Time for some reflection

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I wasn't sure which one of the 49,897 different AmigaOS announcement threads to put this in, so I made a new one.

It seems that once again someone has returned the ball in this never-ending game of Ping Pong that is the "Amiga community".  And the standard reactions are abound, jublience and in-your-face "this is a great day" from those it benefits, and bitterness, spite and {bleep}ing from those on "the other side"

I've read through many of the comments here, and yet again I see the same 'characters' saying the same things they always do, just the colours have changed.  It seems to me based upon what I can read that there are several people who need to step back for a bit and calm down.

There appear to be individuals who are so consumed with hatred for one party or another that they spend thier time in complete negativity, stewing in thier own hatred.  Whilst there are others who are so blindly supportive of "their cause" that they ignore all around them, spending their time frankly kissing arses, and churning stomachs with their sickingly sicophantic worshipping.  And we can't leave out those to whom a bit of ego bruising is treated like a life threatening wound.

I think some people really need to stop for a second and reflect on what they post and why they post it. I'm not the first to say it, and I won't be the last, but the community is tearing itself to shreds (I mean just how many are left?)

Enjoyment of a computer platform has very little to do with what is being argued over.

This message is Colourblind.

Thank you for reading this.

[Morley]

I think some people really need to stop for a second and reflect on what they post and why they post it

I'm headed for the top-ten-posters list :-D


-EDIT-

That was originally supposed to be a silly joke, but I changed my mind and decided to cancel the post. And did it by hitting the "submit" button. Yippie. Now I look even more like a moron.

@andy,

Thanks for posting that.  Good words, good advice.  It's really too early for all this speculation and even worse -- infighting in the community.  No one really knows what the hell is going on, who KMOS is really, the motivations behind it all, or anything else.  

I guess the question that everyone else has to ask themselves is: "Even though it's exciting and a good show, does it really affect everyone's life so strongly?"  

Whether Genesi is evil, or Amiga Inc was run by morons is irrelevant at this point.  We still have no new Amiga, AmigaOS has nothing more than a diminishing micro-niche market, and we're still going after each other like children.

At least it's now a three-ring circus.

Wayne

[logicalheart]

Thanks for your post.  If these trolls get queasy, they need to visit the toilet for a bit instead of vomiting online.  - Lars

[that_punk_guy]

Nicely put, Andy.

[cecilia]

Morley wrote:
That was originally supposed to be a silly joke, but I changed my mind and decided to cancel the post. And did it by hitting the "submit" button. Yippie. Now I look even more like a moron.

that's ok! if we lose our sense of humor....the Terrorists' win!!
:roflmao:

[CyberHanz]

I completely agree.
Don't believe I could have posted it better.

[Targhan]

Well, I am, and hopefully will stay, blissfully unaware of the majority of the details.  While I know it's fun to speculate some, too much of it can become dis-heartening for ppl on both sides of the street.

Maybe I'll while away an hour or two converting some  ascii formatted gamefaq into an amigaguide? :-P

[joemango]

Regardless of what this means to the Amiga "community", it's a sure sign that they no longer have anything worthwhile in their hand.

AInc. are obviously out of money, or will be soon.  The new owners of AOS are not likely to bring a mass-market product to life, so you might as well go out and buy a C-One if you're looking to run an alternative platform.

I have been using MacOS X Panther at work for a few weeks now, and I hardly turn on my PC anymore.  It's slicker than Amiga ever was, and elegant to boot.

I know you're all going to cry when I say this, but I'm done.  It's been 10 YEARS since C= went under.  I remember reading comp.sys.amiga.advocacy back in '94, freaking out because "my computer" was an orphan.  Guess what?  I still have my '030 A3000d and I haven't even had it set up since 1997.  The last thing I bought for it was the crap "Siamese system" that hardly worked.  The only way I would buy anything now with the Amiga name on it (including the compatibility sticker) is if it was in a new, shrinkwrapped package with the words "copyright 2004" on it.  Not bloody likely.

Enjoy the pain folks.  Talk to the Tandy COCO people if you want a glimpse of the future of Amiga. (read: in a dustbin)

Yes, I'm sad.  But it was over a long time ago.  


Joe Mango
 

P.S. Call me when they have AOS 4 for the Opteron, and a suite of applications software that runs on it.  Then maybe I'll look at it.

[kgrach]

I fell sorry for you Joe.
I use my Amiga everyday.
It is wonderful but you see I always kept updating it so it stayed sorted current.
I have brought many a PC over the years and my A1200 still sits there still surfs the web and just plain works nice.

Most people I know who left the Amiga for the PC had an unexpanded A500. No wonder the PC looked better It had a hard drive. Add a graphics card to your Amiga an watch it fly.SFS for hard drives and observe true bliss knowing that your data is safe from harm add turboprint enjoy REAL COLOR PRINTS!! WINBLOWS STILL CAN' DO TRUE 24 Bit printing.
Scanquik is truly a wonder for making high quality scans.

you want great games well get yourself a PS2 windows has it uses because certain progs are only written for windows but it still can't do it all easily. Thats why My Amiga gets used everyday and is still an indespensible tool.

Kgrach

what we need is to lock bill and bill in the same room and trow away the key.this way we can go about our bussiness without thier B#%%#$ postering and egos getting in the way of real people creating real product.

[Methuselas]

kgrach wrote:

what we need is to lock bill and bill in the same room and trow away the key.this way we can go about our bussiness without thier B#%%#$ postering and egos getting in the way of real people creating real product.

More true words could not have been said, Mate.  :-(