Just put my tupence worth in, as its my first post for a while.
Its a matter of hope and nostalgia that the Amiga could rise again, to offer a "Home Computer" of yester year with todays technology.
* Easy to use from a child onwards
* Easy to program, for people to unlock their potential
* Fun and at the same time educational
* Brillant Games and superior graphics
* And you can leave those business chores elsewhere at the office instead of "I do it at home on my pc".
Instead the market has fragmented into Gamers, Hobbyists and Homeworkers, each requiring different needs. So the universal and boring PC is King, covers everything except one thing.
Understanding !.
You need a degree to progam a pc, a degree and good insurance to operate on it safely and you need a business degree to understand and use the software properly.
I have these days nothing but pc's around me, my amiga 1200 ppc tower is in the cupboard gathering dust.
I hoped the new amiga was the hobbyists device that would bring back the imagination and joy that those first "Home computers" did. Even though their technologies were complex, a poke here and a call there and you could unlock great protential.
Now we have HAL's and driver signing and endless corporatised products that don't say have fun but we will have your money thanks very much but you don't actually own it, just license it.
The Amiga is a dream to me, a place where I could play for hours just to get a insight into the minds of those designers. To become master of the machine for a moment or two.
Consoles/PC's are not to mastered, not open and available, just licenced all the way to the bank, they are commodities to be sold and to be sold again. Its Business not pleasure.
Where is the fun in that. Mr Hare and those £50 dreams just are that and its a sad sign that I'm a grown up now and that ageless computing seems to be a thing of the past.
Shaz
:boohoo:
