I dropped out in 1999, when I got my first PC. In 2000, I bought into Big Mac's Amiga bullsh!t and bought a stock 1200 from SoftHut that languished in a box for months, used only twice, before I sold it. Bought Amithlon back in 2001 and used it quite a bit, after I tested it's boot disk to see if it would actually run. Now, I'm strictly WinUAE, due to my needs with Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, AfterEffects, Dreamweaver, Painter, etc. I did, however, rescue an A500 that was to be binned back in 2007. Turned it on once to play star wars. Not even sure if it still works.
I will *NEVER* go back to the Amiga, no matter how much I love the operating system, until the current "owners" get their heads out of their collective @$$es and give me an X86 version that can at least browse the web, just as well as Windozes does and I can dual boot. I have not the space, nor the inclination to work with anything else other than a single, desktop machine, plus a laptop. MiniMigAGA will probably be my last "Amiga" purchase, ever. MorphOS on a powerbook is another possibility, but a slim one.
Here's hoping AROS gets more robust, or they at least decide to break "backwards compatibility" and finally move forward.....
