Amiga users and Commodore's demise

[Gav]

I just spent a sh*t load of money on upgrading my 1200,i dont own another computer and i planto buya mediator.So as far as im concernd it does what i want it to do.

[Karlos]

I had my trusty A1200 since 1992 and used it on a nigh on daily basis since. I have a PC for web design/office/audio capture.

Everything else I do on my 1200T.

Which pigeon hole do I fit?

[jeffimix]

Hrmm...
I think commodores demise thwacked the Amiga platform a good one on the chin personally.  I'm a hobbiest. A minority in computing these days, but still here. I'm too young to reminisce (nice? nis? I may be american, but we all know that doesn't really help your English) about old games I played as a youth. I like having fun with computers. Sure I hope that my Amiga 2000 can serve a useful purpose when I'm done with it, but I don't do it to have a new web machine. Danged expensive things to get new stuff for, almost everything is for the A3000 and ups too, but fun. I probably know more about how this amiga works than how my PC works, and I care more too. It is mroe fun, but the fuzzy B&W of the composite TV screen hurts my eyes, so I haven't had the all nighter kind of fun yet. Its just... more fun the windows and less uncooperative than Linux.

[Desolator]

And what category do I fit into? I use my PC to play the new games and surf the web. I use my A1200's to play old games ,using PPaint to edit pictures, use ProTracker to create music, and I just started out with Photogenics to see what that program can do.

I still buy Amiga games regulary from an internet site, and I was overjoyed when I found Covert Action.

My next paycheck probably goes to a turbocard if I can't find a new A1200 rig with CD-Rom for sale somewhere cheap.

So.. I would call myself an active Amiga user...

[xeron]

I'm not saying Amigas aren't used anymore.  My 4000 still logs a few hours a month...

Hmmm... well...

Original question:

While I agree that your 3 groups do exist, where do active users fall?

Ilwrath's answer:

Same catagory as the sasquatch? Mostly mythical, I believe

I class "active user" as anyone who uses their Amiga to perform a task on a regular basis, be it email, web browsing, programming, writing music, or whatever.

But, i'd say that the vast majority of people who bought Mediator kit for their Amiga's would be active users, simply because they're still spending cash on it, and you don't by a Mediator for an Amiga that you only use to play Sensible Soccer once a month!

So, I think you've classed quite a lot of the people who replied to this thread, most Mediator/Promethius/G-Rex purchasers, and quite a few other people I know personally as mythical :-D

You hit the nut with the cracker! Got to have the feeling. And I`d like to get that feeling back with the old A1000 I picked up a year ago but I can`t find a Kickstart disk to see if the machine is roadworthy. Yes, Amiga`s are amazing but until I get Kickstarted I`ll have to get that feeling with my European release C128D and good old GEOS 2.0. Only wish AOL was still Quantum Link. Ted Turner probably does too...

[xeron]

Nuklear wrote:
Only wish AOL was still Quantum Link. Ted Turner probably does too...

AOL was originally CVC, who offered Atari 2600 games over the phoneline. It was a spectactular failure; shortly after its inception, the 1984 videogame crash occurred, and who would want to pay $1.00 to download a game you could only play 8 times when carts were in the shops for $0.50? :-D

[Floid]

Agafaster wrote:
I think MacOS (in its X incarnation) is going the same way - so for people like me, there is only one alternative that will properly satisfy - AmigaOS.

Not really on topic, but the 'trick' to having a stable OS- as X, XP, Linux, and *BSD are supposed to be- is that you can goof off with it even after fighting it all day.  How well it works in practice is a tossup- most XP headaches will be over spyware and the usual Microsoft issues, but with any of the others, you can probably fire up xgalaga safely even if the rest of the system is hosed. ;-)  Same went for Amiga, of course- get sick of debugging your startup-sequence, and there's always that Sensible Soccer disk to boot from..

[bloodline]

Um, we lost a lot from Commodore's demise, but we have gained a Free OpenSource AmigaOS clone and freedom from custom hardware (shame, but important nowadays.).  :-)