Why does it have to cost $2K. If they'd use off the shelf components they could certainly get the cost down significantly.
At which point, just buy a PC and grab a copy of UAE.
I agree, don't make an Amiga joystick - make a modern computer with AmigaOS. With a full IDE and get developers to port software.
Not going to happen. Beyond hobbyists the Amiga is a dead platform. I remember when I was following BeOS and it's (as it turned out, ill fated) revival back on 03-06, even getting relatively small apps ported like AbiWord was a monumental effort, as was Firefox and BeOS had the benefits of being relatively Unix like in file structure as well as Posix compliance. Porting things to the Amiga, especially with it lacking many development tools that many of todays coders would take for granted on other platforms would make it a no go proposition, even if the Amiga community had as many devs as the BeOS one still does.
I'll have to disagree that any Amiga solution by nature has to be over priced and underpowered.
Small production runs = big cost per unit and there is no way of getting around that.
Firstly, AmigaOS is hardly as bloated as other leading OSs.
Stop right there. If you are talking about entering the embedded space, the size of the OS is important, for desktop systems, it is utterly irrelevant. The only thing that matters is capability and reliability. As it stands, AmigaOS could not be ported to any PC for sale today with the exception of Mini-ITX and netbooks due to the prevelance of multi processors in PCs.
It doesn't require as much horse power to run to begin with. Besides, if they can use readily available off the shelf components why does it have to be overpriced, underpowered, etc.
Because due to the AmigaOS's inherent deficiencies, you are limited either to rolling your own or using very niche (and price-performance wise) none too great hardware.
I think we've all become really jaded. I'd love to see a new complete system with IDE.
Not going to happen, this is not being jaded, it is being realistic, there simply isn't the manpower available to the community any more.
I'd be happy to have AmigaOS running Firefox
No you wouldn't. Firefox haemorrhage's ram, especially when you start lobbing in addons. Without memory protection you'd end up with a browser even less stable then Voyager 3.1 was, and that's saying something!
OpenOffice.
Good luck with that. BeOS is a far easier target to port to and it was beyond them in anything like a reasonable timeframe - even at the height of that scene's resurgence.
Then I'd work towards other applications on it. The bottom line is, I've never been happy with any other Operating System and I've used a lot of them.
And that is your absolute right. But be aware that beyond people with a soft spot for the old girl, serious development for the platform is over. The last big push for Amiga software was 1997-2000, after that it's been downhill all the way since both in terms of quantity and quality of software.
I understand being tired. I understand it's not easy to enter into a saturated market where PC hardware is now a commodity. I certainly understand how you feel. I know it's an Amiga comeback would be nigh imossible but you know what.
Outside of someone pumping in more money into the scene then sub saharan Africas GDP and ripping the rights to the name and IP out of the cold dead hands of billy boy, there is precisely zero chance of it being a player. And if I'm blunt: To get to the point where it could compete would require a root and branch redesign of the whole OS in order to bring it up to snuff.
Quite frankly the only thing that will continue the Amiga in terms of hardware is the MiniMig. I won't even say the NatAmi on the basis that it's shaping up to be the next BoXeR. The Amiga is now, and will forever be at this stage in the game, a hobbyist device from a bygone era.
I am still interested. Bring it on, show me something new - Show me an OS that looks good but is still streamilined and it doesn't feel like the machine is designed to run the OS, the OS is just there as part of the machine to run the software.
I'm not sure what you're asking for here. Try an Enlightenment based linux if you want fast and flashy.
I'm ready, if it actually happens - I'm there and I know that many other old time Amiga fans are still watching, waiting and hoping for something concrete.
Whilst Billy boy and hyperion try to rip each other off, there is no point in continuing any discussion on the matter of "Amiga's Future". With few exceptions, the past 9 years has been filled with lies, fraud and mind numbingly stupid business moves by everyone involved. The show has been run by crooks and the users have been suckered and made to suffer for it.
