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Into the Wonderful
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Predictions for the Amiga's Future?
What do you think it will be like in 10-20 years for all us Amiga fans?
Im not interested in what the future of the 'Amiga' brand is, more the whole retrogaming, amiga projects (HOL, APoV, CAPS etc), the forums and interest in general. Do you think all us nutters will eventually fade away with the hassles of real life taking over or just simply getting bored of the whole scene? Will forums like EAB be as popular? (or exist at all) When all the games have been preserved and all the boxes scanned, what then? Just curious about your opinions ![]() |
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ten years?! i can't even imagine what i'll eat tomorrow for lunch! and when i'm asked about it i get somehow disgustet at the idea of food, since i'm barely out of my soup. it's even worse when i'm asked what i want and i've a foot still wrapped in the bed sheets. ah! synchronicity!
what about play games? |
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As a games player I would hope that there would be an easy way to play Amiga games online with other users. this would be more likely as bandwith and speed increase and would certainly bring the community closer together; if only to enjoy a simulated kick in the guts.
My one fear is that as the idea of 'retro' gaming spreads companies may buy certain rights that they know little about in order to provide consumers with a retro gaming 'ideal'. This may lead them to try and enforce their property upon the retro community even if it has nothing to do with them. If nothing happens to make the practical use of the machine easier or more worthwhile then the community may get smaller. Last edited by Peanutuk; 04 February 2005 at 00:45. |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: montreal / canada
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i have a dream
even if i was a hard gamer at the time, i do not play really anymore. my main concern is to collect as many hd games as i can for A1200 8Mo Fast 2GB HD (i also collect manuals and old magazines for tests).
my kids will be approx 7 years old in 5 years, and i want to offer them my fully operational killing machine instead of one of this degenerating consoles for their best christmas ever ===> this is my dream : to play the classics again with them and share the passion. maybe this is the only real future possible for amiga spirit : accross the generations. |
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Projection: As dead(or alive, pick what you want) as it is now.
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Like other forgotten platforms of Dragon ,Amstrad etc it is only going to be the die hard few that use these machines at annual geek conventions
![]() In another ten you will all be mostly like me pulling the kids toys out of actic after they have long since left home and recapturing your second youth as a father with the excuse to try out the " Kids " old presents to make sure they work before thinking of selling them on. However since we will be talking the next series x-box and whatever Nintendo product hasn't fallen apart by then ![]() The real future don't care ![]() |
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In 15 years' time...
- APoV will be on issue 245 - The HOL will have evolved into an Atari ST database - CAPS will get around to replying to last week's batch of emails ![]() |
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in 10 or 15 years, all real Amiga machines will be dead, their condensators dried up, their chips corroded and electro-migrated...
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really ? i'm not so sure.... my old C64 is still working really fine (20 years old) so my A1200 (1995) should be fine ten years from now, no ?
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Yeah, would like to know further about this. My 20+ year machiens all work just fine. I think you are exagerating, though lots of these things happen when you DON'T -use- them.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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In 3 years time....
Everyone will be so fed up waiting for the latest PowerPC or Coldfire accelerator that real Amigas will be dead on their feet. AmigaOne is accepted as what it is.. nothing to do with Amiga! ![]() WinUAE is into version 1.1 (whooooooohooooo!) - Toni is getting fed up looking for small tweaks to put into it as it just works fine.... |
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Oh and in ten years
"The TOSEC dudes are still arguing about how to describe a title and users are still waiting for new DAT files" and "TOSEC is renamed to TVOSEC where V stands for VERY" ![]() |
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@Methanoid perhaps the Amiga One should be re-named to AmigaNone!
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TVOSEC.... that's a killer! LOL
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Oh and 5 years time:
"Amiga arrives on a PCI card just as PCs and Mac switch from PCI-X to some new standard" "Elbox announce an Amiga product and deliver it under 2 years late" |
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Oh noes!
Join Date: Mar 2003
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10 years from now.. I'm probably emulating x86 PCs so that I can emulate winuae.. as no one else will be around to update or port once Tony is gone.
My CD32 will most likely be dead due to the CDreader crapping out and there are no replacement parts. Doom3, halflife2 and a bunch of other games are released. When someone gets around to port the linux port to some amiga port since ppl still try to patch 3.9/ Morph. Some one still tries to argue that Xcomputer (PCs) can’t scroll as smoothly as the amiga by using the marquee screensaver “argument” Akira picks up a athlonXP at 1.4 Ghz then complains about how slow it is compared to his G7 mac. And then wonders why windowsXP is unstable when e he didn’t use a firewall or patch it. ![]() If all of the above fails: The amiga name gets slapped on another obsolete piece of hardware. |
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I predict it will continue to fade into obscurity until it's only remembered by the those who once loved it. But we who remember it, and lived it will know the magic of all those moments.
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The amiga will be without a future. However, the UAE community will live on, with UAE or any other emulator that's hot around that time. For me, the amiga has played an important role in my life, and I will probably be emulating it to shreds until I drop
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