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- Amiga Arena Interview
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- Developer: Stefan Blixth, OnyxSoft
- Software: OnyxBase, QuickNote, Graphica, BookCon and more...
- Homepage: http://www.onyxsoft.nu/
- Mail: stefan@onyxsoft.nu
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- *Please introduce yourself to the readers!*
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- My name is Stefan 'Develin' Blixth, I'm 24 years old student from Karlstad, Sweden.
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- *When did you start working with the Amiga?*
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- I got my first Amiga in late 1991, since then I've been totaly addicted
- to it and I won't replace it for anything else in the world.
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- *Which Amiga model do you own*
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- I currently own and use a A4000T (CSPPC) with huge amount of memory and
- disc space. Plus I have 2 spare machines, a A1200 (hosted in a tower)
- and a standard A3000.
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- *Which version of the operating system is running on your computer?*
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- AmigaOS 3.9, MorphOS (0.4) and LinuxPPC
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- *Which software are you developing?*
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- I'm currently working hard to fix a new version of OnyxBase (MUI)
- and the first real release of Graphica is taking shape.
- A new version of QuickNote and a new program (a picture viewer) is in the
- "pipe-line". But since I have had so much work lately developments
- have taken a very long time. (I hope this will change soon).
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- *Can you tell us what your software is about?*
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- OnyxBase : Is a handy (IMO.) addressbook manager with a lot of features.
- Uses easy-to-use concept which suits most users.
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- QuickNote : A Post-It like tool for scribble notes on your desktop instead
- of on paper.
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- Graphica : My yet unreleased graphic tool, should make operations on graphics
- easy for everyone (I hope), but there is a lot more todo before
- I can release a public version of this. But this is my primary
- software development today! (I hope that I can show an early beta
- on the Amiga-show "AmiGBG" in Gotherburg, Sweden - March 2002)
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- *What has created the idea in you to continue developing your software?*
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- Well, the first ideas is often that there is not a good enough or easy-to-use
- enough software available for my own needs and there is where it often starts.
- Using software should be an easy and funny experience, many software are way
- to complicated while others lack of needing features.
- It is often very hard to create a good "balance" the both sides,
- but if you can do that, the result becomes very nice.
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- *How long has the development taken so far?*
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- OnyxBase started it's life back in the beginning of 1998,
- QuickNote and Graphica in the middle/fall of 1999.
- But developments of the titels above and others have been on and of since
- I'm also very busy in other projects and school, things starts to get better
- now since I'm in the end of my studies now and I hope I'll have more time soon.
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- *Which software are you using for developing?*
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- The main language is AmigaE and for PPC-plugins (Graphica) I use VBCC.
- The GUI in my upcomming projects will be using MUI, and the future projects
- as well becuase it really is so much more powerful than any other GUI-kit
- around.
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- *For which system (AmigaOS, AmigaDE, MorphOS) are you developing?*
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- Primary OS is AmigaOS 3.x
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- *Which OS will you support in the future?*
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- AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS
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- *What can we expect of future versions?*
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- New features, more power and easier to use :-)
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- *Don't you lose the fun and the interest in programming if you see the small amount
- of feedback you get from the small Amiga market?*
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- I actually get a lot of feedback on my projects and that's really fun ofcourse.
- But even if that wasn't the case I've done this for fun and to fill my own needs
- so the outside interest is not my main reason to create applications.
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- *Do you receive enough feedback for your software?*
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- Yes, I've got so much ideas from users which have helped me a lot when my
- own ideas hasn't been enough. Thank you all (if I havn't allready said that) :-)
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- *When did you last use your Amiga?*
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- Right now... My Amiga is my main machine, I use it for just everything.
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- *Which software did you last buy for your Amiga?*
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- Hmm, it's been a long time since I bought something now...
- It's a tie between AmigaOS 3.9 and Photofolio I think, well I did
- get iFusion (after a long wait).
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- *Which software do you still use?*
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- I use a huge amount of internet tools everyday and development tools.
- Well, since I use my Amiga for just everything pretty much software is used :)
- Way to many to list here (sorry).
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- *Which hard/software are you planning to buy?*
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- I will absolutely get myself a PEGASOS. This is what I've been waited for
- such a long time now.
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- *Do you believe in a comeback of Amiga?*
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- As the niche computer/OS it truly is, yes - we need alternatives and IMO.
- this system is the only one that I and many others feel comfortable with.
- I'm very sceptic about this PDA ideas (DE) though, I'm not very interested
- in it at all (even if I owns a Psion PDA).
- There is to many parties doing the "same" thing in that area, special types
- of JAVA is becoming more and more useful.
- It would be much better if they could concentrate on what made the
- Amiga so popular in the first place -> The AmigaOS.
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- *Your final words for the readers?*
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- I would like to take the opportunity to thank all users, testers and translators
- in all forms that have helped us in OnyxSoft in some way or another during the
- years.
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- The current year (2002) is looking really good atm. in an Amigan point of view.
- And we are working very hard to be able to deliver new software to you.
- As we have stated many times before, Amiga is not just a computer for us
- it's pure Passion.
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- Our saying is "-Amigans never surrender - They know they can do it better".
- And this year we will really try to justify this saying and we hope
- the community and the users know how unique our (Amigans) position is.
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- So to sum it all up...
- The wait is soon over, we will be getting competetive hardware once again
- and we will have a great system for this hardware which is really unique.
- Users of other platforms can say what they want, they simply doesn't know
- better. So why not show them what our machines are capable of ?
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- Keep the faith Amigans, there is a bright future ahead!
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- © Amiga Arena 2/2002
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