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Amiga: New Amiga
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The new version of Amiga Explorer 2007, which carries the "Works with Windows Vista" logo, is part of a constant effort of Cloanto to support the latest platforms. Amiga Forever 2006 was designed with Windows Vista support in mind from the beginning, but Amiga Explorer required some extra work, such as development of the 64-bit namespace extension. The MenuBox launcher, which was ... originally developed for use in Amiga Forever, was among the first 100 applications worldwide to pass the "Certified for Windows Vista" test, as published by Microsoft last week.
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For its time, the Amiga had some of the most impressive sound and graphics (through several coprocessors) available for the home user. Indeed, it was ... used for commercial entertainment production till the mid 1990s (Video editing, 3D graphics rendering etc). NewTek marketed a special graphics rendering solution of the Amiga, called the Video Toaster - Video Toaster was used to render the space ships in the first season of Babylon 5, and were involved in numerous other major movie productions without ever being credited. NewTek also created the Lightwave 3D rendering program on the Amiga, which they eventually ported to the PC and is still being sold today. [1]
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Note that these are just the first of many more concept sketches, more than likely intended to gauge public opinion and ease people into the breadth of possibilities the new Amiga will present. The new Amiga is going to be as much of a culture shock to existing Amigans as the non-Amiga world, just as the A1000 was back in 1985.
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[T]he lack of a new Amiga computer hurt the platform greatly. Commodore was bought at liquidation by Escom AG, a German PC firm who wanted only the Commodore brand name and logo, and had no interest in the Amiga. Escom itself went bankrupt a few years later, and the Amiga was briefly bought out by set-top manufacturer VISCorp, before they too filed for liquidation.
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In the meantime many companies left the Amiga marketplace. However a few companies thrived, even creating brand new Amiga based machines. They were supported by a large and vocal user base. Many programs came from individuals who saw a way to do something better and made it themselves. This has established a large programming base and tens of thousands of freeware and shareware programs.
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May saw the first concept sketches of the new Amiga available on the Amiga site, quickly followed by the discovery of another concept sketch hidden elsewhere on the site. Labelled "Kyoto" (a name I quite like, though it's probably only a codename and ... will never be used), the sketch details two possible Amiga hardware platforms - carelessly, but unanimously, dubbed the "iMac" and "Palm Pilot" by various Amiga and non-Amiga sources. In fact, the iMac style Amiga is really a tightly integrated, but separate, monitor and case combination as discovered on the hidden sketch - this is no iMac as it's not an all-in-one unit. The palmtop model isn't even a palmtop: think Newton.
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