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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Events => Topic started by: magnetic on February 28, 2004, 03:27:32 PM
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MorphOS ,the PowerPC native Operating System for Genesi's Pegasos computer plaform was featured on Tech TV, the largest computer oriented television show in North America
Hot Off The Press From:
Targhan and MorphZone - and a "secret developer" who provided the clip! :D
MorphOS ,the PowerPC native Operating System for Genesi's Pegasos computer plaform was featured on Tech TV, the largest computer oriented television show in North America
The Segment was on the popular Screen Savers show, and was called the "PC Prophecy Special" . This Segment features John C Dvorak ( www.dvorak.org ) , well known computer industry personality and writer, who dramatically makes a statement about MorphOs!!
To view the video and see the Tech TV Website link go to :
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=377
The full length clip of the segment is also on the ftp. The Morphos Clip is in .mov and in mpeg-1.
They even linked the Morphos.de website from the story!
Rumour has it that MorphOS may be making some appearances in mainstream American media soon! :nervous: :nervous:
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Proof positive that Dvorak is the equivalent of a "digital psychic" and nothing more.
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It might not be much, but it's the kind of publicity that any of the Amigoid OSes could do with - even though I wouldn't quite agree that MorphOS is "all over the place" here in Europe :-P
BTW how come the "post comment" button only just appeared?
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I saw that show. "Featured" is an exaggeration. "Mentioned" would be more like it. At the end of the show they asked Mr Dvorak what his opinions were of the other guests' predictions. After that they asked him what HIS prediction was, and he said something to the effect of "Watch for morphos, it's the next big thing". That was it. Maybe 10 seconds total.
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I agree with RacerX. On what I posted, I called it a "mention," i.e., a blurb. Then again, we all should know by now that our friend magnetic is easily excitable about such things ;-)
Maybe one day there will be a "feature," but for now, I'm happy to have any step forward--big or small. (And I thought I yanked the mpeg-1 version...)
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someone fire'd a match and magnetic calls it an inferno , yeah thats ok with me...not
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Then again, we all should know by now that our friend magnetic is easily excitable about such things
he's so funny! i do like him, even with all that explosive shouting!
isn't there a song, "Excitable Boy"?? we should play that whenever magnetic walks into a room!
:pint:
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So where is this FTP where I can grab an MPG version from?
MOV sucks!!!
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The Ms. Cleo of Tech news.
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Dvorak wrote a few mentions of the Amiga in his columns in PC Magazine as well over the years. The one I recall most clearly is a column in which he's listing what hardware PC users should have on hand to avoid downtime due to failures. The Amiga came up when he was talking about keyboards. For PC users, he recommended they have one in case of failure and goes on to mention that the single most reliable keyboard he ever used was his Amiga (a 1000 I believe).
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Good thing!
Maybe Genesi should take over OS4 and develop and market it.
(no and no A1 vs Pegasos 'discussion' please)
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I saw the show on TV. Yea, it was neat that the guy mentioned MorphOS, but come on, that was no "featured"... It was about 3 sentences... Perhaps sometime in the future there will be more of a "feature" of it on the show like they did with Bill McE. and AmigaDE way back when, but this really didn't say much at all. Maybe it's even fortunate that they didn't mention the link between MorphOS and Amiga users, so as not to scare away any potential watchers of a feature in the future...
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So as someone pointed out earler, were is this
FTP LINK of the full clip ?
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So as someone pointed out earler, were is this
FTP LINK of the full clip ?
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TechTVMorphOS.mpg [4,45MB] (http://www.discreetfx.com/TechTVMorphOS.mpg)
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@ cecilia,
By the, uhem "late" Warren Zevon.
Chris
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The thing to remember is, all 'our' junk is better at community-building, because it's so different. Everything else (where the 'everything else' comes down to Be and QNX?) has been 'close enough' to an existing solution (Mac, Win, Amiga, *NIX) that even those interested tended to fall back on 'established' platforms. (Linux, in retrospect, got big mostly because of the free and Free aspects, so it's something of a special case.)
So, frankly, we (in the Amiga scene) are better at being a little "Big Thing" than most else because there's nowhere we'd rather be. Even if, technically, something like Be should've been "better" than anything else, or QNX should've carved a bigger niche by now. The combination of hardware you can point at and software of its own lineage creates a tangible 'platform' that some people can manage to get real excited about. (Of course, anyone who's managed to find a way to get 'work' done with existing solutions may question what the fuss is about.)
So we have this ability to attract the nuts that just might keep a platform alive (paying early-adopter prices, keeping developers fed, etc), and that puts us on par with Apple in terms of maintaining "thing"-ness.
Remember, besides *NIX and Microsoft, nobody else is left.
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Note that being a 'thing (http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/11/16/thingdom.html)' doesn't have to imply anything's any good; it just means the 'community' has enough staying power to keep rolling until things are 'good enough. (http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html)'
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I have put an mpg on the main page of my website.
http://www.discreetfx.com
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Thankx for the "good" links and may the MOV format die off like the dinosaur.
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Just actually saw the show in question. Dvorak's quote was "this is something I'm just coming on to". In other words, he either stumbled across it, or someone paid him to say it. In any event, it certainly wasn't a "mention". It was just a "blurb" where he's rambling as normal.
Trust "Magnetic" to enthusiastically build a mountain out of a spec of dust.
Wayne
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Maybe Genesi should take over OS4 and develop and market it.
:-o
NO!!!!