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EB1T 1 111. STATS CeBit is one of the world's largest computer shows. The only one bigger is perhaps Comdex in America. A ticket for a single day - about S39) on a the door and a ticket for all seven days is double c that. The catalogue on its own costs o 36DM and weighs in at about 5-6Ibs. You s can throw away all but a couple of ounces t of that, though, if you have a suitable s machine equipped with a CD-ROM because 5 you get one with all the information contained in the book with 0 the catalogue. D CeBit takes place over seven days in 26 M halls and has a total of 6,507 companies from 66 different ( countries exhibiting in a total of 465,847 E square metres of display space. 2 The showground 5 is so large that there are bus services o operating to carry people between halls r and there is parking for over 50,000 cars at any one time. There are hundreds of toilets, snack bars and restaurants all over the showground, so finding people can be a nightmare. Fortunately for me, the people I wanted to meet were all clustered around the few Amiga-related stands, so it wasn't too much of a problem. • ' 1111 Technologies hope to have something to show this time next year. However, your loyal reporter thinks that the new machine is far from the perfect solution, When airs said and done, it is still an Al200, admittedly faster and with better expansion possibilities, but with no real improvement on current (and by current I really mean five year old) technology. The backplane idea for adding Zorro slots is a good one in principle, but it means additional costs for the user who wants to upgrade his machine. First he has to buy the baciiplane, and how much will that cost? Then he has to buy his expansion. If he decides to further expand his machine, he'll have to get rid of his original backplane and buy a larger one, all the time ensuring the new card will have the slots he needs for the cards he already has, and he'll need to buy the spacer unit to make his machine tall enough to take the new cards_ BENEFITS In my humble opinion, it would have been more beneficial to have room inside the machine for two Zorro II/III cards and an in-line video slot, In addition, the machine should have had the same CPU slot as an A3000, A4000 and so on so that the companies remaining who support the Amiga don't have their resources further stretched by having to tool up for a third Amiga standard. For instance, Phase 5 already make accelerators for the Al200 and the A4000/3000. They are not going to want to have to make a third type of accelerator to satisfy Walker owners. I'm sure they'll do it anyway, but it might mean the end fl lome ga 's ne w ba by gia nts, the Ja r a nd D itto drive s. We hope to re vie w the m soon n SyQuast's SyJe t should prove a ma jor compe titor for the Ja r drive In this globa l ma rke t, compa nie s re a lly ought to pay more a tte ntion to the connota tions the ir bame might ha ve in othe r countrie s.- of them. After all, it's not as though there are thousands of existing Al200 or big box Amiga owners out there who are suddenly going to drop everything they own and switch to a Walker. Perhaps, rather than simply rearranging everything in the case design and adding this In fact the new Amiga launch was probably the most exciting event at this year's CeBit, even though it probably interested less than one per cent of the visitors to the show. Purveyors of wares for other platforms were overheard AMIGA COMPUTING MAY 1 9 F IT FOR AN AMIGA? NI in all, the CeBit show doesn't really suit the Amiga market. There are far too many extremely serous people doing very grown up things on machines that have probably never even had a game of Tetris on them, and this small, ckfferent, company doesn't really fit in Some companies who were noticeable by their absence, however, included MacroSystem, who, you would have thought. would be in their element showing I:0 the Dram as a standalone video editing machine at a fraction of the cost of a similar Avid set-up, never mind the fact that it is Amiga-based And Phase 5 were surprisingly not on the Motorola booth showing off a potential prototype of the PowerUp PowerPC accelerator card for the NTiga Even so, Haar & partners were on Motorola's stand showing off Storm C14-t-, An ANSI compliant C package with full support for Motorola's 060 and a GUI editor? Sounds too good to be true? Well, unless you speak German, it is. Translation is going ahead now for the manual, but don't expect it to surface for a couple of months, at least, in its English form. r m not sure if I have correctly conveyed just how fleets to attend CeBit, so I'S try again Unless you have a fortune to spend and resenrahons made, CeBit is like that favounte of Japanese television shows- Endurance I realty do feel like rve been put through the mil. Anyway, that's the news from CeBit I'm off to soak my aching feet for a few haws- new bus, Amiga Technologies should have done what they have always said they are doing and build on the strengths of the Amiga. Surely some form of video expansion like a built-in genlock, or a sound sampler, would have been of more immediate benefit to new users and build on the Amiga's much-trumpeted multimedia superiority. A built-in sound sampler would also mean that the Amiga could get some form of Internet phone access, another string in the Amiga's bow. Then the surfer pack could realty offer something new. Just imagine the scarce advertising: 'International calls at a local rate - they're yours with the Amiga! Still, the machine I saw was only a prototype and there is plenty of time for changes before its selling period, NOUGH AMIGA, WHAT ABOUT OTHER PLATFORMS? bemoaning the lack of interesting or new products, and several visitors I spoke to also complained about a dearth of innovative products. Still, I guess the new Amiga could be lumped in that category too.
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