Where is Amiga DE.

[SamuraiCrow]

@Housey

I don't know the official line of Hyperion Entertainment, Inc. but the Freiden brothers seem pretty much against it due to the overhead of having Intent built on top of AmigaOS.

If the polls on AmigaWorld.net are any indication there is some interest in having a version of AmigaDE player supported by AmigaOS 4.  The SDK will probably be stuck on the PC for a long time.

If they come out with an Amiga version and still have their old Linux source code available they might be able to come out with a Mac version...

[SamuraiCrow]

IIRC there was this post on AW.net that claimed that ZeoNeo's invasion program splashed the Amiga-Anywhere logo on the screen as it loaded independantly of DEPlayer.  Apparently AmigaDE is taking on a new shape independant of the DE-player and ZeoNeo is still involved heavily in it.

Gary Hare mentioned something about current versions of DE only working on Windows and WinCE and commented that it wasn't really worthwhile for portable code to only work on those platforms and nothing else.

I think Amiga Inc. is still fighting and kicking but not making much headway without the money they need to keep their code portable to all the platforms necessary.  They're losing to Java on the palmtops and .NET/Mono and Java on the desktops.  Yet another VHS vs. Betamax situation I'm afraid.