Mike
Amiga scene in usa is dead as hell. there is a still a scene in europe.
Funny, we still have AmiWest in California, our Amiga vendor AOTL offers better prices than your dealers do.
And have you must have forgotten that the Amiga was designed here (as was the 68K cpu, almost all X86 cpus, a quite a few other useful devices - AMD gpus, etc.).
In fact, when I think of the design of useful electronic component I think of the USA first, Japan second, and Europe? A very distant third.
Sure you guys embraced our Amiga, but that just proves you're sensible, discerning, and intelligent consumers.
And as far as Europe goes, the country that really deserves credit is Germany (although Hyperion is located in nearby Belgium). They were the powerhouse the produced some of the best third party hardware and software (and to some degree still do).
Beyond all this international bickering, everything today is global.
The team developing the T2080 laptop has members spanning the globe - including myself, if I may be so humble, located in the US.
I've already got plans to sell a couple a components, but they'll be built with the cooperative of Italian, Chinese and Mexican partners.
You constantly try to claim that the Amiga market was stronger in Europe, the fact is there was simply more diversity of offerings and platforms here.
Both the SS-50 and S100 computing platforms, the progenitors of the PC movement were developed here, Apple was started by hobbyists here, the X86 PC was initially designed by IBM (a very traditional US company) again here.
About the only development I can credit to Europe is the British creation of the ACORN computer and its very successful ARM cpu.
Other than that, very few ISAs have been created outside the US (although there are a few notable exceptions like the Hitachi Super H, but then, that's not European, its Japanese).
Face it, we invented the personal computer. The first two large scale commercial PCs invented for everyday users were the Commodore Pet and the Tandy Model 1. Again, US products.
And now that I think about it, the 68K wasn't our only success. Power and PowerPC processors were invented here (developed initially by two American companies IBM and Motorola), Intel, still the dominant force in the PC market place is a US company.
And while ARM obviously originating in Great Britain, currently its licensed worldwide (by diverse companies that include the US' TI, Intel, and Freescale/NXP).
Dead as hell? If that was true the prices commanded on eBay for Amiga hardware would be much lower. I purchase my first fully functional A2000 via ebay with local pickup for about $35.
These days I couldn't find a similar condition unit for less than about 10 times that.
Dead? Hardly, along with my involvement in the T2080 project, I also working on AROS ports to currently unsupported PPC platforma, and I hopefully will be able to obtain a Talos II Lite and port AROS to that.
And btw, I was the person that approached MorphOS developer Mark Olsen to secure a copy of MorphOS 3.10 that California Amiga enthusiast Acill demo'd on his personal X5000 at the last AmiWest.
Which, btw, was the first time 3.10 was demoed on an X5000 with the new drivers that had been created for Radeon HD video cards (again, it was in the US).
And one of the best hardware repairers, modifiers, recappers, and the populators of boards ranging from the AmyITX, to the new corrected 3460/3660 boards, as well as the man behind the recreation of the A4000 motherboard?
The same man, my friend Paul AKA Acill, a Californian (the US once again).
So not to rub your noses in it, but no, we're alive and well and contributing and participating as much as any of you.
Lets get over this BS and realize were a global community of Amiga enthusiasts.
Hubris and national pride should not blind us to our common interest.
