KennyR wrote:
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.
I don't give a crap about business.
that is, I'm not running a business.
Fine means: At user meetings I look at people using the OS and it works - and when things don't work I complain and a beta report goes out and it improves.
to me, that's "FINE".
to me, OS4 is a hobby OS. at least for now. and I'm enjoying it. As it matures, it may become something "bigger". but that won't happen without people helping to build it. I'm not one of those nerd fan-boys that thinks dreaming about The Great Overtaking of Amiga on an Unsuspecting World will happen next week. or possibly ever.
I live in the real world. I've worked with people who started their Special Effects company using Amigas, but as time went on they had to include MACs, PC's, Alphas, etc to "keep up".
I've done some of my best work using AfterEffects which is only on MACs and PC's.
That doesn't mean I've forgotten my past or don't still love using AmigaOS.
So, I will continue to enjoy my hobby OS - and even use it for work sometimes! but I'm not chucking out my multiboot Windows2000/linux/WinUAE PC laptop.
But when I can I'll get a micro with OS4.
just 'cause I wanna. and
that's OK
