If you didnt have a Amiga....

cecilia wrote:

nothing. i only became interested in computers when i saw amigas.even when I saw this friend's apple. i just wasn't impressed.

I agree... That's just how I think about it.

 :python:

[AccyD]

A life and/or girlfriend.........

Oh the sacrifices made to my A600 :-)

[that_punk_guy]

AccyD wrote:
A life and/or girlfriend.........

Oh the sacrifices made to my A600 :-)

As I understand it, first there is the lack of a life and/or girlfriend... and then comes Amiga. ;-)

[Holley]

Oh the sacrifices made to my A600

Rofl, yeah but it's a girlfriend of sorts (if only by name).

[macto]

I know exactly what I would have used, because I never did get that Amiga I wanted (due to parental pressure).  I ended up buying a 386 instead.  I got my act together about a decade later when I was given an Amiga 2000.

[TjLaZer]

My next best is my Atari TT030 Workstation!  It is a great little machine.  I have not spent as much time/money on it as I have on my Amiga 4000, the Flagship Amiga model, but the Atari TT030 Computer is also be the Flagship Atari computer.  With a graphics card, extra RAM and large Hard Drive, it truley is a great machine.  The Falcon is also great but I hate the case. a TT type case would of been really nice...

[Matt_H]

I'm confused about the 'what if' aspect of the question. Is this if the Amiga never existed? Or if all the Amigas in the world suddenly vanished and we all had to use something else?

Well, for the former, I'd probably be using an Atari of some sort. Note that I've never used one before, but it seems like it would be the best upgrade from the C64 (which my family used in the pre-Amiga days). It also keeps with the trend that virtually every technology we've invested in turns out to be a commercial failure ;-)

For the latter, I'd probably make the switch to Linux or MacOSX. I've said in the past that I hate Linux, but I'm trying to get to know it better so I'll like it more. (As an Amiga user, I feel that there's just too much that needs to be configured manually. Once I get over that problem I expect I'll like it). MacOSX currently seems like the most Amiga-like system in basic operation theory: Mostly automated, with the possibility to take over operations manually.

I haven't used too many other systems, so I don't have much to compare to. Anything's better than subscribing to Redmond, though.

[gizz72]

Greetings,

Interesting thread. I'd still be using my C64c. I'd find ways to upgrade the little baby(w/c I miss it soooo dearly :bigcry:), I would still wonder if Jack Tramiel resign the  time and purchased Atari, and probably, purchase back commodore. Eventually might become Atari-Commodore, since the money that jack supposed to lend at the 'Lorrain'. :nervous: I'd be using an Atari-ST then. I'd be a die-harden Atari User if the Amiga never came. I guess that there won't be an Atari with more than 64 colors, since there is no competition at the time, I'd say the video-gameas market will still be then on 8-bit displays. probably for the next 5 years prior to the time Jack left commodore methinks.
The PC and Macs will progress eventually but I'd estimate 4 years before 16-bit displays would be develope. Atari will not go under cause the majority of Amiga users would go there, I beleive. It's a different world we'll all be in. Amiga.org would be Atari.org or Amigaworld.net would be Atariworld.net.
Atari Jaguar will be a competing console against PS1. I don't know, since it's a different parallel time line we live in. That is what I think would happen. :-)

Regards,

Gizz

[weirdami]

@LP

Wayne didn't get on to you about that avatar? :oops:

[Waccoon]

My first machine was a C64 and MS-DOS was pure simplicity by comparrison.  I'd have likely gone the MS-DOS route and then worked on UNIX systems at school.

Working on UNIX at the university was REALLY painful after being raised on the A1000 (especially since the CS department thought Amigas were trashy toys and always sneered at me).  I almost instantly lost my interest in computer science and changed my major to graphic design.  I really wish GUIs on UNIX were as mature back then as they are today.

Now I want to work on a new desktop system BASED on the Amiga -- with a stripped Linux as the core.  I'm not giving up that easily!  :-D

[cecilia]

weirdami wrote:
@LP

Wayne didn't get on to you about that avatar? :oops:

she's wearing a Boing Bra! :lol:

[TheMagicM]

weirdami:I dont see a problem w/that avatar. Dunno what Wayne thinks though.


I guess I meant, as a alternative OS what would you want to run?  I've looked at BeOS and am probably going to download it tonight, theres SGI Irix, many Linux distros, next gen "Amiga" OS (a1/pegasos), Windows, MacOS etc..

I like both A1/Pegasos but they do not have any worthwhile software to make the big switcheroo.  It seems as though both just release the boards and hope people will develop enough freeware/shareware to satisfy Amiga users.  Where's the big push to get some REAL applications/games?  I see nothing, hear nothing.

[billt]

At college (university for those who prefer that word) we used Sun boxes, Vax, Dec Ultrix, and a few Indys. They were neat. But I'd probably be using an x86 Linux box dualbooting Windows and Linux, couldn't say which would be default, or perhaps a Mac with OSX. More likely the x86 though, as I've got 3 of those with my Amigas, one with WindowsXP and two with Linux, none currently dualbooting though. I'd like to get Amithlon dual-booting on my Windos box but haven't got around to that project yet.

[Wibbly]

If the Amiga didn't EVER exist, I would have continued with my Atari ST, possibly going TT and then moving as I did last time onto PC. (I went PC in '96, because Amiga was dying out, and the price of a top flite Amiga was more than a superior specified PC).
I did also have an SGI Octane for a while, but once I had voodoo 2's etc in my PC, the PC kicked the Octane's ass at 3D performance, so I got rid of the unit (but kept the tasty 20" Granite finish Monitor and used it on my PC)

If I didn't have an Amiga NOW, it'd make no difference. I don't use mine anyway, I use WinUAE, so I suspect that if Amiga's had existed, but I just didn't own one anymore, I'd still be tinkering around with WinUAE. Apart from the fact my Amiga is back in my country of origin, it was a pain in the ass to connect it all up and make space for it on my computer desk (meant tidying up and nasty stuff like that) and also meant I had to dig through spiders webs in order to disconnect the Monitor from the PC to connect to the Amiga, or hauling another monitor out of the spare room.

[TjLaZer]

Actually I wonder what would of really happened if the Amiga never was released.  IMHO, The Atari ST would also not exist.  As it was created/rushed to compete with the Amiga!  Also Multimedia would of lagged or maybe never existed.  Most likely it would of caught up but nobody seems to care that the Amiga did in 1985 what PCs did in 1990+.

[FastRobPlus]

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Also Multimedia would of lagged or maybe never existed. Most likely it would of caught up but nobody seems to care that the Amiga did in 1985 what PCs did in 1990+.
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Heck, maybe Amiga never forms a computer but the technology is used in the first wave of multimedia video and audio cards, beating EGA, VGA, AdLib, and Soundblaster, and becoming the defacto standard for all mainstream PC clones.

Then maybe NewTek would have formed and made Lightwave and the Toaster for PC a few years earlier (out of market need) and Multimedia would have become mainstream faster and we'd be FURTHER along than we are now.  

You just never know...

If there's one thing I've learned from SciFi, it's that playing with the timestream can be dangerous!