wow this is a long thread.
Okay first off I am an Amiga Zealot. Loved Amiga since I saw one back when I had a Commodore 128 and my friend had a 1000. Got a 500, then 2000HD upgraded like a nutcase with 020, 030 cards, IDE controllers, Framebuffers, Bridgeboard from 286 to 386, Video card-ish things (HAM-E, DCTV, Opalvision), RAM. It is a 2000 that can run 3.9, burn CDs, all I had to do at that time.
Then a 1200, and now a 4000 again not one Amiga doesn't have something added to it and I finally got and have tricked out a 1000 with RAM and an EasyL tablet, audio samplers.
That all said I can understand Wayne's position. Why does anything anyone does with the Amiga or C= brand automatically seem to develop page after page of negativity?
Amiga branded Android tablets, and middling of the road tablets, doesn't excite me. That also is not the only product that CUSA is planning on releasing. Can they have made a Minimig or Natami? Sure. But it seems to me that they want to have an actual cash flow with product that appeals to more than just this community so they can pay rent, salary and develop new products.
They have a bunch of rebrands, yes. They also have a developed product of a PC in a designed from the ground up case to look like the C=64. Is it the be all and end all? Nope. But I think its pretty damn cool and inventive. A product that could appeal to both classic aficionados and regular people since it could be used as a nice, small, modern PC running modern software.
Real Amiga product is way misguided IMHO. I even as an Amiga Zealot can't justify spending $800 ish money on a motherboard to run AmigaOS4.x while the MorphOS people manage to get their OS able to run on a Mac Mini I can buy for ~$100 to 200 or Power Mac and might eventually run on some laptops.
Why are some so positive about hardware emulation of a $20 Amiga 500 at over $200 for the completed board (IIRC and yes I do know it does some more like being able to connect to modern displays and using SD instead of failing floppy drives to read failing floppies, it is good that folks are finding ways to get the feel of the old machines in peoples hands in lieu of failing and increasingly hard to come by hardware antiques) and so negative about what CUSA is doing? There is room out there in the community for both.
Some point when I'm in the market for a tablet, I'll be looking seriously at the offerings and if price and features are right would not mind having one in my hand with a logo I recall fondly. I also will definitely have their C=64 remake on my desk.
