The German Amiga market must have had a boost when F.scom secured the Amongst other , they developed the SSA animation standard, which permits smooth animations in a variety of resolutions without pallete-locking. Web site - http: www.prodad.de What motivates you to develop new products for the Amiga The Amiga's comfort, the hardware and the multitasking operating feature, motivate us to develop Amiga software. Why are so many Amiga developers in Germany still developing for the platform, when elsewhere they have moved to other platforms ? Because of the success on the local market. The ProDAD operating system p-OS due for release in Spring '97 will motivate other developers to produce software. Without much effort existing Amiga software can, in the future, also be used with p-OS on other platforms like the PC and Mac. This then means a much bigger market for the software originally developed for the Amiga. TY Why do you think the Amiga has been so successful in Germany? The Amiga has been so successful in Germany because of it's strength in and oh'. Software you think that, on the whole. German developers have been more successful than their counterparts in other countries? That question cannot be answered with a yes or a no. Innovations have always come from developers in different countries - the UK, US and so on. The German market is just our main market (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Do you think Escom helped or hindered the Amiga? Escom. Or Amiga Technologies have both hindered and helped the Amiga. They were a help in terms of production, but we feel they definitely hindered innovations. What are your future plans for the Amiga? As we have already mentioned. ProDAD is developing the p-OS which will also run on the Amiga, offering more and new possibilities to compensate certain weaknesses or older parts of the hardware. The original Amiga platform will not be neglected. With the development of p-OS the Amiga will, indirectly, be better supported, since more products will be available for the Amiga and new markets will be opened. Background. One of the first Amiga owners, Frank has provided the irld with several important development tools completely free of irge. Most notable of these is the PhxAss assembler, the first Amiga i support the 68060 chip.