Subj : Re: what are you dialing in with?
To   : Spectre
From : Bob Worm
Date : Tue Jun 11 2024 07:50:26

  Re: Re: what are you dialing in with?
  By: Spectre to Nightfox on Wed Jun 12 2024 01:52:00

 >  Ni> If Amiga had come out as the most popular computer (rather than IBM PC
 >  Ni> compatibles), I wonder what a modern Amiga would be like..
 >
 > Like a modern PC?  In essence all roads lead to Rome as they say.

Yup, that was going to be my suggestion. We currently have x86, ARM and a bunch of other options for hardware, running Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android... controversially I'm going to say the user experience isn't hugely different across the board, for casual users at least.

I think the things that made the Amiga so incredible at its time were the special purpose chips for sound, blitting, graphics, etc - they really enabled new and wonderful things. Nowadays we almost have too much grunt to know what to do with it, everything runs in "true colour" modes, high quality sound is standard... I'm not sure where you could differentiate for capabilities.

But then, I guess that's the point - not many people could have imagined the Amiga's capabilities when it came out.

I would say if we "squeezed the juice" out of modern hardware like we did back in those days it could be something spectacular. Though it would probably not be a "wow, look at those graphics" spectacle, more a "look how quick my 400 browser tabs open" spectacle :)

BobW
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