I can't believe that it's 2009, more than 15 years since the end of Commodore and the beginning of Amiga's limbo, and we are talking about the future of the Amiga.

I was reading an article on OSNews the other day on the AmigaOS roadmap. It's pretty cool that Amiga has persevered all this time and alternative/compatible Operating Systems like MorphOS have come out, but I can't help but wonder what sort of a future this platform has if it's not running on Intel (or intel compatible) chip sets.

I know that MorphOS was recently ported over to run on old school Mac Minis, but those machines are few and far between, or they will become hard to find anyway as parts start to fail. Computer hardware has evolved by leaps and bounds since the time of the original amiga. Why not invest in some kick-butt emulation research to emulate those older environments on core 2 duo architectures and use off-the-shelf hardware like the new Mac Minis, or a Dell computer (gasp!), so that the platform can actually have a fighting chance?

Running on niche hardware these days isn't really an option if you actually want to become a success, or if success isn't your think, how about not biting the dust?