Literature - Our answer is 'Computerra' (Amiga in the dark).

 Komputerra, a prominent Moscow
propisyavy magazine is widely known
domestic amizhnikam as
respectable cesspool, in which
were registered varied, through
false information about competitors Platform
pEEcEE. Attacks and bad-mouthing
subjected not only to Amiga, but Mac,
PowerPC processors, and everything that
beyond the scope of Intel, and others like nekrosofta
with them. The flowering of this double and
campy millet in Komputerre was achieved
during the main editorship it
nobody Gogi Kuznetsoffa (from last year,
fortunately, change jobs).
To tell the truth, the situation in Komputerre
little changed from last year, and, in addition to
hypocritical tears about the fate of the Amiga,
continued fanfare and praise to the
nekrosofta with his boss and their "genius"
products. In short, should not be taken
Komputerru too seriously ... (End
notes).


              Amiga in a haze

 The appearance of this Article shall
Computer Weekly Computerra,
published on their pages
small article titled "Amiga in
darkness "(note by not less sonorous
called "Bad Amiga" exists in
online version of the weekly, read it
here). Computerra - is
the only publication which gives some
at least some information (mostly
"Chernushnuyu") on the Amiga platform. For example,
Several years ago, has been published
note "Amiga lives after death," in
which reported, inter alia, that "
Internet even have multiple sites,
on this platform. "

 Opportunity to read the paper version of the CT
is not at all, so invite your
the attention of the full text of this message.
Particularly interesting places marked by me.

 So ...


              AMIGA in the mist

 Company Gateway, was going to
revive the Amiga platform in all its bygone
majesty, gave up their fundamentals plans. In
official letter on the site www.amiga.com
president of Amiga Tom Schmidt
reported that the division
will shift to a purely software
company. Henceforth it will deal with
only develop applications for
various Internet set-top boxes.

 In a letter to the president, in particular,
says: "After the change of leadership in
Amiga, we revised our release plans
products. July plans to release an MCC
(Multimedia Convergence Computer - code
the name of the future of the computer) were
unrealistic. Moreover, I
finally decided that it would be better
cooperate with a large number
partners, generating hardware
software than to expose your product
Competing with everyone. "

 In his letter to Schmidt asks rhetorically
question as to the part: "Very good,
but that total is a new trend has
with the original idea of a computer Amiga? "
And then he answers: "To be honest,
nothing! "

 Not that such a statement
happy few, but persistent
Army supporters Amiga. Last Ray
light shone for them in July, when
Gateway announced that it will release
MCC. But the sudden departure of President Amiga
Jim Collas re-shuffled the cards.

 However, hope springs eternal: "This
not mean that the Amiga will not be reborn,
somewhere, sometime, "- said to
site of one of the fans. In general,
for such applications, there are some
base. The German company IWin not
long ago announced the release of new models
Amiga. Though not quite understand the legal
background: none of the patent at Amiga Inc.
IWin not yet acquired. But patents as
is known, is simple enough: you can buy them
immediately before the commencement of sales, the
more than that now, when finally Amiga
abandoned plans to release its own
consoles, the license should be much
cheaper than a couple of months ago.

 On the other hand, there are some
doubts over whether there was going to
Amiga at all seriously resume
own computer manufacturing. By
At least the rumor that the new
prefix Amiga, which was supposed to go
in the first quarter of 2000, will be
use a processor from Transmeta,
turned out to be nothing more than hearsay. In an interview
magazine "Time" CEO Transmeta David Dietzel
said that the company had no
arrangements with the Amiga and even more so
Nobody was going to do a processor for
this prefix. The reason for the rumors
was the most likely involved in the fate
Amiga one of the employees of Transmeta
Linus Torvalds (yeah, the same)
endorsed the idea of using Linux in
as the base OS for the Amiga.

 Note: Hidden Riot: owners
Addiction TransMeta, if to be really quite
scrupulous, never denied
such information while doing some
vague hints ... (End note).

 However, now that plans to revive
Amiga became part of history, it is already
unimportant. A pity. Well-designed
system with such a rich past, as in
Amiga, would be to show every
Playstation `s and Dreamcast` s where the crayfish
hibernate. Not fate, however.

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 This here is a message that can make
Is that the confusion in the head unsophisticated
Readers (Amiga represent what
computer, the game console, in short -
something entertaining). Despite
the existence of "credible" information that
want to clarify some points:
Gateway did not make statements in July, as
written an article about the release of the MLS.
Change of company management Amiga was
performed after previous
managers (McEwen and Collas) left
their posts, apparently disagreeing with the decision
Gateway "do not let go" AmigaNG. Well, in
Otherwise, such as seems to be true ...
Although vysheopisyvaeye events can not be called
death of the platform, but rather a heart attack.

 As strange as it sounds, but the failure
from the issue of MCC has a positive meaning
for further development. Many
developers of hardware and software for the Amiga
have taken a wait: It was
it is not clear - whether to support
"Classic" line of PowerPC, or
wait until AmigaNG. Latest
event will put everything in its place, and
to further support the PowerPC has been given
green light. Even now, the bad
times, many developers of software for
Amiga announces the release of (or plans
registration) PowerPC-versions of programs or
plug-ins for current releases.

 Christmas 1999 - the deadline
amigovskogo emergence of a new "iron."
I hope that the tone of information notes
December will not be so pessimistic.