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Offline omnicron10

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I believe I was at this show working in the Antigravity booth.  We had Amiga Inc. badges.. still have mine.  Was this the one with the Newtek party off site after with the open bar?  I remeber Paul Nolan had written some code to retarget the Video Toaster 4000 screen to RTG and was trying to get Newtek to buy it.  I saw it work.  There was also a company making Kiosks with the Video Toaster and Flyers.  Pretty slick with touchscreen and everything.
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Well I dont think it was 2006.  I have not been to amiga show since that show.  I was at the show with the Antigravity guys.  I remember seeing the bOxer prototype board at Antigravity at that time.  I was at a booth with an Amiga Inc. badge since Antigravity was representing Amiga Inc for some reason.
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I did not see the final moments of antigravity but I think the biggest problems they had was getting product.  I remeber A LOT of people wanting to buy A4000 or A4000T systems and they did not have any to sell.  They were selling used systems and the such but could not secure enough.  That is one reason they had invested so much in the Boxer but after a few revisions of that, the could not get the timings right or something.  I think they started selling Alpha systems for lightwave rendering so I imagine they turned into that.  For a while Paul Nolan was at their office working on software quite a bit.  It was fun to go over and visit. I had a good friend that work there named Kevin that also worked at Transnational Electronics in Anaheim for a while. Transnational was another Amiga dealer.  

 
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Not sure if the boxer killed them or not.  I know they were almost all Video Toaster (when they could get machines) and Alphas systems in the end. I was not sure if they were actually fronting the money for the Boxer. I saw two of the prototype boards.  I think there were three boards and almost all different from each other (in appearance at least). When I asked what the problem was with the board not being done, I was told timing issues.  It took an 060 right on the board.    At one point they were trying to get the rights via Quickpak to make the A4000T.  Quickpak said they have rights to make the A4000T and the 060 board that was basically a commodore DEV board that Quickpak put in to production.  That board was HUGE.  I guess there was a suite and Quickpak was not allowed to make the 4000T anymore.  It was so frustrating watching all these people trying to keep the Amiga alive and everyone was just killing each other and not doing anything.  Although Quickpak really did not have much of the ability to make anything other than the A4000T motherboard, they wanted to take that and make a luggable Toaster machine.  
A500/030 40mhz with A530, Indivision ECS, , KS 3.1, 2 Megs Chip, 8 Megs fast.
A600 Vampire II
SAM440EP 667, Amiga OS 4.1u1
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Chameleon
CD32
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128D
128
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