Wither Natami?

[WotTheFook]

Blimey, I never realised that there was Turing-type test for what was a 'real' Amiga and what was not, I have to thank the fanboi trolls on here for making me aware of this fact....

If it runs Amiga software, it's an Amiga, if it's hardware or not, the rest is just semantics.

The hardware purists need to realise that is isn't 1988 any more, you can't get the original hardware, so if you replicate it in another chip, what's the problem?

The software purists, ditto to the above. If you couldn't tell by looking at the screen and using the mouse etc, it's an Amiga, isn't it?

Also, if you replicate the Amiga chipset and add "AGA with knobs on" like Natami are planning, how can you claim it's an Amiga, since you have modified it? If I mod my A1200 by adding an IDEFix and a laptop DVD/CD drive, is it still an Amiga?

[WotTheFook]

@ bloodline

I am not going to copy and paste comments here for the sake of an epic post. Suffice to say that you all appear to be arguing over what appears to be a Turing-type test, where the user tries to work out if the machine at the other end of the mouse and keys is an Amiga.

If all you had was a screen, with a mouse and keyboard that looked like the Amiga ones, could you really tell without seeing the hardware... This is the test they applied for artificial intelligence, it should surely be good enough for the Amiga....

... except that such a test doesn't exist. Oh dear....

All this hardware-versus-software debate is devisive, we all love the Amiga, isn't that enough?

[WotTheFook]

Amen, Persia, here endeth the first lesson.

 :bow:  :bow:  :bow:

 :cheers:

[WotTheFook]

Just enjoy the ride while it lasts, nothing lasts forever. Until the last Amiga has died, it will always be remembered.....

It's who we are, it's a link to our childhood, who cares if it's MAME, Atari, Amiga, Spectrum, Mac, Oric-1 or whatever, if you have fond memories of it, it can't be bad.

Now, can we have a ceasefire please?