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jstocks wrote:
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!

Hi and welcome to A.org. You remember the Amiga as superior because I think something went wrong in computers when PCs won that battle due to peoples stupidity. There is something intrinsically wrong with a PC (even though I am typing this on one right now). I thought it may be rose tinted spectacles but this feeling has stuck with me for the 15 years or so that PCs have had supremacy. The path of Amiga was akin to Betamax they say. Superior but majority rule sunk it. Yet none of the so-called successors to the throne like OS4 on PPC or MorphOS quite cut it. The Amiga was of it's time. And a good time it was.
Q. How many folk singers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Four. One to change the light bulb and three to sing about how good the old one was. :lol: