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- The information contained herein is subject to change without notice, and
- is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.
- The entire risk as to the use of this information is assumed by the user.
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- Commodore Appoints New Vice President for Application
- And Technical Support Group
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- Gail Wellington, General Manager of the Commodore Applications
- and Technical Support group (CATS), has been promoted to the
- newly created position of Director of Special Projects where she
- will lead Commodore's development of optical disk technologes.
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- Succeeding Gail is Jeff R. Scherb. Jeff comes to Commodore from
- Cullinet Software, Inc., where he was responsible for
- development, support, quality assurance, and product planning for
- a variety of their key software products. Most recently he was
- Vice President in charge of Database and Data Communications
- Development and was responsible for software development centers
- located in Massachusetts and California, and in Brussels,
- Belgium.
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- Jeff's extensive experience in the business software marketplace
- will further Commodore's goal of enhancing the quality and
- professionalism of Amiga third party products. Commodore remains
- committed to maintaining a high level of support for the Amiga
- product-development community.
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- BADGE Killer Demo Contest 2 Winners and Prizes Announced
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- The third annual BADGE Killer Demo Contest was held during the
- October BADGE meeting at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The
- annual programming competition yielded an impressive variety of
- graphic and audio displays that show off the Amiga's
- capabilities. First place was awarded to Brad Schenk for The
- Sentinel, a ray-traced animation featuring a medieval theme.
- Schenk also was awarded the prize for best graphics.
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- Second place went to Roger Curren for his humorous cartoon
- animation, The VAUX Killer Demo. Curren also won the award for
- funniest demo. Commodore engineer Bill Koester placed third with
- Amiga Trek, a ray-traced animation featuring a Star Trek-like
- theme. Koester's demo also had the dubious distinction of being
- the largest in size using eight 880K disks and requiring 8
- megabytes of memory to run.
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- Most of the winning entries listed here are available on Fish
- disks 263 through 272.
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- 1st Place - The Sentinel
- by Brad Schenck
- Amiga 2000 donated by Commodore
- 2nd Place - The VAUX-Killer Demo
- by Roger Curren
- A2620 donated by Go Amigo
- 3rd Place - AmigaTrek
- by (CBM's very own) Bill Koester
- FlickerFixer donated by MicroWay
- 4th Place - Klide
- by Jerry Kallaus
- DigiView Gold & DigiPaint 3 donated by NewTek
- 5th Place - Radar Station at Khern
- by Jim Robinson
- AmigaTeX with printer driver donated by Radical Eye Software
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- 6th Place - Spigot Dr. Gandalf
- 7th Place - RADBOOGIE Tomas Rokicki
- 8th Place - Point of View Todd Gantzler
- 9th Place - Only Amiga Rob Peck
- 10th Place - Too Much 3D Jim Robinson
- 11th Place - Lost in Scape Jim Robinson
- 12th Place - Fantastic FractalsKevin Clague
- 13th Place - Duds Stephen Pietrowicz
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- Test Engineer Position Open at Commodore, West Chester
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- The Test Engineering Department of Commodore's West Chester,
- Pennsylvania manufacturing operation is seeking a qualified
- individual for the position of Senior Test Engineer. Primary
- functions include:
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- o Developing quality test plans and procedures and test
- software for new products.
- o Generating inspection and audit test procedures for
- sub-assemblies and finished products.
- o Providing technical assistance to other engineering,
- quality, and manufacturing functions to define and correct
- Product Assurance test issues.
- o Designing test fixtures for inspection and acceptance
- testing of sub-assemblies and finished products.
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- The ideal candidate will have a Bachelors Degree in Electrical
- Engineering/Computer Science and at least five years experience
- as a test engineer or equivalent work experience. The job
- requires programming experience in C, 68000 assembly or Forth.
- Preferred applicants will have more than two years experience
- with AmigaDOS and Amiga hardware. Familiarity with Exec,
- AUTOCONFIG and the Zorro bus is considered a plus. For more
- information, contact:
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- US MAIL: Jean Pepe
- Commodore Business Machines, Inc.
- 1200 Wilson Drive
- West Chester, PA 19380
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- FAX: (215)-431-9156
- ATTN: W. R. Sterling
- Test Engineering Section Head
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