MorphOS App. Dev. Team to be chaired by Felix Schwarz

[Targhan]

As seen in the Comments on MorphOS-News.de, Felix Schwarz, of IOSpirit, has agreed to serve as chairman of the MorphOS Application Development Team within Phoenix.


Source: www.morphos-news.de

[Ryu]

Thats fantastic that is....

[cdfr]

And this is just the start !  :-D

[createcoms]

Upcoming news items:

* amiga.org retires, morphan.org launches
* several americans forget the concept of advocacy, dire consequences result
* the amiga world loses the number 1 news site.
* amiga continues on however, proving it is still no.1 and loyal peeps snob the defectors

[redrumloa]

Interesting news. Could do alot worse:-)

[System]

Upcoming news items:

Not sure I understand what you're inferring here.  Care to clarify?

[HMetal]

It looks to me like good satire.  :-D

[ksk]

The list of Amiga Inc's lost opportunities just grows wider.

[bbrv]

...and that is not all:

Announcement concerning the Genesi/Phoenix collaboration (from MorphOS-News):

We are very pleased how with how the Phoenix/Genesi relationship is developing.  Genesi is in the process of formally organizing itself into two distinct activities:

1. One to support the task oriented objectives focused on the delivery of the DTV STB by the end of 2003.

During the month of March Genesi will transition existing consulting/employment agreements to the new structure.  A list of well known Developers in the "Community" will be joining Genesi.  These individuals will be almost exclusively focused on the DTV STB project.

2. The Future of the Pegasos and MorphOS, including the release of the Pegasos II using the Marvell northbridge.

The difficulties with the Articia have delayed the Pegasos long enough.  The Pegasos II development has begun and WILL be completed sooner than expected.

For the moment, Genesi will operate from offices in Luxembourg, France, and Germany with a branch office in Switzerland.  "Virtual" offices will also operate in the USA and the UK.  An extensive Internet sales and support infrastructure is being implemented.

Genesi and Phoenix are seeking collaborators in nearly every area. Here is a full list of Phoenix mailing lists that are now devoted to Genesi development:

Phoenix@phinixi.com    - general discussion and internal announcements

PhAnn@phinixi.com      - newsfeed to broadcast announcements to outside news sites and forums

PhrojectOS@phinixi.com - Open Source community with an emphasis on porting and supporting Open Source work

These are moderated by greenboy and open to all interested parties who meet Phoenix's expanded definition of DEVELOPER: coders, web designers and publishers, financiers, beta testers, translators, arts and media specialists, etc.

Then:

PhAppTeam@phinixi.com   - applications (Chairman: Felix Schwarz)

PhDemoScene@phinixi.com - demo scene (Chairman: Mikko Virtanen)

PhGameTeam@phinixi.com  - games for DTV STB (Chairman: Thomas Steiding)

PhReseller@phinixi.com  - distributors/resellers (Co-Chairman: Adam Carrano and Christophe Decanini)

PhWeb@phinixi.com       - Phoenix website design and maintenance (Webmaster: Gary Cunningham-Lee, Admin: greenboy, with support from Genesi WebDev Team Leader Damien McKenna)

Lists we are considering:  PhGames@phinixi.com - games for Pegasos on the desktop

PhREBOL@phinixi.com - should Rebol be part of the platform?

PhDigAudio@phinixi.com - to ramp up what Nicholas Blachford's MORloud started.  Note: Genesi has licensed ProStation Audio for MorphOS from Maurizio Ciccione of AudioLabs.  ProStation Audio will be bundled with the OS.

PhVideo@phinixi.com - from here the videomicrowave will take off.  It begins with MediaPoint, and scales into a special IOSPIRIT offering - along with many other goodies being planned and soon to come.

Things ARE happening...

Be part of it!

Best regards,

Raquel and Bill  :-)
Genesi

[Mason]

Wow!  IMHO Felix is one of the most professional developers in the Amiga community!

Looks like a great deal for Genesi!

Martin "Mason" Merz
www.masonicons.de

[AmiGR]

The only satire here is your company.
Genesi develops and delivers,
Hyperion develops and delivers,
Eyetech licences and delivers,
you: NEVER deliver...

[Triumph]

Could some one from Genesi explain how a AGP will be implemented? Is it from the 64 bit PCI bus?
    Could not find it in specification;
    http://www.marvell.com/products/communication/discoveryII/MV64340.jsp

[System]

@AmiGR

Please be mindful of our posting guidelines in the FAQ section.  As I have said on about a thousand occassions, everyone has a right to be here without being attacked for doing so.  I appreciate Ray (HMetal) being here, even if it is in an unofficial capacity as an Amiga Inc employee.

Amiga Inc has no need of being attacked, any more than Genesi, Hyperion, or Eyetech (not that I am lumping them together).  Amiga Inc indeed has a product that they are trying to bring to the table through the hardships of the business economy.  Whether or not the Amiga community is interested in something that doesn't appear to be even remotely Amiga related is another story.

[downix]

AGP is just a subset of PCI, not including the bus-arbitration (turning it into a point-to-point protocol rather than a packet-switched protocol) and some new addressing modes which have more to do with driver support than with the bus interface itself.  (the cards don't touch that end, so weither it's there or not is irrelevent to the cards for the most part)  AGP 2x is pretty much the 64-bit version of PCI on a 66Mhz bus w/o the junk that's not needed.  Not hard to use firmware and a little bit of glue logic to turn any PCI bus into an AGP bus.  PCI-X offers even more opportunities, as the availible bandwidth is much higher as well as the not-needed elements from PCI have been removed for the most part.

[HMetal]

@AmiGR

you: NEVER deliver...

Fortunately for us and those who do like and use our products, that's just your opinion and not a fact.  

Amiga has released AND delivered a number of products over the past couple of years.  You may not like or use them but regardless, they are released products that Amiga has marketed and sold.

Any intent (no pun intended :-))  to suggest otherwise is obviously based on your need to bash Amiga, which doesn't do anyone any good, especially you, when you are proven wrong.