Is this the beginning of the end for Amiga Inc ?
Wayne is dead right when he demands that the truth about Amiga Inc has to come out. Since the demise of Commodore and Escom, no new development has occured. Just empty promises and prototypes. Light has to be shed and end all this FUD and speculation. This has to be done sooner rather then later! Amiga users have waited too long, and endured too much.
Myself, I'm waiting for the release of OS4 with baited breath. However, even with the goodwill and perseverance that Hyperion and Eyetech have shown, without Amiga Inc, our platform would be surely doomed to failuire.
The Amiga OS should've moved on an X86 platform, rather then run on propriatary hardware, which Eyetech and Genesis are struggling to manufactur and deliver. I am not a big fan of PCs myself. But the parts are powerfull, readily available and cheap! And since they're tried and tested, embarassing mistakes like Genesi's Aritica chip fiasco would've been avoided.
Instead, Amiga Inc and Genesi should've chosen a set of motherboard chipsets, graphics and sound card to be supported. Then concentrate all their efforts in coding OS4 and MorphOS. Old applications could still run with 68k emulation. Thus Amiga hardware would be cheap and easily available. I know this would leave Eyetech, DCI and the likes out in the cold, but it would've ensured the uptake of Amiga operating systems. Unlike BeOS and others, MorphOS and OS4 could've counted on legions of Amiga users to buy, use, develop and evangelise their benefits vis a vis Windows and other bloatware.
AROS seems to be heading in this direction, we'll see what the future holds for this interesting development.
Alas, this is just a 'what if' scenario. The sooner we resolve this Amiga Inc mystery, the better!
Jethro Tull