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NOTHIN TO SAY, IF U AREN`T ALREADY THERE, U`RE SURELY MISSING SOMETHING --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - This file was downloaded from: - _______ __ __ _______ ___________ ______ ______ /__ __// /_/ // _____/ / _____/\__ \ / ____// ____/ / / / __ // ___/ / ___/ / \/ // /\ // ___/ /_/ /_/ /_/ \__/ \__/ /____/ \_\/_/ \__/ -*- The Silents World Head-Quarters -*- * 4 Nodes - All Ringdown - All DHST's * * Running GVP's Combo '040 at 33 Mhz! * * Multi-Node Chat * * OnLine Since 1985 * No Freeloaders here!, if you want to read this file, then DOWN-LOAD it !! ············································································· @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZRECENT NEWS ABOUT C= FROM THE LOCAL AUTHORIZED C= DEALER IN ILLINOIS - READ THIS @END_FILE_ID.DIZ ==> AMIGA _Msg#: 11123 Date: 09-22-94 17:08:00 From: MIKE BRANTLEY To: ALL Subj: KNIGHT-RIDDER REPORT 1 Here's the latest Knight-Ridder report on the Commodore situation: Commodore bidder so confident it's advertising for new engineers, managers By Dan Stets Knight-Ridder Newspapers After weeks of delay, the fight for Commodore International Ltd. finally may be entering the last round. One of two contenders is feeling so confident that it is advertising Thursday morning for engineers, managers and accountants to restart the computer company's operations in the West Chester, Pa., area. The two main adversaries -- one American, the other British -- are to meet separately in New York over the next few days with one of the liquidators appointed by the Bahamian Supreme Court to dispose of the assets of the once-mighty, small-computer maker. The liquidator, Franklyn Wilson, will be reviewing the final buyout proposals from Creative Equipment International of Miami and a management team from Commodore's subsidiary in the United Kingdom. The contest pits Commodore's largest distributor in North America, CEI, against the managers of one of Commodore's most successful subsidiaries. Commodore filed for bankruptcy in the Bahamas in early May and the court there appointed two accountants as liquidators, the Bahamian equivalent of a bankruptcy trustee under U.S. law. The company was incorporated in Bahamas but had its North American headquarters in West Chester. Wilson, the lead liquidator, had hoped to sell Commodore's assets and technology by the end of August, but it now looks like a final decision will not come until next month. ``We think that it could happen within the next three weeks,'' said CEI president Alex Amor, who today (Thursday) starts advertising for employees in the West Chester area. ``We'd like to have resumes on hand and we'd like a good pool of talent,'' said Amor. CEI would like to hire back as many of Commodore's former computer engineers as possible, he noted. If CEI's proposal is successful, Amor said he will be hiring about 90 people, including about 70 engineers, over the next nine months. He also has begun looking for a new engineering and research center in West Chester or Norristown, Pa. An employment ad appears in Thursday's editions of The Inquirer. ``Commodore Experience Helpful,'' the ad emphasizes. ``That should give you some idea where we think we are with the trustees,'' said Amor. The CEI proposal is ``the best offer on the table,'' he added. CEI would like to have an engineering and research staff of 90 people, Amor said. At its peak, Commodore had 78 engineers, he said. While the employment ads indicate CEI is bristling with confidence, the United Kingdom team is not fazed. ``I would hope they would pass the resumes on to us when we win the bid,'' said Colin Proudfoot, a managing director of Commodore U.K. and a leader of the buyout effort. Both buyout teams say they are committed to developing and expanding the technology of Commodore's Amiga computer, which among other things can be used as a low-cost videotape editor. Both teams said they have scheduled meetings at the Manhattan offices of Fulbright and Jaworski, the liquidators' counsel, the British on Friday and the Americans on Monday. Wilson has been in the Philippines this week trying to resolve what has become one of the stickiest issues in the liquidation. Commodore had its manufacturing operations there and still has an inventory of components there. Both bidders had hoped to acquire the inventory, which includes computer processors. For reasons which he has not yet explained publicly, Wilson has been having trouble including those assets in the final package for purchase. Neither the U.K. team nor CEI intend to resume manufacturing in the Philippines. The U.K. team handed its final proposal to the liquidator last week. It was supposed to be valid for only 10 days, but Proudfoot Wednesday dismissed the notion of any expiration date. ``The fact of the matter is that we are in correspondence with the liquidator and it is a fluid situation,'' he said. ``Does it mean we are going to withdraw if the 10 days expires? No, it doesn't because we want the business,'' he said. I recently pulled this off a BBS and thought it was interesting: _# **MMp g##0 `N##0" _agN#0P0N# _# Go g## jN## j##F J## _dN0" " g## _#]## _0 ##L jN##F ### g#0" _03## gE_j## # 0## jF ##F j##F j## ______ gE_j## _0"""N## d" J##L0 ##F 0## 0## "9##F" _0"""5## _gF ]## jF ##0 ##F ##F `##k d## _gF j## _g#_ _j##L__g#__ ]N _j##L_ _d##L_ `#Nh___g#N' _g#_ _j## `"""" """""'""""' " """""" """""" """"""" `"""" Go """"" This is AmyNews 2. New releases always from the start. Amiga development continues as never befor. These are only a fraction of what developers are developing for the Amiga platform. - Apex Software's Forge texture generation program for the Amiga is now avaiable to all multimedia creators. Forge is an awesome addition to any LightWave animator's digital toolchest. Forge is a texture rendering and animation program. Simply plug in the textures, change the settings and render previews until you're ready to render a final image. That final image is loaded into LightWave as an Image Map for use like any other. Simple enough, right? But Forge goes far beyond this basic need. - Jim Drew of Utilities Unlimited International, inventer of the Amiga Emplant technology is announcing "The Edge" (Electronic Display Graphics Emulator), the next generation graphic board for any Zerro III Amigas. "The Edge" features: 64 bit wide Cirrus Alpine graphics processor interfaced to a Zorro III slot. It supports the Industry standard ARGB. "The Edge" is backwards compatible with any Cirrus 54xx series processor, meaning that you can use the EGS Spectrum or Picasso II software with it but "The Edge" will of course have it's own (fast) WB emulation/mode promotion software. It uses 72 pin SIMMs (up to 8 megs via two SIMMs), and will retail for ~$299 w/0k RAM. With video speed equal to the PowerMAC's PDS video board, it is fast. 640x480x32 bit animations in realtime by just moving the data to the board. Up to 80 megapixels per second, and the blitter can move entire offscreen bit maps into the viewing area without any glitches in the display. It's also very fasstttt. - Interworks ethernet-based, Peer-to-peer Networking solution, Enlan-DFS now new version 2.0 is now out - I had a fresh FAX from the Blue Ribbons president concerning their continuing support of the Amiga products. Most important points in the fax are: "We are loyal to the Amiga platform. All our multiplatform softwares like our "Bars & Pipes professional" are constructed for the Amiga first. Then we port our softwares to other platforms. The multitasking nature of the Amiga, makes this computer number 1 source for the music and midi. We did a lot of improvments to the Track Window Menu, Edit Window, Song Construction Window, Metronome, printing, Tool and Accessories sections in the version 2.5 of the "Bars & Pipes professional" but the development continues and we are designing the next majour update to the "Bars&Pipes". The new version will amoung other things support the MacroSystems Toccato" - Ameristar ethernet cards are available again, through CEI US. - MacroSystem Develpment Inc is working on it's 68060 version of the "Warp Engine". - A student edition of Maple V for the Amiga is under development. Source, Bob Evans, the Director of Electronic Publishing at Brooks/Cole. - A new bug fixed version of the Desktop Magic (Media Disk) is under development. - LHA v3.0 (the release version is probably named v3.1) is under beta testing. It features among other things, a very user configurable GUI and up to 35%better compression ratio. - Long awaited TurboText TT version 2.0 is under development. This info directly from TT's author. TT v2.0 will be a majour update with lot of of new feature. - Digital Soundtrack (Visual Inspiration) let you add samples sound, Midi songs and ST mode to your videos. Features include a preview mode, jog and shuttle controlls, and PIP picture-in-picture support for majour video boards. Digital Soundtrack supports various single- frame controllers like AmiLink and PAR (Personal Animation Recorder). - PCTask (Chris Hames) v3.0 is under development. The new version is reported to be faster and supports all graphic boards available. - Genie Tools, vol 1 (Shead Data Processing) collection for Aladdin 4-D offers a variety of tools including the TriSub and DoBeSphere functions which let you create triangle-based spheres and the LissaCurve control. - ImageFX 2.0 is under development. Tons of new features are promissed - TurboCalc v2.1 is out now. - Check & Balance from AmiSoft is a new software that let you balans your books and print out your checks. - A new improved version of ADPRO 24bit printer driver for the Primera color printers can be obtained directly from your Primera dealer or any dealer supporting ASDG products. - A wave of new softwares for the awared winner Amiga 3D software LightWave is here. Amoung others are "Newton's Law" - Cybernetica, PowerMacros - Cine Graphics and version 2.1 of Sparks - MetroGrafx. - Long awaited upgrade to ProDraw (GoldDisk) is now here. Version 3.03 fixes all known and unknown bugs under later OS version - PageStream 3.0 is shipping now ;) Japp! Best DTP program ever - SOFT-LOGIK gives now 3 kind of user support for it's products, more about them later in another message. - SOFT-LOGIK is working on a rewrite of ArtExpression - ProVector 3.0, from Stylus, Inc. in Colorado, in under beta testing. Among tons of new feature, it will export Adobe Illustrator (all versions). Stylus has worked close with SOFT-LOGIK to make the all new ProVector a good completation for PageStream 3.0 - Final Writer 3.0 is under Alfa testing. Woody Williams, SoftWoods President says it's a majour release and I see no reason to not belive him ;-) - Pegger 2.0, Image Compression software, is now out ;) Much Faster - CanDo 3.0 with a lot of new stuff is ready for release soon - DeluxePaint 5.0 is under development - MaxDOS v2.0 from Media 4 Production is now out. It allows you to read warite Mac data using your Amiga. - SAS C release 6.55 is due to be released very soon, among other news is new optimizer for 68060. JAPP! - Brilliance 2.1 is under development - SoftWood is working on a new powerful Database program for the Amiga. They call it "Final Data". - Utilities Unlimited is ready to release it's 68060 50 MHZ board. They are working on a multiCPU board for Zorro Amigas. The board can hold multiple numbers of CPU (up to 4 * 68060, now beat that!) RAM access is done in a 64 bit interleaved. This may change to 128. Burst is permanently on. - Advanced Systems (Maker of Fastlane SCSI II board) are working on their new 68060 board that can hold multiple numbers of 68060. The board in modular and is ready for an ultrafast SCSI II fast&wide controller, and ethernet board. It can hold up to 128 MB memory. - Real 3D v3.0 is under development. - TYPESMITH v2.5 is out now. Powerful font designer from SOFT-LOGIK. Among imptovments: It will convert MacBinary or PC TrueType fonts to any other format (PostScript Type 1 and Type 3, Intellifont, IFF RFF, DMF). Also, it can export any font as a high quality TrueType font with instructions (hints). Another nice new feature is the automatic point reduction algorithm which allows you to clean up badly designed fonts. The new overview printing feature prints complete character set tables to any printer. There are more news but this was all for this time. Have fun with your wonderful Amiga _ _ // AMIGA, You Know It Rules!!! \X/ Intel Inside! 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