Forgive me for making assumptions, but the following suggestion is based on two of them. 1) The Amiga is effectively dead, kaput, a distant memory, and 2) It will remain that way unless the current owners of Amiga Intellectual Property have an ounce of vision...
so here's my idea: Release a kickrom into the public domain. Say version 1.3 - that had the biggest wow impact on me with what the A500 could do. There are already programs like WinUAE etc that could be reduced to a bare-bones plug-in style application...
Potentially, you could have Amiga style scrolltext (not as seamless obviously) and sprite animations integrated into web-browser content delivery. Amiga file sizes are tiny, and could easily become part of the web experience- and over time, maybe as ubiquitous as Flash. The alternative seems to be our current scenario; Bill McEwen (is he still alive?) sits on the I.P. of Amiga trying to hock outdated hardware to a market he thinks is still living in the 1980's... dust collects, and once we all die- the Amiga will barely rate a mention in a retro computer history book.
Let some of it go free! It would act as the most widespread, open-source and ultimately free marketing tool Amiga could ever have. There will never be a use for the 1.3 rom otherwise... so why hoard and protect it? The open source community have a million times more passion and resources to pour some life back into our beloved, but defunct, platform.
Would love to hear back from Amiga, the company... if they're still conscious.
