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I don't know that there is no hope of re-establishing the Amiga as a mass market machine…. However, to have any hope of doing so, you'd first have to go where the money is. ie. niche markets Once you are turning a profit, you could trickle down some lower cost machines into a larger market. Any resurgence would have to be inch by inch, if even that is possible. I can't picture any senerio that would have the Amiga suddenly grandly plopped back in the middle of the battle. Apple for all the shortcomings that I feel the Mac has, has been an excellent marketer, and even they find it hard to hang in there. Many of the once specific Mac titles, and often they are developed for MS Dos, and then ported to the Mac. It would be even harder for the new owners to roll out the Amiga as a do it all machine, especially with the relatively few remaining active developers. Without the bucks to go RISC, I don't see a future at all for the machine. (True the 68060 may be a really great processor, but the world wants RISC. Just as they want it to run 123, Windows, or whatever the fad of the moment was.) Franklin was one of the first cloners, but there were others. Laser Technology comes to mind. They also produced PC clones. Not sure if they are still in business. Supposedly there is a Mac clone ready to go out of Taiwan. However I'm not sure that it is 100% compatible. As for an Amiga clone…. If it were to the Amiga, as the Comnpaq was to IBM, faster and better, then I'd be interested. However, the decision to market or not, would be with the potential makers of the clone. In a free marketplace, we are all able to give it a shot. (Within the bounds of copyright and patent laws.) I don't give either one a very big chance, but at the present time we have zilch, so anything would be an improvement. – Alex… Celebrating 10 years on Compuserve