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| Posted on 06-Sep-2002 00:56 GMT by Loki | 91 comments
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| Posted by Christophe Decanini on 06-Sep-2002 14:52 GMT | "because of you, Amiga's are still being used throughout the world performing amazing tasks and activities, and because of you, we are still here and moving forward."
First I would say "thank to you", not "because of you" but this is not really important.
What is really important is that I can NOT say the same think to Amiga Inc.
Amiga Inc almost did al;ost nothing for the classic / AmigaOS.
Here is my opinion as a long time Amiga user:
Amiga could have started the OS4 project back in 2000 and we would already have a working system today.
instead of that Amiga ignored the userbase and threatened that we would not have AmigaOS 4 PPC if AmigaOS 3.9 would not reach 50.000 sales.
Then Amiga find out about MorphOS and decided to go with Hyperion for OS4.
I'am gratefull for the MorphOS crew, for Eyetech, Hyperion and the other developers that made the classic Amiga alife these last years and that try to bring us a future.
I'am not gratefull at all for AmigaInc that brought us a good theory on the write once, run everywhere and that provided to us, the end users only a few games to run on pocket PCs through former AmigaOS developers.
I hate to say it but if the Amiga company was dead in 2000 the Amiga third parties could already have working solutions for us today.
Thendic participated more in Amiga events in the last weeks than Amiga did in the 2 last years ... pathetic for AmigaInc
It looks that anyone with management skills could have managed to contract MorphOS as the main OS4 contractor, eyetech / bplan / elbox for hardware producer, Hyperion for game kit / 3d / games , etc ...
Instead of that we have a late project that was started just to counter attack the mos effort. Instead of trying to manage the existing developers Amiga helped to split even more the (small) market.
Amiga just owns the name and wants to make maximum money from the people that are dedicated to the Amiga without having a vision for the future, a real dev plan.
All the ZICO specs, the OS5 are bables. Just something that cost nothing to trow at our faces to make us wait. The AmigaDE desktop project looks dead.
Most of the announced partnership did not produce anything. We don't know were we go, what is coming. We are supposed to run anywhere but commercial applications are just reaching pocket PCs.
Well good luck for anyone beleiving in all of the DE stuff. It did not help us (except maybe a few game developers), it did not make any money for the Amiga dealers, Amiga developers etc.
For me the AmigaDE stuff has nothing to do with the Amiga we know. It is just a parasite that lives of the classic Amiga sick body. |
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