I do not want to be sarcastic, I apologize if someone might take offense to this question but at this point I would like to understand.

Thx

Also, please do not post general questions in the "news" section of the forum.

The Natami team is made up of volunteers and I don't know about all of them but they have their specialty and some of them work in the industry.  They have full time jobs and families so this is an effort in their spare time.

The difficulty would be that you are not just programming in 68000 code but they are doing it in FPGA as well.  They are making things from scratch from ideas that exist in theory only.

If anyone remembers Abacus Books, the explanation of the Amiga existed in multiple volumes so it isn't an easy task.

They also don't have the power of larger companies bankrolling the project.

I remember that some things on the Amiga took a year and a half by one Commodore engineer.

How long do you think it should take?  How simple is it?  Should non-simple things take no time?  How long should it take?

I am working on some of my own projects, any of which if they come into being, I would use any of what I got to speed up NatAmi development/production/exposure.

I am ready to do anything within my sphere of influence to see this happen!!!!

Right now, I am not able to contribute anything. :-(

When this changes, I will act immediately!

I sincerely hope that no one will drop out of this most unusual adventure!!!

This question (about the never ending project) is a good one.

There is a lot of people waiting for Natami.

You can solve or answer this question by putting a short status report in the News-Section or the Blog. Just list the diffrent Project-Parts an tell what's finished and what's open).

So everybody can see the state of the work.

So everyone can see how development goes on...

There is a thread for this purpose: CLICK HERE 
We were supposed to switch to updating the blog, but Thomas seems to be more comfortable updating the thread whenever he has something to say :)

Yes I know - but last entry with information was 11 November 2011...

I was reading about the electronics of the Commodore 64 and apparently the designers used transistors as resistors.  I don't know how common a practice that is but unless you know what you are doing, it can throw the average person for a loop.

Space is something that is costly on a Chip die and well a half open gate does give resistance.

Are there other things we could do?

Graphical Work, Enclosure Concepts, Project Plans, Communication Concepts, Support Concepts, Writing Manuals / Documentation, Setting up a WiKi, and so on...

Let me know, if I can help.

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André Jernung wrote:

Also, please do not post general questions in the "news" section of the forum.

Super_sorry

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So painful to watch. Back then, everything they said was true! (Except, it was too expensive, as Atari always was able to undercut them in price... I almost bought one on that basis alone. MAN that would have been a H U G E mistake!)

Today's computers are NOT fun to operate.

!!! I WANT MY NATAMI !!!

I was ready to pay fortune for it. These days I cant say the same.

But I still follow status of project, it is like some kind of hobby.

me too!!!

Geir E wrote:

it doesn't really matter that it isn't out yet. there are boards out there, it is working - so it's not just a lot of smoke.

I didn't said that is a lot of smoke. My concern is about the unwillingness to come up with something concrete to put in the hands of fans. We know that whatever the outcome will be subject to several upgrades and some flaws but after so many years it would not hurt a beta (with all the risks).

So what about my question?

May I help or not?