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Title: Your best estimate, please
Post by: orb85750 on July 06, 2010, 01:44:20 AM
Number of individuals worldwide regularly using Amiga in some capacity? (classic, emulation, MorphOS, AROS etc.)   Also, number regularly using Commodore 64? (or emulation)
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: Drummerboy on July 06, 2010, 01:52:28 AM
Really complicated to estimate a specific number of users, but I think there is a larger amount out that one would think, also with users of C64, these could be more because there are many PC users who were C64 and then switched to PC, anda never had Amiga
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: persia on July 06, 2010, 03:03:30 AM
42?

Quote from: orb85750;569148
Number of individuals worldwide regularly using Amiga in some capacity? (classic, emulation, MorphOS, AROS etc.)   Also, number regularly using Commodore 64? (or emulation)
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: KThunder on July 06, 2010, 03:12:57 AM
probably fewer than last time this question was asked here on amiga.org

me and you and the ai that generates all these threads on amiga.org

crap maybe just me and the ai
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: save2600 on July 06, 2010, 03:44:45 AM
In the hundreds, if not thousands  :)
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: Kronos on July 06, 2010, 04:29:58 AM
6.4
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: orb85750 on July 06, 2010, 04:48:42 AM
Quote from: KThunder;569156
probably fewer than last time this question was asked here on amiga.org

me and you and the ai that generates all these threads on amiga.org

crap maybe just me and the ai


Where's that previous thread?
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: the_leander on July 06, 2010, 05:24:27 AM
If you're talking Classic AmigaOS... Maybe 2 - 3000, about a tenth of what there was ten years ago. Maybe 750 - 1000 using OS4 in some capacity and I doubt very much higher numbers for MorphOS.

The C64 crowd by all accounts is a great deal bigger and always has been.
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: Buzzfuzz on July 06, 2010, 05:37:49 AM
Quote from: the_leander;569168
If you're talking Classic AmigaOS... Maybe 2 - 3000, about a tenth of what there was ten years ago. Maybe 750 - 1000 using OS4 in some capacity and I doubt very much higher numbers for MorphOS.
 
The C64 crowd by all accounts is a great deal bigger and always has been.

Just about, cause here in the Netherlands it's 100-200 at most, Amigas were very populair here, if you look at Germany it may be double and bit more that amount so at the most 300-500.
And then the rest of the world, 1000-1500.
 
Most Amiga's are laying in a dark scruffy attic or some wet basement, rotting away :confused:
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: runequester on July 06, 2010, 06:16:34 AM
If emulation counts and we're counting "plays games occasionally" as using it, I'd imagine a ton.
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: Tahoe on July 06, 2010, 06:58:57 AM
Quote from: Buzzfuzz;569169
Just about, cause here in the Netherlands it's 100-200 at most...


Wrong guess, it's actually much more.
If the membership numbers of the HCC Commodore group acount to something it's more closer to 550 in NL alone (last HCC count was 575 paying members).

And believe me, not all active Amiga/64 users are members...
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on July 06, 2010, 07:06:51 AM
See if you can get the download statistics for the various UAEs. Otherwise I would say about 2000 active for Amiga. Another 2000 for C64. Who knows how many casual/dormant.
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: ddniUK on July 06, 2010, 10:10:03 AM
SIMPLE,

Find out how many people APC&TPC have tried to sue this decade ;-)
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: Lando on July 06, 2010, 10:31:33 AM
I would say about 10000 to 15000.  There have been almost 1000 registrations of MorphOS.  If there were only 2000 users total, that would mean that half of all active amiga users are using MorphOS, which I doubt is the case.  It's probably more like 10%, about the same for OS4, and 80% using Classic Amigas.

Edit. Forgot about UAE and Aros.  Add another 1k for Aros users and probably several thousand using UAE but the vast majority just for playing old games which I don't think counts.
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: Marcb on July 06, 2010, 12:34:42 PM
How about using A.org to attempt a rough count?

I'll set up a poll with a few simple choices and if we link to it on other amiga sites maybe we can get a rough count of how many Amigans there are...
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: som99 on July 06, 2010, 01:22:03 PM
I imagine there are alot more users then we think, would tho be nice to get a sales number of AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS, My guess there would be alot more MorphOS users then AOS4 on NG systems due to the hardware price?
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: bloodline on July 06, 2010, 01:23:54 PM
I would guess only about 3000 active amiga users, and that's optimistic...
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: KThunder on July 06, 2010, 01:38:41 PM
Quote from: orb85750;569162
Where's that previous thread?




I've been a member of amiga.org for a looooong time, since '99 I think? We have had many threads over the years that have discussed the current amiga population, some using activity on sites like this, some using activity on ebay.

None ever had any real conclusion more than speculation.

I think for most purposes activities like Morphos, Aros, Amiga forever downloads, etc. aminet and forum site activity are good enough for me.
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: cicero790 on July 06, 2010, 01:45:26 PM
It looks like its more visitors compared to some years back and that could indicate a growing pool of dark matter Amiga enthusiasts living outside the visual range.
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: AmigaNG on July 06, 2010, 05:06:00 PM
I would say the very activate users, who still use there Amiga or Amiga like machine on a daily bases and buy amiga products and attend user groups etc there must be around 2,000 to 3,000, world wide.

then I would say on top of that number there are around about another 2,000 to 3,000 people who still follow the amiga and maybe use just an emulator now and again and follow progress etc.

Then most likely after that they might be as many as a million computer users who still remember what Amiga was and might have an ever so slight passing interest in the Amiga
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: dammy on July 06, 2010, 06:33:27 PM
Quote from: orb85750;569148
Number of individuals worldwide regularly using Amiga in some capacity? (classic, emulation, MorphOS, AROS etc.)   Also, number regularly using Commodore 64? (or emulation)


No idea on C-64 guys.  If you throw in UAE/OS3,OS4,AROS, MOS all together, IMO, probably somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000.
Title: Re: Your best estimate, please
Post by: scuzzb494 on July 06, 2010, 07:35:04 PM
Difficult to say.. All I know is that I get between 15 and 17,000 visitors to the site every month so I guess the Amiga does have a reasonable following.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com