@GregS

The Linux solution to upgrading is also a cumbersome mess that assumes that all Linux users are on broadband or at least on the Internet with their Linux machine and introduces so many hoops for non-connected users to squeeze through that upgrading at all becomes an impractical nightmare. I beg the Amiga community to not follow that path.

@Plaz

I would caution everyone to dial it down a bit. In the case of any one particular user the likelihood of that one particular user knowing anything at all about the inner workings between these companies is slightly above zero. That means that anyone spouting off about any of the involved companies probably is either violating NDA, or knows nothing of what they spout off about. Let's all remember how little we actually know and make an effort to reign in our wounded pride before it gets us somewhere that we don't want to be.

@GregS

It's funny. When I saw that, I was thinking that they might be trying to make it easier to port Linux stuff to OS4, but you might be a lot closer than me.

@Helge

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One reason might be because years ago, Bill McEwen genuinely fell in love with the Amiga Community. As evidence, in spite of the treatment that he has received from much of the Amiga Community, he is still in there slugging away for Amiga. When the board asked him to come back he could have said no, but he's there. Since he had a choice, he is there because he wants to be there, and I think that needs to play a large part in people's assessment and treatment of him. It is surely an unpopular point to make, but without him, where would Amiga be? More than any other individual, he has kept Amiga alive, and it's time people began to realize that.

There have been hints all along that things were afoot. Perhaps I am a bit biased, but I take this as wonderful news.

@Jack

OK. Upon investigation I have discovered that if I tried to "bounce around" the screenshots, I'd get that same error, but if I advanced through them in order (even clicking on each screenshot icon at the bottom of the page) I would get the intended page (with the bizarre exception of the last page, which initially got me a Lexus ad instead of the screenshot on the review page until I re-clicked the page's icon in the bottom right, at which point I got the correct screenshot). It seems each screenshot is accompanied by a two or three paragraph historical review of the title whose screenshot you are looking at. Just start at the "A500 screenshot" page and advance through them one by one (I am using SeaMonkey, by the way).

This article seems to have been done by a lover of Amiga gaming.

This might be the wrong place for this. If so, please move it.

Wired has done an article about Classic Amiga games

@Paul

I just thought of something (with apologies to those in the armed forces):

?The few, the proud, the Amigans!?



And to back it up, in the past I've had the opportunity to be at gatherings involving Rocky Sickman (one of the marine guards among the American hostages that Iran held for 444 days at the end of Jimmy Carter's term as President of the USA).

He was always quiet, always watchful, . . .










and most times always kept a wall at his back.

It wasn't as though he was afraid or anything, though. He was just being a marine guard. He is one of the few that I would actually be afraid to try anything with.


And he's smaller than me.

@A1200



It reminds me of nothing so much as the inner workings of an internal combustion engine.

Well, sometime yesterday morning, it happened. The 250000th hit to my website occurred?when a search engine took a look at a flower?but at least the milestone has been achieved.

@Mikey_C

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That would certainly be nice. Unfortunately, right now, for me, it would have to be almost a give-away. It's not that I don't think Amiga is worth it, it's just that right now things are so tight that I can't even afford toner for my printer, much less the money to buy a new machine. On the other hand, a coworker has been quietly trying to put together a second Linux machine for me from parts cobbled from discarded machines at work. It would be intended for use as a router that would be kept ?in a closet?, so to speak (if this keeps up I'm going to need a bigger switch ). From there the question becomes ?What sort of networking set-up would any new Amiga hardware have on board, and would the associated software play nice with other OS's (such as Linux, Mac OSX and Mac Classic OS)??

One mistake that I think I made with my current Linux box was to install the OS without having the Linux box hooked up to my little peer-to-peer network here. Now I haven't been able to get it talking nice with the network that works just fine between the two Mac OS's and the printer. Has anyone heard anything more about that project that is designed to use a home's electrical wiring as the wiring for a LAN?

Also, remember that normal women are much more attracted to relationship than to physical appearance. As to the others, what guarantee do you have that they will restrict themselves to only you? If they won't, you don't need them. Run the other way.

I will likely not post a report on blogsey regarding my March web stats until tomorrow, if for no other reason than the total number of visits involved, but there is a post there dated April 1, 2007. It is actually a genuine, sincere report. I decided to post it today because it is just so weird.

Anybody else have any to contribute?

@Outcast



All I can say, folks, is remember what day it is.

Just a short note to inform my friends here that my website (see sig) is within 657 hits of 250000 hits in its history of just over 2 years. I don't have anything I can offer as a prize, but it is a neat milestone to hit.

hint, hint

In the last few days I have been involved in a thread discussing how gambling fits with Christian faith (I have come down on the side that says that it doesn't).

Today I got my Monthly Web Stats Report for March 2007 for my website.

The number of Total Visits? 711

And I got the report on April 1st.

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@All

It had been 400 years since the voice of the LORD had been heard in the land, and all those who had not been chosen of the LORD had long since stopped looking forward to His coming to His people. It is so interesting because all they had to do was look at Daniel?s prophecy and count out the years between that prophecy and their own time to have enormous hope of His soon coming.

Has it been so long for us, the signs of hope so sparse and obscure? Are our memories really so short? If my memory does not fail me, it has been scant months ago that announcements were made and hints given that progress was being made between companies; that obstacles were being considered, their defeat being planned.

All of the news I have received of such things Amiga in the past months have come to me through this site. Their discovery and review should not be so difficult as to produce such ?a meandering miasma of maundering misgivings? as we have in this thread. In spite of the obsessive, destructive efforts of some to rip the Amiga IP from the grip of its rightful owners, death has not succeeded in rearing its ugly head in this community.

Companies with any interest at all in their own bottom line do not plan or develop an OS with no hope or plan for hardware on which to run that OS. To say nothing of anyone else, is Bill McEwen?s own voice so lightly treated and early forgotten? Does Hyperion really continue work on a new version of the Amiga OS only to fulfill promises with no hint of new hardware that can run that OS so that sales can be made and profits earned? Are we so full of ourselves or have such a low opinion of their intelligence who have so long kept companies alive through such famishing times as we have of recent seen? ?Why is your face so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.?

Even Nehemiah, when he went forth to rebuild the walls, faced the opposition of desperately wicked men, and we should not be mistaken about the fact that those who in the background labor so faithfully for us will not also face such opposition, but Nehemiah did not let that wicked opposition cause him to lose heart and give up. Can we not also have ?The Courage to be More??

@Atheist

Think of everything we would be doing without if that guy had not invented high level programming.