Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.

[save2600]

I agree with Cammy. Being mostly into vintage or "legacy" Amiga gear anyway, I'm rather interested in buying, selling, trading and talking about the vintage stuff. This forum used to be great for that - but now it's turned into something much less productive. Too much "U.K" off topic humor and all around silliness for me. A joke or jest here or there - fine. And then there's all these Amiga-like OS's, but nobody really talks about them in a useful, constructive or hands-on manner. Too much mystery and arrogance surround them for those of us that are not software developers.

Oh well. Maybe it's time to hit Amibay up a little harder these days for trading.

[save2600]

Either the community just doesn't care anymore, or a lot of people don't like me personally.

You're right Cammy, we don't like you. We LOVE you    

Even though I haven't contributed one iota to game programming lately (I'm usually good for beta testing and can offer lots of good game play concepts and mechanics ideas), I for one appreciate your energy and enthusiasm for our beloved platform. Your dedication and straightforward no-nonsense approach to computing and these forums in general, are truly unique. Please don't think anyone here doesn't like you. That's not the case at all. Some of us are just too busy doing other things (life often gets in the way as a mortgage paying, tax paying, auto paying, etc. adult) to pay attention to the things that really matter, subconsciously or not, to us sometimes  

[save2600]

The Commodore Amiga is dead.
It is as dead as OS/2, sure people may program for it and it may be useful for many things, but it is dead.

Aros, OS4, Pegasos, and others on the other hand are definitely not dead.

Huh? The Amiga is not dead. Just ask Jens and everyone else still producing relevant and modern hardware for it. The Amiga community certainly isn't dead either. Until there are no longer any sites like this devoted to the Amiga and nobody is talking about or producing any hardware or any software at all, then I'd say the machine and its "spirit" would be dead. But that's not going to happen any time soon. I view the original legacy Amiga gear and these spinoffs as something of a family. Original Amiga computers being the "father or grandfathers", with Aros, Pegasos, MorphOS, A1K, etc. as the children and grandchildren  

If your definition of 'dead' reads: "nobody is currently producing actual legacy systems", then yeah - that's obvious. But surely the Amiga is just as or more "alive" than any other vintage or classic computing platform that I'm aware of.