I built a Minimig a number of years ago and use it off and on. I collect all sorts of retro computer platforms and my interest in a given platform tends to run in cycles. I tend to pull one out of the closet and set it up, play with it frequently for a few weeks and then put it away and get out a different system. My daily driver that I do all my real work on is a Windows 7 machine but I love playing with the classic systems when I'm feeling nostalgic. The Amiga was so far ahead of its time back in the heyday, I can only wonder what it would have evolved into by now had CBM survived and kept it relevant amongst the general population.
I have always imagined that in this theoretical world, that Commodore and Atari were still battling it out, Apple would have died off with their proprietary thinking where Commodore would have created an iPhone like device and moved along with it, and Atari would have done more along the lines of Android.
Granted part of my thinking about this is that they were so competitive with each other, yet at the same time so very innovative in bursts that we could have potentially been further ahead now than we are. But the Atari = Android vs Commodore = Walled Garden is from the way TOS has evolved (open source EmuTOS) vs Kickstart (people still grumbling about who owns the copyright.). Granted there is work being done for a Kickstart replacement from the AROS side.
It's kind of odd bouncing back and forth between the two communities. One of these days I'm going to try to get together an article or something, not sure where I'd publish it though...
I'm still waiting to put a CT60e into my Falcon so I can properly compare the best of the best between the two platforms (I already have an '060 in my A4000).
But more back on topic.... While I have my A4000 connected at all times, I've been playing with my Falcon a bit more lately (mainly because I was saddened when my Cyberstorm MK1 decided to burn up in a blaze of glory, and my attempt to get a MK2 working in my Amiga failed I was too sad to work on it, though I finally got it working again with RTG / Internet)
