From: md@md.com   
      
   "Phantom"  wrote:   
   >   
   >anyone have a rough estimate of how many Atari 16-32 bit owners/users   
   >there are in the USA/Canada and OverSeas that are Active with there   
   >Computers?   
   >   
      
   I'm still active.  Over christmas I started to delve into major changes   
   into GEM instant messenger.  I really got far and really improved it but   
   I ran into a major roadblock.  The libfaim that I use doesn't support   
   the buddy icon server protocol which is required by most clients these   
   days.  I've started to make said changes but.. yeah... effort.   
   Though it is basically quiet, still in the planning stages and not   
   definitely or moving (read: extremely vaporware) there is some movement   
   behind coldfire hardware again.  I myself have most of what I need to get my   
   coldfire board running.  I still need to get an ethernec but it seems   
   nobody is selling them.  I also think they're not worth $75 or whatever   
   people keep wanting to charge for them so I'm thinking about produing my   
   own batch but within the files there are not suitable files to send to a   
   PCB house :(   
   --   
   Thanks,   
   Mark   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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