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I remember booting Windows 95 for the first time when it came out and being completely gobsmacked at how good it looked and felt. I was still a heavy Amiga fan

I remember booting Windows 95 for the first time when it came out and being completely gobsmacked at how good it looked and felt. I was still a heavy Amiga fan back then, even though I was painfully aware that my favorite computer of all times was slowly falling behind. But it was still able to do preemptive multitasking, something that was still widely unavailable across all OS at the time (except for Windows NT). AmigaOS was still definitely better than Windows 3, of that I was still very convinced (and quite distraught that despite this technical superiority, Windows 3 reigned supreme). All of my convictions got shattered that fatal day I booted Windows 95. The UI was beautiful, preemptive multitasking was working fine despite the memory and CPU conditions at the time. I just couldn't get enough of launching various apps on Windows 95 just to see how they looked. On that very day, I thought "This is it, Amiga is truly dead". I sold my Amiga and bought a Windows box in the weeks that followed, with a heart that was both heavy and excited.

Sohcahtoa82 7y ago
My dad was a huge Amiga fan. I always felt that the Amiga was a bit ahead of its time. It was doing SNES graphics and sound in the NES era. It's a shame it never caught on beyond the Video Toaster being used in TV/movie studios.
- ido 7y ago
  You're right but to be a nitpicker a more appropriate comparison would be the sega megadrive/genesis - it had very similar hardware and capabilities to the original amiga (1000/500/early 2000s).
NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Then I burned my first CD on Windows 95, ended up with a coaster because I moved the mouse or Windows played a sound, and my "obsolete" Amiga would end up sticking around for another half decade... Amiga simply crashed far less and could do pre-emptive properly. A screen saver or music app didn't ruin CD burning. I ended up finally migrating to Win with Windows 2000 as Win was consistently worse until then -- at everything. The Win 95 box, bought at insane cost as I spcced top end everything including SCSI and 10k drives became my first FreeBSD server - v2.1 IIRC - within months of (finally) buying into Windows. Kept the subscription to BSD CD releases until they shuttered it to support them... Granted I was on 040 A3000 and A4000 with 24 bit retargetable graphics by the time of Windows 95, and was no longer earning the living off Amiga by then.
- hota_mazi 7y ago
  An Amiga / Windows flame war in 2019, yay!

Sohcahtoa82 7y ago

My dad was a huge Amiga fan. I always felt that the Amiga was a bit ahead of its time. It was doing SNES graphics and sound in the NES era. It's a shame it never caught on beyond the Video Toaster being used in TV/movie studios.

ido 7y ago
You're right but to be a nitpicker a more appropriate comparison would be the sega megadrive/genesis - it had very similar hardware and capabilities to the original amiga (1000/500/early 2000s).

NeedMoreTea 7y ago

Then I burned my first CD on Windows 95, ended up with a coaster because I moved the mouse or Windows played a sound, and my "obsolete" Amiga would end up sticking around for another half decade... Amiga simply crashed far less and could do pre-emptive properly. A screen saver or music app didn't ruin CD burning. I ended up finally migrating to Win with Windows 2000 as Win was consistently worse until then -- at everything. The Win 95 box, bought at insane cost as I spcced top end everything including SCSI and 10k drives became my first FreeBSD server - v2.1 IIRC - within months of (finally) buying into Windows. Kept the subscription to BSD CD releases until they shuttered it to support them... Granted I was on 040 A3000 and A4000 with 24 bit retargetable graphics by the time of Windows 95, and was no longer earning the living off Amiga by then.

hota_mazi 7y ago
An Amiga / Windows flame war in 2019, yay!