Amiga Revival summer 2010

[christianssen]

http://www.trustedreviews.com/pcs/news/2010/04/19/A-EON-Readies-New-Amiga-Computer/p1

found this message at website from "n-tv.de" with the link above. A-EON plan new Amiga Retro Computer for summertime, very nice thing. My dad has such a horrible machine ;)

[Michael Hartlef]

Amiga a horrible machine??? I am sure you are kidding. It was awesome. Did someone here remembered AMOS?

[Pipes]

I had an Amiga 500 for awhile then an Amiga 2000. I also had AMOS for programming. I loved it back in the day.

[Michael Hartlef]

Had a 1000 and then later a 500.

[Michael Clease]

I had a 500 and now Ive got 2 A1200's

[Pipes]

What do you do with those A1200?

[Michael Clease]

At the moment I use them to collect dust but I do have plans to use them for world domination :twisted:

[Pipes]

Get in line. There are currently a thousand fools trying to dominate it already. :diablo:

[danbaron]

[font=courier new](Don't forget, Pinky and the Brain.)

Here is a pretty detailed review of AmigaOS 4.1.

http://www.osnews.com/story/21826/sam440ep_AmigaOS_4_1

I think it's really hard for a company to succeed selling a computer with proprietary/specialized hardware, and an operating system designed to run only on it, like, for instance, Apple (and previously, Sun).

Doesn't Apple have approximately 5% of the market?

I wonder if the new Amiga will be able to get 5%, of Apple's 5%.

Even for Apple, you're paying a lot more, for what?

Are you really getting something objectively better, or, is it just the mystique, the marketing propaganda, the feeling that you are special?

It seems that the software written for a particular platform, is proportional to its market share.

So, for Apple, that means not much software. On the plus side, it also means not many viruses.

Many years ago, I felt revulsion for Bill Gates and Microsoft (I still do). I had Apple computers for a long time. I saw the Steve Jobs (even more revulsion) soap opera (Steve Wozniak quit, I wonder why.). I finally realized, that no corporation cares more about its customers, than even a 0.00000000000000001% difference in profit.

Microsoft used to advertise itself, as the creator of "insanely great software" (at the same time, that everyday, your computer, installed with Windows, would lock up). Then, groups of individuals began writing the same types of software, doing it better, and, giving it away for free. These days, you no longer hear much about how Microsoft's software is, insanely great.

It seems that the guys who make it to the top of big corporations, or who grow companies into big corporations, are all the same, similar to the compassionate humanitarians on Wall Street. For one of them, the quadrillionth dollar in his bank account, is just as earth-shatteringly vital, as the first.

I think that, for instance, Linux, is people's reaction to corporate domination.

Oh, I forgot, this is about the new Amiga.

I would like to see it succeed, if, the end result is better for people, than, for instance, Apple has been. I think it would be great if somehow, people could circumvent the corporations, and develop their own computer, like they have done in developing so much free software. Maybe the Amiga could be non-profit, "the people's computer". But, probably not. On the other hand, even if it eventually develops a corporate mentality exactly like Apple's, I think it would still be good, if, it can attract those who are currently Apple customers. In other words, usually, the more successful a corporation becomes, the worse it gets. The new Amiga company/corporation is just starting out, so, most likely, in the short term, it will not be so bad. And, in the case that all the corporations are equally ruthless, then, the more competition there is among them, the better it is for the average person.

[Michael Clease]

I think this could be serious competition

http://www.natami.net/index.htm

[danbaron]

[font=courier new]I looked.

It does seem that NATAMI is attempting to become the hardware equivalent of Linux.

A new Amiga, using a "homemade" 100 mhz. PPC chip, with 512 meg. of RAM?

It sounds like it could become a friendly self-sufficient world, populated by docile natives.

"And the rain falls gently on the town
And over the heads of all of us
And in the labyrinth of streams beneath
The quiet unearthly presence
Of nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills surrounding
Reptiles abounding
Fossils
Caves
Cool air heights!" - Jim Morrison

[christianssen]

yesterday evening I cleared up in the attic and found the antique machine of my dad: "Amiga 600", lots of papers and magazines. Amiga 600 included: AmigaOS 2.0, Workbench 2.0, "Kickstart"-ROM 2.05. but I cannot run the pc the netpart is missing. hide and seek, perhaps I find the power pack to give life to the ghost of the machine :)
trip to the past tense, I like it.

thanks michael for natami infos! I follow this development.

In summertime I will buy new computer, but no amiga. It's out of modern-state-technic and a lot of software applications won't run with that machine. I am right ?

bye, denis

[Michael Hartlef]

Yes, absolutely. No windows/OSX/Linux software will run on it.