Vlabguy1 wrote:
The whole point that I have been makind since I first commented on this thread is that..its almost a waste of talent..when really we(as a community) should try to move fwd. instead of staying in the past. As you can prob. guess Im not an Amiga gamer, although I do have plenty of Amiga games.
Rich
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I know it's not directed at me, but the point I want to make is that staying in the past is EXACTLY what I want from the Amiga community. I see the Amiga comunity as no different than the Atari 800, Commodore 64, or Atari VCS communities. I do not expect the Atari 2600 VCS to "rise from the ashes" and become a viable platform again, but I enjoy all the homebrew hacks and software projects that push the original platform far beyond what it did back in the day. That's what I hope the Amiga becomes. I hope we see coldfire accelerators. I hope we see flickerfixers for Amiga 1000s. I hope we see AGA upgrades for the 1000/2000/3000/500/600. I hope we see quad paula sound, Sonic the Hedgehog running as well as it did on the Sega, Ambermoon re-released in a retail box for US and UK English, a browser that lets a lowy 68K Amiga play youtube videos, a hack that makes OS 3.x look as cool as Vista/Leopard, etc.
Some of that sounds impossible and may even be impossible today, but maybe 10, 20 years from now?
I can wait becuse I know Amiga is a dead, dead, dead platform. I let go of Amiga as a Windows/Linux/Mac competitor long ago. Let AROS pick up that fight. Let Amiga OS 4 come out for Macs. Let Amiga Inc release a plastic kids toy with a built-in Adobe Flash app that looks like a GUI and call it Amiga OS 5. I don't care and never will about any of those things.
