@fishy_fis
I understand what you are saying. Amiga had apps back then that was fun to use. I used Dpaint lots and Imagine. When I was in school I wrote my lab reports in Wordworth, I tried to write my final exam (thesis) in Wordworth too but as I added lots of footnotes to my document Wordworth finally took too long to rearrange the whole document when I added more footnotes to it. (WW became slow on my acclerated A1200) So I had to start over on my first win95 box in Word. That was 1996.
The reason i use Aros is because it behaves as amiga OS did. It gives me the same feeling as using an Amiga. At the moment I browse the web a lot with OWB for example. I play a few games when I feel like it, SDL ones, old Amiga goodies too. I can't lie and say I'm satisfied with Aros, sure a lot is missing, but for me I can't see that the things missing is to come via emulation of old applications. IMO the future is in the other direction, to bring more "new" apps to Aros. Part comes from porting and part comes from native apps.
I like the fact that we CAN run old legacy software and I would not want Aros not to be able to. But a few moments back in this thread it almost became a contest of which amiga-like OS runs the old software the best. I say I don't think it matters for the future, the future is not in our old applications. I have somewhat put the past behind me, I revisit it from time to time by playing old games, checking out old applications but I can't see me getting productive in those applications anymore. Not even Imagine 3D.
Lunapaint was "getting there", I would gladly use it, and suggest how to improve it (and I did) but then the development stopped so that was a dead end. Sad. I hope Mazze (that has the sources now) finds time to work on it but I doubt that, he's needed in so much other areas of Aros.
My 2 cents.
