The Reason most of you (sigh) are still using the Amiga and more...

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The Amiga is over. What is currently calling it self and Amiga is nothing but a releatively standard PowerPC Reference Platform and some software written by some old fans of the Amiga and being marketed by five former Amiga Dealers/Commodore Sales-Marketing guys. There is nothing there that would justify the name--excepting that they are the holders of the trademarks.

I thought this quote summed the situation up rather well.

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the Scala guys may piss you off...but they are completely right... they did after all... create Scale... engineer the amiga...and are to thank for all of this...I take their word for it when they say ICD is better then old MM400 etc... because they developed all of it... and their arguments where pretty solid... MM was good on amiga...but its better on the PC...and Win2K/etc are solid as a rock(relatively speaking)... I've seen tons of kiosks crash running scala and amigas...the amiga was not a system built for solidly running things that Scala wanted...

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um... that total bullshit.

no memory protection no built in TCP/IP,  no ability to scale.

What amiga was good with, was actually running software like scala, software that needed smooth scrolling and so on.

yes in its day for its time it was good...but its complete garbage compared to a modern WinTel running ICD3

And from my experience, Scala is way more unstable on computers running windows.

I dont know what setups you've tried to run Scala on... but alots changed since Windows 3.1 ... might be time for an upgrade

I have seen loads of windows peeces crash...

hasnt everyone? seen, every computer system crash? aside from Unix all OS's are pretty much buggy crap...its just a question of how buggy and how big a piece of crap.... Win2K/XP are relatively stable... these days the OS is mattering less and less... Windows 2003 advanced server is pretty damn solid...for a media server for use with Scala?

a 2+ghz chip, Windows 2003AS  and any modern video chip... you'll be doing more then the amiga was ever capable of doing...in terms of the Scalaverse...

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Heh! You ain't kiddin' it's better!!! As cool as the old MM400 was... Man... It's not even close to the new stuff. I'm on a committee that is reviewing several systems for delivering information on video to my employer's manufacturing facilities, and I just sat in a demonstration done by a Scala reseller from Chicago. I was simply blown away. It's not that the Scala layout and display engine itself has gotten much more advanced (it was already great) but the ability to track, manage, and send different content and videos to multiple sites in a logical way... Very well thought out. You can easily have one person spend only an hour or two a day to run many custom tailored video channels in various offsite locations. Plus you can delegate authority to certain others who can post content only to their own channels, etc. Very well thought out, and definitly requires much more horsepower than the current Amigas. Plus, with x86, the Scala resellers can offer clients the opportunity of a turn-key solution, or an installation on existing hardware to be supported by the company's IT department.

yep... and not to mention the format support,... you outlined the flexability... the flexability is really what makes modern scala rock... you can manage an entire intranet via one workstation as you said...its pretty incredible...

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Waccoom you summed up what I've been meaning to say nicely... Amiga was "GREAT" in its time... but compared to a modern WinTel Kiosk? ...its just not all there..