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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 acg on 14-Mar-2002 19:28 GMT | I thought the goal was to run Amiga apps on top of any existing
OS.... if so, then this is good news.
If MS likes the concept however, it will buy it, and utilize it
to get itself everywhere also, or they will buy it and shelve it
until they come out with a new repackaged windows,, and then
and then they will control everything...Hardware guys are gonna
have to make things that are "optimized" for MS OS or repackaged
Amiga/TAO stuff....no mass of computer "users" are gonna buy
Amiga DE ...they're gonna buy a windows optimized hardware set to
cover themselves for the basics...and that's it...
One hope would be for AmigaDE to have enough people using its
software and "content" on MS boxes, and THEN come out with a
super duper billion GHz, nanoflop, HDTV+, pda, eyeglass/phone/
computer/etc that runs AmigaDE only. Only after enough people
use AmigaDE stuff elsewhere will they want a machine that is superior enough
to the run of the mill machines to bypass windows....
I'm not sure how this will work for me...I wanted a good cheap,
elegantOS that did video, DTP, graphics, games, etc.and didn't
crash constantly, and I didn't need an army of IS specialists,
and constant reinstallation of stuff, and defragging, and
air coolers, and cheap knock-off parts, etc
Amiga was great for the basically undeveloped time it came out,
we loved it because it was so far ahead of its time, all the stuff
out now is just being played out as long as it can be played out...
Innovation in this field is now DEAD. Just jump on the Windows bandwagon and
dust off the guy in front of you, and don't make waves, hopefully
you can eke out a living if you don't go against MS "theory". |
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