New Owner of Amiga.org to be on Amiga Roundtable.

[Piru]

You don't actually need to be a rocket scientist to realize it's Bill Panagouleas.

[Piru]

If it is i guessed at that ages ago, do I win a prize

Here you go:

(here's the explanation of this somewhat obscure badge: wikipedia: Sirkus Papukaija)

[Piru]

So amiga.org is going to become "video-amiga-toaster.org" now?

Unfortunately it seems this way.

BTW curious thing the aw.net fallout. MobbyG leaving and all that. Must be a coincidence, surely.

We will see what will become of amiga.org.

[Piru]

This is (quite possibly) OT, but here we go:

The problem I have with DiscreetFX (be they the new amiga.org owner or not) is that they seem to live in some distant parallel universe where VT (and a lot of other antique) still is relevant. Sure it was quite groundbreaking at its time, but surely we can't just ignore the fact that it's 2009 now? Things have moved on.

Also DiscreetFX's lack of understanding on portability issues alone begs to question their professionalism. You just can't take highly specialized early 90s 68k assembler code (with some hw banging, too) and make it portable overnight. Adding a bounty on it won't make it any more plausible.

Toaster Character Generator is just plain horrible assembler code hell. Just for the excrement and giggles I took a look, and ran away screaming:

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$ find ToasterCG -iname "*.i" -o -iname "*.a" | xargs wc | tail -1
  83768  245689 2030809 total

Rewrite tens of thousands of lines of 68k assembler to portable C? Thanks, but no thanks.

And finally I find the way of DiscreetFX posting "news" quite annoying.


PS. I know I'm going to get a beating for saying all this aloud, but I felt I had to let it out.

[Piru]

@Piru

have you ever used the Amiga Video Toaster Flyer?

No

I very well know what it does and how, and I am specifically aware of the limitations. It no way matches the modern hw and sw, not ever remotely.

[Piru]

The new owner is....










Anonymous Former Netscape Executive!!

[Piru]

I guess the new owner is a bit shy.

[Piru]

Will The Real Amiga.org Owner Please Stand Up?

[Piru]

• Bill P is *not* the owner.  He is, quite simply, a middle man in this endeavor, and is now responsible for facilitating the web site's day-to-day operation.  If this were a corporation, you could think of Bill P as the CTO (Chief Technology Officer)

By all means and purposes he actually is the "owner". All we know the owner could be some former executive or the santa claus (or frigment of his imagination). Bill Panagouleas will be calling the shots.

I don't think I feel very comfortable about the idea.

[Piru]

are you saying Wayne is lying?

Are you saying I am?

[Piru]

I have been assigned the task of Site Admin so I will work hard to earn everyone's trust.

Good. You can start by naming the new owner.

That'd be a good start in earning our trust.

[Piru]

you are making stuff up with no facts.

I don't think so. Which stuff did I make up? Obviously I cannot know who the real owner is (and I made some educated guesses), but the fact (as presented us by Wayne himself) is that Bill Panagouleas is "a middle man in this endeavor, and is now responsible for facilitating the web site's day-to-day operation. If this were a corporation, you could think of Bill P as the CTO (Chief Technology Officer)".

By all means and purposes he remains to be the closest thing we have for the "new owner".

In the post I am referring to you directly questioned Wayne's truthfulness.

That certainly wasn't my intention. I think you're reading too much into my comment.