@ All
Just a general confession here.
I was going to start to learn to program for the AROS, then I thought,I need an Amiga to even remotely understand what I should be coding for it.
Now I have changed my mind, and once my sam arrives, I will start to get farmiliar with the new functions of the os, as well as desiring to atleast give it a shot to earn how to code for the TRUE amiga os.
For a long time I have been waiting for the community to do someting to help their beloved, or once beloved, or even the community who just come on here, via their windoze systems, to do something about it, and not wait for Hyperion,Acube or {bleep}ty Ainc to sosomething for their own platform, but to do it themselves.
Now I am being risky by typing this, considering I dont even know If I will be any good at coding, yet alone understand it enough while learning.
But then I figured, If the community sees more people trying to give it a shot, or to help others to succeed in it, then maybe, only maybe, we can see some type of growth again in the Amiga platform for the future.
either way, I am excited, and cant wait to get my Amiga Sam to use as my everyday system after hours from work. I can even use a digitl camera, modern printer, etc.... and this is from a niche market client, but yet, here everyone is expecting it to do th same like an x86, well, I say, it is skimming the top, and trying to survive, while the restof you are {bleep}in about your own beloved hobby??
Hobbies are expensive, but for someone like me, who only has a A1000 to do something like this what Ive just done, takes courage, money, committment for future, and some balls, as I myself know, it'll be hard to get certain types of software for it.
effectively, you could call me a new come back user, as I only was a kid when dadio got the A1000, and at that time, I only played gams onit. Then when Igot lder, I had a brief lookat code and all, and it wasnt long before I thought, well, lets go to my Windoze {bleep}, and play a game.
Unfortunately, being young at the time, I didnt realise,that if I wouldve stuck to my plan, I may have been able to help the Amiga out more in between,beforehaving to learn it all over again with my upcoming system here.
Thank fuly aladdin 4d is still being done. Might help for some games in future(future future, long time yet)
ANYWAY
To cut a long story short, maybe there are others like me out there in the community, deciding if they should or shudnt buy the sam, and all what I can say is, if they read too much negativity on the forums here, then this could swade them to do otherwise.
ME on the other hand, I thought, I wanted to buy an amiga for so long now, to get back to some old roots, and to thenmaybe try to learn code to develop for it, and get it back on its feet(as the Amiga is barely standing and surviving now through Hyperion and Acube)......
So I have just purchased the nexus case system, why, I dont know, I fet like it would be less hassle, I get system and can use it straight aay like this, instead of waiting another week to get all the parts.
Also figured,
Now that I am an engineering/management drafter, that I might be abe to dosomething silly like tis every now and then,
@ Anyne, when I have the system here, I will need advice on codeing for the platform, so feel free to pm me an email address if you are currently a developer for Amiga related stuff.
:-D 8-)
