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| Posted on 26-Feb-2003 15:18 GMT by Nico Barbat (editor-in-chief AMIGAplus) | 194 comments
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Pegasos is here - albeit in low quantities. The
new issue 02/2003 (#133) of AMIGAplus reports about
Pegasos and other topics:
Content: Review of Pegasos & MorphOS, Review of indivision, Review of Subway, Review of Crossfire II, Report about Quake II, Interview with Genesi S.a.r.l., Interview with the Breakpoint-organizers, Review of SuperView 5 1.0, Review of Digital Almanac III 5.0, Coding-workshop: SDL, part 2, Amiga Status Report and much more
AMIGAplus (68 pages, 4c, German) is available via
subscription, via individual order or through the
known Amiga dealer channels for 5,- Euro.
Looking forward: Upcoming AMIGAplus #134
includes the following reports: Reviews of TKR
LAM200E, IBrowse 2.3, VHI Studio 6 and Birdie Shoot,
Compatibility report of MorphOS, Part 1 of the Draco
video workshop and much more.
Contact: http://www.amigaplus.com
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| Comment 1 | JKD | | 26-Feb-2003 22:25 GMT |
| Comment 2 | F. Yssing | | 27-Feb-2003 06:15 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Anonymous | | 27-Feb-2003 07:18 GMT |
| Comment 4 | ONE | | 27-Feb-2003 07:27 GMT |
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| Posted by bbrv on 27-Feb-2003 07:45 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (F. Yssing):
Hi Steve, hi Frederik,
We think you are missing the point. Consider these next 400-450 Pegasos machines as the next step toward a broader consumer market and as a Development Platform. We will be changing the northbridge for the Pegasos II. This is the product that will be directed for the mass market -- not the current version. In the meanwhile, MORE IMPORTANTLY, the engineering and the organization behind the Pegasos and MorphOS have enabled Genesi to achieve an agreement to produce a Digital Television Receiver based on the PPC and MorphOS. We will be producing the first 150,000 of these units ourselves. We had to demonstrate that as a Company we could complete such a development and achieve it. We did this spite of many obstacles and this is why in the end we won the contract. Big companies are not in the habit of awarding small companies multi-million Euro development contracts and purchase orders. The qualification and authentication process is time consuming and strenuous. We did it. Now, we are moving ahead!
OK, so what do we do now. First, we need to deliver to the BIG customer what they want. As published to the mailing list <GameTeam@phinixi.com> we need to organized a suite of games (and eventually other applications) for this DTV STB. This first STB is a very simple platform, but it is starting point. Frederik, we would like to be working with you and Coder and the rest of the Flying Paper team on this (although how is Coder going to do this from Thailand?!). Can you understand that Apple too began one step at a time? Wozniak and Jobs made the first 200 Apple Computers in the gargage of Job's parents. We are a little farther than that and gathering momentum every day.
Back to the Pegasos, we think that the Pegasos I is fully suited to do the current job we have for it. It works very well and it peforms better and better with each OS update. Beyond MorphOS, our Debian Team (20 developers) is about to go to work on our next Debian distro (of course, Mac-on-Linux will continue to be featured). You can follow that progress at <PhrojectOS@phinixi.com>. You will also read about OpenBSD now running on the Pegasos there too.
We have targeted Developers, Demo Sceners and User Groups with this release of the Pegasos I because we still need to fine-tune everything. It is similar to what we did with the Betatester Program, but on a much more complicated scale because we are now perfecting more than the hardware and the OS. For example, we are establishing a broad web based sales and support strategy. We are going in a Dell-like way (not Compaq). Thus, we need to produce better documentation, more online resources, and build or port a full suite of applications (including a tool kit for our home based CBM like users). This takes time and talent. We are looking for the right people NOW. We are finding them by posting this kind of information and selling the Pegasos to these people for $299/299 Euros. We are moving ahead confidently and in large steps.
Plus, we will sell a G4 module upgrade to the Pegasos I or we will offer a Pegasos II with G4 module with Pegasos I trade in for 200 Euros to say thanks for helping us. We already have something else planned for those old Pegasos machines that get traded in...;-)
So, in a few words we hope you see the plan more clearly now. We have Pegasos I today. We are going to make it better. We will offer a number of operating systems and corresponding applications in a broad consumer release. Doing something too soon would potentially damage our one shot at the big time -- we are going for that with the Pegasos II. In the meanwhile, we have another project for a DTV STB that INSURES the financial stability of the Company. This gives us the ability to solidify our contractual obligations with our business partners, developers and employees and build a SOLID foundation for the future. Can you understand this? :-) Stability has been missing around here for sometime and we are bringing it back.
We understand that there may be many that do not want to be part of our "development" process. We understand this. No problem. We only have 85 Pegasos I machines left to sell. It does not seem to be a problem for a fair number of future users!
If that does not finally, make things clear read AMIGAplus!
...or send an email to bbrv@genesi.lu
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
P.S. As we have said many times, eventually if there is an OS4 it WILL one day run perfectly on the Pegasos without a dongle. BUT, we won't do that and will not need to support the effort, one of you smart gals or guys will sort this out. Of course, you could start discussing this on <PhrojectOS@phinixi.com>...;-) |
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