One very rabid Amigan responding... :swords:
If your one of those sad, sad people who use a PC / MAC / Mobile Phone or any other modern day piece of crapnology , then good luck to you.
I'd rather be one of those sad but productive people typing on your so called crap, than be flailing around on a computer that has charm, but isn't practical for me anymore. If I tried doing 6502/z80 assembly and cross development on an Amiga, I'd have slashed my wrists awhile ago.
That being sad, it's cool to see some people who use the thing as a day to day machine still. I can't do it since it doesn't suit my needs.
The true Amigan uses real Amiga hardware, for the simple fact that it is and was the best home computer ever created. They learn not just how to play games on it but how the actual hardware and OS works, they use it for creativity and using their minds to come up with some brilliant and ingenious solutions to keep the thing up and running.
The price to get a solid Amiga up and running these days is pretty bad. and once you're done, you'll still find 5+ year old modern hardware outperforms it. The Amiga can't do like 32 channel stereo audio w/ MIDI and line-in recording out of box, and once you set it up to attempt it, it'll still yield a worse experience than a PC running Fruity Loops or whatever you like to use.
It also can't play the latest 3D games. If it was the best thing ever it would somehow magically be able to.
Such is the nature of 20+ year old hardware. I think the Amiga engineers would point and laugh at you for spewing this nonsense. They'd be reading this from a PC of some sort for sure.
Now if you simply want to play games that all look the same. have no gameplay and think that cos the graphics look cool, then by all means stick to your Pee,Cee's Crapple Macs and eggBoxes.
Macs don't play games, everyone knows that.
If you think they all look the same and have no gameplay, then you're a moron and should remove your penis from your Amiga for a day or two and play some new games.
also, your name-spinning is pretty horrible. eggbox? really? Is that the best you could come up with? I thought since you're such an AMIGAN, you'd be able to problem solve a better insult for an Xbox.
Or if you just want to point and click on something and hope it works, and when it doesn't you sit there staring blankly at the screen, because you've never used you brain to figure out how it works or how to solve the problem. then that what comes of using such boring mundane technology.
So you're saying that unless you have gone through the hassle of setting up an Amiga, you are unable to solve problems?
also, it isn't like the Amiga is void of problems. It's got its fair share of "WTF" moments.
But why oh why, if these Pee'Cees and Craple Macs are so good do you run an Amiga emulator on them... :huh:
The real answer: For the same reason you run a C64, NES, Sega or Atari emulator on your PC: You can't be arsed to fuck around with ancient hardware that takes up time/space, when a fast solution is right there and all you want to do is play a few games and then get on with life.
The answer... cos you know deep down in your heart that the Amiga is better than the machine your running the emulator on... :roflmao:
If its better, how come you can't emulate Windows 7 on it, dingus.
Bit of an Ironic thought here... I'm typing this on my Crapple Mac...
That explains alot. and its not irony, its hypocrisy.
How many of you can say that about your PC or MAC?
smerf
I can. Solid state drive, 8gb ram, Phenom II X6 w/ Windows 7.
boots up faster than I can say "Franko's on meth"