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16 Oct 99: OS 3.5 delivery starts on Monday The delivery of AmigaOS 3.5 to dealers starts on Monday, 18th October, 1999. Rumors about a delay caused by legal problems is not correct. Due to the many pre-orders it might one to two weeks to carry out all orders. ![[HEW logo]](graphics/shows/hew-logo.gif){kind=logo} 13
Oct 99: HOME electronics worldIn a few weeks (12.-14. November) the home electronics world" show will start. This is the successor of the famous Computer '98 and so it is the biggest and most important Amiga show of the year. We will also have a nice both at this show. More information will follow shortly. 13 Oct 99: New order area We just rearranged our order area to give you a better access to all information like prices, shipping costs, methods of payment, etc. We also offer an order form without SSL because some customers had problems. We hope you like the new order area.  10
Oct 99:Amiga: Tanz auf allen Vulkanen The new German economy magazine brand eins publishes a story about Amiga with the subtitle "One cult, then broken and still not dead: the restart plans of the computer legend". You can buy the German magazine or read the text online. 10 Oct 99: T3D PowerPack Vol. I Eyelight is proud to announce that the first volume of the PowerPack series is ready and shipping. PowerPack Volume I: Image Maps, is a collection of professionally painted and acquired image maps suitable for any rendering package. more...  28 Sept 99: STFax 4.0STFax 4 was written with the intention of creating a centralized communications tool for the consumer and SOHO market. The main intention of STFax 4 is to offer advanced features, yet retain the ease of use, supporting a number of different communication mediums such as fax, voice, data, and, later, email and GSM/SMS. More Details 28 Sept 99: NetConnect 3 available soon NetConnect 3 is the latest version of the award-winning NetConnect package from Active Technologies. NetConnect 3 is the easiest and most comprehensive Internet compilation for the Amiga to date, and is designed to enable any Amiga user from novice to expert to get onto and use the Internet. More Details 23 Sept 99: New on 3D World... There are three more announcements and the new 3D World logos are finally online. 3DWorld 05 Sept 99: STFax 4.0 to be released soon The new version 4.0 of STFax will be released in about 2-3 weeks. It will contain a lot of new features and a collection of professional samples for the voice functions. Full list of features 05 Sept 99: "No Piracy" discussion forum opened The discussion forum is now open and the logo campaign can start finally. Forum - Logos ![[No Piracy]](actions/NoPiracy100.gif) 02
Sept 99: Amiga "No Piracy" Campaign Update The campaign goes on: some more logos and the final one :) Discussion forum will start soon. We just opened a new domain (www.amiga-planet.de) that now hosts NoPiracy campaign  27 Aug 99: New German advertisingThe next ad for PageStream 4.0, STFax 4.0, Tornado3D 3.0 and ArtEffect 3.0 in our new advertising style recently appeared in a German magazine. The ad in a better resolution (160 kB). 27 Aug 99: New 3D World logos... We recently got some more logos for our 3D World section. Now we are interested which style of logo you like best. So please tell us your opinion  18
Aug 99: Amiga at 3SATShortly in the German computer broadcast NEUES - Die Computershow, an item about Amiga will appear. On August 23th 1999, at 09.30 pm a news story will be shown at 3SAT. The TV team has met with the leader of Development of the AmigaOS 3.5 project, Jochen Becher (see picture). (Alas the 3SAT sites use a lot of DHTML for the navigation. Because of this it is hardly possible with Amiga-browsers, to access this site. I will however provide a direct link, as soon as a preview appears. The webmaster) 18
Aug 99: Amiga "No Piracy" CampaignPiracy copies harms the existence of Amiga companies more and more. Especially in the case of applications and games this causes that new projects will not be proceeded any more. It is high time to start a joint action... NoPiracy 05 Aug 99: PageStream 4.0 The new version 4 of PageStream will be available very soon. Currently it is in Beta test. In a few days we will be able to offer 4.0 as a beta version with free update to the final version. 05 Aug 99: New Dealer Information There is a special English brochure of our products available for dealers. Dealers Area  04
Aug 99:New T3D advertising A new ad for T3D in our new advertising style recently appeared in a German magazine. The ad in a better resolution (608x437, 83 kB). 04 Aug 99: 3DWorld logos online Finally the logo suggestions are one. 3DWorld 30 July 99: New on 3DWorld There are 2 new software announcement on 3DWorld. On of them it the well-known Heretic II. 28 July 99: World of Amiga in London The years WOA was again well-attended not least because of the excellent location (Kensington Town Hall) and the good organizations. We presented the current beta version of AmigaOS 3.5 several times per day on the VidiWall. After the show we even had enough time for a walk through the center of London :) In August and September there are more Amiga shows scheduled in Australia, USA, Slovenia, Finland, Italy, Canada, Portugal. 28 July 99: Tornado3D v3.0 Eyelight plans to release Version 3.0 on 14. September 1999. Those who buy v2.1 now will be able to download 3.0 for free from Eyelight's webpage. Info  20
July 99: Meet us at WOAI am sorry for the poor news here on the homepage, but we are very busy working on AmigaOS 3.5 and preparing for the show in London this weekend. Hope to meet you all there ;-) WOA 99 02 July 99: News from Amiga There current Open Letter from Jim Collas and more news are now on the homepage of Amiga. You can also see what the packaging of new AmigaOS 3.5 will look like. 02 July 99: Amiga Animation Contest AMIGA International, Inc. in Langen, Germany is looking in co-operation with IOM Film and Video productions in Hof, Germany for the best video trailer for the new Operating System 3.5. You can win 3 Amiga 1200 HDD Magic Pak and 25 of our new OS 3.5. Link 21 June 99: Products Overview in Norwegian The products overview has been translated to Norwegian. Thanks to Christian Leon Christensen. We are still looking for more native languages. If you want to help on that, please contact the webmaster. 17 June 99:
WOA99 & AmiWest in JulyThere are a lot of upcoming Amiga shows world-wide the next months. Just check the events schedule to find your local Amiga happening... :-) 16 June 99: Tornado3D Special Prices Until 1. July 99 customers of version 1.5 can buy the 3.0 update for a special price of 398 DM (afterwards: 498 DM). Everyone who buys v2.1 now or who had already done so (not valid when you got 2.x by download) will be able to download 3.0 update for free from Eyelight's webpage. Students and owners of competitive 3D programs can get T3D for a special price of 649 DM.  16 June 99: Amiga Advisory Council Nomination Amiga is going to install the Amiga Advisory Council in early July. It will consist several people from companies, clubs etc. Everyone can nominate a suitable company or individual until 19. June (!). Link 16 June 99: Fusion PPC Pre-Ordering Microcode Solutions wants to get 500 pre-orders until 1. July to start to finalize Fusion and PCx for PowerPC. We do not agree to that action for several reasons but as you do not have to pre-pay yet, you can show your interest in those products again by this. Link 14 June 99: Products Overview in French The products overview has been translated to French. Thanks to Lionel Thillot. We are now on the way to translate it to more native languages. Polish version is coming soon. If you want to help on that, please contact the webmaster. 10 June 99: New on 3D World The 3DWorld pages got a new look and some rework. There are also 3 new software announcements. 3DWorld  09 June 99: And the winner is...In the early morning numerous surfers visited our homepage to have a look it they are the 400.000. visitor. And it happened again - around 40 people got the same score. So we had to pick the first mail that fulfilled our conditions and came in first. The winner is: Guillaume Ubbelohde from Belgium. Congratulations :) 08 June 99: Samples for FontMachine & X-DVE To show you the power of FontMachine and X-DVE to create Internet graphics Klaus Ziereis created some outstanding samples. 04 June 99: Products Overview in Dutch The products overview has been translated to Dutch. Thanks to Dirk Harlaar. We are still looking for more native languages. If you want to help on that, please contact the webmaster.  03 June
99: Win a HyperCOM !Yes, in a few days we will reach another important step - the 400.000. visitor will come to our homepage. This time you can win a super-fast HyperCOM card and a GENESiS package. More 03 June 99: AmigaOS 3.5 Advertising Campaign Amiga Intl. just started their world-wide advertising campaign for AmigaOS 3.5. Link 27 May 99: Products Overview in Danish The products overview has been translated to Danish. Thanks to Tommy Tamsen. We are now on the way to translate it to more native languages. If you want to help on that, please contact the webmaster. 19 May 99: News from Amiga Inc. Jim Collas released an open letter to the community as well as details of their current activities. There are also first design concepts of the upcoming AmigaNG and more news. 17 May 99: SoftLogik online again The move of SoftLogik took longer than expected, but now they are online again. There will be more news the next days. 14 May 99: The Ripper Award  A campaign of Scottish Amiga club "the Ripper" awarded us for "continuous
support of the Amiga computer, with ongoing development of professional software". We are pleased about that
and want to thank everyone that supported us :) Link12 May 99: Pre-order your AmigaOS 3.5 We are now also taking pre orders for upcoming AmigaOS 3.5. Price will be 99,50 DM. Delivery will start as soon as it is available from Amiga Intl. 12 May 99: Reworked Products Overview To give you a better overview of our products we have reworked this area. products overview We are now on the way to translate this to several native languages. If you want to help on that, please contact the webmaster.  30 April 99: Our new (German) adTo give you an idea on our new ad that we are running in Germany, we are presenting it here. Your comments are welcome :) Ad in small resolution (425x596, 140 kB) and high resolution (850x1193, 483 kB). 29 April 99: wARPgATe The very topical wARPgATe homepage now has its own domain www.w-9.de. You can access the WarpUP/Warp3D area directly. 29 April 99: "Best Features" Award  "Congratulations on your 'site with the
best features' award you won from Trogladite Software today." Neil Bullock, Trogsoft. Thanks for
that honor :)23 April 99: Tornado3D v2.0 SE This special version of Tornado3D has all you need to create breath-taking 3D graphics and animation at a very reasonable price and with a full upgrade option. Includes PowerPC and Virge3D support. You can get this outstanding 3D package for only 199 DM. Offer 22 April 99: WarpUP Release 4 After intensive work and countless tests the new release of WarpUP can go public. The text describes the news and the new tools. You will find the release and the update in our support area. Download  21
April 99: AUGS meeting in Zofingen On 17. and 18. of April this year's Amiga User Group Switzerland Meeting took part in Zofingen. Haage&Partner showed an early pre-version of AmigaOS 3.5. More 19 April 99: 3 more locales for ArtEffect 3 We just uploaded the locale files for Czech, Dansk and Francais to our ArtEffect FTP area. Support 19 April 99: Results of our Survey 99 Over 650 Amiga fans took part in that survey. Many thanks to all of you. The analysis shows that you are rather satisfied with the contents and the overall appearance of our site. You also gave us many comments and suggestions for improvements. A lot of those changes have already been done during the last days. Details We also have winner: it is Andreas Stöhr. Congratulations. 12 April 99: Changes on our Homepage As announced last week, we did some optical and in the contents changes on our homepage. You have certainly seen the new icons and besides we worked on nearly all FAQ areas which are now handled by a database. BTW, more than 400 Amigans already took part in our Survey 99. Thanks a lot for all your help :) 12 April 99: Starbirds - Update There is an update patch for owners of a BlizzardPPC. You will find it in the download area. Starbirds 09 April 99: First results of Survey 99 As you can see on this page (no background, no blinking text, no "service" animation) we did first changes because of your suggestions. Those you did not already take part in our Survey 99 should do so now. Thanks! 02 April 99: Updated Support Area Nearly all support pages have been updated to a new look. There are also new FAQ pages which we will extend in the near future. Support 02 April 99: 350.000 Visitors Our homepage is getting more and more popular - we have about 850 visitors per day. We are very happy about that and want to know what you think we could improve: Survey 99 31 Mar 99: New Pics in Tornado3D Gallery There are some great new pictures in the Tornado3D gallery. It's worth a look. Gallery 31 Mar 99: STFax 3.8 Update The free update STFax 3.8 is available for download. Support 31 Mar 99: Microdot-II v.1.3 Update A minor update that will only work with the NetConnect v2.3 update (due to new netconnect.library). Support 31 Mar 99: SoftLogik is moving SoftLogik is moving to a new location and even their domain www.softlogik.com is not available for about 2 weeks. 25 Mar 99: Warp3D v2 for Permedia Finally the official version 2.0 of Warp3D for the Permedia chip of CVision/BVisionPPC graphics boards is available. Info 19 Mar 99: 333.333 Winner Viggo Hinrichsen is our visitor number 333.333. Congratulation! An ArtEffect 3.0 package is on the way to Denmark :) 16 Mar 99: Starbirds - Free Shot'em Up Game Starbirds is a shoot'em up game like classic R-Type, Apidya, Wings of Death. We hope that you will enjoy the game. Starbirds  15
Mar 99: New OS 3.5 SectionThe Amiga homepage now offers a new section on AmigaOS 3.5. Link 08 Mar 99: First OS3.5 Demonstration This pictorial report shows the first OS3.5 as unveiled at the Amiga International offices in Germany. Link 07-Mar-99: ArtEffect 3.0 available! ArtEffect 3.0 is shipping since last week. Due to a lot of pre-orders it will take some more days to deliver all. Feature list 07-Mar-99: Color Separator for ArtEffect AE.ColorSeparator makes it possible for the first time to prepare pictures directly for the four color printing (CMYK). Info 07-Mar-99: Who will be no. 333.333 ? The next event will be in a few days: the 333.333. visitor will come to our website. The one that sends us a proof in form of a screen dump, the time of his visit and a photo of himself first will get a software surprise... Mail 05-Mar-99: AmigaOS 3.5 in Summer 99 Now it is official, H&P will develop AmigaOS 3.5 on behalf of Amiga Inc. There will be more details on the homepage of AI soon. News  05-Mar-99: AmigaOS 3.5 in St. Louis On Gateway Computer Show - Amiga 99 H&P will give a first demonstration of part of the new AmigaOS 3.5. The show will start on Friday, March 12 St. Louis Missouri, USA. Link 03-Mar-99: Tips on WarpUP Sometimes the usage of WarpUP comes with some problems. A special document provides you with some tips on how such problems can be solved. Tips on WarpUP 26-Feb-99: There is something going on at Amiga... Amiga announces new President and Fast-Track Development plans. Link 22-Feb-99: Tornado3D v2.1 / v3.0 The new Tornado3D v 2.1 with a lot of outstanding features is available now. Registered customers can download the Update 2.1 for free from the Internet. There is also a feature list of the upcoming version 3.0 14-Feb-99: Genesis 1.04 Update / Demo There is a first update, a Socks server and a demo version available for download. Support 14-Feb-99: NetConnect 2.3 Update There is also an update for NetConnect. Support 09-Feb-99: The "300.000" Winners We want to congratulate all winners of our "300.000 Visitor" contest:      Matt Sealey (UK), Allan Odgaard (DK), Steffen Rabenborg (DK), Dirk Dockbreyder (Germany, he sent us a picture of his kids) and Fredrik Soederberg (Sweden). 03-Feb-99: Ethernet for A1200 The Netax1200 Ethernet PCMCIA card for Amiga 1200/600 with Sana II driver for a very fast connection with any TCP/IP stack or Amiga Envoy(TM) software. More 26-Jan-99: New Dictionaries for AmigaWriter We just released new dictionaries for the AmigaWriter spell-checker as well as an update for the English one. You can download the following dictionaries: French, Italian, Netherlands, Dansk, Swedish and Czech. Download 29-Jan-99: Free choice PPC kernel petition This petition is to try and get phase5 to remove the ppc.library from always being present on the BlizzardPPC cards thus allowing other kernels to work and the user to choose his or her own. Link 28-Jan-99: Who was the No. 300.000??? It happend - we had the 300.000. vistor on our homepage, but who is it? We already have 4 (?) candidates and will have to check that... So it does not make sense to send us more requests ;-) 27-Jan-99: No. 23 on Counter Hitlist  Because of the heavily increasing accesses to our website
we are now on rank 23 of WebHits. Together with the German Amiga News site of Petra Struck which is
rank 69 there are two AMIGA sites among the Top100 :)27-Jan-99: Who will become no. 300.000??? The next days we will be able to welcome the 300.000 visitor to our website. When this person sends us a proof in form of a screen dump and a photo of himself then he will get a surprise gift... 27-Jan-99: Updated Reviews The reviews page has been updated and revised. Here you can find the national and international comments and awards on all products distributed by H&P. Reviews 26-Jan-99: New Dictionaries for AmigaWriter We just released new dictionaries for the AmigaWriter spell-checker as well as an update for the English one. You can download the following dictionaries: French, Italian, Netherlands, Dansk, Swedish and Czech. Download 26-Jan-99: Updated files for STFax There is a new PrintManager, Icons and two ARexx scripts available for download. There is also a new demo version STFax Pro 3.7. Support 14-Jan-99: Native version of ArtEffect and AmigaWriter In our continual effort to support the Amiga world-wide we have increased the number of native languages for our mainstream products ArtEffect and AmigaWriter. ArtEffect now supports 12 and AmigaWriter 8 languages. Some more are on the way and will be made available soon. Besides the localized user interface (GUI) we are also working on native manuals, installers, spell checkers etc. More 06-Jan-99: STFax 3.7 Update The free update STFax 3.7 is available for download. Support  06-Jan-99: Amiga Univers
AwardsNetConnect v2 was awarded 'Commercial Application of 1998' by the Amiga community, via the Amiga Universe web site. Vaporware, the team behind NetConnect was voted 'Amiga Developers in 1998', along with Haage & Partner GmbH. Info |
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