June 6, 2000
AntiGravity Comments on Wired.com article

Anti Gravity Products wants the Amiga community to know that the comments
made in the recent Wired.com article, "Amiga Looks Like a Duck," do not
reflect the views of the Anti Gravity Team. We receive dozens of phone calls
per week from Amigans who express their opinions both negative and positive.

Since last year Mr. Petrizio has called to ask us what members of the Amiga
community are saying about Amiga. We have relayed the messages given to us
by members of the Amiga community both positive and negative with the
understanding that no public statements be printed. In the past Mr. Petrizio
has honored our requests. Nobody was more shocked than we were to find these
comments in print and to have them attributed to members of our team.

The analysis expressed in the article of the Amiga SDK represents a very
small portion of the entire discussion. That Amigans are confused about the
relationship of the classic Amiga OS to the Amiga SDK release has been the
over-riding theme of phone calls and emails by our customers. Sometimes this
is expressed negatively and sometimes it's expressed with a note of hope.
Please understand that our limited knowledge of Amiga SDK comes strictly
from the impressions of others and not our own analysis as is suggested in
the article.

Those that call and write us express an overwhelming desire to buy a new
piece of hardware that will run their programs. In more than half of the
calls they ask us, "Will it run ?"

Several statements made at different points in the conversation were thrown
together in ways unrelated to the discussion. Many of these words came out
of our mouths but were the statements of others. In all, the article fails
to express either the spirit or the substance of our discussion accurately.

We see exciting potential in the Amie OS for the products Amiga, Inc. plans
to produce. We see the BoXeR asa great place for Amie OS to grow and
prosper. We've conducted discussions with Amiga on ways that we might
participate in creating these products. We believe that the future of Amiga
is bright, and we remain committed to the future of our strategic
partnership with Amiga, Inc.

One member of our team expressed his opinion that the animation quality shown
at the St. Louis show was poor. Animations of that nature and transparent
brushes had been done on Director in 1988, and Amiga 1000 and Amiga 500
animations were not nearly so jittery as the ones shown at the show. The
comments were directed toward the hardware being used in the demonstration
and not Amie OS itself. This is a problem with Linux, and graphics card
implementations in general that needs to be overcome. In fact BoXeR
technology offers some extremely elegant solutions to correct these
problems. Of course this was not mentioned in the article either.

We hope that Wired.com doesn't have any more ducks up it's sleeve.

Sincerely,

The Anti Gravity Products Team


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