[News] the next ppc amiga | ANN.lu |
Posted on 19-May-2002 14:10 GMT by jah | 359 comments View flat View list |
i noticed a new video on aminet:
http://www.aminet.net/pix/mpg/Pegasos.mpg
"This is a demo video of bPlan's Pegasos computer. The video has been created by Thendic-France to give an impression of how the machine runs."
the download is still in progress, but i'm sure it will finish to convince all amiga users thats the ppc amiga they are waiting since years is finally arrived
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the next ppc amiga : Comment 211 of 359 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Boy Genius on 20-May-2002 08:32 GMT | Why is a market that has sustained itself for years without a friendly, responsive, reliable, stable Amiga parent company so willing to stake its future entirely on the whims of the new Amiga Inc?
If Amiga could have made Intent into a desktop operating system, what PPC Amiga compatible motherboard would we be running?
Why is a self-proclaimed software company like Amiga trying to exert so much influence on hardware?
Why could'nt Eyetech come up with a more creditable piece of hardware than this high priced board they bought of the shelf? (My A4000 has a removable processor that has allowed me to upgrade)
Have all the makers of Amiga legacy PCI bus converters lined up to support AOS4?
Has the Amiga community, one of the most intelligent groups of individuals I have come in contact with, became the foolish religious cult that the outside computer world says we are. We've gone from ahead of the pack to good enough for Amigans-a laughingstock. That's why programmers who cut their teeth on the Amiga now have applications running on hot-rod PCs. The outside world is not interested in our internal battles.
Amiga as a proprietary company on the order of Apple, must drive the market as a technology leader in order to survive. If they wanted to run their software only on their hardware they should have developed a motherboard in-house with leading technology features that would have drawn interest outside the inbred Amiga community and eliminated this stupid string.
Superior hardware would inspire developers of hardware and killer applications to develop like the original A1000 once did.
The Commodore 64 ,innovative for its time, was mass marketed and sold in such great numbers that applications were not a problem. Market forces drove it.
Why is AmigaInc. more interested in controling the market than growing the Market?
An AOS4 that can run on any piece of hardware in the Amiga "community" would have been a better business plan. Developers would more likely make a living developing for more platforms. This would have encouraged developers within the Amiga community to sustain the innovation that AInc. cannot afford to do inhouse.
After an A500, A2000, 2 A1200s and an A4000 w/Toaster/Flyer (each of which was better at its introduction than the Amiga1) I am not going to pay for an expensive generic A1 board with no upgrade path. The only reason we are still using our legacy Amigas is because they were infinately upgradable.
Yes I have upgraded the PCs I was forced to buy, but for a lot cheaper with more applications. (The operating system is Wacked)
Why produce a superior operating system, with no superior hardware on which to run it and no applications to use with it? The Amiga has never been an end in itself for sensible people, it was a great way to work, it has let many other solutions surpass it. Let's stop fighting and put it ahead of the pack so we can get of the Chat lines and get back to work. |
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