New England Amiga users' group?

[Matt_H]

Having returned from Amiwest, I have been greatly inspired by the efforts of everyone at SACC in keeping the Amiga scene active. I think there's a lot to be gained in having monthly user meetings in person. Great work, all!

That being said, much of the US, particularly the New England region, seems to be lacking a local users' group. I know there used to be the one affiliated with the Boston Computer Society, but it seems like it's been out of commission for many years now.

Surely there are still some other users around here! Anyone interested? Maybe we can put something together in the near future.

And if anyone wants to cross-post this to MorphZone.org and Amigaworld.net, feel free. I'd much appreciate it.

[MskoDestny]

I'd be interested, though I'm in southwestern Connecticut so depending on where this would be located it might actually be easier for me to attend meetings at a New York user group (I think there's one in the NYC area, the long Island one is probably too far away).  That said, I could probably get as far as the extreme southern border of Mass. (though Hartford would be easier).

[Louis Dias]

I'm in Fall River but my Amiga use is limited to an occassional WinUAE for CD32 emulation.  That's why I'm trying to draw support for OS4 on Ninendo Gamecube and Revolution.  OS3 is not an OS for today's user.  MAC is losing ground and hopes to lower their entry costs to the platform by going to Intel hardware.  Linux isn't a user-friendly OS either.

Amiga OS has potential if modernized.  But it needs a low entry cost to appeal to anyone looking to try it out before making the switch from Windows.

Future versions of Microsoft Office products are going to use XML as the document standard.  This will allow new (or old with a plugin) Amiga apps to interoperate with Office (Word, Excell, Powerpoint) rather easily.  So common desktop applications for 99% of users will be possible.  

Targeting the niche market as a target audience will always leave the platform as a niche machine.  Let the core audience grow FIRST, then release niche products.

[Matt_H]

:bump:

Any more interest?

I divide my time between Boston, Mass. and Portland, Maine, if that helps with the logistics.

[drwho]

Hello!

I am in Easton MA right down the road from Fall River. Although an avid Amiga user since about 1987, currently, I basically find WinUAE to be good enough until I can save the bucks for an A4000T.

There are no users groups around here. There might be some for Windows (man, that would be boring, could you imagine, "Tonight we will be talking about Notepad, for those of you who are beginners, try and keep up." [insert a 'Ben Stein' type voice here]).

I would be interested in something Amiga related, even if it were people sitting around complaining that the uA1 is too expensive or that SiftHut asking $1299.00 for an A4000T with an 040/25, 6MB of memory and no HD is actually more expensive than even Commodore would try and sucker us for.

Anyways ... I guess I am in. For what that's worth.

Thanks,
Mike

[Chain]

 "Tonight we will be talking about Notepad, for those of you who are beginners, try and keep up."
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  :roflmao:   :laughing:

[drwho]

Bump ...

Come on folks, there has to be more people in the New England area that are lonely Amiga users. :-D

- Mike