POLL: Which word, in your opinion, best describes AMIGA today?

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Shame on some of you! To say the Amiga is "dead" on this site is a slap in the face to the Deneb team, Indivision, Amigakit, Red, Softhut *US* and everyone else associated with reselling, developing, supporting, etc.

I know this thread is kinda early, but like I tell soooooo many other clueless people I run into each and every day:

NOTHING is dead or "obsolete" if you still use and enjoy it.

Doesn't matter if it's a computer, an auto, feelings for either, MUSIC (especially), yada, yada, yada.

How dare anyone ever exclaim that something is "dead". Unless of course, you're talking about chivalry, common sense, class, decency and awareness. ALL of these things used to be part of society and you MAY say are all but dead today, but NEVER the Amiga   :-)  

Can anyone truly ever say that their first love and the feelings they have for them are "dead"?

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Explicitly speaking - I say the Amiga and its spirit is more alive than most of the deadbeat corporate robot zombies that comprise most all of todays modern society   :-D

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My Amiga has never been in the closet. That is to say, it never needed to come out! It was born proud, right and just  :-)  

Oh - I think I hear what you're saying. Well, this question is best left answered to the people still making money on this platform then. See my original post (1st paragraph). They would not tell you the Amiga is dead. Unless they are all gluttons!  (some are, and may God bless them!!)

I've spent more than $1.5k within the past few months on this obsolete stuff. Would that money be better spent elsewhere? Umm... let's see: I bought Micro$oft Office & the entire Adobe Creative Suite 4 (Mac). And without a doubt... the Amiga investment is vastly superior. I have my reasons for fronting the cash on this Adobe crap (absolutely hate ALL of it) and the Office garbage (for strict Word compatibility)- but both purchases centred around my GF getting a job -which she finally landed at half the pay she was used to getting (yay). I totally resent spending XXX on these two "suites" that I will be getting almost zero use out of  while I adore all the goodies I recently spent on my Amigas.

At this point, I'd actually be quite happy dumping this modern crap off on someone that can make use of it, rather than it collect dust on my shelf or HD's. I'm not a tard when it comes to editing photos or taking good quality photos, or making a website for that matter - but this Adobe suite is for the birds. No wonder it's current... you have to go to school in order to perform basic functions for crying out loud!  Student pricing on this crap... anyone? lol

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I agree and was about to write something similar. The AROS project that modernises Workbench is a great example of legacy software and hardware moving forward. So are the USB stacks & Deneb. And UAE? These are all current as the day is long. And lets not forget the dozens of new libs and other legacy enhancements (ie: the Amigakit .pdf viewer freebie) to be discovered over at Aminet. Every time I turn around, something new has been released, manufactured, remanufactured, being developed or at the very least, being talked about conceptually (which often seems to come to fruition) - all in the Amiga world.

Forgive my ignorance, but do older Mac and PeeCee platforms (OS & hardware) have such repositories as Aminet?  Constant improvements, contributions and developments? I doubt it and for better or for worse, is a side effect to those platforms being mainstream. One could also argue they don't need them as with each and every new OS comes these things, but I'm trying to show just how 'alive' the Amiga still is. How much of a demand there still is. The pulse may not be as strong as a mainstream system, but to say it's completely dead is, well... .  

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alexh wrote:
UN-DEAD

LOL! Good one   :-D

...and @ amiga92570:

These kinds of threads are difficult sometimes, especially when they're in a system specific forum, such as this. I hear you about the literal definition of alive or dead and I think most/all of us realistically & globally accept the answer (contextually). Trouble is, when you proselytise outside of the community, we're usually met with the same blank stare as others have witnessed. Many of us come to sites like this to get away from that sort of despondency.

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Be careful Tom, some species have recently surfaced that were once considered as extinct as the Dodo  lol    :-D

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It would also be nice to know how many SAM boards, Pegasos, Efika systems, A1's, Indivisions, Denebs, etc. have sold since their inception.  Tracking the sales data of OS 4.x & MorphOS shouldn't be difficult either.

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This thread is full of semantics problems.  I think bloodline is speaking of "Progress" (with a capital P), while many of us were referring to the progress on the Amiga platform specifically, which for obvious reasons has been much slower over the past 15 years than PC or mac progress.

...and with that I say I'm sorely disappointed in the WinDoze platform. Seems to me more has been done in 15 years with AmigaOS than has WinBlows. How many times are they going to re-invent the wheel before they finally have something worth a $hit? It was an ugly and bloated OS since day one and it's an ugly, inefficient OS now. Despite the "advances" processor manufacturers have made. Exponentially, nothing has changed except it's now trying to mock the look and feel of MacOS.

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EvilGuy - that *WAS* evil!   lol  

Seriously... what is it with people thinking old material things are somehow "useless" or "undesirable"? You ever wonder how civilisations could disappear without a trace? Our human ancestry is replete with dozens of examples. They must have shared the same attitude as our short-sighted (and "current") breatheran   :lol: