(RFD) Amiga.org's future

[NoFastMem]

I remember this was discussed some time ago and even back then my opinion was that retarding the site for the sake of Amiga web browsers did nothing to spur development, and nothing to make the community look like it had moved on from '98 when people seemed to genuinely believe the Amiga was due a comeback.

Is anyone still under the impression that's going to happen? Amiga is retro, and it's freaking awesome, and if people want to browse the web on one, have at it. But it's their battle.

Now, as ever, I think that Amiga.org should serve the classic Amiga community in the same way the C64 sites do, or whatever. No-one at those sites worries whether they're going to render okay on a Spectrum.

One doesn't honour the dead by mounting the corpse in plain view.

[NoFastMem]

Wayne wrote:

NoFastMem wrote:
One doesn't honour the dead by mounting the corpse in plain view.

Just had to say, I love that..  May I quote you?

Wayne

Sure!


@pVC

Sorry, I just think you missed the point of my argument, I wasn't comparing the C64's capabilities to the Amiga, just the approaches the relevant communities take.

[NoFastMem]

whoosh777 wrote:

the_leander wrote:

whoosh777 wrote:
its not what you have, but what you do with what you
have that matters. PCs today are more powerful than
my uni mainframe, but the performance is worse than
the Amiga 500. eg XP can only have at most 26 partitions
as they label these A, B, C, ... Z AND you can only
have a maximum of 4 bootable partitions per drive, as even
2009 mobos dont support booting from logical partitions.

if you go beyond 26 partitions on Windows eg insert
an extra flash drive then it cannot be used until
you relabel from another labelled partition.


But the earliest Amiga HD's had an UNLIMITED number of
partitions and an UNLIMITED number of boot partitions.

All very interesting and utterly pointless in this discussion. And quite frankly, I'll take 3 or 4 partitions on a one Terabyte drive over 50 on a 4Gb drive or whatever the limitation is now.

None of this changes the fact that the site must move on. :roll:

AHA, FALSE ARGUMENT,

because you can have an unlimited number of boot partitions
with a Terabyte on AmigaOS.

Also SATA allows lots of your terabyte drives, but
4 partitions on 6 SATA drives and you will run out
of volume labels!

(as the optical drive will be another label,
which then leaves just one label left)

The Windows scheme isnt scalable, the Amiga 1000 scheme
IS scalable.

Actually todays mobos allow much more hardware than
Windows can cope with.

but the AmigaOS 3.9 architecture can cope with it,

I can't beliveve I'm weighing in on this, since it's irrelevant, but NTFS supports mounting drives without a drive letter just fine.