| tekmage | hello StefanO! |
| StefanO | To give you some background information about our company: We're publishing the Aminet CD-ROM series aswell as well known commercial products like TurboCalc, CygnusEd and others ... ! |
| tekmage | Few rules, please end your question or statments with GA, have you questions ready and if you have a question /msg tekmage with a "?" |
| tekmage | queue is platon42 , Manowar2 , Trizt |
| platon42 | StefanO: aminet series is doing quite well. i just wondered if you're still giving out free copies to contributors as i haven't received any for some time now. |
| platon42 | ga |
| tekmage | queue is Manowar2 , Trizt, RaM, joule |
| StefanO | platon42: Well, we're still giving away copies for free, but you have to pay the postage. In order to request your freebie you'll have to provide a freebie-ticket-number. |
| StefanO | ga |
| Manowar2 | StefanO: Hi 1) Will u sell LinuxPPC Redhat CD ? 2)Which products do u plan for 99 ? 3)Have u ever thought to publish Amiga CD games ?GA |
| Illuvatar | I'm screwed |
| tekmage | queue is Trizt, RaM, joule, phoe, platon42 |
| StefanO | Manowar2: We'll have seen a strong demand for LinuxPPC at the Computer 98 and we'll try to make this CD available aswell. In 99 we'll continue to release many new products but I cannot disclose specific details, yet. We're not in the games publishing business and our expereince is quite limited. But if someone offers us a breathtaking game we won't hesitate to give it a try! ga |
| Trizt | Stefan how's the sales going? Will you be able to continue with the shrinking Amiga market? 2) how long is the freebie-ticket valide? ga |
| StefanO | Trizt: We had been happy with the sales at Computer 98. Especially the new released have done well. Freebie-tickets are valid as long as we have the Aminet volume in stock. At least 6 months! ga |
| RaM | Hi Stefan, when can we expect to see Bodyguard (progress? clashes with PPC?), and is there any progress on AmiCDFS 3 commercial? GA |
| tekmage | queue is joule, phoe, platon42, sN00Py |
| StefanO | RaM: You won't see me announce any progress regarding Amiga BodyGuard because we have cancelled this product a couple of days ago. On our web-site you should find the reasons for this decision explained. Regarding AmiCDFS you should get in touch with MArtin Berndt as this is his private product! ga |
| phoe | is the RedHat Linux CD an official RedHat release or a port - if it's a port, why are you charging so much, when cheapbytes.com sell the generic (non commercial) versions for $2 ? (the source is freely available, so you could compile your own version for any platform) GA |
| StefanO | phoe: No, we call it a "unofficial RedHat"-release. The price is not as low as $2 because we supply technical support, we have marketing expanses, our dealers and distributors need their margins, ... . ga |
| platon42 | I know about the 'ticket' system, I just didn't get one for CD 26 in the past. Just wondered (no need to get too deep into this matter) :) Another question: What are the advantages about your redhat linux distribution compared to the one Eagle offers? Is the kernal any better? (the eagle one doesn't even support A4000 on-board scsi)? ga |
| atmosh | thanx |
| StefanO | platon42: Please get in touch with Urban Mueller (mueller@relog.ch). Urban is in charge of the freebie-ticket-database. I cannot compare our product to Eagle Linux. We tried very hard to buy a copy from Eagle but they failed to deliver all the time. |
| StefanO | ga |
| sN00Py | What ever happened to Amiga Bodyguard.. the memory protection for AMigaOS.... they kept on delaying it and then finally canceled the project..... in my view Schatztruhe has only embrassed itself by adveriting for months about its soon to be released availability.... please explain what happened to the project.... |
| sN00Py | GA |
| tekmage | If you have a question please "/msg tekmage ?" |
| StefanO | sN00Py: Well, we had a contract with Martin Bernd. Martin promised to deliver the product in May 98 and we trusted him. The problem was, that MArtin failed to deliver since May and every months we had to hear further excuses. 10 days ago he informed us that he won't be able to finalize the product in time for the show |
| StefanO | and that it will probably take much longer. Thus we cancelled our contract because we're not convinced anymore that this product will ever see the light of the day. |
| StefanO | Martin did not act in bad faith. He simply undererstimated the challenge of BodyGuard. ga |
| AndersJ | StefanO: "Schatztruhe has taken over the CGX development of CGX - Will we be seeing some futures that is worth paing for" GA |
| tekmage | If you have a question please "/msg tekmage ?" |
| StefanO | AndersJ: Frank Mariak was and is the programmer of CGX. I assume that he'll continue to do a good job in further developing CGX. |
| StefanO | ga |
| tekmage | I don't see anyother questions comming in |
| tekmage | oops |
| tekmage | two moe |
| tekmage | mpre |
| aTmosh | Webcam is now functional: http://ugn.amiga.org/webcam/ |
| tekmage | I was going to suggest that you tell us about one of the your products in detail |
| tekmage | let us get to these two questions and see were we are |
| Manowar2 | When BvisionPPC from P5 is released ?..Will CGX V4 BvisionPPC driver be free or Will we have to pay ? |
| Manowar2 | GA |
| Illuvatar | ouch |
| StefanO | Manowar2: Well, we won't be able to give out drivers for free. Please ask Phase 5. I assume that they won't ship BvisionPPC without any drivers. ga |
| laire | StefanO wasn`t that a bit more than shortsighted about MB and BodyGuard ? All Amiga experts probably told you since the first announcement that it`s nonsense. I can imagine the situation he moved you because of the adds you did for that thing, though. GA |
| StefanO | laire: Before Martin received his contract I have discussed this issue with Ralph Babel. As Ralph told me that such a program is possible I signed the contract in good faith. ga |
| RaM | nope...nuthing now..pass : ) |
| OrginC98 | StefanO: Will there be an AGA-cbgfx driver without the need for a ppc within 4.0 ? If not, why ? GA |
| StefanO | OrginC98: I'm not able to answer. Please forward your question to schatztruhe@cityweb.de and you should receive the correct answer within 1 or 2 days. Ga |
| tekmage | StafanO: it looks like the time is up |
| tekmage | StefanO: thank you very much for comming to speak to us today! |
| StefanO | Thank you for your questions! See you at Computer 98! |
| StefanO | ga |
| StefanO | Thank you for your questions! See you at Computer 99! |
| tekmage | Computer99 :) |
