I don't get it.

[jorkany]

It seems that the X1000 announcement has sent the forum into a timewarp backwards to 2003 or so. I've not seen so much amiga "sectarianism" for a long time.

So, the X1000. It's going to be expensive. We all pretty much understand that. What I don't quite get is why this seems to be such a catalyst for the old Red v Blue nonsense.

The only people that the X1000 was ever going to appeal to is people in the "Red" camp. I strongly doubt anybody in either the "Blue" or "Black" camp would ever buy it, not at any price. The obvious reason being that one's choice of OS dictates pretty much what you can use hardware wise. If you are a MorphOS guy, you are going to get a Peg, Efika or more likely a Mac of some description. End of story, really. Likewise, if you are an AROS guy you're going to choose whatever x86 based kit works for you.

So why all the angst of the X1000, it's price, performance? Personally I like 3.x and it's gang of unruly offspring. I probably use OS4 most of all the "next gen" stuff, but I'm considering a ppc mac at some point so that I can fiddle around with a more up to date MorphOS too.

But that's me. Many others are quite singular in their preference. Which is fine, I have no problem with that. However, if I were predisposed to just one of them, I really would not give a rats rectum about what any of the others are up to. Why would I?

Am I alone in wondering what all this recent nonsense is about?

I'd like to point out one thing, feel free to disagree. If you're going to talk about "camps", I've never seen dissention between the 68K Amiga, AROS, and MorphOS camps. Think about that for a while.

[jorkany]

Why don't we give it a try and see if we get peaceful instead? (again read my post below)

Somebody tried that already:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6ZfFn-Fz5-cJ:www.amiga25.com/+amiga25&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[jorkany]

Steve was at VFC and had a terrific time with mikey_c and the other AOS4.1 team members, including Trevor Dickinson who gave him several vintage A1000 parts to complete his A1000 DEmo station.

We can do it!

Yeah...sure...
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5501&start=0#74400

Once again, I don't see AROS people bashing on MorphOS, MorphOS people bashing the 68K Amiga, or vice-versa of any combination. Bring OS4 into the mix though and you've got a split. The reason is, only OS4 claims to be Amiga - aside from the 68K camp of course, which really IS Amiga!

If OS4 was HypeOS4, you'd see a lot less friction between everyone. The irony in the post I linked above is, Hyperion's obsession with using "Amiga" in their product's name.

I realize Dax that you feel simply because you were away since the mid-90's and came back to find Hyperion and their partners using the Amiga name that they are the Amiga. If you somehow got lost for several years and returned to find strangers living in your house using your family name, would you just as readily accept them as your family? It seems so.