Magazines Archives Amazing Computing ( EN ) Amazing Computing Vol 03 01 1988 Jan
The retail price is $_179.95, and Mimetics said it would ship the week after the show. Roger Powell's MIDI program, Texture, has been "Amigaized," so it looks less like an IBM PC program. The list price is 5199. WordPerfect Corporation reported tremendous sales of Amiga WordPerfect. They plan to convert other products to the Amiga. They reportedly recouped their Amiga porting investment in the first month of sales. Xerox is still using the Amiga to demonstrate its color printers. Hewlett-Packard supplied Commodore with several HP Paintjet printers for the booth. Both HP and Xerox were using preliminary versions of the AmigaDOS 1.3 printer drivers. The new drivers bring as much as a six-fold increase in printing time over the AmigaDOS 1.2 printer drivers. Progressive Peripherals showed a slew of new Amiga products. They had their own booth, apart from Commodore. They showed a prototype realtime video digitizer, scheduled to sell for less than 5500. It digitizes to its own memory, then downloads the data to the Amiga through the parallel port. Other hardware plans include a genlock and various products for the Amiga 500, including several memory boards, an external drive that is much smaller than the Commodore drive, and a 68020/68881 enhancement. Progressive is not short on software, either. P!Xmate is an image processing program for manipulating IFF images. It converts between resolutions, as well as accomplishing more advanced techniques, such as edge detection and image enhancement. PIXmate is very fast because it uses the blitter for many operations. Progressive also showed demos of two CAD programs, an accounting program, a disk management program, and a program to let you use Commodore 64 peripherals on the Amiga.
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