You mean Amiga is A500 for those who left Amiga ? Well As much of those people try to say, Amiga did not die in the moment they bought a PC. As much as those people try to say, there was and still is lot's of people who bought a more powerful Amiga like A1200 or A4000, and there was lot's of serious users not only those A500 gamers who try still in year 2002 say that Amiga was just a A500 gamemachine.
Get real guys, you did leave Amiga about ten or more years ago. If YOU just played games and never bothered to buy a better and faster Amiga then it's your problem. I know that current Classic Amiga is not uptodate when compared mainstream, how could it be after all these years ? But you really don't know what you can do with expanded Amiga. Amiga newer was just a A1000 or A500. Maybe A500 was popular and maybe there was lot's of gamers but so what ?
Well Windows sure is not prettiest OS on earth either:) And believe it or NOT AmigaOS GUI is more configurable than Windows GUI. Hundreds or thousands different screenshots in internet prove that. Most of those shots are ugly, but many of them are quite pretty too.
If you have not seen AmigaOS in 32bit 1024x768 resolution with all the eyecandy you can install then you really have not seen how beautiful AmigaOS really can be:) I think my Amigas desktop looks much prettier than any of the windows desktops I have seen:)
OK I know that Amigas GUI-elements are outdated and need an update, I'm sure those will be updated later when more important parts of the OS are ready. Now it's most important to make AmigaOS work well on new hardware, look of the GUI is not first priority now.
If you don't follow Amiga-news then you might think it's dead. That's understandadble. But thats the mistake what people usually make.
If you or majority of people don't hear something awhile it does not mean it does not exist anymore. Usually people stop following things they don't care or which they THINK don't exist anymore. And when all people around you use PCs and all you hear is PC this, PC that, then it's understandable you think something like Amiga is dead. If you don't hear anyone talking about it then how could you know it still is alive. That's what Windows does to other OSs, most of todays kids don't even know MacOS exists, but is MAC a dead platform ? I don't think so:) If you would have followed Amiga-forums you should have noticed that there was lot's of energy and action all these years.
So Amiga newer was dead for us, maybe it was dead for mainstream guys, but BeOS, Linux and MAC are dead for mainstream too and those still exist so why couldn't Amiga ?
So you think that hotter the CPU gets more powerful it is, right ?:D Oh dear another stupid kid:) x86 and PPC are different CPUs they are wery different internally and PPC chips are designed so that those create less heat. x86 is old-fashioned CPU-family and it wastes much more energy as a heat when compared to PPC.
If you think like that then. How can you call MAC as a MAC ? Current MACs have nothing in common with the original MAC. They use different CPU, different gardware, different OS. So why on earth those PPC-boxes are still called as a MAC when original MAC had m68k CPU ?
Or, how can you call a PC as a PC. original PCs did not have AGP, PCI, USB etc etc. Original PCs did not ship with Windows etc etc.
It's stupid to expect new Amiga to be m68k basewd with customchipset and zorro-bus. Why shouldnt there be change of hardware in Amiga if there can be in other platforms ????
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You mean Amiga is A500 for those who left Amiga ? Well As much of those people try to say, Amiga did not die in the moment they bought a PC. As much as those people try to say, there was and still is lot's of people who bought a more powerful Amiga like A1200 or A4000, and there was lot's of serious users not only those A500 gamers who try still in year 2002 say that Amiga was just a A500 gamemachine. Get real guys, you did leave Amiga about ten or more years ago. If YOU just played games and never bothered to buy a better and faster Amiga then it's your problem. I know that current Classic Amiga is not uptodate when compared mainstream, how could it be after all these years ? But you really don't know what you can do with expanded Amiga. Amiga newer was just a A1000 or A500. Maybe A500 was popular and maybe there was lot's of gamers but so what ?
You really can't compare Mhz of PPC and x86 CPU. PPC id much faster than x86 in the same clock.
Well Windows sure is not prettiest OS on earth either :) And believe it or NOT AmigaOS GUI is more configurable than Windows GUI. Hundreds or thousands different screenshots in internet prove that. Most of those shots are ugly, but many of them are quite pretty too.
If you have not seen AmigaOS in 32bit 1024x768 resolution with all the eyecandy you can install then you really have not seen how beautiful AmigaOS really can be :) I think my Amigas desktop looks much prettier than any of the windows desktops I have seen :)
OK I know that Amigas GUI-elements are outdated and need an update, I'm sure those will be updated later when more important parts of the OS are ready. Now it's most important to make AmigaOS work well on new hardware, look of the GUI is not first priority now.
If you don't follow Amiga-news then you might think it's dead. That's understandadble. But thats the mistake what people usually make. If you or majority of people don't hear something awhile it does not mean it does not exist anymore. Usually people stop following things they don't care or which they THINK don't exist anymore. And when all people around you use PCs and all you hear is PC this, PC that, then it's understandable you think something like Amiga is dead. If you don't hear anyone talking about it then how could you know it still is alive. That's what Windows does to other OSs, most of todays kids don't even know MacOS exists, but is MAC a dead platform ? I don't think so :) If you would have followed Amiga-forums you should have noticed that there was lot's of energy and action all these years.
So Amiga newer was dead for us, maybe it was dead for mainstream guys, but BeOS, Linux and MAC are dead for mainstream too and those still exist so why couldn't Amiga ?
So you think that hotter the CPU gets more powerful it is, right ? :D Oh dear another stupid kid :) x86 and PPC are different CPUs they are wery different internally and PPC chips are designed so that those create less heat. x86 is old-fashioned CPU-family and it wastes much more energy as a heat when compared to PPC.
If you think like that then. How can you call MAC as a MAC ? Current MACs have nothing in common with the original MAC. They use different CPU, different gardware, different OS. So why on earth those PPC-boxes are still called as a MAC when original MAC had m68k CPU ?
Or, how can you call a PC as a PC. original PCs did not have AGP, PCI, USB etc etc. Original PCs did not ship with Windows etc etc.
It's stupid to expect new Amiga to be m68k basewd with customchipset and zorro-bus. Why shouldnt there be change of hardware in Amiga if there can be in other platforms ????