[News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments View flat View list |
Christoph Gutjahr interviewed Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can read the interview on amiga-news.de in English or in German.
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Posted by Anonymous on 08-Nov-2001 15:23 GMT | In reply to Comment 33 (Ruben Monteiro): > I'm sorry for the sarcasm, and I'm sorry for not falling for this PPC madness. 12 years ago, the Amiga rulled
> because it was a computer for the masses, available everywhere. You now want to turn it into an exotic
> platform that only a couple of thousand now it exists. Your narrow minded vision makes me sick.
Dude, chill. Amiga is and has been an "exotic platform that only a couple thousand know it exists".
Even fewer care that it exists. People I work with know I have and use Amigas, and they get quite a
laugh over it. Everyone that knows about Amiga but doesn't have one has considered it a dead and
bueried platform for a lot of years. Look into any Slashdot thread that has anything to do with Amiga,
no one really wants to hear about it anymore.
Now, there is some sense in Hyperion's x86 stance. If AmigaOS went x86 and not PPC
because a few people like you think it's too expensive and rare, then Hyperion have to
compete directly with Windows games developers. Guess what that means? Say Hyperion wants
to license a port of Half Life (this is HYPOTHETICAL!!) to AmigaOS x86. Nearly everyone
that would be the slightest bit interested in an AmigaOS x86 Half Life ALREADY OWNS Half Life
for Windows. I do. Why should I buy it for AmigaOS x86 when I already own a copy and have
nearly finished the game since months ago? Hyperion could not possibly sell enough copies
to come close to break-even on their license fee, let alone pay their programmers. And the
majority of Amiga users would still multi-boot with Windows, because you really cannot
escape that. I tried, and tried real hard. But my universal TV remote can be reprogrammed
by computer to add new codes (like for my Apex DVD), and it of course is a Windows program that
interfaces with MS Excel to manage the codes. I've been getting requests from "headhunters"
offering me jobs, asking me for my resume in MS Word format and no other. My PCB layout tool
is for Windows, and the FPGA chips I use in my tinkering has software available only for
Windows and nothing else. Due to this, if I see a game I like, I'm much more likely to
just go out and buy the Windows version than wait 4 or 5 years for the *possibility* that
Hyperion or someone else might decide to license a port of it.
Considering how I myself would act in buying Windows games sooner and cheaper, and the fact
that most Amiga users would do the same, I can perfectly understand Hyperion's concern
regarding the marketability of AmigaOS x86 apps/games. |
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