[News] Q&A Session of Panelists at Amiwest | ANN.lu |
Posted on 27-Jul-2003 07:31 GMT by Daniel Miller | 78 comments View flat View list |
Here are some quotes from the panelists who spoke at the Amiwest banquet this evening. They were Bill Buck, Ben Hermans, moderator Kermit Woodall, Jens Shoenfeld, and Jeri Elsworth.
Kermit: This is a great time to be in this community. We are getting new products.
Ben: Thanks for your patience. Thanks for waiting for OS4. There's new hardware just around the corner. 30 people [referring to Mai Logic] are working on the Amiga One hardware. I just came back from Fremont California where I had a meeting with some executives who had just returned from Taiwan. The Amiga One Lite is just around the corner. I'm very excited. There's no reason not to buy your Amiga One now. New things are right around the corner. There is modular work to be done to get OS4 on the Amiga One, things like serial device. These things haven't been done yet but it's not rocket science. Right now we are focused on finishing OS4.
Jens: I would like to talk about the Catweasel. It allows very low level access to a disk. The Catweasel may be able to read degrading, old disks. I am talking tonight about software for a change, the software we use for this. It's graphical, open-sourced, will be released for Windows first. Ports for Linux, MorphOS and Amiga OS should follow. Here's a diagram of low level magnetic flux transmissions.
Jeri: Three years ago I decided to make my own computer. I was fanatical about the C64 as a child. I took an early version of the computer to a C64 convention and the crowd went nuts. Jens assisted me with financial backing for my work and invited me to Germany where I spent 5 or 6 months creating the current board.
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Posted by Lando on 27-Jul-2003 22:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 48 (Mikey C): >With all due respect your majesty, you are not exactly neutral either are you?
You were the one claiming to be neutral. I'm the one pointing out your hypocrisy. You slag off Amiga.org for being biased yet you are completely and utterly biased yourself, and frequent an irc channel and web site with similar bias.
>So you are admitting that Amiga.org is indeed biased against Amiga, it's products and
>therefore by your own argument not neutral QED
First of all, Amiga Inc don't have any products - that's kinda why they are in the predicament they are in.
Seondly, Amiga.org is what the users make it. If, in your opinion, it is biased against Amiga Inc then you're saying that it's users are biased against Amiga Inc. Considering that it is by far the largest Amiga Community site on the Internet, this doesn't exactly spell a rosy future for them does it?
>(Next Lando goes on to prove that Black is white and get killed at the next Zebra crossing)
Hehe, funny. You'll be competing with Ray Akey for the AmigaWorld comedian of the year prize this year I assume? :o) He had me in stitches this afternoon on IRC referring to Greenboy as "Greendick" and Bill Buck as "Buckwit". Must've taken him ages to think those up.
>Yes I am happy at Amigaworld.net if only because I don't have to put up with certain
>narrow minded individuals.
Well, having looked at Amigaworld.net I think it's the best place for you. I'm glad you're happy there.
>The only thing Amiga about Amiga.org is the name.
>(In my humble opinion of course)
Rather like Amiga Inc, then. |
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