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

[Boot_WB]

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

 :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:

[hooligan]

bloodline wrote:

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

Could not be put better into words than that  :lol:

[Speelgoedmannetje]

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

Agreed!

I miss my lava lamp :-/

[HenryCase]

alexh wrote:

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

Live or work near a games developer by any chance? :-)
IIRC, Frontier Developments is based near Oxford. You haven't been going through David Braben's bins have you alexh? :lol:

[amigakid]

Its a fun hobby and I used to do work that Amiga computers where a part of my job.  Anyways why are you using my handle on here there can only be one AmigaKid  :-D   Well good choice anyways.  I currently enjoy restoring Amigas and finding new things for them.

[alexh]

HenryCase wrote:
work near a games developer by any chance? :-)

I couldn't work much closer ;-) (At the time)

I found most of that stuff in skips outside our office in Colindale North London between 1997 and 1998.

Some was found in a skip outside an office in Wavertree, Liverpool in 1999.

Lets see if you can put 2 & 2 together?

[AJCopland]

@AlexH
RAGE or Psygnosis?

Ah the delicate art of skip diving (dumpster diving for the US folks :-D) haven't found anywhere in a good few years that it'd be worth doing that kind of things now but it netted me a fair few pieces of PC kit and a Sun 3/60 a few years ago!

[SamuraiCrow]

@AmigaKidd

Amiga is the precursor of the Natami.

[amigaksi]

>by Tenacious on 2008/6/8 10:32:31
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>@ bloodline
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>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).

He's only speaking from his own limited experience and understanding.  I have had the opposite happen to me-- new-in-box amiga products trashed by my family.  It would be good if someone did pick it up.  You should take gold even from a filthy place.  Then again, he never claimed it was a bad thing otherwise it would be hypocritical of him to be supporting amigans if he was against people picking up "good" things from trash.  I mean if you are against drinking, you don't go to a bar and help people take drinks.  

Main thing is people are looking for happiness rather than have the latest technological machine.  I just looked at Frogger for Atari 2600 and it's an addicting game and although the graphics are poor compared to Atari 800, it's playability is different from Atari 800 and I can see people sticking to the Atari 2600 version.  We already see the trend of people going retro after being satiated with the latest computer.  And the efficiency cannot be denied, it's amazing how they fit all the functionality into about 4KB.  I'm sure people with experience programming amigas/ataris can learn all the bloated APIs of the modern era quite easily.  They were using Atari 800s in my college in the 1980s (not Atari STs).

[lopanas]

Picture this: If Amiga were in the Mac/PC Commercial
PC = PC Guy in Suit
Mac = Mac Guy Cool.
Amiga = Tattoed Skat3r Guy

No, even if Apple would admit that other platforms than Mac and PC exist/ ever existed, the Amiga guy would most probably be a corpse lying down with a wheel mark over his belly.  :-D
Oh, and PC and Mac guy would be in a car, one of them asking, "did we hit him, did we hit him?". That's about it...

[Plaz]

@alexh

Atari StarWars upright arcade machine

Awesome, is it working?

I've done my share of skip diving, but now I'm retired. They only things that brings me out of retirement are arcades and Amiga. :-)

Plaz

[bloodline]

amigaksi wrote:
>by Tenacious on 2008/6/8 10:32:31
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>@ 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).

He's only speaking from his own limited experience and understanding.

Oh get over yourself!

I was describing the state of the Amiga, rather accurately as it happens... Sure nothing wrong with "dumpster diving", but unfortunately that is state of the art with respect to the Amiga...

[HenryCase]

alexh wrote
Lets see if you can put 2 & 2 together?

=4. What do I win.

AJCopland wrote:
@AlexH
RAGE or Psygnosis?

Rage? Don't be silly. I think you'll find Alexander Holland worked for Psygnosis. ;-)

bloodline wrote:
I was describing the state of the Amiga, rather accurately as it happens... Sure nothing wrong with "dumpster diving", but unfortunately that is state of the art with respect to the Amiga...

I agree bloodline. I mean what's the most powerful graphics card you can use with an Amiga? IIRC its the ATI Radeon 9800, which was released, for the PC, back in 2002. That said, I am looking forward to the opportunities the Natami brings.

[persia]

The whole premise is silly, I love my Amiga but no way is it ever going to replace my dual quad core xeon Mac Pro.  Amiga isn't and never will be an alternative to PCs and Macs, it's something you have in addition to your PC or Mac, something you can tiinker with, something that doesn't do all the sophisticated tasks for you.  It's hopelessly stuck in time, forever in it's adolescence and that's it's charm.  It doesn't need to become modern, it's charm in in it's retro qualities.  

[Nlandas]

Actually I think that Amiga guy would be down on the ground and the Mac and PC guy would be kicking him for his lunch money. Then once they got the money, he'd rise up behind them and KO their heinies.  8-)

[Atheist]

persia wrote:

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

:laughing: :laughing:

How long you been holding on to that gem to use at a most appropriate moment??

Speaking of, don't see PC guy running around salvaging those truly awesome 80286/386/486s ms-dos/win95/98/SE systems. They're quite useless.

How different is our 23 year old system to the current stuff anyhow?

We've got 95% feature sets, just not current SW. We were "there" soooooo long ago!