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[Acill]

Its been a great, what 20+ years with some kind of Amiga in my home, and now with my Pegasos out of the house and in a new home its time for me to say goodbye. I want to thank everyone I've known from old to new for making this such a great platform to own and use. I cant think of any other platform that has done anything even close to what we all do.

I may pop in from time to time to see how things are going, but its time to let the past go and move forward.


Oh and I've had a ton of messages asking what changed my opinions so fast after getting home. I would have to say it was several things over the years, but the price of MorphOS with its restrictive hardware lock to one machine was the final draw for me if I had to pick one thing.

[ZeBeeDee]

No goodbyes, just happy memories :-)

[amigadave]

Sorry to see any of our members go, but specially members who live in my general area. I hope that you will keep checking in here and find something of interest here in the Amiga community that sparks your interest again in the future to bring you back.

What I am most disappointed about is missing out on buying your Peg2 system!!!

Take care, and again, I hope you will be back in the future.

[alexh]

The Amiga is like Crack. You'll be back!

[Rob]

@alexh

The Amiga is like Crack.

Expensive to buy and people shun you for using it.

[QuikSanz]

alexh wrote:
The Amiga is like Crack. You'll be back!

I'll bet that checking in here is so habitual that Acill can't just stop.

See you next time around ;-)

Chris

[redfox]

@Acill

I wish you all the best as you move forward on a new path.

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redfox

[trekiej]

Keep your account and come back in a few months.
:-)

[TheMagicM]

Acill:

here here! I agree man... maybe one day it will be worthwhile to run a OS like either of the two.

[amigadave]

Acill wrote:
Oh and I've had a ton of messages asking what changed my opinions so fast after getting home. I would have to say it was several things over the years, but the price of MorphOS with its restrictive hardware lock to one machine was the final draw for me if I had to pick one thing.

So, if MorphOS3.0 is released for all PPC Mac models and they reduce the price a bit in anticipation of sales that are ten times (or maybe much, much more than ten) what they have seen so far for MOS1.0 through MOS2.x, maybe then you will be back. It would still not be as wide spread a release, on as many Personal Computers like porting to x86 would allow, but it is a huge step in the right direction, if they can pull it off.

[Plaz]

@Acill

Take care and do drop in from time to time regardless. I've said often it's not the computer that keeps me hanging around but the people. Few online communities can be found that can carry on topics and dicussions as well as this one. So we won't say fairwell, just "until next time".

Plaz

[amigaksi]

>by Acill on 2008/8/30 14:05:58

>...Oh and I've had a ton of messages asking what changed my opinions so fast after getting home. I would have to say it was several things over the years, but the price of MorphOS with its restrictive hardware lock to one machine was the final draw for me if I had to pick one thing.

Surely you don't think that Amiga is only what is in the OS? I have running basically an OS-less Amiga for many years now-- just transmitting stuff from PC to the Amiga (via the floppy port) in real-time and letting it do its thing. One mistake people make with the Amiga is trying to see if current applications can run with it, but that really is unfair to do. If you take an Amiga application/game targetted for it, I find it runs great and usually they are highly optimized and better than their imitations on the PC or other platform.

[Krusher]

Been there, tried that.

But I came back eventually

See you back in the (near) future :-D

[weirdami]

I would have to say it was several things over the years, but the price of MorphOS with its restrictive hardware lock to one machine was the final draw for me if I had to pick one thing.

That's kinda like Michael Phelps quitting swimming because his boat is broken.

[adolescent]

Take care Acill. Thanks for the Cyberstorm Mk3 a couple years ago. Sorry I couldn't get down there to pick it up in person, and therefore meet you.