who owns amiga today?

[trekiej]

I understand that OS5 was in the plans.  Where can I find out about OS5 of late.
Thanks.

[Starke]

@trekiej :

Simple,

Go to google,

and like me,

Try and find it on the net, as many on these forums will expect you to do the research yourself, whether it takes you 3 days, or 3 weeks.

I had to, coz no one at the start directed me links, until recent! You gotta fight for your right to recieve links on here, atleast, thats what they made me do.

Cheers!!

P.S.If I find any worthwhile links I'll let you know! 8-)  8-)

[Starrunner]

Perhaps Starke is right that I sound like a weeping old man.  

However, after years of listening to the silence of the Amiga front in the post Commodore era, I find it hard to have any faith in Amiga Inc or the Amiga making any kind of comeback at any point.

I know that sounds harsh.  I know the example that Starke gave about cancer and his mother.  There does come a time though that you run out of hope.

I ran my A3000 til it died in the late 90s.  I went out of my way to get another A500 as well.  I even picked up an A4000 after coming across it on accident.  But there is nothing new coming, and I would be highly surprised if it did.

I will always support the Amiga.  I always have.  To this day I relate to people who never heard of the Amiga stories of how great it was and how much fun I had with all of mine.

It is just sad to see something great go away bit by bit.

[Starke]

Theres always hope.

http://pulp.wrongpla.net/news/article168.html?4fed30b7941e1f408326e3b2d365a103=c2e0443ef17d0a8793eb7045de358507

Cheers 8-)  8-)

[iamaboringperson]

Starke wrote:
Theres always hope.

http://pulp.wrongpla.net/news/article168.html?4fed30b7941e1f408326e3b2d365a103=c2e0443ef17d0a8793eb7045de358507

Cheers 8-)  8-)

Yeah! Nice news, buddy!

You're my friend, aren't you? Anyone who points out a wrongpla.net article is surely my friend.

[Starke]

@iamaboringperson :

Why thank you kind SIR!

Absolutely!

Cheers!! 8-)  8-)

P.S.That must mean Bloodline is your friend also?

[odin]

Yeah, anyone who references wrongpla is cool.

[Starke]

@Odin:

Your honestly too kind. Thank you also, Man Todays been a good day, our accountant, shes got wonderful pink nails, mmmmm, spicey! (Like a Pink tiger)

Cheers!! :-D  :-D

[Seehund]

krize wrote:
Hehe Starke, are you new to this game ?

No, he's a troll.

If he really was just a clueless newbie, he'd have gotten a clue by now, after having been a member for a month and making 270 posts. But it just goes on and on...

I think he's a pretty boring troll too, with one exception: His referencing of a WrongPla.net article actually made me laugh. That was a professional Slashdot TrollTalk move!

[Acc3d]

I first got into Amiga's with the Vic 20.  When I heard rumors of the A1000 I bought one as soon as it came out.  

6 Amigas and a career path later, I switched to Wintel boxes, why?  Because I have business sense.

I still have three loaded Amigas (1000, 2000, 4000) in a box and just recently pulled the A4000 out for benchmarking (for an article I'm writing).  As much as I long for the good old days, I still wonder why?

My blackberry has a 347Mhz Processor, 64mb RAM, wireless with 3 or more browser applications.  Supports Excel, Word, and a number of other formats.  Event he screen resolution beats the first Amiga's!  I drop this phone on the floor five times a week and don't care.

It's hard to think I can make anything of an amiga that can't beat my cell phone if I put $10k into it.

Still in love with the idea of the Amiga though.  So you can go easy on the flames.

[Starke]

@Acc3d:

Pllllllleeeeaaaaaassssssssssssse Dont Insult all of us over here before knowing the current happenings of the Amiga and the Amiga community!

If you want to come back and be a part of the community again, I suggest you pick up a pen, a gigantic notepad, and start jotting down your researched notes from the Internet, Magazines and various other sources!

Oh yeah, and make sure when you finally find some Webpages of value, to bookmark them. Or just use the Opera browser instead of Internet explorer piece of SHet!(Can you tell my dislike towards Microsoft and Bill Gates?)

Anyway, heres something for you,

http://www.convergence.org/platforms/amiga/futuresoft.html

AND

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21319&forum=33&1

AND from the same site(just in case you cant navigate)

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/

AND(Below)(Please read the whole article, all pages)

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/amiga.ars/1

AND(already existing products)(they no longer produce for Amiga)(But there are others that do)

http://www.titan-computer.com/ami/index.html

AND(below)(this sites pretty cool & Informative generally)

http://www.amigaflame.com/index.htm

AND(this dealers cool, his names Russ, you can email him and ask any questions, about anything Amiga, future, past, existing, he will answer)
EMAIL: russ@mrhardware.com

http://www.mrhardwarecomputers.com/index.htm?85,95

AND

Well, you get the picture, I could go on and gice you even better sites, but these sites are still good by all means, so once again, be informed before making such a statement like yours.

Cheers!!

P.S.And hows that for not flaming, but giving??
 8-)  8-)

[Starke]

Oh yeah,

I forgot to add, go to total Amiga, and you get buy their magazines, or simply read some older PDF's from their site.

Thank you sticky for supporting Amiga and making the Magazine happen.

Please continue for many more years!!

Cheers!! 8-)  8-)

http://www.totalamiga.org/

[Starke]

@Seehund:

You know whats funny, I didnt even know about the link, until someone else had posted it on these forums, so, In reality, I am going by factual information with much more informative links and sites, and even Magazine like total Amiga.

So dont judge a book by its cover!

Cheers!!

P.S.I know wrongplanet isnt factual, so relax! 8-)  8-)

[iamaboringperson]

I am going by factual information with much more informative links and sites, and even Magazine like total Amiga.

Yup, troll.

But I spotted it first.



BTW...
@all
Don't feed it.

[Bug_racer]

The more I read the more I see that the real hampering of progress is not the hardware or software developers but Bill McEwen himself !!!!

Do you think its possible he is paid by microsoft to keep Amiga low profile   :roll:

[dammy]

The more I read the more I see that the real hampering of progress is not the hardware or software developers but Bill McEwen himself !!!!

The whole Amiga Inc, as we know it, was a dotcom scam.  Had he and the Sheep Lord gotten their act together earlier, they could have been far more successful with DEad with the vast amount of VC that was floating around then.  They started this too late in the bubble cycle and couldn't get the devs onboard as much as they tried to enfluence Amiga Community that AOS was dead, DEad was the future.  That's when they started to do a hack and patch job on AOS to gain additional revenue and had to real road plan as 3.9 was released.  Sales were dropping an they needed income so a poorly thought out OS4 replacement was given a go.  Now A1 disaster and OS4 which seems to be fragmented of ownership, Amiga Inc is trying any song and dance to stay alive.  So no, it's just not McBill that is hampering AOS, AI is rotten to the core.

And no, M$ has Linux to worry about, we would be luck for M$ to even know AOS/MOS/AROS existed.  McBill needs M$ for DEad.  M$ doesn't need McBill nor DEad.

Dammy

Dammy