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[News] Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phoneANN.lu
Posted on 09-Mar-2001 14:18 GMT by Christian Kemp11 comments
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According to this message, a forwarded message by Gary Peake, Amiga Inc. are looking for content, and more specifically, for 5k-10k cell phone games and 400k-500k PDA games. They have "two potential companies looking to [them] for content", and they want "a demo to show either of these gents". Update: Randy Hughes posted this comment that says: those creating content will obviously be compensated for their contributions in the form of licensing agreements.
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 1 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Karl Hamilton on 08-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
Hmmm... Hardly seems very professional though, does it?
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 2 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Nicolas Mendoza on 08-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Karl Hamilton):
I guess, being afraid of failing, like so many times before, and being a small company Amiga can't afford to be "professional". The nice thing though is that they are very close to the remaining Amiga community. And instead of complaining why not contribute with a game? Maybe you'll only get a t-shirt or sidegrade, but you get cred, honour and who knwos what the future may bring...
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 3 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by anonymous on 08-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Nicolas Mendoza):
Not really, that has been there strategy since they've owned the company, expecting amiga users to turn their (uninteresting platform) into something viable for their own personal financial benefit. If they are hurting for money now they certainly aren't going to have enough to effectively get a product to the marketplace in the future with any reasonable measure of success, but I agree it does look tacky to say the least.
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 4 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by John McKenzie on 08-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
Considering that they specificly said that they bought Amiga for the people, this seems only logical to me. When "profesional" means doing things the storrid, old fashion way, that doesn't tap into the resources available than being as unprofesional as possible seems to be the best way.
A company that involves the users it serves seems like a blessing. Hopefull this is a good sign. I wish I could programme so I could help.
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 5 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by hughes on 08-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (anonymous):
gee anonymous, you seem to have half the story right... you forgot however that those creating content will obviously be compensated for their contributions in the form of licensing agreements etc.
last time i checked we still had money, but i guess that you know better.
here is $5... go buy yourself a name
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 6 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by skal on 08-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (hughes):
>gee anonymous, you seem to have half the story right... you forgot however >that those creating content will obviously be compensated for their >contributions in the form of licensing agreements etc.
>last time i checked we still had money, but i guess that you know better.
>here is $5... go buy yourself a name
You go boyee! (Hits self with fist over heart)
='D
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 7 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Federico Stein on 08-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
Well, don't forget that little company that started with a shareware game... I think that was called Wolfstein 3D :)
Perhaps this could be a nice showcase for your programming skills, beyond initial financial reward.
Good luck to everyone!
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 8 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Olivier Fabre on 09-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Federico Stein):
If the SDK did run on Amiga and did not cost 100$, I would probably coding a small game for AmigaDE...
The point of my post ? err... See for yourself :)
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 9 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by anonymous on 09-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (hughes):
I'll give you $10 how many shares of Amiga does that get me?
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 10 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by michael jantzen on 09-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
This is just slightly off topic (maybe) - but along the lines of PDA's - I'm wondering if the new Amiga OS will run on a Compaq Ipaq. I've got one - its cool - it will even run Linux. Its based on the ARM processor (233 mhz).
Amiga Inc. wants games for PDA and Cell phone : Comment 11 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Gary Peake on 09-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Karl Hamilton):
This link may better explain what is happening.
http://www.amigadev.net/index.php?subpage=developer&function=pda_projects
Thanks!
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