What made you leave the Amiga scene?

[Vangar]

Well i dunno about the actual amiga, But i moved from Australia to Canada and its taken me about 5 months to get back to thinking about this site. Been here a long time and dont post often enough. I need to get motivated to do so. Back when Classicamiga started to now, I think this site rocks.

[Puni/Void]

Hi there Vangar! A bit off-topic perhaps, but why did you move to Canada? Is it something work related?

[Shoonay]

I voted ..it was a mistake and I soon came back!

Oh well, you know... in late 1996 my best gaming friend got himself a PSX so we became huge fans of it, then in January of 1997 I got meself one too and the madness started. Amiga went sitting on my desk and waiting for better times.
Then in December of 1998 I got meself a PC (Celeron 333 with a shitty ATI card that couldn't run Carmageddon 2 at an enjoyable frame rate), around the year 2000 I got me very own dial up modem and spent way-too-much-cash on every day irc.
Finally, around 2002 I think, I discovered that Amiga is still alive and kicking and there are a few great portals in the Internet.
Thanks to a good new friend from PPA.pl I managed to get a HD working with my A600, copied almost all of the ~350 floppies to it and never looked back at a disk drive.

[xpect]

Never left.

Used my Amigas professionally for music at a daily basis till the end of 1999. My Amiga 4000 had the same WB3.0 install for 14 years till I decided to install 3.9 at the end of last year.

I have PC's since 1996. I bought my first one a Pentium 166 MMX because of the Encore scoresheet music program, nothing related to gaming. I used the A4K for MIDI sequencing daily with Bars&Pipes and Samplitude for audio editing. Only jumped to the PC fully when was inevitable softwarewize at the end of 1999. And guess what program i'm using on the PC also, till today? Yes, Samplitude. Now in version 10.2.

[Demon Cleaner]

There's still no option for me?

I could get a good PC for very cheap and I really thought that PCs would make the future. That was in 1993, and I was right (no flaming now please ).

[Vangar]

Hi there Vangar! A bit off-topic perhaps, but why did you move to Canada? Is it something work related?

So-so. Its a nice change from Australia (sort of, i like Australia's weather better) But I also have moved here to be with my Girlfriend for 2 years. I really need to get on this forum more... Ever since the move to the new forum years ago i stopped coming as much as I did! I even have it on my shortcut bar in firefox and just never know what to post here...

[Phantom]

I know that's an old story, but I have to say my opinion too.

I just never abandoned Amiga, it's simply as that. When Commodore went down, I just loved Amiga much more than I did.

It's like a machine with spirit, you can easily hear her whispering at you at sometimes...

But whatever happens in the future, it will not change my mind and love about Amiga.

[Sharingan]

That's pretty deep, man

I suppose I never really abandoned the Amiga, since I regularly dug up the machine just to have a go at one of the classics. However, the frequency of that happening did decrease after I first bought a PlayStation, and after that, the PS2.

I never got into PC gaming, however. I wasn't particularly impressed or even interested in all the FPS games like Doom, and for some reason, I felt somewhat hostile towards anything PC-related. It wasn't until 1999 or 2000 that I first bought a decent PC for University work. The only games on the PC that I did want to play were the strategy games, which the consoles mostly lacked.