Re: GS on the DC news each night...

[csmith@slonet.org (C. Deforrest Smith)]

Orion Pax <jlee@clyde.ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>
>Only the US (and main) division went under; the European division are still
>doing quite well.  Also, for many months now, Escom in Europe has bought all
>rights to C= and pretty soon a new A4000 in a green tower-case will be
>released, followed by PowerPC versions, as well as all the older models
>down to the C64.

Close, but not quite. Escom bought the remains of C=, pasted the Commodore
name on their PC clones, and created a seperate company called 
Amiga Technologies GmbH, and have A1200, A4000/040, & A4000/060's rolling off 
the line as we speak (and no, it's not -green-..its the same tower case as the 
old A4000T), with the Power Amiga 604 in development, havingh a late '96 release 
planned.

Okay, I'll save myself from -complete- irrelevance by saying that they are
talking with Apple about licensing 680x0 emulation code for the PowerPC-equipped
Amigas.

And yes, there is talk of reviving the C64 for Chinese & Eastern Europe markets
via a licensing agreement, or some such. I can't possibly see how they can be
serious, but hey, whatever.

(Yeah, so we're vocal bastards... But as the Apple//e once displayed on the
cover of some magazine 'Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated')
 
Anyhow...someone wanna post the number of ABC Direct? My //e needs a 3.5"
floppy controller.

 
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