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Posted by DiscreetFX on 2008/9/25 10:09:55 (2549 reads) News by the same author

Chicago, Illinois ? September 24th, 2008 - For Immediate Release

Amiga Seeding the Success Campaign from DiscreetFX

This months Seeding the Success Campaign is going to be a little different. The winner is Rogue from Hyperion Entertainment for all his hard work on Amiga OS 4.1.

He will of course get $100 but instead of Paypaling money we have set-up a Instant Bounty for him to receive a Sony PS3. We read with great interest in the recent Ars Technica interview that a port of Amiga OS 4.1 to PS3 had been seriously considered. We then read with sadness a comment from Rogue on aw.net that he did not have a PS3 and could not experiment on doing a port without one.

So getting Rogue a PS3 is the focus of Amiga Seeding the Success this month, We need your help though since Sony's PS3 is $399 plus tax and shipping and we have contributed only $100 of that. Once the goal of $399 plus shipping/tax is reached we will close this Instant Bounty and purchase/ship a PS3 to the address Rogue provides us. We expect this to be a fast and easy bounty so one of the lead OS 4.1 developers can have a PS3 in his possession quickly.

Instant Bounty for Rogue's PS3

DiscreetFX has always strongly believed in OS 4.0/4.1 for the PS3 and has mentioned that to Hyperion many times. Hopefully this Bounty effort with your help can bring us one step closer to making it happen . The PS3 is already very Amiga like and even has one of the creators of the Amiga working on it (R J Mical). Sony's PS3 has millions of owners, many of which used to own an Amiga. Amiga OS 4.1 on PS3 would help expand and re-legitimize the Amiga brand, even if you own a SAM440, AmigaOne or mystery OS 4.1 box. More ways to run OS 4.1 will benefit users and developers. DiscreetFX believes in doing what it can to help make modern Amiga & Amiga like systems successful.

Best regards

- DiscreetFX Team

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Author	Thread
Elwood	Published: 2008/9/25 12:57 Updated: 2008/9/25 12:57
Just can't stay away Joined: 12/09/2006 From: Lyon, France Comments: 1364	Re: Amiga Seeding the Success Campaign from DiscreetFX Ro... I believe that Hardware won't be enough. There's a lot of work to do and this would require an investment too. But this is a nice idea anyway.

orgin	Published: 2008/9/25 16:03 Updated: 2008/9/25 16:03
Supreme Council Joined: 11/16/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 3266	Re: Amiga Seeding the Success Campaign from DiscreetFX Ro... IIRC you don't get enough access to the PS3 hardware running in the supervisor to even do the new hardware composition. Probably not even able to do hardware gfx scaling for video players and such.

ssolie	Published: 2008/9/25 17:27 Updated: 2008/9/25 17:27
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Canada Comments: 986	Re: Amiga Seeding the Success Campaign from DiscreetFX Ro... @DiscreetFX Regardless of the changes of success it sure is great to see somebody putting their money where their mouth is. Kudos for that alone.

orgin	Published: 2008/9/26 14:22 Updated: 2008/9/26 14:22
Supreme Council Joined: 11/16/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 3266	Re: Amiga Seeding the Success Campaign from DiscreetFX Ro... $570 ATOW $230 more and then Thomas can get one too. (After that os4.x development will stall I guess ;)

DiscreetFX	Published: 2008/9/26 22:48 Updated: 2008/9/26 22:48
Just popping in Joined: 10/05/2007 From: Chicago Comments: 144	Re: Amiga Seeding the Success Campaign from DiscreetFX Ro... If the brothers only wanted to play games all day they have had many options to do that for many years. I think it is their dream to create an updated exciting version of Amiga OS and they have done that.