GTI and e.p.i.c. cooperate on Pegasos distribution

[greenboy]

Herewegoagain : Genesi people are so desparate to sound like they are dominating the world...

Every Genesi person I've met has a pretty realistic appraisal of where they are in the larger world marketplace, and how much work it will take to progress to command even niche successes. Yet, they are proud of what has been done so far. Anything wrong with that?

If it was Amiga Inc or Hyperion for this particulaer PR piece would you be saying things like that? I hope not. They too deserve to enjoy local respect.  (Yeah, I know some people might not always play it that way, but that is THEIR problem.)

Wake me up when something interesting happens.

Maybe you should set your alarm. ; } ...An agreement today with Genesi doesn't mean there can't be a PR tomorrow for AOS4, in many cases. It should be trivial to support both platforms for the time being,..

[Paul_Gadd]

While i think it is great to see games ported to MorphOS but why really old games?

You need a KILLER game for 2003 instead of a old 90`s game.

[bbrv]

Paul, you are *absolutely* right!  We think the way to go is online-mass-multiplayer-games and that is where we are headed! :-D

Thanks greenboy for the "approval" -- we appreciate it!

:-)

R&B

[yssing]

I don't really think that it is to expensive...
Just lookat the prizes Clickboom charge..
Need I mention NightLong PPC

[DaveP]

P.S. Thanks Kronos for the support. Please check your email forwarded from kronos@amiga.org. You have just become a game tester...let us know what you think!

That looks like a payoff Kronos ;-) If you have to get the
package from a deserted carpark with lots of mexicans with
hand-cannons around, run!

[Dagon]

What I do find sad is that they don't seem to be making anything for the Amiga (WOS or potentially OS4)

Wrong, I just bought Software Tycoon (made by Epic) and it is both for Amigas with 68k and PPC (it has also a Pegasos+MorphOS version)

[jumpship]

Can I just say that I have nothing against MOS or the PEG, in fact if I could afford both systems I would get both, hell I may even get a PEG to run MOS on and use my BlizzPPC for OS4 (after I get back from Oz!).

I happen to prefure the idea of OS4 over MOS, but having played with MOS at WoASE it is a nice system (even if it did crash when I tried to resize a window ;-)). The main reason is because I can understand how OS4 will work (as I understand how AOS works in general), but I am sooo confused by all this A-BOX and Q-BOX with MOS that I steer away from it. Plus I can't use it on my BlizzPPC :lol: (that is a hint there ;-) hehe)

[zacman]

>Plus I can't use it on my BlizzPPC

Maybe you mixed OS4 and MOS here?

MorphOS runs without problems on BlizzPPC (since the very first public version).

[DaveP]

@zacman

Nicholas and BillB have been very clear on this that
MorphOS as shipped with the Pegasos is not currently
available for the Blizzard or the Cyberstorm because
of the support issues involved.

It might *run* but as no-one can get a shrink-wrapped version
of MOS for the BPPC/CPPC cards he is absolutely correct.

[zacman]

>Nicholas and BillB have been very clear on this that
>MorphOS as shipped with the Pegasos is not
>currently available for the Blizzard or the
>Cyberstorm because of the support issues
>involved.

Sure but that doesn't mean that it won't be available
later. The only difference between the
BlizzPPC/CybPPC version and the Pegasos MorphOS
version is that the Pegasos version is a public beta
while the CybPPC/BlizzPPC beta is an internal beta.

[jumpship]

Sure but that doesn't mean that it won't be available

That is why I put the "hint hint" bit in :-D

[mahen]

Oh, how old is the original PC version of this game BTW ? I don't think it's that important to have "state of the art 3d engines" but at least amiga/MOS specific games, good in their style... (like Crossfire 2 released recently)...

I'll buy Knights&Merchants as soon as possible.

[Kronos]

We think the way to go is online-mass-multiplayer-games

I really don't like those online games (mostly dumb), but
mass-multiplay like TalesOfTamar rules.

@DaveP
I haven't tested it yet, but looking at the title it will
probaraly not excite me like something similar does another
Bill ......  ;-)

[bbrv]

Kronos, hehehe.

R&B :-D

[Jupp3]

So, what should Amiga programmer do? Just wait for AmigaOS4 to be released (or at least some development material for it) doing NOTHING? C'mon...

I'm not 100% sure about this, but Weren't Epic working simultaneously on Macintosh & Amiga version of that particular game, at the same time developing SDL-like a system, that allows game to be compiled either for Macintosh or MorphOS with very minor modifications to source code?

So, if it was that easy, why shouldn't it have been done?

And should AOS4 ever become ready, it shouldn't be that hard to "adapt" that system for it aswell, and (maybe) be able to compile all games ported that far to AOS4 aswell...