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Title: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: Dandy on August 22, 2008, 06:29:04 PM
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... (http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2008-08-00051-EN.html)

Walker Info (http://bboah.amiga-resistance.info/cgi-bin/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=5)
Die Projektfabrik GmbH (http://www.projektfabrik.com/)
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: cecilia on August 22, 2008, 07:53:50 PM
"Merlancia Industries never had any rights to the product."

what a RELIEF!!!   :lol:
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: amiga_3k on August 22, 2008, 08:42:15 PM
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)
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: alexh on August 22, 2008, 09:00:51 PM
Interesting stuff. I want one of these.
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: motorollin on August 22, 2008, 09:37:20 PM
Thank God they cleared that up.

--
moto
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: weirdami on August 22, 2008, 09:39:03 PM
Ryan still does own the prototype, though, right? Didn't he buy it?
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: Trev on August 22, 2008, 11:14:00 PM
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
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: Terse on August 23, 2008, 01:11:40 AM
Why would anybody admit to having the rights to that thing?
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: mingle on August 23, 2008, 03:57:41 AM
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.
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: ZeBeeDee on August 23, 2008, 04:26:10 AM
Finally! Clarification - Thank you Klaus  :-)

The specs of the Walker weren't  too bad, but that case in the picture I've seen ( link (http://www.blachford.info/computer/walker/walker.html) ) was (and still is, to some degree) one heck of a controversy.
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: A6000 on August 23, 2008, 09:44:13 AM
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.
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: minator on August 23, 2008, 04:17:01 PM
From amiga-news.de:

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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.
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: weirdami on August 23, 2008, 10:17:04 PM
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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.
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: B00tDisk on August 24, 2008, 05:26:02 PM
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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:
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: recidivist on August 25, 2008, 12:21:27 AM
Naw,this story has legs.
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: ChuckT on August 25, 2008, 01:26:52 PM
Who cares who owns it.  License the hardware to the Amiga community and sell the thing.
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: ZeBeeDee on August 25, 2008, 01:32:24 PM
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recidivist wrote:

Naw,this story has legs.


Frogs legs?

Sorry, somebody had to say it  :-)

I'll get my coat ...  :lol:
Title: Re: Amiga Walker: A Clarification
Post by: downix on August 25, 2008, 04:12:27 PM
Wait, he has the molds?!?

Dude!  Hook us up!  I'll buy a case from you!  (one sweet EFiKA or MiniMig case I think)