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« on: March 22, 2004, 03:45:12 PM »
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... every platform had a-buzzword alert!- "killer app" that brought people to the platform itself. The classic Amiga had-in my case-games like F/A-18 Interceptor that used 16-bit color


Erm, are you sure about that?  64k colours on an A500 simultaneously?
 

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Re: What will drive the New Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2004, 05:56:10 PM »
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Paul_Gadd wrote:
Nothing whatsoever, offers nothing at all to a normal everyday computer user.
Amiga TAX on hardware
Lack of software
Crooked companies
Imo nothing will change at all.


Broken record strikes again.
 

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Re: What will drive the New Amiga?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2004, 06:23:11 PM »
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How do we move beyond the existing community?


IMO, get at least Mozilla and OpenOffice ported to AmigaOS/compatibles.  That would get the attention of Slashdot users as well as techie-journos.  It would certainly make Amiga/compatible platforms a far more realistic choice for newcomers.  An increased userbase will coax developers into taking a serious look.

It's not going to be something that happens overnight.  I reckon the process will take at least a few years before noteworthy amounts of newcomers become Amiga/compatible users (and maybe not as their primary platform, but having the hardware, even if they dualboot with Linux, is a start).