Chrizz wrote:
The problem here is people thinks Amiga are still productive and have a future.. Amiga can have a future only if Microsoft or Apple will buy it.
Productive? Hell yes, I write letters on it, browse the web and do a lot of other stuff which is very productive; TO ME.
And why should Amiga be bought to have a future? You are misinterpreting the classic Amiga to be an alive computerplatform, it's not. It's only being kept alive by tons of users who invent new things everyday (both software AND hardware) to keep their 20 year old hardware pace up a bit with modern technology.
Browsing the web with an A1000? Possible.
Doing the same with an 8088 XT? Hell no.
When Amiga was in fashion noone cared about computers. Computers have replaced TV, shops etc, you have to understand time has changed and Amiga is not able to deliver.
Noone cared about computers in the 80's? Were you even born then?
So I understand you are one of those social life-ridden people who do everything on their computers.
Replaced tv's? I prefer sitting on my comfortable couch watching the news, rather then sitting on a chair at my desk.
Replaced shops? Maybe. It's nice to have the ease to order books etc. online, but I prefer going to a bookstore, to browse through the shelves in which you can see far more at one blink of an eye. I also rather have not delivered my groceries by some unknown young kid who races around in a van, breaking eggs and otherwise randomly abusing my food.
Not able to deliver? See first part of this post. My Amiga delivers. If it can't do stuff that I want, I will use another computer for it, Mac or Linux or whatever, maybe even Windows. It's a HOBBY machine, and it's way cool to see that it can do things that weren't even invented until AFTER Amiga's death.
That's under the browser. What will Amiga fans do when online shops like Amazon will start to use this kind of ui?
Maybe some Amiga programming freak will eventually make it possible. Until that time we are happy to use Mac or Linux (or MorphOS, AROS when they will have the same possibilities).
Or I'll just go out (fresh air is good for you!) to a bookstore.
Complain that you can do on Amiga too? Yes maybe.. but Amiga doesn't even carry mozilla.
I have no problem with people using Amiga as nostalgia machines, I would probably set up one just for the fun of it.. but you must face the truth, Amiga is obsolete.
NOW you're starting to get it, at least in the first part of this reply. It's NOSTALGIA that drives us to use the Amiga. And for nostalgic reasons we will use AmigaOS 4 and 5 if they will ever see the light of day.
The Amiga is far from obsolete.
Yes, the platform is commercially dead (apart from a few new parts sold here and there to keep our machines alive).
Yes, it can't do a lot of things other platforms CAN do (java, flash, SSL secured login and whatever).
Yes, new pc's and Macs have better graphics, sound, speed and random other possibilities.
So?
Your machine does not deliver.
Yes it does. You're just completely missing the point of why we use Amiga's.
And that's the last (serious) reply I will give in this thread. Normally I can't be bothered to reply seriously to trolling, but for some reason I got annoyed with this thread.
And stop f***ing multi posting. Ever heard of copy & paste? Or is that obsolete in Windows Vista as well these days?
