Bill McEwen to appear on TechTV

[AmiGod]

I'm glad I subscribed to TechTV when it came to Canada in September of last year.

But a quick search on the TechTV site revealed to me that tomorrow night will not be Bill's first appearance on the TechTV channel.  He apparently also appeared on an episode of Silicon Spin (hosted by John C. Dvorak) back on November 1st, 2000.  "Bill McEwen of Amiga" is indicated as one of the guest hosts for that episode.  I wish I'd have seen it.

For him to be on The Screen Savers will definitely be a plus for Amiga and the Amiga community.

Anyways, I'll definitely be taping it.  And for those of you living in the Ottawa (Canada) area, I'll be showing the episode at this month's Amiga.info user group meeting.

For more information on Amiga.info, check out www.technomages.net/amiga.info/.

AmiGod

[AmiGod]

Rodney,

The show lasts an hour and a half, and chances are that Bill will be on the show for 10-15 minutes.

The show has started, and at the beginning, they showed an A1000 with monitor/keyboard on the screen when announcing that Bill was on the show.  Another ironic thing is that they're giving away a Gateway 'PC' on today's show (they've been doing it for a week and a half now).

It would be extremely difficult for me to VCD/DiVX it.  The reason is that my A4kT doesn't have the tech to do it.  As powerful as it is.

I hope that there's someone out there with the channel and the appropriate technology who will MPEG it for the community, providing s/he gets the green light from TechTV, because it's a shame that a lot of Amigans can't see the show.

Keep an eye on this page: "http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/shownotes/story/0,24330,2189418,00.html" for the happenings on today's show.  It's always possible that they'll post a clip of Bill on the show once the show is over.  No guarantees.

I'm sorry that I can't be of more help.

AmiGod

[AmiGod]

>It won't be good news if Bill totaly scr*ws up the whole program ...

... we'll know right after this batch of commercials.

... they're back.

... and the segment is over.  I was going to write everything that happened, but a lot happened in 10+ minutes, and the key feature of it that comes to mind is Bill running Planet Z on a laptop, on an old PocketPC, and on a Sharp Zaurus, and it looking the same on all three, segwaying into him mentioning Amiga Anywhere, due in April.

The only screw-up in the segment came from the producers of the show, who accidentally (yet again) misspelled Bill's last name.  Maybe Bill should change his last name to McEwan.

But the segment was a total success, from my own point of view.

As a side-note, I just checked www.amiga.com, and it's so overloaded with hits that I couldn't connect after 5 minute.  I can't wait to hear more about those hits.

AmiGod