AMIGA aktuell International competition

1. Results of the last competition

The syntax of the standard question of the last competition might have been a bit unprecise. But even explaining the meaning in an AMIGA aktuell Special it seems to be due to this misfortune that the participation went down to a record level of 13 readers.

Well, I promiss to do better in the future and hope to ask the questions without discrepancy.

Remember: Even, if you do no know the answer of the master question, you participate on the competition, if you answer the remaining two questions.

But now, the solution:

Standard question:	What is the name of the Vice President of Product Development of AMIGA?
	In AMIGA aktuell International we wrote about "Software Development"

Answer: The person we were looking for was Fleecy Moss.

Master question:	Name two AMIGA employees except Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss.

Antwort:	On this place there were various answers possible after the last Executive update was released, e.g. "Petro Tyschtschenko and Randall P. Hughes".

Question of opinion:	When do you think will the announced Amiga developer system be available?

The result:

Answer	Number of votes

1 In April 2000 or earlier	4
2 Between May and December 2000	7
3 In 2001 or later	1

One participant was unable to give a prediction.

Some participants commented the question of opinion (of course, these statements were made before the latest announcements of AMIGA, so they are not up-to-date in some manners):

Christian Aichinger means:

»Any Amiga users are optimists (?), this is why I answered with answer 2, even if I don't really believe in it... and if so, this would just be an Intel-compatible with a slightly changed version of Elate and some compilers/debuggers etc.

As I have learned, they wont to cooperate with H&P (...note Hewlett Packard...) due to the software emulator and additional they want to talk with manufacturers, who can provide the hardware (or what soever) (I think, that the name "BoXeR" was mentioned), because both companies (By the way, when was the BoXeR announced? This wasn before the PPC boards of P5, wasn't it...???) are known for their "reliability" I don't think, that they won't add one part for the new developer machines. And a surprise from some other company...mmmh... that's a good one (I just say Transmeta and ATI and Corel and...)

As you might notice, I don't find out what's what... meanwhile this "soap-opera" becomes much too complicated. ;-) Now, I'll play a bit of Gloom...«

Fritz Trampnau writes:

»The earlier the " AMIGA developer system" is available the better! But that, what we Amiga fans want and what is then really offered is quite a difference! So let's wait and see - as always! Anyway, who is supposed to enjoy the new AMIGA (operating system), which runs only on PPC according to Bill McEwen? DCE just made the "BVision" available - and no sight of Blzzard 603(+), Cyberstorm PPC and G3/G4! Because "AMIGA" has no plans in offering hardware - who's going to make it?! Do they want the AMIGA fans to make the hardware themselves? And who has the money to buy e.g. a CyberstormPPC? It will surely cost about 1,500 DEM (approx. 765.31 Euros)! So, now it's about saving money to buy the new AMIGA when/if it comes!«

The latest AMIGA announcements is also mentioned at the end of this edition.

But now to the winners of our last competition:

1 x full version of "CDCat": Christian Aichinger

1 x A1200 turbo board "Blizzard 1230-IV": André Koehler

1 x book "ARexx - An introduction and more...": Hendrik Stahl

Congratulations