I love amiga, Since I was so young banging away on an amiga 500. Now, years later in fact I still really love all amigoid systems. Used aros, built dedicated emulation pc's for running os3.x... Rebuilt an amiga 1200...built an amithlon machine,Getting an emac to try morphos... Always eagerly reading news of anything amiga.. Even after all these amiga things that I do or have done...getting a machine to run amiga os4.x is just out of the question for me financially though, even at sam prices, let alone x1000.
Sometimes I think about that and think total failure. What I mean is if they are pricing amiga os 4.x hardware so high that even me, a really big amiga fan can't afford to get one or justify the expense since the hardware is so dated and slow...then what hope do they have of selling to new groups of geeks?
Want to see a HUGE userbase for amiga os again?
X86 it. Limit the supported hardware to a few specific network/video and sound cards. Do that yesterday, make it dual boot with windows, and sell thousands of copies for 50$ each. Watch your userbase skyrocket while
your making money. Make your innovative software BE the new custom chips you crave so much, and stop worrying about hardware.
Steven
