I'm not convinced we'd have liked the direction with Hombre, but consider how the Amiga community did embrace PowerPC. It's clear a substantial portion of the community is willing to accept large breaks with the hardware. To me, elements of the OS are far more important, and I find my Linux environment gets closer and closer... I even have assigns of a sort...

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mrandish 3 days ago | parent [-]

> the Amiga community did embrace PowerPC

I think this may have been more of a Europe-centric thing. Here in the U.S. by the time the PPC Amiga options were launched in 2002 it had been over 8 years since Commodore went bankrupt and the world had mostly moved on. By the early 90s the U.S. and European Amiga markets were increasingly different. Here the later lower-end Amigas like the 600 and 1200 never sold very well or had mainstream distribution and the higher-end Amigas (3000/4000) were mainly driven by video production with the Video Toaster (which was NTSC-only).

	▲	vidarh 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		We don't count the US since you were such a small market for Commodore ;) But also, the PPC transition was long rumoured during the late years of Commodore, and then announced as early as 1995[1] by Amiga Technologies after Commodore's bankruptcy but the PA-RISC based "Hombre" permanently on ice, so we had a long time to get used to the idea. PowerUp was then announced in 1997, and Blizzard PPC was launched in 1998[2]. While the Phase5 cards obviously had limited use because the OS wasn't ported and they were crazy expensive, they still meant there was a relatively "smooth" continuity from 68k to PPC, with software slowly starting to add PPC support to accelerate certain things. And the PPC transition had support from at least portions of the community even while Commodore was still alive and internally pursuing PA RISC. In retrospect, that too was the wrong bet, of course, but the point is that while there is a subset of the Amiga community that is very hung up in the original chipsets and 68k (and I'll admit I find the 68k family beautiful), the Amiga community also did often embrace deviations as long as they didn't change how it felt to use (I do think e.g. Hombre might have, though, so as much as it sucked that Commodore failed, maybe we'd have lost respect for them if they'd stayed alive) [1] https://www.cucug.org/amiga/aminews/1995/at951111 [2] https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-099/page/n49/mo... - see page 50.