[Rant] "Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-Dec-2002 12:19 GMT by P E | 220 comments View flat View list |
Over at amiga.org, the signature "takemehomegrandma" has published a somewhat satirical post - for your enjoyment, here goes:
I want to apologize that the AmigaOne has still not been released (A1 mobos+OS4). I also want to apologize to our competing companies that we have accused for crimes in public without being able to back those accusations up with either proof or legal action. I also want to apologize for not keeping our promises to you developers who bought our expensive SDK's. I also want to apologize to the users who bought our coupons, ehrm, JOINED OUR CLUB, but has not been given anything of the promised. I also want to apologize for the confusion when our offices suddenly were empty and our phones went dead (but that was a result of hackers, remember). Amiga Inc is truly a global 24 hours a day company and the future looks brighter than ever for our beloved AMIGA. We are pleased to announce a Games Pocket Pack to our friends Micro$ofts Pocket PC. This truly shows what a great commitment our 3000 content developers has to our beloved AMIGA. Wonderful things are about to happen as allways. Thank you, as allways, for your support. Keep the AMIGA spirit, and remember to follow our trademark wherever we go. We are AMIGA. You are AMIGA (if you pay us 50 bucks). We will be back with more exciting announcements during the next weeks. See you then! /Yours McBill
Well, there you go. Merry christmas!
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"Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? : Comment 193 of 220 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Frodon on 27-Dec-2002 17:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 191 (catohagen): Hello again,
> 1. The makers/porters of the OS have a long amiga history and provider of
> hi-quality games, mostly 3d engine based games that are highly optimised
> and run at decent speed, considering such old hardware.
> Games squeese hardware to its limits, so an OS thats does the same
> will kick butt :)
Well personnally I think that game development and OS development are two highly different things. I mean that's not because a company is good to make games that this company can make a good OS.
That's why I prefer to not have an opinion on their OS development capacities before I see the result of their work (i.e: AmigaOS 4). I mean it's far from obvious that the fact they make good games imply they make a good OS.
> 2. The amigaone or teron are made by external company not relying on
> amiga sales, so less chance of hardware being unavailable or stopped
> from development due to low sales.
Well ok. But you know the one who really sell AmigaOnes is Eyetech and if you want AmigaOS 4 you need to buy boards from them because there is a dongle. So if Eyetech go wrong there will be no AmigaOnes anymore. Of course it'll then be possible to adapt the TeronCX for AmigaOS 4 or AmigaOS 4 to run on normal TeronCX but in that case the same can be done for MorphOS, i.e it can run on TeronCX/PX also if it'd be needed in the future (even if IMHO it's unlikely that it'll be ported as soon as there is the Pegasos).
> 4. The continuation of bullshit and fud spreading by competitors(BBRV)
> strengthens my belives that they are afraid of AmigaOne and OS4 and thats its
> a better product. They have spend alot of money, and none comming in(bill
> bucks words) and they need to change that, they think spreading fud and lying
> about its competitors will change that. Terrasoft where parters with thendic,
> suddenly they sell Teron boards and Bill Buck again comes with the speach of
> his life about 'We are being crushed' and 'YDL will crash and burn'
The same can be said about Ben Hermans, he has spread a lot of FUDs and BS about MorphOS in the not so far past. Like "MorphOS Team have seen the AmigaOS sources" or "MorphOS is illegal" and so on.
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