I haven't been here for nearly a year and this is the first thread I read and it reminds me what great people we are. I feel guilty for not being here now.
Short of a time machine, there is nothing to bring back a caring attitude towards computers for me in this decade. You buy a new PC/Mac...it's a little bit better....Apple/MS release more bloatware....your crap runs just as badly 12 months later. A vicious cycle.
When I went from a C64 to an Amiga I was digitising pictures with Digi-View, I was doing pictures and anims on Dpaint, I was sampling every damned CD I could find to make my own instruments. It was a revolution....and that's before we talk about how elegant and classy a machine the A1000 was even compared to that overpriced rubbish Mac by Apple a year before.....or that fantastic multitasking OS. They were pioneering days and in worldwide general purpose media the Amiga is all but forgotten, with people harping on about Windows 95 or the Mac coming straight after the 8bit days. It seems people forgot which computer showed us we wanted to watch moving images in full colour, hear great sound, do creative things and all in an elegant OS together. It's sad.....and the fact Amiga Inc couldn't arrange a piss up in a brewery makes it doubly slow.
I hate Apple products, I hate Windows products.....how can you have any love for computing in that situation now?
I can see now why most kids of today will have fond memories of 'retro' gaming on their Playstations and xboxs etc...the only place where there has been diverse and alien incompatible hardware is in the console market.
I was also a big SEGA fan...so double whammy for me oooops.
