1) Name 5 all time favorite games (can be Amiga specifically or multiformat.
Doom, Doom II, Dune, F29 Retaliator, Nuclear War
2) Name 5 all time favorite companies (companies which produced games, of course, but also companies that produced hard, and i dont mean Commodore itself, but third parties).
Advanced Gravis, Id Software, AMD, Commodore, Individual Computers
3) Things you CAN do with Amiga that CANT with most modern PC´s (of course you can also explain why you prefer to surf internet using amiga browsers rather than pc´s ones)
My first exposure to the Amiga was in the early 90's working in a local access TV station using Video Toaster. Linear editing, VT effects, used of Music On Disk (MOD) format songs, downloaded from local bulletin boards, in my videos. I prefered my home PC, but it couldn't even come close to competing with the graphics and sound capabilities of the Amiga. Even under emulation, the modern PC can't duplicate the quality and spirit of the Amiga.
4) Famous QUOTES about 8 and 16 bit machines.
"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981
5) 5 all time favorite people (for example Jay Miner, or some programmer like Archer McLean, Geoff Crammond, David Braben, Sir Clive Sinclair... Things like that)
Peter Hajba of Remedy and the Future Crew (gods of the Demoscene), Jens Schoenfeld of
Individual Computers, Jeri Ellsworth of C-One fame, Wayne Hunt of Amiga.org, and of course Jay Miner.
7) Same as 6) but guessing how many ACTIVE Amiga users are left.
I would venture to guess about 1 million worldwide, as I know many who are not necessarilly active in the scene but still actively use their Amigas at home.
If the Amiga wasnt your first home computer, name which one it was.
TI 99A back in the early 80's... First *I* owned was a Zenith Data Systems 8088 (akin to the Heathkit version).
9) Quick opinion about EMULATION of Amiga on other systems
Emulation is nice when it works. I've had far more sucess tranferring ADFs to disk and running them from my A4000D tho.
10) Quick opinion about ABANDONWARE
If it's that old, set it free... If it's truely abandonned, it should be considered free.
11) Quick opinion about if computing in the 8/16 era was funnier than now
Funnier or More fun? I do know all 680x0 based systems were 32bit, which is funny given the focus of your research is on 8bit and 16bit systems. As for fun, yeah, the days of computing being FUN are LONG gone (outside of the retro scene that is).
12) Quick opinion about the demo scene
I've always been a major fan of the demoscene. The Future Crew in particular. I have 386 and 486 machines up and running for the sole purpose of playing FC's demos. Complete with Advanced Gravis Ultrasound MAX and Sound Blaster Pro sound cards. It always astounded me what they could do with MOD music, Deluxe Paint and some fancy assembler work. The names "Purple Motion" and "Skaven" will forever be branded in my mind for the wonderful music they've produced. The creation of Screamtracker by FC greatly expanded on the MOD format (originally created on the Amiga), and directly responsible for the electronic music era.
Hope this has been helpful Sebastian.
