POLL: Which word, in your opinion, best describes AMIGA today?

[Karlos]

It isn't Apple that scales well onto Intel, it's BSD...

[Wolfe]

Alive & Well

No thanks to C= or A.Inc.

[Einstein]

save2600 wrote:

...and with that I say I'm sorely disappointed in the WinDoze platform. Seems to me more has been done in 15 years with AmigaOS than has WinBlows. How many times are they going to re-invent the wheel before they finally have something worth a $hit? It was an ugly and bloated OS since day one and it's an ugly, inefficient OS now. Despite the "advances" processor manufacturers have made. Exponentially, nothing has changed except it's now trying to mock the look and feel of MacOS.

True about the GUI, pariculary the icons, the way they are stored...
Now, where are these magical AmigaOS improvements that have escaped all my senses ?  :shrug:

[orb85750]

Now, where are these magical AmigaOS improvements that have escaped all my senses ?  :shrug:

For starters, have you read the complete ars technica review of OS4?

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2007/01/amigaos4.ars

[Einstein]

orb85750 wrote:

Now, where are these magical AmigaOS improvements that have escaped all my senses ?  :shrug:

For starters, have you read the complete ars technica review of OS4?

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2007/01/amigaos4.ars

Kidder you  8-)

[orb85750]

@Einstein,
You can lead a horse to water, but....

[Manu]

...if your horse drowns you'll have to walk.  :-D

[amigadave]

bloodline wrote:
@amigadave

I find it hard to take anything personal on something as impersonal as an Internet forum!

I sound repetitive because people don't seem to understand what I am saying!

Progress would be an Amiga platform that is twice as powerful as that £199 PC but at the same price or cheaper! At the moment we are playing catch up... And catch up that is one 8th the performance at three times the price!

We will only ever play catch up now... We can't compete with the mega-budgets... :-)

I totally agree, but who here is trying to play catch up and what does that have to do with describing the Amiga as alive or dead?  CPU computing cycles per (put your monetary unit here) does not determine if a computer community is alive or dead.  If that were true, Apple would have been out of the computer hardware and software business long ago.

Probably the biggest problem with this entire thread is how it was worded.  The word "Amiga" is many different things to many different people.  It could mean what is left of the Amiga user & developer community, computer hardware that will run Amiga programs, one of the two different "Next Generation" Amiga-Like OSes and programs that run natively on them, or all of the above. Then the thread degraded into the "Dead" vs "Alive" argument and the various reasons to support each side (which I stupidly get sucked into just about every time it comes up, and it seems like I am not the only one that gets riled up about the "Dead" vs "Alive" question, considering the number of unique posters in this thread).

Oh, the part about nobody understanding what you are trying to say............, nope, we just don't agree with what you are trying to say.   :-D

[bloodline]

@amigadave

I'm not arguing that the Amiga Comunity is dead... It isn't, it is weird, fractured and quite possibly insane.. But not dead.

The Amiga Platform is dead.

I agree with the poster who said Eyeam only returned to Troll... Vague bit provocative statements are the giveaway. It has been so long since anyone bothered I guess I must have forgotten the signs :-)

[Manu]

bloodline wrote:
I'm not arguing that the Amiga Comunity is dead... It isn't, it is weird, fractured and quite possibly insane.. But not dead.

 :lol: Best post so far. I agree on that one.

[Einstein]

orb85750 wrote:
@Einstein,
You can lead a horse to water, but....

In some peoples imaginary worlds I just might need to  :roll: