amiga-news.de - Amiga Award 2002 for the bplan GmbH and Chris Hodges

11.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus Amiga Award 2002 for the bplan GmbH and Chris Hodges
Important and eventful twelve months have passed the Amiga community. Several new products which will smooth the way for the Amiga saw the light of the world in the year 2002. With the Amiga Award 2002 the Amiga community says, together with the AMIGAplus, "thank you" for these effords!

Amiga Award 2002

During thre AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002 at the 8th of December 2002 the Amiga Award 2002 for the most innovative product of the year 2002 was awarded to the bplan GmbH . The company, situated in Frankfurt/Main, has developed during the last two years the new µATX sized PowerPC mainboard "Pegasos" ready to introduce to the marked.
The Amiga Award 2002 was presented to Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda as deputies for the bplan GmbH by Nico Barbat, editor of the AMIGAplus.
"We would like to thank all participants and are georgeously proud of this award." said Thomas Knäbel, managing director of the bplan GmbH.

Amiga Award 2002 Extra

Beside the main category the 2200 participants voted for the Amiga Award 2002 Extra also.
As a representative for the shareware programmers Chris Hodges was honoured for the development of his USB stack "Poseidon". This award was remunerated with EUR 250,- and was made possible by the financial encouragement of Genesi.

Amiga Award 2002 - Free votes

The free votes were won by the Pegasos for "Best Amiga hardware 2002", Amithlon for "Best Amiga software 2002" and Tales of Tamar for "Best Amiga game 2002".

Statistics and winnings

All particiapants have the chance to win one of the winnings of a totally worth more than EUR 1000 including an Amiga 1200/060 sponsored by eXpreSystems and some games and applications. The winners will be announced on December the 20th 2002.
The Amiga-Award-Team of falkemedia and the AMIGAplus is looking forward to the Amiga Award 2003 already and thanks for the good participation and gratulates all winners and nominees for their Amiga encouragement once again!
P.S.: At the website of the Amiga Award 2002 there are photos of the ceremony and the Amiga Award 2002 and additional statistics. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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