A suggestion to keep the Amiga spirit alive...

[Wain]

mikrucio wrote:
Consoles are not sold as a loss.

Sony makes millions of dollars PROFIT from ps2 sales
not to mention games.

Wrong.

Playstation 1:
http://www.alexassoc.com/white/sony.shtml

XBOX:
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-912973.html

Article about PS2's european lauch at http://www.gameszone.co.uk/Features/playstation2/playstation2europeanlaunch.htm  says:
"Traditionally, manufacturers make little  or no profit, or even a loss, on consoles to establish a large user base.  These losses are then recouped through software sales."

and over here, about the release of the psx:
"The unveiling of the PSX was the highlight of a presentation by Sony executives outlining a new strategy to calm investor jitters after the company last month reported a worse-than-expected loss of 111 billion yen ($945 million) for the January-March quarter."
at: http://www.inreview.com/archive/topic/4446.html


Console machines do not traditionally sell at a profit, and Sony is not making "millions" from Playstation 2 sales.

[Wain]

Awwww!!  Thanks Cecilia (sniff)
 :-)

If we're going to talk about the necessity of 4GL's, and platform API's like .NET and VB and things of that nature, it'd be better if we tried to get ones that already exist on several platforms instead of vainly trying for the MS-incompatible with everything else in existence-version.

The Amiga computer is currently a hobbyist machine, so let's start trying to appeal to other hobbyists before even beginning to approach the "Windows and Panther are my personal Gods" people.  Get some of these "alternative computing" geeks out there to buy one just as something else to play with, and see if we can't garner some popular support that way first.