What a nice patronising reply. However it does seem that you don't understand/were not an Amiga fan from your reply, and have totally misunderstood this market.
I've lost family members and several relationships over the years, of course it's not the same on any scale.
However my years using the Amiga were the years I first explored music making, 3d rendering, graphics, animation, video production, coding, gaming, the machine I first got on-line with, the machine that really sparked my interest in computing on a deeper level and most of the things I do for a career today started on the Amiga, it awoke my creative side in many ways, so yes I do hold the machine dear.
It seems obvious the Amiga never touched you in such a way, hence your plan to just use it's name on any old worthless tat.
Read what other people who were passionate about the Amiga have said to try and get an understanding of what the platform means to many of us, Jim Sachs would be a good start:
"While other computers were mere appliances, the Amiga fired the imaginations of its owners."
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54970&highlight=sachs
For me this was true, hence the reason I'm still interested in the platform 20 years on, if you're taking any passion out of the technology and it's just a brand to slap on any old computer, then of course, who gives a shit? However to many of us here, the Amiga means more than it does to you.
Here's my personal Commodore/Amiga story. If I didn't have one, I wouldn't be doing this now, would I? early 1980's...was running a large business, but didn't want to spend the $$ on a "real IBM" system ( read: could not afford). The son of one of my managers told us he would set up a C64 (toy, in my eyes), and write all the specific programs I needed. The usual, just customized for our industry; A/R, A/P, Payroll, Inv control, invoicing , w/p etc. It ran great..and had these cheap little toys installed in all 187 locations. They ran flawlessly for years...and made me a shitload of $$, even with the noisy dot matrix printers! years later, I used the Amiga w/ Newtek Video Toaster in HUNDREDS of cable company headends for their character gen and other in house productions. made a fortune on that, because the only alternative was the multi thousand $ studio equipt. that they were all using before. Long story short..i loved them then..and I still love them now. Only difference between you and me....I took my $$$ out from next to where my balls rest (my pocket) and put it into something real......and you've done what to promote and help the "cause"
