About 'Piru'

[nicholas]

I think he's serious. not many people know about the skills of some members here. Nothing wrong with showing some appreciation.

Piru is no longer a member here due to the previous owner driving him (and other genius Amiga gurus) away over a year ago now.

[nicholas]

From what I remember Piru didn't trust the new owner and felt the owner was not honest about his motive for wanting to own amiga.org. He then asked to remove everything from him from this site.

Jens left for the same reason too.

[nicholas]

Ha!  I thought these were the 4 loves (just missing one)

Piru, Doom Master and Franko

Cecilia.

Anyone who doesn't love her is not a true Amigan.

[nicholas]

As I understand it you want to persuade people to use MorphOS. The people (that are still here) have somewhen decided to use (mostly) either MorphOS or AmigaOS. Many also have decided because of emotional reasons. By trying to proof them how wrong they are and how much money they have wasted you only anger them. It would be better to show them what you can do with MorphOS and why they should use it (as least as alternative/second system). BTW I read that MorphOS only supports up to 1.5 GB RAM, no MESA/Gallium and running on aging hardware (that is certainly not becoming faster) is not that impressive. It is a nice "Retro-System" at the moment but not so superior as you think.

Why does it need MESA? It has it's own implementation of OpenGL that works very well.

[nicholas]

you are right but the problem is that people seem to think they are superior because of their choice or use phrases like "only" and "true" and the others are "copies" or just interested in playing old games. As long as this attitudes continue to exist as long there will be debates and derailing threads. A mod cannot change attitudes. The situation will only change if we all accept the differences and understand that all are equal.

The "True Believers" won't ever change their minds. Some of us like and use all four of the Amiga platforms (Amiga OS, AROS, MorphOS and OS4) and it causes the narrow minded ones blood to boil that we don't share their myopic views.

[nicholas]

I have to admit that winding them up can be great fun though!

[nicholas]

Oh, it most certainly is.  That I don't doubt.  Piru always was a fun guy and had a thick skin, but I think the unprofessionalism esp. on the operators end of A.org really took its toll on the old timers.  I suspect Jens and others left for the same reasons.  A.org is the best Amiga site in the world to find completely non Amiga related fluff posts linked from other half baked "news" sites (see the Win 8 type tabloid journalism "news" linkbait type stuff that's so rampant here lately).

Between the rampant "link bait" posts, the pandering to C-USA, and stuff like the weird little "service blackout" that Tedd pulled I am surprised more people did not leave.

Some of us keep coming back, even after long periods of not logging in.

Amiga is like crack addiction and a.org is much better than aw.net or amigans.net as it has less loony true believers here.

Since Wayne sold up EAB and A1K have become much more interesting than this place though sadly, but I know I'm not the only one to have made lifelong friends here over the years so we have an emotional attachment to the place.