So what does the community want

[sim085]

Hi,

I have been pondering on this for quite some time now; What does the community want from the Amiga brand. I have personally divided the people into three groups. There are those that are just happy to use their old system and feel that anything new with the Amiga brand will never be a real 'Amiga', there are those who want to build new 'Amiga' machine using technology similar to that used 20/15 years ago, and finally there are those who wish Amiga be similar to Apple. So my question is ... what does the community really want from Amiga?

Note that the above is not to criticize or anything like that. I am just asking to understand better.

Regards,
Sim085

[tone007]

Sex in a box.

[Flashlab]

A nice Natami to become a reality and have a powerful PPC card for that to be able to run OS4.x and MOS on it too.

[Golem!dk]

What does the community want from the Amiga brand.

These days? Nothing. It was good, but now it just looks like a cruel joke. Wont be stopping me from using what I already have though.

[odin]

An AGA Minimig, or rather an A1200 Minimig.

[klx300r]

my prayers were answered when the Indivision AGA for my 1200 came out..the rest is gravy for me :-D

[Varthall]

Personally, none of them. I wouldn't like the Amiga becoming just another x86 box as Apple did with the Mac. I'd rather prefer a more custom and still powerful machine. The Sam440 is IMHO a step in the right decision, I just hope that in the future a more powerful model will be released.

Varthall

[Crom00]

Can't speak to what the communitiy wants really...BUT If I could travel back in time and tell myself what the future held for the Amiga I'd be both disgusted and inspired...

Disgusted becuase of the wasted dreams and golden opportunites...of C= and others.

and Inspired by the community and things like, MiniMIG, UAE, Natami, Aros, and Clone A, Hyperion.

Amazing how much end users have accomplshed in a fraction of the time compared to the legitamate owners of the brand.

[ChuckT]

The way forward is to design something faster, better and new.

[dbrads]

A time machine, I would go back and show Commodore what the future "was" and what it should have been.

[dammy]

The way forward is to design something faster, better and new.

And cheaper.

Dammy

[Manu]

Todays Amiga standards seems to be to focus on low performance, overpriced almost home-made hardware, the more exclusive and expensive "the better". The more users you
scare away the better.

Makes no sense to me.

[wawrzon]

at manu: but it does perfectly make sense to me.or do you miss all that globalised underage loosers with their globalized pile of stupidity and each vista virus they care to drag along. we have enough of fools ourselves (count me in).

im not into informatics, so please forgive me if this sounds blaspheme, tis my ignorance´. i would stick to 68k and try to improve it till it breaks soft- or hardwarewise. os 4.x is an option. morphos -another. aros on 68k or x64 the the last. and do not try to reconquer the universe as it is doomed either way.

[billt]

What I want, from Amiga (inc), is an open path for companies or individuals (some companies remaining in our community are basically obsessed individuals) to move forward with AmigaOS. Amiga Inc. once defined their technology licensing email, but then pretty much ignored any and all who went there. I'm one of those who were completely ignored. At this point, I'm much more interested in an x86 port, just because it's so hard to make any real sense of making Amiga hardware that I want. (laptop...) I want something modern. With low-power options, high-performance options, and portable/mobile options all being possible. (laptop!!) If they want to limit us all to PowerPC, that's OK I guess, but freakin allow someone to do that. I want Amiga Inc. to get out of the way. They've not looked like anything other than a "road closed" sign for quite a while.

[billt]

Todays Amiga standards seems to be to focus on low performance, overpriced almost home-made hardware

How do you propose we get any more "proffessional" in your opinion hardware shops interested in doing better than what this one company is doing for this market?