New amiga coming out 2010..is this a wind up?

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I dont understand what Hyperion are up to.

Obviously they have the product finished and working, otherwise they would be fools to advertise it to a community that's all too cynical due to the amount of vapour we've had over the years.   So why are they not releasing it til the summer?

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I personally wish AmigaOS would end up as an x86 VM, and thus never ever be tied to a physical motherboard.

Not so sure about the VM bit!!

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They could do a machine running on ARM chips. They don't appear to be all that expensive

Pfft!

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Hi guys,

Seriously, all debate aside, it's about 15 years too late now for "Amiga" (not particularly AI) to make any real dent, or even difference in the computer world outside of the hobbyist market.

At this point, 2010, the market is flooded with other, real, mature platforms from the PC, to the Mac, to even Linux and PS3 boxes.  Put simply, even if someone had 100 billion dollars to put into development of a "new Amiga", there's simply no market for it to sell to.

Game machines?  Covered.
Video Editing boxes?  Covered.
Audio Editing boxes?  Covered.
Desktops? Covered.
Laptops?  Covered.
Netbooks / tablets?  Covered.
Set top boxes?  Covered.
Mobile services?  Covered.
Cell phones?  You got it... Covered...

I know you guys don't want to hear this.  I don't blame you, but the simple fact remains.  Even if someone were to come up with the one perfect idea for a "new Amiga", it might sell 500 boxes to hobbyists.  

Most of this crowd would simply sit around arguing how the "new Amiga" isn't in fact an Amiga at all and how a "real Amiga" is xyz123, etc..

I hope I'm wrong.  I hope someone here, rather than bitching about things will point out a commercially viable market that I've missed.  Maybe if someone can do that, the developers will take notice, but my bet's on me at this point.

I mean, it's great to have a hobby you enjoy, and if using the Amiga is yours then that's very cool too.  Just stop sitting here expecting some Godlike benefactor (even Amiga Inc or Genesi) to pop up and "save" it.

10 years ago, Amiga Inc bought (or perhaps licensed) a name.  Just a name.  It's clear that they had absolutely no vision or ideas as to what to do with their shiny new toy, but it's equally obvious that having just enough money to buy a name wasn't nearly enough to do anything with it.

In the end, we have our so-called "classic" boxes and the few willing to invest the thousands of dollars into it have either AmigaOne or Genesi boxes, but that's it..  No more, no less, and a "new" antiquated PPC box isn't going to be a game changer for anyone.

If you think I'm wrong, ask yourself honestly...  "If I won 50 million dollars in the lottery today, would I invest it in the Amiga [as a brand]?"

Wayne

The situation is compounded by the fact that we can only run the OS on rare PPC hardware.  Instead of one of the billions of x86 systems out there.

What a blunder!!

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I love bang paths!!!