A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance

[kolla]

(Who, not whom, btw - "playing on the conscience" is the subject of the sentence.)

If you are to pretend you are a grammar nazi, at least learn to analyze sentences. ... "playing on conscience" is something I rather identify with another group, guess whom - (guess with which group, guess with whom).

[kolla]

Matthey, you are aware that most Amiga users are running some version of UAE and are perfectly happy with that?

[kolla]

.Stick it in a nice case like the X500 and in mini ITX format with fast FPGA, 060, DVI/HDMI, RTG running AmigaOS 3.9 with a custom theme and put it in toy stores at first and it would get lapped up.

And returned within a week as it does not run the software "most users" expect any computer to run. What you ask for already exists as much more capable and cheaper systems.

[kolla]

The FPGA Arcade is the base standard now (68020+AGA+RTG) and if the spec or cost can't be beat then it is better to work with Mike to produce the FPGA Arcade in larger quantities (lowering the cost) than to compete against him.

Good greef no, leave MikeJ alone! ACube can grab his stuff when it is released, and do whatever the license allows them to.

[kolla]

They are?  Really?  You're getting this data from where?

Everywhere. All my ex amiga friends have UAE installed on some sort of device, I do too, on several, as do many NG users too. WinUAE download numbers could be fun to look at. Sales numbers of AmigaForever. UAE4All, FS-UAE, eUAE... just the number of different UAE implementations hint at its popularity.

[kolla]

I don't know about most but many are happy with UAE.

Indeed, so your statement..

Without cheap low end Amiga hardware, there will be fewer and fewer Amiga users and developers wanting high end hardware similar to what they are familiar with. That's game over for the Amiga.

is bogus, because we all, and many more with us, are keeping Amiga alive on UAE. If cool 68k hardware shows up, it is awesome, but emulation works fine too!