natami

[commodorejohn]

Assuming it winds up at something I can afford and not X1000 prices, I'm totally buying one.

[commodorejohn]

...and feature creep claims yet another victim

I'm still hopeful that something will come of this, but I'm not going to be holding my breath...

[commodorejohn]

Natami is a monumental waste of time. Nerd trophy at best, monument to the square wheel at worst.

Yeah, so? Plenty of enjoyable things in life aren't useful in a strict efficiency sense, doesn't make them not worthwhile, unless you're a joyless loser who thinks of "fun" as a waste of time.

[commodorejohn]

Who said anything about efficiency?

I guess I had inferred that from your statement that Natami is a "waste of time" because it seemed like the obvious course of argument for why something that's a hobby project to scratch the itch of a handful of individuals in a hobbyist community is totally stupid and unjustified in existing, but if I was mistaken, please feel free to enlighten me on what your actual reasoning was.

[commodorejohn]

Really hate to disappoint, but you can give your child a C64 or Amiga to show them what a good computer really is, but in true life, you are better off giving them a PC no matter how hard it hurts, it is the computer used by business's today and that is all there is to it.

Who gives a good ******* about preparing children for the business world? The chief joy of childhood is not having to worry about all that crap. Or do you think the purpose of toys is to prepare for work?

Cloanto's Amiga Forever, very cheap to buy, runs like an Amiga on Steroids, and hardware is very cheap to find.

Makes a lot of sense to me.

Well that's lovely for you then. But the existence of an alternative solution to a different (if related) problem does not somehow invalidate the desire for a new Amiga in hardware.

[commodorejohn]

Wouldn't be the first time you assumed a bunch off garbage and started foaming at the mouth.

That's very nice. Would you care to enlighten me on what your line of thinking actually was? I'm all ears.