That's funny
Once upon a time, Amiga was a superior machine (in terms of hardware) as anything else... So Amiga fans were using this as an argument for the Amiga's superiority.
But then, PC catched up, and even went beyond, with faster gfx, more colors, even smooth scrollings, etc... Sure, it took time. But meanwhile, Amiga only went from OCS/ECS to weak AGA.
And AGA was inferior to anything else, be it consoles of the time or even PC. So Amiga fans had to use another argument... So they switched to the OS, and the fact it was small, when compared with bloated Windows (or Linux,...). And could do preemptive multitasking while OS of the time couldn't (well, MacOS couldn't, but Windows had preemptive multitasking starting from Win95, although the full OS wasn't yet 32BIT).
Today, well... OS are still bloated, but processors are so fast and you have so much memory that's it's not really a problem, especially when compared to the services it gives you: 3D, Games, Video encoding/decoding, webcam, huge frameworks,... And all OS can do preemptive multitasking, even MacOS, yes!
And well, AmigaOS became bloated too: while original AmigaOS could run with as little as 256kb RAM, I doubt you could run the latest with less that 40Mb RAM... And that's without running the bloated browsers that can easily eat as much as 32Mb RAM for a single webpage ! So well... not only the OS isn't that light anymore, but it's also lagging in term of services, functionnalities, security, etc.. no memory protection, no resource tracking, no advanced 3D support (T&L ?), weak USB support (especially for OS4, since Poseidon is quite advanced I have to admit).. So you can't really use the OS anymore as an advantage, or you can use stupid things like "it boots fast"... but since you can reboot every hour or so because program x brought down the whole OS, I really don't see it as an advantage. The last time I rebooted my WinXP machine must have been 3 months ago... and it's no even long compared to today standards.. It's just normal.
As for the hardware, well, Amiga is still trying to catch up... lagging behind, because there's no development made in desktop powerpc. Cause there is no market..
So well, what's staying ?
Well, arguments as stupid as "you may poll the joystick port 1000 times a second, the PC cannot". Well, it's certainly *true*. But it is so useless that no one in the entire Amiga's existence ever mentionned or used it. No one but you...
So really, who cares ?
Now, if people could simply accept the fact that the Amiga has been catched up in every aspect, we could move on.. and work on something great, nice... a true NG Amiga... it surely wouldn't catch PC development. That can't happen anymore. But could be fun, interessting, *fresh*,... like the original Amiga actually.
Running ScummVM+SDL ports on lagging hardware, crashy, old, ugly (yes, grey 2-colours GUI was certainly ok on a TV, but on a 20 inch 16/10th monitor and such powerfull gfx boards you can certainly o better) OS isn't really fun...
Playing with a nice true NG frehs OS on powerfull common/cheap PC hardware could be interesting though... Look at Apple: seems like fun is possible with PC hardware as well... and I ask you to show me the difference between a PPC-Mac and an Intel one without opening it... except that the Intel one would be faster of course.
That was my two cents. You can keep on posting detailed reports on how you can poll the Amiga joystick port faster than anything else, but this won't change anything to that...
