Call for Amiga Developers from A-EON Technology

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Aeonkit has already sunk money into Prisma, x1/5000, plus aquired several software titles.

I would love to have a Clockport expander for my A1200 for example, so I can see that point.

But, Aeonkit cant take on too much. Start too many projects, and you run out of money, or just cant get stuff done.
I guess the call for developers is to rectify the workload issue.

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@Kolla

Whats wrong with preaching to the choir? There are still many 68xxx users around that still havent taken the leap to PPC. If anything, it would be easier to entice a still active Amiga user, than to pull in people that have already left the "scene".

I can tell you right now, if there was a decentish AOS4 hardware alternative in the 3-400 euro range I would jump on it immediately. And Im even aware of the OS's shortcomings
For now tho, Im sticking to 68030, but I still cheer AeonKit on, and pick up classic hardware/software from time to time.

As for being "delusional" for thinking there is a Amiga market; that depends on your refrence point. Noone belives AOS or Amiga in general will become mainstream again.
But that doesnt prevent vendors/developers to create a hobbymarket that can sustain several entities. Amigakit is a fulltime vendor with employees, and it looks to me they are trying to secure a future to stay a fulltime Amiga company. Great for them (and us).
Additionally Ive used vendors like Amigastore.eu, Vesalia and Induvidual Computers.
I see the Amiga "market" healthy as long as its able to maintain a customer count that can sustain all these vendors (and others).
New/updated software in addition to hardware (NG and classic) coupled with more streamlined storefronts are one of the steps.

As for ciVic's comment about the email adress to get in contact with A-Eon;

I agree, it seems like they need to work on their email procedure.
Personally I work in a small company, with my boss doing xx things every day. I got a feeling reading emails often drops rather far down on the list of things to do.
Last time I checked he had over 400 unread emails(!!). Personally Id say a company needs to ensure, that when they leave the office, every single mail has been read, but yeah.
I would not be suprised AeonKit got the same issue. If its only Trevor and Matthew reading those mails, Its no wonder emails go unread.
The last few weeks they have been traveling to xx Amiga meetings.
I sent a email to that email adress myself several weeks ago regarding login to AmiStore. No reply for weeks. Eventually I got tired of waiting, so I contacted Matthew directly to his Amigakit user on Amiga.org. Got a quick reply then.
But Obviously not how it should be, even tho I understand it.

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Does A-EON want to encourage Amiga development or not? Does A-EON want to make Amiga development easier? If so, then IMO:

1) Development documentation should be freely distributable (retaining copyrights is expected).

2) AmigaOS 68k should be further developed and the API brought closer to AmigaOS 4 to make Amiga development easier. The 68k is a bigger market and growing with new FPGA hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if Amiga capable FPGA hardware is outselling Amiga PPC hardware yet this larger potential market is practically ignored even as PPC is dying.

While I do agree with you regarding futher development of AOS3.x, I wonder how they should find the resources to do so. Espesially since they have problems keeping up desired development pace of AOS4. Many will probarly just think; we got BetterWB and other upgrade packages for WB3.x, so why bother.

But for getting max impact for software releases, it makes sense having better cohesion between classic and NG OS versions.

Just curious about how you forsee it being done..?

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@eliyahu

Usually I applaud your direction regarding moderation, but in this case your are a bit off the mark.

The original post stated;

"Call for Amiga Developers Kickstarting PowerPC and 68k software development".

While I assume the premise is mostly non-OS development related, having AOS 3 and 4 as similar as possible would increase the revenue pool for vendors like Aeonkit (and others).

To be honest, since the original post was a "call for developers" to basically email Aeonkit showing intrest, any post at all is off topic since all the OP is looking for is out of thread contact. So should sticky it and lock if you want to be 100% ontopic.

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Dear all!

I replied to the call but never got any answers back, have you?

Cheers!

My comment earlier in this thread regarding no reply issue;

"I sent a email to that email adress myself several weeks ago regarding login to AmiStore. No reply for weeks. Eventually I got tired of waiting, so I contacted Matthew directly to his Amigakit user on Amiga.org. Got a quick reply then."

I remember reading a comment from Matthew, where he said they had more response to the call than they expected, and are going thru the list one by one.
I obviously think that was the wrong way of doing it. They should have replied to everyone initially "Thanks for your show of intrest. We are currently processing the queries one by one, so expect some delay until we have capacity to adress your intrest. Sincerely, Matthew/Trevor" etc.

As its done at the moment, people mailing get the impression its a dead email adress.

I would recommend you just post your query via private message to Amigakit thru the messaging system on amiga.org and amigaworld.net. Usually Matthew responds quickly to those messages.

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why am i not surprised?

@niding:
so what have you been engaged to work on? or is this under nda?

No, I just sent a mail to that adress since it is also used for issues regarding AmiStore.
Since that issue happened at the time people started to get annoyed about not getting any response to their queries, I just let them know that private messages has always gotten instant reaction from Matthew.

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I know it explicitly calls for contact thru email. BUT, personally Im not of the patient type; If I dont get a response within "reasonable" time, I alway contact thru other means.

As I said; Aeonkit seems to be quite bad at email replies, so take the consequense of that