Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: I have given up on the future!  (Read 10521 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Iggy

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2009
  • Posts: 5348
    • Show all replies
Re: I have given up on the future!
« on: March 02, 2011, 07:06:31 PM »
Quote from: persia;618982
Amiga lives on in spirit, in it's contribution to computer technology in general.  Every time I use my Mac I am reminded of the groundbreaking work that the Amiga did.  The Amiga spirit is far far from dead.

Every time I use a Mac I'm really reminded of Amiga.
I haven't given up on the future, only on the Amiga trademark.
Get over it and move to AROS or MorphOS.
"Not making any hard and fast rules means that the moderators can use their good judgment in moderation, and we think the results speak for themselves." - Amiga.org, terms of service

"You, got to stem the evil tide, and keep it on the the inside" - Rogers Waters

"God was never on your side" - Lemmy

Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective"
 

Offline Iggy

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2009
  • Posts: 5348
    • Show all replies
Re: I have given up on the future!
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2011, 09:58:22 PM »
Quote from: sledge;619078
To be honest, I'm quite happy that Commodore went bust in 1994 (apart for being the worst day of my life). By doing that, they froze the state of the machine that I love so much. They made it possible for so many of us to make this our own platform to develop and improve ourselves. If Commodore would have been successful to keep on going, then this platform would have been long gone and transformed to something else. It would be just another modern OS like every other modern OS... nice perhaps, but something else. We would not keep the old Amiga alive as we do now.

I can second that sentiment in that I'm happy with the current state of things without the involvement of any large players.
Legacy hardware is still thriving and NG systems are growing in the hands of the hobbyists that use the systems.

In the future, Amiga can be anything from a rental TV to an X86 computer to the general consumer market.
We'll all still have our own projects moving toward what we want our systems to be.
"Not making any hard and fast rules means that the moderators can use their good judgment in moderation, and we think the results speak for themselves." - Amiga.org, terms of service

"You, got to stem the evil tide, and keep it on the the inside" - Rogers Waters

"God was never on your side" - Lemmy

Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective"