So i took the very unpleasant challenge to write a really new, comfortable, small, very useful program.

As i have had no idea of TCP/IP programing (don't have and never will have), development stand still (for the moment) with a dirlistparser which was really, honestly, at a rough guess, 10 times better than that in this other program. Some of my ProClam-chat-demigod-candidates mates went out to say that this enormous improvement could not be expressed with the natural range of digits as we know them from school and they have had think up new digits that would made every highlevel professor of math to enter new worlds.

I then, due to my incompetence, made development incredible slow (so no one would ever notice) to focus on really important things, as we all know how much one has to care nowadays to avoid things like cutting grass, cleaning shoes, tiddy up your cellar, visit the barbershop, going to a yodel course and so on.

An incredible amount of time went by and i felt very safe as well as in a patronizing mood (due to renovation of our local bubble gum machine) so it seems impossible to avoid unimportant things like mentioned above at this point.

One day, as i was on the way to cut the grass, while yodelling a bit, i noticed like thunderstruck how unimportant it was to cut the grass while yodelling a bit or to do a concentration dance in reversed order and how important it was to put my roughly-guessed- 10-time-better- dirlistparser-as-it-was- in-AmFTP in a (a) very expensive MUI-GUI and (b) an already covered in (c) entirety which would be no challenge for a highlevel professor of math to come up with, to interpret slowmotion close-ups from a reporter sitting at the beach with plastic bags around his shoes.

Meanwhile, it was summer 1999 and the program which was named MyFTP at this point, made very good progress. I was told to change things here and there and to add this and that, to quickformat my drives and to add some buttons and finnally, to get ready with the program.

Then, in late summer, i have had hollidays (what luckily gives me some distance from all unimportant things) as the big question how to name the program, which was meanwhile named from MyFTP to Hannover, comes to my mind.

About days and weeks there was only one topic in the ProClam-chat which was, by the time visited somewhat unregular but consistent by the ProClam-chat-demigod-candidates, how to finally name the program.

Here is a list of names that were suggested by the ProClam-chat-demigod-candidates and myself: GelbFTP, GetOver, GetOverIt, GetItOver, LetItBe, OverUndAus, Roger, HangOver, L-Over, powerfulFTP, OverFTP, futschikato, NetOver, OverNet, BetterFTP, ÜberFTP, SpeedFTP, BlackFTP, DarkFTP, eclipseFTP, BuckelFTP, GamsFTP, ExtraFTP, SuperFTP, PrimaFTP, UltraFTP, TransferOMat, SpeedOMat, IngOMat, TPFKAH, The Program Formerly Known As Hannover, Feines Transfer Programm, Heftiges Transfer programm, warpFTP, FTPBlaster, ZickZack, haFTProbe, GetOMat, XferMe, WAW = Watch And Wonder, BeatIt!, Vaporizer, Pulverisierer, Fast Totale Pulverisierung, FireFTP, hotFTP, crimsonFTP, fastFTP, siliconFTP, GummFTP, FTPExtravaganza, stunningFTP, thrillingFTP, breathtakingFTP, trickyFTP, amazingFTP, FTPRaider, HolyFTP, FTPUndDerGanzeRest, Turbopump, PumpItUp, PumpOMat, PumpITOver, FTPumper, iFTP, FTPNG, bulkyFTP, NiceFTP, MuiFTP, AmiCuteFTP, BoingFTP, BavarianFTP, Interceptor, whodunnitFTP, SmurfFTP, SmartFTP, TiltFTP, FTP: Episode I, smarty, mcfly, Hannover, King^Kassel, BremerStadtMusikanten, CleverFTP, SmoothFTP, SlickFTP, SilkyFTP, astonishingServerManager, crazyClient, HappyFTP, CrazyFTP, IncredibleFTP, PricelessFTP, AstonishingFTP, SchlauFTP, whatsoeverFTP, nonameftp, TrulyFTP, TurboPump, JumboSauger, WorldTradeCenter.

The last one of all names which was elected as the name of the name by a jury of 2-3 people, was not accepted. In the mind of the ProClam-chat-demigod-candidates (actually only one of them) WorldTradeCenter would be a brilliant and original name that was flawless and free of spots, which emerge if you drag something very slowly through cocoa or similar brown material (which could also be syrupy).

It was decided that WorldTradeCenter would not match exactly and that such a big name would be no name for a program with very simple history and the term "world" was replaced with "Ami" which made the name a little bit (but not really that much) more accurate.

After the proccess to find the right name it was time for me to focus on the entirety of procedures of hygenic treatment of the face, the hair and the skin which left me dashed to the ground (but was not really disgusting) and by the way development of the really new, comfortable, small and very useful program.

Now, with Amiga users shrinking by the day (their numbers, not their height), ATC has become the premier FTP client on the Amiga and MorphOS platforms, since basically it's the best (obviously). But it still had some bugs, and it still had some problems with bigger hard drives which now everyone had, not just geeks we didn't care about. Still, this is how it ended up. And those freaks that won't use a program unless it's updated every 3 days all ran off and used Linux.

But... after centuries of silence we undertook the unbelieveably complex and remarkably complicated act of digging out the atc sources again to do some mindblowing updating. Illka "iti" Lehtoranta took some time out from bedding lusty young women and reading newspaper to code a 64bit math extention library to be used in e programs. Kenny "KennyR" Richardson, famous Amiga.org troll, managed to stop eating curries or telling everyone how great socialism was long enough to update the guide. Suddenly ATC was on schedule and rockin' again, because somebody had to be, didn't they?

So, we invested the last $100 from our bank account to bring you ATC 1.4, and we didn't even need three years of Q&A sessions to do it. Aren't we great?