Amiga Inc, in 25 questions or less

[mpiva]

1.  Any interest in working with the new Commodore? (for "old times sake")

2.  What Amiga patents does Gateway still own and dow does it affect Amiga Inc.?

[ikir]

What is Amiga Anywhere current status? Will you release an OS4 AA player?

Where is Fleecy?

[HellCoder]

Is there a roadmap ?
Meaning, what is the business strategy for the future ? (if there is any)

[CLS2086]

hum...
- Why did you ask for a shutdown about the A1000 kick3.9 video ? There is nothing illegal in that, even US, French, EEC laws allow that kind of personal research test.

- What would be your road map for the next 5 years ?

- Where come from the income of your society, since no more software and hardware are produce, even the games for cellphone on your site aren't buyable due to the expirate certificate since half a year... but some seems to be sold by some other cellphone services.

- As Alan Redhouse, do you think the "historic Amiga Market" is too small to get suficient income and so no interest at all to produce something new ? (See his June 2005 interview)

[Jupp3]

Apple were, I am assuming, the primary consumer of PPC processors.

Actually Apple used only a small fraction of PPC processors manufactured. Most PPC processors are still used in cars, trains and all sort of embedded systems (as can be guessed, amount of them can easily exceed not only amount of PPC based computers, but computers in general)

but then again, when talking about fast PowerPPC's (G4 and faster), then Apples share of them might have been significant. This might mean that they will focus more on processors aimed at embedded usage (less MHz, less power usage)

My question: Is Amiga inc. going to use the "buy back" option to buy OS4 back from hyperion once it's completed? If yes, have you planned any further in-house development?

[chris]

@Wayne

Wow!  What a scoop!

Most of my questions have already been asked (another vote for the OS4 hardware licensing situation)

@Bill McEwen

1. Are there any plans to work with Hyperion and AmigaOS4?  If not, is it possible to hand the OS over to Hyperion and give them a free reign on what they can do with it, perhaps just taking a small licence fee per unit for the use of the "AmigaOS" name?

2. Why won't you let Fleecy attend and speak at Amiga events in the UK?

3. Can you confirm or deny rumours of legal proceedings against Eyetech relating to the MicroA1?

[yoodoo]

Who,in your opinion, holds a valid and complete license to produce hardware for OS4?

When OS4 is released, do you plan to enforce the "Buy-back" clauses and acquire the OS4 developers' work with or without offering additional payment, considering that the feature list of OS4 is far above that originally planned for a 4.0 release?

You will no doubt be aware that the remaining Amiga community is more interested in the "Classic" Amiga OS and AmigaOS4 than it is in your AmigaAnywhere products. How much do you consider the Classic->OS4 ip to be worth and would you be open to serious negotiations (eg from Hyperion or others) to buy this for future and separate development, if necessary under a separate name (eg Workbench) to avoid name-clashes with your own products.

[Fransexy_]

Sorry but i think that he wants questions about amigaanywhere, probably he respond to all AOS4 questions with something like : "that has to respond it the Amigaone partners"

[Dingo_aus]

Since it appears there are more people who know about Amigas from back in the 80s/90s than from more recent events, what does modern-day Amiga Inc offer to the "retro scene". Are there plans to capitalise on the remaining goodwill from that era and service that particular market in anyway?

[Doppie1200]

Question;

Would AInc allow the community to sell Classic amiga like devices fully equipped with Kernel ROMS?

For instance a Minimig with an OS 3.1 Roms in original form or modified to support the hardware.

Maybe someone can formulate this in a better way?

[Georg]

This is not a chance for politics

Would it be possible to apply similar rule also to his answers. Ie. for each answer which

- just says that he does not know
- just says that it is for others ("AmigaOne partners") to answer
- in politician style looks like an answer but does not answer anything
- in politician style is answering something completely different which was not asked at all
- in politician style is "answered" through a counter question

he need to answer one additional question. Until at least 25 real answers are available.

[Turrican]

#1 What is your future strategy regarding AmigaAnywhere and how you will compete against Java and .Net?

#2 Why does the AmigaAnywhere SDK is so hard to get?

#3 Have you considered a public and free AmigaAnywhere SDK?

[Oli_hd]

Wow, great stuff!
Now most of the questions I have have been asked already but Im going to paste them here.. first my questions. :-)

Q: What do you think is the current value of Amiga Inc as an entity, would the current Amiga community be able to buy Amiga in an effort to assist development?

Q: You seem to just be reselling other peoples games for mobile phones/PDA's, is this all that Amiga is now?

Q: What would be the chances of someone buying a licence for either OS4 or 3.9 (Or any down to 3.1 to be honest) for a port to another hardware platform? (X86, Coldfire, or a OS3.9 Kickstart)

Great questions other people asked:

Q: How many paid employees does Amiga Inc. have at this time?

Q: The security certificate on Amiga.com expired at the end of 2005 and has not been renewed. Why did you not renew the security certificate when it expired last year?

Q: Why did you shut down Amiga.org's Cafe Press web store?

Q: Garry Hare told AmigaWorld.net in October 2005 that he was no longer affiliated with Amiga Inc in any capacity. Yet Amiga Inc's current contact details are at Garry's home address. Were you aware of this?

Q: Do you honestly believe the stuff you guys put in the "About Amiga" section of your press releases?

Q: Is there a roadmap for what Amiga intend to do in the next 5 years?

[ikir]

Any progress on "Mystery Device"?

[Colin_Camper]

Q: Every public figure involved in the Amiga community has suffered vitreolic and personal attacks from a small but vocal minority. The attacks on you went way beyond vitreolic and personal and anyone could understand your disengagement from public view.
However will Amiga Inc now engage more fully with the AmigaOne/OS4 community and userbase?

Q: When will the AmigaDE SDK be available on OS4?

Q: Does Amiga Inc plan to be represented at any future Amiga events/shows?

[Colin_Camper]

@Oli_hd

Why would people embarrass Wayne by expecting him to ask Company Confidential stuff from Bill.M.

Bty - what a coup Wayne!  :lol: