CompuServe Messages

I wish I would have gotten your message before I left today to go to WOCA, Erik. This was the only day I was going to go. I *really* wish I had brought some notetaking utensils! The bits of news that stuck (and they're going to be biased to my A2000, sorry not very relevent for the AGA folks) in my head were: Commodore is going to release ADos 3.x for non-AGA machines, although it's not going to be called 3.x (says Lew Eggbrecht (sp?)). There's going to be a CD32 compatable internal CD-ROM drive for the A4000 and I think he said there is going to be an external one for the A1200. [Is any of this news yet? I'm not sure how out of it I am.] The full screen NTSC video that was being played on the CD32 (with the MPEG module) was pretty incredible. I wouldn't consider myself a videophile but it looked as good as any VHS I've ever seen. (I think) they said that a AAA prototype should be running by late next year if there aren't any screwups between here and there. They're CMOS and it was said that a laptop could possibly be made using them. When asked if they were going to liscense out the ECS chip set to third parties the response was they were looking into products that wouldn't compete with the Amiga. I didn't ask anyone about LightRave (and didn't see anything) because a)I don't know anything about it and, b)I didn't get your message to ask until I got home 8(, sorry. I did see a pretty neat demo of the Toaster 4000 by a guy who works for 'Amblin Imaging. I think he's the head animator on the SeaQuest show. He says they're using around 50 Toaster stations (two per animator) and are really looking forward to getting their Screamer (which he said would do the same work as 20-30 Toasters). I hope I'm getting these facts straight as video isn't really my thing and so probably didn't give it the attention it deserved. He said there are going to be around 70 scenes of Toaster animation in the pilot of the show which is on tomorrow night. I'm pretty much broke so the only thing I bought was PageStream 2.2 for $70. I thought it was a pretty good deal and being on a budget I figured I could live without the cutting edge. Sorry this is so sketchy, but so is my memory. If you (or anyone else) care to pick my brains feel free. <g> -Sean