====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || -News and Rumors- / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_|| (An Occasional e-mail "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" || News Source) ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 000613 L A T E S T E X E C U T I V E U P D A T E S O F T W A R E D E V E L O P E R S ' K I T O F F I C I A L S D K L A U N C H I N G E R M A N Y A M I G A - E Y E T E C H D E A L T A O J A V A G E T S S U N ' S B L E S S I N G D E S K T O P . C O M H A S A M I G A B A C K I N G A M I W E S T E X H I B I T O R S L I S T M C E W E N T O S P E A K A T A M I W E S T A 2 K C E L E B R A T I O N C A N C E L L E D A A A A W A R D S A N N O U N C E M E N T A L I E N N A T I O N S C O M I N G T O A M I G A U P D A T E O N " A M I G A S U R V I V O R " R E L E A S E S F R O M A P C & T C P T X T 2 P D F N E W V E R S I O N Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: Lots of interesting news from Amiga this time around. We have the latest Executive Update for you, in its entirety, as this didn't seem to be long enough to force a synopsis. The breadth of Amiga's activi- ties and the direction behind them look very encouraging to us so far. The folks behind Cybergraphx have a new version of their premier Amiga graphics manager available. We don't have a story for you, as they've not sent out press releases as far as we know, and they have some pretty restrictive policies on their web site. Accordingly, we're just going to let you know in this manner and suggest you check out their web site if interested. Try http://www.vgr.com/v4/ for more de- tails. We do have plenty of other good information for you below, including a chance to get a free Amiga 2000 if you're so inclined. Read on! Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail to the E-ditor: Only one letter this time, but it's most interesting! Here it is: "May 05, 2000 We have an Amiga 2000 with an IBM bridgeboard, keyboard, assorted software and don't know what to do with it, besides giving it to the local Children's Museum for dismantling. Would you know any aficionados that would like to have this ma- chine---------free of course. Pat" The generous person who wrote the above letter is Pat Hammond (we'll break our rule about using correspondents' last names in this case to give Pat proper credit). What we thought we'd do is collect requests from readers who are interested in this machine, and who'll really use it. We'll put all the names in an Amiga hat and pull one out. Then we'll put that reader in contact with Pat by sending the reader's e-mail address to Pat. By submitting your name to the drawing, you agree to have us pass your name and e-mail on, of course. Then it's up the reader and Pat to determine the best way to proceed from there. Sounds like a good plan to us, so drop us a line at amigaupdate@globaldialog.com and we'll take it from there. We'll ac- cept e-mails with "posted" dates up to midnight, Central Standard Time (USA), June 30. Brad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L A T E S T E X E C U T I V E U P D A T E Executive Update May 30,2000 Friends: Many people have been writing to me recently, reminding me that there has been very little activity as far as site updates go. While this is not intended as the official Executive Update, I just want to make sure everyone knew that there has, in fact, been a great deal of ac- tivity going on at Amiga since the Amiga 2k show in Saint Louis a few months ago. As usual, there are things that we aren't ready to dis- cuss, but never mistake our silence for being "asleep”. Officially you can watch the Amiga.com site for the new Executive Up- date, new developer and application information, as well as several other updates which will be posted on June 3rd, 2000 {see below}. In the next Update, you can expect to see much more information and details about our immediate plans than this message will have. While we could have waited another week or so to post the next Update, I thought the community needed to hear from us, to let you know what we can at the moment, and to ask you to be patient, just a little bit longer. One critical area that needs to be addressed right now today is the Amiga name, trademarks, logos, and intellectual properties. Many of you have sent me notes asking us to take action against those who are making illegal copies of our software, using our name without permis- sion, and the distributing our intellectual property without our knowledge and consent. While this might seem negative for many, it is imperative that Amiga properly and legally defend our trademarks and intellectual property. To be blunt and to the point, if you are using the Amiga name, Amiga logos, or distributing our intellectual property without a license, you must cease and desist these actions immediately. Amiga Incorpo- rated owns the aforementioned items and all rights contained therein. We understand that many of you have worked very hard to maintain a community, the spirit, and all we know Amiga as today. Unfortunately, there are many people, sites, and even companies out there who are us- ing the Amiga name in a detrimental fashion, and in negative ways. Some have even sought to use the Amiga name to further their own goals and products. Because of this and because international trademark laws mandate it, we must make sure that anyone using our name, logos, or trademarks in any fashion is properly licensed by us. Okay, now that we've said that, here's the Amiga SDK (Software Developers' Kit)! On April 1st, 2000, at the Amiga 2k show, Amiga Inc. announced the developer box and our partnership with the TAO group in England. To be quite honest, the number of developers who approached us at the show and shortly thereafter wanting to purchase the Software Development Kit (SDK) separately from the hardware to run on your own machines took us completely by surprise. Well, we listened and in only a few days will be releasing to manu- facture the new Amiga SDK. More information will be on the site the weekend of June 3rd. Please note that the SDK will sell for $99 U.S.. The SDK will be available from your Amiga retailer, and other sources soon-to-be an- nounced. Things really are happening at Amiga, there are new applications, new employees, new partnerships, and new products. The year 2000 truly is going to be a very exciting time. I look for- ward to meeting with many of you over the coming months at the differ- ent trade shows, different events, by phone, by fax, and by e-mail. I can promise you that with the release of the SDK you'll begin to see Amiga get much more aggressive and move much faster towards the fu- ture. Thank you again for your continued support, and make sure to check the Amiga.com site the weekend of June 3rd. Sincerely, Bill McEwen, and the rest of the Amiga team. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S O F T W A R E D E V E L O P E R S ' K I T June 3, 2000, Snoqualmie, WA - Amiga announces the release of the Amiga Software Developers Kit, the first new product to introduce the next generation Amiga platform. The Amiga Software Developers Kit provides the initial tools and ex- amples for developers to create exciting multi-media content for mul- tiple devices and computing environments. The unique strength of the New Amiga comes from the partnership with the Tao Group in Reading En- gland providing a foundation where developers are able to take advan- tage of a ubiquitous computing environment. In 1984 Amiga established what is know today as multi-media. As a re- sult of this, Amiga systems are used around the world by leading film studios, animators, and in mission critical applications. Using this as the foundation, the Amiga is moving forward by creating multi-media for numerous devices and computing environments in the home, in the office and beyond. The Amiga OS is capable of being self-hosted, and sitting on top of other operating systems. A single application is capable of running on X86, Power PC, M.core, ARM, StrongArm, MIPs, SH3/4, and others. In a hosted environment the new Amiga runs on versions of Linux, Windows 95,98/NT, Windows CE, OS/9, QNX4, and others to be announced. The new OS also embraces the Java language in a new, powerful and compliant way. The intent Java Technology Edition from Tao is world renowned for its speed and compact execution of Java applications. With the new environment, developers will be able to take advantage of both Java, and portable assembler coding. "Today we take the first step towards the future," said Bill McEwen, President/CEO of Amiga, Inc. "The new Amiga SDK provides an envi- ronment where the best developers in the world can build exciting ap- plications, that can transcend hardware limitations. Today Amiga de- velopers can be joined by Linux and Java developers in an environment that provides the foundation for the delivery of future content." "Tao has been talking for some time now about our developments to create Digital Heaven(TM) and we see Amiga and its community as a fun- damental part of the new order that can make it happen and take an in- dustry lead. With the sheer tenacity and the many qualities of McEwen and his Amiga team, the world is going to see Amiga as a Premier Brand for connected digital appliances," said Francis Charig Chairman of the Tao-Group. For the developer, the new SDK creates a single environment that is scalable from handheld devices, such as cell phones upwards New ver- sions of the kit later in the year will introduce many new media fea- tures. Both the current and future versions will enable compact, high performance and robust media solutions to be used across a broad range of devices using identical binaries.. The New Amiga SDK is available through local retailers for $99.00, and from the Amiga web site, Amazon.com and other sources available soon. A version via a Japanese distributor will be announced shortly. About Amiga: Amiga Incorporated is dedicated to creating a multi-media operating environment, enabling developers and users to experience a new level of enjoyment. As it was in the early 80’s, Amiga is ready to introduce the next level of computing. Trademarks Amiga is a trademark of Amiga Inc. intent(TM) is a trademark of Tao Group Ltd Digital Heaven(TM) is a trademark of Tao Group Ltd Linux(R) is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Windows(R) is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation QNX is a registered trademark of QNX Software Systems Ltd OS-9(R) is a registered trademark of the Microware Systems Corporation NEC V850(R) is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation in the United States and other countries MIPS is a registered trademark and MIPS-based are trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. ARM, and StrongARM are registered trademarks of ARM Limited Motorola PowerPCTM and M-CoreTM are trademarks of Motorola, Inc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- O F F I C I A L S D K L A U N C H I N G E R M A N Y 04 Jun 2000 Official World Launch of the NG-Amiga SDK As Bill Mc Ewen confirmd with his last eMail, the official World Launch of the new NG-Amiga SDK (software development kit) will be at the big Amiga-Show in Neuss near Düsseldorf (Germany). This show will take place the 10th an 11th of June in the Cityhall of Neuss (so called Stadhalle Neuss) and about 20 exibithors of the international AMIGA-market will present the latest stuff. But the most important for the visitors will the the attendance of Bill Mc Ewen who will for the first time present the new Amiga-system and-concepts as well as make the brand new SDK available. For further information please visit www.amiga-messe.de or write an eMail to: a.goukassian@falke-verlag.de. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A - E Y E T E C H D E A L June 6, 2000 - Snoqualmie, WA USA - Amiga Inc. of Snoqualmie, WA is pleased to announce a strategic relationship with Eyetech Group Ltd. of Stokesley, North Yorkshire, UK to manufacture the first release of the Next Generation Amiga Development Machines and to distribute these in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. This will no doubt come as welcome news to the British Amiga commu- nity who have long enjoyed an excellent relationship with Eyetech. Eyetech is well known as a leading supporter of Amiga - and the Amiga Community - of great integrity. Eyetech's involvement in the Amiga market dates back to 1993. Amiga and Eyetech both share a vision and strategy to re-establish the next generation Amiga Operating Environment as the leading multi- media hardware-independent delivery platform for the year 2000 and be- yond. Both companies believe that this strategy will return Amiga to its rightful position as a leader in multimedia computing, and thereby redeliver the recognition and pride back to the loyal Amiga community that has waved the flag over these last 15 years. Our relationship with long time company Chairman, Alan Redhouse, proves that Eyetech has a firm belief in our product, our company, and our community. Of particular interest to both Amiga and the community is Eyetechs EZTower Mk5 which networks together - in a single tower system - both an A1200 (with optional PPC/BVision) with a next genera- tion Amiga Development Machine and the Amiga SDK. "The reputation of Eyetech as well as their ability to offer such a high quality and wide-ranging choice to the Amiga community in the form of both the EZ- Tower Mk5 and the EZDev-Plus - Eyetech's stand-alone DevBox - is un- precedented. We wholeheartedly support Alan and his team at Eyetech and join the community in welcoming Eyetech to the Amiga future." said Randall Hughes, Vice President Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga. Alan Redhouse commented: "I am delighted that Eyetech has been chosen as Amiga's partner to help UK companies and individuals take advantage of porting and developing applications under the new Amiga Operating Environment. We will of course continue to service and support Classic Amiga users Worldwide from the 5000 square feet (500 square meters) of warehouse space dedicated to Amiga products here at our UK base. "The Classic Amiga also forms the basis of our Multimedia Presenta- tion and Kiosk systems as its tightly integrated, purpose-designed preemptive multitasking, multimedia-centric operating system allows us to achieve levels of performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness which cannot even be approached on a PC-based system. We are now look- ing forward to developing new, high-performance multimedia products around the new generation Amiga Operating Environment, as well as pro- viding continued support for our existing commercial and leisure cus- tomers." Eyetech's developer platforms for the new generation Amiga Operating Environment will be officially released on 1st June 2000. The product portfolio will include EZTower Mk 5 based integrated systems, upgrade kits for existing EZTower users and the stand-alone EZDev-Plus system. All systems will ship with Eyetech's 5-click Amiga - Linux networking software, specially tailored for the new Amiga Operating Environment. For further details please contact: Randall P Hughes VP Sales and Strategic Business Development AMIGA INC. randy@amiga.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T A O J A V A G E T S S U N ' S B L E S S I N G JavaOneSM Conference, San Francisco, Ca. June 6th 2000 -- Tao Group today announced that its multimedia system for enhancing JavaTM tech- nology based applications, the intent, Java Technology Edition, has been awarded Sun Authorized Virtual Machine status by passing Sun's comprehensive PersonalJavaTM test suites. Over several years intent has been developed by Tao's engineering team for use in connected devices in home and mobile networks. The em- phasis has been on creating an open, comprehensive, customizable, com- pact, fast and binary portable multimedia solution incorporating ad- vanced capability in streaming audio and video. At its heart is Tao's Sun Authorized Virtual Machine and libraries. Today, the software is being deployed in a broad range of markets including digital games, home networking, digital television, automotive and phones. "Tao's commitment to compatibility is key to furthering the adoption of the Java platform in growing markets such as consumer digital ap- pliances," said Curtis Sasaki, director of product marketing, Consumer Technologies, Sun Microsystems. "Tao's compatible virtual machine and libraries offer an impressive array of graphics capabilities to manu- facturers developing devices requiring rich content for consumers." Bill McEwen, President of Amiga stated that "Amiga continues to sup- port the world's most sophisticated, multimedia engineering and artis- tic community. The New Amiga platform is built around the intent foun- dation because only intent provides the infrastructure needed to meet our market's expectations. Amiga will be a repository for a vast amount of high value, intent-based multimedia content and we see com- pliant Java-language applications running on Tao-based engines as a fundamental component in making Amiga the de facto standard." "intent's advanced multimedia technologies in association with Java technology gives Tao a unique and strong position in the consumer mar- ket," stated Hiro Uchida, General Manager of Strategic Venture Manage- ment Group, Sony Corporation. "There is a growing market demand for Java applications running on ARM® core-based devices," said Andrew Cummins, Java Program Manager, ARM. "Tao's solution for the ARM architecture provides our silicon and systems partners with a highly effective multimedia component for the next-generation of Java enabled devices targeting a wide range of ap- plications including automotive, digital television and mobile commu- nications solutions." Ray Burgess, Corporate Vice President of Motorola noted "Java tech- nology is fast becoming a requirement in the imaging and entertainment world. However, size and power limitations have often limited the ex- perience of using Java software in consumer products. Tao's fully com- pliant, accelerated Java engine will help us break through this limi- tation and opens up a whole range of new opportunities for networked Java devices." Mike Foss, Executive Manager for Hitachi Semiconductor, commented, "Our support for Tao goes back some years. We are pleased that Tao's multimedia Java technology support on the SH family of microprocessors is both compliant and so exciting." Takeshi Shibamoto, Associate Director of Victor Co. of Japan [JVC], remarked "I am delighted to see that Tao's wonderful technology is now fully branded. We have been working with the team at Tao for some years and are pleased that our belief in this world-class software has been fully justified. I expect that Tao's software will have a major presence in the consumer and professional space for many years." Hiroshi Saito, Director and General Manager at Fujitsu Aichi Engi- neering stated that "Fujitsu AEL strongly endorses Tao's technology because its Java and multimedia simply make it the best in its class." "Cadence Design Services and Tao are working closely together to bring integrated technology and design service solutions, leveraging Tao's intent JTE (Java Technology Edition) product, to the global em- bedded market" said Brent Hudson, vice president and general manager of Cadence's Wireless and Multimedia Design Group. "intent combines superb performance with small memory footprint, and is ideally suited to the rapidly growing digital TV market, an area in which we have built significant expertise, and where Java compliance is a vital com- ponent." "It's so good to be able to talk about a breakthrough technology that really does provide what the market needs and also actually exists," said Tetsuya Hikino, Managing Director, NEC Electronics (UK) Limited, "the capabilities of Tao's software are stunning and I'm sure it will proliferate globally in Multimedia and Internet-based devices." According to Huw Price-Stephens, Technical Director at Yes Televi- sion, a leading provider of interactive television products and ser- vices, "Java compliance is a critical requirement to enable broadcast- ers and content providers to guarantee interoperability across mul- tiple platforms. Yes Television is a strong supporter of Java technol- ogy and is pleased to be able to take advantage of Tao's unique and compliant JVM implementation." Martyn Gilbert, Chief Executive of Amino Communications said, "While Amino's hardware developments have revolutionized the way that custom Internet appliances are now being created, Tao has achieved much the same with its software media capabilities. We've looked at the market very closely to make sure that we offer our customers the very best from top to bottom, and Tao is so far advanced beyond any competition that it requires a double take just to believe it!" "This announcement further establishes Java technology as the devel- opment platform of choice for smart devices," stated Jaison Dolvane, President and CEO of Espial. "Tao and Espial have been working to- gether to provide a superior and comprehensive smart-device solution, complete with multimedia capabilities, the Java language, a universal service-management platform, core Internet applications and develop- ment tools. Combined with Tao's superior multimedia and Java virtual machine technologies, Espial will soon provide its customers with com- plete and robust solutions for the TV, wireless, auto, gaming and In- ternet-appliance markets." "By combining high performance with a small memory footprint, intent addresses the demanding requirements of next-generation appliances based on the QNX® 4 Realtime OS," said Linda Campbell, vice president of strategic alliances at QNX Software Systems. "Together, QNX and in- tent offer developers a solution that is at once reliable, open, and media-rich." Mr. Norizaku Suzuki, President of ASCII Corporation in Japan said, "ASCII helped sponsor this program and we've watched it develop with great admiration. Tao's technology has so much value-add that's criti- cal to the consumer electronics manufacturers, broadcasters, operators and consumers, and we believe the mass proliferation of intent is in- evitable." Yasuhiro Kawashima, President of WebLogic, said, "We and Tao are looking to further differentiate the wonderful intent Java multimedia products with the introduction of WebLogic's value-added, hardware ac- celeration. An inexpensive, super-fast and Java-compliant multimedia solution is something everyone should be happy about." "We have had nothing but complete support from Sun. Its openness is refreshing," said Francis Charig, Chairman of Tao Group. "I think the model that they have developed, which encourages companies like Tao to add value to their standard offerings, is very successful. Tao has been able to add technologies to help with the binary portability, to advance memory usage, to bring in new, high value, garbage collection techniques and customization and many unique features while maintain- ing the critical compatibility to the Java specification. Most sig- nificant though is that we are driving forward the digital appliance market utilizing high performance, multimedia Java based applica- tions." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D E S K T O P . C O M H A S A M I G A B A C K I N G June 5, 2000, JavaOne(SM) Conference, San Francisco - Espial, a mar- ket leader in infrastructure software for the pervasive internet, to- day unveiled Devicetop.com, an internet portal dedicated to Java (tm) technology developers of Web content and application services for in- ternet smart appliances. Devicetop.com is poised to become a premier Internet destination for developers interested in extending their pro- gramming skills from the PC desktop to post-PC devices. Devicetop.com is an initiative of Espial supported by Sun, Intel, Mo- torola, Amiga, Tao Group, Internet Appliance Network (IAN), Pointbase, Java Report, Dr. Dobb's, and JavaWorld.com (tm), to develop a vibrant community of third-party developers focused on creating services for smart devices. The Devicetop.com portal will be launched in conjunc- tion with the JavaOne(SM) 2000 Developer Conference in San Francisco, the premier global event for Java technology developers. According to a recent report from International Data Corporation (IDC), the market for internet appliances is poised to explode over the next several years. This market is expected to become an annual 55 million unit market and $15 billion market in the US by the year 2001. By 2002, shipments of consumer internet appliances will exceed con- sumer PC shipments. The internet appliance market includes handheld PDAs, wireless smartphones, internet screenphones, web tablets, game consoles, in-car computing, and interactive TV set-top boxes. The pre- dicted explosion of the information appliance market and the Java platform being viewed as the de facto standard for creating third-party developer community and applications, means that a portal such as Devicetop.com will serve as a catalyst for the growth of the information appliance market. "The smart-device market is in a rapidly expanding stage, bringing with it developments that promise to revolutionize the way we work and communicate on a daily basis," states Mal Raddalgoda, senior director of strategic marketing at Espial. "The opportunities for creating and developing smart-device services are limitless and we want to help de- velopers move quickly from the desktop to devices. The Devicetop.com portal is the next step to achieving Espial's vision of universal ser- vice management for smart devices where the combination of ser- vice-enabled smart devices, the Internet, and a broad array of ser- vices for devices will drive the deployment of a new generation of telecommunication services." About Devicetop.com Devicetop.com is a premier web portal for developers of services for smart-devices. Devicetop.com offers a hub for news, industry informa- tion, discussion forums, technical tutorials, and software development tools for developers to learn, communicate, and create web content and application services. Devicetop.com provides developers with a global marketing venue to showcase their services to leading consumer elec- tronics manufacturers, ISPs and network operators. The Devicetop.com BMW Z3 Contest Giveaway Devicetop.com will be giving away a BMW Z3 Roadster to the developer who uploads the best Java technology-based smart device application to the Devicetop.com portal. The contest finalists will be determined by a vote of the members of the Devicetop.com portal. Devicetop.com Partners The Devicetop.com Partner Program is a point of convergence for in- dustry-leading companies that are focused on creating solutions for the post-PC world. Sponsors of this initiative include Sun Microsys- tems, Intel, Motorola, Amiga, Tao, Pointbase and IAN. "Every day more and more products are leveraging the power of the In- ternet, moving us towards a world of millions of connected, smart wireless devices," commented Farooq Butt, Strategic Business Develop- ment manager of Motorola SPS. "Motorola's DigitalDNAÔ wireless soft- ware and hardware solutions, coupled with Espial's innovative devel- oper portal strategy, provide a great boost to developers everywhere targeting the exploding Java technology-enabled smart wireless device market." "We are very pleased to be a founding sponsor of Devicetop.com" stated Francis Charig, chairman of Tao Group. "We believe that this bold initiative will make significant contributions to the Information appliance community. With the creation of the Devicetop.com portal, Espial, Amiga and Tao Group are strongly committed to promoting the development of interactive and multimedia content, applications and solutions for smart devices." "Amiga, Inc. and the Amiga community are excited to be a part of De- vicetop.com. Working with Espial and the Tao Group, we will unite the Amiga and Java development community and leverage the broad talent pool of Java technology developers who continue to lead the way in the creation of innovative software products," commented Bill McEwen, President and CEO, Amiga, Inc. "Amiga's involvement with this initia- tive will leverage the wealth of content, and expertise build new, highly innovative applications for the next generation Amiga plat- form." "Our partnership with Espial for Devicetop.com marks the creation of an exciting new virtual community for those developing applications and services for smart devices," said Audrey Parma, President of IAN. "Java technology is a key component in developing truly innovative smart devices, allowing IAN's marketing solutions platform to remain device agnostic. We are excited to be part of this initiative that of- fers the potential for the development of the most promising device services for the Internet appliance market." "There is a growing interest on the part of enterprises to deploy ap- plications out onto Internet appliances and mobile wireless devices," said Bruce Scott, president and CEO, Pointbase. "All of these applica- tions will require advanced data management and synchronization tech- nology to meet the needs of users on a global scale. Our involvement with Espial and Devicetop.com in this initiative will result in help- ing developers create and deploy the cross-platform data management facilities needed for the wave of distributed mobile applications we see emerging over the next few years." Devicetop.com Media Partners The Devicetop.com Media Partner Program consists of best-of-breed me- dia companies well positioned with high quality content to lead this new era of Internet appliances. Media sponsorship in this initiative allows us to leverage what we've learned by helping developers create embedded products (including internet appliances) and apply that knowledge to developing leading edge and valuable Java technology and consumer device content. "As the first magazine to cover the Java language in serious depth, and a long-time advocate of embedded technologies and the promise of smart appliances, DDJ is excited to be a part of a program that en- courages development between these two worlds." "As a member of this smart device service community, Java Report, in conjunction with Espial, is dedicated to helping promote this forum as a place for developers to learn, communicate, create, and provide ap- plication services to the Internet appliance community," said Dwight Deugo, editor-in-chief, Java Report. "Joining this initiative demon- strates Java Report's dedication to contributing to the development and deployment of enhanced smart devices." "Espial has taken on a missionary role in creating a long-term affin- ity with the Java technology developer community. Community thrives and prospers best based on access to in-depth technical information," said Carolyn Wong, editor-in-chief of JavaWorld.com. "Providing how-to tutorials is what we do best and why we are contributing this value to the growth of the development of Java technology-based applications for devices." For more information on how to become part of the Strategic Partner or Media Partner Programs, contact Jill Meloche, web marketing manager for Devicetop.com, at jmeloche@espial.com or 613.230.4770 x141. Espial A market leader in infrastructure software for the pervasive Inter- net, Espial offers a universal end-to-end service-management solution for smart devices. This includes core applications and development tools for device manufacturers like Espial Devicetop(tm), a ser- vice-enabled platform, and Espial Escape(TM), the world's most ad- vanced web browser. It also includes Espial DeviceServer(TM), a ser- vice-management platform that allows service providers to deliver and manage content and application services to a wide variety of smart de- vices, including set-top boxes, screenphones, gaming consoles, smart cars, and handheld devices. Visit www.espial.com. Espial products are supported on leading device operating systems and Java virtual machine implementations from companies such as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) - WinCE, Linux - Redhat (NASDAQ: RHAT), Symbian - EPOC32, Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) - VxWorks and pSOS, QNX - QNX 4 and Neutrino, Microware (NASDAQ: MWAR) - OS9, Be - (NASDAQ: BEOS) - BEOS, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) - Java platform, Tao Group -- intent (tm) and Insignia (NASDAQ: INSGY) - Jeode. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I W E S T E X H I B I T O R S L I S T 15 May 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Preliminary list of exhibitors at AmiWest 2000 announced! A prliminary list of companies and clubs that are either participating in or exhibiting at AmiWest 2000 has been posted on our web page at http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ AmiWest 2000 is the west coast all Amiga show which is being produced in Sacramento, California, at the popular Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast, 5321 Date Avenue Sacramento, CA 95841, on Saturday, July 29th and Sunday, July 30th, 2000. The Holiday Inn venue proved to be such a hit for last year's show that we are again holding it there. Show times are Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 10am-4pm. AmiWest is in it's third year and is the only all Amiga show produced on the West Coast. The show has proved very popular for Amiga enthu- siasts in the Western United States. This preliminary list of exhibitors includes AEMail, which produces an email client for the Amiga; Amiga, Inc., the producers of the Amiga; AntiGravity, which makes the BoXer; AudioLabs, producers of stunning audio software for the Amiga; Compuquick Media Center, an Amiga dealer coming all the way from Ohio; FWD Computing, selling CD-ROMS for the Amiga; G & G Publications, producers of "The New Amigans" Amiga publi- cation; Hyperion Entertainment Software, producing game software for the Amiga; Merlanica Industries, another Amiga dealer coming from Ari- zona; Nordic Global Inc., developers of the "Miami" and "Miami Deluxe" TCP/IP stack software for the Amiga; Nova Designs, Inc., makers of "ImageFX" (image processing software) and "Aladdin 4D" (3-D rendering software); the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club (SACC); and the User Group Network (UGN), the world-wide Amiga network of user groups which will be conducting an IRC directly from the AmiWest 2000 show floor. We are adding new exhibitors daily. Watch our web site for the latest updates. If you are interested in exhibiting at AmiWest 2000, please submit the form that is provided on our web page. We need to know early who will be exhibiting. Booth sizes and pricing are now posted. Special booth pricing will be available for user groups. In April at the A2K show in St. Louis, the newly reorganized Amiga, Inc announced many advances in the three short months since the pur- chase of the Amiga by Amino (renamed Amiga, Inc.) from Gateway. The Amiga appears to have a new life that is definately on an upswing. The new Amiga Corporation is headed by Bill McEwen who can be remem- bered by participants at both AmiWest'98 and AmiWest'99 as a very en- thusiastic supporter of the Amiga. Also part of the Amiga team are long time Amigans Fleecy Moss and Petro Tyschtschenko. Strategic alliances have been formed with such well known names in the computing world as Tao-Group, Red Hat, and Corel. In addition part- nerships have been formed with well known Amiga companies such as Haage & Partner, Hyperion, and Epic Marketing. All of these companies will be producing software for the new Amigas. After what has transpired in three months, four more months should bring many more announcements from Amiga, Inc. at AmiWest 2000. You can learn more about AmiWest 2000 by accessing our web page at: http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ This weekend event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga Community. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- M C E W E N T O S P E A K A T A M I W E S T 13 Jun 2000 AmiWest 2000 Banquet Speaker Announced! Bill McEwen, President of Amiga, Inc., will be the guest speaker at the AmiWest 2000 Banquet on Saturday Evening, July 29th. Mr. McEwen will speak on the progress made to date by the new Amiga, Inc. This includes the recent release of the Software Development Kit that you will be able to purchase at the show from a number of our vendors. Banquet tickets must be purchased in advance and are $35 per plate. They will NOT be sold on Friday nor Saturday due to the hotel needing attendance figures for planning the banquet. Seating is limited and tickets are available on a first come, first served basis. Admission to the show is: $ 8 (One Day Pass if paid in advance by July 15, 2000) $ 10 (One Day Pass at the door) $ 12 (Full Show Pass if paid in advance by July 15, 2000) $ 15 (Full Show Pass at the door) A form for ordering tickets can be found on our web page at: http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ In April at the A2K show in St. Louis, the newly reorganized Amiga, Inc announced many advances in the three short months since the pur- chase of the Amiga by Amino (renamed Amiga, Inc.) from Gateway. The Amiga appears to have a new life that is definately on an upswing. The new Amiga Corporation is headed by Bill McEwen who can be remem- bered by participants at both AmiWest'98 and AmiWest'99 as a very en- thusiastic supporter of the Amiga. Strategic alliances have been formed with such well known names in the computing world as Tao-Group, Red Hat, and Corel. In addition part- nerships have been formed with well known Amiga companies such as Haage & Partner, Hyperion, and Epic Marketing. All of these companies will be producing software for the new Amigas. John Zacharias, chairperson AmiWest 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A 2 K C E L E B R A T I O N C A N C E L L E D Atlanta, GA - May 15th, 2000 - A2K 15-year anniversary celebration cancelled. Amiga:2000 - Which one? No, not the one in St. Louis; No, not the one in Sacramento; No, not the World of Amiga show either; Nope, not even the show in Canada or even Ohio. The one that was supposed to be in Atlanta. Confused? You're not alone. Amiga2K, Amiga:2000, Amiga Y2k, A2k, A2000, and so on, were all nomen- clatures to represent shows and events for this year. It wasn't coordinated in a fashion that allowed the public to easily identify which show was what. Toss in the mass amount of havoc over the last year of who owned the rights to Amiga, what vapor were supposed to be released, what shows they were going to be at, etc., and you have a terrible mess. Even though we announced first, and made it clear to other show orga- nizers and to Amiga themselves, it was to no avail. Unfortunately, other shows scheduled within days of ours, even with our announcement showing our dates -long- before others shows were starting to get or- ganized. This caused vendors and attendees to have to choose between yearly shows or our once-in-a-lifetime show. To further complicate things, some people thought that the show was to be last year and con- fused it with AmiWest'99. Add one more source of chaos when Amiga, Inc (the current incarnation),removed all references of this show from their shows list on their web page. Without their support or vendor support and confusion of shows dividing the support from the Amiga community, it made a show of this caliber impossible. We'd like to thank all of those kind souls that put our banner on their web pages. Special thanks goes to those who were working with us to try to make the financial situation work, up to wanting to do- nate their own money with ours to make it happen, unfortunately it wasn't enough. Great thanks and appreciation go to those who said that they were going to attend and bring their memories and special items to show. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A A A A W A R D S A N N O U N C E M E N T Stockholm, Sweden - Sunday, May 14, 2000. The 1999 USA AAA Awards were presented at the Amiga 2k show in St. Louis, April 1-2 2000. The first USA AAA Awards went to Kermit Woodall (Community)and SoftLogik Publishing (Product). Please accept our sin- cere apologies for this late announcement. We hope to provide you with photo coverage of the event soon, avail- able at www.aaa-awards.org/winners/1999.php. The Community award The AAA Award USA - Community 1999 went to Kermit Woodall of Nova De- sign. He was selected the greatest 1999 US Amiga personality by the US Amiga community in the public voting. The motivation given was: "For being an inspiration to the US Amiga community, with never failing commitment, by attending shows, involvement in initiatives such as ICOA and the AAC, and always giving appreciated support to the community and dealers." The Product Award This year also marked the launching of the first Product awards. The AAA Award USA - Product 1999 went to SoftLogik Publishing, represented by owner Deron Kazmaier. Their DTP package PageStream 4 was selected the best US Amiga product! The exact motivation given by the jury was: "Best product released for the Amiga, and certainly the best publishing package available in it's price performance class. SoftLogik has been a rock in the Amiga community, developing good products like PageStream for many years. It is without doubt that Amiga would not be able to hold even the position it does today, without products like PageStream 4." Still to come... ...is the AAA Award International, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom! Please check our homepage www.aaa-awards.org for up-to-date informa- tion on where & when. Acknowledgements The AAA Awards are organized by ACG's AAA Awards Committee in co-operation with AMIGA, Amiga-St. Louis, AmigaSOC, Amiga Users Club of Spain, Cloanto and Gateway Amiga Club. The AAA Awards are copyright © 1997-2000 Amiga Computer Group. The AAA Awards logo is copyright © 1997 Amiga Computer Group and Björn Hagström. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A L I E N N A T I O N S C O M I N G T O A M I G A 07-May-2000 Titan and Hyperion are pleased to announce that they will be bringing "Alien Nations" ("Die Völker") to the Amiga after Titan succesfully negotiated a license for an Amiga port from the Austrian developer Jo- wood Alien Nations is a real-time strategy game in the vein of "The Set- tlers", which was enthusiastically received by the German speaking public and press. The game is set on an alien planet inhabited by three very distinct races: the Pimmons, the Amazons and the Sajikis and features campaigns consisting of 10 single player missions per race, set against a giant 3D back-drop. Resource-management, diplo- macy, research, commerce and battle are key to success. The Amiga ver- sion will most likely require a graphics card and will support PPC ac- celerators through WarpOS although the feasibility of a 68060 version will be examined. Optional 3D acceleration will be supported through Warp3D. Release is expected during Q3 of 2000. "We are very pleased to be able to extend our Amiga line-up to include a RTS-game.", says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion. "With this deal, our relationship with Titan has entered a new stage, with Titan acquiring the license for Mac and Amiga and Hyperion doing the actual Amiga port. It's a model we hope to repeat in the future." More information on Alien Nations coming soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- U P D A T E O N " A M I G A S U R V I V O R " 9 June, 2000 Crystal Software and Electronics took over Amiga Survivor magazine in good faith We had hoped that Amiga companies, distributors and Amiga themselves would take an interest in a magazine with hundreds of sub- scribers and potentially thousands of readers. I was so saddened by the lack of response from businesses that I considered pulling out of the Amiga market, but the reaction from eaders has been absolutely tremendous. I want to thank all the exist- ing and new readers for your wonderful support. Anyone can produce a tatty magazine and sell it for nothing. Anyone can claim to have thousands of readers. The commitment of CS&E to high quality goods means that we have decided to delay Amiga Survivor until August in an attempt to secure some other sources of support for the magazine to run as an independent publication. 40 pages on A5 have been produced for the first issue but it will not be published without any support. If the Amiga community wants an independent maga- zine then it has to support those who are doing their best to deliver. We could of course just fill it with CS&E adverts but that is not the aim of Amiga Survivor and its crew. The magazine was sold to us in the first place due to the financial burden on the original editor/owner. Companies are advised that they can send review items to the usual CS&E address and can get in touch to distribute or advertise from as little asJune 11, 2000 £95 per page inclusive of VAT and a free AS sub- scription. I apologise to our readers for the delay. David Connolly Managing Director Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd 7200 The Quorum, Oxford Business Park, Oxford, OX4 2JZ, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481 421 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481 482 http://www.CSandE.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- R E L E A S E S F R O M A P C & T C P 27 May 2000 At the Amiga-show in Neuss (Germany, held weekend of June 10) APC&TCP release again a cd-rom for Amiga with the Name Faces of Mars 2001: fom2001 is the cd-rom collection of the Faces of Mars-pd-series. The best of the over 500 disks can be found on this shareware-CD-ROM. All programms are tested under OS 3.5. The games, programms, pictures, animations, mods and texts can be found in these main-drawers: 1982 (classic games), Babylon 5, Esotherik, Fantasy, FOM, Games, History, Jokes, Mathematics, Misc, Science, Science Fiction, Space, Star Trek and Star Wars. Beside that there will be several bonus programms for internet-users like a free email-address, link to the personal homepage, discus- sion-group and The Portal, a starting point for the web, including, email, search-engine, webcards and e-commerce. Also are two audio-tracks included: fom2001 and They came from Outer Space! More Infos on our Homepage http://www.apc-tcp.de or Andreas@apc-tcp.de Also at the show in Neuss (germany) release APC&TCP the new CD-ROM "The Scene Archives 10". You can order by APC&TCP or your local dealer. A uncomplete list from dealers in your country found you on our homepage in "dealer". Welcome to Volume #10 of "The Scene Archives". This Volume contains Disks 8951 to 9750 "The Scene Archives" collec- tion. There are myriads of including the follow categories: Animations Dentros/Demos Digis Intros Maagazines Menus Miscellaneous Music Demos Demo Packs Slideshows Trackmos Now Includes "Scene Archives Search Utility" (SASU), to make "The Scene Archives" even easier to use. Finally, APC&TCP release at teh Amiga-Show in germany (10. Juni 2000) the new Amiga Arena CD-ROM: Homepages: ADM, Ahi, Amiga Aktuell, AmigaAMP, AmigaOS, Amiga Times, Assampler, Audie, Battle, AmiElulators, Eric, FreeCiv, Frogger, FDA, GeoWorld, Greatkartei, HPMono poly, Homebanking, Homeland, ImageEngine, Mad- house, MantaSoft, MT Rechnung III, MUIbase, Muscarine, OnysSoft, Photo Album, Stargate Software und viele ande re. special-Price: CD Cat, Cybershow, Fiasco, GeoWorld, Greatkartei, Homebanking, MUI- base, Musicman, NewsCoaster, Photo Album, WHD Load. fullversion AQuix, Bombsquare, Classic Racer, Doktor, Eric - Legend of the Elves, FreeCiv, Guardian, HBMonoploy, James Bond, Light Rider, Matrix Hunter, Muscarine, Othello, Parrot Island, SimplePac, WBsteroids, Wizards, Wiz, Ziriax (UAE Version), Amiga World, BlackIRC, Conventor, Geometry, MT Rechnung III, Multifax, MulitermKIT, OnyxBase, VorwahlenGUI, An- imFX, Frogger, Perfect Paint, PicFX, PPT, Serial Paint, SoftCinema, AmiEmulators, Assampler, AHI, AmigaAMP, Birdie Prefs, IconCopy, Mad- house, Pic2Icon, Scalos, ShowAmiga96, SimpleClock, Simplefind, Simple- HTML, Textloader, Textloader NG. Alle Programme sind mit ausdrücklicher Genehmigung der Entwickler auf der CD Rom vertreten! Homepages: 125 MByte Sonderpreise: 12 MByte Vollversionen: 67 MByte Classic Scene Demos 82 MByte Demoversionen 82 MByte The CD-ROM need_ Amiga mitAGA, AmigaOS 3.0 und 68020 Prozessor mit 2 MByte ChipRAM oder besser. The new "Digital Make-Up CD" is an add-on-cd sorted by themes, with tools and utilities for embellishing and tuning the AmigaOs. There are not only assambled powerful tools, which speed up the Ami- gaOs and simplify the daily work - there is a lot of graphic material for the normaly grey looking Workbench, too. Additional, there is software to realise speech issue. Naturally, appropriate Speech- and Soundsamples in different kinds of formats you can find there too.Lots of datatypes, actual librarys, modern types, new commands for the C-drawer and innumerable other systemextensions will bring any Amigasystem onto the right way.

New fantastic screensavers, many iconsets for the newiconsystem or brand new glowicons will give the workbench a modern look. You can find partly unpublished software for the first time on this CD-ROM. For the new AmigaOs 3.5 we create a new extra-drawer where you can find the latest tools for the actual version. One doubleclick onto "Quickstart" and already you will be right in the middle - into the "Digital Make-Up CD" ! The "Digital Make-Up CD" is optimized for AmigaOs 3.0 up to 3.5. The mainpart of the software on this CD-ROM can be started directly. Requirements: Any Amiga with 68020-Processor, 2 MByte ChipRAM, Harddisk, CD-ROM-drive, AmigaOS 2.05 APC&TCP Postfach 83 D-83236 Übersee Andreas@apc-tcp.de http://www.amigafuture.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T X T 2 P D F N E W V E R S I O N 29 May 2000 txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program. It's a converter from text files to PDF format files. With 2.x family you can put your text on white PDF pages. With 3.x you can create a layer beneath and above your text (background, foreground), where you can insert phrases or designs (using PDF syntax) What's new in this version Encoding support: WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncod- ing, PDFDocEncoding and the Unix vdefault Cyrillic note in the con- tributed directory from Ilya Naumov ===== SANFACE Software Your technology glasses. We help you see your full potential. mailto:sanface@sanface.com http://www.sanface.com WAP http://www.sanface.com/wap/index.wml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: All back issues available at: http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html Stop by and check out our archive! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2000 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. ====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ A M I G A /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ U P D A T E / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ amigaupdate@globaldialog.com ======================================================================