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

[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

[orb85750]

For those voting DEAD who ALSO are heavy users of Amiga.org, can you provide a justification?  Why devote so much time here?  

[guest3110]

Well, I'm not a heavy user of Amiga.org (just a Beginner, as you can see--forty something posts--not a Cult Member like some--so, I don't have any Kool Aid :lol:), but...

I'm just hoping for what a lot hope for: Amiga OS on x86-64 motherboards (like those from ABIT, MSI, ASUS, and so on). You know, since they decided to be a 'software-only' corporation, that should render them 'hardware-agnostic', so long as their boxed OS sells, right? :-D

Just think of Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7, and where those reside, and replace those OSes with "Amiga OS" (not in name, mind you, but I mean put Amiga OS in those arenas, on the same hardware). THEN, Amiga will be back. Til then, it's DEAD.  :-P

[quarkx]

until the average grandmother has heard of Amiga, its dead to 99% of the world.

[VingtTrois]

@EyeAm: Hey hey I change my vote as "ALIVE"...  :-D

[guest3110]

Oh, I see, VingTrois. Peer pressure. :lol:

I guess continuing is fruitless, anyway. It appears that Amiga is alive--guess I'll run down to Walmart or Sears, or go to New Egg and pick one up.  :lol:

(sidenote: Software Hut really should update their site. 2006, people. Really.)  :-P

I guess it's not done dying yet.  

[bloodline]

orb85750 wrote:
For those voting DEAD who ALSO are heavy users of Amiga.org, can you provide a justification?  Why devote so much time here?  

Just because the platform is dead, that doesn't stop me enjoying using it or lessen my knowledge and experience of it!

[bloodline]

quarkx wrote:
until the average grandmother has heard of Amiga, its dead to 99% of the world.

It is worse than that... I'm dating a 20 year old, even the most geeky of her friends (some of whom are as old as 24) have no knowledge of the Amiga. The Amiga has passed out of living memory of the computer generation. The Amiga is dead...

I showed some of these youngsters my A1200 running, I got blank faces... And the odd comment that it looks a bit like Window95 but "flatter"...

This is the reality of Amiga.

[mingle]

@bloodline,

You're spot on...

It's been and gone. It was certainly great while it lasted...

In the same was as my C64 will never be mainstream and is 'dead' as a viable system, so has passed the Amiga.

I still love playing the games and tinkering with DPaint, but that's as 'alive' as the Amiga will ever be for me...

The advantage we have over these youngsters, is that we were there to bask in the light of the heyday of the Amiga...

Cheers,

Mike.

[ChaosLord]

ALIVE

An Atari ST user donated $300.00 to Team Chaos to port Total Chaos AGA to Total Chaos AVM (WinUAE)

Amiga software is ALIVE.

All hail Jay Miner!

Long live Amiga!

[VingtTrois]

@EyeAm : no, no! :-D  
here are the main reasons of my change of opinion

1°) Newtec LightWave 3D Production: video (Same Password for RAR & DL: amiga), an unique and extremely rare video that my DISTRIBUTOR AMIGA (Picasso and VLAB) had gracefully sent me in 1991/1992.
2°) invested money & time in AMIGA
3°) all my memories of the best instants of creations
4°) multitasking & multimedia (audio&video)...since 1987

[0amigan0]

The Amiga is DEAD! Period!
Whoever says the opposite, he's just fooling himself.

Having said that, there's room for "enthusiasts" of the Commodore Amiga platform, in the same way that one enjoys the Atari ST or the (mighty) Commodore 64 !!

[Rebel-CD32]

ALIVE!!!

New Hardware
New Software
New Users

Amiga isn't dead, not as long as people still use them and strive to advance the platform, no matter how quiet or slowly that may be.

Who said you have to be commercially successful or mainstream to be considered alive? Amiga may not be in the strong position it once was, but it's far from dead.

[HenryCase]

EyeAm wrote:
Well, I'm not a heavy user of Amiga.org (just a Beginner, as you can see--forty something posts--not a Cult Member like some--so, I don't have any Kool Aid :lol:), but...

I'm just hoping for what a lot hope for: Amiga OS on x86-64 motherboards (like those from ABIT, MSI, ASUS, and so on). You know, since they decided to be a 'software-only' corporation, that should render them 'hardware-agnostic', so long as their boxed OS sells, right? :-D

Just think of Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7, and where those reside, and replace those OSes with "Amiga OS" (not in name, mind you, but I mean put Amiga OS in those arenas, on the same hardware). THEN, Amiga will be back. Til then, it's DEAD.  :-P

Wait, so your whole justification for your choice is based on x86 compatibility??? That's just retarded. The Amiga community wouldn't grow by that much if OS4 made it to x86, there would probably be more OS4 copies sold within our community, but not much more than that. It's the community that keeps the Amiga alive.

@bloodline
Your girlfriend's friends may not have heard of the Amiga, but that's not exactly conclusive. I'm 24, and I can think of younger people than me that I know who know about the Amiga. That's not conclusive either, but just thought I'd give another perspective on the issue of awareness.

[guest3110]

OS4 was never going to x86-64. OS5 was.

I don't care anything about OS4, because it is PPC-only. It doesn't even run on classic Amigas (not that I care about going backward).

[Flashlab]

@EyeAm

OS4 does run on classics provided you have a PPC card for it.

OS5 is vapourware like Duke Nukem Forever. At least 3DRealms has finally folded now. You can wait for Amiga Inc. to fold but that still won't get you OS5 on x86. Or any "officially" branded AmigaOS on x86 anytime soon.

If you want an Amiga like OS on your x86 box you're only choice is AROS at the moment.