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990226
A M I G A I N C : N E W P R E S , N E W M A C H I N E S !
N E W G R O U P , N E W T E K
P O R T I N G T R A I N I N G A T A M I G A 9 9
N E W N E W Y O R K
N E W U R L F O R A M I G A Y E L L O W P A G E S
F W D N O W T A K E S C R E D I T C A R D S
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Sometimes, there's news that just can't wait. Today is one of those
days, and at "Amiga Update" we don't have to wait. Therefore, you get
another issue right now so we can all enjoy this news together while
it's fresh.
The changes announced by Amiga Incorporated in today's release should
bring a smile to the faces of all Amigans. Read it for yourself below
and enjoy. We find the timing of this announcement very interesting.
We've begun hearing rumors (which we were planning to mention in the
next issue) that Gateway was upset with the lack of progress at Amiga
Inc. Could be they decided to do something about it.
While we're at it, we've included a few other stories we've gathering
in the last few days. Count the number of times the word "NEW" appears
in our headlines (well, okay, we cheated a bit with NewTek and New
York.) But at least for now, we have good news and news pointing to
the future in a positive way. We like that.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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A M I G A I N C : N E W P R E S , N E W M A C H I N E S !
Amiga Announces New President and Fast-track Development Plans
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - February 26, 1999 - In a series of meetings in
San Diego, representatives of Amiga Inc. and Amiga International met
to hammer out the details of technical, strategic and marketing plans
which will see the launch of a range of new Amiga-based computers for
the next millennium. The company has relocated its headquarters to San
Diego and Jim Collas will be serving as the new president of Amiga.
"Amiga is an amazing opportunity that we must act on now or it will
be lost forever," said Collas. "The Amiga(tm) platform is ideal for
Internet-ready, consumer-oriented digital appliances of the future.
The Amiga name is associated the world over with user-friendly, low
cost, powerful computing. We will take this philosophy into the next
generation, enabling products from hand held Internet appliances to
high-end graphics computers that help the user rather than frustrate
them."
Collas, formerly a senior vice president for Amiga's parent company,
Gateway, will be running Amiga as a wholly independent subsidiary
operation and will integrate Amiga Inc. and Amiga International under
the new Amiga corporate structure. His leadership will allow the
company to step up a fast - track development program that is
currently underway.
Amiga is planning to launch next generation products worldwide before
the New Year. They will be announcing detailed product plans and
introducing several of their strategic partners over the summer.
Products currently targeted for the initial launch are a development
system, an Internet appliance, and a low cost home computer in the
tradition of the Amiga A500 that dominated home computing in the late
eighties and early nineties. The developers system will be available
with a software development suite for low cost development on the new
platform.
Jeff Schindler, in charge of product strategy for Amiga, is planning
the new Amiga product line. "The Amiga community has been doing
incredible things on a platform which hasn't had an official update in
eight years," said Schindler. "They deserve a system which lets them
show off their talents."
Amiga's administrative center in San Diego will shortly be
complemented by a software development center under the leadership of
Dr. Allan Havemose, vice president of Engineering for Amiga, in San
Jose, California. The Silicon Valley team will be rapidly expanded
over the coming months to develop revolutionary Amiga multimedia
layers over the real-time Neutrino OS core from QNX Software Systems
Ltd.
Petro Tyschtschenko will continue on as managing director of Amiga
International and will also play a critical role in guiding the
current Amiga community through the transition to the new Amiga
architecture. "The new Amiga plans are a rebirth for Amiga and an
exciting journey into the future," said Tyschtschenko.
For further information on Amiga and Amiga products, please refer to
www.amiga.com and www.amiga.de.
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N E W G R O U P , N E W T E K
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Newtek is coming to Manchester, NH! New Amiga User Group is Forming!
Join Video Hardware Services & Ralph Messana of Newtek at The Black
Brimmer Restaurant on Elm Street in historic downtown Manchester, New
Hampshire on March 4, from 1 PM until 8:30 PM.. See first hand
demonstrations of the Video Toaster Flyer, Lightwave 3D, Aura, Frame
Factory, Calibar and much more. See what Newtek's been up to and get a
taste of what is to come. There will be SPECIAL PRICING on all Newtek
products for this event, so you won't want to miss it! We'll have some
appetizers available later in the day while you see the coolest video
products in the world demonstrated first hand. Get answers to those
questions that you've been waiting to ask! See how ImageFX can be the
"Photoshop" for your Flyer. What the heck is a Co-Pilot? Check out the
Mega Toaster 4000 Tower case for the A4000 desktop. Looking for an
accelerator for your Amiga? or you just want to find out what's going
on with Amiga Technologies; The Black Brimmer on March 4 from 1PM to
8:30 PM is the place to be! Check out http://www.videohardware.com for
directions or call (603)627-5337.
During this event, we will be handing out information for the first
meeting of the Lightwave-Amiga- Aura-Flyer-Toaster User Group
(L.A.A.F.T.). Among other things, the first meeting will be used to
pick a "better" name and to decide the group's focus. If you use a
Newtek product, you'll definitely want to attend. This meeting will be
held at our new location at 250 Commercial Street Suite 4011,
Manchester, NH. We'd like to hold it Sunday afternoon, March 7, since
Ralph will still be in town (hopefully, it is Sunday after all). Check
out http://www.videohardware.com for more information, or call
(603)627-5337 for directions.
About Video Hardware Services
Headquartered in Manchester, NH; Video Hardware Services has been
selling and supporting Newtek products since 1995, and Amiga systems
since 1991. Video Hardware Services is the areas only authorized Amiga
service center providing Depot and On-Site Amiga and Video
Toaster/Flyer sales and service for the regions cable companies,
colleges, and independent video producers.
About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, TX, NewTek is the leader in
providing full- featured video editing and special effects tools that
allow anyone to produce professional video and graphics. The company's
products are used worldwide on projects from home video to feature
film including some of this season's most anticipated blockbusters,
such as Men In Black, Titanic, The 5th Element, Lost in Space, and The
Jackal.
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P O R T I N G T R A I N I N G A T A M I G A 9 9
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
23 Febuaray 1999
DiscreetFX Hosts Software Porting Seminar at Amiga99
The Amiga has some very powerful software available for it at very
affordable prices. Feature rich applications like ImageFX, Wildfire,
Video Toaster/Flyer, Pagestream 4.0, Photogenics NG, Fantastic Dreams,
AmiIRC etc. help define what an Amiga is and provide modern software
for Amiga customers. The Amiga does not have the wide breath of
software applications available on other platforms though. This is a
double edged sword, on one hand the Amiga gets the benefit of avoiding
bloated over hyped but bug ridden and under powered software. But on
the other hand many popular and mainstream applications that customers
demand when they buy their computer are not available for the Amiga.
Products like Quicken, Quickbooks Pro, ACT, Dragon Naturally Speaking,
and most educational software titles don't make it to the Amiga. Also
many of the high-end SGI applications which are well suited for the
PowerPC Amiga & NG Amiga are not available for it. Unknown to the
Amiga community is the fact that many successful developers for other
platforms are on the lookout for new operating systems and computers
to port there well know applications to. They lack the knowledge and
Amiga background to port their software but are willing to subcontract
Amiga developers to do it for them. With other top selling operating
systems now becoming very controversial and falling out of favor now
is the time to approach these developers.
Bill Panagouleas brings his past experience at negotiating deals and
managing these types of porting projects to the Amiga Development
Community to help them. Learn how to stop being a starving Amiga
developer and instead become a wealthy one by bringing popular best
selling programs to your favorite machine. Also you will be helping
the Amiga become more widespread and popular by making the software
many know and love available for Amiga. The aMozillaX project
"http://www.amozilla.force9.co.uk/" (Netscape Communicator for Amiga )
has already shown how just getting one popular application ported can
raise the bar on Amiga converge in the mainstream press. Everyone
knows that popular software drives hardware sales. Don't miss out on
this very special event if you are attending the Amiga 99 show and
happy porting. Please see http://www.amiga-stl.com/sched.html for more
information.
e-mail: billpana@cwikmail.com
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N E W N E W Y O R K
February 23, 1999
For Immediate Release:
Finale Development, Inc. is proud to announce the next generation of
our popular usenet newsreader, NewYork II, which will debut at the
popular Gateway Amiga Show in St. Louis, March 12th.
Over the past year we have listened to, and implemented many user
suggestions and have arrived at what we believe to be the best
newsreader on the Amiga platform.
If the Amiga press loved NewYork when it came out two years ago, then
we can hardly wait for the reviews of NewYork II .. offline reading,
mass- decoding of entire newsgroups at once, 'bookmarking' of
important articles, powerful kill-file prefs to block spam .. it's all
in there and more.
Wrap this up in a familliar, fully Amiga StyleGuide compliant
interface that looks and feels like an Amiga *should*, and you have a
powerful app which is also easy to master.
For a sneak peak, visit the new NewYork II page on our web site:
http://www.finale-dev.com/NewYorkII/index.html
You'll find the best of the old, supercharged with the brightest of
the new in NewYork II.
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N E W U R L F O R A M I G A Y E L L O W P A G E S
Amiga Yellow Pages now has an easy to remember URL!
Thanks to Amiga.tm, Amiga Yellow Pages can now be found by entering
ayp.amiga.tm on your browser.
Amiga Yellow Pages continues to grow with new entries arriving every
week and increased traffic. It has already passed the 10,000 hits
barrier since starting out last June.
Remember, Amiga Yellow Pages is FREE, non profit making and
WORLD-WIDE! From User-groups to large companies, you can be listed in
AYP and all that is asked of you is a return link back to us from your
website.
Special! If you have Amiga products to sell, but can't afford your
own website Amiga Yellow Pages can design a large display
advertisement similar to the one for Fore-matt Home computing, look
under "S" for Software Vendors to get an idea, note: large ads are at
my discretion and cost you nothing!!!
We are also looking for more Amiga Usergroups for listing in our
user-group section.
AYP is in Association with AmigaSoc and Amiga Survivor.
Amiga Yellow Pages. If you're not in, you're seriously losing out.
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F W D N O W T A K E S C R E D I T C A R D S
25 Feb 1999
Hello,
We at FWD Computing are happy to announce that we are now able to
accept major credit cards (VISA, MasterCard and soon American Express)
for the purchase of computer software from us. Now all of your
purchases can be made over the phone, by mail or at computer shows. We
are in the process of doing the coding to also accept via Secure
Server over the internet (we are approved already to do so, we just
need the programming time to make the changes.)
This should make it much easier to get the latest Amiga Software for
your computing needs. We will of course continue to accept both
checks, COD and cash at shows. Thank you, Frank and Carol Davis
FWD Computing
fdavis@iquest.net
http://members.tripod.com/~FWDcomputing/
Working to make computing fun!
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Copyright 1999 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified.
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