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_ __ _ Westwood Studios Needs Amiga Talent
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\ /
\_/\_/estwood Studios, a computer game and videogame publisher in Las
Vegas, Nevada, is now hiring Amiga programmers. Some of our most recent Amiga
products include DragonStrike, Eye of the Beholder, and EOB II: The Legend of
Darkmoon. We are growing rapidly, and we need experienced Amiga programmers
capable of programming projects of this type and caliber. We are also
interested in hiring Amiga programmers who are interested in applying their
talents to programming videogames on the Sega Genesis game system. If you're
interested, and you're REALLY good, and you're willing to relocate to Las
Vegas, then we want to talk to you! Send your resume to Christopher Yates at
the address below.
If you're a great Amiga artist and can draw computer graphics competitive
with the artwork in the above-mentioned products, then we want to talk to
you, too! Please send your resume to Rick Parks at:
Westwood Studios
3355 Spring Mountain Road, #49
Las Vegas, NV 89102
___ ___ News From the Pasadena World of Commodore
(_ )( _) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/ /_/ / *StarShip* News Network
/ __ /
_/ / / /
(___)(__)ere's a sampling of a couple of the more interesting press releases
from the first day of the Pasadena World of Commodore.
4000 REASONS TO OWN AN AMIGA CONTEST
Commodore's users have many reasons for using an Amiga system for both
professional and non-professional applications. Now Commodore would like to
give all users an opportunity to share their reasons for using an Amiga
through its "4000 Reasons To Own an Amiga Contest." Commodore will award an
Amiga 4000 to the Amiga user with the best overall entry. The second prize
winner will win an Amiga 600HD and the third prize winner will receive
AmigaVision Professional, Commodore's new authoring software.
Contest entry forms, along with Amiga T-Shirts and buttons, are available at
Commodore authorized dealers while supplies last. To enter, jot down in 25
words or less your reason for owning an Amiga. Entries must be postmarked
before October 23, 1992.
CSA HITS THE MARK WITH NEW DERRINGER AMIGA ACCELERATOR
Computer Systems Associates (CSA) is readying an all new accelerator, the
Derringer, that breaks speed and price barriers at the same time. The
Derringer is a new 25 Mhz 68030-based accelerator that gives A3000-level
performance for $249.95 -- about the same price as many 68000-based
accelerators -- while still running three to five times faster. The
Derringer supports the addition of 1, 2, 4, or 8 more megabytes DRAM
together with a 50 Mhz 68881 or 68882 math co-processor. Additional 16 and
32 megabyte DRAM upgrades will be possible as future DRAM technology
develops.
The CSA Derringer is a self-contained, single-board plug-and-play unit that
replaces the 68000 CPU inside your Amiga. It will work with any A500 or
A2000 and is scheduled to ship during the fourth quarter of 1992.
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______ On-The-Scene Report from the World of Commodore
(__ __) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/ / *StarShip* News Network
/ /
(_/he World of Commodore Show opened today in Pasadena, California, to
sunny skies, enthusiastic crowds, and a brand-new machine. The Amiga 4000,
the subject of much speculation, was finally presented to the public. Housed
in a gleaming white-and-tan case not much larger than the Amiga 3000, it
dazzled the crowds with displays of 262,144 colors - out of a 24 bit (plus 1
genlock bit) palette - and a wide array of screen resolutions and modes.
You can read the numbers and you can try to imagine what they mean, but the
reality of HAM8 is astounding. The images are photo-real, indistinguishable
from 24-bit. If you think of HAM pictures as low-res, chunky affairs, forget
it. HAM8, in high-res, gives you silky-smooth images of almost unlimited
hue.
The new graphic magic of the 4000 comes courtesy of the new kids on the
block - Lisa and Alice. Denise and Agnus, who have served us well these past
7 years, have been retired in favor of these 32-bit ladies. New graphics
aren't the only benefit, though. The 4000 has the capacity to read and write
high-density 1.7 Megabyte floppies.
More (Enter)=yes?
Another innovative feature of the 4000 is the use of modular processors. The
CPU is no longer an integral part of the motherboard; it's a plug-in board.
While Commodore won't say exactly what their plans are, they indicate that
the 4000 is the first of a new family of machines. The implications are that
the 4000 can be shipped with any of a number of processors, from the 68020
to the 68060, when it is released. Commodore occupied a large area at one
end of the show floor, exhibiting the A4000, as well as the newly-released
A600 and A600HD, CDTV, Unix, and Amiga Vision Pro. They weren't the only
ones there, though. Here's a brief rundown of significant exhibits:
Inovatronics was demonstrating CanDo 2.0. This version, finished just before
the show, features script bookmarking - allowing you to mark places in your
script for easy return; SuperDuper - a utility that allows you to insert
spreadsheet-style columns and rows of objects into your applications; Object
Layer Tool - which allows you to change the hierarchy of objects - and an
error-checking utility, Bug Basher.
Color was the name of the game at the Centaur booth - over 16 million of
them, to be precise. The OpalVision 24-bit graphics board, currently
shipping, was the centerpiece of this display. If you've missed the splash
ads, the OpalVision board offers 24-bit color now, with a bundled paint
program, and promises Toaster-like capabilities in the future through add-
on modules.
____ Computer News for Business People
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/ / BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1992 AUG 31 (NB)
/ / The following report is provided by the Boston Computer Exchange
_/ /
(____)BM will raise prices. Do they make their own roller-coaster? It seems
like only last week they were cutting prices. But, it's only a measly 3%
increase on some hardware and software products. But, but, but, not the PS/1
or the PS/2's, or OS/2 or even DOS, mind you. Those prices are stable. IBM
will have a handheld to show at Comdex this fall, so now handhelds have been
blessed.
Compaq is showing off. They are on the verge of releasing some new
multiprocessor high end file server computers. The new TriFlex architecture
allows two processors to handle more than twice the transactions of
conventional designs. Meanwhile, Dell is building their new file servers with
enhanced disk arrays to improve disk performance. Everyone is flexing the
high end system muscles like boys preening for the right to debut with
Windows NT. Stay tuned.
Microsoft is touting its numbers again. 10 million copies of Windows sold.
Ten thousand copies of the Windows NT developers kits are out. That sounds
like one in a thousand of us is writing stuff for the rest. You can expect a
lot of Windows NT talk as the beta copies get out in the early fall.
Kodak released Photo CD Access to allow PC and Macintosh users to fiddle with
their photos. The Kodak Photo CD process lets you put your pictures on a
CD-ROM diskette and the new software lets you manipulate the pictures with
your PC. You can even draw a mustache on your Aunt Agnes.
Are you confused by the word RAID. Does it make you think of Bug Spray? There
is now a RAID advisory Board. That's the Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk
Drive Advisory Board which is composed of the major makers and consumers of
disk technology. They are going to help educate you about RAID. Watch for an
exciting White Paper later this year.
More on the Intel 586 processor. At 66 Megahertz it can perform more than 100
million instructions per second. The chip has more than 3 million transistors
and will perform up to ten times better than the 33 Megahertz 486. Intel
expects the new model to keep RISC computers at bay and maintain their
dominance in personal computers.
FastBytes: Wang's worse. Chapter 11 reorganization time for the star of the
recent past era. They are retrenching and pulling back. 3Com announced new
EtherNet cards that double the speed of data throughput. Cards for the ISA
type computers are out this week with the other buses arriving later. The new
free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada will effect the computer
business. So long as computers contain motherboards that have been made in
North America, they can move between the countries duty-free. We may be our
own Taiwan.
In what looks like a window into the future, Digital Equipment Corporation is
going into the clone mail order business. With PC's priced starting at $899,
it may even be called the cheap clone business. After the failure of the DEC
Rainbow line, Digital sold PC's from other makers, but now has decided to go
back into the production of their own PC's. The decision to do it mail order
is another indication that the era of the store and distributor are about to
change. Wish them luck, maybe this is the Pot of Gold at the end of the
Rainbow.
Finally, this from the Big Brother is Watching Department, Motorola and
Amtech are forming a joint venture to develop wireless electronic toll
collection and traffic management systems. The systems are designed to allow
fleet managers to monitor the coming and going of company vehicles, and can
be used for toll collection on hiways where the data about a car's toll would
be transmitted to a central computer for later billing. That's all we need -
try to reason with the computer when you get a bill for a million dollars in
highway tolls.
BoCoEx Index News
The talk of the market is a possible price cut from IBM in the early fall and
there are signs that people are repositioning their inventory in anticipation
of another market tumble. The IBM PS/2 Model 80's were off this week down
$100 from $1500, but the Model 95 took the biggest tumble losing $900 to sell
this week for $3000. Compaq notebooks were active with stable pricing. The
LTE 286 closed at $800 the SLT-286 traded at a high of $1000 for fully loaded
models and $700 for the base system. Macintosh 2CX's were off $200 to close
at $2400 while other Macintosh models were stable. The volume in the
MacMarket is all PowerBook and SE-30. Laser 2 NT's were off $150 at $1300 in
modest trading.
SoundByte News is produced by Alex Randall who is solely responsible for its
contents.