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Posted on 07-Oct-2002 20:40 GMT by Anu Seilonen | 90 comments View flat View list |
OULU, FINLAND - October 7th, 2002 - Finnish Amiga Users Group's annual meeting was held in Oulu, Finland on September 28th, 2002. The meeting was visited by some 60 people and this well exceeded last years visitor count. Both Pegasos and AmigaOne were demonstrated at the meeting.
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Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Showed AmigaOne and Pegasos
OULU, FINLAND - October 7th, 2002 - Finnish Amiga Users Group's annual meeting was held in Oulu, Finland on September 28th, 2002. The meeting was visited by some 60 people and this well exceeded last years visitor count. This didn't come as a surprise, even though the location was a bit remote for people living in the more populated south of Finland. After all, the users group had a lot more to show this year.
Travelling all the way from Holland, Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal of Coyote Flux/Thendic France, were there to demonstrate MorphOS on the Pegasos. This was the first public demonstration of Pegasos in Finland. Sharwin and Rakesh spent the entire afternoon showing off the speed and capabilities of their machine. Impressive demonstrations included J Miner, a photogrammetry software that created 3D images out of 2D photographs, and various features of MorphOS and emulation software.
Also on hand to discuss their work on MorphOS were the Finnish developers and long-time Amiga enthusiasts Teemu Suikki and Harry Sintonen. They travelled quite a distance as well, paid by Thendic France. Tomi Ollila of the original AmiTCP group was also present at the venue. Discussions about computer technology, operating systems and life in general were rampant throughout the day. Finnish Amiga Users Group offered free refreshments to all visitors, and some of the people went on to continue the discussions at a dinner later that night.
Gentle Eye Ky, the only active Amiga dealer in Finland, was also present with some of their inventory and two interesting pieces of new technology. The AmigaOneG3-SE and a prototype AmigaOne-XE motherboards were on display. Unfortunately the AmigaOneG3-SE had no working BIOS and the AmigaOne-XE, which was all ready to go and hooked up, didn't boot Linux all the way. This may be due to a configuration error or the fact that it was only a prototype. It was interesting to see AmigaOne there anyway.
Finnish Amiga Users Group also held their official annual meeting and the club is moving ahead with the help of new people and new ideas - although more input and involvement is always welcome. The event was covered on the Internet via IRC, a Shoutcast audio connection, digital photography and a webcam. Unfortunately technical problems delayed these services quite a bit. More photographs and notes from the meeting will be made available via the users group website (http://saku.amigafin.org) and the Saku e-zine.
Finnish Amiga Users Group is interested in showcasing all progress made in the extended Amiga community. In addition to the above-mentioned people, Amiga Inc. was also invited to participate. We were frequently asked about this by our members and visitors, but unfortunately Amiga Inc. did not respond to emails from group officials this time. We hope to display AmigaDE and other products from Amiga in the future, like we did last year with our demonstartions of the Party Pack and the AmigaDE Player.
If you or your company are interested in getting in touch with Finnish Amiga users, please contact the chairman of the Finnish Amiga Users Group, Anu Seilonen, at thoriel@sci.fi to organize something. You do not have to come here in person, we are happy to demonstrate products for you at our meetings. Finnish Amiga Users Group is operated by volunteers interested in supporting a common hobby, so our services are usually free of charge.
The Finnish Amiga Users Group would like to extend its warmest thank you to those who supported our meeting and made it a truly memorable event. We look forward to bringing together like-minded computer hobbyists in the future as well.
About Finnish Amiga Users Group
Finnish Amiga Users Group (officially Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a registered, non-profit organization dedicated to helping Finnish Amiga computer users by preserving and advancing the Amiga hobby and knowledge of the Amiga computing platform in Finland. The group aims to reach its goals through volunteer efforts such as organizing events and publishing an e-zine called Saku.
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Posted by Anonymous on 08-Oct-2002 14:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Mediator): You start well:
" Here is what I see: "
Admitting that is your personal take and then you go and spoil it all with the
clearly incorrect:
" These are just the facts and an observation of an interested user. "
LEts take it one by one:
" 1. The Pegasos running different versions of PPC Linux and Mac-on-Linux -- not just one version....sometimes. "
So? Because distributions and version numbers are so vitally important?
"2. MorphOS being acclaimed as running very well and with many applications from not only Finland, but from third-party sources in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and other countries. "
Claimed. Again so?
"3. An application list that grows daily on the thendic france website "
You couldnt get bigger than the application list on the Amiga Inc website - you know
the Super Mario 64 one? Lists are just lists and what is there are hardly killer applications. Ill
believe it when I see the reviews ( of released products ).
"4. An active and interesting marketing campaign from Thendic/bplan that according to MorphOS-News.de includes thousands of Euros in contest money
for the Betatester Conference and travel and lodging expenses for *100* developers to come to Frankfurt! Plus, even a kids football team sponsorship. "
Oh bless my soul Mr Peebles its like a Dickens novel. Active and interesting like
sponsering keywords? Active and interesting by barrages of "press releases" rehashing the
same old? Active and interesting by posting confidential business correspondance on
a public forum? Active .... e.g. you are applying selective filters bud.
" On the other side I see:
1. Only FUD about the legality of MorphOS, but NO LEGAL ACTION TAKEN AGAINST IT. "
Who knows what they are doing? Who knows if it is FUD? Frankly I dont really care
and I dont think the episode
"2. Personal attacks against the key players but no substantive criticisms. "
Who they? You mean the personal attacks against Fleecy, Ben, Hans Joerg or are
we talking about the barrage of anger unleased at Bill? Or the kiddies that use "Amino"
instead of Amiga Inc. Or are we talking about the fact that a lot of people do
not really like Ralph for reasons that never really seem totally clear? Theres
shit on both sides dude and you are walking around with one eye shut.
"3. OS4 not close to release. The BIOS was just finished! "
MorphOS not close to release. Oh YES thats right in ignorant Fanatic Amiga User
Land you write the BIOS before you start on anything else. Project management and
concurrenct software development is only something that you do if you are writing
MorphOS.
"4. An AmigaOne that is the intellectual property of a company in China or California -- in any case the name is Mai not "Amiga" "
SO???????? What has this got to do with the price of fish?
"5. No significant marketing effort and NOTHING from Amiga Inc. "
Im not sure I agree. Do you want Hyperion to sponser a five-aside-football team?
Maybe, just maybe unlike Thendic and actually LIKE B-Plan they dont shoot their
mouths off ( much ) until they have something done ( Hyperion and Eyetech ). In fact
loudmouths on here will say in follow up to this that Amiga Inc does NOTHING but
market.
The FACTS as you put them are: Nothing production ready from either "side" and a
bunch of juvenile dickheads mouthing off on fora.
So no change there then. |
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