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Offline orb85750Topic starter

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New Year's Resolution for Amiga-related developers
« on: January 03, 2011, 02:50:02 AM »
Don't announce new stuff if you don't have a firm release date.  I know.... it has been happening this way for 15 years now... but how about putting an end to the let-downs?  (That being said, I recognize that not all current developers are plagued with this bad sense etiquette.  My thanks to you guys.)
 

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Re: New Year's Resolution for Amiga-related developers
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2011, 02:54:12 AM »
post it when you sell it :)
 

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Re: New Year's Resolution for Amiga-related developers
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2011, 09:04:55 AM »
Hardware, sure, but software wise it's not so clear cut. Seeing as there's no real money to be made on amiga software, motivation to continue often comes on the back of feedback, and others showing in interest in your work. Sure, in the 1st place it mostly comes from a love of just doing it, but it can be a challenge to "maintain the rage" for a long while if no-one else shows interest, after all a hobby isnt as fun if you have no-one to share it with.

Keeping people in the loop though, both software and hardware, Im sure people would appreciate.
(Im referring to big, or original projects here, a lot of the open source stuff that gets ported isnt worth the effort in my opinion and/or can be ported quick enough to not warrant informing people of).

Just my 2 cents  :)
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: New Year's Resolution for Amiga-related developers
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 07:21:19 PM »
Yes, there is a world of difference between announcing the forthcoming release of some next-gen Amiga (before it's even close to being complete) and announcing to friends on this board that you're working on a cool Amiga RPG game in your spare time (also before it's even close to being complete).
 

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Re: New Year's Resolution for Amiga-related developers
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2011, 07:26:04 PM »
What, no more "announce something as market impending simply to gauge interest before deciding whether or not to actually produce it?"  There goes the Amiga business model of the 21st century!
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