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http://www.morphos-team.net/ http://aros.sourceforge.net/ http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/ Some light reading. Of course I am not suggesting that they are leading the pack anymore, but they are not dead. I'm also not going to beat the drum of monopolistic business practice that was the true hallmark of MS success, as we all know this to be the case.

Amiga.com may be short of technical details but they really are working on the OS. It's true that Amiga is branching out to other platforms via their Indian subsidiary, but that's a recent development -- the Amiga OS products have around for years .

Maybe they should make a system that is able to run Amiga OS 4

Wasn't the AMIGA's os Embedded on a ROM chip? I remember it booted quickly and ran well! .. Ahh...The days when things just ran...

Linux on PS3 cool, but we knew it was comming. Nice to see sony release it so early though.

What I am really waiting for is Amiga OS4

As Hyperion state in feature 12 of their 20 features of OS4
"It would be eminently suitable for - and relatively trivial to port to - the STI Cell processor used in the Playstation 3"

Please Hyperion, it's going to be a lot cheaper for Amiga enthusiasts that shelling out for A1 based systems

Maybe a widespread plea from slashdotters would convince them hint hint

Linux on PS3 cool, but we knew it was comming. Nice to see sony release it so early though.

What I am really waiting for is Amiga OS4

As Hyperion state in feature 12 of their 20 features of OS4
"It would be eminently suitable for - and relatively trivial to port to - the STI Cell processor used in the Playstation 3"

Please Hyperion, it's going to be a lot cheaper for Amiga enthusiasts that shelling out for A1 based systems

Maybe a widespread plea from slashdotters would convince them hint hint

Oops...sorry....The current URL link is: Hyperion

Yes, And the Amiga is alive and on its way Back!
This time running on powerpc hardware.

Hardware http://www.troikang.com/index.html
Amiga OS4 http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/

Hyperion Entertainment does ports to MacOS and Linux for hire, specializing in games. If you're willing to pay, it's doable.

To all the people that use "was" in their sentence, please use "is". "AmigaDOS is", "Workbench is" ...etc.

AmigaOS is still living. As a very small example see here:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:8080/news/20 05-07-22

Too bad Hyperion Entertainment didn't dare show up at CeBIT. Oh well, they'll get their C&D letters by registered mail instead, but it's not as entertaining when the humiliation doesn't take place in public right off the bat.

That post was not replying to the great-great-grandparent of this, but the great-grandparent, the one that claimed that the great-great-grandparent had got really fucked up set up issues then. My point is that if his 1 GHz machine can only do that, he has some issues of his own to deal with.

1) He never specified a speed, and what if his 1 GHz processor is a Celeron or other piece of junk? (seriously now, his OS will take up all of the processor time not leaving much to be used)
2) Thats not what he said, he said "My 1 ghz computer can play CD quality music", and anyway, why not? http://www.bigg.net/mp3/software/amiga/players.sht ml lists 5 players.
3) He said the 3d shooters were high quality, not the graphics. Doom is high quality. Quake is high quality. Wolfenstein 3D is high quality.
4) As with any MPEG compression, It all depends upon the source, noise regions, color regions, etc.
5) Depends on the software, as it does with any system. Oh, and for you FAT32 users, my Amiga doesn't have a 2 gig file size limit.

And yes, the code has become VERY bloated. That is why they are developing Amiga OS 4 for PPC/G3/G4/G5 machines.
Oh, and in case you are wondering, my Amiga has more free HD space than my PC has total.

Amiga is still manufacturing computers.

No, they aren't, and the Amiga computer died a decade ago.

OTOH, what is happening is that Hyperion Entertainment are porting and updating AmigaOS to version 4 on licence from Amiga, Inc., a company formed in 2000 by a marketing exec from the previous Amiga-owners Gateway. AInc in turn has allegedly switched owners twice since then, during litigation.

AmigaOS 4, and beyond, are meant to run on third party PowerPC hardware. Nobody is designing or even specifying standards for any hardware specifically for AmigaOS.

One controversial decision that bothers many current and prospective AmigaOS users is that the hardware market will have to be separated from "the rest of the world". Despite the inexistence of any Amiga hardware and AInc's irrelevance to the hardware market, AmigaOS must only be sold bundled with hardware, and only from vendors who have acquired a licence from AInc. These hardware bundles must also provide some form of hardware/vendor-licence verification mechanism ("anti-piracy measures"), which currently is supposed to consist of added code to the firmware.

The only licenced hardware today is sold by the single existing licensee, Eyetech, which is the same company that was "consulted" when these AmigaOS distribution policies were formed. Currently they sell Mai Logic Teron series motherboards, with their exclusively licensed (owned?) stickers saying "AmigaOne", plus a 60% heftier price tag.

For more on this, please see my homepage.

I used to work for a company that violated the license of an open source piece of software. They stole the code verbatim ...

You worked for Hyperion Entertainment?

Unfortunately, they are making millions of dollars ...

Oh. Sorry, my bad. So who did you work for?