Porting Games To Amiga os4/4.1 platforms

[persia]

Nobody is going to port anything to a machine that has sales (optimistically) in the hundreds.  What OS4 needs is to be ported to intel so that you can get a decent MS Windows emulator or failing that have a Mac emulator written for it that will run PPC and Universal games...

[persia]

Yeah, this horse is dead, there aren't million's of people waiting to buy the latest Amiga, there are at best hundreds.  And worse, there are no cross platform development tools for the Amiga, a PC game manufacturer would have to rewrite the entire game to work on an Amiga.  You aren't just beating a dead horse, you're beating Hyracotherium fossil...

[persia]

What I need is for someone to deposit a million dollars into my bank account.

[persia]

@Flashlab

Ok, but what if I like to?

[persia]

I think there is a point where realism has to come into play.  The stark reality is that developing or even porting games to OS4 is not going to generate much income and if you are a large company it's going to be a major expense with no possibility of recovering that expense.

A clever programmer committed to the idea of the Amiga rather than profits will survive, but that's it.

[persia]

Providing the tools necessary to develop games is one big part of this.  The other part is identifying you audience and working to satisfy their needs.  There must be reasons why we love to play 20 year old games over the current crop.  What are those reasons?

Games in the retro style taking advantage of the middle lower state of the art equipment that SAM provides would make a lot of Amigans happy and that's what it's all about.