Amiga's place in the modern computing world - 00s

[amigakidd]

In my day to day work, we use 90% Macs (in the graphics field) and 10% PCs for administrative things. In the weekend, I use the PC, Wii, and Mac for web surfing games and other fun things.

The Amiga (Well I have an emulator) on the other hand, I use it for playing Amiga Games and testing out Amiga software packages. As a result, playing on an Amiga (whether emulation or real hardware) is more fun and gives that Hobbyist feeling compared to a PC or Mac.

I mean by hobbyist is that there is more tinkering and a close knit community than the spread out markets of PC/Mac. It seems that Linux is a too geeky hobby. But the Amiga and c64 scene, seems very cool compared to linux.

Is Amiga becoming the computer platform for the hobbyist?
It is still very much alive today.

Picture this: If Amiga were in the Mac/PC Commercial

PC = PC Guy in Suit
Mac = Mac Guy Cool.
Amiga = Tattoed Skat3r Guy

[Tenacious]

What an awful picture.  How about this:

Amiga = a pretty, intelligent girl tastefully dressed.

[bloodline]

Tenacious wrote:
What an awful picture.  How about this:

Amiga = a pretty, intelligent girl tastefully dressed.

Amiga = smelly homeless guy looking in bins for things the rest of the industy discarded years ago...

[persia]

Amiga = Hippie holding a lava lamp in one hand and a bong in the other

[Tenacious]

@ bloodline

Why are you here?  What's the attraction?  Why is it worth your time?

I've wondered for months (but I'm not loosing sleep over it, Grin).

[swoslover]

lol the mac guy definitely wouldn't be cool.  He'd be the kind of guy who puts pretentious literature & world music on his coffee table to impress friends.

As for the Amiga an aging lady who you can tell used to be pretty would be appropriate.

[bloodline]

Tenacious wrote:
@ bloodline

Why are you here?

I like the community.
I still use my Amigas and Amiga emulation.
I am rather knowledgeable on various technical amiga topics, and I like help if I can.

  What's the attraction?  Why is it worth your time?

I've wondered for months (but I'm not loosing sleep over it, Grin).

I like the AROS project, it's the best way to learn how AmigaOS works, and to get a better understanding of OS design in general.
There are many people here who are knowledgeable on a wide variety of technology subjects.
If I help one person, it has been worth my time.

I don't live in a fantasy world though... :-D

[persia]

Groucho Marx, the Amiga is definitely Groucho Marx.

[DBAlex]

@Tenacious

To insert a little reality check once in a while?

 :-?

[Phantom]

Amiga = way of life!

[persia]

We're all Amiga fans, our reality checks bounced long ago!

[/quote]

DBAlex wrote:
@Tenacious

To insert a little reality check once in a while?

 :-?

[persia]

Groucho Marx, the Amiga is definitely Groucho Marx.

[Ilwrath]

Amiga = the crazy guy out on the street corner holding up a sign stating the end of the world is in... "Just two more weeks!"
 :crazy:

[alexh]

bloodline wrote:
Amiga = smelly homeless guy looking in bins for things the rest of the industy discarded years ago...

Hey!! Skip Diving is an art. The number of gem's I've turned up through diving is amazing.

Prototype to the PSOne.
PSOne Psygnosis PsyQ Devkit.
SuperNintendo Hardware reference manuals (including SFX)
Sega Saturn Devkit.
Abandoned 3DFX based Dreamcast
StarFox II cartridge (and source code ;-))
Atari Jaguar Devkit (Alpine board + CD debug toilet)
Beta CD-Rs of Creature Shock for the Atari Jaguar
Amiga A3000
Atari StarWars upright arcade machine
Atari Badlands arcade machine
Numerous laptops who's only fault is a broken screen.
Any Sun workstation you care to mention
Silicon Graphics Indy 2

[Boot_WB]

bloodline wrote:
Amiga = smelly homeless guy looking in bins for things the rest of the industy discarded years ago...

 :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao: