Hazy,
No flames....I like the insights and comments.
I'm more of an C= 8bit / Jim Butterfield burnout of days past but did get hooked into Amiga after this to some extent, retired from it, and re-enlisted in Amiga a few years back. Since re-enlisting I resurrected an A3K that now sees little run time.
My impressions? My motives are probably nostalgic and based on remembering when this computing thing was all a new concept and it was fun as hell being a part of it. Pounding on an old Pet or C64 used to be my version of fun. Now adays I try to use Amiga for some usefulness (or any computer for that matter). I have to use a PC because I have to use Solidworks. For the Amiga it still has some very good uses. My latest is for early chilhood learning - interactive presentations. I switched from AmigaVision to Scala MM400 recently and was stunned at what can be done in Scala. So I make teaching videos with it because it is far easier to do this here than on another computer (at least for me).
I might add that anything Amiga I do anymore is through emulation. It is the most logical way. I always look at what is happening in the various hardware / software camps. Cool things happening out there for sure. Where it all leads - I haven't a clue. I suspect that many of the post C= fragments will stay this way and have whatever followers that wander into them.
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Hazy, No flames....I like the insights and comments. I'm more of an C= 8bit / Jim Butterfield burnout of days past but did get hooked into Amiga after this to some extent, retired from it, and re-enlisted in Amiga a few years back. Since re-enlisting I resurrected an A3K that now sees little run time. My impressions? My motives are probably nostalgic and based on remembering when this computing thing was all a new concept and it was fun as hell being a part of it. Pounding on an old Pet or C64 used to be my version of fun. Now adays I try to use Amiga for some usefulness (or any computer for that matter). I have to use a PC because I have to use Solidworks. For the Amiga it still has some very good uses. My latest is for early chilhood learning - interactive presentations. I switched from AmigaVision to Scala MM400 recently and was stunned at what can be done in Scala. So I make teaching videos with it because it is far easier to do this here than on another computer (at least for me). I might add that anything Amiga I do anymore is through emulation. It is the most logical way. I always look at what is happening in the various hardware / software camps. Cool things happening out there for sure. Where it all leads - I haven't a clue. I suspect that many of the post C= fragments will stay this way and have whatever followers that wander into them.