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Interview with Thomas Dellert of DCE
As DCE has bought the licences for many products of Phase 5, we have asked Thomas Dellert a couple of questions:

Interview in German
Translator: Martina Jacobs

amiga news:
Many users worry about how and if Phase5 products will still be available. As to our knowledge DCE allready obtained a number of licences from Phase5 some time ago. How about this in detail?

Thomas Dellert:
DCE owns exclusive rights on the following Phase5 products:

Blizzard 1240
Blizzard 1260
Blizzard 2040
Blizzard 2060
Blizzard SCSI IV Kit
CV 64 3D
CV PPC
B-Vision
Cyberstorm MK III
Cyberstorm PPC
Blizzard PPC

Pos. 1-6 are allready availabel again.
Cyberstorm MK III and PPC will be shipping within the 8th week of this year.
Blizzard PPC after about 7 weeks.
BVison and CV PPC about today fortnight.
Distribution will be done by Vesalia Computer.

amiga news:
These are excellent news! Will DCE take over repaire services for those products, too?

Thomas Dellert:
DCE will take over repair services for those products. So, owners of elder boards don't have to worry about that.

amiga news:
Will the licences and the availability of Phase5 products be impaired or even endangered by Phase5's application for insolvency?

Thomas Dellert:
We've obtained exclusive rights for these products in April 1999 allready. We are not paying any licence fee to P5. Rather than this we obtained the licences by a single payment. There are unobjectionable contracts. The availability of the products is secure.

amiga news:
Will there be further software updates relating phase5 products? Are you allready in contact about this with Ralph Schmitdt?

Thomas Dellert:
A good and very important question, Petra. Yes, I had a meeting with Ralph Schmidt and Frank Mariak two days ago. We have come to terms that in the future we will cooperate very close. There will be a FTP server on oure homepage, where device updates will be found for download.

amiga-news.de:
Are there any plans for new developments based upon Phase5's products?

Thomas Dellert:
For sure existing hardware will be produced at first. There are a lot of preorders. Since Permedia II chips have been announced by TI, we probable will be able to produce only a number of 1200 BVision or CV-PPC boards. Hence we are thinking about a Permedia III board for Amiga. This might be mounted upon the existing BVision or CV-PPC platform. Frank Mariak will develope the software for us. With the entire amount of technical know-how of Phase5 we now have a powerful package at our disposal. In any case there will be activities relating PPC. For the time being as a dual CPU resolution only.

amiga-news.de:
In particular: Will there be a Phase5 G4 board from DCE, and will there be pay regard to prepayments Phase5 allready recieved relating those boards? Or will there be hardware at cheaper prices, similar to Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe offering to all those Euromail harmed people AminetCDs at a price of DM 5 or bricks?

Thomas Dellert:
Relating that I allready met with Wolf Dietrich. Indeed at this time I cannot tell, if we will decide for a G4 project.

amiga-news.de:
Do DCE have access to hardware of Phase5' customers, which lies at Phase5's for repair at this time?

Thomas Dellert:
No, we haven't.

amiga-news.de:
Thomas, thank you very much for your informativ answers. We are pacifyed and pleased that production will contiue, and that customers who have Phase5 products will be able to take up a competent service for repair at DCE.

DCE
thomas.dellert@dcecom.de (Translation: mb)

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