[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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Posted by Emeric SH on 25-Dec-2002 18:11 GMT | Yayy... This emulation/not emulation has not technical but psychological/emotional motives. Those trying to apply the sticker "emulator" to MorphOS, are simply trying to mislead purchasers by making the distinction between the "emulator" and "the real thing" even if technically (regarding not the new features, but compatibility) it's almost the same what OS4 will be. OS4, when will be available will be the "real thing" as it's official Amiga Inc. product, and not because it's technical merits. MorphOS is MorphOS (unless Amiga Inc. changes it's mind which is very unlikely) not AmigaOS.
Both OS4 and MorphOS has a 68K emulator, and regarding the issue, the AInc camp is right, the word "emulation" can be mentioned concerning MorphOS. However, the MorphOS is right in that since it provides extra functionality, and a whole new basis (many due to AmigaInc rejecting it as the new AmigaOS, and the necessity of rewriting many things from scratch to avoid possible ip issues) it cannot be simply called an Emulator.
However, deciding by occurences of a word in a certain document is pretty unprofessional way of determining if it's an Emulator or not.
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