Bill Buck / Raquel Velasco Interview - Submit your questions

[Kees]

For week two of our new series of interviews, we have lined up none other than Genesi's Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco.

Bill and Raquel will answer a few questions about the Pegasos/MorphOS and the plans for the future.

Isn't this a great place to be ?

Please post your questions here and we will relay them.



Note:  This thread is ment for questions for Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco, not for debate and propaganda. Stay on Topic! If you do not do so, your comment will be deleted or edited as appropriate.

[Kronos]

O.k., here are a few:

How is the 403-based STB going ?
What other components will it use ?

Same about the Peg2

Can the Marvel-NB use a IBM970-CPU ?

When will TurboPrint-PPC be released ?

[Hooligan_DCS]

Where is my ProStationAudio?

[Warface]

I see a great initiative here! You're exceeding my expectations with these interviews :-) Great community feedback opportunity!

The question today: what is the state of the Jungle graphics library (preferably for the Radeon)?

(I know that Low Level 3D subsystems (Warp3D wrapper, Rave3D) have priority over Jungle, but having Jungle enables OpenGL game ports to appear much more easily on the platform.)

Can we expect it in a couple of months? (Within say, 3-4 updates?)

Thanks for the answer in advance

(Feel free to make my question shorter)

[bbrv]

...errhhhmmm

That would be Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck answering your questions...just ask anyone who has been working with us!

We are looking forward to this --  let's pick up where we left off with Sammy.  :-D

Sincerely,
"bbrv"    :-)

[Kees]

I'm sorry ... Bill and Raquel ... my mistake!

I'll edit it :-)

[catohagen]

When will Morphos for BPPC and CSPPC be released and are Genesi interessted in supporting the port
of Mozilla to amigaos and morphos ?

[redrumloa]

The G4 upgrade is scheduled for July, and the Peggy-II for Sept. Both will be available for Peg-I users at an upgrade cost. (As I understand it)

Q: If a user upgrades to a G4 card in July, will there be an upgrade offer for him to the Peggy-II in Sept?

[uncharted]

1. You announced that you were working on a Superbundle with various authors.  Are you worried at all that this might impact the small market sales negatively?

2. How many employees does Genesi have working towards MOS/Pegasos?

3. Would you support AOS 4 in the same way as you do other OSes (Like AROS)?

*Controversy Alert!!!!! (Mods edit if you wish)*

4. In your emails with SamFace (as seen on ANN) you mention something at the end about many people posting on certain forums on certain threads.  This could be taken that there is some kind of organised posting on forums.  Is this the case or is there another explaination?

[Paul_Gadd]

Are you going to make a product like Amithlon for x86 machines? (Morphilon)

In the future are you going to offer discounts on your Pegasos boards for people like myself who think they are expensive?

[Miky060]

Hi Bill! how are you?
I wanted to ask you when we fianlly have important things we are waiting for from October like:

- 100% support of graphics boards (especially Radeons) alias 3D  drivers, support for overaly, DVD videos hardware decodings, etc..

- JIT emulator finally ready

- TurboPrint

- drivers for decent audioboards

- decent multimedia-files reader and support for crypted DVDs in fylesystem

...and when will we have important portings on MOS like an OpenOffice and a Mozilla that are TREMENDOUSLY NEEDED!!?? :-)
Or have I to continue to use my hated Wintel machine forever for serious things?
Thanks a lot for your sure answer.

[Hooligan_DCS]

Whats the situation with MorphED, ex-GoldED? What I have understood it will be very nice tool, not only for standard users wishing for texteditor, but also as a development-tool for coders.

[takemehomegrandma]

1. From a business point of view: Why will you succeed? Tell the people who is thinking about putting development efforts towards your platform how their efforts will be rewarded. What future does your platform have, and why (business-wize)? How will you "make the future bright"? Can you give us a hint of your strategies?

2. Tell us a little about the status of the Pegasos Two. Is it behind/ahead the schedule, or is it on schedule and rockin'?  :-P

3. Tell us a little more about the features of the Pegasos Two.

Hi Bill and Raquel,

Can you tell me if it gets annoying that whenever something "controversial" is posted by BBRV, all the fanboys blame Bill and never mention Raquel?  After all, it could be either of you posting! ;-)

Thankyou
Nicholas Otley
mdmaATarosDOTorg

[AmiGR]

Both JunGL and the W3D wrapper use Rave3D as
their driver system. Development is indepentent,
but I can't say anything about that. BBRV maybe..