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New Amiga Inc. , New Web site
« on: March 18, 2005, 01:51:09 PM »
"KMOS, Inc. announces the formal change of its corporate name and legal identity to Amiga, Inc."

Plus the new Amiga, Inc. website is now online.

New Amiga Inc Website

New Amiga OS Website

From the Press Release :
"March 16, 2005 - San Francisco, California - Today, KMOS, Inc. announced that it has completed all registrations with the State of Delaware formally changing its corporate identity to Amiga, Inc. Garry Hare, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc., said, "We are very pleased that we are bringing together the Amiga family of operating system products, the AmigaAnywhereâ„¢ enabling technologies, the amiga.com website and all intellectual property, content and applications under the Amiga brand. This change enables us to focus on rebuilding this famous brand. We plan to bring innovative technology and rich-media applications to most modern processors and all major operating systems.""

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Re: New Amiga Inc Website
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2005, 03:13:28 PM »
Seems like another "website for nothing" to me.  Is it me or there is no useful information whatsoever on their site?  

Did my beloved computer turned only into that "Amiga Anywhere" thing?

Let's hope it is just a temporary situation and that they will feed us with juicy news and comments :)
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Re: New Amiga Inc Website
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2005, 03:24:33 PM »
I can only applaud that it's all in one layoutstyle now.

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Re: New Amiga Inc Website
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2005, 03:37:12 PM »
I'm one of few users to think the layout is ok..... what i don't like is the contents... no OS4 features list, no screenshots.... no news in the opening page but only AmigaAnywhere.
 

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Re: New Amiga Inc Website
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2005, 04:08:58 PM »
Exactly what I meant.  I was afraid to sound too rude.  ;)  

There is no mention of upcoming releases and god knows we all want that sort of information!
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Re: New Amiga Inc. Web site
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2005, 06:01:54 PM »
They're doing what I do:
I can't be arsed to get content to my site, so I just keep re-designing it! :-)
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Re: New Amiga Inc. Web site
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2005, 06:29:09 PM »
Did everyone forget? They don't own Amiga OS anymore. The sold it to a company called ITec, which then sold it to KMOS. KMOS is honoring the contacts set in place before the sale. Which means , KMOS owns the rights and IP which are under contract to Hyperion. Hyperion basically act as the owners in conjunction with KMOS til KMOS buys back their full rights, as I understand it. Simply put, Amiga, Inc. does not own Amiga OS. Their only concern is Amiga DE, Amiga Anywhere. Just like their investors want.

It's nice that the collected Amiga, Inc. sites now have a consistant look. Though it is just the look the AOS subsite had. I was expecting something new and interesting. At least it's consistant, big plus. I, too, had hopes for more and better content explaining what they have and what they are doing. Maybe that is to come.
 

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Re: New Amiga Inc. Web site
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2005, 06:45:37 PM »
@Argo

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Did everyone forget? They don't own Amiga OS anymore.


Maybe you should read this then :-P

IMHO the site's an improvement, but still a disappointment :-(

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Re: New Amiga Inc. Web site
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2005, 08:53:45 PM »
Doh! Thanks. I'll add that to the news announcement as it should be there.
 

Offline Elwood

Re: New Amiga Inc. Web site
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2005, 11:14:54 AM »
They don't own AmigaOS 4.0 anymore. They can do an AmigaOS 5.0 if they want.
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Re: New Amiga Inc Website
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2005, 05:20:38 AM »
After looking at the web sites I can only say...

"Are you frickin' kidding me?"  :lol:

It's not even worthy of a news blurb. And bringing what together?

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We are very pleased that we are bringing together the Amiga family of operating system products

Moving the layout and pictures around? Poorly written text content?
I could go on for an hour or two, but I'm moving on to something
more worthy of my time.

Plaz
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Re: New Amiga Inc. , New Web site
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2005, 02:53:06 PM »
With full respect to Ray et al, and understanding that the disappearance of amiga.com was meaningless, I simply can't see why amiga.com was taken offline for over half a month for those changes.  The site, in my opinion, looks worse than ever (but that's just my personal opinion).  I guess I was expecting more.  

Hopefully these pages are just a temporary stopgap until the REAL new ones can come online or something.

Wayne
 

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Re: New Amiga Inc. , New Web site
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2005, 08:05:24 PM »
Then again, who cares anymore about Amiga Inc?  If I were the Red Camp, I wouldn't give a rat's rearend about Amiga Inc as long as Hyperion was pushing forward with their OS.  So they only have 4.x series, it's a meaningless number series that can be stretched out to 4.*.*.*.1 to infinity.  

Now if Eyetech does co-own OS4 along with Hyperion, I'd be ready to slit my wrist.  Thankfully, I'm not in the Red Camp so sharp objects shouldn't be of concern.  :lol:

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Re: New Amiga Inc. , New Web site
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2005, 08:49:52 PM »
I think the news blurb pretty much sums up everything.
AI bought out ALL rights and interlectual property with regards to AMIGA. That includes OS and property and anything else related. Just because they get Hyperion under contract to develop the next version of the OS doesn't mean Hyperion own it. They are contract developers. AI could have got SUN or TAO or any number of software houses that can program to do the work on it, I guess because Hyperion had experience in the field, they seemd the most logical choice.

Don't get mistaken though, AI own the OS. Hyperion are under contract to make it for them unless there is something very different about the contract they signed.
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Offline Plaz

Re: New Amiga Inc. , New Web site
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2005, 03:03:08 AM »
No matter what imaginary camp you might think you're part of,
it's still sad. And any camp might start to wonder what
the newest beast might think of doing once it decides to start
twisting it's OS licenses' in new and interesting ways.

Plaz