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indicate about 100,000 Amigas sold by the same
date. And consider that the ST had been
available for six months longer, the Amiga had
barely begun to sell against the ST in Europe
by then, and the Amiga is a more expensive
machine and so generates more income for
Commodore per sale, and the figures look
pretty comparable to us.
INFO ONLINE NEWS
If you frequent the networks, look for INFO
online. Though we don't have an area of our
own set up on any of the networks, we do get
up on most of them on a regular basis to see
what's happening and check on our Online
Reader Mail (see Reader Mail for our Email
addresses). We'll drop into online conferences
from time to time to give INFO's Valuable
Opinion on the topics under discussion, as well
as actually appearing in the hot seat as the
Honored Guest for an occasional conference.
These things usually happen on the spur of the
moment, or at least with only a couple of
weeks lead time, so we won't have time to keep
you up to date in these pages. There's no
doubt in our minds that INFO will eventually
have its own area in one of the online services,
but we won't do it until we've got the
resources to do it right and make it really
special. Until then, look for us online!
COMMODORE STOCK UP
The price of Commodore stock has risen in
the past couple of months from a low of $4.75
a share to between $8 and $9 a share as I write
this. It looks like Wall Street finally believes
that Commodore's financial balancing act is
working. With new arrangements with its
banks, personnel cutbacks, and inventory
reductions, Commodore is tough and lean.
They are up against tough competition, but
with these changes behind them Commodore
should be able not only to survive, but to
thrive.
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BIBLE ON DISK
In what has to be the most ambitious
independent project to date on an 8-bit
Commodore machine, Randall Bernard and a
group of hearty volunteers (gleaned mostly
through an item in The Transactor) have typed
the entire King James Bible onto CBM format
diskettes. Though the Bible has been available
before in rather expensive commercial versions
for Commodore computers, this project makes
it available for free for the first time. The
work takes up both sides of fifteen 1541
format disks, and is available in both standard
PET ASCII and Speedscript file versions. If
you are interested in a copy, you can write to:
Randall J. Bernard
PO Box 630
Morenci A2 85540
or call (602) 865-3550. He's also available as
ST BERNARD on QuantumLink. Though he
hasn't asked for any money, I'm sure a
donation would help him to defray some of the
costs of this project. What's next? Randall is
hopeful that users will begin to develop some
support programs to help make using the file:;
easier.
BASEMENT BOYS LIVES!
Well, we'd heard from all quarters that
Basement Boys Software had given up the
ghost, but it turns out that Mike Henry was
just on a short sabbatical. If you call now,
you'll get a recording indicating that the
updated version 4.0 of Fast Hack'Em is
available. We are still hearing rumors that he
is pulling back from his own business to work
once again with StarPoint, where he was
instrumental in the development of the original
Di-Sector. We'll keep trying to find out for
sure.
AMIGA SUPPORT ON BIX
Commodore is moving its official Amiga
Developer's Support to the BIX network.
Registered Amiga Developers will now have
direct access on-line to Commodore's support
staff, which should help smooth out the process
for developing ever more challenging software
on this highly complex machine. This is a very
positive step by Commodore, and hopefully it
will help to alleviate some of the long delays
we've seen in the development of Amiga
products thus far.