Yeah, I prefer to run an operating system that doesn't get bogged down every time you install software. I've installed about 20,000 pieces of software on my Amiga and it runs exactly as it does on a fresh install. (and starts up in 15 seconds)
Yeah, I prefer to run an operating system that doesn't get bogged down every time you install software. I've installed about 20,000 pieces of software on my Amiga and it runs exactly as it does on a fresh install. (and starts up in 15 seconds)
I gotta get me one of those. anything available cheaply in canada?Sure. An Amiga 500 shouldn't cost more than $25. You can occasionally find them for free. (3 of mine were free)
takes less than a second to completely shut down properly (not unplugging the thing).
Thanks, I have already started digging around, I have always been intrigued by your posts about your Amigas. Im surprised to see a couple things. AmigaOS is still being dev/updated and is still proprietary. Have you ever used AROS? I assume it runs on any x86 hardware ...
I've never needed to reinstall Windows, but the fast shutdown of a squeaky clean fresh install is something I miss. It's just so absurd having to wait for a machine to shut down. Can you imagine having to wait for a TV to shutdown, or a toaster, or any other domestic appliance? Of course not. Yet we accept it in something as advanced as a PC.
Standby mode almost makes up for it, but not quite.
16-colour Amiga 500 screenshots follow)
Not all those images are in 16 colors. Just to test, I opened up a few in paint and some looked a lot worse when I saved them as 16-color bitmaps while some others stayed the same.
But that still looks like an interesting system to play around with. Have you gotten it on the Internet?
Not all those images are in 16 colors. Just to test, I opened up a few in paint and some looked a lot worse when I saved them as 16-color bitmaps while some others stayed the same.
Here's an example:Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=13212&stc=1&d=1288305396)
16-color version of the picture below.Show Image(http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8906/iconsf.png)
Mr_a500's screen shot.
But that still looks like an interesting system to play around with. Have you gotten it on the Internet?
Oh, you changed your post while I was posting. The image you saved is using the horrible Windows colour palette. That just demonstrates that Windows is much more limited than Amiga. Amiga (WB high-res screenmode, as seen here) can use 16 colours out of a palette of 4096 colours.
Instead of just loading the image on 16-colour Windows, open it in a paint program that allows you do a colour count and you will see there are only 16 colours.
[...]It never even thought about dying in the nearly ten years I used it as my main machine [...]
Make your own installation-CD with all the servicepacks and hotfixes
slipstreamed . You can also remove things you don't need, I've seen a
winXP installer taking up a bit more than 100MB !!
http://www.nliteos.com/
Has anyone found one of those "cleaner" applications that works? You know, the ones that claim to tidy up the registry and delete junk files, etc. I only tried one once, it messed a few things up and I learned my lesson.
I just discovered Auslogics' Disk Defrag which makes a good (and free!) replacement for Vista's piss-poor effort. I might look into their other products.
Did you know that Vista's defrag doesn't even try to defrag files over 64MB by default? You can force it to do a half decent job by running it from the command line with -w and -v switches, but you still get no feedback during the several hours it takes do defrag a large disk. Can you stop it safely before it's finished? I was too scared to try, lol.Anything that uses the Windows defrag API (which would be any modern-day defragmenter) should be safe in that regard.
It was my main internet computer up to 2008. Every forum post, every download/upload, every email, every eBay win was done using my Amiga 500.
An accelerator and the other goodies are quite some cheating. :-)
Well... only a little bit. :wink:
The accelerator has a 68020. That chip was released in 1984. It has Amiga 3.0 ROMs - which were released in 1992. There's no graphics card. It's OCS graphics, which was unchanged from the original Amiga release in 1985.
I think it's impressive that I can emulate 1998 MacOS 8.1 on it - and it runs at nearly the same speed as on my Mac Classic II.Show Image(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/2187/1_2550.png)
Why shouldn't you be able to? If I remember correctly, it's a similar chip.
MyDefrag (http://www.mydefrag.com/). The swiss army knife of defragmentation, basically.
Maximum PC did extensive defrag routine testing and concluded the built in Windows one (Vista or Win7) is just as good.
C:\>defrag /?
...
Parameters:
Value Description
-r Performs partial defragmentation ([U]default[/U]). [U]Attempts to[/U]
[U]consolidate only fragments smaller than 64 megabytes[/U] (MB).
-w Performs full defragmentation. Attempts to consolidate all file
fragments, regardless of their size.
-f Forces defragmentation of the volume when free space is low.
-v Specifies verbose mode. The defragmentation and analysis output
is more detailed.
C:\>defrag c: -a -v
...
Note: On NTFS volumes, [U]file fragments larger than 64MB are not included in[/U]
[U]the fragmentation statistics[/U]
sums up their attitude to their paying customers: "Do it our way, we don't care what you think."
tl;dr rant
I really don't give a fiddlers **** what I, or any one else uses. Used everything from Amigas to ZX spectrums and everything inbetween and you know what? They're all cluster ****s of pros and cons.
As for loving a fresh windows install. Yes, it's nice. Like having a bath round about the time that even you get offended by the smell emanating from your crotch.
Having installed WinME...
You must now burn your computer.Commonly recurring myth.
Commonly recurring myth.
But WinME was nowere near as bad as Vista. Very usable once you turn unneeded bling off
There was un-needed bling in ME?
A friend in university had a Dell with WinME, but I can't really blame WinME for the computer issues when she filled the hard drive with garbage. Sure was trashy to use though.