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ESCOM AG and Visual Information Services Corp. (Nasdaq: VICP, Bulletin Board), a developer of interactive TV (ITV) set-top-boxes to enhance television use and viewing by providing Internet access and electronic communications function, today jointly announced that a binding letter of understanding has been signed between the companies.
The letter states that Chicago-based VIScorp would acquire Amiga Technologies, including the intellectual properties of the former Commodore Business Machines, excepted Commodore trademarks. The transaction value is approximately US $40 million. Terms were not disclosed, and the pending acquisition would be subject to approval by both companies
boards of directors.
Mr. Buck stated:
Aiding our time to market, the proposed acquisition of Amiga would provide us with the installed base of our primary target market for Internet-supported software program distribution, which may ultimately lead to a new type of television network. This intended acquisition is part of VIScorp
s strategy to build market leadership in the fast-growing field of ITV. As a result, we would own Amiga intellectual properties, including several that are currently used in our set top-box, Electronic Device (ED
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If the acquisition is completed, noted Mr. Buck, VIScorp anticipates continued sales and support of popular Amiga computer models. Comment
-ing that the primary objective of the proposed acquisition is to give VIScorp full access to the Amiga/Com
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Our TVset-top interactive boxes would give home users capabilities such as telephone reception and dial-up, facsimile, pay-per-view options, electronic mail, access to online services, including the Internet, and more.
Commenting on the proposed acquisition, Helmut Jost, chief executive of ESCOM AG, said:
VIScorp has a clear vision of the Amiga technology potential for ITV applications. We are eager to support and work together over the terms of the letter of understanding to ensure a smooth transition between the two companies. VIScorp anticipates the support of ongoing European sales of popular models such as the A4000T and the A1200 as well as the current developments and future releases of Amiga Technologies.
Petro Tyschtschenko, president of Amiga Technologies said
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Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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In late January, Wonder Computers Incorporated of Ottawa, Canada, one of North America
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s World of Amiga show in Toronto, was unable to cover a recalled loan despite record sales just a week prior to the crisis. The company had little choice but to submit to court-supervised liquidation.
WCi founder and CEO Mark Habinski addressed a concerned Amiga public when the bankruptcy proceedings began. He announced his intention to secure additional outside funding in order to procure some or all of the Wonder inventory, property, and holdings in order to start a new, more financially sound company to advance the cause of the Amiga in North America.
On April 4, 1996, over two months after the situation began, the bankruptcy trustees from the firm of Ernst and Young announced that the tender made on behalf of the new Wonder organization had been accepted. Pending completion of the transaction due on or before April 15th, Wonder Computers International will pick up where Wonder Computers Incorporated left off.
Wonder Computers International acquired the inventory and capital equipment of the two largest and most successful WCi retail locations, Ottawa and Toronto. In addition, the inventory and equipment of the Ottawa corporate headquarters was purchased, as were the rights to the Wonder name.
The new WCi will initially consist of a single retail and corporate headquarters located in Wonder
s strongest market, Ottawa. This site, coupled with a Sales office in Vancouver, British Columbia, will form the nucleus from which a pattern of measured, financially backed growth into more cities will be undertaken. Habinski has indicated that a Toronto-based retail operation will be launched as soon as possible, and that a fourth operation in one of the remaining former Wonder markets is possible before the end of the year. In addition, it is quite possible that at least one former Wonder retail location will join with the new company as a privately owned affiliate.
The primary markets for the new WCi will initially be in direct, retail sales and in product distribution across the continent. The WCi Distribution branch plans to investigate and re-establish the distribution relationships of the old company, as
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In addition, Wonder Computers International has already begun investigating venues for the planned World of Amiga Toronto show, to be held at the end of 1996.
The new Information Technologies division will focus on working with existing service providers in order to ensure easy, efficient network access for Amiga users
initially in Wonder home markets, but progressively across more of Canada and North America as time goes on.
Lazarus Engineering will not be a branch of the new company. Wonder wholeheartedly wishes the new company the best of luck.
Mark Habinski will serve as President and CEO of Wonder Computers International and will sit on the Board of Directors. The initial management and staff of the new company has been carefully hand-picked by Habinski from the ranks of the old, but as the company expands there will be a need for experienced Amiga-industry employees, and the ranks of the old company will be invaluable resources.
The uncertainty has ended. From the ashes of Wonder Computers Incorporated comes Wonder Comp
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The Walker is a new Amiga model, presented on the CeBit show. This is the
1200+
1300'. The Walker is only the working title, it may change.
Where can I find pictures of the Walker?
Pictures can be found at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/
~eeu013/walker.html
Is the Walker going to look like in the pictures?
It probably will. But it is a prototype.
What do you [AT] want the Walker to be?
We want it to be a universal machine designed for internet, home
-working stuff etc. A complete solution for a good price.
What will the price for the PPC Amiga be?
You will have to wait and see.
What will the price for Walker be?
Less than $1000.
What is new in the Walker machine?
A new design: 8EC030/40 Mhz; 6 mb RAM (maybe 5) (Expandable to 128MB in total); 4xSpeed CD-ROM; MIDI (this might not be true); PC-Diskdrive (Maybe Amiga-emulation); External Keyboard (A4000 keyboard); EPP Parallel port; Expansion slot for further upgrade to: PCI, Zorro III/IV; OS3.2
What marketing will AT do for the Amiga?
A big campaign in McDonald
s rest
-aurants in Germany has been rumored. Hopefully they
ll do more than that!
When can we expect new Amigas?
The Walker will come in September, a PPC Upgrade for A4000 at the end of this year, a whole new PPC-machine in spring next year.
Is there a big differece between a Phase V PowerUp plugin for A1200 and the new PPC Amiga?
There will probably not be much difference between a Walker with a PPC and a PPC Amiga.
Will there be a new gfx chip set and sound chip set with the upcoming PPC amiga?
The new Amigas will use standard-chips, but the walker still has AGA.
Who designed the Walker?
The case: Some german professor, a well known designer. The new board was designed here in Germany, too.
What about PPC for my A3000?
We`ll see, the cpu-slot is nearly exactly the same as in A4000.
What are the specs of the walker slot? Is it the 1200 CPU slot or the 3000/4000 CPU slot or a Zorro III thing or something custom?
It`s something new, you`ll be able to plug in Daughterboards with Zorro, PCI, PPC, 060er and so on, it`s up to 3rd party developers.
s new in OS3.2?
s just a minor update, bugfixes, and support for the stuff in the walker.
Will MUI be included in the OS?
How big will the harddrive in the Walker be?
Depends on the prices in half a year.
Will it only have 1 Meg chip ram?
Not decided yet, however Heinz Wretsel, central to Project Walker said that he didn
t expect it would have less than 2MB of Chip. It
s difficult to buy less and it
s not much cheaper.
Is the 030 on a Socket?
No, it
s PGA surface mounted.
Who is working on the Walker Project?
At least Dave Haynie is! He
s relocating to AT
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Is there going to be an Internet bundle supplied with the AmigaOS or in the normal software bundle?
Heinz Wretsel was quite adamant that he wanted to.
Will MagicWB be included in 3.2?
It was being considered. Certainly some cosmetic stuff should feature in OS 3.2. In fact I believe he said it would. [Heinz]
Where can I get even more related information?
Take a look here:
http://www.doremi.co.uk/walker/
http://www.ozramp.net.au/~morden/
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/
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http://www.intercom.no/
~andersb/AT_FAQ1_1.txt
s EPP?
The Enhanced Parallel Port protocol was originally developed by Intel, Xircom and Zenith Data Systems, as ameans to provide a high performance parallel port link that would still be compatible with the standard parallelport. This protocol capability was implemented by Intel in the 386SL chipset (82360 I/O chip). This was prior tothe establishment of the IEEE 1284 committee and the associated standards work.
s PPC?
PowerPC, a RISC based microprocessor. These are quite different (and faster) than the 680x0 series.
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The Amiga is back for the future, that
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By now it was 10 o
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I decided to get the SCSI card software installed first since the CD would certainly not work without it. The card is an Oktagon 2008 which is made in Germany. The manual is reasonably well written and you have the option of reading it in either German or English (I picked English). The manual includes quite a bit of good information about the SCSI bus in general as well as some Amiga file system specific information.
The software installation instructions seemed straight forward. Just insert the disk, click on the icon, and follow the prompts. There was a single sheet labeled README FIRST in the box as well. This included instructions as to what to do if the ROM on the card was not loaded from the factory. They told you how to tell and what to do.
I installed the software with no problem and then found that in fact the ROM on the card was not loaded from the factory. According to the instructions all that I needed to do was to run the
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I put a CD in the ROM drive and sure enough, I was able to access the files there! Wow, things were working and going really smooth. All I had to do now was to put the case back on, move the computer into the other room and hook up the ZIP drive to make sure that it would work too.
In my typical fashion of being overly careful, I decided that I should reboot the computer to make sure everything was working before I put the case on. I usually do this if I have installed either new hardware or software that may have changed my user-startup sequence. So I three keyed the computer and waited with anticipation for it to display the CD icon on the screen.
What I saw next was very confusing. It was a screen I had never seen before that seemed to be asking me if I wanted to use a login password. I knew that this was a feature of the SCSI card. You could password protect the computer so that unauthorized people could not access the machine. I did not want to use this feature. The screen was confusing because even though the words were English it was not really clear what options I was being offered. At this point I decided to look in the manual to see how to respond. I was afraid that a mistake at this point might be a bad thing.
I spent about twenty minutes examining the manual but nothing seemed to make sense! I could not see in the manual how you were supposed to tell it the password if you wanted to use one. I reasoned that the card was smart enough to ask the first time and it looked like I was being presented with an option to either enter a password or to skip it. I decided to skip it and after a brief pause I found myself looking at the same screen again! I then decided to power the computer off and then back on hoping that the behavior would be different. It was not! I then reasoned that for whatever reasons, I was being forced to give it a password. I did not like this, but decided to humor it. I entered a password and hit return. A few moments later I found myself looking at the same screen again!! I was being denied access to my own computer!!
This was BAD! It was now about 11:30 PM and my blood pressure was around 300 over 200! I spent the next half hour carefully reading the manual but there didn
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I decided to look at the Setup program that I had run earlier (if I could boot off floppy). I inserted the disk and rebooted the machine. A few moments later I was looking at, you guessed it, the same screen asking for a password! After counting to ten three or four times to try and calm down, I decided that I had to verify that nothing about the password had been written to my IDE drive. I shut down the computer and removed the SCSI card. I then powered up the machine and thankfully it booted up normally! I examined my Startup-sequence and User-Startup and everything appeared to be in order. The problem was definitely the boot ROM on the SCSI card.
I ran the Setup program that had been installed on my hard drive and almost immediately found out what had happened. The README FIRST sheet had simply told you to load the factory defaults. They neglected to tell you that you may not LIKE the factory defaults! Here was where you could set options for login on boot, login on power up, login on <F1> key, or login NEVER!! And of course the factory default was login on boot!
Knowing the problem is the first step to a solution. However, the solution was not obvious. I was now in a catch-22 situation. With the SCSI card installed I could not get past the login screen and therefore could not rewrite the boot ROM. With the SCSI card removed I could run the software I needed to, but could not change anything since the SCSI card was not there!
It was now past midnight and my frustration level was at a high. So needless to say I was not thinking clearly. As much as I hate to go to bed with this kind of unresolved problem I decided that I had to. The only problem is that going to bed and going to sleep are two different things. I must have laid awake for over an hour running things through my head trying to hit on the solution.
The next morning I started in on the problem again. I won
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After thinking about this for awhile I wondered if things were getting confused because of the IDE drive. Commodore for some reason called the device driver for the A4000 IDE drive
scsi.device
even though the drive is IDE. The Oktagon card was originally designed for the A2000 where most people would not have an IDE drive. The Oktagon card was only recently made to work in the A4000 and it may not have all of the features worked out yet.
I turned off the computer and disconnected the IDE drive cable. I then inserted the floppy disk that in theory I was supposed to be able to
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The moral here is that no matter how much you think you know about a computer, never assume that the task ahead is simple. Don
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t try to work too late at night. The more knowledge and experience you have the more likely you will be to solve the problem. And if you can
t figure it out on your own call someone else in the club for advice. I did not mention it above but I did call several other people to try and resolve this very tough problem.
One final note. I had mentioned that the power connectors of one of my IDE drives and the CD-ROM were interfering with each other and that I thought that I had been able to route the wires to minimize the strain. Well it only worked for about two months. The power connection to the 1.2 GB IDE drive became intermittent and I was forced to remove it. Thanks Com
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Bill Maddock
846-9708
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John Wilson
432-3618
Ad Sales:
Jon Emnet
739-3744
Database and Labels:
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James Manz
845-2801
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The Gateway Amiga Club meets the 1st and 3rd Wed
day of every month at 7:30 pm. These meet
ings are open to the public.
The 1st Wed
day meet
ing is at W
ashington University Medical School Auditorium at 660 Euclid, St. Louis. The 3r
pd Wed
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ing is held at the Prairie Commons Branch Librar
8y at 915 Utz Lane, Hazelwood, MO.
Maps ar
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President:
298-0725
Barry Holloway
barryh@crl.com
No calls after 10:00pm
Vice President:
965-3940
Bob Shirley
bshirley@crl.com
Ask for Bob, Jr. or send email
Treasurer:
839-0415
Charles Meier
clm@storz.com
Secretary
647-1932
Ray Roady
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Amiga DOS (CLI)
John Wilson
432-3618
AMOS (BASIC Programming)
Brian Flanagan
837-0194
BBS:
MO Amiga Dispensary
1.5 gig on line Amiga 4000/040
Baud:
28.8k DS with fax
381-7504
21.6k DS with fax
381-5507
16.8k DS
381-5878
BBS SYSOPS: (Voice only)
Carl Jackson
381-9323
Jim Moore (7pm-9pm)
355-5228
Database (Membership list)
Jim Manz
845-2801
Desktop Publishing
Bill Maddock
(PageStream)
846-9708
John Wilson
(Professional Page)
432-3618
Graphics/Animation/Video
Barry Holloway
298-0725
Magazine Library
Gavin Perry
773-7774
Music
Brian Flanagan
837-0194
PD Software
Larry Smith
1-618-337-3071
Program Director
Bob Scharp
739-5181
Emplant
Tom Christopher
664-8627
Users Help
John Wilson
432-3618
Video Library
Dave Chappius
1-314-483-9058
Video Toaster
Help Needed
SBasePro
Dick Brewster
939-2702
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