-=========================================================================- _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || Amiga Update -News and Rumors /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ ||(A Very Ocassional Newsletter) / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || BACK FOR THE FUTURE || -=========================================================================- AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga Technolgies, GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 960102 M O R E O N T H E " S U R F E R " A C C E L E R A T O R F O R . . . A 6 0 0 ( ! ! ) I N T E R N A T I O N A L A M I G A S O C I E T Y Here's our first issue of 1996 - I hope it's just the start of an enjoyable computing year for us all. The previous information on the Amiga "Surfer" was very cryptic, so I thought I'd send this new, more informative story out right away. I noticed this one refers to a February ship date, not January. The second story is really amazing! It seems someone has come out with an accelerator board for the A-600, of all things! The interesting thing here is that an accelerated A-600 in a PAWS case could make a really nice Amiga portable. We have no idea at this time whether the accelerator would fit in the PAWS case along with an Amiga, but it's a possibility. The total cost is another issue that might make it impractical, depending on what you'd have to pay for a used A-600. The final item, on the attempt in Australia to get an International Amiga Society off the ground, is actually an older story but one we'd not carried before. Enjoy, and we hope your new year is off to a good start! Brad ---------- The Amiga Surfer: Amiga goes Internet Amiga Technologies will release The new Amiga 1200 bundle "Amiga Surfer" in February. The package includes an Amiga 1200 with 2MB RAM, a 260 MB harddrive and a 14.400 Baud modem as well as a complete Internet bundle that will enable the user to access to all popular Internet services. Web-Surfing, FTP file transfer (new drivers, updates, patches, shareware and freeware), IRC electronic teleconferencing with unlimited amount of participants and email with graphic, sound and animation support. To make the start-up as easy as possible, a country specific telephone cable is provided with the modem. Before accessing to the Internet, the user can register himself at IBM and will receive, if he registers before 31st of March, a credit of 100 free access hours. For any question, the customer can access our homepage anytime and consult most actual information. The package also contains the popular "Amiga Magic" bundle of productivity software, featuring a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database, an organizer and a graphic program. The complete system, including the Amiga 1200, the productivity and Internet software, the modem and connection with free credits will be available from retail at a price of DM 1198.- incl. 15% VAT. Regards, Gilles Bourdin Gilles Bourdin Tel +49 6252 709 195 Amiga Technologies Fax +49 6252 709 520 Berliner Ring 89 email: gbo@amiga.de D-64625 Bensheim HTTP://www.amiga.de Gilles Bourdin / Amiga Technologies GmbH Public Relations Manager gbo@ramses.fdn.org gbo@worldnet.net ---------- Apollo 620 ---------- - World's First Accelerator For The Amiga 600! ACT Electronics, Europe's leading manufacturer of accelerators for Amiga, is proud to present a new accelerator card for Amiga 600 which makes this machine 10 times as fast! This makes it possible to use A600 for professional applications like word processing, databases, spreadsheets, multimedia presentations (e.g. Scala) and so on. Specifications for the Apollo 620: ---------------------------------- * 10 times speed increase, or more on math intensive applications! * Mounted internally on top of the 68000 * 68020 CPU running on 25 MHz! * 68882 math co-processor running on 25 MHz included! * Approximately as fast as the Amiga 4000! (030 version) * Up to 8 MB of 32-bit RAM! (One SIMM socket of 1, 2, 4 or 8 MB) * Uses cheap and easily available standard 72-pin SIMM without parity * PCMCIA friendly - PCMCIA port available up to 4 MB * Autoconfiguring memory Retail price per 23/11 1995: NOK 1380,- (Norwegian Krones. USD 1 ~= NOK 6.2) The Apollo range covers a complete series of 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060 accelerators for all Amiga computers. Contact your local distributor, or DataKompaniet directly, for more information about the other Apollo products. E.g.: World's Fastest Amiga 1200 with Apollo 1240! 33 Mhz 68040 with FPU and MMU! DataKompaniet ans in Trondheim, Norway, is the Scandinavian distributor of the complete Apollo range. We ship world-wide. Check out our WWW server for more information. ***************************************************************** DataKompaniet ans Trondheim Innovation Centre Prof. Brochs gt. 6 N-7030 Trondheim Norway Phone: +47 7354 0375 Fax: +47 7394 3861 World Wide Web: http://www.interlink.no/datakompaniet E-mail: datakompaniet@interlink.no ***************************************************************** Tor Rune Skoglund DataKompaniet ans Tech. Manager/Partner Trondheim Innovation Centre ---------- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Announcing : The International Amiga Society | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ANNOUNCEMENT We're a group of Amiga owners engaged in building the INTERNATIONAL AMIGA SOCIETY (IAS) a world-wide association of Amiga practitioners, owners, developers, dealers and believers in the ideals and future of the Amiga platform. In view of past experiences and present-day circumstances we feel it necessary to explore all possible ways of protecting our investment in money, time, skills and dedication and furthermore use available technologies to forge an intelligent and effective form of association between all interested parties. Our first aim is to create a world-wide database of all existing user groups so we can communicate among ourselves with e-mail and/or mailing-lists and other devices. We are herewith inviting everyone reading this to communicate our request to their user group and to send the following information: 1.SnailMail address 2.E-mail or BBS address/contact 3.Number of members Please send it to IAS-Register@artworks.apana.org.au or to P.O. Box 201 Kingsbury 3083 Victoria, Australia or fill out the registration form at http://ArtWorks.apana.org.au/IAS/Register.html For your consideration, we will then send you more detailed information about the organization and its plans. Groups or individuals representing groups who have access to internet web-browsing can use our home-page at http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~dangermo/IAUG/index.html or at http://Snark.apana.org.au/IAS/Workbench/ It is of uppermost importance for this database to be as complete as possible so be so kind and answer ASAP. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Queries to IAS-Queries@ArtWorks.apana.org.au | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- James Burton (James@Snark.apana.org.au) | Every jumbled pile of person has a Kingsbury, Melbourne, Australia | thinking part that wonders what the WWW : http://Snark.APANA.org.au/james/ | part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of -=========================================================================- _ __ _ <>_ __ _ || Brad Webb - available at: /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ || webb@malamute.med.ge.com /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ || bandr@globaldialog.com / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ || Portal -- XJumpdisk -=========================================================================-