Could Amiga find a special (non-vintage) niche?

[slayer]

I've never quite understood these types of questions or outlooks, I'd rather label something as being such and such when it is realised it does fit into a category.

I guess by asking (or speculating) these types of questions you present a potential target for someone in a position to take the Amiga into that void? :-)

I've never used anything but an Amiga so I don't even consider my stuff classic or niche, since it is still the here and now for me, it's just the cpu I always use, end of story... If everyone wants to abandon me it makes no difference to me, I've got enough hardware to keep me happy till the day I die... And after I get a few more SAMs, well, anything could happen then, it makes no difference to me...

Like the good ol days of 1985 when there was no help or www etc...

And a 7mhz cpu ruled the planet ;-)

[slayer]

hmmm...

You'd have to decide whether there are other things a cpu could be used for perhaps? Something that isn't being done very well or at all by existing setups. Trouble is how is one going to design something totally specific and only possible to run on Amiga endorsed HW? If anything was to come out in this vein it won't take a rocket scientist to go, hey cool, what if we attached this to blah blah blah with the extra grunt. And if you had a competely stand alone unit no benefited from a connection to the host system then why market it for a niche market...

As much in love as AmigaOS that I am and will never use anything other than AmigaOS at home I just can't see how it'll ever happen... Our best bet really is to show that the OS is the winning aspect... other than that, hell, let people use crappy pcs and alike... amen heh

[slayer]

Well, I'm just trying to give your concept some credibility but Its failing miserably... If you don't agree with me then I must have misunderstood you from the word go...