The Reason most of you (sigh) are still using the Amiga and more...

[seer]

From here;
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I hardly think that you can call Amiga dead, when there is still a lot of people around making new software and hardware.
Just look at the AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOne and all the websites dedicated to Amiga computers. A computer platform
ain't dead until nothing/nobody is left and you can hardly say that about Amiga. Why do you think people still use Amiga, because it's a great computer, I really don't think anyone whould still use it, if it were a #### computer...
Also one of the reasons why we use Amiga, is that we love the computer and the OS and because we don't want to be like a pack of sheeps, going where everybody else is going.
The people that left a long time ago, were probably just around for the games or the money that could be made.
The people that are still around, are the true Amigans, that are willing to spend their last buck, just to support the platform, since they don't like Windows that bloody much!
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Well, that's one of the reason most of you are still here.. (And if I had the cash to spare, I would have a real Amy instead of WinUAE)

(And this is a bit of a interesting quote;

The Amiga is over. What is currently calling it self and Amiga is nothing but a releatively standard PowerPC Reference Platform and some software written by some old fans of the Amiga and being marketed by five former Amiga Dealers/Commodore Sales-Marketing guys. There is nothing there that would justify the name--excepting that they are the holders of the trademarks.)

 :-o

I like this quote best

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Posted: Tuesday, 02/04/2003 -- by John Schilling. Subject: Sorry, no--we will not be releasing the source code

O.K., Let's go with the basics:

The core of the Software Development team at Scala, past and present, WROTE the Amiga OS at Commodore.

Scala's V.P. of Corporate Sales DESIGNED the Amiga 500. [the A3000 Designer was also an Engineer at Scala--but he has left for other HW-releated design tasks]

Scala's CEO was once the V.P. of Engineering at Commodore.

I was a manufacturing engineer at Commodore--I have personally had phyical contact with every single A4000T Commodore ever built! [and worked as a Consultant to Escom for their A1200/A4000T production run...]
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Message to BBRV.  Get on the charm offensive with the guys at SCALA!! :-D

[meerschaum]

The Amiga is over. What is currently calling it self and Amiga is nothing but a releatively standard PowerPC Reference Platform and some software written by some old fans of the Amiga and being marketed by five former Amiga Dealers/Commodore Sales-Marketing guys. There is nothing there that would justify the name--excepting that they are the holders of the trademarks.

I thought this quote summed the situation up rather well.

meerschaum wrote:

The Amiga is over. What is currently calling it self and Amiga is nothing but a releatively standard PowerPC Reference Platform and some software written by some old fans of the Amiga and being marketed by five former Amiga Dealers/Commodore Sales-Marketing guys. There is nothing there that would justify the name--excepting that they are the holders of the trademarks.

I thought this quote summed the situation up rather well.

Especially when it's not just anyone saying it, but an ex-commodore engineer!

[seer]

I thought this quote summed the situation up rather well.

Well, it would be interesting to hear how they feel about Pegasos and MorphOS.. For most outsiders they might be just an "Amiga Inc" with a different name.. (Edit, afterall, The MorpOS was written by some "old" fans of the Amiga as well, and the Pegasos is just as well a releatively standard PowerPC Reference Platform)

[Dietmar]

Is it asking for too much to use reasonable titles for threads?

[seer]

Is it asking for too much to use reasonable titles for threads?

Care to explain what wrong with it ? But better start that in your thread and keep this one on topic. :-o  :-?  :-x  :-P

[iamaboringperson]

seer wrote:
Is it asking for too much to use reasonable titles for threads?

Care to explain what wrong with it ? But better start that in your thread and keep this one on topic. :-o  :-?  :-x  :-P

the comment is probably to do with the fact that "the reason that you..." means absolutly nothing and not all people want to look in the thread if it doesnt appear to interest them

[seer]

the comment is probably to do with the fact that "the reason that you..." means absolutly nothing and not all people want to look in the thread if it doesnt appear to interest them

This better... Sjees... What some folks can think of to bitch about.. :-P

[Dietmar]

This better... Sjees... What some folks can think of to bitch about..

Now, if you could please move this thread to the correct forum? [don't have a heart attack yet, just kidding ;]

[seer]

Now, if you could please move this thread to the correct forum? [don't have a heart attack yet, just kidding ;]

To be honest, I did think about to put this in the talk about, but as it is pretty open to "Software Issues and Discussion" in regards to Scala, Amiga OS MorphOS and about people who were in in the Amiga OS developement team I think this forum is just as correct.. If not, Red or Kees will correct me ;-)

[Tomas]

I actually read that on the scala forum... pisses me off how the scala guy replied..

And why ppl still use it for infochannels, is cause it actually still even today run smoother and crashes rarely compared to a PC using same piece of software... An amiga has no problem running scala for years without a reboot.....

[Dietmar]

>Also one of the reasons why we use Amiga, is that we love the computer and the OS and because we don't want to be like a pack of sheeps, going where everybody else is going.

For me, the main reason is that I can not hope to understand Windows (as developer). It's changing too quickly, is messy, it comes with an overwhelming collection of interfaces and APIs.

[meerschaum]

the Scala guys may piss you off...but they are completely right... they did after all... create Scale... engineer the amiga...and are to thank for all of this...I take their word for it when they say ICD is better then old MM400 etc... because they developed all of it... and their arguments where pretty solid... MM was good on amiga...but its better on the PC...and Win2K/etc are solid as a rock(relatively speaking)... I've seen tons of kiosks crash running scala and amigas...the amiga was not a system built for solidly running things that Scala wanted...

[Tomas]

the amiga was not a system built for solidly running things that Scala wanted...

um... that total bullshit. What amiga was good with, was actually running software like scala, software that needed smooth scrolling and so on. And from my experience, Scala is way more unstable on computers running windows. I have seen loads of windows peeces crash...