Dang it MiAmigo! Now you're making me actually think about something!
In my brief experience at Amiga.org, I think I've identified 3 different Amiga personality types:
- Those who are here for pure nostalgia or collecting. (I'm in this bucket 100%)
- Those that use Amiga and want to be more productive with it and even get away from the mainstream OS'es entirely. These guys war over PPC vs Coldfire, OS 3.x vs 4.0 vs MorphOS, etc, but they all want the same outcome - a viable 21st century Amiga.
- Those that use other OS'es primarily, but originally fell in love Amiga because of its technical excellence. These are the guys who wax nostalgic about the Amiga doing things at 7MHz that commodity-grade clones could not muster the power to do at 100MHz.
Anyway - to answer your original question. I think it’s the 3rd group that tries to get their classic Amiga to do more than it was ever designed to do. After all, that is why they originally fell in love with it. The bigger the challenge, the more satisfaction they get if they make it work. As an Amiga 2000 owner, I think you fall in this bucket too, but are recently beginning to feel that you're asking so much of your 2000 that it's unrealistic.
My point is - there are a lot of Amiga users who derive joy from trying to get their systems to do the impossible. It's part of why they are here in the first place.
