Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Not contract work, it looks like it was put together by an Aeon distributor.
This magazine used to see a lot more distribution, but printed media is losing a lot of readers.
And the editors are probably pretty clueless about the entire retro phenomenon.
Pockets of a few hundred to a few thousand maintaining projects on a remarkable range of platforms because we want to.
Practicality, economics, or any other sound business principles go out the window when you're approaching this as a hobby.
So every few years, we get someone from the outside publishing something like this 'Amiga's back' article.
Nothing new, but if people want to pretend it's all a practical, logic, sensible business idea for the general public and not something catering to a small community of hobbyist's...you can cycle back to the first two words of this sentence.
Just more Bill McEwen type dillusions.
[ Edited by Jim 05.10.2017 - 19:23 ]"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
). AeonKit is a newcomer, a latecomer, on the scene and hasn't in practice meant much for anyone in comparison, neither has OS4 itself. The article could also have mentioned the classic scene, the emulation- and preservation scene with Amiga Forever being central, and Cloanto, current owner of the Amiga IP. Focusing the spotlight on AeonKit and Hyperion makes the article reek of contract work. It probably is. And since Hyperion is involved, it's probably part of their Hybrid Warfare strategy in their current ongoing battle to assimilate more Amiga IP from the hands of others by various schemes of judicial robbery. Various trademarks is currently on the agenda, for example. Published articles like this can weight more than Wikipages written by blind fanboys.
