"I want to help bring the Amiga back to it's former glory in new IT markets".
Even the original Amiga never made inroads in new IT markets. Obviously there was no IT niche there in the past, and there especially isn't one today when practically every IT niche has already been filled. This is a good sign that the whole thing is hooey, or would just turn into more hooey. New boss same as the old boss.
The hell it didn't!!! I'd most certainly call video editing, titling, 3D effects and such a massive leap forward back in the early 90's... Any TV studio with half a brain used Amigas... Special effects shops like Foundation Imaging used them (without whom Lightwave would not be the 3D powerhouse it has become). I dare say ALL of todays multimedia has roots on the Amiga.
No IT niche?? Better look again.
DiscreetFX is rooted in our community, thus even *I* have high hopes for what could happen should they gain control of the Amiga IP. NO ONE who's touched it since the death of C= has had any kind of roots in Amiga... This would be a welcome and hopefull change.
WHY does there need to be a "return" you ask? For the same reason we still use our Amigas, and even emulate them. Because back in the late 80's and early 90's we considered our computers (Amiga, Mac, PC, Atari, et al) to be FUN...
How many of us out there with our modern systems find them to be ANYWHERE NEAR as much fun as it was back then? I certainly don't. Even the wonders of dual-core 64-bit processors, clock speeds into the GHz range, hard drives approaching the 1TB capacity mark... It doesn't compare to my time spent tinkering with my 8088/12MHz with an AMBER SCREEN, and spending my days at the TV station playing with Video Toaster.
Makes me wanna dust off one of my 486's and play Duke Nukem and Commander Keen, while listening to MODs on my A4K.
One suggestion I would make to DFX is considering some form of partnership with AMD and nVidia, in the hopes of creating a totally new and innovative (RISC based) computer with multimedia capabilities worthy of the Amiga brand, and full cooperation with Hyperion for the future of our beloved AmigaOS.
