Bill McEwen of Amiga, Inc. writes in a public letter: "Over the last several months and in fact couple of years, Amiga has continued our software and business development and generally kept quiet. This path of quietness was chosen so that we communicated only when there was a development that culminated in a product that could be purchased. In recent weeks, our being quiet has been interpreted as weakness or an open invitation to attempt harming our business relationships and opportunities with partners and customers."
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Member since:2007-08-21
> It was a cool system for the day, however the tall tales about the Amiga are starting to get ridiculous...
This was about what PC OS's could do that Amiga's couldn't. Not what a 1985 Amiga had vs a modern PC. It is what a modern Amiga has in comparison. Frankly, the only thing I witness is memory protection, and in Vista's case here, I don't happen to see much different as I get memory segfaults several times a week.
Incidentally, my "Amiga" is a Sempron 2800 on an nForce mobo, running Amithlon. Runs the OS faster than my Vista install, and as I'm emulating a good portion of the Amiga's OS, that's saying something.
Member since:2005-11-10
> This was about what PC OS's could do that Amiga's
> couldn't. Not what a 1985 Amiga had vs a modern PC.
No, it was about what was the difference in requirements between the desktop of '91 and the desktop of 2007. So let's stop moving the goalposts OK?
My point being that a heck of a lot has happened/changed in 15+ years. AmigaOS runs at acceptable speed when emulated because this OS really does not do much. The sad part is that it is taking Amiga Inc. almost a decade to add functionality that has been standard on a lot of OSs for quite some time. That is almost in the realm of pathetic, and a clear disservice to the memory of Amiga. Which was in its day a remarkable platform. Dear to some of our hearts because we cut our teeth in it.
Times move, and so does technology. And honestly a decade in technology is a might long time. In any case, most developers left the Amiga platform eons ago. It is a stagnated system, both OS and application-wise -- let alone the hardware side of things -- The denial of Amiga fans is just mesmerizing sometimes.
However if it floats your boat, by all means use whatever it is that you want to use. Computers are just tools, for some of us the Amiga right now is of fairly limited use if any at all. I am however excited to see where AROS may be going though.
Edited 2007-10-06 01:53
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2005-11-10
> Um... it seems someone does not know what the Amiga
> can do. In 1985, it came with full preemtive
> multitasking. I run my Amiga at 1024x768. I listen
> with a 5.1 audio
> system. The Amiga in 1985 had full motion video. I
> was rocking out to online mp3 streams on the Amiga
> earlier today.
*sigh * I had an original Amiga 1000, so I am very aware of what the original amiga could and couldn't do. It could definitively not do "full motion video."
And yes it did multitask, however that has not been a feat for what, over 15 years? What the Amiga still does not do to this day is having a decent memory protection mechanism. And the scheduler had some serious flaws (I guess I am not the only one who was using executive on their Amigas).
What you described as using is an updated machine, the Amiga of '91 did not even had a decent IP stack... so it would be fairly hard to stream all those MP3s on 5.1 (neither of which were really around in '91 BTW).
It was a cool system for the day, however the tall tales about the Amiga are starting to get ridiculous...