Magazines Archives Amazing Computing ( EN ) Amazing Computing Vol 11 02 1996 Feb
The posters Amiga Technolo? gies brought with them from Germany stated that Amiga was "back for the future". It is clear that in spite of the spurts of the last few months, Amiga Technologies is up and running at full speed. Future development has not been scrubbed either. Although the AAA chipset was never discussed (the rumor is that it is already obsolete anyway), they did announce current development of an Amiga CPU based on the Power PC architecture. It will theoretically emulate 060 faster than an 060. Also in the works is a DEC Alpha zorro card for superfast rendering. We have all been understandably impatient for the last 18 months, wondering if our beloved Amiga would disappear entirely from the face of the earth. lt is therefore understandable that we would be so eager to hear news once Commodore was purchased, and angry when no information could be given. Consider that the first piece of information that was given out widely, the old design for the 4000T, was greeted with much venom. I'm sure that Amiga Technologies found out that in the case of the Amiga and its users, PR is better left on the side of caution, and it was better to wait until a product was in its absolutely final stages before announcing anything about it, to preempt any disap? pointment from broken promises based on preliminary work which were later changed through the development stage. Although Mr. McKeever is under? standably upset, I hope that what Amiga Technologies
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