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>>Is your amiga any less usable today than it was last week? Absolutely. My Amigas are what my business is based on. A platform that is dead-ended cannot grow with the business. And, as an asset for assessing the value of the company, those Amigas just became nearly worthless, so that part of the business plan that details the equipment trurn-over and upgrade now has to be reworked from the perspective that there will be no income from sale of Amigas when equipement upgrade is planned. Additionally, several products that I had been tangentially involve in that were planned to show up in QTR4 this year, and were developed with the "power/professional user" in mind will probably be scrapped. So the professional value and utility of the machine has definityl been degraded. As a hobbyist machine, it won't degrade until it breaks. But that is not my use for it. My hobby machine has wings and a prop… As for the magazines, aren't you forgetting the relative size of the c64/pet user base as compared to the Amiga user base? I think you better revisit the numbers and start thinking like a business person who has to profit from the Amiga instead of use it. Now, in that head and considering the nmumbers, how much longer do you suppose there is a decent profit/effor ratio in the Amiga? And remember, proefessional users need support, near real-time. You won't get that from garage/afte day job developers. So who is left to spend money on Amiga applications? All those 500 owners still running 1.2 and 1.3? And as for Amblin, etc. They don't need the Amiga. They need lightwave. They have the Raptor, screamernet and I'd be willing to bet Mr. Hastings has already prototyped some non-Amiga based Lightwave for just this reason. wmc – via Autopilot!