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Offline DaveP

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Things I like about my classic Amiga:

1. It has an Amiga mouse and Amiga keyboard. Something about them.
2. It has a 240Mhz PPC processor with an 060 which does most things nippily.
3. The Amiga user interface.
4. Some of the software on it.
5. The crisp display using a Mediator and voodoo ( old card I know ).

Things I don't like
1. Instability, gurus.
2. Speed. Sorry, its slow. Slow slow slow.
3. Chip ram limitation. I use many apps at a time, and most of them pinch chipram. Run out real quick.
4. Naff combinations of look and feel, icons that are still in MagicWB format, some UIs use Reaction, others use MUI, some even use original format icons and whatnot.
5. AGA. For gods sake, it crawls! And worse, if you use AGA for anything serious with a decent screen resolution and depth and try and connect to the internet watch that mouse pointer jerk around like windows 3.1 - that is if you can get the internet connection to stay up.
6. Hardware cludge after cludge, if i knock the case too hard the buffered 4 way ide interface pops off that ancient IDE head on the mobo, or the Blizzard trembles and whacks into the side of the case.
7. Not being able to move individual windows off screen or onto other custom screens - Linux has spoiled me.
8. It feels horribly old.

Roll on AOS4 on A1 and save me from this ancient mutant of a machine.
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We had all these hardware limits which were broken by clever pieces of software: "I'm sorry you can only have 32 colours on screen at once". Then someone came up with HAM.

HAM was built in and available all the time.

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"I'm sorry you've only got 2mb chip memory". Then someone came up with FBlit. (My vote for piece of Amiga software ever).

Thanks, Ill check that out...!
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