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Title: Andy Finkel to be interviewed for CommVEx v4
Post by: RobertB on July 25, 2008, 12:07:57 AM

Hello, all,

Sorry for the late notice, but it was literally two weeks ago that CBM engineer Bil Herd suggested the idea of a video conference into this year's CommVEx, instead of the usual pre-recorded, yearly CBM Animals video.  He has rounded up Andy Finkel, CBM engineer who has worked on the VIC-20, C64, and Amiga as the focus of this conference.  

Bill said, "I was able to get hold of Andy Finkel who was head of the games group the entire time I was there and went on to do LOTs of Amiga stuff, he literally knows where some of the bodies were buried on the Amiga sw."

Well, with a few days to go before CommVEx, everyone is virtually running around to get this done.  Details are changing at the each moment.  It might be a video conference; it might just be a telephone conference.  It all depends on how Bil, Andy, Dave Haynie, and now AmiWest Show Internet radio/video guru, Bill "Tekmage" Bosari can get it all together on their end.

This though is certain - Bil Herd will introduce and be moderator for an interview with Andy Finkel.  All we have to do is provide more questions for Andy, or as Bil puts it, "20 questions...".

So if you have a question for Andy (or even Bil), post it here and I will gather them up to present to them.

  CommVEx in 2 days!
  Robert Bernardo
  Fresno Commodore User Group
  CommVEx v4 website - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

Title: Re: Andy Finkel to be interviewed for CommVEx v4
Post by: weirdami on July 25, 2008, 09:06:30 AM

me question since he's a software guy: what contemporary platforms are the best suited for porting old Amiga games to?

Title: Re: Andy Finkel to be interviewed for CommVEx v4
Post by: Nlandas on July 25, 2008, 06:04:22 PM

I wonder if Bil sees a place in the market today for another Operating System or Operating System/Platform or are the days of competition done and it's Mac OS X, Windows or Linux forever?

Title: Re: Andy Finkel to be interviewed for CommVEx v4
Post by: Matt_H on July 25, 2008, 08:35:38 PM

Wow! Wish I could be there. Here's a question for now (maybe another one later):

Over the years, we've learned a lot about the various hardware projects that were either cancelled by management or abandonned in the wake of the bankruptcy. Did any software projects suffer a similar fate?

Title: Re: Andy Finkel to be interviewed for CommVEx v4
Post by: RobertB on July 26, 2008, 08:07:40 AM

Thanks for the great questions, everybody.  The talk is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Pacific Time and will last 45 minutes to an hour.  I'll make sure to get your questions over to Bil and Andy.

On a different note, both Saturday and Sunday we at CommVEx will be chatting live on the #acug channel, irc.eskimo.com network.

        CommVEx v4 tomorrow!
        Robert Bernardo
        CommVEx organizer
        Fresno Commodore User Group

Title: Re: Andy Finkel to be interviewed for CommVEx v4
Post by: Senex on July 26, 2008, 12:32:25 PM

Another question:

http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/comments/226294.html (http://tinyurl.com/5txdk7)