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- Galahad of Fairlight wants Amiga Tech.
- To stop fucking around, and answer one
- question which most people want an answer
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- Galahad of Fairlight wants some Answers from AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES
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- Over a year ago, I quit the Amiga scene. I didn't totally turn my back,
- but I was pretty sure that no matter what happened, the Amiga was going to
- die, and I didn't want to be there when it did.
-
- That was until GATEWAY 2000 decided to buy up the remnants of the Amiga
- from the now bankrupted ESCOM GMBH. GATEWAY 2000 are a BIG company,
- certainly bigger than ESCOM were, and easily the size of Commodore when
- they too were a big company.
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- Initially news was released about what they were going to do with the
- Amiga, and they setup Amiga Technologies as a seperate company, belonging
- to Gateway 2000. This is fine. This is a good step, but one of only many
- that need to be taken.
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- Amiga Technologies have promised that by the middle of 1998, perhaps the
- last quarter of 1998, we can expect a totally new Amiga, with new
- processor, new everything. This, I like. The Amiga has to progress from
- what it is to help it succeed. The new Amiga needs to have the same impact
- as the A500 did over ten years ago! I remember seeing Shadow of the Beast
- for the first time and I was totally gobsmacked by it. I had never seen
- anything like it outside an Arcade Machine. But those days are gone, they
- are in a very memorable past.
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- I want to do stuff on the new Amiga's, legal or otherwise. I want to
- keep on contributing any way I can..... but theres a problem, a stumbling
- block which AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES ARE TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR!
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- WHAT DAMN PROCESSOR ARE THEY USING IN THE NEW AMIGAS?
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- I don't have a particular problem whether its PowerPC chips, DEC Alpha
- chips or whatever else is on the market, I don't damn well care what it is,
- as long as I know what it will be. Phase 5 have just started to release
- Power-UP boards incorporating PowerPC chips. This is great..... but how
- can anyone be expected to buy these boards which cost a lot of money, when
- Amiga Technologies refuse to tell us if they will actually use the same
- processor in the new machines???
-
- So we all go buy Power-UP boards, and three months later, Amiga
- Technologies release a new machine with a DEC Alpha processor in it!!!!
- Amiga owners have had to put up with so much shit with the Amiga, because
- they believe in it, they WANT it to suceed again, and so it damned well
- should, but Amiga Technologies are not making life very easy at the moment.
- This is the kind of thing that will be the last and final shit that some
- Amiga owners will take, and they will end up leaving the Amiga forever
- because of it.
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- We need to know now! If it is to be PowerPC chips, we can buy PowerUP
- boards, and start to learn PowerPC ASM and build libraries of routines
- that are good for PowerPC based Amigas. Not everyone wants to code in C, I
- for one don't EVER want to go anywhere near it, thats the same for a lot of
- people. By the time the official machine is released, people will be able
- to release games, utilities, comms packages, applications very quickly,
- because they would have already coded them on their PowerUP Amigas. This
- is simple logic, that is escaping the brains of Amiga Technologies.
-
- Its time for action from Amiga Technologies. There is no need for
- secrecy regarding the processor, just damn well tell us!
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- I, like many many people have been waiting for over 3 years for something
- to happen.... its time it happened real soon before Amiga Technologies lose
- some good people forever.
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- TO AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES:
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- Q) WHAT PROCESSOR IS GOING TO BE IN THE NEW AMIGAS?
- A) ...............
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- Signed Galahad of Fairlight
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