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Based on questions submitted by our visitors, Kees had the opportunity to interview Genesi SARL's Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco on the future of their company and product lines.  

Read it here

 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2003, 09:34:44 PM »
every word of it, is a lie.

OK, I haven't read it yet, just have to be quick to be the first comment, you know.....

get back with ya later...:-)
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2003, 09:37:54 PM »
@Marktime,

Don't feed the trolls, even if you're hungry  :)  Remember, I will defend Bill the exact way I tried to defend Ben in his interview.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2003, 09:39:38 PM »
Ever get that feeling of impending flames? The OS4 running on Pegasos 'effortlessly' is sure to get a few hackles up at least. :-D
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2003, 09:41:26 PM »
I like the answer to the question about OS4 .v. MorphOS..... heh... I can smell the gasoline... heh
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2003, 09:44:20 PM »
OK Wayne

well now that I've read it.....

comments:  thanks Bill Buck for spending the time to give an interview to our humble community.

Looking for 'well-adjusted' developers? WOW, that describes me exactly....

hehe...ermm, ahem.....cough

Well...haven't had the chance to post as much lately, been busy......

but cannot wait for that PEG II to come out.

And I had 300 dollars in a paypal account to buy a peg1, and yes, as predicted, I waited too long, at least the dealers had already pulled their summer sale ads by the time I attempted to purchase.

Oh well....I'm nothing if not patient....looking forward to september.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2003, 09:48:27 PM »
To be honest, I didn't find the interview very informative. I sort of expected more, given Genesi's frequent comments in various community forums.
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2003, 09:49:32 PM »
I find this really interesting:

"Two weeks ago Nolan Bushnell joined Phoenix. RJ
Mical wrote us last week about a project he and
Dave Needle are working on and how that might fit in
with what we are doing. Dave Haynie posts weekly
at Phoenix, often daily, and do not be surprised if you
see Carl around again soon."
 

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Re: Check with resellers
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2003, 09:49:45 PM »
Please check the resellers page on pegasosppc.com as many of them still have boards available!

Damien
 

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Re: Check with resellers
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2003, 10:13:50 PM »
Damien, I checked.

I mostly tried to read the english ones, and then I was looking for a betatester or April I.

With a very bad exchange rate from dollars to euro's, 300 dollars doesn't buy the April II board.....

Vesalia had the Pegasos summer sale board listed at 410USD, too much....don't want it.
I assume they are already out of their alotment of betatesters, or have some other reason for pulling their listing of that item, which was previously listed.

Some of the nonenglish sites, like GGS Data, appear to still have stock, but I don't read that language.

Amiga Superbit was similar to vesalia in not listing the April I or betatester configuration.

As I mentioned above, I had 300 dollars in a paypal account, so I didn't have enough to buy any board that I could actually buy...that should have gotten a betatester, maybe an April I.

But...I had initially done this in an attempt to buy a betatester board from vesalia.....

anway, didn't mean to suggest that no one could buy a board, but I am telling you, I've spent about 10 times the effort it normally takes to give someone my money, and I'm just not going to try that hard.

Still looking forward to september, and hopefully wider distribution and more normalized sales channels.....and who knows, I will probably even lay down some extra cash for a peg 2.
 

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Re: Check with resellers
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2003, 10:34:24 PM »
A very good interview . :-)
I once had an amigaone xe but sold it .

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Re: Check with resellers
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2003, 10:36:22 PM »
@ Matt_H

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To be honest, I didn't find the interview very informative. I sort of expected more, given Genesi's frequent comments in various community forums.


I kind of agree. I hoped for more info regarding the Pegasos II and MorphOS 1.4, but I guess we will know a lot more shortly. They propably want to make an "event" of it, especially for the Peg2.

But I thought it was an interesting interview anyway! :-)


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Please check the resellers page on pegasosppc.com as many of them still have boards available!


I know at least one reseller that might update their website in a near future! :-o  :-)
MorphOS is Amiga done right! :)
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2003, 10:48:38 PM »
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RJ Mical wrote us last week about a project he and Dave Needle are working on and how that might fit in with what we are doing. Dave Haynie posts weekly at Phoenix, often daily, and do not be surprised if you see Carl around again soon.


Hypothetical question for the AInc fanboys.

If RJ Mical, Dave Haynie and Carl Sassenrath all worked on the next version of MorphOS and the Pegasos boards.  What would be more "Amiga"? The AmigaOne+OS4 or the Pegasos+MorphOS? ;-)
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2003, 10:50:22 PM »
we already know what is more amiga(in spirit)
 

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Re: Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30
« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2003, 11:29:35 PM »
Heh All the comments I expected from the people I expected them from.  You guys should really change the track every now and then.

Is it me or was there a lot more on the Ben Herman's intereview?  There just doesn't seem to be much here at all (including a couple of one word answers).  Seeing as it took ages for the interview to happen I'm very disapointed.

I'm also a bit dissapointed that some of the better questions weren't answered, like my question about organised posting, still I was expecting it to be ignored, and I suppose my employee question was answered very consisely.

Thanks to Kees for doing the interview and hopefully future interviews will be a bit better.