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Re: Calling all long time Amiga users!!!
« on: August 20, 2005, 11:18:50 AM »
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Gavilan wrote:
1) Name 5 all time favorite games (can be Amiga specifically or multiformat.


Dune
Settlers
Lemmings
Test Drive
Shadow of the Beast

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2) Name 5 all time favorite companies (companies which produced games, of course, but also companies that produced hard, and i dont mean Commodore itself, but third parties).


Psygnosis (software)
GVP (hardware)
Villagetronic (hardware)
Phase 5 (Hardware)
Team 17 (software)

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3) Things you CAN do with Amiga that CANT with most modern PC´s (of course you can also explain why you prefer to surf internet using amiga browsers rather than pc´s ones)


Enjoy fiddling with hardware, discuss with the very active and lively userbase and remember all the good times I used to have (real retro so to say)

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4) Famous QUOTES about 8 and 16 bit machines.


Can't think of one :-)

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5) 5 all time favorite people (for example Jay Miner, or some programmer like Archer McLean , Geoff Crammond, David Braben, Sir Clive Sinclair... Things like that)


Dave Haynie
Jay Miner (duh)
Irving Gould (without him there would have been no C=)
Dave Haynie (Oh, I already mentioned him?)

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6) Amiga estimated sales figures. I already have an idea about how many Amigas were sold in UK, Germany & USA. Would love to have feedback from italian users, spanish users, french users, polish users, czech users, aussie users, turkish users, greek users, belgium users (sorry Effy, dont know how to say that.. :)), new zealand users, you get my idea.


I have no idea. It must have been enough to afford rather large offices here in Holland...

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7) Same as 6) but guessing how many ACTIVE Amiga users are left.


No idea, really. But it seems to be growing (and pretty alive) here in Holland...

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8) If the Amiga wasnt your first home computer, name which one it was.


Atari XL/XE

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9) Quick opinion about EMULATION of Amiga on other systems


Pretty impressive what WinUAE can do... Now all I want is to replace my windows shell entirely with WinUAE :-)

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10) Quick opinion about ABANDONWARE


Eh, name says it all. Although I much prefer company's releasing things the legal way (like Team17 and others)

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11) Quick opinion about if computing in the 8/16 era was funnier than now


Everything was new, you discovered new things every day. Now it's all been there and done that.

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12) Quick opinion about the demo scene


Past or present? They always knew how to get most out of our machines, things that made your jaw drop!
Greetings from Wilnis, The Netherlands
Now owning ALL Amiga models and most; if not all; flavours of them...My Amiga Museum