Amiga's place in the modern computing world - 00s

[alexh]

bloodline wrote:
Amiga = smelly homeless guy looking in bins for things the rest of the industy discarded years ago...

Hey!! Skip Diving is an art. The number of gem's I've turned up through diving is amazing.

Prototype to the PSOne.
PSOne Psygnosis PsyQ Devkit.
SuperNintendo Hardware reference manuals (including SFX)
Sega Saturn Devkit.
Abandoned 3DFX based Dreamcast
StarFox II cartridge (and source code ;-))
Atari Jaguar Devkit (Alpine board + CD debug toilet)
Beta CD-Rs of Creature Shock for the Atari Jaguar
Amiga A3000
Atari StarWars upright arcade machine
Atari Badlands arcade machine
Numerous laptops who's only fault is a broken screen.
Any Sun workstation you care to mention
Silicon Graphics Indy 2

[alexh]

HenryCase wrote:
work near a games developer by any chance? :-)

I couldn't work much closer ;-) (At the time)

I found most of that stuff in skips outside our office in Colindale North London between 1997 and 1998.

Some was found in a skip outside an office in Wavertree, Liverpool in 1999.

Lets see if you can put 2 & 2 together?

[alexh]

HenryCase wrote:
I think you'll find Alexander Holland worked for Psygnosis. ;-)

Actually... I only visited there. One of my former colleages from Colindale, North London (no one worked that out yet?) said there was a room full of Amiga's that were being thrown away. This was shortly before Psygnosis changed it's names to SCE Studios Liverpool.

When I got there... the Amiga's turned out to be Commodore x86 PC's (worthless). But I was able to find a PSOne Psyq devkit with all the cables, discs and manuals so the visit wasnt a total loss. I used it once (as a devkit) and then put in a box and stored under the bed for the last 9 years!

[alexh]

bloodline wrote:
Expensive (compared to USB);

Hmmm, dont think so... wires vs USB device controller + embedded CPU + flash/ROM + software?? I think USB is more expensive (in the joystick). But everything else you mentioned more than makes up for the expense.

bloodline wrote:
I can't think of anything about the Amiga that isn't obsolete

Keyboard? Hasn't changed much in 30 years.

[alexh]

bloodline wrote:
though it's not optical so yes, it's also obsolete :-)

The perfect example. Optical mice, first invented in the early 80's became obsolete for many years many years. You'd be amazed what can make a comeback.