Is It Emulation or Not -- the Dilemma

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The lighter is emulating two sticks being rubbed together....

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"Criticism" does not imply a negative opinion.

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Running windows on a macbook air makes it ?

An absolutely fabulous computer.

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@danbeaver

Then you are saying that C=USA's Amiga is the true Amiga since they have the legal right to name it?

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Apple for years pretended that PPC machines were the hottest thing around and when they finally made to switch to intel and people could see that PPC machines were shi'ite, Apple made a big deal about the increased power.  A positive spin make the profit go up.

Good Point!

Let's put it the way Apple tried to sue Microsoft over Windows:  "You then kludge the 'look and fell' of your operating system to run on whatever is the hardware flavor of the week.  Thus 'emulating prior code' to give the consumer the idea nothing has changed; you sell it as just  another 'improvement' to the Mac."

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You emulate to give software producers a chance to catch up, then you move on.  Unfortunately the Amiga world has so few developers that there's zero chance of moving on and a means to an end becomes an end in itself, stifling future development.  More and more goes into maintaining the sandbox and new developments are held back by the necessity to maintain things are they were.  The downward spiral continues to suck the life blood out of any real enhancements and the OS becomes a barely living fossil confined to the desktops of a few loyalists.

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Defenestration?