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ACK And Amiga Inc. Announce New Hardware Platforms.
« on: April 23, 2007, 01:54:14 PM »
After months of designs and negotiations Amiga, Inc. and ACK Software Controls, Inc. are pleased to announce that new hardware is on its way for Amiga users.

http://amiga.com/news/?art=26
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Re: ACK And Amiga Inc. Announce New Hardware Platforms.
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2007, 08:16:49 PM »
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I wonder what the product is and what OS will it run


Screw the OS. OS's are outdated concepts these days and what nobody who falls for the whole "AMEEGA WILL ARISE AND OWN THE WORLD!!11oneone" shtick (I think there's like...six people still left who think that way...) seems to grasp is that the quickest booting, "most responsive feeling" (seriously, WTF is that?  That's like saying "extra medium rare") most compact OS in the world is useless without a baseline of decent programs to run on it.

Ibrowse is about six years out of date as browsers go.  There's no office suite, and all the little widgets and toys that most people can get for free on other platforms are "wait a while then pay" on the Amiga.

Let's not even address the issue of games.

Running DeluxePaint, Imagine and a smashing good build of Quake-1 and Freeciv ain't gonna get you off of the honorable mentions page at /.

Hobby computer?  You betcha.  I keep hoping one day I'll stumble across an A2000 with some stuff in it or an A500 with GVP HD+Accel+PC emulator board or something cool like that - but as a toy.

Unless Amiga, Inc. has strategically partnered with some developers, and I mean real developers, not bedroom coders, they can forget it.

(But then you yourself already know this. :-) )
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