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- From: Scott Cabit <sac>
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
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- jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph") wrote:
- >> I can't disagree with you too much about that. I do realize, though,
- >> that there are a lot of factors behind all of this that none of us have
- >> all the pieces to.
- >
- >Petro came, with John Smith, to visit us here at Almathera just before
- >xmas last year. He gave us plenty of good news, plans for the future,
- >promise of increased support and after he left we were fired up to
- >continue Amiga development after a long period of uncertainty here..
- >
- >It turns out that almost immediately after Petro visited us, he went to
- >Maidenhead and shut down the AT Uk operation, making people such as
- >Jonathan Anderson and Sajid redundant, people who had been a constant
- >help and important ally to Amiga developers in the UK.
- >
- >If it wasn't for Jonathan Anderson there would have been no Amiga Magic
- >pack. They not only lost people who were invaluable to supporting and
- >promoting the Amiga in the UK, they lost their only link between Amiga
- >Technologies and the UK developer community. Who's talking to the games
- >companies now? Jonathan Anderson was visiting them regularly to promote
- >the Amiga and to try and get at least a few to restart development. From
- >what he told me things were progressing well.
- >
- >By closing down AT UK they completely shattered the good feeling we had
- >gained. It's been a hard fight here at Almathera to let us do *ANY* Amiga
- >development at all. As it is, I'm still developing for the Amiga in spite
- >of AT rather than because of them. Most of my Amiga development is done
- >after office hours in my own time. If I was purely concerned about profit
- >I'd have jumped entirely to PC development a long time ago. But the Amiga
- >is something special. It's also a great machine to program for.
- >
- >Amiga Technologies will have to do a lot of wonderful things in the next
- >few months to repair their tattered reputation, in my eyes at least. I
- >hope they do. All companies, especially new ones, can make mistakes.
- >Let's see what they can do to repair them...
- >
- >Jolyon - Almathera
- >
-
- Don't think that your commitment is lost on us remaining Amiga users!
- We truly appreciate your dedication and some of us at least will do
- our best to continue to purchase your Amiga products.
- I'm personally looking forward to buying a PowerPC603e card for my
- A1200 and that means I'll also be investing in some new software. I
- hope Jolyon that you come out with some great new stuff that takes
- advantage of the PowerPC because with Almathera's great reputation I
- can guarantee you I'll be looking for your products!
- Thanks for sticking with the Amiga!
-
- Scott A. Cabit
-
-