Amigas aren't really a console per se, is it?

Hmm, I suppose not, but it doesn't come with an internal OS, so it is dedicated hardware to play games somewhat. As soon as you add the external Hard Drive then its really not no. The retro community refer to it as a console from what I've read in Retro Gamer. I think its because its just used for gaming now rather than word processing and other such desktop aps.

Yea, I kinda feel that way, but on the other hand I like getting them cheap so I'm not going to whine about it. Their most recent title (Dark Star One) came out in 2006, but I happen to like it and thought it was an overlooked game.
I guess it depends on what you see as old. Some people would probably think of any game that came out last year as old. Others might consider any game that didn't come out in the current console generation old. And yet others may wait a decade before declaring a game old. Then there are those who consider a game old once they beat it, even if it came out yesterday. And then...well, you get the idea.

Yeah, as I said in another thread. Aside from the no-DRM-thing (which I'm not convinced is so important for the general gamer as many would like to think - just look at Steam's success), what makes GOG unique and interesting is the old games it offers that you normally can't get anywhere else. This is also what the GOG-people tend to advertise in interviews - here's an example from the recent Eurogamer-interview:
"Lukasz Kukawski: First of all let's reveal what GOG means - it is an acronym for Good Old Games. GOG.com is a digital distribution platform that supplies all old-school games fans with DRM-free and dirt-cheap PC classics. What's even better is that you don't have to worry that your computer won't run those games, because our programmers optimise all GOG.com titles to run smoothly on both Windows Vista and XP operation systems. The games catalogue offers almost 100 titles including such hits from the past century like Fallout, Duke Nukem 3D, Simon the Sorcerer, Unreal, Earthworm Jim, Freespace and more."
[url=]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/good-old-games-interview[/url]

The next time you see one of these people who call 2 of the finest home computers ever built a CONSOLE, please slap them in the face for me.

They were/are computers, though. If you go to an Amiga-forum and refer to any of the standard Amiga-models as consoles, prepare to be flamed. And you'd deserve it. :-)

If there's commercially released tedious productivity software sold for it, its not a console.
As far as I KNOW you can't get Excel 360, PS3 SQL or WiiCAD

Amen, buddy.

I'd say its down to how you use it. A basic Amiga 500 works like a console, but as soon as you expand it, then its a computer. I see the Amiga 500 as a hybrid dependent upon how you use it and from what I understand that is the generally accepted terminology. If you used yours for application use and games then its more a personal computer to you. I've done both as I have one just for games and another with a hard drive and serious stuff (Wordsworth, PPaint, Cinema 4D etc.)
Anyway what I was going to say was perhaps its going to take time for the larger audience to 'get' GOG. Its going to take time.

Well if thats the only category then most laptops & macs are consoles
Whilst I do agree that usage implies function, its not always the only factor. I have a computer designed & built specifically to play media files, to me thats not a DVD player/VCR or whatever, it's a dedicated task computer. I'm planning to build a dedicated gaming PC & that wouldn't count as a console either.
I would probably argue that defining something as a computer rather than a console is dependant upon the ABILITY to do other things with it. Whether or not the other things are ever done isn't really relevant. With the netbook I'm typing this on, I can play games as well as do productivity stuff, the fact that I don't doesn't really matter. My 360 on the other hand is a game machine with basic video playback and thats it forever (unless I do a dodgy hardware mod)

I refer to the PC as a console. Just to stir trouble of course, but still I don't see why that is inaccurate. Also, Macs are PCs and PS3/Wii/XBox et al are all computers. Mwahahaha!

Nintendo 64 is a computer.

Using the post number is nice though because it creates a link to the quoted post (see that little arrow at the end of the quote?)
Or look here instead, binaries (AlephOne) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, as well as source code, plus data (scenario) files for all three games, and some extras.

People who ignore older games because of the graphics or because they aren't new are just ignorant, and they're missing out on some of the greatest games ever made.