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`21.May.2025`	Mingo's Commodore Blog: The Gotek drive in detail - parts 1 and 2 (German) In his latest blog entry, Domingo Fivoli from South Tyrol continues his detailed and richly illustrated examination of the Gotek drive. His German two-part guide is about making the drive suitable for Amiga and installing some modifications. The current sequel is dedicated to the UART method for flashing the drive, which was initially omitted due to the amount of information. (snx) [News message: 21. May. 2025, 08:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.May.2025`	Blog entry: Desktop Icons of Yore Following his thoughts on why computers used to be more fun, Carl Svensson has now published a short blog entry on the evolution of desktop icons from Xerox via e.g. Amiga and NextStep to BeOS. (snx) [News message: 21. May. 2025, 08:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.May.2025` Mike Battilana (Facebook)	Gail Wellington passed away On Thursday Gail Wellington passed away at the age of 85. Born on January 14, 1940 in Yonkers, New York, she was one of Commodore International's best-known personalities through her work as head of the "Commodore Applications and Technical Support" (CATS) department, which was founded for her, and her involvement in the Amiga CDTV. Her career in this field began in 1981 at Commodore UK, as a technical writer - starting with a manual about writing software manuals for external developers of programs for the Commodore PET - where she eventually became head of the software department. Three years later at Commodore Electronics Ltd, she took over software sales to and support for the independent distributors. In spring of 1985, at the CeBIT computer exposition in Hanover, Germany, her supervisor, Bob Gleadow, asked her to travel to Los Gatos for three weeks to work with the Amiga developers whose company Commodore had bought in August. This turned into three months in which Gail Wellington mediated between the West Coast and Commodore's marketing department on the East Coast of the USA and kept the management up to date on progress and costs. During this time she was also involved in the planning and coordination of the official launch of the Amiga at Lincoln Center in New York on July 23rd, a major event with Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry, which, like many others, required her to work 7-day weeks and travel extensively. Back in England at Commodore Electronics, she took charge of marketing and recruiting developers for the Amiga, which led to her return to the USA in October 1986 and appointment as worldwide Amiga Product Manager and in 1987 head of CATS, where she oversaw all worldwide developer activities, managed the Amiga DevCon events and ensured the successful sale of Commodore's products by ensuring the availability of high quality third party application software and hardware. CATS consisted of technical, administrative and marketing staff. These assignments ended with Mehdi Ali's presidency of Commodore International, who made her Director of Special Projects. The first special project was the development and launch of the Amiga CDTV, code-named "Gail's Baby". Gail Wellington and her team oversaw the software side, while Don Gilbreath and his team were responsible for the hardware side. Her tasks included bringing software developers on board and conducting product demonstrations. However, the CDTV was not a commercial success and Gail Wellington was dismissed in 1992. After a brief stint as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at OptImage Interactive Services, which was involved with Philips' CD-i, she ended up working full-time at "Three Peas in a Pod Florist" in Pennsylvania, which she had previously purchased with her daughter. (snx) [News message: 18. May. 2025, 09:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.May.2025`	FreePascal: Video of Markdown usage on the Amiga Markdown is a format in which structured documents can be created with plain text. Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has now used the Markdown processor for FreePascal to write down notes in Markdown format in the browser and convert them into HTML to display them as a web page. A video demonstrates this. (snx) [News message: 18. May. 2025, 09:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2025` Robert Smith (ANF)	Video: MiSTer Multisystem 2 The MiSTer Multisystem² is an FPGA-based retro console in a 3D-printed case (amiga-news.de reported). At the title link 'More Fun Making It' is unboxing and testing it. (snx) [News message: 14. May. 2025, 09:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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