The fall of amiga, just a thought :)

[Ilwrath]

Wake up! Get some new hardware instead. Its all you fault. Its your fault the amiga died.

Of course, it's pretty hard to buy stuff that isn't being made.

People didn't buy stuff because it wasn't available.  Simple as that.  There's a market...  Otherwise, why would crappy 200/233 mhz PowerPC boards still be selling for hundreds of dollars??  How could someone have scammed over 10 people on this board trying to sell hardware that old if there wasn't demand???  

People wanted new Amiga stuff.  It's just that nothing worthwhile was available back when the Amiga had at least a mentionable market share.  That is what killed Amiga.  (That and Commodore's complete mismanagment of money -- how a company can go bankrupt when they can't build machines fast enough to meet demand is beyond comprehension.)

[Ilwrath]

I agree! I have been lucky enough to know computing's golden years...

I think yer all crazy!  What was so great about computers in the past?  They were slow, hacked up, required specific hardware, etc...  

It WAS the passion that was great about early computers.  But it wasn't the passion to do the best with the hardware...  It was the passion to do things the right way.  

The "right way" has changed since then, though.  

It used to be that you had to be small and lean.  To do things right, you had to wring out every ounce of performance.  

But that really isn't the case anymore.  There's lots of new and powerful hardware.  USE IT.  Build an abstraction layer or two.  The code is still mighty fast.  And now it's portable, too.  Build yourself a physics engine.  Who cares if it isn't perfectly optimised?  Hardware is large enough to take care of that.  Use the time you save to make it more REALISTIC.  Rather than worrying about making things work on specific hardware, worry about making things work exactly as you want them to.

I love the Amiga.  (Obviously, or else I wouldn't be here)  It's an incredible machine, and deserves to be remembered as such.  But, honestly, I believe the best in computing is still yet to come.  Really, the hardware doesn't matter that much.  What matters is using the machine to do what you want.  This era is just starting...