Warning rant below:
@Pyromania,
No one would like to see the Amiga computer make some kind of a comeback than me, but I have to disagree that simply by hiring Carl S, RJ, or Dave Needle to work for DiscreetFX would make much of a difference. Don't get me wrong, I have a great respect for those individuals and would love to hear what their ideas are for the next Amiga.
Without the vision and genius of Jay Miner to focus the efforts and provide the direction of the company, what does DiscreetFX have to offer that Escom, Gateway, Amiga Inc. has not had or tried? Just claiming to be "Real Amiga" users or developers does not impress me. There are good and bad developers, those with talent and those whose talent is just hot air in the Amiga community just like there are in any other part of the population.
Nothing you have stated gives me any hope that your company will be any different than the rest that have disappointed us Amiga users over the past 10 years. I hope your company truly has some great ideas, but the few you have stated in this thread are hardly inspiring or original.
It seems to me that DiscreetFX has only made this PUBLIC offer of interest to buy Amiga Inc. as a way to advertize your company and insult the remaining Amiga users and companies, specially Amiga Inc.
(end rant)
Pyromania wrote:
@shillard
While we are not interested in discussing our business plan, I will tell you this. Apple almost died a few years back and what saved them was bringing back their founder. You might love or hate Steve Jobs but he saved Apple from certain death. Now they are enjoying great success, even going after some of the Amiga's once exclusive markets like low end video production. Part of the DiscreetFX plan is to seek out and hire some of the original Amiga team if they are interested. No one was more passionate or Amiga gun hoe than Carl, RJ, David Needle Etc. If we are able to hire one or more of the first Amiga greats they will help form the new Amiga plan. Also, it is of great interest to DiscreetFX to help get to market retro Amiga 500's in a joystick or maybe even a sub $100 AGA+ mini Amiga that uses flash drives to build the brand once again. Another idea is to have Amiga OS 4.0 running on cell phones, that market becomes more computer like every day and it is much larger than the PC market even when Apple, Linux and everyone else is thrown in. An Amiga Tivo type device is also something DiscreetFX would love to do
