Amiga X1000 software lineup

[wawrzon]

sure. i actually discovered the modern amiga platform(s) through a review at osnews.com early last year. i hadn't realized the amiga was still around, and, never having been interested in them in the 1980s and 1990s, i read through the article.

interesting, i had my first amiga (a600) also at the end of its era (about 91), went to supermarket and there it was, a machine i ve ever heard from the 80ties and have never seen only heard legends about. sounds familiar? i bought it immediately, and have to carry the consequences to this day. stupid as it gets, i wonder.

[amiman99]

I'm a user since about 1991, got my first A1000 for like $250, then A2000, then A1200 and so on. The A1000 came with "Shadow of the Beast III", that game blew me away, then I tried Octamed 4, WOW!! I was hooked.
Right now I'm looking at the state of new Amigas, trying to figure out what can I do with them, if I decide to buy it.
Right now, I don't see any killer APP for OS4, I would like to use it as a main PC, maybe for video editing or blu-ray burning, web surfing Youtube, printing and so on, but I don't see that right now. Showing that Quake II runs fine it's not going to cut it.

[persia]

It's a chicken and the egg thing right now.  Few are going to develop software for it because the customer base is so low and the customer base is so low because there's no software available for it.

[takemehomegrandma]

All we really need is a decent web browser. Can't see that happening any time soon though.

I find Odyssey 1.14 to be *more* than just "decent", it has pretty much everything I can ask for for my daily browsing needs (except a good Flash solution, but that's not Odyssey's fault). Had Odyssey been running on my Windows 7 box, I'd probably use it there instead of Chrome. Then it would have had access to Flash as well...

[takemehomegrandma]

It's a chicken and the egg thing right now.  Few are going to develop software for it because the customer base is so low and the customer base is so low because there's no software available for it.

...and because of its (the HW) ridiculous price tag, and because its spec's and performance you get for that price, and because the state OS4 is in, and...

[lsmart]

Had Odyssey been running on my Windows 7 box, I'd probably use it there instead of Chrome.

Wait. This sounds like a great idea. Of course you´d have to get AROSs Zune working on Windows first. Can you create Windows Bountys?

[persia]

Well, if the X1000 could use both it's cores it would be slightly more powerful than an iPhone 5....

QUOTE=takemehomegrandma;661510]...and because of its (the HW) ridiculous price tag, and because its spec's and performance you get for that price, and because the state OS4 is in, and...[/QUOTE]