Motorollin's "Future of the Amiga" thread

[JimS]

You forgot the hobbyist market. I don't think there is a chance in heck of *any* alternative machine making any sort of move onto the desktop these days. But there might be a big enough market in the "true believers" and retro fans. Ainc could pay the $$ needed to convert something like the minimig or clone-A to ASIC, and sell it to hobbyists & gamers. Heck, it might make a good little kiosk board itself.

[JimS]

philipj wrote:
One thing I thought AI could have done was to work with companies like Elbox and Jens to try and come up with a few products to satisfy us classic fans!

That would have been a good plan, to bring in a bit of cash at least to carry on the future directions they have in mind. On the other hand, most of those products probably don't even need Amiga's help to bring to market. AI doesn't appear to have the financial resources, and do they have any tech people with a clue about the classics?

[JimS]

Fester,

 That tagline is just my little dig at all the excuses for the delays showing prototype boards at the various recent Amiga events. Gerber files are what gets sent to the PCB maker after you design a board layout on your computer.
  According to Wikipedia, Gerber was a pioneer in the photoplotter industry. Your friend's relic might be one of those machines.

-Jim
 

[JimS]

Fester wrote:
Thanks for the info JimS.

No problem, eh?

At least I know now you weren't referring to the nutrition information on baby food bottles. :-)

..... although one could speculate that some of our fellow Amigans are still eating from those bottles. :-) <--- ;-)

[JimS]

@phillipj

Well, I guess it's true that AI has little credibility in the Amiga user community But they are the folk with the name recognition in the business world. (Such as it is) I was thinking they could raise the venture capital needed to make an Amiga-in-a-stick out of the minimig or clone-a. Assuming either of those guys would allow it. ;-)

As for Ainc folding it's tent and releasing the OS to open source.... well, that sounds good, but which source would that be? 3.1? 3.9? I'd be worried about the OS fracturing into various incompatible flavors without someone to hold it together.