Speaking of chucking something in, there are so many levels of "Amiga experience" that I have laugh sometimes. I had lots of "stuffed big box" experience from 1987 onward (and A1000 before back to '85) and as a dealer played with a lot of grounds-breaking apps and never-before-seen hardware. Some of them defined the desktop turf right up until the internet explosion - and invented whole new categories of use.
Sadly, lots of the more interesting and unique approaches to creative software have largely been forgotten, not replicated fully either in newer stuff for us, or on other platforms. Much of what has come since those days I consider Golden, has been an attempt to catch up with what is practically taken for granted on the main desktop platform(s) - albeit more pleasurable most of the time to deal with on "Amigas".
Yep, there's been a lot of quirky stuff that set the stage for "the suits" to rush in, but like many times in the musical industry once it's become mainstream, SOMEONE seems to squeeze a lot of chutzpah out of it and turn it into formula. But the cool stuff, that isn't like what's being done elsewhere - that's a lot of what's going to make an interesting platform here again. And it doesn't happen overnight.
