Will Amiga ever live again?

[bhoggett]

@mdwh2 wrote:

This is the problem with a task bar as it is usually implemented - I can't click on one icon, and suddenly have an associated group of programs/windows spring up (I'm on Windows 2000, I don't know how improved XP is here?)

It works with Linux, but XP doesn't add anything to this aspect that Win2k didn't have.

Personally, I've never missed draggable screens. The only use I had for them was to switch between Amiga programs that ran at different resolutions and colour depths, either because of the program's supported resolutions being hardcoded, or because of the Amiga's chip memory constraints.

After I switched to using graphics cards, I never missed draggable screens at all.

[DonnyEMU]

This is just my personal view which I have never been shy about before but why now..  Has anyone seen the hardware scaling and 3d mapping in demos of the new Windows "Longhorn" UI..

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_4015.asp

There are more than a few sites with the demo video of this.. It will further differentiate Windows from the Mac and Linux. It uses Direct X and it's use of the GPU to create a 3D user interface of course it will require a new generation of graphics cards for most users.

I really hope that Amiga folks take notice and are thinking about a 3d future for the Amiga platform..