HEY JENS!!! Clone-A Progress Report?

[Darrin]

I think a $39 "joystick" with some built in games and a SD memory card reader for the option of playing additional games from ADF images would sell.

:-)

Nah, you could build the Minimig into a cheap $10 keyboard (like I've done with mine), add a cheap mouse and a cheap joystick to the package.  Sure it will up the cost a little, but at least it will be a "real" Amiga and not a crippled joystick-gaming device.  I bought one of those C64-in-a-joystick things and it lasted less than an hour before it was thrown into a dark corner.

[Darrin]

Wow, nothing like reviving old threads, right?

I could of course be wrong in this, but I think the long term goal was never to make "real" Amiga's (meaning a full computer within a keyboard), but exactly those kind of gaming devices.

If you look at that old presentation he held at one Amiga convention some years ago (forgot the link, but can probably find it), he gets lots of questions on whether the thing will be improved and hotted up (added features, better performance, etc), but he categorically rejects this, saying that the point is a 100% HW compatible solution. It makes sense. A "gaming joystick" would be a real product (just like the C64 joystick), with a real market. Especially if it has the Amiga brand. A new "real" Amiga 500 could never be a product in 2010, at least not in comparison to the joystick.

Heck, the last months events surrounding Amiga Inc and Commodore USA might put new hopes to this project? The only place where the Amiga brand makes sense today (at least where it makes best sense), is for this kind of product. Amiga is retro, and it was about gaming for 90%+ of the customers. And I mean, if Commodore USA can get a license to the Amiga brand, why would it be impossible for Jens?

The problem is, so many Amiga games (at least the ones I like) require keyboard input and/or a mouse too/instead.  This is why I think an Amiga-in-a-joystick would fail terribly.  An Amiga in a PC keyboard with joystick and mouse ports would be far better and in reality a much more tempting product.

[Darrin]

And for the Spanish Lesbians, we could have an Amiga in a .

[Darrin]

At this point I am far more interested in the Chameleon :cool:

Speaking of which, what has happened to that?

Every attempt I've made to joing the Yahoo C-One group ends in failure.  I'm not even sure what the current core for the C-One is as I haven't seen an update for over a year.  

[Darrin]

@ Tone007

Great Idea...

Here's the early mock up of the new McAmiga 1200...
5Million GB RAM, 700 USB 4.0 Ports , Intergalactic Hyperdrive HD, and as many other goodies that can
be crammed into a shortbread tin.

(Should sell by the bucketload and put the Amiga back on top Again... :roflmao: )

Intergalactic Hyperdrive?  Pfft!  Wake me up when you've installed an Infinite Improbability Drive!  :p

[Darrin]

This thread on Lemon64 has the latest information AFAIK.

Cheers Jim.

I have my original breadbox C64 PAL model from the UK with a fried serial port.  This cartridge with floppy emulation might be just the thing for me.  I've bought NTSC C128s, but they don't seem to like to play all games, even using my MMC cartidge (I haven't got one of them to play Revenge of the Mutant Camels off a D64 file).

[Darrin]

I was talking about reality, not some fabled myth from the Hitchhikers Guide... :roflmao:

Anyway I couldn't fit an Infinite Improbability Drive in, cos your the one with the Tardis and Sonic Screwdriver, remember...

You only saw my "little TARDIS", I also have my full size yard-art TARDIS:



Unfortunately, this year the termites ate it:


TARDIS MK2 is currently under construction (hoepfully it will be ready for the kids for Xmas):

[Darrin]

:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

It's well seeing your at work and got plenty of time to kill...

LOL.  It is because I've been working so much that it isn't finished.  The original one took a third of the time.