Well, keyboardists always get a rum deal on stage...
Either forced to stand behind a their instruments, or worse yet (and thankfully this died the death it deserved) get a keytar and look really ridiculous.
So I decided I needed to play guitar too :lol:
Keytar is coming back in a big way, man.
Just like Amiga.
I think "what happened to the real Amiga community" is that they got tired of riding the rollercoaster. Product speculation, announcements, anticipation, lawsuits, vaporware and infighting all conspired to drive away all but the most die-hard drama queens in the group. They decided that it was time to get on with using computers in new and exciting ways NOW instead of waiting for some underfunded dream company to produce a piece of messianic hardware (or software) that would catapult the Amiga platform to the forefront of computing technology, a place it has not really occupied since 1990.
It isn't 1984 anymore. You can't come up with ground-breaking hardware without huge R&D and marketing budgets. I'm sure that there will be great stuff like the Replay board and whatnot coming out of the Amiga community, but that is about it. We're at a stage now where desktops are no longer the main platform for the average computer user. Think about what that means -- in 1984 the average home computer user was a hobbyist or a teenager with smart parents. People who used computers to do anything but play games were either engineers or geeks and they were easy to sway with a few extra colors or a little higher resolution or even another 64K of RAM. But here we are in 2010 (!) so if whoever owns Amiga comes out with some new uber-desktop it won't matter if it can because it will just be a desktop. You won't be able to touch the screen or tell it to dial your mom's house or mount it on your dash and have it tell you where the nearest pizza place that serves gluten-free food is (good luck with that if you need one.)
The computing world has gotten so much further than pull-down screens or drive letter aliases or any of the other things that once made Amiga awesome to use. OS4 is nice, but it is still back in 2000 in terms of UI design and user-friendliness. To make a real splash, the new Amiga OS would have to be super slick and a complete departure from the current desktop concept. And it would have to be on handheld hardware. And have thousands of applications to run on it. Too bad Apple and Google have already gotten themselves entrenched in the smartphone and tablet markets. Even Palm is flagging, and they've got a hell of an OS.
But the reality is, Amiga lives. Yay. I hope somebody does something cool with the new X1000 or the Replay AGA Minimig. How about an Amiga Tablet with a Touch UI and an FPGA emulator that runs Android and iOS stuff in the background? Hehe.
