Motorollin's "Future of the Amiga" thread

[philipj]

Good sum up thread but just an FYI:

This:

-- 2. Use OS3.x under emulation --

and this:

-- 1. Amiga Inc put together packages of cheap x86 systems running AmigaForever --

Contradicts this:

-- A small OS which boots quickly, doesn't need to be "shut down" at the end of the day, and is easy to maintain, with MM software like Scala and Hollywood all mean that the Amiga is ideally suited to Multimedia Presentation booths and interactive displays (think Science Museum). --

Not trying to be pedantic or anything.

[philipj]

As far as I'm aware Knoppix always needs to go through the shut-down process because it releases the CD properly for you at the end of it all.

Though in theory I don't really see why you couldn't just turn-off a LiveDVD run of an OS, unless it damages the RAM or something. All speculation, I really don't know I'm certainly no technical expert.

[philipj]

motorollin wrote:
It won't damage the RAM. The only reason to shut down a Linux distro on a read-write filesystem is to make sure the filesystem is unmounted. On a read-only filesystem this doesn't matter.

Thought as much about the RAM.

Hmmz, okay I'm going to say something here I'm not 100% sure about, but the Knoppix run of AmigaOS isn't strictly read-only is it? It can write to certain types of formatted partitions? Doesn't it mount these on startup?

It's been awhile since I loaded up either Knoppix or AmigaForever!

[philipj]

Ah right thanks for clearing that up!

So could this mean Cloanto are the future then? 8-)

[philipj]

JimS wrote:
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.

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!

I mean, AI have hardly done very well with the likes of AmigaDE to try and bring Amiga into the future have they? So why focus on that market.

[philipj]

JimS wrote:

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?

Like someone said, AI having anything to do with the classic market is worrying at best, but I was thinking at least license to the Amiga name and possible marketing of the product (as a true Amiga product) could have its value and worth to all beneficiaries involved.

I believe AI did want to get their hands on the minimig (Dennis didn't let them :-) ). I do have no idea though what they would have done with it in the long term.

adz
Amiga Inc. should just give up, hand the source code over to the community and let us get on with the task of getting OS4 ported and running on an availiable hardware platform. Statistically, we stand a good chance of being able to compete with Linux on the desktop front at least

I agree, sadly. Open source is the only way forward if Amiga is to stand a chance at surviving in the future.

[philipj]

I am not every person on this forum. I also didn't say I wanted it limited to overpriced hardware.

That's a big reaction for one word - I'll keep my mouth shut next time.