The following is a transcription of the telephone greeting Petro made to the Saku 99 Amiga Show in Finland in September 1999. I have tried to make this as readable as possible, but without taking any liberties with the context of his speech. Keep in mind that - while Petro's english is good - this is an address made over a telephone and recorded off a speaker in a crowded room. I have tried to lose all of the 'ums', 'ahs' and 'ands' and connect a few unconnected sentences. Where the quality of the recording was such that a word or phrase was unintelligible (including audience coughing, etc), I have tried to indicate this with a (?). Otherwise this is an accurate account of what Petro said. -------- Hello? Hi everybody. How are you doing today? I'm really a little bit sad that I could not come to see all (?) Amiga this year. But first, the latest news which was announced over C/Net and over the Gateway Internet two days ago. My boss, Jim Collas, left the company and I'm, of course, very sad about this. Because I am thinking that here was a guy that could drive our Amiga in the right direction for our future. But nevertheless the lines (?) are continuing as you know, and I'm famous for this - that I will never give up. So don't worry. Nobody will attack me, nobody will fire me, we should cool down. I will leave Germany in around two hours to go to the United States. I will have Sunday night already the first dinner with the new president, which is Tom Schmidt, and then I will know, of course, a lot more than today when I'm getting all the facts and how it will be continued. Because, dear Amigans, we will have a future. We will have a bright future. And some things happen. Especially the US companies and I remember when I worked for Commodore there was always a lot of going and coming. Nevertheless, we have to keep what's going on. I'm really sad, not only because Jim Collas is gone, I'm also sad because I could not fly to Finland as last year, which was really great for me. I was really excited to go and see you and to give all these giveaways personally, from my bag to your hand. But I know that Janne (one of the organisers of the Saku show - CD), who is really an excellent organiser, will assist me, will give all the presents which I brought which I sent to him. I hope also that the demonstration of the OS3.5 will work proper and you will enjoy and you will see that we are really serious with everything. The OS3.5 will be ready for sale end of September and we are now in plan. As you know, we have had a little bit of delay. Officially we would like to announce the OS3.5 in Canberra, what we have done, but not with a final version but with a pre-release. But that's okay. Now we are in planning and sales will start end of September, for sure. I'm also quite sure that the new development on the MCC will continue. Maybe there will be a delay, I don't know. But I will let you know as soon as I'm back. This will be next week, on Thursday, and I'm quite sure that when I talk with my US colleagues that we can also put an announcement - an official announcement - on our web site, and we can start then also communication. So I can promise you, what I can do for Amiga I will continue to do. I need your support, also for the future and I hope to see you soon, maybe the next big convention (which) is in Cologne, as you may know, on the 14th and 15th of November and I will be glad to see some Finnish guests there. So thank you very much for your attention, thank you very much for your understanding, and I only can repeat myself - please, do not panic. We will survive. Thank you. (applause) -------- (Transcript Copyright 1999, Craig Delahoy) Check out my regular Amiga news and views: http://www.ansonic.com.au/craigd/cdamiga1.htm