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Offline dammy

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Re: who owns amiga today?
« Reply #44 from previous page: February 21, 2007, 10:44:17 AM »
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The more I read the more I see that the real hampering of progress is not the hardware or software developers but Bill McEwen himself !!!!


The whole Amiga Inc, as we know it, was a dotcom scam.  Had he and the Sheep Lord gotten their act together earlier, they could have been far more successful with DEad with the vast amount of VC that was floating around then.  They started this too late in the bubble cycle and couldn't get the devs onboard as much as they tried to enfluence Amiga Community that AOS was dead, DEad was the future.  That's when they started to do a hack and patch job on AOS to gain additional revenue and had to real road plan as 3.9 was released.  Sales were dropping an they needed income so a poorly thought out OS4 replacement was given a go.  Now A1 disaster and OS4 which seems to be fragmented of ownership, Amiga Inc is trying any song and dance to stay alive.  So no, it's just not McBill that is hampering AOS, AI is rotten to the core.

And no, M$ has Linux to worry about, we would be luck for M$ to even know AOS/MOS/AROS existed.  McBill needs M$ for DEad.  M$ doesn't need McBill nor DEad.

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Re: who owns amiga today?
« Reply #45 on: April 20, 2007, 03:32:09 AM »
Well my $0.02 worth is...

As many of the faults as you may think OS4 has or even Wb1.xx on the Amiga 1000/500 you try using Vista on a daily basis to run your business and you will see why

a. it's still behind in some ways to wb1.3
b. it's worth about 50p/50cents

Basically Vista crashes for no reason (at least I knew what guru'd out my poor A1000 in the past) AND more often and seriously than my A1000 ever did. Sorry but if you are getting screwed by Apple/M$ with multi million pound budgets I don't think you can really have a go at OS4 which runs on hardware levels that OSX 10.4 and Vista wouldn't even be usable on. And the resizable desktop windowed screen of Wipeout2097 on the youtube realtime demo just goes to show how crap things still are and how {bleep} your choices are (don't even start me on Linux! I'm a laptop engineer and run a laptop company and I wouldn't touch Linux if you paid me, it's so hacky and CLI based even today it doesn't deserve to leave my dustbin either)

Tripos (which is what the Amiga Wb 1.xx was based on and written in months by Dr Tim King still multitasks under load more gracefully than XP which arrived 20 years later aswell) infact the only thing Vista does manage to impress with is it's GUI responsiveness even on 99% cpu load, shame the rest is just damned nasty bloatware @ 10gb