Amiga Inc, in 25 questions or less

[pierre]

It's great that Bill is willing to take questions, however at this point I feel more like TELLING Bill a few things.  These are not meant as insults but I am frustrated with amiga Inc, let there be no doubt!

-very few people (or businesses) care about amigaDE or amiga anywhere, the amiga name has no place on this "product".  What on earth casued you to put amiga in it's name?

-amiga inc has missed every oppertunity to help the amiga survive, infact it would appear the opposit happend.  Is there an agenda to keep the amiga out of the mainstream market?  (don't wan't to sound paranoid, but I know how business/microsoft works)

-amiga inc is in the way of progress, if amiga inc is not interested in the classic amiga, why mess it up for those that are interested.... Would you consider giveing the amiga to the open source community, given you apperent lack of interest?

-amiga inc has NOTHING to do with actual Amigas, please change your name!

-PPC and propriatry hardware are a very bad idea in the current world (for PC's), IF you are going to do some new amiga harware have the common sense to use standard hardware

-amiga inc has brought much shame to the amiga community, negative press, law suits and failure, how do you feel about this.  How do you get up every day on continue with this fiasco? (please leave god out of the answer)


--mods feel free to adjust this or delete it... I just feel like it's important to call it as it is, why beat around the bush?

[System]

> why beat around the bush?

A more important thing here is that we all feel this way to a certain extent, and we're all frustrated with things that have -- or haven't -- been done.  Hopefully this Q&A will serve to answer the major concerns of the community.  

Otherwise, the question is really "why get upset now?"

[Fransexy_]

My question is simple

Why don't you (Amiga Inc.) develop an AmigaOS4 version of AmigaDE/Amiga Anyware ?

Thanks

I know the answer.Because A inc are only rebranding the TAO intent as AmigaAnywhere and probably they don´t have access to the source code.Probabbly if they want a new port Ainc must pay TAO group to make the job.So Ainc are only rebranding the current ports of tao intent and probably A inc has not the money/intention/power of persuasion to convince them

[cecilia]

why should I care about "amiga inc" how does this "company" affect my life? are "you" actually making anything I should care about or can use?

I care about them not becasue of what they make, but because of their role in enabling or preventing others from making certain things which I do care about.

but that wasn't my question. believe it or not my question is alot more subtle.

[Will-i-am]

I have many classic Amigas, and although I recognize that the old hardware will eventually fail and it is not economical to expect anyone to ever start up a company to replace/repair the old stuff, I also am aware that the Amiga is still to be found in many or most of the TV stations around the world if only for titling and such. I even caught an Amiga logo one early morning on the screen of my PBS station. Couldn't some of the unique features of the Amiga hardware/software be valuable for small niche type application in the relatively new world of digital cable television? Seems to me that it is ideal for independent producers of specialized programming. The world is a big place and the market for video hardware might very well be open to such a use for our beloved Amiga.

[Kaminari]

- Yo Bill (too many Bills around here btw). So, what's the score?

[fatman2021]

Well, I pulled the battery of the motherboard thinking I could reset the BIOS like I normaly do on a PC motherboard.

[Boot_WB]

@Wayne - Thanks for the diplomatic gesture, opportunities like this are the glue which keeps the Amiga platform together.
@Bill - Thanks for responding - it would be nice to hear from Amiga.Inc more often, regardless of whether public opinion approves or not of your chosen direction.
@Both  :cheers:

Over the coming 12 months - What milestones & deliverables has Amiga.inc set itself, what criteria can we use to measure the success or otherwise of Amiga.Inc's business path, and what products do you intend for release?

As a potential employer, what career path would you advise someone leaving University with an engineering degree to follow to support the Amiga platform?

[Seiya]

with many x86 user interested in AmigaOS by WinUAE and Amithlon..
Amiga Inc. could  be intersted to gain many other users with amithlon support?

So with Warp3D for amithlon till now denied by
Hyperion.

[System]

This thread is strictly for questions for Amiga Inc.  Let's not chat here if you please.

Wayne

[recidivist]

Exactly what does Amiga Inc offer to the desktop or laptop user?

 Why not port/license Amiga  OS 3.9 at least  for x86 and Mac PPC computers?

[fatman2021]

How much would Amiga Inc. lose if a Windows ban went into effect?

[fatman2021]

@Amiga Inc.
You know that if you go public, you would not have tp worry about a windows ban as their is enough Amiga supporters to keep the stock from being harmed by Bll and his army of lemmings. ;-)
Is Amiga Inc. willing to go public?

[fatman2021]

Is Amiga Inc. willing to open the classic Amiga platform the same way IBM did the PC?

[fatman2021]

Delete reply....

[nostalgic]

does amiga DE come to amiga os 4.0 ?