The following speech was delivered by Petro Tyschtschenko on Saturday, November 1, 1997, on the show floor of the Midwest Amicon Exposition in Columbus, Ohio
Ladies and Gentlemen
Dear Amigans
I'm very pleased to attend the Amicon which is indeed my first big convention
after Gateway 2000 Inc.. acquired Amiga.
This year on May 31, I was invited by the Amiga Atlanta User Group. Out
of this potential User Group, I met people who are attending the Amicon
today. Thank you very much for this invitation and for your time to listen
to me.
As you know yesterday was Halloween and I was very pleased that nobody beat
me up, because I will not bring any "Sweets" - like news from
our Research & Development department.
As you noticed already, Mr. Jeff Schindler, the general Manager of our new
founded Research & Development department, is not available today. At
the moment he is preparing a strategy road map which will be announced at
the Cologne fair.
Today I do not intend to talk a lot about our history, because everybody
knows what had happened, how exciting and how glamorous and sometimes how
sad and negative our history was designed.
You may remember my speech at the World of Amiga in London with Dr. Jim
'Taylor, world-wide President Global Marketing of Gateway 2000, Inc. on
171,h _ 18th May 97. In his speech, Dr. Jim Taylor pointed out that Gateway
2000, has not bought Amiga to make is smaller. Gateway 2000 want the Amiga
to grow.
And indeed, at AMIGA International, Inc. we registered already growth. We
founded AMIGA International Inc. in Langen which is under my direction,
and we are responsible for the Sales and Marketing world-wide.
In Germany we are in total 7 people. We are very successful in selling our
existing products world- wide. Beside Europe, we have tremendous improvements
regarding the sale in India and in Australia, but our North American business
is also increasing.
Good news are that we will have for our A 1 200 Amiga Magic Pack, which
was until now only available in PAL, a NTSC version for the North American
market available beginning December 97.
We also cut down our prices dramatically to built up the market for our
future products and to find new clients-its to convince by our fantastic
Amiga technology.
We have negotiated with Quikpak about a license agreement, and it is already
signed a few days ago.
As I already mentioned, it was founded a new company - Amiga Inc. in South
Dakota, close to Gateway 2000. Amiga Inc. is responsible for the Research
and the Development of new Amiga products, as well as hard and software.
The company is managed by Jeff Schindler. Currently in South Dakota at Amiga
Inc. there are working 5 people:
Jeff Schindler,
Darreck Lisle,
Marylin Flint,
Joe Torre,
Kelly Newby,
General Manager
Event coordinator
Operations manager
Senior engineer
Bookkeeper
Coming back to AMIGA International world- wide sales and 1-Marketing activities
out of Europe, they are as follows-
* Supporting the existing Amiga community
* Leveraging the existing Amiga technology through brought licensing
* Assisting in developing new products based on open standards to the home
computer and video/graphics market.
Since March 97, 1 have visited and supported world-wide Amiga activities
to keep up our community. In Europe I was attending the following conventions:
* Heilbronn/Germany, Amiga User Meeting with Keith Bradach from Gateway
2000
* Trier/Germany, Convention called "Magic days"
* Stockholm/Sweden, Amitech 97
* Hammersmith/England, World of Amiga
* Warsaw/Poland, Gambleriada 97 and Intel Outside Party
* Atlanta/USA, User Group convention
* Dakota Dunes/'USA, first constitutional meeting
* Saarbrücken/Germany, User Group convention
* Hof/Germany, User Group convention
* Empoli/Italy, Pianeta Amiga
* Bombay/India, Scat 97
* Australia, (lathering
* And now here in Port Columbus at the Amicon.
AM I GA International has reached many license agreements. They are:
A1200
Micronik (Germany)
A4000
Nova Sector (USA)
Amiga OS 3.1
Software Hut (USA)
Power Computing (UK)
Vesalia Computer (Germany)
Software Application
Epic Marketing (UK) - Image 3.1 KS Rom
Cloanto (Italian), Amiga forever
Merchandise Product for example T-shirts
Vidamus (Sweden)
Robert Hamilton (USA)
Triple A (France)
]Logica (Italy)
Randomize (Canada)
Amiga Plus (Germany)
For new hardware based on Amiga OS 3,1
Index (UK), Access
DCE GmbH, Germany
Quikpak (USA)
Spare Part distribution
Paxtron (USA)
Further license contracts are in sight:
For A1200
Elbox (Poland)
Intrinsic (UK)
Professional Support Service (South Africa)
New hardware based on Amiga OS 3.1
REC (USA) China/Europe, with their wonder TV
The next big convention is coming soon which will be the Cologne fair called
"Computer 97" starting 14th to 16th November 97.
For years, the fair was called "the World of Commodore" and than
after Commodore's bankruptcy it was changed into "Computer with the
current year. It was the largest Amiga fair world-wide. In 1995 there were
more than 60.000 people attending the show.
Last year when Amiga Technologies was under bankruptcy petition, there was
no fair booth and I was sitting around like an refugee and I tried hard
to represent Amiga outgoing from foreign booths. 'This situation effected
also the figures of visitors. The -figure dropped to only 35.000 in 3 days,
During the opening ceremony last year, I promised to be back in 1997 --and
indeed I achieved this goal. AMIGA International will have a big fair booth
with about 2.000 square feet. AMIGA International will not sell any products
during the fair. We will represent the Amiga technology and the licensed
technology.
On our booth, following companies are exhibiting and demonstrating their
products - powered by
Amiga:
* HI Q Limited, UK
* Haage & Partner, Germany
* Index Information, UK
* Micronik, Germany
* Herrn Holger Kruse, USA
Miami Software Internet
* Angela Schmidt, Germany
CD burn in
The biggest enrichment is that we can show the new designed boards by DCE
Computer Service GmbH. This board is based on the A4000 with following features:
There will be 2 versions available
1. A 5000
CPU 68030/50 Mhz
Up to 64 MB Ram
Standard PC Keyboard
1.44 MB Floppy Disk
1.7 Gbyte IDE HDD
10 - 24 Speed IDE CD ROM
AGA Chipset
Scan Doubler
HF Modulator optional
2. A6000
CPU 68060/50 Mhz
Up to 128 MB RAM
Standard PC Keyboard
1.44 MB Floppy Disk
1.7 Gbyte IDE HD
10 - 24 Speed IDE CD ROM
AGA Chipset
Scan Doubler
HF Modulator optional
1 think this product will be very successful in our near future. It will
help us to keep the market alive and growing. For further information, please
watch www.dcecom.de
This year in Cologne we expect more than 60.000 visitor,,;. 80 % of them
will be Amiga fanatics. In well organized workshops, the following companies
will be represented through News and Information.
Phase 5 - workshop power PC and strategy
@ Cloanto-Amiga forever, a hot discussion item
@ Haage & Partner- Internet & Java, Compiling
C code using Storm C, linking and
@i creating executable
@ Nova Design-Alladin 4D-an old friend is back,
Cinemorph - faster and faster
Image FX
And Vulcan Software from England will present their new Genetic Demo.
Due to the world-wide shortage of Amiga video monitors, AMIGA International
will also demonstrate how to use a standard PC monitor with our beloved
Amiga.
I think it is very Important, that we c, explore an (-)pen Amiga platform,
use industry Standard components to reduce the production costs, to make
it faster to develop and easier to upgrade. I try to reach this goal in
a very managed fashion.
Highlights of the Cologne fair will be the long expected announcement about
the Future of Amiga. Which will be stated at the developer conference on
Friday evening at 7 p.m.
Jeff Schindler will explain the strategy and roadmap for our future.
Now, my friends, I'm already at the end of my speech and Today I had the
great pleasure again to stand here and to give you a short up to date. I'm
convinced that we will meet each other several times within the next years.
My personal opinion is: Amiga has a bright future ahead!
Thank you for being here And many thanks to the people who organized this
big and successful event.
Petro 'Tyschtschenko