Amiga Inc, in 25 questions or less

[nostalgic]

does amiga DE come to amiga os 4.0 ?

[itix]

My questions:

- How many developers are working on AMIGA DE/AA?
- How many employees Amiga Inc have?
- Is Fleecy Moss still working on the company?
- Are new versions of AMIGA DE/AA planned?
- Amiga Inc was sold to KMOS few years ago and KMOS renamed themselves to Amiga Inc. Who owns KMOS/Amiga Inc now?
- Who is CEO of Amiga Inc?
- Do you (Bill McEwen) have jobs on other companies than at Amiga Inc?
- Are Amiga Inc employees full time or part time contracted?
- Do you use Amiga Inc products at home? If yes, what are they?
- What is your favorite AMIGA DE/AA game? What is your highscore on it?
- AMIGA DE/AA has been great success lately (Handago, new games and so on) and Amiga Inc is doing better than ever. Any chances to have AMIGA DE/AA SDK released for free for interested developers?
- We (the AMIGA community) would like to thank you for your continued efforts. We love Amiga Inc! Anything to say to the community?

:-D

[Waccoon]

I'd like to know what Amiga Inc. thinks of SavaJe (pronounced "Savage").  I saw a demo, and for a pure Java platform, it blew me away, save for memory consumption.

[ShadesOfGrey]

[color=cc00ff][Lurking Device De-activated][/color]

I want to make something abundantly clear.  I AM AN EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED AMIGA USER!!!.  

The questions I've asked come from a sincere desire to find answers.  If they appear insulting, that really wasn't my intent (no pun intended).  If they appear political...  Well, they are!  At this stage of the game, I don't think very many substantive questions directed at Amiga Inc. can be asked with out some politics.  Believe me; I really want the Amiga platform to has a future beyond being just another retro-platform.  But it looks like that's precisely what the future holds for the Amiga platform...  

I fear it is already the Amiga's present?


Anyway, here are my questions/concerns.

Is Amiga Inc.’s goal to either hold hostage or cripple itself and its partners???  I'm serious and sincere here. I honestly believe this is a valid question given Amiga Inc.'s track record.  While I don’t expect an answer, I do feel that Mr. McEwen should know this.  I was once an Amiga Inc. supporter and had great hopes for Amiga Inc.  Now I wonder if killing “The Amiga” wasn’t what Amino Inc., Amiga Corp., Itech LLC, KMOS Inc. and now Amiga Inc. intended from the start.  

What has happened to AmigaDE???  And no, I don't mean the toy that is AmigaAnywhere.  No, I'm not being insulting.  I'm stating a fact.  AmigaAnywhere is a toy for playing games on cell phones, PDAs, and/or Microsoft Windows.  Which in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing.  What I want to know is what happened to the concept of the "Amiga Digital Environment" or "Amiga Operating Environment"?

Relating to the above, if all that's left of AmigaDE is AmigaAnywhere, of what value is AmigaAnywhere anyway?  After all, Java and .Net/Mono are far more wide spread and accessible for both users and developers at this point.

No AmigaAnywhere player for the AmigaOS certainly intimates that Amiga Inc. has little or no confidence in the AmigaOS.  This is further born out by Amiga Inc.'s statement on the AmigaOS 4 page on the Amiga Inc. web site statig, "Amiga, Inc. does not distribute or support AmigaOS 4.0.".  Is it actually the case that Amiga Inc. has little or no confidence in Amiga OS 4?

This further begs the question, if Amiga Inc. has little or no confidence in the AmigaOS (4 or greater), why haven’t they simply divested or quashed the AmigaOS?

If "Amiga, Inc. does not distribute or support AmigaOS 4.0.", then how come Amiga Inc. gets to determine who can obtain a hardware license?  Why is it not up to Hyperion Entertainment VOF?  After all, Hyperion Entertainment VOF seems to be the last active member in the AmigaONE partnership.

Are Amiga Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF still friends and partners?  Or are you both merely antagonists, bound by a contract that either would like to see the other breech?

What role (if any) does Eyetech Group Ltd currently play in the AmigaONE partnership?

What role does Amiga Inc. currently play (other than granting hardware licenses) in the AmigaONE partnership?

If Amiga Inc. has little or no confidence in the AmigaOS, could Hyperion Entertainment VOF renegotiate their license/contract to obtain the full rights to the AmigaOS?

If Amiga Inc. does actually have confidence in the AmigaOS, what part will it play in Amiga Inc.’s future?

If Amiga Inc. does actually have confidence in the AmigaOS, do you/they see the AmigaOS as a viable embedded OS?

If Amiga Inc. does actually have confidence in the AmigaOS, do you/they see the AmigaOS evolving beyond the desktop at all (i.e. NOS, Cluster OS)?


I'm sure there are a couple I'm forgetting.  But I already have thirteen listed (whoops, make that fourteen).  I guess that's enough.

Anyway...  Time to return to the shadows.

[color=cc00ff][Lurking Device Re-activated][/color]

[itix]

Few questions more:

- What is the secret behind success of AMIGA DE/AA?
- When AMIGA DE/AA was released it got overhelmingly positive response from the AMIGA community and AMIGA magazines. How important was getting success from the AMIGA users in road to successful launch of new AMIGA DE/AA product line?
- I'd like to work at Amiga Inc. What are my chances to get a job there?

Thank you Bill McEwen. May the god bless you. We salute you :-)

[itix]

Oh and few more:

- Is Amiga Inc planning to expand their mobile phone business? I.e. to ring tones? Or something like Crazy Frog?
- Jamba has been marketing their products aggressively here in Europe. Is Amiga Inc going to defend their stance? Maybe by launching a tv advert campaign in MTV Europe?
- Is Amiga Inc planning to buy other companies?

[Seiya]

Amiga Inc planning to porting AmigaOS4 on x86 system?

[jedi]

Bill McEwen ?? I thought he was dead...

So, my question :

Bill, what is - exactely - your role in Amiga Inc ?

[Smiley]

Would Amiga Inc. support/encourage Hyperion to port AOS4 to the PS3? Given Eyetech's apparent withdrawal from the Amiga hardware market, and the prohibitive cost of producing adequate PowerPC-based hardware in sufficient numbers, surely a port to Sony's CELL-based system is now the only realistic chance for the platform to return to the mass-market.

[wajdy]

Why don't Amiga Inc. follow the historic steps of Apple and shift to Intel/AMD so that PC users have the chance to evaluate AOS ?

And why don't you update your website? well, other than gambling games Ads :-D

[JurassicCamper]

@ Bill M.

Did you read the proposed questions on amiga.org before the final 25 were selected and wish you hadn't offered ?

[fatman2021]

Did you read the proposed questions on amiga.org before the final 25 were selected and wish you hadn't offered ?

:lol:
Good One :-)
Are their any WebPages in witch we can download and/or view the Classic Amiga Hardware and/or bus protocol schematics? If not, is Amiga Inc. willing to setup such a Website?

[Hyperspeed]

[Question 1]: The previous question regarding the flotation of Amiga Inc. on the stock market is a fantastic one. What would be the criteria for Amiga Inc's entry onto Wall Street and would approaching venture capitalists for funding get the 'wheels of commerce' moving smoother?

[Question 2]: Nintendo is now the world's largest video games publisher (above even EA) and has survived in a software AND hardware market that most have perished in. Do you admire such companies for their business strategies and vision?

[Question 3]: How do Amiga community members get in touch in order to submit ideas and conduct business. I'm sure many companies would also like to make offers with regards to licensing and submitting patent designs for R&D purposes.

...

I would like to wish everyone the very best at Amiga Inc. The community's support will never truly die because it is a way of thought... however the time is ripe, as has been mentioned, to cash in on the online sale of retro games and music and to ride public enthusiasm for new and innovative hardware/software.

Grab the bull by the horns!

:-D

[zombi]

As we know Sony is willing to implement an operation system to Playstation platform. They tried to sell a linux package for Playstation 2. But they failed.

Now with PS3 they will again try it. Why don't u offer them to bundle OS4? OS4 has a great change of success with PS3.

[ACEFNQ]

In regards to AmigaDE, I thought the plan was "write once run anywhere", yet when I visit the Amiga site the offerings are for various flavours of MS products, little Linux or otherwise.  Why even the difference in Windows products?

Why should Amigaanywhere not now be considered an MS product only?

ace

[Flink]

I was a long time Amiga user, since the A500 to the A4000T. I'm a software developer. I like and use and develop for MacOS X. I develop cross-platform Java software at work. I love Linux, but don't think it will become a mainstream OS any time soon. I believe the AmigaOS could be a great OS to join Windows, MacOS X and Linux in the big league. I would love to support a new crop of Amigas with AmigaOS 4.

But I don't believe in a dedicated hardware platform. That would be just to expensive to put out on the market and would act as a barrier to the platform. We have probably seen this already with the AmigaONE.

My question:

Is there ever going to be an AmigaOS running on a generally available and easy to purchase hardware platform (be it x86, the PlayStation3, Apple Macs or anything else)? What I'm really asking is if Amiga Inc. will allow this to ever happen legally?

Thanks!