@ vanguardian1 The PS3 could solve the Amiga community's current hardware problems, the OS is finally done, but where's the hardware? The A1s served its purpose as a development platform for moving 68k code to PPC, but such hardware offers limited potential for actually expanding the userbase if targeted at ordinary people. When these systems were still available about 1500 A1 systems have been sold together with the OS4 developer pre-release. These motherboards (the mini-ITX MicroA1 with onboard graphics, sound, 256 MB RAM module, 800 Mhz G3) alone costed more than a complete PS3 system! PS3s are surely going to sell more units than all Amiga models combined in the past. If we take into account the price of the even a lowend Amiga 500, this computer launched for $595.95 in 1987, so taking in account inflation this would translate roughly into $1056.25 for 2006. From such a perspective the PS3 (multi-functional) launch price doesn't sound bad, add $100 for AmigaOS and it's still well below A500 launch figures.
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