| From: | Andy Hall |
| Date: | 21 Oct 2000 at 18:35:48 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
Hello Andy
On 21-Oct-00, you wrote:
>> Doesn't sound too good to me either. I mean is THIS the "amazing" new
>> AmigaOne? I'm sorry but I'd rather run the DE on a x86 system.
>
> You can just guarantee that even with the specification stating "One
> AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)", people are
> _still_ going to get upset at the idea of anyone running it on an x86,
> even if they can get it running a lot faster and a lot cheaper.
It still doesn't cover the fact that the hardware offered so far is crap,
yes it is noble of them to try to intergrate current amiga systems, but as
Matt said if they want PPC POP was the way to go, not another hack.
>> Where the hell did 3.9 come from? Hopefully it will be a worthwhile
>> upgrade.
> In the same way that 3.5 wasn't? ;)
Why not 3.6 3.7 or 3.8? As for 3.5, it was supposed to be halfway between
3.1 and 4.0 (which at the time was the Amiga DEV OS)
>> Yeah, plenty and thier not good. Now that more concrete details of Amigas
>> plans and stratagies are comming about, I'm beginning to think that they
>> aren't going to pull off anything.
>>
>> Where are the major companies, the support, the big time partners? I'm
>> sorry, but a nice as Eyetech are, and despite the fact they alongside the
>> other few that have kept amiga going during and since Gateway, they
>> aren't really the hardware partners that are going to set the world
>> alight. There have been announcements time and time again of exciting new
>> major partners, but as yet none have materialised. Just Matrox.
>
> Well, it looks like we've got at least another 8 or 9 months before real
> machines appear, so they've still got plenty of time yet. I'm not about to
> give up on them just yet.
>
> As for the hardware partners, does that really matter? Ok, so they're
> specifying this Matrox card, but apart from that they're nothing else
> really specified. So presumably my current PC could happily cope.
In that case then, why bother doing a spec at all and announcing this
"amazing" new base system? They've said all along that they were a
software company not hardware so why this half-baked system? People from
outside are going to look at it and laugh.
But I see no-one has mentioned the software part. This above all it the
worrying part, without software support who will want this system other
than the die-hard?
There is basically one thing wrong with Amiga at the moment, they have
no-one to back them up other than amiga developers (where are all these
excited companies all wanting to return to producing amiga software/)
Don't get me wrong, I REALLY want Amiga to succeed, but as it stands at the
moment I can't see them doing it.
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