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[News] What is Amiga all about?ANN.lu
Posted on 12-Oct-2000 10:22 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä69 comments
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As many people will have noticed, Amiga have a new page up, explaining the virtues of the new DE. But just look at the list of games being ported! How the heck did they manage all that?

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Posted by Zynaps on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Hm.. Operation Counterstrike.. this doesn't happen to be the same as Counter-strike the HL mod that is so good Valve has officially adopted it?
If it is, one of the few reasons to run windows just went out the window :)
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Posted by Paolo "Mod3m" D'Urso on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
They also list "Mario 64"... this's just ridiculous.
And I'm in close touch with some developers that DIDN'T do any port of their game yet, and they don't intend to.. but their titles are listed!
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Posted by Tony Gore on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Not only is Mario 64 listed as being ported, but they also show a pic of the N64 console and gamepad in the line of pictures at the top.
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Posted by IndJANa on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Paolo "Mod3m" D'Urso):
So what are you suggesting? Amiga Inc. are outright lying on their cooperate homepage? How do you imagine Amiga Inc. would benefit from that? Can you shed a light over excactly what titles youre refering to? Remember just because theyre not in contact with the actual programmer there could still be work in progress to port the game!
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Posted by Dave on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Zynaps):
Operation Counterstrike is most likely to be OC thats coming out for Classic Amiga, Windows and Mac. Its an RTS done by Blueblack (http://www.thesnakepit.demon.co.uk)
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Posted by nOM^ on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
I think the pic of the N64 is ment as an example.
I think they mean a "game-console" can run the amiga software, not
the N64 can run it.
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Posted by Chris Kelley on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (IndJANa):
Well,The Last Patriot is listed,and we have NEVER made an announcement to the Amiga community OR Amiga Inc. that it was coming to the Amiga One.We chose to wait until the Dev kit had 3d and sound support before we considered anything.It looks like they just went down their old developers list from their old website,and wrote down the projects that were being worked on.Look at some of the titles---Claws of the Devil(wasn't that cancelled a while back),Final Fantasy 5???Come on,now...
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Posted by Ted Wallingford on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Chris Kelley):
Somebody said:
Not only is Mario 64 listed as being ported, but they also show a pic of the N64 console and gamepad in the line of pictures at the top.
To which I reply:
WHAT? That's a picture of an Amiga 1000 dude.
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Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Chris Kelley):
: Chris Kelley:
: Well,The Last Patriot is listed,and we have NEVER made an
: announcement to the Amiga community OR Amiga Inc. that it was coming
: to the Amiga One.
That's really unprofessional of them. Plus they are treating their
developers (and, as it seems, non-developers) bad. (What) are they
thinking?!
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Posted by Chris Kelley on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Johan Rönnblom):
It really makes our situation worse,because we've been around for 2 years and haven't released a product.At one point,we decided not to announce anything until we at least had a demo ready to show people.The only exception has been the Postal announcement,but that was just done to judge interest in the port(which was very good,btw).We're trying to keep a little credibility here,and things like this don't help.We are working on our 3d engine,and we have done work on several projects,but we are stretched a little thin at the moment.The purpose of this Postal port is to generate enough income to be able to hire people to work on some of these other projects,and start moving forward again.I'm sure it was an innocent mistake,but we'll have to explain that mistake to every person that emails us asking about the Amiga One port of TLP.It's a very strange situation,indded.
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Posted by Gabriele Svelto on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Mario 64 (!?!?) Final Fantasy 5 (hey, that was a SNES game!?!?), sincerely I doubt of this 'porting list', but wait, if it's true why I don't see any SEGA games yet! ;-)
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Posted by Mousky on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Just what the market needs: another game machine. Between N64, PS1 and PS2, Dreamcast, Gameboy and Wintel boxes, does the market need another game environment? Kind of skimpy on internet apps, I must say.
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Posted by Anonymous on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Mousky):
I'm sure that's what Microsoft said when Linux came to market.
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Posted by XDelusion@usa.net on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
There is no way that Nintendo would give anyone the rights to port Mario 64, and if so, then why hasn't there been any news on this on the Amiga news pages yet!?!? As for Final Fantasy 5?!!? Well Square soft just released that and the original part 6 (we got the children's version of the jap part 6 in our part 3 on the SNES), on the PSX under the title Final Fantasy Anthology. Now I do not see Square porting part 5 to the Amiga OS, else we would have heard about it, and if it is so, then why part 5 and not 6, 7, 8, 9, or 1-4?! Why not the upcoming 10 or 11 that supports internet play?
I dunno where Amiga got this list, maybe they are refering to the possibilty that there may be N64 emulation on the new OS, and perhaps a port of SNES 9x, cause I know the Final Fantasy 5 rom has been fully translated into English by some group of rom hackers.
As for Apps. Well that is a pretty small list. Ya if the game list was not so obsurd, I would be impressed by that, but I also need apps man, I already have pretty much left winblows in favor of BeOS, Linux, and my Dreamcast for games (yea we are getting Q3, Half Life, Opposing Forces, and UT, not to mention a mouse, and ethernet adapter), but what would really be sweet is to be able to just have 1 OS for everything like back in the day. We NEED more apps, and on top of that I really need a non-winblows program that supports DC bootable CD-ROM images cause BIN and ISO don't always cut it, I find myself using NeroBurn and Disc Juggler way too much when push comes to shove.
P.S. Is anyone porting CDRECORD, and MKISOFS?!?! I could really go for that, even though it is a ISO only program, still beats a lot of that other crap I have used in Winblows.
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Posted by Philip Cosby on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Chris Kelley):
>Well,The Last Patriot is listed,and we have NEVER made an announcement to the Amiga community OR Amiga Inc. that it was
>coming to the Amiga One.We chose to wait until the Dev kit had 3d and sound support before we considered anything.It looks like
>they just went down their old developers list from their old website,and wrote down the projects that were being worked on.Look
>at some of the titles---Claws of the Devil(wasn't that cancelled a while back),Final Fantasy 5???Come on,now...
The Last Patriot may have been listed as I had it accidently listed in the Future AmigaOne Releases section. As far as Amiga Inc's own list goes, I don't think we should judge does yet, they may have made some mistakes but I am well aware that companies have been seeking high profile titles for conversion.
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Posted by Chris Kelley on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Philip Cosby):
I'm not angry at Amiga,or at you Phillip... :)
I was just a little confused,that's all.I think that they could have solved this problem very easily by emailing all of the developers on the list first,to make sure that these projects were still going through...
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Chris Kelley):
When I first looked at this list it seemed very impressive but now it seems a lot of the games (and some apps) are actually only targeted at the classic Amiga, therefore I come to the conclusion that they wanted to list all never games even though they can only be used through emulation (or what they call it). That is the only reasonable explanation I can see?
<SNIP>I was just a little confused,that's all.I think that they could have solved this problem very easily by emailing all of the developers on the list first,to make sure that these projects were still goinI'm not angry at Amiga,or at you Phillip... :) I was just a little confused,that's all.I think that they could have solved this problem very easily by emailing all of the developers on the list first,to make sure that these projects were still going through...</SNIP>
What I don't understand is why Amiga doesn't have a guy (ok they got Gary...but he is busy with sdk support) working only to keep in touch with diffrent developer groups to try to "convince" them to port their software to the new DE. It is SO important to get the old users aswell as developers to use the new system and most of all develope and spread the word about it.
Just my opinion...
Troels Ersking
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Posted by Kelly Samel on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Well, I'd just like to mention that Randy at Amiga has made some special
efforts to keep in contact with development teams. He has been very supportive
and helpful in all communications I have had with him. It would be amazing to
see Mario64 and FinalFantasy5 but I have a feeling either someone has made some
false reports about porting these games or a mistake has been made. Still I
think it's great that so many new games are being brought to Amiga even if the
list may be partially incorrect.
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Posted by XDelusion on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Actually what Amiga needs to do, is start up a little section on there page, with the majority of upcomning apps and games, listed on it, along with linkz, to there web page, and wether it is going to be on the Classic OS or the New OS, or able to run via the Classic OS "Emulation" layer, I get so pissed when I read about a release, then find I have to invest in an overpriced PPC, and a over priced out of date GFX card just to play it, ok ya you may be able to do AGA, but AGA sux at this point and time.
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Posted by Ben on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
You all got the wrong end of the stick about Mario 64...
Think of it this way, what if Nintendo need an OS for their new console...
;)
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Posted by Mathew on 11-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
I think it's very likely that Nintendo and possibly other games makers making their machines "Amiga compatable". This would mean their own custom games would work as well as Amiga ones, theough the DE running on their box. So maybe Nintendo are trying out compiling under the new Amiga by porting Mario 64, and would include it on with the new Amiga compatable NES as a demo.
Can you imagine most or all of the games boxes adding Amiga compatability? So they could all run their own custom games, as well as ANY game written for the new Amiga? This could change the selling points of a new Dreamcast or NES box or whatever to "Our hardware is faster, and you can bring all your Amiga games with you if you switch to our new super-duper system!"
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Posted by XDelusion on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 20 (Ben):
The Emporer does not share4 your optimism.
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Posted by XDelusion on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (Mathew):
Ya that would be kool, but that would mean, porting code, but it would at least ensure long term compatability, over the span of the next couple generations of game systems, so long as CD-ROMS are still a major key in the technological web around that time.
Speaking of which, that new DreamSNES kicks a lot of butt, I can not wait till the next version, cause only a handful of games run 99% at this time, but still, that is pretty bad, emulation on a game counsel. Ever want that game machine that plays games for all systems...?
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Posted by Chris Kelley on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Wel,I feel like a complete twit.I just looked through my email archive,and I DID send out an email regarding The Last Patriot.And,it does mention something about developing TLP for the Amiga One.So,in a nutshell,I suck.Sorry for getting people's panties in a twist---I guess I'm just a fargin' moron.All apologies to Amiga,as well,for dragging their name through the dirt.I'm going to go eat some crow now,so please direct all nasty emails to nil:
Ugh... :(
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Posted by jer on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
hey wait. I got an idea with all of this playstation, nintendo, blah, blah, blah.
sorry if I may seem rusty with this theory, but....
suppose the games ported to the new amiga, can now play on playstation, nintendo, etc? just put part of the new AmigaOS onto a CD with the supplied game/program and then well... boot to the AmigaOS off the CD! You would be running AmigaOS ontop of the gaming console with the supplied game/program that you want to run!
how's that for twisted thinking?!
jer
junk_mail1@mail.com
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Posted by Frederik on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 24 (Chris Kelley):
:-) we all make mistakes...
but will TLP be developed for ami one then ???
/Frederik
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Posted by VIDART on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Deron Kazmaier of Softlogik has said on the e-groups PagestreamSupport list that he has
NOT told ANYONE that he has COMMITED to AmigaDE.
So what the hell is going on with this "Amiga DE - Committed Applications as of 9/14/00"
list.
I think it's time that we get some explanation from Amiga Inc.
"So The World May Now" is there statement on there web-site.
Are you reading this Amiga Inc.?
Please reply to the Amiga Community who is here on Ann-Lu.
Andreas Rief
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Posted by Anonymous on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Well it really seems to me that Amiga Inc. have just stood by
while many classic Amiga developers either went out of business
or started coding for other platforms. This makes no sense at all!
Something stinks.
Also, I wonder why in the H*LL that ImageFX and particularly
Directory Opus Magellan are not on this list? Every week another
Amiga developer either bites the dust or go over to another platform
and it seems that Amiga Inc. could care less.
I'd really like to know why Amiga Inc has not tried to help more
existing developers. Something doesn't jive.
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Posted by Robert on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (Mathew):
Nintendo licence a Nintendo exclusive game (albeit one thats now a few years old)
to another platform?? I doubt this, otherwise there'd be a winblows and possibly
even a Playstation version. The only time I've ever seen a Nintendo in house game
running on another platform (apart from a few early 8-bit Nintendo games), was
running on an emulator.
If it wasn't for Nintendo exclusive licences the N64 would have gone the way of
the Atari Jaguar/3do/Sega Saturn ages ago.
Anyone remember the rather excellent Mario clone "The Great Giana Sisters?" for
the C64 and Amiga. It was withdrawn from sale because Nintendo threatend to sue
the author due to it's similarity. Amiga Mario64 - I somehow doubt it.
Final Fantasy5 - possibly but why would you want to? this was a SNES game, an A500
with 1mb memory expansion could've handled this game no problem. The same goes
for the original Command & Conquer - hardly pushing the boundaries.
Some of the other games, Eat the Whistle, Bubble heros, Wipeout2097 etc are already
available for the "classic" Amiga anyway - are these going to be new improved
versions or just running under classic Amiga emulation mode??
Not a very well researched list me thinks!
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Posted by Tessier on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
Hi there,
While obviously there are some things that have to be put
straight, I find it quite interesting
to find titles like "Sudden Strike", "Earth 2150" and "Aqua" on the list.
If the Amiga-guys really managed to convince these teams
to port their kick-ass games it would mean a big step forward.
Still waiting for a confirmation, though...
Best regards,
tessier
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Posted by Tony Gore on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Ted Wallingford):
Ted, you better put your glasses on _dude_. Look at the pic of all of the devices that are listed on the "Internet" connected line...then find the word "Games" (it's inside the house picture) The console that is pictured is an N64....look closer.
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Posted by Chris Kelley on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 26 (Frederik):
Yeah,we will end up developing for the Ami-one.We'll have to wait for the new SDK before we can get any real work done---Mesa/Koan are essential for 3d graphics and sound.The current SDK is a very good primer,though.Work is still continuing on the PC/Linux end,so we're not at a standstill anymore.I hope to have some screenshots of our engine in progress up on our website tonight---it tends to help out our credibility when you can actually SEE what we're developing... ;)
It is nice to see that Amiga are being open about Amiga-Community-developed apps---Most of these projects haven't been seen outside of the Amiga community,so it's a good advertisement for Amiga developers.It also shows that Amiga developers might not be "swept away" by the big PC developers,if we can get our software out first.Just my 2 cents... ;)
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Posted by Mathew on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
>suppose the games ported to the new amiga, can now play on playstation, nintendo, etc? just put part of the new AmigaOS onto a CD with the supplied game/program and then well... boot to the AmigaOS off the CD! You would be running AmigaOS ontop of the gaming console with the supplied game/program that you want to run!
>
That would still make the CD run on only one system, whatever you wrote the DE for on that CD. I would suggest having an Amiga DE CD for each game system, then you insert that disk and boot off it, making the system into an Amiga compatable. Then you insert the Amiga compatable game and it boots from inside the Amiga DE. This would mean all people have to do to make their Dreamcast 3 (or whatever) Amiga compatable is but an Amiga DE CD for the Dreamcast 3! Then tey can buy all the Amiga compatable games they want, no matter what they were written for originally! Every time a new concole is released, make a new Amiga DE CD for it and suddenly all the Amiga games run on it! This has potential.
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Posted by Mousky on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (Anonymous):
And Linux is how much of a "real" threat to MS and Windows? So long as the overwhelming majority of companies, goverments and institutions include in Windows in their desktop specs, Microsoft will keep humming along.
Please note that the above in no way implies that Windows is a better product than Linux. It just implies the reality of the situation.
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Posted by Chris Kelley on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 33 (Mathew):
An even better suggestion for the PS2 than booting off a cd---do what Sony did with their DVD software---store it to your memory card.That way,you could:
1.Play Amiga DE games without having to worry about booting to a DE cd first
2.The games would still be cross platform
3.You could play your Amiga games on someone elses PS2,providing that you brought your memory card along with you(i.e. instant advertisement).
Sony's PS2 memory sticks are massive(between 32 and 64mb---can't remember)---that would be plenty of storage for a 5 meg OS... :)
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Posted by marshy on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 33 (Mathew):
..suppose the games ported to the new amiga, can now play on playstation, nintendo, etc? just put part of the new AmigaOS
.. onto a CD with the supplied game/program and then well... boot to the AmigaOS off the CD! You would be running AmigaOS
.. ontop of the gaming console with the supplied game/program that you want to run!
.That would still make the CD run on only one system, whatever you wrote the DE for on that CD. I would suggest having an
.Amiga DE CD for each game system, then you insert that disk and boot off it, making the system into an Amiga compatable.
.Then you insert the Amiga compatable game and it boots from inside the Amiga DE. This would mean all people have to do to
.make their Dreamcast 3 (or whatever) Amiga compatable is but an Amiga DE CD for the Dreamcast 3! Then tey can buy all
.the Amiga compatable games they want, no matter what they were written for originally! Every time a new concole is
.released, make a new Amiga DE CD for it and suddenly all the Amiga games run on it! This has potential.
Actaully, after a recent thread on the open-amiga (SDK) mailing list (in which Gary Peake participated), it looks like the plan would be to allow the developer/publisher to include all currently available versions of the Amiga DE on the CD with their app.
i.e. a single CD would contain the VP code of the actual game or application, plus run time binaries for all of the possible run-time systems (eg. Win32, Linux x86/PPC, Hitachi-SHx (Dreamcast), AmigaONE, etc....), so it could be bought/used by a user of any supported architecture/OS combination.
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Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 24 (Chris Kelley):
Chris Kelley wrote:
: Wel,I feel like a complete twit.I just looked through my email
: archive,and I DID send out an email regarding The Last Patriot.
: And,it does mention something about developing TLP for the
: Amiga One.
I think there is a not so subtle difference between "mentioning
something about doing it" in an email, and "committing". Of course I
haven't seen the mail in question and I don't know when it's dated,
but before publishing the names of projects in-progress in public on
their homepage, I think they really should have contacted the
developers about it and asked whether it was ok.
Maybe I was unnecessarily hard towards Amiga in my last comment, but
it's not GOOD when they announce something which isn't really
accurate.
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Posted by Bill McEwen on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 37 (Johan Rönnblom):
So that everyone knows how the list was created.
Over the last 90 days Randy Hughes has been sending messages to the Amiga Development community, and the list was created based on responses to the e-mail inquiries. I have asked Randy to go back to each of them one more time a confirm again their "commitment".
I would like to add that since the post went up, we have been asked to add an additional 43 titles to the list. Once we get all of them cleared, approved and cleared again, we will add them to the list.
You all have my personal appology if there is incorrect data on the list, and we will update the list in the next few days.
As a matter of record, and so that everyone will know, Gary Peake has just been promoted to Director of Developer Relations. His new role includes Developer/Technical Supoprt, and day to day work with the entire Amiga development community to maintain a stronger bond with each and everyone of you, and this will also halep us maintain a better list of Amiga content that is being created.
Thank you again for your continued support of Amiga.
Bill McEwen
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Posted by XDelusion on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 38 (Bill McEwen):
Thankx Bill, for your time, I supposed I won't burn you at the stake after all? :)
Anyhow I am assuming that with this list update, you will also be removing all those programs that actually do not exist? Also a mention of which OS exaclty they will infact be supporting would be nice too...
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Posted by Chris Kelley on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 37 (Johan Rönnblom):
Nope,no subtle difference---the email said that we were developing TLP for the new Amiga---I was speaking with my tail tucked between my legs... ;)
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Posted by Chris Moore on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 38 (Bill McEwen):
How about that? How many times have you seen
commodore or escom or gateway reply or even read anything here?
I really think it's time to have faith in the new Amiga.
Drop the cynicism, we don't need it anymore.
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Posted by Mike Bouma on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 38 (Bill McEwen):
Bill, thank you for your informative email and fast response.
The amount of interest of developers to develop for the new Amiga DE gives me much confidence towards its success. :)
Keep up the good work!
Sincerely, Mike Bouma.
http://www.stormloader.com/amiga
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Posted by nozaj on 12-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
thanxx Bill Good to see interaction like thins. Very good indeed :)
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Posted by Don Cox on 13-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 42 (Mike Bouma):
If the emulation (or "not an emulation") is good, I think a lot of
developers might come back. First they will see sales for the old
Amiga versions of the software, then they will consider doing a proper
port.
A good emulation can mean that unlike BeOS or QNX RtP, the new Amiga
will start with a big collection of software, including some really
good stuff like PageStream, Digital Almanac, Cycas, SoundFX,
ProStation Audio, ...
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Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 13-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 38 (Bill McEwen):
It looks like I have to apologize a bit for being too hard on you. I'm
still convinced the list is not fully accurate, but the cause may
perhaps be that some development teams are not very well coordinated
and that some developers are a bit too eager. This puts Amiga in a
difficult situation, I realize.
It's still very important that announcements like these are correct,
and it's really good to see that you take this seriously.
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Posted by Karajorma on 13-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 41 (Chris Moore):
Just for the record Jim Collas used to post from time to time on Amiga Inc`s own message board. I think he also posted on C.S.A.M as well. I guess we all have our favourite places to post :)
That said I`m very happy to see that Amiga does listen to the community.
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Posted by Karajorma on 13-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 31 (Tony Gore):
Unless I`m fairly mistaken that`s a PSX II behind the N64 :)
Even if it is though I don`t think you should read that much into it. I`m fairly certain that the picture was one of the slides that Jim Collas used at WOA last year when he was demonstrating Amiga Objects.
Since all Gateway deals probably don`t affect the current Amiga Inc I think the picture was used simply cause it looked good and it saved Bill and co drawing a new one :)
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Posted by Jabar on 13-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
hhmmmm we can but hope
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Posted by Valan on 14-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 33 (Mathew):
Hi Mathew, there is no making other machines Amiga compatable. It is all content targetted so if a great game comes out then any processor that is supported by Amiga/Tao can run it. If Kinnetix wites a 3d Max version in VP then a Mac, Linux, Sun, SGI and AmigaOne could run it. That's the beauty of it!
So we don't have Amiga versus the world but Amiga as the convergance OS to other systems.
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Posted by Tony Gore on 14-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 47 (Karajorma):
I believe you are correct. That does look like the Playstation 2 behind the N64. I'm not reading too much into it though...just mentioning the N64-Mario 64 connection. Then someone tried to tell me it was an A1000. Trust me, I owned an A1000 for years...I know what they look like. Still, it's interesting to see all of this unfolding finally.
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