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Announcement   Announcement : Project Samantha Official Press Release
   posted by tomazkid on 22-Sep-2006 13:42:48 (5086 reads)
Empoli (Florence), Italy, September 15, 2006:

On September 23 and 24 at Palaesposizioni exhibition palace in Empoli, it will take place the 10th edition of Pianeta Amiga Show.
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This is nearly an historic appointment for the italian scene of alternative information technology, but not only limited to Italy and not only limited to Amiga computers, because Pianeta Amiga exhibit it is continuously growing and expanding, due to presence of foreign visitors and exhibitors from all Europe.

The Pianeta Amiga event, it represents a place of rendez-vous for all amigans and users of various alternative platforms, and an aggregation point which is exclusive in the italian outline, and it is also a privileged launch pad platform for literally dozens of projects and products which continuously born and grew up in the sparkling world of alternative computing.

The appointment of this year truly represents a milestone for italian information technology, because during the event in Empoli it will take place the official presentation of a new computer, entirely designed, developed and manufactured in Italy.
This new motherboard will be capable to use wide part of Operating Systems created to run for Linux-like PPC based platforms, and it will also capable to run various other alternative Operating Systems that are widely used on the scene of I.T. world.

It was a long time since the moment that technology innovation left italian peninsula.
Now it was born again a new Hi-Tech challenge, and this is due to the efforts in co-operation and synergy lead by three dynamic italian firms: Alternative Holding Group Srl., Soft3 e Virtual Works, which started together a partnership in order to complete the first one of many projects, lots of these still in development and evolving.

The results of their co-operation it is a compact, versatile, and scalable motherboard based on PowerPC processor by IBM, which could be adapted to fit the needings of any niche in the market, and more, the motherboard is enhanced with innovative and decent characteristics.
All the features will be revealed during a conference that will take place on Saturday 23 September 2006 starting at 11:00 during Pianeta Amiga show.

Apart from this main event, during the "two days" exhibit in Empoli, it will be on schedule various conferences dedicated to developers, and it will be presented various other products.

Pianeta Amiga is sure an untipycal appointment, and from a certain point of view it could be considered truly "amazing" if considering the whole panoramic view of italian Information Technology.
It is an event in which to enjoy again the taste for the "genuine" information technology of the origins, a time in which passion, intuition and the genius of young people led I.T. towards unimaginable progress not tied only by the common rules of commerce and simple market logic. This progress completely renewed the idea of free commerce and expanded actual computer market to new frontiers, and it also brought quickly all mankind to enter the world of today and face the world of tomorrow.


About Pianeta Amiga:
Pianeta Amiga was born in 1997 from the intuition of Jasa Communication in Empoli.
The P.A. exhibit, during last years grew up to became nowadays a well known appointment in Europe, which can be considered unique if you could compare it with the entire category of exhibitions and annual shows it belongs to.

This year it occurs the tenth anniversary of this event, which deals mainly with alternative technologies and which makes of this technology the “key for its success".

For further infos and contacts you can easily visit its official homepage at site:http://www.pianetaamiga.it

See you in Empoli 23 and 24 September 2006.

Ciao,

Jasa Communication
Bitplane
Alternative Holding Group
Soft3
Virtual Works
    

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pvanni 
Re: Project Samantha Official Press Release
Posted on 22-Sep-2006 13:49:08
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Only a few hours left.

I am there tomorrow in the morning.

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Wish i was there!.


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Would be great to see some video streaming, like from the BB4. Is it planned?

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I hope it is a board for AmigaOS4. I can not see any information about that.


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Good luck with the show guys!
May all your technical difficulties be minor.


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@AmigaPapst
of course it is!!

After all it's Pianeta Amiga


Wow I got 100 posts

Last edited by pvanni on 22-Sep-2006 at 03:22 PM.

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@ pvanni

Steady there... Your have us big Guns getting worried.


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@pvanni

you simply do not know. Neither do I. Whatever that board will run, we'll know tomorrow.
Now, in the italian forum one of the guys involved in the project posted three pink ribbons... for the non-italian readers this is an italian tradition: whenever a baby comes to life his/her parents hang a ribbon out of the door: pink for daughters, blue for sons. It sounds like a big surprise to me... (Samantha, Moana and Bridgette ).

Last edited by sgm on 22-Sep-2006 at 06:30 PM.


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I have a good feeling about this! Perhaps our long wait will soon be over? I really wish I was able to speak the language and could fly over to visit my extended family in Italy. Then I could go to the show!


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Quote:
historic ... milestone ... synergy ... dynamic ... blah, blah, yap, yap...


*dancing banana*
Good on ya', but do you have the silly licence or don't you? Otherwise this is Yet Another Mobo Which AmigaOS Can't Be Sold For.


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And this is Yet Another Seehund Rant Which AW.net Users Can't Read Anymore.


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@Seehund
Quote:
*dancing banana*

It's done like this:


That is a colon ':' followed by the word 'dance' and it really isn't that difficult to use correctly.


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I doubt you can get a licence to run OS4 unless the board is finished and has been approved by AI.
That can't be a quick process. (lawyers, ya know)

We don't know what stage of development these boards are at. I just hope they really show up so people can get a look.

I'm not a HW expert. I wouldn't be able to judge anything about a board just by looking at it.

When I see OS4 running on these boards, give me a ring!

I hope everyone has a great time at the convention! Wish I could go!

come back and tell us what happened!


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@ssolie

you mean like ?

Wow a dancing banana i hope - amiga hardware of any sort deserves it...

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ikir!!!!!!!!!!!!


I want another clue.... I want another clue!!!!!!



(Because I'm often told to, "get a clue". )

 
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And this is Yet Another Seehund Rant Which AW.net Users Can't Read Anymore.


No, that looks like a reply posted by you. :)
But as one of the AW.net Users I thank you for the insightful commentary anyway.

(BTW, I don't think my comment qualified as a "rant". It was short, on-topic and to the point, just like your own thought-provoking "Good news!" oneliners everytime there's yet another Salvation In Two More Weeks announcement. At least I wasn't claiming to speak for more people than myself. ;))


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Seehund wrote:

(BTW, I don't think my comment qualified as a "rant". It was short, on-topic and to the point, just like your own thought-provoking "Good news!" oneliners everytime there's yet another Salvation In Two More Weeks announcement.

Oh Seehund,

"Two More Weeks" is so yesterday; now we're at 9 hrs. and 40 minutes (I think )!



-- edit, subtracted 1 more hour, and added 12.
-- edit Fi-na-lly! (Darn those time zones.)

 
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Huh? What have any of these Sam/Samantha posts got to do with Amigas??


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@Seehund

Want to know of a *really* short and to the point statement? Here:

Quote:
Yet Another Seehund Rant Which AW.net Users Can't Read Anymore.


And of course, you're right. A statement like "Good news!" surely is "thought-provoking"... I'm sorry Seehund but complaints about "too upbeat" statements really never was much of an argument for anything. Complaints of constantly repeated and already debated a million times arguments on the other hand...


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@Mobileconnect

Well, it's related to the extent that it's a possible hardware platform for AmigaOS4 demonstraded on an Amiga related computer fair. Wether it will actually hit the market and run AmigaOS4 remains to be seen.


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