Bill McEwen interview at the Temple Of Technology

[VidarL]

The Temple Of Technology have posted an interview with Bill McEwen regarding recent events and their plans ahead.

The interview with Bill McEwen

[Magic-Merl]

Not bad.  Some useful info there.  But was there any need for question 18.

We are finally getting information from Amiga Inc, this kind of ignorance will make the "powers that be" question why bother!

Overall though.  Excellent.  OS5 eh.

[ShawnDude]

Some of the answers make me wonder if OS5 or whatever they decide to call it is going to be run on top of something like JavaVM.  That would allow support for multiple processors (32 or 64-bit) and would answer the response to question 10 about having JavaVM where they have some pretty interesting plans regarding Java.  But until more is revield it just speculation.

[weirdami]

It's ABOUT TIME he talked! There hasn't been ANY Amiga communication since the 25 questions! This silence is hurting the community!!!!!!1111

[CD32Freak]

Talking about OS5 when OS4 gold isn't even being sold yet with new 'Amiga' hardware is premature. Make it public when it is at least in beta stage, until then I'll just pretend I never heard of it :-P

[Oli_hd]

Talking about OS5 when OS4 gold isn't even being sold yet

Hmm OS4 Gold, that has a nice ring to it does it.

Just look out for Workbench Horizon or some such stupid name.
Its like that stupid post we had here not long ago on how advanced OSX was because it was on 10 and how Workbench should skip 5-10 and call itself OS11 just to sound more advanced!  :rtfm:

Also...

We are using a new development method and strategy that will allow us to get portions of the code in the hands of developers so that we can better determine our progress, and the features that they are looking for.

Huh? is it just me or is that a little hard to understand?

Any how good news he is still talking, keep it up Bill

[Matt_H]

Assuming they can turn their vision into a reality, it sounds like their plans could very well get the Amiga back into the limelight and the cutting edge hotseat.

It'll be interesting to see how this develops...

[Nautilus]

Nothing new, but very good questions.

[Jose]

"This silence is hurting the community!!!!!!1111"

I'd rather prefer if they kept silent to not hurt the community :horse:

[sdyates]

Not true, he made comment to planeta Amiga in Italy since the 25 questions.

Seriously, do you expect him to mae an annoucement every week?

[recidivist]

Well I guess you should know that I am secretly funding Amiga's rebirth with my recent lottery winning. :-D

 Of course I might be kidding! :-o


But wouldn't that be an interesting thing to do with  a lottery jackpot instead of wasting it on yachts,fancy cars,fast women,and multiple mansions? :crazy:

 The two pieces of info I get out of this is that someone is putting up serious working capital(without which dreams stay only dreams) and the Amiga team rightfully  are wary of competitors stealing their  business secrets.

[Manu]

This last interview makes it clear that Amiga Inc finally got another large delivery of Cannabis again. Probably from India.

To anyone who believes his words - Prepare for a looooooooooong wait.

My next computer is going to be a x86 running MacOS or maybe PS3. But when that computer is worn out there still won't be an affordable Amiga out there, and OS5 has probably never seen the daylight.

The interview does no harm though because the outsiders are already laughing at us.

[Warface]

Almost exact replica of Amiga Inc news from some 5 years ago - nothing changed save for the year we live in.

[TheMagicM]

Actions speak louder then words.

[Dagon]

The product that we are going to ship is going to be much better than OSX from Apple

Some people regard OSX better than windows or linux. Is this OS5 going to be better than these OSes with only 5 developers when these companies (Apple, Microsoft) and the linux community have hundrends or even thousands of developers? Not to speak about the budget they spend to develop their OSes these two companies:)

On the other hand simple is better and if they do it like AmigaOS it may be regarded by the Amigans as the best OS for their needs In software everything is possible even with a very small budget and few developers.

Anyway I want Samantha and AmigaOS 4.0