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Offline leirbag28

Re: Why do you stick with the Amiga?
« on: August 08, 2007, 02:22:12 PM »
@MskoDestiny

 I know this may sound ingnorant to say, but As StopTheGop said........The Amiga is the best computer ever made. I know its best if I gave more details why so I will try saying the reasons I use it.

First I agreee with what everyone here said because it is true in all our experiences. I can get DEEP DEEP DEEP into my Amigas OS and manipulate it at will...........it is excrutiatingly fun to know how powerful you are with this machine.

Just think of why Boys play video games and girls don't............knw what ts really about?  Boys like it because they can control something exactly as they want to move it and control it.........they can make the character shoot, Jump, Roll, climb, with no slowdown and supersmooth scrolling..........and finding out combo moves and executing them in Street Figher types. being able to blow up your enemy by pressing the fire button and he's a gonner! its alot to do with Power. No one wants a Robot that disobeys him or crashes in the middle of his task............nor does anyone want a Robot that tells his master what do do, or you need a Masters degree to operate...or at leat to fix or trouble shoot.

The Amiga and Workbench OS (AmigaOS) offer the user super control and knowledge. I feel like I can create an Arexx script and can program, even though I dont know........but its so close and reachable that I feel I can do it. And besides Programs like SCALA let you do almost anything........I think SCALA is one of the programs that define the Amiga........I dont know if your aware but SCALA inc helped create part of the Amiga OS and SCALA was designed for the Amiga specifically...........I remember them trying to create SCALA for the PC.......it ran so bad because of Windows, that SCALA had to actually create an Entire New OS for the PC just to get it run properly.

Windows is still a massive Memory hog........I feel scared everytime I use windows when I am attempting to multitask, that the Computer will start accessing the Harddrive for virtual memory thus slowing down the action (wow do I despise this to the core)

When you have something good and then compare it, one can clearly see that Windows is a disaster. This si really true.and not an attempt to insult the OS. When you look at the History of how windows was made and what its foundation is.......one might be able to see that.........as all they have done is build on that very bad foundation.........one day Windows is going to topple over I feel.

 I never ever have to worry about Amigas functionality or the OS slowing down as it runs fine on 1mb of Ram or 4mb if you have your OS spruced up...........thats darn amazing. I feel the Amiga OS can be slapped onto a PDA and work insanely awesome...........even my Pocket PC crashes and slows down like heck........thats utterly unacceptible and ridiculous.

I have never seen a Gameboy or Nintendo DS or a PSP slow down............this is how Amigas are........but why the heck to Pocket PC's slow down?

I also love the way Hardware integrates with the Amiga. Im never scared that I lost some gfx driver or something. Very very refreshing. In this day and age with the world geting more complex......I dont have time to worry about some DLL freakin file...........DLL hell man! ANNOYING.


We Amigans are passionate as heck for a reason........one because we know what we hate(Windows.....and with very good reason), and we know what works and why we love it...........Amiga!  thats why I stick with it.

CD32 is actually the best Amiga ever made by Commodore!...
 

Offline leirbag28

Re: Why do you stick with the Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2007, 07:46:40 PM »
@vic20owner

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8 color workbench, flickering screen, slow screen updates, and nothing really practical to do with it except watch demos and play some games. Browsing the web is too slow to be practical (even with an 030/50 and 64mb ram), and the text editors lack too many modern features to make them useful.

So it sits in it's original box shielded from the sun so it won't turn yellow.

In a sense, my C64 is more fun because I don't expect as much from it.

So I do love my Amiga... but what to do with it?
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 ooooh do I HIGHLY disagree with you on those statements.  I have never used a GFX card on any of my Amigas..........I use Native AGA on my A1200 and its quite lovely and useful...........seriously more useful than OSX or Windows for me.........I have configured it to be more useful with simply Magic Menu and ToolsDaemon. I can load programs faster than I can on a Mac or PC. its usability is amazing.

and as what to do with your Amiga?  How about Gelocking? ChromaKeying? Video Titling? as far as I have seen, it is still way easier to do this on an Amiga. The quality of the ChromaKeying is much better than some I have seen with WIndowsMedia Maker for instance.
it is really fun to use the ChromaKey PLUS with S-Video and MiniDV footage. The quality is DVD or better. and to top that Karaoke is very popular these days.............with the ChromaKey I can put poeple on a Blue Screen looking silly singing to their favorite songs with an animated background or DigitalJuice.com animations...........which I convert to the Amiga to use with SCALA, ELan Performer or DCTV. Transfering the clips is a breeze with the JUICER and my Subway USB card to read thumb drives.

I also play 4 player games on a FLicker Free Projector I have wich gives me crisp RGB clarity through the S-Video port and de interlaces the image.

I record Speaches on DSS8+ that are really really long and can be PodCast............You can put some fun videos you made with your Amiga on YouTube...............I do lots more that I cant rememember off the top of my head.  But Amigas are still FUN!

CD32 is actually the best Amiga ever made by Commodore!...