=========================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || Amiga Update -News and Rumors /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ ||(A Very Ocassional Newsletter) / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || =========================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga Technolgies, GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 951026 N E W P R O D U C T A N N O U N C E M E N T S We've never sent new product announcements via this newsletter in the past, but we have several in hand right now so I thought we'd try it. Let me know if you don't want to see such things. For you power graphics users, check through the list and you'll see two ways to use the 64 bit DEC Alpha processor with your Amiga, one in the announcements and one my note to that announcement. Brad -------------- F O R C D - R O M U S E R S TITLE: AsimCDFS VERSION: v3.4 COMPANY: Asimware Innovations Inc. 600 Upper Wellington St., Unit D Hamilton, Ontario Canada L9A 3P9 Phone: (905)578-4916 Fax: (905)578-3966 EMail: info@asimware.com AsimCDFS v3.4 Maintenance Release --------------------------------- We would like to announce the availability of AsimCDFS v3.4, which was released as of October 24th, 1995. This is a maintenance update for the AsimCDFS v3 package. The update highlights include: - support for Rock Ridge volumes; - additional support for the Sanyo 254 CD-ROM drive; - support for the Pioneer DRU-124X CD-ROM drive; - support for the Nakamichi MBR-7.4 quad-speed 7 disc changer; - the addition of some newer AmigaDOS packets; and, - a few minor bug fixes. Registered users can obtain this release via our BBS or ftp site. - ftp: ftp.asimware.com - BBS: 905-332-9207 In either case, you will need your AsimCDFS serial number to obtain access. About AsimCDFS v3... -------------------- The AsimCDFS software package is a CD-ROM control system which allows the user to read most CD-ROM discs with an Amiga computer and a suitable CD-ROM drive. AsimCDFS is equipped with the following advanced features: - access to ISO 9660, High Sierra, Rock Ridge and Macintosh HFS CD-ROM formats; - FishMarket, a CD-ROM disc containing the public domain Fred Fish collection; - AsimTunes, an audio librarian/controller providing advanced librarian and playback features; - support for direct digitizing from standard audio CDs and playing audio via the Amiga hardware; - CDTV and CD32 emulation modules, complete with autobooting from CD-ROM discs; - integrated support for Kodak and Corel PhotoCD discs. Colour WorkBench icons are created for easy identification. Support for resolutions from 192x128 up to 3072x2048; - preferences editor for all AsimCDFS settings; and, - full ARexx command set available for all programs. Asimware Innovations Inc. is an Amiga software development house specializing in CD-ROM and CD-Recordable technologies. Our current product line includes AsimCDFS, MasterISO, Texture Heaven, Texture Heaven 2 and PhotoCD Manager. Sincerely, Paul Reeves Asimware Innovations Inc. October 24th, 1995 **************************** C O N T E S T A N D N E W R E N D E R S A U R U S ! ( Y O U ' L L H A V E T O B E Q U I C K ! ) Anti Gravity Products is happy to announce a special contest to celebrate the launch of Anti Gravity Labs. Get over $500 in free Amiga software including Snap Maps Super Bundle, if you design the best Rendersaurus Logo for the front of the machine. You must act fast because this offer ends on Friday, October 27, 1995. This is a great opportunity for the next brillant Amiga graphics artist to show their stuff to the whole world . Entries must be in IFF24 format only. No JPEG's, PCX, BMP etc. -- this is not for PC artists!!! Don't forget...coming soon is the new Rendersaurus plug-in Amiga card. Believe it! DEC ALPHA 275MHz on the Amiga working from AmigaOS - NOT Windows NT! All entries become the property of Anti Gravity Labs and can be used for promotional purposes. {Note: another way to get Alpha power with AmigaOS is through the German made Draco Amiga compatible computer. It can be purchased with an optional Alpha co-processor chip. Brad} ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 4 B I T P A I N T P R O G R A M E N H A N C E M E N T TITLE UniversalXiPaintModule for XiPaint 3.x VERSION 2.0 AUTHOR Helmut Hoffmann Rubensstrasse 4 41063 Moenchengladbach Germany EMail: hhoff@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de DESCRIPTION An universal picture loader module for XiPaint supporting over 20 file formats. Module is designed for very high loading speed and support of many picture file format variants (see below for detailed list). In addition the module supports loading of pictures by Datatypes. Internally supported formats for loading: 1) IFF-ILBM (1 to 24Bit incl. HAM6/HAM8) 2) PhotoCD (Base format 768x512 or 512x768 (portrait)) 3) PPM/PGM/PBM (P1&P4 b&w, P5 grey, P6 color) 4) QRT (also known as dump format by PD raytracers as POV-Ray) 5) Targa (compressed & uncompressed) 6) PCX (compressed & uncompressed) 7) BMP (compressed & uncompressed) 8) TIF (packbit-compr./uncompr.) 9) EGS7.x window icons 10) DEEP (compressed & uncompressed) 11) YUV 12) VLAB raw 13) RGB 14) HHsYUVSq sequence format 15) IFF-PBM (DPII) 16) ACBM 17) FBM 18) Sun raster (uncompressed) 19) MacPaint (b&w compressed 1Bit format; datafork only) 20) HHsXRL formats 21) binary-EPS bitmaps (RGB and CMYK) 22) TBCPlus frames The additional DataType support extends this list by many formats; DataTypes can e.g. be found on Aminet in util/DType. The DataType support is very fast, so that you can also view pictures in GIF or other formats quite fast for which Datatypes exist. The module can be used with both older XiPaints (3.0/3.1: invocation of the module with an included ARexx script) and newer XiPaints (3.2 and up: direct support of external loader modules). NEW FEATURES New since V2.0: Direct external module support for XiPaint 3.2 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS XiPaint 3.x (commercial painting program) AVAILABILITY Any Aminet site ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gfx/misc/xipaintmodul20.lha PRICE Shareware fee: Special add-on price: 10DM or 8US$ (only valid if you order the module together with one of my shareware programs EGS-TV, EGSPhotoAlbum or CyberShow) Registration of just the module: 20DM (europe) or 18US$ (worldwide) Registration of the module if you are already registered user of one of my shareware programs EGS-TV, EGSPhotoAlbum or CyberShow: 15DM (europe) or 13US$ (worldwide) DISTRIBUTABILITY Copyright by Helmut Hoffmann 1995 Limited demo version is freely distributable; registered users will receive a keyfile which enables all features. OTHER The freely distributable version has some restrictions (all pictures will only be loaded in greyscales) which disappear after you pay the shareware fee and receive a special personal keyfile (together with the latest version). Once registered, you can use new freely distributable versions as update with your keyfile. A similair loader module is also available for ImageFX (FastIFXModules46) and PhotoGenics (UniversalGIO 2.0). =========================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || Brad Webb - available at: /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || webb@malamute.med.ge.com /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || bandr@globaldialog.com / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || Portal -- XJumpdisk ===========================================================================