Too Right, JuvUK!
Its a simple matter of convenience!
Most people have a PC sitting right there on the desk, it's only natural that as you first foray back into the Amiga world, you'd go and download a -free- application to revive some of thos good ole' Amiga memeories.
And who knows where that might lead?
The only problem I see is, no-one has jumped on the opportunity of cashing-in on all those WinUAE users, if and when they want to take the hobby a bit further. As it is there are only a couple choices:
-Buy a classic machine and relive what you already can with WnUAE.
-Buy one of the expensive new machines and experience the world of beta testing.
What happened to;
-Buy an inexpensive new version of the OS that will run on your PC?
-Buy an inexpensive remake of classic hardware (like those console remakes by Radica Games;
http://www.radicagames.com/index.cfm?event=showProdDetail&id=85&categoryId=9 )?
-Buy nostalgia-marketed devices, such as Amiga branded MP3 players, memory sticks, ect?
-Buy (cheap) ADF's from a website with one-big-killer-list of licenced/regestered Amiga games, say 20-50 cents a pop?
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As it is, once they tire of WinUAE, most people put those Amiga memories away again and get on with life. It seems like a missed opportunity to me...
ps: OS4EMU v1.1 has been released
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9009
