15 June 2009, 16:55 | #1 |
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Only the Amiga makes it possible...
OK, so what does 'only' the Amiga make possible in your lives?
Please, no mental images of you know who singing the Amiga song... for the love of god. |
15 June 2009, 17:08 | #2 |
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It is the only OS where I know how to find every system file.....!
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15 June 2009, 17:12 | #3 |
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Only the Amiga makes it possible to introduce a user-friendly system to computer noobs in the late 80's / early 90's
Plus, wut DDNI said |
16 June 2009, 14:14 | #4 |
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Only Workbench has a snapshot desktop icons feature as standard!
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16 June 2009, 14:18 | #5 |
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For the time, full multitasking, 4096 colour palette plus the ability to draw in a glorious 32 or 64 colours (EHB Mode), 8 bit 4 channel sound chip made it possible to make some killer MODS..etc..
Nothing else could touch it and nothing else made it as possible as the Amiga. |
16 June 2009, 14:22 | #6 |
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Startup-sequence... you gotta love it
Btw : There was this other thread... oh nevermind |
16 June 2009, 14:25 | #7 |
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16 June 2009, 14:35 | #8 |
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16 June 2009, 14:46 | #9 |
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Only the Amiga made that multi-resolution-screen-drag thing possible.
And only the Amiga makes it possible to run the ClassicWB without emulation. |
16 June 2009, 17:30 | #10 |
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Try changing the resolution in Windows and then tell me you prefer how Windows "remembers" where the icons were!
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16 June 2009, 17:50 | #11 |
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You're right, I'd much rather they disappear off the edge of the screen
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16 June 2009, 19:40 | #12 |
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This reminds me of how annoying it is for XP and later to redraw all the icons and refresh all the windows after you change the colour setting for your display (say from 32-bit to 16-bit). 95/98 never had to do this, so I wonder what went wrong?
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More AmigaOS only features unbeaten to this day: - datatype.library: built-in datatype handling that doesn't rely solely on filename extensions but can rely on binary data, e.g. the file-headers! This is a BIGGIE imo. And AFAIK no modern system does this right compared to Amiga. Closest might be mime but it only uses extensions - useless. How has this been missed over the years. - locale.library: built-in localization support through simple .catalog files. This is also HUGE. It baffles me how modern OSs still require you to download a whole new executable if you just want a different language. On the Amiga, it also allows anybody to translate programs, simply by editing the catalog file! - system default filenames, directories and extensions that make more sense than anywhere else: .library for library, "utilities/" for utilities, etc. Granted, c and s are not so intuitive but still, for example Linux is so much more horrible here "etc, bin, opt, sbin, usr..." directory structure is a complete nightmare. .so for library? On windows, .dll for library? Why oh why? - MUI: Completely customizable toolkit. This is so much more than the simple skinning you find on modern systems. I think this is the only toolkit that allows such easy and complete customization, where every user can change every little detail of the GUI experience using simple control panels, on a _program by program_ basis even. - amigaguide.library: ... ... where shall I stop... |
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16 June 2009, 21:56 | #14 |
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Let's see... there wasn't another thread recently with this kind of trickery?
The 1st real plug 'n' play system - Autoconfig |
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Boot times - I love the way that I can be playing a game on my Amiga in the same time it takes the BIOS on my PC - despite the latter being over 2000MHz faster
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16 June 2009, 22:16 | #17 |
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17 June 2009, 01:09 | #18 |
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Only the Amiga ..
Playing Deluxe Galaga. easy change accelerators from TrapDoor ? Soft Reset - reboot with keys (Ctrl+A+A) ? |
17 June 2009, 01:46 | #19 |
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Well, that was a slogan created when it was indeed generations ahead.
Only Amiga has demo compos on partys? |
17 June 2009, 13:26 | #20 |
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No F****NG WGA crap to stop me from logging into my perfectly legitimate copy of Workbench
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