From:   OLAF_KAISER                     Internet Gateway

To:     S.LYSTER                        Stuart Lyster

Sub: proTOS


Hi Stuart,

here is the promised text about the proTOS convention. Please excuse my bad
English! But I have done my best. ;-)

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proTOS convention

The proTOS convention, the biggest convention for ATARI computers in
europe, opened its doors at the last weekend in november at the
"Messegelaende" Bonn (Germany).
Most of the european companies, which develope for the ATARI market,
some companies from overseas and APPLE Computer (!) were there. ATARI
itself wasn't there!
The proTOS convention was organized by some of the German ACCs (ATARI
COMPETENCE CENTER).

At first I want to talk about the three ultimitive highlights of this
convention:
- MEDUSA T60 (the first TOS based computer with a MC68060)
- EAGLE  (an ATARI clone with MC68030)
- MagiC Mac  (TOS soft emulation for APPLE MacIntosh computers)


MEDUSA T40/T60

The Medusa T60 is the successor of the Medusa T40, the first ATARI clone
ever made. The T40 works with a MC68040 / 64 MHz (internal). That means a
power of 26 MIPS (ATARI F030: 3.84 MIPS). The new T60 with its MC68060 / 64
MHz has a power of 100 MIPS (!). Both computers work with 32 bit data and
adress buses.
Price: about 3800 US$ (68040 mainboard + ST/IO card)
The MEDUSA computers are made by

       MEDUSA Computer Systems
       F. Aschwanden
       Buchhaldenstrasse 16
       8610 Uster
       Switzerland
       Phone: +41 1 940 92 54
       Fax:   +41 1 940 19 49


EAGLE

The second TOS compatible computer is the EAGLE from GE-Soft. At the moment
it only can be bought with a MC68030 / 32 MHz. But this 030 version is two
times faster than a ATARI TT, because the EAGLE has a better bus system
than the TT. This bus system called EAGLE Channel is a 32 bit
FULL-RANGE-CHANNEL which includes all signals and it is independent of the
used CPU. It can work with MC680x0 CPUs, but it can work with PPC, ALPHA
and Intel 486/586 CPUs, too.
In spring 1995 versions with MC68040 / 64 MHz and MC68060 / 64 MHz will be
available.
Price:  about 2500 US$ (68040 version)
The EAGLE is manufactured and distributed by

       GE-Soft mbH Computersysteme
       Landgrafenstrasse 37-39
       53842 Troisdorf
       Germany
       Phone: +49 2241 40 64 92
       Fax:   +49 2241 40 65 89

Now, after talking about the hardware highlights of that convention, I will
speak about the software highlight: MagiC Mac


MAGIC MAC

What is MagiC Mac? MagiC is a multitasking OS like MultiTOS or Geneva which
runs on ATARI ST(E) and TT. MagiC Mac is the same for Apple Computers (030
and 040 CPUs) which allows to run TOS software on Apple hardware. But MagiC
Mac is not a slow software emulator. With MagiC Mac TOS software is running
on Apple computers much more faster than on a ATARI TT!
With MagiC Mac you can run CALAMUS SL, SIGNUM!3, PHOENIX, TWIST II,
HARLEKIN III, PURE C and many more on Apple computers.

MagiC Mac is distributed by

    Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH
    P.O. Box 10 26 46
    69016 Heidelberg
    Germany
    Phone: +49 6221 30 00 02
    Fax:   +49 6221 30 03 89
    BBS:   +49 6221 30 36 71


These highlights were not the only new products which can be seen and
tested at that great convention.

Other companies which were at the proTOS and their new products (in
alphabetical order)
(only new products are listened)

AKZENTE
(Germany)

- CURE Audio/BASIC: new HD-recording software

ARTLINE
(Germany)

- new modules for CALAMUS SL

ASH / APPLE
(Germany/USA)

- MagiC Mac
- Signum! 3.5  (a good wordprocessing software)

BEHNE & BEHNE
(Germany)

- NVDI 3.01  (new version of NVDI with SPEEDO fonts and True Type fonts)

Best electronics
(USA)

- Barracuda (a new 040 accelerator for the F030 / is not ready)
- GST-MCU  (SMD chip)

BLOW UP
(Germany)

- Gut'nberg  (new DTP software)

CATCH COMPUTER
(Germany)

- PowerUpTT  (accelerator for TTs / 32/48 MHz)

CCD
(Germany)

- Tempus Word 2.9  (new version)

CICERO
(Germany)

- Cicero Cross (developing tools: from ATARI to MAC or WINDOWS)

COMPO/OVERSCAN
(Germany)

- That's write 4.0 (new version)
- SpeedoGDOS 5.0  (new version)
- Overlay II (new version of a multimedia software)
- APEX media (to make FLI/C files, morhping / full DSP support (!))
- Screenblaster III (inside)  (to get higher screen resolutions)
- COMPOnium  (music software)

DELTA LABS
(Germany)

- JAnE  (new texteditor with a comfortable macro-recorder and GDOS support)
- whiteline CD alpha (CD-ROM with ATARI share- and pd-ware)
- LINUX for TOS machines  (UNIX for MC68k computers)

GE-SOFT
(Germany)

- EAGLE  (new TOS computer)

HANSEN SOFTWARE
(Germany)

- Fractals 5  (software to generate fractals)

HARD & SOFT
(Germany)

- Speed resolution card  (F030 speed (40 MHz) and resolution (TC in 640*400
  at 70 Hz) accelerator)
- SCSI-Tools and CD-Tools 2.0 (with MetaDOS 2.45)  (new versions)

MEDUSA COMPUTER SYSTEMS
(Switzerland)

- MEDUSA T40 and MEDUSA T60  (new ATARI clones)

MW Electronic
(Germany)

- PAK 68/3  (ST-accelerator with 68030 / 50 MHz and fastRAM card)

NO!-SOFTWARE
(Germany)

- NeoN 3D  (to design 3D computer graphics and animations / with scenery-,
  object-, material- , animations-editor and modules for rendering an
  raytracing)

PAGEDOWN
(Germany)

- presentation of the JAGUAR and new JAGUAR-games like AvP and IRON SOLDIER
- Script 4.0  (new version)

TKR
(Germany)

- Tele Office 3.0  (fax software)

STEINBERG
(Germany)

- Cubase Audio 16  (MIDI and HD-recording software for 16 tracks)

and many other companies more!

The proTOS convention was a big success for all; companies and visitors.
Companies sold a lot of soft- and hardware and visitors had the possibility
to update their software, to buy cheap hard- and software and to talk with
developers.
This convention showed, that the ATARI market isn't dead! And if ATARI
don't develop new hardware, there will be other companies which will do it!

Sorry that I haven't got the time to write more about the listened
products. If anyone wants to have more information about a special product or
the adress of one company, please connect me:
                              olaf_kaiser@bi.maus.de

