OOOOOOO….what could THIS be

[gertsy]

Wanye, Wayne, Wayne. What has happened to you :rolleyes:

The Classic Amiga is far from dead. There is a lot happening at the moment in Amigaland. The upcoming Natami + the minimig will mean everyone will switch over when they become available and their current Amiga precious dies out. Also there are lots of people investing in the Amiga community. What about DiscreetFX, Aeon, Natami, Acube? I thinks these investors are genuine as they are well aware that they will make no profit from investing in the Amiga community. That's more than what i can say for certain others i know of...

As for your words about the Amiga community ripping itself to pieces i think you are wrong. We are defending what is truely Amiga while trying to keep people away who have no interest in what is truely Amiga and simply are trying to make a quick buck. These are the people ripping the Amiga community apart. I'm sorry Wayne but i think you are on the wrong side  

Yeah a bit extreme.  Generalist classification of "you guys". I stopped reading at that point.
As to specs of the Amiga branded tablets well FFS nothing was posted so people will speculate. (get it SPECulate).  And poor old Franko will be squirming to keep his tongue.
Smile and wave Franko just smile and wave.  
Waiting for specs but guess as everyone else has that these will be commodity hardware with an Amiga logo to multiply the margin.  Wouldn't it be easier for them just to set up a website with the wallpapers and sell the sticky labels online.  
Why go to all the trouble?

[gertsy]

June is your partner yeah?

[gertsy]

Yes we all understand the reality of classic Amiga's and more than most of us were here in 94. You should know that.  But for someone that ran AORG for such a long, respected, time don't you see the irony of your post in its context.
I think you're on the wrong forum.
We can look both forward and back.  It's the only way to do it.

[gertsy]

.....Take that "Amiga X" platform and combine it with Android's functionality, or even build an OS to run on an Android device, and I think they'd have something there.

I agree.  As long as it is clear to purchasers what they are buying.  Nobody here would want an unsuspecting consumer to buy something commodity under a pretense.  If there is real value add, then great. If it is just about using the Amiga name to lift margin on commodity hardware.... ohhhh dear....

Rollup rollup buy the Hyundai Mustang...

[gertsy]

I think I've secured a pic of the mainboard...!

http://s1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa424/gertsy2000/?action=view¤t=Amiga7000board.jpg

[gertsy]

Who cares if an 'Amiga' is a commercial success? It doesn't matter now, the time when that mattered has long since past. The community now has control of the platform (Minimig + AROS), as long as I can obtain a computer I enjoy using I don't care if I can't buy it in a shop, and I don't care if the masses aren't interested. It's a hobby. If anyone has got delusions of grandeur, it's not those who still enjoy the classics, it's those people who think success is driven by how many units are sold.

+1 on this point.

WD Franko, It's amazing what a well placed chickenhead sticker can do.  "one 'ere, and one 'ere and another o'er 'ere".

[gertsy]

7 points to bloodline for almost picking the mystery mainboard. 12 months out though.

But an IBM Z196 processor in a personal computer would be something to behold.!

[gertsy]

Yes. Let's burn Wayne at the stake as a Amigan sacrifice.

The outcome can only be good right?

Romans 3:8
let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.

[gertsy]

......Sat on the same chipset way too long. Cancelled projects that would have developed better Amigas (as well as Commodores, like the LCD) faster and kept it competitive longer. We could have had actual Commodore Power PC Amigas with PCI and eventually they might have decided as Apple did to move to Intel.

Disappointed that Escom went under without doing anything of note.

Disappointed that Gateway did nothing but sit and spin unlike HP with WebOS who seem inclined to actually support and produce with their investment.

Some folks, however, should stop channeling this disappointment into negativity and if negative, stop being so public about it to the point where we drive everyone from the market.

Ur depressing me all over again.  15 years of and thousands of $ in counciling gone in one post....!
-moderated- -moderated- -moderated-..!

BTW: I, and I think a lot of others, have no problem with what they are doing as long as it's transparent and not misleading. "Amiga Branded" would be a good truthful term to use. (Truth in marketing?)

Getting over this thread now, ever since one of my posts was copied verbatim into moobunny without credit.. ):

[gertsy]

You can buy it now from merimobiles.com, chinagrabber.com , alibaba.com, pricedinchina.com, etc, etc etc.

Why wait?

And you can get the stickers from commodorescotland.com..