[News] Eyetech talks about Terrasoft | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Mar-2003 05:59 GMT by Christian Kemp (Edited on 2003-03-12 08:46:13 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 146 comments View flat View list |
An anonymous reader links to this message by Alan Redhouse talking about Terrasoft, a possible 1.3Ghz CPU module, and XE delivery dates.
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Eyetech talks about Terrasoft : Comment 93 of 146 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 12-Mar-2003 18:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 89 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): ">I have nothing against Eyetech or Hyperion effort but I definitely know that
>Ben has been playing the "almost ready" game for more than one year.
If I were to do this in bad faith which I am not, I'm no doubt beaten hands down by bPlan with respect to the Pegasos which has been ready for 4 years now only to get pulled for a major redesign."
1) If it was not bad faith when you said that it would be out in february 2002 it was a very very bad planning. For a project manager it is scary.
2) I was not speaking about Genesi here. I did express some criticism about Pegasos/Mos and bbrv know about it. If I criticize [insert project here] it is because I would like the products to be good and ready.
"I also recall "M Day" being announced at least 1.5 years ago."
I remember that the first end user version of MorphOS was out for the M day.
"No doubt you will come up with all kinds of valid reasons for why this is (I don't think you will be so stupid as to refute this claim which can easily be verified through an internet search) but if you accept that this has happened to bPlan and Genesi, somehow it all becomes sinister when it relates to Hyperion."
I never blamed Alan about the failure of the first AmigaOne. I did not blame Genesi for being late for the Pegasos because I knew about articia problems.
At the same time (september 2002) you were answering to me here that there was no bug and that Bplan was clueless while they were helping MAI to fix the articia.
"Genesi pulled the Pegasos I because they were supposedly unhappy with the quality of the Articia S."
It makes a lot of sense when you see all the problems they had, all the delays, and the still not available Amigaone etc.
"We delayed OS 4.0 quite a few times for rework and redesign because we were not satisfied with certain aspects."
I think that delaying once or twice is reasonnable but that continuously announcing dates you know you can not commit to is very bad for the whole Amiga community.
You may be closer to a first release (cyberstorm) now but I knew perfectly that all the promises for last year were not possible. You are much more informed than me on that subject. I think that you knew you would never get it out on time.
"When we're doing this, it is termed a "game", when Genesi does it, there are no doubt valid reasons and we should all accept it."
Genesi already delivered so I don't see the point. Maybe it is not the massive end user release that we where looking for but they never said it would be. Their aim is to build a community around their products to find talents they can hire / contract. In exchange they give what we where waiting for years. If AmigaInc would have been smarter they could have been Genesi months/years ago.
"This is what I call "intellectual dishonesty"."
Like many of US I have given everything I could to help Amiga Inc.
I bought all their products (dare I say including merchandising), I did the same with Hyperion games just to support the company who supported the Amiga.
In exchange Amiga Inc screwed up big times (they did not want OS4 fist) and since you got the OS4 project you have been consistant with telling us absurd release dates, being threatening Genesi (stolen code), lying about the "there is no bug in the articia", etc
Genesi had some difficulties too but they did not lie to me so far and they delivered and now they move forward.
I don't like to rant too much but I have been very frustrated about this situation (the top was with the Ben Yo episode).
I wish you good luck with OS4 and Hyperion games even if I feel that you lied to us intentionaly.
I feel sorry for the OS4 developers. They can blame the users for their frustration but they can also blame you to have caused a big part of it. |
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