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Re:Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World by Cockbrand on Thursday June 12, 2025 @01:02AM (#44254443)
> 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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Re:Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World by timbit42 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:39PM (#44259759)
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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Re:Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World by Cockbrand on Saturday June 14, 2025 @12:05PM (#44277171)
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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