have a couple of ideas. I'd quite like to actually try to program some new A500 games myself as a hobby and mail floppy disk copies to anyone who wants them - is anyone still doing anything like that? I think it would be neat, but I'm not sure if anyone still makes the sort of floppy disks that the A500 used any more. I think there are probably a few people like me who would appreciate having something new for their Amiga, but I obviously don't seriously expect it to make any money, if I even find time for it. Doing software for an A1200 would also be neat, except I don't see the point in excluding the A500.
I sure would not mind some new classic games for my Amiga. I think i would be easier and a better idea to release the game as an adf file on the internet instead. Then people can just download the adf image and transfer it over to their amiga and write it back to a real floppy.
My other thought is that since technology has become so small, it would be relatively easy to produce an A1200 the size of a mobile phone that could be plugged into a regular monitor. It would be cheap, and there's a huge range of pre-existing software that could be miniaturised - how small could they make a disc with the storage capacity of a floppy? A quarter the size of a postage stamp?
Someone did make a an amiga clone in the size of a floppy drive, which you could just put into the drive bay of your pc case. This one had similar specs to the a1200 with a tad faster cpu. It was sadly only produced in small quantities..
What i dont understand is why Amiga INC does not do something similar like commodore and release a joystick or similar with built in Amiga. If this device was reasonable priced and had the ability for upgrading games using something like a flash card, then i think it would sell LOADS. The commodore dtv joystick was a huge success, and that one didnt even have the ability for adding more games.
