I believe the Amiga Portal from Poland have made the right decision and this is
not a childish act atall. It is standing up for what you believe in.
Have all the Amiga community forgotten the past days of Amiga, when things were
getting tough, no software, no hardware, no real company and a lot of people
moving on to pc's. The amount of slagging users got if they moved over to using
windows and all things microsoft. If anything was childish, that was!.
They have some very valid points in relation to any sort of partnership with
microsoft. Amiga Inc as they are now known have no direction, haven't really
listened to any part of the Amiga community and are latching on to any idea
that will make them money.
How many times have you heard the saying "our loyal Amiga community, thankyou
for holding on that bit more...things are going to be great" Holding on for
what?, what have they done to bring out a true Amiga computer since the last
4000's?....As far as I can see nothing.
It was only a few weeks ago I was seeing messages posted on Amiga.org about
fitting a harddrive to an Amiga 1200, those sort of messages I was reading 5
years ago, so whats changed?
All I wanted to see from Amiga and talking to many others over the years was
a fast processor and better graphics capabilities. If that had carried on the
Amiga community would not be in the position they are in now. But then again
I am speaking from a business point of view. Using several A4000's for video
and information systems using Lightwave, scala and the old but brilliant Adpro.
Must mention the brilliant OpalVision card and later the PicassoIV card. They
were some of the things that made Amiga one hell of a machine. Those days are
sadly long gone.
So whats left?. Well you have a set-top box to play with, or a pda perhaps
or you have workench 4 is it now?. Things do not look good atall. Infact they
haven't for at least 3 years.
There are a few things that ruined it for Amiga, besides the company;
MUI, the worst software I have ever come across.
IBrowse, because it worked in conjunction with MUI and did not display
webpages correctly atall.
And a few others I cannot remember...
No Real direction!
At the end of the day, you have to make money and I am sure Amiga Inc will
at some point. Its how you make that money that counts and how you conduct
yourself to your user base and latching on to a company that basically do not
care about who or what company they harm, to me, is a bad thing.
