21 May 2016, 20:00 | #81 |
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If you tell them bastards, I am sure they wont help. We fuck up the community by ourselves and the way we are discussing, same on a1k.
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over at a1k - gunnar (vampire apollo) replys to thomas richter (thor)
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while the above is good to know, majsta (vampire apollo) has some more interesting things to say: Quote:
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21 May 2016, 21:22 | #84 |
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the bottom line is that a lot of time and hair pulling was spent trying to resolve these issues and also the KS licensing issues. THe Amiga community is its own worst enemy and sometimes i just want to give up as you cannot make everyone happy no matter how hard you try. There is too much greed and no regard for others.
Building the boards for users with the cheapest options gets complaints that it looks cheap, charging more for a pre-assembled gets complaints that it is obviously too much. i shake my head!! |
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CGX was the RTG system for the best cards out there (from Phase 5) and it supported many cards which were made by other manufacturers. It was a comercial product that end users had to pay for. It was hands down the best choice. Then there was Picasso96 that tried compete with CGX by being shareware and by charging companies for the development of drivers or by handing them their driver development kit. There was also SAGE from Commodore that predated all of them, but it had little publicity and had a premature death along with its parent company. MacroSystem Gmbh also released RetinaEmu which was an unreliable piece of crap that supported Retina graphic cards, which were quite affordable back then. The guys at ProDev which sold the Merlin graphics card, released ProBench which was shareware too. Then we have the guys of GVP that sold their Spectrum and Impact Vision cards, along with its variants. They provided the EGS system, which was rather good, but not without quirks, and was very popular due to low cost and availability of their hardware. So there was a lot of competition in the 90´s, but none had the features and quality CGX had. By about the year 2000, things started to change in the Amiga scene. UAE appeared and also a driver for Picasso96, which made it really popular. Then Elbox started to sell their Mediator busboards and chose PIcasso96 for them. CGX left the Amiga platform and went to become the driver standard in MorphOS. So what kolla is telling you is a pretty adequate sumary of why Picasso96 is popular, but not the best choice, and why it wasnt even competing with them. There were many players back then and CGX was on the top of the hill until they left for MorphOS. |
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21 May 2016, 22:03 | #86 |
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For those who speak German, things are getting rather ugly in the a1k thread. To me is clear everyone knows the vampire could become a huge success, thus the vultures already start circling around to cash in on it. What a sad situation, hopefully common sense may prevail and not that the vampire team walks away as it's getting really political ugly wise so that it may start to discourage the team to carry on....
Maybe drop the whole p96 thing and do it another way, as this crap ain't worth it. |
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Now whilst the email exists and was sent, i'm still going to reiterate what I said before, and that is NO-ONE unless they are monumentally stupid, sends an email telling competition of their intentions to buy the rights to something they are using, they just don't let that information get out. They stealthily secure the rights, THEN send emails. So I repeat, this email is bollocks, it is speculative and simply there to scare off the competition, and do you know what? it appears to be working, because look at the fallout. Those behind Vampire have clearly got the competition scared, thinking there was no real alternative. Now it appears there is, and everyone is clamouring for a low cost speed performance for their Amigas, and they don't like it. Keep on doing it, and if needs be, those with the skills, can resource any drivers and redo them to include NO original code whatsoever thus negating this entire situation. And theres plenty of those guys around that will be happy to help |
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So I assume its the vocal minority that complaints, with the evidence in your order backlog |
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So, do I at least understand correctly that we wrongly accused a certain J as mail sender, while it actually was sent by Hyperion?
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I checked the a1k thread once more but i didn't see a name, just the same rumours as here that a certain J was behind it (?)
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Some countries have privacy laws so i may not be allowed to say, if you read this thread though, i think someone already mentioned the name |
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22 May 2016, 00:06 | #93 |
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Ok. Understood. I saw a 'Springfield' nickname mentioned. Guess that might be it
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22 May 2016, 01:44 | #94 |
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Not to derail the thread, I think this is related.
You can't develop Cybergraphx drivers either, can you? I looked for that info years go and was told no. Even though they charged for the software and charge for MorphOS, they don't want drivers written? How did we end up the only OS family that I'm aware of who can't develop drivers to support the OS? |
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All this licensing shit is why I stick to OS3.x and pre-RTG stuff. Anything past that and it's just asking for trouble.
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If there's no money to pay for new development then that should be proof enough that the platform is commercially dead (in case someone missed that) so whywould one choose to be remembered as a greedy bastard when he can do the sane thing and be remembered as a hero Oh well....How did the once healthy(?) and happy(?) Amiga community end up with 68k Amiga OS3.x, PPC Amiga OS4.x, AROS, MorphOS. Clearly the track record doesn't show a great deal of interest to cooperate and get along. http://www.quotes-central.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/i-believe-all-suffering-is-caused.png |
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22 May 2016, 03:18 | #97 |
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I am getting drunk now so excuse for my silly proposal. But why dont the hw producers who wants to opensource other peoples work opensourcee their own work? I think it would be a good beginning if they opened up cgfx and then they open up the vampire secreeets.
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22 May 2016, 03:29 | #98 |
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Vampire is giving a way to pay for it.
Picasso96 is in a strange business model of: 1. Release binaries to the public. 2. Give no way to register and don't reply to inquiries. 3. ???? 4. Profit! At least Cgx was paid upfront, paid in MorphOS. I still don't get why Cgx doesn't release the driver DDK though. How would that do anything except crush the competition? They could start selling it online again since it would be the only legal option that can still be purchased. They wouldn't even need to update it, just start registration again. I've got no problem paying if they're selling. |
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