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Posted on 14-Mar-2002 00:22 GMT by Gareth Knight | 83 comments View flat View list |
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 A on 14-Mar-2002 14:37 GMT | To José, EmGem, the rest:
THIS is how it is ;)
OS4 and AmigaOne are gapstop solutions to keep the community going until OS5.
OS4/AmigaONE will NOT be marketed towards anyone else than the community (who
would want an unsexy OS lacking much of the functionality ppl expect from a
modern OS, running on yesteryears hardware? Well, WE would, because we can
appreciate the elegance and userfriendliness and yesteryears hardware to us is
a big step forward from using hardware 2 decades old). OS4 is not the OS that
will expand the Amiga userbase. It's gapstop only.
And THIS is how it goes ;D
OS5 will expand the userbase. OS5 will be a totally new OS (as in rewritten from scratch). As it will be competing directly with Windows/MacOS it will have
to contain all the functionalities ppl expect from a modern OS. How do you
convince Microsoft to port Windows Mediaplayer? And what about a RealPlayer
port... well, we are getting it now, thanks to Amiga Anywhere. For us, the
community, Amiga Inc. is the devil incarnated as they failed to provide us with
the 68080 AAAA based wondermachine we "all" expected. For outsiders, seeing
Amiga mentioned with the likes of Sharp, Nokia and now Microsoft, Amiga might
appear to be a safe and sound company, a rising star on the otherwise
collapsing dotcom sky. With this heightened reputation and the increased
curiousity from big players, it WILL be easier to get the standards implemented
in OS5. With the success of Amiga Anywhere, more and more big players will code
their software for AA. And when it is coded for AA, it is coded for OS5.
So: we get all the standard software ported (and getting paid lisence fees for
it). The money is used building the core OS5, the finished product will arrive
somewhere in the period 2004-2005. It will be running on the most modern
hardware available, inside the sexiest designed "box" mankind ever saw. And it
will be advertised on all the TV channels in all the countries in all of the
world. And the commercial will contain the most beautiful logo we ever saw, with
"Amiga" written in JUST the right font. And and and...
Well, I might have gone just a little over the top here, but anyways, I think
Amiga's strategy is the right one. We won't get what we want just like that,
we need to think in bigger time frames. And that's what Amiga is doing. We will
have our OS5, I'm sure of it, just not instantly. And Amiga are not traitors
just because they have realized they have to choose an alternative route to get
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