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[Rant] Amiga Flame Editorial on PDA market for AmigaANN.lu
Posted on 16-Jun-2002 00:06 GMT by SlimJim7 comments
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Amiga Flame has posted an interesting "special report", taking the pulse on the infant PDA gaming market and Amiga-coder's possibilities of entering it.

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Amiga Flame Editorial on PDA market for Amiga : Comment 1 of 7ANN.lu
Posted by star1 on 16-Jun-2002 16:53 GMT
Why arent amiga developer taking advantage of DE and produce some outstanding 3d content???
DE has been out for a while 3d API also seem to ready!!!
Why on earth isn't anybody doing 3d content instead of 40 versions of tetris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
start now or forget amiga DE having a future. this a fiel where amiga can venture in a be king again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do it people do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amiga Flame Editorial on PDA market for Amiga : Comment 2 of 7ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 16-Jun-2002 18:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (star1):
I think Amiga programmers would have been more interested if Amiga Inc
had produced an SDK that ran on the Amiga when they first started, two
and a half years ago. Instead, it was presented as a thing for Linux
and Windows programmers.
Amiga Flame Editorial on PDA market for Amiga : Comment 3 of 7ANN.lu
Posted by star1 on 16-Jun-2002 18:52 GMT
what exactly are they doing and why is it taking so long for DE to become somthing in the PDa field????
it seem they fighting a losing war.
Amiga Flame Editorial on PDA market for Amiga : Comment 4 of 7ANN.lu
Posted by Troels Ersking on 16-Jun-2002 20:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Don Cox):
I think you are absolutely right about the need of an Amiga version of the SDK. I know it would probably not have been worth doing for the 68K, but since the needed Intent stuff allready exists for PPC it would be very clever of Amiga to release an Amiga version of the SDK with AmigaOS 4.
That would ensure they get some more dedicated programmers, especially if the content made, also ran on AmigaOS.
/Troels E
Amiga Flame Editorial on PDA market for Amiga : Comment 5 of 7ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 17-Jun-2002 05:36 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Troels Ersking):
"I think you are absolutely right about the need of an Amiga version of the SDK. I know it would probably not
have been worth doing for the 68K, but since the needed Intent stuff allready exists for PPC it would be
very clever of Amiga to release an Amiga version of the SDK with
AmigaOS 4. "
It would have been worth doing a 68k version. The PII would be much
the same as for the AmigaOne anyway (interfacing to P96/CGFX/AHI etc).
By the time OS 4 comes out, AI will have been in business for nearly 3
years. Quite a lot of programming by Amiga programmers could have been
done in that time.
Also, the exclusion of Amiga users from the program generated a lot of
bad feeling, which is still active. The message from Amiga Inc was the
same as from Gateway - "Your Amigas are a pile of old rubbish. We have
something new and shiny based on
QNX/Linux/Elate/Windows/Raspberry-with-Mango."
Amiga Flame Editorial on PDA market for Amiga : Comment 6 of 7ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 17-Jun-2002 09:47 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (star1):
"Why arent amiga developer taking advantage of DE and produce some outstanding 3d content???..."
Because they already have a life and program the Amiga just cause they like it? What has DE to do with Classic Amiga? I hope both DE and Classic survive, but will AmigaOS in the future still be AmigaOS?! Remember they were scrapping it in the beggining. Just imagine they were finishing the thing that keeps the community alive! DE? Sure good product, best of luck to it.
Amiga Flame Editorial on PDA market for Amiga : Comment 7 of 7ANN.lu
Posted by badl on 18-Jun-2002 20:52 GMT
If you haven't realised Amiga Inc ("AI") is good for nothing, they have missed or failed in the pda market before they could even get their foot in the door.
Remember the deal months ago with Sharp and the Zaurus, AI couldn't even deliever on that. Forget about DE it is vapourware, forget about AI it is dead!
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