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# Do you find having the task bar at the top
just aesthetically pleasing or is there another reason for it? I always mess about with moving mine, but in the end it always stays on the bottom
(, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 18:01, archived)
# I never had a PC
until 1999
By which time I was firmly ensconced in writing for the Amiga OS. I just feel that it belongs there and I've always looked up for my toolbar options. Just personal choice that allows me to work easier.
(, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 18:03, archived)
# another ex-Amigan
I used to run a Start Bar type program on my Amiga before I went PC so I was already used to the button at the bottom left of the screen

*sigh* a shame the Amiga faded away, with the right backer it could have been so much better (and mainstream)
(, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 18:16, archived)
# I've been wanting to get OS4 for a while
but the manufacturer who makes the new OS4 compliant boards has gone bankrupt. Plus I don't really have the money.
(, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 18:20, archived)
# In the days when your 4 colour
VGa PC could barely add up the number of it's own legs you had the Amiga with 4 sound voices dedicated video chip architecture and 16 million colours on screen with true multi-tasking. ( which your PC did not quite manage until windows XP )It could outperform any PC on the market whilst running at 20% of the clock speeds.
There was a RISC based Amiga planned that woiuld have been able to run MACOS WINOS and AMIGAOS. I truly think that people conspired to kill that. It would have killed off the Mac.
(, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 18:23, archived)
# yeah the Amiga when it was in it's prime was a killer computer, made PCs of the same price look like they were pocket calculators
I had an KCS PowerPC board for my Amiga, a 086 PC on a card which I used for programming college stuff
but couldn't afford to upgrade to an 060 processor & high end graphics card etc. because the bits were just too expensive and eventually moved over to the PC

I still run WinUAE on occasion for the odd game
(, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 18:48, archived)
# I spent an idiotic fortune on my gear
And I still have an A 4000 040 ( strings and the right people before you ask ) with Picasso IV Graphics card. ( actually I still have them all in the loft including an A3000, B2000 A1000 A500 A600 A500+ and A1200. As well as a geek I am a hoarder )
(, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 19:00, archived)