-=========================================================================- _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || Amiga Update -News and Rumors /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ ||(A Very Ocassional Newsletter) / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || -=========================================================================- AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga Technolgies, GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 951129 A 4 0 0 0 s A R R I V E I - B R O W S E D E M O A V A I L A B L E P A W S I S R E A L ? ----------- Here we go again, another couple of newsletters close together. That's one reason we don't have a regular publishing schedule. Like the last, this one is short. I wanted to get the information about the A4000s out to you as soon as I could. Brad A4000s Now in US! Novemember 28th 1995 The first shipment of A4000T's to the US arrived in SMG's warehouse today. {Yesterday now. Brad} Only Authorised dealers will get them, so make sure you use one of them. First units should start shipping to customers tomorrow. { That is, today. Safe Harbor in Waukesha would be a good place to call, but do it fast. In fact, it may already be too late. It's quite possible ALL these units have been pre-sold. This item was downloaded last night from "The So-called Amiga Home Page". The folks doing that web site have added the term "So-called" to their name now that Amiga Technologies (AT) has its own Amiga home page. The next item is also from the "So-Called" home page. Brad} Another Good Web Browser for the Amiga From the "So-Called Amiga Home Page" on WWW: Here's a biggy, and it's not a rumour, it's the truth. A demo alpha of ibrowse is now available off the Ibrowse section of our {So-Called Amiga Home Page. Brad} web site. Be aware though, that it is known to have bugs, and that we do expect you to buy the finished version. The main reason for putting it out is that it will give you an idea of what the program is about, and that it is less buggy that the pre-alpha version that some bastard stole. Speaking of which, doesn't it seem like the height of ingratitude to steal the work of people who kept you going with a free web browser Amosaic through the darkest days of the Amiga? Yes it does. So, if you see a pirated copy of Ibrowse around, tell the person who has it to get the legal preview, and to pay for the release version when it's out. End of sermon. {NOTE: There's more about this you should know. I used I-Browse to download all the items in today's newsletter, and it worked well. However, there really are bugs. It had trouble with some text formatting, for instance. Also, it can crash a partition, so put it on a small disk partition by itself. It apparantly only causes problems if the program dies while writing to disk. Finally, it requies you to have MUI (Magic User Interface) 3.0 or better loaded on your Amiga. MUI 3.X is not readily available. When finished, I-Browse looks like it'll be faster than Mosaic, and will offer special extensions. Already the "So-Called Amiga Home Page" lists itself as "I-Browse enhanced". It's nice to see something other than "Netscape enhanced", since there is no Amiga Netscape. We'll let them figure out what I-Browse enhanced is. Brad} PORTABLE AMIGAS, THE HARD WAY? Novemember 21st 1995 From the "So-Called Amiga Home Page": It looks like the PAWs (Amiga in a box with a battery and LCD display) will finally happen. {Pretty short item, this one. It refers to the Portable Amiga Workstation from Silent Paws. This is a family of kits into which you fit your own Amiga motherboard. You wind up with a laptop like machine with LCD display. It's laptop like because most are too big to be real laptops. They have discussed models for A4000, A3000, A1200 and A600 motherboards if I remember right. Only the A600 model would really be laptop size. This might be a tempting use for your old A3000 motherboard if you buy a PowerPC upgrade board when they become available. Hmmm. Brad} -=========================================================================- _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || Brad Webb - available at: /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || webb@malamute.med.ge.com /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || bandr@globaldialog.com / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || Portal -- XJumpdisk -=========================================================================-