Well, I sold all my Amigas a while ago. In the end, I actually wanted to break away from the old girls.
I still love the community here though, for all the same reasons as when I first encountered the Amiga cult back in the 80's.
I still love all the principles of the early Amiga designs, too, and consider the approach truly admirable and appropriate for the computing of that period.
I used to aim for similar design methodology in my limited resource, low cost embedded systems work.
Of course, my personal and professional computing moved on a long time ago, but now with really good value for money, low cost Arms, RAM, flash, and such, I prefer to apply quite different design methodologies, more in line with workstation computing systems, though still streamlined, of course. My professional development is more concerned with concepts from oop, abstraction, virtualisation, modularity, etc. I feel that I don't really think like an Amigan any more.
Not sure if this makes much sense. Somehow, when working on older limited resource environments, my work would often remind me of things I had learned about when studying how the Amiga's worked. I felt more inclined to use my Amigas, quite happy to make efficient and productive use of the limited resources. As technology moved on, the extents of the efficient and productive use just fell to far behind current developments, at least as much in terms of cost and convenience as in capabilities.
Oh, damn it, I'm rambling. I just came home after a 20 hour stint at work. Should have known better than to start typing. Nostalgia will do that to me when I'm tired.
@Bloodline Are you thinking of a new MX-5? Are you interested in performance driving? I think the MX-5s are a great platform to develop an understanding of advanced driving principles. I am also considering an MX-5, but will probably go for a 1989 AW11 Mk1 MR2, for which there are some really cheap recently depracted race engines. It will probably work out similar price as an old MX-5, and I love the opportunity to tinker.
