If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?

[smerf]

OOPS!!!

Over *cough* my... *wheeze* dead.... *splutter* body...

Amiga.org has always been and should always remain a site catering for all things Amiga and Amiga related.

Karlos, after a statement like that, I was just wondering why are you still here? you use a MAC don't you?

smerf

[Bamiga2002]

HI all

What I would do is try to keep the Amiga hardware about the same, except I would make it run at about 3.2 ghz, but still retain the same functions with additions to the sound, and aga graphics, in other words keep the old sound and graphics but add newer stuff to the chips, this way it would be backward compatible ( all except for Electronic Farts programs who based the timing of their programs on the Amiga chipsets, the ratards) yep that is all I would do is try to keep it the same but make it faster with more sound channels added to the old, and more colors added to the old.

smerf

Sounds like Natami on steroids aka ASIC

[persia]

How anyone is going to achieve anything with a budget that basically covers two programmers for a year I don't know.  A more achievable goal might be to fork AROS and move that fork towards modern OS concepts.

[Iggy]

I would port it to DEC Alpha and focus on that, to spite all parties in the CPU debate.

That was a joke, wasn't it?

[djrikki]

If A.org was gone, you'd all survive on an existing or a new forum - it wouldn't be the end of the world folks.  Its just that a prominent TLD would point to somewhere more relevant in 2012.  And Karlos, this thread is pure fantasy and 'what if' is it not? :p

If someone with serious cash (I do not agree that 200k would not be enough however, thats just what I would do) came along and wanted to invest in AmigaOS than they'd probably want to reshape the current landscape - is that not fair to say?  I think thats a fair assumption.

Of course the word 'deterimental' means different things to different people.  You wouldn't expect to visit the Apple forums today and find people talking about OS 8 every other post so why should the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking backwards and not forwards.

[number6]

why should the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking backwards and not forwards.

Maybe because the largest software base even for all NG solutions is still 68k?

#6

[commodorejohn]

That was a joke, wasn't it?

Yes. Yes, that was a joke.

You wouldn't expect to visit the Apple forums  today and find people talking about OS 8 every other post so why should  the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking  backwards and not forwards.

I would. Classic Mac OS is the only real Mac OS, in my opinion. And if you think OS4 is "looking forwards" and the other NG options aren't, you're even more willfully-blind than I'dve thought.

[wawrzon]

If A.org was gone, you'd all survive on an existing or a new forum - it wouldn't be the end of the world folks.

as a matter of fact i could check if my amigans account still works and start to post my rubbish over there for a change. it might serve them well to move the center of interest back to 68k.

If someone with serious cash (I do not agree that 200k would not be enough however, thats just what I would do) came along and wanted to invest in AmigaOS than they'd probably want to reshape the current landscape - is that not fair to say?  I think thats a fair assumption.

Of course the word 'deterimental' means different things to different people.  You wouldn't expect to visit the Apple forums today and find people talking about OS 8 every other post so why should the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking backwards and not forwards.

certainly the best way to ensure that people are not talking of a software alternative is to prohibit such talk it by force, rather to improve this software beyond the said alternative.

[Thorham]

You wouldn't expect to visit the Apple forums today and find people talking about OS 8 every other post so why should the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking backwards and not forwards.

Undoubtedly very true, but this is an Amiga forum: A forum about retro computers (or that's what it should be about, shouldn't it?).

People who want something new, people who want to look forward, should forget Amiga. People who want cool retro machines (for fun, not for looking forward or backward) can do far worse than Amiga.

[warpdesign]

1. Release 1.x kickstart for free (not sure wb disks can be released as well, since Say,... may be copyrighted. If that's the case, a stripped down version could be released)
2. Hire people who worked on the Minimig, etc... to build a tiny version, that could be embeddable in a joystick
3. Contact old publishers to gain publish rights to some old well-known Amiga games (beast, kickoff series, sensible games, bitmap brothers games,..
4. Bundle an AmigaJoystick with something like 10-20 games. More packages could be purchased/downloaded by using USB and a computer
5. If possible, release some source code to open source

[Duce]

I'd get hysterically drunk and run it into the ground like everyone else has.

[cgutjahr]

so why should the AmigaOS community be subjected to people continually looking backwards and not forwards.

The "people continually looking backwards" actually make up the majority of the Amiga community.

Nice business plan, btw. Pretending that OS4's main problem is that none of the half-dozen forums for "cleansed" Amiga NG fans has a catchy domain easily frees you from thinking about any real world problems like usability, hardware prices or the lack of software, stability and manpower. Impressive move.

[pampers]

Given a very limited amount of capital, say $100-200K, and ownership of the Amiga trademark, what would you do with it?  (Please, no jokes, as tempting as they may be here.)

I would play EuroMillions for about 5k$ and the rest and trademark would go over to the MorphOS Team.