So... How we doin?

[KThunder]

Lurkers from the ancient past...

How's it going Wayne? I stop by every once in a while to see how things are going.
It is good to see Amiga.org is still here.
I play Amiga games every once in a while, and check in on Aros/Icaros.

It is really good to see less fighting, and new members.

[darksun9210]

I lurk every day or three. maybe a week tops.

I fired up the 500 the otherweek and enough of you guys were around to see me right with the problems I was having. as per usual pretty much of my own making...

[Wayne]

Sorry guys, been off for holiday the last few days, will continue until next week.  Will lurk but posting is problematic..

GREAT to see so many old names pop up.  Sincerely hoping all is well with everyone.

Wayne

[magnetic]

OMG, you've brought all of the oldies out of the woodwork. Bloodline, Kesa, Som99....That's pulling power! Me, I like the fire of the old days. Passion.  Anyhow we're all getting old Wayne. But some of us still have some passion. Except Kesa of course No passion there.

Well considering Wayne is the Father and Mother of the site no surprise..

[Pat the Cat]

You guys still enjoying the Amiga?

Wayne

Yes sir, I am. It is like I got thrown off the Amiga train a quarter century ago, and have just regained consciousness within the past month, to the extent of using the interweb for checking up the Amiga scene today and getting things working again with my collection.

Call me Rip Van Pat. Cobwebs over the old drive collection, grey hairs and far less of them now, the works. There's some Classic software in there that should be pretty cool, even today. Maybe useful, even.

Hopefully I will at least be contributing a couple HD caddy 3D models to help keep Classics working properly. That's a big part of where I've been really, additive manufacturing.

[Thorham]

You guys still enjoying the Amiga?

Always. Sometimes I don't turn on my A1200 on for weeks, sometimes it's on every day.

[jj]

Apart from the games in EABs leagues I dont use amiga ever now  Just no time

[BozzerBigD]

Apart from the games in EABs leagues I dont use amiga ever now  Just no time

Your loss mate. I hope you have a fulfilling career. At home, doing modern mundane computing tasks like syncing a smart phone to a modern Mac laptop to send photos from the hard drive via Whatsapp is easy and satisfying it's more like operating a photocopier than being creative. Same with Photoshop/Premiere it's all tweaking and airbrushing photos or video these days! You learn the skills but you might as well be learning MS Excel such is the disconnect between user and machine. It's JUST a tool now.

Sprites, bobs, brushes and parallax scrolling. This is what was FUN in computing in he 80s and 90s and it's been replaced by professionals with fancy Photoshop filters and Maya skills in 3D. Who the hell can afford Maya? Deluxe Paint came with Amiga bundles and Lightwave was attainable if you really wanted it. I really hope the BBC Micro:Bit gets kids into coding because heaven forbid they all just become Photoshop monkeys. Someone on my course is writing a mobile game in his own time, fair play to him. At least this keeps the Amiga creative spirit alive but what are the chances he can get it noticed in the vast sea that is the Google Play store or Apple App store? Amiga Format was great for rewarding and promoting game coding talent!

[BozzerBigD]

My very successful career as a software engineer is very much owed to these machines.

Wow! Have you been involved in anything we would know or use?

[Thorham]

Who the hell can afford Maya?

Use Blender? You should see some of the things they make with Blender.

[Lando]

Good to see you here Wayne, reminds me of the good old days.  Like you, I haven't seen or touched an Amiga for at least seven or eight years now.

I still pop by here occasionally but there is only a fraction of the number of active users there used to be and the majority of threads only have a half dozen posts.

But I can't see myself leaving, as this site still sort of feels like "home" to me, because it was where I spent a good chunk of my online-time for a lot of years.

[darkage]

good to see Wayne dropping by.   I still cant believe I joined here in 2007, time flies.  It seems more quiet here these days and not much drama.

[slaapliedje]

I have mostly been lurking lately because of two reasons 1) I can't get to the amiga.org forums from work anymore, only ever gives me 'forbidden' no clue why, unless of course the work filter actually does think Amiga.org is a Latina lesbian porn site.  2) I was saddened by the death of my Cyberstorm MK1 and only a month or so ago was able to get everything reinstalled so it doesn't just crash upon boot (different 060 libraries shouldn't have fouled that much up, but I still need to reinstall Amikit for Real on it...)

Due to those two above reasons, I've been playing more with my Ataris.  So have mostly been floating around on their forums.

[kreciu]

Make that 3

Maybe you didn't get replies because you didn't post on the home page?

or maybe because topic is boooring

[EugeneNine]

Some forums are just slow at time.   Happens sometimes to different forums.  I haven't seen anything interesting on a Linux forum I'm on for a couple months, latest distro went live a while back and everyone asked about changes but then pretty quiet.

I know i don't have much Amiga to talk about, I could post once a week saying I still haven't had time to pull my 2000 apart to try and fix it but that would get boring too.

[jj]

Your loss mate. I hope you have a fulfilling career. At home, doing modern mundane computing tasks like syncing a smart phone to a modern Mac laptop to send photos from the hard drive via Whatsapp is easy and satisfying it's more like operating a photocopier than being creative. Same with Photoshop/Premiere it's all tweaking and airbrushing photos or video these days! You learn the skills but you might as well be learning MS Excel such is the disconnect between user and machine. It's JUST a tool now.

Sprites, bobs, brushes and parallax scrolling. This is what was FUN in computing in he 80s and 90s and it's been replaced by professionals with fancy Photoshop filters and Maya skills in 3D. Who the hell can afford Maya? Deluxe Paint came with Amiga bundles and Lightwave was attainable if you really wanted it. I really hope the BBC Micro:Bit gets kids into coding because heaven forbid they all just become Photoshop monkeys. Someone on my course is writing a mobile game in his own time, fair play to him. At least this keeps the Amiga creative spirit alive but what are the chances he can get it noticed in the vast sea that is the Google Play store or Apple App store? Amiga Format was great for rewarding and promoting game coding talent!

Its more when you have been wrangling with java web services and JBOSS all day in work, you don't really fancy switching a computer on when you get home to do anything but relax and play games.

Well I don't anyway