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N E W S T A T E M E N T F R O M A M I G A T E C H N O L O G I E S
W O R L D O F A M I G A - T O R O N T O
N E W A M I G A P R I C I N G A N N O U N C E D
I T A L I A N A M I G A D E V E L O P E R S T O M E E T
This issue:
There has been very little news about the VIScorp buyout in recent days,
or we'd have brought it to you. Today Petro Tyschtschenko, President of
Amiga Technologies, posted a statement about the situation. It doesn't
tell us a great deal, but does indicate negotiations continue. We begin
the issue with his statement.
The Canadians are keeping busy. In issue 961007 we told you about "Amiga
Fest" to be held Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 at the International Centre, 6900
Airport Rd., in Mississauga, Ontario. Below we bring you news of the
"World of Amiga" show upcoming in Toronto. This one is sponsored by Wonder
Computers, Inc.
News also from QuikPak, who builds Amiga 4000 towers of various sorts.
Prices have been reduced, including on the 68060 models. That's always
good news. We have QuikPak's press release below. Note that the companies
listed in the press release are primarily distributors. Check with your
closest Amiga dealer for availability.
Finally, not to be outdone by the Canadians, the Italian Amiga developers
are having a session called IPISA '96 in Milan (Milano) next month. We
thought you'd enjoy hearing about it.
Have fun with this issue.
Brad
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W O R D F R O M A . T .
STATEMENT BY PETRO TYSCHTSCHENKO,
PRESIDENT OF AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES, BENSHEIM.
When Commodore International went bankrupt in May 1994, my goal was to keep
the AMIGA technology alive. After eight months of negotiations and with
the financial help of ESCOM AG I had managed to obtain all patents,
trademarks and all of the AMIGA technology for ESCOM. At that time it was
also clear to me that just buying Commodore/AMIGA was not all there was to
it. This was only the beginning. It would take at least a hundred million
DM to get the AMIGA products of that time back into production. ESCOM
financed and I became the president of the new company AMIGA Technologies,
which was formed in June 1995.
Days and nights of hard work changed my life and in September 1995, as
promised, the first A1200 computers appeared in the shops, followed by the
A4000T in November.
Up to the present, AMIGA Technologies sold almost 50,000 A1200s, about 4000
A4000Ts and almost 15,000 monitors. The strategy was to bring the then
current products back to the shops in 1995, to advertise the AMIGA by
January 1996 while starting the development of a new generation which
should be ready for the market by the end of 1996.
But things went quite a different way: ESCOM got into a financial chaos,
even with SIEMENS-NIXDORF and QUELLE as shareholders. AMIGA Technologies´
budget was cut completely, plans could not be realised any longer, the
staff had to be reduced in size, and in the end ESCOM had to file for
bankruptcy in July 1996.
Up till now, VIScorp Chicago has invested at least half a million DM in
buying out AMIGA Technologies. Salaries of personnel had to be payed,
lawyers, travelling-expenses, etc.
During my more than 12 years at Commodore, and now two years at ESCOM as
well, I learned how one can reach goals by hard work. I´m still optimistic
that it will all come to a successful end between AMIGA and VIScorp before
the end of October 1996. Trustee and banks want to keep the AMIGA alive
and that´s great. As soon as there´s news, we´ll make it public through
the press and on Internet.
I sincerely thank you for your loyalty and patience; after all it´s thanks
to the users we´re still here.
With kind regards,
Petro Tyschtschenko
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W O R L D O F A M I G A , T O R O N T O
Wonder Computers International
is proud to present
The World Of Amiga Show
- Toronto 1996 !
For Immediate Release
Canada's largest Amiga dedicated corporation, WCi will be hosting the
World of Amiga show in Toronto, Canada. The show will be held at The
International Center on December 13th, 14th, and 15th.
This will be the largest exclusively Amiga show held in North America.
"This will be the biggest show held in the past three years " says Mark
Habinski, President and CEO of WCi. "The space is bigger and we're really
pushing for noteworthy seminars and some unique events ".
The show will feature international hardware and software manufacturers,
Amiga retailers and information seminars. With people coming in from
around the world, Habinski says this will be a good opportunity for Amiga
users to see the faces behind Amiga. "We will have people at the show who
have been instrumental in making Amiga what it is today and what it will be
tomorrow ".
One of the events will be an Amiga game show. The game show will be
hosted by none other than Jason Compton. Compton is the well known writer
and editor of Amiga Report, an on-line magazine read by over twenty
thousand Amiga users worldwide. Jason says "This (being a show host) isn't
a career move " but is quick to add "if Hollywood comes knocking on my door
I won't turn them away ".
"There's a lot of energy and enthusiasm being put into the show "adds
Habinski "The Amiga is an excellent platform and we're out to show the
world just how good it is ".
Amiga users everywhere are sure to enjoy the WCi World of Amiga show in
December.
For show information contact:
Christine Vetzal (Show Manager)
Voice : 1-905-665-9135
Fax : 1-905-665-9136
E-mail : cvetzal@idirect.com
For seminar information contact:
Ken McDavitt (Program coordinator)
Phone : 1-613-721-1993
Fax : 1-613-721-1994
E-mail : ken@wonder.ca
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N E W P R I C E S O N A M I G A T O W E R S
{Notice from QuikPak Corporation. Brad}
NOW
Things are happening with the Amiga
$1997
A4000T - 850MB/6MB
$2699
A4060T - 850MB/6MB
$3249
A4060T - 2GB/18MB/6X CD-ROM
$3999
A4060T - 4GB/34MB/8X CD-ROM
UNBEATABLE PRICE
Factory Direct trade-up for A4060T Accelerator
$749*
Great News for the Amiga Market
"the Amiga OS remains one of the great operation systems of the past 20
years tremendous multitasking capability it's the single most reliable
piece of equipment I've ever owned high quality machinery to this day,
there is very little a memory hogging, CD-ROM loading OS can do that an
Amiga can't." John Dvorak, PC Magazine, October 1996
QuikPak Corporation
Manufactures Amiga 4000Ts right here in the U.S.A. This has made the
promotional pricing in this ad possible immediately through the following
QUIKPAK AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS and their dealers.
Mirco-Pace
Champaign IL. (217)356-1884
Creative Equipment
Miami, FL. (305)266-2800
Software Hut
Philadelphia, PA. (610)586-5704
Cyberchannel
Wilmington, DE (800)292-2732
E-mail
Internet Orders
Comspec Communications
Toronto, ONT (416)785-3553
Full Warranty Center
Internet Orders
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I T A L I A N D E V E L O P E R S ' C O N F E R E N C E
IPISA '96
Incontro dei Programmatori Italiani per lo Sviluppo su Amiga
Sixth Edition
Saturday, November 30, 1996 Milano, Italy
The Italian Amiga community will meet on November 30th, 1996, at the sixth
annual IPISA conference. IPISA stands for ''Incontro dei Programmatori
Italiani per lo Sviluppo su Amiga'' (which means Italian Programmers'
Meeting for Amiga Development).
IPISA is an open meeting (advance registration is required for a small
fee) focussing on non-commercial products, projects and ideas, and on the
distribution of high-quality information and advanced software tools.
IPISA'96 will be held Saturday November 30, 1996, in the Conference Hall
of the Centro Universitario ISU (via Valvassori Peroni 21, in Milan), from
10:00 AM to 6:30 PM. A complete lunch will be served in the ISU refectory.
Here is a tentative list of the talks and papers (unless otherwise
specified they are in Italian).
* Michele Console Battilana (CLOANTO Italia)
Perspectives in the personal computing world
* Paolo Canali
Trends in digital technologies
* Rocco Coluccelli
MOOS: advanced applications control in ARexx
* Luca Danelon (Interactive)
The preparation of an Amiga CD-ROM
* Vittorio Ferrari
VEGA: a graphic-adventure engine
* Haage & Partner
PowerPC: Architecture and programming (English)
* Francesco Leonardi, Giuliano Pochini
VOXEL Space
* Fabio Rotondo
DOOPSI: an authoring system for graphic adventures
Attendants will receive the Conference Proceedings, consisting of
professionally printed documentation and the IPISA'96 CD ROM. Additional
goodies could be donated by the intervening companies.
The CD-ROM will contain talks-related software, PD and shareware software
and demo versions of commercial programs.
The following companies have been invited:
* Amiga Technologies GmbH
* Haage & Partner
* Motorola
* PIOS Computer AG
* Phase 5
* Stefan Ossowski's Schatzthruhe
* VISCorp
but until today we are able to the confirm only the presence of Haage &
Partner, the developers of Storm C. The other companies couldn't either
confirm or deny their presence.
The fees are:
* Meeting admission (including lunch): US$ 40
* Conference Proceedings for non-participants (sent by air mail): US$ 40
The following special arrangements for an Hotel accommodation (bed &
breakfast) for Friday 29 and/or Saturday 30 are available:
Approx. prices for 1 night
room prices US$ prices DM
single 42 68
double 28 45
triple 25 40
quadruple 23 37
Note well: to join the meeting, non-italian people need to book before
November, 1 1996.
For details on hotel payments and Conference fees, please send an e-mail
to: Sergio_Ruocco@rcm.dsi.unimi.it
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