[News] Amiga announces the AmigaOne | ANN.lu |
Posted on 21-Oct-2000 14:22 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 119 comments View flat View list |
Amiga have just released this press release about the AmigaOne hardware spec. Eyetech will build the first actual boxes, which are Classic Amiga/AmigaOne hybrids (both A1200 and A4000-based models will be available) and will be based on PPC. They are scheduled for a Q1 2001 release. First stand-alone AmigaOnes should ship in Q3 2001. Also, the development of the Classic AmigaOS will continue with v3.9 coming out before Christmas.
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Posted by Anonymous on 22-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 32 (Teemu I. Yliselä): I don't build computers! My question would be why Amiga, Inc. is
not using the availble POP specs for the Amiga One instead of waiting
for over a year to come out with the Amiga One motherboard?
Then we have Merlancia, who claim to have PPC based AmigaDE compatible
machines comming out somewere within a much shorter time frame. If
Merlancia has done this then why can't Amiga, Inc or their partners?
What are Merlancia using for motherboards? POP???
Also, I find it very disturbing that more and more existing Amiga developers
are either going out of business or turing to other platforms exclusively.
On the page that list apps available for the new Amiga One, there are many
programs woefully missing from that list. Two very obvious ones would be
Directory Opus Magellan which there is NO equal, and ImageFX.
Existing Amiga developers are dropping like flies one right after another
and it seems like Amiga, Inc., doesn't really care. I find that troubling.
I'm not bashing Haage and Partner at all, however they have snapped up
several products from existing Amiga developers who have thrown in the
towel, and now they are advertising ImageFX for sale on their site.
Will Haage & Partner be the only existing Amiga developer in a few short
months? Many have gone, many have disappeared like Nova Design and GPSoft,
and I think others will go as well, and is seems like no one gives a
d*amn. I cannot imagine an Amiga without Directory Opus Magellan and/or
ImageFX, and there are others as well, but something is strange regarding
all of the existing Amiga developers that are going out of business,
switching to other platforms, or just dissapearing like Nova Design.
There hasn't been an update of ImageFX in nearly a year now, nor has
there been any mention of it at all other than the just recently announced
BLOWOUT prices!
I myself and I'm certain thousands of other Amiga users would like answers
to questions like this. |
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