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Re: We Need a Philanphropist
« on: June 11, 2008, 10:38:50 PM »
I'm sorry, but for some of the suggestions in this thread, we don't need a philanthropist, we need a psychiatrist.

It's a hobby that's getting on for 20 years old guys, enjoy it for what it is now and what it was. Minimig, Natami, etc. have a place in that they allow more modern hardware to run 1990s software without a floppy drive of a type that's almost extinct now.

The Amiga hardware is as obsolete as a Sega Megadrive, Super Nintendo, Atari ST etc. I don't think anyone is seriously going to build a 21st Century piece of kit with backwards compatibility to 1990s Amiga hardware on a production scale, it's too small a market these days and any investor will want projections on payback and profits which just couldn't be predicted.

No-one is prepared to take that financial risk, that's why these home brewed projects stay as little more than that. A-Cube a taking a risk with Minimig that may not pay off longer term, that's more than likely.

Sorry, I'm not wearing rose-coloured glasses tonight.