| From: | Wil Haslup |
| Date: | 27 Mar 2001 at 20:05:21 |
| Subject: | [D5] Back from St. Louis! |
I returned home from St. Louis yesterday.
I've listened and read patiently over the years as the various
incarnations of Amiga made announcements at such events. Like
everyone else, I've seen a lot of things never manifest.
Anyone that went to St. Louis heard some very comprehensive and
promising plans. These plans will benefit the small developers the
most but also seem to have the interests of Amiga Inc.'s survival and
growth in mind.
What I will say is that out of all the announcements the most recent
in St. Louis were simply the most stunning in terms of marketing and
leveraging what we all know we have in the Amiga. Within two years I
believe it is very probable that the Amiga environment existing on
other systems may be very common. That a PPC machine and a PPC native
version of the OS is coming before that for us to develop on is just a
tremendous fringe benefit.
The only comment in reference to the incompatability with DOpus was
that GP needs to make a patch so it works with the changes in the
libraries. Go figure....the developer points at those in charge of
the OS, those in charge of the OS point at the developer.
I will say that it seems the changes in the workbench are designed to
implement interface ideas that will eventually be part of the PPC
version of the Amiga OS at version 4.2. I imagine things will be
introduced along the way to make the eventual OS 5 what they want it
to be by then. I would note the the just release Boing Bag for 3.9
includes asynchronous copy function as an example of how things are
becoming more functional.
Developers keeping up is probably just a necessity.
Regards
Wil