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CONTENTS

Contents

The Chairman Speaks

Letter from the Editor

W elcome to the second issue

D espite my last attempt at writing

NEWS

SEAL Update ..................... 3

Amiga Inc. Update ............. 7

FEA TURES

Dave Haynie Interview....... 8

Fleecy Moss Interview ..... 10

Gary Peake Interview .......... 11

Microsoft .......................... 12

PPC Software Round-up . 16

Graphics Cards Explained...18

Flight Sims...........................29

REVIEWS

Scoring System ............... 14

Blizzard PPC ................... 14

CyberVision PPC ............. 17

DOpus Magellan II ........... 22

Sound Probe.................... 25

Oloﬁght ............................ 28

PD Paradise .................... 30

SUPPORT

Workbench Cookbook...... 32

Letters.............................. 34

Next Issue, Helpline etc. . 35

Gallery ............................. 36

of Clubbed and an especially

warm welcome to all the new

subscribers and members who have

come along since the first issue. Also

since the last issue we’ve received lots

of positive comments and constructive

suggestions for the magazine. Please

keep sending in your ideas so we can

make Clubbed a monster-mag!

an article for Clubbed magazine

here I am again.

In this months issue of Clubbed I am

trying to convey the message that

upgrading your Amiga lets you get much

more from it, and can also be done rela-

tively economically.

Members

Since the last mag Mick Sutton has got

himself an Internet account so you can

now EMail him at sicky@btinternet.com.

Also a warm welcome to all the

members who have joined since the last

issue!

If you have an older machine like an

A500 the best route is often to upgrade

to an A1200 as they are much easier

and cheaper to expand, and therefore a

better base to build upon. For example,

it is often cheaper to buy an A1200 and

a harddrive than to buy a sidecar

harddrive for an A500.

Just before this issue went to press we

made an arrangement with two Amiga

software distributors (Underground PD

and Forematt Home Computing), for

them to distribute Clubbed flyers with

the packages they send out. Because of

their brilliant support we hope to in-

crease the number of subscribers to

Clubbed drastically and with a larger

subscriber base we will be able to im-

prove the magazine with more pages

and content. Read more about these

exciting developments in the SEAL

Update section!

Web Site

Just after Christmas we uploaded a

major update to the SEAL web site. The

new design uses a top navigation frame

(we have included a special welcome

page for non-frames browsers) which

makes jumping from page to page

easier. Highlights of the new pages in-

clude a much improved news page,

more membership information and

several new sections in the links page.

More Product Information - With every

review we’ve added a box with the

essential information on the product in-

cluding the price and details of the sup-

plier.

One of the good things about the Amiga

is that you can upgrade it in stages, as

your budget allows. Even members of

SEAL with hi-spec systems (myself in-

cluded) are still using components of

their original Amiga bought 5 or more

years ago. The important thing is to

choose upgrades wisely with a “vision”

of your perfect Amiga in mind. This way

you won’t have to replace existing hard-

ware when you buy new bits. If you

bought a small hard-drive now, and then

expand your machine so you can use

high-end software, the chances are

you’ll want to upgrade again very soon,

whereas if you spend a bit more on a

bigger hard-drive you won’t have to

replace it so quickly.

A good affordable system for most users

would have an ‘030 (£80) or ‘040 (£130)

accelerator; 16Mb (£25); a 2Gb Hard

drive (£70); and CD-ROM (£90). All

these items can be added gradually to

your system, enhancing it at each step.

If you want to go further it may well be

worth getting a tower early on because it

will allow you to buy cheaper internal

CD-ROMs and fit 3.5” hard drives more

easily. A tower also means you’ll be able

to use graphics cards and PPC ac-

celerators later on.

I hope these and the many minor

changes will enhance your enjoyment of

the mag. Don’t hesitate to contact us

with any other ideas you have.

In tandem with the flyers going out we

have decided to increase the price of

Clubbed to £2.50 an issue, please see

the news page for the reasons behind

the increase (current subscriptions are

not effected of course).

The big news since the last issue of

Clubbed was the Computer 98 show

which took place in Cologne, Germany,

last November. As you’ve probably read

about it by now we’ve just included a

summary of the releases and the an-

nouncements from Amiga Inc. along

with the developments that have

happened since. Take a look at the

News pages for the gory details and the

other exciting stuff that’s going on in

Amiga-land.

The SEAL web site is at:

http://seal.amiga.tm

Blurb

As I mentioned earlier we have received

a number of suggestions for the maga-

zine, many of which we have imple-

mented in this issue. Some of the more

important ones are:

Clubbed is published quarterly by South Essex Amiga

Link. For subscription details see the back page.

Editor: Robert Williams

Design: Robert Williams

Contributors:

Gary Storm

Mick Sutton

Geoff Milnes

Thomas Hurst

Martin Miller

Cover Art: Robert Williams and Gary Storm

If you have any queries suggestions or want to contact

us for any reason please use one of the following:

EMail: clubbed@williams.demon.co.uk

WWW: http://seal.amiga.tm/

Post: Clubbed,

26 Wincoat Drive,

BENFLEET,

Essex,

SS7 5AH,

ENGLAND.

Telephone: +44 (0) 1268 569937

(19:00 - 22:00 GMT only please).

The views expressed in this magazine are those of the

author of each piece, they do not necessarily reflect

the views of the editor, other contributors or SEAL.

Please Note: Clubbed is produced by SEAL members

in their spare time, while we will always strive to pro-

duce the mag on time and include all the advertised

contents this is not always possible if other commit-

ments get in the way. The price you pay for Clubbed

covers our costs and nothing more, we don’t make a

profit from it.

If you wish to contact a contributor please send your

message to one of the addresses above and we will

pass it on.

Amiga is a registered trademark and the Amiga logo,

AmigaDOS, Amiga Kickstart, Amiga Workbench,

Autoconfig, Bridgeboard, and Powered by Amiga are

trademarks of AMIGA International, Inc. / Gateway, Inc.

All other trademarks mentioned are the property of

their respective owners.

So please think about upgrading your

machine. If you love your Amiga and

want to get the best from it using the

latest software, I am afraid some money

has to be lavished on the miggy.

As you upgrade your machine you’ll find

more and more software becomes avail-

able to you and many programs that you

use now are transformed. Even bread

and butter programs like Final Writer

and Wordworth come into their own with

a faster processor (030+) and a chunk

of RAM to play with. You simply can’t

play the latest games like Genetic

Species, Foundation, Quake and

Napalm without a well expanded

machine. Also a faster machine will

allow you to fully exploit the Amiga’s

multitasking, and you can run several

programs without worrying about run-

ning out of memory or speed.

Improved Tutorial - We hope you’ll find

the tutorial in this issue easier to follow

and more comprehensive than before.

We’re on the look out for more good

tutorials so if you’d like to have a go at

writing one or have a topic you’d like to

see covered please tell us.

If you’re looking to upgrade your A1200

we have several items to interest you

this issue, with the Blizzard PPC ac-

celerator getting the once over by Mick

Sutton and Gary Storm, and an in-depth

look at your options for adding a

graphics card in my Graphics Cards

Explained feature.

Here is a list of up-grades that my

machine has experienced over the

years:

ICS Tower; 4.3 GB Hard drive; 32 speed

SCSI CD-ROM drive; Phase 5 PPC 240

Mhz with 060 and SCSI controller;

Microvitec 17" M1764 Monitor;and a

Canon BJC600 inkjet printer. My latest

upgrade is a Phase 5 BVision Graphics

card which I have just received to add

onto my accelerator.

Wider Coverage - In the first issue we

concentrated on the high-end user. In

this issue we have tried to be more bal-

anced, catering for you whatever your

Amiga skills and budget. We’ll be im-

proving this further in future and as

usual suggestions are very welcome.

For those of you on a tight budget Gary

Storm has written a tutorial on making a

basic A1200 look really cool using only

16 colours to keep the speed up. We

also have another great batch of PD

utilities reviewed in our PD Paradise

section.

Got a tip you’d like

to share with other

Amiga users? It can

be related to the OS

or a specific piece of

software or hardware.

Send it to us at any of the addresses

in the Blurb section and you could

well have a grey box all of your own!

Mick Sutton

? In standard action requesters (where you choose to proceed

Jargon Busters - In complex articles

and features you’ll find Jargon Buster

boxouts to help you understand some of

the technical words and abbreviations

used.

with or cancel an operation) L-Amiga+V selects the positive

choice (OK, Proceed etc.) and L-Amiga+B selects Cancel.

There are also several utilities (e.g. ARQ, and RTPatch)

which map OK to Return and Cancel to Esc on the keyboard.

Enjoy the mag,

Robert

CLUBBED - Issue 2

Winter 1998/99

NEWS

SEAL Update Continued...

Clubbed News

Warp3D Sets the Standard

AF Subscription

Prices Slashed

Price Increase

As I wrote in my editorial we have

decided to increase the price of Clubbed

to £2.50 per issue. At the old price of £2

per issue we barely covered our costs

and a few unsold magazines would have

meant making a loss. At the new price

we have a little extra to cover these

costs and some buffer to pay for emer-

gencies like equipment breakdown or an

increase in printing costs. We continue

to be non-profit making with everyone

giving their time for free and we hope

that more subscribers, along with the

new price will allow us to expand the

magazine soon.

A major update to the Clubbed section

along with new graphics on the main

site will be started after this issue of

Clubbed goes to press.

cover as many aspects of the Amiga as

possible and everyone’s contribution is

appreciated.

Haage and Partner have recently

released the first version of their driver

system for 3D accelerated graphics

cards, Warp3D. Warp3D will provide a

common software interface (API) to all

3D accelerated graphics cards on the

Amiga allowing programmers to support

all cards without writing a separate

driver for each one. Currently Warp3D

only has a driver for the Phase 5

CyberVision 64/3D which uses the S3

Virge chip, a driver for the CyberVision

and BlizzardVision PPC cards using the

much more powerful Permedia 2 proces-

sor is expected as we go to press. H&P

have also promised support for the

forthcoming Voodoo module for the

Picasso IV and any other Amiga

graphics cards with 3D acceleration that

appear. Warp3D supports both

CyberGraphX and Picasso 96.

Subscribing to the UKs only newsstand

Amiga magazine has just become a

whole lot cheaper. A years sub to either

the CD or disk edition now costs only

£39.99. This cuts the cost to almost half

the street price if you subscribe. With AF

becoming harder to find in newsagents

now is certainly a great time to sub-

scribe. At the same time AF have

announced that the newsstand price of

the floppy disk edition is going up to the

same £5.99 level as the CD mag, yet

another reason to get that CD ROM

drive! You can contact the AF subscrip-

tion hot line on: (01458) 271102

The first software using Warp3D is al-

ready available in the form of

StormMESA 3.0 from the author of

Warp3D and a Descent port. Storm

MESA is an Amiga port of an OpenGL

compatible graphics library. OpenGL is

the 3D system used by many serious

applications and increasingly games on

other platforms.

Discounts!

We have been hard at work arranging

support for SEAL from Amiga suppliers,

so far we have two great Amiga com-

panies signed up to help us publicise

Clubbed and give our members a dis-

count. Gary Storm is working at per-

suading more to help us; we are espe-

cially looking for a hardware dealer.

Meetings

Just after the last magazine went to the

printers the SEAL committee made the

decision to start having meetings at our

hall venue every two weeks rather than

every four but to scrap the meetings we

were having at member’s houses in

between. Members will find the meeting

dates for the next three months printed

on the letter enclosed with this maga-

zine. You can also find the dates and the

activities we plan for each meeting on

the Members section of the SEAL web

site.

Warp 3D and StormMESA are free

downloads from the H&P’s site:

http://www.haage-partner.com

Underground PD

SEAL has got together with

Underground PD who are a quality PD

library located nearby in Shoeburyness

Essex. Not only have Underground

agreed to distribute Clubbed flyers with

the parcels and mail shots they send out

but they are also offering a 10% dis-

count to SEAL members*. SEAL

members will find an Underground cata-

log disk enclosed with this issue so they

can place an order straight away.

I Can See Clearly Now

the Blizzard has Come

Existing subscribers will of course

receive the magazines they have paid

for at the old rate. We believe that

Clubbed is still excellent value at the

new price and hope you will agree.

Voodoo for Picasso IV

Eager Blizzard

PPC owners

across the land

received a

slightly early

present from Phase 5

when their BVision PPC

graphics cards arrived in

the UK barely a week before

Christmas. the new boards which fea-

ture a Permedia 2 2D/3D graphics chip

have been enhanced from the original

specification with 8Mb of SGRAM (twice

as much as was planned) and sell at a

slightly lower price too. The BVision at-

taches directly to the Blizzard PPC bus

giving it a much higher bus speed than

any other Amiga graphics card.

Mechanically the BVision fits across the

A1200 with the video connector on a

flying lead making a tower almost

essential.

In November Robert Williams and Gary

Storm gave a presentation on Internet

access with the Amiga and explained

the various services available on the net

and the software available that allows

the Amiga to access them. They also

covered the costs of getting connected

and what modems can be used with the

Amiga. At this meeting we were pleased

to have a visit from Richard Blair of the

Power Amiga User Group in

Portsmouth. Richard was working in

London for a few days and dropped in to

see us.

VillageTronic

have announced

that they will be

making a Voodoo

3DFX based 3D ac-

celerator for their popular Picasso IV

graphics card after over 500 Amiga

users pre-ordered the add-on. Due to

the current slow Amiga market VT said

they couldn’t justify developing the

board unless at least 500 people placed

firm orders in advance.

mostly used for games, VillageTronic’s

solution will allow 3D acceleration in a

window. This is ideal for more serious

applications such as real time previews

in 3D rendering software. The Voodoo

module will be supported by Haage and

Partner’s Warp3D software (see separ-

ate news item). To use the Voodoo

module you need a Picasso IV card run-

ning in a Zorro III slot. VT have warned

that they will only be producing a limited

run of the Voodoo modules so if you

want one it is advisable to pre-order it.

Delivery dates have not been quoted but

the board is expected to be ready in the

first half of this year.

Change of Address and

Telephone Number

The Clubbed contact address and

telephone number have changed so

please update you records, the new

details are:

We’d like to thank Dave and his team at

Underground for their support.

Forematt Home

Computing

Forematt can supply you with a wide

variety of Amiga software covering both

games, utilities and applications. Like

Underground they have agreed to dis-

tribute Clubbed Flyers with their pack-

ages, again everyone here at SEAL

really appreciates their support.

Forematt have an advert in this issue of

Clubbed, see page 29 to get just a small

sample of their range. Forematt will also

give a discount to SEAL members*

which varies depending on what you

purchase and how you pay.

Clubbed,

26 Wincoat Drive,

BENFLEET,

Essex, SS7 5AH.

Tel: (01268) 569937

The Voodoo board will fit on the Picasso

IV along with the existing add-on

modules already available for the board.

Unlike most PC implementations of the

Voodoo accelerator which can only give

full screen accelerated 3D displays,

For the first meeting of the new year

Michael Carillo a friend of Mick Suttons

and webmaster of the Amiga Yellow

pages bought his towered A1200 along

for us to help him fit his new BVision

PPC graphics card to his PowerUP ac-

celerator. Although it took a bit longer

than expected we got him up and run-

ning with a brilliant high resolution

colourful Amiga by the end of the eve-

ning.

Please leave a message on the answer-

phone if we’re not there are we’ll get

back to you.

VillageTronic are at:

http://www.villagetronic.com

Keeping Gamers

Alive

Elbox Announce New A1200

Busboard and Graphics Card

A full review of the BVision will be in the

next issue of Clubbed but in the mean

time you can read a review of the

CyberVision PPC on page 17 which is

almost the same card but for the

A3/4000 PPC cards.

Alive Mediasoft have announced that

Heretic and Hexen conversions based

on the recently released source code

are available for 68k and PPC users

with a HD, CD-ROM and 8Mb. Gfx cards

are supported too. The titles cost £15

each. Descent is also back in stock with

all-new mission packs. £15 if you have

an ‘030 minimum. ‘Putty Squad’ is due

to be finished and available in February.

They even have a CD-catalogue avail-

able for £3, or free with any order over

£30.

Elbox the Polish firm that manufactures

the Power Tower and Power Flyer have

announced a new Busboard for the

A1200. The new board has 5 standard

Amiga Zorro II slots (like the earlier bus

boards from Micronik and RBM) plus 2

clock ports and 2 additional slots which

Elbox call Zorro 4. Despite the name

These slots are non-standard, there

never was an official Zorro 4 from

Commodore, Escom, or Amiga Inc..

same as Zorro III, they are also faster

than the slots on the Ateo bus card.

Elbox have announced a Zorro 4 version

of the Power Flyer and a graphics card

so far. No specifications are available for

the graphics card except that it will have

a pass-through for standard Amiga

modes. The new bus board is expected

to sell at a similar price to the current

Zorro II to boards which would put it

around the £130 mark.

If any member of SEAL has ideas for

activities for future meetings, has some

software or hardware they’d like to dem-

onstrate or would like to give a presen-

tation at a meeting please let a member

of the committee know. We’re keen to

See PPC Price Drop item on the follow-

ing page for prices and distributors.

*Please note these offers apply only to

full SEAL members, Clubbed

Subscribers cannot use them, sorry!

Emperor Vost

? A great place to get the latest Amiga news on the Internet is

Nick Veitch has moved from Amiga

Format to another magazine, and so

Ben Vost (ex deputy editor) has taken

the helm. We’d like to thank Nick for all

his great work over the years on CU and

AF. We know Ben’s an Amiga nutter and

will kick some more ass!

Czech Amiga News which reports Amiga news world-wide

and is updated daily: http://www.realdreams.cz/amiga

The Zorro 4 slots have a transfer rate of

about 15Mb/s using DMA to popular ac-

celerators. This design makes them

much faster than Zorro II and about the

Elbox products are distributed in the UK

by Power Computing:

(01234) 851800

http://www.powerc.com

‘Goal! Season’ (AKA ‘Goal! 2) and

‘Pheonix Fighters’ (an overhead shoot-

em-up) are also planned by Alive.

CLUBBED - Issue 2

Winter 1998/99

NEWS

Kickstart 1999

Kickstart the Surrey based Amiga user

group are holding a second sale after

the success of the event they organised

last year. Along with 18 tables of new

and secondhand Amiga gear there will

also be Doom, Sensi and Skidmarks

tournaments. If that wasn’t enough

Amiga International have donated an

A1200 Magic Pack as a door prize.

...Updates...

PPC Price Drop

Here are some updates on the news

stories we reported in the last issue of

Clubbed

By Gary Storm

W ell, as you probably all know

In October both the main UK distributors of Phase 5’s PowerUP Power PC ac-

celerators, White Knight Technologies and Blittersoft, substantially dropped their

prices. Along with the release of the CyberVision PPC and BlizzardVision PPC

graphics cards the price drop makes the PPC cards more attractive than ever. The

cost of a BlizzardPPC board and BVision graphics card is now very competitive with

the various other A1200 graphics card options too.

An Open Letter to the

Amiga Community -

December 1998

Amiga has always had certain strengths

that have never been matched by any

other operating system. It’s small, effi-

cient, and multimedia-centric. As Allan

Havemose has often said, “We just did it

right.”

by now, A-Inc announced

QNX as their partner in

developing the next Amiga operating

system (version 5) at the Cologne show

in November, and will be writing the OS

on top of a QNX kernal. QNX gave a

demo of the power and flexibility of their

system, and everyone was well im-

pressed. Apparently most of the QNX

engineers are either Amiga users or

fans, and had to be beaten back with a

stick when the deal was done and some

engineers chosen to work on the project.

Final Office CD

Software Partners posted on their web

site that the Final Office CD was going

for duplication in November. Since then

no further information has been posted

and they don’t respond to EMails... draw

your own conclusions.

Example Prices from Blittersoft

BlizzardPPC (A1200)

160Mhz PPC 603e and 25Mhz ‘040

The event will be held at Brook Hall,

Brox Road, Ottershaw, Surrey from

13:00 to 17:00 on Saturday the 27th of

February , admission is £1. See also:

£199.95

160Mhz PPC 603e, 25Mhz ‘040 and SCSI

£249.95

Photogenics NG

The new version of Photogenics is not

out yet but Paul Nolan has told us he’s

is currently preparing the release ver-

sion. He said it will be ready soon but

couldn’t give us an exact date.

240Mhz PPC 603e, 50Mhz ‘060 and SCSI

£549.95

There has been a great deal of excite-

ment and concern over the last few

weeks about the future for the Amiga.

With the recent announcement in

Germany of our OS partner QNX and

the demonstration of what this package

can do, we began speeding forward to

the future.

http://www.furry.demon.co.uk/kickstart

BVisionPPC graphics card (8Mb Video RAM)

£139.95

Amiga Soc Schemes

CyberStormPPC (A3/4000)

CyberStormPPC 233Mhz PPC604e, 25Mhz ‘040 and SCSI

Amiga Society, a UK wide Internet

based Amiga user group have started a

couple of initiatives to make buying

Amiga products easier:

Just before Cologne, Fleecy Moss left A-

Inc, as his contract wasn’t renewed. No-

one knows why, but Fleecy has said that

the decision wasn’t personal (for more

see our interview on page 10). Fleecy

has since gone on to spearhead the

KOSH project, which is building a

Kommunity Operating System and

Hardware, a cross-platform os guided by

the users.

£479.95

CyberStormPPC 233Mhz PPC604e, 50Mhz ‘060 and SCSI

£669.95

CyberVisionPPC graphics card (8Mb Video RAM)

£149.95

WoA 1999

Unfortunately there’s no more news on

WoA but we assume it’s still going

ahead in May, however I managed to

forget to the web address for the WoA

home page last issue so here it is:

Blittersoft: (01908) 261466 - http://www.blittersoft.com

White Knight: (01920) 822321 - http://welcome.to/white-knight

Shareware

Amiga Soc will give people the oppor-

tunity to register shareware at any event

they can attend. We’ll be seeing them

first at the Kickstart sale on 27th

February. This is great news for users,

and for the authors. Register the share-

ware that you use... it’s worth it.

When Amiga Inc. was formed our goal

was to determine the best road for

Amiga to take. We wanted to: Continue

the current development path and create

another version of the operating system.

Build a new team from scratch and re-

write the OS with the new features

necessary to be competitive. Locate an

operating system with the same ideals

and spirit that the Amiga has.

IOBlix Modules

RBM Digitaltechnik of Germany have

announced three new modules for their

IOBlix Zorro I/O board (which was

released last year and gives any Zorro

equipped Amiga 4 extra serial ports and

2 parallel ports). The new modules are a

10MB/s Ethernet module, a 16bit sound

card and a 100MB/s Ethernet module.

The 100MB/s Ethernet module will be

the first available on the Amiga. RBM

have also released separate IOBlix fast

serial and parallel cards for the A1200

clock port at £50 each.

Cheaper Ethernet

VillageTronic have introduced a new

lower cost version of their Ariadne

Ethernet card called the Ariadne II. The

AII is a Zorro II card suitable for any

Amiga with Zorro slots. It has both

10base2 and 10baseT Ethernet connec-

tions. Although the Ariadne II loses the

additional parallel ports of its predeces-

sor it costs almost half the price at just

£80. This is still a lot more than an equi-

valent PC card (£15 to £20) but it at

least makes Ethernet on the Amiga

reasonably affordable.

After Fleecy’s departure, OS3.5 was in

doubt but Jeff Schindler’s recent state-

ment has clarified the situation a little.

Other details of what the OS might in-

clude are hazy, as some developers /

programmers pulled out due to the

Fleecy’s situation and seeming lack of

interest from A-Inc. ARTAS (re-

targetable audio) will be available

seperately from OS3.5 now, as will Matt

Chamut’s excellent ‘Glow-Icons’. OS3.5

is due during the first half of the year,

and you will need to bung in some 3.1

ROMs to use it.

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/

carpenter/241/woa99.htm

Melody 1200 Sound

Cards

These high quality 16bit sound cards for

the A1200 clock port are now available

from Blittersoft. There are three ver-

sions, the base at £129.95, Plus with

MPEG layer II decoding at £149.95 and

Pro with MPEG layer III decoding at

£189.95.

Storefinder

In co-operation with the Amiga Yellow

Pages Amiga Soc have launched their

UK Amiga Storefinder. Using

AmigaSoc’s postcode database UK

residents will be able to find their

nearest Amiga shop or repair centre by

simply entering their postcode.

AmigaSoc hope that this will encourage

Amiga owners to find and support their

local Amiga shops.

We joined in a partnership with QNX to

create the NG Amiga. But that didn’t

mean that we intended to forget about

the classic system users and the faithful

Amiga community.

We are committed to a long and exciting

future for the Amiga, and the community

that has kept this magnificent architec-

ture alive.

The Zorro IOBlix costs about £90 (prices

for the add-ons are not yet available)

and is available from dealers including:

Petro Tyschtschenko recently went

down-under and stirred up a nest of

Amiga patriots and fans, and Petro said

that he`d been selling loads of miggys to

India and China for video work, internet

and suchlike.

Active: (01325) 460116

http://www.active-net.co.uk

Eyetech: (01642) 713185

http://www.eyetech.co.uk

VillageTronic’s UK distributor is

Blittersoft (01908) 261466

http://www.blittersoft.com

Storefinder:

http://uk.amigasoc.org/storefinder

Amiga 3.5 is a work in progress; it has

NOT been abandoned. ...we are going

back to each and every partner in the

3.5 project to make sure that what they

are working on is what our customers

require. It is critical that we deliver what

we promised–a complete package.

Aussies Talk Amiga

New Amiga Mag!

Petro visited Australia recently, and

stirred up quite a bit of interest in the

media, with people realising that the

Amiga isn’t dead yet. A recent APC

article asked the question “Can the

Amiga fly again?”, and the amount of

feedback is astounding, with many

saying that the Amiga is much more reli-

able than a PC, and its return would be

greeted with open arms by many in the

tech world. Let’s just hope that

Gateway/A-Inc do the business.

That’s about it, really. A-Inc are very

busy designing/building/testing for the

next generation of Amigas, as they

should be. By the time issue 3 of this

fine mag comes out, the OS5Dev

system should be out, and we’ll have

more of an idea exactly what the new

miggys will be like. Don’t hold your

breath though, and upgrade your exist-

ing A1200s etc. Plenty more life left in

the old girls yet.

A new glossy monthly magazine is to be launched in the

next few months, called ‘Amiga Active’, from PinPrint

Publishing. They plan to cover all aspects of the Amiga

including games, multimedia, hardware, creativity and

the Internet. There will also be an extensive technical

help section. Each issue will have a cover-mounted

cd, well-known Amiga names, and be on sale for

£4.99. You can visit PinPrint’s website at:

Thanks for your patience and support.

The Amiga is on the right path, and we

look forward to delivering both 3.5 and

the NG Amiga soon.

Napalm

Just as we went to press ClickBoom

announced that Napalm, their real-time

strategy game, is shipping on the 12th

of February 1999 which means it should

be available by the time you read this!

Keep the faith. We’re close.

Jeff Schindler

http://www.btinternet.co.uk/~pppsales

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engineering group already for this, and

the damn thing already worked before

he even walked through the door. So,

rather, I had a bunch of unofficial

projects. The Acutiator architecture, this

new thing for building “highly modular”

systems, 68K or RISC, it didn’t matter.

Then there was a board-level version of

the DSP3210 hardware, for Zorro III. I

had a dual processor 68030 card for

further proving new Buster Level II

features and experimenting with multi-

processing under AmigaOS (that’s me

and the software group, not just hacking

around), and a Zorro III SCSI design, to

make up for the lack of SCSI in the

A4000. And, to top it all off, I was also

working on a protoype of a AAA

machine, to test out the new Advanced

Amiga Architecture when it came along.

So that’s basically what I did in from fall

of ‘91 to fall of ‘93.

By then, let’s see. The AAA protos

worked, the chips needed a revision,

there was no money, the project was

“indefinitely tabled”. The SCSI card had

gone to production as A4091. Scott

Schaeffer and I had done some

Acutiator logic, I had revised the spec to

use PCI rather than the AMI (Amiga

Modular Interconnect) bus I made up

before PCI was annouced (very similar

in intent).

I left Commodore in June of ‘94, just

over a month after they announced

bankruptcy and fired all but about 30 of

us. I chose then mainly because Scala

made me an offer I couldn’t refuse then,

but also, I figure an engineer is some-

one who does engineering, and there

really wasn’t much left to do at C= back

then.

While at Scala, I was hired to consult for

Amiga Technologies as their head of

hardware design. I proposed a cool

$500 (1996) PowerAmiga system, Andy

Finkel put together a project plan to get

AmigaOS on that puppy in a year. All

was good, but Escom ran themselves

into financial trouble. They started going

under, Amiga Technologies was one of

the first cancellations.

But it didn’t quite die there. Stefan

Domeyer, GM at AT, managed to collect

interest around the notion of this cheap

connected Amiga, and from that we

founded PIOS Computer in May of

1996. I worked for them free for over a

year, since I didn’t have any investment

money to put in. The initial goal of

making the cheap PPC system waned

as it became clear AmigaOS wasn’t

going anywhere we could tap it. We

decided later in ‘96 to build a machine to

support MacOS (we had built a MacOS

clone business to fund other work) and

the new BeOS. A meeting with Apple

actually got up on the CHRP

bandwagon, they promised full MacOS

support, something we couldn’t have

easily had otherwise. This was dubbed

the PIOS One (the current version is in

my cellar here), a far more upscale

machine than the cheap Amiga.

The One was going well, if not great

(this kind of development isn’t easy on a

C= budget, it’s crazy on a startup budg-

et), when Apple decided to cancel all

MacOS licensing, Mac Clones, and

CHRP support, in Septamber of ‘1997.

Being that our life’s blood was tied to

MacOS, we had to move quickly to

something else. In January of ‘98, that

something else was started as the

Met@box, another spin on the cheap,

connected computer, only this time

using special modem technology to

allow servers to talk to clients

(downstream only, of course) over exist-

ing TV signals. This is our current pro-

ject, not done yet but getting close.

Tell us more about KOSH, and why

did you agree to get involved?

KOSH is an effort to do basically what I

said up above, take what everyone

learned from the AmigaOS and other

experiences and make a new OS. While

this was given a name by Fleecy Moss, I

think many of us around the Amiga com-

munity, and perhaps elsewhere, have

had similar things in mind.

For years I have had ideas for new ways

to put things together using objects. For

example, a kernel, not a monolithic thing

like a Linux kernel or even Amiga’s

Exec, but rather as a set of independent

and replaceable objects that live in a

sort of “object sea” (my name for it, but

apparently now a rallying point in the

KOSH groups). Another is an object file

system, using a concept I call “trans-

lucent containers”, which kind of blur

any distinction between data files on

disc and data objects loaded in memory.

In layman’s terms, a JPEG file that

knows its a JPEG file; there’s never any

need for an image editor, icon, or any-

thing else that can use an image to

know what “JPEG” really means. If you

wanted to, you could replace the main

“ascii text file” class with a “ascii

text/image file” class (inherits from both

ASCII file and Image), and then start

dropping text files into every picture

editor in your system.

I’m slowly working on an object sea

whitepaper, written at a level where

anyone, just about anyway, should be

able to understand.

What’s your opinion of the way A-

Inc/Gateway have handled the Amiga

since they purchased it ? Should we

be thankful they decide to do any-

thing at all with it and keep the Amiga

alive in any small way, even if it is

just be be an STB or Console?

Given that I have it on good authority

that Gateway did buy Amiga just for the

patents, I suppose we can be pretty

grateful that they’re “doing something”,

rather than just ignoring it. Though I had

a theory about this: if they took the

Amiga and simply treated it ok, they

might get a large enough population of

Amiga fans buying Gateway PCs, rather

than someone else’s, to make “doing

something” pay for itself, and more. After

all, many Amiga fans are using PCs

today, even if they still use Amigas.

Most, myself included (if I ever had

occasion to buy a whole PC), would

rather buy from anyone “Amiga friendly”

than just any old clone company.

On the other hand, they’re really quiet,

so it’s impossible to say just where

they’re taking this. I had pretty much

given up any hope of seeing a new

AmigaOS launch, after AT failed, after

the whole VIScorp thing, after PIOS

(now Met@box) couldn’t get a source

license early on, etc. So given that

things got about as bad as possible

short of someone officially announcing

they’re burying the AmigaOS, that

Gateway has kept something going, is

good news. But it’s such a relative bit of

good news, and Amiga fans are still so

idealistic, it’s not surprised that many

people are very upset with the whole

Gateway thing.

If you could have an enhanced Amiga

OS, running natively on a Pentium or

G3 or whatever (ie no stink of any

Microsoft anywhere near), would you

think that as being more feasible than

an Amiga OS on a kick-ass Amiga?

Absolutely. There’s nothing you could do

today on a 68K of any kind that’s going

to be real interesting, at least not

beyond the level of a handheld. The

high-end 68Ks are many times more ex-

pensive than PPC or even x86 chips

many times faster than them.

Modernized AmigaOS, even on a

properly configured modern PClone,

would blow away today’s Amigas or any-

thing you could build based on the exist-

ing Amiga architecture.

That’s not a slam against the Amiga, but

look at the timeframe. The A3000 ar-

chitecture, the most advanced Amiga

system architecture built ( the basis for

A3000, A3000+, A3000T, A4000,

A4000T, and the “Nyx” AAA prototype),

was locked down in mid-1989. That’s six

months or less short of ten years ago.

The AA chips, the best Amiga chips

completed, were really an evolution of

the ECS architecture, itself a small jump

from the original Amiga chips of 1984.

PC system architecture has been evolv-

ing at an amazing rate ... you’ve had

about 4-5 full PC generations since the

last time the Amiga was innovative.

That’s a hell of a long time. ... The

Amiga was ahead of its time, sure, but

not that far ahead.

Software, on the other hand, has

evolved too, but not necessarily in the

right directions. Most of what Microsoft

does is about sustaining the dominance

of the Windows platform, not really

about evolving the personal computer

and how people program or use it.

These may seem related issues, but

they really aren’t.

What can we users do to keep the

Amiga going, or is it time to bow out,

as it doesn’t seem to be a viable mar-

ket anymore?

Well, I guess anything I know that would

work, I’m doing if it’s currently in my

power. I know lots of folks would like to

promote an AmigaOS, any AmigaOS,

from Amiga, Inc. But currently, they offer

no one any chance to help out. That, in

fact, was part of what fleecy had in mind

with KOSH – official involvement of the

community.

If, today, there was an OS that did for

me what the AmigaOS did for me, I think

I would stop trying so hard to re-create,

in some way or another, what we had at

Amiga. I have tons of other things to

work on, I don’t necessarily have to do

nothing but make new systems and

OSs. In fact, I would like a chance to

write a few applications for an OS that I

approve of.

I became a Be developer to get involved

in that, since it was the only real alterna-

tive the AmigaOS came out, and it’s

right now the best thing going. Part of

that is specifically because Amiga

people got involved early on (in the

BeBox days). I’m a bit sad the way they

let Apple make a straw-man excuse

that’ll let them opt out, eventually, of the

PPC market. On the other hand, when

Apple stabs them in the back (and I

can’t help but feel some kinship there,

as Apple practically killed

PIOS/Met@box with their destruction of

the “Mac Clone” market), Motorola and

IBM sit around watching like unin-

terested parties, and Intel offers them a

few suitcases full of cash and use of en-

gineers to support BeOS on the x86, I

can’t really blame Be for not becoming

the PPC’s new cheerleader.

Still, I think BeOS falls short of the mark.

Maybe not, but that’s the way it looks

today. Maybe it’ll improve, or maybe

we’ll keep the KOSH thing going long

enough to see fruits. And they will

definitely have the taste we’ve been

craving for years, and the personal com-

puter will evolve...

Dave Haynie

Gary Storm talks to the Dave Haynie who worked at

Commodore on the A2000, A3000 and A4000. He is

now Vice President of Technology at Met@box

Infonet (formerly PIOS)

Gary Storm spoke to Dave Haynie about

the future of the Amiga and computers

in general.

Right Dave, for those who don’t know

what a nutter you are, tell us about

your history in the computer industry

thus far.

I started on the Amiga in 1986, though I

had been programming it as soon as I

could get one. I had been left in charge

of the 8-bit stuff after the previous head

of that HW group, Bil Herd, left the com-

pany for greener pastures (he runs

jersey.net now). We had a few C128

spinoffs, but nothing that could get man-

agement interested. Meanwhile, some

others (George Robbins and Bob

Welland), disenfranchised from their cur-

rent project (Commodore 900, the UNIX

workstation, kind of a Sun-2 like

machine) which was cancelled when C=

bought Amiga, set around looking for

new things to do. They settled on

making a cost reduced Amiga, which

became the A500. I was on that for a

month, expected to take it over (as the

low end guy), while George took over

the A2000-CR project (applying the

A500 technology to Commodore

Germany’s “A1000 with expansion”

machine). George didn’t want to give up

the A500, so I took over the A2000 pro-

ject. Just me.

From there, I worked on the A2620 with

Bob Welland, the A2630 followup

(Welland had left duing the A2620 pro-

ject), several related research projects

and other add-in stuff. By the summer of

‘88, it was pretty clear we needed a

whole new system architecture for the

next real machine, not just plug in

boards. So I started working out a new

bus architecture, which become Zorro

III. By February of 1989, the A3000 pro-

ject was running full steam (in fact, the

final work on the A2630 was put off on a

junior guy to let me share the technical

helm of the A3000 with Greg Berlin). We

also had Hedley Davis (project

manager), Scott Hood (Amber chip), and

Jeff Boyer (DMAC) involved in the pro-

ject, making it the largest hardware pro-

ject done at Commodore. Along the way,

we hired Scott Schaeffer, a guy with

68040 experience six months before the

‘040 shipped, to develop a 68040

module for the A3000 in parallel (this

was actually working, as well as ‘040s

worked then, at the April 24, 1990 offi-

cial introduction of the A3000, though

management didn’t show it).

After the A3000, I got increasingly into

advanced projects. While Berlin was

doing the A3000T, I worked with Bob

Raible’s new AA chip architecture, to

deliver the A3000+, the first AA machine

(booted up with a working display and all

in early February, 1991). This machine

was also to have the DSP3210

coprocessor from AT&T, to support

sound, graphics,and other multimedia

stuff, as well as software modem

functions. Jeff Porter ( Director of New

Product Development) and I actually

had to meet with AT& T to convince

them that they wanted to sell chips on

every motherboard, not nickel and dime

us for every program module so that we

couldn’t do anything with the DSP.

Ultimately, the project was cancelled, as

new management (Bill Sydnes and Lew

Eggebrecht) were brought in to run

Commodore Engineering. There guys

were from IBM and other places, and

had absolutely no concept about work-

ing in a balls-to-the-wall environment

like Commodore. Also, Sydnes was far

more concerned with looking good to

then C= president Mehdi Ali than

actually doing engineering. So, along

with cancelling nearly every on-going

project (wouldn’t want something the

other guys touched to get out there), he

had the AA project delayed by six

months. So rather than ship the A3000+

in April ‘92, we shipped the A4000

(really just a stripped down A3000 with

AA chips) in September of ‘92.

I had pretty much pegged Sydnes/Ali as

being the downfall of Commodore. I first

saw this coming in the fall of ‘91. Of

course, technical folks look for technical

answers, and so I set forth to do a paper

and, eventually, CAD design for our

next-generation system, since I figured

Sydnes couldn’t last forever (he didn’t

approve anything but testing AA for six

months, even though {a} we had a test

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Fleecy Moss

fans of the community. The bosses both

still code, and put technology over

politics or management crap.

Is there going to be a new Amiga

home computer released via A-Inc?

...you have to ask them.

Would you advise us to all go PPC, or

an OS5Dev system (Amiga on a

Pentium)?

Depends what you want to do. If you

believe in the target markets and

strategy of AInc, then go that way. If you

don’t, then you have to decide what you

want to do.

Take a look around at what you want,

what you want to do, who you believe,

who makes you barf and then decide.

Personally, apart from a few pain-in-

the-ass things, which every computer

has, I don’t mind pc’s. What I do mind

is anything Microsoft. I wouldn’t be

happy to lose an Amiga entirely, but I

could see myself getting a pc if it had

a decent os, like our ancient Amiga

one. What’s your opinion?

It’s all a matter of integration. Linux on a

Pentium goes like the clappers. PCI and

AGP graphics cards are amazing. I have

a PC, I use it because it has most of my

work stuff on it and in a format that I can

use at home. My dream OS on my

dream machine would be KOSH - to be

honest, if what I saw on the screen did

what I wanted, made me happy and

immersed me into my virtual world then I

couldn’t care less what was in the box.

Do you see any reasons for users and

developers to hang onto the Amiga

dream any more?

Depends. What is the Amiga dream? Is

it developing for Amiga Inc machines? Is

it developing for PPC machines? The

classic? Or is it developing for an inno-

vative, empowering platform which

allows you to sculpt virtual reality?

If yourself, Amiga Inc, Amiga Tech,

developers, and users etc were foot-

ball teams (real football, BTW, not

that American padded ‘rugby for

girls’ stuff :) ), which ones would you

be?

Everton at the moment - great players

who just can’t play together or win a

game and had a lot of glory but now

fight relegation all the time. Common

sense tells you to live them but your

heart is there so you carry on, just pray-

ing that it will all click.

You’ve begun a project with Dave

Haynie, Gary Peake and others, called

KOSH (if you call it BOSH! our chair-

man would be very happy... it’s his

catchphrase :) ). As the song goes...

“So what’s it all about?”.

KOSH is an attempt to build a commer-

cially sustainable platform that is owned

by the Kommunity, the ppl who use it,

develop for it, sell for it and report on it.

It has 3 parts. Kosh - the Kommunity,

kOSh - the OS and kosH - the hardware

templates. It started up after AInc let me

go, caused by the many thousands of

mails I received in which developers,

users, retailers and journalists vented - it

became clear that many of them had

just had enough of this boom/bust, bust,

bust cycle of the Amiga. Now they want

to build their own platform - not to own it,

just to have a foundation on which to

earn a living, build a community.

Someone christened it the Insanity pro-

ject which I kind of like because it is in-

sane really. But you know what, there is

just enough talent and frustration with

computing in general at the moment,

that we might pull it off.

Ppl have said why are you doing Linux

all over again. That misses the point.

Linux is a last generation OS that is free

with no central focus, and it is hard to

make money in it due to the GPL. Don’t

get me wrong, I like Linux a lot, but I

want a real next generation, innovative

OS which runs on the best HW or the

cheapest HW, whatever suits my pocket

at the time. Something that moulds

around me as a user, that becomes my

doorway into a virtual universe, that

allows me to do almost anything as a

developer - that gets out of my way and

lets me have fun. But which also wants

my opinions, that asks for my help, that

calls me friend and lets me meet other

friends.

Could turn out to be nothing but it could

turn out to be everything. That is why I

am going to put so much effort into it

over the next 6-12 months. If any of your

readers want to get involved, please do.

The Kommunity wants as many ppl as

possible to come, have a look around,

see if they like what they see.

How can we, as users and

developers, help keep the amiga

viable? Or should we just give up and

get a Siamese and run Amiga under

Windows?

Again, what is the Amiga? What is it that

we want to keep viable? Most of the

systems today are a mass of third party

products (HW and SW) with an old

Amiga buried somewhere in the centre.

The community, the users, the

developers, the retailers and the jour-

nalists have kept “the Amiga” viable.

What exactly is it that ppl are trying to

save?

Find out more about KOSH at:

http://www.kosh.net

Gary Storm speaks to

the head of Team Amiga

soon after the Fleecy

announcement.

Gary Peake

Gary Storm spoke to

Fleecy Moss soon after

his departure from

Amiga Inc.

So, what the hell happened with

Fleecy? One minute he`s our best

link and shining miggy light (a lone

voice in the fog), and the next thing

we`re reeling (not as much as Fleecy,

of course) from the news he`d been

sacked!?! Is it a case of Fleecy doing

a monumental smeg-up ? A major

difference of opinion on the direction

of the Amiga ethos? A case of ego`s

gone wild? Or had he done his job so

well (like Joe Torre) that they didn`t

need him anymore? (or all of the

above, as nothing is ever so simple

as to be blamed on one thing).

I have no idea. This is something

between Fleecy and Amiga Inc I would

presume.

Where does this leave os3.5? Jeff

had already approved it.

I haven’t heard anything yet concerning

OS 3.5 except that it doesn’t appear that

the original team will be doing it.

What`s this about KOSH? Is it

KOSHER? (sorry, but was begging for

it)

KOSH is about a dream a lot of people

have had over the long term. This is

NOT on of the projects I will be actively

involved in however I always support

any moves by the Amiga community

which serves to help ourselves. I under-

stand some very bright Amiga and non-

Amiga minds will be involved however.

At least Fleecy`s idea of a central

Amiga web shoperama looks like

going ahead, with OwlNet....tell us

more.

Yes, Owl Net is a joint venture between

Fleecy and myself to provide support for

“open systems” users and developers

across the board.

Owl Net is another dream come true for

me. It will not just be a shopping mall,

but also a place where non-Wintel plat-

form people of all manner of OS lineage

can come together for sharing and help-

ing one another.

At the same time, Owl Net will be quite

modular in structure so that Team

AMIGA will have a full support area,

linux, qnx, unix, and more will have an

information portal, a developer and user

support area of their own, plus general

areas where all of us who wish can

share our knowledge banks.

We will release some more information

shortly. We are currently involved in

doing the set-ups and what have you to

make it as functional as possible on

opening.

Won`t all this in-fighting lead to even

more users becoming despondent

and leaving for warmer climes?

MY OPINION

There is NO intention to cause infight-

ing. And there is absolutely no reason

that developers should not be free to

persue a project with the potential to

keep them working, active, and making

money until such time as Amiga Inc can

release more information to them about

OS5.

In any discussion with Fleecy, you will

hear that KOSH is not about competition

to OS5, but rather an effort to fend for

ourselves until such time as Amiga Inc

has something to offer. 18-24 months is

both a long and short time depending on

who you talk to.

OPINION OFF

Surely our last bastion of Amiganess

at A-Inc is Dr.Havemose, who has a

long and proud Amiga OS history?

Dr. Havemose is well credentialed and is

very capable (wth the right team as-

sembled) to carry out the mandate he

has accepted. No one should doubt that.

Bill McEwen is also every bit as

dedicated to the cause of making one

heck of a product as anyone I know. I

have great respect for both of them and

wait with anticipation for word on what

direction the platform will go.

QNX sounds like the best choice for

an os kernal, eh? And at least there

are a number of amiga-savvy en-

gineers there (or is that just PR

crap)?

QNX is a great choice. It is very “Amiga-

like” in user friendliness. From a

programming point of view, I am a lame

duck, but most agree that it will be a

refreshing kernel to work with. Randy at

QNX told me that as soon as they knew

it was a done deal, QNX people started

setting up and talking about their

Amiga’s. And he also told me that the

two most prolific coders they have are

the owners ... apparantly both enjoy

coding and still remember where they

came from. Very refreshing to hear such

news as this from inside QNX. I am

delighted they were chosen as OS

partners personally.

You`ve probably already answered

this in the above questions.. .but

what do you generally think of the

Amiga now and if there is a future?

I have no doubt that Gateway has in-

vested ample monies into bringing a

product to market. I have no doubt of Dr.

Havemose’s and Bill McEwen’s creden-

tials and capabilities. I have no doubt

about the dedication involved there and

hope to see what we are all looking for

soon.

Surely spreading the Amiga os

around would be a good idea?

Microsoft has made billions by

spreading around an inferior OS and

products associated with it (that`s

not just amigans talking, either, but

most of the PC world). As long as the

best power would be known to be

squeezed from an Amiga os on an

Amiga system, not a Pentium.

The problem has been for us the plat-

form dependance we have on the

Classic Amiga. Hard to spread an OS

that requires a certain hardware and

chipset. If Amiga Inc moves to a more

“open systems” reference, I feel sure it

will spur growth in our markets. QNX

seems to have that capability.

Related to the above, it seems Intel is at

last gathering the courage to free itself

of Microsoft, as they recently invested in

Red Hat, the company that distributes

Linux, an alternative os. As we know,

Billy boy doesn`t like alternative os`s, as

they invariably point out how slow and

buggy Windows is.

A lot of chip and box makers are looking

for alternatives. Amiga Inc is poised to

make inroads there with QNX and an

“open systems” reference. We will have

to see how it all plays out I think.

Finally (for the moment), what`s the

future for the many PPC users (like

me)?

Well, as I said earlier ... 18-24 months

(last timeline I have seen from Amiga

Inc) can be a long or short time depend-

ing on whom you talk to. For the next

generation (between pure Classic and

the Amiga II), I personally think PPC is a

great option. Note also the refences to

PPC on the QNX web site.

What the hell happened, Fleecy? Did

you have a major disagreement about

the direction A-Inc or Gateway want

to take (like just concentrating the

Amiga technology for Set-Top Boxes,

Consoles, and Vibrators) ? You won’t

break any NDA’s by telling us the cir-

cumstances and leaving out the

details.

Amiga Inc did not renew my contract.

That is all I can say. I am pursuing my

own interests, the development of an

innovative, Kommunity owned platform,

built, designed, evangelised and run by

those ppl who work with it, in any

capacity.

Is your US visa ok, so you won’t have

to leave your newborn?

I got it transferred back to my good old

Canadian “pimp” who sells my services

in the US. I may have something lined

up, but we have been here four years,

and no footy, crap beer and our kids get-

ting wierd accents is starting to get to

us. If we can get a job back in Scotland,

we will be returning real soon.

The “Evie” incident relates to the fact

that here in Pennsylvania, it takes

months to get a birth certificate, and

without it, we can’t get her a passport so

we can’t take her out of the country. The

“threat” of deportation was never a real

threat. It was something off the cuff I

told my wife, concerning an ‘enemy’ I

had made at Gateway.

Jeff, on a personal level, is a great guy,

and I had a lot of fun whenever I was up

there, both with him, Mad Dog McEwen

and his family. Him getting the blame for

that wasn’t fair.

What did you (generally) manage to

achieve while you were project

manager at A-Inc?

I *hope* I made them realise just how

valuable a resource the Amiga commu-

nity was at all levels. I talked to many

developers and users, got to understand

their hopes, their frustrations and made

many friends.

What would you have liked to have

implemented?

...what I’m doing now ;-)

QNX... tell us more.

Great OS. Great ppl (Canadian). Real

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