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Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« on: November 15, 2003, 12:30:16 PM »
After the demise of Commodore I used to regularly pray that the Amiga would come back as a strong computer platform.

Will anyone else admit to this? I really was very obsessed back then! :)
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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2003, 12:37:53 PM »
Never prayed for silicone. (Im not the prayer-type).
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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2003, 12:37:56 PM »
No, although I'm fairly spiritual in my own way I have to admit I've never actually prayed for the Amiga.

Still, there's nothing wrong with admitting that. Trust me, people have prayed for far worse!

I think divine intervention was sorely needed in the last days of Commodore and the wilderness years that followed. Still who knows what the future holds? Keep praying - it can only help!
 

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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2003, 12:48:31 PM »
I am a bit of a marxist
So I do not pray my wishlist
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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2003, 12:55:34 PM »
pray? no but i have wished for it for many years.

i still only use amiga and i cheerish that feeling, i am maybe more of an fanatic than a dreamer though :)

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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2003, 12:56:48 PM »
Please, tell me you're joking! :-o
 

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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2003, 01:09:28 PM »
I don't think so either but yeah.. alot of wishing.

Having said that i may have had a little prayer on the last bit of Amiga h/w that i had purchased to reach me savely and working. the BPPC with BV.
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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2003, 01:45:29 PM »
For an instant I thought 'Billsey' ;-).

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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2003, 01:52:44 PM »
Not literally,  but figuratively .

I "prayed" Commodore would advertise the damn thing on U.S. television more often !  :-x
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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2003, 02:06:51 PM »
Hands that help are better than lips that prey...  ;-)

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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2003, 02:39:38 PM »
>After the demise of Commodore I used to regularly pray that the Amiga would come back as a strong computer platform.


Logical ranting mode on:


Unless there was another human present
to hear you pray for it,
then im afraid you are the only one
who heard your words of help.

Trying to solve a problem by praying
might calm you down,
but the problem is still unsolved and unaffected by you.

Sadly, If some other human(s) or anything else than yourself
solves the problem after you have praid for it,
then you get false evidence that praying helps
and you might further believe more in the method.

If you had told your friends how great amiga/workbench is,
then you would have helped amiga.
Also if you had helped someone make a cool game or prog,
or sent feedback to amiga developers about their software,
or plainly bought amiga sw and/or hw.


Logical ranting mode ended.


My opinion is that amiga did not fall,
but was hurt alot by the clever microsoft strategy
of getting ppl to spend money
buying slightly less bugged sw and hw all the time
so that they grew economically strong
and forced their crap on the world.

commodore made the mistake of making a perfect computer,
wich made the users content enough
to not having to worry so much about buying new amiga stuff.

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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2003, 02:40:42 PM »
I thought this was a Billsey thread at first! :-D

 

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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2003, 04:18:46 PM »
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I thought this was a Billsey thread at first!

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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2003, 04:27:18 PM »
 No, I have never prayed for the Amiga ( or maybe I just don't remember) I probably would have. Praying does work but it depends why you want it to succeed? is it to destroy Microsoft? hehe that might be the wrong motive , so God will not answer that (although I have desired this many times!)

 But back then I was extremely obseesed with the Amiga........one of the happiest days of my life was when I purchased an FMV card for the CD32!  man! you should have seen me! I drove home screaming in the car feeling like I just ripped off the seller! actually I think he ripped me off!, he charged me $345.00 approimately.but I didn't care!  I went home totally crazy that I had gotten one of these! I made my PC owning friends feel like pure crap!  they had never seen such a thing.....and at the time Amiga CD32 and CD-I were the only real ones to be able to do it....PC's didnt get it till much later. I would not yet sell it and still have it with tons of movies and videos I made myself...........one day I will install it at the same time with my SX32 Pro!  I hope!

Keep praying my friend, but make sure they are for good purposes :-)
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Re: Have you ever prayed for the Amiga?
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2003, 05:44:04 PM »
I would not pray for anything i dont belive in god. :-o
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