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Posted on 23-Oct-2000 12:33 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä19 comments
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From Greg Thomas, courtesy of Czech Amiga News: "ACE 2000 was a huge success for Amiga and its users. Many people from many platforms attended and heard FOUR big announcements from Amiga CEO, Bill McEwen. The first and the biggest is the new PPC based Amiga One, the new computer from Amiga. It was emphasised that Amiga is a software company, so in future all hardware will be from third parties, not Amiga itself. There will soon be a card to upgrade your existing A1200 and A4000 (A3000 maybe) to Amiga One specifications with access to Apple Mac accelerators! Second, Workbench 3.9 with a new Kickstart 3.9 chip is to be released. The next update of the SDK is tomorrow and the next version in one months time. And last of all was the announcement that Amiga is opening 10% of the company up to investment from Amiga users. This was a huge announcement in itself and added to the jubilation of the crowd. During his speech Bill said he is not the saviour of the Amiga, we are. This was a great day for our Amiga. Many of the Linux users were very excited about this "closed source" news too :-) The speech was so well received that Amiga user, Rick Hammond said to Bill, "Thank you, this has changed my life. I'm back with Amiga again."

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Comment 1Teemu I. Yliselä22-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
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Comment 10Stefan Nilsson22-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
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Posted by TheJUDGE on 22-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Stefan Nilsson):
Man, I really don't see what is to be excited about here, if you take all the
statements apart on their own, you'll be able to see many things. Our SDK has been
a flop, amiga users didn't buy it (15,000 uh huh), we couldn't get any hardware
company to support our plan, so we will use current amiga technology, Eyetech/Phase5
stuff, and try to force amiga users into the TAO environment. Oh and also, we are
out of money so feel free to send us money to allow us to make payroll, I mean seriously
their is a mechanism for companies gathering money, it's called a stock offering, I'm not
where you actually, really have equity in the company, not just the word of the company that
you do, and anyway's it's damn unprofessional, we should expect those who own
the company and believe in their IDEAS and will reap the benefits of the success of
the company to handle this stuff. I have always been very curious about these guys true
intentions as to the Amiga, doesn't it make you wonder how easily they toss around the
terms Amiga Community and such just off the cuff, remember these guys are hardly what I
would call a part of the Amiga Community (McEwen,Moss,Hughes) the three principles,
anyways, these opinions are my own (with some research, and knowing some of the folks
involved), and when some more of the details come to light, you folks will truly
be stunned.
Amigan's like Amigas, is it that hard to understand.
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