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I think the closest anyone can get to the glory days of Amiga hacking today, is to be found in the ZX Spectrum Next - which looks to be becoming the most profou
by fit2rule 7y ago
I think the closest anyone can get to the glory days of Amiga hacking today, is to be found in the ZX Spectrum Next - which looks to be becoming the most profound hacking platform for lovers of alternative computing environments, so far ..
https://www.specnext.com https://www.specnext.com
The things people are doing with this amazing machine today really remind me of the life and enthusiasm that was in the Amiga scene back in the day.
Perhaps with the success of the ZX Spectrum Next, we might see a new wave of machines, which build upon their 80's ancestral architecture and provide a way out of the walled gardens in which we are all trapped ...
- metroholografix 7y agoThe Amiga community is big, certainly much bigger than ZX Spectrum or Atari or Commodore 64 or pretty much any other retrocomputing community I'm aware of. There is continuous development in both software and hardware. The Amiga demoscene is also very active (it never really slowed down) with productions that would be considered unreal in the past, and constantly upending each other. Besides the golden age in the 90s, it's never been a better time to have classic Amigas as your hobby.
- fit2rule 7y agoI don't doubt that - but have you seen the energy being generated around the ZX Next? It's pretty significant - and the fact it can load other cores is key, I think, to what's going to happen around this scene in the next 6 months. I definitely agree that Amiga users have kept the machines alive. ZX Next is like that, for Speccie fans and other 8-bit aficionados.