I think.........

[Sandman]

Amiga died in 1994 with Commodore.

As much as that makes me angry and sad I can't shake this feeling lately! Waiting for her to return is like waiting for the Galactica to FTL into orbit around the earth.....just a dream

Yours Hopelessly

Funny that this thread should come up today as I was thinking about the very same driving home from work.

To me the Amiga is pure nostalgia.... nothing wrong with that is there?

Its kinda like going to a 20th High School Reunion, fun to reminisce for a few hours to enjoy memories of a past good time but that's it.  If you go back thinking that your going to run into your old girlfriend, get the old feelings back just like it was back in the day and pick up right where you left off with your old buddies and carry on, I think that you are dreaming.  It was a different place and time and life moves on.

I love tinkering with my Amigas and I love messing with Lightwave,etc. until the nostalgia wears off and I head back to a PC to work with Solidworks or Photoshop on a Mac and get with the times, and then the age of the Amiga starts to show but that is ok, "it's grey hair and wrinkles" gives it its charm.
 
Don't get me wrong, those that want to enjoy the 'new Amiga', have a "ball" with it.  Sorry for the bad pun.  

I just tend to want to stick with the 'old stuff', with the occassional modern goodie thrown in not to make it new and different but to make it more livable . Those that like their classic hardware, like me, that's cool too, right?  It doen't have to be any different then it is, but those of you that want it to be, have at it.  To each, their own.....

Yes, someday all of our old hardware will die away - and so will we but that is the way it is.  Time to deal with it already!

I just hate the divisions, that is more "Amiga" than anything.  I drifted away from the Amiga back in the day because I tired of the constant "Amiga vs. PC bickering", heck most of the Amiga guys I knew were busier making "us" vs 'them" comparison lists than they were enjoying their machines and that was when the Amiga was "really" new.  I then came back just in time to see the "MorphOS vs OS4" bickering and now what seems to be the "New Amiga vs. Old Amiga" bickering. Everyone, just enjoy your own thing!

[Sandman]

It's not to everyone. Some people have classic machines as their only computers, and I personally have always had an Amiga, no nostalgia here.

Anyway, what's so nostalgic about Amiga computers? They're modern machines: Just a box, a keyboard and a monitor. It's still exactly the same with desktop peecees, they're just faster.

Nope, never understood this nostalgia thing when applied to modern technology.

I totally respect your opinion but have to disagree.  

The Amiga is not modern... its a 20+ yr old system, an old system with charm, mind you, that many still love.  

My smartphone which could probably blow-away my CPPC A4000T, that's modern.  Heck, surfing the web for the most part is a challenge for our classic hardware, IMHO.  Like I mentioned in my previous post, I might tinker around with Lightwave, ImageFX, etc. but when I need to get real work done I fire up Solidworks, Photoshop,etc. Classic Amiga. besides a hobby, is only really capable of less complex tasks.

[Sandman]

It's different for everybody, of course... but for me Nostalgia doesn't enter into it in the slightest.

I've tried Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris... you name it, I've probably tried it. But AmigaOS is the only OS I got into, and still enjoy using it.

That's what Amiga is about, enjoyment. And I enjoy using AmigaOS 4 (and AOS 3) most, so I use that. Nothing to do with nostalgia.

To be quite honest, and I don't want this to sound rude, but I don't care if a smartphone can run folding programs at 10x the speed of an Amiga while singing Beethoven and finding the price of tea in China - it's not a computing experience to rival my Amigas, so I shall stick with my Amigas. The power, price and abilities of other systems is irrelevant as they have no bearing on my enjoyment of my Amiga, if you see what I mean.

The reason I mentioned the smartphone comparison is to describe where "the Amiga fits in for me."  

Its like my buddy and his classic car.  It's his favorite thing in the world and there is nothing that he would rather work on and drive.  But when he needs to drive to work or run out in the middle of the night, in a snowstorm, to pick up a gallon of milk at the grocery store he wouldn't even consider driving it and that is the time it really manifests itself as a hobby.

That is the same way that I feel about the Amiga, fun to play with, tinker with and enjoy but its time being relevant to "the real world" as a functional tool, for the most part, sadly has passed.  It just has and thinking that is still a real player is dreaming.

When I need to get real work done, "like listening to Beethoven while finding the price of tea in China", as you say, I don't want a "computing experience."  That is the time I just want to get the job done, which unfortunately most of the time the Amiga just can't do no matter what kind of "experience" I want.  

After the real stuff is done, I can get back to playing with the Amiga, which I really love to d0....... as my hobby.  I love to visit the past, I just don't want to try to live there.

That is my opinion.