That Was the Year That Was (Reflecting on 2007!)

[Fixer]

Just thought I would start the thread mid to late December, so that everyone can get their thoughts on 2007 before we are all busy (families, Christmas, New Year, cleaning up puke etc.)

Anyway, I'll start now..

If I wasn't one myself I'd say you'd have to be a nut to be an Amiga fan at this stage:

- Insane eBay prices
- The continuation of the platform is only semi-attainable
- The hardware is getting REALLY old!
- Amiga Inc.

But as much as all these are heafty obstacles to the Amiga community, 2007 has shown us there is still a little hope left, and that one person in this Community CAN make a difference.

Here's to Dennis van Weeren and the Minimig project. Cheers. :pint:

On top of that, I must say AROS is coming along nicely - with the current 64bit support, EUAE Integration being assigned, Open Source Browser project being assigned and the EFIKA Port being reassigned to Tigger. Thanks to Dammy for all that info and also keeping AOrg up-to-date with all the AROS happenings for so long.

Again, showing that Community spirit can persevere. Here's a drink to everyone involved with AROS. :cheers:

Of course, I think everyone will agree it's worth a mention that Amiga OS4 has been released for Classic Amigas with PPC cards. It may well be the beginning of the end for Hyperion with the current court case, so we may as well thank them for producing it, even if it did take years longer than it should have. Better late than never I guess. And this could be our last chance ever to own it.

Another thing I think is worth mentioning: the Amiga retailer AmigaKit.com - this is for giving consistently good service with quick delivery times and excellent Amiga products - a feat which can only be described as amazing in the year 2007. Thank you Matthew Leaman and your great online store. :pint:

Finally, here's a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone at AOrg. :pint:

Cheers.

Everyone can add their thoughts on 2007 in this thread. I've obviously not mentioned everything, just some of the things that caught my eye. For instance, Piru might have some news on MorphOS that I missed?

[Methuselas]

Thanks to 3DRealms for *FINALLY* releasing another Duke Nukem teaser.  :-D

[motorollin]

Does it have to be Amiga-related? :-)

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moto

[Fixer]

motorollin wrote:
Does it have to be Amiga-related? :-)

Errr.. nah not really. Got any good stories?

[uncharted]

X-Amiga beta

[motorollin]

Fixer wrote:
Errr.. nah not really. Got any good stories?

Well for me 2007 was the year I gave up work in IT and went back to Uni :-) Not much Amiga-related news unfortunately :-(

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moto

[cecilia]

well, 2007 wasn't bad.

I Finally got my IFX tutorial CD off the ground and selling.

AROS and WinUAE continue to do great - WOOT!!

I'm feeling better and more energetic.....I can't complain!

[Gwion]

You know with Hyperion in court is it me or is this another company that might be added to Amiga's curse list ??

[taunusand]

2007 was the year I completed my collection  :-D
(sort of..)

Other than my desktop amiga's (A500, 600, 1200..) I only had a broken A2000.

I have spend a lot of money on amiga this year, bought a WORKING A2000, rev 6.x = 1 MB Chip RAM on board. A4000T with mediator, voodoo3, net-card, tvcard, cd-rw..., really a great machine, because of this my interest for amiga REALLY came back! 2 days ago, found a working A3000D, nice machine, but needs some hard to find upgrades.

Tried OS3.9 for the first time, this really shows how modern an old computer can be.

Another good thing about 2007: I newer knew about amiga.org, but found this great site, great thing to read/chat with other amigans  :-D

[pan1k]

Yep. It's been a good year. I sold off my A1200T, flirted with Atart STE, and decided that I liked the Amiga better. Bought a 2000, got a free 2000, got a free 4000, and bought two 4000's.

Now I have an awesome 4k that I use daily, is super stable and is built to my spec. Thanks Amiga.org, Amigakit.com and Individual Computers. I'll be working on my other A4k next year, primarily my video toaster machine... if I have enough money that is...

[Dr.Bongo]

Not done much 'Amiga' this year but have started remixing 64 SID`s and releasing them to the community. I`m really enjoying the 64remix scene at the mo...

[da9000]

I'll drink to the original poster's list :-)

[Andeda]

For me the year 2007 has been full of amiga projects.
Building my own Minimig, replacing my A2000 PSU with an ATX PSU and some more smaller amiga projects.
A great Amiga year  :-D

[coldfish]

A transitional year for me...
2008 looks like fun though.

Nothing Amiga related this year except for my GP2X running UAE4all, I still think a handheld A500 is pretty cool and AROS has a spare PC here waiting for it to have a working browser.

[rdolores]

2007 was pretty a good Amiga year for me as well. I picked up a super high-end A500 for free. It had a GVP 530 accelerator (40 MHz 030, 8 MB 32-bit RAM, 170 MB HD), 2 MB Chip RAM (Fatter Agnus), ICD Flicker Fixer, ROM Switcher (1.3 and 2.04) and a ton of software, spare parts and accessories. It also came with a 1950 MultiScan monitor.

I also upgraded the RAM and Hard Drive on my Amithlon machine, 384 MB to 768 MB RAM, 15 GB to 40 GB IDE hard drive, besides the 9.1 GB SCSI hard drive it already had. I also managed to install AmigaSys' new Amithlon package on it.