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Offline Cymric

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mikeymike wrote:
Hands up who thinks this is a really futile discussion!

Seconded.

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People like what they like about the Amiga, and any related offspring, if it does what they want it to do, and nicely, what does it matter?  If you choose to buy any computer, regardless of name, you should be judging it on what you believe are worthwhile merits, not someone else's opinion.

Wise words. To me, none of the modern machines are an Amiga. I got my first one (an A500) in 1987, when I was 13. The feeling of slowly getting to understand how a complex machine works, the awe when 'Defender Of The Crown' showed its graphical and musical brilliance when all we had at that time was chunky C64 graphics and PC-speaker beeps, the jaw-dropping effect at seeing a HAM-mode picture for the very first time in a world where '16 colours' was, like, a *LOT*, typing out BASIC-listings from magazines, copying cracked games and playing them, the nervous yet exciting giggle of seeing a gorgeous woman in a risque pose on your computer screen, the thrill at having your very first hardware-hitting assembly demo run without crashing---*that* is an Amiga to me. Since I will never be in my teens again, and since I know how the system works now, or how to obtain the information if I don't, all the new Amigas are just computers. A bit special because they continue the tradition started in 1985, and because they contain a CPU different from a rather simplistic and outdated 32-bit Intel clone, but nothing more.

My PC still has plenty of undiscovered things I can learn if I want to (OpenGL, language design, network programming, proper use of threads) but it doesn't have the mystery that shrouded my trusty A500. I don't expect it to, and I'm not sure I would want it to, either.
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