The $500 000 Question: How much is Amiga *worth*?

[TheMagicM]

@red:

I agree.   And you wont be seeing any Amiga computer at any big store like Best Buy/Wal Mart etc.  

[TheMagicM]

@stone:

amiga to those companies and people i meet, is simplicity, elegance, fun and power. only few people know about the problems resolving around the amiga, and the laughing stock seems to be the idiot fans and nay sayers, with their pathetic limited views and their rediculous conspiracies. not the amiga itself. these forum posts are the only laughable thing really.

you and your friends need to step out of the 90's.   Only a few people know about the Amiga and its problems is because the rest of the fans left years ago.  The whole situation is disappointing but if you've followed the Amiga from day one through all its owners and broken promises then you'd realize what a laughing stock it is.

its a matter of keeping things in persepctive. there are a lot of companies similar to ibm that easily could put a couple hundred programmers behind amigaos a couple months to make amigaos fill out a desktop and embedded segment that noone else covers as efficiently.

Again, what company would want to do anything like that?  Tulip bought commodore and what did they do with it?  Since they bought it for $25mil obviously they had the resources to back any motherboard design etc but they didnt.  You ended up seeing a C=64 in a joystick and even they offloaded the C= brand.  The Amiga OS isnt anything thats so wanted like you're assuming.  In the past it was good in its prime.  Yeahronimo bought C= but cant afford to pay for it in one chunk so they are paying in payments..lol.  But thats what Tulip settled for..no other takers?   Maybe IO Interactive can plunk down the money since they have so much and port Amiga OS to the PS3?   I mean you have coders there dont you?  Should be a piece of cake.

Sorry to sound so negative but I see nothing of any value from any AI employee until there is proof, a live demo at a big show etc.  Too many broken promises and delusions of grandeur.  

-Alex

[TheMagicM]

@stone:

i dont know what your definition of 'a few' is, but millions of people isnt a few in my book. these are people to whom the word amiga rings a bell in one form or another, and for by far the largest part of these a very positive bell too, though most of them never even owned an amiga.

I'm sure they would have fond memories from the 80's and 90's.  I have fond memories of my C=64 and VIC-20.

the fans isnt what cuts it anyway. you cant expect a company to base any kind of product on the tiny amiga fan base.

ok, but you were just talking about the millions... and MILLIONS of Amiga fans..ok they dont count.  nevermind.

operatingsystems isnt rocket science

Really?  Tell that to the Friedens (sp?) or the MOS devel group.  Those are some of the smartest people working on AOS4 and MOS respectively.  But you're right, I bet you can make some sort of PlaystationOS (POS) (no pun intended..lol) that resembles AOS 4 or MOS "in about two weeks" right?

and there hasnt been any revolutions in this area since the 80s. amigaos still holds nearly all of its strengths as it did then. nowadays since windows, linux and macos all have grown into unhandly mastodonts it holds even more value as a lightweight scaleable system.

MacOS/Linux EASILY trumps any incarnation of any Amiga OS out there currently.  Linux is as bloated as the user makes it...and it runs great on my powerhouse X86-64 machine.  Tell me something AmigaOS does now that Linux cannot.  (something worthwhile, not silly like dragging the wb screen down to reveal a seperate screen).  I can name plenty the other way around.

as i wrote. its not a lot of money for any decent company.

By that assessment there should be companies coming out of the woodworks, but they're not.  I wonder why.

-Alex

[TheMagicM]

I can name one:
*The ability to boot from ROM right out of the box.

You dont boot from a rom.  You still have to load workbench.

I can name several things that Amiga is that Linux/Macos are not:
*elegant, intuitive and graceful.
*easy to understand and use for non-technical users.
*Fun. Linux is a chore.

Linux and MacOS are as elegant, intuitive and graceful as you make it.  If you're not creative then it will be as ugly as you make it.
True about the ease of use.  But then what do you expect out of a operating system as old as AOS with its limited features?  
I have a blast using Linux.  Its not a chore but thats because I know what I'm doing.  My dad, who is not linux savvy, switched from Windows to SuSE 10 linux and uses it every day without any problems.