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From:Anthony W. Prime
Date:2 Apr 2001 at 16:09:38
Subject:Re: Amiga announcements - any questions?

On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, Mikey C waxed lyrical:

>I would honestly prefer honesty above all else, If Amiga had come out
>and said, we are going to partner up with Sharp and Psion to start
>with everyone on the Amiga scene would have said "wow, thats good,"
>instead our hopes and expectations were raised up too far.

>> On the subject of the classic line and the classic OS. This is
>> probably where the Classic OS and I part company.

>This is where I part company with you, personally, I am looking
>forward to the release of the OS4.0 PPC and A1,

Sadly I am in the position of only having the room for one machine, and as my
children want to use educational software, my wife wants internet explorer
and I want a quiet life, I`ll have to continue to dual boot Win98 and Linux.

>>I`ve spent lots of money on a highly specced x86 setup to be able
>> to run the DE and through backward compatibility

>Why? Nothing was set in concrete, besides you know the history of the
>Amiga, directional change is par for the course. I don't understand
>people who use an Amiga and then buy a PC to make use of all the
>latest games,Apps and continue moaniong.
>I have a Mac at home which has all the M$ office apps in there and
>occassionally I use it, but I spend most of my time using the Amiga,
>because, despite it's short comings in lack of apps and games, it
>still has no rival for ease of use and friendly-ness.

Nothing is ever set in concrete, but I made my best guess at the time. Up
until the weekend that guess looked valid and now it`s not. As you say I`ve
made my bed...

>I also agree with you that it is a shame that the DE doesn't appear to
>have AOS backward compatibilty built in. But, would you have been able
>to run Nightlong on a PDA? ;)

:) I was playing PacMan on my Psion via e-mame the other day. Very nice...
not :)

>> Sorry if all this sounds a bit negative, but I think it`s only
>> realism :/

>Actually Anthony, I think you highlight the same concerns some of us
>have, however, in all honesty can you really live without using an
>Amiga for your day-to-day or hobb-iest use?

>I know I can't!

I have been doing for the last five months or so, and whilst I await the DE
with baited breath, I really don`t know where to go from here.



Anthony W. Prime
anthony@prime.clara.co.uk

http://www.amiga.com So the world may know...

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