[Silly] How amiga communities work

[runequester]

In any given amiga discussion:

7 guys having fun with retro computers and playing old games

9 guys going "man, I remember Chaos Engine.. that was pimp!"

3 dudes in the corner muttering about Amiga will take over the world

78 PC owners who have to barge in and talk about how much better their Pentium was 8 years later


Anyone Im missing?

[runequester]

Alright forum, when was the last time any of you used an amiga for any form of productive work at all?
 
And how do I make the above sentance not sound really bitchy in my head?

These days, I use openoffice on my linux box for creating documents and whatnot.
I did mess around with deluxepaint 4 last week, since I enjoy that program, but Amiga these days is all about gaming.

Back in the day, I used it for everything.

[runequester]

Just last night.

Out of curiosity, what did you do on it?

[runequester]

*Reboots for 5th time in hour*
 
Man this boot time is so fast! whoa!
 
*Opens Wookiechat, OWB*
 
*system freezes*
 
*reboots for 6th time in hour*
 
I think it's clear the amigaish systems only boot/respond faster because there's absolutely nothing holding them together other than hopes and dreams. Once you get an app that doesn't want to play nice for whatever reason, the entire thing falls down. If only someone at motorolla put in an MMU...

Well, it was also kitbashed together over time. The typical amiga OS install has a ton of stuff that was pieced together from a ton of different sources, much of which was never expected when they wrote the OS (the various internet stuff f.x.)
 
So I guess its a wonder that it does work as much as it does

[runequester]

The bloody thing has been unstable since day one, clean installed systems guru. It's part of the Amiga charm. Hey we crash, but look how fast we reboot! Amiagish systems are a fun hobby but can anyone seriously depend on them?
 
Too many rose coloured glasses around I think. Just enjoy the hobby and stop dreaming of world domination.

Mine was pretty stable but it was a base A1200 install, and didn't get expanded a whole lot other than a hard drive. I never messed with 1.3 and 2.0 workbench much so they may well have been much worse.
 
 
You can't always blame the OS for a dodgy application, though you can most certainly blame it for failing to deal with the dodgy application.
 
 
 
But yes, no world domination. Just relax and have fun with it.

[runequester]

I like to think of "updated" amigas like cars in a demolition derby game. Banged up pretty badly with the wheels wobbling over the place, large sections of the structure worryingly absent, was put together from the wrecks of three others, and it's also on fire. Yet somehow, it still moves.
 
wb 3.1 with the commercial software of the era is pretty stable. wb 3.9 is in a twlight zone where people using it want to use whatever the latest software is, but that means downloading all sorts of weird crap to add to the system. pretty soon it's wobbling all over the place and you can see daylight through the floor.

Thats the best analogy for it I have heard
 
Thanks