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Gateway Sells Rights to Amiga Name

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the selling-the-albatross dept.

kman writes "I just read the news on ABCNews that Gateway Sells Rights to Amiga Name - Personal computer maker Gateway Inc. signed a deal to sell its Amiga trademarks and computer systems to closely held Amino Development Corp. " Ah, the saga of Amiga continues - terms were not disclosed, but Gateway has decided to "wrap Amiga's software engineering function into Gateway's product development systems" making it sound like GW is considering continuing to make the "information appliances" they were originally planning.

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  1. We'll never see another real Amiga... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    It's a shame we'll never really see the Amiga return, if they could only incorporate the best of the Amiga into current machines correctly. It's wasn't the flashy graphics and nice sound that made the Amiga so great. It was the fact that it NEVER ran out, or had a conflict of IRQ's and DMA. It had TRUE plug & play, not the plug and pray we deal with now days. TRUE protected memory. (you could do things like dump the whole OS into a Virtual Ram Drive, reset, and boot out of ram!) The list goes on, of things the Amiga could do, that the IBM will never do, or do as well.

  2. A trademark is one thing, where's the technology? by Fross · · Score: 3

    What concerns me (and likely other Amiga enthusiasts too) is the rights for existing and new Amiga technology - are these part of the deal? Will they ever be released? What does a company making an Amiga clone (as several are in development, it seems) have to bear in mind or licence?

    The Amiga still isn't dead, and has a good community, which deserves better support than being shifted from company to company in business deals. How about some new hardware or licencing?

    Fross