greenboy Interview (Episode IV: A New Hope)
Let the results - the supplied products and solutions - speak for themselves when they are given a voice in the near future. And let the developers choose freely. They do anyway; many have a history of cross- platform development. It is quite likely that several of the available possibilities will manifest into useful and enjoyable central products, and that they may actually compliment each other. Who knows until we try?
(AB) On a lighter note, is it just a coincidence or does it symbolize the times we're living in that the last chances for the continuation of Amiga spirit are represented by people using pseudonyms, namely Fleecy Moss and you, greenboy?
Ah, steering toward the metaphysical ; } Well. Fleecy and I may be involved in predominant movements, but there are other initiatives also - they are blessed with people having normal names. And we odd ducks are surrounded by people who help reign in our excesses and they too have mostly conventional names. Though I have noticed when roaming IRC and the rest of the net, that they too may be...adventurous...when experimenting with self-image. *ahem*
(AB) greenboy - is it your first or last name? ;-)
Yes ; }
It's my name. Period. As a musician, I led a band named I had named "greenboy". In a very short time people just started calling me greenboy (shades of Jethro Tull). Many of these folk were my customers and friends and partners in Amiga-based projects. They were seeing Amiga-made "greenboy" cassettes and posters and T-shirts, and they became comfortable with the name too. So it stuck. I began to use it in my other business affairs and at my Amiga dealership.
I had an not-so-conventional clientele anyway - in a good way. I mostly sold big-box systems with all the fixin's to creative people: graphics specialists and animators, musicians, studio people, gallery and performance artists, guerrilla videographers - and even general Amigans who were of course very interested in multimedia and creativity. Exciting times, these.
The name probably did me no harm. In fact it was an asset in most cases, because those types of people always like an interesting scene. Any encouragement to express healthy individuality is met with enthusiasm. Even my corporate clients and people who consulted with me usually got into the spirit.
Now it is unthinkable to be anybody else because those golden Amiga years were so rewarding. There was such a nexus of newly-discovered power unleashed by the all the programmers and engineers involved with the Amiga as they reinvented the desktop, innovating new categories of use and terms to describe them.
Profoundly enough, we have
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