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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM COMMODORE!!! Commodore Canada has officially announced a number of products. Hard Drive for CDTV expansion slot (presumably 2.5" IDE ala A600) DCTV upgrade card for CDTV (for CDTV video slot) Amiga 4000 an official product!!! To be shown to the public at WOC Pasadena on September 12! It ***WILL*** have the AA ChipSet! Finally the speculation is about to end!! AA ChipSet (as said above) officially announced. 600HD officially announced and SHIPPING with *40* meg drive, not the 20 meg the European versions have. It will retail for $799 Suggested Canadian Retail, with street price likely to be lower in most centre...

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USA CALIFORNIA Amiga Addicts Anonymous Berkley, CA Focus on new users, weekend programmers, and Video Toaster users. Regular classes on Amiga use, including AREXX, CanDo, Imagine, and the Video Toaster. Group purchases on things like DCTV, 2.0 installations, and show tickets. Monthly group meeting at the Water District building in Concord across from the Acura dealer on Concord Ave. General Meeting Third Tuesday 7 pm, Monthly class (Topic TBA) the following Sunday 10 am, Board meeting (Lafayette Round Table) 7 pm, Video SIG following Wednesday (call first). PENNSYLVANIA Berks Amiga Users Group RD#2, Box 297 Boyertown, PA 19512 President:...

AUSTRALIA Bad News BBS +61 2 587-8441 Sydney, NSW, Australia baud rates: 1200 - 9600 2.4 Gig on line File transfers and message bases. Memberships available. Sysop: Wayne Steele QUEENSLAND Boing Amiga Archive +61 7 344 4536 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 24 a day / 7 days a week Baud rates: up to V42 bis 2.46 Gig on line File transfers: Zmodem Only Message bases: Internet Mail Only Sysop: David Tucker CANADA ONTARIO The Land of the Darkside BBS (519) 888-9869 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada baud rates: 2 lines - both 1200-2400 baud (24hrs/7 days a week) 155 megs on line File transfers and message bases. Also USENET message and mail su...

CONTENTS OF DISK 701 Du -- A very small (only 932 bytes) program to display the total disk space used by a directory and all its sub-directories. This is version 2.5, an update to version 1.0 on disk 416. Enhancements include wildcards, totals, clearer output plus the program can be made resident. Requires Kickstart 2.0. Includes source in assembler. Author: Stuart Mitchell Examiner -- Will question you with files produced by SpellCheck. Smaller than SpellCheck, looks better under AmigaDOS 2.0, and has some extra features. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Preben Randhol GNUPlot -- An interactive function and data plotting program which ...

Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge by Paul Miller Lucasfilm Games has done it again. I'll just skip any corny introduction I might have spent more effort cooking up -- This game is simply amazing! Guybrush Threepwood is back, a little older, a little less naive, and with an entirely new adventure ahead. Monkey Island II has four islands, an evil pirate's fortress, some new friends, very tricky puzzles, really cool music, and that great Lucasfilm humor. All on a whopping ELEVEN disks! You don't need a harddrive, but if you don't have one here's your excuse. You don't need to have played the first Monkey Island...

What My Amiga Means To Me by Chuck Kenney Radio controlled cars and airplanes, CB radios, police scanners, calculators, remote-controlled consumer electronics of all kinds, etc... I've bought them all - usually within days of their first appearances on the market! OKay-Okay, I admit it. I'm a hard-core neo-techno-phile. Or is it techno-neo-phile? It was all the rage in the late seventies. Many of my fellow computer technicians were buying 'home computers' for themselves. "Home computer?", I thought. "I can have my own computer at home?". "I've gotta check this out!". So I drove down to my local RADIO SHACK. I took one...

I recruited a few experts but we have no questions to answer. I was hoping the hardcopy edition would pick up (before the financial problems anyway). Most of the questions would be from people without access to Internet. The net makes life easier for the majority of us who encounter problems but not everyone is lucky enough to have access. To prove that there are experts out there who don't know they have expertise, I would like to point out that if you upgraded to WB 2.0 (and it works) then you are an expert at this. Send me you experiences and opinions for next months column.

COMMODORE'S NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS Product Model Number: A3000T-040 Product Description: Amiga 3000 Tower with a Motorola 68040 processor. The MC68040 is running at 25 MHz and includes an on-chip FPU. The A3000T-040 includes a 200 megabyte hard drive and 5 megabytes of memory. The MC68040 provides approximately 20 CISC MIPS, and 3.5 DP Megaflops. The A3000T-040 does not have either a MC68030 or a MC68882 installed. Note: The A3000T-040 is an addition to the product family and does not replace the A3000T-25/200 which remains a current product. Product Applications: The A3000T-040 is the perfect product for demanding applications...

I didn't get much response on the ideas I mentioned in the last issue of AMIGAphile. I hope more readers take the time to get in touch with me. I enjoy speaking with each of you and trading ideas. WHY IS AMIGAphile A 'NEWSLETTER' AND NOT A MAGAZINE? This has to do with filing taxes and gets into areas I don't understand. Maybe a reader who is more legally inclined can help me here. If it were a magazine, I'd have to go about getting an ISSN number and deal with a bunch of stuff I have no idea about. I'm not a publisher and most of them seem to shy away from Amiga related magazines. This is all created on my home Am...