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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2002, 04:48:37 AM »
hmmmm I've read stuff like this for yrs now but not written as well as this.

He obviously has given up all hope and has some realistic views that he has put across well.

The Amiga was so much and could still be but I'm kind of used to it being a niche market (to say the least).  I wouldn't even class myself as an Amiga user.  I'm just clinging onto the past with a love of 'alternative' computing.

Having said this I can't help but wait eagerly for AOS4+, PPC hardware, hardware independant software, emulators and whatever else emerges.

Whether certain things happen or not and whether the user base grows so much that the average joe tinkers around with Amigas again we can only hope.  Its been and hopefully will be a great ride. :)

EDIT: My sister has just had a baby Girl.  Housey is an Uncle :-D I held her in my arms at 4.5 hours old :pint:

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2002, 05:25:29 AM »
I think this is the most crasy time for any Rumor Mill to quit the Amiga  :-o
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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2002, 07:04:49 AM »
I think if we could get some decent software out on OS4 we could
easily give Apple a run for their money.  Has anyone used Mac OSX?  My
mates dad has an IMac G3 550, its so damm slow especially when it has
to boot into the classic environment (about ten minutes of waiting).

In fact his older sister, a complete computer novice (Apple target
audience I believe), wanted to use his Win98/PC to search the net for
Holidays.  In her words the Mac is ****ing s**t.

What's more when his dad (computer novice) first got the machine, my
friend had to become his personal consultant.  I heard no end of tales
of frustation about the rubbish OS it was using.

So there you have even the much hated Windows is easier and quicker
than Mac.

By the way I always use my A1200/040, on the Net and otherwise.

Rob... keenly awaiting OS4+AmigaOne
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac NOT!
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2002, 09:38:29 AM »
The Amiga forums will remain right?
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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac NOT!
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2002, 10:01:41 AM »
Rant on!

Personally I think this news/thread item is mute.  We can not speculate on waht OS 4 will or won't be.  Threfore what was posted on Moobunny is true in the sense that nothing had truely been release yet, with the exception of a very cut back game orientated version of the DE( ala AmigaAnywhere)

I'm not disagreeing that OS4, if and when released, will be faster from a user stand point, but what about the features... will we have drag and drop cut and paste abilites, like that of Opus?  We still don't know.

Even then Opus is limited in that forum.  Are they extending it... we don't know.  Now for the biggest question of all... with all my negative remarks.

Will I purchase an A1 $50 coupon??? Well, yes... I already have.  And here's why.  I will gladly give up 50 bucks if it means I can purchase a new HW/SW solution that runs the AmigaOS.  That is really what drew me to the Amiga in the first place.  I like having a RTOS(well almost in the first conception and beyond).

I like feeling like I am doing so much that my mind can hardly keep up.  Yet the user inteface never faulters.  Nothing like prioritizing the user input/results above all else.

Now as a programmer, yes I want Memory protection, polymophism, inheritance and etc.  but at what cost do I want them??  Well I for one can work and compile speedy code without them.  The only benefit that I gain really from said above is the ability to do RAD.  Well, I'm ot a RAD type person even though I develope RAD software(internet applications) for a paycheck.  Still I pay close attention to variable assignments, memory useage, sql indexing and etc.

So, well I have forgotten my point.   But none the less I will support the Amiga commnity as it was what taught me right.  College sure as hell didn't.  They were still teaching top down coding methodiligies afeter I had aleady had 10 years of event/object orientated methodologies.

Rant off!

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac NOT!
« Reply #19 on: June 28, 2002, 11:03:17 AM »
@Moo Bunny

Sorry to hear this John ( Moo Bunny) ....

Although I didn't live there, I visited Moo Bunny often enough to keep it in my "bookmarks" (Netscape) and "hotlist" (AWeb).

Interesting article.  Somewhat somber opinions about Amiga, but I understand where you are coming from.

All the best with your future endeavours.
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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #20 on: June 28, 2002, 11:14:02 AM »
@Loki
1. G3-Systems for >1000Euro (including case, monitor...) are simply
not competetive to the x86s, and the SW-base isn't good enough to make
people switch in masses.
2. And whohas the resources to do all the viewers, the games, the web-stuff ?
Noone in this tiny market.
3. And what could that bring ? Most people expect to buy their stuff just around
the corner, and I don't new dealers popping up in masses, or the A1 in the
next department-store.


Face the Amiga is a hobby for the informed few.
The chance to become the leader on the desktop was destroyed
by C=, and the one to stay a major player by Escom.

Don't forget this is 2002 and not 1985. It's impossible to bring
a completly new system to the market (the last on e that had some success
was the Archimedes). Even building on the currrent market they won't
reach many outsiders unless they would spend >100000000$ to develop
something groundbreaking. Noone has that kind of money.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #21 on: June 28, 2002, 02:30:52 PM »
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My sister has just had a baby Girl. Housey is an Uncle


My congratulations to you and your sister Housey.

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #22 on: June 28, 2002, 03:49:49 PM »
Housey,

Big Airy Agafaster's a dad (twice), but also an uncle.

congrats mate, I'm gonna go wet the babbies' heed :pint: for ya ! - does she have a name yet ?
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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #23 on: June 28, 2002, 04:14:34 PM »
I agree with most of what was in his article, except
I draw different conclusions.

OTOH if AOS4 does not hook me and suck me in from the
moment I install the final production version Im going the
way of PPC Linux. So even for me its the Amiga markets
last chance.
Hate figure. :lol:
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #24 on: June 28, 2002, 04:57:27 PM »
cheers Coder and AGAFaster !

She is called Lauren .... and i've wet the babies heeeeed and more tonight! :pint:
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #25 on: June 28, 2002, 05:51:24 PM »
Having read the article, I guess the change is not so much a matter of "leaving the Amiga" (though there is a hint of setting it firmly into a "retro" context), as expanding it into an "alternative platform" Rumour Mill.

If this is what will happen, I guess I'll still hang around and read it for a while. However, if the focus shifts mostly on MacOS, then I will certainly lose interest. Nor because I think MacOS particularly bad, but because I am extremely unlikely to ever own a computer running it, so I'm not going to spend too much of my time reading about it.
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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #26 on: June 28, 2002, 05:53:45 PM »
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EDIT: My sister has just had a baby Girl. Housey is an Uncle  I held her in my arms at 4.5 hours old


That's awesome Housey! Good feeling aint it?  :-)
Someone has to state the obvious and that someone is me!
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2002, 07:42:50 PM »
Red,

Yeah I'm still buzzing  :-P

Strange feeling, might have to start acting responsibly soon too !
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #28 on: June 28, 2002, 09:19:52 PM »
@Housey

Congrats! :-D
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #29 from previous page: June 28, 2002, 10:24:30 PM »
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....might have to start acting responsibly soon too !


Hope that never happens to me  :-D

Still my best wishes !
And being uncle is not that bad as long as you don't have to babysit.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else