leirbag28 wrote:
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Amazing how no one ha answered your questions
Workbench (AmigaOS) is to Amiga What Windows is to PC
Wrong.
"Workbench" is to AmigaOS, what "Explorer" is to Windows.
Workbench and AmigaOS are exactly the same thing...in the beginning it was called Workbench (sometimes referred to as Intuition) but now is called AmigaOS...........dont listen to what anyone else tells you.....they will confuse you with technical jargon.
Workbench is the desktop.
AmigaOS is the collection of libraries (and releated components) and programs which are provided with the Amiga Computer.
Intuition is one of the libraries supplied with AmigaOS... it is the toolkit which the Workbench is built from.
Workbench is complete as it is. its a Small Operating Sytem.....thast why its so cool becuase it can run off a floppy disk.............but of course Hard drive installed is way better.
Workbench can run from an 880Kb floppy because the OS is on a 512K ROM.
Now to get it up to Par like Windows98 lets say.................there are tons of hacks and upgrades and eyecandy you can download to make it look more modern...........................like cool icons, backgrounds and just totally customize the look. Workbench 3.1 can llok better than Windows98
What is you thing with Windows98... that is an 8 year old operating system that hasn't been supported for 5years!!! DON'T USE IT!!!
or you can just go straight to AmigaOS3.9 (Workbench 3.9) which was the Last OS made for Non PowerPC Amigas and it will look somewhat nice right out of the box................but essentially OS3.9 is basically Workbench3.1 with all the hacks I told you that you can download, except already prepackaged. OS3.5 and 3.9 needs the Kickstart ROM 3.1
Kickstart on Amiga = BIOS chip on PC
Not really... The kickstart is a combination if a BIOS and a Boot disk... The PC BIOS also has some nonvolatile memory that the Amiga does not have.
You can do almost anything Windows98 does on the Amiga with Workbench 3.1
You can:
Use AOL Instant Messenger (AmigAIM)
Yahoo Instant messenger (JabberWocky)
iPOD pod casting (AmiPodder)
IRC (AmIRC, BlackIRC, Wookichat)
Internet Explorer (A-Web, iBrowse, Voyager)
Outlook express or JUNO (YAM, SimpleMail)
PowerPoint (SCALA MM300, MediaPoint, AmigaVision)
Microsoft Word (Final Writer, AmigaWriter, Wordworth)
Excel (Final Data)
WinAMP (AMPlifier, Amiga AMP)
WinZIP (WizARC, X-ARC)
Adobe PhotoShop (Perfect Paint, ImageFX, FX Paint)
You can't compare Photoshop with ANY Amiga image package!
You can't compare Execl with Final Data, nor can you compare Internet Explorer with ANY Amiga browser!
The Amiga has NOTHING that compares with the latest of these packages.
And neither the Amiga nor Windows has anything that compares to Logic Pro 7.2!
And Tons tons more!!!
Amiga and Workbench are still great Today
Fun to play with but not to do real work on... which was the Amiga's great strength in its day.
Get a 68030 50mhz with 32 MB or more if you can..better if you get a 68040 or 68060.
you can get a GFX card too but that changes things a little and things get a little weird from there.
Or better get WinUAE...
