>by Tenacious on 2008/5/18 21:38:08
>I especially appreciate how the Amiga is not "modern". Some >(in previous forums) have argued that Amiga is outdated >because it lacks this or that feature of modern OSes. In my >mind, Amiga is the sole occupant of it's own branch of the >evolutionary tree. That branch is not outdated because much >of it was never improved upon, nor are the concepts inferior >simply because most of the world was sold a different choice.
I would agree with that. Amiga is a different species. It was targetted for games, real-time audio/video effects (which arcade-type games require), fast game port interface, etc. PCs gaming is like a delayed (after-thought) superficial imposition on the computer-- slower game port, effects have to be done through slower APIs rather than hardware standard (and not all hardware supports all API calls), lack of display memory pointers, lack of real-time multi-channel sound, etc. These features made it better at doing them in a pre-emptive multitasking fashion and for NTSC/PAL video stuff. Plus the OS is simple to use or bypass to make time critical stuff easier to do and analyze. I mean how many machines are there where you can compute the exact color clock where the register will be modified to a defined value (only Atari 800 maybe).
