A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance

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Altering the news release doesn't really mean much, the original release shows the real colours ;-)

Anyway, here is hoping something great comes out of all of this. Would love to be able to go down to the local store and pick up an Amiga again.

Don't see why this can't be achieved, plenty of other products have come back from the dead and retro and nostalgia is flavour of the month.

Stick it in a nice case like the X500 and in mini ITX format with fast FPGA, 060, DVI/HDMI, RTG running AmigaOS 3.9 with a custom theme and put it in toy stores at first and it would get lapped up.

There are so many projects out there that can achieve this.

[Lurch]

And returned within a week as it does not run the software "most users" expect any computer to run. What you ask for already exists as much more capable and cheaper systems.

You've missed the point, as I mentioned Nostalgia and all things retro are the flavour of the month.

Just check out Steam and all the games emulating 8bit and 16bit style graphics, there are a lot of the new generations coming through that have an interest too.

Set it up with a menu front end with WHDLoad to play the Amiga back catalog and for those that want to delve further into what is an Amiga can.

I'm still blown away why kickstarter isn't being used as well, the exposure on there is far wider than a couple of Amiga forums.

To be honest most Amiga hobbyists seem to be scared that their little community will be invaded.

Too many naysayers and negative people in the Amiga scene. Anything new mentioned gets torn apart and developers move on.

[Lurch]

As for commenting on WinUAE vs real hardware one can't really make any statements without seeing facts and figures.