(Nice mode on)

Good done Amiga.Inc. hope you'll earn some cash soon.

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Got to hand it to them, whatever business plan they have, they're doing it slowly (but surely???)...

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Why do i always visit amigainc to see this boring news.
Its like visiting pancaces, hoping to see some new
recepies when i find articles on which tires i can buy
with pancace sticker on it. I would then rather visit
michelin tires page instead.

I want to see news like. AmigaInc license os4 for a new
PPC motherboard. AmigaInc to use their energy on making
os4 grow.

Instead is blablablabla.... hehe
(i hate when they use the name amiga for nonamiga stuff)

What will be the next thing. Buy a mp3 player from amigainc
and win a helicopter :)

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What will be the next thing. Buy a mp3 player from amigainc and win a helicopter :)

WoW!!!!! Me wants, me wants i would buy all stock mp3 to win the helicopter

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Yawn.

Fell asleep before a got to the end of that press release . At least their doing something a suppose, not sure I really understand what though.

What helicopter? I want a helicopter too!!!

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Why do i always visit amigainc to see this boring news. Its like visiting pancaces, hoping to see some new recepies when i find articles on which tires i can buy with pancace sticker on it. I would then rather visit michelin tires page instead. I want to see news like. AmigaInc license os4 for a new PPC motherboard. AmigaInc to use their energy on making os4 grow. Instead is blablablabla.... hehe (i hate when they use the name amiga for nonamiga stuff)

I agree.Misunderstandly Amiga inc is doing exactly what the previous owners of the Amiga(commodore, escom...) did: To give priority to anything except to the (real)Amiga itself, and not release what really will boots their sales (Amiga computers).And we all know what happened to all the previous owners

DEJA VU????????

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@dan.hutch
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At least their doing something a suppose, not sure I really understand what though.

Sounds like they're going to bundle AmigaAnywhere on SIM cards. The problem as I see it, though, is that they're also going to need to make a deal somewhere along the line with a cell service in order to get content for AA.

Personally, I don't have a desire to play games on my cell phone. Some do, though, so more power to AInc.

As an aside, does anyone here know if (GSM*) cell phones use a common processor? If not, will you need to have different SIM cards for each phone since you'll need a different VP translator? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of SIM cards?


(*) I'm stuck with Verizon and CDMA. We don't get no steenkin' SIM cards.

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@syrtran

It's quite sad that more than 20 of computing and the Amiga name is to be slapped on a few gloriffied snake/fruit machine games for cell phones and a couple naff competitions.

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It's quite sad that more than 20 of computing and the Amiga name is to be slapped on a few gloriffied snake/fruit machine games for cell phones and a couple naff competitions.

Well said.

I came across this PR yesterday and thought I'd share it with everyone here. Unfortunately for a lot of people here, I feel the same about OS4, slapping it onto crap hardware like the A1 instead of joining power.org and porting it to the kind of hardware available to partners there. You know, the PPC970 and Cell and other *things* there.

Of course, I'm sure a Hyperion employee will now correct me.

ps: Now, power.org might not have been around that long, but the powerpc industry has been around for years.

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@ dan.hutch

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It's quite sad that more than 20 of computing and the Amiga name is to be slapped on a few gloriffied snake/fruit machine games for cell phones and a couple naff competitions.

Actually it's quite "Back to the Roots" of Amiga computing. In an pre-Amiga *platform* era Amiga Corp. released various Atari games and joysticks, such as the Amiga Joyboard.

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Actually it's quite "Back to the Roots" of Amiga computing.

I disagree with you.

First of all, AmigaInc should not be forsaking the OS4 community. I'm sure that there have been over 1000 people invest $1000+ into buying an A1 system and OS4. That's over $1 million dollars, I'm sure their amiga-anywhere has not generated that kind of money.

Second, AmigaInc should have partnered with Cloanto to sell the Amiga Forever product direct from the Amigainc website and be promoting the sale of classic games packs and be approaching the IP owners of these games and licensing them, etc. They haven't done this.

So at least they would have had a $99 product to sell to everyone, as Amiga Forever can run on a PC. Remember, Amigainc is an american company (or so we think) and Cloanto doesn't market their product outside europe, so Amigainc could have aquired distribution for north america, etc.

Do you see Amiga Forever selling on amazon.com or other online resellers? best buy? etc..

Third, they should have worked with Cloanto to bring the Amiga Forever experience to portable devices.

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This has NOTHING to do with AmigaOS so why is it here? Amiga Inc. have abandoned OS4 so i've abandoned them. It's just more publicity about a company that isn't ever going to do anything for this community, just take our money then shift their focus and forget about us.

Chris

@ Darth_X

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I'm sure that there have been over 1000 people invest $1000+ into buying an A1 system and OS4. That's over $1 million dollars, I'm sure their amiga-anywhere has not generated that kind of money.

Sure, but that's not actually a 1 million USD profit by far. Income minus all costs (salaries, support, housing/storage, etc, etc, etc) , makes a profit. Also a harddrive or CD-Rom drive sold with an OS4 system may make the dealer some extra money, but not any of the A1 partners. Maybe the profit margin on AmigaAnywhere titles is actually quite good in comparison, considering lesser costs.

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Second, AmigaInc should have partnered with Cloanto to sell the Amiga Forever product direct from the Amigainc website

They have a link to Cloanto on Amiga Inc's main page. Why not buy Amiga Forever direct from Cloanto instead?

@ Oxygenet

Becasue it has something to do with "Amiga". If someone re-releases Amiga Corp's Atari games in one way or another maybe you would be able to read it here as well. Personally I have no problem with that, it's all part of Amiga's history.

But Amiga Inc. have contributed almost ZERO to Amigas History, the only GOOD thing they've done is allow OS4 to go forward through Hyperion - what else have they done for the Amiga community? They've released a product that doesn't even RUN on Amiga's, all they've done is use it's name for their own ends - THAT is what upsets me.

And despite all this Hyperion keep working away - GOOD FOR THEM, if they pull this off it's because of THEM and NOTHING to do with Amiga Inc who would rather AmigaOS didn't exist.

Chris

Apart from the fact that it's got nothing to do with Amiga (except for the company name) I haven't seen any kind of outcome from these "partnerships" so far.
NHL? ICTV? Giesecke & Devrient? Eh...

A "cooperation agreement" is easily made up if you have some friends in the other company. In the end, such an agreement can be benefical for both companies - even if there is no direct outcome.
Amiga Inc. mainly needs some news to please the venture capitalists - even if it's nothing but fluff/waffle.

@mikeB
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Actually it's quite "Back to the Roots" of Amiga computing. In an pre-Amiga *platform* era Amiga Corp. released various Atari games and joysticks, such as the Amiga Joyboard.

Yes, but meanwhile, Hi-Toro/Amiga was actually doing something, and creating Lorraine. You going to claim AInc is working on something useful to the real Amiga IP, then?

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But Amiga Inc. have contributed almost ZERO to Amigas History, the only GOOD thing they've done is allow OS4 to go forward through Hyperion - what else have they done for the Amiga community? They've released a product that doesn't even RUN on Amiga's, all they've done is use it's name for their own ends - THAT is what upsets me.

Amigainc's other 'good OS4 idea'

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