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1996

  • January 1996
    • Visual Information Service Corp. (Viscorp), an INTERACTIVE TV developer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois have finalized an international license agreement to adapt, utilize, license and distribute the AMIGA technology within VISCROP's interactive intelligent set-top TV appliance.
      The license authorizes VISCORP the right to use, re-license and distribute the AMIGA operating system and compatible parts of current versions of the technologies where the AMIGA products are used as, or as part of, interactive television devices.
    • Amiga Surfer Pack, is finally available! The pack, consists of an Amiga A1200HD multimedia system fitted with 260MB hard drive and two megabytes of RAM, together with a complete suite of Internet software and a 14,400bps modem. The package includes:
      • Magic User Interface v3.2
      • AS225 R2
      • Voodoo Multimedia Mailer
      • AmFTP
      • AmIRC
      • MindWalker World Wide Web Browser and also all the programs of the Magic Pack.
  • February 1996
    • 23/02/96
      Atari swallowed by JTS corp. JTS, is a privately held maker of computer disk drives. Atari said in a press release that under the agreement the merged company will operate under the name of JTS Corp. and the current officers of JTS Corp. will become the officers of the merged company. The Atari entertainment business and the JTS disk drive business will operate as separate divisions of the merged company.
  • March 1996
    • Amiga Technologies announces that two, new Amigas will be shown at Cebit: The Amiga Surfer and a new, 680EC030/40MHz Amiga.

    • New Amiga Prototype ('Walker'), presented on the Cebit Show. Its like an A1200+, or A1300. It has a black tower like (=vacuum cleaner!) case, a 68030/40Mhz, Fpu socket, Realtime clock onboard, 1 MB chip ram, 4mb fast ram, 2 simm sockets for ram expansion up to 96mb, 4xSpeed CDROM, Midi, External Keyboard, new powerfull expansion slot allowing Cpu/Zorro III(or IV)/PCI and Video slots, OS 3.2, and a Super IO chip.
    • The Supervisory Board of ESCOM AG has appointed Helmut Jost (43) as Member of the Board of ESCOM AG with effect from 1 April, 1996. He will replace Manfred Schmitt as the company's CEO. Mr. Schmitt's desire to leave the Board of ESCOM AG has been accepted by the Supervisory Board. He is to quit his post on 31 March, 1996. Mr. Schmitt will continue to serve the company as a consultant.
  • April 1996
    • Chicago, IL, April 11,1996 - Visual Information Services Corp. (Nasdaq: VICP, Bulletin Board), a developer of Interactive TV (ITV) set-top boxes to enhance television use and viewing by providing Internet access and electronic communications functions, announced that it has a binding letter of understanding to acquire the assets of Amiga Technologies from Escom AG.

      • The proposed acquisition would include the intellectual property of the former Commodore Business Machines, except Commodore trademarks. Terms were not disclosed. The pending acquisition would be subject to the approval of both boards of directors.

      Mr. Buck explained that the proposed acquisition would give VIScorp ownership of Amiga intellectual properties, including several that are currently used in its set-top Electronic Device (ED), as well as control over the supply of chip sets used in ED, Amiga inventories, and access to the company's sales and distribution channels.

    • "The World Of Amiga" exhibition held in the Novotel Exhibition Centre in London on 13th and 14th of April 1996.

May 1996

    • Amiga Technologies announces 2 brand new monitors.. The M1538S a 15" monitor, able to display frequencies (horizontal) from 15 to 38khz, and features such as : 0.28 dot pitch and stereo headphones. The other one is a 17" monitor, the 1764, able to display frequencies (horizontal) from 15 to 64khz.
    • Amiga meeting held in Toulouse/France at 19th of May. There was a speech held by William 'Bill' Buck, CEO of Viscorp :
      • "Okay, Bill Buck and Helmut Jost have a deal , and it`s done. Viscorp will be the owner of AMIGA. (...) The second thing I like to say for the record is that Viscorp is committed to the future of the AMIGA computer. We`re committed to the AMIGA computer because we think the AMIGA computer represents a valuable choice to the market place and we believe it can be a profitable business. (...)

July 1996

    • ESCOM AG, a German-based computer company, owner of AMIGA went into bankruptcy in July of 1996.

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