Did anyone read this open letter to us?

[Nlandas]

Yes but Amiga Anywhere 2 is not AmigaOS 5. It's simply another means of deploying Amiga based applications on other platforms. Amiga, Inc. has not stopped it's plans for AmigaOS 4 and potentially beyond.

"What matters is that contrary to a great deal of the nonsense that I am reading lately, Amiga at no time has ever abandoned our goals, the Amiga community and our dream.  I recently read a post about how OS 4 should power a phone, and somehow this is supposed to be an epiphany that the Amiga OS could power more than a desktop."

"New hardware is indeed being developed, and we have selected the first 3rd party manufacturer that will build in high quantities, and yes, this new hardware is being delayed because OS 4.0 is needed to complete the package and to resolve certain technical issues."

It sounds to me that once the legal wrangling is over, we will actually see new hardware to run it on. We don't know the details of the legal proceedings. Maybe Hyperion wants to partner with another hardware developer and Amiga, inc. is saying - No - we will be providing the hardware through ACK controls.

I know it's been a long road but a lot of this negative idle speculation doesn't sound like the old Amiga community to me at all. If anything we, were always too positive and too hopeful.

Let's see what happens after the legal stuff is done. If we don't see anything shortly thereafter then I'll be more negative too.

[Nlandas]

Andeda wrote:
This is a little offtopic but ill ask anyway, who was behind the release of amigaone was it Amiga inc? how many was manufactured, and why didnt they manufacture more of them?? So lets put it this way, what went wrong?

That's an easy one - Maybe an overly simple synopsis. AmigaOne was endorsed by the developers of AmigaOS and Amiga, inc. also seemed to be on board with it as well. However, AmigaOS 4.0 took too long to develop and release. While AmigaOne was developed and released only 1000 boards were made and then apparently lack of parts kept additional runs from being made.

I'm sure someone else will correct anything misspoken here.

[Nlandas]

Piru wrote:
@Nlandas

"Give yourself to the dark side."

I did that long ago when I built my first Windoze PC and started using it extensively and then started actually working in the IT field where there are no Amigas. :cry:

However, I refuse to give into the "I hate Amiga, inc.(KMOS), all they've released is a few games crowd." until after the legal issues are done surrounding AmigaOS 4. If they don't release hardware for us shortly after the legal issues are done, then I'll consider becoming Nelly-negative.   :lol: