Why you love your Amiga

[J-Golden]

By now those who are still on this board are lifers for one reason or another and was curious as to why we still hang on.

Me?  I love the lay out of the system both physically and OS wise (don't know about OS4).  Everything about the way an Amiga works just makes sense.  From the chip layout to the choice of a GUI or a SHELL.  Oh, and I could hack it left and right ...

That may sound odd, but hey that's me!

What about you all?  Why do you stick around?

J-Golden

[lorddef]

For the jive turkeys

[tokyoracer]

I grew up with them so I guess it was inevitable that I would have some sort of "love affair" with the Amiga.
I dare not talk to the missus about it though, she would see it as competition or as a threat.

[TiredOLife]

Mine certainly does (Along with football)

[Nlandas]

I love the operating systems low system resource usage while providing a nice environment to work in. I've always found AmigaOS and shell more intuitive than any other OS.

I still love the games for nostalgia and I also like the style of games as opposed to all the first person shooters out now.

I'd love to run AmigaOS on new hardware without an emulator. I'd like it as my boot OS.

-Nyle

[VooDoo]

hmm..Why?? Have the best OS on planet  :-D and is Amiga that is enough  :crazy:  :crazy:

[Trev]

I love the cantankerous parent company and the community in-fighting. And Bamiga Sector One's intro music.

[swift240]

Well Ok, my first ever Amiga was the A600.
I loved it from the word go, I used Amiga Basic and done my first basic program on that.
Then onto Amos.

I was amazed at the amount of commands.
From then on it did not matter what other computer (PC) I would get it was the Amiga for me.

Long live the Amiga.
Its one of the machine that just wont die.


Mike.

[BR]

J-Golden wrote:
By now those who are still on this board are lifers for one reason or another and was curious as to why we still hang on.
J-Golden

It doesn't have a registry and it works even when I
don't want it to.
BR

[rednova]

Dear Friends:

I got my first amiga many years ago, to learn to make 3d graphics and animation (aladdin 4d). I love it so much I still use it!!!
I guess I will become a great animator anytime soon...considering I spent so many years using it
Cheers!!!

rednova
-mobilis in mobile-

[AMC258]

When Windoze 95 was released, I refused to go that route.  Because I really understood how stupid Windoze was.  Right around that time, I accidentally aquired an A500.  I slowly discovered it could replace my multitasking-MSDOS Peecy.  I have used Amigas and not much else since.

Yes, it's true, my Peecy ran MSDOS and multitasked.  But, I really saw the potential of the Amiga hardware and software combined.

[smerf]

Hi,

When I first bought my Amiga I hated it, why do I have to
type in DH0: instead of c:, What the heck why do I have to
write a book in order to copy a file, or to copy a disk?
Then I found Fred Fish, wow the utilities he had for this
machine, and all free.

There was Directory Master, DirOpus,

Wow I could make slideshow, and then I could play music
while showing them.

There was GVP IV 24, then there was the Newtek Video
Toaster, now the Amiga was really getting exciting. Then
there was that guy from India, then there was bankruptcy,
Wow the Amiga was gone.

Uh Oh, some one bought Amiga, then some one else bought it
then some one else bought it, Then there was Bill, did you
ever notice that all the Bills in the world are scammers,
cheats, crooks, and bully's. They promise you the world
then they rip your guts out. Did you ever notice all the
Bills in the world spend half there time in court trying to
defend there stupid actions of cheating and theivery.  
Instead of doing the hard work to make something better, all
the Bills in the world try to steal it from somebody else.

What really made the Amiga amazing besides its new hardware
at the time was the AMAZING PEOPLE who contributed to its
existance, the programmers who wrote the utilities, demos,
music, icons, pictures etc. etc. etc.

The games like Soloton, Crazy 8ths, Megaball, Galaga etc.

What truly made this computer Amazing was the Amazing
Community, and not the Bills of the world.

Smerf

[dovegrace]

I've loved my Amigas since day one.

For me, it was all about ease of use, the quantity and quality of good software, and the computer's amazing capabilities.

What's kept me going all these years is the Amiga community (users, fans, and developers), and a handful of vendors who still support the coolest machine on Earth.

[gdanko]

Takes me back to a time when computing was truly fun and not just this world of Windows.

[amigadave]

tokyoracer wrote:
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I dare not talk to the missus about it though, she would see it as competition or as a threat.

My wife just looks at the ton of Amiga equipment and says "wow, you sure have a lot of cool stuff".  Last night I got her to sit down and start playing a few games while she watched a VHS movie on the adjacent 1084 sitting atop the VCR that is used to display DCTV images, animations and paint program, so I don't have to switch the A500's other 1084's display from RGB to Composite and back while running DCTV.

She watched while I went through drawers to find different games for her and again said "wow, I didn't know your old computers were so fast"  I then explained that the 030/40mHz Amiga was running about 100 times slower than her laptop, but Windows was the problem.  She was impressed and wants to learn more about my Amigas.  Am I the luckiest husband on the planet or what? :-D