Why can't a windows machine do it.

[Roj]

@LoadWB

I couldn't agree more.


@motorollin

It's certainly a contributing factor. PCs without USB, a sound card and a graphics card can't do a whole lot, while an Amiga can still do what it does with or without those expansions. In some areas, Amigas will perform better without expansion hardware. Still, I'd love to have AmigaOS running on modern hardware.

Maybe the requirement of PCs to have so many features available only through expanded hardware caused, in part at least, the hardware diversity you're talking about. Instead of just needing an expansion device to enhance the computer, PCs need certain expansions just to function. Some expansions will work better than others obviously, so even a basic PC has hardware variations.

Everything beyond audio beeps, and white text on a black background, was an afterthought on PC hardware. It leaves the door open to myriad ways to get things right, and also to get things wrong. With Amiga hardware, when two cards conflict, a PIV and an A4091 for example, you choose one and put the other someplace else. But you don't need either one. On a PC, when your graphics card has a conflict with your motherboard, you're hosed until you get a card that doesn't have that conflict.


@Zac67

I think the only people who take Windows seriously are those who've never used anything else. ;-)

[Roj]

I keep hearing people here complain about PCs, most of the time it's not with up-to-date hardware or up-to-date operating systems.

But my experience with Windows is not with up-to-date hardware. I wish it was, but I don't see that as a practical option. The need to constantly update the hardware in order to see the system run the way it's supposed to is part of the reason I don't care for them. I'm big on first impressions, and I don't care for companies that take ten years to finally "get it right". Then again, I'm not big on companies that take ten years to do next to nothing either. ;-)

It's disappointing when I run into someone who has actually used an Amiga, but still thinks of them as close-to-stock A500s or A4000s, and then chuckles when I mention that they should try one that's had the benefit of newer hardware and expansions.

The Amiga and PCs are no better or no worse than each other for capabilities and performance in these areas.

I disagree. Performance-wise, the Amiga has been soundly beaten in nearly all areas. That's not why I still hang on to mine. It's never been purely about speed. I just have a fondness for the way things happen on the Amiga.

This is just another typical "Amiga" thread that mirror someone's perceptions of something that just isn't the case in reality.

But if that's what's happening on their system, that is reality. Maybe the developers didn't take the time to optimize their graphics engine, or maybe the company put pressure on them to get it out too quickly and didn't afford them the time to get it running more smoothly. In either case, it's not as glaring a problem with Amiga software, old or new.

[Roj]

Because it's primitive, and you cannot customize/update/upgrade a ROM-based OS

Old Amiga hardware does another one-up on modern hardware!