What is really needed is an Amiga laptop ...

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I'm giving a public talk tonight and was thinking about how I was going to be strutting into the room with my PowerBook rather than an Amiga.  (You don't expect me to lug an A2000 on the subway, do you? ;-) )  This is an implicit form of advertising and laptop manufactuers know this as well as anyone else.  That is why manufacturers put so much effort into designing unique and aesthetic cases for their laptops and couldn't care less about the appearance of their desktops.  Apple is no different with their glowing logo.

So here I am stuck advertising for a product that I do not like (a PowerPC based Macintosh), rather than one I do like (a 680x0 based Macintosh or Amiga).

It's just a thought, and it's not as though presentation software would burden a 68k.  (I'm using an ancient Macintosh application to present the visuals.)

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Why use Amiga Forever when I have real Amigas?  Yeah, I know, so that I can have a laptop.  For some reason, I've never had much luck with emulators.  When I do, they seem to run slow and just don't feel the same (I know that is subjective).  But I'm happy to hear that you have had some luck.

As for PowerPoint, I wonder how many people realise how unnecessary it is.  My talk is being given on a prehistoric word processor.  I use a full screen preview mode for the presentation proper.  Sure, I loose transition effects but I don't care about those seeming as I view it as style over substance (yeah, I know opinions will differ).  From the looks of it, I can even embed audio and video so multimedia content is okay.  :-D  Some people use Adobe Acrobat (or Preview on the Mac) to the same end.  But most people are convinced PowerPoint is the only way to go ...

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LOL!  Given that my PowerBook is a 12" job, I think an A600 with an external display would be a step backwards in portability.  Granted, I would probably have a better keyboard.

On emulator performance, the processor is only a GHz, the machine is in need of RAM, and I doubt that UAE has been optimised for PowerPC processors.  But I'll give it another try and see what happens.

I'm beginning to think that the only way I'll get my ideal computer is to emulate it, because modern stuff is way too bloated for my tastes but modern hardware is nicer in many respects.

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I'm trying to get the Unix version running under Mac OS X, seeming as MacUAE seems to have been abandoned in 1998.  It is working with my A2000 ROM and disk images of Workbench 2.04, but I have been unable to mount a local directory (ie. so I can use my OS 3.9 CD, to see what it looks like in something more than 16 colours ;-) ).  It would also be nice to have more disk space in 2.04.

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This isn't meant to slight the developers, but I think the bus errors I was running into was due to sloppy coding.  The problem deals with threading, which isn't the sort of thing I know how to work around, so I'm just going to set UAE aside.

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Cool.  The bounties are are great idea and Bounty #15 looks awfully tempting.  Now if only I had enough patience for programming.  I know that those bounties aren't much given the amount of work, but it is a heck of a lot more appealing than looking for a job.   :roll:

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Yeap.  It's weird.  I compile it, and it's broken.  The precompiled stuff works, but is slower.