How did Amiga influence you?

[gertsy]

..maybe if all you do is boot the machine, look at the wallpaper, and shut it down..  Try editing video or encoding large batches of media on a PIII running Windows XP and then again on an i7 machine running Windows 7.  I guarantee you'll appreciate those extra resources.

Yes but try encoding video on the same i7 machine running XP Sp3. And I bet (once in the app) you won't notice a difference..


For me the biggest influence from the Amiga for games was co-op games
For Apps it was Tiger Cub. A simple little Midi/Sample program that could produce wonders.
From an OS perspective it was productivity and usabiltiy.  Doing general stuff was fast.

Gertsy.

[gertsy]

Can't hold up progress for a few legacy apps, unfortunately.

Here's the fix, though, XP mode.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

Hint: virtualization is awesome, and will help you get every last bit of performance out of your machines.

If you mean use up every last bit of resource, I agree.   (o:

Yes progress is to continually buy new kit and bury the old stuff.  I think our great grand kids will have some wonderful comments in regard to "progress"

Another thing the Amiga taught me is that revolutionary technology lasts 7 years.  not 3.

[gertsy]

......  We wouldn't expect it to run faster on Windows 7, would we?
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I expect it.  But never see it.  
I remember when WB 1.3 came out it was supposed to be faster than WB 1.2.  Didn't see it. When 2.05 came out it slowed things down a lot.  So the Amiga also influenced me in that usually new OSes are slower OSes on the same hardware.  Win 7 is probably a good effort in that regard.