What's particularly weird about the Amiga scene is how locked down the IP still is and how that seems to permeate the rest of the scene. It's like the IP owners

What's particularly weird about the Amiga scene is how locked down the IP still is and how that seems to permeate the rest of the scene. It's like the IP owners think that somehow they'll suddenly come across hundreds of millions of dollars in VC money and will reignite the Amiga fire with new hardware and software that will sweep the world...if only they hold on to the licenses for 30 year old ROM images a little bit longer. Or that they'll somehow sell enough licenses to make up for millions of dollars of development investment. What I always thought was really weird is, the community helps them with this. Like, the Amiga scene for some time was about the only retro scene I know of that self-policed for infringement. Regular Ami fans would take it upon themselves to scour the web for people hosting the Workbench ROMs and disks and report them, and would get very very cross about requests. It was as if they thought if they could only shut down emulation people would just start rebuying real hardware in droves just to play ancient games. You can't even practically build an actual high-end Amiga anymore like you can get up and running in WinUAE with a few clicks, because the accelerator and graphics add-on hardware is all mostly rarer than gold these days. It really is the case that there's this hardcore of really obsessive Amiga fans who're convinced they can somehow force the world to once again go Amiga. No one else is like this; there's no hardcore Risc OS fans out there waiting for the day when Acorn arises again and slays Microsoft or something. It's bizarre.