@spudmiga

I think you nailed it.

what people don’t think about when asking for AmigaOS ported to x64, ARM, is where software is going to come from, a lot software we have from old days is not open source, and is not being updated, not having the source code of that game, or of that program, is a bigger problem than porting the OS to x,y,z.

I tried TvPaint the other day, think it be easy to do some stuff in it, I realized does not have simple things as coordinates, I was bit disappointed, this one of this programs that everyone say is so good, but even a bit newer program like that has big issues. Not because its not working, but is so horrible outdated. But more to the point it never be fixed.

I should buy sketchbook, I have not done that, because while technically can be 70% good artist, I’m spending my time on coding, I did buy PPaint PPC, but not sure where it is. (bit useless for true color graphics.)

This might become my next project actually, making a picture viewer that is not useless.

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@spudmiga

chipset was nice back in Amiga 500 days.
Amiga has better and faster graphics than rest of world.
But in Amiga 1200 days it was not enough.
sixteen color sprites, sixteen color playfields, unchanged since 1983 copper,
blitter as fast as in 1983, transfer to chip memory not changed since 1990.
All this was not enough for games and demos in Amiga 1200 days.
So I don't miss this. And don't need this in Amiga.

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Amiga did best as BOTH a HARDWARE and SOFTWARE platform!!! So THAT is my final answer

Yes, I think it was both, back in the day.

For a while now it's mostly been software, since all new systems draw from the same pool of hardware components. The main difference between PCs and Macs is software and firmware (and aluminum). They both used the same CPUs and GPUs until recently, when Apple came out with its new processor.

Even if Commodore had been a better run company, I think it would have been hard to keep up with Nvidia on the hardware side past about 1998.

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