At what point do you decide that it's time to move on?
I think there's a vast misperception out there about the remaining Amiga hobbiest. We have moved on. I'd have to wager 99% of the members here use one or multiple choices of Mac, *nix, and windows as part of everyday life. Sure, many of us daydream of an Ami comeback, but suprise... we're realist too. We're using all the other platforms out there daily. And not holding our breath about comebacks.
It's not much different than other groups and message boards about 8 bit Atari, commodore, Mame arcade cabinets and game consoles. Many hang around because the old hardware is fun and they've made friends that come back to chat. Some here don't even own Amigas anymore.
In each of these other example groups you don't have questions about... "when are you going to give it up".. "get real"..."join the real world"..."get a real OS" ... when you can make just as good or better case about them using "dead" systems. Some where out there Amigas gained the labels of "zealots", "religious", "crazy". And that's fine by me. We know it's not true, and anyone who spends a bit of time will see too. For me it just makes it that much more fun to be in the gang. Sure there are a few eccentrics, but find me a group of any thing anywhere that doesn't have the same.
Maybe things like AROS, MorphOS or some other Amiga-like OS will fill the gap, and we like to chat all that up. But we know the reality all too well.
PS. Dang, Jeff beat me to some of the same retorts. :-)
Plaz
