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- Yesterday, just arrived home I thought to write a report of your Press
- Conference in Milano. If you want to correct it and send to the Amiga
- Web Page, you are free to spread it.
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- Marco Dufour (marduf@galactica.it)
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- Amiga Technologies and Giunti Multimedia Welcome back the Amiga in Italy
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- Press Conference - Milano (SMAU) - 21/9/95
-
- report from Marco Dufour - Computer Gazette
-
- Today (21/9/95) at 11:30 AM, in the C Conference hall of the SMAU
- computer fair in Milano (Italy), Amiga Technologies and Giunti Multimedia
- revealed their strategies for the future of the Amiga in Italy and the rest
- of the world.
- There were more than 30 journalists from various magazines (Amiga
- Magazine, Enigma Amiga Run, Amiga Byte, Computer Gazette, PC Magazine,
- MicroComputer etc.); they all waited for the good news: THE AMIGA IS BACK!
-
- Ok, who is Giunti Multimedia?
- Giunti is one of the oldest Editorial group here in Italy. Three years ago
- Giunti and Albino Bertoletti (Ex CEO of Commodore Italiana) founded
- Giunti Multimedia. Since then they published more than 42 CD titles for
- CDTV, CD32, CDI, CD-Rom.
-
- During the first week of September Giunti Multimedia agreed to be the
- exclusive italian distributor for the Amiga range products. They also
- distribute the spectacular I-glasses, the new Virtual Reality
- experience by Escom.
- The meeting was a success and everybody seemed satisfied (... the
- prices... a bit too high ...)
-
- Amiga in Italy:
-
- Obviously this was the most important subject of the meeting.
- The production is on the way and we should see the "new" Amiga 1200 and
- A4000 Tower very soon. Petro Tyschtschenko confirmed that on the 11th of
- september the first NEW Amiga was born in Bordeaux. That's a good news
- because it means they found all the pieces to make it, and be sure it
- hasn't been a simple task! By the way this means that the product will
- be on the shelves in the very near future (firt week of october, they
- say).
- The "new" Amiga 1200 has the same specs of the old one produced by
- Commodore. They had to do that because they wanted to get the Christmas
- sales. The good news is that it will have a serious Bundle wiht
- Wordworth 4, Personal Paint, Scala MM 300 and other good stuff. The bad
- news is that it will have a mere two MB of memory. Well, you can buy the
- new Blizzard 1260 (Phase 5) and have a truly workstation for less than
- 3000 Dmarks!
- The A1200 + kit costs 1.150.000 Lires VAT incl.
- The A1200 + kit + 170 HD costs 1.450.000 Lires VAT incl.
- The new A4000 Tower costs 5.890.000 Lires VAT incl. (68040/25MHz, 6 MB
- of ram and 1 giga HD - SCSI II)
-
- Amiga Technologies also showed the new Multisynch monitor. It's the
- Microvitec, a good monitor compatible with 15 KHz and 31 KHz frequences.
- This means it's compatible with A500 and A1200 too. The price of the
- monitor is set to 750.000 Lires VAT incl.
-
- I-glasses!
-
- During the meeting were introduced in Italy the fantastic I-glasses! The
- speaker, Denis Premiski, told that there are planned 25.000 units for
- Europe. He claimed it's the Virtual Reality tool for the masses. There
- will be a special Amiga bundle with specific Amiga drivers.
-
- NEWS:
-
- NewTek is back on the Amiga! They were undecided where to produce only
- the PC version of the Video Toaster and LightWave but then Amiga
- Technologies convinced them to continue supporting the Amiga. That's
- good, expecially for american users
- The new monitor from Amiga Tech. is the old but good MicroVitec.
- On october the 10th, Amiga Technology will have a party to welcome the
- new Amigas on the market. It will take place in Bordeaux, France.
- There will be an Internet Package, with Modem and programs. More news
- about that in the near future.
- The next generation Amigas (faster processor and better graphics) will be
- introduced at CeBit (Hannover fair, March 1996).
-
- Comment:
-
- Like in Frankfurt, last May, I felt Escom and Amiga Technologies are
- doing the best they can to bring back the Amiga. We, as users and fan of
- the Amiga, should let them know our support and our thinking of what
- future Amigas and current should be.
-
- Why not, for example, put an High Density drive inside the A1200?
- It's not a technical problem and the advantages are great!
-
- In my humble opinion I can't tell what's right and what's wrong,
- expecially before I see the final product (weren't we expecting a greeny
- Tower?).
- Let's hope all the promises will be mantained and the prices lowered.
-
- "Amiga, What You Want Is What You Get!" - Petro Tyschtschenko
-
- COMPUTER GAZETTE REPORT - Milano, 21/9/95
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- Marco Dufour
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- marduf@galactica.it
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