga fitted with atleast a 68020 processor is required to use
    TrueType® fonts.)
  - GRAPHICS
    - Drawing tools let you freely draw lines, boxes, circles, text frames
      and TextEffects(tm) straight onto the page.
    - Lines: set line style, thickness, colour, endings, Boxes and
      circles: set border style, thickness, fill, colour.
    - Hot link support.
    - Cut, copy, paste, erase graphics; drag and drop editing.
    - Re-sized or re-scaled on page.
    - Text auto flow left or right, vertical or contoured around image.
    - Graphic file formats supported: IFF (including HAM and Extra Half
      Brute), PCX, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and IMG bitmapped formats. CGM, EPS
      and GEM scalable formats.
    - Fonts provided by AGFA
  - PRINTING
    - Prints text and graphics at the highest resolution of your printer.
      You can't print at any better quality.
    - Includes Digita Print Manager, worth £39,99, which maximises the
      quality and performance of any printer by substituting special
      Digita printer drivers.
    - Support for over 400 printers using their built-in fonts (both
      proportional and mono-space). On-screen representation of printer's
      font to maintain WYSIWYG integrity.
    - Landscape printing.
    - Print EPS graphics with non-PostScript printers (hard disk only).
    - PostScript printer driver for standard Adobe 35 fonts, with screen
      font versions. Also rotation, oage scaling, graphics, EPS import
      and PostScript disk file creation.
    - Graphics, colour or grayscale shading.
  - DOCUMENTATION
    - Instruction book - 333 pages, with detailed tutorials, reference
      section, typography explained and over 150 illustrations.
    - On-line Amigaguide help whenever you need, so you can learn
      Wordworth as you use it.
    - Personal registration number - your passport to on-going technical
      support and updates.
  - FILE HANDELING
    - Open documents created in any previous version of Wordworth.
    - Easy modular auto-install for hard or floppy disk.
    - Timed auto save and backup, with reminder.
    - Revert to last saved document.
    - Open multiple documents.
    - Templates
    - Mail-merge (supports Digita Mailshot Plus, Digita Datastore,
      Superbase, DIF, ASCII), with powerful costomisation facilities.
    - Text file formats supported: ASCII, MSWorks for Windows, MSWindows
      Write, Word for DOS, Wordstar, WordPerfect for DOS, and RTF.
  The Wordworth English language dictionary and thesaurus can be easily
  substituted with one of the following: French, Italian, German

- An Amiga version of the UNIX utility XAnim is under development. Amiga
  XAnim understands QuickTime, AVI, Fli/Flc to name a few.

- The UK company HiSoft announces the release of it's long awaited
  HighSpeed Pascal all new version 1.20. HighSpeed Pascal is an Amiga
  Pascal compiler that is very nearly 100% compatible with Turbo Pascal
  5.0. Users of the version 1.10 can upgrade for 9.95 UK Pounds + postage.
  Contact HiSoft at:
  HiSoft, The Old School
  Greenfield, Bedford
  England MK45 5DE

  Telephone: [phone]
  FAX: [phone]
  E-mail: [e-mail]

- The UK company HiSoft announces the release of it's "The HiSoft
  Language CD-ROM". The CD will contain the latest versions of all three
  language packages; Devpac, HighSpeed Pascal and HighSpeed Basic.
  Each system is supplied ready to run from the CD, with installation
  programs to install the individual programs onto your hard disk.  Full
  on-line documentation for each package using AmigaGuide is also
  included.
  Contact HiSoft at:
  HiSoft, The Old School                          __
  Greenfield, Bedford                            / /\
  England MK45 5DE                          __  / / / A
                                           /_/\/ / / G
  Telephone: [phone]                \ \ \/ / I
  FAX: [phone]                       \ \  / M
  E-mail: [e-mail]         \_\/ A

- The German company HK-Computer announces the release of it's SCSI
  controller + 2 MB memory for the C= A570 CD-ROM. Contact HK-Computer at:
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

- The Netherland based company Lyppens Software Productions announces the
  release of Video Backup System, VBS, version 3.0. Major features of the
  new version include:
  - User interface
    The  VBS  3.0  software  is compatible  with  all  Amigas  and
    requires AmigaOS 2.x/3.x or higher. VBS is now even easier  to
    use  and has a completely redone 2.0-look user interface.  You
    can  customize it by means of font and screen mode-requesters.
    VBS can also run on the Workbench-screen.
  - Speed
    There  are new backup modes for Amigas with an 68020 or higher
    CPU  (A1200, A2500, A3000, A4000). The first one gives a speed
    improvement  of  a  factor 2 compared to  V1.5,  without  data
    compression. The typical thoughput in this case  is  85MB  per
    hour,  for a total of 340MB per 4-hour  video tape! The  other
    new  mode adds data compression to this, and is up to 3  times
    as fast as V1.5 (depending on the compression ratio achieved).
    With 130MB per hour, 520MB will fit on a 4-hour tape.
    VBS 3.0 can read and write V1.5 backups without problems.
  - Partial Restore
    In  3.0, it is no longer necessary to replay the entire backup
    when  only a few files are to be restored. After VBS has  read
    the  directory tree structure from the VCR, the  tape  can  be
    fast  forwarded  if  the desired file is  far  away  from  the
    beginning.   During Restore and Verify, VBS  displays  on  the
    screen which file and directory it is currently working on.
  - Counter type
    VBS  now supports VCRs having a numeric instead of a real-time
    counter.
  - Settings
    VBS now has a requester for the following settings:
    - Counter type (Numeric/Time).
    - Video Connection Check (on/off).
    - Use Public screen (on/off).
    - Beep after backup (on/off).
    - Log file/Report directory.
    - Fonts for user interface and Visual Header.
    - Screen mode.
  - Batch Backup
    The  Video Backup System now lets you define a list of backups
    to  be  made. Previously, it was necessary to manually make  a
    separate  backup for each hard disk partition. With  VBS  3.0,
    you simply enter the desired partitions in the batch list. VBS
    will  then successively make separate backups for each one  of
    these  partitions. The batch backup can be programmed to start
    either at a specific time-of-day or directly.
    If  desired,  the software can give an audio signal  when  the
    backup(s) are ready.
  - Installer
    Installation of VBS 3.0 on your hard drive is done  using  the
    Commodore Installer: user friendly and trouble-free.

  For more information on VBS and the 3.0 upgrade package contact:
  Lyppens Software Productions
  Generaal Coenderslaan 25
  5623 LT  Eindhoven
  The Netherlands
  Phone/Fax: [phone]

- Long awaited Aminet CD 4 is now shipping. Aminet CD 4 contains 1.1
  Gigabytes of freely distributable software, The newest file included is
  dated Oct 8th. The space is used as follows:

  1700 Modules
  1600 Utilities
  250  Games
  100  Demos
  80   Animations

  The CD can be ordered from the following addresses: (credit cards OK)

  Germany: Stefan Ossowski
           Tel:   [phone]  (English spoken)
           Fax:   [phone]
           Email: [e-mail]
           Aminet Gold : DM 29.80, Aminet Share: DM 19.80
  USA:     Fred Fish
           Tel:   [phone]
           Fax:   [phone]
           Email: [e-mail]
           Aminet Gold : $19.95, Aminet Share: $11.95

- The German company ABF Computer GbR is selling Amiga Link (price 300
  DMrk). Amiga Link allows the connection of the Amiga to other systems.
  ABF Computer GbR
  Postfach 40 01 43
  D-70401 Stuttgart
  Phone [phone]
  Fax   [phone]

- The long awaited GTDriver version 1.0 is finally released. GTDriver is
  a new and powerful driver for graphic tablets and serial mouses. Current
  version supports the following the following tablets and mice:
  - Summagraphics MM
  - Summagraphics Bitpadone
  - CalComp 2000
  - Cherry
  - TekTronix 4957
  - Wacom
  - Microsoft mouse
  - Mouse System mouse

- Dale L. Larson, Intangible Assets Manufacturing announces the release
  of the 'Connect your Amiga!' - A book and guide to Amiga networking.
  'Connect your Amiga!' is a guide to the networking capabilities of the
  Amiga. The book written by Dale Larson, former Software Engineer at the
  networking group of Commodore, is an expedition into the cyberspace and
  the world at the other end of your network hardware. The ISBN number for
  this book is 1-885876-02-5. Contact Dale L. Larson at:
  Dale L. Larson, Intangible Assets Manufacturing
  828 Ormond Avenue
  Drexel Hill, PA 19026-2604
  USA
  Telephone: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]
  E-mail: [e-mail]

- Helmut Hoffmann announces the release of the long awaited EGSPhotoAlbum
  Version 1.0, the comfortable picture management and presentation
  software for EGS equipped Amigas. EGSPhotoAlbum among other features:
  - Full automatic layout of the preview pages with fixed or variable
    field size (max. field size can be selected)
  - Page turning functions to turn the page like in a real PhotoAlbum.
  - Viewing of pictures in full size by mouse click
  - An unlimited number of full size picture windows (limited only by
    memory) can be open at the same time.
  - Intelligent caching algorithms to hold preview images in memory to
    redurce waiting time when turning pages
  - Asynchronous load function which preloads preview pictures during
    work with EGSPhotoAlbum
  - Automatic generation of preview files to reduce waiting time for
    later use of EGSPhotoAlbum (only in full version)
  - Saving of shown pictures in other file formats or direct transfer
    to other programs (as ImageFX or PicoPainter)
  - Easy single or multiselect feature for pictures
  - Information display for selected picture (name, size, file format)
  - Font sensitive EGS user interface which can be used even on largest
    Screens and in full 24Bit color quality.

- AmyNews normaly doesn't cover games but due to the popular demand;
  Team 17 is working on an Amiga game, Alien Breed 3D. It's a Doom
  clone that will feature the most advanced engine on the Amiga. It
  will feature Multi-angle-walls, Light-Source[d], 18+ objects on screen,
  Optional full screen display, support for HD, Accelerated machines" etc

- Nicola Salmoria announces the release of his very long awaited package
  NewIcons for the Amiga.  NewIcons is a revolutionary enhancement to the
  graphical user interface (GUI) of the Amiga computer.  On an AGA
  machine, the NewIcons package allows users of AGA systems to view icons
  on their Workbench, independent of the Workbench palette settings.
  Icons up to 256 colors can be utilized on the standard workbench. A
  comprehensive set of NewIcon images is included in the package for all
  the standard Workbench files as well as several other images. The icons
  in the package are isometric icons drawn by the wellknown artist Roger
  McVey. The package is available via Anonymous FTP on any Aminet site.

- Ok, good for all you UNIX lowers. One of the most powerful UNIX around,
  NetBSD operating system, is now available for the Amiga. NetBSD version
  1.0 is based on 4.4BSD Lite and Berkeley Networking Release 2 sources.
  It includes support for shared libraries on most architectures, the
  enhanced Berkeley Fast File System (which supports 64-bit file sizes and
  clustering), rock-solid networking code, and a fair amount of binary
  compatibility with other operating systems.
  Release 1.0 of the NetBSD operating system is distributed with complete
  source code and is available for:
  - Amigas
  - SPARCstation (sun4c) -class machines
  - Intel PC clones
  - Some m68k-based Macintoshes
  - PC532
  - SPARCstation (sun4c)
  - HP9000/300 family of workstations (for a later release)

- AdvancEd from PROXITY SOFTWORKS is a new Amiga text editor that promiss
  tons of nice feature. AdvancEd will be released soon. Look for more
  infor about this newcommer in a later issue of AmyNews.

- The German based company Advanced Systems & Software, AS&S, have just
  announced a 64bit Zorro III gfx board, the CyberVision64. It is based on
  the Vision864 graphic chip by S3 and allows for a maximum of 4MB DRAM.
  Running with a pixel clock of 135 Mhz, the maximum resolution is 1280x
  1024 256 colours at 72Hz.  24bit modes are available up to a resolution
  of 800x600. It also features planar to chunky  conversion hardware which
  ought to speed up the emulation. A pass through for the Amiga signal is
  optional. It has a feature connector for add-ons such as JPEG or MPEG
  boards. The only software included so far is a workbench emulator. The
  board was introduced at this years WOC in Cologne but will be shipping
  by the end of this year for DM 649 for 2MB Version.
  Contact AS&S at:
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

- AS&S showed the long awaited Cyberstorm 60/50 at the WOC 94. Cyberstorm
  will be available as soon as Motorola ships the 68060 in quantities.
  AS&S also plans to release an 060 board running at 80Mhz as soon as the
  CPUs become available.  The Mips ratings are: A4000/40 15.447,
  Cyberstorm 40 24.896, Cyberstorm 60 82.190. The 060 at 80Mhz is supposed
  to rate at around 130 Mips.

- The German company Corporate Media announces the release of it's
  ergonomy keyboard for Desktop Amigas. Contact Corporate Media at:
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

- The German company W.A.W. Electronik is selling a new accelerator
  device for the C= CDTV. The device comes with a 14.2 MHZ 68020 and
  a 68881 FPU. Contact W.A.W. Electronik at:
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

- Scala MultiMedia SCALA MM400 in now out. It has among tons of other
  feature:
  - 10 new effects
  - Support for direct-digitizing in Scala with FrameMachine or VLab.
  - The new package comes with a number of most used SCALA EX-modules.
  - Loads different file formats including TIFF, BMP, FLI/FLC, PhotoCD,
    GIF, PCX and Datatypes
  - 5 types of antialiasing
  - Possibility to run audio/video editing tools directly from Scala.

- OctaMED 5.03 with support for 16-Bit sound cards is released now. More
  about this in a later issue of AmyNews

- Piccolo-SD64plus from Ingenieurbuero Helfrich is now finaly out. The
  board features, 64bit-Blitter, Pixelclock 135 MHz and Zorro II/III
  autosensing.

- The US company Interworks announces the release of new software for the
  ICard. ICard is a 16 bit  ethernet card for the A1200's PCMCIA slot. It
  provides 10BaseT and 10Base2 ethernet connectorsand SANA II driver for
  compatibility with any SANA II compatible network protocol including
  Interworks `ENLAN-DFS'. Contact Interworks at:
  43191 Camino Casillas
  Suite B2469
  Temecula, CA 92592-3714
  Phone and Fax: [phone]

- Yeah! ImageFX 2.0 release information is here. NOW!
  Nova Design, Inc. announces the release of it's powerful image
  manipulation software for the Amiga, ImageFX version 2.0.
  ImageFX, PaintFX, AutoFX and CineMORPH are the complete Amiga image
  manipulation system that combines image processing with amazing
  special effects technology and professional painting tools that can
  simulate artistic styles. Look what computer gurus say about ImageFx:
  - MicroTimes magazine even named ImageFX as one of the Best Products of
    the year!
  - Mark Thompson, award winning Amiga animator: "ImageFX 2.0 is
    absolutely the best image processing and manipulation package I've
    ever seen on the Amiga."
  - Shamms Mortier, writer for Amazing and Amiga Format: "The most
    awesome image manipulation system for the Amiga, period!"
  - Denny Atkin, Associate Editor OMNI magazine: "Absolutely the most
    impressive image processing package I've seen on any computer!"
  ImageFX version 2.0 Features among other:
  - New System Features
    - Image Thumbnails
      Load and save images via interactive visual interface.
      Preview effects on thumbnails before applying them.
    - Multiple Buffers
      Work on an unlimited number of image buffers and brushes.
    - New Region Controls
      Add, subtract, or invert regions.  Create painting stencils and
      masks.
    - Text Generator
      Create multiple lines of text with justifications and antialiasing.
      Preview fonts before using them.
    - Image Compositing
      New compositing methods including Fast Matte, HSV Matte, Multiply,
      Divide, Minimum and Maximum.
    - AutoFX
      New "cookbook" style batch processor with prewritten scripts to
      perform hundreds of batch operations and animated effects!
    - ImageFX Browser
      Visual image cataloging system for maintaining libraries of pictures
      and animations.
    - Documentation
      Completely rewritten manual with over 400 pages of tutorials and
      reference.  Expanded online help system.
  -Hardware Support
    - Graphics Boards
      Supports all Amiga modes, Retina Z2/Z3, Picasso II, Piccolo,
      Firecracker 24, IV-24, DCTV, HAM-E, Harlequin, and any EGS-comp.
      hardware such as the Spectrum, Talon, and Rainbow III.
    - Scanners
      Expanded Epson 300/600/800 scanner controls and new support for the
      VLAB YC framegrabber.
    - Printers
      Direct support for the Primera color printer in full color.
  - New Painting Features
      Improved soft edge modes and anti-aliasing.
      Realtime painting tools that emulate traditional media such as
      Airbrushes, Charcoals, Chalk, Oil and Fingerpaints, Felt Tip
      Markers, Watercolors, and Crayons!
      New Draw Modes like Smudge, Roughen, Disperse, Sharpen, and others.
      Drawing Styles to allow rub through to other images, alpha channels,
      mandala creation, realistic brush stroke fading, and much more.
  - New Image Conversion Formats
    - Amiga
      Toaster Framestore
      DPS PAR loader
      Applied Magic Jstream
    - Macintosh
      PICT, including vector and JPEG variations!
      Improved TIFF loader
    - MSDOS
      PIC format for all resolutions and color depths
      GRASP/GL animation frame loading
      DL animation frame loading                            __
    - Silicon Graphics                                     / /\
      SGI RGB                                         __  / / / A
      Wavefront                                      /_/\/ / / G
      Softimage                                      \ \ \/ / I
    - Others                                          \ \  / M
      MPEG animation creation and frame extraction     \_\/ A
      X-Windows
      Abekas A60 series
      Sun Raster
      C64 Koala
      FITS/PDS/Vicar (NASA) image frames
  - New Special Effects and Image Processing
      Realistic lightning bolt generator       Map images onto spheres
      Pond ripples and waves                   Swirl images
      Advanced lens flares generator           Apply paper/canvas textures
      Water/Glass distortion                   Image warps and lens effects
      3D perspective rotation                  Expanded 2D rotation
      PaintFX automatic painting generator     Star and supernova generator
      Crystallization effects                  Circular blurring effects
      Standard or circular mosaic effects      Straw-like distortions
      Random tiling effects                    Median/Minimum/Max. filters
      Sobel edge-detection                     Ramping edge-detection
      Controllable NTSC/PAL Video filters      Histogram Equalization tool

  For further information contact:
  Nova Design, Inc.,
  1910 Byrd Avenue,
  Suite 214, Richmond,
  Virginia  23230, USA
  Customer Support/Information [phone]
  For upgrade orders [phone]
  Fax [phone]

- Good news! The best directory Utility program (DOpus clone) for the
  Amiga, DirWork version 2.1, is now out. Stay tune for a release info
  in a later issue of AmyNews.

- Oregon Research announces the release of TERMITE, a modern Tele-
  communication package for the Amiga. Among Termite's features are:
  - Supports communication speeds from 300 to 115,200 BPS
  - Flexible Phone Book with unique configurations for each number
  - Support for Multiple Line BBSs
  - Configurable review buffer with cut and paste editing
  - Multi-tasking chat window to prepare text before sending it.
  - Configurable Text Macros
  - Font and Screen sensitive displays
  - Configurable button bar
  - TERMITE supports XEM and XPR libraries
  - Assign any program function/macro to the button bar. User can install
    his own images to the button bar by assign your any IFF brush to the
    button
  - Fully AREXX programmable
  - Automatic Call logging. Know where you were and how much you spent.
  - AmigaGuide online help
  TERMITE retails for $49.95. Contact Oregon Research at:
  16200 S.W. Pacific Hwy., Suite 162
  Tigard, OR 97224
  Phone: [phone]
  FAX: [phone]

- PageStream version 3.0c patch file is now out :-) (SoftLogic)

-  An add-in drawing enhancement to PageStream version 3 will be developed
   and marketed. This should eliminate the need for Art Expression.
   (SoftLogic)

- Newtek has started shipping the long awaited Flyer for the Amiga
  Toaster Station. Currently only developers and dealers are getting
  flyers but the mass shipping of the Flyer is getting close.

- The US company Opportunity With Learning announces the release of it's
  new powerful multimedia educational software "Physics Laboratory in
  Mechanics". The program teaches kinematics, dynamics, statics, universal
  gravitation, work & energy, impulse & momentum, and rotational
  kinematics. An interactive laboratory notebook describes and allows the
  student to simulate 21 different experiments. The notebook gives
  instruction on how to perform the experiments by using everyday objects.
  Results are entered into the computerized notebook. An equation
  animation section teaches students the algebra used when rearranging
  equations. Also included are history, math, and unit reference sections.
  Contact Opportunity With Learning at 617-944-1745

- Intangible Assets Manufacturing announces the availability of its
  "Connect Your Amiga!" T-shirt.  It comes in 100% black cotton with color
   star-chart design and the words "Connect Your Amiga!" List price is
   $19.95. Contact Intangible Assets Manufacturing (fax) [phone]

- German company IngBure Helfrich announces the release of a a MPEG
  board, called Peggy (FMV card) for the Amiga 4000. SCALA is selling
  a hardware MPEG card for the ZORRO Amigas too.

- DICE v3.0 in a new repacked version is now available to all Amiga
  programmers. New DICE 3.0 is brought to you by famous Amiga Gurus Matt
  Dillon (freeware author), Andy Finkel (Amiga OS), John Toebes (Software
  Distillery) and Bryce Nesbitt (Amiga OS & Enforcer).
  Now the DICE compiler is part of an integrated "system" of programming
  tools designed to ease and speed creating programs for the Amiga.  For
  beginners DICE offers an intuitive visual approach to creating programs
  -- and numerous examples.  Programmers of all levels will appreciate how
  DICE integrates seamlessly with their favorite text editor, offering
  tools and information at the touch of a button.
  DICE 3.0 includes:
  - Complete 450 page manual, including a section on avoiding the most
    common programming pitfalls.
  - Full, fast, online help. Help in under a second.
  - A complete visual compile environment (fully configurable to provide
    a visual environment for any program).
  - All the updates, fixes and enhancements you'd expect to the original.
    - ANSI compatibility.
    - Romable code generation tools.
    - Source code management tools.
  - An easy to use full source level debugger - with the most asked for
    features to make debugging simple.
  - A Compression system for use on floppy disk systems.
    - Two powerful ARexx aware programmer's editors
  - Full source code for the libraries and dozens of examples.
    - Comes with AmigaOS 1.3, 2.0, and 3.0 libraries and include files.
    - ANSI, Unix compatibility, and Amiga link libraries.
  - A package of "bonus" tools to help find bugs in your code.
  - Error messages in German, French, Sweedish, English or American.

  The new DICE is fast, inexpensive, easy, fun and works on any Amiga.
  DICE is only $150. SAS/C owners pay only $95. For students, DICE is $85.
  For more information contact (FAX): 919-469-3853, email: [e-mail]

- Torsten Klein announce the release of the scientific program ASpringies
  version 1.0. ASpringies is a simulator which allows you to interactively
  create and edit a system of masses and springs.  The parameters of the
  masses and springs (such as mass elasticity and spring K) as well as
  those of the surrounding system (such as air viscosity and gravity) can
  be changed. These systems can be loaded and saved into a file. Contact
  the auther at: Gr.-Kurfuersten-Str. 1 33615 Bielefeld Germany

- To all of you fun of the finance software package Phasar. A new version
  of this program is under development so be happy ;)

- David Benn announces the release of the ACE BASIC version 2.3 for the
  Amiga. ACE BASIC in conjunction with A68K and Blink produces standalone
  executables.
  New features in version 2.3 include: Wb 2.x/3.x 3D-look for gadgets and
  requesters, an interprocess communication mechanism, IFF picture file
  support, subprogram module/library creation facility, MsgBox can now be
  used as a command as well as a function, EHB and HAM screen modes (AGA
  modes in next release), a line continuation character (~), serial
  status word can now be accessed via SERIAL function, address of SUBs/
  external functions via VARPTR/@, reserved words can be listed via a
  command-line compiler option, FONT and STYLE commands, LONGINT(n)
  function, SCREEN FORWARD and SCREEN BACK, CLEAR ALLOC command,
  borderless windows via WINDOW command, GADGET MOD command for modifying
  existing proportional gadgets, SLEEP FOR <secs> command, BEVELBOX
  command, .bas extension is now recognised as well as .b for ACE source
  files.
  Improvements have been made to event trapping, structures, ALLOC,
  FileBox, executable size, peephole optimisation, external/shared
  library function syntax, DIM syntax, GADGET syntax, ERR and ON ERROR
  (window, screen and message error codes), turtle graphics screen aspect
  ratios.

- A new version of TrapFax (version 1.2) with full support for the
  release version of Class 2.0 is to be released soon.

- The US company Endicor Technologies, Inc. announces the release of the
  long awaited CompuScope 220 Driver (version 1.0) for the CompuScope 220
  ISA Digital Oscilloscope board from Gage Scientific. Contact Endicor
  Technologies, Inc. at (Fax) 1-210-650-4988

- ADVANCED VOICE MAIL AVM v1.42 is now out. AVM software supports
  multiple voice mailboxs, customized messages, FAX send & receive,
  scheduling of FAXs, scheduling of outgoing voice messages, remote
  retreival of voice mail and FAXs, automatic forwarding of voice mail
  and FAXs, automatic paging (via your telephone pager) when messages are
  received, built in FAX software, and more.  You can also use AVM with
  GPFax and TrapFAX software.  It works with ZyXEL, Dolphin, Linelink,
  and other modems. Price ranges from 20$ - 50$

- Due to the popular demand; Legendary Technologies is selling LinkIt!
  Consting 60$, LinkIt! allows you to connect your Amiga to a PC using
  the Serial or Parallel ports of the systems. It has executable for
  the Amiga, ms-dos and windows. Using LinkIt! you can transfer files
  (format conversion is done on the fly using format conversion modules)
  between connected systems. Extensive AREXX interface allows you to send
  commands to the remote computer. LinkIt! automatically adjust filenames
  and file patterns to match the appropriate machine. Amiga version
  supports GVP's IOExtenderand the Multiface cards. LinkIt! package
  includes a high speed parallel cable. For further information contact:

  Legendary Design Technologies Inc.
  25 Frontenac Avenue
  Brantford,ON Canada                                       __
  N3R 3B7                                                  / /\
                                                      __  / / / A
  OR                                                 /_/\/ / / G
                                                     \ \ \/ / I
  Legendary Design Technologies Inc. US Dept.         \ \  / M
  PO Box 1147,                                         \_\/ A
  Lewiston, NY
  14092-8147 USA
  [phone] Voice/Fax

- Check & Balance from AmiSoft is a new software that let you balans
  your books and print out your checks. Former Quicken user reports
  that they prefer Check & Balance for it's ease of use and power.

- The German based company MacroSystem has finaly released it's long
  awaited 24-bit paint program XiPaint version 3.0. It is the first
  program of it's kind that supports AmigaOS intuition. XiPaint version
  3.0 can open unlimited number of picures (your Amiga's memory limit
  this) and has support for alpha-channel, paint tablets, penselpool and
  unlimited Undo. XiPaint supports all major graphic boards and has a
  nice AREXX port ;) For more information contact MacroSystem, FAX,
  Phone: [phone]

- The German company Village Tronic, crew behind the wonderful Picasso I
  & II graphic board,  announces the release of Ariadne, a new network
  solution for the Amiga. Ariadne is a ethernet board that comes with 2
  extra parallel ports. Using the parallel ports an Amiga can be
  connected to different networks like Novell and TCP/IP. The board
  supports 10-Base-T and 10-Base-2.

- "Black Tie Software" announces the release of several new packages for
  the Amiga. Among others BTS mentions the following softwares:
  - "ProWrite Tools" is a collection of highly sophisticated, heavily
    optimized and fully commented ARexx programs that extend the
    functionality of ProWrite version 3.3.  These tools include a table
    of contents generator, an index generator and utilities to mark and
    review table of contents and index entries.
  - "Structured Clipart" consists of over 240 highly detailed structured
    images in Adobe Illustrator format. The images have the following
    features:
    - Created by Award winning Artist.
    - Full color images.
    - Optimized for color and grey-scale printing on laser and dot-matrix
      printers.
    - Most images are done a simulated 3D perspective.
    This collection can be used direcly on the Amiga using the Art
    Expression, ProVector, PageStream, FinalWriter without he need to
    purchase an expensive postscript printer.
  - "Michaels Math Quiz" a game that using high quality graphics,
    animations and digitized sounds. sharpens the math skills of
    children 6 years and older.
  Contact "Black Tie Software" at:
  USA [phone] M-F 6-10 PM EST, Sat & Sun 12-10 PM

- Did you read the news in a former issue of AmyNews about the all new
  version of the XCAD-3000? If not, do a search for XCAD in this file
  first. I had a new fax from Grafx Computing. In the fax, they mention
  that a new version of the awared winner GFXCAD 3000 is in work. GFX-CAD
  3000 consists of four CAD programs in one package, GFX-CAD 3000 comes
  with the basic drawing engine, XCAD 3000, which consists of both 2-D
  and 3-D drawing modules. XShell and ZShell, two custom icon-menu
  interfaces for each module and a stand-alone 2-D version. Priced at
  apr $1100 (imagine version 3.0 counted), this package outperforms the
  combination of the AutoCad, 3-D Studio and AME for the ibm compatibles
  pc, priced at apr $9000. So once again, most power for your money when
  you use an Amiga or what was you waiting for ;)

- The German company Bit Sommer & Dickmann announces the release of the
  SpeedMaster for the Amiga 4000. SpeedMaster is a frequence generator
  that increases the clock frequence of the Amiga 4000. More than 60%
  perfromance increase is promissed when sporting the Amiga 4000/040 in
  41 MHZ. Contact Bit Sommer & Dickmann at: FAX Germany, 2131-944319

- Heinz Wrobel reports that a new version of it's wonderful post.library
  is in work. The new version becomes available as a DataType. Highlights
  of the post.library in the upcoming version are:
  - A "fix" for cvi and cvr which should help with some special Quark-
    XPress files.
  - heavy magic to make old FreeHand files work that violate documented
    PS Level 2 behaviour (meatball.ps
  - _transparent_ handling of DOS style EPS files with binary headers.
  - and more ;)

- US base company MicroActive Inc announces the continuing support for
  it's Amiga products. MicroActive Inc mention it's stock market technical
  analysis and database management package for the Amiga, MicroTrader.
  Reports to be a sophisticated package, MicroTrader allows the user to
  perform own technical analysis on stocks, options, commodities and
  indices. It allows the user to keep his portfolio under constant
  supervision and spot buy formations in other securities. User can mind
  his own portfolio and update. either automatically using the powerful
  communication capability, or manualy using the advanced screen editor.

- Digita International announces the continuing development on the
  WordWorth 3.1 for the Amiga. Tons of new features are promissed.
  A very welcome improvment is the promissed 40x speed increase!!!
  Look for a feature-list in a later AmyNews.

- A new version 2.2 of the PhotoCD from the German based company
  Corporate Media is released now. The new version sports better
  prefs possibility to load pictures and a nicer GUI.

- The standard mathematic program Maple V version 3.0 for the Amiga is
  under development. Maple V is expected to be completed this year.
  A Student Edition of Maple V, release 3, will be distributed by
  Brooks/Cole. The general release time is around December 94.

- German based company MAXON Computer Gmbh announces the release of
  several new packages for the Amiga, among others, MAXON mentions,
  MAXONBasic, a new complete development package for the Amiga.
  MAXONBasic consists of an editor, compiler and debugger. Being
  compatible with HiSoftBasic and the good old AmigaBasic, the package
  allows the user to do professional programing using features as
  includes, functions and subroutines.
  Another package from MAXON; MAXONTools, a DirectoryOpus clone, is
  a highly configurable directory utility program that allows the
  user to use docks to perform the most used operations.

- Awared winner professional CAD package for the Amiga, XCAD - 3000,
  will soon come in a new version (this info directly from one of the
  XCAD programmers). XCAD - 3000 in it's current version is up to 15
  (yes 15) times faster than AutoCad on IBM PC platform. XCAD - 3000
  was the winner of CADEX US 1993. XCAD 3000 3D is, among other places,
  used by "Rolls Royce", US GSM and "Lucas Aeroscope".
  Feature list for the current version:
  - True 3D database
  - Dynamic Views - rotate design in any axis - X, Y or Z
  - Instant prespective with user definable eye & vantage points
  - Real time rendering
  - Automatic hidden line removal
  - Unique command within command processing
  - User definable tablet & screen menus
  - User definable construction planes
  - Supported surfaces: planar, tabulated cylinders, surfaces of
    revolution
  - Printers: Preferences supported printers. HPGK pen plotters
  - more 16 milions of colors
  - Read formats: XCAD professional, XCAD designer, AutoCad DXF, Aegis
    Draw/Draw 2000 and more
  - Write formats: AutoCad DXF, Imagine object format, DPaint and more

- The second patch to the leading DesktopPublishing software for the
  Amiga, PageStream 3.0, is out now. The patch v3.0b features 49
  additions and bug fixes (many are very complex additions). A new patch
  version 3.0c is due to release soon.

- The US company "Mr Hardware" announces the release of several new
  specialized database applications for SuperBase Professionl (from
  Oxxi). "Mr Hardware" has updated version for it's powerful "Video Scort"
  and "Freelance Scort" for SBase Pro.

- US company TriMedia Inc. sells a driver for Calcomp paint tablets.
  Patches for major paint programs are available too. contact them at:
  TriMedia Inc.
  60 East Hintz Road
  Wheeling, IL 60090

- The new version 2.0 of the powerfull MultiMedia authering program,
  HELM is under development. Jerrell Nickerson of the Eagle Tree Software
  mentions the following improvments so far for the version 2.0:
  - Updated text scrolls, text crawls, and path-based object animation.
  - A new property browser
  - Better text handling
  - A micro language for creating your own visual effects
  - Page scheduling
  - Remote communications
  - The ability to stream sounds and animations off the hard drive
  - And more ;-)

- Jerrell Nickerson Eagle Tree Software announces that he has completed
  a version of the powerful authoring program Helm for CD32. It knows
  about CD audio, FMV, CDXL, nonvolatile memory, and the game controller.
  Also, it has a focus system for bumping around the objects on the
  screen with the controller.

- Andreas M. Kirchwitz has upgraded Urban D. Mueller C-Shell to version
  5.39. C-Shell is a powerful replacement for the AmigaDOS CLI. Summary
  of the new feature for this version:

  - New builtin variable "_timeout" (in microseconds) sets maximum
     response time for terminal to answer WINDOW STATUS REQUEST (for
     window bounds). Defaults to 1 (for local usage), must be set to
     higher value for remote connections. Only used, if window pointer
     is not available.
  - Removed command line length limitation (140 chars) for ARexx scripts
     that ends with ".rexx" but are started without the trailing ".rexx".
  - Removed command line length limitation (518 chars) for ARexx scripts
     and external shells (#! in first line), this was a limitation in
     AmigaOS' System() function.  DOS scripts still have this limitation,
     because you cannot RunCommand() "execute".
  - Not only "*" and "?" but also "[" and "]" recognized as AmigaDOS
     pattern. (that means, to use "[" and "]" you must quote (") or
     escape (\) them!)
  - ... and much more workarounds for serious bugs in DateToStr() and
     Locale.
  - Fixed bug: making an assign to an executable and calling the
     executable by its assign crashed machine.
  - Fixed bug: builtin command "cp" sometimes used already freed memory
     for generating error messages (resulted in some strange error
     messages).
  - New flag for for command abbreviation ($_abbrev):
     8, search DOS path-list if command wasn't found in Cshell's
     internal program hash list (see "rehash" command)
  - CTRL-D now shows matching files if current word is not a directory.
     (if directory then shows contents of directory -- as usual)
     In its current implementation this may have unexpected side effects
     if current word is already a pattern.
  - Class definition for AmigaE in class.sh
  - Now internal timer (eg, %e in the titlebar) not set to zero when a
     null command is encountered. (same for return code, %x in titlebar)
  - The idea of always using the variable "_dirformat" for "dir" wasn't
     a good idea.  So, "_dirformat" is only used if option -z is given
     (when "_dirformat" is unset then use first argument as format
     string).
  - New control-code for line-editing: "^V" (ctrl-v) quotes next char.
  - New builtin variable "_kick" holds version number of Operating
     System.
  - Builtin command "assign" now prints volume name if assign points to
     an unmounted volume (eg, a removed floppy disk) and doesn't pop up
     a requester "Please replace volume ..."
  - It was a stupid idea to force redirecting of all Cshell-related
     system requesters to CSH's screen, because requester windows
     inherit the window title of their "initiator". They appear now
     again on your default public screen.
  - Fixed serious bug (crashed machine) with redirection and launching
     programs into background. (files closed twice)
     Known bug: it's still not possible to run pipes into background...
  - When running programs into background (run, rback, &), internal
     commands and aliases are recognized and executed with "csh -c".
     Aliases WON'T be resolved on this level so they must be declared
     in .cshrc to run them into background.
  - Execution of Rexx-Scripts (without trailing ".rexx") and any other
     program with "#! my_prog" or ";! my_prog" in first line of script
     now possible also from DOS search path and not only $_path.
  - New builtin variable "_mappath" (see manual), enables pathname-
     mapping for commands if script starts with "#!" or ";!" in first
     line.  Converts Unix pathes like "/usr/..." to "usr:...".
  - New option "-w" for Cshell, don't use window pointer (useful for
     KingCON).
  - New option "-V" for Cshell, send only VT100 compatible control
     sequences.
  - Internal variable "o_vt100" now used (if option -t or -V is set),
     don't send control sequences that are not VT100 compatible (eg,
     special Amiga control sequences).
  - Various changes/enhancements to existing commands.
  - Miscellaneous bug fixes.

- Merian Software & Design announces the release of "DATABASE PROFESSIONAL"
  version 2.0. "DATABASE PROFESSIONAL" is a full featured powerful
  database program a la SuperBase Pro. More about "DATABASE PROFESSIONAL"
  in a later issue of AmyNews.

- The German company ProDad announces the development of the new video
  editing program CAVIN.  It supports all kinds of hardware (Control-L,
  LANC, PANASONIC-EDIT, RS232 and RS 422 protocolls) and timecode (VITC,
  TCTC, RAPID). You can also use infrared signals for older hardware.
  CAVIN hast timelines for A & B VCR's, graphics / animation, hardware
  (i.e. framegrabber, M-JPEG boards, cd-player), audio (Amiga, audio
  boards or external). So you can use it as a complette A/B editing
  system.
  You can of course configure CAVIN to work in conjunction with other
  Pro Dad products, such as clariSSA, Monument Titler and Adorage.
  ProDad has also upgraded older products.  Adorage 2.5 now supports a
  transparent colour 0, image conversion and loading of different image
  types (i.e.  TIFF, PCX) and has some new 3D effects.
  There are two new modules for clariSSA, the Loaderpackage allows you to
  import new image formats (i.e.  GIF, JPEG, PCX), while the "motion
  sound" add on allows you to add samples to your SSA animations.

- A reminder due to missunderstanding about PageStream version 3.0 files
  formats; SoftLogic *WILL* release PageStream v3.0 developer materials
  for creating import/export/printer modules etc.

- Helmut Hoffmann announces the release of EGS-TV Professional v3.1.
  EGS-TV Professional is a Desktop Video, harddisk sequence editing and
  framegrabber software now available even for EGS systems.
  EGS-TV offers high/true-color sequence editing and animation generation
  for random access sequences on your harddisk. It can apply amazing
  trick technics as the Blue Screen Keying to your pictures and
  sequences/animations. Did you ever want to edit an 80MByte animation
  and delete a frame out of the middle? No problem with EGS-TV.
  All this is done through a font sensitive EGS user interface which
  runs on your biggest screens in 24Bit color quality...
  EGS-TV can import and export pictures very fast to and from many other
  EGS programs. It can even run on the same screen as thoose programs.
  It offers many file formats (IFF, JPeg, YUV, PPM, QRT, Targa, DEEP etc)
  and uses it's own fast sequence format for random access sequences.

- Kermit Woodall of the Nova Design, Inc. announces that a new version of
  CineMORPH is due to immediate release with ImageFX 2.0.

- Gordon Wilkes of the WindShadow Software announces the release of the
  "learning about music" software for children, "Making Music with Bertie
  Bunny".

- A new set of clipart collection for FinalWriter are available now from
  SoftWood.

- GoldEd, one of the most powerful and configurable ASCII text editor,
  version 1.0 is finaly out.

- For those who asked me, here is the list of new improvments in bum7 for
  BlitzBasic II
  - Improvment and bugfixed and addition to this areas:
    Stability, Debugging, Interupts and BlitzKeys, Serial Stuff,
    GadTools, ScreensLib, ValLib, Display Library, Palette Library,
    Banks and Decoding.
  - And all new commands:
    GTStatus(GTList#,Id) ;bbgtlib
    GTArrowSize size       ;bbgtlib
    DecodeILBM BitMap#,MemoryLocation ;ilbmifflib
    DecodeSound Sound#,MemoryLocation ;audiolib
    DecodePalette Palette#,MemoryLocation[,Palette Offset] ;palettelib
    DecodeMedModule MedModule#,MemoryLocation ;medlib
    DecodeShapes Shape#[,Shape#],MemoryLocation ;shapeslib
    InitShape Shape#,Width,Height,Depth ;shapeslib
    SetPeriod Sound#,Period ;audiolib ;audiolib
    Bank(Bank#)
    LoadBank Bank#,FileName$[,MemType]
    AllocMem (size,type) ;banklib
    FreeMem location,size ;banklib
    BlockScroll X1,Y1,Width,Height,X2,Y2[,BitMap#] ;scrolllib
    ClipBlitMode BPLCON0  ;2dlib
    CyclePalette Palette# ;palettelib
    FadePalette SrcPalette#,DestPalette#,Brightness.q ;palettelib
    InitPalette Palette#,NumColors ;palettelib
    PaletteRange Palette#,StartCol,EndCol,r0,g0,b0,r1,g1,b1 ;palettelib
    DuplicatePalette SrcPalette#,DestPalette# ;palettelib
    SavePalette Palette#,FileName$ ;iffmakelib
    CustomColors CopList#,CCOffset,YPos,Palette,startcol,numcols ;displaylib
    CustomString CopList#,CCOffset,YPos,Copper$ ;displaylib
    DisplayDblScan CopList#,Mode[,copoffset] ;displaylib
    DisplayRainbow CopList#,Register,Palette[,copoffset] ;displaylib
    DisplayRGB CopList#,Register,line,r,g,b[,copoffset] ;displaylib
    DisplayUser CopList#,Line,String[,Offset] ;displaylib
    DisplayScroll CopList#,&xpos.q(n),&xpos.q(n)[,Offset] ;displaylib
    ReadSerialMem Unit#,Address,Length ;seriallib
    WriteSerialMem Unit#,Address,Length ;seriallib
    PopInput & PopOutput ;inputoutputlib
    GameB(por#) ;gameiolib
    NumPars ;cliargslib
    Par$(parameter#) ;cliargslib
    FromCLI ;cliargslib
    ParPath$ (parameter,type) ;cliargslib
  And to all people asking for Acid Softwares Internet adress. Acid's
  Email address is [e-mail]

- The US company Blue-Knight Productions announces the availability of a
  new CD Rom disk containing NEVER RELEASED music composed by 10 of the
  best Amiga composer. More about this disk later.

- Jolyon Ralph at Almathera reports that they have just finished
  evaluating a new filesystem for Amiga 4000 with CD-rom drives (SCSI-2
  drives, eg Toshiba 4101, or the Tandem IDE CD-ROM drive) which offers
  CD32 emulation. The emulation is pretty good, it can run Video Creator
  and most CD32 games, supporting cd.device audio.

- Mathias Kretschmer of the German company ProDev Vertrieb announces the
  release of the ProCrypt Version 1.0. ProCrypt is designed to encrypt
  the data on selected partitions on the fly.

- Powerful GUI-builder program for the Amiga, VisualArts, is now
  available in a new version 2.0. VisualArts allows you to actually DRAW
  a user interface to your program. A summary of the main features;
  - Menu and List manager
  - Object Master
  - Insert custom codes into any GadTools or GadTool Menu items
  - Drawing tools such as rectangle, circle and lines
  - Supports AppWindow and MultiProcessing windows
  - Add AREXX to any program
  - Custom images, custom images for button, PopupMenu
  - Get any IFF color map and use it in your program
  - Color palette and over 40 custom patterns for fills
  - Context Sensitive
  - User perference
  - Automatic history and time interval saving
  - User configurable source output
  and many more features.

- The first patch to PageStream 3.0 is out now. The patch v3.0a feature:
  - Frameless text objects implemented! Just click on the page with the
    Text tool and type!
  - Eliminated extra text redraws when applying attributes!
  - Current attribute defaults are now implemented. (You can now place
    the insertion point (cursor), change the font or other attributes,
    and then type, without reverting back to Triumvirate.)
  - You can now repeatedly use the arrow gadgets in the Edit palette to
    change the type size and other text attributes.
  - Changed default alignment from justified to left.
  - Amiga keyboard shortcuts now work.
  - You now get a normal height cursor when you click in a frame.
  - Right indent tab are now done.
  - Stopped text from being displayed outside of its frame.
  - New custom Epson driver included!
  - HP color variants now supported.
  - PaintJet problems fixed.
  - Some Canon variants are now supported. Choose the Epson driver from
    the Printing Preferences' Type popup, and choose the Canon model from
    the Model popup. (These Canon printers are similar to Epson printers.)
  - The basic 13 resident PostScript printer fonts are now supported for
    PostScript printing, but the style variations are not. (ie: Pala
    (Palatino) will print correctly, but Pala Italic will not; it will
    print as Palatino normal. This will be corrected in 3.0b. Times
    Italic, Times Bold, Times Bold Italic, and Triumvirate Bold
    (Helvetica) will print correctly though, because they are in a
    different font format.)
  - Printing Compugraphic fonts to PostScript now saves the generated PFB
    versions of the fonts on disk. This solves the timeout problem. See
    the NOTES section for important details.
  - Top offset problem fixed. (You may need to adjust your offsets.)
  - Improvd Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
  - TO color percentage fixed for PostScript.
  - Collate now defaults to off.
  - Do Not Print flag (Edit palette, Object/Edit) now implemented.
  - Parenthesis problem (PostScript) fixed.
  - Multiple copy problem (non-PostScript) fixed.
  - Toolbox Prefs: Pie and Arc are no longer reversed.
  - Toolbox Prefs: Opaque/Transparent is no longer ignored.
  - Font Prefreferencess: Cache settings are now loaded.
  - Autoscroll now works when resizing objects.
  - Intellifonts should now rotate/slant/twist correctly.
  - And more
  PageStream v3.0b will add features necessary for tutorial lessons and
  more. Stay tune!

- Long awaited AWESOME program for the Amiga MovieGuide v3.0 is now out.
  Taking more than 5 mega byte of space on your HardDrive, MovieGuide is
  a multimedia aplication that contains information about 18000 movies
  and serious. News for version 3.0 are:
  - Topics added
  - Biographies added (some pictures here too)
  - Oscars added
  - Ratings added
  - Cleaner layout, setup-screen added                   __
  - Mini-lexicon added                                  / /\
  - "Scan all" function added to browser           __  / / / A
  - Faster title-search                           /_/\/ / / G
  - More titles, more plot descriptions           \ \ \/ / I
  - A few pictures from movies added               \ \  / M
  - A new intro added                               \_\/ A
  - Bugs in browser and plots fixed
  MovieGuide is a highly recommend program and doesn't cost more than $0.
  Amiga softwares Rule!

- A new version of landscape generating software, SceneryAnimator, is
  in it's beta testing period :-)
  More about this wonderful new release in a later issue of AmyNews

- Terra Nova Development announces the availability of Magic Lantern
  v2.0, the critically acclaimed 24 bit animation package for the Amiga.
  Magic Lantern version 2.0 allows users to create, edit and display
  delta compressed animations in up to 24 bit color on all the popular
  true color display cards for the Amiga, as well as all the native
  Amiga modes (including AGA). It will also play sound effects in either
  mono or stereo though the Amiga sound chip during animation play back.
  New features include virtual memory support; now animations can be as
  large as your hard disk, and Magic Lantern will still be able to edit
  and display them.  Double Time compression technology can double
  animation speed and reduce animation sizes by half.
  Another new compression technology has been added that can speed up
  some animations (especially those in 16 and 24 bit) by up to 25%, and
  reduce animation sizes by up to 20%.  Rebuilding animations has been
  optimized, and for large animations can be 75% faster.
  Direct support for the Retina Z3 has been added, resulting in
  animations that are up to 50% faster and 40% smaller for that card.
  Magic Lantern 2.0 still contains all the features of previous
  versions, including sound synchronization, enforcement of frame
  rates, full ARexx support, animation disassembly, palette changes and
  more.

- Sound/Noise tracker compatible module player for the Amiga, the D.A.S.
  ModulePlayer version 3.4 will be out soon. The new version has, among
  other improvments, support for 6 more module formats including TFMX
  Pro, TFMX 7V and C64 SID modules.

- Powerful spreadsheet for the Amiga, TurboCalc, will jump directly from
  version 2.1 to 3.0. Lots of improvments are promissed. The goal is to
  make it equal or better than microsoft excel. TurboCalc supports SYLK
  format and in it's current version it's much like Excel. If you are
  familiar with Excel then you are familiar with TurboCalc too.
  More about this superb product in a later issue of AmyNews ;-)

- This is for those of you who use the powerful Blitz Basic II (ASIC SW);
  Blitz User Magazine issues 6-10 (£15) are now available from:
  Guildhall Leisure Services
  Blitz Subscriptions
  Unit 15 Guildhall Industrial Estate
  Kirksandall
  Doncaster
  DN3 1QR
  England

- Pure Logic Software president Jason Freund announces that they are and
  will be loyal to the Amiga users. Pure Logic Software is developing
  a major upgrade to the "On The Ball" (a personal information manager
  for ther Amiga). The upgrade is to be released Nov/Dec 1994.

- ADPTools Professional v1.0 is now out. It's a powerful FronEnd for the
  ADPro Professional (ASDG).

- Oxxi Inc reports that development of Oxxis superb multimedia package
  VideoStage Pro continues. Oxxi estimates a release date Fall (1994)
  for VideoStage Pro Plus, VSP+. VideoStage Pro in it's current version
  is a powerful multimedia authoring program desined to compete with
  the industry standard multimedia package SCALA InfoChannel.
  VideoStage's impressive text animation capabilities also make it an
  amazing video titling tool when used with a genlock.  There is built-
  in control for ECS chipset genlocks, GVP's G-Lock, and Digital
  Creations' SuperGen.

- Silicon Prairie leading caching program for the Amiga, HyperCache
  Professional version 2.0 is now out.
  HyperCache Professional can speed up data access by as much as 3000%
  on devices such as: SCSI & IDE hard drives, CD-ROM drives and floppy
  drives.

- A new version of the communication program NComm version 3.05 is now
  released. The new version corrects all known bugs and ads several new
  features.

- UK based company Marpet Developments announces the release of, CD32
  S-Port ($35 US). This hardware/software package Connects the CD32 to
  a 25 pin serial port via the keyboard port.

- "Paint Engine" is the new generation Paint/Processing package for the
  Amiga. It is the fastest image processor for the Amiga and comes with
  tons of features. "Paint Engine" is in it's beta testing period. Beta
  testers claims that on Amiga 4000, "Paint Engine" does almost real-
  time image manipulation!!!  Read more about it's outstanding features
  in a later issue of AmyNews. Cybernetica will distribute "Paint
  Engine".

- Just a quick note; Barfly version 1.09 is the first Assembler/Debugger
  that currently supports the 68060.

- Dice C devlopment package for the Amiga is available now in a new
  version 3.0. For upgrade information contact:
  Obvious Implementations Corporation
  P.O. Box 4487
  Cary, NC 27519-4487
  USA

- HarmonySoft (Israel) announces the availability of the student's
  version of Rashumon v3.0 for only $60. The student's version doesn't
  include the printed user manual.
  Rashumon is a multi-lingual word-processor for the Amiga. It supports
  multiple fonts (including Agfa Intellifonts), 256 colors for graphic
  objects and 8 colors for text and tables. it  has full Postscript and
  IFF support. One of the major features in release 3.0 is Rashumon's
  ability to output Scala Lingua script. Any document can be converted
  into Scala Lingua script format. The conversion includes: text (in any
  language), color, attributes, layout, line spacing, tab stops, IFF
  brushes. Structured drawings (made by Rashumon's  Table Generator)
  aren't supported in Scala's current version but will be supported in
  next version.
  HarmonySoft sells fonts for many different languages.

- MainActor v1.55 is out now. It's mainly a bug fixed version.

- XEMrip.library for all XEM-compatible communication programs is due
  to immediate release. XEMrip.library gives your XEM-compatible terminal
  software like Term, XCOMM, Terminus etc to communicate with RIP based
  BBS system.

- The long-awaited book "Connect Your Amiga!" by Dale L. Larson,
  published by IAM, Intangible Assets Manufacturing, ISBN 1-885876-02-5
  is finished. Special discounts are available for early orders.
  "Connect Your Amiga!" is 256 pages packed with information for
  networking and for going online. From background information for the
  novice to networking hints and tips for advanced users, this book has
  something for every Amiga owner.

- Long-awaited raytracing program, LightWave 3D version 4.0 is now under
  development. LightWave 3D v4.0 will be priced at $995.95. Owners  of
  the current standalone  version, LightWave 3.5 for the Amiga, will be
  able to upgrade to version 4.0 for $149.95.
  LightWave has been used on TV shows like seaQuest DSV, Babylon 5, Star
  Trek : The  Next Generation, Robocop, Viper, Unsolved Mysteries, and
  Weird Science to produce the final special effects shown on air.
  Babylon 5 won an Emmy last year for it's LightWave produced graphics,
  and the Video Toaster also won an Emmy, due in part to its LightWave
  3D system.
  LightWave 4.0 includes a number of  new features, including inverse
  kinematics for character animation. There will also be a new plug in
  filter system that will allow users to add features like real world
  physics or advanced animation features. LightWave Modeler will also
  feature multiple undo and redo, and Metaform, which allows simple
  creation of organic and aerodynamic objects.

- The new Wacom ArtZ (graphic tablet) is now out. Wacom sells drivers
  for the Amiga. A new minor update to TVPaint will support all features
  of the new Wacom ArtZ.

- The new version of EGS-TV, the video editing software for EGS and VLab
  framegrabbers is out now :)
  EGS-TV is a superior product for all Amiga EGS system and works as a
  front-end for the V-Lab digitizer. Using EGS-TV powerful AREXX port
  you can i.ex. grab sequences with precise control and it sports a
  'Blue-box' facility for integrating backgrounds behind your foreground
  subjects. For more information contact Helmut Hoffmann at:
  [e-mail]

- Manuel Lemos of Upper Design (Portugal, yes they develop high quality
  Amiga softwares even in Portugal) head programmer of one of the most
  powerful recovery softwares for the Amiga, "Upper Disk Tools" version
  1.01 is working on objetcs that will improve your DTP/Word Peocesser
  software. Among long awaited objects, he mentions a very powerful
  "Equation Editors" and "Bibliography database". The estimated release
  date in Dec 1994.
  "Upper Disk Tools" is a very powerful Amiga program for recovering bad
  harddrives etc. It is the first Amiga program that uses the WorkBench
  (TM) mecanism for it's GUI. If you know how to use Workbench and icons
  you already know how to use "Upper Disk Tools".

- Apex Software's Forge texture generation program for the Amiga is now
  avaiable to all multimedia creators. Forge is an awesome addition to
  any LightWave animator's digital toolchest.
  Forge is a texture rendering and animation program.  Simply plug in
  the textures, change the settings and render previews until you're
  ready to render a final image.   That final image is loaded into
  LightWave as an Image Map for use like any other.   Simple enough,
  right?  But Forge goes far beyond this basic need.

- Pester CeV Design (US) is working on their low cost trapdoor to Zorro
  bus expansion system. Using it, you'd have the equivalent of an Amiga
  4000 platform to build on for less than a grand invested.

- Terra Nova Development of Ventura, California has released Volume One of
  its Designer Objects series of 3D models.  This first volume, "DINER",
  is a three disk set of objects for Impulse, Inc.'s Imagine software for
  Amiga computers.
  The Diner set includes a variety of objects that together build a
  complete diner of the early 1950's, including a jukebox, counter,
  booths, a pay telephone, dishes, cups, silverware, and other items for
  place settings.  In many cases there are both `hi-res' and `lo-res'
  versions versions of objects so that artists can optimize their scenes
  for either image quality or speedy rendering.
  In addition to the objects and image maps there are two Imagine projects
  on the disks.  One, with scenes that can be rendered on five megabyte
  systems, offers fairly simple scenes; the other features more complex
  scenes that require up to fourteen megabytes to render.  A manual is
  included.
  The Designer Objects series is intended to showcase the talents of
  gifted 3D artists by making available affordable collections of their 3D
  objects.  The Diner objects were created by award-winning computer artist
  Bradley W. Schenck, whose work should be familiar to the Amiga community
  through articles and artworks including wins in the BADGE Killer Demo
  Contests of 1988 and 1989.

  Terra Nova Development
  P. O. Box 2202
  Ventura
  California 93002
  USA

- Jim Drew of Utilities Unlimited International, inventer of the Amiga
  Emplant technology is announcing "The Edge" (Electronic Display
  Graphics Emulator), the next generation graphic board for any Zerro
  III Amigas. "The Edge" features:
  64 bit wide Cirrus Alpine graphic processor interfaced to a Zorro III
  slot. It supports the Industry standard ARGB. "The Edge" is backwards
  compatible with any Cirrus 54xx series processor, meaning that you can
  use the EGS Spectrum or Picasso II software with it but "The Edge"
  will of course have it's own (fast) WB emulation/mode promotion
  software. It uses 72 pin SIMMs (up to 8 megs via two SIMMs), and will
  retail for ~$299 w/0k RAM.  With video speed equal to the PowerMAC's
  PDS video board, it is fast. 640x480x32 bit animations in realtime
  by just moving the data to the board. Up to 80 megapixels per second,
  and the blitter can move entire offscreen bit maps into the viewing
  area without any glitches in the display. It's also very fasstttt.

- DIAVOLO backup software for the Amiga version 1.7 is now out. It's by
  far the most user freindly and system freindly backup software for the
  Amiga. Media Disk is the new distributer of the DIAVOLO in the USA.

- Interworks ethernet-based, Peer-to-peer Networking solution, Enlan-DFS
  new version 2.0 is now out

- Several new PIMs for Image Master R/t are now availble from Karl
  Bellve at University of Maryland at Baltimore, Dept. Of Physiology
  They are mainly used for scientific image analysis. Email him at
  [e-mail] to obtaine the PIMs. They are free.

- Version 4.2 of the Shuttle Tracking Program, SatTrack is out now. It
  allows you to track the position of the shuttle to see the laser
  flashes that it will be projecting on the earth during the mission.

- I had a fresh FAX from the Blue Ribbons president concerning their
  continuing support of the Amiga products. Most important points in the
  fax are: "We are loyal to the Amiga platform. All our multiplatform
  softwares like our "Bars & Pipes professional" are constructed for the
  Amiga first. Then we port our softwares to other platforms. The
  multitasking nature of the Amiga, makes this computer number 1 source
  for the music and midi. We did a lot of improvments to the Track
  Window Menu, Edit Window, Song Construction Window, Metronome,
  printing, Tool and Accessories sections in the version 2.5 of the
  "Bars & Pipes professional" but the development continues and we are
  designing the next majour update to the "Bars&Pipes". The new version
  will amoung other things support the MacroSystems Toccato"

- Ameristar ethernet cards are available again, through CEI US.

- A student edition of Maple V for the Amiga is under development.
  Source, Bob Evans, the Director of Electronic Publishing at
  Brooks/Cole.

- Custom Services is selling STU, The Amiga System Test Utiltiy. STU is a
  memory and disk diagnostic.  It tests memory and disk drives to find
  problems. STU allows you to simultaneously test up to seven disk
  drives or partitions.  Each drive is individually controlled. You may do
  destructive or non-destructive tests.

  Custom Services
  P. O. Box 254
  Moorestown, NJ 08057
  USA
  BBS:   609-953-8159
  EMail: [e-mail]

- Awared winner professional CAD package for the Amiga, XCAD - 3000,
  will soon come in a new version (this info directly from one of the
  XCAD programmers). XCAD - 3000 in it's current version is up to 15
  (yes 15) times faster than AutoCad on IBM PC platform. XCAD - 3000
  was the winner of CADEX US 1993.

- Long awaited TurboText TT version 2.0 is under development. This info
  directly from TT's auther. TT v2.0 will be a majour update with lot of
  of new features.

- Digital Soundtrack (Visual Inspiration) let you add samples sound,
  Midi songs and ST mode to your videos. Features include a preview
  mode, jog and shuttle controlls, and PIP picture-in-picture support
  for majour video boards. Digital Soundtrack supports various single-
  frame controllers like AmiLink and PAR (Personal Animation Recorder).

- Genie Tools, vol 1 (Shead Data Processing) collection for Aladdin 4-D
  offers a variety of tools including the TriSub and DoBeSphere
  functions which let you create triangle-based spheres and the
  LissaCurve control.

- Migraph MS2400 Color Scanner (SCSI connection) + state of the art
  OCR software are now out. The package will turn the Amiga into a 2400
  DPI, 24 bit color scanning workhorse. Info Migraph

- Microdeal is selling Clarity 16-bit sound sampler. The software supports
  the standard Amiga sound file formats including the one-, three-and five-
  octave 8SVX/IFF. The 8SVX/IFF file format is limited to eight bits.
  Clarity also supports the AIFF file format for 16-bit samples and the
  proprietary AVR file format. AVR, or Audio Visual Research, is the
  developer of Clarity. AVR files store complete 16-bit stereo data,
  including locations for as many as six blocks, in the sample and the
  samples windowing data. There is also a sample sequencer with a capacity
  of up to 300 events. The sequencer provides fine control of the automated
  playback of samples. Sequencer files can be created, edited, saved and
  loaded. Clarity's MIDI mode lets you play samples via the Amiga's
  keyboard or via a MIDI instrument. The Amiga's keyboard supports up to 10
  samples which can be adjusted over a nine-note range. The MIDI instrument
  supports a seven-octave range. Different samples can be assigned to
  different ranges of the MIDI instrument. The sample assignments are
  stored in MIDI Keyboard Map files which can be created, edited, loaded
  and saved. Clarity can also download and uploadith it but "The Edge"
  will of course have it's own (fast) WB emulation/mode promotion
  software. It uses 72 pin SIMMs (up to 8 megs via two SIMMs), and will
  retail for ~$299 w/0k RAM.  With video speed equal to the PowerMAC's
  PDS video board, it is fast. 640x480x32 bit animations in realtime
  by just moving the data to the board. Up to 80 megapixels per second,
  and the blitter can move entire offscreen bit maps into the viewing
  area without any glitches in the display. It's also very fasstttt.

- TurboCalc version 2.1 is released now.

- Awared winner Amiga dissassembler RESOURCE version 6.0 is released now.

- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, an application that would teach basic
  keyboard skills is now released.

- A new improved version of ADPRO 24bit printer driver for the Primera
  color printers can be obtained directly from your Primera dealer or
  any dealer supporting ASDG products.

- Blitz Basic II version 1.9 and Bum 7 are out now.

- A wave of new softwares for the awared winner Amiga 3D software
  LightWave is here. Amoung others are "Newton's Law" - Cybernetica,
  PowerMacros - Cine Graphics and version 2.1 of Sparks - MetroGrafx.

- Long awaited upgrade to ProDraw (GoldDisk) is now here. Version 3.03
  fixes all known and unknown bugs under later OS version

- PageStream 3.0 is now shipping ;) Japp! Best DTP program ever

- SOFT-LOGIK gives now 3 kind of user support for it's products,
  more about them later in another message.

- ProVector 3.0, from Stylus, Inc. in Colorado, in under beta testing.
  Among tons of new feature, it will export Adobe Illustrator (all
  versions). Stylus has worked close with SOFT-LOGIK to make the all
  new ProVector a good completation for PageStream 3.0

- SAS C release 6.55 is due to be released during the early 1995.

- Brilliance 2.1 is under development

- Utilities Unlimited is working on it's 68060 50 MHZ board.
  They are working on a multiCPU board for Zorro Amigas. The board
  can hold multiple numbers of CPU (up to 4 * 68060, now beat that!)
  RAM access is done in a 64 bit interleaved. This may change to 128.
  Burst is permanently on.

- Real3D v3.0 is under development.

- And finally some WWW-Sites for Amiga:

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/People/mjw/Computer/Amiga/MainPage.html
  Commodore Amiga Information Resources

  http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/change.html
  Aminet WWW mirror list

  http://www.prairienet.org/community/clubs/cucug/amiga.html
  The Amiga Web Directory

  http://www.pitt.edu/~schivins/irc-amiga.html
  #Amiga IRC channel information page

  http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/AMosaic
  Amiga Mosaic Home


There are more news but this was all for this time.
Have fun with your wonderful Amiga and see you in the next issue.

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