Still, AmigaOS fits me like a good glove. It's as comfortable as an old shoe, actually, but as stylish as something new with those millions of colors, high-quality audio that dear Paula could never give and sensibly deployed bits of eye candy. Just look at the use of transparency on the Workbench graphics, for all love. It makes sense -- not something dumb like the translucent menu bar OS X has now!
....My Sam440 is my fun computer. You don't have to call it an Amiga, but I will. It's an Amiga compatible you can't argue, running the AmigaOS natively. ACube can say what they want about their industrial customers and Debian, but I'll believe it was purpose-built to do just that. My little girl is Samantha. The dog is Samuel. This was meant to be.
The Sam plays games, sure, but I'm no gamer. I have my fun with other kinds of software. Old LightWave, I keep mentioning, is a pleasure, even if the animation preview is severed from the custom chips it craves and won't work. TVPaint is amazing, and Personal Paint has animation even if it lacks the brilliant "move" requester of DPaint. No go on Deluxe Paint, alas. But, hey, I just got distracted by VistaPro and MakePath. ImageFX and Art Departnent Professional are galloping on all cylinders as well. They're a joy with all this comparative (to 68K) power. OctaMED SoundStudio, MilkyTracker, Hively Tracker? All working.
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+ 1..excellent write up:pint:....I'm so excited waiting for the X1000 that it reminds me of being a kid again dreaming to get my first 64:)
btw, whatever happens to AmigaOS in years to come I pray they never mess too much with my beloved Workbench!
