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[News] TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment PackANN.lu
Posted on 25-May-2002 16:23 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä26 comments
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TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 1 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-May-2002 14:30 GMT
The review makes it sound really dull... Doh!
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 2 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Ole-Egil Hvitmyren on 25-May-2002 14:32 GMT
Hmm, I didn't think so. I got a good feeling from reading it. I want DE under AOS _yesterday_!!! :)
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 3 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by tinman on 25-May-2002 14:49 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Ole-Egil Hvitmyren):
You got a good feeling from:
"The pack offers four somewhat run-of-the-mill games"
"acceptable graphic features"
"But few of the titles really kept our attention as well as games from competitors"
If Amiga keep a Sony-esque quantity over quality lisencing/QA strategy, they will be tarred with the brush of mediochrity.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 4 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Leif on 25-May-2002 14:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Ole-Egil Hvitmyren):
There is no "Amiga DE" (yet), the article is about "Amiga Anywhere".
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 5 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-May-2002 15:04 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Anonymous):
The games really aren't that awe-inspiring. Relatively interesting for a PDA set, but not really anything to write home about. Amiga Anywhere was launched with these since there really isn't anything much more interesting available. Developer interest in Amiga's intent re-packaging has been somewhat lacking.
Titles like Payback may of course change this, but so far a review saying anything more than this one did would be very surprising. TechTV were quite nice in their wording.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 6 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 25-May-2002 15:43 GMT
Sounds like someone needs to evangelize AA/DE to those three other development houses. It's not competition, it's a third platform.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 7 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Troels Ersking on 25-May-2002 16:12 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Joe "Floid" Kanowitz):
Sure it would be nice to see more Amiga-Anywhere devlopers but why should those competing developers mentioned use AA? Right now AA only targets one PDA platform, pocketpc/wince, they can easily do that them self.
Offcourse when Amiga get their acts toghether and supports the Zaurus, Nokia STB, etc. Then theres an idea to use Amiga's SDK and pay Amiga money for each title sold...
The review is quite fair, a shame they don't mention the technology behind the games which could have got some developers interested. While the games may provide good quality for money and be very addictive onlu Planet Zed features good graphics after todays standard.
lets see what upcoming titles have to offer..
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 8 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Michael Taylor on 25-May-2002 16:27 GMT
Since PDAs are aimed at a younger generation, I don't really think Payback is suitable for youth since it's about Drug running, stealing cars, killing & other sorts of mayhem.
I like the game. I'm also old enough to be mature enough to handle it & what it's about. I don't believe our Kids need to be pulled in by the likes of it.
Sell is to 18+, sure, though. :) Mass market it with Amiga PDA? Nah...
Just my opinion.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 9 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-May-2002 16:47 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Michael Taylor):
I think they should just ban computers altogether. I mean, touching
a keyboard is just like fondling a woman isn't it, and anyone under
the age of 35 shouldn't be even thinking about such things let
alone practicing on a simulator.
Faggot.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 10 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Derek Freeman on 25-May-2002 17:15 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Anonymous):
Funny, but a bit of an over reaction don't you think?
I think Payback is probably Amiga's best hope for a break through on the PDA market. It's gameplay theme/style has only been around since the mid '90's whereas the current AA games are based on gameing styles of the oldest kind.
It could also be possible to use Payback as the basis for a racing game, maybe this would be more suitable to under 18's?
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 11 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-May-2002 17:32 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Michael Taylor):
You mean PDA's are aimed at people younger than 18? I think young people would rather
buy a much cheaper GBA which also has a much wider selection of quality games.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 12 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Troels e on 25-May-2002 17:50 GMT
Allthough I don't own a PDA (yet..?) theres 2 games I think would be quiote good on such a device. Stuntcar racer and Qix!
I know both games are really old, but stuntcar racer could be really cool in a updated version.
Qix was orignally made by Taito and is a very addictive little puzzler. Guess most of you remember the arcade machine version, or maybe some of the Amiga clones that were made.
Check this site for lots of Java games, might give some inspiration:) http://www.arcadepod.com/java/
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 13 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by HooHoo! on 25-May-2002 17:55 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Troels e):
"I know both games are really old, but stuntcar racer could be really cool in a updated version."
Stunt Car Racer ROCKS!!!
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 14 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by MAS on 25-May-2002 17:58 GMT
Was at the Dallas Microcenter the other night. They, of course had all
the Pocket PC offerings (but also the Sharp PDA). Asked them about Amiga
Anywhere Gamepack. Predictably, they had never heard of it.
No mention was made in the article about the idea of being able to run
the games on many platforms. This is what is supposed to make AA stand
out as a development platform - not just the games themselves.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 15 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 25-May-2002 18:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (MAS):
Yes, but the write-once run-anywhere feature is mainly of interest to
programmers, not users.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 16 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-May-2002 18:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Michael Taylor):
Eminem songs contain fairly horrific lyrics, and yet his target market is 10-15 year olds. Games like Doom 3 will have enormous appeal to this same crowd, whether or not they have to get their parents to buy it for them. Point is, just because kids "should'nt be playing games about guns and drugs and murder", doesn't mean that isn't exactly the kind of thing they'd love to be playing! Payback would be a huge success on any PDA, because of, not in spite of, it's content.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 17 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Gingerbread Man on 25-May-2002 20:47 GMT
So when is AA/DE going to be available for the Zaurus? The Sharp partnership was announced eons before the Microsoft partnership, yet we already have AA for PocketPCs. Since the SDK was first released on Linux, how hard could it be to get this stuff running on the Linux based Zaurus?
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 18 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-May-2002 21:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 17 (Gingerbread Man):
It has been demoed on the Zaurus (on techTV btw.), so we know it works.
Guess Tao and Sharp couldn't agree on some things since Intent wasn't pre-installed on the Zaurus.
Maybe Amiga will release their gamepacks for the Zaurus when/if it gets a decent piece of the market. Guess thats their plan for all PDA's?
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 19 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by gz on 25-May-2002 23:56 GMT
a visit to the competition's website's proved my beliefs justified, when I feared about half a year ago of the very stiff competition DE/AA would face soon.
Lot's of 3d games (altough old pc titles but very kwl for pda's neverthanless) and great looking strategy game that has as good gfx as earth 2140.
The only titles that can really compete with these on DE are planet zed (which is too mediocre to be spotted by any big audience from the midst of competition) and payback. The problem being that payback isn't released for DE yet (it's coming real soon though) and when it gets released it will be the only really appealing game for DE.
AI should be interested in great deal of motivating developers to create games such as payback for DE, because good games make other developers spot the developing platform outside amiga community. In other words no matter how tight AI is with money or whatever right now, if they wan't to achieve anything they have to put speed on whatever they are doing.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 20 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Paul Gallant on 26-May-2002 01:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (HooHoo!):
I wish someone would make a new version of "Stunt Car Racer". I love that game!
It was really a unique racing game. Why would you want to play a boring Nascar
style racing game when you could be doing insane jumps on a really tall track
while wondering if your car has to much damage to make that next turn!! now that is fun!! then the crane picks you back up and sets you on the track!! Woo!HOO!
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 21 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Simon on 26-May-2002 02:12 GMT
In reply to Comment 19 (gz):
> a visit to the competition's website's proved my beliefs justified, when I feared >about half a year ago of the very stiff competition DE/AA would face soon.
I think Amiga has very little chance of breaking into this market. There were some great games on those competitors sites. Games that I think will be much better than anything (ie. Payback) that is even being worked on for AA.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 22 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Sam Dunham on 26-May-2002 06:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Joe "Floid" Kanowitz):
Actually, it's not a third platform in the classic sense. It would make a tremendous amount of sense for these other games developers to write for AmigaAnywhere rather than (as I noticed at least the first company does) for several different PDAs. I agree with the earlier post that Amiga needs to evangelize to these other developers. If I could see my revenue stream stay the same while doing half or a quarter of the work, I'd be all over that!
-Sam
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 23 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 26-May-2002 14:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (Simon):
>I think Amiga has very little chance of breaking into this market. There were
>some great games on those competitors sites. Games that I think will be much
>better than anything (ie. Payback) that is even being worked on for AA.
Exactly. And therein lies the problem many Amiga Inc. enthusiasts are failing to see. There is stiff competition and so far Amiga has not shown us anything really spectacular.
Hyping Amiga DE just because is not productive - nor does it have anything to do with the level of excellence we've come to associate with the name Amiga. Hopefully this will change - it MUST change for Amiga to succeed as a technologically interesting platform.
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 24 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Rewenger on 26-May-2002 14:49 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Anonymous):
>I think they should just ban computers altogether. I mean, touching
>a keyboard is just like fondling a woman isn't it, and anyone under
>the age of 35 shouldn't be even thinking about such things let
>alone practicing on a simulator.
That was very funny
>Faggot.
That wasn't - please try to keep yr homophobic remarks to yourself, and think of a better personal insult. Like "wanker" maybe?
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 25 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by priest on 27-May-2002 12:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 23 (Anonymous):
Hey guys, please provide links to those "better than AA/intent" PDA games, will you?
TechTV review the AmigaAnywhere Entertainment Pack : Comment 26 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 27-May-2002 19:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 25 (priest):
Try these for instance:
http://www.ziosoft.com/product.html?n=14
http://www.ziosoft.com/product.html?n=6
http://www.hexacto.com/game_soccer.php
http://www.hexacto.com/game_tennis.php
http://www.ionside.com/argentum/screenshots.asp
You have to admit, many of those do look mighty impressive. And many of them are available already, not all coming soon...
Those look a lot more inspiring than what has been offered for Amiga Anywhere to date, only Payback ja Planet Zed would seem to play in the same class.
Lets just be honest about this. Amiga have not gotten that many developers inspired (or, more likely, their offering is more limited than Windows CE native APIs for instance), or if they have a lot of them are keeping might quiet...
The talk about people being "over the moon" about what Amiga Anywhere has got at this time is just hype. It is mediocre stuff, and TechTV rightfully and quite politely pointed it out.
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