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25.May.2001
Ralph Ewers

New pictures and report from the 'Japanese Business Show 2001'
As already reported, Sharp Corporation presented the Sharp Zaurus pocket computer with AmigaDE as application for the first time at their booth at the 'Japanese Business Show 2001' in Tokyo. Ralph Ewers, an amiga-news.de reader currently living in Tokyo, has visited the show for us and sent us more pictures and a small report.

Ralph Ewers had the chance to talk to Sharp's planning manager and obtain the following information:

The Zaurus is supposed to be available in America this autumn running Linux (in English) instead of the Japanese ZaurusOS. The American version will most likely contain some improvements: in the same case, a faster CPU may be built into (the current CPU was at times indeed slow running the DE), a battery with longer life and a keyboard with larger keys is planned as well. Whether AmigaDE will be included depends on the licence fees which are currently not decided yet. A first prototype of the English Zaurus may be seen at the Java-One taking place in early June in America.

At least, Bill McEwen (here only called "Mister Bill" since it's easier to pronounce for the Japanese) has had some successful meetings with a Sharp manager (these personal meetings are very important!). He's at least in e-mail contact with the "planning manager" I spoke to.

Amiga is definitely seen "only" as "content provider". A native DE hasn't been thought about so far. (At least that's the official reply!)

Other "highlights":

The color display of the Palm m505 is at least in the default configuration rather ugly and strongly reminds of the PalmIIIc. It also reflects awfully (it has that - sadly - in common with the Zaurus). Regarding this, the Cassiopeia s700 (or was it i700) impressed me very much. Subjectively not any heavier than a Palm V (slightly deeper) and a great display with higher resolution.

Logitec plans to release a DVD-R/RW (yes, "R") drive with FireWire in June, the price is interesting: 120,000 Yen (plus 5% tax here in Japan).

Bluetooth was a big topic. Panasonic for example has presented miscellaneous hardware; some kind of Gameboy, headphones, expansion cards for the memory card slot and so on, and there's also a lot of choice for the Zaurus.

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22.May.2001
Marvin Droogsma - AmigaScene (ANF) Event: Benelux Amiga Show - AmigaOne comes to Europe
In Rotterdam, Netherlands will take place a unique Amiga Show on 23rd of June. The Benelux Amiga Show will present many VIPs and the latest hardware, including the AmigaOne! This show will show that Amiga is alive and will have a good future. One of the VIPs will be Petro Tyschtschenko and maybe he will talk freely about the history of Amiga. (ps)

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21.May.2001
Chris Green via E-Mail

Event: Kickstart Amiga Show News
AmigaOne exhibition at the Kickstart Amiga Show K4 The Kickstart Amiga User Group announced that Eyetech, the sponsor of the Kickstart Amiga Show, will present the new AmigaOne-Computer.

Details:

K4: The Kickstart Amiga Show in co-operation with Eyetech and Analogic
When: Saturday, 26 May 2001
Where: Banstead Youth Centre, The Horeseshoe, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 2BQ, England
Time: 12:00 h - 17:00 h (local time)
Homepage: www.kickstartshow.co.uk

The Kickstart Amiga Show will offer you the possibility to take a look at the new computer and to talk with the Eyetech-team. Further details are available at our homepage. You can find there a detailed discription of how to find the exhibition, too.

Contact

Requests about and reservation of an stand: Ray McCarthy, Show organizer, Tel.: 0044 1737 215432
All other requests: Chris Green, PR-co-ordinator, Tel.: 0044 7971 273850

Games-Arena

Register online for the Kickstart Show Games Competition! There will be competitions with new and classical games. Visit our homepage and register for one of our competition. You can register at the show, too. Remember that there are only a restricted number of competitors.

Sensible Soccer
'Sensible Soccer' will be one of the games of the competition presented by the Blackpool Amiga User Group.

Shogo
The second game will be 'Shogo Death Match' presented by SEAL. At least there will be 16 places for each of the mentioned games. Additional information is available at the title link. (ps)

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