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| Posted by Alex Klauke on 13-Apr-2002 20:32 GMT | In reply to Comment 91 (Seehund):
Seehund, what exactly is wrong with supporting the Amiga market, supporting
those Amiga dealers that stayed with us through the bad times. Talking about
commitment to the community. Those dealers are part of the community, aren't
they? Don't they deserve a little higher income than they had throughout the
last 8 years? At least the chance for higher earnings?
I know, many people here would like to go out to their local PC dealer and get
an el cheapo x86 Board for running Amithlon or even WinUAE. Does this help the
Amiga market? At least that's doubtful (I know that most Amiga dealers, Eyetech
included also sell PC-x86 hardware, but has it always to be that way?). How
could there be a possibility to grow the Amiga market if it would be this way?
Through software sales only? Nah. Not likely.
And I'm talking about here and now, not about what may be when OS5 is ready to
ship. If we don't support the Amiga market now it may be too late then.
Nothing much has changed with the recent ExecUp. The 'AmigaOne' will ship with
an AmigaOS4.0 OEM version for the regular consumer as said before. Whoever
would like to sell hardware capable of running AmigaOS4 has to get approval
from AmigaInc., as was the case from the very first AmigaOne announcement in
April 2000 (no sp. error there ;-)
Only one thing seems clear now, AmigaInc. is willing to support important parts
of the community. Amiga dealers, who can and may go out and find decent new
PPC board solutions and get AmigaInc.'s approval for selling it as Amiga hw,
giving them new incomes. Amiga users, who want to run AmigaOS4 and be sure to
get compatible hardware, without any trial and error. Amiga developers, who can
now see that there is an Amiga platform that seperates itself from Mac/PC and is
worth developing for and know what they can chose as a development platform and
that their software will run on every Amiga branded hardware.
I cannot see much wrong with that. And for the price point, my first Amiga was
an A500 which sold for approx. 800 EUR (incl. 1084S). The last one was an
A4000/EC 030 for about 1.400 EUR (excl. monitor). Now I get the rest of my
AmigaOne system for less than 1.000 EUR, with a spec thats somewhat higher than
what Moore's law would guarantee over 9 years. Do I have any problem with that?
God beware, noooo, not at all ;-) Finally I get a new approved Amiga to follow
up the 4000 which died two years ago at easter. ;-( since when I had to suffer
with this ancient Pentium133, even if Linux runs quite decently.. (UAE doesn't)
Enough ranted. Getting tired. Goin' to sleep. Good night. Wake me up on A-Day.
(Arrival-, AmigaOne-, AmigaOS-... you know ;-)
Ciao, Alex |
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