A feeling about the Amiga that I cannot describe!

[artman]

The part about some dude surfing the web on his A2000 could've been me, maybe it was, but the point is, the Amiga is as much FUN to use now, as it was back with the A1000.  Can't tell you the last time I felt as if I'd had FUN with my PeeCee.  Like using the  coffee maker in the morning, just an appliance.  One other note, I really enjoy hearing people tell how much they love their Amiga's, and they're only in their 20's.  My first Amiga was purchased when they were being born!  This is why the Amiga refuses to die, new people are discovering it all the time.  Sure says a lot about the platform, does'nt it. :-P  :-P  :-P

[KingTutt]

In 1985 I was only 9, and still in awe over my first glimpse of the C64 (since Atari 2600 was the best gfx I had ever seen since then). But I didn't know about Amiga back then. It wasn't until early '87 that I witnessed the sheer power of the A500 at a friends birthday, lucky bastard! lol.

Of course being only 11 by then, I had to save all my pocket money for the next 2 years, before I could afford my own miggy. Best thing I ever did!!!

As you can imagine, it was a painfully slow 2 years. Going to friends houses just to get a hit of Turrican, Silkworm or Dogs Of War was the only way I could manage my miggy withdrawals. Eventually seeing Street Rod showcased at a big department store was the last straw. I had to have it dammit. Finally in the xmas of '89 my dreams came true. The most amazing thing was that in almost 3 years my resolve had only strengthened.

Amiga has to have been the thing I have desired the most in my entire life. It even boggles my mind today when I think about it.  I wanted this system so badly and waited so patiently for 3 years to finally have it - I had never done that until then or since. I have never ever wanted anything so badly! Usually I would see something that caught my eye, like a new bike, an electric guitar, Sega Megadrive/Genesis or a girl, lol! But none of those things held my interest for more than a few moments, before putting them on the backburner. But not Amiga, nuh-uh.

Where has my passion gone since then? Even when I last broke up with my gf who I loved very much, I got over it very quickly. But the Amiga is a different story altogether. I don't think I will ever get over it! lol!

Girlfriends come and go, but the Amiga is forever!

Im 20 and im a hardcore Amiga'n.
I use it in -all- times possible. (10hours/day)

several people want me to quit it,
and start using a "real" computer.

I do all that my creative mind desire,
draw,code,play...etc etc, and so on...
8
I tried (W word) in-depth for some months,
but I had to stop because of all the
snaily speed of the OS and not to mention
all frustration and headaches in my head.

I luuuve 68K Amiga
I luuuve Workbench
I luuuve Aminet
I luuuve Jay Miner
I luuuve Commodore
I luuuve my 1260T
I luuuve AGA
I luuuve anygirl who loves the same. 8D

[lurkist]

I feel exactly the same.  I don't even mind the crashes which inevitably happen on this patched, home-grown old A1200 - they just seem like interesting missions.  I half expect to come home one day and find that the missus has trashed it cos I spend too much time just sitting here doing mundane tasks (except she uses it nearly as much as me nowadays - YAY!)

[KingTutt]

Im>bE wrote:

Im 20 and im a hardcore Amiga'n.
I use it in -all- times possible. (10hours/day)

several people want me to quit it,
and start using a "real" computer.

I do all that my creative mind desire,
draw,code,play...etc etc, and so on...
8
I tried (W word) in-depth for some months,
but I had to stop because of all the
snaily speed of the OS and not to mention
all frustration and headaches in my head.

I luuuve 68K Amiga
I luuuve Workbench
I luuuve Aminet
I luuuve Jay Miner
I luuuve Commodore
I luuuve my 1260T
I luuuve AGA
I luuuve anygirl who loves the same. 8D

Hehe, I guess finding a girl that likes Amiga let alone used one, is like finding a needle in a haystack x1000.

I once met a girl really into BeOS and a frequent Unix and Linux user, she really knew her stuff too! And was a lifeguard at my local beach. Wow what a sweetheart. She really opened my eyes (I mean with her knowledge... oh and the other stuff too, when we got to know each other better, lol!) I got her into Amiga eventually and she really couldn't believe how she missed that whole Amiga scene (too busy with her mac and unix manuals in the 80s, sheesh) believe me she was kicking herself over it. Told me how her blockhead brother got her into mac computing and how she was told it (mac) was the pinnacle of modern computing, and how different things would have been if she had learnt about Amiga in the 80s or early 90s.

Suffice to say, she's a happy little Amigan now. But yeah girls and Amiga are a rarity, especially those that are as passionate as we are about our miggy's. But I do believe there might be at least one on these forums. Now what was her name again....hehe

[Dan]

What i love about my Amiga
1) switching of at anytime, don´t have to shutdown just look at HD-ligth
2) My 7Mhz A500 is faster than any Winslow 1GHz pc at least when using the userinterface :-)
3) No whining from my amiga computer, the PC constantly whines(big noisyfan)

[Corrie]

@artman

Yes it was you I think, that was talking about the Amiga not being another appliance. You sumed it up in one. The Amiga to me has been almost a religon. I simply cannot let go of it. Without it, I feel lost and a real sense of joy is missing.

Someone mentioned Aminet before and I would have to say that Aminet has been a huge part of the Amiga also. I love searching the Aminet stuff and finding useful little programs that some Amigan has spent his time compiling. What is even better is registering the program and getting an email from the very grateful creator of that program.

To me, the Amiga has shown me great friendship and a sense of the human spirit, in that we have all pulled together to help each other out despite our diverse backgrounds. Nowhere else on earth have people been so eager to help out another person who they don't even know, just because they share the same dream, the dream that is the Amiga!

An example of this, back in 1994 I had a spare DKB Megachip (the 2mb chipmem module for Amiga). I found a guy in the USA who was after one and we exchanged a few mails through fidonet from memory. As a result I ended up sending him the megachip free of charge, just to help him out. In return he sent me out a PCMCIA modem that I was after, also free of charge.

There is no way that I would have done this for a pc user or mac user. I cannot describe the feeling, but I felt right in doing what I did. I remember making many Amiga friends worldwide and they have since become trusted friends, even though some of them have left the Amiga nowdays. However we all still share that common compatibility and we all know that each one of us would be there in an instant to help each other out. It is a true feeling of friendship.

One of my close friends is also into the Amiga much as I am. We often meet up and discuss different things about the Amiga and check out the latest news on the web. If we have any problems with our systems or questions, we are always on the phone to each other. At times we reminisce about the older days on the Amiga and put in some old Amiga Format CD's to look at on the Amiga.

We do not care that companies have left the Amiga, nor do we care about the discontinuation of the Classic Systems. We have alot of fun on the Amiga and we both get excited when one of us gets some new hardware or software. This is a real friendship and one that I hope to enjoy for many years to come.

Since posting this forum 2 days ago, I have just bought a new Amiga Technologies 4000T, so its on its way as we type! I don't care that it costs alot and I feel a sense of worth and warm inside, knowing that no matter how the world is changing, the Amiga will always live on in my household and my knowledge of it, will be passed onto the younger members of my family!

I love the Amiga fellow Amigans and I cannot just leave it to die. I will always support Clickboom and other software companies where I can. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone of you that has added to this forum. I admit the response has been fantastic and I feel completely in my element to be here! If any of you have that same feeling about the Amiga that you cannot describe, such as myself becoming excited over getting new Amiga stuff, much the same as a child the night before Christmas, then express your feelings here! Put your thoughts in words and your words onto Amiga.org!

Take care all of you!
 

[Quixote]

@ Corrie:

;-) I remember reading a letter in an old Amiga Format magazine, back in the day.  The fellow who penned that missive put it better than I could, and his words apply to my situation, -except that I own several- so I'll pinch them and paraphrase them to share here.

"I've spent more money on [them] than I care to admit, and I've taken [them] apart more times than I've had hot dinners."

:cry: And it brings a sentimental tear to my eye too, sometimes.

:roll: (Windows brings tears to my eyes more often, but they aren't sentimental...)

[Rudei]

@Corrie

Here here!!! I had a day off work the other day, a rare occurence!  What did I do?  I spent the day on my amiga, writing mods, compiling screenshots and playing Genetic Species!!!!

Sod the other formats, I use a PC for surfing the net just cos its practical - I use a PC at work we use an NT network but thats as far as it goes.  

I`m an Amigan thru and thru, I still enjoy the buzz and excitement of using a system, even though its 10 years out of date.  Its odd, some people would say strange, but its what us nutty Amigas are all about.

I can`t ever see me getting this affectionate about another system ever again, and that includes my A1

[EntilZha]

Corrie, you describe the exact reason why I'm still here...

[HotRod]

Hello Corrie and thanks! That's exactly how I feel! I baught my first Amiga 1987 and it was an A500. I had allready seen it over at some friends and thought that it was the coolest computer ever built. So when I finaly baught it it was all about playing games ) . Me and a friend used to visit a cousin of mine to play games, make music, copy programs and just having fun.

Then in 1992 (I think it was) my cousin was going to upgrade the chip memory which ended up with a broken motherboard ( . By then I had baught a harddrive, more memory, x-drive and so on. So he offered to buy it from me and so it was. It really broke my heart! So I went a year or so playing with my old C64 and I can tell you that it wasn't quite the same ) . A friend of mine felt sorry for me so he borrowed me his A1200 ) . So 1993 came up and I was longin for the A4000. Damn it was cool! I had to have it. I really missed my Amiga so much. And guess what? I baught it! Happy happy me ) . An I'm still using it.

I have baught a PC during this time, allthough I waited for as long as I could before I did it. My girlfriend wanted one and I couldn't access some pages on the school-site with my amiga so I didn't have much choice ( .

As you can guess I hardly use it but my girlfriend is very happy (she's strange ;o) .

I must say that I'm geting that feeling back from the good old days when I read about AOS 4! It will probably not be exactly the same but the feeling will surely be there and it will be much improved. It will be like when I baught my A4000 back in 1993. I can't wait! )

Well , what can I say , it's been 3 years since I played my Amiga , then one day I thought I'd do a quick search on the Amiga on the net and I found this place . Amiga died in Australia in about 1994 and since then it's been a down hill slide .
I remember Amiga owners were a tight group of people at school . 1 guy would buy the game and then the rest of us use to copy it . That way we could get so many games it was amazing . There were always new ones coming out . I wish those days could come again ! I have a PC which I hate , and an X-box which will never have the same appeal as the Amiga . It so sad that the Amiga didn't take over the PC Worldwide . At one stage in Australia late 80's early 90's Amiga had more games than IBM , more programs and a larger user interface . Now , well , its dead and u can virtually get an Amiga for free . I really wanna start building my game collection again . And get the ball rolling again for Amiga users in Australia ! Long live the Amiga  !

[Quixote]

Bug_racer boasted:

...Amiga died in Australia in about 1994 and since then it's been a down hill slide . I remember Amiga owners were a tight group of people at school . 1 guy would buy the game and then the rest of us use to copy it . That way we could get so many games it was amazing . There were always new ones coming out . I wish those days could come again !

...At one stage in Australia late 80's early 90's Amiga had more games than IBM , more programs and a larger user interface . Now , well , its dead and u can virtually get an Amiga for free .

:-? You don't see any "cause and effect" relationship, here?  All of the "free" copies of games contributed heavily to the Amiga's demise.  

:evil: I hope those days don't come again.

[gnarly]

Corrie wrote:
I have both an A4000T and a pc. I recently upgraded my pc memory and a few other things. It was nothing special me, just an appliance upgrade, so to speak. The pc I use and I do play a few games on it also. But my heart isn't in it.

Spooky, I wrote a very similar thing a while back...

http://planetgnarly.com/newsitem.asp?id=136

[alx]

Now , well , its dead

Oh no it isn't :-)

Why not get Amiga Forever, or even an A1 and OS4 and see how the platform is still alive.

But please don't even think of copying stuff - with a small userbase, everything makes a big difference.  Let's support Amiga developers and keep the (boing) ball rolling!

Having read most of this thread today, I was enlightened by the sheer volume
of emotion that seemed to be present. For me, whose Amiga "they" can only
take from my (c)old rotten hands, there is perhaps less of that, but
9 years of a "closer relationship" is a relatively short time, in these
parts anyway. Which reminds me that it's Paula who has kept me company
through it all, also after adding PCI. I'm tempted by the current PPC offerings
(eg. Eyetech). Goes without saying though that I won't give up the old
system as long as I can keep it running. Hopefully soon, I can keep it more turned off as opposed
to now.

Let's support Amiga developers and keep the (boing) ball rolling!

I agree, but I don't have PPC hardware so it may be difficult to decide on a
major software purchase - are remaining developers going the AMIGA way?