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Offline mikeymike

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Re: Is Amiga (the company) dead?
« on: July 29, 2006, 02:30:08 PM »
In my opinion, the only chance that anything Amiga-related will return in a viable and appreciable form is through AROS.  It may take ten years from now, maybe more, but it may happen.  I hope the AROS developers don't lose interest.

It took a fair while for the browser war to re-ignite, and that's just for a web browser.

In my view, Commodore was the cause of the Amiga's death, by not pushing it as a business tool as well as a games machine.  The hardware (even if PPC is factored in) is too many generations behind the competition to catch up now.  Anything that comes from the Amiga's direction will be based what somebody liked about it, and that may appeal to some group of people who want to use it.  I don't think it is important that whatever is created actually appeals to anyone formerly of the Amiga community.

Good luck AROS, or Hyperion.  Hopefully at least one of you will manage to provide something that a decent-size audience will appreciate.