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Your best estimate, please
« on: July 06, 2010, 01:44:20 AM »
Number of individuals worldwide regularly using Amiga in some capacity? (classic, emulation, MorphOS, AROS etc.)   Also, number regularly using Commodore 64? (or emulation)
 

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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2010, 01:52:28 AM »
Really complicated to estimate a specific number of users, but I think there is a larger amount out that one would think, also with users of C64, these could be more because there are many PC users who were C64 and then switched to PC, anda never had Amiga
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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2010, 03:03:30 AM »
42?

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Number of individuals worldwide regularly using Amiga in some capacity? (classic, emulation, MorphOS, AROS etc.)   Also, number regularly using Commodore 64? (or emulation)
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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2010, 03:12:57 AM »
probably fewer than last time this question was asked here on amiga.org

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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2010, 03:44:45 AM »
In the hundreds, if not thousands  :)
 

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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2010, 04:29:58 AM »
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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2010, 04:48:42 AM »
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probably fewer than last time this question was asked here on amiga.org

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Where's that previous thread?
 

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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2010, 05:24:27 AM »
If you're talking Classic AmigaOS... Maybe 2 - 3000, about a tenth of what there was ten years ago. Maybe 750 - 1000 using OS4 in some capacity and I doubt very much higher numbers for MorphOS.

The C64 crowd by all accounts is a great deal bigger and always has been.
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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2010, 05:37:49 AM »
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If you're talking Classic AmigaOS... Maybe 2 - 3000, about a tenth of what there was ten years ago. Maybe 750 - 1000 using OS4 in some capacity and I doubt very much higher numbers for MorphOS.
 
The C64 crowd by all accounts is a great deal bigger and always has been.

Just about, cause here in the Netherlands it's 100-200 at most, Amigas were very populair here, if you look at Germany it may be double and bit more that amount so at the most 300-500.
And then the rest of the world, 1000-1500.
 
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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2010, 06:16:34 AM »
If emulation counts and we're counting "plays games occasionally" as using it, I'd imagine a ton.
 

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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2010, 06:58:57 AM »
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Just about, cause here in the Netherlands it's 100-200 at most...


Wrong guess, it's actually much more.
If the membership numbers of the HCC Commodore group acount to something it's more closer to 550 in NL alone (last HCC count was 575 paying members).

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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2010, 07:06:51 AM »
See if you can get the download statistics for the various UAEs. Otherwise I would say about 2000 active for Amiga. Another 2000 for C64. Who knows how many casual/dormant.
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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2010, 10:10:03 AM »
SIMPLE,

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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2010, 10:31:33 AM »
I would say about 10000 to 15000.  There have been almost 1000 registrations of MorphOS.  If there were only 2000 users total, that would mean that half of all active amiga users are using MorphOS, which I doubt is the case.  It's probably more like 10%, about the same for OS4, and 80% using Classic Amigas.

Edit. Forgot about UAE and Aros.  Add another 1k for Aros users and probably several thousand using UAE but the vast majority just for playing old games which I don't think counts.
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Re: Your best estimate, please
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2010, 12:34:42 PM »
How about using A.org to attempt a rough count?

I'll set up a poll with a few simple choices and if we link to it on other amiga sites maybe we can get a rough count of how many Amigans there are...
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