What is sad about Amiga

[amigadave]

Darth_X wrote:

vic20owner wrote:
Nah, I paid $$ for Amiga Explorer.

There are a ton of things for the Amiga that people would pay for.

If new apps/games were developed for the Vic20, would you buy them? :-D

I think there are still a lot more Amiga users that would buy good programs than Vic20 users.

I know that I would gladly buy new programs for the Amigas that I have.  If you are only interested in coding for AOS 4.x, then you will be waiting for a long time to make any money.  At least 3.9 has thousands of active users that might send a coder some money, if the program is good enough.

[amigadave]

I'd pay a lot for Firefox 2 (or almost any version of Mozilla) for Amiga/CyberStormPPC w/CyberVision 8mb graphics, but I know that it is only a dream that will never come true.

 :cry:

[amigadave]

Boot_WB wrote:

amigadave wrote:
I think there are still a lot more Amiga users that would buy good programs than Vic20 users.

Go here and say that. I dares ya! :lol:

Look at their numbers and it speaks for itself.  Total members = less than 800, most visitors ever online at the same time 45.  The numbers here are much higher than that and there are several other Amiga sites with users that prefer their sites to Amiga.org (I can't understand why?), so there are probably a few hundred Amiga users above the number of visitors/members here.

I would guess that there are probably about 1,500 to 3,500 Amiga users world wide that are interested in buying new, or updated Amiga software.

Not a huge market, but if someone were to code a good program that 90% of the remaining Amiga users would be willing to purchase, the programmer(s) could probably make between $20,000 to $60,000 for their trouble.

The sad thing about the Amiga at the moment is that almost all of our programmers have left to work on Windows programming and some have left to pursue Linux.  There are very few programmers working on Amiga specific programs now.

One of the greatest things about the Amiga 20 years ago, was that everyone wanted to write programs for it and there was such a wealth of new programs, commercial, shareware, and freeware available new each month, if not each week.  Not all of them were great programs, but the shear number of programs available was astounding and inspiring.

I hope this trend turns around and we get a few more people that start programming for the Amiga, just because it is fun, not for great profits.

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skurk wrote:

adz wrote:
Being open source, the code is availiable for someone to have a go at porting it right now. Instead, as the OP kindly pointed out, doing so wouldn't generate any money, hence nobody in the community is interested.

Not quite.  I'm not donating to such a project, because I know it will be a waste of money.  It's literally impossible - FF on AOS just won't work.  I'm not going to cite the arguments, just read the other discussions in other threads.

Therefore, the dream will never come true for classic Amigas, as I said in my post.

I can't believe that Firefox cannot be ported to the AmigaOS for Amigas that have an 68060 (or 604e PPC), a graphics card and lots of RAM.  It may be slow, or have less features, and it may never be completed because there are not enough talented coders working on such a massive project, but I refuse to believe it cannot be done.  If you said that it cannot be done for an A500 w/1mb RAM and ECS graphics, I will gladly join you in that belief.