CompuServe Messages

What Pleasance said about AAA is only parroting what former engineers at Commodore have been saying for months (even before the liquidation). The chipset is, for all practical purposes, complete. However, it will take about 18 months to fully integrate it into the OS so that there is a high level of software compatibility. According to Dave Haynie, in an informal conference he participated in on Portal several months ago, he stated that AAA has been in development for so long, was held up innumerable times because of management's unwillingness to devote R&D capital on it (they were too busy funding CDTV and the A600) that it is now no big deal when compared to some of the high end graphics cards available in the PC world. He said it still has a _few_ great advantages but would they still be advantages in 18 months when there is OS software support for the hardware? I have spoken with a few people who claim to have seen protos of RISC based Amigas (or claim they personally know someone who has seen them) that were running AmigaDOS. Do I believe them? No. But, who knows? The question I have for Mr. Pleasance, if he is successful in acquiring Commodore's assets, is, if AAA is out, what graphics subsystem is going to be used in his RISC based Amigas? Off the shelf PC cards? I think the most telling comment made in his interview with the Bickerstaffs is that he wants to have what he called "forums", in the UK and US immediately after he gains control (if). Of course, he means something like a developers conference with hardware/software producers, probably dealers and other marketers. From what I read into what he's saying, he wants the future direction of the technology to be decided by users and developers. So, for now, he may not have a clear idea of how/if the technology will evolve … he wants to gain control of the technology and let the users direct the future.