Doppie... that was a very negative post...
We should all have the enthusiasm of Leirbag28.
I think the Amiga's main strength was it's video capability although I do think we cheated in that to get 31Khz horizontal refresh like PCs get we would be running at 50% speed due to ChipRAM bandwidth.
I hear the Commodore logo has been slapped onto some rubbish Windows based handheld PC again, let's hope the Amiga brand stays safe. Maybe it's time someone wrote a letter to Sir Alan Sugar or some other decent European entrepreneur to inject some serious backing into the Amiga, perhaps even re-buying the company.
If at the end of 1999 the Amiga and it's patents were bought for $10m, how hard would it be to raise that these days... it's peanuts in a market where Microsoft counts the success of the X-Box on how many hundreds of millions $$$ less it lost this year compared to last.
Custom hardware, assembly coded apps, low requirements for programs, hardcore gamer/creator users and a crazy demo-scene made the Amiga for me. I know the Amiga is an American machine but it has survived mainly in Germany so I believe a German hardware firm should ressurrect it.
There's still Amstrad though...
