-=========================================================================- _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || Amiga Update -News and Rumors /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || (An Occasional Newsletter) / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || BACK FOR THE FUTURE || -=========================================================================- AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga Technologies, GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 961025 N E W S T A T E M E N T F R O M A M I G A T E C H N O L O G I E S W O R L D O F A M I G A - T O R O N T O N E W A M I G A P R I C I N G A N N O U N C E D I T A L I A N A M I G A D E V E L O P E R S T O M E E T This issue: There has been very little news about the VIScorp buyout in recent days, or we'd have brought it to you. Today Petro Tyschtschenko, President of Amiga Technologies, posted a statement about the situation. It doesn't tell us a great deal, but does indicate negotiations continue. We begin the issue with his statement. The Canadians are keeping busy. In issue 961007 we told you about "Amiga Fest" to be held Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 at the International Centre, 6900 Airport Rd., in Mississauga, Ontario. Below we bring you news of the "World of Amiga" show upcoming in Toronto. This one is sponsored by Wonder Computers, Inc. News also from QuikPak, who builds Amiga 4000 towers of various sorts. Prices have been reduced, including on the 68060 models. That's always good news. We have QuikPak's press release below. Note that the companies listed in the press release are primarily distributors. Check with your closest Amiga dealer for availability. Finally, not to be outdone by the Canadians, the Italian Amiga developers are having a session called IPISA '96 in Milan (Milano) next month. We thought you'd enjoy hearing about it. Have fun with this issue. Brad --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W O R D F R O M A . T . STATEMENT BY PETRO TYSCHTSCHENKO, PRESIDENT OF AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES, BENSHEIM. When Commodore International went bankrupt in May 1994, my goal was to keep the AMIGA technology alive. After eight months of negotiations and with the financial help of ESCOM AG I had managed to obtain all patents, trademarks and all of the AMIGA technology for ESCOM. At that time it was also clear to me that just buying Commodore/AMIGA was not all there was to it. This was only the beginning. It would take at least a hundred million DM to get the AMIGA products of that time back into production. ESCOM financed and I became the president of the new company AMIGA Technologies, which was formed in June 1995. Days and nights of hard work changed my life and in September 1995, as promised, the first A1200 computers appeared in the shops, followed by the A4000T in November. Up to the present, AMIGA Technologies sold almost 50,000 A1200s, about 4000 A4000Ts and almost 15,000 monitors. The strategy was to bring the then current products back to the shops in 1995, to advertise the AMIGA by January 1996 while starting the development of a new generation which should be ready for the market by the end of 1996. But things went quite a different way: ESCOM got into a financial chaos, even with SIEMENS-NIXDORF and QUELLE as shareholders. AMIGA Technologies´ budget was cut completely, plans could not be realised any longer, the staff had to be reduced in size, and in the end ESCOM had to file for bankruptcy in July 1996. Up till now, VIScorp Chicago has invested at least half a million DM in buying out AMIGA Technologies. Salaries of personnel had to be payed, lawyers, travelling-expenses, etc. During my more than 12 years at Commodore, and now two years at ESCOM as well, I learned how one can reach goals by hard work. I´m still optimistic that it will all come to a successful end between AMIGA and VIScorp before the end of October 1996. Trustee and banks want to keep the AMIGA alive and that´s great. As soon as there´s news, we´ll make it public through the press and on Internet. I sincerely thank you for your loyalty and patience; after all it´s thanks to the users we´re still here. With kind regards, Petro Tyschtschenko --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W O R L D O F A M I G A , T O R O N T O Wonder Computers International is proud to present The World Of Amiga Show - Toronto 1996 ! For Immediate Release Canada's largest Amiga dedicated corporation, WCi will be hosting the World of Amiga show in Toronto, Canada. The show will be held at The International Center on December 13th, 14th, and 15th. This will be the largest exclusively Amiga show held in North America. "This will be the biggest show held in the past three years " says Mark Habinski, President and CEO of WCi. "The space is bigger and we're really pushing for noteworthy seminars and some unique events ". The show will feature international hardware and software manufacturers, Amiga retailers and information seminars. With people coming in from around the world, Habinski says this will be a good opportunity for Amiga users to see the faces behind Amiga. "We will have people at the show who have been instrumental in making Amiga what it is today and what it will be tomorrow ". One of the events will be an Amiga game show. The game show will be hosted by none other than Jason Compton. Compton is the well known writer and editor of Amiga Report, an on-line magazine read by over twenty thousand Amiga users worldwide. Jason says "This (being a show host) isn't a career move " but is quick to add "if Hollywood comes knocking on my door I won't turn them away ". "There's a lot of energy and enthusiasm being put into the show "adds Habinski "The Amiga is an excellent platform and we're out to show the world just how good it is ". Amiga users everywhere are sure to enjoy the WCi World of Amiga show in December. For show information contact: Christine Vetzal (Show Manager) Voice : 1-905-665-9135 Fax : 1-905-665-9136 E-mail : cvetzal@idirect.com For seminar information contact: Ken McDavitt (Program coordinator) Phone : 1-613-721-1993 Fax : 1-613-721-1994 E-mail : ken@wonder.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W P R I C E S O N A M I G A T O W E R S {Notice from QuikPak Corporation. Brad} NOW Things are happening with the Amiga $1997 A4000T - 850MB/6MB $2699 A4060T - 850MB/6MB $3249 A4060T - 2GB/18MB/6X CD-ROM $3999 A4060T - 4GB/34MB/8X CD-ROM UNBEATABLE PRICE Factory Direct trade-up for A4060T Accelerator $749* Great News for the Amiga Market "the Amiga OS remains one of the great operation systems of the past 20 years tremendous multitasking capability it's the single most reliable piece of equipment I've ever owned high quality machinery to this day, there is very little a memory hogging, CD-ROM loading OS can do that an Amiga can't." John Dvorak, PC Magazine, October 1996 QuikPak Corporation Manufactures Amiga 4000Ts right here in the U.S.A. This has made the promotional pricing in this ad possible immediately through the following QUIKPAK AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS and their dealers. Mirco-Pace Champaign IL. (217)356-1884 Creative Equipment Miami, FL. (305)266-2800 Software Hut Philadelphia, PA. (610)586-5704 Cyberchannel Wilmington, DE (800)292-2732 E-mail Internet Orders Comspec Communications Toronto, ONT (416)785-3553 Full Warranty Center Internet Orders --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I T A L I A N D E V E L O P E R S ' C O N F E R E N C E IPISA '96 Incontro dei Programmatori Italiani per lo Sviluppo su Amiga Sixth Edition Saturday, November 30, 1996 Milano, Italy The Italian Amiga community will meet on November 30th, 1996, at the sixth annual IPISA conference. IPISA stands for ''Incontro dei Programmatori Italiani per lo Sviluppo su Amiga'' (which means Italian Programmers' Meeting for Amiga Development). IPISA is an open meeting (advance registration is required for a small fee) focussing on non-commercial products, projects and ideas, and on the distribution of high-quality information and advanced software tools. IPISA'96 will be held Saturday November 30, 1996, in the Conference Hall of the Centro Universitario ISU (via Valvassori Peroni 21, in Milan), from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM. A complete lunch will be served in the ISU refectory. Here is a tentative list of the talks and papers (unless otherwise specified they are in Italian). * Michele Console Battilana (CLOANTO Italia) Perspectives in the personal computing world * Paolo Canali Trends in digital technologies * Rocco Coluccelli MOOS: advanced applications control in ARexx * Luca Danelon (Interactive) The preparation of an Amiga CD-ROM * Vittorio Ferrari VEGA: a graphic-adventure engine * Haage & Partner PowerPC: Architecture and programming (English) * Francesco Leonardi, Giuliano Pochini VOXEL Space * Fabio Rotondo DOOPSI: an authoring system for graphic adventures Attendants will receive the Conference Proceedings, consisting of professionally printed documentation and the IPISA'96 CD ROM. Additional goodies could be donated by the intervening companies. The CD-ROM will contain talks-related software, PD and shareware software and demo versions of commercial programs. The following companies have been invited: * Amiga Technologies GmbH * Haage & Partner * Motorola * PIOS Computer AG * Phase 5 * Stefan Ossowski's Schatzthruhe * VISCorp but until today we are able to the confirm only the presence of Haage & Partner, the developers of Storm C. The other companies couldn't either confirm or deny their presence. The fees are: * Meeting admission (including lunch): US$ 40 * Conference Proceedings for non-participants (sent by air mail): US$ 40 The following special arrangements for an Hotel accommodation (bed & breakfast) for Friday 29 and/or Saturday 30 are available: Approx. prices for 1 night room prices US$ prices DM single 42 68 double 28 45 triple 25 40 quadruple 23 37 Note well: to join the meeting, non-italian people need to book before November, 1 1996. For details on hotel payments and Conference fees, please send an e-mail to: Sergio_Ruocco@rcm.dsi.unimi.it --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga Update on the net: some issues available in html format at: http://www.sharbor.com All back issues available (in ASCII text) at: http://www.globaldialog.com/AdventureCentral/AU.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1996 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. -=========================================================================- _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || Brad Webb/AmigaUpdate /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || webb@malamute.med.ge.com /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || bandr@globaldialog.com / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || -=========================================================================-