My Fire Second only to the Amiga stand in rendering complex textures and gouraud shading the polygons in real time. This offers important benefits to 3D rendenng, as it will allow realtime rendered preview windows in rendering software, one of the new Lightwave features that Newtek has so far been unable to implement in an Amiga version. Equally exciting is the potential for 3D gaming that the board provides. PowerUP A1200 Although the A1200 PPC card will initially be shipping with a 68060. Phase 5 are looking at several possi- Amiga Inc has, with the ICOA (Independent Council of Open Amiga), been running a series of developers conferences. They have been held on several occasions at Amiga shows, mostly in America, and have been occasions for developers to get together and discuss what was required for the future of the Amiga. Al have been dipping into this resource to find out what the guys who work with the computer every day think, and to help them plan their strategies for the future. This one was always going to be a little different. Prior to the show, the rumour had been circulating that there was going to be a big announcement, widely presumed to be a commitment to a particular CPU for the future. Hundreds of people from the Amiga industry flooded into the large Seminar rooms to hear what was to be announced. Petro Tyschtschenko opened with a run down of the licensing arrangements they had made, and mentioned that he hoped a deal with REC. who make the Chinese WonderTV Amiga system, would be struck soon. He talked about new hardware coming from Index, DCE and Quickpack, as well as license deals with Intrinsic. ELBox of Poland and ProSupport of South Africa. Schindler's list - bad joke Next on the stage was Jeff Schindler, the President of Amiga Inc., in South Dakota. He started by thanking Petro Tyschtschenko for all his work, which raised a huge cheer. A lot of people were dubious about Petro T. after the Escom collapse, but his hard work during the legal proceedings and in getting Amiga International back on its feet since are clear to all, and have been to a large part responsible for the Amiga still being here today.