i remember the days of which you speak, but i think we have a lot more choice now. this is especially true when you include emulation: the fact that i can play arcade Scramble on my notebook blows my mind.
Well considering that amiga os was a GUI and in 16 bit color 10 years before win95, I'd say that's not so bad. Seriously, a full decade ahead of windows.
I grew up playing video games on my uncles amiga, stuff like defender of the crown, shadowgate, deja vu, and bard's tale. Graphics were like literally 8 years ahead of PC's. Besides being the advent of pc video editing, amigas were the high end gaming machines of their time. Not that you'd expect kids these days to know.
Unfortunately, amiga os is all but irrelevant and forgotten these days.
@ethana2: Linux has always been a choice. There is no reason to buy it pre-installed on a Dell. It just takes work, and that's more than some people want to do.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
With that said, I made the plunge (more like a bellyflop for the first few months) and switched to Ubuntu exclusively. And I have to tell you: It's a blast. Using my computer is challenging again. But that's just me.
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Chris @ Jan 10th 2008 12:58AM
That reminds me of an even crappier version of windows 95.
Ian @ Jan 10th 2008 1:24AM
Sigh. AmigaOS was so far beyond Win95 architecturally it's not even funny. There's more to an OS than bling.
I suppose most posters here don't even remember the days of true choice in the PC business.
m @ Jan 10th 2008 1:54AM
i remember the days of which you speak, but i think we have a lot more choice now. this is especially true when you include emulation: the fact that i can play arcade Scramble on my notebook blows my mind.
bobartig @ Jan 10th 2008 2:00AM
Well considering that amiga os was a GUI and in 16 bit color 10 years before win95, I'd say that's not so bad. Seriously, a full decade ahead of windows.
I grew up playing video games on my uncles amiga, stuff like defender of the crown, shadowgate, deja vu, and bard's tale. Graphics were like literally 8 years ahead of PC's. Besides being the advent of pc video editing, amigas were the high end gaming machines of their time. Not that you'd expect kids these days to know.
Unfortunately, amiga os is all but irrelevant and forgotten these days.
ethana2 @ Jan 10th 2008 4:19AM
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/linux?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/19/38924.aspx
Behold. The days of choice return. 'bout time.
Alexander @ Jan 10th 2008 10:44AM
@ethana2: Linux has always been a choice. There is no reason to buy it pre-installed on a Dell. It just takes work, and that's more than some people want to do.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
With that said, I made the plunge (more like a bellyflop for the first few months) and switched to Ubuntu exclusively. And I have to tell you: It's a blast. Using my computer is challenging again. But that's just me.