Amiga aktuell international competition
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Amiga aktuell international competition
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Last month's competition got 56 participants. This number is approximately the same for some months, but it can be improved, doesn't it? This is also true for the FD-charts, which got only 11 participants.
But now the solution:
| Standard question: | What is the name of AMIGAs Chief Operating Officer (COO)? |
| Answer: | The name of the person we were looking for has been Tom Schmidt |
| Master question: | Which hardware manufacturer put extensions for Amigas on the market, that make it possible to operate ZIP drives and scanners using the parallel port? |
| Answer: | We were looking for RBM (http://www.rbm.de). By the way, the mentioned hardware extension is the IOBlix. |
| Question of opinion: | Do you think that the Classic-Amigas have a chance to gain strength and spreading? |
The results:
| Answer | Number of votes |
| 1 (Yes, absolutely.) | 0 |
| 2 (Yes, but only with the PowerPC technology.) | 34 |
| 3 (No.) | 21 |
Another participant couldn't decide whether to choose answer 2 or 3.
Some participants commented their answers:
Andreas Schaumloeffel writes:
»In addition to my answer to the question of opinion I want to say, that it is really a pity, but unfortunately the Classic-Amigas "are finished". If it was certain, that the new operating system ran on Classic-Amigas with a PPC board I had answered with 2 than with 3, because they were compatible in the future.«
Thomas Steffens means:
»The Amiga still has the image of the A500. A terrible number of people didn't realize, that new models were released since the A500 and the A2000.«
Karsten Schilder has this opinion:
»No, with the current equipment the Amiga had no chance of a new introduction. I expect it to be very unlikely, that it will get a good introduction, anyway.«
A quite clear result, which could be different, if AMIGA hadn't announced of thinking about development of the AmigaNG operating system for Classic computers with PowerPC board.
But in one thing the users agree: There is no future for Amigas without PowerPC processor.
But now to the winners of the last competition:
| 1 x Interface board "Hypercom 1": Dieter Kilian |
| 1 x Wildfire 5 PPC (engl. Handbuch): David Sondermann |
| 1 x Wildfire 5 (engl. Handbuch): Hans Peter Koegler |
| 1 x Full version of "CDCat": Thomas Weygand |
| 1 x Full version of "ManiacBall": Wolfgang Nitz |
| 1 x Full version of "MEAutoStart": Michael Scholz |
Congratulations!
