So, if you already have access to a similar PC running Linux, can you just buy the developer software and run it hosted on your own kit? Nope, is the short answer. Amiga are concentrating on a limited set of hardware for the starting point, to reduce the amount of time/effort taken to get a usable system available. However, Amiga will ship a software-only option, for PCs with the right specifications, in the near future, only hardware support will not be provided. Which is fair enough: support costs time and money, and Amiga need to invest their stocks of those commodities wisely.
Backing up this development box will be a web-based support system, currently under development by Gary Peake. Support will be layered: basic support will be free and presumably based around the existing infrastructure the Amiga community already provides in abundant levels. As the support levels progress up to corporate levels, money comes into equation. It's a good system, and doesn't leave the average Amiga developer out in the cold, while getting valuable money off the larger developers which can be ploughed back into development.
Of course, the development box is just the start. Amiga hope to have proper consumer systems ready and shipping by the end of the year. Amiga won't be making hardware exclusively, because this is partly the domain of the licensees. Branding will be the task of people such as Bill, Petro and Randy (according to the IRC log), although what that means in practice is anyone's guess - "Powered by Amiga" or "Powered by Amie" approval amongst other things, perhaps? Concept systems were unveiled, with snazzy names like Shark and JeepBox. One can only speculate what they look like, without access to photos!
Amiga have also given a bit more information on their two key markets. Market number one is something we're all very familiar with as Amiga users: the 'Digital Adventurer' (to blatantly steal the quote Fleecy
