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In <4l0u36$6bj@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, apierre@ix.netcom.com(Anthony R Pierre) writes:

>Scala is an Excellent product for the Amiga. When I show what the Amiga
>is capable of, the first program that I 'run' to is Scala. The "Time"
>demo is excellent!!

Thank you.

>Mr. Chang, we all have opinions and are, as you say entitled to them.
>But when it comes to support for the Amiga, let's face it... it is
>dwindling rapidly. As for support from Scala, I am sure that there will
>be some support, but your programs are basically 'bug-free' on that
>front. You might need to answer technical questions about doing certain
>things within Scala, but will there be any more versions for the Amiga
>after MM400? You might say that I am jumping to conclusions. You might
>be right. How about telling me (us Amiga owners) some type of future
>news outside of the PowerAmiga?  I can understand your excitement over
>MM100, but it 'appears' to me that there really isnt mentioned anything
>about the Amiga.

You still didn't answer the question of whether you have read the logs
of the Scala IRC sessions in several past issues of "Amiga Report".  If
you had, you would have read that our new software technology,
"Scala BackBone(tm)" is platform independent, binary independent,
scalable and modular.  For more information on BackBone, please visit
our website at http://www.scala.com.

So, what does BackBone mean to you?  Well, nearly 80% of MM100 for the
PC, which is the first personal computer implementation of BackBone, can be
ported back to the exisiting ECS or AGA Amiga and possibly the proposed
Power Amiga.  It took us three long years to develop BackBone, which means
that it makes it less expensive to port MM100 back to the Amiga.  Is this
the "future news" that you are looking for?

>asked and presented how I felt. I didnt 'flame' you or anyone. I even
>stated I saw nothing wrong with making a PC product. Business is
>business. But saying that I felt that the Amiga would be left behind
>(yes, you explained about Backbone and the Amiga. But remember, we ARE
>talking about an Amiga, not a PC that required Scala to make an OS to
>get the product to run) is what I get from reading your messages. There
>were a few big "if's" in them and I would just like to have them
>clarified. Not much to ask is it? 

Mr. Pierre, the AGA chipset, isn't that far removed from the original
OCS chipset found on the Amiga 1000, when it was released in 1985.  Indeed,
the Amiga has aged well, but the simple fact is that there is technology
today that displaces 10 to 20 times the power of the AGA chipset, at nearly
half the cost.  The existing Amigas are at the end of their market viability,
as a personal computer.  Thus the urgent need to develop the Power Amiga,
if the Amiga is to compete in the personal computer market at all,
into the next century.

Now, it is possible to re-engineer the AGA chipset into one or two chips,
especially with today's sub-micron manufacturing facilities.  It will take
a fair amount of VisCorp's resources and time to do this.  The AGA chipset
can make an excellent interactive television set-top box, but can it make
it into the next century as a personal computer?  Personally, I doubt it,
although I would be more than happy to be proved wrong.

So, if "Scala MultiMedia" is to fulfill its function as an interactive
multimedia presentation program, we need to develop it for an Amiga platform
that has a chance in the marketplace.  Theoretically, the Power Amiga can
compete.

Is the existing Amiga platform being left behind?  Yes, it needs to be.  Its
time to build a better Amiga.  If VisCorp wants to do it, then that's great.
Our phone lines are open and they can contact us on what we can do together
to bring Scala products to market for the Power Amiga.



Regards,

John Chang
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