How long will you wait, even post if you've given up waiting.

For me, I'll be here an eternity, and would pay a Queen's ransom... really.

I think the more sensible option would have been to release the board by now and bring out software updates and hardware addons if needed. I totally understand that people constantly going on and asking for time scales etc... must have got very annoying but the reason it got to that stage is nobody was updating the site with any progress reports, so it kind of became a perpetual cycle.

I must admit I am a little disheartened now especially because we are now totally in the dark. The problem is the spec was good for when it was looking like close to release but if much more time passes it is going to be old before its time. I am very very happy that it is designed to run all the original software but I was so excited about new amiga software for the first time in years, excited about someone making a proper amiga enclosure for it.

The Amiga has meant a lot to me over the years and I will be very sad if this project never sees the light of day.

Still Waiting Hopefully
Russell

p.s Money was never the issue, it would of have been worth it (within reason of course!)

So money is not the issue, but which would be finished sooner. ;)

I've waited so long that now I don't care if those cows ever come home. I got me some goats as replacement - smaller, faster, more convenient. Sure, not as great as cows... but you can't wait forever.

i checked this homepage serval times in a week, often daily.
i told my friends about it, share links, pictures and news (sometimes i was maybe pretty anoiyng with that :-P)

and i was alwas sure that the Natami-Project is an outstanding attempt, a serious, new dawn of 68k-Amiga-Fun and nothing less than maybe a new beginning for a platform that was meant to be dead!

AND, most of all, i was sure, that THIS project was based on proper and clear plannings, with certain goals that for sure would take a lot lot lot of time to come reality, but IT WOULD (not like so many other projects before)!!

BUT
since a few months things turns to dust it seems.
Something will sometime maybe ready for something... Thats for sure actually.

Is there a N68050 or Apollo or both? Is Apollo really scratched? What is the MD board for real, will there be a MX-follower, mabye Natami? What are the plans, if there any certain!?

Silence and confusion are ruling this place, and i thing about a Minimig or something to replace my good old Amiga some day... Is there a Minimig with AGA-support planned already btw? The FPGA Arcade seems to be a everything-"emulating"-box.

I will continue to check this homepage and hoping for news.
Dont let this awesome Project and everything you gained till today become nothing more than a good idea with maybe some succes in the embedded-marked...!

Thierry's question is a good one.  I know I have been wanting an Amiga again for ages, particularly interested in the Natami, and have been hanging on until recently when all went quiet, and opted for a an old but real Amiga.  I only occasionally visit this site whereas before it was on a daily basis. I am disapointed that the Natami team have gone so quiet, but still have optimism albeit deflated, that the Natami will be completed.  At the moment I doubt I have enough money to purchase a Natami.  It's difficult to know what the price would be.  If it were £400 then definitely could not afford one at the moment.  I also think this price would put many potential buyers off.  However, in a years time perhaps I could afford this price, but would then have to decide if it were justified.  I really like the Natami concept and really hope it succeeds.  So I will continually but ocasionally visit this site.

The thing is that I realized I was spending too much time on the net and it is hard when you have kids.  I should be learning more computer languages and I should be doing more electronic projects.

If I spend more time in my books and more time on electronics, I will have something and the less I will complain about the Natami.

Part of my happiness comes from what I make and my happiness isn't going to be defined by whether the Natami comes out or not or what other people do or don't do.

We're given a gift called 'time' every day and we only have something to show for it if we use it.

I'm going to be busy making my happiness and I'm going to spend less time on the web with people.  I came to offer my advice and support for the Natami team and unless people are involved with those efforts, we're not benefiting.

Unless you all are writing tutorials or teaching another, what is your relationship with one another?  My interest is in single board computers and small microcontroller projects.  So unless people are helping me in some way, I'll be studying a new art of programming.

Like I said, 3.4 GHz * 4 = 13.2 GHz of performance, and then the GPU thrown in.....

Does NOT deliver happiness. I'm ALWAYS waiting for the MOST MUNDANE tasks to complete.... and the PERPETUAL UPDATING!!!!!!

NatAmi, I will wait until it's over for me, to acquire one of these.

Incidentally, FPGA Arcade, which I also plan to buy (I don't see them as competition, more like buddies) seemed 99.99% finished, and some people got the "protos", BUT, since then many moons have passed. And you still can't fill out an order form and buy one. This shows that things are not so easy to sort out. Patience is a virtue :)

Thierry unless the programmer uses those other cores it still is only a 3.4 GHz CPU.
Amdahl's law also contradicts what you claim.
Code never can be 100% parallel since there are portions that can only be done sequential.
So going from 1 to 4 cores do not represent a 400% performance gain!
Besides that windows does not use the GPU to calculate anything unless you have drivers for that, and besides that fact very few programs besides games and video codecs make use of those functions.

Besides that Thierry could you for ones stop ranting on about the evil empire and be constructive for ones since there is no point in bashing on a relative modern OS.(Yes i said relative modern because there never be a OS that is on par with technology because implementation of those takes time)

There is so much you CAN NOT do with microsoft GARBAGE.

win-dos 7 is utterly useless.

Nor do you ever "win".

And MS-Dos has nothing to do with it anymore (Win95 and I think Win98 used it but it is dropped now and only exists for compatibility reasons inside.

YES.... computer programming IS ADDICTIVE!!!!

I CAN'T WAIT to start coding in AMOS Professional on a NatAmi!!!!!

I was using my 7.12 MHz Amiga with AMOS and because my program was 535K in size, it took a long time to start running. I placed literally 2,500+ string items to initialize at the beginning of the program so it took a long time before it would run. But once running it NEVER GOT SLOWER at what it was doing. Unlike microsoft's version of Amiga Basic that started slowing down after about 300 lines of commands were gotten to. THAT WAS GARBAGE!!!! It was limited to 65535 lines of code, too.