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Re: Can there be room for another system?
« on: September 13, 2006, 06:41:23 PM »
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itix wrote:
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when it was fun (C=64/128/Amiga/Atari) there was always breakthrough technology or something that came out and stirred up alot of commotion.


Back then we didnt have
- internet
- 1600x1200x32 or better gfx
- flat monitors
- free movies and music
- watch movies
- harddisks
- USB
- 16bit sound
- 2GB RAM
- DVD/CDROM
- broadband
- PCI expansion cards

And maybe something else I cant remember. I dont miss technology from 80s.



Internet??  Wrong! We most certainly did have that in the 1980s!  It was all command line navigation in those days, but it was most definately the start of the "internet" age.  I used to file flight plans when I was a student pilot in ~1986 online using Compuserv with my Atari ST!  We also had prodigy which was soon followed by AOL plus thousands of private BBS systems, and soon the emergence of the "ISPs" in ~early 1989.  

16 bit sound??  Wrong again.  There are several, but one that comes to mind is the Atari TT030 (circa 1988).

Harddisks??  Been around since at least the mid 1980s if not earlier.  PCs had 'em.  Even old Macs - the ones that look like training toilets - had 'em.  

DVD/CDRom??  Correct about DVD.  But CDRoms have been around since, like, 1982?  I remember buying Van Halen "1984" on CD instead of Vinyl!  

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Re: Can there be room for another system?
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2006, 06:52:57 PM »
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irishmike wrote:
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I looked at AROS, and maybe I am missing something, but isn't it fully an emulator?  Maybe it only runs on Intel based boxes -- (of which I have zero currently)... but it seemed to me that it was an emulation or some such thing like that, so I lost interest very quickly reading their site.

They may indeed however be on the right track, whose to say?





Emulators suck donkey nads.  Its just another (*yawn*) "me-too" wintel box with a nice looking shellac.  I personally wouldn't pay a dime for one.  On second thought, maybe I would buy one...?  I would just pay with emulated money.  
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A4000T. Phase5 PPC604e-233mhz/060-66mhz. Mediator, Z3 Fastlane, Voodoo5, Delfina, X-Surf, AD516, Peggy Plus.

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