who owns amiga today?

[rayman]

hI,

So who won the amiga on and off wars???

RAy.

[iamaboringperson]

Re: who owns amiga today?

A bunch of morons.

So who won the amiga on and off wars???

The what???

[koaftder]

ImageFX is going to buy out Amiga Inc after they finish their movie about cooking lubricants.

[odin]

:lol:

Anyway, I think it was Net Venture from NL which was the investment company which funded the current incarnation of AInc, although funnily enough their webpresence seems to have died =).

[Plaz]

ImageFX is going to buy out Amiga Inc after they finish their movie about cooking lubricants.

And as odd as that sounds, he's not kidding. If it happened, it would probably be an improvement over the record of the last 10 years.  :-D

Plaz

[ChaosLord]

Someone different than yesterday.  :-D

[Matt_H]

That's DiscreetFX trying to buy Amiga Inc., not ImageFX. ImageFX is an image processor :-)

[Starrunner]

Who won the on and off battles for Amiga means little.  in the end we all lost.  There will never be another Amiga made in any form.  And if anyone buys it, it will be the same BS we have been through for the last decade plus change.

[koaftder]

Starrunner wrote:
Who won the on and off battles for Amiga means little.  in the end we all lost.  There will never be another Amiga made in any form.  And if anyone buys it, it will be the same BS we have been through for the last decade plus change.

Man... I'm gonna get banned from here for saying this... I haven't said this before, and I promise not to say it again.

It wouldn't have mattered anyway if the Amiga had won the race. The pile of chips in your machine right now would be about the same regardless of who won. The idea of delegating operations specific to certain tasks like sound, audio and other things was obvious and already implemented in other systems long before the Amiga became a reality.

The Amiga was just one of the first to market in a cost efficient manner. The Amiga operating system was pretty much just an elegant hack that never had the intention from inception to ever hold a candle to Unix in terms of reliability.

True preemptive multitasking and memory protection were concepts pioneered and realized in the 1960's. And here it is in 2007 and os4 still doesn't have proper memory protection.

I guess you'd ask why I'm hitting Amiga sites and maintaining my Amigas. Amiga was my inspiration. I was 6 when my dad took me into a software store and I saw the juggler projected on a wall. At that point I knew I wanted to write software for a living. I consider myself a lucky kid. I'm still not a game programmer, but hey, life isn't perfect.

[TheMagicM]

koaftder you're absoloutely correct.

[Tomas]

@koaftder
What have you been smoking now? No one has claimed that Amiga and amigaos was the first computer to have these features. Amiga was on the other hand the very first computer aimed at the home market with such features. The only computers that could rival the amiga, was what we would call high end super computers which would cost you a million or so.
The pc back then had ega, pc speaker, no multitasking and so on.

True preemptive multitasking and memory protection were concepts pioneered and realized in the 1960's. And here it is in 2007 and os4 still doesn't have proper memory protection.

Not very suprising is it, considering that AmigaOS has not been in developement since the early 90s and then it is kinda hard for a few developers to make it modern in just as few years. os3.5 and 3.9 was in my eyes not a real upgrade but instead os3.1 bundled with some third party patches and so on..

The amiga was infact the first real multimedia computer aimed at the home.

And todays pcs can by the way still not scroll perfectly, which the amiga has done since 1985 thanks to the custom chipset.  :-P

[sdyates]

Amiga Inc is certainly the current owner, yet they don't have any products... and we still don't have a system we can buy

Though the OS team has done a great job, they are not allowed to release the OS on any current hardware. It's very odd... very...

[Starke]

@People already posted:

FATIGUE KILLS.

Lets place my words simple here,(by golly gosh, 3am+ now, must remain focused:

Amiga fuel kicking in again, oh yeah,

OK

Boot sequence completed,

OS4 up and running,

Checking Internet for worldwide new users,

another 1054 joined,(area 54?)

Majority who joined stated reason:

I was an EX user, and loved the preview of the platform on youtube, and I thank the local newspapers for directing me to the link, as well as viewing it on Amiga related sites.

SECONDARY reasons for joining:

New user, I liked the sample CD that was sent, so I bought the full version, along with my New Amiga Computer, cant wait for OS5, apparently I can run it on any PC!

(Amiga Computing) DONE, OUTCOME:
Various jargon, translated too, If we continued to still make new Amiga systems, people will still buy, as well as having their PC's with only Amiga OS5

OK

Checking completed

User base now expanded,

Amiga Systems, still niche market, but growing,

STATUS REPORT:

Now have an additional 28667 users worldwide joined this week, still the rest of saturday remaining.

END SIMPLE UPDATE:

Now (completed)

MORNING UPDATE:

Commences 11am, will confirm total Amiga users, Our master's market is growing, Almost hitting Apple sales!

MEANING:
taking less time then predicted to catch up and take second place, so far, 2 years, 40 days, 10minutes, 2 seconds.

POSSIBLE OUTCOME:
If sales keep going, and new users according to median figures keep going, Amiga ystems will take second place in less than a year.

AMIGA SYSTEM RAM:
Suggestion, Master should hurry up to bring OS5 out, then Amiga will take second place outright!

END SEQUeNCE

FINALISING

PRINTING User Base Update to PRINTER 1

BACKUP 1

PRINTING User Base Update to PRINTER 2

BACKUP 2

LOADING DATA TO SECONDARY HARD DISK

BACKUP 3

BURNING COPY OF UPDATE USING AmiCOPY

BACKUP 4

Remebering via RAM capabilities until next start

WARNING:

To MASTER, make sure to check file is not needed in RAM no longer before next automatic turn off

PRINTING ABOVE MESSAGE and SENDING SMS

NOTE:

Say goodmorning to Master when booted, by MASTERS request must also set alarm to 10am, so MASTER can remember to check RAM Before MASTER AUTO delete program set in!(11:30am

END

AUTOMATED TURN OFF(just like a tv but modern, no need to touch button, but just as quick)

NOTE:

(OK)(OK)(OK)(OK)(OK)(OK)(OK)(OK)

Thats it people, In the Future, anything is possible for the Amiga platform!

Goodnight!

Its now 3:333am!

Cheers and enjoy the post 8-)  8-)

[Azryl]

I also agree with koaftder!

I beleive the simple beauty of the amiga was a blending of chips that could get the job done and an OS that allowed you to get the job done without fuss

IFF was the corner stone to this! AmigaOS recognised what file it was looking at, did what was needed for that file without the user having to predefine a role based on some silly file extension etc

And Icons... I really like the Amiga Icon system :-)

Az

[mongo]

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