AmigaOS 4 @ ars technica

Vikingod · Jan 22, 2007, 10:37 AM

Source: ars technica
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The Amiga computer has long been the subject of intense nostalgia in the hearts of anyone who owned one. Released in 1985, only a year after the original Macintosh, the Amiga featured vivid color graphics, 4-channel stereo sampled sound, and a graphical, preemptive multitasking operating system that seemed to come from years in the future. Yet the Amiga languished in obscurity, meriting barely a footnote in most books on the history of the personal computer. In the story that arose of the battle between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for domination of the computing universe, there was seemingly no room for a third protagonist.

Matth · Jan 22, 2007, 11:06 AM

The Amiga is dead, bury it!

From the mishandled remains of the Motorola 68k based Amiga, to a PowerPC "AmigaOne" board and an unready beta of Am-OS 4 (or PowerPC Linux), to a final OS4 but no current boards (and it won't run on anything else). Nice to know the same incompetence that killed the original Amiga also seems to be accurately emulated!

BlueMak · Jan 22, 2007, 11:28 AM

It is ironic, or just plain funny that they are selling an OS that will only work on a specific hardware, but wait, none is making the hardware anymore! It's a dead end.
Release the OS for other hardware and perhaps there is some life left in it. Else, it is just a matter of time till the hardware stops working.
The sales for it can only go down. Who thought of this scheme, ATARI's ex CEOs?

***Zardon*** · Jan 22, 2007, 11:48 AM

amiga workbench was always an ugly operating system, i hated it. I much prefered the Atari ST's "gem" os, even if it was a poor blatant ripoff of MacOS. The amiga hardware was always better though with the paula sound chip and the blitter graphics.

Long gone are the days, thank god.

BlueMak · Jan 22, 2007, 02:37 PM

I don't know, I loved TOS's simplicity (owned various atari systems from 86-93) and I wouldn't mind seeing something like that today.

Jan 22, 2007, 10:37 AM	#1
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Jan 22, 2007, 11:06 AM	#2
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,203 Rep Power: 57 System Specs	The Amiga is dead, bury it! From the mishandled remains of the Motorola 68k based Amiga, to a PowerPC "AmigaOne" board and an unready beta of Am-OS 4 (or PowerPC Linux), to a final OS4 but no current boards (and it won't run on anything else). Nice to know the same incompetence that killed the original Amiga also seems to be accurately emulated! __________________ Mary had a little lamb, Her father shot it dead Now Mary takes her lamb to school, Between two crusts of bread

Jan 22, 2007, 11:28 AM	#3
BlueMak DH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 8,246 Rep Power: 118 System Specs	It is ironic, or just plain funny that they are selling an OS that will only work on a specific hardware, but wait, none is making the hardware anymore! It's a dead end. Release the OS for other hardware and perhaps there is some life left in it. Else, it is just a matter of time till the hardware stops working. The sales for it can only go down. Who thought of this scheme, ATARI's ex CEOs? __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Jan 22, 2007, 02:37 PM	#5
BlueMak DH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 8,246 Rep Power: 118 System Specs	I don't know, I loved TOS's simplicity (owned various atari systems from 86-93) and I wouldn't mind seeing something like that today. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Jan 22, 2007, 11:48 AM	#4
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,260 Rep Power: 3150	amiga workbench was always an ugly operating system, i hated it. I much prefered the Atari ST's "gem" os, even if it was a poor blatant ripoff of MacOS. The amiga hardware was always better though with the paula sound chip and the blitter graphics. Long gone are the days, thank god.