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Re: Hi-End Amigas from Amiga Inc. True or fake?
« Reply #29 from previous page: July 27, 2007, 05:37:56 PM »
Darwin is a derivative of NetBSD or FreeBSD, I think. Forget which. There are a few free BSD flavors for PC hardware, and they're generally pretty sturdy, fast, secure and work great for servers. Kinda suck from a desktop user perspective, in my opinion, but lots of people like them. I dont know how the modified Mac version runs with all the extra crap they piled on it.

I can say Linux works damn fast at multitasking, though. Perhaps the poster who claimed otherwise was trying to run KDE and Firefox and a few Java apps while running Linux on a 486... but on a normal modern machine running typical software, it multitasks spectacularly.
 

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Re: Hi-End Amigas from Amiga Inc. True or fake?
« Reply #30 on: July 29, 2007, 07:41:36 PM »
@Tomas
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Tomas wrote:

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But anyways.. Who in reality decides what makes an Amiga, is the owner. If they want the ack or whatever to be an Amiga, then it will, no matter how we feel about the issue.
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Hmmmm - I'd rather say we as the potential buyers decide if we take the owners concept (it being an Amiga) or not.

If we buy that damn thing, then we accept it as an Amiga - if we don't buy it, who else would?

Who else would care?

So I'd say we decide...
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Re: Hi-End Amigas from Amiga Inc. True or fake?
« Reply #31 on: July 29, 2007, 08:37:02 PM »
Do yourself a favour and buy an EFIKA with MorphOS when it comes out. This will give you a better Amiga experience than OS4 - runs more 68k software and has much more native software and linux ports. Ainc is pipe dreams and this legal case will last a long time..

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Re: Hi-End Amigas from Amiga Inc. True or fake?
« Reply #32 on: July 29, 2007, 10:32:29 PM »
I too have found MOS to be the next step from AOS...
many good programmers work on MOS and it has stuff like MUI, AHI, Poseidon,CGX5, warpOS/3D support....
 

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Re: Hi-End Amigas from Amiga Inc. True or fake?
« Reply #33 on: July 29, 2007, 10:57:11 PM »
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many good programmers work on MOS and it has stuff like MUI, AHI, Poseidon,CGX5, warpOS/3D support....


Isn't it ironic that support for Hyperion's own Warp3D was dropped in OS4 "final" due to incompatibility issues, while it runs fine under Morphos?  :lol:
 

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Re: Hi-End Amigas from Amiga Inc. True or fake?
« Reply #34 on: July 30, 2007, 01:38:33 AM »
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What makes a computer an Amioga


Being an Amiga user who have been in the scene for a long time and knowing the old users opinions about why they used an Amiga (they have long stopped using Amiga) here are few things that comes to my mind.

1) You can start programming without learning lots of stuff.

2) You have access to knowledge and friendship of many people that knows and likes the hardware and the OS.

3) You have smooth scrolling.

4) You have access to amateur video editing, module composing, image processing software. This leads to things like demos in which people are free because of the amateur spirit unlike doing things on a PC which automaticly programs people's mind to produce a wannabe professional looking things without proper education and talent and experience.

5) The custom chips are unique which leads the users and programmers to do things "original" which leads to things like demos that are always winner demos.

6) In conclusion if you can call a computer a toy which even  dragging screens is going to give you the "joy" and each time you turn it on, you are eager for it to boot this computer is an Amiga.
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