OK, I was wrong about a lot of things - I haven't really been keeping up with the Amiga market for a few years. When I stopped taking that much interest, Eyetech were still shouting about this AmigaOne which you could attach to your A1200. I'd kept tabs every so often, but I didn't know this was scrapped. I did know that Amiga DE is developed by TAO, I remember this from reading AmigaActive a few years ago (when I could get it!). I didn't know that Amiga Inc. was only started in 1999. Nightlong was released in 2000, just before OS 3.9. A more recent game is Earth 2041, which was released May 2001. There is still a very active games market for the Amiga (and they look like very good games too!), or at least there was two years ago. Also, what's the point in producing this new hardware and OS if there's no-one around to buy it? Surely this is good evidence for a market?
Amiga users never died - there are still thousands of them. It wouldn't surpriseme if they equal BSD users.
Firstly, Amiga have been continuing development for a long time. They realsed OS 3.9 a few years ago, this time it was actually them (OS 3.5 was written by somebody else). They've also been developing an embedded technology called Amiga DE which is already in use in several mobile phone units (cellphones for those Americans).
Amiga OS 4.0 is designed to run on a new computer, called the AmigaOne. This is a new motherboard designed by the UK company Eyetech, to which you can attach your A1200 motherboard for running older programs natviely, should you want to. Yes, that's right - the A1200 motherboard becomes the AmigaOne's daughterboard.
The computer is based on the PPC architecture, I believe with G3 or G4 processors. There have been add-ons for the A1200 motherboard which add G3 processors for a while now, but these were expensive and pointless.
As for software and games, there are several developers still producing software and many excellent games too (a recent one which springs to mind is Nightlong, a very graphics heavy point-and-click adventure, like Broken Sword 3). Many of these use the PPC CPUs available for the Amiga, and also many ofthe graphics cards too.
The Amiga still lives, and it's not gonna die without a fight.
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OK, I was wrong about a lot of things - I haven't really been keeping up with the Amiga market for a few years. When I stopped taking that much interest, Eyetech were still shouting about this AmigaOne which you could attach to your A1200. I'd kept tabs every so often, but I didn't know this was scrapped.
I did know that Amiga DE is developed by TAO, I remember this from reading AmigaActive a few years ago (when I could get it!). I didn't know that Amiga Inc. was only started in 1999. Nightlong was released in 2000, just before OS 3.9. A more recent game is Earth 2041, which was released May 2001. There is still a very active games market for the Amiga (and they look like very good games too!), or at least there was two years ago.
Also, what's the point in producing this new hardware and OS if there's no-one around to buy it?
Surely this is good evidence for a market?
Amiga users never died - there are still thousands of them. It wouldn't surpriseme if they equal BSD users.
Firstly, Amiga have been continuing development for a long time. They realsed OS 3.9 a few years ago, this time it was actually them (OS 3.5 was written by somebody else). They've also been developing an embedded technology called Amiga DE which is already in use in several mobile phone units (cellphones for those Americans).
Amiga OS 4.0 is designed to run on a new computer, called the AmigaOne. This is a new motherboard designed by the UK company Eyetech, to which you can attach your A1200 motherboard for running older programs natviely, should you want to. Yes, that's right - the A1200 motherboard becomes the AmigaOne's daughterboard.
The computer is based on the PPC architecture, I believe with G3 or G4 processors. There have been add-ons for the A1200 motherboard which add G3 processors for a while now, but these were expensive and pointless.
As for software and games, there are several developers still producing software and many excellent games too (a recent one which springs to mind is Nightlong, a very graphics heavy point-and-click adventure, like Broken Sword 3).
Many of these use the PPC CPUs available for the Amiga, and also many ofthe graphics cards too.
The Amiga still lives, and it's not gonna die without a fight.