Personally I went against the grain and held out in getting a PC for a while. All my friends around me, and my brother went pc, but rather than jump ship I instead started upgrading my Amiga instead. This wasnt due to any particular overt loyaly, but rather the simple fact that I still enjoyed the amiga, and it's software was different to what was found elsewhere, and I had plenty of pcs around me at the time so could use one whenever I wanted to. I was tempted to go pc earlier, mostly due to the fact I was always a big fan of emulation, and a pc was a much better experience for that (mostly). Eventually when the pentium200mmx cpu's were released I decided to jump onboard. Around this time things were pretty glum in the amiga world, with very few bits of new software available, so I started using a pc more and more. After a few years (Win)UAE had progressed nicely, and pc hardware was powerful enough to replace my aging 68030 based a1200, so being skint for a $, decided to sell my amiga. For a few years I was pc only, and my amiga usage was soley through Winuae. Upgrade by upgrade I convinced myself that this was the way to go, after all a real 68k amiga didnt have anything like the raw speed available via Winuae, and I got "freebies" like rtg and rta thrown in for "free". After a while the amiga side of things became my most used aspect of the pc and my upgrades where in part decided by what would improve the amiga side of things more.
Enter Amithlon.
This really changed my computing world. No longer would I require Windows to get my fast amiga + rtg + rta, etc. fix. And considerably faster than Winuae as well. However at the time pc hardware wasnt fast enough to run 68k uae on the emulated 68k cpu in amithlon in a way I was content with. OCS/ECS stuff was fine, full framerate, but aga stuff was only 1/2way there (ironically a similar situation to os4.x today (which is a bit sad considering I experienced this about 10 years ago on an emulated cpu)). Because of this I decided to get myself an a1200 again and slowly but surely upgraded it (bppc/grex/voodoo3/sb128/etc). At the time however it barely got used as I'd grown used to using pcs and thier ways of doing things, and the raw grunt of amithlon was soooo much better at this. Eventually the a1200 died and I went back to soley amithlon for a while with occasionaly trying to use a dedicated Winuae box instead (never was happy with it despite taking the concept about as far as it can go (less than 100meg for windows side, booting straight into amiga os,etc.).
Finally, just a month or so ago I decided to get myself a classic amiga again, and Im having an absoulte blast. I was so concerned with competeing with the outside world for so long that I'd forgotten to appreciate the amiga for itself, warts and all. This time around I find Im using the classic more than amithlon/os3.9 and pretty quickly found an '040 accelerator (which Im still waiting on) to make the experience a little more flexible. I still really enjoy amithlon/os3.9, but Ive rediscovered the charms of real amiga hardware too moreso than I have in probably a decade. The 2 (amithlon/a1200) complement each other very well, and I couldnt be happier
(well, I guess when my '040 card arrives I'll be a little happier)
Anyway, sorry for the long winded, mostly pointless post, it just seemed to fit in with the last few posts of this, seemingly mostly random thread
