* Posts by Nyle

2 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Nov 2010

Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019

Nyle

Re: Remember DR DOS? Word Perfect...?

I remember, they did this to Novell constantly as well. Their favorite trick is to offer the product for "free" by bundling it with Windows. It's Microsoft anti-competitive practice that apparently rarely falls foul of regulators/legislators.

Then if that fails to steal enough market share, as you mention, ooops, we introduced a bug, or oooops, does that new API change that works better for us not work well for your product. Strange, well, I guess you better rewrite your product. We've already incorporated that into ours, why are you so behind our superior offering.

Amiga on the block (again)

Nyle
Heart

The Amiga is still alive today precisely because it was so special.

Those who used the Amiga know what a truly revolutionary computer it was. In 1985 it brought affordably to the masses the ability to do true multimedia. Something that was only possible much, much later on other platforms. With true pre-emptive multitasking GUI, 4096 colors our of 4096 HAM mode and stereo sound all in 1985 - the Amiga was light years ahead of its time. It did so with so little resources compared to what is required today. The developer community on the Amiga reminds me of the Open Source community in Linux. There were so many free utilities with source code on Aminet. The difference was that the community was willing to help people without calling them n00bs and telling them to RTFM.

It is a real shame that Commodore got its hooks into it. Should a company who knew it's potential and how to market it had owned it the world would have been a different place.

So to those on the outside, I can see that it's likely hard to understand why someone would still have a fond place in their heart for technology that by today's standards seems so common place. To those of us who experienced the true revolution and in many cases have just grown used to the evolutionary computer market, returning to the Amiga, gives us a chance to relive our first true glimpse of modern computing. I still miss the Amiga community and it's friendly nature and willingness to help anyone with a problem no matter how simple or difficult.

Personally, I'd still be willing to buy AmigaOS should it be ported to x86 and modernized.