Hello!

[jstocks]

Hello everyone

I gave up my Amiga and switched to PC 8 years ago, after starting a games development course that was strictly Wintel.

I was obsessed with the Amiga up until then. Initially, I bragged about it being the superiour machine. As Windows machines started to dominate and increasingly appear in the average household, I defended the Amiga as being elegant and powerful for its modest abilities.

I have to admit, after getting familiar with Windows I have never looked back; except perhaps for fond memories of a time when computers were real computers and hard-drives were optional extras.

When I used the Amiga, I played LOTS of games though I couldn't afford to buy many new ones. My favourites included Frontier, Wing Commander, Syndicate and Llamatron.
I also made songs in Octamed, then a tracker I forget the name of but came free with a magazine, then Octamed Sound Studio.
I made a couple of games in Blitz Basic. I didn't know about Object Orientated or dynamic structures at that point, so my games were crude.

Anyway, I have signed up because I'd love to see what is happening with Amigas these days! Hardware and OS info, game screenshots etc
So if anyone has anything exciting/interesting to show, let me know!

Cheers, and respect to all Amiga users!

[jstocks]

The "cat girl" on the AROS page... I remember that! It was some artist... Eric-someone? I never had any of his disks, I just remember him being mentioned in magazines.

I think something went wrong in computers when PCs won that battle due to peoples stupidity. There is something intrinsically wrong with a PC

I don't agree with this. I do think PCs are better, and I can't look back. But when I had the Amiga, I could not believe that people were paying so much money for so much raw power; when an Amiga with elegant software could do the same job.
Part of why I loved Amiga was because I was a poor kid. I only had the Amiga, and I came to appreciate how good I had it. The kids with PCs were shelling out money to play the latest game (e.g. Duke Nukem) or application (rubbish like Microsoft Encarta haha); while I had my Amiga with excellent creative software and games made by enthusiastic young guys who put time, frustration, and a personal touch into what they were making.

[jstocks]

I did mean "never look back" as a figure of speech - I meant I can not consider going back to an Amiga as a personal computer.
But of course I can look back on the memories.

use computers for whatever you want to use them for.

Currently I use this computer to:
Watch DVDs and downloaded movies
"Logmein" remotely to work while on-call
Play games such as Grand Theft Auto, Morrowind, Thief and Might and Magic (note that these are all "good" classic games, not just fancy-pants eye candy) as well as emulated games
Produce music using software where I can quickly create and manipulate professional quality sound.
Web and email via wireless router

Now, I don't consider any of these to be causing me to worry about the PC being faster/better. For games, I have resigned myself to not being able to play the current hot titles. And for the music production, I still use tracker software and never really push my PC

I would consider buying an Amiga and trying it out. What would I need? (The site linked to seemed to sell classic A1200s and then kit parts; not complete systems?)