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     Statement von Jim Drew (2)
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From: jdrew@cryo.cryogenic.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Wow...
Date: Tue, 3 May 94 03:19:36

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First of all, I would like to thank everyone for their wonderful response
to the revival of the Amiga project (I don't have a good name for it..
anyone?)

I have received litterally hundreds of email letters here on
internet/usenet and GEnie, CIS, FidoNet, etc.  I have also received four
fax paper rolls worth of faxes!

This is the type of support we need!  What amazed me the most is fact
that when it boils down to it, people love the Amiga.  I had several
messages sent to me saying that they hated me, but supported what I am
trying to do.  :-)  That's ok with me... we can all go back to 'flames as
usual' when this is all over with... at least we'll have a future of
Amigas to look forward to.

I also recieved a letter (email) from Dave Haynie saying 'count me in'.
So, it looks like all of the ducks are in a row...

I have contacted more than 60 developers so far (many more have faxed my
office), and I would imagine by the end of this week, I will have
contacted close to 500 developers, asking for their support.

Many people have asked what they can do to help.  If you can help, here
is what we need:

1) Obtain a list of 3rd party developers on other platforms that
would be interested in having their software ported to the Amiga.

2) Get names of big businesses who might be interested in making a very
large chunk of money by investing in the Amiga (not Commodore).

3) Talk it up... tell people about the Amiga.. make some noise.  You'd be
surprised how many people say "what's an Omega?".  Bad news... people
don't care about something they have never seen or heard of before.

Keep the faith.  The only thing keeping myself and the rest of the
dedicated developers going is *you*.

If there are any users out there that have large scale connections with
big corporations, please let me know!  I am pursuing about 5 different
angles..all at the same time.  If one thing does not work, I don't want
to be standing there with my pants down around my ankles looking stupid
(aka Commodore tactics)...

I am open to ideas from anyone and everyone.. and whoever/whatever takes
the Amiga better damn well be the same way.  People have molded the
products that the developer's sell.  NewTek wrote special software for
Babylon 5, we made special features for EMPLANT, VillageTronics, ASDG,
and countless other Amiga developers have listened to their customers and
adopted their suggestions... now is the time we here from you in a big
way.


Many people have stated that in order for the Amiga to be taken
seriously, it must be able to do what the business world needs.  I think
everyone probably agrees.  I working very hard to see that all of the
'name brand' software ends up on the Amiga (ported).  Titles such as
Adobe PhotoShop, Aldus Freehand, Fractal Design Painter, QuarkXpress
(competition against PageStream 3.0 would excel PGS3.0 to be better), etc.
I have already set up groups of programmers that would be willing to port
these programs at little or no cost to copyright holder.  If these titles
were ran under the Amiga's superior OS, people would be shocked at the
difference in speed.  I can tell you that with the modifications we have
done to the MAC OS (with EMPLANT's MAC emulation) to use the Amiga's OS,
we are able to outperform any equiv CPU MAC, all while retaining the
Amiga running as normal.  We would love to take the credit for this nifty
task, but we can't... it's the Amiga.. what can you say?

I have been trying to keep EMPLANT out of this picture as much as
possible due to an obvious conflict of interest, and probably my main
reason for wanting programs ported to the Amiga rather than pushing our
product to just run an emulation in order to run them.  Although
many might see the position I am in a great place to be... I don't want
to be here to push my products or become some hero... I just want
EVERYONE to benefit from Amiga's abilities...

So, the proposal that I am planning now consists of many things.  I would
like to see the rights to the Amiga architecture and OS made available to
the public.  I mean the public as in ANYONE could produce the hardware,
not just a single entity.  This would drive the price down, and the
volume up.  I would like to see the OS licensed to these machines by the
new public corporation owned by the people (public stock).  I don't want
to see the chairman making what Gould made...not even close.  I don't
want to see private jets, trips to Tahiti, or any of the standard crap.
I want to see big name software on the Amiga... I want people outside the
Amiga enviroment to sit down and say 'wow'.

There are so many things to do, and so little time.  The liquidation
proceedings are very hard to follow as they are taking place in the
Bahamas.  Nobody knows for sure how long this will take, but the best
guess has been about 30 days...

PLEASE... if you are a developer, corporate officer interested in the
Amiga, Ross Perot's next door neighbor, etc... let me know who you are if
you can help!

I can honestly say that there is no way I can reply to all of the 'thank
yous' and 'good luck' letters... but we (the developers) do appreciate
them tremendously.

I plan to post updates every single day... so don't be shocked if you see
my ugly mug quite often...

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