To high of prices on new boards

[TCMSLP]

Sure, lower prices would attract people back to the platform.

However, these items are made in small quantities with massive development costs.   If the companies didn't at least make their investment costs back (and pay some sort of salary to employees) then we'd not have any companies at all.

The netbook excited a lot of people as it offered a low cost introduction to OS4.x.  I hope there's some way of using this obvious interest and demand to bring an affordable product to market.

If people want an amiga-like experience on commodity hardware then we have AROS (see http://www.ares-shop.de/ for a complete solution) and MorphOS (from http://www.morphos.de/ and requiring an old Mac or other PPC hardware).

Steve

[TCMSLP]

Gaula92: I love the look of the FPGA solutions, however you're ultimately limited in terms of performance plus architecture (it won't run OS4.x).   Sure, this is a matter of personal preference and religion (regarding 'what is Amiga') but an FPGA only covers one segment of the market.   Also, calling those catering to other parts of the market 'thieves' for attempting to recover development/production costs is a little ... odd.