Vlabguy1 wrote:
A very sad day indeed!!..I have the Amiga issue..with him on the cover.
One of my favorites. Huh..what a great spokesperson for the Amiga..
Who does the PC have? Who does the Mac have??
The very strenght of Amiga in all these years is that spokerpersons
EVEN from competitors computers just speak very well about it and also admire it.
Here what said
Jean Louis Gassée manager of Research and Development at Apple:
"When the Amiga came out, everyone [at Apple] was scared as hell." (Amazing Computing, Nov. 1996)And Gassée was so influenced by Amiga, that he implemented Amiga features into BeOS, of which he become CEO, after leaving Apple, and into Palm Computing.
Not only. He was also fascinated with the concept of Aminet, a centralized repository in which any Amigan could find all the things, all the applications and the drivers he needed. And truly Gassée believe that Aminet was one of the strongest point of force of Amiga Community, which let Amiga survive in the internet age.
When at Be Inc. he truly desired to re-create with BeOS, a Community faithful to his OS, same as the loyalty for Amiga of our Amiga Community.
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Another person who was so fascinated by miga, was Sheldon Leemon, who in the first time was a journalist in Atari magazines, and then switched to Amiga.
He was so amazed of Amiga, that he wrote two great articles regarding Amiga on Atari based magazines.
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n9/34_What_makes_it_so_great.phphttp://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n11/92_More_on_Amiga_software_.phpAnd what to say about people who really loved Amiga and enojed it directly? This is what said
John C. Dvorak:
The AmigaOS remains one of the great operating systems of the past 20 years, incorporating a small kernel and tremendous multitasking capabilities the likes of which have only recently been developed in OS/2 and Windows NT. The biggest difference is that the AmigaOS could operate fully and multitask in as little as 250K of address space. Even today, the OS is only about 1MB in size. And to this day, there is very little a memory-hogging CD-ROM-loading OS can do the Amiga can't. Tight code - there's nothing like it. I've had an Amiga for maybe a decade. It's the single most reliable piece of equipment I've ever owned. You can easily understand why so many fanatics are out there wondering why they are alone in their love of the thing. The Amiga continues to inspire a vibrant - albeit cultlike - not unlike which you have with Linux, the Unix clone. Inside Track in PC Magazine, October 22, 1996
John C. Dvorak became an Amigan for many years since when he saw Amiga in 1985.
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And again what about said of Amiga actor Dick Van Dyke (famous for Mary Poppins movie by Disney)
who is a self-described "rabid" user of the Amiga.
Mr. Van Dyke said he bought his first Amiga in 1991 and quickly became hooked. "I just plugged it in and turned it on and started doing animations," said Mr. Van Dyke, who uses his Amiga for 3-D animation and special effects.
Mr. Van Dyke said he had Amiga bumper stickers on his car and regularly drove to Los Angeles from his home in Malibu to attend meetings of the small but active local users group. "We're rabid," he said.
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And finally:
Sir Arthur C. Clarke the famous sci-fi writer daddy of "2001 a Space Odissey" said:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Amiga."...
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What? You said that the last phrase is not cited well? :roll:
Yes you are true. :-D
The correct statement from Clarke was this one:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from [color=ff0000]magic[/color]."[/i][/b]
Upper motto of Arthur C. Clarke regarding Amiga was only a joke of mine. :-P :lol: :lol: :lol:
Arthur C. Clarke truly used Amigas but he is not accredited to had said nothing about it... But just remember the fact that "AMIGA" it is the anagram of "MAGIA"...
...And "MAGIA" in latin language was just the origin of "MAGIC" in english language. :roll: ;-)
Never forget that "Amiga it is pure magic!" :-)
