@Commodorejohn,
You know I wish I could live in the past like some of you. The fact of the matter is even my arch rival Apple saw the light and moved over to the X86 type CPU's they saw that the 68000 series and even the PPC chips where going obsolete.
First off, the 68000 series isn't even out of production. The commercially-available ColdFire chips may not be compatible enough for our purposes, but they do exist, and NatAmi has a much more compatible reproduction in the works that will still run faster than even the 68060.
And there's no way in hell it's obsolete, unless your definition of "obsolete" is "does not have a physical implementation that's fast enough to meet my needs at the moment." The 68k architecture is still a solid design that was far enough ahead when it was introduced 30 years ago that it didn't have to be brought up to modern standards via a series of increasingly massive kludges until they finally said "screw it" and moved it to to hardware emulation on a faster micro-architecture (*cough*x86*cough*)
The only difference is -- they had the money and the talent to rewrite their OS for the new Apples, they had their own money and people that could do a restart and make it work.
And it's hilarious that you'd even be making this comparison, when CUSA are going with bog-standard Linux on the C64x and have talked about maybe, possibly doing a vaguely-defined new OS for a later project.
What does Amiga have, a bunch of darn whiners that whine about everything, they aren't putting any money up, they aren't risking their bankroll but they are complaining about a second chance.
News flash: some of us don't
have that kind of money. Believe me, if I suddenly won the lottery, funding a project like NatAmi would be #2 on my priority list, right after "pay off my college loans."
Well guess what they can't -- comparing the graphics and sound of Far Cry would be like trying to run a game for the Amiga on the Vic 20. It just isn't possible. That's right CJ we are talking games here, you know the things that made Amiga tick. You want to talk Amiga's Cliche -- video processing, guess what it doesn't lead the field anymore, MAC has taken over, and PC is right on its heals. Don't even try to talk business programs or multi tasking, the PC will wipe the Amiga slick today.
For your consideration: I am perfectly at peace with the fact that PCs and Macs (and newer ARM machines, for that matter) thoroughly outstrip even an accelerated 68k Amiga at any given task. But you know what?
I don't value the Amiga because it can run the best games, or do the best video processing, or anything else. I value it because of what it
is: a fascinating design in both software and hardware that is so beautifully documented that anyone can understand it. That is worth preserving, not abandoning just because it's not shiny enough.
What would you do if you had the money and the power to start a computer company?
I would fund the development of the NatAmi, or something like it, so that it could reach its full potential, with optimized hardware from the best fabs.
What new innovations would you bring out?
The fastest 68k Amiga to date.
What would your computer do that stood out from all the rest?
Who gives a shit? If it's a great machine, it's a great machine, and the hell with what the competition thinks.
Personally I'd rather the Amiga brand was laid to rest than whored out on cheap knock-off tat like supermarket TVs and sub $100 buggy android tablets, what a sad and undignified end to one of the industries most pioneering technology brands of the 80s/90s. Sticking the name Amiga on a kettle or crap TV is not doing "more for the Amiga", it's making what was once a legendary name into a laughing stock.
This.
THIS.Pay close attention, this is DISNEY, they don't do it that way. Why don't you call and ask Disney yourself if you can advertise your product and see what they say?
Look, I don't care whether you have to say "pretty please" and do a little dance or not, money changed hands and CUSA got advertising space. Everything else is just bureacratic twiddling.
