amiga-news.de - Amiga Future: Interview with Fleecy Moss

26.Jan.2000
Amiga Times Amiga Future: Interview with Fleecy Moss
The translation of the article is now available (see below).

Original article:
Amiga Future posted a small part of an interview with Fleecy Moss on their website (German only). The whole interview will be released in issue 23rd of Amiga Future, which will be released on February 23rd, 2000.

According to the part of the interview posted, shipping of the development environment is planned for end of February, and the new system will come with an emulation enabling old software to run (and it's not UAE: "The team writing this emulator have full access to all chipset and OS sources".)

A translation of the text:

Interview with Fleecy Moss

This is of course only a small part of a large interview going to be released in issue 23 of Amiga Future (released February 23rd, 2000).

Hello Fleecy, you are surely a no-name yet to some of our readers, so please introduce yourself in short.

Fleecy: Hi folks, I am Fleecy Moss, age 33 and passionate Amigian. I am happily wedded to my wife Elspeth. We have three kids already, our boys Seth (9) and Yerran (8) and our 15 month old daughter Evie. Aside from Amiga, we greatly enjoy stuff like football, skiing, and gardening. Additionally, I am a fan of beer and wine.

LetÂ's talk about the future. After all the time standing still, there is a new owner again, going into a new direction again. What are your plans for the first 6-9 months of the year 2000?

Fleecy: Our development program has top priority right now, meaning a development einvironment for the New Amiga shipping at the end of February, minimum. We also work feverishly on deals guaranteeing developers a profitable market. And we also work on a plan making the transition from the old Amigas to the new ones as smooth as possible.

Are there already specific plans what to do with the so-called Amiga Classic line?

There will probably be a continued development of Amiga OS by third parties, since we know that the step towards a completely new system will take some effort for some. There will be an emulation on the New Amiga, enabling old software on the new systems. The team writing this emulation has full access to all chipset and OS sources.

Now about the new Amiga. Will the development of the new platform and operating system be done completely in-house?

The new Amiga operating system will be developed by the Tao Group, an English company with Amiga background. We will do the Usuability Layer for the new OS. The operating system is a RTOS and will be the perfect multimedia OS. It will additionally be hardware independant.

Will there be downward compatibility to the old Amiga?

Yes, as I said, there will be a software emulator, which is being worked upon.

When, and where, will the new system be presented to the public for the first time?

As said before, be can say for sure when we have it on our desk. Of course we will then be present on the larger shows like Comdex and E3 (world largest entertainment software show), too. And of course we will be participating in the traditional Amiga events, like the St. Louis show in April or the British WOA in May.

Write us your opinion! By mail, Fax or online in our forum!
(c) by APC&TCP, Andreas Magerl (Translation: mb)

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