I must admit I have been reconsidering why I'm still about in the Amiga scene. I've tried to leave a couple of times but I've always ended up returning after a break. I have a sneaking suspicion that I will soon fade away from things. Even though I log on several times a day, I rarely get much further than looking at the latest posts list.
I once had an amazing passion for the platform. There was a great excitement that surrounded the machine and the community. I used to look forward to TekMage's streaming audio from the AmiWest shows. I used to check ANN, a.org and CAN constantly. My Amiga was my main machine. Computing was fun. (I should probably point out that I wasn't about for the "glory days", I didn't get into Amigas until the late 90's)
The brilliant mailing lists such as AFB that were once so alive and interesting now lay virtually dormant. Most of the great folks who originally inspired me to join up here have now moved on to better things. It's all very sad.
While I'm glad that the majority of what's left of the community have moved away from the idea that the platform will ever be resurrected, I can't help but think that it's a shame that it's now all about retro. I'm not really that interested in playing old games. For me, the platform was always about creativity and unabashed geeking. Deep down I've longed for the middle ground between the two, where the future isn't completely abandoned, the past is not ignored, and the community could settle down in its place at the fringes of computing. I feel that there have been various missed opportunities at achieving that such as Amithlon and AROS. I don't think this could ever be done now.
I don't mean to be a downer on an otherwise positive thread, just been going through a period of personal introspection in recent weeks and have developed a need to think out load about stuff.
