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Offline Dalamar

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Re: A suggestion to keep the Amiga spirit alive...
« on: June 07, 2004, 05:51:01 AM »
Personally, having only just returned to my Commodore roots in computing, I don't have many of the biased views that seem to come with those that have lived through all the disappointments.  I don't think that any idea to promote the platform is a bad one, but I see two major issues right off:

1) Amiga Inc, or Hyperion don't have the war chest of cash to buy that many licenses, and I also can't think of how you would decide on those licenses.  From what I can see, Amiga Inc doesn't even care about this as a platform anymore since they went and sold it off.  I guess I was wrong, I do have a bias.   :-D

2) I think that it will be some time before costs on the mainboards drop.  They are in their infancy technology wise, and need to grow up a bit before they become more widespread.  AOS4 needs some basic "modern" software apps as well (web browser like Mozilla and Office apps for a start) before they will appeal to a broad audience.  This is a hobby platform for me and I use it for as much as possibly can, but until it catches up it wont catch on.

I find many closet Amigan's in my profession that have moved to Linux/Windows but do miss the Amiga.  If what is left of the core base of users, like all of us, create a basic demand and supply of software, some of the former Amigans may return.  At this point, it's all up to us.

Amiga Forever :-)
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Re: A suggestion to keep the Amiga spirit alive...
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2004, 05:33:34 PM »
@StevenJGore

Very valid points.  That is why I made the comment that it's all up to us.  It's a hobby platform at this stage, and the only way to make it into anything else is new productivity software that has some hope of competing with the current market.   New games wouldn't hurt either.  Hell I bought an Xbox because I wanted one game that was only available for it.  That PROVES I'm out of my mind.  :-)

@alef

I'm thinking that the money used to license old software would be better spent porting newer software like Mozilla and OpenOffice wouldn't you agree?
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