What is AmigaAnywhere?

[persia]

I look at the KMOS (Amiga.com) site and there is only a brief mention of AA and a few PC games for sale.  What exactly is AmigaAnywhere?  Does anyone have a copy of it?  The description sounds like it's a UAE clone, is that correct?

[SamuraiCrow]

No.  AmigaForever is based on UAE.

AmigaAnywhere is an ahead-of-time compiler for a bytecode called Virtual Processor.  It had non-platform specific stuff for writing multimedia applications.  Since it was primarily written for hand-held devices, it didn't optimize fully and therefore didn't catch on.

[Jose]

It's Intent.

[persia]

I don't get it, if it's Tao Group's Intent then why is it called AmigaAnywhere?  Other than Tao Group being headquartered in England and Tripos being created in England they have nothing to do with each other.  And who owns the IP of Tao Group now?

[Jose]

Well, AInc. said they added some libraries on top of it, but few have seen them. Maybe some registered AA dev can post about it and if they had any use...

[Ral-Clan]

persia wrote:
What exactly is AmigaAnywhere?

It's pretty much a waste of time.

[jarroyo]

AmigaAnywhere is based on Taos Elate technology. For more info follow the links below.

http://www.byte.com/art/9407/sec6/art1.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20070528180024/http://tao-group.com

In my eyes the biggest blunder, and there have been many by Amiga Inc, in the early days was trying to to focus on two markets; mobile with one base OS and then tell the Amiga fans that they will also have the Amiga OS 4.0 with a unification later on.

In my eyes a desktop based Elate system would have kicked butt. The technology was all there, but as usual, the excution on behalf of Amiga Inc leaves little to be desired of.

[jorkany]

I don't get it, if it's Tao Group's Intent then why is it called AmigaAnywhere?

AA is little more than a library that runs on Intent.

McBill claims that the new AA2 is not based on Intent, so theoretically Tao is out of the picture as far as AA is concerned.

It's worth noting that AA has nothing at all to do with the real Amiga.

[pjhutch]

You can view a picture of it here:

http://www.pcguru.plus.com/gfx/AmigaDE.jpg

I have added a few games on top of the original install:
Batty, Planet Zed,Maze Monster.

Its really designed for Mobile devices than anything else. Its rather underwhelming ....

[derringer3]

Simply a good joke. Or if you like: You can use it for nothing.


Seriously: It's a thing that is a solution for thousands of problems, just that thousands of problem are didn't exist yet.  :-D

[4pLaY]

Seriouly though it has nothing to do with the Amiga except the name... (something for the name followers)...

[persia]

Ok it was a neat idea in 1994, but I really don't see amy use for it today, I listen to music and watch videos on m phone now why would I want a virtual processor slowing everything down?

So what is AmigaDE in the screenshoss?  Did intent run Amiga executables?

[SamuraiCrow]

AmigaDE is an early version of AmigaAnywhere.  It does not run Amiga executables.

[kolla]

persia wrote:
And who owns the IP of Tao Group now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Group

The IP now seems to belong to a company with the rather fitting name "Antix Labs Ltd" :-)

[arnljot]

Amiga Inc has posted a AA2 FAQ on their page.

http://www.amiga.com/faqs/

Q:  I have heard about something called "OS5". Is this the same thing?
A:  No. AA2 and the product often referred to as OS5 are entirely separate distinct products.

Q:  So what is OS5 then?
A: OS5 is an ongoing project to build a new distributed virtualized operating system (in the true sense of the term operating system) that is also capable of running in a hosted form. OS5 is a long-term project that incorporates many of the next generation operating system concepts Amiga has extolled in the past.

There are a few more AA2 vs OS5 answers there.

Nothing really new. Except they continue to refute that AA2 = OS5.

Good news, if they will deliver...

EDIT/OFF TOPIC:They've had one press release a month in 2008, that is a 42% increase since 2007 if they keep it up.

A sign of increased activity?