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June 15, 2005 - San Francisco, CA - Riverdeep and Amiga, Inc. have announced a development and marketing distribution agreement making it possible for several of the award winning Educational Edmark® titles to be created for the mobile market using AmigaAnywhere™ technology.

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2005, 09:19:37 AM »
;-) Now this seems promising.  Anytime anyone even remotely connect to the Amiga scene does well, I'm happy.
 

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2005, 09:28:47 AM »
Agreed...

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2005, 12:47:44 PM »
I see Bill gets a mention here.  Is this good?

Don't wish to appear too negative.

This is positive news though and a commitment to port software.  Hopefully many more agreements across the entertainment sector will be announced.

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2005, 02:08:27 PM »
Who gives a **** about Amiga Anywhere..
 

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2005, 02:24:11 PM »
Not you maybe, but think about it.

Its the name. Amiga. The more places it is - the more chance OS4 has to succeed.

Easy.
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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2005, 02:45:00 PM »
Good news for whoever, etc. I'm happy for them, but as for this Amiga Anywhere crap...

...well the Amiga logo does not make it Amiga, give us something we can test run, then "we'll" tell you if it's Amiga or not.
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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2005, 02:49:42 PM »
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the Amiga logo does not make it Amiga


If Commodore had put it out, there would be none of that sort of comment. Why is there if Amiga puts it out?
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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2005, 03:29:31 PM »
It seems to me that putting these titles on the U3 memory sticks would be perfect for kids to use on their own due to the more robust nature of the media (kids scratch cd's). All they need is brightly coloured moulded cases for the sticks and they'll be perfect.
 

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2005, 03:40:30 PM »
The negativity of some people...

We know its not an Amiga. But its got the logo on it. And thats cool.
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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2005, 03:55:27 PM »
Time will tell whether they can follow through, but this is the first announcement out of several that they've made recently which actually sounds like it might have any substance to it.  The whole memory stick announcement now makes sense if they're aiming at the children's market.  

Essentially, give kids a memory key loaded with educational games and they can plug the key in pretty much anywhere they find a USB port.  There is a very strong market in children's educational toys.

Cool.  Good idea.
 

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2005, 06:19:55 PM »
@Wayne

I still can't get over the {bleep} in the About Amiga section.  If even a few of the statements were true then I'd chalk it up to just being PR hype.  But, I'm seriously thinking they, Amiga Inc., believe what they're writing.
Time to move on.  Bye Amiga.org.  :(
 

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2005, 06:32:53 PM »
@adolescent

Press statements are what they are.  Intended to bolster confidence to those reading it.  While I vehemently disagree with everything in their "About Amiga" section, you should ask yourself "What should they say instead?"

"About Amiga Incorporated : In five years, we've done nothing except try to come out with a product that no one really wants despite dealing with the dot-com collapse and a total lack of money.  Like our competitor Genesi, we've screwed over our employees and several have filed bankruptcy, but we're really nice people.  We aren't Commodore and our stuff has nothing to do with an Amiga but hey, at least we're trying to do something..."

Somehow or another, the truthful version is a little less appealing.
 

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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2005, 07:25:37 PM »
@wayne

Heh... nice spot :-) At least they are not trying to market their "Amiga" to us anymore. Seems they are finally going the route they intended to.
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Re: Amiga, Inc. Announces Partnership with Riverdeep to Rele
« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2005, 10:47:16 PM »
On second thought, I think M$ should by the rights to the Amiga brand name, apparently if they change the name of Windows to Amiga OS, you'll be happy because it is a high selling "finished" project with the name "Amiga" slapped on it...


...and yet the Amiga spirit is no where to be seen.
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