[Events] AmiGBG Update: Eyetech & Paypal | ANN.lu |
Posted on 29-Jan-2004 10:15 GMT by AmigaRulez | 303 comments View flat View list |
We are very happy to let you all know that Alan Redhouse will visit us at the AmiGBG 2004 fair. Alan will tell us about what is happening around the AmigaOne hardware and what we can expect further on this year.
PayPal has been integrated into the ticket ordering system, so it´s now possible to pay your ticket in an easy way if you live outside Sweden. We celebrate this by having a DVD movie lottery among those who pre-pay their AmiGBG 2004 tickets!
More news at AmiGBG Web site
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Posted by Stephane Desrosiers on 31-Jan-2004 17:44 GMT | In reply to Comment 278 (samface): > Wether you like it or not, neither MorphOS nor the Pegasos are Amiga products > and using them won't make you an Amiga user. These are the facts, not my
> opinion.
I don't think the argument is that a MorphOS user isn't using an Amiga "computer".
The argument is that a MorphOS user is part of the general Amiga community.
Why?
a) They SUPPORT Amiga developers.
I had stopped buying Amiga hardware and software over 4 years ago because my Amiga 4000 getting more and more unstable. It could be rock solid if I went back to an 030 processor and AGA. I was definatly not going for a CSPPC. I was thinking of a towerized A1200, but then OS4 wasn't going to support the BPPC and I figured that I didn't want to go through with hacked up hardware hell.
I was getting tired of waiting but wanted a solution that could use AmigaPPC software. The first available (complete) solution was the Peg1. After I bought it I found myself purchasing: a Catweasel Mk III, IBrowse2.3, VHIStudio, FXPaint, FXScan, ImageFX4.5, Pagestream 4.1 (full price, and then prepaid for the MOS crossgrade), Hyperion's Quake 2, Hyperion's Freespace, CrossFire II, Hollywood, even some Amiga magazines... Just to name a few.
On top of that, developers who take the time to port their software to MOS, should have little work to get their software to compile and work for OS4 when it's available. MOS could be used as an intermediate step to an OS4 port, and developers could actually get PAID for going through this intermediate step. On top of that, people would get a good idea on the speed the software would run on an A1 + OS4 system.
b) You'll be hardpressed to find MOS users that don't or haven't owned an Amiga. They pretty much all come from an Amiga background. They've got Amiga software, they've probably still got amiga hardware stashed somewhere (presently I've got my A4000, CD32 and an A1000).
With that said, I really don't care what solution someone chooses. What do gets annoying is the "My solution is better then yours" and/or "you are impure" that exudes from different people.
Personally, it gets really infuriating when the person in question is a Windows user that hasn't bought any Amiga Software in a long time, are not supporting the developers because their chosen option is not available. YET, they still think that they are "pure" because they are waiting for their solution. I really don't see the logic in that. I have no problems with people waiting for their chosen solution, but to treat others as second class citizens even though they are helping members of your community smacks of hypocricy. |
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