Amiga vs. Hyperion - Any updates?

[cv643d]

I could be wrong, but it seems that Amiga Inc have been working on AmigaAnywhere 2 during the last years. Also Bill is a great guy, according to the person working at Amiga inc (Jamie something IIRC?). There is a fairly big thread on amigaworld.net about this.

[cv643d]

IMHO Amiga needs vision, not negativity and not a public view of the Amiga that the best it can be is simply a Walmart-joystick preloaded with 50 sh*tty games from 1989-1991.

So what if it costs a premium to be part of the exclusive next-gen Amiga club today right now?

Cant afford it? Lost your job? Economy in crisis? Wifey wont let you blow 1000 on pathetic PPC clocked at 533 MHz running an obscure OS that does not auto-snapshot icons?

Turn negative into positive, do not say it is bad, not good, not interesting, needs to be intel, does not have Photoshop bla bla bla.. it is what it is and it may lead to great things in the future such as a better price point, a better OS, auto-snapshoting icons and growth in the community (which everyone will earn on, Hyperion sells more OS, Acube more hardware, Amiga.org gets more clicks on ads and more donations and overall it is going to be a fun ride when software development explodes again).

Keep a positive attitude, and just wait two more weeks.. .  (sorry could not recist)

[cv643d]

I agree, but as I said. It is what it is. Either you accept it and have the time of your life with Workbench running natively on a next gen CPU or you do not. Simple as that.

I think Hyperion is a weird company since they seem a bit quiet with no public roadmap or vision other than developers responding now and then on forums. I hope I dont get an angry reply from the said developers now, (sorry if I hurt your feelings about your company). If it makes it easier for you I think Amiga inc is weird to.

If they would go for x86 right now, they had to freeze development of os4.x and invest a lot of money into AmigaOS again. They stated they are not made of money and have already invested quite a big sum of money into AmigaOS already, if money was no object we would all be running OS4.x on x86 in 5 years I think, but sadly business is all about money and if they were going to port AmigaOS to x86 where would the money for that development come from?

A company needs to make money to be able to live, so the big question is, how is Hyperion going to make big money with AmigaOS? Think about it for a while, I think we are going for very exciting times in the Amiga world!

[cv643d]

It did not sound as if he worked on an Os4 app for Amiga.inc, but more as if it was an AA2 IDE.