Amiga, Inc. announces Amiga® Anywhere

[System]

All this DE, AA whatever to me is junk food. You can snack on it, but it certainly is not as meal.

You simply MUST be joking.

Wayne

[redrumloa]

You simply MUST be joking.

Let me clarify. To me it is junk food. To Amiga Inc it's the core of their buisness. I am personally much more interested in OS4.0. Playing games on a cell phone doesn't tickle my fancy. That Sharp PDA is neat, but still my main interest is in the next-gen AmigaOS/hardware.

I only half heartedly follow this DE stuff. To each his own. :-D

[Tomas]

You ppl are never happy are you??? Allways someone has to whine about small things like that...... AmigaINC has better things to do than wasting money on web designing, and all the other stuff you whine about..... Like that a regular PC case aint good enough, isnt the functionality of the box that is most important?? Was Amiga just a pretty design??

Sorry too say it but the old Amiga boxes wasnt so nice looking either, the reason they was popular was that they was good and that you could actually use it for stuff.

[Seehund]

>> All this DE, AA whatever to me is junk food. You can snack on it, but it certainly is not as meal.

> You simply MUST be joking.

I understand what he's saying. From my point of view, as a computer enthusiast, that's a pretty accurate description. From Amiga's point of view, as a company, it is of course the other way round.
To elaborate on the foodstuffs analogy; if your restaurant conglomerate can't expect to survive on your  little gourmét kitchen, you have to earn enough money from your hamburger chain or sell off/shut down the gourmét kitchen.

[System]

Let me clarify. To me it is junk food. To Amiga Inc it's the core of their buisness. I am personally much more interested in OS4.0. Playing games on a cell phone doesn't tickle my fancy. That Sharp PDA is neat, but still my main interest is in the next-gen AmigaOS/hardware.

First, thanks for clarifying.

I simply think, respectfully, that you're losing the focus on AmigaDE.  Like you, I don't care about playing Zed on a cellphone.  AmigaDE (now AA) to me has always had a very wide appeal because I can imagine my friends all sitting around a wireless hub, running the same games in tourney mode, on everything from their Windows box to their PDA.

Just imagine, if you will
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-- a LAN party where all your friends get together with their pocket PDAs and play Quake against each other without having to lug around all that equipment.  

-- A doctor's office installing such a hub and letting you (or your kids) borrow one to play games against the other people waiting.  Imagine acually groaning when the doctor finally calls you back because you were in the middle of a game!

-- This one is too close to PC Anywhere, but imagine a website (ala Amiga.org) who sets up a service where, no matter where you were, or what you were using hardware wise, and without requiring a physical network connection on your device, you could securel access your personal, private information as well as your own documentation and share it with others.  I guess I mean it this way;  You have a home AA network.  You are connected to the Web through your AA network.  You are on a business trip and suddenly remember that you need a document from your home machine, some 1000 miles away.  You whip out your AA-enabled device, click a button and retrieve it, then send it to the printer in the other room without ever having to deal with hooking it up, getting a network connection.
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Before you get started, no, I don't believe AA will provide the world with all the answers, but being able to use the same software on all devices certainly holds more interest for me than some outdated, slow, expensive PPC device.  

If AA still requires a "home server" and if they make that home server the AmigaOne, then chances are that I'll buy one, but I would definitely treat it exactly like a server.  Set it up, set it in the closet, and let it do it's job while I'm working/playing my real machines.  

AmigaOS 4.x/5.x/whatever is not the long-term answer.  Restricting people to a set of hardware is not the answer.  The ultimate OS should work on all devices, regardless of hardware.  AA is at least a step in the right direction.

Wayne Hunt
Amiga.org

[publied]

The thing isvery interessant. But i not understand what Amiga Inc means for contents. Multimedia applications? (Digital)Video on demand? Game networking? Give something that is working now?

ciao, Paolo   :-?

[Bezzen]

AmigaINC has better things to do than wasting money on web designing, and all the other stuff you whine about

It's really hard for a company to promote something that is supposed to be very good if the company's profile looks unprofessional.

[System]

Thing is, for most of us that have followed the Amiga for any amount of time (and let's face it, with the disappearance of the Amiga in the last five years or so, there are hardly likely to be many new recruits) this DE stuff just doesn't say Amiga to us... it's a bit hard to identify with when we were used to what was a very unique machine that p'd all over the competition in its heyday.

[System]

AMIGA keep up the good work!!!

[System]

Ok, I will state it just for the heck of it!

"Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy"  There... I did it...

[System]

Amiga AnyWhere Site check it out!!!

[System]

All,

I am providing this post as a means to help users understand the difference between AmigaDE, AmigaDE Player, and Amiga Anywhere.

Amiga Anywhere is simply a renaming of the AmigaDE Player. The concpet of the Player was that you could access and run AmigaDE content from Windows and Linux systems. With the upcoming addition of support for more devices, we at Amiga felt that conveying the message of having the same binary applications running on mulitple devices was easier with a name like Amiga Anywhere rather than trying to tie it to Amiga's long term vision, the AmigaDE (Digital Environment). Thus AmigaDE apps will run under Amiga Anywhere and current customers will be able to download a new version of the AmigaDE Player branded as Amiga Anywhere when it becomes available.

The AmigaDE is still our long term goal. What its eventual name will be is still under consideration. Creating new ways for users to interact with their computing devices, making all digital devices communicate, work together, and share resources are some of the ideas behind the vision of Amiga. More info can be found on the www.amiga.com website.

In the meantime Amiga has created this new website aimed at new markets such as PDAs, set-top boxes, cell phones, as well as traditional desktop systems. All digital devices are potential users of Amiga Anywhere. We hope that you will interact with the new Amiga-Anywhere site and get the maximum benefit from it. We are still growing the site and you will be seeing some commhjnity based programs coming to this site in the near future, all revolving around Amiga Anywhere.

Thanks for helping bring Amiga Digital Content to devices around the world.....anywhere.

[Marky_D_Sahd]

(Hope this post gets through, as none of my others have, to date.)

Amiga has to "look busy" right now.  They haven't "Kept the momentum going," and the much valued community is starting to look mal-nourished and pathetic, like stray dogs fighting over every scrap.  We who are left tend to wage fire wars over every rumor, mostly because of the lack of real news.  This is why there have to be a few new products that aren't new.  It's a harmless rebadging if it's only a brief play for time. It looks like a build up for the BIG announcement.

[JetFireDX]

This isn't the BIG announcement they promised a few weeks back is it?

[Bifford]

Amiga AnyWhere Site check it out!!!

Firstly can I say 'm not a huge fan of the name "Amiga anywhere"! sounds far to generic for my liking ;/

Now about that website - you DO know that it's an extremely bad idea to put black text on a very dark blue picture background, don't you??

Does someone actually LOOK at the site once its coded Before its put on the net for general consumption???

The whole site is just too dark and depressing imo.  So I harken back to what someone else said on here - get a graphic designer to do you a standardised setup!!

TTFN
Bifford the Youngest.

[Chathurawind]

THe  people that just care for the Classic way, with AmigaOS are the ones that kept the platform alive. They should be respected.
 Besides, no matter how good asbstraction layers, VP, or whatever gets, it never comes close to the real native thing, specially for AmigaOS.
You have DE, now let the warriors get their gift!