First to implement AAA chipset?

[Khephren]

Unless SAGA hits multiple platforms on these new gen Amiga's besides the Natami, I don't see it getting much use.  If such things are limited to just the newer FPGA Amiga's, there's really a limited market.

I doubt we will see much that bangs the hardware in the old fashioned sense, we are probably a decade to late for that to be much of a success. But I do expect SAGA to get a lot of easily converted opensource ports from linux and windows, blender, browsers, various emulators etc.

If these SAGA machines are a decent price, and speed, I could quite happily use one for web browsing and art programs again, and the odd game of quake2 and 3 would not go amiss either.

Having a modern machine, without having bits of hardware hanging off my Amiga would be nice, and if the demo scene gets on board, i'll be even happier.

I have the sneaking suspicion that NatAmi is going to be very expensive though.

[Khephren]

By too late, I mean all the coders have moved on, and we have very few left, and they are spread over several different flavours of 'Amiga' already.

As for coding, afraid it's all I can do to keep up with 3D software for day job, learning to code is pretty much out of my league, skills and time wise (all though books and disks for Blitz, Amos and C++ show my unsuccessful attempts!).

Yes, SAGA RTG modes are why I think we will get some ports.

I quite like Aros, I use it a lot. But I would also like a native Amiga version....or a new native Amiga for Aros

[Khephren]

Although the Natami will be much more capable than older Classic Amigas, it will still not be competitive with other alternatives for web browsing and picture processing power, so if that is what you are looking for, it will always be a disappointment when compared to modern computers and OSes.

There won't be many people that want to write new code to "bang the hardware" like many 1980's & 1990's programmers did, but there will be some and I do think that this ability is one of the Natami's selling points.

As for price, any small production run, custom computer system is going to be very expensive when compared to something else of similar power that is being manufactured in numbers that are thousands of time higher.

The Amiga tends to punch above it's weight in what it can do, and I think a very fast 060 derivative with 24bit colour would do me fine for web browsing. I don't care about flash html5 etc.

I've got a couple of fast PC's for 3D rendering, But for 2D indexed coloured stuff, I still love using my Amiga.

As for price, i guess because it's FPGA it will be expensive. But custom hardware does not have to be, the Pandora and raspberry Pi aren't for example.