New Amiga will be a real classic by time it comes complete

[WarPiper]

hehe, just thinking, this new system was suppose to be out last year,  There has been no release date for the OS yet, so they stick you with linux for now, still no word from Amiga Inc. they are either off looking for new jobs or off telling old Atari users that they will bring back the Atari.

By time the new amiga system will be complete with the OS and tech support and software support, AInc may be out of business, and we will be seeing the last ten years repeat.

[HMetal]

WarPiper wrote:
...still no word from Amiga Inc. they are either off looking for new jobs or off telling old Atari users that they will bring back the Atari.

A la contraire, Amiga Inc. employees (at least myself and our Dev Lead for 2D and general Graphics) are here, are vocal and have been addressing all kinds of questions, claims, issues, FUD, nonsensical trollings and all sorts of mean and nasty things.  :-D

[WarPiper]

@ HMetal
ok then can you please publish a list of software/ hardware venders, how about a release date for OS4, why has there been no real updates on the Amiga.com corp. page? is it true the OS 5 will be X86 compatable? what kind of marketting campain will Amiga Inc. have for the new system, will there ever be a real attemp to get the Amiga back into stores like CompUsa, BestBuy, so that everyone can see and touch it?

I can no longer put my faith in amiga mail order computer companies to buy a computer, sorry, but but I have been burned once to many times and besides I want to see other people buying the computer off the shelfs, I want to see them take an interest in it, I want to know that I am not throwing my good money after bad money.

[sgm]

HMetal wrote:
A la contraire, Amiga Inc. employees (at least myself and our Dev Lead for 2D and general Graphics) are here, are vocal and have been addressing all kinds of questions, claims, issues, FUD, nonsensical trollings and all sorts of mean and nasty things.  :-D

I see: just tactical counter-guerrilla  :-D
An idea: what about some serious strategic warfare?  ;-)

[Argo]

Why does every one assume that Amiga, Inc. will be out of business tomorrow, every day? I assume they are working on AmigaDE and have learned to keep their (Bill McEwen) mouths shut until they have something solid to talk about.
The OS development has been licenced and contracted out to Hyperion. Try asking them, they own it.
I assume we should be hearing from Eyetech in the next couple of weeks, as they should have/ be recieving the XE boards to ship out. Probably after Alan Redhouse recovers from 12 hours of jet lag and piles through a weeks worth of email, etc.

I don't know of any other company or market where consumers demand this much information.

[DaveP]

Strange, we now see to have an almost fever pitchof jeering anti
AmigaOS4 posts deliberately placed into an on the front page
topic for maximum visibility.

Anyone would think that people were trying to do damageto the business
 or were nervous because Genesi cannot sell any more boardsinto the marketand
cannot press home their advantage.....  :-P

[WarPiper]

@ Argo

I don't know of any other company or market where consumers demand this much information.

Funny, but I dont know of any other companies  that keep so much information from their potential supporters looking to support the market.

[Hooligan_DCS]

Argo wrote:
Why does every one assume that Amiga, Inc. will be out of business tomorrow, every day? I assume they are working on AmigaDE and have learned to keep their (Bill McEwen) mouths shut until they have .

a) as it's a known fact they have lent money from customers == dead broke
b) amigade is still under development? My god.. thought they'd have ditched it long time ago to folder "useless stuff"

[KennyR]

Stop thinking in PC timescales. A month is enough to turn a top-end technology on the PC into obsolete trash. The Amiga thankfully doesn't have this curse.

[MarkTime]

What was the Atari reference about?

I am aware of some mildly interesting stuff in the retro atari scene, but anaware of any connection with amiga staffers....something going on?

I don't track it regularly...

[jumpship]

what does this have to do with Emulation? Just askin'

[MikeB]

I see none of you have actually read this months  'Club Amiga Magazine'

I would suggest you all read it!

http://os.amiga.com/cam/

[jumpship]

@erol

I have ;-)

[Paul_Gadd]

"you will receive a shirt signifying your membership "

So no one is a member then  :-D

[artman]

@MarkTime

 Maybe...and I say maybe with a very large pinch of salt over one shoulder, the veiled references to Atari you see every one in a while, stems from the supposed lineage of the original Amiga  bloodline.  Seems to me it was a lot closer to the Atari line of computers than to anything else.  Don't know if some of the original developers had once worked for Atari or whatever, who knows? :-?