I feel somewhat like pierre and coldfish. In fact, I just a few weeks ago pulled my A4000 off the shelf where it has sat since my move on January 1! Before that I used it almost daily, playing, tinkering, and the like.
For me, Amiga has become an intense hobby, a labor of love. Some people futz with cars, collect baseball cards or comics. I exercise mentally by maintaining and using my Amigas. I'm working to get into programming on the Amiga, having recently purchased SAS C and RKMs and development CD.
Aside from my Amigas, I also collect and maintain working classic video gaming systems, Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800, Sega CD, NES, ColecoVision, as well as TI-99/4A and Commodore 64/128 systems. I still enjoy programming BASIC and assembler on the TI and C64, and I'm learning how to do more with the 128 (including porting my old C64 BBS software to the 128.)
I want my Amiga hardware to do more. Even with its limitations, I prefer my Amiga to my Windows XP desktop, with my Solaris/Gnome system falling somewhere in between.
I'm buying a house in the next month, and I'm planning my new computer room and office around my Amiga systems (pathetic, eh?) Shoot, with Remote Desktop I don't even have to have my XP workstation connected to anything other than the network -- this works well since I don't game or watch movies on the PC, I only use productivity software.
One day I want to call ComCast out to hook up cable Internet and point them at my A4000. hehehhe
