====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || -News and Rumors- / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_|| (An Occasional Newsletter) BACK FOR THE FUTURE || ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga International, GmbH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 970502 I M P U L S E S U P P O R T S A M I G A M I A M I U P G R A D E D - S S L T O O ! ! N E W V O Y A G E R U S E S S S L A L S O C O N T R O L Y O U R H O M E N E W A W E B C O M I N G U P C O M I N G F R O M H A A G E A N D P A R T N E R A H I V E R S I O N 4 S Y S T E M T E S T U T I L I T Y B I G D I S K - N O M O R E 4 G L I M I T P E T R O T . I N T E R V I E W U P D A T E Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: Lots of product information to bring your way today. A question much asked has been "is Impulse leaving the Amiga behind". That question looks to be answered with the announcement carried below concerning Imagine 5. Good news for Amiga 3D modelers! The popular Miami networking package gets an update - and the ability to use Secure Socket Layer standard for protected financial transactions over the Net. Two detailed press releases are below. At the same time, a new version of the Voyager browser has been announced. It also uses SSL. It is our understanding that the Voyager upgrade was developed in coordination with Miami. A hardware/software package with the potentially confusing name of Majordome offers you the ability to control powered devices in your home from your Amiga. Unfortunately, the announcement we have for you doesn't say where you can get these products. (We are unaware of any relationship between Majordome's creators and those who put together the list server software Majordomo.) The folks at Haage and Partner have pre-announced four very interesting products. We have the teaser information on all four. Another unusual product is software named AHI. It purports to do for audio on the Amiga what Cybergraphix did for the display. We have the press release for you. Those of you who need to test your Amiga's memory or disk functions may want to check out STU, a shareware diagnostic utility. From the land of the Magyars comes a very interesting software which can take your Amiga beyond its limit of four gigabytes per hard drive partition. I can't conceive of writing enough "Amiga Updates" or anything else to fill such large partitions, but Amigans working in graphics will surely welcome this product. Finally, we have an interesting posting from the Usenet newsgroups. In issue 970414 we ran an English translation of an interview with Amiga International's Petro Tyschtschenko. It seems Mr. Tyschtschenko wishes to make it plain that interview did not contain his official pronouncements on the Amiga, and he contacted the interview's poster to make the point. We should have a much better picture of what Gateway 2000 and Amiga International have in mind for the future at the World of Amiga show upcoming in London. A press conference has been scheduled for 3p.m. on Friday, May 16 during the show. For those of you who'll be attending, it's will take place in the Salon Bourg, Novotel Exhibition Centre, 1 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London. We'll be bringing our readers information from the show and press conference just as soon as we have it. Enjoy this issue! Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I M P U L S E S U P P O R T S A M I G A Impulse Inc. of Minneapolis Minnesota announced the continued support for the Amiga Computer. Recently Impulse released Imagine version 5.0 to all Amiga users for a price of $100.00. Due to the success of this program, development has begun on a completely new version of the Imagine 3D software package for the Amiga. The new version will be sold as the Amiga constant update program (ACUP) and the cost will be $100.00 for registered 5.0 Imagine users. If you do not yet have version 5.0 you may order it directly from Impulse for $100.00 The Impulse web site at http://www.coolfun.com/amiga.htm will give you all the details for version 5.0 of Imagine. Impulse will accept advance orders for the 6.0 version but will not charge any credit cards or cash checks untill the software is ready to ship. You may place your order via fax 612-425-0701, phone in the US 1-800-328-0184 outside the US 612-425-0557, or e-mail sales@coolfun.com. Please include name, address, phone, e-mail address, and payment information. Imagine is one of the best know 3D software packages on the Amiga platform and will continue to be with the support of the Amiga community. Impulse is excited about the future and the rebith of the Amiga. Thank You Larry Halvorson V.P. Sales Impulse Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M I A M I U P G R A D E D - S S L T O O ! ! Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 Miami 2.1 is now available for download from www.nordicglobal.com. Major changes since version 2.0n: - full support for multicasting (level 2) and multicast routing in the registered version. - support for MiamiSSL, a new implementation of the "Secure Socket Layer (SSL)" standard, in the registered version. MiamiSSL is distributed separately. See the separate announcement. - three separate program versions for "68020+ (registered)", "68000/010 (registered)" and "unregistered" to reduce the size of the binaries. - significant performance improvements across Ethernet. - many internal changes for cleaner, faster code... Miami 2.1 is the first version of Miami that supports a new keyfile format (version 2). However you do NOT necessarily NEED the new keyfiles to use Miami 2.1. It is safe to install Miami 2.1 on top of your registered Miami 2.0n installation, and continue to use the old keyfiles. Please see the separate announcement regarding keyfiles. Please note that Miami 2.1 is an intermediate release, not a major release. Development on several new features (ANDI, SocksD support, built-in serial driver etc.) is actually already further ahead than visible in Miami 2.1, but the release of an intermediate version of Miami was necessary in order to support MiamiSSL and new keyfiles. As Miami now ships with three binaries instead of two, and additional programs for multicasting were added, it is no longer practical to have all files in a single archive, because that archive would become rather large. Instead the Miami distribution is now spread across four files: - Miami21main.lha This archive contains all files (utilities, documentation, libraries etc.) except for the Miami program binaries. Everyone who upgrades to Miami 2.1 needs this archive. - Miami21eval.lha This archive contains only the Miami program binary for unregistered users. - Miami21reg000.lha This archive contains only the 68000/010 version of the Miami program binary for registered users. This binary REQUIRES a keyfile ("old" or "new" keyfile). - Miami21reg020.lha This archive contains only the 68020+ version of the Miami program binary for registered users. This binary REQUIRES a keyfile ("old" or "new" keyfile). This means everyone upgrading to Miami 2.1 needs the main archive and one of the other three archives. NOTE: At the moment only the ftp links on the Miami download page are functional - for technical reasons. The www links should work within a few days as well. ***** Nordic Global Inc. is proud to announce the availability of MiamiSSL an implementation of the "Secure Socket Layer" (SSL) standard for Miami, brought to you by a cooperative effort of Nordic Global Inc. and VaporWare (the authors of Voyager-NG and several other fine pieces of Amiga software). MiamiSSL is based on the freely available "SSLeay" software suite, version 0.6.6, by Eric Young. SSL is a set of protocols required to create secure (encrypted and authenticated) TCP connections, and is, among other things, used for the "https" protocol in web browsers. "https" is used by many web servers to provide a secure transmission of sensitive data, such as credit card information for online ordering. One site that just recently added "https" support is www.sasg.com, the site of SASG, authors of MUI. MiamiSSL is available FREE OF CHARGE to ALL registered users of Miami. To use MiamiSSL you need ALL of the following: - REGISTERED Miami 2.1 or higher. - Miami keyfiles in the new keyfile format (see the separate announcement regarding keyfiles). - The archive "MiamiSSL10.lha" from www.nordicglobal.com. This archive does NOT contain cryptographic code, and may be freely im/exported to/from the USA. - One of the MiamiSSL encryption libraries. Please see below for more information on these. - reqtools.library version 38 or higher. You can get a current version of reqtools.library from Aminet. - Software supporting MiamiSSL. At the moment Voyager-NG supports MiamiSSL in its latest release version (available from www.vapor.com). As SSL requires various algorithms for strong encryption, it is a bit difficult to find legal ways to use and distribute it everywhere. This is why the MiamiSSL encryption libraries (which contain the encryption code required for SSL) are kept separate from the MiamiSSL main archive, and are NOT available from public sources such as Aminet, but only by other means. Currently two versions of the MiamiSSL encryption library exist: - miamisslusa.library: For use by US/Canadian citizens living in the USA or Canada. This library is ONLY available directly from me on request (fifth step in MiamiRegister), and ONLY to citizens of USA or Canada. It MAY ONLY be used within the USA and Canada, and MAY NOT be exported to other countries, or be made available for export in any way (e.g. by uploading it to public software sites). If you violate these rules then you may be subject to criminal prosecution under US/Canadian federal law. To my best knowledge miamisslusa.library does NOT contain any algorithms which are patented in the USA, or covered by similar software rights, except for RSA, which is implemented using the RSAref suite, licensed for freeware/shareware use. This means miamisslusa.library is, to my best knowledge, legal to use in the USA. However I will not take any responsibility for the validity of this statement -- use at your own risk ! One drawback: for legal reasons miamisslusa.library does NOT implement the algorithms RC2 and RC4, and as a result is NOT interoperable with servers which ONLY support these algorithms (e.g. the export versions of many commercial web servers, such as Netscape's server). miamisslusa.library can only connect to servers which support DES or IDEA, or which allow unencrypted SSL connections. It is, for instance, compatible to SSL-adapted versions of the Apache web server, and to web servers based on SSLeay or MiamiSSL. - miamisslintl.library: For use by anyone who lives outside of the USA and Canada -- will be available very soon. This library was built outside of the USA (without exporting encryption material from the USA), and is ONLY available from sources outside of the USA (soon available from www.vapor.com). It MAY NOT be UPLOADED to public software sites in the USA, it MAY NOT be EXPORTED from the USA, and it MAY NOT be USED in the USA, because it supports RC2 and RC4, algorithms which are legally protected in the USA. Note to US/Canadian users: To make this point perfectly clear: YOU MAY NOT USE miamisslintl.library IN THE USA OR CANADA ! miamisslintl.library implements algorithms which are covered by patents and other rights in the USA (and possibly in Canada), and its use without proper licenses is thus illegal in these countries, as explained to you here and in the README file accompanying miamisslintl.library. I hereby explicitly inform you that I DO NOT have a license to use RC2/RC4 in the USA or Canada, that miamisslintl.library was released WITHOUT such a license, and to non-US/Canadian users only, and that you may therefore NOT use it in the USA or Canada. If you violate this rule then you may be subject to criminal prosecution under US/Canadian federal law and/or civil lawsuits. In any case I WILL NOT be liable or responsible for your illegal use, or any consequences arising from it. Note to international users: The fact that miamisslintl.library is AVAILABLE to you does NOT necessarily mean that it is LEGAL to use. It is YOUR responsibility to check the laws in your country, state or city, to find out about any restrictions on the use of cryptographic software or the particular algorithms implemented in miamisslintl.library (RSA, DES, MD2, MD5, RC2, RC4, SHA, SHA1) in your area BEFORE using miamisslintl.library. In particular, as far as I know the use of strong cryptography is currently entirely prohibited in France and Iraq, so people in these countries may probably NOT use miamisslintl.library at all. miamisslintl.library DOES implement RC2 and RC4, and therefore interoperates with all known web servers (including Netscape), but it does NOT implement IDEA, because of licensing restrictions in many countries. However so far this has not turned out to be a problem with any servers. Summarizing, what you need to do to use MiamiSSL with Voyager-NG is, step-by-step: - Ensure that you have reqtools.library V38 or higher installed. If you don't have it then get the ReqTools archive from Aminet (util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha). - Download Miami 2.1 from www.nordicglobal.com and install it "over" your current Miami registration. - Register Miami, if you have not already done so, and wait for your keyfile to arrive. - In the "About" requester of Miami check if your keyfiles are already "Keyfile version 2" (near the bottom of the requester). If you still have "Keyfile version 1", then execute the fourth step in MiamiRegister ("Upgrade keyfile version 1->2") and wait for my email response. - Users in the USA/Canada: Execute the fifth step in MiamiRegister to order your copy of miamisslusa.library. Wait for my email response, and install the library as described in the email. - Users outside the USA/Canada: Get miamisslintl.library, (soon from www.vapor.com), and install the library as described in the archive. - Get the MiamiSSL archive from www.nordicglobal.com and install it using the included Installer script. - Get Voyager-NG from www.vapor.com and install it. After that Voyager-NG should automatically use MiamiSSL for "https:" URLs. One more comment: At the moment the distribution of MiamiSSL is mostly targetted towards web browsers such as Voyager-NG and other clients, and does not include most of the SSL server tools (to handle certificates, keyfiles etc.) However all server functionality IS implemented and tested in MiamiSSL, and updated installation archives and instructions for server operation, certificate testing and management etc. will be released once the first MiamiSSL-aware servers for AmigaOS become available. If you are interested in adding MiamiSSL support to your software please contact me at "kruse@nordicglobal.com". One of the nice features of MiamiSSL is that it allows software authors to support SSL in their applications without having to deal with the tedious legal implications. -- Holger Kruse kruse@nordicglobal.com http://www.nordicglobal.com __ Mailinglist 'miami-announce-ml' Admin: Send listserv-requests to ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W V O Y A G E R U S E S S S L A L S O Next Generation So good - it's even pirated by the competition. Here it is: Voyager Next Generation V2.70 Voayger-NG has a host of new features away and above Voyager 1.0, including support for SSL, tables, frames, internal image decoding including support for PNG, custom URL plugins, and a host of other improvements. Download Voyager-NG now and experience the web through new eyes. Note that the Voyager SSL module may not be used inside the USA. However, USA residents can still get SSL support in V with the new V2.1 of Miami available from www.nordicglobal.com. Remember, Voyager is shareware. You may register at any VaporWare registration site worldwide, or directly via WWW Online Registration. WARNING: Serious bug in V030! The V030 version of 2.70 will crash heavily if started on non-FPU equipped 030/040 systems. Therefore, the V030 version has been removed from the current distribution archives until the next release for security reasons. Features: o Voyager is fast. Web page output is speedy. o Memory efficient. Unlike some other browsers, Voyager will not eat away all of your chip ram. o Full HTML-2 implementation, and a growing amount of HTML-3.2. o Plugins allow such features as a builtin search engine to grab hits from major engines around the world and present them all to you. o Tables and frames are supported. o Internal FTP support o Uses a proxy server for gopher and WAIS. o Animated GIF support o Context-sensitive RMB menu popups. o Supports Client Side Image Maps, Netscape Level 1 extensions, and HTTP Access Authorisation. o Document cache with lastmod-based verification. o Full support for hicolor displays. o Asynchronous network handling - Multiple windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C O N T R O L Y O U R H O M E Date : 20 Apr 97 16:31:34 +0200 A new version of Majordome- Short: Control your home plugs and keep an eye on your home with your Amiga Authors: Michel.donat@ramses.fdn.org Version: 2.0 Type: util/misc Replaces: Majordome_16.lha DESCRIPTION Majordome Majordome software and hardware allows you to control 6 plugs with your Amiga and to watch over your home with 2 alarm detectors. With this Software and Hardware you can: o Ponctually control the plugs o Program the plugs for switching on and off o Control the plugs externally with a French Minitel® or Modem o Control the plugs via the Arexx port o Several types of programming: . Days . Some days on week . Some days on month . Fixed Date o Several options are available . Switch on/off only the plug . Execute some actions . Switch on/off another plug . Execute a CLI command . Send a AREXX message . Play a Audio sample . Call a phone Number . Send a FAX o Execute several actions according to the state of the 2 detector inputs. Full locale support. English, French, (Deutch in some weeks) catalogs included. Documentation on AmigaGuide As an example, you can simulate your presence when your are gone on vacancy or at the Week-End, and make the light switch on when an alarm detector is activated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W A W E B C O M I N G News Date : 18, April, 1997 AmiTrix is proud to announce the pending release of AWeb-II, version 3.0. This all new version of AWeb, the culmination of six months of work, is now nearing completion, and in the final testing stages during preparation of the package. Totally re-written and re-designed for greater flexibility in future updates, it retains it's familiar GUI with some additions, and more configurable options. More complete details will be forthcoming soon. Release date: The final shipping date is not certain as yet, but projected for the latter part of May, 1997. Some of the new features of AWeb-II v3.0 are: o Full support for frames, table backgrounds, and more HTML features. o Now has support for server push and client pull. o Added support for proxy authorization. o Internal FTP support. o A new public plugin interface. Plugin modules can do their rendering directly in the AWeb browser window. The API (Application Program Interface) is available as a separate archive, contact Yvon Rozijn at yrozijn@xs4all.nl for further information. o Standalone images are now shown in the AWeb window, or can use an optional external image viewer. o More versatile cookie protection and a cookie alert requester. Cookie save file is now in readable form. o Greatly enhanced and expanded Arexx command set. o Now with Clipboard support, added Control Menu items, including copy selected text from a page. o New, fully configurable user buttons, below the existing toolbar. o The Image and Link popup menues are now fully configurable. o New URL template popup menu on the URL field. o A new info window with HTTP transfer headers, meta information and current documents links. o The Network status window now shows CPS rate. o New powerful hotlist manager. o Enhanced cachebrowser with find functions and able to delete multiple file entries. o The Search function now highlights the text found. o Improved greyscale palette. o Added Project Menu item: edit HTML source. o New Settings Menu items: load settings, save settings as, GUI settings. o The No-proxy, No-cookie, and Do-not-cache lists are now sorted and support pattern matching. o ...and many, many other things including updates to HTTX and AWebNews plugins, and HTML-Heaven. MSRP remains unchanged at $45.00US / $60.00CAN plus $5.00 shipping. Current owners of AWeb may upgrade to 3.0 for $20.00US / $27.00CAN, plus shipping. Canadian orders add 7% GST to the total amount. Customers purchasing or upgrading to AWeb-II v3.0 will receive a free update to v3.1 when it becomes available at a future date. -- We now have VISA for direct sales, orders should be submitted via fax with card details and signature for authorization. Dealer and Customer inquiries welcomed! For more information, ordering AmiTrix products or dealer locations, contact us at: AmiTrix Development 5312 - 47 Street Beaumont, Alberta, T4X 1H9 Canada Phone or Fax: 1+ 403-929-8459 Please leave your mailing address, phone/fax number, and/or email address on phone messages when requesting information. Email: sales@amitrix.com or support@amitrix.com http://www.amitrix.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- U P C O M I N G F R O M H A A G E A N D P A R T N E R 30. April 97 Code name "MERAPI" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The JAVA future of the Amiga! We are proud to be able to announce a new project that will affect the future of the Amiga very much. The developments started about 6 month ago and we hope to be able to present a first version in June or July. "MERAPI" will be an interesting project for both "parties", the JAVA programmers as well as the users who want to run a JAVA application. More information will follow soon. StormC p.OS / StormPowerASM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Storm family is growing! Good times for Amiga programmers: the new StormC modules for p.OS and PowerUP are ready. There is also a very new hardcore tools: StormPowerASM that takes full advantage out of the PowerUP boards. And last but not least there is the new release of our GUI editor: StormWIAZRD 2.0. More information will follow soon. Tornado3D ~~~~~~~~~ The superb modeler and animation package! Tornado3D does it all in realtime and has phantastic features. More information will follow soon. NetConnect ~~~~~~~~~~ The complete Internet Suite for the Amiga! VoagerNG, AmiTCP 4.5 Dialup, Microdot II, AmFTP, AmIRC, AmTelnet, AmFinger, AmTerm, NetInfo, IconBar ...More information will follow soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A H I V E R S I O N 4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Linkoping, Sweden (April 22, 1997) - Martin Blom announced today the availability of the AHI Audio System version 4, the retargetable audio standard for AmigaOS. With this release AHI has grown from being mainly a developer tool to a professional and user friendly product no one owning a sound card can live without. AHI has quickly become a de facto standard, and has hardware drivers for the built-in sound hardware (Paula) as well as most of the available sounds cards for the Amiga and DraCo computers. The system allows fast mixing of up to 128 virtual sound channels in realtime, and can also be used for non-realtime rendering in 32 bit quality with linear interpolation and mixing frequencies up to 96 kHz. "Commodore or Amiga Technologies should have written a better audio system years ago, but never did", Martin said. "Since nobody else did either I decided to give it a try, and I am very satisfied with the result." It's not only the author who is excited about AHI: "AHI is the greatest thing since sliced toast, finally our DraCo is no longer a mute! When people realize what AHI is about it will be as big as CybergraphX. It's time we got rid of the 8-bit audio limit! Great work Martin!" -- Johan Otterstrom, Orebro Videoreklam "Finally there's a powerful retargetable audio standard for Amiga" -- Thomas Wenzel, A.C.T. (designers of the Prelude soundcard) Sound card except Paula supported by AHI: Aura, Delfina DSP, Draco Motion, Prelude, Toccata and Wavetools. AHI is available free of charge from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lcs/ahi.html Martin Blom can be reached via E-mail at lcs@lysator.liu.se. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S Y S T E M T E S T U T I L I T Y Date: 23 Apr 1997 20:22:03 GMT TITLE STU - System Test Utility VERSION 8.0 AUTHOR Tony Preston, apreston@k2nesoft.com DESCRIPTION STU is an Amiga system diagnostic. Its purpose is to test disk drives and memory on any model Amiga using the operating system functions. With this program you can test all available memory and the disk functions of the system. The user has the ability to test individual drives for errors. NEW FEATURES There are a few small bug fixes for some enforcer hits. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS STU will run on any Amiga running OS 1.3 or later. AVAILABILITY Available from any Aminet site such as: ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/aminet/disk/util/stu.lha The latest version can always be downloaded from: The Amiga Zone BBS (609) 953-8159 DISTRIBUTABILITY The STU archive may be downloaded to any BBS or distributed on any CD-ROM archive or FTP site. OTHER Copyrighted 1997 Custom Services. All rights reserved. STU is a shareware product. The fee for registration is $10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B I G D I S K - N O M O R E 4 G L I M I T May 1, 1997 BIGDISK is now released, it is available from the AWSW distributors. It removes the 4GB limitation of AmigaDOS. Now it is possible to handle 9GB or larger hardisks with the Amiga or DraCo. It is possible to create partitions above the 4GB limit - you can format them with any file system you like (AFS, FFS), and it is compatible with ALL versions of MovieShop on both the DraCo, and VLM as a MovieShop video or audio partition. We tested it extensively, so we can bravely suggest it to users who plan to upgrade their NLE system extensively. Note: MovieShop4.2 for the DraCo supports hardisks that are larger than 4GB. BIGDISK also works with the VLM, and also supports AmigaDOS access to partitions above 4GB. Check out our site for further details, or for grabbing the demo version. KNOWN ISSUES ************ BIGDISK Compatibility with cybscsi.device is not yet confirmed. Appearantly it seems that BIGDISK _IS_ compatible with it, but it is not 100% confirmed yet. Please contact us first, before buying BIGDISK for cybscsi.device. BIGDISK OFFERED FOR ALL AMIGA DEALERS ************************************** If you sell Amiga computers make sure you bundle BIGDISK with all hardisks that are larger than 4GB. Even experienced users may run into problems that result in severe dataloss when using a hardisk that is larger than 4GB with an Amiga without BIGDISK. Further details are available on our site. Click on the 4GB VAMPIRE image on the homepage. 4 WAYS OF GETTING FULL VERSIONS FREE ************************************ 1. TRANSLATE Get the demo version from OUR SITE. Check out if there is a translation for your language included yet. Not? Translate the readme file, and send it to us. We will send the full version back to you FREE of any charge. NOTES Check by e-mail first if someone else was not doing the translation yet. We will refuse sending the full version if the quality of the translation is not verified positively by a native speaker. 2. DEMO PICTURE / GOOD TIP Tell us about your success with one of our products. Include a JPEG demo picture that shows an impressive result, that we can use in our promotion. We welcome any valuable tips for using our software most effectively. Include the name of the product, that you want to recieve FREE in return. If we display your submission publicly, we will send the requested product free of any charge. 3. SEND A BUG! We test our software thorougly and try to make sure it's bug-free when we release it. If however you do find a bug, and report it to us, you can also include the name of the product you want to recieve FREE of any charge from us. We will list all these 'known issues' in our upcomming newsletters and on our web-site for the information of other users, and try to fix it as soon as possible. NOTE The reported bug must not be already listed, and it must be verifyable. We think that software with bugs, or software that can be significantly improved in speed or perfomance is a shame. So we will always give away FREE* upgrades that fix bugs, improves speed and performance. You will only have to pay for new features - if you want to. * Distributors may charge a nominal fee for disk and p&p in case of disk distibution of free upgrades. Electronic replacement will be absolutely free. 4. BEAT US! Mail us a disk with 3 images and a text file: - test1.jpg - image enhanced, generated or processed by our software - test2.jpg - image enhanced, generated or processed by other software - test3.jpg - the original image - test.txt - explanation of what you did with what software and how you did it, and please include the name of the product you want to recieve FREE of any charge - provided you can't beat all of our solutions... NOTES 'Our image' must not be worse than the competing product because of a documented misuse of our product. The compared features should be identical. Please don't send us an image rendered for 14 hours with Alias on an Onyx compared to a partition created with BIGDISK... :) 01/05/97, Budapest Best regards, -- Ben Bordas Managing director, Arthur Wilkins Software 1141 Budapest Malyva 32, Hungary Tel/Fax: (36-1) 221-2287 http://www.acomp.hu/awsw E-Mail:ben@mail.datanet.hu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P E T R O T . I N T E R V I E W U P D A T E Subject: Interview with Petro - IMPORTANT UPDATE Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:48:38 +0200 Hello Every1, As sad as this is, I have to post this message. Yesterday, I got an e-mail from Petro telling me that the contents of the interview with him, done by Amiga Magazin and translated to English by me, is not his official statement and is not approved by him. Therefor I ask everyone that has posted the translation /anywhere/ (Amiga Web Directory) to remove it. There will be an official statement on the World of Amiga show in May.So I'm affraid we'll have to wait for good news even longer :( Cheers, Eelke ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: some issues available at: http://www.sharbor.com/amiga/news/ (in html format) http://www.amigacom.com (in ASCII text) Australian Mirror Site: http://www.comcen.com.au/~paulm/index.html All back issues available (in ASCII text) at: http://www.globaldialog.com/AdventureCentral/AU/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1997 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. ====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || Brad Webb/AmigaUpdate /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || bandr@globaldialog.com / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || ======================================================================