Sam Smith wrote:
> 1001 Webs wrote:
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>> The Amiga had Playstations in the market as far back as 1991, with the=
>> Amiga CDTV, one of the first computers to come with a CD-ROM drive as
>> standard. The CDTV was designed and marketed as a set-top box to go
>> along with one's VCR and be used as a CD-player and games console.
>> I've seen versions of many of the video games being played today on
>> the latest gadgetry that are unequivocally Amigan.
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> Which was a total flop as it was far too expensive and offered nothing =
> new beyond the A500 it was based on. CBM badly misjudged the market=20
> place and instead should have focused on the next chipset and providing=
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> the A570 with lots of software sup****t by working with game developers.=
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>> The Amiga is still alive, even though no one is investing on it,
>> mainly because legal impediments related to copyright issues:
>> It has been in that state for a loooong number of years.
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> Yes - it is in a mess.
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>> If the Amiga were to sue all companies that are illegally reusing
>> their code (among which Microsoft is one of the worst offenders) they
>> would make billions.
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> Utter nonsense.
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> Workbench code in Windows? Not a good advert is it? ;)
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>> But in spite of all that, it keeps going and has a pretty decent and
>> recently upgraded OS that has very little to envy from the likes of
>> Vista or Mac OSX.
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> Except it has no modern software.
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>> And guess what, Microsoft is using AmigaAnywhere 2 currently to run
>> under Windows proper, Windows Mobile, Linux for PCs and Linux for
>> embedded systems. A Mac OS X version is on its way, as well as a
>> Symbian version.
>> http://magikomputer.blogspot.com/2008/01/amigaanywhere-at-ces-2008.htm=
l
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> Which is nothing whatsoever to do with the original Amiga. It's just a =
> scratch built VM-type piece of software that simply reuses the brand na=
me.
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>> My A1200 took about 4 seconds from the moment you turned on until you
>> had a fully working desktop.
>> With just 4Mb of RAM. Now, that's smart.
>> Those 4 Mb allow you to do all common computing tasks and other no so
>> common, such as playing (and creating) music, watching (and creating)
>> movies or making full-blown multimedia presentations.
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> Without doubt the Amiga was a superior design compared to machines of=20
> the time and it would be amazing to see what a modern Amiga would have =
> looked like had CBM not continually shot themselves in the foot.
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> But
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> The Amiga is dead.
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> However if anyone is into a bit of nostalgia then the Minimig from ACub=
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> is new Amiga hardware you can buy right now and looks mighty fine.
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> ---
> Sam
The Amiga is not dead - in use here daily albeit through emulation on a=20
faster AMD box.
Historicly Xerox were first with a decent gui - anyone remember Gem on=20
the Amstrad - Apple and Sinclair's QL followed. Gates eventually started =
to caught up with Windiws 3.1 and Win 95.
The Amiga had some amazing firsts in it's day
=95 pre-emptive multi-tasking
=95 multi-media before the term became widely known -
=95 2d animation witn DPaint
=95 TV real-time graphics with Video-Toaster, the ACS Harlequin 32 bit=20
broadcast standard gfx board
=95 Much of today's leading software was pioneered for the Amiga by=20
talented developers - with little if any sup****t from Commodore -
some examples Real3D, Lightwave, Movieshop, TvPaint...
=95 Arexx
the list goes on and on
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