The Future Of The Amiga - Where Do You Stand...

[Fats]

Reckon I have to agree a lot with what Mechy has to say as I seem to have travelled much the same Amiga path as him although I don't quite agree with his dismal outlook on the Amigas future. As for running the Amiga under emulation on a PC or MAC just to benefit from easy access to readily available peripherals then that to me is not what the Amiga is about.

I think one of the big problems is that some people believe their idea about an amiga is the only true way of thinking about an amiga e.g. like you guys think it is the m68k hardware with coprocessors. My - probably Utopian - wish is that all people could consider people running some form of Amiga 'system' like UAE, OS3.x, OS4.x, MOS, AROS be part of the amiga community and not part of the betrayals to the Amiga cause.

I have an A2000, A1200, A3000, A4000 and A1 at home but hey are hardly used. I like programming and I am an open source proponent (not a FSF believer though). That's why I am an AROS programmer. Eventually I would like to make a PPC AROS versions compatible with the other PPC amiga OSes: e.g. one with an ABI for OS4.x and one for MOS.
I also would like a dev environment that would make is very easy to make Amiga programs that run on all amiga systems (OS3.x, OS4.x, MOS and of course AROS).
Am I a betrayal to the Amiga cause ?

greets,
Staf.

[Fats]

@ redfox

Ahh, there's that silly word again "trolling". A pointless word made up by internet geeks and used by those who haven't the maturity or brain power to cope with an exchange of opinions or who don't like what others have to say.

There is a clear difference between exchange of opinion and 'trolling'. Some people seem to have the idea that they can throw away all forms of politeness when discussing on an Internet forum. They even make it personal by using words like fanboy, nazi, smoking crack, ...

greets,
Staf.