This post might be a little bit contradictory to my first post in this Forum. I actually spent some free time the last couple of weeks trying to catch up on 10 years worth of info concerning Commodore’s downfall and the Commodore-Amiga scene after the downfall.
When CBM started out, their agenda was to build a machine(s) that took the then current technology to the limit. They wanted to make an affordable game machine/computer that would blow away anything else in the market place. They almost succeeded. They built a machine that was easily 5 years ahead of it’s time. Management, not technology was the downfall. The Amiga is well truly dead now. What now? Life goes on. We will use our Amigas until they will no longer do what we need done, or we can no longer get spare parts. Then we will put their dead carcasses in the closet as future antiques and tell our children of how much we could do with a machine that…had so little. I still remember the day when I saw the Amiga 1000 at the first page of a computer magazine in 85’. God!!!!!I loved that machine. The Amiga was at the start, a dream. WHAT ARE OUR DREAMS NOW??? What is what made the AMIGA computer so fantastic? It was the people who program for it , the people who made demos on it and the third party companies who supported the hardware are the real people who own the AMIGA. It is us. No other platform has the user support that the Amiga-C64 has even up to this day. And I am really touched by the effort that some of the people have gone through to make their Amigas keep up with competition for another 10 years. It was the people’s computer - not one that belonged to a nameless, faceless corporation. After I did some catch up listening to some retro tune remakes, read C-64-Amiga news, downloaded some Demos and reading people posting on this forum I finally believe I have found what I have lost for over a decade now. I found my long lost “inspiration”. The same inspiration that drove me from the day of reading that magazine cover in 85’ to became an electrical engineer, an electronics hardware designer, a firmware programmer to what I am right now. It’s the trip that matters and NOT the destination. When I dug up that old piece of A500 hardware out of storage and plugged it in after more that a decade…I was reborn. I felt the same long lost feelings I had over 18 years ago when I had my computer brand new. I remembered the nights we spent in friends houses tweaking with the C-64, playing games, making party music and argued with other “Atari-Amstrad” users who had the best machine.
They have never raised a monument to a person who has quit, but to men who dared to dream and to walk tall above the crowd. Observe the masses and do the opposite. My best wishes to all the die hard AMIGA owners.
