Alan Redhouse revealed the impressive future of AmigaOne!!!!! (from AmiGBG 2003)

[Atheist]

As long as the "dongle" doesn't leave a finger print, i.e. unique serial no. in each machine, I have no problem with it. I wonder if there's a loss of performance, even .5% is too much.

For the people that seem to want to just get a copy of AOS4.0 and buy an imuc, well, there are several million of those (imucs) out there, and I doubt many of those users would PAY for the OS.


Let's look at the numbers.

500 UKP = $542 dollars for the board * approx. 1000 immediate orderers = $542,000.

Egg on MY face!

500 UKP = $783.39 US dollars for the board * approx. 1000 immediate orderers = $783,390.

Apologies, all round. Thanks MiniBobF.
 

BUT, they purchased Amiga IP rights from Gateway 2000, in Dec. 1999 for at LEAST $5,000,000.

WHERE IS THE PROFIT? It's 3 1/2 years later, how are we being gouged??? SOMEONE needs to pony up their investment cost. And there aren't 250,000 of us out here to split the cost up/lower cost of production. The only chance is to make some units, that they can shop around to the BIG players, to show what all of the HOOPLA was about.

It will cost the few of us dearly out of pocket, but everything of value has SOME martyrs!!

Besides, as I've said before, participate and feel special, WHO THE HELL ELSE WOULD DO THIS FOR FANATICS LIKE US?

AmigaOne! Passion, eloquence, freedom, personality!

[Atheist]

@ z5

I love the integrated SW/HW combo that Amiga is, but they couldn't afford to make a multi-register 256 bit blitter, 256 bit custom Zorro IV bus, SMP, 64 bit CPU, and all the other "goodies" that Amiga could be, ... we have to wait for them to rake in their first billion!!!  :-D   :-D   :-D

BUT, can't Helgis75 at least use Linux UAE?? It does exist, doesn't it?

AmigaOne! Chicken and the egg, so the A1G4XE is ....?

[Atheist]

Hello Helgis75,

Why did you post this under Emulation? Probably should have been in the HW forum?

AmigaOne! AmigaAnyEveryWare!!!  :-D  :-D  :-D

[Atheist]

MiniBobF wrote:
@Atheist

500 UKP = $542 dollars

Er, no.

500UKP = approx USD950
USD542 =  approx £290

Thanks MiniBobF.
I used Euro to $USD, by mistake. :-(
Fixed my post on page 5.

I got 500 UKP = $783.39 USD on
www.XE.Com

AmigaOne! Check, and double check your facts!

[Atheist]

Kronos wrote:

Looking back at what prices were paid by Escom and later GateWay
when there still was a real market, I would say 5m $ is/was way
out of line.

I agree, but I know you know, on at least 1 of the transfers of ownership from Commodore to Escom, or Escom to Gateway, the bankruptcy judge said, the offer was too low, and raised the price.

Kronos wrote:

b) Even if it is true, so what ?
They paid for IP the didn't want to know, just to get an obscure
brand-name and the chance to lure developers to a completly
unrelated platform (Intent). Only when they found out that this
didn't work they decided to go back to the real AOS.

Two f***-ups and 2 scams later they gave it to Hyperion.

So why should they have any rights on us users ?

I agree that AOS should have been pursued, right from day one. I was not happy with the intent/elate/Linux/Qnix... stuff either.

AOS is an OS, and should have been coded, right away.

As for f***-U.P.S. and scams, and rights on us users, everybody makes mistakes, but, I wouldn't say scams. THEY WILL NOT GET ANYWHERE IF THEY SCAM.

So, NO, I do not agree with this, at all!

...rights on us users.

They will, "very soon now" (Tm), have a product, for us "users", who will decide if it meets our needs, and will purchase it on that basis.

WE have the "rights" on whether we think it's what we expect/need and then the "rights" TO buy, or NOT to buy.

They play a part, and we play our part! We could walk away at any time, but that would almost be a breach of trust, because WE HARASSED THEM FOR YEARS, to do this for us.

Let's not let a few dollars stand in the way of our dreams.

AmigaOne! It's THAT good!