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Re: What still makes Amiga superior today?
« on: May 19, 2008, 02:07:31 AM »
You can't really say that Amiga is superior today, because it has 15 years of development lag.
But good ideas are timeless. The Amiga still have some that I think are really good. For example:

-It is small and fast. I always remember that when check the amount of disk space and RAM required by Windows...
Compare the speed of alt+tab with Amiga+M. It hurts me to see screens being drawn.

-Multiple screens and screen dragging. It is still cool and useful

-Screens bigger than your monitor. I always need space to put my windows  :-)

-Datatypes  :-)

-Directory organization is clear. No mess in windows\system

-There is no registry. I hate that !!! It is the perfect tool to hide adwares and to slow down your machine

-There are no extensions. File type is built in.

-Preferences. Everything is there. There are no hidden controls.

-Autoconfig. They did an amazing job in plug and play, but from times to times you face the "where is the driver" problem.

-Big Icons

-Two joysticks :-)
 

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Re: What still makes Amiga superior today?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2008, 01:31:08 AM »
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Egg-Chen wrote:

It was totally crazy, each frames were saved in the Ramdisk, then, while Lightwave was processing an other frame, I was making an image conversion on ImageFX (from 24 bit IFF to 256 colors GIF) and saving on a SCSI (the Blizzard 1260 SCSI module) Iomega ZIP 100 the frames once converted. All this during almost 20 hours without any crash, everything ran flawlessly !  :-)


When my A1200 was brand new I used to run a MOD Player (can't remember wich one), render that Camaro model with Imagine, format a disk and write some stuff in Memacs just to impress my PC user friends with "oh, yeah, this is just a 14MHz machine with 2Mb"...

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Re: What still makes Amiga superior today?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2008, 09:40:38 AM »
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foleyjo wrote:
just a quick question.

Is Amiga still the only true multitasking computer?


No...  But it is the only one that seems to be  :-D
 

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Re: What still makes Amiga superior today?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2008, 05:59:00 PM »
I just remind something nice:

Locale !

It might sound silly, but a friend of mine bought a HP notebook for his wife in Italy and wanted to change Vista to Portuguese, because she doesn´t speak Italian.

Guess what? It is impossible !! He can either buy a new Portuguese license or upgrade to Ultimate and download a LIP to half translate the system. Quite modern...
 

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Re: What still makes Amiga superior today?
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2008, 02:02:50 AM »
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stefcep2 wrote:

Not meaning to offend, but there are over 80 posts here highlighting the benefits of the Amiga operating environment over other systems.  We are not talking about the lack of new hardware or software, but the concepts.  If you want to see what AmigaOS might be like on new hardware, try Winuae.  See how quickly it boots, how quickly it lists window contents, how quickly applications start, how smooth the multitasking is, all the while its actually emulating a foreign instruction set.  Why does outlook take longer to fetch my email than YAM under Winuae and under my A4000? Imagine if it were running native code: your PC would fly.  Here are some of the advantages:

1. 5 sec boot.
2. Amiga RDB/Assign command
3. Wonderfully smooth preemptive mutitasking
4. Highly configurable GUI
5. Datatypes
6. Arexx
7. Shell
8. Multiple screens, each with their own color depth and resolution.
9. Highly efficient RAM and hard drive usage.
10. Graphics and sound co-processors with their own DMA, leaving the CPU to act independently on house keeping tasks, ensuring that you always have a responsive GUI.
11. Autoconfig
12. RAM: disk


Please, include:

13. Screen dragging
14. Superbitmap screens in Workbench
15. Locale   :-D