Time to say goodbye.

[bhoggett]

@Jaruzel

Well, I can't say I blame you.  I'm only hanging around through force of habit myself, and in contrast to most others, I don't even have anything to look forward to.  I have no interest in buying a Pegasos or an AmigaOne, while AROS looks years away from being "ready for prime time" as they say. Any other possible solutions are so vague as to not even qualify for vapour classification.

My Amiga use is now limited to my daily "Tales of Tamar" turns, and that's it. I have no further use for Amiga software, and I don't see that changing in the foreseeable future.

Life moves on.

[bhoggett]

I should add that I do have a geeky kind of interest in AmigaOS4 and MorphOS, but since I'm never likely to own the hardware required to run them they are never likely to have more than curiosity value for me.

[bhoggett]

@redrumloa

Dunno, my Peggy is shaping up to be most of what i wanted in an AmigaNG. It's just like the old Amiga, only multiple times faster

You're missing my point: if I'm going to invest in a completely separate hardware platform, I'd want to see it at least as successful in terms of userbase as the Mac is now.  In consequence, I'm not even going to consider buying an AmigaOne or a Pegasos for at least a couple of years, and even then it would depend on them being many times more successful than the Amiga market would indicate now.

[bhoggett]

@redrumloa

Mac? Oh wow, not in the coming years for sure that's a LONG way away. Now if you said QNX or Beos.. But Mac? Ouch.

That's the point, isn't it?

QNX or BeOS are not what I'd describe as top shelf, simply because they lack software support. I'm happy to run them in "trial" mode as secondary operating systems on my x86 box, but I wouldn't buy hardware specially for them.

Similarly, I'm quite willing to give AmigaOS4 and MorphOS a similar "trial", but since they require me to purchase the hardware before I can even use them, they won't even get tried.

I'm also interested in MacOS X, but since even that's not enough to make me buy a Mac, AOS4 and MOS will have to do even better to persuade me to buy the hardware they need to run on.