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after
the May
issue has already circulated
and drawn comment.
Fresh News is
important to Atari Users, so
this month we are adding the
well-known Z'Net
Intemational News Service's
Newswire
to our magazine.
This issue of
AtariUser
brings you the most
comprehensive cross-review
of document processors I've
ever seen
.
Jim Pierson-
Perry gives us an overview
of six products and makes
his recommendations
.
And Nathan Potechin,
President of ISO (Calamus)
and the Independent
Association of Atari
Developers presents his
thoughts on the future of our
machines in our views
column,
High Resolution.
We extend our special
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June 1991
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High ReSOlUli08
.... VIEWPOINTS AND RESPONSES FROM OUR ATARI COMMUNITY
Nathan Potechin on the IAAD
• Nathan Potechin
is
President of ISO Marketing, Inc.,
a Canadian company that has represented such
products as Vlf> Professional, Masterplan, STAccounts
and Accounts 2.0, as well as Oitek/OMC's Calamus
family and OynaCAOO. Nathan is also V
ice
President
of Oitek International and President of the IMO.
• "Our group of Atari
Developers contains
people from widely
diverse backgrounds.
We have Engineers,
programmers In a large
variety of languages,
marketing types,
hardware gurus and
software gurus, all
united by one common
goal-survival. Profit
is
nice too. We are an
unusual bunch in that
'
we chose to develop
for the Atari platform,
instead of jumping on
the bandwagon of the
more prolific platforms.
'
I love my Atari' is quite
often a fact of life with
this group."
Atari Corporation's performance over the past few years in
continental North America has been discussed by better writers
than
I.
It's matter of record. What I'd like to share with you
is what some of us have been doing
about
it, and give you a
better understanding of what it means to be a registered Atari
Developer in 1991.
Back in September 1989,
a
large group of Atari
Developers got together to have a meeting at the WAACE User
Group Show in the Washington, D.C, area. The result was the
formation of the IAAD (Independent Association of Atari
Developers). Since its inception, I have had the honor to serve
as President of this association. The immediate goal of the
IAAD was to help all of our members to help themselves.
Our group of Atari Developers contains people from
widely diverse backgrounds. We have Engineers, programmers
in a large variety of languages, marketing types, hardware gurus
and software gurus,
all
united by one
common
goal-survival.
Profit is nice too. We are an unusual bunch in that we chose
to develop for the Atari platform, instead of jumping on the
bandwagon of the more prolific platforms. "I love my Atari"
is quite often a fact of life with this group. This personal feeling
is indicative/of our own natures, and not a measure of Atari's
success-where reality rears it ugly head. The fact is, by sharing
or pooling our collective knowledge in terms of advertising,
marketing, channels of distribution, trade
shows,
user group
shows etc., many of our members can receive valuable
assistance. And share we do, in a manner unprecedented in the
computer industry.
Some years ago, Atari had
substantially
greater
geographic dealer representation and market penetration in
North America. Then the erosion
set
in, making it harder and
harder to justify basic overhead, let alone development costs.
Meanwhile, the European Atari community was doing fine,
thank you. So one avenue that the IAAD took to assist North
American developers was to share worldwide representation
contacts. It wasn't a cure or a
sure
thing, but it meant a lot to
some developers.
.
A major difference in the market
and
product mix has
occurred over the past few years.
As
the Atari platform develops,
the hardware becomes more sophisticated. This is a natural
progression, offering a challenge to developers to keep abreast
or take advantage of the latest technology. Products such as
two I proudly represent, DynaCADD and Calamus, use that
technology to offer viable, professional workstations that can
not and will not be ignored. A classic example, and one I enjoy
'whenever
possible, is demonstrating Calamus to someone that
deigned to condescendingly offer a few minutes of their pre-
cious time to see what this "Atari toy" could produce. Two
minutes is more than enough time to create a page using features
their DTP software probably does not have, showing them
screen representation that has been WYSIWYG for over two
years, and then output to Atari's SLM804 or SLM605 in
seconds. The usual DTP person usually plans their coffee
breaks around about output time. Products like Calamus on the
Atari are a real eye opener for them, and you may correctly
have guessed that this is the single most enjoyable part of my
job.
~.
Consider the above paragraph a preamble of what is to
come. I have just returned from CEPS (Corporate Electronic
J>ublishing Show) in Chicago. Without a doubt, this show saw
the most professional exhibit that Atari ever created.
Do
not
confuse this with "most expensive," "largest" etc., because it
was not But it defmitely was an excellent representation of Atari
desktop publishing workstations. The brochure was their most
professional
to
date. TheAtari booth location, situated directly
between LinotypeIHELL and Ventura, aIlowed us to show the
folks at Linotype a few things about their imagesetters that they
previously had not known or acknowledged. I can assure you
that now, they know. It also gave us the opportunity to realize
just how busy we were compared to Ventura's booth, I notice
things like this.
Others will begin to notice the change as well. Speaking
for my company alone, July 1991 will see the release of the
next generation of Calamus, Calamus Sand SL,
'as
well as
approximately 2 dozen separate modules. I am also proud to
announce the latest addition to our product line, TMS Cranach
Studio and TMS Vector ST 3.0, also scheduled for July release.
Before the end of this year, DynaCADD will be available on
the TT, Amiga, Mac, and IBM under Windows 3.0, with a
UNIX version close behind, all file compatible. And ISD is not
alone.
I have been professionaIly involved
~ith
the Atari
Computers since August 1985. I was there when my 520 was
starving for "anything" that it could run. I was there through
the drought. And I'm definitely going to
be
here when Atari
finaIly and firmly establishes it presence and credibility as a
.professional
workstation, once and for all, in North America.
Personally and professionaIly, I can't wait.
-Nathan Potechin
•
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