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I'm a terminal case of nostalgia; got my A500 in 1990 (I think?). A friend introduced me to XCopy quickly enough and in time my games collection took up boxes of floppies… we all know that story, don't we. ;D

 

And as the story goes, Commodore kicked the bucket around 1993, many of the Amiga platform dwellers moved onto PCs and some dismissive of Intelhood and Microsoft serfdom - went to Apple (Me amonst these). Many an Amiga was left in closets and lofts to gather dust. Though, the faithful clung on through the waves of EScom, Gateway and whomever passed the eviscerated patents and brand goodwill of Commodore , hand to corporate hand that hadn't a clue about what to do with it. Apple managed to survived the 1990s ordeals and eventually pumped out Mac OS X, the iPod and later iPhone that changed everything for the worse; Microsoft kept growing and assimilating everything around them and pumped out Internet Exploider, Windows Me, XP, Vista, the Zune and lots of new MS Office boxes with new year numbers regularly (=$$$$$) and the Amiga faithful got Gloom and Amiga OS 3.1 (or was it? I forgot tbh. They got something, at least. Luckily, it wasn't a perennial new version of Norton Antivirus … )

 

Neither a front line fighter not a basement guerilla in keeping the torch burning over the past over twen… no make that thirty years, but I have been with it all the way. When I noticed the final issue of Amiga Format on the newsstands back in the day, unmistakably proclaiming that the end had come something gave; years after that, hopes that the custom PowerPC hardware and desktop computers would give the Amiga just that slight comeback; with the AmigaOS going from 3.5 to the much anticipated 4.0 and as time creeeeeaked by, OS 4.1, after which it was clear that the heat death was imminent. There was, at that time, too little going on to maintain my previously continual interest and observation of the remainder of the Amiga milieu.

 

edit: I was wrong, apparently there's such a thing as 68080s around now. Blimey!

 

To wit: AmigaRemix et al. are the treasure trove of embers of these times past; systems and platforms that was - no, is - the home to artistic and madly talented guys and gals to create worlds of wonders in impressions and sheer creative product. These embers here are only those of the audible side of things, yet these many audio productions tie to a whole cascade of talent of the Amiga platform and milieu; first the games and from there on, the world. The songs still bring joy.

 

Thus: a resounding, hearty greeting to all of you fellow travellers out there!

 

Edit January 2026: Still alive; and what do you know, Commodore seems to have resurrected. We do live in strange times.