What is the future of Amiga?

[vidarh]

The reason we are here (on Amiga forums) is for one thing. Nostalgia. We like our classic Amiga's and remember the good old days.

While that's part of it, it wouldn't have been enough to get me back to the community after 12 years away. I came back because I want my daily computing experience to be more Amiga-like and want to find a way to make that happen. I'm sick and tired of waiting (in vain) for other OS's to provide what I loved from the Amiga.

[vidarh]

Heh, heh. I'm the other way around. I got sick and tired of waiting for AmigaOS to provide features which other OS's take for granted.

Well, lack of other things I needed was the reason I moved fully to Linux in '98/'99 and put up with all the crap that entailed.

I wonder what the percentage of Amiga's never ever saw Workbench used ever? I bet it's in the high 90%+ range

Sounds high. All of the people I knew that had Amigas while at school regularly used it for other things than games.

[vidarh]

BeOS failed partly because Microsoft threatened price favours to any PC supplier that bundled BeOS with their machines. Guess why bundled BSD/Linux machines takes so long.. :S

BeOS had pretty much failed already when they made their desperate move to port to the Mac and then finally x86. Most of the initial excitement over BeOS was over the "full package" with their dual CPU PowerPC box.