Its NOT dead! Damn, I don't want any of you guys near me if I get sick. you'll be tossing dirt on my face while I'm still breathing.
Hell, its not even coughing up blood!
There's three NG OS' based on AmigaOS.
New hardware and software is being released.
The only thing that's dead is Commodore.
I hate to burst your bubble, and I know we're talking potato, potato here, but any computer (or other system) without any hope whatsoever of a real commercial future is, in fact, dead. Whether or not a machine is commercially viable is
THE established means of determining whether or not a project is "alive" or "dead". Any machine that sells to an extremely limited handful of hobbyists at extremely inflated prices for antiquated hardware (c'mon... The PPC is even dead-ended!) does not make it commercially viable.
Extremely similar examples;
- The Sony Dreamcast. Dead.
- Original X-Box. Dead.
- Coleco Adam. Dead.
- Atari 400/800 platform. Dead.
- 3DO. Dead.
- The PPC. Dead.
- .. the list is endless.
Yes, the 25 year old device you play with daily may be functioning.
Yes. You may be having fun with it.
Yes. Hobbyists may be working to try and save the future with new hardware (note, even Hyperion are hobbyists), but the platform is, in fact, commercially and in 99% of all other respects, dead.
(It's also a "toy computer" if you want to go down that road.. :) )
There are a few which are still on life support, the C-64 for example and you may want to extend that same type status to the Amiga but the differences are that the 64 has current, LARGE, vibrant (non-bitchy) community and userbase willing to spend money on it, along with the fact that it has currently marketed devices like the "64 on a stick" that are accepted (and being purchased) by the public at large as opposed to just a handful of hobbyists with more money than sense.
Commercially speaking however, they're all dead.
That being said, before you get upset, you need to understand and accept that neither the death of the Commodore Amiga platform, or the fact that it is now relegated to "toy" -- aka hobby -- status make it any LESS fun to tinker with, but we shouldn't be delusional about the facts.
Narf!
Wayne
