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Title: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: Pyromania on August 30, 2008, 03:05:01 AM

Any thoughts on this one? Is AA2 the new New Coke?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: persia on August 30, 2008, 03:15:43 AM

I don't think so, for one thing New Coke was a real product...


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Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: Trev on August 30, 2008, 03:18:57 AM

Agreed. I liked New Coke, though. (I'm a Pepsi drinker.) If Amiga, Inc. were to enlist Matt Frewer as a spokesmen, their geek cred would increase substantially.

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: Jeff on August 30, 2008, 03:36:19 AM

It could be Crystal Pepsi:-D

Crystal Pepsi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi)

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: B00tDisk on August 30, 2008, 03:58:23 AM

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Trev wrote:
Agreed. I liked New Coke, though. (I'm a Pepsi drinker.) If Amiga, Inc. were to enlist Matt Frewer as a spokesmen, their geek cred would increase substantially.

Given that C= supplied many of the computers for Max Headroom (the drama, not the talk show) you could make the argument that's already happened, in a backhanded way :-D

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: DamageX on August 30, 2008, 04:34:31 AM

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Pyromania wrote:
Any thoughts on this one? Is AA2 the new New Coke?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke

I don't need a link to tell me what New Coke is/was but what the heck is AA2?

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: weirdami on August 30, 2008, 05:31:11 AM

I'm pretty sure that AA2 is a real product. They had is all running at a show and stuff back when they had to backtrack and say that it wasn't a rebadged AOS5.

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: SamuraiCrow on August 30, 2008, 05:43:16 PM

AmigaAnywhere2 was a GCC-based API and cross-compiler collection that allows the creation of a binary that will run on many handheld devices without having to write separate code for each.  It doesn't support the Classic Amiga and will therefore face the same fate as the original AmigaAnywhere.

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: Nostalgiac on August 30, 2008, 08:08:47 PM

ah... death by mau-mau :-)

Tom UK

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: Orjan on August 30, 2008, 11:21:33 PM

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Nostalgiac wrote:
ah... death by mau-mau :-)

Tom UK

No snu-snu?  :lol:

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: Trev on August 31, 2008, 01:03:11 AM

@SamuraiCrow

That, and you have to sell your products through Amiga, Inc.'s web portal. If a developer is going that route, then I think they'd choose the iPhone and iTunes channel over Amiga, Inc. any day.

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: persia on August 31, 2008, 05:22:25 AM

It it's a real product how much does it cost? Where do I buy it?  What are they system requirements for it?  If I can sell what I develop on Amiga.com why are there only the same 15 Amiga games rewritten for the PC there, the ones that have been there for the last 2 years?


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Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: Trev on August 31, 2008, 07:28:09 AM

Those questions and more are answered at amiga.com. The fact that no new products are available is telling. It's possible developers have negotiated independent contracts, but it seems unlikely.

Title: Re: AA2 = New Coke?
Post by: persia on August 31, 2008, 03:22:45 PM

Looks like Amiga Inc's products will run on any OS, provided that the OS is a MS Windows variant....


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