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[News] McEwen gives a keynote speech in GermanyANN.lu
Posted on 12-Jun-2000 13:24 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä29 comments
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Amiga-news.de has posted Martin Baute's report from Bill McEwen's keynote speech at the World of Alternatives show in Neuss, Germany. Amongst other things, McEwen announces the development of the AmigaOne desktop computer, talks about a (apparently) working prototype of a Gameboy Color-style game machine developed in-house at Amiga and running Amie, and hints at a new recruit to their team who comes from a "large company in trouble".
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Posted by XDelusion@usa.net on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Mike Clarke):
I beleive that would be the Enix Lynx, or did they spell that Enyx?! I forget has been a while. :O)
As for all this AREX jazz...
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Posted by EON on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
Memory stick is a flashcard and it has already been released. It allows for quick transfer of data between memorystick compatible products such as the sony Vaio line of notebooks as well a camaras and more.
Several third party companies have signed up to produce memorystick compatible products and it seems Amiga will be one of them.
Thats all for now folks.
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
Didn't Amiga say they made the handheld game machine inhouse???
I thougt Dean Brown was their only hardware guy, they must have used a reference design from Intel (makers of strongARM right??).
Funny to think of, that StrongArm processor is much more powerfull than most of our Amiga's. 250mips is pretty much for a handheld game machine.
Exiting to see if they are up to something with Sony....I believe they are.
Elate could be used for PSX2, actually it would be a very logical choice as Sony owns part of Tao, offcourse it doesn't mean they will use Amiga's version of Elate, they could build their own who knows? (c'mon and tell us Fleecy :0)
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Posted by Mike Clarke on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
The original Amiga handheld came out YEARS ago.
It was called the Atari LYNX.
MikeC
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Posted by XDelusion on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (MORB):
Speaking of SNK...
...have you ever checked into NeoGeo Emulation!?!??!
Sweet is the word!
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Posted by Robert Simmonds on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (SvenOf9):
"Is it a GB clone... or a GBAdvance clone? "
If it is a Gameboy clone, then my admiration of amiga increases 100-fold!
Hosted OS running Java on a Z80... Now that IS impressive ;))
Robert Simmonds
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Posted by Brian H on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
Hmmmm..... I've had this theory for a while, but it is sounded a bit more like there could be an Amiga/Playstation connection. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the Sony Memory stick or whatever has been released yet. Maybe there is a relationship there. McEwen in his last Exec Update mentioned talking with Japanese businessmen. As well, there is no way Amiga could have developed a Gameboy type of device by themselves. And would Sony be allowing developers besides themselves to take advantage of the memory stick yet before they do themselves? As well, the Playstation1 and the Amiga1 do seem to match up a bit.
As for the Playstation 2 practically turing into a computer, Linux is too hard for the average user to use, Windows from Microsoft (NOT!), PalmOS is too weak, MacOS nope, BeOS maybe, Amie could be. It might make sense for Sony if things fall into place. Boy, could Amiga sure use some money from Sony.
BH
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Posted by SvenOf9 on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Troels Ersking):
Is it a GB clone... or a GBAdvance clone?
I think Playstation 2 and AmigaOne may have a lot in common... Doesn't the PSX2 dev kit run under Linux... Wouldn't Amie be a nice addition to the PSX2 along with the HD and ethernet upgrade for late next year?
Ditto on the wanting of an AmigaOne!!!
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Posted by Nobody else on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
I'm not sure I would like to see someone from Micro$oft
come to Amiga Inc. I fear it'd be risky at best (where
will his loyalties really lie?) although I can see how
this might look impressing on Amiga's employees page :)
Oh well, as long as he's not Mehdi Ali, I'm willing to
give him a chance.
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Posted by SvenOf9 on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
Err. excuse me sirs, but if I remember correctly the GameBoy advance was originally developed as Project Atlantis in the UK using a StrongARM main processor...
Also doesn't AmigaOne sound like PSOne to anyone... and whats this about Sony memory stiks.... Are Amiga,Inc. involved with a lot of Japanese companies like Sony, Nintendo, etc. etc. - lets hope so!
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Posted by David Scheibler on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
So the new two MS-firms are Microsoft and Amiga, Inc. :-)
I guess that's also the reason why the new OS doesn't have Memory
Protection...
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
It sounds very interesting that they allready have a quite powerfull Gameboy "clone" working with Amie (and it's developed inhouse??? by DB only???).
I wonder if Amiga have some sort of (closer than we know) connection with Sony, I mean Sony ownes part of Tao and could have interest in getting Elate in use as desktop OS for PSX2. What processor does the new portable PSX use???
Anyway I think the new employee we will have must come from MS, that is one big company in trouble...and it will get even worse for them, when Amiga really starts launching some products.
Things are looking very bright at the moment.....I want an AmigaONE.
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Posted by Floid on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
"A large company in trouble?" They picked up someone from Corel? ;)
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Posted by MORB on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Floid):
Well... Maybe SNK of America ? They're about to close...
Just my 2 cents worth :)
--
Antoine 'MORB' Chavasse / CdBS Software
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Posted by Henrik Mikael Kristensen on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Floid):
The "tearing apart gesture" in the next sentence does suggest a different company, doesn't it? :-)
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Posted by Carl Mohlin on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Henrik Mikael Kristensen):
Of course(curse? =) it's Microsoft!
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Posted by Graham on 11-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Carl Mohlin):
Its Bill Gates himself, he is going to come in and that SHEEP language? It really is VisualBASIC! Watch out, run for the hills.
It is obviously Microsoft, but so what? I am sure that there are a lot of senoir developers there who could fit this spot.
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Posted by Anonymous on 12-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2586240,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
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Posted by Haider Tuaima on 12-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 18 (Anonymous):
From ZDNet
'Another top Microsoft exec calls it quits'
From Amiga-news
'About the new Vice President of Engineering McEwen showed himself mysteryous. This man might not get introduced bevore the 10th of Juli, cause he still is employed by another company - "one that is large, and is in trouble, you know...", and with this words a gesture of tearing something apart.... '
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Posted by Chris on 12-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
Another thing in favour for the Amiga one to have lot's in common with ps2 is that Sony will open the ps2 platform next year...
And they are working on a graphic synteziser with 32 mb instead of 4, sounds nice...
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Posted by MagicSN on 12-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 20 (Chris):
Hi!
Even if this is not Amiga related - where did you read that about Sony working
on a graphics synthesizer with 32 MB ? Is this confirmed ?
Steffen Haeuser
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Posted by Bob C on 12-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (SvenOf9):
Great nick SvenOf9....LOL...and I too would a shiney new AmigaOne!
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Posted by Teemu I. Yliselä on 12-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
Oops. Reading the report again, it doesn't actually say that the handheld game device was developed in-house at Amiga. It was "finished after one week of development" and, if I'm not reading too much into this, based on Dean Brown's design.
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Posted by steve zoneff on 13-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 17 (XDelusion@usa.net):
Nope, it was Epyx. They were a great SW house (imposs. Mission, Jumpman, Summer games, etc)
And the Lynx was originally to be called the 'handy'. I love 'em and have two of them!.
Steve Z.
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Posted by Hamish on 13-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Troels Ersking):
StrongARM is licensed to Intel from ARM technologies. The HArdware people from the Acorn breakup. I don't know who you would go to for reference designs though...
As for the PSX2, does'nt it have it's own OS? (Not putting down this Amie, just curious);)
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Posted by Chris on 13-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
The "handheld" psx isn't exactly handheld, it's more like portable. Check this link out for more info.
http://www.incitegames.com/incite/plsql/incite_main.main?in_platform=%25&in_type=%25&in_id=12131
About the ps2 platform and the graphic syntherziser, check this link out.
http://ps2.ign.com/news/20477.html
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Posted by Joe S. on 13-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 25 (Hamish):
The only thing mentioned about the PSX2's OS is that it uses a heavily(?) modified version of Linux. AFAIK, That was all that was mentioned. With Sony having invested in Tao, we can guess that it might be ELate, but there was never an offical mention.
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Posted by Tony Gore on 14-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
The way I understand it, PSX2 and Dreamcast load the OS from the game cd when you put it in. That means that if there is a new and better OS to use that sports new tricks not possible with the old one, they could change it on the fly and end users would be none the wiser. Can anyone say "Plug in the Amiverse CD and start surfing the web on your PSX2 or Dreamcast?" That's what I think. It would have a browser and such, you could download MP3's and play back on your RIO player, etc... Just my thoughts... Kinda like turning your game console into a desktop with the switch of a CD.
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Posted by Larry Bolch on 16-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Floid):
As Mr. Spock might say "Logical". Corel just laid off around 300 people, and the CEO has suspended his own salary. Corel is an announced partner (Whoop-de-do) so there are probably quite a few folks who know each other and know each other's qualifications
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