Amiga set to ride again
- — 19 January, 1999 21:49
If the last time you heard the name Amiga was back in the nineties, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking the company went the same way as the Commodore 64 (the company which originally owned Amiga). While the company has had a chequered past and its parent companies have folded, Amiga, under the Gateway 2000 umbrella, is planning to launch its first product since 1991.
According to Amiga's managing director Petro Tyschtschenko, the company still has as many as 500,000 loyal fans organised into clubs worldwide. And all these fans have been waiting patiently for the next multimedia desktop product following the A1200.
It is still early days, with the product not to be finalised until later this year. Features will include 24-bit colour, support for TV and SVGA, real time animation and DVD-ROM. It will also include network centric architecture, Java support, and support all new digital interface standards. The company has also announced a partnership with Canadian-based QNX software, which will see the software become the basis of the operating system, with additional user interface enhancements and increased multimedia support.
For further information, visit Amiga's Web site at http://www.amiga.com
