Sorry but i have to lol about this

[va!n]

As the topic says... everytime when reading something about "a new amiga" system will come out i have to laught... Why? I am not really sure, but probaly because i read and heared this since 1993 when i really wished we got a new amazing and killing system! But thats now nearly 20 years ago. OMG, i got really old men ^^

Today i found an announcement about (again) new amiga devices like TV and phone. I am sure that all the photos are again - like all the things in the past - just only nice faked images of products we will never see... And if this products may really available one day for the public, i am sure its really to late and only for nostalgic friends.

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The Amiga was a rally great amazing computer i really loved... So let it be in mind as this great computer was before the company died :-( Btw, i am really happy with windows (even i dont rally understand, why only the OS need so much space on HDD... but who cares in times when having up to 3TB harddrives? ^^

[va!n]

I have checked the website a bit... seems they are just only using the name "Amiga"... really sad

[combatking0]

If they were to build a new true Amiga, it would have some sort of custom coded Amiga operating system, and the ability to run classic Amiga code alongside new programs on modern hardware. Wouldn't it?

I've never owned a working Amiga, so correct me if I'm wrong.

Perhaps some sort of "Linux: Amiga Edition" or something.

[Moroboshisan]

If they were to build a new true Amiga, it would have some sort of custom coded Amiga operating system, and the ability to run classic Amiga code alongside new programs on modern hardware. Wouldn't it?
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Perhaps some sort of "Linux: Amiga Edition" or something.

Actually there are many vialable solutions to this topic: on one hand there are Emulators (UAE and such) while, on the other hand, there are many attempts (most of them contending the "Epic Fail" award)

-AmigaOS-XL / Amithlon (software emulation tailored to specific PC hardware running on top of a linux box)
-AROS (Software OS 3.1 API-Level compatibility attempt running on top of linux but aimed to run, hopefully someday, in native x86/x64 mode)
-MorphOS (lightweight Operating System stuffed with a JIT 68k compiler to be able tu run Amiga specific legacy applications... at least that's what they say!)
-AmigaOS 4.x (Operating System running on specific hardware only...judge for yourself...)
-Phoenix (custom Hardware home build reegineered Amiga with improvements)
-Minimig (hardware emulated A500 with real 68k embedded CPU and FPGA reengineered Amiga specific Custom-Chips)
-C-One (8bit hardware platform which could be "upgraded" to 16bit Minimig Amiga with a sort of "plug-in board")
-AmigaONE (PPC custom Hardware)
-PegasOS II (PPC custom Hardware)
-SAM440ep (SoC PPC custom Hardware)
-Natami (custom hardware aimed to bring the Amiga an up-to-date state-of-the-art hardware[ o_O] while being compatible with old kickstarts)

Actually most of those "products" appears as "walking dead" to my eyes.

IMHO what really made THE DIFFERENCE on top of the Amiga was the userbase AND the hardware itself... not the userbase nor the hardware separately taken aside should have had the ***Magic*** one bye one... everything relayed upon that specific (and particular) "hystorical moment" which made it possible.
Growing system complexity and the lack of proper motivation took most users "out of business" while some others got the ball running surfing the nostalgic feelings.

Nowadays it would be nice to have a REAL native AmigaOS running on top of mainstream hardware... but developers seems to have lost that train many moons ago... Really sad.

...as always.. do not take me too seriously! (I don't like starting flames... It's just my personal POV, maybe a little bit too utopic)

Peace!

[staticgerbil]

One thing I would like to see is a company that makes some fixed hardware machines and updates them (as whole machine updates) at a nice slow pace.

I currently use a mac, even for windows and I love that my mac is exactly the same as every other mac around so if something ever goes wrong then everyone is going to have my issue and it is resolved.

I also found it useful when picking my pc as I could find other people running specific macs and the software I wanted to run and ask how the performance was for them.

I would be pretty happy if Amiga did something like this.  They could even have the different levels of pc's named like the old ones for old times sake.

I'm over the old OS, it was great way back when and I still have my old amigas and still fire them up on occasion but running old stuff on a new amiga wouldn't have the same kind of feel for me.  I use the old hardware for the memories more than the actual games / apps.