Earlier this month some Australian Amiga User groups represented Amiga at Comdex, the biggest Australian IT show. They demonstrated AmigaDE software running binary identical at full speed across various devices, as well as introducing people to the new AmigaOS XL package. Many developers and users were amazed of what the AmigaDE can do, read the full show report here. Tomorrow Amiga Inc’s CEO Bill McEwen will demonstrate Amiga products on TechTV’s ‘Screen Savers‘. Also there will be many interesting demonstrations and seminars at the upcoming AmigaExpo, to be held later this month.
nice to see the good old amiga alive and well..
oh well. back to coding for BeOS
Nice to see a new amiga born
The Amiga DE is to be renamed “Amiga Anywhere”, which IMO is a better
name.
The word “digital” has become a stale marketing cliche, like “state of
the art”.
See the new press release at http://www.amiga.com
Actually Amiga Anywhere ™ is a new name for a whole range of AmigaDE enabled devices. It surely is a better name geared towards general consumers. Every device running the AmigaDE is an Amiga Anywhere ™ capable device.
(Compare this to slogans like “Intel Inside”, “IBM compatible” or “Powered by Amiga”, use of the latter one would have been very confusing as it has been used for AmigaOS based devices already and the name “Amiga Anywhere” better reflects what the AmigaDE really does. When people see an “Amiga Anywhere” logo on a device they know it is AmigaDE enabled.)
Not to quibble, but the trouble with “Amiga Anywhere” is that it isn’t especially accurate. Yes, it can be anywhere that Tao ports the VP that makes the Amiga layer possible, but actually this is a fairly limited subset of “Anywhere.” In that sense “AmigaDE” is a better description because it doesn’t make claims beyond what it has already accomplished. In other words, “AmigaDE” is closer to a technical description; “Amiga Anywhere” is nothing but promotional hype, coming out of marketing rather than engineering, imho. Of course this ties in nicely with the recent agreement with Microsoft, a compay that is also essentially market- rather than technology-driven.
> Not to quibble, but the trouble with “Amiga Anywhere” is
> that it isn’t especially accurate.
Well Amiga software as demonstrated yesterday on TechTV run binary identical across many different devices. You can soon run Amiga content binary identical on PDAs and for instance STBs. The graphical scaling capabilities of the AmigaDE, as demonstrated by Bill McEwen, simplifies this process even more.
From the Comdex show report: “At one point later in the afternoon, someone from Hewlett Packard happened to be walking past and had his HP Journada with him. Ross pulled the CompactFlash card with AmigaDE out of our display Compaq Ipaq, slotted it in to the Journada and hey presto PlanetZed was running!”
Bill demonstrated something similar yesterday on TechTV. He pulled the FlashROM out of an older MIPS based Casio PDA and slotted in a StrongARM based device. Amiga Anywhere is an excellent name for consumers to understand the revolutionary nature of the AmigaDE.
> Of course this ties in nicely with the recent agreement
> with Microsoft
Look Amiga developers dislike Microsoft’s anti-competitive, non-innovating behaviour, just as much as you do. But as I have said for years now, we are not going to ignore 90% of the consumers who already own Microsoft based products (most good alternatives were destroyed).
If you can accept our way of thinking there is nothing wrong in working with Microsoft to promote the AmigaDE to WindowsCE developers. Note that all content developed by developers for the AmigaDE runs on many other alternative operating systems through the AmigaDE as well.