If only we could port Amiga OS

[BigBenAussie]

@KennyR

You do realise that its not done yet, right?
When it is done, ie OS4 complete, and there is Amiga branded boxed hardware, then I am sure we'll break a 4 digit userbase quite easily. There are people with money out there, who'll buy such a system as a geek toy even. But it needs to be functional to begin with!!!! There are thousands more waiting on sidelines until there is a release.

So we just need to wait a little more....and lets face it......you'd be daft to leave the community now. We're Oh So Close now. We've heard it all before, but most of us have witnessed tangible proof by now that there is progress. This is not time to be getting dispondent....It will fall short of our highest hopes, but be more than our expectations. Errr... I hope that made sense.

Cheer up yer old bugger....C'mon give us a grin.:-D

Ok. Going back to my happy place now.

[BigBenAussie]

@adolescent

I'm going to have to agree with KennyR on this one, and maybe take it a bit further. The AmigaOne is a joke. Eyetech's marketing strategy seems to be to raise prices and lower specs, all the while not addressing bugs in their current designs.

I totally agree. I don't even see that Eyetech have a marketing strategy. They just say, we got'em if you want'em. Actually, I'm sure there is no clause in the agreement that states that KMOS have to go with Eyetech's hardware in a system they release. For all we know there may be something else in the works. What? You think everything happens on the internet? But even if there isn't anything else aside from Eyetech hardware, at least its a first step.

Also, holding out for an OS that was promised years ago, and has only recently seen the public light as a test version, to run on outdated/overpriced/underperforming hardware is crazy.

outdated/overpriced/underperforming...Do you see me spending my money yet? I'm really hoping better hardware comes along, but failing that, beggars can't be choosers. You want the feelin' you know what ya gotta do. Dude, you're not holding out for an new Amiga OS? Err....What are you doing here then? Don't rain on the parade.

By the time OS4 does get released the majority of people waiting for it will have moved on.

What are you talking about....They've gone already. :-D
You can't lose what you haven't got. Everyone will have to come back, but you need to have something tangible to show them first and I don't see it. Even if its outdated/overpriced/underperforming, at least hide that away in a box, so I can show off the power of the system without the glaringly bad specs. The specs might not be impressive but the impression of the system might be. Most Amigas, spec wise, were left in the dust by the PC revolution early in the game, but it didn't necessarily kill the platform. The Amiga has other strengths going for it... Do I, of all people, need to explain this to you.

A G3 probably could have sold in 2000, but it's just been too long.

Yep!!! Look, I'm as upset about it as you. But what ya gonna do?

@KennyR

But it is available right now, finished or not.

Dude, I've just said that is not good enough. Where's the standard Amiga designed box? I've put PCs together, but I'm not putting an Amiga together. An Amiga is not a kit computer, nor is an Apple. An Amiga needs to be more like an Apple, as it used to be. I wish powers that be realised this...Maybe they do.... because as I said...ITS NOT FINISHED YET!!! When its finished, maybe then they'll do what they need to make it FEEL finished.

Anyone who wants it can get it and be assured of a free update to the completed version when it's ever released (if it ever does have an official release), so where is the scary part here that's holding back these thousands of waiting customers take the plunge?

Are you kidding me? I wouldn't touch this mess with a barge pole. I want all this crap sorted out and boxed. I wanna press that 'on' switch and watch the bouncing ball spin. I don't wanna screw around with partitions, UBoot crap, special scripts or obscure environment settings. What is this? MSDOS??? Just freaking boot and leave me alone!!!!! Its not turnkey yet!!!! Honestly, how could I possibly recommend an A1+OS4 to anyone in the shape you get it now? At least box the thing. I'll go through the kit stuff for a PC but I expect more from an Amiga. The Amiga was not a KIT computer, and I refuse to stoop to that level, and make it so. If that is what having an Amiga has become, then they wont see my money EVER.

Maybe there are no thousands of people waiting and almost everyone who is willing to pay for an A1 has either got OS4 already or given up on it?

Well, apart from me of course..... Its not ready for ME to recommend to ANYBODY!!! And that is my point. A lot of past Amiga users who left, don't even know there is an attempt to bring it back.... But, believe me....they ARE interested. People do remember the Amiga fondly, but I haven't seen one to recommend yet!!!

Or they are waiting for the price of the hardware to go down, which it won't. Either way, I'm not convinced Eyetech can provide 10,000 muA1s anyway.

I don't know about the price going down, and I don't know how many Amigas can be sold. But there is a bigger market than the people we see on this newsgroup. We gotta stop  thinking small time to hit the big time. And that is what you want...right?
Ok. Going back to my happy place now.