I can't help but wonder whether it's Dave Haynie who is out of touch with the Amiga scene, or the Amiga scene which is out of touch with the Real World (tm).
I think the latter. I'm as much out of touch with the Real World as anybody else in this community, and as much of an Amiga fan as anybody who is still sticking around. I realise that neither MorphOS or OS4 and their respective hardware platforms are going to make any sort of dent in the desktop computing market any time soon, but - like everybody else - hope that somebody can pull a metaphorical rabbit out of the hatstand's collection of Amiga companies. This is unlikely to be in the form of desktop computing, and is more likely to be in the realms of embedded systems. Unfortunately this doesn't help the Amiga desktop users with the small issue of software. I do however believe that the Amiga has the
potential to get a reasonable sized desktop market, but
most people won't even give it a glance.
Great interview though. I never realised that quite so much was going on at Escom, but then they only had around a year to prove themselves (which isn't really very long when it comes to engineering). Escom were the only ones that really had a chance to continue the Amiga line in the way Commodore might have done. It is now far too late to do that, and the momentum from existing users - which would have ensured good sales - has largely faded away leaving only a small subset.
Chris
