Well, following up on my
complete surprise to learn that AmigaOS was still being developed, it now seems as though the arrival of new Amiga hardware is imminent! Though I'll believe it when I see it, it's nice to see that there are still some die-hard Amiga addicts out there.
To see the details of the new hardware announcement, check out these press releases from amiga.com:
And while Amiga is no longer owned by the management-challenged Commodore of the early '90s, it's seems they're still up to their old tricks of questionable tactics. The mainstream personal computer industry has pretty much given up on PowerPC, but Amiga has chosen it as their CPU. Curious. Add to that the decision to use a 66MHZ PCI slot for the graphics card? Holy crap - that predates AGP which is now obsolete! I'm not sure what their business plan is, but I really can't see too many people buying these things. Still, it will be interesting to see what develops.
I wonder if it will still run Speedball? :-)