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Re: The Future Of The Amiga - Where Do You Stand...
« on: November 26, 2010, 05:37:29 PM »
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While we can all hope that various methods we choose as individuals to remain an Amiga user continues to flourish I can't help but wonder why some are willing to spend money on a PC or MAC and run an Amiga under emulation and not invest some of that cash in purchasing genuine Amiga hardware (old or New) and help keep alive the few hardware developers & retailers who still strive to support the Amiga. :)


Reason why most people have opted for x86 (or shortly ARM) is UAE (in whatever flavor) plays the Amiga games and that is what it was all about, play games.  Some of us would not buy classic hardware nor PPC because there is no benefit to do so.  I look at the AROS/MOS/OS4 groups and shake my head because none of them are true Next Generation OSs that I need to run today.  Once one of them can do true SMP with MP, give me a call when it can run on portables of my choosing.
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Re: The Future Of The Amiga - Where Do You Stand...
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2010, 09:06:09 PM »
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Man have you missed out if you think the Amiga is only a games console, I aint knocking anyone who just uses the Amiga (in whatever form) for just playing games but there's a whole lot more interesting & productive things the Amiga can do. Give it a try sometime you might just be pleasantly surprised... :)


No, I played very very little amount of games on the Amiga.  My old frankenstien A500 ran a BBS/UUCP site for like seven years with CNet PRO.  Loved that OS, it was wonderful.  Fast forward to 2010, I'm primarily using Linux (FC14) with some M$ for a two games (DAoC and WarHammer) and Skype conferencing.  I would love to have a cool Amiga like OS that was modern (SMP/MP at a minimum) that was running on mobile devices.  

Now the Amiga community in my neck of the woods in the early 90s, it was all about games.  They were the driving force behind Amiga, purchasing (or pirating) of games.  They bought bigger and better hardware to play the games at  high frame rates.  If you want to ignore that point in history, it's up to you.  I do know what I'm talking about on this side of the pond, and unless your were a small group doing VT work, it was all about playing games.   Now they are doing the console for, you guessed it, games!
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