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First we have to define what makes an "Amiga".

The HW and the games was what brought most of us to the Amiga, plus maybe some
by it's use for video.

Thats all gone, and belongs to A500-A4000T.

What made us stay ? The community ?
Also allmost gone.

What we do have is systems with variying compabilty to the Amiga (UAE,Amithlon,
MorphOS and later even OS4), but none of them comes to close to being an Amiga.

For those you now want to yell "but it has the Name and the "true" OS" :

Hands up, how many of you bought their A500 because of Kick1.2/3 and the C=
badge on it ?

For those who want to yell "but why is a Mac still a Mac" :

Macs were allways bought based on image and the SW, not the HW.
Macs have changed cradually from 68k to PPC running OSX, something that just
didn't happen with the Amiga (a few 1000 PPC or PCI addons by 3rd party don't count).
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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@DaveP

Häääääääh ????

Did I ever said that something with "wow factor" has to be an Amiga ?

No, that was an Archimedes, or a BeBox, but the Amiga is and was something developed
83-85, successfull in 86-91 and updated in 92.

After that nothing really happened that would deserve a "wow", only more or less
clumsy updates and add-ons trying to close the tech-gap that has buildet up since 90 or so.
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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@mdwh2

I'll have to point you to the reply Madgun made, we are not discussing
wether
they are "Amiga" or "Amiga-like", but wether they are "true Amigas",
and to
that question only A600-A4000 will get a positive answer FROM ME.

There are alot of people telling lots of reasons why they choose what
computer
they use, some even bought a PC because of MS-DOS ...

But be honest, was the empgasis with Macs ever on the HW, so much as
it was
with the Amiga in it's early days ?

PCI and PPC were never intregrated with the mobos, never standard fpr
any
modell, and most outsiders would just look at you in an odd way were
you to
tell them that your Amiga has those.

99% of all Amigas ever sold use 68k, and only a minority of those use
Zorro.

How many Macs were sold with 68k, how many with PPC ? Or NuBus vs PCI
?
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