Wanye, Wayne, Wayne. What has happened to you :rolleyes:
I sought treatment for my Peter Pan syndrome, grew up, and realized that the Amiga is dead.
The Classic Amiga is far from dead. There is a lot happening at the moment in Amigaland.
delusions.
The upcoming Natami + the minimig
How is that not dead, outdated, and/or useless. Where can I buy one on a store shelf of a major retailer? Why would anyone (as a non fanboy) really want to?
Also there are lots of people investing in the Amiga community. What about DiscreetFX
Touche.
Aeon, Natami, Acube? I thinks these investors are genuine as they are well aware that they will make no profit from investing in the Amiga community.
... and how many of those three will actually end up producing anything for the 200 or so of you left, only 25-50 of which will actually buy ANYTHING?
As for your words about the Amiga community ripping itself to pieces i think you are wrong. We are defending what is truely Amiga while trying to keep people away who have no interest in what is truely Amiga and simply are trying to make a quick buck. These are the people ripping the Amiga community apart. I'm sorry Wayne but i think you are on the wrong side
I can see your feelings on the matter, and even try my damnedest to understand them, but cannot agree.
Especially from the outside looking in. It just looks like a bunch of delusional fanboys out there praising "truly Amiga" when, in fact, most of you weren't even born in 1994.
I can respect the fact that most of you actually like dicking around with antiquated, pain-in-the-arse systems. Hey, Fleecy has his sheep, so I can accept that everyone's gotta have a hobby, but to sit here and trash Amiga Inc's even TRYING to do something (without anyone here even really knowing what it is yet) just smacks of drooling fanboyism, which -- when worshiping a platform that's been dead for 16 years -- I find kinda sad.
Sorry, I know it's trolling, and I realize that you pretty much think I'm both an idiot and crazy for wanting to move forward instead of looking backwards, but I just can't understand this dying devotion to a dead platform.
For 1985 through about 1992, it was the $#!&. By 1995 when Newtek abandoned the platform, it was already being surpassed by even the PC. By 2002 with the invent of OS X, the Amiga platform had zero point zero chance of ever being anything more than a fading blip on the old "machine that goes ping" covered in spider webs in the corner. Again, I get that some of you find it interesting to actually tinker with your toys, but I guess I've just gotten old and indifferent.
I actually have gotten to the point that I really don't like computers any more. I don't like tinkering, I don't even really enjoy playing with Web sites any more, even though I still run/operate/own about a half-dozen or so. It's just not my thing, so maybe I'm the wrong person to sit and read all this tripe about hobbyists companies coming out with crap no average computer user (read: non-fanboy) will ever bother with buying.
In the words of the immortal Emily Litella, as played by the incomparable Gilda Radner, "I don't get it".
Wayne