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O N E A C R E P L A C E S A N O T H E R A M I G A F O R M A T S P E C I A L P R I C E S A N O T H E R A U S T R A L I A N A M I G A S H O W O H I O E X P O U P D A T E Q U E B E C A M I G A S H O W U P C O M I N G A I M E E T S W I T H U S A M I G A N S N O N - W I N T E L N E W S S E R V I C E A M I G A Z O N E G E T S F A C E L I F T A M I N E T 2 0 I S A V A I L A B L E T W O S T O R I E S F R O M V U L C A N A M I G A M U S I C C D S T I L L A V A I L A B L E T H E L A T E S T F R O M H A A G E & P A R T N E R U P D A T E F R O M N A T W Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: Despite the number of stories we have for you this time, it's been a frustrating month to be an Amiga journalist. We've been collecting news for a few days now, hoping to bring you some updates on what Gateway is up to. There's a lot going on, but very little that's available officially. We can tell you this much. There now appears to be two separate Amiga entities within Gateway. First is the familiar "Amiga International", headed by Petro Tyschtschenko. New is "Amiga, Incorporated". Located in this county, it's leader is Jeff Schindler, the new head of Research and Development for Amiga products. "AI" will continue with marketing and liscensing, while Amiga Inc. will create new products. We understand everything from new hardware to operating system updates are being taken over by the new organization. As we have concrete information to report, we'll do so. Those who follow the Amiga market closely will be aware it's been very hard to contact "QuikPaK", makers of various Amiga models for the now departed Amiga Technologies. A recent note from QuikPak CEO David Ziembicki, reproduced below, explains much of what's been happening. We also have news of Amiga publications for you - another good one passes away, but some of the slack is taken up by "Amazing Computing", for which we are grateful. Several upcoming Amiga shows have news for you in this issue. We also have stories on products, Vulcan software's expansion and "much, much more" to steal a cliche. Something for everyone this time! Brad Webb, Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Q U I K P A K S U R F A C E S ! To: The Amiga Community From: David A. Ziembicki CEO, QuikPak Corporation             It has been a while since I wrote to the Amiga Community. As those reading this already know, we published a letter welcoming Gateway 2000 and reinforcing our desire to continue to support the Amiga as we have in the past. To this end we have met  with Gateway 2000, proposed various new products including our advertised A4040L, A4060L, and A1630. Gateway warned us early on that they are very meticulous in planning and that they would need time to review our product proposals and to see how they fit with their plans. By the time you read this, we will have met with Gateway 2000 to discuss these and other products.           Many have asked why we are not shipping the new products and have pointed out that we have been advertising them for months. The answer is that in order to utilize the Amiga chip set and OS, we need to be licensed by the owner of this technology, Gateway 2000. We are currently in negotiations for such a license and we are hopeful that these negotiations will be completed shortly and we can move forward quickly with an exciting line of new Amiga products.             This transition hasn't been without problems. We are aware of the difficulty some of you have had in reaching us lately, and of some delay in obtaining support. We have addressed the majority of these problems and anticipate that all of you will be satisfied with the results. We have changed our Web site and domain name. Our new site is QuikPak.com and we have added some new features to enhance customer service and make communicating with us easier. Please visit our site often as this along with our advertising here will be the  primary means of keeping up to date.             Finally, my thanks to all of the loyal QuikPak / Amiga customers. We truly appreciate your support. P.S. Please excuse the WIN 95 screen shot on the A4040L, we're just kidding. {If you check their web site and look closely, you'll see what he means. Brad} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- O N E A C R E P L A C E S A N O T H E R Amiga Computing and Amazing Computing North American Amiga Computing Subscribers To Be Offered Amazing Computing/Amiga Magazine August 23, 1997 PiM Publications Inc. announced today they have made an agreement with IDG Media of the UK to offer Amiga Computing subscribers Amazing Computing/Amiga Magazine to fulfill their subscriptions.Don Hicks, Managing Editor for Amazing Computing stated, "We felt the history of IDG's involvement with the Amiga as well as our own long-time commitment to the Amiga market made this an honor as well as our duty to step in and provide all North American Amiga users a continued professional source to Amiga information." Ian Bloomfield, Amiga Computing Publisher, stated, "After 117 issues, Amiga Computing has sadly closed. However, we are proud to know that Amazing Computing/Amiga will continue to speak to all Amiga users with the same journalistic responsibility that has made Amiga Computing famous. We wish Gateway 2000 and Amiga International Inc. all the best." Don Hicks also stated, "Amiga Computer subscribers will be offered an assortment of other publications from IDG in a letter being sent with their October (last) Amiga Computing issue. However, none of the other publications being offered are Amiga-based. We wanted to offer these Amiga users an opportunity to stay within the Amiga marketplace." Amazing Computing/Amiga to maintain advertising rates for current advertisers. A representative of PiM stated, "Although we are increasing our current subscription base, we will not increase advertising rates to current Amazing advertisers at this time. When AmigaWorld closed, PiM cut Amazing Computing's full page ad rates in half in order to stabilize the marketplace and maintain an outlet for Amiga users, dealers, and developers.We believe the current situation is similar and we want to do all we can to keep Amiga developers actively producing for the Amiga market." About Amazing Computing Amazing Computing/Amiga was the first monthly magazine (first issue-February, 1986) for the Amiga making Amazing the longest running Amiga publication in the world. Amazing Computing is the only monthly Amiga publication in North America as well as the only full color and newsstand distributed North American publication. Amazing Computing is the premiere Amiga news magazine. Every issue pushes to discover what is happening in the Amiga market and what is important to Amiga users. With news stories, tutorials, hints&tips, show reports, and more, Amazing Computing has covered the Amiga market from Video to Games, from programming to web site construction in over 135 issues. They do this by not compromising their dedication to get their readers ALL The Facts First. No wonder AC continues to consistently beat any other Amiga publication with new product information, news, and reviews by at least a month. Amazing Computing is available by subscription: 1 year (12 issues) $27.00 US $34.00 Canada & Mexico $44.00 Foreign (air mail rates available on request) For VISA, MasterCard, AmericanExpress, or Discover, call: 1-800-59-AMIGA toll-free in the US and Canada. Office hours are 9 to 5 Monday-Friday Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Foreign orders should call 1-508 678 4200 or FAX 508 675 6002. Mail orders to: Amazing Computing C/O PiM Publications Inc. P.O. Box 9490 Fall River, MA 02720 And don't forget to check Amazing's web site at www.pimpub.com for the latest Amiga news and special offers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A F O R M A T S P E C I A L P R I C E S Amiga Format Offers Limited-Time Discounts For immediate release: Amiga Format at 33% off! Anyone interested in subscribing to Amiga Format - the world's biggest-selling Amiga magazine - has never had a better incentive to do so. Until 31st October 1997, Amiga Format is available to new subscribers at a massive discount of 33 per cent off the normal newsstand price. This means that if you buy our CD edition - instead of paying £5.99 per issue you will only be paying £3.91! Floppy CD 12 issues UK £35 £47 12 issues Europe £47 £59 12 issues Rest of world £61 £73 For further details email subs@futurenet.co.uk Amiga Format is the longest-running UK Amiga magazine and has the most knowledgeable staff. Amiga Format was also the first magazine to pioneer putting a regular CD-ROM on the cover and is always at the forefront of new Amiga development with contacts in more than fourteen countries. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A N O T H E R A U S T R A L I A N A M I G A S H O W Amiga Central News Press Release AAG'97 MK II Amiga Expo Press Release: 22/08/97 The Australian Amiga Gazette, Australia's largest Amiga magazine was the Organiser of the Australian Amiga Gathering'97. AAG'97 was the offical re-launch of the Amiga in Australia and was held at the Sydney Showground in June. Due to the huge success of the Sydney show, another show has been planned for Melbourne. The Australian Amiga Gathering Mark II will be held on Saturday the 11th of October at The Pit, Pit Lane, Albert Park Grand Prix Circut. The AAG'97 MKII will run from 09:00am to 10:00pm For more details, check the web site at... http://www.unicorn.com.au/aag.html or contact the Organisers at... http://aag.unicorn.com.au/aag.html mgruber@fl.net.au probox@pnc.com.au Amiga: Taking Pole Position Again ! Michael Burak, Editor of the Australian Amiga Gazette and Organiser of the Sydney Amiga show has signed over all rights and liability of AAG'97 MKII to a team of dedicated Amigans (Paul Graham, Michael Gruber, Darren Robertson) to ensure a larger human resource will be available to manage the Melbourne show. Would we also be please if you could add a link on you web site to our home page. Attached to the email is the banner so you can see what it looks like. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- O H I O E X P O U P D A T E Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 We've just had a few new developments for the 1997 Midwest Amiga Exposition: 1) Petro Tyschtschenko, President of Amiga International, will be attending our show as a special guest. 2). An Amiga Developers Conference is schedule for Saturday, Nov. 1st (the first day of the show). Kermit Woodall, of Nova Design, will be the moderator. The conference is tenatively scheduled for 4:00pm to 6:00pm. All Amiga developers are encouraged to attend, as this will be an excellent opportunity to address many of the issues that face current Amiga development. 3). After the conference, a 7:00pm dinner with Petro Tyschtschenko, as the guest speaker, will be available, at $30.00 per plate (this price is not final, we're working on getting it lowered!) for all who wish to attend. Menu selection of the dinner choice is still pending, however, it will consist of an entree, side dish, salad, dessert, and beverage. An informal social gathering at the hotel bar will follow. 4). A grand prize drawing will take place on Sunday, Nov. 2nd, the last day of the show at approx. 2:00pm. We currently are in negotiations to have an Amiga for a grand prize giveaway. The prize will be an Amiga 1200, with configuration yet to be determined. Some vendors may have discounted software packages just for the event, and like last year, we will have hourly giveaways of Amiga and non-Amiga related computer items such as mouse pads, T-shirts, CD-Roms, and valuable Amiga software. 5). Negotiations are pending for Newtek's attendance and possibly a Video Toaster training session. 6). We are negotiating an IRC feed for the show, enabling Amiga developers from around the globe to attend the conference. Thanks to all who have responded, and please keep an eye on http://www.amicon.org/mae.html for further developments. Sincerely, -- Dave Pearce +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | dpearce@infinet.com - AmiCON - The Amiga Central Ohio Network | | For more information on AmiCON and the Midwest Amiga Exposition | | visit http://www.amicon.org | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Q U E B E C A M I G A S H O W U P C O M I N G Club Amiga du Québec Announces Festival Amiga '97 Club Amiga du Québec Inc. 5430, 15e avenue Montréal, Québec Canada H1X 2T8 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: caq@moebius.qc.ca Festival Amiga '97 The Club Amiga du Québec is inviting all Amiga users of the Montréal region to its 1997 Amiga Festival, that will be held on Saturday, August 23rd at the Monkland Community Center. The Festival is an opportunity for Amiga enthusiasts to meet and exchange tricks, tips, and tall tales of their mutual passion, the Amiga computer. More information can be found on the C.A.Q. Web Site at http://www.moebius.qc.ca/CAQ/FestivalEN.html. Daniel Mayrand vice-president, [http://www.moebius.qc.ca/CAQ] Club Amiga du Québec member, 'Team AMIGA' The Club Amiga du Québec is an non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of the Amiga computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A I M E E T S W I T H U S A M I G A N S Amiga International, Inc.: First meeting in USA with representatives of the AMIGA community August 11th, 1997  First meeting in USA with representatives of the AMIGA community   August 11th, 1997, Dakota Dunes, USA - First official meeting in Dakota Dunes/USA under direction of Jeff Schindler, General Manager AMIGA, Inc. (Technology and Licensing Company) and Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director AMIGA International, Inc. (International Sales & Marketing) with competent representatives of the AMIGA community. We came together with: · Dean Brown, Boardmember ICOA* · Jason Compton, Amiga reporter · Andy Finkel, Boardmember ICOA* · Darreck Lisle, Siouxland Metro User Group · Jesse McMCLusky, Boardmember ICOA* · Fleecy Moss, Project Manager ICOA*, Member JMS** · Alain Penders, Boardmember ICOA* · Joe Torre, AMIGA Atlanta User Group to better understand the AMIGA community and its concerns. In three days we discussed history and possible strategies for the future of our AMIGA. Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director AMIGA International, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N O N - W I N T E L N E W S S E R V I C E (CSAA) Non-Wintel news service from Convergence International 19 Aug 1997 Convergence International, the user and development group dedicated to the support of non-Wintel platforms, has created a free news service summarising the important events occurring in the non-Wintel world. The index page at http://www.convergence.eu.org/news/ gives a run down of the major news items, with specific sections for: * Acorn * Amiga * Apple * ARM * CHRP * Network Computers * Phase 5 * Psion * Convergence itself The pages are updated in the evening on which any newsworthy item is found, and it is possible using our "URL Minder" feature to be notified by e-mail of news updates. Other features such as a forum for discussing non-Wintel issues, a technical support form, and links to the rest of the site, are provided. If you prefer a no tables version is also available. WWW : http://www.convergence.eu.org/news/ http://www.convergence.eu.org/news/index_nt.shtml (no tables version) E-mail : enquiries@convergence.eu.org -- Convergence International - the non-wintel user group Supporting Acorn, Amiga, Apple, ARM, Be, Psion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A Z O N E G E T S F A C E L I F T 10 August 1997 The venerable AmigaZone's Web site ([http://www.amigazone.com/] http://www.amigazone.com/), one of the oldest existing Amiga-supporting web sites has just gotten a total redesign! Our pages now load faster, because we've split them up a bit into more sub-pages, and we now use tables with a convenient bar of buttons down the left-hand side to take you to its other areas. However this new site design incorporates even more info than we had before. For example, we now feature tables of our current weekly prize offerings and a listing of recent winners. We've even included buttons which will automatically launch your favorite Telnet client (once you've configured your browser for it) to let you log right into the Zone's Text-style interface, and another to take you to its members-only web interface (http://amigazone.com). If you haven't visited the AmigaZone site in a while, well c'mon back and take a look at our fresh new face :-) The AmigaZone is an online service for Amiga owners, users and lovers.We've been in business since 1985. We're fully net-connected with Usenet newsgroups, Fidonet "echoes", Amiga mailing lists, email, local message bases, 40,000 files, CD-ROMs online, a text-style interface anda slick Web interface, and live, nightly chats with prize contests. We are hosted by CalWeb Internet Services and $19.95/month gets you total access to everything, 24 hours a day, including your own CalWeb UNIX shell account with 10 meg of storage for your own web site! Free two-week trial accounts are available to check us out. -- For more info and details, check out our web site at: http://www.amigazone.com/ Harv Laser harv@amigazone.com AmigaZone Founder and Sysop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I N E T 2 0 I S A V A I L A B L E World-Wide Amiga News! - Aminet 20 CD-ROM is available! Aminet 20 CD-ROM is available! News Date : 18 August, 1997 News Source: [http://www.schatztruhe.de] www.schatztruhe.de Suggested Retail Price DM 25.00 Subscription price DM 19.80 US$ 13.66 US$ 10.82 GBP 8.68 GBP 6.88 Please note: US$ and GBP were computed employing today's exchange rates. The above quoted prices do not include shipping. Ordering information: The most convenient method of placing an order is to use our electronic order form located at [http://www.schatztruhe.de/order.html] http://www.schatztruhe.de/order.html. You can also send an E-Mail to stefano@schatztruhe.de including your address and the products you wish to order. Please do not forget to include your credit cards details. Aminet CD 20, dated August 1997, contains more than 1 gigabyte uncompressed) of software in thousands of archives. Since the release of Aminet CD 19 more than 500 MB new software has appeared. The current edition includes a special registered version of Wildfire, the amazing animation editor. Contents of Aminet 20 Directory Size Files Contents biz 30 MB 95 Business software comm 43 MB 234 Communications demo 66 MB 76 Graphics & sound demo dev 28 MB 101 Development software disk 12 MB 28 Disk & HD tools docs 41 MB 100 Documents game 118 MB 228 Games gfx 66 MB 112 Graphics software hard 3 MB 16 Hardware related misc 27 MB 52 Miscellaneous mods 246 MB 671 Music modules mus 25 MB 55 Music software pix 194 MB 331 Pictures text 36 MB 56 Text software util 34 MB 267 Utilities Stefan Ossowski Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe Gesellschaft für Software mbH Veronikastr. 33 - 45131 Essen - Germany Phone: ++49-201-788778 Fax ++49-201-798447 EMail: stefano@schatztruhe.de WWW: http://www.schatztruhe.de/ Visit our Web site and join our mailing-list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T W O S T O R I E S F R O M V U L C A N Vulcan Software Announces USA Branch Vulcan Software Limited, the biggest Amiga Publisher & Developer In The World has grown just a little bit more! We are proud to announce the opening of our North American Branch: Vulcan Software (America) Vulcan Software (America) offers the same excellent Mail Order Services and Technical support as Vulcan Software (UK) but specifically for our American and Canadian Amiga users. All product information, price list in dollars with ordering information is available from the official Vulcan web site. http://www.vulcan.co.uk/ Vulcan Software (America) will also assume the role as main distributor of Vulcan products to dealers in the American and Canadian regions. ******* AND THIS FROM VULCAN AS WELL ... Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 NEWS: Vulcans latest addition to the MegaSeries HARD TARGET ----------- Vulcans answer to a `Virtua Cop` clone for the Amiga is now entering full steam in development. This full screen animated 3D Scenic Shoot em up with fully raytraced characters will need AGA, 2Mb Chip, 8Mb Fast, 4 x Speed CDRom and reflexes to match. Screenshots from the first level are now available from our website for publication. Not sure of release date at present but probably early next year. Kind Regards, Paul Carrington BA (Director) Vulcan Software Limited __________________________ http://www.vulcan.co.uk Vulcan Software Ltd (UK) Vulcan House, 72 Queens Road, Buckland, Portsmouth, Hants PO27NA England Tel: 0-1705-670269 Fax: 0-1705-662226 Email: Paul@vul-soft.demon.co.uk __________________________ Vulcan Software (America) Vulcan House, 1706 Canton Road, Akron, Ohio 44312, U.S.A. Tel: 1-800-426-7687 Fax: 1-330-794-2170 Email: Steve@sagsoft.ald.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A M U S I C C D S T I L L A V A I L A B L E Sat, 16 Aug 1997 Future Shock 2 (#SWP1969)(the first %100 Amiga made electronic dance music CD album) is still available at a good price certainly a must for your CD collection produced in 1994 by Sidewinder Productions on A500/A2000 visit http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1244/ for additional info Regards, Eric 'Sidewinder' Gieseke TECHNO * MUSIC * MIDI * AMIGA STUDIO MIX SIDEWINDER PRODUCTIONS USA http://www.txdirect.net/~sidewind ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E L A T E S T F R O M H A A G E & P A R T N E R Tue, 19 Aug 1997 HAAGE & PARTNER NEWS August, 1997 The Graphics World Of ArtEffect Following the recent successful debut of ArtEffect 2 in June, we are now pleased to introduce two new special effect packages to extend its' power. PowerEffects 2 offers a variety of outstanding effects like LensFlares, Lightning and FishEye. The new PowerUP Effects package offers a great performance boost for users of PowerUp boards by Phase5. This is also the first commercial Amiga application that takes advantage of the incredible speed of these RISC based cards. ArtEffect 2.0 Version 2 of ArtEffect has been completely revised. We have built on the innovative concepts which were introduced in version 1.0, and have added many new features, e.g. Layers, ARexx and multiple Undo/Redo. ArtEffect Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) There is a new FAQ section on the homepage of ArtEffect with helpful answers to often asked questions. You are also able to submit your own questions here regarding ArtEffect. ArtEffect Mailing List A new ArtEffect mailing list has been setup as an open forum for questions and discussion. It is also a good place to voice your wishes for future releases of ArtEffect. New PowerEffects for ArtEffect Nine (9) sensational new effects are included in PowerEffects 2. Besides FishEye, Patchwork, FalseColor, Pointize, HalfTone and Crystalize; the highlights are certainly: Lightning and LensFlares. Need for Speed: PowerUP Effects Are you looking for some really fast effects? Then stop here to have a look at the PowerUP Effects. The speed of the PowerUP Effect is mainly based on the PowerPC native version of the plugin.library that handles almost all actions of the plug-ins. So not only the filters of this package will be faster, there is also an increase in speed of every effect, because they all will now use the new PPC plugin.library. Besides this, there are special native versions of the major effects. The PowerUP Effects are 2 to 20 times faster than the normal ones. The PowerUP Effects are the first application that makes use of the enormous power of the PowerUP board of Phase 5. HAAGE & PARTNER is the leading manufacturer of Development Systems and Applications for the Amiga family of computers. The Storm series (StormC, StormWizard, StormPowerASM) for 68K AmigaOS, PowerPC (PowerUP) and p.OS provide a powerful suite of programming tools. Our latest project, MERAPI, will bring the power of JAVA to the Amiga. HAAGE & PARTNER is also the developer and/or distributor of several cutting edge applications including: ArtEffect, PowerEffects, EasyWriter, DrawStudio, Tornado3D and NetConnect. Our mission is to provide the Amiga market with the most effective tools and applications possible. It's not enough to just ask: "Where do you want to go?" At Haage & Partner we are harnessing the power of the Amiga to actually help get you there! HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH, PO Box 80, 61191 Rosbach, Germany Phone: +49 - 6007 - 930050, Fax: +49 - 6007 - 7543 Email: info@haage-partner.com Internet: http://www.haage-partner.com We develop to PowerUp the Amiga! Bye, Markus Nerding Manager ____________________ HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH A M I G A DEVELOPMENTS Mainzer str. 10 A, 61191 Rosbach, Germany for AmigaOS, PPC, pOS Fon: +49-6007 -93 00 50 Fax: -75 43 (StormC, ArtEffect etc) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- U P D A T E F R O M N A T W 21 Aug 1997 N O A M I G A T O W A S T E ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ U P D A T E A place where developers and users can come together as one to share ideas and comments. NATW HAS EXPANDED WITH SOME NEW FEATURES DEVELOPERS WANTED Developers can now use a forum where their needs for development partners can be posted to. This forum is freely accessible to anyone and will facilitate the creation of perfect development teams. MAINTAIN RESERVED IDEAS Developers have the possibility to drop the reservation of ideas. The sad truth points out that this is a necessity. Soon they'll have the ability to give feedback about the development status. A special page will be added to each idea. This will be freely editable by the developer that has reserved the idea. AUTOMATIC NOTIFICATION THROUGH EMAIL Developers can now choose to be notified daily or weekly about the new ideas that were posted to the site. The email contains the full data of the new ideas, including a link to the ideapage itself (for those that are running HTML enabled email programs). GIFANIMS AND BANNERS FOR PROMOTION Several promotion graphics have been created for those that stand behind NATW and that want to help to make it get known. WHERE IS THE SITE Url http://thunderstorms.org/NATW/ Email natw@thunderstorms.org EXPANSION POSSIBILITIES Anyone who wants to create a Amiga development specific site, can contact me. I've got a fully function virtual server at their disposal (thunderstorms.org). For further information, please contact me at (gbevin@thunderstorms.org). AmiBench (http://thunderstorms.org/AmiBench) is an example of such a site. No Amiga To Waste - Webmaster Geert Bevin (gbevin@thunderstorms.org) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: some issues available at: http://www.sharbor.com/amiga/news/ (in html format) http://www.amigacom.com (in ASCII text) Australian Mirror Site: http://www.comcen.com.au/~paulm/index.html All back issues available (in ASCII text) at: http://www.globaldialog.com/AdventureCentral/AU/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1997 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. ====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || Brad Webb/AmigaUpdate /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || bandr@globaldialog.com / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || ======================================================================