@DoodooHead


I will enjoy AmigaWorld, I'm sure about that, beacuse we are all Amigans!

@AmigaCori

Wellcome aboard.
AW is getting very popular among italinas.

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@Pentrite

yeah, we are growing up!, and we will send a "Samantha" in every home of the world! ...I hope

...prepare your room for your Samantha

@AmigaCori

Say it music thread updated with the Samantha song.

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=18912&forum=2&56

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@HenryOut

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sorry to ear this, but if you come with Ryanair (www.ryanair.com) you spend more less than 400 euro

Not from my city, Nantes in France, nor from Paris as the only destination are Milano or Rome (then you should add at least a 60E by individual train ticket for the trip Nantes/Paris/Nantes, and also either another train ticket Rome(orMilano)/Empoli either a car location and the more than 3hours and an half by travel) too much I can afford for only a week-end

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@ikir

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In the last months i've only see threads about "no news" "please update" "please photos". If you agree or not this was different, since it is no joke or flame or a fantasy-future product.

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There will be no other threads from me about this topic, feel free to use abuse report button or call me stupid

No news trouble !

Progress reports or peaks at product, trouble !

Ikir, do it your way. If this method of "introduction" brings you enjoyment for the time invested in your project .....then I say go for it.



Good luck.

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@AmigaCori

well...this is my 5 cents on the subject:

It'll be a set top box device+home computer+DVD player...all in one
with a PPC motherboard,HD,Ethernet,Internet acess,running Amiga OS4,capable of attaching mouse and keyboard,with acess to internet download of old and new amiga software...
and it'll all run on your new HD TV if you want...

now...that is what i espect..;)

@neonlite

Well! I'll be very happy...if should be that!, but you know....step by step...first step will be Samantha, I think a new PPC motherboard+CPU (more than 600Mhz....IMHO).

Samantha will be the first of the family, the first of the Amiga sisters

I belive in this project, and not only because its Italian project, I belive in Samantha, because we know where developer and dealer live....if they are joking.... we, will go to his/her shop or home, and...... ...and.... ....and... ...and.... and I will send to you the movie about The Revenge of Amigans!!!! ha ha ha

...oh, me too wish for AmigaMultimediaCenter, as you

@AmigaBlitter

Thx, enjoyed

@AmigaCori

well,if they'd ask me what is the best way...I´d say

first put out an AmigaMultimediaCenter as you named it...HW sth. like I described it...
that way you'd put an amiga and OS4 in a pretty nice number of homes....of which a pretty nice number would be very potential new amiga/OS4 users....

and it's quite easy to produce,not hard at all...

a new desktop board for computers doesn't have that kind of commercial potential...


so....to whome ever it concerns...do it the AMC Samantha(AmigamultimediaCenter) way...
you`ll earn real money...and help the community in one act alltogether
;)

@neonlite

AMigamultimediacenter gives me the creeps. I want a normal desktop computer,like the a1,but better.

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@AmigaCori
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...prepare your room for your Samantha

Ready and waiting!

Best of luck on getting her out the door and into our hands.

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@Antique

From PianetaAmiga site:
During the event there will be the official presentation of a new PPC hardware, codenamed "Samantha". More details will be available during the event.

So, I think that Samantha will be, better: IS, a hardware like A1, not a new A1, but a simple motherboard PPC.

Still, we can hope also in Troika HW

@neonlite

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neonlite wrote: @AmigaCori and it's quite easy to produce,not hard at all...

You're right, but I disagree about "quite easy" to produce because, before to produce somebody have to design it, and test it, and to finance it...nad to keep in touch with HI-Fi magazine and....other.

Amiga is know in computer comunity, not much, but quite for a chance for came back...as MultimediaCenter Amiga is unknow.

For example, Commodore now sell MP3 player...but I remember Commodore for C=64, not for audio toys
I think that a guy could be buy a Commodore computer, because I remember Commodore when I was younger...but why get a C= MP3 player instead a JVC MP3 player?

@AmigaBlitter

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AmigaBlitter wrote: @AmigaCori Say it music thread updated with the Samantha song. http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=18912&forum=2&56 post n#54

Yes, well.I added also a song that it is the better song that could describe the Amiga´s "life" and it can be also applied to Samantha

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=18912&forum=2&start=40&viewmode=flat&order=0

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@Antique

I want one to,but on the economics side...MultimediaCenter woul be more profitable...

and we do need profitability ,so our HW companies could profit more and therefore be able to produce more Amiga HW and sell it to more potential customers...

A1 was nice,it was a PPC motherboard,and nothing else, but...well,you all know how that story ended...

what is needed is a more profitable platform,like a settopbox is,so more people would buy it and get to know OS4 and Amiga brand,that way probably more people would also buy a Desktop PPC with OS4 once it's out on the market...

That's why PS3 with OS4 would be great...but doubt it'll happen...

it would broaden our market so it could finally start functioning normally...

It's not so hard to produce a Multimedia Machine,it's in fact a computer,with motherboard,HD,modem,ethernet,graphic and audio card,DVD player,and OS 4,built in TV module...all in a fancy box called,i guess,Samantha...
you can watch movies,play games,surf the web,download software,copy TV programme on HD,etc....
ahhhh...everything you want...
and always with an Amiga logo on startup...

but don't mind me...I'm only having wet dreams...;)

@DrBombcrater

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The majority of the Amiga community has been through far too many false dawns to be anything but utterly sceptical about new hardware. Yet all of the potential hardware providers seem to go out of their way to make sure they have zero credibility.

IMHO hardware makers should keep silent until they know for sure they will deliver something.

But ikir is right, that you just can't win no matter what you do in this community. Keep your plans quiet until ready for shipment and people whine and cry ther eis no hardware, nothing coming, why do we all bother, etc. If you make announcements of your plans to help appease these crybabies, they immediately accuse you of being a hoax, tell you all the things wrong with your design, that you cannot possibly make a quality product, and that we should all buy Genesi products because only they in the known universe know how to make an acceptable PPC board.

It's not possible for us to be a happy community. And while ikir is right that you can't win either way, I'd rather see people complaining about the lack of hardware than telling someone making a real effort how wrong he is in everything he is doing, so it's better to keep it secret until it's for sale. I don't even think it's a good idea to show things in prototype stage, as others have mentioned we saw protos of AmiJoe, Boxer, and various other things that never happened either, and I too am weary of talking about promising plans that fail to deliver, part of why nobody knows what my own ideas were.

So, until the protos are debugged, the OS ported and working, and it's in a sellable state, let us whine and cry that there is no news or hardware or anything to talk about. This is a better state of things for the designers than having to deal with explaining things, defending decisions, proving their existence, ignoring questions about OS4 licensing, and whatver other crap we sling at ACK and Troika.

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@billt

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So, until the protos are debugged, the OS ported and working, and it's in a sellable state, let us whine and cry that there is no news or hardware or anything to talk about. This is a better state of things for the designers than having to deal with explaining things, defending decisions, proving their existence, ignoring questions about OS4 licensing, and whatver other crap we sling at ACK and Troika.

I've posted the following thought in slightly different words many times:
There is -no- integrated Amiga hardware department.
Therefore there is -no- generally accepted policy in this regard.
All of the developers are independent and create their own rules or methods for
dispensing information to the general public.
For -your- words to be heard, understood, and acted upon...
From 1 to 2 dozen people would have to read your comments and then sit down
privately and ask themselves "what can we agree on as a whole?" in this regard.
Sorry, but that is a fairly accurate representation of the current state of affairs.

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@ikir

More importanlty...

How many boards will be produced and what will the cost be for one of those beauties?

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Already been addressed, sorry. I need to catch up with this thread before speaking agian. :)

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