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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 Jens Schönfeld on 08-Jul-2003 13:27 GMT | It's nice that people quote my posts from amiga-news.de, but I'd request to quote me completely, and provide the proper translation. Since the guy who quoted me obviously wanted to alter the meaning of my words, here's the correction.
The full passage is:
Ich betone nochmals: Ich möchte keinen weiteren Flamewar heraufbeschwören. Es war lediglich sehr amüsant zu sehen, wie der Pegasos, der lange Zeit die Nase vorn zu haben schien, nur in zweiter Reihe trällern konnte. Hier meine ich amüsant im Sinne von lustig, witzig, erheiternd, unterhaltsam, und nicht im Sinne von schadensfroh oder sowas.
and the translation is:
I want to emphasize again: I don't want to start another flamewar. It was just amusing to see that the Pegasos, which was thought to be ahead for a long time, was pushed to 2nd place (or row, if you want to translate it literally).
[and here's the sentence that was conveniently omitted]: I want to say amusing by means of funny, joking, entertaining, and not gleefully or something like that.
To answer the question if I'll continue development for the Pegasos: Why shouldn't I? The official, errorfree driver ("beta that became a release") for the Catweasel is available for free on my website. The binary is identical to the Amiga version, and there's no MOS-specific code in it (I'm using OpenPCI, remember?). By making an update for the Amiga, an update for MOS is automatically done.
Testing might take a little longer, because I've sold my Pegasos to limit the losses that I made with the system (thanks to KDH for taking it back at the current dealer price). A very good decision, as another drop in price that came shortly after would have cost me even more money. Maybe if the price drops to 50 EUR I'll be tempted to buy one again.
However, it'll never be possible to give the same support for the Pegasos as for the Amiga One for technical reasons: Amiga One has it's own Bios, which now contains some Catweasel code. Since the Pegasos has no custom Bios, certain functions (especially the Amiga keyboard) are only available after the driver has been loaded from HD.
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