I was surprised to see an article essentially devoted to LightWave3D ("Desktop Hollywood F/X," July). I guess this is because it is now available for real personal computers (sarcasm intended) and not some obscure toy like the Amiga, which was four to five years ahead of its time. In your list of company addresses, you included Commodore Business Machines, but Commodore has been out of business for over a year now. The Amiga is now owned by Amiga Technologies GmbH, a part of Escom AG.
Amiga fans, rejoice! German company Escom AG has acquired Commodore Electronics Ltd. and Commodore's Amiga technology. Escom's plans reportedly include producing the Amiga 600, 1200, and 4000 series and melding Amiga and MS-DOS systems. Here's the contact info: Escom AG, Tiergarten Strasse 9, H
eppenheim, Germany 64646; +49 6252 7090; fax +49 6252 709 442. -- Ed DeJesus, senior editor, edejesus@bix.com
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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