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Posted on 02-Oct-2001 19:56 GMT by Martin Heine | 233 comments View flat View list |
(Before someone again complains that I'm sharing my opinion "everywhere": I just decided to paste here what I wrote in comp.sys.amiga.misc because of Christian's call for articles.)
The article contains quick and dirty translations of comments made yesterday and today by Mr. Haage and Ralph Schmidt at amiga-news.de, since I thought non-german-speakers might be interested in this, too.
Newsgroup-article #1:
To try to compensate at least a little bit the advantages of those
Amigans who speak German (and therefore often get easier to rumours,
facts, etc., because of the importance of german companies and
individuals for the Amiga-market), I thought it might be useful to
translate a few statements made at amiga-news.de today.
While Eyetech and H&P accuse each other for the A1/AOS4-delays (one
says the hardware is missing, one says the OS4 is missing), Mr. Haage made (among others) the following comments (no warranty for the translation!):
[Mr. Haage (H) comments some rumours (R)]
H: "The interest in OS4.0 we have NEVER lost. But we've never been and are not convinced of the profitability of the project if the concepts won't be changed."
R: "They (H&P) are just the executing organ, all decisions are made by Amiga Inc."
H: "Correct. [...]"
R: "Amiga Inc. displays regarding Communication with their partners
"certain" deficits."
H: "Deficits is nicely said. But it's correct!"
R: "Failing to come / insufficient payments from Amiga Inc."
H: "Before payments could be made, contracts have to be made. That
far, however, we aren't yet. Regarding which I clearly want to
emphasize that WE do not delay."
[...]
H: "To be able to be partners to an agreement, one needs contracts -
and that is not Amiga Inc.'s strong point."
[Another comment from Mr. Haage]
R: "Is the date told by Alan Redhouse [Eyetech] for the completion of OS4.0 ("november, but probably not the 1st") possible in your
opinion?"
H: "Only if it would be right now possible to work towards that date. But the conditions for this don't exist. Maybe a wonder happens, but I don't expect it."
No wonder that those like me, who've been suspicious regarding AI in
favour of MorphOS/Pegasos for some time already, unfortunately feel
confirmed more and more. Also no wonder that Ralph Schmidt is enjoying this soap opera from AI, H&P and Eyetech, his first comment has been the one quoted as the subject: "party on:-)".
So, after translating Mr. Haage's point of view, I'll also think I
should quote from one of Ralph's comments, too. He (RS) answers to a
comment by Mr. Haage (JH):
JH: "In an exclusive x86 AmigaOS version we aren't interested."
RS: "No? :-) Do you think we don't get what you proposed internally
already in August? :-)"
[...]
RS: "As you've been also told already by a person from Amiga Inc. some monthes ago... you have no future as Amiga OS vendor."
My personal guess is that the main problem seems to be Amiga Inc.,
i.e. especially their lack of money. So after them already given up on their plans regarding DE being their future OS many monthes ago, it seems their plan to survive as a content vendor for PDAs seems to be not that successful, too (Alan Redhouse, too, does confirm in his statement that AI still has the already known financial problems). If companies like H&P do speak that way about AI already in the public as Mr. Haage did today at amiga-news.de (I just translated a little bit of it), I exprect the worst regarding AI's future.
Therefore it really seems the Amiga-market's future might be just
those two ones Ralph outlined: an emulation-based x86 one by H&P and
the PPC one covered by MorphOS.
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Newsgroup-article #2:
Some "second helping" - the "party" goes on:
(Again no warranty for the 'quick and dirty' translation.)
Michael Garlich (Titan Computer) in reply to Mr. Haage:
"You should restrain yourself on your statements against Mr. Schmidt!
Only you are to blame for the current situation - if you had actually shown your much propagated readiness for cooperation last year in september, it would not have been come that far. Despite all adverse things Mr. Schmidt contrary to you had been willing to cooperate under leadership of Amiga Inc. !!!"
And another reply by Ralph to Mr. Haage:
"[...] You operate on other levels which the normal user doesn't
notice. (dealers, influence on Amiga Inc., threats with licences,
internal mailing lists, influence on a certain person and a certain
company)"
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Newsgroup-article #3:
I think balance requires me to continue the translation at least one
more time, i.e. especially regarding the repeated offer below by Mr.
Haage to try to come to a cooperation. Of course everyone draws his
own conclusions, H&P-fans may say "didn't I tell you, just Ralph is
the bad guy" (although there's on the other hand the, today repeated, version by for example Mr. Garlich who said that Mr. Haage would have prevented exactly this last year), while the other side may say he's just lying or trying another trick. My personal conclusion is that Mr. Haage may just get cold feet because of the apparently very bad financial situation at AI and its consequences for another Amiga-PPC-future besides MorphOS.
Well, here again some quick and dirty translations from the very same thread of comments at amiga-news.de as before; again, no warranty.
1. Mr. Haage:
He suggests to accept an invitation made partly humorously by
amiga-news.de's Petra Struck to Mr. Haage and Ralph to meet at her
home for a dinner and try to come to an agreement.
(But Ralph did already say in a comment before he'd never again
cooperate with Mr. Haage, because of the well-known history and because H&P would just have nothing to offer that would be of interest for the bplan/Morphos-crew. (Although I think Ralph underestimates the value of "the name", but on the other hand I don't know how much, if any, influence H&P has regarding this.))
2. Ralph:
(It has been said before that by saying H&P (and Hyperion) would have nothing to offer the MorphOS-team could be interested in, they would cut out "StormC4, Arteffect, Genesis, Olsen's TCP/IP Stack, OS 3.9 licences" and Hyperion's products.)
" 1) We have with the PPC-MorphOS-GCC our own development system,
[...].
2) I wouldn't know what's that unique with ArtEffect. [...]
3) Genesis is a GUI surface and the TCP/IP stack belongs to Tomi
Ollila, which we do also have as a PPC version.
4) Olsen's TCP/IP stack is controlled by Olsen and nobody else.
And we do have a *very* good relationship with Olaf.
5) Amiga users do already own 3.1, 3.5 or 3.9 and it's left up to
them of they continue to use it until a completely new WB
exists.
6) MorphOS as AmigaOS 4.x was massively opposed by Hyperion since
november 2000 and in summer it was said that they'd never would
be porting Warp3d to MorphOS, when Amiga Inc. suggested them
this. This decision is left up to them for what they want to
develop something... The consequence is just that they don't
play any role in our plans. Therefore we plan an own 3D
solution. Warp3d is only that long important as new games
support it.
[...]
9) As I said already... H&P are free to offer their applications
for MorphOS also. *We* won't hinder anyone from developing
applications for MorphOS. SDKs from us always will be free.
10) With Papyrus we'll have a real office-package with
word-processor."
3. Mr. Haage:
Replying to the comment by Mr. Garlich (see earlier in this thread),
Mr. Haage says he wouldn't know about what Mr. Garlich would be
speaking.
4. Ralph:
(He was asked if Nova Design or Paul Nolan would have announced
support for MorphOS already.)
"We have also spoken with Kermit Woodal several times. Since he's also closely related with Merlancia, there are certainly possibilities. :-)
Paul Nolan does have a key and a development system since last year... [...]"
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"party on:-)" (R.S.) : Comment 166 of 233 | ANN.lu |
Posted by the man in the shadows on 06-Oct-2001 23:53 GMT | In reply to Comment 164 (David Scheibler): > So please explain me why Amiga doesn't distribute Amithlon as they
> first wanted to do. Without the bundle of the two emulators the price
> of one package could be around 200DEM instead of 300DEM and could be
> sold much better.
Hey you're right. Though they could break that down even further and offer just the emulation software with the OS & ROM image seperately. That way people who already have a rom image could rip it from their system and if they already have the OS, there's no reason to purchase it again, right? I think H&P made the best move though. Bundle everything you need to run one or the other and say to hell with anyone who complains otherwise. It's funny as hell, have you read some of the stuff at alt.emulators.amiga... all the people whining about how they want one or the other and already have an Amiga with OS3.9 so they intend on using the same ROM and software as their computer system. Why would H&P want to cut out the profit and drive up piracy of the OS and ROM image? You and I both know that would happen.
I think the very best political cartoon I've ever seen is a picture of Markus Nerding dressed up as the Queen of England with Jurgen Haage holding a clipboard with the two words "Amithlon" and "AmigaXL" in a check list where the caption underneath says "Let them eat cake".
> And if there had been another product from H&P: Who cares? Amithlon
> had been the "real official emulator fully powered by Amiga Inc.".
> And as people here say: Hey the Amiga brand, that's the important
> thing!
So in theory you're telling me that if there was a third emulator that would have no native x86 compilation, horrible audio, and shakey stability at best would get more support over a better product simply because it would be backed by Amiga's official seal of approval? Like it would ever happen. That sounds about as bad as the sheep who support Microsoft.
> If Amiga releases OS4 then MorphOS will be dead.
That's a pretty bland statement. You of all people should know that when something is killed off, that doesn't mean the supporting efforts will be killed off instantly as well. Look at the Apple Newton, the Indian Motorcycle company, even Amiga for christ sake. Even if something bigger, badder, better comes along, there's still going to be support. If MorphOS comes out and the mass of the community flocks to MorphOS in droves, there will still be die-hard Amiga users even if MorphOS is identical to the AmigaOS. It doesn't make sense but you should know better than to make a statement like that.
[snipped as comment 165 answered overall question]
> There is a huge difference what Amiga Inc. want to do and what they
> actually can do.
Remember the nVidia announcment back in early 2000? So far what they haven't been able to do, they find a work around for it. That's better than some companies who usually brush off problems to be left forgotten.
> They announced first DE native devices for the end of May. Where are
> these?
Go to developer.sharpsec.com, click on "Latest News" need any other info? Or will you need to know information from other partners of Amiga Inc? Also, Sharp had products for demo in early June with the Zaurus being displayed (JavaOne convention).
> They made an announcement about Meternet's Simplebox running DE
> natively, no more updates about that.
This is information you need to talk with Bob Morris about. You can email him at rmorris@meternet.com. The last information I heard was components of the board were being redeveloped for x86 architecture. From there, stealthmode until further information is released.
> They made a deal with Sharp but actually in most press releases Amiga
> isn't mentioned but TAO is. Guess why.
Hey that's fun, let me try one. Gateway struck up a partnership with Pentagram designs and yet in all of the Pentagram press releases, Gateway isn't mentioned. Oo, I've got another! Apple signed a deal with Pentagram designs for the iMac and iBook cases yet Apple does not mention Pentagram in the press releases they have. I could go on forever with these... it's called cheesing, it's an act to try and prove your knowledge to another. Pathetic. Double check developer.sharpsec.com, the press release listed about Java content have information on Amiga with Tao being the partner of Amiga.
> They made an announcement about the AmigaOne/OS4 to be released in
> Q1/April/summer/November.
Yes! David Schiebler is the man of the hour. Congratulations Mr. Obvious on your task well done, now the world can rest easy knowing that information. Like Microsoft never had a release date slip. Laugh! I'm kind of curious how they ever could have done the Q1 release though, they just started AmigaOne talks at the very beginning of this year.
Now, let's get back to the topic at hand rather than wondering off squabling for scraps of information to try and prove a point.
In Reply to Comment 165:
> find someone to interpret German for you.
I'm looking for a German translator but no one is willing to offer any assistance outside of babel, even if they do speak/read both languages fluently. As you can tell, the help I've received here has been high marks on the bed and breakfast ratings. Perhaps Jurgen would like to give his official translation (not the same as an official statement). |
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