I still have my Amiga set up
I took it to uni in 1995, it saw active service long after Commodore went tits up. In my third year, my housemate asked me to remove it from his room as he was playing Cannon Fodder until 4am every night.

I think you should be proud that you had an A1200 in 1994, I would have loved one at the time.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 10:23, 1 reply)

Don't get me wrong...
I was really pleased and privileged to own an A1200. My problem was that I only had the thing for 10 months and then Commodore went bust and I lost heart with computing in general as a result, knowing full well the PC had won (or more specifically, Microsoft Windows). So, I had a gap of some several years of computing until 2002 when I got my first actual PC.

In hindsight, the problem was Commodore got through money like toilet paper and made a load of useless machines that they didn’t need to make. They had all the aces, but just squandered it all. By that time, computing was evolving at a ferocious rate and PC’s caught up.

The only computers they should have bothered with should have been the Commodore 64, Commodore 128 (perhaps improving it and making it as successful as the 128k Spectrum), and the Amiga series (minus the pointless A600, even an ex Commodore head honcho was reported to have said it was a screw up). They shouldn’t have bothered with stuff like the C=16, C=+4, GS, CD32 etc. I still have the A1200, and the C=64, and they hadn’t even seen 21st century air and light until a few week ago when I had an evening of retro gaming malarkey (I’ve even ordered a 1541 Ultimate).

The ‘denialists’ that keep on trying to bring back the Amiga should call it a day I reckon (Amiga One, Project Natami etc), as they don’t have a cat in hells chance in being a successful competitor. In a parallel universe, I would like to think Commodore rules the roost, probably with some form of really insane Amiga that probably does 128bit processing or something scary. On the basis of how good Amiga’s were back in the day.

I have since taught my nephew the awesomeness of the Commodore 64 and Amiga, and recently helped him in installing VICE for Linux. He’s doing some form of A Level Computer Science course and I have been recalling my tales of dabbling with BASIC and Machine Code, and gaming from back in the day. He’s astonished with the capabilities of the machines, especially when I showed him Crest and Oxyron’s ‘Deus Ex Machina’ demo and an Amiga one done using a ‘060 AGA machine, and a YouTube demo of a 4mb A1200 being able to browse the internet. So, he appreciates and has learned that without these machines we wouldn’t have what we are using today (e.g. Workbench brought along the concept of a fully skinnable GUI for example). It’s nice to be able to spread the word on these ‘old school’ setups to a new generation.
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 13:27, closed)

I didn't know there are people who want to bring the Amiga back
as much as I love the machine, things have moved on. Even 'I' have to admit that some of the classic games haven't aged well. I loved "Another World" and "Flashback" back in the day, but I loaded them up a few months back and found them unplayable.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 14:22, closed)

As if proof were needed, check this out for size:
Project Natami

Natami Stage 1 YouTube video

Amiga One X1000

If this isn't flogging a dead horse, then i don't know what is. Nice idea on paper, but doubtful it will succeed. A+ for trying, however.
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 17:57, closed)

Minimig & FPGA Arcade
There is already the Minimig (of which I own two), latest firmware brings it to the speed of an A3000 with 2 meg chipram and 1.5 meg slow (but actually really fast) RAM.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig

Then there is the FPGA Arcade, which will run the Minimig core and have AGA capabilities, however somebody still needs to add all the 68020 instructions to make some of the AGA games work. Some AGA games will work fine without 020 though...

www.fpgaarcade.com/

Both are really small and emulate the Amiga chipset in silicon.
(SillyMoo, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 11:19, closed)