Voted on the poll website.

Couldn't careless what processor as long as price to performance ratio is good and AmigaOS 4.x runs on it.

No to any form of pre-payment.

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What does CUSA offer *today* that would support a claim to 'lead the way'?

Contacts, ability to get things done and the fact that they really want something.[

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It appears on the advance payment is the hard bit!

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It appears on the advance payment is the hard bit!

I guess they don't believe their "wish" product is worth while enough to get it even at dead cost.

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No to any form of pre-payment.

Then why should you be able to buy it at dead cost then?

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Given that some of the more popular ideas are accelerator and s/w port, and given that the existing community would not need "contacts" per se to get those done (they already know whom to approach)...

Could you perhaps more clearly define why anything would be more advantageous to do through CUSA as opposed to just using a bounty solution of their own?

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Could you perhaps more clearly define why anything would be more advantageous to do through CUSA as opposed to just using a bounty solution of their own?

I'll leave the official stuff to Leo.

However, speaking as a third party who founded TeamAROS Bounty System which after several years was moved to Power2People when I started to step away from AROS, I do have some views on this matter. Having a international corp with an owner with decades of experience and personal contacts in the massive Chinese electronics (and furniture) ODMs means that small projects will be done by the superior efforts in order not to lose face. That also means it gets done in a reasonable time period, although the big firms get priority, tiny orders by old customers do not get lost in the shuffle. This also means the lowest prices that an unknown with a tiny order will never be offered. Then there is the experience of importing without having to go through hair pulling experiences of an "surprise" tariffs. Last but certainly not least is the difference of a bounty having to go and demand more money from the end users for "unexpected costs" vs C=USA eating those cost since they were not apart of the final price that was set.

Barry's offer is one hell of a generous offer, yet the haters still trying to bitch slap him for it. Unbelievable, simply unbelievable on how low the online Amiga Community has degraded to.

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@damocles

I appreciate the response. I hope you understand what I'm getting at with this.
Look at point #1 as an example:

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what exactly it wants a Commodore AMIGA from Commodore USA to be.

Obviously, the ideas expressed have strayed far from the specific of point #1.
So just as the thoughts expressed in this thread and the polls have matured/changed over the passing days, I think that the points about the offer need to be updated as well to stay in line with what is being said on the community side.

Regardless, things still seem to be more civil overall than in the past. If that's all that comes out of this, that's still something.

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Barry's offer is one hell of a generous offer, yet the haters still trying to bitch slap him for it. Unbelievable, simply unbelievable on how low the online Amiga Community has degraded to.

Crap comments like this is why some here spit on cusa, its supporters like you who make cusa look bad.

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Crap comments like this is why some here spit on cusa, its supporters like you who make cusa look bad.

Come on, let go of the hate for the weekend and enjoy the festivities.

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I have no hate for you or cusa, but you need to give it a rest as well.

Merry Christmas

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possible wish: just like the AmigaOne X1000 with AmigaOS 4.x ... only better, perhaps cheaper.

But how likely is it, that Commodore USA can do this? zero?

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possible wish: just like the AmigaOne X1000 with AmigaOS 4.x ... only better, perhaps cheaper. But how likely is it, that Commodore USA can do this? zero?

That's a complicated project since that involves multiple vendors and at least one license agreement has to be made. Having said that, since there would be zero retail profit being made, somewhat possible on a cheaper price. You need 500 people to verbally commit, which would push it to C=USA to come up with a final price divided by the 500 people which would go to a third party escrow account until the product is delivered.

I would suggest something less complicated as the first project that everyone would be interested in.

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Well, what have Commodore USA done so far? Does it seem to anyone that they want to revive Amiga?

AmigaOS has a great Chance and needs only more money. The best chance is in Europe because MS/Intel/Apple will stop any real attempt in the USA. Europe can save billions (10^9) if it replaces MS with AmigaOS - this thought must only be communicated in the right circles and the money will flow. It's possible because MS-windows is too big/slow/buggy (for military and industry) - imagine what AmigOS can become with some 100 million Euros. (imho)

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Well, what have Commodore USA done so far?

They have returned the C64 back into the modern computer market an excellent replica with a customized Linux distro called Commodore OS Vision that will come pre-installed in the near future. They are now in the planning stages for their Commodore Amiga series among other things.

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I do not see much chances for that. If you want to replace MS you have already Linux (established, supported by many companies, more developers and users, more drivers, more software...). Why choose any exotic and commercial OS that only runs on a outdated processor family? That is what most "outsiders" will think...

Well, I am constantly tired of pointing constantly to QorIQ-whatever-nobody-cares-about kind of CPUs.

Every sane person knows, that PPC nowadays is a mistake, even for Amiga. And why? Becaue in order to get high power Amiga, somebody needs to bring us reasonable HW first. Now what are our options, after so many years? How long is X1000 delayed, and how much will it cost and how well will it perform in regards to competition, once released?

I know your (whoever you are) arguments, about AOS being already PPC based, and eventual cost of porting. It is just that when I compare it to general non-availability of suitably and acceptably priced HW, I don't believe your arguments for one single second.

I can see three ways to be supported:

- NATAMI kind of project - for those loving nostalgia, old Amiga ecosystem, fun
- x86 for high-end Amigas
- ARM cpu - ARM is a king of embedded plus mobile ecosystem

The answer is to FINALLY forget ANY Amiga HW company. I am fan of custom HW, as a hobby projects, or with special business plan in mind. But all that nonsense started with Amiga Inc. and their ZICO specifications, and later supporting Eytech's lock-in.

This whole Amiga related situation simply feels highly unmanaged. I still try to believe Hyperion does have some business plan, but I can't anticipate, what is it all about. I would suggest porting to ARM, and Amiga HW company to orientiate towars such an ecosystem. Before the port is done, A15 quad-cores will be very general and suitable HW for many tasks ...

Yeah, Linux is obviously an alternative to MS but perhaps AmigaOS can be better.

AmigaOS may be a great chance to develop a universal OS that can work nearly everywhere very well.

The PPC hardware is good enough, maybe even better for industry/military. Joe average want to watch videos, not to create an 3D anime. Take a good grafic card, cut some unnecessary gimmicks, use a modest resolution and even new games could be played on AmigaOne X1000 (only my hope, ask the experts).

The main point is not speedy-speed ... it's reliability and security.

Well, the price is not irrelevant but in mass production Amiga can be as cheap as wintel and no question: Amiga is cult - MS/Intel is not. Of course (if all goes well) AmigaOS will sometimes be ported to ARM, AMD, ... but for starters there's nothing wrong with PPC. (all imho)

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"ARM cpu - ARM is a king of embedded plus mobile ecosystem"

I think PowerPC is still the king for more powerfull embedded systems and is faster (slightly) for desktop. Power will drop behind ARM unless nothing changes.
PDA devices push ARM heavily forward.

Power development has overlooked some embedded niches since it became the most powerfull and most sold game console chip.

If some small miracle happens and Power chip designers get their heads straight, we could see PDA caliber PPC to appear very quickly.
2Ghz multicore PPC SoC should be already ok for Amiga desktop needs.

Also, it could be that x86 SoCs become mature enough for niche boards for niche desktops (they soon manage to do good enough x86 PDA chip). Untill that happens, I believe our niche systems stay around PPC.


Any idea if PPC+r700 kind of HW is easier to port to (from game consoles) than x86+r700 HW?
I imagine the hardest work is always elsewhere than around endianess etc.

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