IndieGO!: A open Video Game Console compatible to classic Amigas

[Lurch]

Have been watching this for awhile on the Facebook page. To be honest I'll be giving it a pass.

I can build my own PICO PC and do something similar. For a lot less than the $530 NZD it works out at if you go by the perks bar.

Quote - "We will be something really really "special"...you really won't believe it... we add a SD-card slot AND a DVD-RW driver... if the fundrising will succeed we will add a blue ray drive."

This paragraph bugs me too. I don't see anything special about there being a SD card slot and a DVD RW drive in a PC.

And blue ray is spelt (spelled if you are in states) Blu-Ray.

Quote - "Our spiritual roots are ww.aros.org"

You're missing the w for ww.aros.org.

Quote - "We have more steam than OUYA
Because the INDIEGO! is a Steambox and it has much more under the hood."

I do like this comment, but the Ouya allows you to stream any PC game so I can run steam on my PC and play it on the Ouya.

It cost me $180 NZD all up including the shipping for the Ouya. It cost me more because I pre ordered from their website not through kickstarter so had to pay for a second controller.

Ouya also supports bluetooth so pairing a keyboard and mouse should be easy to do. I plan on trying to pair my PS Vita with it.

I have my fingers crossed for a UAE port, which should be easy enough as there is a UAE for Android already.

After all Ouya will be running Jellybean.

Onlive is also supported by the Ouya, and can also be used as a media centre.....

[Lurch]

Actually it would be $550 + Forgot to ad shipping and there's probably pay pal fee's or such like depending on what payment options you take for the indiego. Then as it's $500 there will be import taxes etc at my end :-(

[Lurch]

"Why would you stream from your PC to Ouya? Not straight to TV?"

You could stream from the PC to the TV, so why buy a IndieGO or Ouya? You could use an Xbox 360 controller paired with your PC too :-)

"Can Ouya play a DVD? Always a PC in the background?"

Who uses DVD's these days? At the moment most of my movies are now sitting on my 2008 server box and I stream them through my Blu-ray player.

I can even stream the movie from home to a friends place over the internet fine too so no need to carry around a portable storage device :-)

So annoying having to get up and change over a disc. As for video quality and size this isn't an issue either with compression options out there that halve the size of the files and still retain the same quality.

Of course storage space is cheap anyway and a terabyte of storage is common place.

With wireless n streaming movies is lag free so no cables.

If you really wanted to use a DVD player there's a USB connector on the Ouya so any external drive would work.

As for games since using steam I don't see a big second hand market in the future. Not when you can get a game pack for $5 and that same pack in a bricks and mortar store is $85...

[Lurch]

Another note I don't even use disks with my Amiga's anymore. I have a an SD card loaded with thousands of ADF's and a couple of CF Cards loaded with WHDLoad games.

Disk's on the Amiga are too flaky and take up too much room. If I want the old school noise (which I sometimes miss) the HxC does a good enough job of reproducing it if I turn the sound back on :-)