=========================================================================== // Amiga Update - News and Rumors // \X/ (A Very Occasional Newsletter) \X/ =========================================================================== 950630 C A N A D I A N A M I G A S H O W T O B E H E L D After all the gloom and wondering of the last few months, here's something refreshingly cheeful. Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Official Info Pack on the Amiga Convention '95 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** Please feel free to spread this file around wherver you can, as long as it is not altered. We don't want people to show up at the wrong city or during the wrong month! If you are a magazine, please feel free to put this in your magazine. All that we ask in return is that you e-mail or call us to tell us that you have put the information into the magazine. Also, if you would like to have an article written for your magazine after the convention about what happened at AC'95, please e-mail *************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In August, in Montreal, the third annual Amiga Convention will take place! This convention will gather the Amiga community together from all across the world to show its support for the Amiga! We hope to make this show the first event in the long fight to make the Amiga a well known computer in North America again. WHY: We are putting on the Amiga Convention '95 (AC 95) to support our favorite computer, the Amiga! We feel that for too long, the Amiga has been ignored, and now that the Amiga is owned by people who actually will support it well, we want to help them out in any way we can. We also want to get a lot of people together to have a really cool time! WHERE: A College Cafeteria in Montreal, large enough to hold over 1,000 people, not including the surrounding rooms. ADDRESS: College du Vieux Montreal 255, Ontario EAST (street) Montreal (Quebec) H2X 1X6 Canada WHEN : 19th - 20th August 1995 TIME : 8:00 - 20:00 (8:00 PM) Saturday 8:00 - 20:00 (8:00 PM) Sunday ENTRANCE COST: 7 Canadian dollars COMPETITIONS: Gfx (3d) -------- 1st place : $300 2nd place : $200 3rd place : $100 Music (mod 4 chan.) ----------------- 1st place : $300 2nd place : $200 3rd place : $100 Intro (64k max.) ---------------- 1st place : $500 2nd place : $300 3rd place : $200 Demo (2 megs max.) ------------- 1st place : $1000 2nd place : $600 3rd place : $300 * Special Award ceremonies to give out a special prizes for the persons that made some amazing thing with the Amiga Computers! (to encourage some developers that are doing crazy thing with the amiga!) Dealers/Devlopers on list already! ----------------------------------- We are currently talking to the AMIGA COMPANY, owned by Escom, to get them involved with the show. It will be announced in a later announcement whether they are coming or not. RCS Managements: Makers of the X-Calibur and Fusion-Forty GfxBase Eletronic: A local computer store chain. Eletromike: Another computer store chain. Wonder Computers: Owners of 4 stores in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, London. The biggest Canadian Amiga retailer. PreSpect Technics: Importers/dealers/devlopers of hardware products! Spectrum GFX: A video production company headed by the programmer of Composite Studio Pro Ultred Visions Inc.: Developers of a CD32-based plug-and-play Internet access set-top box. Amiga Link: The online Amiga magazine! COST FOR RENTING TABLES : $100 - 1 day, $150 - 2 days, for one table of 6' by 3' and chairs. You may do whatever you want to at the rented tables. These tables are aimed towards dealers and developers. FREE TABLES: We will also have free tables at AC'95, for anyone who wishes to bring their Amiga, whether to show off something cool, or just to help someone else who might need one at the time. However, at the free tables you get less space than the pay tables, it is first-come first-serve, and you cannot sell products at the tables! That is strictly for the rented tables. ACCESABILITY: The show is easily accesable by bus and train, as well as having lots of parking space in the vicinity for cars. WHY DEALERS SHOULD COME: At AC'95, we offer tables at an incredibly cheap price, a price which includes electrical outlets. You also get the chance to show and sell your wares to a crowd of Amiga owners, all of whom have money to spend and are influenced by how big a prescence you have at the show. WHY PEOPLE SHOULD COME: AC'95 will have stands from many major dealers and developers. It will also have a lot of friendly Amiga owners there, plus a booming sound system and TV setup that will show crazy demos and products. It will be a wild good time for all! * Just 5 minutess walking distance from the Metro Station BERRI-UQAM as well as for the BUS terminals of VOYAGEUR, GREYHOUND, etc. * Interior parking space for up to 200 cars at $5 canadian a day. * We will have Audio/visual equipment setup for presentations of demos, programs, hardware, new products, etc. The audio equpment run at an incredible 5000W!! * The Student-Cafe will be open during the events selling food like sandwiches, soups, coffee and other fast food items. CONTACT: If you want to buy a table, get more information on the show, or just talk to the organizers, e-mail either or , or call 514-649-9756 (in Canada) and ask for Frederic Tessier regarding the Amiga Convention '95. You can also mail the organizers at: Frederic Tessier 922 Deschamps Sainte-Julie (Quebec) J3E 1N9 Canada =========================================================================== || Brad Webb - available at: // Commodore has fallen || webb@malamute.med.ge.com \X/ and it can't get up || GEnie -- B.Webb (but ESCOM can - ?) || Portal -- XJumpdisk ===========================================================================