Regardless of what this means to the Amiga "community", it's a sure sign that they no longer have anything worthwhile in their hand.
AInc. are obviously out of money, or will be soon. The new owners of AOS are not likely to bring a mass-market product to life, so you might as well go out and buy a C-One if you're looking to run an alternative platform.
I have been using MacOS X Panther at work for a few weeks now, and I hardly turn on my PC anymore. It's slicker than Amiga ever was, and elegant to boot.
I know you're all going to cry when I say this, but I'm done. It's been 10 YEARS since C= went under. I remember reading comp.sys.amiga.advocacy back in '94, freaking out because "my computer" was an orphan. Guess what? I still have my '030 A3000d and I haven't even had it set up since 1997. The last thing I bought for it was the crap "Siamese system" that hardly worked. The only way I would buy anything now with the Amiga name on it (including the compatibility sticker) is if it was in a new, shrinkwrapped package with the words "copyright 2004" on it. Not bloody likely.
Enjoy the pain folks. Talk to the Tandy COCO people if you want a glimpse of the future of Amiga. (read: in a dustbin)
Yes, I'm sad. But it was over a long time ago.
Joe Mango
P.S. Call me when they have AOS 4 for the Opteron, and a suite of applications software that runs on it. Then maybe I'll look at it.
