I was wondering what everyone thinks is the magic that keeps them so interested in the amiga, even after all this time.
For me, its the mouth wide open watching amiga demos on a friends machine with ridiculous sound and graphics when my lowly main pc, a 286, was a text based slop mess with no sound, no graphics, and nothing like what I saw that magical machine do that day... That has kept me so interested. Wow that was a long sentence, sorry.
So started my interest in this beast. What started yours
My first computer was a Vic20. "Wow! Computers"!
Then came the C64, and that did really rock my world. I still love the C64!
The Amiga was Commodore's logical path forward, and I went that way, and my world was rocked again (but somewhat in a different way). Back then, things were all about hardware, the OS wasn't that mature, and neither were the apps. Plenty of games though!
Then the OS started evolving, and you started enjoying the way the OS worked and handled stuff, especially in comparison to Windows 3.x. I hanged on till OS3.1. Then Windows (and Mac, but that wasn't my path) started to catch up, and surpass, and go way beyond, in terms of capabilities of the OS and its apps. I needed Windows professionally, and I needed its applications (and I still do), but I never forgot the Amiga ways, and I always kept a close eye on the various evolutions in the Amiga world.
MorphOS caught my eye in a very early stage, and when the Pegasos was first released (yes, I requested and got the Pegasos betatester NDA forms, but never returned them, I waited for the April1 release instead), I saw that as a chance to revive the Amiga experience on modern hardware (yes, the Pegasos was kind of modern back then). I still have MorphOS 1.0 on a CD here. MorphOS was new an immature back then, but it quickly evolved. And it became my major hobby!
Today, running on *Mainstream Mac Hardware*, with performance never before experienced by Amiga, I can actually do a lots of the online stuff I usually do on Windows, but in the environment I like!
MorphOS 2.5 is imminent, and so is OWB 1.8:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31335&forum=28A normal Windows user wouldn't raise their eyebrows over this video, he/she would say "what's so special about this?", and finally we Amigans can agree; "yeah, nothing in particular..."
*YEAH!*
and why has it continued to fascinate you over the years?
I have never forgotten the Amiga HW. That was cool!
I follow the
NatAmi project closely. Very cool! Maybe we can have A NEW AMIGA!
(It's something different than MorphOS though, but extremely cool in its own ways!
When it comes to MorphOS I hope it will proceed on x86 HW in a close future...
