Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!know!daemon From: ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Bad News In Atari Land! :) Message-ID: <20881@know.pws.bull.com> Date: 4 Feb 91 23:08:46 GMT Sender: daemon@pws.bull.com Lines: 67 Approved: warren@pws.bull.com I captured the following message posted by an Atari user in an Atari SIG on Cleveland Free-Net... Article #631 (636 is last): Newsgroups: freenet.sci.comp.atari.general >From: aj205@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kevin Steele) Subject: UK ST Users Worried Date: Fri Jan 11 12:04:56 1991 ST Aladdin Category 1, Topic 18 Message 1 Thu Jan 10, 1991 GORDON at 20:49 EST 16 Bit Computer Faire London England Jan 4, 5 and 6th I will give you a brief description of what I thought was happening at the 16 bit faire. Atari people in England are the same as the Atari people in the US. Scared and Worried. Trying to figure out what the Heck Atari is doing. All the europeans have heard that the ST is totally dead in the US and they can't figure out why as it is still selling in Europe. Not as good as the Amiga but its still alive. At the show Talon Tech was showing there new Beatle Mouse (taking a cue from Atari and showing the new products in Europe first!!) Hisoft was showing a new Flight Simulator and new beta versions of the HiSoft Basic and Dev Pack, all of which are promised shortly through Gold Leaf Publishing here in the US. GFA has a new version of Basic for the ST and is hoping to have a version of GFA BASIC for windows on the PC in early February. Best news yet to GFA users they have hired a GM and are opening an office in Boston as of Jan 1. I don't have the address but I will keep an eye out for it for you. The new man is a PC person and I think most of their plans in the US are for the PC market. One interesting thing I heard is that since the Frenchman Eli did not work out Jack is now going to try a German. He is going to transfer the German GM to the US to try to streighten out the US. One interesting side effect of this is that I heard he was going to bundle some German software with the new STE's and he is going to pay the German companies to set up offices in the US to support thier software. Atari chose not to exhibit at the show so there was nothing new from them. The surprising thing to me was the number of English ST software companies that have closed up or changed their marketing thrust. Like there was nothing from GST for the ST. Hisoft, GFA, Kuma and a company showing a photo retouching package were the only serious software people there. The ST in England is considered a game machine and its sold as such. Another interesting thing was the fact that there was at least 6 different companies selling mouse replacements for the ST. Kevin Steele (aj205.Cleveland.Freenet.Edu) [END OF FILE] Tom -- ............................... Why purchase a MAC when | Amiga...The computer for _ | IBM's greatest sales the Amiga will run MAC | the creative mind! _ // | tool is ignorance on software faster? |.......................\\//..| the consumer's part.