Natami is a great idea, after looking at a few photos of it, it seemed it was nearing some release point.
Then nothing for a long time, but I'm not disappointed. With most things Amiga I don't hold my breath anymore. If it does appear then that's great, but will just read things these days and go oh that interesting and carry on.
FPGA Acrade is were my money will most likely go. I'd love to buy it with the 060 daughter board all in one hit, but don't think that's going to be possible.
I could see it as a replacement for my A1200 one day.

Always said if I wont lotto (11mil this weekend) I'd like to invest in something Amiga. But winning is the hard part :-/

There are some very rich people in the world, worth billions. I'm sure a couple of million would go unnoticed to them, just they have no interest.
I could do with a million for my personal life ;-)

Always said if I wont lotto (11mil this weekend) I'd like to invest in something Amiga. But winning is the hard part :-/

There are some very rich people in the world, worth billions. I'm sure a couple of million would go unnoticed to them, just they have no interest.
I could do with a million for my personal life ;-)

Quite the contrary I believe. Most wealthy people (who have generated their own wealth - not just "won" it) are wealthy because they value a $...or a million$'s. They don't just "not care where it goes"

In saying that I agree that for the most part "they have no interest", as you say. If only there was a wealthy potential investor who could see a modern day rebirth of the Amiga, and who is interested in doing so, and actually DOES IT. Kind of like Trevor Dickinson - he is a business person and an enthusiast. He has his plan, and he is on the way - and I wish him every success. BUT, I don't believe his product is a "modern" system with the essence of the original Amiga. On the other hand, if there was someone who's business plan was to build a modern Amiga in the form of the Natami, and executed that plan, that would probably have a better chance of success. And by success I mean to make Amiga P O P U L A R again :D

Thing is, given there are now 85 trillion variations of the Amiga, with it's carcass spread across all kinds of interpretations, it would be extremely difficult to bring it all together to monopolise on one particular variation of it - and at the same time legally limit every other incarnation possible. Which to me would be necessary to succeed.

The Natami IS the S*&T!

I for one would abso-friggin-lutely love to see the Natami finished!

Re: the super aga part. This has already been done by rtg. Why do we need something Amiga pure?

Because it's not backwards hardware compatible. (Whether that's practical or not is another thing).

The main problem with Natami project has always been that it was too ambitious.

The whole point behind and FPGA design is that it can be updated after it's been released.

1) Design a board with a big fat FPGA chip and a reasonable amount of memory
2) Replicate the standard chipset and a basic 68k chip.
3) Open Source the cores
4) Sell the board with a nice little custom retro case
5) Get clever people to enhance the core for free and add all the funky features
6) Drink lots of beer to celebrate


Easy

The Super AGA, which was a dumb idea to begin with and we would have seen a dozen - at best, programs ever take use of it, was too lofty to begin with.  Anyone that lusted over the Natami hardware spec thinking that suddenly a limited run, homebrew piece of Amiga hardware would suddenly get coders like Psygnosis back on the platform recoding their golden era gems in "SOOPER AGA!" was a fool.  Twenty years too late.  I can install a 'hemi in my VW Beetle, but it's still a bloody Beetle in the end

Super AGA would have been relegated to crap like a more modern port of Tuxcart for Natami from OS4/MOS and nothing more.  No one would have suddenly started started coding barn burning, must have games that would have all the CoD junkies a twitching.

The worst thing about the "NG" Amiga scene is the "port" cruft/creep you get.  Terrible ports of Tuxcart and other silly Linux games that try to show off some astounding power, but they really just show off that a crappy game can be "ported" to a virtually redundant hobby system.  Natami wouldn't have been any different.  If you code "Amiga" programs that are just dodgy Linux ports depending on all sorts of other crap installed to get working, I loathe you

I'm sure someone could invent a toaster that gives me a foot massage, but no one is because it's stupid, lol.

Had they used their skills within a narrower scope and just made a really well made FPGA AGA/RTG machine, it would have been finished and we'd all own one by now.

The main problem with Natami project has always been that it was too ambitious.

Yep, just like AROS was pie-in-the-sky until they came to their senses and targeted 3.1. Get that done and you can add new stuff.

I'm still sitting pretty and waiting for the FPGAArcade (and it is getting so close you can practically smell it), and I hope we will see some thriving developments there.