Why is this site here?

The early days of the Amiga were amazing, that's not hyperbole - it's just fact. As a Commodore 64 owner at that time in England I remember scanning my fathers C64 magazines for every little bit of Amiga info I could get (the magazines in the UK vastly different from those in the US). The Amiga (or Amiga A1000 as it came to be known) seemed to be a spectacular mix of luxury and affordability (at least at the start). Especially for a young boy who had spent his entire Commodore 8 bit years loading and saving programs from a data cassette.

Anyway, let's just say when I finally got my first Amiga I was blown away by this near magical computer. And whilst the hardware played a crucial role, let's not forget that the software was key to revealing this computers personality.

A lot happened between then and now, we are all familiar with the history of Commodore and Amiga. The sad and infuriating tale that it is for all of us. Even those that have never heard of Commodore or Amiga are affected, never having a clue what once was or what could have been. What bliss ignorance is? Yet it is better to have loved.. etc.

Anyway, disheartened with some of the louder voices within the Amiga community of the past few years, we simply gave up on engaging with it as have many other lurkers. We have our Amiga's, we have the fond memories.. and that *has* to be good enough. Naturally we'd love a world where we were able to proudly use our up-to-date Amiga system instead of being offered the flavours of either PC or Apple, but it's just not the case.

Futhermore, what fan can tolerate the Amiga (and Commodore) name being sold and abused in the manner that it has. Seemingly anyone with enough money can buy the name and slap it upon any dubious item of little to no merit.

Then we have the blurry lo-res digitized graphics that festooned the gaming scene in the 90's. And the empty pseudo-console platform games that appeared.. Zool? Horse-feathers!

To us the A500 Plus, A1200 etc were too little too late. Kickstart 2.0+ never sat right with most of us either. That didn't mean we ceased being Amiga users, some of us have owned pretty much every model that was released, they just never felt like a real Amiga.

We're older now, grumpier too. If you love all the BS ... then fine. You're welcome here as much as any Amiga user.

And so this site, might at some point exist beyond its present condition. A site where the original hardware matters and the early software too.

So, long live the Amiga, the developers, the coders and the fans. It was beautiful.