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Re: WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!
« on: June 21, 2012, 03:29:46 AM »
Ugly and poorly laid out. Fittingly so.
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Re: WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2012, 09:04:08 PM »
Quote from: smerf;697419
Why don't we all just change the name of this site to mini MAC, since you are all impressed by an old discarded thing like a G4 mini Mac. I don't hear one of you complaining that oh we are using an old obsolete MAC to pretend that it is an Amiga.
That's because Apple hasn't spammed Amiga forums declaring themselves to be the True Unquestionable Future of the Amiga (tm)(r) and insulting anyone who dares disagree. PowerPC Macs are just as much of a cast-off orphan platform as the Amiga itself, at this point.
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Re: WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2012, 09:46:45 PM »
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Why would Apple want to spam the Amiga forums, they don't think in terms of hundreds of people, they think in terms of thousands or millions, the 1200 people they have at Amiga.org is probably their daily returns, (old mini macs).
Well, that's basically the point, isn't it? Apple couldn't care less about MorphOS users ('smatter of fact, they'd probably be less upset about them than they would be about the people who are still using MacOS on PPC Macs, as there's no way MorphOS users could be construed as lost sales for x86 Macs the way PPC OS9/OSX users could if you look at it cockeyed enough.) So they continue on not giving a tinker's damn, and MOS users keep doing their thing, and nobody is the slightest bit upset about it, save for you.

CUSA, on the other hand, doesn't have any market but retrocomputing enthusiasts (oh wait, I forgot, there's those tens of thousands of Wal-Mart sales that are probably coming Real Soon Now,) so they spent years spamming Amiga forums to try to convince people that they are the True Future of the Amiga (and for "try to convince," read "declare insistently and verbally abuse dissenters and holdouts.") And naturally, people were a little upset about that.

And that, to answer your question, is why nobody complains about Apple the way they do about CUSA: Apple hasn't given us (personally) anything to complain about, because they don't care or probably even know.
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Re: WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2012, 06:08:46 AM »
Quote from: haywirepc;697480
Amiga however, is not linux, but maybe it should have been 10+ years ago.

Divided camps, no fucus. Its just an ideal now.
Wait, I'm confused - you're upset about pointless camp divisions, so you want it to move to Linux?
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Re: WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2012, 07:27:53 AM »
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I think he meant 10 years ago.
I wasn't paying quite so much attention in 2002, but I don't recall the Linux community being less fractious then...
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Re: WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2012, 04:45:32 PM »
Quote from: spirantho;697664
Thing is AmigaOS is so much more than a GUI. You can't just stick a Workbench screen on a Linux installation and expect it to behave like AmigaOS.
This. That's what they've never understood and aren't interested in being enlightened on: the Amiga has so much more to it than just retro looks. Every other follow-up attempt gets that, from OS4 to AROS to Amithlon; CUSA don't really care at all, and are more interested in getting the most money from people's nostalgia in the shortest time possible.

(They just happen to be really, really inept at it.)
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Re: WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2012, 04:47:48 PM »
Quote from: smerf;697667
Lets see Mac users can play no life, gaycry, call of pooty, Crysis HIV,
Ooh, good one :/ Did you hire a third-grader to write that for you?
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