[UserReview] Vampire V2-128 received and it's just pure p0rn.

[stefcep2]

Please stop making your own history. HAM8 modes are/were quite slow, and it was far from (quite) common to use them for anything else than showing images.

I think people are forgetting *how* HAM modes could and were used in productivity software, because they are thinking of style-guide compliant software ie lots of menus, lots of windows all on a high res screen.

Thats not the best way to use HAM in productivity software.

Has everyone forgotten the split screen HAM modes with ImageFX? Useful even on an A500.  I did it that way  with 3 meg.

Or the the same HAM-8 mode in Brilliance was more or less indistinguishable from 24 bit, and eminently usable, on the '040 and '060 A1200 and A4000 I had anyway

Useful only for picture viewing? I don't think so, especially at a time when a 24 bit board cost more than a kitchen.

[stefcep2]

Amiga community (and Atari even more) is so small that dont play any role in computer world (today), but you are thinking as you are big players. Nobody cares about Amiga and Atari except "few" enthusiasts. And Amiga or Atari wont play any role in the future again.

BTW. Apollo core has potential ... also to be commercialy successfull. But ...

Yes!  Most of these discussions about the legalities seem delusional to me

My definition of non-hobbyist OS is one where people can do things with it for significant commercial gain.  Is classic amiga hardware used or  OS3 software being used for any significant commercial enterprise.  I don't think that has happened in amigaland in about 20 years! Its just a bit of fun with old users seeing how far they can push their old software.

$10,000 for a shareware product like p96 is just opportunistic action to shut down a perceive hardware competitor.  No-one I knew back in the day actually paid for 3.1 p96, would not surprise me $10,000 is more than the P96 shareware that was registered!  We all use CGX as we all had phase 5 hardware which simply ran better with CGX.

BTW how did the p96 team write the software given that RTG on Amiga was AFAIR something phase 5 implemented?