Newsgroup: it.comp.os.amiga
Titolo: Far soldi con AmigaOne

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Incredibile! C'e' persino gente che conta di far soldi con l'AmigaOne.
Devono essere matti...
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Luca
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I want to start off by giving some background.
I have been an "Amigan" since 1986 & have been coding on
the "classic" machine ever since, using varous languages
including:  Basic, FBasic, Pascal, Modula 2,  68K ASM
& of course C  (I use mainly C now).
I am also a hardware engineer, I design & manufacture
various  "goodies" as well as Amiga hardware...
I have the pointy ears & a T-shirt to prove it.  (:>
I subcontract to a company here in Australia that uses
several hundred Amiga 1200's mother boards exclusively
as advertising & presentation systems.
I created the custom interface hardware for all of these systems
& continue to expand the capabilities with VCD motion video
interfaces & custom control & networking hardware.
As you expect, we constantly have bandwidth limitations that
I have to code & hardware work-around to keep up with demand.
We have investigated using X86 hardware & looked forward
to using the DE on it, however, all our work & custom software
would have been redundant & requiring a complete re-tooling
to get us up & running again with a similar product.
To this end, the PPC news is absolutely terrific for us.
1)  Our existing 68K software can still run & provide us with an
     income while porting it to a native PPC environment.
2)  The learning curve will be easier for me as I am now getting a
     bit "long in the tooth"  after nearly 15 years as an Amiga coder
     exclusively,  I started in the early days at 26 years old, back in
1986.
     This PPC decission will allow me time to absorb the new OS and
     hardware changes without being interrupted by silly things
     like having enough money to live on.
3)  We can extend the capabilities with the factorially increased
     bandwidth of the PPC architecture & do native video on demand
     without having to resort to "external hardware"  stop gaps.
4)  We will have a hardware base that is maintainable with NEW parts
     rather than having to "salvage"  second hand boards anymore.
5)  We will eventually be able to use any hardware we choose without
     loss of  "up time",  this is one of those annoying things that is
     required when you actually run a business.... (:>
So, in short, I see this as fantastic news,  because I was having a
hell of a time trying to "get it"  with the SDK for the AmigaDE.
I still can't figure out the linux mess and was getting quite worried
about having any future with the Amiga if this was the only migration
path available,  now at least,  I have the time to adapt rather than being
dropped into the fire and getting personally osterosized by the way the
Amiga was being divided into the "old coders" & "new coders"  with
absolutely nothing in between.
Cheers !!!

un brutto ricordo. :)
Poing, *tu sei il mio incubo* peggiore...stanotte ti ho sognato, e
tanto per cambiare, parlavi male del DE! ;-)
Esci dalla mia testa! :-)
-- 
Giuseppe Gigante

 dell'imminente uscita della nuova versione che faceva questo e quello..
Critica LINUX, non l'SDK in sè.

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Gabriele vola spesso di fantasia. Di notte si sogna McEwen che critica il DE
;-))
Luca