Amiga News?
by Ron Schwartz, the AmiTech-Dayton Gazette, February 2004
I have been constantly perusing several of the Amiga web sites looking for any news of interest and after several attempts, all I can say is ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. The only things I have seen of interest over the last few days was announcement of a new program for the Amiga called Hollywood Designer. It is an editor to generate presentations, games for Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood, whatever that is. A new 256 color Icon set has bee announced for OS-4. Whoopee. Probably the most interesting thing announced recently is the limited availability of preproduction versions of the Amiga One mini ATX boards. One of the things that many of us have longed for and never had is an Amiga Laptop and the mini boards may provide the potential for this to happen. Of course the major problem with that is the continuing unavailability of OS-4, a major element in obtaining any new generation Amiga, laptop or desktop.
The Pegasos/Morph OS system appears to be more promising at this point, if for no other reason than the fact that there is a central organization responsible for the development and marketing the system and the complete system is available. On the Amiga side, As long as Amiga, Inc. is in limbo there will be no concentrated marketing effort, unless Eyetech and Hyperion can get together and establish an integrated development and marketing program.
For now all we can is cross our fingers and hope that both, but at least one of these systems becomes adequately accepted to generate a user base sufficient support the system, which can result in further development to insure that the resulting systems will be developed adequately to become leading edge state of the art systems. So keep those fingers crossed.