Because a wise businessman doesn't invest money until he's sure he's got a pretty good ROI? If they can get 500 interested Amigan, they can be more confident of that investment...
Maybe there needs to be a POLL that asks if there are 500 people who are willing to participate. Lets say you vote "YES" if CUSA will do what you want, it does not matter which solution yet. We just need to find out if CUSA can get 500 people on board.
If you can only get 50-100 to agree then it does not matter what is decided.
@rodomok said:
"I would love to have a brand spanking new A3000 motherboard to replace my creaky original. I dump the critical chips from my old board into the new one, maybe pick up some enhanced features like more ram or 040-060 cpu, blah blah, and I would be all set."
I would love to go this route too, we need new spare parts, maybe more compact or modern design.
I like this project for Amiga 1000:
http://www.illuwatar.se/project_pages/gba1000/gba1000.htmAnother solution is to create faster accelerators FPGA or PPC based.
I personally want to stay Classic, maybe more modern, but classic. If I want powerful PC, I get 8 Core AMD.