CompuServe Thread

With the deadline of July 15th coming up quickly here are a couple of interesting items. Hopefully we'll all know more than rumor in another 1-2 weeks … In the 11 July 94 Issue 495 of CTW ("Europes Electronic Games Trade Paper") there is an article stating that Commodore UK is going to be taking over the whole shebang. Important parts: "Negotiations are forging ahead which could save the Amiga home computer and turn Commodore into a UK-owned company, CTW can exclusively reveal." "After numerous negotiations with large computer and electronics companies such as Amstrad, Philips and Samsung (to name but three), a management buyout led by current and former Commodore management now looks like offering the best outcome for creditors, staff, end-users and trade alike." "CTW believes that the management buy-out bid has been put to- gether by senior UK and Canadian management figures, research and development staff in the US and a proven component procure- ment specialist. The firm would be run out of the UK, whilst retaining an R&D base in the US." That is about 25% or so of the article but the rest is just typical filler type stuff. ———– Also, Joe Clasen left an interesting message in AmigaVendor Forum a couple of days ago … thought it would be interesting for those of you who hadn't seen it … so here it is in its entirety … #: 86102 S3/NewTek 10-Jul-94 09:48:42 Sb: Jennison Speaks Fm: Joe Clasen 72703,45 To: NEWTEK 76004,3350 At the L.A. Toaster User Group, LeeStranahan introduced the smartest toaster guy, Tim Jennison, who is the most sincere and brilliant speaker I have heard in some time. Seems they were all in town shooting the followup to the Revolution and stopped by our lil' ole Usergroup of 300 plus to answer a few questions and demo Lightwave 3.5 which will ship this week in two forms, with and without toasters. Briefly Jennison stated: 1: Blame Ali for the demise of Commodore. Absolutely a dolt. 2: Two camps…Samsung and a group with James Dionne are in the running. He favors James as being his favorite. 3: The Trustees have stipulated the Amiga must go back in production. 4: Egglebert and remaining engineers are ready to do production support for the victor and all realize that time is of the essence. 5. Hundreds of Amigas reamain stock both in Europe and Canada. 6. Toasters are selling at about the same rate as they were last year. 7. Flyers will use prehaps 2-3 specified hard drives. Seagate, Micropolis and others have delivered stacks to Newtek to be tested. He mentioned that differences between same models exist within Rom firmware. Beware. 8. 9 gig HD should be available soon for $3000. 9gig=1hour. 9. Smpte Timecode will be inbedded in croutons for reference. 10. Somebody is making a logging system where you put in a tape, mark the spots you want to edit, and the system loads the stuff to the hard drive. 11. Flyer is smart. If you have a cut between two clipson one drive, the Flyer can handle the cut. If it is a dissolve, the Flyer copies the clip to the other drive automagicly. 12. Sound is handeled with an under-utilized DSP chip like Studio 16. Sound is inbedded at 44.1 for now with no EQ or effects YET. 13. No EDL. This is an ONLINE SYSTEM. 14. "Busy Guy" Croutons make Lightwave Animwipes automagicly. 15. Composite out is here to stay…for now. Had to leave(shucks) before the Lightwave demo by Lee. I am a soundman at a local amphitheatre and the show must go on. Looks like the Amiga and Toaster/Flyer will too. Joe Clasen Joe's DB&G -sja