| [Web] TeamAROS bounty program updated | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 23-Jan-2004 02:30 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 79 comments
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The teamAROS has set three new objectives in their bounty program:
- PCI driver, ata device and support of fat32.
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| TeamAROS bounty program updated : Comment 38 of 79 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by anon on 25-Jan-2004 00:25 GMT | In reply to Comment 27 (Hagge):
> you don't remember the old 286 pc cards for the amigans do you? ;)
Sure I do, I have one, the 80286 bridgeboard installed from the factory in my a2000hd, along with the 5 1/2 floppy. It wasn't an x86 accelerator though, it was just a 286 computer on a card.
If, at the time of the PPC accelerators, they had made an x86 accelerator, y'know, like a CSPPC 68060 with a Pentium 233 accel instead of a 604e accel, it would have been a bridge to a future. instead of the PPC developement, we would have had x86 developement and a nice gradual transition to hardware that's not ghetto.
Granted the pentium 233 itself wouldn't have been as fast as the 604e at 233, but the thing is it wouldn't have stagnated, and hardware wouldn't have that terribly low bang for the buck shortcoming it has now ($600.00 for a 604e
233 in 2004!? not on your life!)
What the Amiga needs is "Slow burn, long term, getting things done" rather than the jive talkin pie in the sky euphoric buzzword spouting nonsense helium filled feet-never-touching-the-ground permasmile crap that most people blindly swallow down while holding their nose, while the rest of the world looks on and snickers under their breath.
(Y'know the type, "Amiga! coming up on you in your sleep!!!11!!1 Amiga! First we take Manhattan, then we sweep Berlin off it's lighter-than-air feet!!!1!1!1!" after every post, etc. this is who Amiga Inc are pandering to.)
The problem with the hardware today, is it lacks any forsight, the same lack of forsight that fucked us for a decade while the world moved on, and left us scrounging aminet trying to replace 68k apps with $600-233mhz PPC apps while the rest of the world buys 1GHz cpu's for the price of a filling meal at McDonalds. The current solutions don't solve the problem, they just bumped up the class of prison we're in a bit, but we're still fucking stuck in prison.
The "planned" or "official" story is that OS5 will be hardware indipendant, but that's a crock of shit and yet more pie in the sky bullshit, and completely flies in the face of the direction of OS4. If we're going hardware indipendant, then why go proprietary PPC as a steppingstone? this steppingstone doesn't move in that direction at all. I actually purchased an Amiga developer system (the D'Amiga) when it was announced THIS was the transition system, at a time when the direction of Amiga was nothing but a ship with no sail, and changed daily as fleecy told everyone what he thought they wanted to hear, changing accordingly.
Amiga's current direction is a community cancer, where anyone that doersn't agree with the fucked direction they are taking is considered part of that cancer and cut off like a tumor, to the point where the community is policing itself and shutting out people rather than growing in number. the community has gangrene, and will die from it because of this. this cult is now officially sanctioned by Amiga, and this cult is holding the community hostage to the point where those of us not in it would rather not be associated with the term "Amigan" anymore because of these people.
Look around, hundreds of the Amiga Communities most brilliant and productive people no longer wish to be called Amigans anymore because of this! Even as they continue to create things Amigans use everyday! Gangrene, and it's killing us.
it's probably too late. Everyone in the position to do something about these problems are content with the infection. |
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