| From: | Dr Greg Perry |
| Date: | 4 Apr 2001 at 02:41:53 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Back from St. Louis! |
On 28-Mar-01 05:05:21 Wil Haslup wrote:
>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.
But it all has nothing to do with the "Amiga".
>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.
No. No further Amiga development is planned unless outside funds come from
somewhere. The source code is available for purchase by anyone who thinks
they can make money out of it and has resources for future development.
Funding requests to AI and H&P were laughed at.
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