I’m sure that 4 years ago, when this was 1st announced, and they supposedly had contracts with MS and others, that a lot of developers did care. The more content becomes available for the Intent and/or Amiga Anywhere, the more they will care about offering Intent / Amiga Anywhere support. (on AA also C, C++, VP, etc)Ģ) Solution providers – They want content. □ġ) Developers – For instance people who care to create advanced multi-platform games or multimedia, without having solely Java solutions as an option. Try Microsoft and Apple instead, maybe they will officially support the Pegasos with a Windows and MacOS X version. Seriously without a proper 3rd party Pegasos/OS4 support network, I don’t think any company would take an email from sole Pegasos user seriously. Yes one user send them an email… But AFAIK no company has in recent years approached them with regard to Pegasos support. > OS4 licence for the Pegasos and they just ignore them… > They have people contacting them offering to *pay* for an There many interviews available with Amiga Anywhere developers addressing this question. My guess, because they prefer the development tools and see a potential market developing. > target way more customers by developing WinCE/Palm/Java > Why would developers write apps/games for it when they may Some Amigans behave as if the original Amiga 1000 computer took the world by storm and was swimming in software abundance since day 1 of release! Tao’s intent already comes bundled with more devices than the millions of classic Amigas sold in the past alltogether.Īlso developing innovative and useful technologies takes lots of time and effort. > the (little) success of it it seems I’m not the only one. > keep on promoting their pseudo “universal” layer and seeing > I really don’t see where they want to go… and why they Would come in handy for doing easy software comparisons like I do with my AmigaAnywhere Leo Most of older games don’t run and most of those which do run without sound.Īnyway does anyone know a good Java MIDlet player/mobile emulator? Can’t seem to find anything. For instance I have a cool Samsung SGH-D500 cellphone (J2ME), but I am pretty dissapointed with the backwards compatibility with older Java games. Similar as Sun’s “Java Everywhere” slogan, “Everywhere” only includes the platforms for which JVMs are available (currently not AmigaOS). The game is pretty cool, have a look at this video done by me: Intent is currently used in many millions of devices around the world, often completely tranparent to the user.ĪmigaAnywhere software can potentially (provided sufficient specs) run on any platform where AmigaAnywhere is available (currently millions of WinCE /PocketPC smartphones & PDA and millions of Windows powered desktop PCs, but has been publicly demonstrated on Linux powered desktops and Zaurus PDAs as well).įor instance ZeoNeo’s AmigaAnywhere game Invasion comes supplied with a transparent copy of AmigaAnywhere, to the user the game will look as just any other WinCE game. There were development kits for Windows and Linux, but as far as I know, there has never been an end user VM for Linux.ĪmigaAnywhere’s core is based on Tao Group’s Intent multimedia engine, which was originally developed by an oldtime Amiga games developer. In practice, the only “AmigaAnywhere” software that has been released is a few titles that somehow only work on WinCE devices, and a few titles that play in a Windows VM. And, of course having the Amiga name on it, it was supposed to be very graphically oriented. Or, you could just run the same application on any supporting device (which was supposed to be a lot). This would in theory let you put two totally different processors in the same machine, and have each do what it does best. The original documentation showed that it would even compile different classes to different target processors at run time within the same application. It was supposed to compile the byte code into native code on any of several dozen processesors at run time. Back when it was first announced, when it was still called AmigaDE, it was supposed to be a next gen Java VM.
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