It's well weapon.

[hirez]

You'll have to forgive my lagging behind all the early adopters with their small hats and extra large fives, but Tasker is a virtual object of remarkable utility.

It doesn't appear to eat all the cycles, either.

(God, the last time I worried about that I was writing a copperlist. Has a damn phone got more horsepower than my old Amiga?)

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[cybermule]

Probably does have, but then the Amiga proved that it really is what you do with it that counts.

[hirez]

Quite.

[cybermule]

There's a uae4droid. I've not transferred my ROM over yet so I can't vouch for it

[steer]

Surely much much more. Don't know what your phone has but mine has a ARM chip (Cortex-A8 if that means anything to you) at 600 MHz plus a 3d accelerator and 32Gb on board. I don't think it's even a contest. Not quite as good as a real low end netbook but still better than any desktop I owned 10 years ago.

[hirez]

From a pure MHz-and-Mb view, PCs have been 'quicker' than baseline Amigas since circa 1992. From the point of view of 'Can your machine emit something like the Spaceballs demo', the landscape's rather different.

[steer]

Heh... that sounds a lot like special pleading to me -- I'm sure you can find some task or other that any given machine was pretty good at. "My ZX81 may *seem* underpowered but try comparing its bootup time to a modern PC."

In any case we're not talking 1992 are we... my phone processor power is nearer 2000 I imagine yours is not significantly different.