HEY JENS!!! Clone-A Progress Report?

[Nlandas]

Maybe Jens is the new owner and has just played an awsome double bluff

LOL!!! Thanks for that Bloodline, only you could come up with a good one like that.

[Retrofan]

I was reading your thread and I thought that perhaps you could ask Jens directly:
 
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=712137#post712137

[Tripitaka]

LMAO, he keeps it close to his chest huh. Working on the GUI, hmmmm......I need popcorn.

[Darrin]

I think a $39 "joystick" with some built in games and a SD memory card reader for the option of playing additional games from ADF images would sell.

:-)

Nah, you could build the Minimig into a cheap $10 keyboard (like I've done with mine), add a cheap mouse and a cheap joystick to the package.  Sure it will up the cost a little, but at least it will be a "real" Amiga and not a crippled joystick-gaming device.  I bought one of those C64-in-a-joystick things and it lasted less than an hour before it was thrown into a dark corner.

[Tripitaka]

Jens should just make the Clone-A out of broccoli. That way, everyone's happy.

I hate broccoli! I'm just going to wait for the regular silicon version instead. But as I'm busy typing I will say (once again), clone A, Minimig AGA or Natami....Whoever gets it done first gets the cash (well mine anyway, everyone else can spend what they have however they like).

[runequester]

as long as he isnt taking anyones money, he can take as long as he wants

Very excited about this, the minimig AGA and the natami.

[takemehomegrandma]

Nah, you could build the Minimig into a cheap $10 keyboard (like I've done with mine), add a cheap mouse and a cheap joystick to the package.  Sure it will up the cost a little, but at least it will be a "real" Amiga and not a crippled joystick-gaming device.  I bought one of those C64-in-a-joystick things and it lasted less than an hour before it was thrown into a dark corner.

Wow, nothing like reviving old threads, right?

I could of course be wrong in this, but I think the long term goal was never to make "real" Amiga's (meaning a full computer within a keyboard), but exactly those kind of gaming devices.

If you look at that old presentation he held at one Amiga convention some years ago (forgot the link, but can probably find it), he gets lots of questions on whether the thing will be improved and hotted up (added features, better performance, etc), but he categorically rejects this, saying that the point is a 100% HW compatible solution. It makes sense. A "gaming joystick" would be a real product (just like the C64 joystick), with a real market. Especially if it has the Amiga brand. A new "real" Amiga 500 could never be a product in 2010, at least not in comparison to the joystick.

Heck, the last months events surrounding Amiga Inc and Commodore USA might put new hopes to this project? The only place where the Amiga brand makes sense today (at least where it makes best sense), is for this kind of product. Amiga is retro, and it was about gaming for 90%+ of the customers. And I mean, if Commodore USA can get a license to the Amiga brand, why would it be impossible for Jens?

[kedawa]

There's no reason a joystick type AIO couldn't include a keypad as well.

[Darrin]

Wow, nothing like reviving old threads, right?

I could of course be wrong in this, but I think the long term goal was never to make "real" Amiga's (meaning a full computer within a keyboard), but exactly those kind of gaming devices.

If you look at that old presentation he held at one Amiga convention some years ago (forgot the link, but can probably find it), he gets lots of questions on whether the thing will be improved and hotted up (added features, better performance, etc), but he categorically rejects this, saying that the point is a 100% HW compatible solution. It makes sense. A "gaming joystick" would be a real product (just like the C64 joystick), with a real market. Especially if it has the Amiga brand. A new "real" Amiga 500 could never be a product in 2010, at least not in comparison to the joystick.

Heck, the last months events surrounding Amiga Inc and Commodore USA might put new hopes to this project? The only place where the Amiga brand makes sense today (at least where it makes best sense), is for this kind of product. Amiga is retro, and it was about gaming for 90%+ of the customers. And I mean, if Commodore USA can get a license to the Amiga brand, why would it be impossible for Jens?

The problem is, so many Amiga games (at least the ones I like) require keyboard input and/or a mouse too/instead.  This is why I think an Amiga-in-a-joystick would fail terribly.  An Amiga in a PC keyboard with joystick and mouse ports would be far better and in reality a much more tempting product.

[LoadWB]

The problem is, so many Amiga games (at least the ones I like) require keyboard input and/or a mouse too/instead.  This is why I think an Amiga-in-a-joystick would fail terribly.  An Amiga in a PC keyboard with joystick and mouse ports would be far better and in reality a much more tempting product.

Amiga-in-a-mouse?  Amiga-in-a-track-ball? :afro:

[tone007]

How conventional.

Amiga in a shoe!  Footwear computing is the future!

[Darrin]

And for the Spanish Lesbians, we could have an Amiga in a .

[redrumloa]

At this point I am far more interested in the Chameleon :cool:

[Darrin]

At this point I am far more interested in the Chameleon :cool:

Speaking of which, what has happened to that?

Every attempt I've made to joing the Yahoo C-One group ends in failure.  I'm not even sure what the current core for the C-One is as I haven't seen an update for over a year.  

[Franko]

What about an Amiga In Haggis, Reckon I could make a few bob out of that during the Edinburgh festival, those American and Japanese tourists will buy anything that's even mildly scottish related even a silly prices... :roflmao:

(might be a bit unstable though, as a Haggis only has three legs... )

[tone007]

The new Amiga case!