[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 DaveP on 08-Jul-2003 07:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 82 (mahen): DaveP:
> of course it is beta. Wake up, it is the Amiga World !!! Not MOS nor OS4 are > ready for the mass market !!!!!!
> But FOR an Amigan, I think MOS is currently ready.
So Amigans should accept lower quality products than the rest of the world? It used to be the other way around.
> But it you want, we can say it's beta.
Until someone who has credibility sayes its not ( like Bill Buck - the figurehead ) then its beta.
> So the internal betas are not as mature as betas given to public betatesters.
Its swings and roundabouts if a company decides to do a "public beta" then they generally have a certain level of confidence in it, however I have worked on internal betas that were as good in quality terms as the final product.
>> If a version of MOS crashes randomly with mouse clicks ( 1.1 ) then I would
>> not release it to the beta testers, it wouldn't get out of unit testing.
> It's ridiculous.
Im glad you see it that way too. But this is in the "-" points, you have to take the rough with the smooth.
> Either their machine or installation had a problem. I had this version and had no such problems.
Well unfortunately its what gets shown in public that counts and both Bill Buck and Ben Hermans know this.
>> Quite, I don't have a problem with that. But until Bill Buck sayes "MorphOS
>> 1.4 is not a beta" MorphOS releases are betas.
> The public ones, (like the MOS 1.4 we will have in a few weeks) are already much tested.
Look forward to it.
> Please be more moderate. All your points are 100% anti MOS.
Come on! All my points are 100% anti-MOS - get a grip man. :-) |
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