More products and lower price for Power Computing's Digital Camera
Last Saturday, 28 March 1998, a particularly excited Tony Ianiri has officially launched in the presence of Amiga Format's Deputy Editor, Ben Vost, a series of new hardware and software products.
Oliver Roberts, of F1GP Editor's fame, and author of the PowerDC100 software for Power's Digital camera, illustrated all the features of the camera and its accompanying software (which even allows for taking a series of shots within a user's specified interval).
Read the updated Info page with more samples and a shot of the program's GUI.
The camera (including the software) will only cost £99.95 and it should be available within this week.
The Amiga used for the demostration was connected to a high resolution SVGA monitor thanks to Power's new Scan Doubler which comes in various models, including a flicker fixer.
The price for the internal model is £59.95, £79.97 for the external and £99.95 for the flicker fixer.
Nobody can stop you anymore from buying a nice, inexpensive, PC compatible monitor (call for price and models, all sizes available).
We kept for last the most innovative product of the event.
All the way from Italy, Lorenzo Caprio, director of Underground Software, was demonstrating PowerMovie, which is going to offer to the Amiga community the long awaited tool for easy Full Motion Video editing.
We expect it to become popular for the development of Multimedia projects, videogames and to put together thousand frames long 3d rendered animations with synchronized soundtrack and soundF/X.
Just like us, you will have to see it to believe it, and Lorenzo is doing all his best to make a demo available for Amiga Format's May issue (in the mean time you can ask Ben :-).
If not, you will have to come at the World of Amiga, where it should be ready for sale.
In order to keep its price down, Power Computing is going to license PowerMovie according to its final use.
A cheaper licence for personal, strictly non-commercial usage, for all the Amiga enthusiasts around.
A business licence, for companies planning to use this software (and the files it creates) for commercial products (videogames, Multimedia CD-Rom, Info-Points, etc)
PowerMovie is the natural outcome of two years of development of a brand new game, The Golem, which is going to be the first of a new breed, using interactive Full Motion Video at this quality.
All rendered with Lightwave, the few animated sequences made a few jaws to drop, and the finished game will fit on two CDs.
The game includes different sub-games: a beat'em up, an adventure, a spaceship fighter, etc.
We will have a page with some screen shots soon.
The game needs a 6xspeed CDRom, and where it should play fine with a 68020 and some fast memory, we recommend a 50MHz 68030.
Versions for graphic cards are also on the pipeline.
Keep in touch for more up to date information.
2 March 1998
Power Computing at the WOA '98 and new Products
WOA
Power Computing is looking forward to seeing you all once again at the World of Amiga 1998, which will take place at its usual venue, the Novotel in Hammersmith, London (UK), from the 15th to the 17th of May.
We should finally have on display (and running) the new specs Amiga 5000 (68040 or 68060 and optional PPC), plus hundreds of products and the usual bargains.
New Products
We are also proud to announce the availability of many new products:
First of all, the first batch of Blizzard PPC cards, full 68040, PPC 160MHz without SCSI is available now.
Come on, what are you waiting for?
We have in stock Jens Schönfeld's Catweasel Mk2 Interface, the ultimate solution to fast high density floppy access.
Our special adaptor that allows to connect an Amiga external keyboard to a 1200 is ready. It also allows to reset the computer with the usual sequence Ctrl+Left Amiga+Right Amiga.
Finally, we now stock all different kind of cables, connectors and adaptors for SCSI I, II and III interfaces and devices.
4 February 1998
New Products available
We have now in stock Oliver Kastl's IDEFix97, the fantastic one-stop solution to all ATAPI and SCSI CD-Rom problems.
IDEFix97 is on sale only bundled with our 4-way IDE buffered interface and our Viper 520CD card.
This software is only one of the many add-ons we now have on stock for our Towers. Check our Product List, we also have the new Panasonic LS120 ATAPI and ATAPI Zip Drives and CD-Rom drives.
16 December 1997
Power Tower now available
Our Towers are finally in stock.
Three options are available:
A1200 Power Tower £149.95
200W Power Supply
PC Keyboard
PC Keyboard Interface
Floppy drive fascia and cable (to use internal floppy drive as external)
