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Crap. Sponsor AmigaOS4, help Hyperion instead....

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I guess this means the VCs haven't found a company or person to dumb that "valuable" IP on...

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Well, there's some quite nice Amiga adverts on Mobilezone and Mobilezone also carry the press release, unlike some of the previous annoucements where nothing appears on the partner site.

What bothers me though is that by cashing in on the brand name like this people will be expecting to see classic Amiga games for the PDA or phone and find that actually there is no lemmings, sensible soccer etc to be had. I think they could do with some classic games on Amiga Anywhere, otherwise potential buyers could be disappointed.

Amiga inc really need a slicker website, I still think the old one was nicer even if it was getting a bit cluttered and messy in places.

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Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies.

(cough)
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For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world.

Are we talking about "software made by Amiga, Inc."?

Well, let's say this is better than nothing.

Last edited by Lynx on 02-May-2006 at 07:51 PM.

We see all these anouncements but do they ever amount to anything substantial. I agree that the website should be slicker and they be supporting OS4.

more idiotic mobilphone games .... this is not what the amiga is about... the amiga is about amiga4.0, where is the support from amiga inc??? the bloody phone games amiga inc can put where the sun dont shine!!

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Does this mean that someone was able to contact AInc?

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this is not what the amiga is about... the amiga is about amiga4.0

Sorry to say it but its exactly what Amiga Inc is about.. or more presicly about AmigaAnyWhere.

AmigaOS4 is just side product to them.

RWO

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The article makes a reference to Gregory Sigel as Amiga's vice president of sales and marketing, I googled for him, and I found this (1st result) :SIM Asia 2006
Sorry if this was mentioned before.

Edit: Translation of the article about Amiga in Mobilezone website:

More than 20 years dedicated to multimedia

Amiga brand needs no introductions,mainly for those in their thirties. For the few who don't know , during the 80's and 90's, Amiga was the main competitor of Apple and Atari in the personal computer segment with focus in multimedia. Is wrong who think that the brand disappeared after the smashing success of the Commodore Amiga computers. During that time, Amiga continued active and with strong presence in the market of multi-platform technologies, developing and fine-tunig the Amiga Anywhere™ platform.

The Commodore Amiga computers were always associated with graphics soutions, mudic and video editing (do you remember Video Toaster?) and there's no way to deny that the strong point of the brand was always the games market.

The Amiga was virtually unbeatable compared to their competitors:Atari, Apple IIGS and MSX. In the personal computer of middle size, the brand products were market leaders in that segment.

Amiga Anywhere™

In the same way personal computation evolved in the last 10 years, the operating system of Amiga computers (AmigaOS) has also evolved and cot more mature. Today, AmigaOS is available for game development and applications for interactive TV, PocketPC, Smartphones, windows, linux, among other devices.

Theres no doubt that Amiga Anywhere™ platform is a great atractive to game developers intended to several kind of devices, taking in consideration the huge community of developers and core technology support, that already completed more than 20 years in that market, in wich the brand always had the status of being in the group of main players.

Pocket PCs

one of the current targets of Amiga Anywhere id the Pocket PC.With the growing evolution of resources and processing power the PPC platform became a great market for game and app development that get away from traditional apps present in the first PocketPCs.For being an emerging platform, the range of solutions for apps development of that kind isn't the greatest, without counting that no other solution has such a specific focus, beside years of developing and mastering of what can be considered the most important gaming platform of history.

As an example of Amiga Anywhere power in the Pocket PC domain, Amiga, beside selling the development API, Amiga also sells dozens of games created with the technology. Some classics as Solitaire and Jackpot, as well as the new Gobbler, Convex and Planet Zed show clearly the power Amiga Anywhere has to deliver quality digital entertainment to Pocket PC platform. At the developers side speed and easy sofisticated game development for the main digital platforms, as well as the huge support the brand has and always had in the community of gamedevelopers are, without doubt, decisive factors that make professionals choose Amiga Anywhere as a solution to develop multi-platform games.

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do u think i can hack their site??

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When KMOS bought Amiga, this is precisely what they said they were going to do. Hare told us up front, and look at this, he's doing it. That's called success.

Seems as if this would be a good deal for Amiga Inc.

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Lemmings is on the PSP now. It took them a while to figure out that these new generation handhelds are perfect for old Amiga games, but someone got the message. I don't know how many others are getting it, though. But, Amiga, Inc. has nothing to do with third party video games. Don't get on their case, get on the cases of likes likes of Psygnosis, Cinemaware, etc. Besides, most cell phones have tiny screens and would suck mightily trying to display Shadow of the Beast or even Lemmings. Maybe would work with Blood Money, though. But, really, it would be something of a sacrilege to play cool old amiga games with their awesome graphics on a one inch screen. People really aren't expecting Lemmings on a phone. It would be cool, but only because we know it was an Amiga game first. Non-Amigans would think it was lame.

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Amiga please choose another name. I dont like you hehe

No, it's called a lame attempt at marketting by trying to grab some headlines, which they haven't been successful at doing with their AmigaAnywhere product line, which is in large part someone else's technology anyway, and which to my knowledge still only runs on Windows devices. More like "Anywhere...as long as it runs Windows." And I hardly see anything that they have done as being either innovative or successful, nor do I think Hare has anything to do with it. Didn't he leave the company a year or so ago? The only things that have garnered any kind of interest in any relevant media has been their partners' new OS4 and AmigaOne announcements, which they hardly support if at all. It's lame how they basically ride on the Amiga legacy's coat tails when it suits them. It's their right to do so, and there's not much anyone can do about it, but it is still lame, IMHO anyway.

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there's also an interview with Vince Pfeifer, "Director of Product Management da Amiga".
Click here.

@elatour

Nothing's not good enough for no one no how as far as you are concerned. IMHO.

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