If only we could port Amiga OS

[KennyR]

cecilia wrote:
from what I've seen in local user groups, it's coming along just fine.

Define "fine". In 2000 Amiga Format was selling 11,000 copies, and this still wasn't enough to keep it or the Amiga going. AmigaONE's price and relative obscurity would be lucky to sell another 1000 items. As a niche it may be surviving (if not flourishing), but it takes more than a four figure user base and a bunch of SDL ports to make a platform.

[KennyR]

BigBenAussie wrote:
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.

But it is available right now, finished or not. 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 from taking the plunge? 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? 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, to say the least!

Put it this way, given Amiga fortunes since the bankruptcy of Commodore a decade ago, which is more likely - that I'm over pessimistic or that you're over-optimistic?