Amiga Inc, in 25 questions or less

[billt]

There have been comments for some time describing the lack of Amiga Inc. response to a number of OS4 license inquiries sent to the prescribed technologylicensing@amiga.com email address. Is OS4 licensing available to those interested in developing new hardware, especially since Eyetech's AmigaOne product line has gone AWOL? Are licensing details available for discussion/negotiation even if an interested party does not yet have a workign sellable new design, but they are investigating licensing costs to better balance final total system package price to performance/features?

Note that I'm not asking if ACK or Troika have a license. I'm asking about this from a more generic point of view about any possible interested parties.

[billt]

-EDIT- billt, you beat me by 1 minute! I cant decide wether your question is worded better than mine or not.

Let the moderators decide.

[billt]

I'm stuck with Verizon wireless, due to signal/tower availability in some areas I find myself. (ironic though, as it gets a very very poor signal at home so I still require a landline phone there) Their CDMA phones seem to lack a lot of features available for GSM phones. Is AmigaAmywhere available for Verizon phones, or are Verizon customers compelely removed from your market? I have an LG VX9800 (AKA "The V") phone.

OT:
I'd love to dump Verizon, but I'm stuck... I don't like my phone, but I'm stuck... I envy the cool things my friends' GSM phones can do, but I can't have them. Why oh why do the phone makers not do exactly the same thing with a CDMA connection, why do the phones have to feel so limited and primitive compared to GSM stuff? Doesn't it sound shady that Verizon cashed the cable TV check (written payable to Comcast, not to Verizon, I have the carbon copy to prove it) I accidentally put in the wrong envelope and sent to them? I really wish I wasn't stuck...

[billt]

Are the $50 coupons ever going to be refunded ?

For that matter, what about the discounts for those buying the Party Packs? I bought both a Windows and a Linux party pack in addition to my $50 coupon...

@all:
Wasn't the Party Pack discount for AmigaOne or OS4 about US$100 each? I may not remember this exactly right, someone please correct me if needed...

[billt]

Do you have any plans to port AmigaOS x to AmigaAnywhere? It would let people run AmigaOS x on both PPC and x86 computers in hosted mode, and if they have any need to run more powerful programs, they can by an amigaone/clone and run AmigaOS in native mode.

So, you want to run OS4 inside of AmigaAnywhere, which itself requires a host OS such as Windows? Hosting Anywhere makes sense to the point that JVMs do, basically hosting a particular application that can run on any host platform. I'm not sure it makes sense to run an OS like AmigaOS4 inside a hosted VM. Why? For that to be useful, then OS4 apps/games must work in that environment, currently they only work in PPC environment. If you need to port your apps to work in the double-hosted OS4, why not just port it to the VM hosting OS4 instead? That effectively gives you the same market, since AmigaOne-native OS4 cannot provide the VM environment, these apps/games would only be usable under the VM hosted OS4 port.They wouldn't gain any potential market for existing OS4 binaries, and developers would have to make at least two binaries for their OS4 stuff, one binary for AmigaOne/PPC, the other for double-hosted VM OS4.

It makes more sense to port AmigaAnywhere to OS4. That way they slightly increase their potential market, as now anywhere apps can be used on everything they already do plus on OS4. Granted, the current Amiga market adding into their existing possible anywhere market would be hard to notice.

[billt]

Now I no longer have my AmigaOne XE, so AmigaOS 4.0 will not do me any good until I get a new AmigaOne. So anyways, is it posible to trade in my rights to use 1 copy of AmigaOS 4.0

What happened to the AmigaOne you once had? Did the right to one copy of OS4 not follow the hardware to whatever fate it had?

[billt]

why should I care about "amiga inc" how does this "company" affect my life? are "you" actually making anything I should care about or can use?

I care about them not becasue of what they make, but because of their role in enabling or preventing others from making certain things which I do care about.

[billt]

Do you think that, in future, we can buy a "full" Amiga System (with its sound card, video card,...)?

I'd wger that if any motherboard comes out again, that dealers will sell it alone as well as in a complete system package, just like was done with the AmigaOnes.

Do you think that a new Commodore collaboration is possible?

For what purpose? A number of people keep asking about this, but they've gone in seperate directions, and I haven't been able to think up any benefits to either party today... Why would Bill M be interested in this? After we know why, it'll make more sense to ask about it happening or not.