| [News] Amiga adds new content to website | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 03-Jun-2000 16:28 GMT by Christian Kemp | 40 comments
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Amiga's homepage now features an Executive Update dated 03-Jun-2000. amigatainment, as the name suggests, seems to be a new section oriented towards entertainment software. A press release on the Amiga Software Developers Kit (SDK) is now also available. Then, there's a (large, but badly formatted) list of companies selling the kit. On a related note, it seems like Ted Wallingford is once again responsible for the site maintenance.
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| Comment 1 | ted | | 02-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Martin Blom | | 02-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
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| Comment 4 | Anonymous | | 02-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 5 | the man in the shadows | | 02-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT |
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| Amiga adds new content to website : Comment 7 of 40 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Henrik Mikael Kristensen on 02-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT | I really liked that executive update.
As Bill says, it's important not to apologize for our platform or for the Amiga philosophy. I can't count for the situations where people have been laughing or shaking their head, when I said I owned and used an Amiga. And it always feels bad, when you can't get people to see that a computer can be so much more than the mainstream Wintel, we see today.
A few weeks ago I was on the virge of giving up my A4000 as I was forced to borrow a PC (I've never owned one) to work on a web-page which utilizes Macromedia Flash, currently an impossible task with an Amiga. My A4000 has a motherboard which is a tad unstable, has a slow CPU, little RAM, a slow IDE controller. Not a great machine to demo AmigaOS for Pentium III owning friends, eh? Then I would have to apologize for the condition it was in, when I wanted to show off the capabilities of AmigaOS.
I would have to explain them that the Amiga doesn't use the latest AGP graphics cards, that it can't run Windows and that sometimes it crashes, because a program went haywire and there is no real memory protection. Those facts almost made me quit; Who wouldn't want to play games with that new Geforce 2 GTS?
Also that the Windows NT workstation I have at work is extraordinarily stable (Not a single crash yet) and works pretty quickly and smoothly. I figured: "Why stick to that old Amiga? This one clearly runs much faster, it's stable, it gets the job done." I was making a pact with the devil. I kept thinking: "Was I constantly kidding myself? Was it me, and not the Wintel user who had been living in the dark?"
I had forgotten the words: "Only Amiga makes it possible." and "If you can't beat'em, join'em" was now ringing in my head.
I realized when I read that executive update how sick and tired I am of apologizing for preferring a non-mainstream platform with a relatively unknown OS. It's time to be proud of being part of that philosophy again, and that you show that you like it and encourage others to try it.
The next time, people laugh, I will ask them, if they have ever seen a computer working at the fullest of its capabilites.
The next time, someone asks what computer they should buy, I would probably say: "Try an Amiga..." ;-) |
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