Posted on 07-Dec-2002 04:26 GMT by JoannaK | 19 comments View flat View list |
My conclusion of current situation published for open discussion here in Ann.lu. Extracted (+ couple typos fixed) from my public letter to one of companies now involved into this. (Type: Rant, but not flaming)
(conclusion.. )
In the end.. this Amiga situation is all Controlling Game. Like You have admitted and like all others have said one way or another during their talks... You can all work together as long as 'Insert our favorite person/corporation' is in the LEAD. Only way to make this end seems to be that there has to be ONE company (or team) that crushes all competition and makes them paying slaves.
Correct me if I'm wrong here. I see this all as divorcing parent's fighting from their children . Every lie is acceptable, every method is legal as long as you can assure to have all us on your side. I do understand we are talking about remarkable markets here, especially IF by some accident winner happens to create real and attractive product to make this all happen in a way winner can lure all Ex users back.
Sorry. Only thing I can see is that people with best liars (and perhaps even lawyers), most money and (hopefully one day) best product wins this game. During these years there would have been plenty of times to you *great leaders* to get together but each time someone has wanted to have upper edge to others, so it have not become anything more constructive than ongoing bickering, fighting and Mud throwing.
Have well.. And remember all to have plenty of Mud around.
Joanna Kurki
Long Time EX Amiga user, EX Commodore developer etc etc..
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Posted by Jope on 09-Dec-2002 07:33 GMT | I guess this is likely to be it for me too..
I'm not going for the new machines, even though I lost $50 in the voucher offer. (still no t-shirt)
I'll never get rid of my A4000, though.. Maybe I'll even cave in and get a PCI expansion for it. I still use my Amigas, but I don't really have a problem with other platforms either. I have PCs, Amigas, HP-PA stuff, an RS/6000, lots of CBM 8-bits.. What's the big problem. :-)
The New Amigas aren't really what I want in my Amiga. In my opinion, Amithlon/Umilator was exactly what was needed. The key here is commodity hardware, at maximum speed available, with the best price/power ratio. In order to get the much wanted ex-users back, you don't make them buy 700e worth of hardware that's slower, than what they could have gotten for that 700e. Many have migrated to x86 and Linux. Amithlon / Umilator would have been an excellent choice. Cheap, installs nicely alongside your normal OS, does a good job of running Amiga stuff and has the ability to run x86 native Amiga code as well!
Dual booting doesn't kill an OS, it's the lack of app support. If you don't get enough apps to be able to stop dual booting to your old OS, you'll quickly stop booting back to the alternate OS and the OS that does the most without reboots will become the default..
What I'd like to see is MOS or OS4 to be hardware independent in the Linux sense, even if it is going to be PPC only.. I'd *love* to have my RS/6000 running MOS or OS4. That would have a big coolness factor AND I already have the hardware. Make it run on the Macs as well! Many ex Amigans migrated over there too, they already have the PPC hardware.
This, however leads us to another problem that is a rather difficult one: who will provide the myriad of drivers and support? They can't scavenge Linux for them, I guess, unless they make the drivers open source as well.. This of course is not an option, I've seen. (several different Classic PCI implementations spring to mind) :-( |
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