Preface

Preface

Welcome to the new edition of AMIGA aktuell international.

In April AMIGA was in the headlines again. Now the company has e.g. a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), who was employed in a leading position in the most known computer companies of the world, like Apple, Borland, Silicon Graphics and Sun.

In the PowerPC hardware range there are also interesting announcements:

• Titan Computer, the turbo board manufacturer ACT as well as Haage & Partner want to join their efforts to put a G3 board for the Amiga on the market.


• GVP-M also plans G3 boards

Negative news are to hear from the German magazine market: Unfortunately one Amiga magazine is gone. After there were rumours before, that the Amiga Fever was to be cancelled, it was announced in the last days of April, that the magazine is integrated into the amigaOS without delay.

The internals of this edition:

• From now on an Express-HTML-edition of the German version of AMIGA aktuell will be made available normally on the last day of each month on http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/Marko.Koscak/aakt/index.html This is a service for the subscribers of the HTML-edition, who want to read AMIGA aktuell just after it is finished.


• AMIGA aktuell international can be contacted per Fax, now. The Fax number is: +49 (0)89/66617-31176.


• The Mailbox "Big Planet" where AMIGA aktuell could also be downloaded from went out of service.


• There are two things I want to focus your attention to:
  • Letters, that reach me per "snail mail" can only be answered, if you send enough return postage. I think, you can follow the reasons, that the publisher and the editors of of a free, non-commercial magazine, cannot pay the porto in addition to the large amount of work and Internet costs they have every month. I hope, you understand that.
  
  
  • Articles, that reach me per "snail mail" on paper or per fax, can be considered in special cases, only. I think, that the publisher of an electronic magazine might expect to get articles in electronic form (per eMail or on disk). No one can be expected to type in longer texts manually. I hope for your understanding also in this manner.

Our regulary summonses:

• We are looking for someone, who wants to do his/her own AMIGA aktuell international column, that informs about software updates. Each month there are new revisions for countless FD and commercial AMIGA programs. This new column should list the most important improvements of new software updates.
  Who is interested in, to do that?
• We are still looking for testers of freely distributable software. Everybody who wants to do this job is filled into a special distribution list, and gets ideas for tests in unregular intervals. You aren' obliged to perform the tests.

  Of course, we are happy about tests of commercial products as well. Write an eMail to aakt@gmx.de .

Have fun with this edition,

yours

Carsten Schroeder