For fun.

out of curiosity to see how programming on an amiga was like.

Oddly enough they still sell AmigaOS today with the newest update being a few years ago.

To broaden your horizon regarding OS API designs.

It is a complex, non-trivial operating system which has its merits in terms of design and prudent use of resources. All of this is well-documented and understandable. You can learn how everything works, top to bottom and back again, which is a feature modern operating systems tend to have lost over the years. I would also argue that it is a humane design, intended to be understood.

If one has a soul, how can one not surrender to the curiosity for how things worked back then?

It’s much closer to the hardware than if you program let’s say in Linux.

Alternative platforms are a great way to sharpen ones chops, and as well be an early newcomer to a potentially engaging, large-scale platform of new users who are tired of the mainstream, of which there are plenty.

For the same reason that one might learn Lua to write a quick crank app for the play.date machine .. or write a synth plugin for Zynthian.

Alternative platforms are, for a passionate hacker/coder/software person, an extraordinary playground for creative development, both personal and product-wise.

All I'm saying is, sometimes it is great to shed the cruft of modern platform development, and have a look at how things could be done - alternatively - in a way that is nevertheless future-useful.

The constraints of developing an algorithm at great length in the Amiga environment, may then result in a value increase when you port the right bits elsewhere .. many a bit of C has led such a slippery life, you know...

There is a certain magic to the old Amiga - both its software and hardware - and creating something that shares in that magic just seems right. The computer was practically dead when I was born and even I feel compelled by it.

Also, for great justice. We made Amiga, they fucked it up. But we can still pretend what it would've been like had it fared better. The main way one does this is by filling in any gaps in its software collection.