September 1997
Sites:
·US mirror
·AU mirror
·LU main site
Switch to:
·Frames
·No Frames
·Archives
·Usage

Petro not realistic? (29-Sep-97 )

    Ben Hutchings says he's not to sure what to think of Petro's recent speeches. It appears to be very different from the apparent policy of Amiga Inc. He adds that he wonderswhether Petro is really in touch with reality at the moment.

Two types... (29-Sep-97 )

    Emmanuel Henn says there are two types of people: Those who adopt to reality, and those who create their own. The first ones say "I'm realistic and I'll buy a PC". The others say "I'm currently realising a new project on the Amiga". The first one is passive and reacts to an existing surrounding. The other is active, creative and creates his own surrounding.

Amiga and Elvis dead? (29-Sep-97 )

    The Amiga has been declaired dead more times than Elvis, been declaired out-dated more times than Jesse Helms, and yet they are still selling, and people are still anticipating the next-generation Amiga. Developers are still developing for them, and users are still using them. The Amiga is doing much better than anyone should have expected of it, especially considering it's history.

Gateway avoids "vapor" announcements (29-Sep-97 )

    Myron Sothcott says Gateway has a past history of avoiding "vapor" announcement. They make their announcement about a new product when the production line is running and the product is ready to ship. Besides that, there have been a number of references to the existance of NDA's between various party's and Gateway, NDA's wouldn't be signed if there wasn't something to disclose.

AT wanted PPC Amiga (29-Sep-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says that AT at Escom times had already decided to aim for the PPC, the plan for the transfer was made and the second it should have been put into reality, Escom pulled the plug. The Walker, with its powerful expansion connector (among others for possible PPC processor cards), had already become reality in the shape of three prototypes.

No support at Maxon? (26-Sep-97 )

    Tobias Hain says one of his friends wrote a big report to Maxon, concerning their C/C++ compiler and all he got back in return was the statement that the "compiler will not change in the near future".

AROS (26-Sep-97 )

    Aaron Digulla, AROS Head of Development, says he will be at the WoC in Cologne and the IPISA in Milano and if Petro T. will be there too, he will trap him and talk with him [about a possible "official" recognition by AI].

"powerOS" (26-Sep-97 )

    According to Stefan Werner, proDAD's current ad in the german Amiga Special calls pOS "powerOS". It used to be called "portable OS", so he guesses that they failed to port it. ;-)

What was lost at Commodore? (26-Sep-97 )

    Olaf Barthel says there were more than 600 unarchived library tapes (from the times when Commodore collapsed) at Amiga Technologies when they went belly up. Many legal documents, hardware schematics and manuscripts were sold off by Escom or lost. There is hope that some of the material is still on the tapes; although he does not know if archiving their contents was ever completed.

Dave Haynie on word processors (26-Sep-97 )

    Dave Haynie says that editing a 150 page document Word/NT on a P150 is so slow in WYSIWYG mode as to be unuseable. His A3000 with FinalWriter is much faster and nicer; both run in roughly the same resolutions. The difference is just algorithm and OS.

DPK and the ICOA (26-Sep-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says he is trying to contribute to the ICOA, at least in the docs field.

30 developers at Amiga, Inc.? (26-Sep-97 )

    Keith says that it is a fact that Amiga Inc. is actively recruiting and aim to have 30 developers on their payroll by the end of this year. The general release of AmigaOS 3.5 is scheduled for Spring '98 at latest and a new hardware they will be designing will be available by Christmas '98.

Maxon Computer not leaving the Amiga (26-Sep-97 )

    In an official statement by Maxon Computer GmbH, they say that they haven't stopped developing for the Amiga, they rather stopped development of a few [old] products like MaxonPLP, MaxonSIGMATH and TwistOrganiser. IBrowse is constantly being enhanced and there wil be a PPC version of Cinema 4D early next year.

Christian Bauer vs. Amiga (26-Sep-97 )

    Christian Bauer, programmer of ShapeShifter says he can't think of anything he could still use his Amiga for...

Blizzard 603e/603e modifications (26-Sep-97 )

    According to Wold Dietrich, the Blizzard 603e/603e+ cards will be available with different clock speeds. The lowest entry will be a 160 MHz version, followed by a 200 MHz 603e and a high-end 250 MHz version. The blizzard cards will have the same type (not format) of connector than the big-box models. This will allow Phase5 to develop a special version of the CyberVisionPPC (4 MB, Permedia2) for it (price below 500 DM). Due to CE-reasons, this will require a tower system. These enhancements are one reason for the delays.

AROS advantages (26-Sep-97 )

    Lars Bischoff reminds that AROS has got many advantages over other OSes:
    • it is platform-independent
    • it is binary-compatible on 68k computers,
    • it is source-compatible on other computers
    • is written to support new features, like memory protection and retargability; although the current version only has the same features as OS 3.1
    • it is written by Amiga users, which means it is possible to implement what users want.
    • And, most importantly, AROS is freely available and does not depend on any company. That means no copyright and licensing problems and no company that can file for bankruptcy.

Amiga Unix, part 2 (26-Sep-97 )

    Olaf Barthel says they thought about Amiga Unix back at Amiga Technologies, but that a) the source is lost and b) it would need a lot of updating work, since it neither supports CD-ROM drives nor processors better than a 68030.

Amiga Unix (23-Sep-97 )

    John Kelly says Amiga Unix was "lost" the day Commodore suddenly fired all of the Amiga Unix programmers and says that probably some disgruntled programmer out there has it under his bed.

AmigaOS 3.5 on BrowserWatch (22-Sep-97 )

    "Razor" says he saw a version of Netscape for 3.x (Amiga OS 3.5) mentioned in BrowserWatch.

AROS/Linux for PPC (22-Sep-97 )

    Nils Henrik says porting AROS to PPC should be simple, as it only contains a single ASM file. He adds that there were talks to port it to PPC Linux during the WoA in Cologne, to show the portability. Finally, he points out that AROS will remain binary compatible on Amigas (unlike pOS).

CyberVision's sold
NewTek PowerUp (22-Sep-97 )

    Apparently, Phase5 sold about 10,000 CyberVision gfx cards. On a different subject, Wolf Dietrick, General Manager of phase5, points out that Newtek have ordered and received their first PowerUp board.

tower is "crap" =? 500,000 DM (22-Sep-97 )

    Joern Plewka reminds that a tower-facturer ("E_A_*_L_E") once sued an individual for 500,000 DM. He had posted in the newsgroups that the tower was a pile of junk...

pOS CHRP port (18-Sep-97 )

    Randy Vice says proDAD is currently using a StarMaxx 6000 to finish the port to CHRP compliance, so that it should be ready for delivery with PIOS's TransAM.

Amiga Mentioned on TV (18-Sep-97 )

    On the Discovery Channel, a B-2 pilot was talking about the cockpit and said: This plane was designed in the early 80s and the computer we have on board is about equal to the power of an Amiga from the mid-80s.

Dave Haynie News (18-Sep-97 )

    According to Dave Haynie, Commorore and HP had talked about set top boxes, they talks on teaming up with Motorola and building a CPU with integrated AA. Besides explaining Commodore's actions in the past, he also tells that he is now working full time on the ONE and that PIOS now have some actual money to spend. According to the software gurus at PIOS, proDAD have apparently repeated the same mistakes in pOS that were already present in AmigaOS. Apparently PIOS went to VIScorp in May '96 to talk about doing an AmigaOS for the PowerPC, but they blew it. Besides that, Dave informs us that in the past he had a group to make his own custom beer but has now switched over to micro and craft breweries' custom beer. ;-)

Commodore Security Guard patches (18-Sep-97 )

    Andrew Greene says he has some shoulder patches worn by Commodore Business Machines security guards for sale.

Mathias Ortman vs. Dr. Peter Kittel (18-Sep-97 )

    Mathias Ortman, well-known for his sarcastic posts ("bashing" according to Dr. Peter Kittel) against Phase5 and PIOS says that he met DPK in personal a couple of weeks ago and got along with him really well. He then adds that he didn't dare to mention his name, guessing that he might not have survived otherwise... ;-)

Commodore Advertisements (18-Sep-97 )

    Anthony, the "Infamous Captain Potato" says in one of 1986's issues of the German [general-interest] is a two page color advertisement for the A1000. The slogan used was "Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst" ("I see something you don't see"), the main picture was of an ink-blot picture, with an Amiga- drawn picture of the A1000 next to it and a bit of a spiel about the machine.

UAE on the PC (18-Sep-97 )

    Mathias Ortman says that by porting UAE to the world's most popular OS platform he has done more for the Amiga spirit during this year than Dr. Peter Kittel did. According to him, this has re-enabled more people to feel the Amiga spirit than all the advertising and announcing from a company called PIOS combined.

pOS for PowerUp and Intel (18-Sep-97 )

    According to Dr. Peter Kittel, proDAD have been working on a PowerUp version of pOS for a long time. They are also working on an Intel version.

Browserwatch (16-Sep-97 )

    Charles Cunningham suggests that we all need to hit BrowserWatch on a daily basis so that Amiga browsers can be counted. A browser needs .25% market share to be listed and only IBrowse is showing OK, while Voyager goes in and out and AWeb is not showing at all. Browserwatch is located at browserwatch.internet.com.
    [ Jesse D. Sightler informed me that it is not just enough to visit Browserwatch to get better averages for Amiga browsers (as mentioned above), rather you need to read some of their News Stories to get counted. ]

Detailed PowerUp speed tests (16-Sep-97 )

    James Carroll posts detailed PowerUp speed tests, taken from www.vgr.com/lwshow/. LWshow and the Cow Object were used to compare the different rendering times on different window sizes. Overall, the CSPPC604e/200 is 5.01 to 9.68 times faster than the CS060/50MKII (at least) and the PUP603e/150 is 2.01 to 2.83 times faster than the CS060/50MKII (at least).

AmigaE clarification (16-Sep-97 )

    Eric Sauvageau points out that Wouter hasn't dropped E development. Last Eric chatted with him, 3.3a wasn't out yet because of a dead monitor. EDBG and EasyGUI are now being developed by other people, what eases the workload off Wouter's shoulders.

Foundation Demo (16-Sep-97 )

    Paul Burkey says there will be a demo of Foundation available next month. Currently it is [################----] 82% done.

Commodore Sales (16-Sep-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel posts exact sales figures of Commodore Germany up to 31.12.93:

    Amiga CD3225.000
    Amiga CDTV25.800
    Amiga 5001.081.000
    Amiga 500+79.500
    Amiga 600193.000
    Amiga 100027.500
    Amiga 120095.500
    Amiga 2000124.500
    Amiga 30008.300
    Amiga 4000/0307.500
    Amiga 4000/0403.800
    Total Amigas in Germany:1.671.400

    He adds that Germany, the UK and USA where about 30% each of the Amiga market, so that the total number of Amigas probably amounts to about 5 million.

Alien Breed 3d II's sourcecode (16-Sep-97 )

    Ben Hutchings says if there hasn't been an improved version of Alien Breed 3d II after the original author uploaded the source to Aminet, it's probably because the source is a complete mess. There is no makefile and probably only Andy Clitheroe actually knows which files need to be linked together to build the damn game. He adds that only few companies give away ex-commercial games since they are ELSPA members and don't want to get kicked out.

MiamiSSL encryption (15-Sep-97 )

    Didier Levet points out that France and Iraq are the two only countries where using encryption, and therefore Miami's miamisslintl.library, is not allowed by the law.

UAE on the ONE (15-Sep-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says there will definately be a version of UAE for the ONE, and there is a small probability that it will be able to understand the old Amiga disk format.

AmigaE? (15-Sep-97 )

    In reply to a query concerning the current status of AmigaE, Michael Griggs says the last CU Amiga says it is still in development, although the issue before CU said it isn't,

First PowerUp benchmarks available (14-Sep-97 )

    Jean-Baptiste Bolcato reports that first PPC benchmarks are available on the CyberGfx website. Test with CyberGL's LWshow indicate that a CyberPPC 604-200 is 400% to 600% faster than a Cyberstorm MKII 060/50. The Blizzard PPC150 is about 200% faster and a CyberPPC without PPC (only using the 060) is about 110% faster than the CyberMKII.

AmigaOS 4 definition (14-Sep-97 )

    Claude Mueller says he thinks AmigaOS 4 should be pOS with some improvements, an official Amiga label, integrated UAE, a bit of Carl Sassenrath [whatever that may mean]; all available on different hardware platforms.

Amiga game sales (14-Sep-97 )

    According to Even Sandvik Underlid, Worms sold 50,000-60,000 copies, which was less than two years ago. More recently, Vulcan managed to sell 8,000 copies of Valhalla 3, a game programmed in AMOS in a couple of months and only distributed through Vulcan themselves.

AI developer conferences (14-Sep-97 )

    Even Sandvik Underlid points out that AI will be doing two developer conferences soon.

Amiga rc5 team (14-Sep-97 )

    Ben Monroe posts a progress report on the Amiga rc5 team efforts. Apparently it is at rank #122 in the Bovine effort, with a rank of #11 for yesterday and a total rank below #100 in 2-4 days. He adds that the whole point in participating was to possibly generate some attention for Amiga, whether it be just by making it up through the ranks to a noticeable slots (we are headed well inside #30 currently, given enough time) or by breaking the actual key. He encourages everybody to join, details are at http://www.cistron.nl/~ttavoly/rc5.

Terminus development (14-Sep-97 )

    Robert Poole says that the author of Terminus was using the registration fees from Amiga users to fund his work on an OS/2 version of the product and eventually suspended all work on the Amiga version.

Amiga Inc. silently working? (14-Sep-97 )

    Mick Tinker of Index Information Ltd says that Gateway 2000 may not be saying much yet, but seem to be steadily working in the background and adds that he thinks progressing towards a long term survivable future is surely better than rushing and dropping the whole thing in 6 months.

Amiga Dead? (14-Sep-97 )

    Jon Taylor posts a long article explaining why he thinks the Amiga is dead. He says there are three markets in which the Amiga can't enter anymore. Consoles are much better than any Amiga at games, the PC market is dominated by Wintel machines and the workstation market is dominated by long-established players. He thinks the only ones buying future Amigas will be remaining Amiga fanatics with money. The A\Box will probably not succeed because Phase5 don't have the necessary power and the PIOS One, PowerPC/CHRP might go down with the entire Apple market. The AmigaOS won't survive either, as it is highly unportable, being optimized around a specific hardware platform. Too many Amiga companies have left, way too much time was wasted after Commodore's demise. Fanatical deviotion moved the platform forward for years, but the batteries [are] painfully wearing out. He invites all remaining Amiga users to let his beloved Amiha die in dignity and move on to Linux; a community that is going to kick Microsoft's ass.

PPC Amiga 1200 by Dave Haynie? (13-Sep-97 )

    Craig H. Ganoe says about a year ago, Dave Haynie had worked out something like an A1200 with PPC and standard PC graphics and audio chips, in the price range of about $800.

Borland and Lotus once developing on Amiga? (13-Sep-97 )

    David Corn says he remembers being told that both Borland and Lotus had advertised in Amiga magazines, but nothing (no product) ever came of it

PowerUp during the last 4 months (13-Sep-97 )

    Alan L.M. Buxey says he saw working PowerUp cards more than 4 months ago. The delays are therefore probably due to the attempts of releasing a perfect product at the best possible price and performance, with the best possible support software. He adds that, when not using the PPC CPU, the PowerUp works perfectly fine as a 680x0 card, with the added bonus of a faster memory bus. Apparently, the A1200 PowerUp cards will come with SCSI support built-in.

DICE source code released (13-Sep-97 )

    Matt Dillon says he has released the source to his DICE compiler, which is roughly equivalent to the last commercial release by OIC. The core source will compile on the Amiga and on most Unix platforms. Matt says he's still using DICE for embedded hardware projects, although he hasn't done much work on the Amiga recently. He got caught up in an ISP startup three years ago and has been working at it ever since. Nowadays, he's doing mostly UNIX (FreeBSD) work. The code can be retrieved from the Obvious Implementations Corp. web site at http://www.obviously.com/.

New AmigaOS suggestions (13-Sep-97 )

    Joern Plewka suggests to "plan" new features for a new AmigaOS by discussing the different possibilities on the Usenet. He adds that formatting these discussions as a FAQ might be useful. He will be posting articles on resource tracking and main memory handling, but hopes that others will join in as well.

Eric Laffont interviewed (13-Sep-97 )

Internal notice (09-Sep-97 )

    comp.sys.mac.advocacy: Mathew R. Ignash reports that there has been a thread going on in comp.sys.mac.advocacy about the Amiga. Apparently, it involves Mac users who are jumping ship, or considering it, and who want to know if the Amiga platform is the way to go. The thread name is "From Mac to Amiga" or something like that. You can trace back the thread in DejaNews.

Apple Rumours (09-Sep-97 )

    An anonymous poster says there are rumours circulating in the Mac community that Motorola are considerig discontinuing the PowerPC, as the next generation AppleOS will be able to run on x86 and will have platform-independence.

PowerUp history; according to Phase5 (09-Sep-97 )

    The choice to go PowerPC was taken early october '95 when Motorola began questioning volume production of the 68060. An alpha prototype was shown on the Computer95 show; estimated time of arrival (ETA) was second part of 1996. They then lost 4 months talking about possible cooperations wih AT and then had to face an etire different situation with the bankruptcy of Escom/AT. Another 4 months passed, there were talks with possible Amiga buyers, but these were useless. Since there didn't seem to be a solution to the AT (and AmigaOS) problem, they decided to adopt the current dual-processor concept and began developing prototypes. These were delivered to developers shortly before the Computer96, where they also showed the first small demo application. ETA then was the first quarter 1997. Delays since then were caused by restructuring in the development team and the transforming of design to "VHDL-synthesis" [?]. The last 5 months of delays are Phase5's fault, although this time was also used to further improve the design of the PowerUp boards and software.

CU Amiga advertisements (09-Sep-97 )

    Mat Bettinson, technical editor of CU Amiga magazine says they can't refuse advertisements by Gordon Harwoods (advertising Macs in an Amiga magazine). Our policy in this regard isn't out of choice, it's dictated by law. We can't refuse to take Gordon Harwood's advertisements however we can refuse to take advertisements from our direct competitors [other Amiga magazines]. I assure you, we aren't happy about the Harwood adverts at ALL but hopefully our readers are intelligent enough to discount them altogether.

PowerUp's available (09-Sep-97 )

    Jerry Ring says he just found a big announcement on Phase5's website, that says that PowerPC cards are available. He guesses that this means the last rumours, predicting a release in the first week of september, were true.

NewIcons v4 (09-Sep-97 )

    Eric Sauvageau says his answer to Martin Huttenloher's MagicWB and the anti-NI accusations in MagicWB's FAQ will be coming through his compiler's and Philip Vedovatti's PPaint's mouth, namely NewIcons v4, due in the next few weeks. His personal feeling is to let the customer decide which one they prefer [NewIcons or MagicWB]. No need to attact the other product, just release your product, promote YOUR product, and let the facts talk by themselve.

PIOS One "in the spirit of Amiga" (09-Sep-97 )

    We from PIOS [..] feel that we do something with our PIOS ONE hardware which is practically what would have been the next Amiga hardware from Commodore. There was also Hombre, but I've seen some docs where this was scheduled to become either a games console, not necessarily much Amiga-like, or an own gfx card with just an own kind of gfx chip instead of some from the gfx card makers. AAA [..] was buried as a project even before Commodore closed. It's highly likely that Commodore would have gone hardware-wise in exactly this direction where the PIOS ONE now develops. We're getting close as much as possible to the real Amiga. Please keep in mind, we're on PPC processors, where there is currently no official AmigaOS. So we have to find some approximation, again as close as possible, via Siamese, via pOS, etc. Again: The next Amiga from Commodore would have had PCI slots. Dr. Peter Kittel then answers an accusation that Dave Haynie's attitude has changed over the years with the words that Dave did not change his attitude. He always just chose the way which was appropriate for the time, and times did change.

DraCo (09-Sep-97 )

    Alain Penders of Finale Development Inc says he heard Macrosystem are picking up Draco again and have recently hired a team of developers to make software for it. The DraCo is intended as "big professional brother" of the Casablanca.

Contribution of Phase5 to the Walker (09-Sep-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says the only contribution of Phase5 to the Walker were talks of them doing a PowerUp card for it. The Walker was done by company MAZeT in Jena, Germany.

Price of the AA chipset (05-Sep-97 )

    According to Dave Haynie, the internal cost for the three AA chips is about $15, the support logic costs an additional 20$. That's price comparable to off-the-shelf parts today, it's just that you get so much more in the off-the-shelf parts.

Amiga Inc.and AI? (05-Sep-97 )

    Jason Compton says Jeff Schindler is General Manager of Amiga, Inc. and points out that he does not mean Amiga International, Inc.

Transitional PowerUp Amiga at AT? (05-Sep-97 )

    Dr. Peter Kittel says there were talks between Phase5 and AT about a PowerUp board for the Walker, as transitional platform. He adds that, after that, At wanted to do a real PPC computer on their own.

PowerUp 68k/PPC concept explained (05-Sep-97 )

    Craig H. Ganoe quotes one of Phase5's web pages that explains how the PowerUp will run.
    While the original AmigaOS 3.x continues to run on the 68k CPU - as well as all existing applications do, what provides 100% compatibility - the PowerPC CPU is supported by a comprehensive PPC Library developed by phase 5, which provides all functionality to integrate the PowerPC into the Amiga multitasking environment. Software developers can easily optimze their programs step by step by porting single tasks to PowerPC code, which then can run parallel with 68k tasks.
    Craig reads this as AmigaOS 3.1 running on the 68k and if a programmer wants to run PPC code, the programmer creates a subtask on the PPC using the PPC.library. Looks to me all the AmigaOS is the same old 68k code (which makes sense to me since this is all Copyrighted) and the programmer can write their own PPC subtasks to do stuff for them.

Dave Haynie on the ONE's development (05-Sep-97 )

    Dave Haynie points out that he is the only engineering guy on the PIOS One. He is working on it in his spare time (he has a day job and a family); for a startup company that doesn't get resources very easily. This is radically different from an established company with several full time engineers and existing tool infrastructure.

Phase5 / Walker / AT (05-Sep-97 )

    Dave Haynie confirms that Phase5 were not involved in the development of the Walker. The only serious talks between Phase5 and AT were about PPC upgrades to 68K machines. Basically, AT wasn't interested in PPC upgrade cards, the only usage would have been PowerUp cards in the Walker. However, Phase5 pulled the plug on the project before Dave had a chance to design a new CPU slot for the Walker.

"Patience" (03-Sep-97 )

    In reply to discussions about AI/G2k being silent, Olaf Barthel just says four words: "Two more weeks" and "Patience".

Linux on PowerUp (03-Sep-97 )

    Jesper Skov says it is possible to control the [PowerUp-equipped] computer with the PPC only. "They" are working on a linux/m68k port for the PowerUp. As Linux uses separate address spaces for each task, it's impractical to have both CPUs working and therefore the m68k is put to sleep and the PPC runs the machine. Later, the m68k may be used as a coprocessorm ie. for handling screen updates.

Finale Development registered pOS developer (03-Sep-97 )

    Alain Penders of Finale Development says he is a registered commercial pOS developer.

QuikPak need license (03-Sep-97 )

    George Noel says QuikPak need a license from Gateway 2000/AI if they want to sell their Amiga laptops (A4040L and A4060L). He says this might be the main reason delaying shipping.

Amiga CD's in the stores? (02-Sep-97 )

    Adam Dawes says that, a recent announcement in CU Amiga that says several UK shops will once again have Amiga games on their shelves, is not entirely true. He went to one of the mentioned shops but didn't find any Amiga games. He then asked at the counter and was told the shop "doesn't sell CDs for the Amiga".

DEC Alpha in the Draco (02-Sep-97 )

    The reason why development of a DEC Alpha accelerator for the Draco was discontinued was that DEC discontinued manufacturing the chip MacroSystem was planning to use. Another render-accelerator board is being developed, but there's no public info on what chip this board will be based. Johan Otterstrom points out that the choice of a chip is not that important, since the Draco is a video workstation and will only use the accelerator for lightning fast renderings.

Arguments against the Phase5 concept (02-Sep-97 )

    If AI made an AmigaOS 4.0 CHRP, all people who have bought PowerUp cards would start whining. AI would have to decide whether to support an additional (totally different) hardware architecture or not. The PPC chip is the same, but the hardware interface to the system is totally different, this is the hard part [..] of porting the OS, because you have to write totally different code for every architecture you support. Phase5 did the Amiga a service by developing 040/060 accelerators and advanced graphics and SCSI solutions, but these new PPC boards of theirs are their last shot at making money off the Amiga before we see a shiny new PPC Amiga with PCI and all that good stuff, says Craig H. Ganoe. What concerns him are people blindly preordering Phase5 PPC cards or anxiously awaiting their release, not even understanding how they work. People really need to wait and understand and see the big picture.

AmigaOS piracy (01-Sep-97 )

    Olaf Barthel says it is very hard to track down pirate copies of the AmigaOS on the Internet and recalls that Amiga Technologies didn't even try to eliminate pirate copies of the AmigaOS 3.1 ROMs; which were produced on a rather large scale.

New hardware projects from Ateo Concepts (01-Sep-97 )

    Frederic Calendini reports that Ateo Concepts have announced their new products. They announce a Zorro 2/3 bus replacement for A1200 towers at a very cheap price and better performance than Zorro III. They also plan to release a new 64 bit graphics card (called Pixel64), also at an inexpensive price and with good performance. They announce other low priced devices for this bus (Ethernet etc.) and also say they plan to build a PPC card.
 
Last updated 26-Dec-1997, 15:15 by Christian Kemp, ckemp@vo.lu. All HTML files on this site are copyrighted, usage on other sites requires a written permission.