Amiga dev folks and softwares and stuff

[weirdami]

I remember McEwen saying that there were loads of people calling and asking about Amiga and developing stuff for it, etc. Do we know who all is developing for Amiga and if that loads-of list is still long as it ever was? Are the developers now in contact with KMOS? Will there be loads of softwares released to coincide with AOS4's release?

I ask because I want to know what softwares to expect when AOS4 comes out and AmigaOne's have a proper OS because I stopped in a computer store and fiddled with the Macintoshes and looked at the prices and such. I'm still a little afraid to go with a Macintosh. I don't really know what the deal with them is. I'd rather have a new Amiga.

On a side note, there was a guy in there talking to the dealer and he was one of those smug Mac users who acted like he was superior because of it. He kept butting in when I was asking the dealer questions. Yes, please tell me about the bus speed of the new G5's again. :-( The dealer seemed to know what an Amiga was, which was kinda cool. I didn't get any "you still use that?" from him, which was also cool.

Anyhoo, help me out. Should I Mac it up or should I wait on Amiga?

[weirdami]

In comparison, being a classic Amiga fanatic, I would rather have an Amiga 3000T than a brand new Mac any day.

That's prettymuch my feeling. I'd rather have an Amiga. I will never buy a windows box, and I really don't want to fiddle with Linux. I'd be happy with a Unix box, but one at work, where there's someone whose job it is to fiddle with the settings. :-) I like command lines. I started considering Macs recently because of OS10+ was getting big reviews from the guys on TechTV (Leo Laporte, etc.) and I'm wanting to do produce some DV movies eventually and it was looking like Macs were the way to go in that regard. If I can expect good VE software and all the things that go with that line, and DVD authoring capbility, then I can wait for Amiga. Still gotta save up some more money first. I'm just getting ahead of the game right now, working out the direction to go, so this is all on my mind right now.

Are we expecting the AmigaOne+AOS4 combination to have super speed enough for VE and that sort of high demand task?

...a question i just thought of: Does Newtek have it's eye on the Amiga situation and is it developing A1/AOS4 software/hardware?  I'm thinking maybe that this new Toaster they made is already compatible with A1 since it goes in an IBM-type box and the A1 also needs an IBM-type box, but I don't know for sure.

[weirdami]

@big iron

Besides do you really use quark express and photoshop?(macs claim to fame) Hang tight the A1 is here bro!

Is Photoshop being developed for AOS4? If it is, then it's not too much a jump to expectthat so is Premiere, which is the sort of software I'm wondering about. I'm wondering about all the software types, actually, but I'm most concerned with VE, etc.

 

[weirdami]

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[weirdami]

I doubt any old Amiga companies are coming back. Get few (100,000+) OS4 users first and they maybe look into Amiga again.

It would be nice to know which companies ARE coming back (or had never really left). The only one I can think of is the ImageFX guys.

What ever happened to Paul Nolan?

[weirdami]

...you know, the Photogenics dude? Did he abandon Amiga? Oh, and I remember he was having trademark problems years back. Did those get resolved?

[weirdami]

AmigaDE is as dead as Commodore 64 Basic as a programming environment.

I don't know about that. Isn't AI concentrating on DE stuff now since they're in the cell phone content only business? Are they dstill selling those Amiga game packs? Don't those have DE on them? I remember Eric Schwartz saying he had gone multi-platform because of DE or something like that. He made some kind of tile game with his drawings. There's probably plenty of DE dev going on.

[weirdami]

DE is dead like a stone and so is Amiga Inc.

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You sure you're not just being FUDarific?

[weirdami]

I sense that a Portal must have been opened somewhere...

You mean the ClickBoom web portal? :lol: