-===========================================================================- _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || Amiga Update -News and Rumors /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ ||(A Very Ocassional Newsletter) / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || -===========================================================================- AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga Technolgies, GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 951113 NEWS ON: NEW POWER AMIGAS, WORLD OF AMIGA SHOW, VIDEO TOASTER EXPO, AN AMERICAN DISTRIBUTER FOR AMIGA (FINALLY!!) Lots of good things to report today! Special thanks to Harv Laser, Sysop of the Amiga Zone on the Portal System, for sending much of the information along, and to Royan Webb for her overall help. Note: I'm using new mailer software. Please let me know if you have trouble with the formatting of this issue. Brad ---------- A M I G A G O E S P O W E R P C REPLACEMENT MOTHER BOARDS FOR SOME CURRENT MODELS! Bensheim 07/11/95 During his key note address held in Los Angeles at the Video Toaster Expo, Petro Tyschtschenko, CEO and President of Amiga Technologies officially announced the Power PC to be the processor used in the future generation of Amiga computers. The first POWER AMIGA will be available 1st quarter 1997 and will feature the Power PC 604 RISC CPU. Further models will be available later in the entry-level, as well as in the mid-range. The Power Amigas will be backwards compatible with current models and will also feature a new and more powerful chipset. "Our pre-emptive multitasking Operating System AmigaOS will be ported to the Power PC platform first. Our goal is to make our OS hardware independent to allow further ports on other platforms", said Petro Tyschtschenko. He also added: "We have a clear business plan: We do things consequently, step by step. First, we ramped up the production and set up an organisation to handle the Amiga market and satisfy the demand. Now that we have achieved this successfully, we focus on research & development to bring new and better products on the market. One of the mistakes the former Commodore made, was to do too many things at a time, too many promises and therefore losing focus on important aspects of its business. We have learned from these mistakes and won't repeat them. Commitments and promises are nice but facts are better." The developments will also focus on including more features in the AmigaOS, especially regarding network abilities and memory management. The development of the native RISC AmigaOS will be made internally at Amiga Technologies. An R&D department is currently being set up in Bensheim with sufficient engineers to meet the announced schedules. Former well known Commodore engineers as well as new competencies will join the team in Bensheim this year. This development project will also be involving a dozen companies in close partnership with Amiga Technologies GmbH. More good news for all Amiga users: The Power PC technology will not only be available for new Power Amigas. Thanks to a close co-operation between Amiga Technologies and Phase V, a German turbo board manufacturer, a full range of Power PC boards will also be available for the A1200, A3000 and A4000 series. This will allow a general migration of the Amiga platform towards Power PC in a short time, also for current models. First Power PC boards for current Amigas will be available before end of 1996. Amiga Technologies will be flexible in licensing the RISC Operating System as before so that a global solution will be available for all above mentioned Amiga computers. This is especially important for the foreseeable partnerships. The 68060 board for the Amiga 4000 T will be available during the first quarter of 1996 and will provide the power needed by applications like 3D rendering software, compilers and high-end graphics software. During 1996, new 68K based entry-level models will be available. These Amigas will be based on the A1200 platform, with faster processors, more memory expansion capacity and CD ROM expansion. Amiga Technologies is a 100% subsidiary of the ESCOM AG and is based in Bensheim, Germany. You are welcome on our WEB page for more information at http://www.amiga.de. CONTACT: Gilles Bourdin AMIGA Technologies Berliner Ring 89 D-64625 Bensheim Germany Tel +49 6252 709 195 Fax +49 6252 709 520 eMail: gbo@amiga.de Amiga is a registered trademark of ESCOM AG POWER PC is a registered trademark of IBM corporation Copyright 1995 by AMIGA Technologies GmbH - Editor: Dr. Peter Kittel Send comments to - Date: 07.11.95 ---------- A M E R I C A N D I S T R I B U T E R F O R A M I G A Columbia, MD, October 24, 1995: The Service Management Group, Inc. (SMG) of Columbia, MD has been chosen by Amiga Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of ESCOM AG of Bensheim, Germany, to distribute the Amiga product line in North America. This distribution agreement covers the United States and Canada. The SMG has been associated with Commodore Business Machines, it's distributors, dealers and customers since 1990. Amiga Technologies was looking for a company that had competencies in service and support, and could be more than just a distributor. The SMG fulfilled these requirements and will bring the popular Amiga computers back to the North American dealers and users. Together with the SMG, Amiga Technologies GmbH will be represented at the Video Toaster Expo from the 1st to the 4th of November in Los Angeles. A press conference will be held on the 2nd of November. During the press conference, Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director of Amiga Technologies will reveal the name of the new processor of that will be used in the next generation of Amiga computers. The Amiga 4000T will hit the shelves during the second week of November. Amiga Technologies and the SMG will also have a booth at Comdex in Las Vegas from the 13th to the 17th of November. The SMG will represent Amiga Technologies at the World of Amiga in Toronto, Canada in December. The Service Management Group has been a leader in Outsourcing Distribution and Warranty Administration for high technology manufacturers since 1989. For more information see our World Wide Web page at HTTP://www.Amiga.de ----------- R E P O R T F R O M V I D E O T O A S T E R U S E R E X P O By Harv Laser, - Amiga Zone Sysop, Portal - Posted 2 November I spent the day today at the Universal City Hilton hotel for the 2nd annual Video Toaster User expo, which continues thru 04 Nov. 95 Here's a tiny recap - I'll have more to post later along with photos after I get the film developed and scan them. In a half-hour speech to a packed ballroom of about 500 people, Petro Tyschtschenko (say "ta-SHEN-ko"), a very gung-ho and good English-speaking guy, pulled up a black cloth and revealed a brand new production Amiga 4000 Tower, and also showed, cased in lucite, no less, an actual A1200 motherboard produced by AmigaTech along with a German sales packed-A1200 full of bundled software. In fact, the FIRST production board is what it was. Tyschtschenko is the President of Amiga Technolgies, GmbH, the wholly owned subsidiary of Escom, AG, and it's the new 40 person (so far) company formed to make Amiga personal computers. (Does anyone not know this yet? :) after Escom bought out Commodore. He then, with much suspense, announced the next generation Amigas will use Motorola's PowerPC CPU and will be dubbed the Power Amiga. Petro, along with his young Press Relations Guy, Gilles Bourdin, explained that Escom has already spent many times its initial $12million investment in the intellectual properties of Commodore, whom they bought out earlier this year. That they know what the Amiga is, unlike Commodore's former top management, and that "We didn't just buy the Amiga for Christmas." He insisted that the Amiga is back and that development will carry on through the last of the 68xxx processors, the 68060, and then onto the PowerPC. He did not name any ship dates for Power Amigas of course, although scuttlebut says expect them in early '97. Petro further said that so far, 15,000 new AT-made A1200s have been sold in Europe. Not just shipped, sold. To customers. And that over 80,000 more are backordered at dealers and are being made as fast as the factory can crank them out. Amiga Tech GmbH is forming a strategic alliance with Apple Computer, since they have already been before where Amiga is going, from the 68k family of CPUs to the PPC. After Petro spoke, Tim Jenison, Pres. of Newtek took the stage and gave a very moving, tearful speech in tribute to Jay Miner, father of the Amiga. This was a speech unlike anything I have ever heard Jenison give before. He was on the verge of tears many times as he recounted his early meetings in Los Gatos with Jay and the early Amiga engineering crew, showing them the first Digiview pictures, how Jay was constantly amazed and thrilled at the things developers were making his little creation do. I took pictures at the press conference and also in the exhibits hall of various people and products and will scan and upload them in the next couple days, putting them on Portal in the Amiga Zone library and on Aminet, so look for them soon. That's enough for now. I'm pooped ---------- Q U I C K R E P O R T O N W O R L D O F A M I G A , I N G E R M A N Y {The English here is not the best, but I thought you'd be interested in seeing this just as posted. The writer's enthusiasm is pretty obvious. Brad} From: GRISU@FANTASIE.RUHR.DE (Ralf Willingh=94fer) Subject: NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF AMIGA ! Hi Freaks ! Today I was on the World Of Amiga Show in cologne , Germany ! This is the biggest Amiga Show in the world ! Whats new ??: At first , a great show from AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES ! They had a grat representation ! Many Amiga 1200 online in the internet ! The i-glasses , very cool ! The new AMIGA 4000 Tower !!!!! A new MPEG card for higher Amigas ! The next Amiga generation will build on the base of the POWEr-PC ! For the AMIGAS 1200 , 3000 , 4000 there will be a CPU Board with the POWER PC RISC for under 1000.-DM !!! {Between $700-$800. Brad} These Boards will be produced from PHASE 5 ( Cyberstorm and Blizzard ) !! There will be a chance to make a update from the new 68XXX Boards the Power PC Board ! I dont know the relaese date of this boards ! Phase 5 have a prototype of a Power PC developement board !! Many Amiga 1200 and Amiga Monitors were sold on this first day of the show ! Software :# New versions I have seen : Cinema 4D Ver.3 Picture Manger Vers. 3.0 MUI Vers. 3.0 Final Calc Final DATA 3 Final Writer 4 Wordworth 4 Turbocalc CD ROM ( Vers. 2.0 19,90.-DM ) Maxon Cinema 4D classic CD ROM : 79.-DM Meeting Pearls 3 14,90.-DM Aminet 8 25.-DM Aminet SET 2 Alien Breed 3D ( Amiga CD ROM ) + A1200 Fears ( Amiga CD ROM ) + A1200 Erben der Erde ( german adventure on CD with 3 different Versions on it : CD 32 , AGA , ECS ) + A1200 A500(+) The prices : AMIGA 1200 Magic ( with software , no HD ) 649.-DM AMIGA 1200 Magic ( " " , 175MB HD , Scala 300 ) 949.-DM Amiga T-Shirt : ( with the new Logo : 20.-DM ) Amiga Coffee Pot 15.-DM and much much more There was a great feeling on this Show !!! Times get better now ! 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