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joska wrote:Bengy? As in Bengy Collins with the very nice MagiC website from about 10 years ago?
Bengy wrote:Yes, it's me! I will be launching a new community just for FireBee users soon, located at FireBeeHive.com. Ideas for the website are welcome! Atari forever!
Bengy wrote:joska wrote:Bengy? As in Bengy Collins with the very nice MagiC website from about 10 years ago?
Yes, it's me! I will be launching a new community just for FireBee users soon, located at FireBeeHive.com. Ideas for the website are welcome! Atari forever!
Hi Milan, which thread are you referring to? Of course I can tell about some fascinating contacts I got about new hardware needs.calimero wrote: @Mathias somebody mention in another thread that you have very interesting story about FireBee uses!? How people needed fresh hardware to run old atari software... can you tell us some of this "real life" story?
Mathias wrote:I am not telling you who ordered, when they don´t tell it theirselves
Mathias wrote: These people also do not care too much about the price.
Mathias wrote:Very well to see you active again Bengy!
I don´t know how far "mobilizeing our troops" could go that time?For example a real Bounty system for finishing the VHDL developments (DSP, ...) could be a serious point, as we don´t have enough manpower recently to do it by our own.
Or,if you have enough contacts form back then, freeing MagiC perhaps?
Another point could be to make surveys and trying to fill the existing gaps, the real missing links. Things that users need to "really work" with their Bees. Another issue could be to motivate former Atari developers. A kind of "coming home" campaign for example. Hah, there are thousands of possibilities, ...
DarkLord wrote:When I go, whenever that is, I want it to be on a 266mhz induced
wave of euphoria, having gotten my hands on what is currently the most powerful
Atari computer ever.
No. For a very good reason, and I don´t discuss this publicly.AnakiMana wrote: Mathias, can you tell us how many FireBees exist?
AnakiMana wrote: Have there been different revisions, or is every FireBee out there exactly the same?
Mathias wrote:3rd) Requests from remaining professionals. Be it audio stuff (Notator, Cubase, Mixing desk automation software, Sampler-Stuff, other external hardware, ...), Layout (Calamus, AvantVector Pro, ...), people with cutting plotters, and some requests about special software and special external hardware.
All these people have something common. They mostly do not show up in forums, and they need all the old ports (ROM-Port, ACSI, SCSI, ...). The best would be if they could simply replace their existing (or broken) Ataris with the FireBee and not to have to care about anything. These people also do not care too much about the price. Sadly we are not completely done, so I can´t sell them FIreBees. But it is facinating for me what people from all over the world, popped up and sent us requests.
Mathias wrote:I always go the feeling there is still a basis "outside" we do recently not recognise. For example I thought I am alone in Vienna (I thought this for 10 years), the last Atari user, but recently I know 15 People still "using" them, ...![]()
Mathias wrote:And the last group of people is something totally unknown to me. We had a few requests about RTOS, and embedded stuff. These people are not really interrested in "Atari", but in the machines and the "embedded" as electronical possibilities.
DarkLord wrote:and the current state of the economy.
DarkLord wrote:I'm a respiratory therapist and my wife is an RN. But because we live in an economically
challenged rural area, we don't command the payscales that we would if we moved to
some larger city or metropolitan area.
|'m sure you will have tons of time to enjoy it before that happens.DarkLord wrote:When I go, whenever that is, I want it to be on a 266mhz induced
wave of euphoria, having gotten my hands on what is currently the most powerful
Atari computer ever.
calimero wrote:yes... it is problem to find recent information about Atari scene over Google. Maybe you should put links to FireBee on Atari ST wikipedia page in external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST ?
wongck wrote:I see from the news that the stock market, DOW, is all time high.... but there are still so much economy issues.
Cyprus also did not help with the company I worked for.
wongck wrote:But really I am saving for a trip to the US this December, like you said, time is not what I have plenty of.
So if I wait longer, I may not enjoy the trip. So every penny goes to saving for the trip now & contribute to the US economy.![]()
oehansen wrote:Currently, I'd be about as interrested in visiting the United States, as I'd be interrested in visiting Adolf Hitler's memorial.
oehansen wrote:I'd rather spend my money on a firebee
oehansen wrote:wongck wrote:I see from the news that the stock market, DOW, is all time high.... but there are still so much economy issues.
Cyprus also did not help with the company I worked for.
The "economy" is not the problem, it's the consequences of the problem.
The problem is, that "we" in Europe, and most part of the world have become a single "line" ... following the "Roman empire". During times of "conflict", it appears that the general sense is to improve things. But reality knocks on the door, when the competition is beaten out ... then it's time to cut down costs, layoff people and robotize. Move production to China, making the people in China live the same "benefit" time. And then "laboratory" deceases pop up, that aid the Chinese government in "removing" all live-stock-food in China, and "force" them to eat "soilent-green" produced food. And all the meanwhile, there is constant talk about the world being "overpopulated", and how the "greenhouse" effect, may kill life on earth.
Just 60 years ago, we came to the conclusion that life is a right ... now we have people in power, that consider people a burden ... and these people in power, aren't even being "challenged" or even so much as opposed.
When "all" opposition is dead, then you'll have your right-to-life removed, because you exhale too much carbon-dioxide and don't have enough money to pay carbon-dioxide taxes ... we are becoming a burden, and life no longer an inalienable right.
And "democracy" is just means to accomplish complete "dictatorship". As 99% of the population, don't understand each move in the great game. We just believe the empty promises, and suffer the consequences.![]()
You have a good taste.oehansen wrote:I'd rather spend my money on a firebee
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