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- To: S.LYSTER Stuart Lyster
-
- Sub: proTOS
-
-
- Hi Stuart,
-
- here is the promised text about the proTOS convention. Please excuse my bad
- English! But I have done my best. ;-)
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- proTOS convention
-
- The proTOS convention, the biggest convention for ATARI computers in
- europe, opened its doors at the last weekend in november at the
- "Messegelaende" Bonn (Germany).
- Most of the european companies, which develope for the ATARI market,
- some companies from overseas and APPLE Computer (!) were there. ATARI
- itself wasn't there!
- The proTOS convention was organized by some of the German ACCs (ATARI
- COMPETENCE CENTER).
-
- At first I want to talk about the three ultimitive highlights of this
- convention:
- - MEDUSA T60 (the first TOS based computer with a MC68060)
- - EAGLE (an ATARI clone with MC68030)
- - MagiC Mac (TOS soft emulation for APPLE MacIntosh computers)
-
-
- MEDUSA T40/T60
-
- The Medusa T60 is the successor of the Medusa T40, the first ATARI clone
- ever made. The T40 works with a MC68040 / 64 MHz (internal). That means a
- power of 26 MIPS (ATARI F030: 3.84 MIPS). The new T60 with its MC68060 / 64
- MHz has a power of 100 MIPS (!). Both computers work with 32 bit data and
- adress buses.
- Price: about 3800 US$ (68040 mainboard + ST/IO card)
- The MEDUSA computers are made by
-
- MEDUSA Computer Systems
- F. Aschwanden
- Buchhaldenstrasse 16
- 8610 Uster
- Switzerland
- Phone: +41 1 940 92 54
- Fax: +41 1 940 19 49
-
-
- EAGLE
-
- The second TOS compatible computer is the EAGLE from GE-Soft. At the moment
- it only can be bought with a MC68030 / 32 MHz. But this 030 version is two
- times faster than a ATARI TT, because the EAGLE has a better bus system
- than the TT. This bus system called EAGLE Channel is a 32 bit
- FULL-RANGE-CHANNEL which includes all signals and it is independent of the
- used CPU. It can work with MC680x0 CPUs, but it can work with PPC, ALPHA
- and Intel 486/586 CPUs, too.
- In spring 1995 versions with MC68040 / 64 MHz and MC68060 / 64 MHz will be
- available.
- Price: about 2500 US$ (68040 version)
- The EAGLE is manufactured and distributed by
-
- GE-Soft mbH Computersysteme
- Landgrafenstrasse 37-39
- 53842 Troisdorf
- Germany
- Phone: +49 2241 40 64 92
- Fax: +49 2241 40 65 89
-
- Now, after talking about the hardware highlights of that convention, I will
- speak about the software highlight: MagiC Mac
-
-
- MAGIC MAC
-
- What is MagiC Mac? MagiC is a multitasking OS like MultiTOS or Geneva which
- runs on ATARI ST(E) and TT. MagiC Mac is the same for Apple Computers (030
- and 040 CPUs) which allows to run TOS software on Apple hardware. But MagiC
- Mac is not a slow software emulator. With MagiC Mac TOS software is running
- on Apple computers much more faster than on a ATARI TT!
- With MagiC Mac you can run CALAMUS SL, SIGNUM!3, PHOENIX, TWIST II,
- HARLEKIN III, PURE C and many more on Apple computers.
-
- MagiC Mac is distributed by
-
- Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH
- P.O. Box 10 26 46
- 69016 Heidelberg
- Germany
- Phone: +49 6221 30 00 02
- Fax: +49 6221 30 03 89
- BBS: +49 6221 30 36 71
-
-
- These highlights were not the only new products which can be seen and
- tested at that great convention.
-
- Other companies which were at the proTOS and their new products (in
- alphabetical order)
- (only new products are listened)
-
- AKZENTE
- (Germany)
-
- - CURE Audio/BASIC: new HD-recording software
-
- ARTLINE
- (Germany)
-
- - new modules for CALAMUS SL
-
- ASH / APPLE
- (Germany/USA)
-
- - MagiC Mac
- - Signum! 3.5 (a good wordprocessing software)
-
- BEHNE & BEHNE
- (Germany)
-
- - NVDI 3.01 (new version of NVDI with SPEEDO fonts and True Type fonts)
-
- Best electronics
- (USA)
-
- - Barracuda (a new 040 accelerator for the F030 / is not ready)
- - GST-MCU (SMD chip)
-
- BLOW UP
- (Germany)
-
- - Gut'nberg (new DTP software)
-
- CATCH COMPUTER
- (Germany)
-
- - PowerUpTT (accelerator for TTs / 32/48 MHz)
-
- CCD
- (Germany)
-
- - Tempus Word 2.9 (new version)
-
- CICERO
- (Germany)
-
- - Cicero Cross (developing tools: from ATARI to MAC or WINDOWS)
-
- COMPO/OVERSCAN
- (Germany)
-
- - That's write 4.0 (new version)
- - SpeedoGDOS 5.0 (new version)
- - Overlay II (new version of a multimedia software)
- - APEX media (to make FLI/C files, morhping / full DSP support (!))
- - Screenblaster III (inside) (to get higher screen resolutions)
- - COMPOnium (music software)
-
- DELTA LABS
- (Germany)
-
- - JAnE (new texteditor with a comfortable macro-recorder and GDOS support)
- - whiteline CD alpha (CD-ROM with ATARI share- and pd-ware)
- - LINUX for TOS machines (UNIX for MC68k computers)
-
- GE-SOFT
- (Germany)
-
- - EAGLE (new TOS computer)
-
- HANSEN SOFTWARE
- (Germany)
-
- - Fractals 5 (software to generate fractals)
-
- HARD & SOFT
- (Germany)
-
- - Speed resolution card (F030 speed (40 MHz) and resolution (TC in 640*400
- at 70 Hz) accelerator)
- - SCSI-Tools and CD-Tools 2.0 (with MetaDOS 2.45) (new versions)
-
- MEDUSA COMPUTER SYSTEMS
- (Switzerland)
-
- - MEDUSA T40 and MEDUSA T60 (new ATARI clones)
-
- MW Electronic
- (Germany)
-
- - PAK 68/3 (ST-accelerator with 68030 / 50 MHz and fastRAM card)
-
- NO!-SOFTWARE
- (Germany)
-
- - NeoN 3D (to design 3D computer graphics and animations / with scenery-,
- object-, material- , animations-editor and modules for rendering an
- raytracing)
-
- PAGEDOWN
- (Germany)
-
- - presentation of the JAGUAR and new JAGUAR-games like AvP and IRON SOLDIER
- - Script 4.0 (new version)
-
- TKR
- (Germany)
-
- - Tele Office 3.0 (fax software)
-
- STEINBERG
- (Germany)
-
- - Cubase Audio 16 (MIDI and HD-recording software for 16 tracks)
-
- and many other companies more!
-
- The proTOS convention was a big success for all; companies and visitors.
- Companies sold a lot of soft- and hardware and visitors had the possibility
- to update their software, to buy cheap hard- and software and to talk with
- developers.
- This convention showed, that the ATARI market isn't dead! And if ATARI
- don't develop new hardware, there will be other companies which will do it!
-
- Sorry that I haven't got the time to write more about the listened
- products. If anyone wants to have more information about a special product or
- the adress of one company, please connect me:
- olaf_kaiser@bi.maus.de
-
-