amiga-news.de - Archive

pro Seite
Show titles only

Archive 'News from the business world'

`16.Jul.2001` Amiga Inc.	Edivision LLC working with Amiga Inc. Edivision Teams Up With Amiga To Develop Exciting New Content Snoqualmie, WA - July 12, 2001 Edivision LLC announced today that they would create game applications for the Amiga Digital Environment (AmigaDE). The company plans to create 3 titles in the coming year for the AmigaDE environment. The games will be distributed through the Sharp Space Town web site for release in Japan and through other Amiga distribution channels worldwide. Amiga and Edivision also announced a joint relationship where Edivision would provide key pieces of technology for the AmigaDE. The principals at Edivision have more than 30 years of experience in the computer graphics field. Patrick Roberts created 2D and 3D effects for Walt Disney's feature animation classic "Dinosaur". He has also created software and animation for Dreamworks Animation, Disney Classics and the Disney channel. Jeremy Engelman is one of the finest 3D artists in the world. His best-known work is the artwork for Cyan's Riven, the sequel to Myst. Steven Haun is an award-winning computer graphics producer with more than 10 years of experience in the computer graphics and entertainment industry. His credits include effects production for Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, ABC, CBS, and Fox Television. "This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some exciting content and an enjoyable experience that they will want to share with others," said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "Patrick, Jeremy and Steven are longtime supporters of Amiga and we appreciate their contributions to driving adoption of our software. With their expertise in gaming and the entertainment industry, we look forward to some revolutionary games for the PDA market." "We are very excited to be working with Amiga to generate compelling content for the AmigaDE," said Patrick Roberts, one of the founders at Edivision. "When Amiga announced their relation with Sharp, we saw this as an opportunity to get in early on a new, exciting gaming platform. Devices like the Sharp Zaurus and other PDA's offer the ability to reach a new and different generation of gamers." Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set of releases. The company is also negotiating with other content providers to bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform. The market for video games in the United States, which includes arcade, PC, console, and online gaming, is currently estimated to be worth $11 billion. The AmigaDE platform allows developers to create game applications that target this market. The binary portable nature of AmigaDE content allows applications to migrate seamlessly from cell phones and handheld devices to set-top boxes and up to desktop machines and servers. Edivision Press Release Los Angeles, CA - July ##, 2001 Edivision LLC announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Amiga, Inc. Amiga, Inc. will have world-wide distribution rights on software titles Edivision will produce using the AmigaDE operating environment. Also under the agreement Edivision will make technology it develops for its AmigaDE titles available to Amiga, Inc. Edivision LLC will create 3 development labels over the next year that run on the AmigaDE platform. Two labels will be exclusively devoted to entertainment titles, while the third will provide utilities, drivers, and extended functionality. Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set of releases, but the company is also negotiating with other developers to bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform. "This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some exciting content and an enjoyable experience that they will want to share with others," said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "With their expertise in gaming and the entertainment industry, we look forward to some revolutionary games for the PDA market." "Titles created for the AmigaDE are capable of running unmodified on a number of platforms including PocketPC, Zaurus, Windows, and Linux. This gives us a tremendous advantage in bringing a title to market." remarked Steven Haun, CFO of Edivision. "It allows us to focus development on the title itself and not the limitations of cross-platform least common denominator intrinsics." About Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com. About Edivision Edivision LLC was formed in May 2001 in Los Angeles, CA. Its founders, Patrick Roberts, Jeremy Engelman, and Steven Haun are veterans of the computer gaming industry. They have received numerous awards and accolades for their cutting-edge work in computer graphics and animation. For more details about Edivision, visit http://www.e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com or contact Steven Haun at Steven.Haun@e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com or via phone at (323) 578-1998. All Trademarks are the Property of their Respective Owners. All Rights Reserved. ## (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 20:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jul.2001` Amiga Inc.	AMIGA Inc. News press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Amiga joins Tao in its plans to support Open Contents Platform Association Snoqualmie, WA - July 13, 2001 Amiga today announced its support of the Open Content Platform Association (OCPA), The Tao Group, along with Sharp, JVC and Kyocera, launched the OCPA today to promote the creation of a flexible and open environment that will benefit hardware vendors and content developers. The Amiga developer community is the largest and most experienced at creating applications targeting the intent platform from Tao. Amiga developers are well known in the industry for creating compelling multimedia applications. Amiga is already working with a number of Tao partners to deliver games and productivity applications for the intent platform. "The standardization of the intent platform will help Amiga's development community target a broad number of hardware devices", said Bill McEwen, the President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "Our experience with intent has shown that it is an excellent platform for building multimedia applications. We have more than 18 months of expertise in creating application that run on intent and we look forward to working with the OCPA to share our experience with them." "Amiga has been an excellent partner with a worldwide development community that can benefit from this initiative", said Francis Charig, Chairman of the Tao Group. "Amiga's inputs will be valuable to the working members of the OCPA and we welcome their participation." Amiga offers developers a number of programs and products to help build applications. The Amiga SDK (available at http://www.amiga.com) offers a development environment and tools for developers. The Amiga Support Network (http://www.amigadev.net) offers developers a forum for discussion, mailing lists, and other infrastructure for joint collaboration efforts. Amiga has also signed a distribution agreement with Sharp Corporation that allows content created by Amiga developers to be distributed on Sharp Space Town. Sharp Space Town provides applications and other content that run on the Sharp Zaurus and other Sharp PDA devices. Amiga also offers distribution channels for worldwide markets. About Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating system which is hardware and operating system agnostic. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Contacts: Bill McEwen Amiga, Inc. Tel: +1 (425) 396-5660 Fax: +1 (425) 396-5671 Email: bill@amiga.com http://www.amiga.com (ps) [News message: 14. Jul. 2001, 22:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jul.2001` Steffen Haeuser (ANF)	Hyperion and the StormC 4 Steffen Haeuser wrote: After our reactions on the "StormC 4 news" I was asked by Ben Hermans to explain our position on this topic to clarify some misunderstandings and falsifications. At Heretic II times we were using a "self development" called gcc-WarpUP, a self standing port of gcc to WarpUP and 68k. This compiler had the substantial disadvantage that no debugger - very important for program testing and fast bug fixing - was available (and wasn't easily made, either). Besides that the compiling speed was quite slow (despite PPC exe), and there was no GUI available. At that time this compiler was the only alternative, though: SAS/C: Even when leaving aside the missing WarpOS support, this compiler isn't really suitable for a "big" PC port. Doing a PC port there's normally a heavy use of C++, and when a compiler isn't 100% compatible with the standard used by compilers like gcc/VisualC++/Metroworks CodeWarrior - inclusive possible "enhancements" of these compilers - doing a port is made much more difficult, if not even impossible. It may well be possible to develop a C project with such a compiler but not a C++ project. The only one of our projects being not C++ was Heretic II. And the most of our projects rely HEAVILY on C++, with STL and all things belonging to it. Because of that we don't feel like doing long ports and then, when linking, having to realize that the compiler isn't compatible enough with gcc/... making a compiler change necessary. vbcc: In my opinion this is a great compiler, too, but as it doesn't support C++ using this compiler is completely out of question for us. Besides that we prefer a commercial product. In case of bugs you may demand a fast bugfix, or you get telephone support or so. But sure, the vbcc is a good compiler - but it simply doesn't suit our needs. By the way: vbcc has no source level debugger, either (wosdebug is not source level but assembler level). StormC 3: For StormC 3 (in contrary to 4) counts the same as for SAS/C - a special compiler not compatible enough for the Amiga market. Now Haage&Partner have decided to drop their "own" code generator in favour of the gcc code generator - what was welcomed by us - with the version 4 of StormC. That means: StormC 4 has more in common with gcc-WarpUP than with StormC 3. That means that with StormC 4 you get all what you get with gcc-WarpUP but additionally you get the special features of the StormC that gcc-WarpUP doesn't offer: A superb source level debugger 40% faster compiling than with gcc-WarpUP thanks to optimizations (in the PPC version) A significiantly more efficient I/O linker library A profiler for 68k and PPC A graphical IDE The possibility to compile via network (Partly) Object file compatibility with StormC 3 and vbcc-WarpUP and SAS/C 68k The possibility to create mixedbinaries The possibility to easily create PPC shared libraries Support possibilities from the developer (very important for us, no matter what compiler !!!) Though this sounds like advertising: For a developer of commercial software there's simply no alternative to StormC 4 on the Amiga. And I don't see any rason why people absolutely want to talk about an alternative. If I only think of the many weeks (!!!) of work the debugger of StormC 4 has shortened my work on the port of Freespace. These are REAL working hours I have saved through this. By the way, the BSD compatibility of the includes of StormC (as gcc derivative) is considerably better than the one of the CodeWarrior includes for MacOS. Steffen Haeuser Hyperion Entertainment SteffenH@hyperion-software.de (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Jul. 2001, 17:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Merlancia Industries	Dave Haynie: CTO of Merlancia Industries Dava Haynie is the new CTO of Merlancia Industries. Dave Haynie might be well known by any Amiga user, cause he's a kind of living legend. The following is a brief summary of his career so far: Dave Haynie studied electronic engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University. After his studies four month of employment at General Electric he was hired by Commodore in September 1983 to support their "TED" project, which was started by Jack Tramiel. Later the C116 emerged from the "TED" project. While his times at Commodore Haynie decisively worked on many projects, like several 8 bit machines (e.g. C128), the Amigas A500, A2000, A2500, A3000, and A4000, Zorro-III, and he took part in the development of the AA and AAA chipsets, etc.. All in all he spent 11½ years at Commodore. 'Beside' of that he wrote about 50 articles for Amiga magazines of those times; Amiga Sentry, .Info, Amiga Transactor, Amazing Computing, Amiga World, etc.. Furthermore he wrote some developer tools and the FFS tool "DiskSalv". Some of his 'stations' at Commodore: 1983: Commodore "TED" project, low-cost VIC-20 replacement. 1984: Commodore 128 project, the sequel to the venerable Commodore 64.. 1986: Amiga 2000-B - slot-based Amiga. He designed the gate-array (Buster) and a "coprocessor interface" for the CPU slot. 1988: Amiga 2620/2630: 68020/30 CPU cards for the Amiga 2000. 1989: Amiga 3000: First fully 32-bit Amiga architecture. As a co-creator of the system, he designed the basic system architecture, the Zorro III expansion bus standard, and the "Buster" bus control gate array which implemented Zorro III. 1991: Amiga 3000+": initially a product oriented design, this coupled the new Amiga "AA" system/graphics chipset, an AT&T DSP3210 media coprocessor, 16-bit audio and modem CODECs, etc. Management changes canceled the project, though some of its "DNA" lived on the Amiga 4000 and 1200. He also developed basic modular "Acutiator" architecture for next-generation Amiga systems. 1992: Developed 32-bit SCSI controller for Amiga 4000, architecture for stand-alone DSP add-in cards, and prototype of "AAA" motherboard, for Commodore's 4th generation, 64-bit Amiga graphics system. System works, but by 1993, there's no money left to fix the four full-custom ASICs. 1994: Developed plug-in graphics subsystem for the Amiga. Commodore declares bankruptcy, this is never built. Haynie created a 2-hours video about the last day at Commodore and the goodbye-party, known by the name of "The Deathbed Vigil and Other Tales of Digital Angst". This video for example is as a bonus content of the "Amiga Forever" CD by Cloanto. After his times at Commodore Dave Haynie worked for the Scala Inc. company for a short time, where about 80% of the former Commodore engineers met, again. In November 1995 Amiga Technologies contracted him to consult for the PowerAmiga project. He developed a concept, but due to Escom's financial problems this project got canceled. After that, in May 1996, Haynie was contracted by the PIOS Computer AG, where he was in charge of the hardware. Shortly before founded by Stefan Domeyer PIOS engaged also other former Amiga Int. or Commodore employees, among them such clinking names like Dr. Peter Kittel and Andy Finkel. PIOS formed up to become a successful distributor of PowerPC hardware and to make the PowerAmiga dream reality - the term of "PiosONE" was born. Later from the PIOS Computer AG the Met@box AG emerged, a group of meanwhile six companies with among other things Settop boxes as part of their product line. Me@box made application for insolvency in May 2001. More stations on Haynie's way: 1999 - Fleecy Moss started the KOSH project to develop a new open source operating system for the Amiga - Dave Haynie is responsible for the hardware. systems and audio. 1999 - The "Phoenix Platform Consortium" to define the Amiga's future was founded - beside of Dave Haynie also Carl Sassenrath, RJ Mical, Wolf Dietrich (Phase 5), and Dan Dodge (QNX) were part of it. 2001 - In July Dave Haynie became CTO of Merlancia Industries. He contributed information for the "The International Technology And. Computing Historical Association" ITACHA, who collect 'artefacts' from technic and computer industry and make these information available online. Unfortunately at this time there is only one page about the "C65" available. Also a really rich source for Amiga devotees are the "The Dave Haynie Archives". Last but not least it might be to mention that he became known and dear to many of the Amiga community as a an unweary, all-time helpful co-worker/partner/friend. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 20:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` amiga.org (ANF)	CNet: Psion leaving handheld business Psion, who were about to utilize the AmigaDE for future PDAs, will leave the handheld business. The reason might be that Psion do not have enough financial resources to compete with PalmOS or WinCE products. The share declined in price to it's all-time-low during the last weeks. But Psion is working on the Netbook. It is obscure to what extent these changes will affect the use of the AmigaDE. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 15:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Golem IT-News (ANF)	Golem: Motorola at severe loss As to read at golem.de Motorola suffers from a crisis in the tele-communication market. The company drew sales of 7.5 millions USD in 1Q/01 which stands for a minus of 19% compared to last year's sales. Follow the title link for the Golem article (German). Edtor's note: Since at the moment every chip manufacturer in fact is in the same situation this seems to be more likely a normal evolution of market. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 15:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

1 108 210 ... <- 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 -> ... 229