Amiga's place in the modern computing world - 00s

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Amiga = Hippie holding a lava lamp in one hand and a bong in the other

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Groucho Marx, the Amiga is definitely Groucho Marx.

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We're all Amiga fans, our reality checks bounced long ago!

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DBAlex wrote:
@Tenacious

To insert a little reality check once in a while?

 :-?

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Groucho Marx, the Amiga is definitely Groucho Marx.

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The whole premise is silly, I love my Amiga but no way is it ever going to replace my dual quad core xeon Mac Pro.  Amiga isn't and never will be an alternative to PCs and Macs, it's something you have in addition to your PC or Mac, something you can tiinker with, something that doesn't do all the sophisticated tasks for you.  It's hopelessly stuck in time, forever in it's adolescence and that's it's charm.  It doesn't need to become modern, it's charm in in it's retro qualities.  

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How can you tell with that drawing?

koaftder wrote:

Raffaele wrote:

amigakidd wrote:

PC = PC Guy in Suit
Mac = Mac Guy Cool.
Amiga = Tattoed Skat3r Guy

Actually Amiga-CHAN mascot is not tatooed, and she looks sure a pretty cute anime girl...  ;-)  :roll:



http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?album=random&cat=10383&pos=-6807

http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pid=6807&fullsize=1

Thank god she's not furry.

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Yeah, especially wihen my machine sports a couple of quad core xeons...

ZeBeeDee wrote:
Please, no more of the "my computer can do this because it uses a dual-core CPU" la-de-da stuff ... It's rather boring  :-)

IMHO, it's up to the end user what place they give their miggy in today's world. On a more personal note, my miggy gets a large chunk of quality time as does my PC (when Vista decides to behave itself).

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And they shall name it "Mac"

pkillo wrote:
It's about time some of us took the lessons that can be learned from systems like the Amiga, and made the effort to build a computer that is beautiful, functional, and not hampered by the ridiculous assumption that someone really wants to run off the shelf software from a half decade ago or more. [As far as I can tell, the only software that fits _that_ description is the AmigaOS and a few other bits of technology that have similarly painted themselves into corners.]

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There is a distinct advantage to the Amiga not being a primary computer anymore.  You are free to tinker.  I don't do a lot of tweaking with my Mac Pro, I'll be up s**t creek without a paddle if I can't use it for a day or two, with the Amiga fixing something that you've really bollocks-up is part of the fun.

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It's interesting that Haiku and AROS are sort of in the same state, I remember Haiku was working on porting webkit at the same time as AROS and a lot of the issues were similar.  I don't know if Haiku had better results than AROS or not...

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The Amiga - it's

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Yep, it says a lot that the game the song is about doesn't run on the Amiga...

taunusand wrote:

Good amiga video that says a lot: link to youtube

I can't say anything about mac, I have newer had the chance to use one  :-?