If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?

[djrikki]

Hmmm what would I do if I owned the Amiga trademark... and some capital...

For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG.  There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team.  Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place I'd then meet Ben Hermans and discuss how the remaining capital could be best invested to not only sustain, but improve OS development.

[Rob]

100-200k is probably not enough but I'd certainly investigate the possibility of producing cheap complete Minimig systems.  I think if it came with around 10 games and cost £30 it would sell pretty well.  Additional games packs could be sold on SD cards to bring in some more revenue.

It would raise the profile of the Amiga brand and hopefully generate the kind of cash flow needed to develop Amiga OS4 to a state where it is worth considering to the average Joe.

[persia]

@djrikki

Well at least on a forum where there's only one member you can pretty easily figure out who's to blame for any disagreements....

[Karlos]

Hmmm what would I do if I owned the Amiga trademark... and some capital...

For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG.  There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team.  Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.

Over *cough* my... *wheeze* dead.... *splutter* body...

Amiga.org has always been and should always remain a site catering for all things Amiga and Amiga related.

Noise, indeed :griping:

[wawrzon]

Hmmm what would I do if I owned the Amiga trademark... and some capital...

For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG.  There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team.  Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place I'd then meet Ben Hermans and discuss how the remaining capital could be best invested to not only sustain, but improve OS development.

oh how releaving to hear this reasonable voice here, investing mooney into taking away from people what they really like and trying to impose on them what they dumbly refuse, especially by means of buying internet domains and redirecting links, must sound very effective in a little red book of a dedicated os4 folover. and the part of meeting ben to discuss what to do with the remains is just tops! i think ainc and maybe the whole wall street have just found their master as to how to do real investments.

[agami]

Perhaps @orb85750 should have made things clearer:

He wrote "the Amiga trademark" not the AmigaOS trademark. Though he might have intended to set up a hypothetical alternative scenario to A-Eon (AmigaOne brand, AmigaOS world-wide rights, and ~$250k), he didn't make it clear enough.

If I owned the Amiga trademark, I'd sell it. Y'all are placing way too much meaning on a name. So I'm sure some fool out there will pay some stupid amount for it, not the $10M+ Bill McEwan is asking for but anything over $1M is a bonus. Add to that the $100k-$200k and I would form a start-up for a new computing platform.

[Ruud]

Hmmm what would I do if I owned the Amiga trademark... and some capital...

For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG.  There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team.  Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place I'd then meet Ben Hermans and discuss how the remaining capital could be best invested to not only sustain, but improve OS development.

Please make your way over to http://www.amigans.net and don't let the door hit you on your way out

[CritAnime]

I would buy out Cloanto and make a Retro Player, kind of like amiga forever setup but have a store section like apple and have maybe the A500 setup with ks 1.3 rom free and then charge like £1.99 for each extra system you wanted as well as have games available to purchase, then try and expand the service to offer legitimate ways of obtaining say sega system or Nintendo systems, and have all the games in the retro playing format, make it as easy as possible for the end user to play these games, maybe make a very small console like system that would just boot up into the retro player.
 
I know it pretty easy to get you hands on emulators and systems roms, but the average jo believe me doesn't know how to set up most emulators and the whole scene is just a bit of a legal mess, it would be nice for someone to build a front end easy simple all in one solution to run any old game no matter what the console or format.
 

That sounds a lot like the GameGadget thing that blaze is bringing out. It's like a multi emulator thing that has an itunes style store for buying roms. So in a sense, if they could find a way of bringing some of the basic platformer and shooter games to this device it would fit in nicely.
 

Hmmm what would I do if I owned the Amiga trademark... and some capital...
 
For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG. There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team. Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.
 
Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place I'd then meet Ben Hermans and discuss how the remaining capital could be best invested to not only sustain, but improve OS development.

Think you have just managed to annoy a few people with that little nugget.

[wawrzon]

annoy? no, hes priceless, the whole thread reduces with his post to an intelligence test. so bright!

[Tempest]

@djrikki
It's funny, how those so called real AmigaOS (read Hype OS) users want to get rid of the 'Noise' made by real Amiga users who like to have fun with their real Amiga's and get the most out of it, instead of forking out a fortune to be part of that AmigaNG crap called OS4.
You're not the first one to come up with that crap, don't let the door hit you on your way out, I heard that http://www.amigans.net is a great asylum for loonies like yourself.

I really wanted to be a positive/nice person this year but posts like yours just make that imposible.  Oooh well, nothing I can do about it now, I just pressed the post it button.

[Forcie]

Hmmm what would I do if I owned the Amiga trademark... and some capital...

For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG.  There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team.  Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place I'd then meet Ben Hermans and discuss how the remaining capital could be best invested to not only sustain, but improve OS development.

Ah. You remind me why my interest in OS4 and its community quickly faded after getting my A1 - opinions and attitudes like yours.

[commodorejohn]

For starters some internet changes would be required, I'd buy A.org and have it redirect to AmigaOS.net and build a forum there where people could safely discuss Amiga NG.  There would be no 'retro threads nor 'other OSes' threads, any detrimental talk about any other AmigaOS-like operating system or even the classic range would be deleted without warning by my moderation team.  Amigaworld.net would cater for all that 'Noise'.

See, I initially read this as suggesting that pointless flameage against any NG Amiga-like OS would be considered "detrimental" and deleted (in other words, a sort of neutral-zone community accord-building environment,) and my brain didn't even process the rest of the post. It wasn't until I read other people's reactions that I went back and reassessed, because it had not even occurred to me that someone could be this narrow-minded, that they were suggesting the exact opposite of that, that they thought any talk at all about any non-OS4 option was "detrimental," much less that talk about real, honest-to-God Amigas that simply aren't OS4 should be banned as well.

Congratulations, drjikki, you totally proved me wrong.

What a maroon!

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place I'd then meet Ben Hermans and discuss how the remaining capital could be best invested to not only sustain, but improve OS development.

You could suggest to him porting to hardware that's readily and cheaply available. You know, like PPC Macs.

[wawrzon]

what i love the most:

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place...

he really means it spelled like that?? doesnt he? i dont think i need to say what it reminds me of, because he just says it all?

[commodorejohn]

what i love the most:

Whilst this 'cleansing' is taking place...

he really means it spelled like that?? doesnt he? i dont think i need to say what it reminds me of, because he just says it all?

The "Final Solution": only Amiga makes it possible!

[smerf]

HI all

What I would do is try to keep the Amiga hardware about the same, except I would make it run at about 3.2 ghz, but still retain the same functions with additions to the sound, and aga graphics, in other words keep the old sound and graphics but add newer stuff to the chips, this way it would be backward compatible ( all except for Electronic Farts programs who based the timing of their programs on the Amiga chipsets, the ratards) yep that is all I would do is try to keep it the same but make it faster with more sound channels added to the old, and more colors added to the old.

smerf

[smerf]

OOPS!!!

Over *cough* my... *wheeze* dead.... *splutter* body...

Amiga.org has always been and should always remain a site catering for all things Amiga and Amiga related.

Karlos, after a statement like that, I was just wondering why are you still here? you use a MAC don't you?

smerf