Posted on 23-Oct-2000 12:33 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 19 comments View flat View list |
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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Posted by XDelusion on 22-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT | Well I recall Bill posting a big long spew about where the company is heading, and why they do not plan on revamping the entire Classic OS, and chose rather to use this Tao thing. So we have known since he bought the rights to Amiga that things were not going to stay the same, and thank god for that matter!
I feel this platform independant move will realy be great, and I do not feel that we are losing Classic Amiga in this choice, so long as Amiga keeps its spirit, and that is all I care about. I don't care about the OS, I care about the Spirit, when I use the new OS, I want it to feel free, I want to be flexable, surprising, amazing, multi-tasking, and full of those compact fast as hell, easy to learn programs that we are used to from the classic os. I am not too concerned about backwards compatability so long as my apps run I.E. stuff like AmIRC, and the like. As far as games go...
..well who still plays Duke 1 on there 1000Mhz PC with 256Mb ram?
Get the point?
As far as Amiga being poor, well no doubt they are poor, they only saved up the doe for the rights to Amiga no more than a year ago, they had not money left, so they had to have Tao, and other groups do all the hard labor, while in the mean time they lay out the plans, and stratagies that will hopefully put more doe and force into the companies hands.
I would totally agree that Amiga has not been fully professionaly like though, not that I care, professinalism is for a bunch of tight ass suit and tie crook types anyhow, but I would like to see the company I support be a little less clumsy, ya know? Like posting a software release page with bogus, unresearched info? Not to mention many other things that make this company look un-serious.
Despite it all, I wish them the best of luck and I hope they deliever what they plan, not the Classic Amiga, but the Amiga Spirit, inovation, compactness, simpliscity, and interaction that is like liquid, as is the classic os :) |
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