a golden age of Amiga

[rednova]

Dear Friends:

I believe if we all work hard dedicated, we can bring about a new
golden age of amiga.
Let's do it !!!

Rednova

[tribz]

Other than wishful thinking, whats your plan?

[persia]

[rednova]

Hi:

@tribz
I do have a plan !!!

My plan is to create nice animated cartoons -like Eric Shwartz-using my
amazing amiga computer. And not only to enrich the amiga scene, but also
to show what amigas can do (able to create great amiga cartoons only using
the amiga and the moviesetter animation software).
I am also planning to make new amiga games using AmosProfessional
but including beautiful graphics made in lightwave 3d.
That's my personal plan  
But you can help me immensely if you also become dedicated to create
new amiga animations, games, and music. etc etc whichever is your skill.
Cheers !!!

Rednova

[wawrzon]

Hi:

@tribz
I do have a plan !!!

My plan is to create nice animated cartoons -like Eric Shwartz-using my
amazing amiga computer. And not only to enrich the amiga scene, but also
to show what amigas can do (able to create great amiga cartoons only using
the amiga and the moviesetter animation software).
I am also planning to make new amiga games using AmosProfessional
but including beautiful graphics made in lightwave 3d.
That's my personal plan  
But you can help me immensely if you also become dedicated to create
new amiga animations, games, and music. etc etc whichever is your skill.
Cheers !!!

Rednova

perhaps you should become dedicated to learn to use your software first, because what i remember to have seen of you wasnt even at the level of tutorial using example objects moving along simple splines. if these were splines that is. i know everybody starts somewhere, been there done that, but thats just before making bold demands.

[Darrin]

I got "hard at work" the other day when one of the secretaries walked past me wearing a tight shirt and a little black mini-skirt.  Unfortunately it didn't rush in a new Golden Era of the Amiga.  

[A1260]

Hi:

@tribz
I do have a plan !!!

My plan is to create nice animated cartoons -like Eric Shwartz-using my
amazing amiga computer. And not only to enrich the amiga scene, but also
to show what amigas can do (able to create great amiga cartoons only using
the amiga and the moviesetter animation software).
I am also planning to make new amiga games using AmosProfessional
but including beautiful graphics made in lightwave 3d.
That's my personal plan  
But you can help me immensely if you also become dedicated to create
new amiga animations, games, and music. etc etc whichever is your skill.
Cheers !!!

Rednova

you can start with learning to code and then start doing all the bounties for amiga software... that would be a first step in getting the golden age of amiga back. the amiga today lack seriously in the software apartment. the artistic things you mention you want to do, we dont need, there is more than enough people already that can do all that.

[bbond007]

Dear Friends:

I believe if we all work hard dedicated, we can bring about a new
golden age of amiga.
Let's do it !!!

Rednova

I think it is almost here in the form of new hardware like the FPGA Replay (Minimig 2.0) and Natami. On the OS level you have AROS and Morphos. Did I leave anything out?

[slaapliedje]

I got "hard at work" the other day when one of the secretaries walked past me wearing a tight shirt and a little black mini-skirt.  Unfortunately it didn't rush in a new Golden Era of the Amiga.  

That made my morning!

Unfortunately to bring about another Amiga Golden Era, we'd need something like X1000 on the same pricing scale as a mid-range PC.  Or something like the Natami out and about.  Not to mention the AmigaOS is missing a modern web browser.  The web browser on pretty much any Phone is at the same level as AWEB or iBrowse, and that's not even including the smart phones.

I still can't even get Netsurf working on my A4000D.  

I think what would do it is getting AROS ported to run on everything and anything.  That would be the first step.  Then get things running natively in it.  Gecko or Webkit straight on using Zune (that's the MUI replacement, right?  Threw me off when I first saw it, because of Microsoft's Zune...) would be awesome.

Those are my thoughts.  I haven't even been able to install the latest version of Icaros on anything but a virtual machine.  It flat out locked up during the boot up on my HP touchsmart.  Maybe I needed to do a hash check on the ISO...  

I am all for bringing back ANY platform from the past at this point, seriously tired of Windows, and Linux just works too well for me to have a reason to play around with it much anymore.  Give me something I can hack around on!!

slaapliedje

[Mrs Beanbag]

I've got a plan.

Plan A phase I is to produce a new Amiga 1200 accelerator card featuring an ARM cpu and software 68k emulator in flash ROM (so instant boot and your Amiga won't know the difference).

Phase II is replacement Amiga 1200 motherboard using an ARM cpu again, but for software emulation of the chipset only and accelerator card is needed for CPU (but original A1200 accelerators will still work.  So you can replace your Accelerator for a faster one, and/or replace your mainboard if that fails.  Mainboard chipset will be faster than AGA but otherwise compatible.

Phase III is both of the above on one board, eliminating the A1200 edge connector, but perhaps with socketed CPU.  Maybe plan for both Amiga and ATX case compatibility (provide both sets of mounting holes).

Phase IV is original Amiga case to put it all in!

[wawrzon]

I've got a plan.

things like that have been proposed, discussed and forgotten..

[Mrs Beanbag]

things like that have been proposed, discussed and forgotten..

I know... but... it's still a plan.

I'm not the best person for carrying through with plans to be honest, I tend to get all excited about some new idea and then run out of steam after about a month.  But I know people who could probably help me with this, if they are willing.  Plenty of amateurs manage to knock up ARM boards these days.  (Armatures?)  The hardware side of things is getting easier all the time as technology progresses, and the software side of things is already pretty much covered by UAE.

Actually phase III might be easiest to start with now I come to think of it, trying to interface with the A1200 edge connector is probably the most awkward bit.

[save2600]

I believe a new golden age of Amiga could be enjoyed on one of our moonbases someday. Amiga on the moon!

[Karlos]

How about getting AROS working properly on the Raspberry Pi and working on an integrated 68K JIT for ARM?

[wawrzon]

I know...

other asked similar questions again and again, myself i proposed something like that on a german hardware dedicated forum, with no outcome, only it was x86 at the time. arm mighht be simplker because of endianness, but there arent many people here around who could carry out such a project especially till commercial availabiliuty. the closest to what you propose is currently gba1000 with its i believe 100mhz 060 accel:
http://www.gb97816.homepage.t-online.de/