Comments on: My Name is Michael, and I’m A Wannabe Amigan

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:15:21 +0000

I really miss the Amiga. I used to use them back in the days the PC had Windows 3.1, I had an A1200 with an 040 processor and 34MB of RAM (2MB slow and 32MB fast).

AMOS Professional was a BASIC scripting language – I used to spend endless hours coding!

I would love to get hold of one again.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:56:31 +0000

I was an original A500 owner back in 1985…still have an a500 and have recently started using e-uae on linux and I still love it. I was a demo writer back then and did a few nice bits and pieces….with a couple of mates who did gfx and sound for me..ah those were the days.

By: Lane

Lane — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:47:37 +0000

I purchased the 7th A1000 sold in the chicagoland area back in 1985. And I too like so many others fell pray to it’s simplistic power and grace. I knew many a engineer who when faced with a deadline would hurry home to nail it on their Amiga. I still have my A1000 with it’s signed lid and most of the early floopies. Remember eagle loop?

By: macbook air

macbook air — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:55:42 +0000

Brings back memories. I too had an Amiga 500 – it was my first ‘real’ computer and taught me what an OS was. I even learnt basic programming on the old machine. I sold it not long ago for about £40 as I never used it. Great machine for its time.

By: Mr. Derp

Mr. Derp — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:46:33 +0000

Possibly the only computer with a “soul”. ;)
I was an Amigan way back in 1988 with the Amiga 500 – which I still own and use from time to time. For me it is still the best OS I’ve ever used. It is easy to use like the Macintosh but also offers a powerful CLI and scripting language for advaned tasks. You’ll find that most Amiga users are either artists, or gear-heads, or both. It’s definitely worth a try – and you can get an older Amiga with OS v3 on EBay fairly cheap.

Like the Mac the Amiga is a hardware/software solution, so for me running OS4 on the new SAM boards is somewhat lackluster and expensive. I’d almost prefer buying an old
A1200 on EBay and spiffing it up.

There is another very interesting project on the horizon called the “Natami Project” (Native Amiga) whose sole purpose is to build an “updated” Amiga as if Commodore had never gone out of business. It is exciting to think that a new Amiga could be realized in the coming year or so. Stay tuned. In the meantime, enjoy the wonderful Amiga animation “Still Alive” by famous Amiga artist Eric Schwartz on YouTube…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q

The Natami Project
http://www.natami.net/

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:22:48 +0000

Thanks for your article. Even though virtually defunct, Amiga still remains my favorite. But I’m still stuck in the 3.x systems!!