It seemed like 10-15 years ago, people would finally hit their frustration point - and leave for Mac, or whatever, and give a long, emotional final post - do people still do that?
I'd think by now, most people are only using the Amiga part time, they go inactive for a bit, but they remain interested in developments.
It's kind of cool, actually. It's like when you are on a long trip and you fall asleep, and you wake up and you are like 'are we there already - that was fast!' - but really the plane trip was 12 hours, you just got lucky by falling asleep.
I've been playing with VirtualBox for my work, and then to discover the IcarOS virtualbox image - thats kind of fun, I haven't booted an Amiga in years.
But 3 minutes from now - ha, going to boot one, why not.
You know who I suddenly wonder about? Tim Rue, whatever happened with the VIC?
I just searched on Google - wow he was still working on it in 2009, he hasn't really gone away either.
If you don't know Tim Rue, it was never clear that he had a lot of programming skills, but he was very interesting as a kind of 'ranting' type of poster to the newsgroups - I used to rant a lot in those days too.
He was interesting because a lot of his rants where about the 'virtual interaction configuration' ...it's never clear what it actually did, but wow did he advocate strongly for it.
