Optimism and the Amiga Community

[jarrody2k]

cybernoid wrote:
I'll buy AForever 2006 this month. Why? because it runs on my x86 pc and it's not expensive.
Amiga Os 4.0 for ppc??? why not intel? Why not the best n'cheap processor, the processor of the ppl?

It almost feels like AROS is the answer to everything.

Jarrod.

[jarrody2k]

justthatgood wrote:
Realism. It's that really bitter, hard pill to swallow.  It's the one that makes people wonder if Elvis is still alive and stuff. So many people want to believe, they shut out anything that will distract them from inevitable.

Optimistic thinking is certainly a road to disappointments.  Amiga has had its fair share, and then some.  But has optimism has any benefit for the community... if only to maintain interest?

Jarrod.

[jarrody2k]

bhoggett wrote:
* - the people who try AROS for 10 minutes, then find it doesn't do much and put it away for several months before they repeat the process

I think I might give AROS a try when UAE is patched to use the AROS calls.  Having UAE run smoother would at least give me cause to run it.

Jarrod

[jarrody2k]

J-Golden wrote:
Amiga has always been a symbol to me of self expression and expansion, not an OS or a box.  It has been the Box and OS and what we could do with it compared to other platforms that has made it the physical icon of that concept...

[...]

"Think out side the Boing Ball."

J-Golden

Hey J,

It's a good point.  People (including myself) have been fixated with how current Amiga technology can relate with today.  We are finding more and more that what made Amiga great, was not a bunch of custom chips with particular ingenuity, it was culture of innovation and flexibility in design.

The fact that Amiga and its OS to this very day can be bent and warped to all different tasks is testament to the power of creative design.

But in this form, Amiga is already out there!  Much like your XBox which is now an arcarde machine, a home theatre and boundless other things... like Nintendo DS (and Wii) with its crazy new controllers... PSP/PS2 and its ever vigilant community of hackers, making demos etcs.   There are a number of 'games machines' being used beyond their original purpose.

Amiga may have preceded all of them... the platform may be dead, but the desire to innovate is still there.

Jarrod.