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

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I would like it pocket size with a direct mind input/output system.  Powered by cold fusion.

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Exactly, you have Nvidia and ATI, each with thousands of employees focused on video development and you think that a little company is going to design something better?  The world is a different place than when CBM went bankrupt, trying to manufacture your own graphics cards (or worse yet putting them on the motherboard) is foolish, better to go with industry standard components and build your OS around those.

This is why it is hard to get back into the OS market.  How do you distinguish a new Amiga from a Linux/BSD/Windows box?  If you build it why not just run MSWindows or Linux on it?  You really have to write the applications for the OS as well as the OS.  Everybody does video now, and you have rich and complex products that run circles around video toaster.  Why would I (your average Joe Video) want to use an Amiga?

You need a new OS and a new set of killer apps, a tough combination for sure.  And if you do come up with a killer app you have to resist the millions of sales you could potentially get from porting it to Microsoft. It takes a visionary who doesn't care about money, a rare breed to be sure.

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Pretty much is the point, Amiga Inc has been around since 2001 and has yet to produce a single classic Amiga compatible product.  They sell PC games, they claim to have a version of Tao Intent called Amiga Anywhere but no place to buy it and it doesn't appear to run on classic Amigas either.  My guess is that Amiga Inc has blown it's wad on lawsuits and is basically just a small consulting company in India focusing on dotNet.  

They used to be prolific producers of press releases but even those ended in February, to count on them for anything is IMHO a horrible mistake.  

We have the code for AROS, it's open source.  Finish the port to X86, built a classic mode emulator in it to emulate the classic Amigas (like Apple did with classic Mac) and move forward from there.  

Oh, and give up on world domination, it ain't gonna happen....