[hughrr]

It’s called Amiga Denial Syndrome which is an infectious disease amongst computer enthusiasts. The sufferers of this terrible condition genuinely believe that the Amiga still is the pinnacle of computing achievement and that enlightenment can be obtained by ramming the remains of an A1200 corpse with various accelerators and hack boards hanging off it into a PC case, squinting and pretending it’s the A4000 they couldn’t afford in the 90s. This has an elite subcultural element which provides completely new hardware like this A2000 and even new software. None of these people actually have a working Amiga for more than 5 minutes a month however so have to use a PC running Linux or a Mac (but never evil windows) to support their normal computer usage.

Note this is in jest; as a vintage computing enthusiast I have nothing but respect for this and may be speaking from experience :)

[blippage]

I sold my Amiga 600 in late 90's. I bought it in 1993. My previous computer was an Acorn Electron, which had, like 32k of usable RAM. I didn't get much use out of it. A friend said he has an Amiga, and it had 1M of RAM. I was astonished as to how much RAM that was.

I saw a new vid on YouTube recently with a guy showing how to use the Octamed tracker. By coincidence, the guy that bought my Amiga all those years ago bought it primarily for the tracker.

The Amiga is a surprisingly capable machine. I saw a demo where they booted up Debian on the Amiga. It was slow! It just goes to show how compact the AmigaOS is. The whole OS came on 3 single-sided (?) floppies, and one of them was for fonts. Amazing, a whole OS on less than 2 HD floppies.

It appears that AmigaOS is STILL being released commercially . The latest release was 6 months ago. Amazing, considering that Commodore died in 1994. There is AROS, a free version of AmigaOS, which is still actively development. Development seems to be slow, though.

AmigaOS is available for the MK68K and PowerPC. I saw a PowerPC version awhile ago. They're not cheap, though, which is a pity.

I really thought that an AmigaOS is combo with a Raspberry Pi would be an awesome hit. OS development on Pis has been a disappointment, actually. I was expecting more. Everyone just runs Linux.

Kids these days need 8G just to run Firefox, of course.

[Symbiote]

The Acorn Election was a budget computer from 1983, that's not really a fair comparison.

If you'd bought a typical Acorn in 1993, it would have come with either 1, 2 or 4 MiB RAM.

You can run the Acorn OS (RISC OS) on a Raspberry Pi.

[perl4ever]

Well, I'm not sure I see the point of anything beyond an emulator, (is it even slower than the hardware?) but the thing that sticks in my memory about the Amiga is how the Roguelike games tended to have graphical tiles when most ports on contemporary machines didn't. Specifically Hack and Moria, back in the day.

[amelius]

> It’s called Amiga Denial Syndrome which is an infectious disease amongst computer enthusiasts.

Is this related to the Reality Distortion Field?

[dm319]

We were the original fanboys (A1200 here).

Joking aside, they were amazing machines that people, somehow, became emotionally involved with.