What the hell happened?

[Piru]

@Crumb

Currently public Classic Amiga MorphOS is limited to MorphOS 0.4 beta. I don't know when new classic version will be released.

Sorry. :-)

[srg86]

Well generally I'm still a PC user.

There are things though that I want to do with an Amiga, so I'm getting one. That's MHO.

srg

[TheMagicM]

I'm just waiting to see who comes out w/better software or more software... so for  now, I just bought a A4000D/040 and then another A4000D w/toaster/2 tbc's and a few other goodies.  Should be fun!!

[guest1955]

There are things though that I want to do with an Amiga, so I'm getting one.

So what kind are you going to buy? A1, Peg or Classic?

[srg86]

It's a classic, an A1200. Just waiting for it to be delivered. I'm not interested in the A1 or Peg.

srg

[Crumb]

@Piru

:_(

I tried that demo but couldn't make it boot... :-(

[FluffyMcDeath]

srg86 wrote:
I don't want to open a can of worms here (so delete this if neccessary) but why is the Amiga community so fractured?
srg

Those are stress fractures. As the community has shrunk over time many moderates and pragmatists moved on, but the zealots always are the last to go, and being the holders of the true knowledge, are the most cliquey.

Well, that and the huge time when there was no clear owner of the Amiga legacy (isn't that still the case?) has allowed competing solutions to emerge. MorphOS on PPC, various emulated ClassicOS solutions on x86 and AROS. Now finally OS4 on PPC and the new "Amiga" hardware. All of these projects have taken much time and resources so it's natural that no-one involved wants to just dump their solution.

It's possible that all these streams could be merged back to something common, but everyone has their own (very good) reasons for not wanting to do that.