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Amiga Update (1994-09-12)
940912 No definitive news, or gnus either {This line added when archived.}
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// Amiga Update - News and Rumors //
\X/ (A Very Occasional Newsletter) \X/
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Good morning! There's nothing definite on C= to report at the moment, but
there are some items of interest to send your way. Following is the
transcript of "AmigaWorld"`s latest phone message:
"Hi, This is Dan Sullivan, Editor of AmigaWorld. It's Thursday, September 8th.
No official announcement has yet been made about the settlement of the
Commodore Liquidation. We do, however, have a change in the hotline
update number that I will give at the end of this message.
Indications are that David Pleasance and the Commodore UK group is
still the front runner. Pleasance made an unconditional bid to the
liquidators this week in the hopes of speeding up the conclusion of the
negotiations. However, he believes that he will not hear any official word
on it until after September 15th at the earliest.
All future updates of this message will no longer be made on our 1-800
number. We've received more than 50,000 calls and the cost has run into
the tens of thousands of dollars. Mainly because a large number of people
call every day, and sometimes more than once a day, to hear the same
message repeated.
New updates, however, will be available on a direct dial line at
603-924-2195. That's 603-924-2195. That number will go into operation
sometime early next week if there is any new message to give to you.
Our switchboard cannot put you through to this line, you must dial it
directly for future updates. Thank you."
Bye for now
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Personal thoughts from Brad; Besides UK as the front-runner, it looks like
US company CEI is still in the running, as a dark horse. If CEI won the
bidding, they would concentrate on North America. However, CEI might very
well drop the 1200 line. If UK wins, they will concentrate on Europe but
will not ignore America. They will probably keep the entire line intact.
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"seaQuest DSV" A DUD?
Online discussions on "Portal" last night indicate the folks doing the
"seaQuest" TV series don't expect it to last through the coming season.
Reason given is the quality of the writing. One script apparently has them
doing time travel in the sub! Sounds like a reprise of the horrid submarine
based show "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" to me. The animators are
described as "aghast". How sad. Next Sunday is the two hour season premier
on Fox, if you'd like to see for yourself. I understand there have been some
interesting changes in the modeling this year. It might be worth a look to see
what one of the best "Toaster" teams has come up with. Incidentally, the same
team that does "seaQuest" is apparently working on the new "Voyager" Star Trek
series. Sure a lot of use being made of a computer now officially out of
business!
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WANTED TO BUY - A2000
A fellow Watertown Amigan beat on our door yesterday (well, he actually rang
the bell). He`s looking for a basic A2000 at an appropriate price - meaning
what one's REALLY worth these days. If you have one to sell or know of one,
inform me and I'll see the message gets passed along.
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YOU MISSED IT!?
Saturday's meeting of the Watertown Area Computer User's Group had one of the
best "Lightwave" demonstrations I've ever seen. It provided some good insight
as to how the folks doing "Babylon 5", "seaQuest DSV", "The X Files", and so on
get the job done. If you're interested in future meetings, or talking to any
of our members who work in this area, let me know. We have a few who really
know what they're doing.
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That's it for now, More as we hear about it.
Brad
