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processor. Demonstrated on it was tTV
Paint3.6 with a Wacom Art Pad. "People B
were very excited by the speed of the
set-up" Bourdin continued. A question Y
and Answer session took place on the
Sunday.
AT have also unveiled more on Ttheir
mystery Internet package due for release in
January. An exact price was not revealed i
although they stated that it would be
below 1 300 DM (around €600) and nwould
include all the software needed to get on
the Internet bundled with an Al200. a This
would include a PC Slot Modem, TCP/IP
Stack, Web Browser, ITP program, HE-mail
program and IPC program. A rumour that
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n espite setbacks regarding the corn-
', patibility of the new Amiga drives,
Amiga Technologies have announced some
positive developments for the future of the
Amiga.
for Amiga Technologies, was positive about
the company's forthcoming plans and was
keen to express his delight at the response
to the recent Paris Amiga show held this
December. He remarked: "In spite of the
fact France was in chaos [because of the
strikes] many people still came" It was estimated
that between 3,000 and 4,000 people
turned up to see, amongst other things,
the new Amiga 4000 Tower with the 060
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ing compatibility problems, Amiga Technologies gave us their response: "We have noticed
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there are some problems with games software on the new Amiga Al200's, To resolve e this,
we loare
working on a hardware solution that will be fitted at no cost to the customer, by an
authorised wi Amiga Dealer."
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ng They continued: lo avoid such problems in the future, we kindly encourage that software
publishers l make sure that the programs they develop respect the programming guidelines. t
Amiga a Technologies will be happy to process any information requests from developers concerning
s this issue."
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of Amiga show will have taken
place
s y in Ontario, Canada. Billed as North
America's
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largest Amiga Trade Show,
Petro eh
Tyschtschenko, General Manger of
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GmbH, is to open the proceedings.
K months for a competition from Amiga
Technologies. e The competition will be aimed
at e bringing out fresh talented Amiga
programmers p and artists, and will be run
over a 12 months and be divided into two
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The schedule for the show is to sections. n
include ri
Amiga on the Internet, Scala
Multimedia t m Production, and PC and
Macintosh t Emulation, Phase 5 and Softe
Logik hy
are among thirty exhibitors listed to
take a part. We'll hopefully be bringing you
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full report next month.
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This leads nicely on to the UK's very
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own r World of Amiga Show which has
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confirmed and will be held at the
e One is to program a demo such as a utility
or y game and the other is for budding artists
to e create something arty on the Amiga.
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The competition will be open to all
readers UK and overseas and the prize
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may be a trip to the Solectron factory in
France. t
i Jonathan Anderson, Managing Director
for n the UK commented: "There are lots of
Hammersmith na
Novotel on the 12 and 13
April. ed
talented t people out there. We want them to
help h make the Amiga shine'
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AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY
TECHNOLOGIES
Netscape Wd5 being ported over to the
Amiga was denied. Bourdin stated: "There
will be a lot of new software coming Out
for the Amiga soon from companies that
have never developed for the Amiga before
who previously work on PC and Mac products.
There will be some Web Browsers of
very high-quality but we are definitely not
dealing with Netscape."
However, another rumour doing the
rounds was validated at the recent press
conference in Hannover. It was believed
that Apple had offered Amiga Technologies
a port of QuickTime and at the conference
which was attended by Executives from
Apple. Germany, the deal was confirmed.
YETECHS1
HAVE IT
Yorkshire based lyetech have announced the
release of their Endicor Prefs 24 bit driver for
the Epson Stylus Color Printer. The Endicor
driver is supplied as both an Amiga prefer'
ences driver and a standalone printing program.
They offer full 24-bit printing with user
definable colour correction, printing mode
and resolution. From the standard Enpnnt
printing program you can also get image scaling,
positioning and rotation. The driver
retails at E34.95. From what we've seen the
quality is of a high standard - the pictures
were from HAM-8 images at an average
700x500 pixels resolution
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() The print-out we sa w wa s
impre ssive . I t WAS ge ne ra te d by
the Amiga on the ba sic Epson
Color Stylus Printe r with the
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