While we were approached early on by Harald
Frank in the spirit of cooperation to advance AmiThlon, Harald never
delivered anything. Extreme ended up in the middle of the early
controversy between the "partners" of AmiThlon. We
managed to
avoid the mudslinging and legal issues. Bernie turned out to be a
delight to work with, and delivered some unexpected enhancements in
the product rather quickly. We worked with Amiga Inc. for the latter
half of 2002 to try and resolve all the issues, and finish the
product.
The reason for not continuing with this product is
mainly due to the recent announcement by Bernie Meyer to "retire"
the product. As we have spent much time, effort, and many thousands
of dollars to try to bring this project to fruition
by the
holiday season 2002, we are simply unable to release the product at
this time. We are still very committed to this project, but have
other commitments and priorities to tend to.
The Amigax86 project
is "shelved" until further notice.
Amithlon is still
available under the AmigaOS XL package, and still very functional on
Desktop computers. Space saving technology such as Notebooks and
custom desktops that we offer will either have to wait until we have
more demand to create a new AmigaX86 code from scratch, or until the
next level of Amiga OS/OE (Operating System/Operating Environment)
is ready. Our hardware line should be significantly expanded by
then, so look for some interesting developments with us and the
Amiga name over the next year.
Extreme Computing is currently
developing other software products
for future developments of
the Amiga OS/OE. Please see our other web sites for further details.
http://www.extreme-computing.com/
www.extremeamiga.com