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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => General Internet News => Topic started by: reflect on November 14, 2004, 11:54:00 PM
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It has been a turbulent time these last few years for the Amiga. Our dear platform has been ripped and torn to pieces, even dragged to court, all for nothing. Now that the fog of war has settled, there is a huge need to gather our forces for something much more important than winning or losing.
United we stand, divided we fall.
The SAFIR confederation has gathered all the Amiga clubs of Sweden in one place. A portal has emerged for news, meetings, discussions and projects that concern the Amiga. With modern hardware like the AmigaOne and a modern PowerPC native operating sytem like AmigaOS4, we have once again a bright future ahead. SAFIR will also work closely with other platforms. There is already an ongoing cooperation with a few Linux associations and this list will grow considerably in the future. For the Amiga(R) to grow as an alternative platform we need to attract new developers. SAFIR is a part of that effort.
Some of the areas of interest for SAFIR:
* Azine - To help the best Amiga magazine in Sweden evolve.
* AmiGBG - To make certain the success with the Swedish Amiga fair continues.
* Bringing resources and assets together for development.
* Software rebates - Through coordinated orders of software we can get group discounts.
* AAA - Perhaps we'll resurrect the "Trippel A - awards".
* Meetings IRL, at computer parties, minihacks, and why not a Christmas gathering! :)
The Portal contains among other things:
* News
* Forums
* "My page" with user information.
* Private Messages
* Blog (web-log)
* Project pages (*)
* Hardware database (*)
* Gallery (*)
* File area (*)
(* Features currently beeing developed)
If You look at the Amiga related efforts in Sweden the past two years, You will realize the marvelous development! New Amiga clubs, the annual fair AmiGBG that creates envy among Amigans worldwide, OS4 on Tour, OS4 pre-release parties, minihacks and computer parties in abundance, just to mention a few.
The Amiga is on it's way back, no doubt about that.
Are You ready (http://safir.amigaos.se/)?
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I dont agree with that at all. You say you want this war be gone.. yet you promote for AmigaOS4 and AmigaONE as the Amiga. It's not. It's nothing more than MorphOS and PegasosII, Amithlon, AROS etc.
For me, this seems like a provocacy, rather than trying to get Amiga people tougether.
What you "define" as Amiga users is WRONG! I wont care about SAFIR as its a new attempt to promote AmigaOS4 and not MorphOS and those other brilliant Amiga users out there. Please start to respect Amiga as a Amiga platform, where you have amigaos4 and morphos. Its the PPC revolution and we should all stand tougether. Not ONLY reflect with his views on how Amiga how it should be. But everyone in this Amiga community ... also 900++ of the developers of morphos should be welcome.
We share:
AHI
MUI apps
The goal to get a identity
Inovative icons
Fully multitasking
Great PPC hardware
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and this should be AMIGA. Not one company trying to be Amiga, because that Amiga is dying. That custom based Amiga is nothing now. Its alive because of MorphOS and AmigaOS4 having backward compatibility, UAE etc. Amiga is Red and Blue - Blue and Red. Its the new PPC era, and not just one of these colors!
Regards,
Michal, www.amitopia.tk
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Men i alle dager, nå farer du bare med tøv. Dette er et fint initiativ synes nå jeg, ikke vær så negativ ;)
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I cannot understand neither page... it is not in a language I know :-o why don't you add english?
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EDITED BY THEMAGICM
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Jettah: and that has WHAT to do with this news post?
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The link doesnt work on my machine :(
(Hardly surprising though, its running Windows 2000 Server Edition.)
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Bra initiativ! Menn hva betyr SAFIR egentlig? Svensk Amiga Forening I.. R..?
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SAFIR stands for "Svenska AmigaForeningar I Riket" and translated that would be something like "Swedish Amiga Usergroups in the Kingdom".
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SAFIR stands for "Svenska AmigaForeningar I Riket"
Why do I get the feeling that the word SAFIR was thought of first, and then you had to figure out what it could stand for? :-D
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Is this in any way related to http://www.samiga.org ?
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@Amidelf
MOS is not AmigaOS. Enjoy your Amiga like sytem and stop this useless propaganda. Can't a website cover what they like? Or they need you approval.....
Amiga is back, as A1 and OS4.
lso 900++ of the developers of morphos should be welcome
You only see what you want.... :lol:
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@ikir
I agree. MorphOS apps should not be ported to AmigaOS because they are not Amiga apps. Pure Amiga software for pure Amiga.
(Still waiting for certain Amiga users to fall back into reality.)
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@itix
I have nothing agaist MOS, i like it very much, if OS4 never exist for sure now i was a MOS user. Simply MOS is not AmigaOS, they are similiar but not the same. MOS is is an amiga-like, or amiga inspired os. Don't you agree? I'm not saiyng that MOS is bad. Only that MOS is not AOS.
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I don't care if MorphOS is AmigaOS or not. Days when I adored AmigaOS are long gone.
I'm just amazed by this inner circle mentality.
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Why do I get the feeling that the word SAFIR was thought of first, and then you had to figure out what it could stand for?
hehe, well actually, there was a thread about the name of this on a swedish forum board, where this name was one of the contenders. We picked the one we liked best, which both had a good acronym and meant something good.
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Is this in any way related to http://www.samiga.org ?
Yes. It all started there, and that url will soon be redirected to SAFIR's site. However, the people and usergroups involved in SAFIR has changed slightly to:
Mathias Nordberg - MHD (webmaster)
Magnus Andersson - ACG & AZine
Andreas Loong - ACGGbg
Stefan Nordlander - ACGGbg
Kjell Breding - AmiGBG
Mattias Karlsson - AmiGBG
Peter Eriksson - SUA
Jonas Hofmann - SUA
Robert Mustin - Syntax Society
Magnus Wedin - Syntax Society
I believe there's just one usergroup missing, ACG-G but they never responded to our mails.
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Unfortunately, nothing has happened on ACG Gävleborg's site for over two years. :-(