[News] Show report: AAA 2003, Commodore Billboard back online | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Jul-2003 19:46 GMT by Jens Schönfeld | 217 comments View flat View list |
This is a show report from individual Computers about the Amiga Alpe Adria that took place in Udine, Italy this weekend, and some good news about the Commodore Billboard!
This weekend, the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 took place in Udine, Italy - another station of Amiga OS4 on tour. The show was organized by Cloanto, well-known for a lot of Amiga programs and the emulator "Amiga Forever". Jürgen Schober of Point Design had to make two OS4 presentations, because the room was totally overcrowded with more than 100 Amiga fans and journalists of daily press and computer magazines. We also had the chance to show our products in a 30-minute presentation. Best-seller of the present retailers Soft 3 and Virtual Works was the Catweasel MK3, that became the first choice accessory for many Amiga One owners because of it's high degree of integration into the hard- and software of the new Amiga.
A small Retro-computing museum right at the entrance of the showroom brought back joyful memories in the visitors. Rare items like an SX-64 in best shape, a VIC-20 rev.1, and even a C65 prototype were shown. One of the first multi-computer games (today's networking games) was shown on two
PET computers that were connected through the serial ports. The home computer pioneer Altair 8800 from 1975 was the only none-Commodore computer.
The "Video Microwave", a Pegasos-board that was built in the case of a Sharp Microwave oven, was - at best - good for a laugh. The keyboard did not work at all, and it only took a few mouseclicks to make the computer with the MorphOS operating system crash. The reason for this could not be found in the short time of the show.
Commodore Billboard back online
Our good news for the fans of Commodore nostalgia almost got lost in the excitement surrounding Amiga OS4: The Commodore Billboard is back online! The initiator of the project, Søren Ladegaard (Denmark) had to drop the project due to lack of time in January 2003, and transferred the website to individual Computers. We're now sponsoring the website that can cause a lot of traffic with it's several hundred megabytes in size. During the past half year, the new webmaster Stefan Zelazny has converted the audio and video files to mpeg and mp3, so the website can be viewed on most platforms. For example, the Realplayer is not necessary any more.
Currently, the website is available under the address www.commodorebillboard.de. The .com domain will be made available in the coming weeks.
If you're interested in a local copy of the website, you can support us in paying for the high cost of the website by ordering the CD. It will be available in august this year from all our retail partners for about 15,- EUR. The double-CD package also contains some surprises for Commodore-fans!
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Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 08-Jul-2003 08:53 GMT | I think this was a rather bad comment, too. Something like "Genesi
showed bad judgement by demoing a broken machine" might perhaps be
warranted, but not this *general* comment about some obviously quite
*specific* problem.
For example, I could have written this about the OS4 demo in Sweden:
"OS4, which is not really an OS but more like a flawed kernel with a
(very slow) semi-working 68k emulator, was a good laugh. For obvious
reasons, people were not allowed to try it out themselves, but the OS4
team demoed some advanced features such as opening windows, displaying
icons and typing 'list' in a shell window. They tried moving windows
too, but needless to say, this was too much, the system crashed."
While this is not a lie, it's still not what I wanted to report, for
a reason. For example, I've no idea if the bugs and crashes I saw
were representative. Also, if I'm writing a show report, I shouldn't
expect people to be overly interested in my own speculations and
judgements, it's better to just report what you see.
To Jens: Have you ever had a bad review, someone who put down your
entire product because the reviewer was too lazy/ignorant to get it
working properly? Well, if not - don't be too upset when it happens..
To everyone else: Please, everyone has bad days - boycotting Jens'
products makes no sense just because of a few comments here and there.
I'm not sure what caused this animosity from Jens' side but if I'm not
mistaken it's a really trivial mistake from Genesi that started it..
would be quite a pity if something like that caused serious
disagreement in the Amiga+compatibles developer scene. |
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