Tulip to Bring Back Commodore

[CodeSmith]

Um, I just went to www.tulip.nl and found nothing about this.  Also, a google search on "Ironstone partners" comes up empty, so I'm not sure if there is such a company.  Can you tell us your source?  I think you've been fooled...

[CodeSmith]

Redrum, you might have to change your avatar... there's some serious copyright infringement going on right there  :-P

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[CodeSmith]

Since you don't need to be a member in order to read the threads, that figure doesn't include all the lurkers.  Maybe the 10K user figure isn't so far off the mark.

Of course, a different question altogether is "how many of us are still using amiga hardware?"  In my case, I have a PC at home that I only use for web browsing and an accelerated A1200 that gets used once or twice a week to play classics like Syndicate or Beneath a Steel Sky.  PC games suck these days... all 3D eyecandy and no gameplay.  I really hope the next generation of amiga games writers won't fall for the same trap.

[CodeSmith]

@Kronos

Well, as far as market presence is concerned I don't count emulator users because (except for amigans that need the CPU horsepower of amithlon) they won't buy any new amiga hardware, and are usually content playing old games from ADF files (ie they probably won't buy new software either).  Which means that as far as "the amiga market" is concerned they are an evolutionary dead end.  They are a potential source of new users, but otherwise I don't think they should be counted as "active amiga users".  This does exclude amithlon users, I consider those to be in the "as soon as powerful hardware comes out I'll probably buy it" category.