I miss my Amiga. I owned an Amiga 2000 and I really loved that machine. I wrote hundreds of MOD songs using MED and OctaMED. I coded some AI things, some fractal things, and played many a game. I tinkered with the OS to get the best RAM disk version of the OS going that I could.

The last I remember of my machine was my young son sticking playing cards through the cracks in the chasis like he was inserting disks like he had seen me do. I opened the case to most of a deck of cards inside. Nothing was damaged and it was an image that will always remain in my mind.

I was much like Mac fanboys when it came to my Amiga. However, I made it to that point where I needed to decide Windows or Mac. One of my artist friends went the Mac route. I was tired of driving to obscure locations to buy from a limited selection of games (I've always been a gamer) and I knew that almost any job I had would likely be on a Windows based PC. I went the Windows route. Though I still feel as though the Amiga was easily 5 years ahead of any competitor it was just bungled by the executives at Commodore who felt they needed to hold their shareholders meetings in the Bahamas. They were way ahead of Apple and IBM when the Amiga came out, they just failed miserably to capitalize on that advantage.

EDIT: I am not dismissing Linux in this process. At the time I made my decisions Linux was not an option. These days I work on Linux daily, and I also develop for Windows. I consider developing for the Mac but Apple seems interested in closing the system down more so I am thinking that is becoming harder to justify.