Amiga Walker: A Clarification

[Dandy]

Klaus Schwägerl, meanwhile CEO of "Die Projektfabrik GmbH", has sent a letter to amiga-news.de about the Amiga model "Walker", which was shown as a prototype in 1996 by Amiga Technologies at the CeBIT fair in Hannover, Germany.



A translation of what he wrote can be found on the English news pages of Amiga-News.de...

Walker Info
Die Projektfabrik GmbH

[cecilia]

"Merlancia Industries never had any rights to the product."

what a RELIEF!!!   :lol:

[amiga_3k]

Who else doesn't actually own Amiga-rights while still claiming they do? ;-)  (meant to be read as a sarcastic joke, don't take this seriously)

[alexh]

Interesting stuff. I want one of these.

[motorollin]

Thank God they cleared that up.

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moto

[weirdami]

Ryan still does own the prototype, though, right? Didn't he buy it?

[Trev]

The Walker was odd, to say the least. What we needed was a Minimig-style board that fit into a Mac Mini-style chassis. Wait! We do have that.

Trev
-barring a move to x86, wishing Amiga, Inc. had partnered with IBM on a Power (and now Cell) platform

[Terse]

Why would anybody admit to having the rights to that thing?

[mingle]

I know... It looks like a 1960's vacuum cleaned that's been battered with the ugly-stick!

Perhaps he's after sympathy: "Poor old Klaus... he ended up with that bloody 'Walker' mess!" :-)

Cheers,

Mike.

[ZeBeeDee]

Finally! Clarification - Thank you Klaus  :-)

The specs of the Walker weren't  too bad, but that case in the picture I've seen ( link ) was (and still is, to some degree) one heck of a controversy.

[A6000]

I liked the design, it was the first "designer case" long before apple produced the imac.
When the Amiga appeared in 1984 it was a revolutionary computer, this case was another example of revolutionary thinking which some people were unable to appreciate.

[minator]

From amiga-news.de:

1. The Amiga Walker has not been designed by Frog Design, but by the greatly talented designer Daniel Gilgen on behalf of Stefan Domeyer for my former company KS Design in Frankfurt, Germany. The idea to expand the Walker step by step until it becomes a tower finally originates from Daniel Gilgen. He was the one who built the prototypes for CeBIT from the master design model which I do still own.

The Walker drawings I have do indeed have Daniel Gilgen & KS Design listed on them.

[weirdami]

The Walker drawings I have do indeed have Daniel Gilgen & KS Design listed on them.

If people have the designs with the designers names on them then I wonder why this Frog business wasn't cleared up sooner and where the Frog business got started in the first place.

[B00tDisk]

f people have the designs with the designers names on them then I wonder why this Frog business wasn't cleared up sooner and where the Frog business got started in the first place.

I think it was just a one-time gig for them.

Ba-zing!   :-D  :-D  :-D  :lol:

[recidivist]

Naw,this story has legs.