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I wonder how many Amiga users are left by now. I remember the heated discussions (on ANN) about whether Amiga should remain on the PPC track or go x86 (remember Amithlon?). Didn't stick around long enough, but it must've been a shock when Apple announced they were dropping PowerPC in favor of x86. Ah well...

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In hindsight, by the time all those discussions happened on ANN, the platform (as a meaningful alternative to Apple or Windows) was dead anyway. A lot of energy was wasted on the comments section of ANN in those days that could have been spent on more productive endeavors.

I can certainly agree with that, I invested far too much time and money in the Amiga long after it was relevant. But I still have a fondness for the machine, it was elegant in a way that just isn't necessary anymore, time and moores law stands still for no man

Even by the last days of commodore the platform was already dead, dying, or at best on life support.

The Video Toaster may have extended the Amiga's usefulness by a few more years, but for most users by the early 90s a spiffed out 386 or 486 PC clone with vga and a sound blaster offered comparable performance & features to the AGA Amigas.

It was an amazing machine vastly superior to its competitors from 85 till the early 90s though.

ckemp1, as in Christian Kemp, creator of ANN.lu?

I know I wasted too much time participating in flame wars on ANN in those days. In hindsight, I wish I had abandoned the Amiga much sooner and walk away with with mostly good memories.

That's me. (As in, creator of ANN and also someone who should have walked away sooner - although I did switch to Windows quite a few years before closing ANN).

Played kick off 2 the other week, and sensible soccer. Boy my reactions are not what they were.

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