You know what, it's been a while since I ranted about things in the Amiga community that annoy me, and this has been eating at me for a while, but with the latest news concerning *ahem* a certain remarkably-priced custom board, this has been coming up a lot: the "can't beat 'em, join 'em" argument.

The version I've seen, specifically, goes like so: "PowerPC is a dead architecture and can never hope to compete with x86 for performance, therefore all PowerPC-based Amigoid...

Okay, here's a phrase I'm getting really, really tired of hearing: "Sure, *list of damning indictments,* but at least they're doing something!"

You hear this a fair bit in political discussions, which is distressing enough, but I've been surprised by the frequency with which it gets said right here in the Amiga community. I have heard it from multiple people in reference to a number of different parties, but it all boils down to the same thing: "yes, these people have...

So what should a new Amiga be?
This is where we move away from stuff that could be said to be grounded in facts and get into opinions. These are my personal opinions, and I'm not going to tell you you're wrong if you disagree.

It should be 68k-based.
No disrespect to the PPC fans here, but I still can't get over how friendly the 68000 architecture is. This is the processor you'd want to learn assembler on, and it's just as beautifully suitable for high-level programming....

There's a lot of talk around here about "the future of the Amiga." Many opinions are expressed on the subject, and I've shot off my mouth on the subject more than once. What I want to do here is lay out, for the record, exactly what I think about all this.

The Amiga is not dead.
Some people have taken to saying that the Amiga is dead. This is not true. Nothing is dead that has a following. It is not dead as a commercial product, either - nothing is dead as a commercial...