What is the future of Amiga?

[Franko]

While to me the Classic Amiga hardware will always be in my future, I voted for the FPGA 68K hardware + OS3.x , as I think this is what the Natami is going to be and would suit me the best personally, I'd really like to see that project reach fruition...

I'd also like to see all the others succeed too, except of course the last option as the Amiga will never die...

[Franko]

Better watch this and have fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y

It is the AROS spoon!

Now that's what I call funny... :roflmao:

Thank you for posting that, still laughing my head off right now... :roflmao:

Cheers... :drink:

[youtube]9VDvgL58h_Y[/youtube]

[Franko]

To all those who voted to claim the Amiga is dead...

Living a life without hopes & dreams no matter how far fetched they may seem to others, is a sad and wasted life, a blinkered life where you merely follow the crowd blindly into a bleak and already pre-scripted future, a world of grey where nothing new or creative ever happens...

If it weren't for individuals in the past dreaming & believing that their ideas could come to fruition and who thankfully ignored those who scoffed at them and told them their dreams were nothing more than just dreams, then none of us would have ever heard of the word computer and be sitting here today using one of mans greatest ever achievements...

It's never too late to change your way of thinking you know...

[Franko]

I save my hopes and dreams for something bigger than an Amiga revival.  Give me whirled peas!

You can never have too many hopes & dreams tone007, let the Amiga be a small part of them...

(are whirled peas the same as mushy peas )

[Franko]

YUK!!

@ Franko is this a scottish recipe?

Nah, mushy peas originated around Yorkshire (I think) I think they used them for repairing holes in their shoes back in the old days...

[Franko]

They wore shoes in Yorkshire? I thought it was just a London thing.  :roflmao:

Legend has it that there was only ever one pair of shoes in Yorkshire and everyone took a turn at wearing them, hence the need to repair the rather worn out old things with mushy peas... so I've heard, but don't quote me on that... :lol:

(I think the posh git's in London had 3 pairs... )

[Franko]

Ask yourself, what can the Amiga architecture do that other machines can't presently ..?

Answers: well other machines can't...

Play Paula audio with the exact same same quality that the paula actually produces...
Display interlace screens with the same annoying flicker that I actually quite like...
Run 68k code without the use of an emulator of some kind...
Beat the Amiga's bootup time...
Run lots of progs on only 2meg of chip ram...
They don't do screen dragging...
Allow you to get involved in a mad bidding war on ebay to pay a crazy price for a decade old or more piece of kit...

and many other quirks of the Amiga too numerable to mention...

[Franko]

You haven't seen MorphOS boot have you Franko? If you have to boot your Amiga from a hard drive (not just rely on ROMs) , I think we may have you beat.
The POST that the machine performs before booting takes longer than booting the OS.
In that fashion MOS is very Amiga like (small, efficient, and quick to boot).

Nope, your right their Iggy I haven't seen how quickly a MorphOS system boots. I can only speak for the couple of iMacs I've got and seeing other folk using PC's.

The iMacG4 can take anything upto 1minute 15 seconds to boot and this new iMacG5 I've got can take as long as 1minute 48 seconds and sometimes they take even longer to shut down, not exactly fast eh...

[Franko]

All this talk of food was making me feel hungry too, decided to have some nice steak pies for dinner... (no mushy peas... boak...)
What I don't get though is cooking instruction number 3. Encourage an even bake by rotating once during cooking...

I stood in front of the oven and turned around once like it said but they still  came out burnt on the one side...

...

I ended up with this...



Reckon next time I'll trying spinning around a few times, give a few cheers and a small round of applause and see if that helps...

(binned it & phoned for a nice home delivery Curry instead... )

[Franko]

Any questions?

Yes...

Do you know where I left my good pen (you know the silver one that always writes first time) I put it down somewhere and now I can't find It... :confused:

[Franko]

errmmm, is it up your kilt? Let's have a look shall we?   :rolleyes:

Nah... that's just piles up thier... :eek:

[Franko]

To all who say the Amiga is dead, then why do you hang around Amiga sites (and most likely still using an Amiga in some form) spouting your keech, do you have some kind of weird fetish for dead things, seems the only logical explanation to me...

[Franko]

As a big brand consumer item Amiga is dead. The people who remember the brand are now not of the age that buy computers regularly enough to warrant a revitalisation of the brand name. Not even Commodore (arguably a more widely known brand name) had any success revitalising their brand.

As a platform it is dead and the majority of clever people who used to develop for the platform have found more interesting things to do.

The reason we are here (on Amiga forums) is for one thing. Nostalgia. We like our classic Amiga's and remember the good old days.

Well it's obvious that as a big brand consumer item the Amiga has been a long time dead.  I don't get why you think age has anything to do with buying a computer regularly nor what it has to do with a revitalisation of the brand name. I know plenty of folk aged 50+ that constantly buy new computers or laptops (PC's)

On the subject of nostalgia, then why if it's just for the sake of nostalgia do some of the same people who voted no go on about looking forward to the continuing development  of AROS, MorphOS and different processors to run as an Amiga, thats not nostalgia thats looking forward.

I've been using classic Amiga's since the very start and still do to this very day, so as far as I'm concerned it's nothing to do with nostalgia as I always have and always will use my Amigas as my main computer system...

[Franko]

:eek:

And who did they tell? Word of mouth sells hardware and 50+ people barely have 1-2 friends if any.


Nah, it's just curiosity. Like poking a dead animal.


How the feck do you manage? The classic Amiga sucks balls when it comes to video, audio and interweb. I'd bet money you're telling porkies... that you use your Amiga a lot for recreational purposes but use a PC/Mac for day-2-day work & interweb.

Gawd knows what age you are mate but if you're over 50 and only have 1 to 2 friends, then nip doon ra vets n get yirself pit doon... :lol:

Ah suppose poking a dead animal is normal around Oxford... :eek:

Easy, same way as I've managed for the past 25 years, never been on the internet until about six months ago when I took a hairy fit and bought an old mac. Nae tall stories here mate the mac only gets used for the net (only thing it's good for) everything else is done on an Amiga (as should be)...

[Franko]

Only six months on the Net and you added links to your signature block?  I find that hard to believe, TBH.

Believe what you want mate, Im a fast learner...

If it takes you any longer than couple of weeks to figure out how to add a link to something then there's not much hope for you and you must be a PC user...