Why keep suffering?

[amigakid]

I love my Miggy's and even though they are dated who needs to move on.  I have other computers like PC's, laptops 2 Imac's and 1 PowerMac so I am not missing anything 'New' to say.  I still prefer my Amiga to all of them with the exception of web browsing and a few other things.  Anyways the Amiga is still the most fun and in my opinion the best systems out there.

Cheers!!!

[Terse]

I suppose I should go and set fire to my collection of LPs. Afterall, having them on CD would be better, wouldn't it?

Nothing wrong with LPs.  But if Amiga were an LP, there would be a core of masochists waiting for LP 4.0 to come out and finally wipe the floor with the hated CD and MP3.   :pissed: Damn MP3 thinks it owns the world.  :pissed:

[swift240]

So thats it then is it?
It has been decided by one person that we are suffering.
I am not sufering with my Amiga not in any way. But all the same it has been decided that I/we

I laugh at that type of person who decides for all of us that we are suffering.

Can you please keep me informed of what I am going through please, only I would like to know, just in case I am not sure about myself and only YOU can tell me that.
Please feel free to continue to let me know if I am suffering or not, theres a good fellow.

Mike.

[Donar]

I still like booting my "Amiga 1260 / CD" to see how good it works, watch a demo or two and then shut it down by just hitting the power switch... not worrying about all these processes that had to be ended on Windows.

I'm not suffering. AMIGA is just fun.

[RW222]

Mine still does what it did when I thought it was worth spending 600 quid on (A1200+80MB HDD) and a bit more...

It's not like we had microsoft go bust on us and there's no one at the end of the phone to reactivate the OS anymore.  :crazy:

but.......


Damn I wish that Commodore UK management buyout had found a backer with deep pockets and worked out...

[Damion]

Donar wrote:
I still like booting my "Amiga 1260 / CD" see how good it works watch a Demo or two and then shut it down by just hitting the power switch... not worrying about all these processes that had to be ended on Windows.

I'm not suffering. AMIGA is just fun.

Exactly. No suffering here either, just a fun hobby, something to tinker with in the winter when my motorcycle hibernates.

Plus, the kids love those old games like Superfrog, Risky Woods, and Zombie Apocalypse II. :-P

[taunusand]

I like my amiga :-)
I recently bought an A4000 :-)
I've never had such a wonderfull machine, but i still miss some upgrades.. More wants more ;-)

Yes, I also use my pc and I use pc every day at work.
Pc ain't fun, but is a "need to have" in theese days :-(
I tryed ubunto on pc, great NON MS system, but it's not the same as my amiga.

But I like useing Amiga.
Why? I don't know.. Maybe..
Because I can :-)

[Roger]

No… I’m not suffering at all. Actually the opposite! And correct time is not standing still. Development goes on and the world keeps on turning with or without a Amiga computer. So yes I moved on but still enjoy my Amiga after a great break of… (this is a hard one) twelve years…  

I like, enjoy keeping alive the machines that could have made a great difference in the world where we live in today… if just more people/companies had purchased a Amiga back then.

What it brings to me?... nothing in fact. Only a hobby where I like to put time in because of its history, because back in 1985 there was a Amiga 1000, made by people that believed in it, with a two button mouse a Motorola 68000 processor  at  7 MHz, 512K, 4096 colors on the screen at once! Three custom made chips. A operating system also years ahead of its time. Sound capabilities that are also superior for its time. It also could emulate a 286. The makers of a PC and Apple would have to work much harder if Commodore  had a different marketing approach back then trying to sell a C64 on power rocket fuel!… so when it would have made a different approach it would sell more?... earn more money…  but would it survive?…  would it?...  really? We will never know…

Well to keep it short: We keep the Amiga alive and it gives me great satisfaction to do so!

[twizzle]

no suffering here either, i have enjoyed my amiga`s for   the past 20years.
and since my hifi cd unit packed up, my amiga is my music cd player  :-D
the only suffering i have is when i have to spend out on my pc :-(
BUT when it comes to my amiga thats another story ( speaks to amiga) and what would you like me to buy you this exmas :-D

[Tomas]

I lost interest in any new Amiga (does not count Pegasos + MOS) many years ago. I use it because its fun even though most of my stuff is in storage (except for my trusty A500 and A2k).

What is the difference exactly? Pegasos has been discontinued already and MOS does not run on any other current gen hardware, so you are in the same exact situation as OS4 users.

[Tomas]

I suppose I should go and set fire to my collection of LPs. Afterall, having them on CD would be better, wouldn't it?

Actually the opposite is more often the case with modern music ;(
Most of todays audio cds are horrible compressed, which usually is not the case with the LP releases. Nice example is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ&mode=related&search=
Though you cannot really hear the true quality difference in this clip, since youtube audio is of very low bitrate.

[billt]

I haven't used any of my Amigas for about 22 months now. At home I mostly use my iBook and at work I use Solaris and Linux. Before my AmigaOneXE got taken apart to debug another board's problems, I'd only used it for vi text editing and compiling. Never really did much other than that with the AmigaOne. I need to finish towering my A3000 before it's useful again, and need to reinstall OS4 to get teh AmigaOne running again, though it's basically reassembled now.

[Crom00]

I'm Mac and PC user and avid gamer,

There is a small market of hardocre users out there. Retro-Consoles and computers are now "cool" just walk into any mass retailer in the USA and you'll see TV retro computer/console games as a staple electronic item.

The Amiga brand is part of that culture and although it's not available in a mass market outlet, and does not enjoy the same brand identity it still has a hardocre cult following akin to the same spirit of console modders, and Mame Arcade enthusiasts.

Despite it's tortured past and present, it has finally achieved a kind of recognition that comes with time. You have entire magazines and sites devoted to retro gaming and computing (Amiga Included).

Upcoming products like the Clone-A and Mini-Mig can only help with that situaion and make it easier for old and new users to explore the platform on modern hardware without the trappings of aging hardware and PC emulation.

[HopperJF]

I too moved on, shortly after I bought an AmigaOne and was completely disappointed with it, followed by all the ridiculous propaganda and the whole red vs. blues war.

I freed myself of it and gave it to a friend who later repaired it and used it for PPC Linux. I bought an eMac, this was late 2003. Time ticked on and the Mac gave me absolutely ZERO problems but I found that to be taken seriosuly in this world you need Windows and to get by easily it is just plain easier. I surrendered a few months ago, my Mac has gone on sale, and I have built my own PC which I am actually quite proud of. Even though it is only an Athlon XP clocked at 1.8GHz with a poor 448Mb RAM running XP SP2, I am proud at what I have built because

A) It cost me around £5 to build (99% of the stuff was given to me/recycled, the only new thing was a PS/2 keyboard!)

B) It hasn't really let me down yet, I keep it up to date with all official MS patches and updates, and of course keep the anti-virus and anti-spyware fully updated

However.. like most people I presume on this site these days, I haven't left the Amiga completely.. I just use it as a gaming machine which is what brought me to it in the first place. I was last year re-united with the very same Amiga 600 I bought years ago from a friend. I have boxes of disks and have plenty of fun playing with it.
External disk drive too so hardly any disk swapping  :-D

I think its brilliant to just fire it up, put a disk in and go.

I hope someday a computer company will bring out a computer which can be loaded completely from removable media. All work saved on removable media, all programs on removable media. I think its a very under-appreciated way of doing things, there are many advantages.

Edit: OK while I'm here, if you are interested in the Mac send me a PM! It has a 1GHz G4 processor, 512Mb RAM and the very latest Mac OS installed.

Cheers!  :pint:

[Chubbyrain]

I'm not suffering.

I enjoy messing with my Amigas. Takes me back to the day when I got my brand new A500. The power I felt when I slapped in that 512k expansion...

I digress. I just enjoy Amigas for what they were. I'm not interested in the OS4/AmigaOne suff. Why bother trying to throw $$$ at something that will just be subpar to my Mac for everything you might want to do with it?

The only suffering I may do is when I get sniped on Ebay by people with more money than sense who seem determined to prevent me getting Amiga stuff I want.

[Cymric]

Most of todays audio cds are horrible compressed, which usually is not the case with the LP releases. Nice example is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ&mode=related&search=
Though you cannot really hear the true quality difference in this clip, since youtube audio is of very low bitrate.

The way I understand it is that this is because compressed tunes sell rather better than uncompressed ones. It is not a problem of the medium; it is a problem of targetted marketing. Since LPs are manufactured in such small numbers nowadays, you can afford a gray beard who still knows how to make a recording which sounds good, and not just a recording the suits think sounds good. But this is all a bit off topic.