> Looking back what I really remember was the resentment at losing their platform. Of investing and heading down a spectacular evolutionary dead-end and a desir

> Looking back what I really remember was the resentment at losing their platform. Of investing and heading down a spectacular evolutionary dead-end and a desire for it not to be wiped away by boring beige boxes that lacked any of the passion or wit that the creators of the Amiga had infused into their creation. You put into words the feeling I've held onto for 25 years. When I finally gave up on my A1000 and moved to Windows on a 486, it felt like a loss to be grieved. > What made Amigas great was the creative life energy that was weaved throughout it more than any specific technical considerations. If the Apple Macs were created with the taste of expert graphic designers, and PCs by accountants, the Amiga was made by the kind of anarchist creatives who would later on go to make things like the early Burning Man, perfect the 90s counter-culture digital art movements like the demoscene, off-beat public access videos with the video toaster, the epic Babylon 5, and allow bedroom game coders to absolutely maximize their art. It was the seed that gave visual representation to earlier cyberpunk. Seriously, you're capturing my memory of this platform perfectly. The Mac was the nearest thing to an Amiga, but it was still lacking in some hard-to-pin-down way that I think you just nailed.