If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?

[Thorham]

Only the trademark? Not the chipset rights? Then it's simple: I'd stick the 100K-200K in my pocket, and take a nice, long vacation. This kind of money is chicken feed, and the trademark isn't Amiga, the classic hardware is, and that's not coming back for this kind of spare change. Anything else isn't Amiga, and is not worth my time.

[Thorham]

Even Natami is not worthy of the Amiga name in your view??

Worthiness isn't the problem. The problem, in my opinion, is that you're naming something Amiga that isn't. The Natami is certainly a very cool machine (yes, I find FPGA computers quite interesting), but it's a Natami, not an Amiga.

Perhaps I should have said: Forget about the Amiga name, and invest in something new. Or perhaps call the machines you release Amiga compatibles (which they are).

Personally, I think worrying about the chipset rights is a bit silly as the all the patents have lapsed.

Hmm, I didn't realize that at all. That should open some doors.
 

Also, the Amiga name has been polluted and the reputation dragged through the mud.

But not the reputation of the original Amiga computer line, and with those patents out of the way, who knows...

PPC or ARM? I'm not sure. 68K? Why? At 100MHz that is still DAMNED slow.

Anything Amiga has to be a copy of the originals. If you want something new of a later generation, then it's time to drop the Amiga and move on.

Also, you're talking about hardware performance, but what about software performance? AOS is far behind the times, but you never hear anyone say anything about that, and I really wonder why...

[Thorham]

You wouldn't expect to visit the Apple forums today and find people talking about OS 8 every other post so why should the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking backwards and not forwards.

Undoubtedly very true, but this is an Amiga forum: A forum about retro computers (or that's what it should be about, shouldn't it?).

People who want something new, people who want to look forward, should forget Amiga. People who want cool retro machines (for fun, not for looking forward or backward) can do far worse than Amiga.