I wanted to say how much I like this web site and it's community. I think you are all doing a fine job of keeping the spirit of Amiga alive. I am new here and, until recently, have not used any Amiga computer for over 10 years. I recently bought some Amiga 4000 computers and Video Toasters from a defunct video production company with the intention to resell. When I got them home and started to check them out...it all came back to me...Why I loved the Amiga so much so many years ago! I remember so many great things and so little headaches. I had an Amiga 500. I composed music with a program called Sonix. I had a Roland MT-32 attached through MIDI. I played great games that had some real depth and things I just don't see anymore...or very rarely. My favorites were Genghis Khan, Dragon Lord, Dungeon Master, Wayne Gretsky Hockey, Speedball and others I have forgotten. Of course I did the stuff that you do on any computer such as word processing. I do not remember crashes, multitasking slow/shut downs and blue screens of death.
I remember seeing the IBM type computers of my friends and at the computer lab at college and wondering why is this good? Then I watched in horror as the Amiga shelf space at the local software shop became smaller and smaller. I was dumbfounded by everyone jumping on the IBM type PC bandwagon and soon I was a statistic as well. Why did this happen? Why are good things crushed and inferior things succeed? Where would the Amiga be today if it had been the dominant player? Would it have become what Microsoft is today or would it have continued to innovate and move forward? Good grief...it would not have had to move far just to keep up with today's standards. I am still waiting to multitask. Hmmm...maybe another gigabyte of ram will do the trick.
