[Rant] TO THOSE WHO DON'T GET IT | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Jun-2002 15:16 GMT by Luca Diana | 66 comments View flat View list |
It's time to put aside pityful and damaging behavior. The very existance of the community is at stake.
Amiga needs to show now how many active users are out there, and by active I mean people who are willing to invest money in hardware and software. You want to show you're one of them? Get the $50 coupon (and free t-shirt) for an AmigaOne system; you don't care? Don't do anything at all, don't come complaining later when you'll find out that in the real world companies need to show their investors that there is a user base willing to purchase their product. And if you think that even without Amiga Inc. the community is going to survive think again: the numbers are getting smaller by the day, just two or three years ago people were saying there were still 300.000 active users, today we don't even know if there are 50,000 or 10,000 or even less. Without everyone's support the community <b>WILL</b> die. Time to set aside our differences and do one last effort to stay alive. Either you're in or you're out.
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Posted by Adam Kowalczyk on 25-Jun-2002 13:23 GMT | In reply to Comment 41 (Jools Smyth): > Thanks for pre judging me. Why is it noone seems to be able to have a civil
> conversation on here anymore? anyway
You're welcome. It wasn't "pre-judging", it was telling you I'm not up for a discussion on something that isn't possible in this day and age.
> An amiga to me is the 68k machine i have sitting on my desk. With its Paula,
> Copper, Agnus, etc custom chips (And the AGA successors) and the tight
> integration between these and the OS. What else could it be? I dont believe
> mashing a few off the shelf parts together is any comparison. In that case
> then any PC running UAE/Amithlon is an amiga ! Even AmigaOS 4 will rely
> partly on emulation...
Good answer, unfortunately the tight integration between the hardware and software which once was a technical advantage, has turned into a hinderance in moving away from the custom chipsets. Personally, I've always felt it was the OS that made the diffence when compared to other platforms. I was only ever envious of the professional look that the Macs had. The Amiga always had a bit of a toyish look to it as far as font and gadget appearances. But then again, the Mac couldn't multitask and just about every machine would come to a standstill while formatting a floppy. |
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