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Re: I have given up on the future!
« on: March 02, 2011, 02:45:21 PM »
Hey Amiga_Nut! Welcome to 2011, just fire up your favourite Amiga wotsit and enjoy the happy memories of your computing youth :)

Not sure where your Cloanto hate comes from, but honestly without them our community would be quite a bit smaller!

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Re: I have given up on the future!
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2011, 10:27:30 PM »
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To be honest, I'm quite happy that Commodore went bust in 1994 (apart for being the worst day of my life). By doing that, they froze the state of the machine that I love so much. They made it possible for so many of us to make this our own platform to develop and improve ourselves. If Commodore would have been successful to keep on going, then this platform would have been long gone and transformed to something else. It would be just another modern OS like every other modern OS... nice perhaps, but something else. We would not keep the old Amiga alive as we do now.


Commodore were keen to move to WindowsNT... That would have been pretty shyte...

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Re: I have given up on the future!
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2011, 10:41:17 PM »
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This was only for the HP PA RISC CPU based A500. The A1400 was still to have Workbench as was PPC based machines later.

NT was shit, both 3.5 and 4.0 trust me, I was an engineer at the time.
PPC wasn't even on the Commodore radar.