Ideas: The new Amiga. Yes, it's inevitable!

[amigadave]

mikrucio wrote:
okok maybe thats not such a good idea.

but what is a good idea is an ATX comp motherboard
based on the CELL processor with PCI slots, PCI-EX card slots and RD-RAM slots. General SATA and IDE, along with onboard audio DSP.

It will take Pci-ex 16x cards from AMD/ATI or Nvidia.

Port Amiga OS 4/5 to it, and presto you have a new computing platform. Build a nice looking case to it.
and it could compete with Apple and Microshaft.

Cell Cpu's are getting cheaper and this will happen one way or another. weather it's Amiga branded or not. It WILL happen. Sony does not own the entire patent. and CELL cpu's will make their way into other platforms.

If i was mcbill i would try to license the cell CPU and focus on getting AOS onto it. rather than farting around with whatever he is doing now.

It makes sense.

What web browser and other modern OS components will AmigaOS4/5 have to compete with Mac and Windows, or Linux?

What modern programs for banking, word processing, spreadsheets, etc. that are compatible with worldwide standards (which means Microsoft Word & Excel) will AmigaOS4/5 have to compete with Mac, Windows, or Linux?

Answer:  NONE!

And I am one of the optimistic Amiga Fanatics that thinks that there will be new Amiga hardware in our future and I plan to keep supporting the effort by buying gear and software and learning more about programming so I can actually write something worthwhile for our community.

If the Amiga is ever going to compete with Windows, Mac & Linux (and that is a HUGE IF!), it will happen very slowly over the course of probably 10 to 20 years, if ever.  It would take that long for the Amiga community to catch up with OS features and meaningful software support.

I hope it happens and I will do everything I can to help, but it is so very highly unlikely, that it is easy to see why so many say it is impossible.

(now that I have committed the cardinal sin of posting before I have gone back and read the entire thread, I will shut up and go back and read) :-D

Edit: If the Amiga community wants to move forward, each and every one of us had better become programming wizards and start coding 24/7 in ways that make programmers for all other platforms look like children in grade school in comparison.  Maybe then we can inch forward on the path to catch up.

[amigadave]

QuikSanz wrote:
amigadave,

Your right about more coders, I'm not sure this ole boy can get with that program, "Pun intended".

Do you think an old rookie like me can grasp the concept?
If you really think so I'll have a look.

Chris

I have to be almost as old or older than you, so if I can do it, anybody can!  Also, you don't have to invent the wheel all by yourself.  With just a little coding knowledge I think many of us can help with larger projects that are organized by others that are more experienced than ourselves.

Once we are shown how it is done by the experts, we gain knowledge and confidence and can write some programs ourselves, or in small groups.  Since we are so far behind other platforms, we can help a lot by porting programs from those more advanced platforms to the Amiga, or Morph OSes (or both).  Porting programs from other OSes will also teach us a lot about programming in general and is one of the ways for beginning programmers to learn a lot about how things have been done in the past.

We have to start somewhere, so start at the beginning and you only have one direction to go, and that is UP!  Old does not have to mean obsolete, just look at the age of our Amigas, they are not obsolete yet. :lol: