Microsoft game pack in COMPUSA national flier.

[Hooligan_DCS]

After reading through this threat I watched the "Bill at TechTV"-clip after a long time and AmigaAnywhere still looks good. Too bad it's really been too long time for it to make a breakthrough, I think.

Honestly though, I have not been following AA recently. Just remember what I read on magazines when it was being made and later saw it once live, long long time ago.

[amimonkey]

Okay, apologies Wayne (the way things are going recently I thought it was yet another dig at Amiga Inc). It just seems as if every time something positive happens for Amiga Inc, sombody's always there to undermine it and go on about the coupon scandal/Bolton Peck even if they know very little about the facts.

As far as I can make out, bearing in mind that I know no more than you do, I should think that the nature of Amiga Inc.'s relationship with Microsoft would enable smaller software programmers who wouldn't be taken seriously to get their products on the shelves, and Amiga Inc would be able to provide support for the platform? This is just guess work tho...

Also I believe I heard talk of Amiga Inc creating the api's in use by the games.

AmiMonkey

[SidMan]

Co-ordinate by getting deals done. I did not mean "as in telling" Microsoft.

I can't see how you can say that support isn't given, because it is. Have you ever had a question that hasn't been answered on the DEV lists? I'm talking about programming here.

I still think it would be difficult to approach Microsoft. Amiga knew what Microsoft were doing and managed to get a product released for it (no matter how small).

[Tomas]

This nags me: "Manufacturer:    Microsoft"
Why should microsoft get the credit for this?
I bet Amiga inc, get only a small percentage of the profit from those, though in reality it was Amiga that developed it.... pretty sad  :-(

[System]

Like I said, it's a good thing that they got SOMETHING out.  I just don't understand why Microsoft doesn't just set up a department to work with TAO to write the stuff.

[System]

This nags me: "Manufacturer: Microsoft"

Just a guess, but because they wrote it, manufactured it, licensed it, packaged it, and are selling it?

[Tomas]

I bet m$ took the whole idea... i wonder how much they paid them..
same thing with the Amiga pocket pack also: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=300466&pfp=SEARCH

Amiga® Games MMC Pocket Pak 2 for Pocket PCs
      
CompUSA Price:    $29.99    
Manufacturer:    Microsoft

[SidMan]

@Wayne

Prehaps Amiga had some foresight?

[amimonkey]

If Microsoft wrote "it", why would they need to license "it" from themselves?

AmiMonkey

[fleecy]

Hey there 8-)

as any SDA developer knows, the past  3 years have seen a lot of functionality added to the AmigaDE - Ami2D, AmiStorage, AmiDB, Prism, Fix, Matrix Convertors, Sprites, Scaling (feel free to add here Jonas if you are reading) not to mention the entire content environment itself - the packager, CASS, Quickstart, level_packs, standalones and Gamecards plus SDAs themselves helping out on some host binding elements.

It was the PIPO (Pop In Pop Out) Gamecards and the quality of the SDA content plus some excellent sales and marketing  by Bill and Sanjay that got us into MS.
You don't just walk into MS and say 'pick my game'

In fact the 2 PocketPaks recently released would have been out before Christmas but for some mistakes by others. MS are very pleased with them and we hope to seem them go from strength to strength.

There is a lot more to this than non SDAs know. Unfortunately that rarely stops people from commenting as opposed to asking.

cheers

fleecy moss
cto
amiga inc

[IonDeluxe]

Beat me to it Fleecy.

This is nothing but good news.

[L8-X]

Good news indeed!

Here's to all the people involved.  :pint:

Congratulations!

[Paul_Gadd]

Well done Microsoft.

[L8-X]

@Paul_Gadd

Yup, even them! ;-)  :-D

[Ohno]

Hey there,

I'm a SDA-guy and I agree that Amiga Inc. has added a lot to intent, which we use in our applications and on top of that provide us with support and opportunities.

Apart from that I want to say something else regarding all the crap that was posted on all Amiga related 'news'-sites.

All that stuff even got me down for a while and we've had quite a discussion on the SDA-list about it. Offcourse I'm under NDA and can't say much of what was said, but what I can say is that to me, Fleecy and Gary have cleared up everything I needed to know. I'm still developing for Amiga-Anywhere and so are a lot of other developers. They all have enough confidence in Amiga Inc. to put their time, money and efforts into a platform they believe in.

I can assure you that I wouldn't put this much time and effort into a platform and company if I didn't believe in them and I wouldn't work with these people if I didn't trust them.

As much as _SOME_ people would like to see Amiga Inc. fail, it looks like Amiga is here to stay for quite some time . And I'm planning on supporting them.

Regards,

Onno

[hnl_dk]

I'm a SDA-guy and I agree that Amiga Inc. has added a lot to intent [...]

Nice to hear :-D

Looking forward to see it as part of AmigaOS 4.x 8-)