Popular Mechanics reports "The Cult of Amiga..."

[Iggy]

I was referring to Georgia as it is confusing for Americans to understand the game of football (the one where we actually use our feet i.e. soccer) especially as Georgia is one of the 50 U.S. states as well as a country

Wales, whether you view it as a Principality or a Country still has its own sports teams and so for the purposes of sport it definitely IS a country! :rtfm:

We aren't quite that stupid, and we do remember former chunks of the USSR.

Besides, I'll be attending my University's homecoming soccer matches tomorrow (several, all day, with tail gating).
We recruit European,  Central and South American students, so I might actually get to see some decent play (because professional soccer in the US isn't quite up to global standards,  you should have tried to sell us on Rugby instead, we prefer our sports more brutal and vaguely dangerous).
Your FANS seem to be the most dangerous part of European sports. :laugh1:

[Iggy]

We aren't quite that stupid, and we do remember former chunks of the USSR.

Besides, I'll be attending my University's homecoming soccer matches tomorrow (several, all day, with tail gating).
We recruit European,  Central and South American students, so I might actually get to see some decent play (because professional soccer in the US isn't quite up to global standards,  you should have tried to sell us on Rugby instead, we prefer our sports more brutal and vaguely dangerous).
Your FANS seem to be the most dangerous part of European sports. :laugh1:

Edit - Actually, when I got up this morning I checked out how our men's soccer has been doing so far this season. Oh boy, 1 tie and the rest of the games loses...hmm...well hopefully those players are still good students. :confused:

[Iggy]

I don't know about resurrection.  The current selling 'Amiga's' just look like overpriced PC's.  A-Eon needs to make a mini-itx form factor board in a small case and sell it for under $500.

What I'd love to see though is taking Uae4Arm and re-write it to run bare metal on a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone rather than on top of a Linux kernel.  Then compile OS4 and Aros for Arm as well.  One of the original selling points of the Amiga was the lower cost.

Well the plan for Tabor is close to that, but I've already stated and restated my objections to that.
Although I could see how it might appeal to someone that wanted to be more economical.
Frankly, at the lower end I'd just wait for the new A1200 boards or the Vampire2.

[Iggy]

That was always one of Commodore's selling points that they cost less than the PC or Apple.  granted PC prices dropped after that but it was one of the original selling points.

And all of them sold a lot of Atari STs which were yet cheaper.

[Iggy]

Thanks for sharing. Good article indeed, Where I can get one of those Bonk's mouse pads from the photo next to the A2000 Keyboard?  It would be a good addition to my  A1200 that its sitting next to my Turbografx 16 :knuddel:

Interesting, my SX1 equipped CD32 is sitting next to a Sega Genesis and a Sony Dreamcast, as if if to prove that a good idea isn't a guarantee of success.

Speaking of which, what would everyone think of a Vampire 4 standalone being combined with a Blu ray drive and some form of solid state storage?

It could be very compact, and still provide an interesting gaming, multimedia, and computing experience. And I could play the discs I rent from Redbox on it!