Wayne wrote:
My point is - there are a lot of Amiga users who derive joy from trying to get their systems to do the impossible. It's part of why they are here in the first place.
Well spoken, but I would add that there's a fourth group.
4) Those who fell in love with the Amiga in 198x and used it extensively, gaining many friends along the way but due to external factors (work, needs, whatever), they've had to accept the reality of computing and move on -- though they still love the Amiga if only for it's philosophy and sense of nostalgia.
Well, even Microsoft’s Avalon 3D demo was influenced by Amiga nostalgia e.g. "boing demo". MS demonstrator’s MSDN blogs indicates he was ex-Amiga programmer and offered a link to one of Amiga historical sites.