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Entry Level Amigans (cont'd)
By Sven Harvey
In essence, with no real home computer available
and sensibly marketed in the UK and Europe since 1994, the
soul of the European developers had gone. With it went all of
the originality that wore out at the beginning of the
Playstation era as the final generation of the home computer
users took their places in the development community. Without
the home computers, more maverick studios and software houses
died and/or were swallowed by the companies working on a more
production line model of software development or were forced
to move.
Even with a few Yaroze users, and those playing
with the PS2s programming system there is no way of hobbyist
computer users to really play with a machine, and truly learn
the way to get the best out of it. The PC isn`t suitable as a
real home computer thanks to its over-complexity for no good
reason, whilst the cost and lack of custom options in the Mac
rules it out too.
At the moment there is no way for a growing mind
to tinker with and learn the trade in the software industry in
the same way that budding musicians can tinker and learn a
musical instrument or budding film makers can get their start
from a camera. We need the home computer back.
For the UK and Europe the home computer is
a tradition, which should and could really catch on across the
globe. The Amiga was and is a perfect platform to go for the
niche markets such as video etc., but its also the perfect
home computer platform.
 Its time for a
successor to the Amiga 500 and the Amiga 1200. A PPC Amiga
home computer is possible and incredibly desirable. Based on
the development of the AmigaOne thanks primarily to Eyetech
and the development of the AmigaOS thanks to Hyperion, a
machine can be developed to kick-start the industry once
more.
What would such a machine need to be? Marketing of
course starts with product development, so what should we
develop and what kind of time frame are we talking about?
Those of you reading my articles in MicroMart
already know what I am going on about. Let me enlighten
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