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Hey Garry, Not yet ;) A little bit of RS action might help to resurrect us... like releasing V6 ;) Hm, I replied before but never saw it, wrong mailing identity perhaps.
OK , well how about some more off topic stuff then ? [.........] Brings up another important point to ponder ... Many could not afford a monitor for their amazing Amiga 4000 .
I still have mixed feelings about the day I bought an Amiga4000/030. A few weeks later Commodore went bankrupt! Then I sold my old A500 + 1084 monitor to get a multisync 1960 monitor. Bad move too... it quickly went up in smoke (literally) after having been in 'lost in repair' for months. The A4000/030 was a bad piece of engineering... it also made a terrible shrieking noise. But on the plus side: I learned Real3d on it! Loved Amos too, and Arexx, DeluxePaint, Professional Page & Draw, etc etc. Not to mention AmifaOS and Workbench!
BTW: funny to think that Microsoft wrote Commodore64 Basic...
I just used my 29 inch Zenith TV , via the incredible Amiga A520 Video adapter . Worked so well I never did desire a monitor for the Amiga .
I think I still have one somewhere (didn't include it in the A500 sale, hehe), but I found a TV too fuzzy to work with... the 1084 was great.
Well , what _IF_ the Amiga had not , um ... succumbed to external pressures? Was the Amiga not poised to be the obvious convergence conduit ? Was it not suedo-convergence in 1993 when , with a flick of my TV's remote I switched David Letterman to 'Opalpaint' ? From Seinfeld to 'Vlab Motion' ... from 'Art Director Pro' to a music video ? Was true convergence stymied , when the Amiga died ? Did a kind of convergence manage to find it's way into our lives via a back-door MS/Intel TV tuner ?
What about these set-top boxes that were attempted by some of the companies that took over the Amiga brand? Didn't some companies actually try that? I guess they fail
I've had it with TV... >99% of the content is rubbish, I'll never buy a TV again.
enough ranting, Mark H
