AMIGA International, Inc. News
AMIGA International, Inc. News
The following from Amiga International's web site.
February 6th, 1998
To our AMIGA
Community
By Darreck Lisle, Events Coordinator AMIGA,
Inc.
Friends, have you been hearing those cries of, "The end is near? The end
is near!" on the Internet and in your favorite Amiga magazine? We've
heard them too, but with a difference! You see, what we're hearing is
that the end of the 'bad old days' is here and the Amiga has a bright
future ahead of it!
Now, we're not going to say this will be easy and it certainly won't
happen overnight. There are many things that need to be done. Not all of
these things are obvious and few of them are what you would call high
visibility changes. What we've got to do is dig the cellar again and
rebuild the foundations of the Amiga and the Amiga market.
You should already be seeing the results of this. For example:
There are over a dozen licensees of the Amiga making Amigas and Amiga
clones. New models with new features have already shipped. In the
coming months you'll be seeing a lot more about these machines and
you'll learn about companies with names like DCE, Index Information
Systems, Micronik, Quick Pak, Nova Sector. You'll be able to buy Amigas
that are faster, and more powerful, than ever before. As more of these
machines get in the hands of the writers and editors out there, you'll
find out about them.
The Amiga games market is growing and taking control! Commodore
determined the base configuration a game maker could count on for his
audience. Now games like Myst, The Shadow of the Third Moon, Quake
and
others require CDROM, hard drives, and 4 megs or more of RAM. And guess
what? The games are selling faster than ever because if a user didn't
already have these features in their Amiga, they're getting their
Amiga's upgraded!
New software applications are coming out and old applications are
getting upgraded. You can get Aladdin 4D 5.0, Tornado 3D 1.0, Electric
Dreams, Wildfire, Directory Opus Magellan, ImageFX 3.0 and many, MANY,
more titles.
The Amiga trade shows are getting bigger and better than ever. Last
year the Midwest Amiga Expo, St. Louis' Amiga '97 and Koln's
Computer
'97 set new attendance records for both Amiga dealer/company
participation and for user attendance as well! This year we are looking
forward to St. Louis' Amiga '98, International Amiga '98 in Toronto,
Canada, AmiWest in Sacramento, the 1998 Midwest Amiga
Expo (which
promises to be twice as big yet again!), and shows again in the UK and
Germany as well.
Things aren't just happening within the Amiga community, no sir! Wired
magazine and several news services have run stories about the Amiga
revival. Mainstream computer magazines have been referring to 1998 as
the year that alternative computer platforms, like the Amiga, will be
gaining market share again. Amigas are still used in mission critical
applications where reliability and integration has been the key. The
Amiga goes to war in the M1 Abrams tank, up into space with the
Space
Shuttle and down to the ocean floor to help explore the wreck of the
Titanic for James Cameron's film. Of course, nearly everyone's local
television and cable station still has several Amigas in house for video
work if you want something a bit closer to home!
You're going to be seeing a lot more of our work take form over this
year. More new "Powered by Amiga" based machines. An upgraded AmigaOS.
Coordinated developer resources and user group resources.
1998 is going to be a fun ride!
Darreck Lisle
Events Coordinator
Amiga, Inc.
Copyright by AMIGA International,
Inc.