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

[Belial6]

I am of a different mind.  AInc. has shown no interest in the Amiga for years.  Even if they decided to throw everything they could at the Amiga, and did start to make headway, we would never know when they would decide to make another about face and abandon it again.  I would rather see AROS turn it's attention to the MiniMig.  Dennis freed us from the shackles of AInc hardware dependence.  Yaqube is moving us forward at a remarkable pace.  The only thing that still makes AInc even a consideration is the KickStart and Workbench.  If AROS could free us from that, we would still be a decade and a half behind, but we would at least be free from dragging the comatose corpse of AInc behind us.  I have no doubt that if the MiniMig could be sold with an OS and a few basic apps pre-installed, we would see more interest.  With that interest, we would see not only more applications, but more improvements to the OS AND improvements to the hardware.

[Belial6]

0amigan0 wrote:
To answer to the topic: NO, it's NOT inevitable!
There are/will NOT be any new amigas; Amiga is a dead platform, get over it!
You CAN, if u wish, enjoy your old Commodore Amiga, but please don't believe false promises by companies whose sole objective is to steal money from honest enthusiasts of the platform.

Well, that is just plain wrong.  I bought a brand spanking new Amiga just this year.  It was not only newley produced, but also a completely new design.  Of course, that is why I would like to see AROS running on it.  Because I don't want a single point of failure for moving the platform forward.

[Belial6]

Hear hear!  I started such work, but then someone else said they were so I stopped else step on toes, instead worked on porting it to the SPARC, but now, no idea how the m68k port is going.  (SPARC is about 40% done tho)

I had not realized that someone took that bounty.  That is very good news indeed.  If bheron drops the ball (which I really hope he does not) please, please reconsider doing the 68k port.  The MiniMig is on a roll, and having I believe that having it's own, open source OS would help snowball it's success.

At the point that AROS runs on the MiniMig, we have an actual 'Platform'.  It is no longer technically a 'retro' platform.