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Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« on: December 15, 2010, 07:33:55 PM »
I've only been online since June of this year, but my oh my, how has the Amiga community changed since the good old days when all Amiga users had one thing in common ie: we all loved the Amiga and never actually had a bad word to say about it (we usually only slagged of other platforms...) :)

Not anymore it seems, I know there's a right old mixture of folks on this sight who claim to be Amigans but there's also a hell of a lot of folk who seem intent on either trying to claim the Amiga is dead and another lot full of crazy opinions that the Amiga should be run on this processor or that processor, or this OS or that OS and spend more time arguing and debating and even slagging each other off about each others views :(

Now I enjoy a good debate/argument but my brother just emailed me to tell me that he and a number of his friends (their all PC users by the way) have been looking in on this site lately and they are all of the opinion now that our so called Amiga community is nothing more than a bunch of "sad retards who seem hell bent on destroying themselves from within"... :(

Don't know about you but I think they may have a point... or do they just not understand the Amiga Community as it is today... :)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2010, 07:55:54 PM »
@ KThunder

I see you've removed the last line of your first post, but from what it said I think you misunderstand what I mean here... :)

I was only asking what others think about this comment that was made by someone whom I know has never used an Amiga in his life and assume his friends haven't either... :)

I am only looking for some decent responses that I can email to my brother-in-law to hopefully correct him and put him in his place with his comments that have left me feeling a wee bit peeved... :(
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2010, 08:06:52 PM »
Quote from: Matt_H;599002
This is how I reacted to the launch of Amigans.net. Hard to believe it was 4 years ago.

So much fragmentation in our little realm of computing...


Nice post, but it doesn't really give me much ammo to email back him with... :)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2010, 08:24:34 PM »
@ amigasociety & KThunder

I agree with what you both say here. I know I shouldn't be bothered about what folks who don't even have an interest in the Amiga have to say but it just made me wonder if outsiders looking in think we are all a bunch of "sad retards" then what hope is there of the Amiga ever being taken seriously again by companies that we hope one day may take an interest in producing stuff for the Amiga again.

If I were an outsider looking in I'd honestly have to say I'd probably have a similar view as them.
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2010, 11:35:19 PM »
Wow... what a mixed bag of replies here...

@ Cammy
I find it a bit odd that you'd choose to stay away from this site just because of polls, it's not as if your forced to read or take part in them so I don't see how that would make you post here less which is a great pity...:(

@ Save2600
I know you yanks don't have much in the way of a sense of humor but is U.K. humor really so bad that you'd rather condemn yourself to Amibay... ;)

@ redrumloa
Why what happened in 2003, sounds like a good bit of historical reading to me... :)

@ whabang
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Your brother is right - we are a bunch of sad retards, but we are passionate sad retards.

There are few others who care enough about 25 year-old electronic equipment like the Amiga
community does.


Thought I'd highlight this one on bold for when the brother-in-law & his cronies take there next peek on the site, nicely said I say...:)

@ Iggy
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I think its very cool that I can run unmodified 68K code under MorphOS on my Powermac PPC based system. Amiga related OS' are compact, efficient, and have very quick booting times. With NG OS' we have software that makes our systems practical substitutes for common PCs.

How many other retro systems can claim this? None that I know of. We may sound like fanatics, but personally I think it's just pride in the resilience and vitality of our market.


Another great comment for the bro to read and weep...:)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2010, 01:37:41 PM »
@ Cammy

First thing you need to do is get the crazy idea out of your head that no one likes you. That couldn't be further from the truth, so put that notion aside. Sure you can't expect to get on with everyone on a forum, it's just like the real world all sorts of people from all walks of life with different ideas and beliefs. I mean we don't speak to everyone we pass by in life and then think that person doesn't like me because they didn't stop to say hello.

In the short time I've been here I already know there are quite a number of members who don't like me for my style of posting and thats fine by me as I  don't expect everyone to understand me or enjoy what I have to say, each to their own I say and I respect that.

I've only ever once really considered giving up the Amiga and that was way back around 88 when I used my old A500s to run a business and make a living from. At the start I thought it was great, I was being paid for something I enjoyed doing but after the first year it became all too serious meeting deadlines and working to meet clients expectations. It had no longer become fun and was just another job.

When I finally realized that I was taking things too seriously and the Amiga had no longer become a fun thing to use, then the best decision I ever made was to shut up shop and go back to using the Amiga for fun & pleasure. I have no regrets about doing so and if I hadn't I would most likely had gone over to the world of PCs which by that time were becoming the obvious way for a business to go.

I reckon what I am trying to say is, yes it's fine to take what you do on the Amiga seriously but don't let it get to the point where you take it so serious that it becomes a chore and is no longer a fun or enjoyable thing to do. Take it from me and my own personal experience, as big a fanatic as I am of the Amiga if I were to let things become too serious again then my days with the Amiga would be over.

So while we wait for someone to post the latest titbit of Amiga news or for fellow members to ask for help with an Amiga related problem, then as others here have said join in the fun & the off topic stuff and heck even the slight disagreements we have, as quite often these days their is not enough new Amiga subjects for us all to talk about each day.

We are a community and being such not everything we have to say has to be Amiga related there should also be time to idly chat about anything and everything but the most important thing is taking part, having fun and enjoying every aspect of what is the quite unique and wonderful world of that they call "The Amiga Community"... :)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2010, 03:59:50 PM »
@ Cammy

Nothing wrong with having a dream... :)

But as I say join in the fun a bit more, it's quite simply a case of not enough new Amiga related topics going about just now to interest everyone. I  get accused of living here these days but I'm quite happy with that, hence the reason for my silly polls and stuff it's just for the sake of chatting with folk who all have the same interest at heart and if there's nothing specifically Amiga to chat about why not throw in something silly and fun just to get folks chatting instead of just staring... :)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2010, 06:43:33 PM »
Quick message to the Brother-In-Law & your cronies... :p

Hi Davie... :)

No reply to my email I sent you this morning, hope you and your PCs chums have read this thread, thats the difference bro we have fun and enjoy ourselves here and don't need to head of to your forums just to try and slag you miserable gits off. Are PC forums you visit really so boring that you have to spy on the Amiga forums to find something interesting...

Ah well, see you on chrimbo day, don't forget to bring your boxing gloves this year... ;)

Cheers

Frank

(PS:I bet you'll still be wanting to muck around on me old miggies as usual, it's ok I won't tell your PC chums... :lol:)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2010, 08:51:00 PM »
Quote from: whabang;599227
One thing I can sympathize with is that there is a lot of off-topic crap going on outside the coffee house. As it is now, CH is only a pale shadow of it's former self, and there's all kinds of crazy stuff going on in the main forum.


Another wahoo with no sense of humor, I'll gladly send you some of me happy pills but I don't think they'd help you... :)

The Coffee House is one of the best places on Amiga.org unless you dead or something... :)

Chill out and join in the off-topic crap, you must have some sense of humor somewhere or you wouldn't have joined in the silly avatar fad that's suddenly appeared... :)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2010, 09:03:45 PM »
Quote from: Karlos;599284
Being relatively new here, you can get away with scurrilous remarks like that with a plea to ignorance. At least once.

Be under no illusion, Whabang is a long-time amiga.org character with a well-established sense of humour :)
Ein... Zwei... Drei... Knäckebröd!


New or not the old boys club don't scare me matey... :lol:

There are quite a few old farts here who need a sense of humor transplant... ;)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2010, 09:16:02 PM »
Quote from: Karlos;599287
So prood! So cock-sure, prancing aboot with your heed full of eyeballs! :lol:


Care to step outside and say that... :smack:

(cos if you do I won't hear it, I'll be safely inside hiding behind the sofa... :D)
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2010, 09:21:54 PM »
Quote from: whabang;599291
We need to ban the bugger before he gets to the first page of the AO rankings! ;)

You should have been here in the old days, Franko. The political and religious flamewars were epic, and would put forums like Something awful to shame!


Reckon these should be given out to all members new & old, might put some life back into things... :)

 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2010, 09:27:09 PM »
Damn... :(

Wish I had one of these and could go back to the good old days I seem to have missed here... :)

 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2010, 09:30:31 PM »
Quote from: whabang;599296
Edit: The forum is still there, just browse the archives. ;)


Last time I did that I ended up in soapy bubbles... :(
 

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Re: Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.
« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2010, 09:42:47 PM »
Quote from: Karlos;599299
I dunno, everything went better than expected :)


True, but at the time I thought my membership here was about to be as short as my time at Oxford... :)