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26 February 2007, 20:43
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Amiga Inc. registers new brands in Germany
According to this report on http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-...-00087-DE.html, Amiga Inc. registers the brands AMIGA ENABLED and AMIGA ANYWHERE in Germany!
What are they going to do?! 
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26 February 2007, 21:02
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superFreak
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the less they do the better. My feeling is they are just registering this so they can sue other for using it. Amiga inc is not capabile of creating anyting new or worthwhile
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26 February 2007, 21:11
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Thalion Webshrine
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NO JOKE:
They are about to launch a Classic Amiga emulator for Cable & Satellite set-top-boxes in the similar mould to the Virtual Console on the Wii. They are offering 25% of the sale price (about $1 per sale) to ex-Amiga developers who sign up and offer their products for over-air / internet download. It almost certainly will be a disaster. |
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26 February 2007, 21:11
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Pirate
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26 February 2007, 21:16
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Thalion Webshrine
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They tried to contact Thalion several months ago to sign us up and I spent several hours phoning round the copyright holders and passing on the details that Bill McEwen sent me.
They all wrote back to him and he never replied. WTF?!? I doubt they could squeeze a quality Amiga emulator onto a set-top-box anyhow. 250MHz PowerPC / MIPS is not exactly the speed you would need to run UAE unoptimised. |
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26 February 2007, 21:19
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superFreak
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hmmmm, they don't own any content.... they will host OS1.3 and 3.1? beside it makes sense with the Wii, but to buy/rent at set top box to play old games you can run better in uae? retarded.
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26 February 2007, 21:48
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Stuck in the 80s
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I wish they'd give up! For the love of god will no one let the Amiga name rest in peace
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27 February 2007, 00:35
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Thalion Webshrine
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They are going after the MAJORITY which are ordinary people who have a set-top-box in their home because they have cable or satellite. The hardware is free with their subscription TV package which they happily pay for to watch LOST and 24 etc. There are about 20x-30x more STB's in homes than any Wii, PS3 or XBOX360 combined! The idea, the platform AND the buisness is VERY VERY real and if they could pull it off it would be a nice little earner. However the content is very very old, most kids over 8-9 would look at it and go "yeah whatever, where is the 3D?" and the set-top-boxes are so underpowered for emulation. That said people still play the lame VERY slow Java games which are installed on most set-top-boxes, enough to make those companies millions of dollars a year! Last edited by alexh; 27 February 2007 at 00:43. |
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