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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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Posted by Anonymous on 23-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 17 (Anonymous):
I agree. People complain but they don't see the brighter side of things. I guess sometimes it's easier to be negative so you don't get let down. I think things with Amiga have been slow, but there seems to be some signs that things are picking up.
If they plan to sell OS 3.9 for about $40, how much money are they going to make from us?? Maybe they'll take a trip down the block and eat a fast food place. Some nice features were added in 3.5, hopefully more in 3.9.
As for the SDK, how many people are going to buy a developers kit? Majority of people that own PCs now-a-days, can't even find the any key on their computer or tell the difference between RAM and hard drive space and you think these people will write programs for new Amigas?
I once lost $250 when an Amiga mail order place never shipped out what I ordered and then they suddenly dissappeared. If I give Amiga Inc $250, I believe I will see more happen with that money than I did with Grapevine. Hell, I'd be happy if I could just run up to a local store and pick something up right away for my Amiga.
As alway, we will have to wait and see. It better be true that good things come to those who wait.
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