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This is all speculation of course as we don't know the economics behind it, but the logic is fairly sound for any sort of manufactured product. Oh, and sorry, I don't normally do this either, but similar to clebin's point: "must of"? |
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I do what i can to make sure my stuff if available without people getting ripped off. I think this is a good model for the Amiga that doesnt leave one person taking a huge amount of risk. |
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The Amiga community is small, and getting steadily smaller each day. More people die each year that grew up with it than adopt it. It's a sad state of affairs, but it's true. There will be no new Amiga that blows the PC or Mac out of the water, it will never, ever be mainstream ever again, it will forever be consigned to the niche that an ever-dwindling population of retro enthusiasts has carved out for it. And one day there will be nobody left who ever actually used one, or even own one. So we enjoy it for what it was, for the memories we created around it for even this too will one day fade to nothing. And all anyone will have left is WinUAE, assuming that it continues to be developed long after Toni Wilen is gone and the PC as we know it is fondly remembered the same way the Amiga is to us. Such is the way of all things. |
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I help someone with a simple spelling mistake and now I am a target for correct Grammar. Interesting!:rolleyes Anyways. I still think Individual Computers should try to create more hardware or like Plasmab has kindly done, make it open source so that others, can produce them. Amigakit had 200 Vampires and they sold out almost instantly. High Amiga prices is a good thing because it may attract more companies to invest and make more products. OK so it is not easy for the buyers but let us understand, that this is retro tech and most work is custom, which takes time, effort and money. The Amiga will never disappear completely. It will always have followers even if they are not from the time when it was first introduced. The valve radio is still admired by many and the same shall be said of Amiga, many years from now. We the original users, are paving the way for others to continue the legacy, that is Amiga. You say that there shall never be another Amiga, I wouldn't be too sure about that. Nobody knows how technology will change in the future. There are members on here who are working on revised modern Amiga motherboards, which means maybe someday, someone will build an Amiga with AGA, Vampire HDMI and everything else built in! You can only wonder what the demand would be for that? |
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I wouldn’t buy it.. because it’s not an Amiga. I want to use upgraded original hardware. If I want that I use MiST. |
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To put it another way, if he is still around when Windows machines are a thing of the past then there's a chance it will be ported to whatever comes next. But the reality is that there is no real guarantee that this will be the case - and at that point Amiga emulation will likely die, as the last gasping breath of the platform as a whole. |
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Yes I totally agree! Yet, those that complain also have no idea of how much time money and effort goes in to custom work. If they did, they would realise that maybe most who build custom retro computer systems and hardware, are not charging enough! Quote:
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The Amiga is an important early building block in the history of computing (if it doesn't seem early now, then it will in a hundred years!) and as such it will live on with people born a very long time from now... |
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There are no new DEC Alphas being made - but some enthusiasts have one or two that they keep going through self-made repairs. The Amiga will be the same. No new viable mass-produced models, just the occasional prop for the enthusiasts. Take the new A5000 - or don't because it's really not much of an Amiga. In the future there will be interest in it, but nothing beyond "look at this old tech." It won't make a resurgence in popularity, it will become a niche museum piece, kept on life support by retro enthusiasts and tinkerers who remember it fondly, as we do. Demand for a new Amiga is small now, and won't get any larger. |
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The Spectrum Next seems to have gained a lot of followers who were never Speccy owners back in the day. I don't have figures for that, so it's a bit of a 'anecdata', but I read this quite a lot from backers of the Kickstarter. I think the partnership between Philippe Lang's A1200.net and the Apollo/Vampire team could be a very interesting one. In a year or two, they'll have everything they need to build a complete Amiga in a replica A500/A1200 case, bar the mechanical part of the keyboard. With Philippe's experience, that could be a very successful campaign that would definitely attract people from the wider retro community. How many? Don't know - but more than we've had the past 20 years, I reckon. |
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If you go to a classic car show and all you see is death and decay, and not the beautiful machinery and lots of enthusiasts having a whale of a time, then I feel your soul needs a bit of nourishment! |
Oh, believe me I love the Amiga and all that it was. I'm a pretty serious retro-nerd, and have written 8bit emulators myself (some of my work went commercial in UK schools to teach programming, even!)
But I'm also realistic. As much as I love the games I played, as much as I pine for the glorious days of four-second boot times, the ease of Workbench and Directory Opus 4, they're never coming back in any significant way. Museums and retro enthusiasts are all that are in our futures, and once we're all dead there will be very little interest at all beyond those domains. There will be nobody who was touched by the scene as it was when we were younger. Nobody left who waited eagerly for new releases, pored over magazines gazing at the new hardware that was to be (which sadly never materialised). The only people who will continue the Amiga's existence will be people who just weren't there. But of course, that doesn't stop us enthusing now and the games will be fun to play no matter how much time has passed. I wonder how long it will be before there is no viable original Amiga hardware left at all? The disks are all going, hence the rush to preserve as many as possible digitally. The hardware itself will last longer, but can't last forever. We can replace capacitors and chips, but will it still be an original Amiga? Trigger's broom certainly applies there. |
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But I do get your point. |
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