-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [TA] setting some things straight Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:19:45 -0500 From: "fleecy moss" <fleecy@earthlink.net> Reply-To: teamamiga@thule.no To: <teamamiga@thule.no> In my trawling around the community hangouts, I have come across several misconceptions, rumours, and a lot of confusion. Whilst I can't hope to answer everything, here are some things I want to set straight. 0. Amiga will build a digital content universe. Digital content means anything composed of 0 and1 - applications, video, audio, games, emails, whatever. We will focus on 2 markets, the pathfinder market, for digital adventurers, power users, gamers, content creators, DTPers, artists, video ppl and those who refuse to define a computer as a digital appliance. Our second market will cocentrate on the Domestic Digital Habitat (DDH). 1. If you are a personal computer person, there will be a personal computer second wave Amiga. 2. We will support classic development in so much as we want to help users and developers transition to a new machine. That will be the total extent of our support for the classic machine. If this involves further AmigaOS releases, then so be it. 3. We are targetting x86 and PPC for the first consumer release of Pathfinder products (if you are a personal computer person, this means you). 4. We will do everything in our power (that doesnt bankrupt us or interfere with our primary goals) to ensure classic Amiga software runs on the new machine in some form or another.. The new Amiga product family (formerly called AQUA) will run natively and hosted. This is to create a large market fast for Amiga developers to profit from. For the first pathfinder release it will run hosted to see this market grow fast. We see one of our core duties as serving the developers. 6. We are talking to the Phoenix Consortium about common interests. 7. We have been contacted by QNX but currently have no plans to work with them. 8. We will develop Amiga products for another market, the Domestic Digital Habitat (DDH) market. This markets will be kept separate but products will work together if the installer so desires it. 9. There will be a new website and it will be public shortly. It has been tested on all browsers, Amiga and non Amiga, and given the compatibility problems between the implementations of open standards, our best effort has been made. The site will grow quickly and more information will be added. We want it to become a village where all Amigans can come to voice their opinions, chat, and travel off to different parts of the Amiga universe. a. A developer support manager has been selected and they are working on implementing the developer support program. This will be in place before the developer boxes are released. b. The developer boxes are specced out, we have contacted several whitebox manufacturers and we are building the distribution. c. Amiga will not provide dates until we have a product. We will share timelines, but will not attach dates to them. Enough damage has already been done. d. We have had acceptances from 75% of our development team and their names and roles will be announced once we get back from training (before the end of the month). This mail can be redistributed without modification within the community. As further questions and issues come up, we will attempt to answer them.