How about creating a Open AMIGA Consortium?

[Sig999]

@Sig999: Think of it this way - when the Amiga was released it had graphics equivalent of the most expensive nVidia card , sound like a 5.1 24-bit system, it plugged into a HDTV 1080 and it costed like the cheapest x86.

Actually I prefer to think of it as it actually WAS - you see I had an Amiga back then, and I'd just been forced to buy a PC because my bridgeboard wasn't going to cut it anymore.

When the Amiga was released (A1000) the PC did 16 colors and the Mac did 2... but that's not what you're talking about , you're talking about the 1200... that's around 1992 - around 93 ish when it came to Australia.

So, why don't we look at it like the 1200 was doing 256 colors in AGA, with a possible 16 million.. The PC card I bought to run Winblows 3.1 on did about the same, and with a Soundblaster 16 thrown in cost me around 300-350 bucks.

The 1200 did not cost 300 bucks - or if we say that each card cost the same as an amiga - 150 bucks.  My 500 cost 1000 when I first bought it - several years later when I got my 2000, it cost about the same.

Lets bring in some historical reference - to put it in perspective.... The PC was well on it's way to feature recovery - and the year after the 1200 was released, it started taking back the games market when DOOM was released.

The Amiga was only a blip on Billy-Boy's radar - but the thought that DOOM was installed on more PC's than Windows 95 actually phased him.

To be 100% clear though - I hated windows until XP, which I find 'ok for work' - I've never liked Doom.  But I was there for the Amiga's arrival, rise, and eventual fall. I remember the hey day when the 040 equipped Amiga could still hold it's own against the first Pentiums, and how we laughed when the first bugs in that system appeared (division by 0? Only Pentium makes it possible!).

But let's keep our advocacy based in Reality - please.

As for all-in-one solutions - I am loathe to buy a laptop because if something breaks or becomes obsolete, I pretty much have to buy a new laptop.

I won't buy any new Ami system that follows the same paradigm as the 500/600/1200 for the same reasons.

All in one Mo-bo's today, you can switch all that stuff off and go with better systems if you choose - that's the way I'd prefer to go.

[Sig999]

JetRacer wrote:
@ sig999: Well, I was actually writing about the A500 (I'm a 75'er). At the time it was technicly possible to get a PC to do what an A500 with gen-lock and sampler could do. But the economics was horrible - just like the quality of the result.

 JetRacer opens casket and howls:

Many people totally miss this very important point: the Amiga was everything-in-a-box. A user streamlined package - while the PC was and still is a production industry streamlined concept. At the time of the A1200 the PC could do it all (in one degree or another) - only each plugin card that added an Amiga feature costed as much as an Amiga.

I beg to differ.

If we're talking about the 1000/500/2000 the PC couldn't do what it was doing, and this was the 'glory day' of the Ami.
After that the PC's and Mac's started playing catchup - and C= did very little with the Ami at all. By the time AGA and the 1200 came out - it was already pretty much too little, too late.

The Amiga had many great accomplishments on it's own without needing them to be sensationalized or embellished - how many home computers were launched by someone like Andy Warhol? I think exaggerating things like that not only makes Ami enthusiasts sound an awful lot like Mac and PC followers of the early 90's, but also cheapens the actual accomplishments the machine made.

Besides - after finishing a 10 year career in TV News, I've had all the sensationalism I can stomache.