(Im)Patient Amigas

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Robert Du Gaue, an Amiga enthusiast and former Amiga columnist for CCN, and AmigaZone's Harv Laser get together to write a good article depicting the state of the current American West Coast Amiga community and the lack of progress from Amiga Inc.

You can read it here.

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@yssing

Question : since both are strapped to crappy hardware, is either "worth waiting for"?  Granted, a 600 mhz PPC is faster than any existing classic Antique, but... 600 mhz brings it up to what???  1998 standards?  Let me express how totally enthusiastic I am about spending $1000 for a 1998-level machine with no commercial software support.

:huh:

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I guess I missed the “next” delivery date or whaterver.  

I was away for several weeks this summer,  did I miss some new date to ship the latest and greatest?  

Can someone here give me (and others too I’m sure) an update about where Amiga Inc. and the new OS/hardware  is with respect to getting it into the hands of the general public.

Thanks for any insight and information.

Bob C.

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For me Amiga is a hobby and Im happy i can afford it. The possibilty that it will actually succeed as a platform is a nice and appreciated bonus. (Its also the reason why Im not interested in an alternative to the Amiga.)

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I share Wayne's conerns with the lack of s/w support (commercial) and also the lack of speed that the 600MHz G3 offers, but on the other hand, the Amiga platform is being dragged through, what 10 years?, of technological change in one go. We also have to bear in mind that Apple absorb a fair number of the PPC processors, leaving little behind for the likes of us.
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It is the old vicious circle, if we don't buy the A1 because it has no s/w support, then no s/w producers will make s/w for it because it has no viable user base. (as small as it is)
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I am going to bite the bullet and get the A1 and OS4. It could be a waste of money but then it may not, yet if we aren't willing to show our support now then there won't be a G4/G5/Power4 or even an x86 version of the Amiga.

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What we need to see first is Amiga partnering with some key people so that we can see some really good software support at launch. If people don't see that the machine can really do something. Otherwise, what is the point in it? Why switch from a PC or Mac with lots of software already available, to a machine with nothing? If Amiga wants to shrug off its image of an 'Antique' machine, it'd better make some progress with software as well as operating system soon!

Rant over.

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In the meantime the Pegasos will be able to use G4 processors which use the same bus as the G3.

Yay for the Pegasos! But I am not keen on an OS (MorphOS) that is only Amiga compatable (that is how I understand MOS), at least OS4 will be an AmigaOS based on the same things that OS3.x are based on (again how I read it).

Don't get me wrong, I wish the Peg and MOS all the best, but I will be sticking with Workbench(AmigaOS).

I hope that they are able to find some G4s tho, as I belive Apple currently absorbe most, if not all, of them. At least if they guys behind the Peg can find some G4s then Eyetech might be able to! Then (hopefully!) we can move onto the A1-XE and use the darn things!  :crazy: :lol: