Yeah you be pretty hard pressed to find forums users 10 years on, on most forums these days. Yet most of us have endured! why? who knows.
I see My Amiga500 as a platform. That has limitations, The limitations imposed are what give
it personality!.. those 4096 colors I'm sure we have all seen hundreds of times. in fact alot of us can probably give out the hex code to a color we see on the screen lol!
The Amiga has something other computers don't. And its not because I was using one when I was 14. Now that I'm 33 i don't think its a nostalgia thing. But then again who knows how ones mind works...
The Amiga will never rise again as a new platform, simply because it doesn't need one.
The platform it filled is still there.
(ps i think this is my longest post in 10 years lol)
I actually think that when I see a picture in 4096 colours I can appreciate the limitations and awesomeness on the Amiga, which really pushed the limits at the time, and the same goes for sound. I still get impressed when I see great demos and music on the Amiga now. With the abundance of HD graphics and sound, is hard to appreciate this as much on modern hardware, which IMO has amalgamated to variations of the 'same thing'. Therefore I agree with the idea that the Amiga has a great personality - apart from when 'software failure' pops up in a flashing red box. 'Guru meditation' is more understandable though.
