[News] The "I Am Amiga" promotion has ended! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 26-Jul-2002 10:41 GMT by et | 134 comments View flat View list |
And the total is.. 940. Not bad.
"Countdown to the draw: The promotion has ended. Coupon count may still rise as third party dealers submit their sales. Winners will be announced soon."
.. So, we could well make the 1000 mark, well done people, I hope you all order AmigaOnes as soon as they are available :)
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Posted by Anonymous on 28-Jul-2002 11:50 GMT | In reply to Comment 98 (Don Cox): >"AmigaOS4 probably needs some NEW functions which has never been seen before if
>Amiga Inc wants
>more users. vm and memory protection is good, but "all" other oses
>already have them to. "
>New functions that really do something worth while are always good,
>but if you just rack your brains to think of something new that the
>others don't have, you are more likely to get gimmicks.
>We do have two unique features that make Amiga multitasking more
>functional that multitasking elsewhere - public screens and ARexx.
You can use a lot of desktops/screens in a lot of the window managers for X and probably in a few non-unix oses aswell. They can probably not have another resolution but i don't care about that... Why would i not want to use 1600x1200 for every app...
Arexx is a good thing, and sheep will probably be even better. But they are probably not impossible to implement in another os if you want to.
>One possible thing to consider would be to make the Amiga more
>configurable than Mac or Windows. For example, you have a choice now
>between Workbench, Scalos and Magellan. How about some more Workbench
>alternatives with really way out interfaces?
>Most people would hate each one, but some would love them. An obvious
>one is a fully 3D Workbench replacement, using the acceleration on a
>graphics card. A speech-operated one. One with different noises for
>everything (like KidPix paint program). One that is designed to be as
>hard to use as possible, turning the WB into a game.
intresting thoughts, and of course it would be good if you could have a lot of different interfaces for different kind of users.
The window manager i use right now is ratpoison which doesn't handle windows at all, it just maximizes all programs and let you switch between them with your keyboard, you can split the screen with keycombinations to but i never use that function. To me it's great but for some users it would probably mean problems.
>The other thing to aim at is really fast interrupt response, with no
>IRQ conflicts ever. (These are still not dead on Windows, in spite of
>PCI.)
I don't use Windows and I have no plans in doing so, so if it's a windows issue I don't have a problem with it.
If it's a x86 issue I won't buy an x86 anyway.
If it's a PCI issue AmigaONE uses PCI to
So actually it's not a problem.
>Another unique Amiga feature is that you can talk to the person who
>wrote the program. Try getting into direct contact with an Adobe or
>Macromedia coder and see how close you get.
It's not unique, it just doesn't happen in the windows world.
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