X1000 launch software titles?

[HonestFlames]

The X1000 is going to be defined with what can be done with that weird coprocessor, not by copying the function of software that already exists. It will utterly fail as a system if supporters get excited because they get a browser that does Javascript, or because they port enough of Java to get Minecraft to run.

Nobody except geeks will care!

The Xena chip could hold the key to opening up interesting areas of development, but in all honesty I don't think it's either powerful enough nor is it at the right price point to be able to do anything better than a standard PC with a fairly inexpensive GPU. Anything Xena can do, a £100 Nvidia card can do faster.

That's my guess.

 

[Iron]

@Merlin - I used Final Writer 97. At the time, it was the premier word processing program available for Amigas

@Cosmicfrog - JAVA would be awesome. This definitely ranks up there as far as software that will help propel the Amiga's ability to remove yet another reason for having another OS to handle very common desktop apps.

IMO, one category of software which I feel would also help the Amiga platform is music creation. There may very well be titles that already exist that I am not aware of, due to not using Amigas for some time. Hardware today is not like 1987 though. Sound cards (along with network cards and perhaps some other common hardware) share a pretty level playing field as far as technical capabilities and strengths. I feel its pretty easy get a sound card that technically is at or near the top of the performance spectrum. This presents a golden opportunity to create software that does what no other software out there does. Back in the day, multimedia was such a new thing, and the mere mention of the word "multimedia" immediately generated respect from those familiar with the industry because it meant you were ahead of a lot of other systems. Those days are gone, and the technology (seems to) have plateaued, making it easy to have a great sound at a relatively cheap price.

Another root niche would be video editing. Wouldn't it be truly amazing to see this new system have additional custom hardware that was better than industry standard video editing and creation capabilities like the video toaster's hey-day? I think just that niche alone sold a ton of Amiga computers, and supported them long after the rest of the world wrote them off.