Japanese to buy C=?
I'm doing CD32 development in Montreal for a UK company, and I'm disturbed by
all this talk of the Amiga being bought by a 'Large Japanese Company' ( maybe
Nintendo )
The great thing about the Amiga range is that all the technical info needed for
programming is freely available, and until CD32, no license fee was required to
release software. This has led to the creation of a large number of
developers, large and small, and a huge variety of program types. Compare this
to the world of Sega and Nintendo where only companies who pay huge fees can
develop for their consoles (and only seem to produce platform game after
platform game after….).
History shows that companies such as Nintendo and Sega are only interesteed in
completely controlling the market. They would milk amiga developers for all
they are worth, and restrict access to the market place in the name of 'quality
control'. You can bet your life that if either of these companies aquired the
Amiga, it would be the end of the Amiga as a computer – CD32 would be the only
survivor. After all, they couldn't allow the A1200 to remain on sale because
it makes CD32 development to easy for everyone to do!
I'm sorry if this all sounds a bit paranoid – but I love my Amiga setup; the
CD32 is the best console around, and is the only one that doesn't require doing
development on a PC with Rom emulators etc (yuck!) – a time consuming and
laborious process.
Just got a call from the UK – News from the rumour mill is that Philips are
trying to buy the Amiga rights. I don't know how true this is (its not first
hand) but it appears they want CD32 to complement their struggling CD-i ( CD32
for the games market, CD-i for the more 'mature' audience! ). We'll have to
wait and see….
Mal