I knew in our heart of hearts that Amiga would never again be a significant player in the industry, but supporting these ongoing developments allowed us to fill in a gap that we wanted to see how the Amigas could have been had development kept going. Since 1994, despite a number of bungled takeovers and lawsuits, I have seen a very large number of separate developments by passionate people that have tried to push the Amiga platform forward, and kept us all engaged and interested in the platform.

I felt like we missed out on what Amiga could have been, as it didn't get the chance to fully develop before Commodore ruined it for us all. This was an awesome era, cut short by management incompetence at Commodore. The remaining passionate Amiga users today, remember when computing was fun. I assume those Amiga fans out there with kids are gently exposing them to the world of Amiga in one way or another - most likely via games and demos.that is great of course. Their community and friends are mostly online, and they generally don't care about Retro computers except as a curiosity scrolling past in their feeds. They don't care much about programming or computing, and use modern systems simply to achieve their personal goals rather than to learn about them. Those next generation kids today are too busy on their smartphones watching TikTok, SnapChat, Signal, Instagram, Discord, Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms. There is no magical next generation of Amiga fans that will keep the platform going. The Amiga as we know it will die when we, the fans, do. It is kinda like those YouTube videos where they show old Retro computers and devices to young kids who have never seen them before and try to use them.

There are a few new people who have never used one, that are interested in Amiga as a Retro platform, but little more than a curiosity for most of them. Many developers and users I know have left Next Generation AmigaOne systems in droves, due to a lack of recent development, caused by all the legal actions underway for the past few years.įor the avoidance of doubt, the target market for Amiga systems in 2021 is current (and former) Amiga owners. These efforts being done outside of their day job, as Amiga development income is definitely not able to pay most of the bills! We see copyright holders fighting the few remaining developers over AmigaOS rights, draining the remaining financial resources to fund ongoing development, and scaring away the few remaining developers who are now expected to contribute for little or no financial reward for their efforts. This is not even considering ongoing game and application development for all of these Amiga platforms.īut despite this, we see so much negativity towards the remaining companies trying to push the Amiga platform forward.

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