probably because it takes me back to a time when my life was less complicated.
when i didn't have a mortgage, or job/money worries, all my friends got into it too.
odd weekends a load of us would gather, and spend in the converted loft at a mates house with us all huddled round glowing 1084s's, microvitec 1438's, and TV's stolen from parents front rooms for that occasion, playing linkup popluous1/2, lotus2, superskidmarks, and on the two max'd out A1200 monsters, extreme racing! dynablaster with a home made four player adapter, scorched tanks still ran on an A500, two player settlers with two mice on one machine. the latest demos, being wow'd by an unexpanded A1200. thats what it was all about. its almost like christmas every time you fire one up. its not about expanding it to the max, go for the burn power, its about usablility, and interaction. an easyness. maybe that because i've been using them for the last (just scared myself) 20 years.
My A4000/030 with cyberstorm2-040,cybervision64/3D (i was phase5's b1tch:-)), and hydra ethernet card saw me through university, introduced then flat mates to extreme racing when we got bored with footy on the then brand new PS1.
good times. guess i don't want to let go.
plus it reminds me what computers could have been with todays technology ... or at least in my imagination... *sigh*
but then, my A1200 with Blizz030,CF hard disk, and PCMCIA nic sees more use than my 1200 with BPPC, BvPPC, and all the trimmings... funny that...
well imagine an amiga with ... well, you know the rest :lol:
recon if we all club together we can get a remake of the 060/ppc cpus at current 45nm tech, plus DDR2/3 ram interface and pci express cobbled onto a rebuilt aga chipset? :lol:
come on, who's got the triple AAA specs and designs? :-D
maybe we should just buy amiga inc...
