POLL: Which word, in your opinion, best describes AMIGA today?

[Tension]

SH1T

[Opus]

eets ALIVE!!!!

very much alive, join efnet IRC #amiga, 40 users or more, I think Eric Schwartz says it best here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q .

those saying dead are either lying to us or to themselves.

[guest3110]

So far...

ALIVE: 3

DEAD: 5


and, apparently 74 people under Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)  :lol:

[persia]

Both.  Living Dead munching on brains.

[persia]

The song is about the game portal which doesn't run on an Amiga.

Opus wrote:
eets ALIVE!!!!

very much alive, join efnet IRC #amiga, 40 users or more, I think Eric Schwartz says it best here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q .

those saying dead are either lying to us or to themselves.

[amigadave]

Active community = A.org, AW.net, Amigans.net, EAB.org, MorphZone.org, etc., etc., etc.,

New hardware available = SAM440ep & flex, Efika, Deneb, Minimig v1.1, IndivisionAGA 1200&4000/CD32, etc.

New applications and games = too lazy to look them up and create a list.

New Amiga related projects = NatAmi, GBA1000, porting AmigaOS4.x to Pegasos2 and MorphOS3.0 to MacMini, plus many more.

I can't remember any year out of the last ten years that we have had more activity in the Amiga community than 2008 and first 5 months of 2009.

With all of the above happening, how can anyone vote DEAD?

My vote = ALIVE!!!

[guest3110]

Okay, let's see...

from amigadave:

Active community = A.org, AW.net, Amigans.net, EAB.org, MorphZone.org, etc., etc., etc.,

Even Hitler had|has fans. :lol:

New hardware available = SAM440ep & flex, Efika, Deneb, Minimig v1.1, IndivisionAGA 1200&4000/CD32, etc.

Well, some of this no doubt thrills those with Amiga Classic machines; but, to others, it's the "wrong hardware" for a viable platform.

New applications and games = too lazy to look them up and create a list.

Ditto what I said above about the hardware. These titles would not be playable on anything others have or would wish to have.

New Amiga related projects = NatAmi, GBA1000, porting AmigaOS4.x to Pegasos2 and MorphOS3.0 to MacMini, plus many more.

Risking the invariable mention of AROS-on-x86|64 :lol:, there doesn't seem to be a porting project of Amiga OS to x86-64, which has always been the bigger pool or market.

I can't remember any year out of the last ten years that we have had more activity in the Amiga community than 2008 and first 5 months of 2009.

They say that the stem cell research will lead to cures for this. :-D Just kidding.

In screenwriting, there is a difference between 'activity' and 'action'. I want to see some action in the Amiga world.

With all of the above happening, how can anyone vote DEAD?

My vote = ALIVE!!!

Your vote is now registered.  :-)

Just as a sidenote here, I think Carl Sassenrath is under Non-Disclosure with Amiga Inc. I've asked him a couple of times now if he's working on OS 5 with them, and no response about it--not even a "Much as you'd like it to be true, no."  :-P And to think, he periodically talks with Bill McEwen.

[SamuraiCrow]

ALIVE.

[guest3110]

Okay. Now tied.

ALIVE: 5

DEAD: 5

[Belial6]

Alive!

We have more hardware available than there has been for years.  The platform evolving at a faster pace than it ever has in the past.  The hardware side of the platform is now 100% in the hands of people that actually want to make and sell Amiga hardware.

If we could get AROS ported to the MiniMig I believe we would see even more interesting things happening.

[guest3110]

ALIVE: 6

DEAD: 5


I want to see Wayne's vote. Where you at, Wayne?  :-D

[amiga92570]

Dead@1992

[trekiej]

Alive

Mini-mig
Sam 440
Aros and E-UAE

[amiga92570]

ambidextrous

[Amiduffer]

When your equipment winds up here, then its dead.



Otherwise, its "alive", as long as you use it.  :python:

[guest3110]

ALIVE: 8

DEAD: 6



crawff: ALIVE
bloodline: DEAD
tone007: DEAD
orb85750: ALIVE
mingle: DEAD
VingTrois: DEAD
save2600: ALIVE
EyeAm: DEAD
Opus: ALIVE
persia: living dead does not count :-)
amigadave: ALIVE
SamuraiCrow: ALIVE
Belial6: ALIVE
amiga92570: DEAD (ambidextrous does not count :-) )
trekiej: ALIVE