Amiga users, Are we the only hardcore followers?

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There is absolutely nothing groundbreaking that old or new Amiga(s) can offer anymore. There's only the fun in tinkering around with your toys. For anything serious, you really need a serious OS/machine.

I belive that the classic part of the community is just like any other classic game console/computer/whatever community, e.g. they are in it for pure fun and retro style computing/gaming.

The NG part of the community...this is a tough one. There is definitely no point in it, from a business standpoint, but I guess it's fun to pretend that things are progressing and that the future is looking bright. :-)

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Tomas wrote:

Tell that to those who use OS4 everyday and all those who wait for new hardware you buy. Yes, there is not much money to be made, but there is still quite a few people who prefer a small footprint OS like OS4 over bloaty/slow software like Windows, OSX, linux and similar. And dont come here preaching about how linux can be scaled down and so on, because it is still dead slow and resource hungry.

Both Windows and Linux based systems are slower on modern hardware than AmigaOS/OS4 is on older hardware. I for one dont like to wait for my OS to respond to my mouse clicks. When i open a folder in windows, i expect it to open imidiately, same thing for lighweight apps like mail and so on.

I agree that the only good thing going for AOS4.0 and MOS (haven't tried AROS yet) would be their lightweight, however fundamental flaw is lack of basic applications needed for everyday use. I guess this could change once/if OpenOffice and Mozilla get ported.

At this point, there's not much that can be done with NG AOS or AOS like OSes, unless you are a developer. Classic AOS can equally not provide anything useful, however at least it offers retro-gaming through WHDLoad, by using the native chipset. :-)

I don't mean to sound negative, but it's reality.

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AmigaMance wrote:

 But you do sound negative, way too negative and you are exaggerating.
You are saying that a classic Amiga can only be used as a pure, retro game-machine, which is simply not true. You remind me of those pc users back in the Amiga-glory days. They were saying exactly the same thing and they still do..
 I'm not suggesting that Amigas are up to date computers/OSes but there are plenty of serious things that you can do with them.

There is simply not enough useful software available for AmigaOS. Sure, I can surf the net (kind of) in Ibrowse and send e-mails with YAM, and customise my OS look until the cows come home, but what else is there?

I own tons of Amiga computers, and most are PPC or 060 expanded, and I basically only use one of them for an occasional game or two, and that's it. I only own one PC. Guess which one gets used more? The PC. Why? Simply because it's got software support, unlike Amiga.

Once again, it's very fun to play around with an Amiga, but...

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As much as I like bananas, you have to be realistic and realize that there's no useful software available for it. It's fun to tinker with, but that's about it... ;-) ;-) ;-)