| [Rant] "Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 25-Dec-2002 12:19 GMT by P E | 220 comments
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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 209 of 220 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by DaveW on 28-Dec-2002 09:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 205 (JoannaK):
Ah, JK again, BBs Joan of Arc.
"That may well be.. Petunia is all new project without any development and testing history behind it, and thus there can be a lot's of anonying bugs and problems on getting it to work on Real world system. "
Without any development and testing history behind it? Oh thats right it only
exists on paper. No lines of code have been written or run. Of course, this is JoannaKs world and only applies to Amiga Inc and affiliated partners.
"Another problem they had (still have?) is that their new OS-code was all written atop of OS3.9 68K system. Last time they did show anything those libraries were running on 68k processor (and those existing screenshotts are form 68K A4000).."
Oh no, there is no such thing as a compiler. Code written in C cannot in JoannaKs world be recompiled for a different target processor and be expected to work the same....!
Tell me, you make a statement about some code that was publically shown what two three months ago as if it is a "problem"? Maybe, in your mind it is only a problem if it isn't BeOS, MorphOS or Linux for which the recompilation is being done?
" Their PPC-booting kernel was entirely separate thingy that had no connection to other parts of OS yet."
Yes. Months back.
" At that point they had not even made essential 68k->PPC porting"
Yes because that is sooooo hard.
" .. This is second part they may stumble, cause processor type conversion there will be lot's of ugly details they could not anticipate beforehand. "
Oh please oh wise and wonderful person who has clearly never done any porting before enlighten us to those mysterious ugly details.
"Well.. I'm more concerned their lack of any tanglible progress reports and their avoidance of demonstrating their product in public."
Because they are getting on with the job? They said 1Q2003. You ( JoannaK ) moan when you hear Ben Hermans in public talking a lot and showing bits off and you moan when he doesn't.
"For somewhat pessimistic outsider (like me)"
No. You are a pretty clueless pessimistic outsider who has no idea of the real status of things or of the real issues.
"it looks they might have frosen entire development..."
Outrageous FUD, but what more can we expect from the Thendic Sock Puppet.
"Hey, even this usually so loud and optimistic B Hermans has been exceptionally quiet lately..."
You and others screamed at him to be. Maybe he is on his Christmas break. Terrible that people have real lives, maybe you need to get one.
Not nice when someone is caustic and sarcastic back at you eh? I have read pretty much all of your posts that I have seen on here and on A.org and I have come to the conclusion that you are technically below average with a huge chip on your shoulder who LOVES to spread FUD and consistently beats the drum for the MOS cause. You are beginning to sound like an old warped cracked record. Cranking out the old lies and misrepresentations.
In the REAL world there are probably significant problems with drivers, Petunia integration etc, there are probably testing and bugfixes going on. But because its AmigaOS4 they have to report back every week to JoannaK and the rest of ANN otherwise further lies get concocted as "speculation" by her and the FUD bunch.
In JoannaK world Hyperion and all need a much higher burden of proof than those she backs.
Hypocrite! |
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