dammy wrote:
What needs to happen is a company with ambition and $$ needs to buy A Inc and then hire Dave Haynie to develop the next Amiga!
I doubt Haynie would get envolved, again. If he did, it would be something very specific for the AV market, ...
In case you mean "audio/video" with AV, DiscreetFX is in this market, if I got that right.
dammy wrote:
...or continue on his interest in robotics.
Back in the early ninetees when I was trained as an CAD-Organizer I had to deal with robotics as well.
Really interesting stuff!
Back then an x86 PC with an reasonable 3d-CAD program was much too expensive for me to buy just to be able to exercise myself in constructing at home after school, so I ran DynaCadd (best 3d-CAD app for the Amiga ever) on my trusty old A500.
It was slow, but it worked.
As I also had an Vortex ATonce286 classic fitted to my A500, I was able to run a tool on Windows 3.1 (monochrome) that could convert the data of the 3-d models I constructed
into an CNC-file.
If I only had had an possibility to connect to an CNC-lathe or an CNC-milling machine, I could even have used my A500 for manufacturing the parts I constructed!
Just imagine:
A unaccelerated A500 driving an FMC (flexible manufacturing cell) back in 1991/92!
At school - on our UNIX workstaitions - this was most fascinating: You constructed e.g. an shaft in 3-d, pressed the button - the data was converted to CNC data and sent to the CNC lathe.
A robot took a moulding blank from a magazine, clamped it to the maschine, choose the apropriate tool(s) for the lathe and two minutes later the readily manufactured shaft fell off from the back end of the maschine...
And I was fascinated that I could do nearly all that on my unaccelerated A500 - I was just missing a way to connect to CNC-maschines and the software to operate them...
dammy wrote:
At this point in the desktop computer business, why reinvent the wheel when you can already buy high performance tires, today?
Quite true, but - to stay with your example - I'm still looking for a way to fit those "high performance tires" to my Miggy (a A4000 with CSPPC meanwhile)...
