I understand your point of view, but there are some arguments to be made against C-USA. I mean, sure, they are "bringing the Commodore/Amiga back", but are they, really?
From some perspectives, all they are really doing is taking standard x86 PCs and putting a Commodore logo and case around them with a special suite of emulation software pre-installed. Workbench 5.0 sounds interesting, yes, but the question remains of if it will remain true to the old Amiga Workbench.
I mean, really, the whole thing comes down to one's personal opinion of what makes an Amiga an Amiga. Is PowerPC Amiga? Is AROS Amiga? Or is Amiga simply 68k with the custom chipset?
I have no issue with the direction they are going with this. In the end, if they actually ship something will tell us all something. Hope they do.
I slightly compare this to Apple. OS 9 was getting rEAL old and they needed to do something. Apple purchased NeXT (Or NeXT gobbled up Apple
) and Apple switched to a Unix based OS rather than continue on with OS 9. I think Apple did a nice job making the switch. OS 9 was still available for a good amount of time for people to slowly make the change. Linux could be that simular answer the Amiga platform needs. Sure Amiga OS 4.x has some cool stuff but at the same time, the OS is real old tech. I would think they could move some of what makes AmigaOS so nice over into the Linux world and the new AmigaOS"x" could become the power-horse it needs to become to keep the platform growing and moving forward.
Apple did a nice job making OS X for the average joe and maybe someone can make the new Amiga OS that lives on Linux the same.
I mean I would love Amiga OS 4.x on PPC to thrive but from what I have seen in the short time tinkering with Amiga that may not happen. I am an avid old PPC person since that is what I had on Atari and Mac but even my Macs now are Intel based, Unix based, and they sure work well. Whether it be on my desktop of my iPad or iPhone. Similar OS on all it is becoming.
I like some of the CUSA designs and would not mind they do well.
tj
