Enough already. It's time to stop dragging the Amiga name down. Open source the OS and free it. Quit trying to revive it as a competitive proprietary OS. It should have been freed back in the 90's, it's past time now.
It's not going to happen. Windows is running on momentum, OS X on style, and Linux on Freedom and Excellence. The Amiga just has Nostalgia. OS 4 isn't anywhere close to being able to compete with a modern OS.
That's really the reason. It's for nostalgia and geek fun mostly. Owning an Amiga was always an expensive hobby. I paid 2 or 3 times the prices for stuff for my Amiga than my friends did for their peecee's. They always oohed and ahhed over how amazing it was but few people wanted to spend the money to own one. They were happy enough with windows since their was plenty of software available for it, mostly games that they wanted. All the big Amiga titles got ported to the peecee to start with and then later as the hardware started to slip behind and windows became more of a real operating system than the buggy crap it once was the games started coming out on peecee's first then ported to Amiga. It's hard to explain to people now just how bad the peecee was back then. I had been spoiled by my Amiga and I couldn't understand why people bought the clones when they crashed continuously, couldn't multi-task and had shitty sound and laughable graphics and animation. I now know why but I still would have done the same thing. The Amiga is why I enjoyed computing and if it hadn't been available I probably would have done without until 95 or so. As it was I hung on to the Amiga until 99 when I finally broke down, bought a used dual PII/333 server and installed linux on it. It was tough for a year or so but I couldn't go back, the hardware was just too slow to do the things I wanted. I still boot the A3k occasionally just to remember how much fun it was.
The talk is somewhere around 500 dollars but I'd be happy with 600 or so. I'm still running an Amiga 3000 but it's 20 years old now. I bought it when 286 powered peecee's were the rage and it ran circles around them plus it actually multi-tasked easily. I look at it now and it's amazing what it can do on that old hardware. So far ahead of it's time and mismanaged by idiots like medhi ali and irving gould was Commodore Business Machines. A billion dollars to zero in 5 years.
While I sympathize with your feelings in this, the fact is he was breaking the law. The law needs to be changed but frankly, if you can't do the time, or pay the legal costs, don't do the crime.
actually I just tried, for the hell of it, www.gogle.com and it took me to google. Unfortunately goggle takes you to some bullshit site giving away things like free iphones. I suppose they figure if you can't figure out how to spell google and then can't tell you didn't get to the right place you're ripe for pickin'.:)
You've never thrown money away on something of little or no use? I spend almost one hundred dollars a month on cable television which is one of the most useless things ever invented. The programming seems to consist of over 90 percent reality shows and other mental drivel. I have 6 computers, not counting the ones I have stored, when I generally never use more than 2 or 3 at a time. If the man wants to buy a radiation detector so he can amuse himself by checking out hotspots in Tokyo then why in hell shouldn't he?
I remember back in the 90's when Amiga Inc. was looking for a new core for their systems that never were to happen. They showed off a demo of qnx and it blew me away. It did things then that were unimaginable. I wonder what it's like now.
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Enough already. It's time to stop dragging the Amiga name down. Open source the OS and free it. Quit trying to revive it as a competitive proprietary OS. It should have been freed back in the 90's, it's past time now.
It's not going to happen. Windows is running on momentum, OS X on style, and Linux on Freedom and Excellence. The Amiga just has Nostalgia. OS 4 isn't anywhere close to being able to compete with a modern OS.
You forgot Gary.
They actually managed to make a little money at it. It's a niche market but hey, it's a market.
Oh come on man. I loved the workbench but be real. It's 2011.
That's really the reason. It's for nostalgia and geek fun mostly. Owning an Amiga was always an expensive hobby. I paid 2 or 3 times the prices for stuff for my Amiga than my friends did for their peecee's. They always oohed and ahhed over how amazing it was but few people wanted to spend the money to own one. They were happy enough with windows since their was plenty of software available for it, mostly games that they wanted. All the big Amiga titles got ported to the peecee to start with and then later as the hardware started to slip behind and windows became more of a real operating system than the buggy crap it once was the games started coming out on peecee's first then ported to Amiga. It's hard to explain to people now just how bad the peecee was back then. I had been spoiled by my Amiga and I couldn't understand why people bought the clones when they crashed continuously, couldn't multi-task and had shitty sound and laughable graphics and animation. I now know why but I still would have done the same thing. The Amiga is why I enjoyed computing and if it hadn't been available I probably would have done without until 95 or so. As it was I hung on to the Amiga until 99 when I finally broke down, bought a used dual PII/333 server and installed linux on it. It was tough for a year or so but I couldn't go back, the hardware was just too slow to do the things I wanted. I still boot the A3k occasionally just to remember how much fun it was.
The talk is somewhere around 500 dollars but I'd be happy with 600 or so. I'm still running an Amiga 3000 but it's 20 years old now. I bought it when 286 powered peecee's were the rage and it ran circles around them plus it actually multi-tasked easily. I look at it now and it's amazing what it can do on that old hardware. So far ahead of it's time and mismanaged by idiots like medhi ali and irving gould was Commodore Business Machines. A billion dollars to zero in 5 years.
I like his voice okay. I'd rather listen to a woman talk to me though. I'm just wired that way.
Ah but there is. It means a Woman that speaks. Spokeswoman. It's like a spokesperson but more specific.
I'd Mod you +5 Sexist.
I'd rather listen to her than Romney, or Perry.
Bull. I can't stand hearing some dude's voice on my devices. It pisses me off and I wouldn't even buy it. I think on this I'm not alone by any means.
I want a female voice with a french accent. Like the french chick on the highlander series who was McCloud's friend. Damn that's a sexy voice.
He deliberately hit it with round up to kill off the non monsanto crop. If he hadn't done that you'd have a point.
Someone post it on pirate bay. See how they like that.
There you go, ruining the beauty of the thing with legality.
I've burned alcohol fuel, it works pretty well. I don't care what I burn within reason, only what it costs.
While I sympathize with your feelings in this, the fact is he was breaking the law. The law needs to be changed but frankly, if you can't do the time, or pay the legal costs, don't do the crime.
actually I just tried, for the hell of it, www.gogle.com and it took me to google. Unfortunately goggle takes you to some bullshit site giving away things like free iphones. I suppose they figure if you can't figure out how to spell google and then can't tell you didn't get to the right place you're ripe for pickin'. :)
Who is we? We won't be getting anything except the bill. A few rich fuckers will get richer though.
I'd say. If people are driving by blowing up bombs at my gate and lobbing grenades and satchel charges over my wall, that's obviously a problem.
You've never thrown money away on something of little or no use? I spend almost one hundred dollars a month on cable television which is one of the most useless things ever invented. The programming seems to consist of over 90 percent reality shows and other mental drivel. I have 6 computers, not counting the ones I have stored, when I generally never use more than 2 or 3 at a time. If the man wants to buy a radiation detector so he can amuse himself by checking out hotspots in Tokyo then why in hell shouldn't he?
How often does it alert for you? Just wondering.
That doesn't look like a root. Seems more like an app for developers.
I remember back in the 90's when Amiga Inc. was looking for a new core for their systems that never were to happen. They showed off a demo of qnx and it blew me away. It did things then that were unimaginable. I wonder what it's like now.