Amiga - It Outlived Them All...

[Franko]

Been wandering round the net looking to see which other old home computers still hold as much feeling and meaning to people as the Amiga does. To be honest apart from the C64 and the odd Atari sites most seem to be long forgotten and the sites last posted on years ago...

I was going to put together a wee musical video that kind of shows how so many of these old home computers (not consoles) have been and gone over the years and now seem to have faded from most folks memories, while the Amiga still goes on...

With new hardware and new systems still being developed for the Amiga in 2011 and lively debates still going strong on the forums and new/ old users coming back what seems like every day to the Amiga scene, I've come up with the list below of some of the home computers that I can remember (I'm sure there were lots more) that seem to have faded into obscurity...

Can anyone recall any others that the Amiga has outlived to add to this wee list and that I can include in this wee video project...

Oric 1 1983
Oric Atmos 1983
ZX 80 1980
ZX 81 1981
ZX Spectrum 1982
ZX Spectrum+ 1984
ZX Spectrum 128 1985
Sinclair QL 1984
Dragon 32 1982
BBC Micro 1981
Amstrad CPC 1984
Atari Falcon 1992
Atari ST 1985
Atari Mega STE 1991
Atari 400/800 1979
Atari 1200 XL 1982
Atari 65/130 XE 1985

[Franko]

Yo Franko....
Why is everything WEE?
And, if everything is not WEE, what makes a WEE thing WEE?
WEE WEE-lly want to know!  :roflmao:
 
Add the wee Commodore 16 to the list! UGH!

Yo Gizmo350, howz it gaun wee man...

Wee (and that means both of me) have a tendency to call wee thing wee just cos they are wee...

If thing were a wee bit wee'ir than wee then they would be called pokey instead of wee but if something is wee'ir than pokey then that would be classed as toaty which is as wee as you can get...

Seeing as how the C16 was just a wee bit longer lived than the Plus4 I'll add that to the list anyway...

[Franko]

I think for somebody who claims to have learned so much about the internet in just a few months you seem to be pretty ignorant.

SNIP

If you want links I can provide them, but since you know so much, you would have no problem finding them yourself.

Awe gawd, another arsole for me collection... :rolleyes:

PS: I won't even bother to tell you what you can do with your links, I'll leave that to your imagination which seems as dull as you...

[Franko]

What are some of the website forums for the Atari computers (not consoles) or others that have comparable traffic to Amiga.org?

None that I could find, that's why I would say the Amiga seems to have outlived them all...

[Franko]

Those are your own words which you like to post over and over again on this forum and others.

Thought I smelt you on MooBunny before...

[Franko]

Franko, in case you haven't noticed, the Amiga is just as dead as all the other corpses you listed in your post.....no more, no less.  Your post implies that you believe that the Amiga is still "alive" and going strong.  If that's true, then you're more delusion than I thought.

It may be dead to you but it sure aint to me and yes it's still going strong for a 25 year old piece of computing hardware...

The point I was making (as you don't seem able to grasp it) is, when compared to the Amiga forums and current Amiga scene all the others I have listed don't seem to have the same amount of still active users posting on them...

Now I may be delusional but I'm perfectly happy that way as it means everything is hunky dorey in my wee delusional world and that's the way I like it...

If you wanna play with dead things then that's your business but honestly it's not good for you and I'm pretty sure there are laws against it...

[Franko]

Wrong, I don't post there...

I believe you... millions wouldn't...

PS: where are all these other sites you claim I post on :confused:

[Franko]

Just right here on this forum, several times (I can't be bothered to look them up because you have a nasty habbit of removing your own posts) and on AWN and of course the MOO (which I do read BTW).

Aint got no nasty hobbits...

Can't even recall the last time I posted on AWN and probably have less than 40 posts on their and when it comes to MooBummy yes I do go there sometimes to wind up the monkeys but seems quite a few of the regular weirdos on that place like to post suff pretending to be me which the loony tunes over there seem to fall for...

Anyway what the frig has any of this got to do with my original post or are you just bored out of your tits and thought to yourself "let's have another pointless rattling of the gums here to pass the time"... :confused:

[Franko]

GEEEEEZUZ! The above proves you & Franco go to the same sites!  :lol:

Oi...gitmo350... I've told you before it's Franko with a K not Franco with a C... :furious:

Swuth yur spullchicker oan...

[Franko]

GEEEEEZUZ! to you too, you claimed I post there which I don't. Now be quiet and reread again what you wrote.

Fur Gawds sake why you gotta bring GEEEEEZUZ into this now...

Poor bloke got nailed to a big lump of wood to save sinners like you, you know, show a bit of respect for Christies sake...

[Franko]

Did you even bother to go to these sites, they are mostly about 8bit Atari home computers and NOT about consoles.

I did, but there was no-one home...

[Franko]

Yes, is it wrong to visit forums and not post there, I've got better things to do. Now just admit you where wrong or prove I post on said forums.

You do post on MooBummy, told you I've smelt you there before and that's all the proof I need...

PS:That's a bit of a dumb thing to say "I've got better things to do" while your talking about visiting MooBummy...

[Franko]

As you may have noticed (but conveniantly overlooked) I didn't start with the GEEEEEZUZ stuff.

I didn't "conveniantly overlook" it, I deliberately overlooked it cos I like Gizmo350 and I don't like you, there's a big difference you know...

[Franko]

You may be right about that , every post with a Franko in it is a waste of time... Damn...

See I can use meaningless smilies too in every sentence I post if I want to

Oh the irony... :lol: it hurts so much from laughing at you... :roflmao:

The guy or gal who claims he/she has "better things to do with his/her time" but is too dumb to realise even after just saying it, that he/she is quite happy wasting his/her time to all these posts here with "Franko in it"... :roflmao:

Your not a schitzo by any chance...

[Franko]

"Outlive" is a pretty twitchy word to use for any hardware that's a good 15-20 years dead and buried.  In the grand scheme of things, I suppose the Amiga is "still alive" in forms like the SAM, MorphOS, and even AROS.  But the true "original" Amiga, well we've been poking that corpse with a sharp stick since 1994 when C= went belly up, and we'll never agree on which one of the machines that came since then was the true successor.

At this point we should all just be thankful there's a following for these old machines and that there's a community left to support them.  Places like A.org are a huge asset to guys like us that dig this old gear, even if said forums often seem as a group of zoo monkeys flinging feces at each other

While I get the drift of what you're saying once again it's the old "dead & buried" routine...

If the Amiga were "dead and buried" then why do we all spend so much time on these forums talking about what we are currently doing with them...

There's only one forum where you can truly speak your mind about the Amiga and that is of course the best of them all AMIGA.ORG, all the others moderate the hell out of free speech at the merest mention of a simple word like "geezer"... gawd knows what planet some of them moderators on other sites live on...