What are the advantages of Amiga...

[benJamin]

What's so great?

Directory structure and system utilisation:

*  Logical Assigns
*  Disks have names which are USED, so one disk will always appear the same, no matter what computer it is on (sometimes my USB key breaks on XP because it doesn't always register as drive E:, a real pain!)
*  Local (PROGDIR:) Libs, etc. directories override system Libs at a higher level if available for the current program
*  If you don't like the format/disk copy requester/command, just replace the tool with a new one in the appropriate directory.
*  Not perfect but highly achieved backwards compatibility for software using system libraries
*  It's fun to program and use
*  You learn more about what's going on under the hood because its intentionally un-obscure

Etc.


jaminJay
"It's all a matter of perspective."

[benJamin]

If the keyboard on my A1200 still worked...

If the CD drive in my CD32 still worked...

If... oh, hell!  I want a new machine.

(FWIW, I max out this Linbox all the time, makes my A500 look powerful...).

But, it emulates my A1200 better than a Winbox, so I'm not too upset.

I still do my pleasure coding (ie, not work or Uni. related) for Amiga OS, and use Cinema4D from my USB key whenever I need it, and PPaint if I can't find a GIMP.

Bring on AmigaOS X (the X stands for XWindows, if you couldn't guess).

jaminJay
"if(AmigaOS4 && newHardware) { money->makePurchase() } else { money->collectInterest() }"