Workbench Number 166 March 2001
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Workbench March 2001 Number 166 ¡ ¢ £ £ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ ¢ § ¨ © ¥ ¢ § ¡ ¡ ¦ © ¦ ¡ ¨ ¡ ¡ ¦ ¨ © £ £ £ ! " # ! $ $ ! % & ' ! ( $ ! ) # ( ( * + ) $ , - . ! ! ( $ ! , $ % % , ( & ( $ ( / ) % $ ! ! * ) ! % . 0 ! 1 ! , % $ / ) ( & ( 2 . - ! # ! ) 3 ' ! / ! ! , ( * The Power Computing meeting C graphics card. How much difference does a mediator D with a Voodoo card make? Heaps!!! Displays from 8 in Moonee Ponds has come and 9 to 32 bit, huge resolutions at very fast speeds, a gone and it was really good to see C graphics card like the voodoo will transform your Amiga! Even our overclocker extraordonaire David the latest hardware. E Myers made the comment on how quick it was for an F 6 Approx. 30 people attended to see Tony of Power 040. 7 Computing who was in Australia to follow the Grand G Prix. He told me he’s been to every European GP last You could buy plenty of other items though, from 9 8 year and it’s one of his fav pastimes. I expected Tony these funny angled ide adaptors ($75), 9 to have a thick pommy accent but no. He does have a internal/external scan doublers/flickerfixers ($235), ; : power flyers, os3.9 cd’s, punchinello mouse adaptors heavy accent but not of the pom variety. Tony said H ($60), Mediator boards for $410 and quite a few other Australia/New Zealand are important customers of I Power Computing and last year he did over 100,000 items as well. If only all this stuff was at the ACE2k J ; pounds of business with us (almost $300,000 dollars). show (I and others had more money to spend then). < He also thinks some of the Aust sellers are lacking in A = Tony was a little disappointed in that some people judgement and told me that 2 years ago he offered D who ordered tower kits backed out on the day but even > one of the Aust dealers a way to buy Power Tower kits 9 then the orphan tower kits ended up being sold. He much more cheaply than importing the complete K brought a lot of extra stuff over so everyone had a ? assembly but the offer was rescinded. L chance to buy something within their price range. If 8 < you missed it you missed a unique opportunity to He was going to make a parts kit which consisted of ; purchase the latest Amiga gear not normally available @ everything needed to convert a tower to a Power 9 to Australian Amiga users except by mail order. If Tower. This would have been cheap to ship and only > only the Aussie dollar was a little better. required the local sourcing of the actual tower. A Tony’s demo tower had an 040 accelerator, 32 meg Tony Mulvihill B fast ram and a mediator card with a Voodoo 3000 5 March 2001 4 Workbench 1 Document: March2001-online_version.pp 31/03/2001 19:22:12 ; Page 1 (1); [0.750, 1.250] w Editorial x Looking good in Amiga. Tony of Power Computing said his company has sold y over one thousand Mediator boards, who say’s you cannot make money from Amiga! z [ Editor Eyetech are green to go on their AmigaOne expansion cards, DCE’s G-Rex PCI \ Tony Mulvihill { ] BH. (03) 9773 1288 expansion card is just coming on sale. Amiga Inc. have some exciting ^ [email protected] O announcements in a few weeks. ELbox are almost go with their Shark PPC O _ Contributions accelerators and Mediators for A4000’s and zorro 4 equipped A1200’s and ` Contributions can be soft Q a Amiga DE is going to be used by a couple of manufacturers for PDA’s (Palm & copy (on floppy disk) or | b hard copy. It will be PocketPC type devices), for which they want current Amiga developers to c returned if requested and } d accompanied with a provide software content. The only crew not releasing something new is Q self-addressed envelope. AntiGravity’s BoXer, yes... the BoXer is yet again delayed. The editor of the Amiga e Tony Mulvihill Users Group Inc. f newsletter Workbench c retains the right to edit M a contributions for clarity MacPacks for sale. Also cheap cold N d and length. cans of coke. g Send contributions to: \ Tony Mulvihill I hope to have my A1200 Power Tower 8 Libella Crt. O ` at least on display if not in operational Carrrum Downs 3201 N ^ [email protected] condition. Come on in and have a look. h See you there!! Advertising Advertising space is free P for members to sell private i items or services. Next Month's Meeting j For information on a April 22nd commercial rates, contact: Q k James Gardiner As Easter falls over our usual third l (03) 9553 3826 m [email protected] Last Month Sunday of the month meeting time, the February 18th meeting has been moved to the 4th Deadlines U n Workbench is published We were in Workshop 2 which is a bit Sunday of the month, the 22nd of April. R o each month. The deadline p Committee member Daimien Stewert for each issue is the 1st smaller than the Sun Room. S ~ \ Tuesday of the month of O/S 3.9 was on demo on John Hopkins will give a music demo with his Amiga. M q publication. A1200, those with a legitimate copy of More details in next months newsletter. ~ r Reprints P s OxyPatcher could get a non-reboot All articles in Workbench d are Copyright ©2001 the version, there was cold cans of coke and Newsletter size T Amiga Users Group Inc. David Myers had the latest Amiga news. You will have noticed the page count of t unless otherwise indicated. U s Articles may be Workbench is dropping. This is because c reproduced for This Month my time to produce Workbench is noncommercial purposes if V d accompanied by a credit March 18th limited. This combined with the lack of line including the original d member submissions means "What am authors name and the Swap Meet !!! Auction !!! W u words Y This month is our swap meet & auction. I going to put into the pages I have Reprinted from Workbench O ^ the newsletter of the There will be lots to see and buy from anyway?" Naturally any members who s O Amiga Users Group, PO R are willing to make submissions are ] CD’s to various pieces of hardware, Box 2198, Moorabbin, X v Victoria 3189. bring any gear you’d like to sell and most welcome and I thank those who have done so for past issues. Disclaimer don’t forget your money to buy, also Y \ The views expressed in the O The twelve pages of this issue is a size I s anyone with a legit copy of OxyPatcher Amiga Users Group Inc. N N f can handle easily and will also reduce newsletter Workbench are can bring it in and have it upgraded to a Z ^ those of the authors and do bug fixed non-reboot version. I’ll have the costs of printing to the group to a not necessarily represent X | ^ the views of the editor or PFS3, MooViD, MoViD movies and more sustainable level. This will be the ^ the committee. future size of Workbench. 5 March 2001 4 Workbench 2 Document: March2001-online_version.pp 31/03/2001 19:22:51 ; Page 2 (2); [0.750, 1.250] Bytes & Pieces A body without a head is just time, we are preparing for stomach and muscles. shipping." Jim Drew via c.s.a.e Microcode solutions website. Mr. Fleecy Moss, Vice President Now you can purchase these of Product Development for More Information About AmigaInc. posted on the AmigaOne fine products in Australia !! amigaone ML over the subject of "The AmigaOne will have 2 x MooViD $15.00 Zico (no, not the real orginal SDRAM slots, 1GB of SDRAM MooViD PPC $30.00 Zico) to A1 in less then 3 months address space has been allocated. MooViD Movies $15.00 and the direction of things. The Amiga DE (in my MooViD avi & movie player PPC&68k understanding) will carry forward "I wasn’t talking about taking the best attributes of the Classic [email protected] charge of the community - that is Amiga OS - including its real time BH. 9773 1288 patently ridiculous. I have always response, and of course the been a firm believer in the trinity Classic Amiga OS running on the of owner, developer, user, and AmigaOne 1200/4000 will give In This Issue that is what makes the you exactly the same attributes as community. What I mean is that it does now, but of course it will Swap Meet 1 Amiga Inc is now back in charge be many, many times faster." Power's Meeting 1 of being the owner. In the last five years there has really been no "Because of Amiga Inc’s ’St Editorial 2 forward direction, no strategy, no louis’ news embargo we cannot Group News 2 path, which is why the developers ship boards to beta testers until such as H&P,Phase 5, AROS, after that date. That (obviously) Bytes & Pieces 3 UAE etc stepped in to provide means that the board will not be Alt WoA review 4 alternatives. Amiga Inc, as the on general release in 1Q01 (which owner, is now back to doing what ends at the show). Our best Mediator gfxdrivers 5 an owner should do - we started estimate is that the Hypercom 1200 6 with the Zico, and less than 3 AmigaOne1200 will be with months later, we are well on are dealers around the middle of O/S 3.9 FAQ 7 way to having the A1.