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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« on: February 02, 2011, 10:09:20 PM »
Voted Classic but I really do have high hopes for the NatAmi... :)

(Would have been better if it was a multi choice poll... :))
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2011, 10:33:45 PM »
Quote from: Piru;611959
Obvious vote is obvious. ;)


Must've been Classic... :lol:
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2011, 03:58:21 PM »
Quote from: dammy;612139
None of the above but I picked "other" (I think I did anyways) as the default pancake choice.  I was tempted in choosing UAE but outside of one or two games, I can't figure out what else I would really want to run on it.  But I can finally see why the 7 million former Amiga owners never came back.


Very curious as to what it is makes you think these "7 million former Amiga owners never came back"...

(PS: how did you arrive at that figure and how do you know they "never came back"... did you know them personally... :))
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2011, 05:05:51 PM »
@ Dammy

Fair enough about the 7 Million figure I wont dispute that (as I can't be bothered checking)... :)

But as for how many active users there still are, no-one can put a figure on that or even supply a reasonable guess as to how many active users may still be out there... :)

Take me for example, been using nothing but Amigas since 86. In all that time until June last year I'd never been on the net let alone a member of a forum. So the way I see it I would be very surprised if I as the only one who had gone all this time without being on the net or joining a forum.

So if folk are basing their guesses at the amount of active Amiga users just by how many folk use the various forums or appear to be on the net, then it would seem to me these figures would be way out and be totally pointless in using them to claim that there are only X amount of active Amiga users left... :)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2011, 05:33:27 PM »
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+100

there seems to be quite a few folks here that come to just moan & complain that don't actually use amiga's...


+ 7,000,000 :)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2011, 08:55:20 PM »
Quote from: amigadave;612206
You are so funny!  Thanks for making me laugh today.

As for my post about number of users, I did not say all of them post on forums, I stated that most of them have become members of at least one Amiga related forum site at one time or another.  Also, I was referring to ACTIVE Amiga users, not just anyone that owned one some time in the past, or has one in the closet.


I'm not unique... there's two of me here... :)

Anyway you can't state (even though you just did) "most of them have become members of at least one Amiga related forum site at one time or another." as you have no way to prove it... :)

It's all just opinions and guesstimates, heck even Santa Claus doesn't know the answer and he delivered most of those lovely old miggies himself... :)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2011, 11:37:33 PM »
@ amigadave

I know I get your point (and KThunders) about how folk estimate just how many active Amiga users may be still out there, but to me there is no point in guessing or wasting time trying to figure it out. It doesn't seem a worthwhile thing to do unless you need that info for your own use for example writting a new prog and wondering just how big a custom/user base you may have for it... :)

To me until last June when I finally went on the net, I didn't know if there were thousands left in the world or no one at all still using the Amiga and it wouldn't (and still doesn't) matter to me whatever the case may be... :)

If for some weird reason the internet was to suddenly end tomorrow, I could quite happily go back to being in the dark about all that's still going on in Amigaland. After the last Amiga magazines disappeared around 2000 - 2002 I didn't have a clue about what was going on with the Amiga and was blissfully unaware and not even bothered about it... :)

To me as long as I've got my Amigas, I'm perfectly happy, the internet and forums are just something to entertain me as I sit here doing useful and enjoyable things on my Amigas. My so called "Crusade" against CUSA is also part of that entertainment and at the end of the day means nothing to me other than a bit of fun here on the net and getting more folk chatting on the forums... :)

Other than when I'm helping out someone with an Amiga related problem then no-one should take any of my posts or mad rants seriously they are nothing more than passing the time and having a laugh to me and that's the way they should (I hope) be taken... :)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2011, 11:49:03 PM »
Quote from: runequester;612269
Maybe its time for another "how to make Commodore survive" speculation thread? :)


Gawd NO... don't do that... :eek:

All you'll end up with is a million different opinions on which OS/Processor & even type of case they should use (there's plenty of that here already)...

Why not a thread on something different for a change, don't ask me what though cos I can't think of one right now but something that doesn't involve which OS is best and why or which type of processor to use, there are plenty of threads here doing that already... :)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2011, 12:21:02 AM »
Quote from: runequester;612278
Too late! :)

I'll think of something more creative for the weekend. Today, Im enjoying turning 31... I think


Bugger.... :madashell:

Happy birthday by the way... :)

31 eh... your now on the long slippery slope, it's all downhill from here in four years time you'll be starting to get aches & pains in places you never knew you had places... :)

(Gawd... 31 can't remember that far back... :))
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2011, 12:34:07 AM »
Quote from: runequester;612294
you should remember. It was the same year the romans invaded ;)


The big crappers never got as far as Scotland they took one look and built Hadrian's wall to hide behind, while we just laughed and waved our bums at them... :)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2011, 02:03:33 AM »
Quote from: KThunder;612320
Some people seem to think it is their job to police the world for the long dead Commodore International, for copyright infringement, patent infringement and anything else they don't like. Defend our precious Amiga from anyone who would desicrate her!

The rest of the world doesn't care, and we cut off our nose to spite our face, and kill off any potential platform long pefore it has a chance to succeed.

Personally I am quite jaded with AI because I think they should have had an x86 OS4 years and years ago, but I don't wish them bad or anything. They got some money from me (presumably) for two copies of Amiga Forever.


For about the past half dozen posts you've made you keep mentioning what most people think (at least you think what most people think) are you some kind of psychic or mind reader... :)

And how do you know the rest of the world doesn't care, have you been round everyone on the planet and asked them... :)

You should go to Vegas and put on a show, "KThunder The Man Who Knows Your Every Thought"... :lol:

Bet you can't guess what I'm thinking right now... ;)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2011, 01:53:17 PM »
Quote from: Dandy;612396
But they didn't call them "C64" or "Amiga" - they called them what they really were: Commodore 386/486 PCs...


Old KThunder doesn't see things clearly like most (I think), he just likes to say what he thinks people think without thinking about it, don't you KT... ;)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2011, 03:37:43 PM »
Quote from: dammy;612404
This is the next generation series, if you don't like it being x86, that's just going to be too bad for you.  Well, there maybe ARM versions, if that would make you any happier. ;)


I reckon there is a wee bit more to you than just being the CUSA chief Fanboy than I first thought. I find it just a wee bit suspicious that you appear to have been at the meeting Red had with CUSA, very suspicious indeed... ;)

Anyway the point I was going to make here is, do you not think that with replies like that and the ones Leo makes that all you are doing is alienating more & more folk against CUSA, just something to think about that all... :)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2011, 03:46:14 PM »
Conspiracy theory's are great, they liven up any conversation and there is always some truth to be found in them if you dig deep enough... :)

The "nefarious discussions" that may or may not have taken place only you are privy to at the moment, or have you forgotten them already... :)
 

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Re: POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2011, 04:25:39 PM »
Quote from: KThunder;612440
It's like trying to have a serious discussion with a chatbot with you...

Is that it... I've been watching you type this ruddy reply for the past 12 minutes & 11 seconds now and that's all you've came up with (thought it was going to be something epic)... :lol:

Anyway chatbots are boring then tend to go a wee bit barmy when I talk to them and seem to get awfully confused by some of the things I say for some weird reason... :)

At least you always give me something to say, whether it makes much sense or not doesn't really matter, it's all done in the best possible taste... :)
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