MS Windows 7

[adolescent]

And now, what everyone was wondering...  YES!  WinUAE works fine on Windows 7.  :-D

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[adolescent]

Pyromania wrote:
Do you ever see McBill picking up his monthly check to keep Amiga down when you visit M$? :getmad:

Most stupid thing I've read so far this year.  :crazy:  I sure hope you don't believe this rubbish.

[TheMagicM]

@B00tDisk:

how did you get virtualboxtools to work under it? (networking stuff etc)


EDIT:
nevermind..got it.

[stefcep2]

adolescent wrote:
And now, what everyone was wondering...  YES!  WinUAE works fine on Windows 7.  :-D

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that Windows task bar looks very very like KDE 3 as used by PCLOS and Mandriva

[DonnyEMU]

For the record, I haven't been to the Seattle since 2003 when I attended a game developer conference.. I just won the award this last year for starting a user group in Michigan USA (home of the endangered auto industry). I do make money going out and consulting to enterprise and give individual training in WPF and XAML for mostly interactive advertising companies. And I do create custom controls for businesses that pay me to do so.

Before that I did a lot of Macromedia based web development and before that I worked on several CDROM storybooks for Disney Interactive (Lion King, Winnie the Pooh, and Pocahontas)..

As far as McBill goes, I tried to visit Amiga Inc. back in 2003 when it was in Snowqualmi Falls or supposedly. The old saying "The lights were on but no one was home".. It looked like an abandoned building if you ask me..

I tried to get back into Amiga development also when they called for developers but I got a really nasty snubby response back. Considering my actual Amiga background I expected quite a bit different response than I got..

I really don't think Microsoft would really even see the product as competitive based on marketshare etc..

I still have a fondness for the product and even AOS 4.1. I am just getting more and more disappointed with the community and the realities involved with people who even think you could eek out even a meager living at the moment creating Amiga software.

If you look at the "community bounties" the work isn't commensurate to the amount of work required to produce something. What's there is out of love for the product.

Of course there are a lot of people on this forum who are negative about other platforms, but in the real world people have to eat work and live no matter how much they are diehard Amiga folks or fans of other platforms. I remember and still know people who made a living writing Amiga software. Most of that ended for them about 1994. It's 2009 today and while I'd like to see more, I think we are just about where it can go.

In my mind the folks at Hyperion who did OS 4.x are COMMUNITY HEROES, and they certainly didn't get anything out of doing it so far (except maybe lawsuits.)

To be honest the world is a free place we should all use what works for each of us the best.. I just don't like misinformation spread about anything.. I spent many years close to ten defending Amiga. I still am happy to do it with anyone, it was way ahead of it's time. The world moves on though too..

[Pyromania]

@adolescent

You did know we are kidding right?

 :-D

Bill Gates spends most of his day keeping Amiga down, LOL.

[stefcep2]

DonnyEMU wrote:

In my mind the folks at Hyperion who did OS 4.x are COMMUNITY HEROES, and they certainly didn't get anything out of doing it so far (except maybe lawsuits.)

I've thought that too: just a few programmers were able to write a PPC OS that couldn't be done by bigger players in the past eg escom Gateway, phase 5, Amiga international

[persia]

@stefcep2

Yeah, that's it, I knew it looked familiar, looks like M$ is an equal opportunity copier....

It does remind me of KDE.

[Pyromania]

@persia

M$ has been an equal opportunity copier for many many years now.

[Lorraine]

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[adolescent]

@Lorraine

I'm at 29% with only Firefox loaded.  Note: I'm not using Aero Glass because of my bad onboard video.

[LoadWB]

adolescent wrote:

Yep.  You're a retard for wanting to use the classic theme on Windows 7.  (Actually, I think they're just there for quick presets, because the Windows 7 Basic theme and a couple high-contrast themes are there too.)

HA!  I can come up with MUCH better reasons to call me a retard, thank you :-P

Cool to see all the information here on 7.  Glad you guys all got to play some more today.  I'll be futzing with it a little here and there throughout the week.  If my new laptop didn't have a 2.5" hard drive and what I think is a special Dell connector, I would put it on the laptop on a spare hard drive just for shyts and giggles.

[EDIT] Does anyone else using VirtualPC to host 7 have a problem with drag and drop from the host to the guest not working?

[Oliver]

LoadWB wrote:
Cool to see all the information here on 7.

ditto. It's good to read some different perspectives.

For what it's worth, the few people I know who use Vista are happy with it, though they use it with pretty high spec hardware. It seems to be a telling factor.

I probably will use Win 7, when I buy my next PC. I've been working from home this last week, and had one CRT monitor die, and one powersupply die. Damn, my hadrware is really bloody old!

[Palm]

Aaaarghh...what a terrible Topic this is.
Why do we discuss Satans work here on amiga.org ...why....whyy...WHYYY :-)

(no, really...why?)

Wasting the poor amiga.org´s harddisk space to this ?



Regs,
Espen

[amigamad]

I n have tried an earlier beta on my old pc an amd athlon 2400@2.ghz with just 512mb of memory and have to say it run quite well seemed quicker than any vista machine i have tried I will be getting the 64 bit version to test it on my currant machine an amd 64x2 6000 with 4 gig ocz memory xp see,s 3.2 gig of that 32 bit version and xfi soundcard with a geforce 8800gts 640mb more than enough  .At the moment i have 14 percent downloaded  out of 3.2 gig.I got to be careful as virgin cut my speed in half if you download to much within a certain time they done that when i upgrade ubuntu 8.4 to 8.10 and that was only a 2.9 gig update  i have lots of software on my ubuntu.I have heard that is faster than both vista and xp.Might as well try it and see find out what games and software work with it .

[adolescent]

LoadWB wrote:

 If my new laptop didn't have a 2.5" hard drive and what I think is a special Dell connector, I would put it on the laptop on a spare hard drive just for shyts and giggles.

Take a closer look, it might be SATA.  The cable, if it has one might combine the power and data cables into a big connector.  It's okay, the connectors are now all the same for 2.5", 3.5" and 5.25" drives.