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

[Viking]

EyeAm wrote:
Poll Question:

Which word, in your opinion, best describes AMIGA today--DEAD or ALIVE?

ALIVE.

But my own power-Amiga is dead. I do believe in a life after death though.

[gertsy]

EyeAm wrote:
Poll Question:

Which word, in your opinion, best describes AMIGA today--DEAD or ALIVE?....
*note: the question has nothing to do with the future. It is about the 'state of Amiga' as you see it.

For me the answer is simple. Obviously we can't be talking about a going financial concern, market share or anything near leading technology. In the same way that Beethoven's 5th Symphony, or Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture are classics alive an well in the hearts and minds of anyone who has ever heard them, the Amiga is alive and well in the hearts and minds of anyone who has ever used one. A 386 or 486 PC, Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 has never have that.. Windows XP or Vista will never have it, they will simply be forgotten. Mac draws close but is sterile in comparison.

Amiga lives,, okay...  And anyone who disagrees will get a good dose of Vogon poetry; "Just see if I don't"

ALIVE

 :-D

[HenryCase]

bloodline wrote:
No, the Amiga is a dead platform. There is no more development. It is technically static. Individual Computers make hardware that allws us to use the existing platform with modern technologies as the older ones disapear... This is just, for want of a better word, life-support... It is not driving the platform forward.

No more development? OS4, MOS2, AROS, Anubis, Natami, Minimig, OWB, Hollywood, Cinammon Writer, etc... Alright, some of this development could be classed as life-support, but others show progress, however slow, of modernising the Amiga experience. Just to be clear modernising != modern, just because a snail moves slowly doesn't mean it is out of the race! :-P

The C64 is an interesting example of a computer that for most people is thought of as useless for modern needs, yet it still has an active community of people working with it and doing some interesting stuff. Does it matter that others class it as a waste of time? No. I'll be happy when the Amiga community reaches the maturity that the C64 community shows externally at least.

[save2600]

I agree and was about to write something similar. The AROS project that modernises Workbench is a great example of legacy software and hardware moving forward. So are the USB stacks & Deneb. And UAE? These are all current as the day is long. And lets not forget the dozens of new libs and other legacy enhancements (ie: the Amigakit .pdf viewer freebie) to be discovered over at Aminet. Every time I turn around, something new has been released, manufactured, remanufactured, being developed or at the very least, being talked about conceptually (which often seems to come to fruition) - all in the Amiga world.

Forgive my ignorance, but do older Mac and PeeCee platforms (OS & hardware) have such repositories as Aminet?  Constant improvements, contributions and developments? I doubt it and for better or for worse, is a side effect to those platforms being mainstream. One could also argue they don't need them as with each and every new OS comes these things, but I'm trying to show just how 'alive' the Amiga still is. How much of a demand there still is. The pulse may not be as strong as a mainstream system, but to say it's completely dead is, well... .  

[amiga92570]

You guys crack me up, The Poll question was "Which Word, in your Opinion, Best describes Amiga today". Here you folks are fighting about if it is alive or dead. Everyone is intitled to their Opinion. I read the contract. I have another word 'In my opinion' about some of the users here.

Silly,    :lol:

[alexh]

UN-DEAD

Neither Alive, nor dead ;-)

[save2600]

alexh wrote:
UN-DEAD

LOL! Good one   :-D

...and @ amiga92570:

These kinds of threads are difficult sometimes, especially when they're in a system specific forum, such as this. I hear you about the literal definition of alive or dead and I think most/all of us realistically & globally accept the answer (contextually). Trouble is, when you proselytise outside of the community, we're usually met with the same blank stare as others have witnessed. Many of us come to sites like this to get away from that sort of despondency.

[amiga4ever]

the company's all but dead, imo.

but the Amiga community is more than alive!

[Nostalgiac]

as DEAD as a Dodo

Tom UK

(except the one on my desk)

[save2600]

Be careful Tom, some species have recently surfaced that were once considered as extinct as the Dodo  lol    :-D

[theformula]

dead

[KThunder]

yet another "lets check the pulse" "i feel it! "    "well I dont!" thread.

since there are people interested, people using amiga tech, people making money with amiga tech, and new hardware and software I definitely consider it alive.
for those of you who consider it dead, fine for you it is, don't piss on everyone elses parade. we aren't necissarily dilusional we simply have a different point of view.  
alive and quite vigorously so.

[smerf]

Hi,

Amiga = Alive

Amiga Inc. = Dead

Amiga Part Sellers = Alive and living quite well

Amiga Software Creators = Dead

Amiga Org = Dead

Amiga Users = The Living Dead

Windows VISTA = Still Alive after major Crash, VISTA claims
                that nvidia was the fault of the crash by
                having an obsolete driver.
Linux = Alive, but still no new games being made for it.
               Linux claims that VISTA is hogging all the
               gamming companies and holding them for
               ransoms if they try to make Linux games.

Have a nice Amiga day

smerf   :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:

[smerf]

@ Karlos,

Hi,

Why not use them for serious work, I trust my old A4000 for keeping my data more than I trust VISTA, and Windows XP.

Right now it seems that the only other OS that has good properties for not crashing and losing data is Ubuntu Linux, but even it had one surprise crash, when Windows Virus protection software saw Linux as a Virus and wiped it out. So I am counting that as a crash, this happened once in the last three years that I have used it, but as of now, there has been no OS or computer that has taken care of my data like the Amiga, it has had my data on there since 1992. Continues to collect data, and has one of the fastest best backup programs ever made (diskmaster with LHARC).

Have a nice DEAD AMIGA DAY

smerf

[SHADES]

On LIFE SUPPORT

In a COMA

About to die forever gone.



****** AMIGA is in it's worst "Take-up" position it has EVER been since Commodore break.******

[persia]