@koan
a)Genesi is run by BB's "private" money.
b) Lot's of people who bought a coupon allready
left for good, and some have bought both ones
(talking about the Party-Pack and "I am Yoda"
coupons here).
Roughly 3000 people.
Yes I think they will sell more than that, but
mostly for the Cyberstorm, and AInc's take on
OS4 on it's own is very small (atleast that is
what B.H. said over a year ago).
Their take on the A1 is everybodies guess, but
I would say they would need to sell atleast
5000 copies for real Amigas (only possible if
and when the BPPC-version appears) and another
5000 A1s (which I don't see to happen), just to
break even on all the collected money. Add handling
and the cost for those t-shirts to it and those
numbers rise even more.
But back to the topic:
The DE is a good, but useless idea, cos noone
wants to let his SW run ony ANY HW without any
controll, and if you do controll the HW it runs
on like it has been done with the gamepack, you
could have just used a (maybe even free) portiblity-
layer like SDL,QT or similar and compile for
every target you want to support.
Restricting an new "plattform" with a SDA is only
a good idea
a)If you got the resources to get
a basic collection from the start (like it has
been done with game-consoles).
b) Got something special about your plattform like
being a "real" RTOS (QNX for example.
c) Allready have a huge installed user-base
(again game-consoles).
AInc hasn't anthing of that, and thats why
there is so little SW really available, and
most of it just medicore games.
