Just need to talk to people who understand...

[Amiga_Nut]

I haven't been here for nearly a year and this is the first thread I read and it reminds me what great people we are. I feel guilty for not being here now.

Short of a time machine, there is nothing to bring back a caring attitude towards computers for me in this decade. You buy a new PC/Mac...it's a little bit better....Apple/MS release more bloatware....your  crap runs just as badly 12 months later. A vicious cycle.

When I went from a C64 to an Amiga I was digitising pictures with Digi-View, I was doing pictures and anims on Dpaint, I was sampling every damned CD I could find to make my own instruments. It was a revolution....and that's before we talk about how elegant and classy a machine the A1000 was even compared to that overpriced rubbish Mac by Apple a year before.....or that fantastic multitasking OS. They were pioneering days and in worldwide general purpose media the  Amiga is all but forgotten, with people harping on about Windows 95 or the Mac coming straight after the 8bit days. It seems people forgot which computer showed us we wanted to watch moving images in full colour, hear great sound, do creative things and all in an elegant OS together. It's sad.....and the fact Amiga Inc couldn't arrange a piss up in a brewery makes it doubly slow.

I hate Apple products, I hate Windows products.....how can you have any love for computing in that situation now?

I can see now why most kids of today will have fond memories of 'retro' gaming on their Playstations and xboxs etc...the only place where there has been diverse and  alien incompatible hardware is in the console market.

I was also a big SEGA fan...so double whammy for me oooops.

[Pyromania]

@SamuraiCrow

Nope, that's not it.

[lauri.lotvonen]

Amiga - great hardware, great games, great memories !
I feel just the same as you... When I was a kid I had to earn "lots" of money just to get A500, from then, over ten years passed me by, and i finally got my dream machine, upgraded A1200. I'm never going to give this one up, because I know if sell this one, the amiga itch comes back again soon
Good luck getting an fullfilling Amy experience.

[J-Golden]

@SamuraiCrow

Nope, that's not it.

Wow.  Now I'm really curious.  What do you have brewing?

I also noticed your from Chicago.  My lil. sister works there in theatre.  Small world, eh?

[Methuselas]

@ Methusela: HAHAHAHAHA!!!  We got the "boom test" and grid squares for FA and man oh man does it never get old!

I take it you're a Mustang, El-Tee? I can't see an officer sending Non-Comms off on "supply runs" and since you've done FA, that tells me you were a Non-Comm at one point. My dick of a Top sent us to our Company Commander, asking for rigging clips. He just shook his head at us and told us to get the hell out of his office. That's when I realized it was a pigeon run.

A co-worker of mine used to be Cav and he told he and his buddies were sent to the motor pool to get labeled, exhaust emissions for testing. I laughed my ass off when he told me how they were sitting behind vehicles, with clear, plastic bags filling them up with exhaust and labeling them with a black, magic marker.

You're right, though. Hazing never does get old. XD Good times.

[J-Golden]

Don't know what a Mustang is othe then the car and horse

But yeah, I started as a 13-Fox (forward observer) with the intent to go ROTC.  I didn't want ROTC only because I felt I was cheating myself w/o being enlisted first.  that way I KNOW what I'm asking of my men.  I've seen too many ignorant officers screw up perfectly good units to ignore the need of that knowledge.

I will always have fond memories of painting Paladin parking lines for 15-ish guns two feet at a time in July...  :-D

[J-Golden]

Againa, this community is like a something you only read about!  Everyones replies have been awesome and just prove that there is something missing from todays computer scene that Amigans, C-64ers, Atari-ites, etc. have had from the begining.

On top of all that, and I don't want to say anything specific yet, but I can truly say that Pyromania has sugested/offered something that I thought would only happen on TV!  And I don't mean info-mercial TV, I mean like "Home Make Over" level of excitment!

You all rock!  Especially YOU, Pyro!

[klx300r]

@J-Golden

Congrats and enjoy you lucky man !

@ Discreet FX

kudos to you guys..you rock   !! (where's those damn bananas when ya need em)
(btw: hows OS4.x version of Alladin coming along )

[scuzzb494]

I would be totally lost without my Amigas. Don`t even want to think about it. I do understand how you feel. Most that caught the Amiga bug realise just how potent it is. Those that were not infected will never truly understand why the community survives. Some walk away but probably at some time in their life reflect on just how much they miss the Amiga. One of the things I say on my website is that the one thing I never have to say is ' I use to have one of those '. Better you can say I still have an Amiga. There really is no substitute for the real thing. So do try and become ' A Survivor ' and ' Keep the Flag Flying '.

The Amiga. The greatest computer ever made.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com