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Offline Franko

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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« on: April 01, 2011, 08:52:51 PM »
Same today as it was back then... the simple fact you're using the best home computer and OS ever conceived... :D
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2011, 12:16:21 AM »
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Except for the fact that the desktop and window manager suck big time. This has to change!


Dunno about "desktop" or "window manager"... only ever used Workbench and Intuition takes care of the windows... ;)
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2011, 12:26:59 AM »
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Workbench is the desktop, and Intuition is the window manager. desktop and window manager are general names for components that exist in many operating systems, including AmigaOs :)


Never used those terms in 25 years of Amiga use to describe anything on the miggy or heard anyone call them that up till now... :)

Don't you think that using such terms that make them sound like a Windoze product is a wee bit of an insult to the good old miggie... ;)
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2011, 01:56:47 AM »
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Now, not so much other than bragging rights about being able to do all this way back in 1987 with the same hardware. ;-)


Gotta disagree with you on that point, everything computing wise I do other than the internet is still done on the Amiga and always has been for 25 years solid... :)
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2011, 02:24:45 AM »
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Well you can, sure. But my 5 dollar Compaq Athlon can pretend to be my old Amiga and run all that software as well as do the internet. ;-)


Ahh but... as you say it's just "pretending" to be a miggie, that can't even come close to the years of frustration & fun and poking about inside the real thing trying to get bits n bobs to work... :)

And as for the internet I wouldn't tarnish me miggies with that nonsense, what would they think if they saw the rubbish I post on here, they'd have a hairy fit and probably self destruct in cloud of purple smoke (mind you that would give me something to tinker with)... :)
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Re: Best things about owning an amiga?
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2011, 07:43:29 PM »
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Are you kidding? Amiga compared to green or black and white screens which needed text input and every peace of s... HW has to be mounted and had ID-conflicts and was beeping around...

For me is the question why somebody back in the days could have wanted an PC or even a Mac which back in time all together were crap. Which led to the conclusion that a big part of the population on earth is insane.


Nicely summed up... :)
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