Well - actually the Amiga OS was based on Unix - which is the oldest of the modern operating systems, and totally written in ANSI C - another ancient bit of history. It was very stable, there's no doubt about it, however it really didn't do very much.. If you want an Amiga like experience on x86 then just use Linux or Solaris or something - they have the same lineage - and you can actually play movies and mp3s without some ludicrous accelerator..
Also - Although XP may run slowly on older machines, around 300mhz is really all that's needed for it to run acceptably (just turn off the modern skins!) It is, however, still incredibly stable on old bags of shit, and still manages to do pre-emptive multitasking like a proper OS. Win98 is fast because it does no sorting out of your programs in the background, it just has evil DOS time-slicing.
On 2004-02-19 14:10, b00mzi11a wrote:
Well - actually the Amiga OS was based on Unix - which is the oldest of the modern operating systems, and totally written in ANSI C - another ancient bit of history. It was very stable, there's no doubt about it, however it really didn't do very much.. If you want an Amiga like experience on x86 then just use Linux or Solaris or something - they have the same lineage - and you can actually play movies and mp3s without some ludicrous accelerator..
Mmmm
I must admit I had never seriously considered Linux before. I suppose I'll look into it - there's no good moaning about an operating system if I won't do anything about it! :)
The $64,000 question is, though - are the Linux Spectrum emulators as good as Spectaculator?
Ive been using win me for a couple of years now and know about all the complaints about it....but i found it actually solved the problems and glitches i had
Id use win 2k more but i havent got round to getting another modem thatll work with it cos i downloaded the win 2k driver for mine and it still wouldnt work :( i need to buy an external thatll work with linux too so i can fiddle about getting online using knoppix
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Well, as I always say, the best ZX emulators are for DOS. Therefore I always keep DOS/Win98 on one of my comps (the less powerful one: P166MMX, which is OK for Z80Stealth, ZX-EMUL and others).
[ This Message was edited by: yerz on 2004-02-20 20:22 ]
Well, I've gone and chosen "Spin", which works very well, thanks to everyone's advice. (It was chosen due to it's ability to fit onto a floppy, unlike spectaculator). Now I need to find somewhere to download a patch for my 7 year old version of "Half-Life", which doesn't work...*sighs*
Oh, BTW, I saw a Linux based PC for the first time today...woo! Freaky.
I've just bought a new Dell 3 GHz with Pentium 4 and found the ZX32 was moving at about warp 10. Totally uncontrolable. Speculator however is very nice and I'll definatly be shelling out the 15 quid required.
Besides, I couldn't ever get Run the gauntlet to work on zx32
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Also - Although XP may run slowly on older machines, around 300mhz is really all that's needed for it to run acceptably (just turn off the modern skins!) It is, however, still incredibly stable on old bags of shit, and still manages to do pre-emptive multitasking like a proper OS. Win98 is fast because it does no sorting out of your programs in the background, it just has evil DOS time-slicing.
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[ This Message was edited by: b00mzi11a on 2004-02-19 14:14 ]
Mmmm
I must admit I had never seriously considered Linux before. I suppose I'll look into it - there's no good moaning about an operating system if I won't do anything about it! :)
The $64,000 question is, though - are the Linux Spectrum emulators as good as Spectaculator?
Id use win 2k more but i havent got round to getting another modem thatll work with it cos i downloaded the win 2k driver for mine and it still wouldnt work :( i need to buy an external thatll work with linux too so i can fiddle about getting online using knoppix
Try Fuse, you'll be stunned! :)
[ This Message was edited by: yerz on 2004-02-20 20:22 ]
Oh, BTW, I saw a Linux based PC for the first time today...woo! Freaky.
Besides, I couldn't ever get Run the gauntlet to work on zx32