a golden age of Amiga

[Thorham]

While everyone is talking about 'new' hardware, I have to ask: What about the software?

[Thorham]

The golden age of the Amiga has long since passed, and it's not going to come back using hardware that hasn't got anything to do with Amigas (yes, here we go again). There's no chance, especially not when people keep sticking to operating systems that are so far behind the current standard (which is arguably a questionable standard).

[Thorham]

The Official Amiga moved to PPC a long time ago, and yes AOS4.x is the official amiga platform.

:laughing:

[Thorham]

What's up with this OS talk? Amiga isn't a bunch of operating systems, it's a line of computers. As for AOS, it sucks. Amigas are cool, but the OS isn't worth much. Should change (isn't going to happen if you look at current efforts).

[Thorham]

Yes, I do think the Amiga community is now more enjoyable then some time ago but talking about a golden age of Amiga is a bridge too far IMHO.

Very true, especially if you want to make it happen using things have nothing to do with Amiga in the first place: A golden age of Amiga without Amigas? Yeah, right :lol:

[Thorham]

@HenryCase:

Fair enough

Yes, I've lost interest in that completely. I don't care about the fastest computers anymore at all (my peecee is a 667 mhz P3), because I've become a software man This is incidentally why I still like Amigas: There's a lot of room for improvement software wise (just look at the OS, for example), and it's challenging.

All this new hardware is very nice, but to me it's pointless to pursue if it's only going to run bloatware ports (yes, I think we should start from scratch, call me crazy if you want .