Amiga Anywhere -- Official Press Release

[System]

In the interest of being complete, here is the official Amiga Press Release regarding Amiga Anywhere.  Not much we didn't already know, but... just to be thorough.


 
   
   
 

PRESS RELEASE         For More Information, Contact:         Bill McEwen         Amiga Inc.         425-396-5660 (voice)         425-396-5671 (fax)         bill@amiga.com

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         April 22, 2002

Amiga® Anywhere™ Entertainment Pack  # 1 for PocketPC devices now available for download, or experience the Amiga Game Cards™ on either Compact Flash or Secure Digital formats.



Amiga Anywhere takes Windows Powered devices to the next level.



Snoqualmie, WA – April 22, 2002 – Amiga has announced the availability of the Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack # 1.  The Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 is available for download at a price of $ 29.95 and exclusive Game Card™ versions are available for $49.95 (Compact Flash), or $59.95 (Secure Digital) from the Amiga website at href="http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/pocketpc">www.amiga-anywhere.com/pocketpc.

 

  Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 is a set of 4 games for devices using Windows Powered Pocket PC’s, PocketPC Phone Edition, Microsoft Windows CE 3.0, and CE.Net devices such as handheld PDAs from Compaq, Fujitsu, NEC, Legend, Hewlett Packard, Casio, Toshiba and Audiovox as well as the mmO2 XDA phone. The games can be   installed on the device or played from Compact Flash or Secure Digital Game Cards.  The Game Cards allow users to run the applications without installing any software on the device.

 

  Play "Planet Zed", a shoot-em-up game as you maneuver your ship through  distant galaxies. "Convex" will tease your brain as you try and match marbles to make them disappear. Make sure you don't run into obstacles as the  snake finds food in "Gobbler".  Spend hours playing your favorite "Solitaire" game. Each game features high-resolution graphics and addictive game play that will keep you coming back for more.

 

  Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 is the first in a series of offerings from  Amiga for a range of mobile devices including PDA’s and Smartphones. 

 

  Future Amiga Anywhere products will include Puzzles, Board Games, Instant Messaging, Arcade Style Games, Image Tools, Travel and Leisure, and productivity applications with many more available in the coming months.




About Amiga:

Amiga, Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier  provider of multimedia technologies to the world.  Its award-winning  software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, government agencies,  and entertainment enthusiasts from around the world.  
Today Amiga continues to lead the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent  technologies for writing and porting applications to a new hardware-agnostic, multimedia platform.  Amiga Anywhere powered with intent from the Tao Group, enables  applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K, and Hitachi SH. It can run  hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, and XP. Amiga Anywhere applications can be purchased online at www.shopamiga.com.  Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, Wash. For more information, call 425-396-5660 or visit www.amiga.com.


Amiga is a registered trademark and Amiga Anywhere and  the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. All other company and product names

[yssing]

Good news...
I do not know about the rest of you.. But I am not that interrested in AmigaDE, as of yet..
Cool idea, but amigaOne and OS4 is much more apeling to me..

[Coder]

Hi yssing,

I agree. Allthough DE seems nice at the moment I only care for AmigaOne and OS4. Nothing more. But I do have the DE Development Kit.

Coder

[yssing]

Well we will just have to wait... (we know how to do that  ;-) )
And then maybe in the future when DE and amigaOS gets combined... Well...
But i am happy with every little positive thing that do happen to the amiga...  :-)

[novaburst]

I am very interested in DE! I think it is a very promising technology for Amiga. Just like anything, it just needs time to mature and get even better.
I hope it becomes very popular.

[Chathurawind]

I still have a vaque feeling that we don't know everything.
These minor anouncements are made to keep the people "happy" while the real work is done somewhere else. And there is possibility, that when the curtain rises, we might not like what we see (some might love it though...).

OK ! I admit that I don't have inside knowledge (I heard about NOKIA perhaps 2 weeks before it was anounced, no newinside  news since that). The quessing above is just a feeling.

[samface]

I agree, it seems like there are alot of things happening which we don't know about, yet. However, I think that Amiga Inc has shown a genuine interest in the Amiga and even if we don't understand every move they make, I'm sure it's for the best for all of us in the end.

Keep the faith, brother! ;-)

[yssing]

Samface.. I hope you are right..
I also hope that we in the end, wont be surprised in a sad way...

[Agafaster]

Has anyone else noticed in the blurb at the end it still (mistakenly) lists the Motorola m68k instead of PowerPC ?  :-o  :-D

[ksk]

Sendo said it has licenced technology to bring Amiga Anywhere games to the platform.

Microsoft Smartphone deals out a pack of games

[Agafaster]

... and when does it come out for Palm OS 3 ?
(a Springboard card would be nice :-) )

[jumpship]

This may have been said before, but doesn't anyone find it odd that this is the Amiga Anywhere game pack, yet only runs on a Microsoft device?

Thought the whole idea of AA was it wasn't platform dependant?

I am somewhat confused!  :-?

Still the potential for DE is great, and I love the idea behind it. However still want my AmigaONE and OS4.0  ;-)

[Chathurawind]

what will amiga do next? a PDA-Barcode Battler converter?

i sure as hell hope these crappy game things are an attempt to make a bit of money and to get a foot into the marketplace - because if it is then it`s acceptable. If it isn't and its a serious path for amiga to continue, then i sure as hell hope the don't end up doing anything like Frogger, Horace Goes Skiing etc. etc. etc.

(0o)

[Coder]

It does indeed offend me that this AmigaAnywhere gamepack so far only runs on Windows devices. Why not a Linux device or anything else. But Windows? But then again, the odds are you sell more of them then.

Coder

[Chathurawind]

An AmigaDE Player for Linux has been out for sometime.
 
A Linux-based version of the AmigaDE will be incorporated into the Nokia Media Terminal.