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Re:Call for Amiga Developers: Kickstarting PowerPC and 68k s... by ckemp1 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:31AM (#10456994)
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.
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Re:Call for Amiga Developers: Kickstarting PowerPC and 68k s... by brechtm on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @07:14AM (#10457319)
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.

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Re:Call for Amiga Developers: Kickstarting PowerPC and 68k s... by ckemp1 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @08:56AM (#10457657)
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).
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Re:Call for Amiga Developers: Kickstarting PowerPC and 68k s... by ido on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @06:10AM (#10457107)
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.

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Re:Call for Amiga Developers: Kickstarting PowerPC and 68k s... by ejrowley on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:47AM (#10457030)
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
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