News From 1997

09 Jan 97 - More Boing Logos Discovered--And DevCon Posters - Intangible Assets announces that they have unearthed a few more "Boing" Amiga hardware logos and are offering them as ordering premiums.

09 Jan 97 - The AmigaZone Announces a New Web Interface - The AmigaZone's Harv Laser announces that members can now access the content of the AmigaZone via their favorite Web browser.

09 Jan 97 - IAM Announces New Low Prices - Price reductions on key, Amiga software packages are announced by Intangible Assets Manufacturing.

18 Jan 97 - Haage & Partner News January, 1997 - Covering updates and new products including StormC 2.0, ArtEffect 1.5, DrawStudio 1.1 and more.

26 Jan 97 - NASAU at IEEE '97 - For the eighth straight year in a row, the North Alabama Society of Amiga Users (NASAU) will be on hand to demonstrate the Amiga and its capabilities to the public at Huntsville Alabama's IEEE Computer Fair (February 7-8. 1997).

27 Jan 97 - Amiga Fest 1997 Report - Show report from Canada by Kirk Trumble.

30 Jan 97 - ImageFX and Aladdin 4D Demo Tape Now Shipping - Nova announces availability of FREE video tape for user groups, Amiga dealers, Video Toaster/Flyer dealers or stores carrying Amiga software.

31 Jan 97 - Amiga Show in Scandinavia - AmiTech '97 - Another exciting Amiga show demonstrates that the Amiga is still an exciting computer platform.

31 Jan 97 - New USA Amiga Print Magazine Launched - Information (what else?) from The Amiga Informer, a new Amiga print magazine making a name for itself.

01 Feb 97 - Quikpak Announces It Has Made Final Bid for Amiga - QuikPak states that all bids were due at midnight, January 31 and that a final decision is promised by February 28. Here we go again!

04 Feb 97 - Topolino - This clever, new German device connects PC mice to the Amiga.

06 Feb 97 - SBase4Pro v1.30n Upgrade Offer - Mr. Hardware Computers announces super special SBase4Pro v1.30n upgrade offer. SuperBase is a real, relational database management package for your Amiga.

07 Feb 97 - Bloomberg Feature Story About the Amiga - Thanks to Amiga Atlanta president Lamar Morgan for causing the national media to stand up and take notice of the Amiga! This article was fed nearly everywhere on the planet yesterday by Bloomberg.

08 Feb 97 - Amiga 97 Show Growing, Gaining Worldwide Attention - Popular St. Louis show announces new vendors have been added, NewTek will be sponsoring classes and QuikPak may donate an A4000T to the usual huge list of door prizes!

09 Feb 97 - New Web Feature, The Lair, Announced - New WWW online magazine-ish site is unveiled. Edited by "Bluey" you'll enjoy the slightly tilted attitude of this new feature.

11 Feb 97 - Cloanto's Personal Paint 7 Breaks Amiga Chip RAM Barrier - Cloanto announces new technology to finally get around one of the Amiga's few graphics limitations.

12 Feb 97 - New Service Sets Standards for Freeware Software - The new Amiga Coding Excellence Scheme aims to identify high-quality, free software and promote its use.

12 Feb 97 - Cloanto Announces Amiga Software Support On Internet And Aminet - Now you can have quick access to Cloanto support files either through Aminet or their superb web site.

15 Feb 97 - Impulse Announces Special Offer for Amiga Imagine 5.0 - Now Amiga users can purchase one of the most powerful 3D packages ever written for a very low price.

17 Feb 97 - The Amiga Informer Magazine Requests User Input, Announcements - A note from Fletcher Haug, Editor of The Amiga Informer Magazine gives details on how to submit news items for possible inclusion in the magazine.

18 Feb 97 - The Amiga Education Network Announced - A new initiative is announced with the objective to support the Amiga in Australian education.

22 Feb 97 - Gateway's Amiga 97 Update - The latest additions to the Amiga 97 show vendor roster. This is going to be a big show!

22 Feb 97 - NATIONAL AMIGA: Updates and Specials - News from National Amiga regarding some sale items and new products.

22 Feb 97 - The Official Info Pack on the PowerCon’97 - In July, the first annual PowerPC Convention will take place in Montreal, Canada. The goal is to gather the PowerPC community together from all across the world to show its support for PowerPC platforms, including the Amiga.

24 Feb 97 - New Amiga Enforcer V37.70 Supports 060, Source Code Available - Intangible Assets Manufacturing announces the availability of Enforcer V37.70, by Michael Sinz.

25 Feb 97 - Amiga-oriented Reseller, Zipperware Closing Its Doors - One of the more visible US Amiga shops has announced that it is getting out of the computer business altogether as of March 2, 1997.

28 Feb 97 - Issue 6 of The Amiga Informer Now Available - The latest issue of the Amiga Informer is now available for only $1.00. Some material also available on their web site.

28 Feb 97 - Developers Meeting Announced at Amiga 97 - Kermit Woodall. of Nova Design Inc., will chair the initial meeting of the Developers Meeting at the Gateway Computer Show, Amiga 97.

28 Feb 97 - Amiga Informer Announces Special Subscription Offers - The newest US Amiga print magazine has special savings opportunities on DrawStudio for subscribers only.

28 Feb 97 - InterNauts Luncheon at Amiga '97 - Join friends at a special Amiga Internet lunch, organized by the North Alabama Society of Amiga Users, to be held on March 15th at the Amiga 97 show. Sorry, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

01 Mar 97 - The Independent Amiga Rejuvenation Survey - Press release announcing the Amiga user survey effort lead by Gunnar Liljas.

01 Mar 97 - The World Of Amiga Show Is Back Again - Announcement of the upcomming Amiga show to be held in London, on May 17th and 18th.

02 Mar 97 - phase 5 Announces the Cyberstorm PPC Power-PC Accelerator for Amiga 3000/4000 - Upgrade your Amiga 3000T or 4000T to PowerPC performance.

02 Mar 97 - phase 5 Announces the the Blizzard 603e Power Board Accelerator for Amiga 1200 - Upgrade your Amiga 1200 to PowerPC performance.

02 Mar 97 - Peter Tyschtschenko, Manager of Amiga Technologies, Comments on Current Situation - Original German text and rough English translation. Petro says he thinks it will soon be over!

03 Mar 97 - Gasteiner Throws Its Weight Behind The World Of Amiga London Show - Two show sponsors get together to support one Amiga show in London.

05 Mar 97 - REBOL With a Cause - A Computer Language With an Attitude - Carl Sassenrath announces a name change for the programming language formerly known as LAVA.

06 Mar 97 - Magic Days in Trier '97 - The AMIGA1 user group is sponsoring an Amiga show to be held on April 19 and 20 in Germany.

06 Mar 97 - Myst For The Amiga To Be Released By clickBOOM - PXL Computers and their clickBOOM programming group have aquired the rights to release an Amiga version of Myst, the enormously popular game formerly only available on other computer platforms.

09 Mar 97 - Frankenstein Software For Sale - The owner of Frankenstein Software has announced his intentions to sell off the company's Amiga strategy game titles.

11 Mar 97 - Amiga '97 Online Interactive Conferences To Connect Amigans Worldwide - Amiga Report's Jason Compton announces online conferences to be held from the show in St. Louis this weekend on IRC.

14 Mar 97 - Carl Sassenrath Publishes the REBOL Reference Manual, Part 1 - All about REBOL Values: the Building Blocks. Written for both non-programmers and software gurus.

16 Mar 97 - CUCUG’s Gateway Amiga 97 Show Report - Read all about the recent Amiga show held in St. Louis, MO. Cool, new Amiga products, rumors running wild, pictures of the event, product details, web links to exhibitors and much more! Check out CUCUG's exclusive scoops right now!

17 Mar 97 - Almathera Systems Ltd. Going Out of Business - Almathera claims that cash-flow problems prompted by non-payment from VIScorp has forced them out of business.

17 Mar 97 - Developer's Conference at Amiga Gateway Show - Notes from the meeting attended by many leading developers for the Amiga at the Gateway Amiga 97 show.

19 Mar 97 - Amiga OS 3.1 Kits in Short Supply, Legal Hassles Blamed - Village Tronic is involved in litigation with Amiga Technologies regarding their selling of AmigaDos kits. Version 3.1 Upgrades are now in very short supply.

20 Mar 97 - Amiga Advis Magazine Serves the Denmark Amiga Community - The Danes have their own Amiga magazine, Amiga Advis.

20 Mar 97 - ImageFX Seminars Now Available - Nova Design announces the limited availability of instructional seminars for its graphics manipulation program, ImageFX.

25 Mar 97 - Oshawa Amiga to Offer Chameleon Case - Ontario Canada Amiga merchant will sell this line of Amiga expansion boxes.

25 Mar 97 - Photogenics 2.0 Being Offered At Special Price by Randomize - Due to recent developments regarding Almathera's closure Randomize has announced special pricing on many of their products.

26 Mar 97 - Amiga Developer Network Launched - The North Alabama Society of Amiga Users announces a new WWW service designed to assist the Amiga developer community.

27 Mar 97 - CUCUG Welcomes Gateway 2000 To The Amiga Community - Our reaction to the announcement today that the Amiga has been sold (tentatively) to Gateway 2000.

27 Mar 97 - Intangible Assets Manufacturing Responds to Amiga Acquisition - Former Commodore Wizzard Dale Larsen reacts positively to the news of the Amiga's new owners.

27 Mar 97 - Gateway 2000 Acquires Assets of Amiga Technologies GmbH - South Dakota-based PC marketer/manufacturer is the new owner of the Amiga.

29 Mar 97 - HiQ Announces Release of Siamese System v2.0 Software - The Siamese System integrates your Wintel computer with your Amiga. This new software allows you--among other things--to run your Amiga from a window on the Windows '95 desktop.

30 Mar 97 - QuikPak Welcomes Gateway 2000 to the Amiga Community - This is the official, surprisingly positive response to the Gateway 2000 announcement from unsuccessful bidder, QuikPak.

31 Mar 97 - Gateway 2000 Offer To Buy AMIGA Accepted - The bankruptcy court in Germany has accepted Gateway's offer for the Amiga assets.

02 Apr 97 - The World Of Amiga Show Is Back Again - More details released about the upcoming premier Amiga show in London, England. A growing vendor list along with expected new product debuts should make this a good show. Press release includes reference to a surprise, new (non-Gateway) Amiga computer to be introduced at the show.

06 Apr 97 - Finale Development Licenses Voodoo Emailer - Osma Ahvenlampi, author of Voodoo, the Amiga multimedia e-mail program announces that Finale will be taking over development of the program.

08 Apr 97 - Asimware Announces AsimCDFS v3.8 Maintenance Release - The latest update of Asimware's fabulous CD file system is available to registered users from their BBS, WWW or FTP sites.

08 Apr 97 - Asimware Announces MasterISO v1.25b Maintenance Release - Asimware's CD-R driver software just added direct support for the Philips CDD2600. Update available via their BBS, WWW or FTP sites.

08 Apr 97 - CultureShock Announces Release of Pagemonster Web Page Generation Tool - The long-awaited HTML editing package for the Amiga is now shipping.

12 Apr 97 - Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko - Finally, we hear that Gateway 2000 really does plan to make Amiga personal computers and not some new WebTV-like widget. Petro speaks out from the Amiga Magazin WWW site!

13 Apr 97 - Intangible Assets Manufacturing Offers Haynie-Autographed Tape - For a very limited time, you can now own the infamous Deathbed Vigil tape autographed by the one-and-only Dave Haynie.

16 Apr 97 - Magic Days in Trier - More Highlights - Some last minute updates on the upcoming Amiga show to be held in Trier, Germany on the 19th and 20th of April. Sponsored by the AMIGA1 user group.

17 Apr 97 - Update: Amiga Show in Scandinavia - AmiTech '97 - The AmigaTech '97 show is right around the corner (April 25-27) and it looks to be a good show with lots of Amiga heavy hitters scheduled to show.

17 Apr 97 - Issue 7 of The Amiga Informer Now Available - The latest issue of the Amiga Informer Magazine is now available. Press release outlines this issue's contents. Some material also available on their web site.

17 Apr 97 - A Note to the Amiga Community From Gateway 2000 - Gateway 2000 asks for patience from Amiga fans and advises that more information will be available at the World of Amiga show in London on May 17 and 18.

19 Apr 97 - AAA Awards Honor Amiga Accomplishments and Contributions - The Amiga Computer Group of Sweden has established an awards program designed to honor people and organizations that have made the greatest achievement in contributing to the upkeeping of Amiga values during the past year.

22 Apr 97 - AHI Audio System Version 4 Released - Martin Blom announces the availability of the AHI Audio System version 4, the retargetable audio standard for AmigaOS.

23 Apr 97 - Impulse Announces Continued Support For the Amiga: Imagine 6.0 - Impulse has announced that the renewed optimism and interest in the Amiga has resulted in further development of their highly regarded Imagine animation package for the Amiga. Upgrades from version 5.0 available.

25 Apr 97 - FotoFUN! Photo Printer One of 1996's Top Imaging Products - Fargo's famous digital color printer wins the Cool2 product award from a respected photo imaging magazine.

25 Apr 97 - Yamaha's CD-Rewritable Available in June - Yamaha continues to offer CD-R products that specifically support the Amiga (note that they mention 'major platforms' and Amiga in almost the same breath!)

28 Apr 97 - Amiga Atlanta Invites You to the Spring Comdex Show - The last Spring Comdex (a non-Amiga specific computer show) in Atlanta will be held June 2-5 and the Atlanta Amiga club is welcoming Amiga fans to the area.

30 Apr 97 - Press Conference to be Held at World of Amiga Show - Amiga International President Petro Tyschtschenko and Gateway 2000's Director of Corporate Development, Steve Johns, will announce the future direction of the Amiga computer on May 16th at the London World of Amiga show.

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