Amiga, Inc. announces Amiga® Anywhere

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All this DE, AA whatever to me is junk food. You can snack on it, but it certainly is not as meal.

You simply MUST be joking.

Wayne

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Let me clarify. To me it is junk food. To Amiga Inc it's the core of their buisness. I am personally much more interested in OS4.0. Playing games on a cell phone doesn't tickle my fancy. That Sharp PDA is neat, but still my main interest is in the next-gen AmigaOS/hardware.

First, thanks for clarifying.

I simply think, respectfully, that you're losing the focus on AmigaDE.  Like you, I don't care about playing Zed on a cellphone.  AmigaDE (now AA) to me has always had a very wide appeal because I can imagine my friends all sitting around a wireless hub, running the same games in tourney mode, on everything from their Windows box to their PDA.

Just imagine, if you will
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-- a LAN party where all your friends get together with their pocket PDAs and play Quake against each other without having to lug around all that equipment.  

-- A doctor's office installing such a hub and letting you (or your kids) borrow one to play games against the other people waiting.  Imagine acually groaning when the doctor finally calls you back because you were in the middle of a game!

-- This one is too close to PC Anywhere, but imagine a website (ala Amiga.org) who sets up a service where, no matter where you were, or what you were using hardware wise, and without requiring a physical network connection on your device, you could securel access your personal, private information as well as your own documentation and share it with others.  I guess I mean it this way;  You have a home AA network.  You are connected to the Web through your AA network.  You are on a business trip and suddenly remember that you need a document from your home machine, some 1000 miles away.  You whip out your AA-enabled device, click a button and retrieve it, then send it to the printer in the other room without ever having to deal with hooking it up, getting a network connection.
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Before you get started, no, I don't believe AA will provide the world with all the answers, but being able to use the same software on all devices certainly holds more interest for me than some outdated, slow, expensive PPC device.  

If AA still requires a "home server" and if they make that home server the AmigaOne, then chances are that I'll buy one, but I would definitely treat it exactly like a server.  Set it up, set it in the closet, and let it do it's job while I'm working/playing my real machines.  

AmigaOS 4.x/5.x/whatever is not the long-term answer.  Restricting people to a set of hardware is not the answer.  The ultimate OS should work on all devices, regardless of hardware.  AA is at least a step in the right direction.

Wayne Hunt
Amiga.org

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Thing is, for most of us that have followed the Amiga for any amount of time (and let's face it, with the disappearance of the Amiga in the last five years or so, there are hardly likely to be many new recruits) this DE stuff just doesn't say Amiga to us... it's a bit hard to identify with when we were used to what was a very unique machine that p'd all over the competition in its heyday.

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AMIGA keep up the good work!!!

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Ok, I will state it just for the heck of it!

"Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy"  There... I did it...

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Amiga AnyWhere Site check it out!!!

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All,

I am providing this post as a means to help users understand the difference between AmigaDE, AmigaDE Player, and Amiga Anywhere.

Amiga Anywhere is simply a renaming of the AmigaDE Player. The concpet of the Player was that you could access and run AmigaDE content from Windows and Linux systems. With the upcoming addition of support for more devices, we at Amiga felt that conveying the message of having the same binary applications running on mulitple devices was easier with a name like Amiga Anywhere rather than trying to tie it to Amiga's long term vision, the AmigaDE (Digital Environment). Thus AmigaDE apps will run under Amiga Anywhere and current customers will be able to download a new version of the AmigaDE Player branded as Amiga Anywhere when it becomes available.

The AmigaDE is still our long term goal. What its eventual name will be is still under consideration. Creating new ways for users to interact with their computing devices, making all digital devices communicate, work together, and share resources are some of the ideas behind the vision of Amiga. More info can be found on the www.amiga.com website.

In the meantime Amiga has created this new website aimed at new markets such as PDAs, set-top boxes, cell phones, as well as traditional desktop systems. All digital devices are potential users of Amiga Anywhere. We hope that you will interact with the new Amiga-Anywhere site and get the maximum benefit from it. We are still growing the site and you will be seeing some commhjnity based programs coming to this site in the near future, all revolving around Amiga Anywhere.

Thanks for helping bring Amiga Digital Content to devices around the world.....anywhere.