-Email both companies(everyone in all amiga forums)once every two weeks??
I'm sure Amiga Inc. is very much aware of what people are saying on forums, but OS4 is pretty much out of their hands. Hyperion has their own agenda.
-Try to find other companies to back Amiga, give them reasons why
The "cool" needs to come back. That will happen not with new hardware, but with awesome development tools. Hobbyists care about hardware. Programmers care about platforms.
-Maybe donate(when the time is right??) $2 when Amiga starts acting upon the community and what the amiga community want.
The Amiga community is too small for the company to really offer what we want. As for donations, Amiga Inc. has already blown a lot of investor money. They need more solid ideas. More money is a waste.
-What should Amiga Inc, Hyperion do?
Make a new OS that
feels like an Amiga, but is based on entirely new technology. Give it a kickass programming language or shell so people will write software and say to themselves, "this is so much easier and cooler than Linux!"
-They should make AMiga OS for pc platforms, and that one can use any other software on it from any other platform.
Dual-boot is a good idea. AmigaOS is going to compete with Windows/Linux/OSX no matter what.
If you're suggesting running software from other OSes on the Amiga, there's two problems:
1) The abstraction layers required adds bloat REAL fast, and usually results in tons of bugs. I use a lot of UN*X software on my Windows machine, and the abstraction layers are usually fatally broken. What UN*X programmer wants to make their software work properly on Windows? They only want to make it available for promotional purposes. Not a good idea.
2) The reason for having an alternative OS is so you can do things your way, not mimick everyone else's development philosophies. I want something fresh, not endless half-baked ports that already work on 10 other UN*X-like OSes.
Refer to why nobody uses Java applications. People want native programs that follow familiar interface guidelines.
