3 ms·

I used to be absolutely in love with my Amiga(s) back in the days but I'm a bit puzzled: what is the point of this? Whenever nostalgia strikes, I fire up UAE (

I used to be absolutely in love with my Amiga(s) back in the days but I'm a bit puzzled: what is the point of this? Whenever nostalgia strikes, I fire up UAE (or whatever the best emulator is at the moment), run a few games and after a few hours, I'm done. What is the business purpose behind this initiative?

azinman2 11y ago
Exactly. I recently did this with simcity and a Mac emulator. I downloaded all these games and what not, only to pay simcity for a few hour and my nostalgia quotient was filled. No need to boot up an original as fun as that might seem.
vidarh 11y ago
There's a small but vocal contingent on the Amiga boards that insists on classic hardware at nearly all cost for different values of "classic hardware" that usually includes some extent of new expansion boards or replacements, as long as they're suitably close to the original in spirit. The business purpose is that there is still a small number of people that keep buying hardware. The Amiga community is odd - you have the whole spectrum from purists that want 100% original hardware, via Franken-setups with a mix of original hardware and newly developed expansions, to FPGA reimplementations, to the PPC AmigaOne's running AmigaOS 4.x, to the AmigaOS reimplementatins/inspired OS's (AROS and MorphOS), and some people are very militant about their camps.
klez 11y ago
> What is the business purpose behind this initiative? Why there needs to be a business purpose? When did hackers stop doing stuff because it's fun and because they can? I guess this is somewhat costlier than doing free software development during one's spare time. Still, they'll probably lose money only while prototyping, since they'll start producing after pre-orders start coming in. Unless, of course, they screw up and start getting refund requests via paypal.
mjcohen 11y ago
I want to play "Marble Madness" and "Hole-in-one Miniature Golf".

azinman2 11y ago

Exactly. I recently did this with simcity and a Mac emulator. I downloaded all these games and what not, only to pay simcity for a few hour and my nostalgia quotient was filled. No need to boot up an original as fun as that might seem.

vidarh 11y ago

There's a small but vocal contingent on the Amiga boards that insists on classic hardware at nearly all cost for different values of "classic hardware" that usually includes some extent of new expansion boards or replacements, as long as they're suitably close to the original in spirit. The business purpose is that there is still a small number of people that keep buying hardware. The Amiga community is odd - you have the whole spectrum from purists that want 100% original hardware, via Franken-setups with a mix of original hardware and newly developed expansions, to FPGA reimplementations, to the PPC AmigaOne's running AmigaOS 4.x, to the AmigaOS reimplementatins/inspired OS's (AROS and MorphOS), and some people are very militant about their camps.

klez 11y ago

> What is the business purpose behind this initiative? Why there needs to be a business purpose? When did hackers stop doing stuff because it's fun and because they can? I guess this is somewhat costlier than doing free software development during one's spare time. Still, they'll probably lose money only while prototyping, since they'll start producing after pre-orders start coming in. Unless, of course, they screw up and start getting refund requests via paypal.

mjcohen 11y ago

I want to play "Marble Madness" and "Hole-in-one Miniature Golf".