* Posts by Spirantho

3 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009

Amiga on the block (again)

Spirantho

Moribund? Most definitely not.

The point is that Amiga owners these days don't just use them for "retro" uses. We don't use the equivalent of "pikes and muskets", we use the equivalent of spades and tractors - they've been around for a long time, but they still work just fine thankyouverymuch.

What does a typical computer get used for? The web, email, MSN, games, that sort of thing. All of which AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS are capable of. I'm not talking about the latest games - use a console for that - but for many of us we don't _want_ the latest games.

The days that the Amiga was far behind are gone. We now have everything we need, good emailers, modern web-browsers, MSN clients etc., - the only thing missing is the number of users - but that doesn't make the OS moribund, it just makes it a minority.

If being in the majority means succumbing to bloatware, viruses, CRM and all that, I'm glad I'm not in it. For many thousands of us, the beauty is that we're in a minority - we can all help and all make a difference, without the big corporations and legal bods taking much notice.

And most of all, we have fun doing it. You can all think the OS is moribund if you like, we'll just carry on enjoying it anyway.

Spirantho
Alert

Moribund?

Hardly "moribund".

2 new platforms in the next few months.

AmigaOS 4.1 update for "Classic" Amiga owners like the A1200/A4000.

New software being ported and written every day... true, not much compared to Windows but my PC only gets used for recording stuff these days, the AmigaOne gets all the use. Not bad for a moribund platform?

I know we don't have as many users as Linux/Windows/Mac people, but we're far from dead.

Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance

Spirantho
Dead Vulture

Is this the standard these days?

This is the first El Reg article I've read in a while - I used to read it all the time, but kind of drifted away.

I sincerely hope this article isn't representative of the quality of the Reg's articles these days because if it is I don't think I'll be bothering again. Where was the impartiality? Where was anything useful actually said? The humour's not bad but the beauty of The Reg is the ability to get a serious point across in a humourous way, not to rip on the little guy.

I shall now point my browser (Opera, incidentally) to another site and I sincerely hope it's not the puerile mockery that this article displays.

Opera may only have less than 10% share of the market but who cares? Kudos for Opera for continuing to exist and to try new things, much anti-kudos to ranting "journalists" trying to be funny.