Lets Boost Up Amiga

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Number two plausible? *cough* Which planet do you hail from? Nr. 2 would mean a bigger market than Linux, than MacOS. Oh and a big dump too.

The fat lady sang a long time ago, I just can't grasp that there are still people out there who can't seem to accept that any Amiga-derived platform is commercially as dead a Jurrassic  age dodo.

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I've seen a gazillion 'New Amiga Computers!!!!111!' over the last 13 years been announced. From the Walker to the A/Box to the BoXer. And what has the net result been? A bunch of buggy rebadged PPC boards running OS4 and a bunch of other PPC boards running MorphOS. Woop-dee-doo.

And after 13 years somebody announces another 'New Amiga Computer!!!111!' which will take over the world, solve worldhunger and give me a fluffy bunny?

Time for a realitycheck.

-edit- As for why that webshop is telling you the fuk that? I don't know. Sure, there might be finally someone able to deliver another PPC board which can run OS4, but I'll believe it when I see it. And then what? How will you sell the world (that is, the world outside Amigaland) this PPC board+OS4?

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What I'm trying to say, enjoy the various Amiga-platforms for what they are: cool hobby platforms. Don't expect the second coming of Jay Miner anytime soon from any company, especially if that company wears the name 'Amiga'. Like I said, commercially as dead as a dodo.

That webshop you linked is a nice example: it lists exactly 24 Amiga products, of which one is a T-Shirt ;-).

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shillard wrote:
It's a Colonial Viper Mk II, not a "jet".
Not only as mad as a cut snake, but ignorant of the military equipment of the 12 Colonies as well.
Hopeless!

Actually, isn't that ship in your avatar from Project X? =)

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True friends know when their friends are suffering and in dire need of euthanasia...

That said, my A4000 is far from dead :-D.

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The Amiga isn't flourishing anywhere. If it was there would be hundreds, nay thousands of visitors at usergroup meetings and Worlds of Amigas.

The last show I was at here in The Netherlands was a farce, a couple of years ago in Rotterdam. Only a few hundred folks turned up. Still, I can say that I saw OS4 before I died ;-).

However there might be one bright future ahead for Amiga-minded devices: retro-gaming. And the Messiah in that department is His Holiness Dennis :-D.

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Right.

I'm just gonna paraphrase InTheSand now and say "I should have deleted too, but couldn't help it!" Alenppc basically said everything that I meant to say in his first post in this thread, only much better than I have so far ;-).

-Dammit, I really can't help it-
So point me to these functions with thousands of Amiga-fans.