[trembolram]

There was recently a comment how someone is still using Atari ST for low latency MIDI because modern PCs can't do it out-of-box [1]. Does Amiga have something that modern PCs can't do? If I remember correctly, Amiga didn't have MIDI out-of-box.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150678

[Cockbrand]

> Does Amiga have something that modern PCs can't do?

Until TV became digital, Amigas were commonly used for creating titles and overlays for TV shows well after they became obsolete for the rest of the world. Nowadays, I couldn't think of anything the Amiga would really do better than modern hardware.

[timbit42]

One thing modern OSes still don't do that the Amiga did is datatypes. If your Amiga didn't have the JPEG.datatype file, the OS and your apps couldn't use JPEGs, but once you added it, the OS and ALL your apps supported JPEG.

[Cockbrand]

That is very true, and it's kind of amazing that this hasn't been picked up by contemporary operating systems.

[neom]

For the ST, the midi was wired to the CIA so basically right to the CPU, Amiga had Paula. https://amitopia.com/amiga-was-already-capable-of-14bit-play...

[IcePic]

I seem to recall amiga midi getting a bit of critique (at least when used with Bars and Pipes) for adding latency when doing MIDI. For hobbyists, this probably wasn't a showstopper, but for serious use it would be lots more important.