| [News] Petro Tyschtschenko retires and Amiga Germany closes down. | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 02-Nov-2000 13:33 GMT by | 48 comments
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nOM^ writes:
Petro Tyschtschenko announces his retirement.
In this farewell-letter he say's that Amiga Germany will close the end of this year.
I hearby want to thank Petro for the commitment and work he did in the Amiga for all those year.
Good luck in the future Petro!
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| Posted by Anonymous on 01-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 21 (Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal):
> Hello,
> Will you please stop writing crap like this if you dont know what you are talking about?
Oh, I know a little about what I'm talking about. Petro was used as one of Mick Tinker's excuses why the Boxer is taking so long. Mick didn't get the shipment of AGA chips he was promised, so he asked for the designs and permission to fab his own and was denied by the man in charge at the time--Petro.
> The BoXeR has never been delayed by Petro Tyschtschenko. Why dont you call him and tell him
> the same thing you wrote down here?
Why should I do that, it's past history now.
> Petro has ALWAYS been saying that he wants an AmigaOS PPC. It is not his decision to stall the
> development of it: Bill McEwen owns the rights.
Umm, well back in 1995/1996 when Phase5 was in the middle of the development of their ppc cards, they had a partnership with Amiga International (aka Petro & Co.) for development of ppc stuff for AmigaOS. Well, Petro and Co. bailed on Phase5, leaving them to do all the R&D themselves. Of course, some of these problems come from the different bankruptcies, but a lot of it has to do with a hard headed german dude in charge of Amiga Int.
> And about the price of the A4000... I am not going to reply to such a disrespectful comment about a
> person who is responsible for the Amiga as it is today.
Oh yeah, nothing to say about it? The Quikpak A4000's were being sold at an artificially high price. Now if Petro let Mick or somebody else find a chip fab that could build those chips, and convert the AGA chips to use a different technology, then the price of the A4000's wouldn't have been so unreasonable. What should have been done is Petro should have licensed more people to build systems around the A4000 design, once the chipset sourcing issues worked themselves out.
> Dont blame Petro for anything going wrong.
Some things he couldn't avoid, and those things had a lot to do with the bankruptcies. But licensing technology to interested parties instead of holding your grimy little fingers on it like he did would have made things a little better for us now.
> Thanks to him AMIGA is still alive, we had World of Amiga shows, we have OS3.5 etc. etc.
Well, that's one thing he did well, was keep Amiga viable during those bankruptcies. But what came of it? Classic Amiga market is almost completely dead for many reasons, one which I think is the chipset thing.
> Blame yourself for writing such terrible nonsense.
Actually, I'll go on to blame those friggen game/program coders who hit the hardware instead of following the rules. I'm blaming commodore for not putting mem protection in the os, and not putting rtg/rta in the os. I know there was not much Petro could have done for any of those things, but he did have control over the chipset issue with Mick, he did take part in the Phase5 ppc thing, ... I do wish him a good retirement away from Amiga, but I'm not sad to see him go. |
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