How many Amiga users are left?

[SamuraiCrow]

I have an A1200 I don't use.  I have a PowerMac G4 with MorphOS on it that I don't use.  I have a MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4.1 on it that I loaned to another developer.  I suppose lurker describes me even though I have some technical knowledge about Amiga and I sometimes use EUAE on my Intel Mac Mini.

[SamuraiCrow]

Aren't you still actively developing Amiga, or Amiga-Like software SamuraiCrow?

It would surprise me if you did not qualify as an "Active Amiga User".  I thought you were always writing some kind of code that was Amiga related.  Is work on Matthais still progressing, or has it stalled?

Mattathias stalled ages ago.  I'm now on the NatAmi team because it would be easier to make a new computer to run AmosPro on than it would be to make AmosPro run on the NG Amigas without an emulator.

The most programming I've done in the past month has been helping Cammy with her adventure game engine in AmigaE.

I'm on many Amiga-related teams including MUIBuilder (though I don't know how MUI works), AROS (because it looks like the least common denominator of all Amiga-like OSs), and NatAmi (because I want to run Classic Amiga software).  I haven't done much for any of them and wonder if I ever will.

It's hard being unemployed and wondering if my next paycheck will ever come.

[SamuraiCrow]

I have seen you around many projects and forum sites and appreciate your views on many topics and your choices of which projects to join and work on.  If I ever make it to Minnesota, I will try to look you up and say hi.  If you ever visit Calif. I hope you do the same.  I am sorry to read that Matthias has stalled, but understand the reasons and I am glad that you are part of the Natami team.

Ok.  If I ever make it out to California, I'll let you know I'm coming.  Whether it be to a LLVM DevMeeting or AmiWest.

Although the Natami is behind schedule and gets criticized for being too ambitious, or unrealistic by some people, I think that it will succeed and become a great product some day.  I think it has a good chance to become the fastest Amiga clone and add some very useful features to the original Amiga design.  I am looking forward to seeing the faster blitter and SuperAGA, plus the other speed enhancements and increased RAM capabilities that the Natami will bring to what will essentially be a new Classic Amiga in the truest sense of the word.

Thanks!  With any project that is hobbyist by nature, a schedule is hard to come by but we hope to come out with something soon.

Also, congratulations and thanks for your work with Cammy on her AmigaE coding.  She is another one of my favorite Amiga people.

Yeah.  She's ahead of me when it comes to MUI now.  This adventure game engine is proving to be a good exercise in object-oriented programming even if it is text-based.

Edit:  Sorry to hear about your unemployment situation.  I have been unemployed for about 4 years now, due to a bad back and failed back surgery that made it worse, but I am hoping a second surgery will improve my condition, so I can get back to some kind of work.  I hope you find some employment, or self employment opportunity that you enjoy and meets your income requirements.  Times are hard for almost everyone I know right now.

It's been 3 years for me, but in my case it was just graduating during a recession that did it.  Blessings on your second back surgery.

[SamuraiCrow]

BTW - SamuraiCrow, please tell me you're not carrying giant student loan debts (like the ones I will probably carry with me to my grave).

I owe about $3000 in student loan debt right now so I'm not too bad.  My programming partner Sidewinder, has his masters' degree in computer science and is in worse shape than I am.  He also has a wife and child.  His wife has student debt as well.