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Some veterans of the '93 show pointed to the considerably more upbeat mood. In December '93, Commodore was well on the road to collapse and many were simply hoping the shoe wouldn't drop. Now, the dismal times are behind us and the focus is on creating a better marketplace for the Amiga and Amiga products. Here we are, December 1995. Last year at this time, we'd already missed several "deadlines" for the Commodore resolution and were shaking our heads at the "missed Christmas season." This year, the Christmas season has Amiga 1200s being sold in quantity throughout Europe, as 4000Ts ship from SMG to dealers across North America. A much merrier Christmas, indeed. Nope, Amiga Technologies won't break any Commodore sales records this year, excepting the 4000T, a product Commodore never actually sold in appreciable quantities. But they have done what many thought was impossible. They've rescued the Amiga from Commodore and are taking it to a new processor. Sure, people will continue to be critical of some of their policies. But the opportunity never presented itself for me to shake the CEO of Commodore's hand. But I've met Petro. The look in his eyes told me he really does care about this Amiga thing that is important enough, for whatever reason, for all of us to still be here, making a difference, rather than a rank-and-file member of The Rest Of Computing. After all, it had to take considerable courage to leave a job as head of production for a large PC manufacturer to take on the Amiga gamble, but he did it. Amiga Tech deserves to be told when they're making mistakes. But they also deserve to be encouraged for what goes right, as do the other companies in the Amiga market who make it the place it is. For this Christmas season, why not call up your favorite Amiga dealer, manufacturer, or distributor and thank them for their support? I'd like to thank all of you thousands upon thousands of readers for yours. Without your support and interest, there would be no Amiga Report worth speaking of. Thanks for letting us make a difference. Jason =========================================================================== Reader Mail =========================================================================== From: Ryan Paque Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 I would just like to thank all the writers of Amiga Report for providing the Amiga community with a reliable and consistant source of information. Without you guys, I'd be stuck out in limbo and probably would have ended up jumping ship. Being the sysop of the only public Amiga-run BBS left here in Milwaukee, WI sort of cuts me off from the rest of the world. I'm probably one of the few Amiga users in the United States that has "local" access to an Amiga dealer (Safe Harbor Computers) but so far, Amiga Report is the only place that I have heard anything about the Power Amiga systems I truly hope that Amiga Tech. can bring the Amiga back to some power again. I don't have delusions of masses of humanity throwing off the shackles of Microsoft and converting to Amiga, but I think that it definately deserves much more position in the market than it currently has. Hopefully the base configurations for the Power machines will be comparable to what the PC world has to offer. I'm sure this would never happen, but I think the best ploy AT could come up with to sell the machines would be to somehow include a fast hardware IBM emulater and a fast hardware Macintosh emulator and then write some code into the OS so that you can run anything you stick in the drive without even knowing what it is (besides maybe a telltale light on the menu bar or something similar). Fantasy, I know... But isn't that what makes most Amiga users unique? Not to slight anybody else in computer world, but it takes a certain mindset to go out and buy a computer that isn't among those pushed on you from every direction. Despite what everyone keeps telling me, the only thing that I use these IBMs and Macs at school for (besides my classwork) is NetScape. The Amiga needs something like this all nice and bundled in one package. Hunting around for 500 billion seperate programs and then trying to get them to talk to each other is not only time consuming, but also nerve wracking. (Hint Hint, Amiga Tech). Well, this was a bit longer than I originally intended, but its not often that I get to communicate with Amiga users who actually know something, besides the few regulars on FidoNet. Lately all I've been doing is arguing with some rich guy about why I don't need to change the BBS from an Amiga to an IBM... If it dies, I'll obviously have to, but until then, my trusty A500 and the BBS' A2000 will have the place of honor. Keep up the good work guys! ========================================================================== NEWS "Olaf Barthel Hired By Amiga Technologies" ========================================================================== Subject: Olaf Barthel hired by AT!! Date: 4 Dec 1995 Olaf Barthel was hired as some type of programming consultant to AT about 2-3 weeks ago to, I believe, work on the new AmigaOS. I knew about this, but really didn't know if he wanted it public knowledge, but, well, he said that he not only didn't care if al of you found out about it, but that since AT isn't collecting opinions, he just might... Now, don't go flooding his mailbox (especially not with "use MUI" stuff). To anyone who's worried because 'term' is a huge monster, Olaf Barthel has learned A LOT from making term - he won't make the same mistake twice. In my opinion, this is a very good thing - I *know* Olaf knows the OS inside/out and he listens to ideas. A very good combination for what will hopefully be a very bright future for the amiga. Olaf, if you're reading this, good luck, and remember, you asked for it! --- --- --- --- --- --- --- From: "Olaf Barthel" Date: Sun, 10 Dec 95 [After the announcement of his hiring, Olaf Barthel publicly cleared up the details of his employment with Amiga Technologies. -Jason] Thank you for the many friendly comments following Russell's announcement. I do not want to burst a bubble, regarding my position please do not expect too much too soon. I am an `external' programmer with a consulting contract. In this context `external' means that I am not based in Bensheim, home of Amiga Technologies GmbH. Specifically, a few development projects were handed over to me and other programmers (yes, I am not alone), but these did not yet cover designing a new operating system, let alone applying changes or fixing bugs. Mark the "not yet" well, please. Since I do my work at home I do not have as much insight into the development at Bensheim and thus am not as well- informed as I would want to be. All this boils down to that I am not in a decision-making position (some apparently were lead to be believe that I now occupy Dr. Peter Kittel's position ;) nor doing operating system development at the moment. As for the AmigOS project, I used to sign up with it as a design coordinator. Due to my own fault, I lost this position due to lack of presence. I regret that I could not devote the time to it that would have been appropriate. As far as I can tell, there exists no connection between the project and the AT department responsible for R&D. Russell mentioned that I would be collecting bug reports and enhancement requests for the operating system and Workbench contents. Amiga Technologies is not yet doing this via electronic mail, but services to take care of this are bound to be established as soon as the new Amiga Developer Support Program is in operation. Until then, I offer to collect your suggestions and bug reports via electronic mail on my private home site. This will be tough, as I am receiving mail and news via modem, sourcery is not directly hooked up to the Internet, so please be as brief as possible. Please send your enhancement requests and bug reports regarding the Amiga operating system releases v2.04 through v3.1 to the following address: bugs@sourcery.han.de Please be as brief as possible, sourcery is a private site which is not directly connected to the Internet. The information collected will be handed over to the R&D department at Amiga Technologies GmbH. In the near future, this service will be replaced by a similar service offered by Amiga Technologies GmbH, please monitor comp.sys.amiga.announce to know about it. When you send your requests and reports, please use the tool "Report" to generate report forms. You can find this tool on Aminet under "util/misc/Report.lha" or in the 3.1 Native Developer Kit on the "3.1_SWToolkit" disk. Oh dear, I hope I am not going to regret this. -- Home: Olaf Barthel, Brabeckstrasse 35, D-30559 Hannover Net: olsen@sourcery.han.de =========================================================================== PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 1995 PRESS CONTACT: Ellen Kazmaier tel: 314-256-9595; fax: 314-256-9595 SOFT-LOGIK ANNOUNCES PERSONAL PAINT FOR NORTH AMERICA (St. Louis) Soft-Logik Publishing is pleased to announce the North American release of Personal Paint 6.4. This is the first Soft-Logik release of Personal Paint. Personal Paint 6.4 is an easy-to-use paint program that comes with stunning effects and animation capabilities. It has the paint features Amiga users have come to expect including line, ellipse, rectangle, polygon, freehand, Bezier curve, fill and spray tools. Personal Paint also features multiple clipboards, multiple undo and redo, built-in virtual memory, gradient fills, and alpha channel. It has special effects including emboss, water colors, and stereograms. In contrast to competing programs, Personal Paint supports AmigaOS datatypes, JPEG, PCX, PNG and other image formats. Its animation features include a storyboard, frame timing, multiple palettes, and animbrushes. Personal Paint supports Anim5 (Deluxe Paint), Anim7 (Adorage) and Anim8 formats. It requires at least 1MB of memory and AmigaOS 1.3 or later, but does not require a hard drive. All screen modes are supported, and it can quickly convert 24 bit, HAM and HAM8 to 256 colors for easy editing. It is compatible with many graphic cards, including EGS, Picasso, Piccolo, Retina and Rainbow. Personal Paint was developed by Cloanto of Italy, and is now published worldwide by Digita International. As with other Digita products, Soft-Logik is distributing Personal Paint 6.4 in North America. The suggested retail price is $140. Owners of other Soft-Logik programs may order it directly from Soft-Logik for $75. Personal Paint 6.1 was awarded 88%% by Amiga Format and 87%% by Amiga Shopper. Digita International is the leading publisher of Amiga productivity software in Europe and Soft-Logik Publishing is the leading publisher of Amiga productivity software in North America. Soft-Logik Soft-Logik is also the worldwide publisher of PageStream and TypeSmith, and sells and supports Digita(R) International's Wordworth, Datastore, Personal Paint and Organizer in the United States and Canada. ============================================================================== WORDWORTH 5 To be released in January 1996 New features from Wordworth 3.1 include: - Footnotes - Drag-and-drop Style-sheets - ARexx support - 24-bit graphics support - Automatic bullet points - Automatic hanging indents - System clipboard support - Background printing - Font Effects (Stretch, Variable oblique, Drop Caps, etc.) - Improved Tables - Increased speed - Macros - Wizards Digita International are now also distributing Personal Paint 6.4 in the U.K. and the English version of TurboCalc 3.5 worldwide. For more information on any of these products, or to order any of them, you contact our Sales department using one of the following methods: E-MAIL: sales@digita.demon.co.uk WRITE: Digita International Ltd. Black Horse House Exmouth EX8 1JL ENGLAND ========================================================================== TITLE Quarterback VERSION 6.1 PUBLISHER Quasar Distribution P.O. Box 188 Southland Victoria 3192 Australia Phone +61 3 9583 8806 DESCRIPTION Quarterback 6.1 Advanced Backup and Archiving Program for the Amiga While hard drives represent some of the highest technology that exists in the computer industry, all hard drives will eventually fail. It is not a matter of if, but simply a question of when. If you've invested hours creating pictures, manuscripts, 3-D ray-traces, or spreadsheets, then you need some way to protect your investment. Quarterback gives you that protection by safeguarding your work against any possible loss. Features: · Backup to or restore from floppy disks, high density floppies, hard disks, hard disk partitions, AmigaDOS files, removable media, tape drives, and any AmigaDOS compatible devices. · Support for special features of newer, more advanced tape drives. There is support for hardware-based compression, fast tape advance, and quick erase features. · Support for multiple tapes per backup session. This means that you can back up the entire contents of very large hard disks onto several smaller-sized tapes. · Automatically formats floppies as it writes. · Complete or Selective backups and restores. A powerful Tag Filter allows you to include or exclude files by name (with wild cards), date, or archive bit. · Full macro and ARexx support, allowing you total control over the Quarterback program. · Optional password protection and encryption, to give you the best in security. · Fast compression during backups. In many cases, Quarterback can compress the data as fast as it can be written to your floppy drive. · Innovative "Interrogator" retrieves device information from SCSI devices. · Save to a file or print catalogs or session logs. · Can verify data as it is written. · Automatically detects and warns about bad media during backup and restore. · Writes file catalog to both first and last disks for extra data protection. · Supports unlimited file lengths, any number of subdirectories, and any number of files per subdirectory. · Supports both hard and soft links. · Includes Schedule Pro - a program which allows you to set up Quarterback for unattended backup sessions! Not only can you use Schedule Pro to set up Quarterback to automatically back up your hard disk at any time, or on any schedule, but you can use it to automatically start any program or ARexx script at a particular time or on a particular schedule. You can even use it to automatically dsiplay reminders when you need them. AVAILABILITY Quarterback is available now in English versions. DISTRIBUTORS Australia & New Zealand (and anywhere else not listed) Quasar Distribution P.O. Box 188 Southland Victoria 3192 Australia Phone +61 3 9583 8806 U.S.A. & Canada Wonder Computers Inc. 1301 Richmond Road Ottawa, Ontario Canada K2B 7Y4 Phone +1 613 596 2542 Fax +1 613 596 9349 All distribution enquiries should be directed to Quasar Distribution. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS An Amiga computer with KS 1.2 or greater and 512K of RAM or greater Some functions are only available under KS2.x or KS3.x. PRICE Please contact your local distributor for pricing and availability. ====================================================================== TITLE Quarterback Tools Deluxe VERSION 2.0.2 PUBLISHER Quasar Distribution P.O. Box 188 Southland Victoria 3192 Australia DESCRIPTION Quarterback Tools Deluxe Advanced Disk Recovery and File Management Tools for the Amiga Quarterback Tools Deluxe is a complete package of disk and file management tools that can help you recover from disk problems, speed up your disk access, and manage your files and disks better. Quarterback Tools Deluxe consists of the following programs: ·Quarterback Tools - A program to help you find and correct disks errors, recover files that have been accidentally deleted, and optimize your disk acess. In addition, for advanced users, Quarterback Tools includes a disk editor, which lets you directly examine and modify the information contained on your disks. Quarterback Tools also includes a macro capability, a complete ARexx port for advanced users, and is completely customizable to your way of working. ·Replicator - A program to quickly and easily duplicate a large number of floppy disks. You can duplicate to multiple floppy drives at the same time, and even save an entire disk image as a file on your hard disk to use later. ·Locator - A program that helps you quickly locate files on your disks. You simply provide any part of a file name, and Locator will search the entire disk (or just a sub-drawer of the disk) and find all files that match that name. For each file found, Locator can tell you the location of the file, information about the file, and show you a portion of the file's contents. ·File Eraser - A program that irretrievably erases a file's contents, and then deletes the file. File Eraser includes an option to erase a file using the US Department of Defense approved method for permanently erasing files. You can use this program to permanently remove sensitive information from your disk; no file recovery program, not even Quarterback Tools, will be able to recover the file's contents. ·Disk Eraser - A program that irretrievably erases either the unused portions of a disk, or the entire disk itself. Like File Eraser, Disk Eraser includes an option to erase a file using the US Department of Defense approved method for permanently erasing files. You can use this program to permanently erase files which you have already deleted, or to permanently erase all files from a disk. ·Keystroke Finder - A program that shows you the appropriate keystroke combination to type any character on your Amiga. For example, Keystroke Finder can show you how to type accented characters like è and â, and special characters like ®. Keystroke Finder works with any keyboard and any "keymap" setting. ·System Mover - A program that simplifies moving system files - such as fonts, printer drivers, and system libraries - from one disk to another. AVAILABILITY Quarterback Tools Deluxe is available now in English versions. DISTRIBUTORS Australia & New Zealand (and anywhere else not listed) Quasar Distribution P.O. Box 188 Southland Victoria 3192 Australia U.S.A. & Canada Wonder Computers Inc. 1301 Richmond Road Ottawa, Ontario Canada K2B 7Y4 Phone +1 613 596 2542 Fax +1 613 596 9349 All distribution enquiries should be directed to Quasar Distribution. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS An Amiga computer with KS 1.2 or greater and 512K of RAM or greater Some functions are only available under KS2.x or KS3.x. PRICE Please contact your local distributor for pricing and availability. =========================================================================== 1995 World of Amiga, Toronto, Canada By: Jason Compton =========================================================================== Calgary's AmiJAM broke the North American Amiga show ice and showed that an Amiga show could be well organized. Montreal's Amiga Convention showed that you really could bring a decent amount of exhibitors out for the machine. WOA Toronto showed that you could do both. The bitter cold of the WOA weekend still drew thousands to the Toronto International Centre for the first show to call itself World of Amiga in two years. (WOA New York '94 was cancelled shortly before Commodore bit the dust.) Organized by Wonder Computers, Inc., launched by a speech from Petro Tyschtschenko, chief of Amiga Technologies, and spanning three days, the show brought together an impressive mix of retailers, developers, and presenters. The Show -------- No, really. I was impressed. "Katie" and I arrived in Toronto late Friday night, after the show had closed, so we missed Petro's speech. Hopefully, we'll get a transcript soon but I'm told it was very similar to the Cologne speech we published in AR 3.20. But when I walked into the show on Saturday morning, I had to smile. Nothing but Amiga set up in three aisles across a very long show floor, significantly larger than Calgary and Montreal. It was Wonder's party, so to speak, and as such they took a prime positition in the middle of the room for a large retail display, capstoned by what I called the "Pyramid 'o Softwood", with Final Writer, Data, and Calc stacked high off the table. (They were selling the three as a bundle, something Softwood needs to look into doing.) Even though the retail areas were pretty much always busy (the little A600 that tracked the sales got a good workout), they were hardly the only attraction. I have to apologize in advance--I didn't even get a chance to visit every booth, something I can only look at as a good thing, since I was there for two entire days. I also don't have a full list of exhibitors here, but hope to obtain one soon. That said...what was new at the show? Well, the A4000T and A1200s drew a good deal of attention at the far end, middle aisle, of the show floor. SMG and Amiga Technologies were set up here (until Petro's departure midway through Saturday). The 4000Ts were shown off both in action and with the case off, and it's clear that Amiga Tech hasn't changed the board screens at all, since the memorable "Haynie Kludge" jumper is still labeled. The machine case was rather uninspiring, visibly a stock PC part (given the Turbo button which disables the 4000T's internal speaker) but it was still nice to see. The machine in operation was marked up with some sort of black substance. Oops. The A1200s spent most of their time sitting there and playing Pinball Mania or running Wordworth, both pack-in items. Rick Stine of SMG was the big man on the scene, and did not seem to enjoy himself excessively--apparently, one too many people gave him a hard time over the 880k floppy issue and the price. He told me that both he and Amiga Tech did a lot of work to try to get floppies built, but the only offers they were made called for more floppies than they were willing to buy, and even that wasn't a definite. My major issue with the 880k floppy is that it makes the Amiga useless in a disk-sharing environment, since it can't read any Mac floppies and can only read 720k DOS floppies, a format in which virtually no new PC software is delivered. The 4000Ts were using old Commodore-badged keyboards, but Stine told me the shipping 4000Ts had their own, new keyboards. This remains to be seen. SMG's not the kind of company to discuss future speculation. So the issues open to discussion were simply the shipping of units and filling of orders, something they feel they're doing quite well at right now. On a side note, SMG's corporate information made it quite clear that they are not a company that will live or die by the Amiga. While both their old corporate profile and newer color information sheet speak proudly of the work they did, providing all of North America's service for Commodore, they're a multi-service corporation and most of what they do is NOT product distribution. PreSpect Technics had much the same display they did at AC '95, showcasing their MultiFace IV serial/parallel card and Oktagon SCSI controller. One of these days, we'll get a MultiFace for review... National Amiga sat right next to PreSpect. The small Amiga mail-order business, which does 90% of its business over the 'net, did so well at the show that Greg Scott, the president and owner, bought the first round of drinks after the show Saturday night. AmiTrix, manufacturers of the SCSI-TV and A570-TV products as well as North American distributors for the Amiga Link SANA-II floppy port networking system, had their wares on display. Amiga Link now ships with IAM's Envoy 2.0. Speaking of IAM, Dale Larson won an AT&T contest and is vacationing in Australia as we speak. In his place, he sent Hal Greenlee, formerly with NASA, and Steve [something I can't remember] to represent the company. I didn't have a chance to discuss sales with them, but they had the entire IAM line on display, including so many Deathbed Vigil tapes that they actually ran out of cases and had the tapes shrinkwrapped individually. One of the highlights of Sunday afternoon was Hal Greenlee walking pensively through the show crowds with a makeshift placard taped to his shirt. Bruce Smith, Amiga book publisher, was at the JCV booth showing off his recent titles. We should be receiving the newest 3 for review in AR shortly. My attempt to get him to do a book on the World League (In addition to Amiga books, Smith also publishes seasonal sports books) didn't meet with much success, however. Legendary Design Technologies (and Distribution, and Entertainment) were on hand with their Link-It! product, designed for high-speed parallel port networking between the PC and Amiga. They also were blowing out old Psygnosis games (and I missed Walker!) and showing off a new game from their Entertainment division. Upcoming products promised in their flyer include dataTAX 95, which on CD-ROM will include all US and Canadian tax forms, a new MOD CD which promises over 4,000 unique tunes, and a PC serial mouse-to-Amiga serial port adapter kit. CineReal Pro-Video Productions was on hand displaying the Broadcaster Elite non-linear editing system. I was unable to stay for the entire demonstration, but what I saw was impressive enough that I will pursue having a review done for AR, despite all being shown on a very very small monitor. The system is PAL/NTSC compatible, so could very well give V-Lab Motion a run for its money (and be a viable product in markets where the Flyer is not.) Speaking of V-Lab Motion, NoahJi's had the Draco on display. The real thing, running on an 060 in its full glory. Two words: Nice machine. Extremely quick and responsive, and with an impressive suite of Amiga software included. The system is of course all designed around the Macrosystem V-Lab Motion non-linear editor, which is currently a Zorro II card but will be available as a "Draco Direct" 32-bit version capable of really high throughput levels. The machine ships in a tower case (much more attractive than the 4000T's), with Zorro II and Draco Direct custom slots and a number of drive bays. Eric Kloor and Rick Sulpizio had a very impressive demo area set up with a camera and monitors, and were joined by Amiga Report's video columnist and NoahJi's East Coast Sales Manager and Creative Director Bohus Blahut, who dresses nicer than they do, on Saturday. Phantom Development sat near to NoahJi's, showing off their ClassAct BOOPSI toolkit, largely through showing off Amiga Report Tech Journal editor Osma Ahvenlampi's new Amiga mail reader, Voodoo. They also had Digital Quill, the new text editor, for sale in a complete package (At AC '95 they were selling disks with vouchers for manuals, awaiting their completion.) SoftLogik, the publishers of the popular PageStream DTP package as well as Digita's North American distributors, were on hand with PageStream 3.0something and a very large monitor. They also had gobs of Digita newsletters and press releases for the taking. Nice people, too bad they're going to be selling the package for the Mac and PC now. Village Tronic was on hand, showing off their aging but still popular Picasso II video card and promoting their entire line of products, including AmiTCP, now published through them. Hubert Neumeier spoke with me about the upcoming Picasso IV, a card that promises high performance for the Amiga. He also seemed concerned when I informed him AR had a tough time contacting VT's North American distributors for information, so I expect we'll be able to bring news and reviews of VT products much more quickly in the future. If there was one product (aside from the 4000T and Draco) that people walked away from WOA Toronto, shaking their heads and saying "God, I wish I could afford that, it's so neat!", it was the MicroScribe. Put simply, the Microscribe is a very slick looking piece of metal swing arm that digitizes 3D objects. Using Lightwave for the Amiga or PC, you touch the pen end to vertex points of a grid you draw on your object, and the VertiSketch software and Lightwave translate these points into an object. VERY clever and seemingly very easy to use, but it doesn't come cheap. The product was demoed both on an Amiga and on a PC laptop system. Lazarus Engineering, Wonder's R&D arm, was showing off Designworks 2.0, the revamped New Horizons structured drawing program, and the KB-10, a PC-AT keyboard adapter for Amiga 2000/3000/4000/CD32 (the latter two require a $5 adapter to change the 6 pin port on the machine to a 5 pin). I was promised that a new 64-bit graphics card would be started after the show and completed by Thursday, but apparently they were just kidding. Oregon Research was proudly displaying Cinema 4D, the new low-cost rendering package for the Amiga. They also had a number of HiSoft imported products on display, as well as their own Termite and On the Ball standbys. Bob Luneski and I discussed Cinema 4D (which is apparently doing very well considering its recent introduction to non-German markets) and the Atari ST market, which they still do quite well in. Retailer Zipperware, from Seattle, was on hand to sell product, with an interesting free gift to customers--a random PC CD-ROM (very popular were Windows 95 demos and CompuServe samplers) with a universal "No" stamp (the circle and a line through it, you know what I mean) and a badge on the back saying "Merry Christmas from Zipperware." Some came with paper clip hooks, allowing them to be used as ornaments. Veteran hardware developers DKB were there, with their entire product line on display, including the new WildFire 2000/060 card, WildFire SCSI hardcard, and Link UP serial/parallel card. Good news for A3000 owners--the demand for a WildFire 3000 has convinced Dean Brown to go ahead with the design, meaning that the WildFire 060 will be available in the fullness of time to 2/3/4000 owners. We will, of course, endeavor to bring you reviews... Wonder's IT division had a booth set up demonstrating various Amiga Internet tools and applications on a really huge monitor. I didn't hang out here much except when I was frantically downloading Emplant software before my talk. I suppose I should feel guilty for not talking with the Newtek folks. But their major display seemed to be a few video monitors showing a looping demo tape of Lightwave's real-world accomplishments and capabilities, with lots of Babylon 5 clips. ...one of the most successful, from my perspective, booths at the show. That was the clickBOOM booth, displaying Capital Punishment, a new beat-em-up game almost ready for publication. The head of the clickBOOM team, Alexander Petrovic, was set up with three demo A1200s, running a beta of the game that, even though only one warrior was implemented, was drawing the attention of a number of attendees, including the aforementioned students. More importantly, it caught Mr. Tyschtschenko's eye, and he spent a half hour meeting with Alex. Quite simply, I don't think anybody was really expecting to see new games at a North American show, even one of a WOA scope. And even though they saw more than one (remember, Legendary had their own work-in-development), they weren't expecting to see one with some serious promotional material behind it. Large, full-color posters with a professionally-designed logo adorned the walls of their booth, and the sounds of combat drew people in. Capital Punishment is a very smooth and engrossing game in the Mortal Kombat genre. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to run the demo on anything but a stock A1200...hopefully this will change before release. clickBOOM is actively seeking publishers and apparently received at least two offers at the show alone, but is still considering its options. But the booth that, despite selling only one product (and a demo unit at that), was in my opinion the most gripping of the show was the Phase5 booth. In a sense, it shouldn't have been all that impressive. Only the company's general manager, Wolf Dietrich, staffed the booth full-time (although Wade Evans, Manager of MIS for Wonder, helped out). There was nothing for sale, and he even forgot his demo A1200 card. But he had THE BOARD, a prototype PowerUP 604 card, in a glass case, a shelf above Phase5's other offerings. People also got a lot of enjoyment playing with the CyberStorm 060 and CyberVision 64 cards on display, but the real talk of the town was the PowerUP card, and it was rare that Wolf had less than 3 or 4 people at a time clamoring for his attention. But he handled it all very well, encouraging people to take their product brochures and PowerUP information booklet and to send in the coupon for information. The CyberStorm Mark II, 060 for the 4000 and 3000, is promised soon, as is an upgrade path to PowerPC for those people who have bought CyberStorms after September 1995. I had a chance to speak with Dietrich about his company's concept for "Zorro IV", which would represent a high-power bus system for the Amiga but allowing for the use of industry standard PCI parts. This entire PowerPC movement has re-captured the imagination and dreams of a number of embittered Amiga users. If you're one that is still embittered, I think a number of your doubts would have been alleviated after a look at the PowerUP card. Mine were. People ------ Where to start? Amiga celebs, bigwigs, and long-time users were all on hand. I was able to meet with Petro...for about 30 seconds. He had been hounded the entire time he was there by countless people hoping for an audience, so I barely had time to shake his hand, give him my card, and thank him for his work for the Amiga before he had to leave for the airport. Hopefully we'll have more time to talk at the Amiga Atlanta banquet on January 20th, which he and Gilles Bourdin will be attending, in addition to Dave Haynie and Wonder Computers, and hopefully other sponsors. Eric Schwartz was there as well, modeling what should be the next Big Thing for Amiga users who want to show their allegiance. A self-designed T-shirt featuring a maniacally grinning Amiga 4000 and monitor peering from atop a hill, with the very catchy--and accurate--motto, "Amiga: We're Back, And We're Pissed." Katie and I had a great talk with Steve [some other last name I've forgotten] who was there reporting for the Lightwave mailing list. For some reason, I can't remember the last name of any of the Steves I met at the show, and for that I'm truly sorry. But Steve pointed out that even though other computer systems work for video production, the Amiga is the one that is the most flexible for the budding video producer, allowing a system to be built $1000 or $2000 at a time, rather than an outlay of $10,000 at once just to have a usable machine. Doug Cotton, editor of Commodore World, was the only print magazine editor at the show. Creative Micro Designs had considered setting up a booth but the plans never materialized. Still, Doug flew out to see the sights and have a Guiness or two. He was accompanied on Saturday by Jim Butterfield, but I didn't get a chance to meet him. CMD's plans to start an Amiga magazine haven't gone beyond the idea stage, unfortunately. Hopefully, the presence at the show will give him enough material to push the idea a bit more to the CMD purseholders. Giorgio Gomelsky and Livingston Hinckley of the AMUSE NY user group came out for the show. Giorgio is the AMUSE TV producer, and Livingston is the president of the group. They conducted interviews and generally tried to cover as much of the show as possible, including being involved in some behind-the-scenes meetings with Wonder after the show. What Came From All This? ------------------------ As Sunday wound down, I didn't see any unhappy faces. In fact, the mood of both the participants and exhibitors was upbeat, even if everyone was dead tired by 6 pm Sunday. I don't have exact attendance figures, but the day-to-day estimates put it somewhere around 3,000. Saturday was by far the busiest day, and it did my heart good to realize that I just couldn't tell what was going on in the booth 15 feet away, because too many people were in the way. I don't have each exhibitors sales figures, of course, but a happy face is a face that's made a profit. I have to admit that I had my doubts coming into the show if it would really draw a significant amount of people--AmiJAM and AC '95 combined brought in around 1,000. But Toronto in December was a prospect enticing enough to pull out thousands of Amiga fans to the show to see what was happening. Walking away from the show, it has to be said that the mood is positive. The show floor had old faces with the strength and courage to support the Amiga market: DKB and Newtek spring to mind. New industry leaders such as Phase5 stunned the floor. New Amiga strongholds like Zipperware and Legendary kept the spirit up. In the face of it all, new Amiga machines were on the SMG tables. A company that was a lone dealership in Ottawa a few short years ago pulled it all together. WOA Vancouver, June '96, and WOA Toronto, December '96, are already in planning by Wonder's IT division. I hope AMUC in Calgary and the Montreal AC '95 convention organizers take this to heart and go forward with their own shows next year. I hope the Gateway St. Louis organizers are inspired. This show was a real milestone for the Amiga in North America, and globally. Already, I've received a request from a general-interest computer magazine for a reprint of this article--and I'm not done with it yet! Let the momentum grow. =========================================================================== 1995 World Of Amiga By: C. Edward Stewart =========================================================================== The show was held in one of the smaller rooms of the International Centre. While that wasn't a major drawback, it was a noticeable difference from previous shows. There were a lot more `look what we can do' booths than in previous years. I always like to see new technology, but it bugs me when the people showing it neglect to bring any for sale! A lot of the display machines were either not working or were running demos that remained stuck at the final credits screen for far too long. The show certainly gave a good indication of what is coming in the future, but was a bit shaky in the here and now. Who was there I won't pretend to remember everything that went on, but here's some of the notable companies and exhibits. Newtek's Video Toaster and all the related hardware was there, of course. The best news? This year, it wasn't just a `toaster show' like the last WOC was. As usual, Newtek's flyers were slick and their presentation made me glad I had an Amiga. Legendary Entertainment was there with their Psygnosis game blowout. Not a lot of titles, but at $2 per game, there were a lot of people walking out with stacks of Psygnosis boxes. PageStream was shown there, PageStream 3, that is. Their big boast was cross platform compatibility. Right near the door was the MicroScribe 3D device. It looked like a robot arm and it was used to digitize real world objects into the computer. It was quite a neat toy, but way out of my price range. If you are a toaster nut, you might want to check this one out. DKB was at the show, still supporting the Amiga. They had displays of their line of products and some very slick information packages. Wonder Computers, the show sponsors, had the biggest booth, right in your face as you walked in. Unfortunately, the dearth of new hard/software extended to them as well. There was a lot of hype, but no new stuff! AMIGA Technologies GmbH had what could have been a very impressive booth. It was open and they had both 1200's and 4000T's there, as well as the new M1438S monitor (PAL version). The problem was, there were no staff there to talk to. I wandered around, looking at the innards of the 4000T and fiddling with the 1200, but no one seemed interested in telling me about them. The spec sheets are quite impressive, though I think that, if they are going to put one out, they should get someone to proof read it. There were other booths there but I was not impressed. I liked the corner where a TV place had set up a number of Amigas for people to play with, running digitizers, trackers and such like. All things considered, it was a good show. The overall impression I got was one of hope for the future. If AmigaTech gets the North American advertising going, they may be able to put the Amiga on top of the heap. If they follow the example set by Commodore, the Amiga will remain a computer that gets `Amiga? What's that?' from everyone you tell about it. That about wraps up my coverage of the World Of Amiga show in Toronto in 1995. Now I can hardly wait for the one in 1996! =========================================================================== AMIGA TECHNOLOGY SPEAKS at the IPISA SHOW in Milan Italy Dr. Peter Kittel was the most wanted speaker in the afternoon. He divided his talk in three parts: what AT has done so far, what they are doing now and they plan for the future of the Amiga. The reintroduction of the Amiga in the market was what he talked about concerning what AT has done so far. So, this is not worthy to mention it again. Now, AT is working on the restart of ADSP planned for 1 of December (a bit late now). Commercial developers will pay more (300 USD) than non-commercial developers (100 USD) as usual. Commercial developers will get phone support. I wonder what does this means exactly because any serious developer uses Internet to communicate. From now on, the access to the developer program will be restricted to real AMIGA developers. Non-commercial developers have to show at least one public domain program for the Amiga and commercial developers have to show at least one commercial application. AT plans small enhancements and bug fixes to the Amiga OS and the current Amiga models in early 96. There will be no more beta versions of the operating system circulating around like in the past. It is to be hoped that this will prevent the OS being pirated in the BBSes. Dr. Kittel mentioned Windows 95 beta versions as a joke. AT is going to introduce a PCMCIA based Quad speed CD-ROM drive named Q-Drive some time very soon. They are also going to release an Internet surfer package for the Amiga. No mention on the WWW browser that will be supplied. AT is talking to several companies to discuss strategic alliances and to bring back new and old AMIGA developers to support the AMIGA with their products. Motorola was mentioned regarding the future Power PC based Amiga. In a more distant future, AT will be working on hardware independent version of the AmigaDOS. Low end and high end Power PC based Amigas will be the first to run the new version of AmigaDOS. High end Power AMIGAs will be most likely CHRP compliant. Power AMIGAs will feature a proprietary chip set. It will not be AAA, but will be something that will have many of its features. This chip set will feature 24 bit video and 16 bit audio. Power AMIGAs will be definitely PCI based. Dr. Kittel then tried to answer almost every question that was posed by the audience. He apologised for the things that he could not talk about. Most of the questions are related with topics described above. Dr. Kittel was not able to answer a particular question that claimed my attention. It was about the differences of prices of the AMIGA computers in each country. He said that AMIGAs are sold to every distributor at the same price. The answer is simple and it scares me that AT either ignores or pretends to ignore the real reason for this. The reason is that in many countries there is only one company that buys all the Amigas that arrive to that country. That company resells the AMIGA to any other local distributor but with their own 'tax' added to the original local distributor price. This is what it seems to be why the AMIGA was so overpriced in many countries. It's a shame if AT will continue to close their eyes to this situation because this seriously hurts the AMIGA chances of being more popular in the future. In the end Dr. Kittel encouraged developers to write only OS legal software. He also encouraged every AMIGA user to advocate for the AMIGA spreading the good news about the AMIGA that is back for the future. Dr. Kittel was very applauded before and after a question and answer period. Almost everybody stood up to applaud him. LIKES In a few words, IPISA was impressively very well organised. The number of attendants was very high (almost 400). DISLIKES The arrival of some late hour guests, like for instance Dr. Peter Kittel, forced the organisation to rearrange the time and the duration of all the other presentations. This was a bit frustrating for many of the speakers like myself as we were not able to talk about many aspects of our work in such shortened periods of time as we wished. In compensation Dr. Kittel's talk was in my opinion the most interesting for everybody. Anyway, I understood that the organisation will probably split next year IPISA meeting in more days if the number of speakers keeps increasing like for this year's meeting. Milan's weather by mid-November is already too cold. Probably it would be a good idea to reschedule IPISA for some time earlier in the year when the weather is warmer. Maybe a month earlier would be warmer enough to encourage more non-Italian's developers to attend to IPISA and take the chance to visit the beautiful historical side of Milan. Almost all the conferences were in Italian. Fair enough because before everything this is an Italian developer meeting held in Italy. It would be great if English versions of the papers related with the talks could be made available to the Amiga community through the IPISA WWW pages. I am sure this would encourage many more non-Italian developers to attend IPISA in the future. CONCLUSIONS IPISA is yet another proof that AMIGA is back for the future. If there is an international meeting that AMIGA developer should not miss, IPISA is the one. Even Dr. Kittel admitted that in Germany there no developers meeting of this quality. Do not miss IPISA 96 if you are a serious AMIGA developer. Congratulations to the whole staff of the IPISA organisation. Copyright Manuel Lemos 1995 Internet : UpperDesign@zeus.ci.ua.pt FidoNet : 2:361/9.1 BIX : mlemos (@bix.com) =========================================================================== WOA Show Review Jason Eyre eyrej@limestone.kosone.com =========================================================================== To date I have attended 4 WOA shows over the past 5 years and have enjoyed them all for the most part. My friends and I piled into a mini-van in Kingston Ontario and struck out for Toronto. We decided it would be best to go up on the second day of the show, more time to see everything. After braving the harsh weather during our trip we finally arrived at the convention centre. To my surprise the parking lot was practically empty! Which in the past was quite full and usually with people directing traffic. Well I thought to myself that it was still quite early, around 11:30 or so, and figured more would come later in the day. I was looking forward to seeing the displays and finding all the good bargains. Well we bought our $8 dollar tickets, filled in the ballots to possibly win the Amiga 1200 system and went in. Thats when my excitment for this show was knocked down a peg or two.. The convention room was smaller and not nearly as nice as the one where the show had been held in the past. I pulled out my list of goodies that I wanted to purchase and started on my marry way hunting for them. First on my list was AmiTCP 4.0 I've been wanting to purchase it for awhile and thought that I would wait for the WOA show to do it since they would probably have some special show price.. WRONG! I found it at a couple of boothes and the price tag on them read $149! I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. The least they could have done was offer a special show price! Well I quickly scratched that off my list of things I wanted to buy and went looking for a new mouse. I found what I was looking for at the Wonder Computers table which took up most of the floor space in the centre of the room. There was alot of hussle bussle around Wonder's table and rightly so--they had quite alot of software and hardware for sale. I bought my new mouse (EK1000 Eklipse $22.98) which made me feel better knowing that I was able to find one at a fairly decent price. I spotted the Amiga Technologies booth and headed right over to have a look at the new 4000T. It was a modest booth with some nice colour brochures of the Amiga 1200 and the 4000T. I went right up to the 4000T to have a look at the future of Amiga only to be shocked at what I saw. The machine was filthy! There was dirt and grime on the interior front panel and not just a little bit. I couldn't believe no one had taken the extra 5 minutes and wipe the machine down with a damp cloth. The 4000T has an impressive looking case and is quite large, maybe a bit smaller than the 3000T. When I saw the 4000T it wasn't running anything impressive that I could remember. None of the machines seemed to have been configured for display. The 1200 (Dirty as well) had a plain out of the box workbench displayed and only had the stock 2 megs of chip ram. If I was somone interested in buying an Amiga these machines definatly weren't going to help to sell me one. The old labels on the 1200 had been pried off and replaced with paper labels. After being totally disappointed with what I saw at the AT booth I went roaming around checking out the other displays. NewTek had some nice televisions on display playing fighter scenes. In shows past they have had alot of floor space to put on a good demonstration. But this year they were relegated to a small area which made it hard for people to see the demos playing and listen to the guy talking about the capabilities of the machine and software. Phase 5 was there showing off its accelarators and had a nice glass display with the new PowerPC accelarator with the 604 CPU. Their brochure says they plan on selling them in mid 1996 in a price range of $700-$1500 depending on what configuration of board you get and for which machine. I'll definatly be sending away for more info about the Phase 5 boards. These boards in my opinion are going to help breathe new life into our beloved machines by bringing new software developers to the platform and possibly taking the Amiga into new areas not previously ventured into. I spent maybe 3 hours wandering around. The company that had bought Psygnosis inventory was selling off the old companies software by the truckload at $2 a game and giving a free game with every purchase. I saw many people walking away with arm loads of games. They made for excellent Christmas gifts at that price! One of my friends was interviewed for a cable show down in the US that is dedicated to the Amiga, his name is Stev Cole if you happen to catch the show. In hind sight the show was a sucess. Many people are still dedicated to the Amiga and companies are still willing to support the machine if there is money to be made and judging from this show there is. Hopfully the things I have mentioned in this small "review" will be noticed by the people responsible for setting up the show and will take note for the future. =========================================================================== Review: Super Skidmarks By: Jason Compton =========================================================================== The premise of Skidmarks and its successor is simple enough. It almost seems as though the developers, Acid Software, brainstormed and came up with "Hey, what about a racing game where you leave marks on the track?" Thus was a legend born. Super Skidmarks is the sequel to the game that dared ask that question. It sports AGA and ECS compatibility (which dictates the prettiness of the game: AGA players can race up to 8 cars while ECS users are limited to 4. (Cut those in half if you want to haul trailers on the cars you race, which is neat but somewhat silly.) The race takes place on a large, multi-screen track, although link options and AGA's ability to display a high-res screen cuts down on the amount of scrolling necessary. With link options and split screening, you can get a considerable number of friends in the game. Lots of cars and lots of tracks are the order--two disks of cars (and you can roll your own with Imagine) and 4 disks of tracks. Unfortunately, you can't install the game to HD, as Acid claims it would encourage piracy. There was supposed to be a special installer coming, but it hasn't surfaced yet. Dual floppies are nice, but not necessary, to playing the game. The racing feels fast and smooth in Tournament mode (where you have a limited number of "replays", which you lose if you fail to finish first in a race), but is sluggish in the regular race mode, presumably as a training level for the tournaments. Having this more flexible would have been appreciated, however. One complaint is that the Skidmarks racing model prevents you from going outside of the boundaries of the track, whether or not you're in the air. This makes for some irritating "bounces" off of the track, making for a ridiculous concept when you fly through the air and your forward motion stops dead. It's all part of the game, but not a very "friendly" part. The computer players provide a challenge at first but after a few hours of racing should no longer be a serious enough threat to totally knock you out of competitions. Super Skidmarks has flexible serial link options (no TCP networking, though) so playing with friends is encouraged on several levels. Complaints? Well, the wheels on the cars don't turn. Detail counts for a lot, and Super Skidmarks does a good job of keeping it up graphically, but the static car images are a minus. Actually, the whole "disregard for physics" is a bit of a problem (sideswipe collisions actually increase the speed of both cars, which most physics students would have a problem with), but it IS a game, after all. I also found the game somewhat unstable on an A3000, with crashes during disk loading. This didn't show up on an A4000, however. Super Skidmarks is an extremely playable game for an individual, but is better suited to a party or friends environment. It's not realistic, but it's a lot of fun. =========================================================================== | The most downloaded files from Aminet during the week until 3-Dec-95 | Updated weekly. 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