940531 European note {This line added when newsletter was archived.} Everyone, This note was picked up on Sunday night from Portal. It's from someone who claims to be close to C= Europe. Note that the "Monday" referred to in the note is yesterday. We monitored the AP wire and major on-line systems yesterday and no announcement was forthcoming, at least that we could find. Brad 29 may, 1994 Hi all, There haven't been much news these last days and lots of rumours again. The status is still the same, Commodore and Samsung are now negociating bits and pieces. Commodore employees are not allowed to reveal the name of Samsung in public yet. Internal news are tending towards a finalization in the near future (Commodore could be Samsung on Monday, actually, it's quite imminent). Apparently, Commodore would like more money than Samsung is willing to pay, that's why it takes so long. There's been a rumour floating around on Usenet, saying that Samsung will get the Amiga line and leave the CD 32 to Phillips. This is not true. As told before, the main point in the negociations between the two firms is that The ENTIRE Amiga product line is to be maintained and in no way splitted around among several companies or taken apart for some part of its technology. No news wether or not the production has started again in the Philippines, there was also a rumour about this but no one at Commodore Germany could confirm or deny this. So it may be true... or not. Apparently, Commodore Germany is still delivering to distributors in Germany and now also to France. There has been a delivery of 70 A4000Ts in Braunschweig (subsidiary of Commodore Germany) a few weeks ago and all of them are sold out by now. The assets of Commodore France have been transferred to Braunschweig, where most of the computing stuff was sold at an auction. There are 3 or 4 other companies than Samsung on the line, which are seriously interested in Commodore and the Amiga. Samsung is the only company Commodore is negociating with though, for now. Commodore employees in Frankfurt were paid this month. Commodore Germany is running as usual. I know this is not extraordinary stuff, but there's no need at this point to make false scoops if there's nothing more to report. Stay tuned. Gilles Bourdin Paris FAX(331)46266261 gbo@ramses.fdn.org C'est apres la foire qu'on compte les bouses.