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| Posted on 14-Mar-2002 00:22 GMT by Gareth Knight | 83 comments
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Amiga® To Provide Content For Next Generation Windows CE .NET-Based Devices
Amiga Games and Productivity Applications Will Target Windows CE .NET
Microsoft.com
San Francisco, CA — March 12, 2002 — Amiga, Inc. announced the release and distribution of Amiga applications targeted at the Microsoft Windows CE .NET operating system. The applications will run on any of the range of Windows CE .NET-based devices including handhelds, smart phones, web pads, and set-top boxes.
Amiga has a rich history of gaming and multimedia and has been delivering rich, compelling applications since 1985. The new breed of Amiga applications have been written to run on the entire range of Windows Powered products including PDA’s, Cell Phones, and Set Top Boxes. Amiga provides a middleware portability layer, which allows Amiga applications to be written once and run across a range of Windows Powered devices without change. More than 100 applications will be made available initially and many more are being created by Amiga developers worldwide.
“We are pleased to be able to deliver content that is optimized to run on the Windows CE .NET Platform”, said Bill McEwen President/CEO of Amiga Inc. “Amiga developers are world renowned for their abilities to create amazing multimedia content with a small footprint. This gives us the ability to deliver a robust and exciting experience for even the smallest devices.”
“As the number and variety of small- footprint and mobile Windows Powered devices continues to grow, ISVs want to ensure that their applications are able to run on as many of these different devices as possible,” said Keith White, senior director of marketing for the Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group at Microsoft Corp. “Amiga Anywhere enables application developers to easily take advantage of the rich application and multimedia support in Windows CE .NET to write gaming applications that will run on a broad range of smart Windows Powered devices.”
Amiga for Windows Powered Products is expected to ship in April this year. More information can be found on the Amiga Anywhere web site at http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/.
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| Posted by EmGee on 14-Mar-2002 13:37 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (José):
Jose & the rest of the Amiga Community,
Lots of people believed in the beginning when the new Amiga Inc. bought the Gateway Amiga mess that they would create another miracle machine that had an impact ala the A1000 back in 1985.
I even believe that Bill & Co wanted to achieve this too at the time they bought the Amiga name and other Amiga related stuff. But when they did a marketing research (they must have, or they are REALLY some ameteurs who don't know what goes on in the Real Business World (tm)), they came to the conclusion that if they wanted to make some money, they needed something NEW. The concept of a new Amiga ala the classic ones, would never work. They could've done it, but the time they could really sell it, it would be obsolete (hell, nVidea brings out a new GFX card every SIX months, there goes your AGA Super Duper+++ GFX chips). So they came up with this ADE, AA project.
But hey people, this concept of the Amiga Anywhere is theoratically really nice, especially for developers. And the Amiga name is still known to lots of people involved in the computer business who are older than 18 :)And gives them a smile for the memories back in the Golden Amiga Era.
So the attraction for old Amiga developers who want something else then programming for the Win/Console world is there (some clever thinking Bill!).
There's one problem though, Bill must have thought.... the Old Community (tm). But they don't give a rat's ass about Amiga Anywhere, Amiga DE or whatever it's called. They wanted their nextgen Amiga 9000, with a new absolute awesome world devestating GFX chipset, 24bit zillion channel 5.1 Dolby surround Sound Chips, a super power CPU @ 10GHz And with this computer they could blast the x86 world away. Keep on dreaming....
But developement costs money, LOTS of it. "So hey, to reach my goal (AA everywhere), I can make use of the old community, and give them a transitional phase and perhaps make some money from it" says Bill. "Let's invent the A1 and the nextgen AOS (4.x and beyond)"
"And let them smoothly (?) enter the AA world."
People, this will happen eventually (AOS5.0 with AA on top of it). And if they succeed in selling this AA concept to the world, who cares what OS you're running under it ???
As I said before, get over it. The new Amiga is the NOT A1, but the AA product.
I wanted too to return to the Amiga world (I left it in 1996), with a new super Amiga. But it isn't gonna happen.
So spread the word, Amiga Anywhere..... ;-)
EmGee
PS. I'm not an m$ advocate, but I live in the real world (tm). |
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