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by Cockbrand 370 days ago
> 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.
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timbit42 369 days ago
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.
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Cockbrand 367 days ago
That is very true, and it's kind of amazing that this hasn't been picked up by contemporary operating systems.
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