The future of Amiga, whatever the flavor, depends on developers (Why can't I shake the image of a certain MicroSoftServe speaker from my mind?) It strikes me that there are four realisticsources from which to mine these:
1.) Former Amiga developers. Not the best chance in the world, as most of them left this platform to MAKE MONEY! Still, loyalty to this machine is not logical, and there are a few developers out there who left just because the machine itself wasn't powerful enough to make new software plausable. Knock on a few doors here, and you may find one or two who will return.
2.) Mac developers/Linux PPC developers. Converting programs which arfe already running on the same CPU archetecture isn't that hard, and these two markets are already fringe markets. It may well be worth a thousand new customers to port some of these programs
3.) Companies in competition with Microsoft. You know, Office suite creators, browser writers (Does anybody else remember the aborted Opera port for the Amiga? Didn't they say they were still interested if they could be persuaded that the platform was still alive? Wouldn't an upgraded archetecture and OS just about do that?) These guys are forever looking for new markets in order to survive against the Big One, and they need new niche markets. I believe we qualify.
All of these have been discussed before, and some do seem more likely than others. However, the strongest source of software has been from the beginning:
4.) The fanatic and talented user. These were the Bitmap Bros., Vallhalla, and others. Some wrote games, some wrote hacks, some wrote some of the best darned shareware programs anywhere, mostly because they needed something that wasn't available (Is that the story of why OS4 boots on a Radeon 7000 now?). True, many of them have left, but there are new ones coming to replace them. The Amiga demo scene still exists. There are still Moovid and Frogger and Hollywood and TurboPrint and so many others that I can't begin to list them.
Eventually, we'll have to attract the attention of the big software houses, but making the machine usable is going to attract a lot of expatriots. And the more units we sell, the easier it is to attract said software giants.
It's the upward spiral, doncha' know. :-)
