Excitement about NatAmi

[DCAmiga]

Greetings All,
 
I am a big Amiga fan and loved my A-500 with an expanded HD, I thought I would share something a stumbled into recently.. and from what i have read the MX board my be released around Christmas.
 
http://www.natami.net/index.htm
 
The NatAmi Project
This hardware project is dedicated to the still innovative system architecture of the Commodore AMIGA computer.
 
The basic concept is straight: Get the original Amiga design up-to-date.
 
The NatAmi approach is to rebuild the original system

• without emulation
• without abstraction layers
• without legacy drawbacks

[CSixx]

Should have searched before posting this...
There are lots of threads on the Natami, and alot of people waiting

[dammy]

Where is the link stating it may be available by this Xmas?

[B00tDisk]

Hmm.

In the forums, I see the usual requests/demands in broken english to add this or that feature, or gushing about how beloved Natami is (despite not, you know, existing except as a couple of sample units).

In the "news" section, there's a link to a youtube video from May.

PERHAPS THE AWESOME POWER OF THE NATAMI ALLOWS THE OP TO POST FROM THE FUTURE.

[Tripitaka]

Shayne Fotheringhame post from the Natami forums:

11 Oct 2010 07:53

 Hi guys.. been watching this forum for a looong time now.. thought I'd make my first post.
Surely any true amiga fan would have adopted an immunity to impatience many many years ago lol..
As much as I greatly anticipate any form of update, whether the natami is released this christmas, next year or sometime in the next decade even - I'll be buying it on day one =)

.......Tripitaka says:

I couldn't have put it better myself, so I didn't bother trying. Man, I don't care if it's Clone A, Minimig AGA or Natami. Thanks to anyone goes out from me to all who spend time that they could be doing other things, for our hobby. If your not contributing you shouldn't be complaining, if you are you should know better. END!

[rebraist]

from natami website:
 
"The Natami will not be a competitor to a Wintel Desktop machine, nor will it be a PlayStation 3 killer."<=> another useless hardware?
 
From the goals (natami website)
beeing an Amiga compatible design
have the original AmigaOS, binary OS replacements and Amiga applications running
enable playing new and classic Amiga games
 
I can do these things with uae or my original a500 and a1200.
 
i would have expected something more by an "updated" amiga than a future capability to play divx...
weird, and at its best nice for retro lovers.
But i'll keep my touch on aros. It's 2010 (almost 2011)

[persia]

Very realistic goals and description.  It for those who believe in having Amiga hardware but fast and better.  Most of the Amiga electronic components are 20 years old or so and held together with duck tap.  Buying a NatAmi will get you another 20 years or so on hardware.  By then your 10000 cored beast main computer will be running UAE at insane speeds, probably so fast that if you blink you'll miss it, and it'll be time to hang up the old hardware....

[Cammy]

We already know about the Natami. They have a team who invite you to be a part of it, then kick you out without explanation, and they remove the posts of experienced and respected Amiga coders from their forum. What a wonderful group of people they are! Already a lot of my friends have decided to not make Natami-enhanced versions of their games anymore, and I'm sure others will drop support once they realise how badly the team is running things.

I used to have unlimited enthusiasm and hope for the Natami, I enjoyed clearing things up about the project with people and explaining more about it in detail, convincing doubters that it's a good idea afterall, encouraging the Amiga coders I meet all around the world that they should think about SuperAGA-enhanced versions of their games. I'm working on games of my own which would have had much nicer graphics if we were still going to make a Natami version. But the Natami team thinks I'm so useless they should just kick me out without telling me why.

I wonder how well they'll do now when so many of their supporters are losing faith in the project because of the bad team management.

[B00tDisk]

We already know about the Natami. They have a team who invite you to be a part of it, then kick you out without explanation, and they remove the posts of experienced and respected Amiga coders from their forum. What a wonderful group of people they are! Already a lot of my friends have decided to not make Natami-enhanced versions of their games anymore, and I'm sure others will drop support once they realise how badly the team is running things.

I used to have unlimited enthusiasm and hope for the Natami, I enjoyed clearing things up about the project with people and explaining more about it in detail, convincing doubters that it's a good idea afterall, encouraging the Amiga coders I meet all around the world that they should think about SuperAGA-enhanced versions of their games. I'm working on games of my own which would have had much nicer graphics if we were still going to make a Natami version. But the Natami team thinks I'm so useless they should just kick me out without telling me why.

I wonder how well they'll do now when so many of their supporters are losing faith in the project because of the bad team management.

Okay, dish.  What the heck went down?

[Tension]

We already know about the Natami. They have a team who invite you to be a part of it, then kick you out without explanation, and they remove the posts of experienced and respected Amiga coders from their forum. What a wonderful group of people they are! Already a lot of my friends have decided to not make Natami-enhanced versions of their games anymore, and I'm sure others will drop support once they realise how badly the team is running things.

I used to have unlimited enthusiasm and hope for the Natami, I enjoyed clearing things up about the project with people and explaining more about it in detail, convincing doubters that it's a good idea afterall, encouraging the Amiga coders I meet all around the world that they should think about SuperAGA-enhanced versions of their games. I'm working on games of my own which would have had much nicer graphics if we were still going to make a Natami version. But the Natami team thinks I'm so useless they should just kick me out without telling me why.

I wonder how well they'll do now when so many of their supporters are losing faith in the project because of the bad team management.

...

[Piru]

@Cammy

I'm not surprised at all.

I saw big problems with NatAmi project early on, and IIRC voiced my concerns (in my typically cheerful manner) sometime around June 2008. Even hobby projects deserve proper management.

If the management finds out that someone doesn't fit the role first envisioned there are numerous things to do (encourage the individual to learn about the needed stuff, have the individual take some small projects in which to develop oneself, try find a more suitable task(s) fitting the skill profile etc) before totally kicking someone out. Even if it comes to that, deciding to let someone go completely, it should be done in honest and tactful way. No one deserves to be kicked out without any explanation.

[Cammy]

That's really funny, Tension. How come just about any time you post something, it's nasty? I had never directed any of my posts towards you before, yet you have attacked me in the past, and now you attack me again? By the way, what's so "pfffffffft" about a new audio recording application for Aros? Care to explain why the Natami team may think I'm mental, and why that's grounds enough to kick me out of a team I was invited to?

[Karlos]

Maybe they thought you were mental.

Was that really called for?

[Methuselas]

PERHAPS THE AWESOME POWER OF THE NATAMI ALLOWS THE OP TO POST FROM THE FUTURE.

Isn't that where all these posts are coming from?? I hear Vanilla Ice is cutting his new album on a Natami. :roflmao:

[ElPolloDiabl]

One word: Vapourware