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Concept Screenshots Of The AmigaDE GUI
Mike Bouma writes: "Check out this posting by Amiga`s CTO on the AmigaOne Mailing list. It includes some concept pictures of a GUI for the Amiga Digital Environment, which is being targetted at AmigaDE enabled handheld devices like Sharp`s upcoming Zaurus PDA. Some of the younger Slashdot readers may not be familiar with the classic AmigaOS, however interested people can (re)discover the AmigaOS through emulation, I suggest to check out this easy to setup "Amiga in a box" package."
Nah. I think the interface should start out big and fluffy and as you prove yourself competent it should evolve into a nice professional conservative desktop.
Amiga wants to be in any devices. This is why they develop the AmigaDE (ultra fast platform independent OS layer or standalone OS). But for servers and desktops there is a new PPC verion of the classic AmigaOS around the corner. (Within weeks)
LOL here`s an interesting link about NASA and their Amigas. And Disney did do all the animation in Dinosaur on Amiga computers (they bought in the early nineties).
You're purporting that there are no TV stations in the world still using Amigas? Perhaps I'm outside of the realm of consideration, but our local cable company uses Amigas for the cable access studios as well as to broad cast all sorts of information on the school district, city, and county channels. It's not much, but it's a counter-example to your presumtuous statement.
Apparently you're a troll and didn't actually read the page, since he stated that the DE mockup (presumably the one you refer to) is 9 months old and is (repeat with me) resolution-fixed. He specifically said that it is quite the opposite right now.
you can see more pictures of the new GUI on: http://www.aug99.com/exclusiv/guiamigaos.html
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They're using amigas.
They also use 386s.
See the similarity?
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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Nasa uses OLD, OLD, OLD technology because they know EXACTLY how it works.
You will NEVER see a Pentium 4 on the space shuttle, unless it belongs to Dennis Tito.
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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Sure, some people would say that statement is crap, but then they said the same thing about the Internet. Companies are trying to make educated guesses on where everything is going. Right now, the embedded market is wide open and full of opportunity--and if it pans out, companies can win big. Of course, it could all get flushed down the tubes like NCs ;-) But remember that consumer devices/embeded devices are all the rage outside the US--especially in Japan.
Why fight MS on the PC if the PC is going to be a marginal market at best? That's what these companies are thinking.
I for one, agree. I don't think MS is stupid (i.e. they won't let it catch them off guard like the Internet did), but it will be a good market full of great opportunities. If you are just starting out and looking for a technology wave to jumpstart your career, my advice (which makes me in no way responsible for your life or your own stupidity) is to get cracking on the Palm SDK and churn out some apps. Proving you have skills will get you in early. This is from someone who successfull got on the Internet Gravy Train :-)
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Let's see... there are:
The idea of writing a whole new OS, unless something new, some new itch has been found that just needs to be scratched, seems somehow crazy.
(Now, the SIMTICS idea that I'm working on is at least half-way sane. I'm merging two existing concepts to produce something that is - in theory - better than either could be, alone. I'm still not writing a "new" OS, though. There's no delving into re-inventing the wheel. The wheels I can use are already more than sufficient for any need I may have.)
Worse, the idea of exploiting the name of a very good system (for the time) in an effort to promote this new product is marketting abuse at its very worst.
(Now, if they were to derive some/all of their concepts from the original Amiga, or follow the Amiga philosophy in some significant way, then it could be justified. I've seen nothing to suggest that.)
As far as I can tell, this is a *One company that will happily seduce the populace, before collapsing under mysterious circumstances.
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That's hardly an innovation. exmh has been doing that for years.
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Well, 100x100 isn't that bad if you screen resolution is 2048x1536 ;-)
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The hand-holding-disk was indeed the prompt to insert the Workbench disk (or another bootable disk) in AmigaOS 1.2 and 1.3. (Later versions had an animated disk beside the checkmark logo.) The original Amiga (later named the Amiga 1000) loaded the OS kernel from the Kickstart disk at power-on, and the prompt to insert that was a 'doodle-oot' noise.
This is what every Amiga advocate used to say - because multi-tasking was just about the only thing the AmigaOS had going for it to start off with, along with a reasonable (but slow) file-system. For a long time it was horribly buggy, and it had a hideous and inconsistent UI. I was once Amiga advocate, but I doubt I would have been if I hadn't started out with OS 2.0.
Windows NT and all versions of Windows from Windows 95 onwards most certainly have real multi-tasking and multi-threading. On Windows 95 this can be crippled by Win16 apps, some of which were part of the OS distribution, but I don't believe that's true of later versions. So I think you're going on out of date information.
Why not? Are you against competition in the market? Would you rather all "alternative" platforms gave up hope and M$ took over 100% of the market?
No, but it is clear that most of the alternative platforms can't survive, and so spending energy on them can only hurt the chances of success of more viable alternatives like Linux. In fact, promoting such dead-on-arivial systems like BeOS and Amiga would be an excellent strategy for Microsoft. Divide and Conquer!
What's up with this sudden drive for all ailing OS companies to write OSes for palm-like devices? Be had a great OS that they seem to have basically abandoned for BeIA, and Amiga is going embeded too. Do they think they have a better chance against PalmOS and Wince? I would much rather leave my PDA running PalmOS and let the other companies work on their mighty-cool bigger OSes. Unfortunately, I guess we are still stuck with the stuff from Micros~1 even though there are much cooler things out there...
(as a side note, I do believe that BeOS is the coolest desktop OS I have ever used. On the other hand, I havn't played with Mac OSX (and its NeXT core) much yet, so that possbily could change. Probably not though...)
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The Amiga platform is dead for commercial applications, the brand name has changed hands many times because it's still being associated with "cool technology" and some people thought they could exploit that for marketing purposes.
It's really sad to see the disappointment of old Amiga freaks when they see announcements about something new related to Amiga, only to find out that it's just a marketing gag or whatever.
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That was my first thought too... It looks more like the Gnome panel than the Mac OS X Dock.
Other than Amiga colors and the boing ball, what does it have in common with the classic Amiga?
Myself I perfered MagicWB and Magic User Interface on my Amiga, I cant even use UAE without it...f s.jpeg
http://www.sasg.com
Some examples for the click impatient
MUI - http://www.sasg.com/mui/preview.gif
MWB - http://www.sasg.com/pic/mwb_preview.gif
Gallery pics - http://www.sasg.com/mui/gallery/Stefan_Stuntz/Pre
Hey, if you're gonna troll, as least do it right.
I'd say he was trolling perfectly, considering that 2 nitwits bothered to flame him about getting the model numbers "wrong".
I bow to your Uber-ness, Wakko Warner.
But he's right, those Amiga 200's probably would make fine paperweights...
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Did the original Amiga GUI have curves like that?
Nope, never, not even close. This has very little in common with Amiga of the past. The original Amiga ruled because it had an operating system that was suppported with several specialized IC's that would augment the OS. These new devices have no such hardware. I'm not 100% sure that the hardware is neccessary anymore (one was a graphics processor, one was a sound processor, &c) but that makes me wonder just how relevant Amiga OS is any more.
Makes me believe that they are just playing the nostalgia and pseudo-nostalgia card as a marketing ploy.
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Several major companies, including Disney, still use Amigas regularly to create effects.
No they don't. See, I can match you one for one with worthless anecdotes, let's try it again:
Almost every TV station in the world uses Amigas.
Nope, wrong-o. Lemme try something new: this time I get to make up the "phacts".
The last TV station to use an Amiga switched over to an Avid 4 years ago.
Hey, I see why you do that, it was SOOOO easy!
Now for some good 'ol derision of your "phun phacts":
NASA has been known to use Amigas and claim that Amigas are (still) the most versatile machines around.
Yeah, they use them for doorstops and as reaction mass for extra-atmospheric maneuvering. I think that Mars probe that smashed into the surface was powered by an Amiga reaction mass engine. Apparently they don't even function well in that capacity...
;P
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Allright..There's something i've been meaning to ask here. The biggest question that haunts the whole Amiga picture is: why bother
For the late 80's/early 90's, nobody disputes that the Amiga was king of the hill when it came to multimedia apps. But by today's standards, its really nothing to bark about. With every Amiga, you got 22 Khz stereo sound (about half the sample quality of a $5 audio card you can buy for any PC these days), and an 8-bit display capable of resolutions considered low-to-average in today's PC market, looking past graphics mode hacks unsuitable for GUIs like HAM. 24-bit displays on Amiga systems are basically RTG kludges that sit ontop of an already overburdoned planar display. Again, in terms of capability and performance, it's beaten by even the lowest of low-end video cards for PCs.
Next virtue...Small footprint. Sure, you can boot the OS off a single floppy, and it has a remarkably small footprint for an OS with those sorts of capabilities... But so what, so does Linux, so does QNX and others. Why bother with the Amiga?
When I was younger, I never thought i'd see the day when the Amiga's capabilities were surpassed by a platform as braindead as the PC, but it's happened, and happened a long time ago. I owned one for like 9 years, and I agree, it was a good machine..I just don't see the reason why anyone should really bother with AmigaOS other than pure religious zealotry or novelty.
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The Amiga DE has little in common with the original AmigaOS besides the name - although the DE is pretty cool in itself -based on the Tao virtual machine architecture.
Intersting that you should mention PalmOS - the old AmigaOS is being Open-source cloned by the aros project, and, it's recently beern ported to Palm hardware - if anything, the old amigaos, let alone the new DE, is better for palmtops than Palmos (which is quite limited - no preemptive multitasking, dodgy shared libraries, yadda, yadda) - then again, EPOC32 is better than either...
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Granted that the Amiga hardware was pretty impressive for it's time (the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale was still using one for titles and cuts in its video production stidio in 1996).
And the OS was also very well suited to the platform at that time too. I just don't see how pulling out an old OS and stuffing it on a palmtop can be a good thing. Surely there is another OS more suited for this use? PalmOS, mayhaps?
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Some of the younger Slashdot readers may not be familiar with the classic AmigaOS, however interested people can (re)discover the AmigaOS through emulation
Or, if you don't have time, just stand next to an Amiga user for 6 or 7 seconds.
I shouldn't complain, actually. As a Mac user, Amiga folk serve an important purpose - making me look almost normal.
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Why are all of the interface designers seeming to go to this sort of "plastic on acid" look for everything. I just installed WindowsXP on a laptop, and the first thing that I thought was the it looked like a first graders toy. All of the buttons were huge, shiny and colorfull. Mac OSX looks like a fourth graders frickin lunchbox, and KDE2 (a little better) still feels toyish.
This latest trend of making all of the icons (icons are useless wastes of desktop real estate as it is) look like plastic anime jewels is really sickening. Dont get me wrong GUI's are nice, but they don't need to make you feel and look like a retard for using them. IMVHO this is why window managers like enlightenment and DM's like Gnome will eventually be the future of GUI's, once the masses realize that a 100x100 close window button is not really nessecary, and in fact a really bad idea.
Who ever hires the designers that make interfaces like the ones shown in star trek (lcars) or the one in Swordfish will make the big bucks. Yes I realize that those interfaces are completely fictional and dont really do anything, but the theory behind them, especially lcars, is very good. The world where the application and the desktop integrate seamlessly is the world of the future (not even windows can do that, even with IE).
Just my $0.02.
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I just want video toaster back so I can have kiki again. I haven't seen her since high school
Is it just me or does this little write up seem totally contradictory to what we last heard from Amiga?
I mean, first they are working on a hardware independent, OS independent "Environment" called DE, THEN they are reverting back to pushing forth development of AmigaDOS 4.0 as a whole stand alone system because as they said "That's what Amigans wanted". NOW they are showing us ugly little pictures of this Digital Environment that nobody wanted, as if they've forgotten the promises they've made.
Let me set one thing straight as a one time owner of 3 Amigas (1200/2000/4000)...
We don't WANT Amiga DE.
We don't WANT a new, unrelated hardware with the Amiga name slapped on it.
We WANT AmigaDOS 4.0 ported to modern hardware with a good mix of legacy software support and modern OS features.
If you don't WANT to give this to us, curl up and DIE already, it's long past overdue!
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Looks more like a GNOME panel to me. Now, how long do we have to wait for gtk and Sawfish themes! :)
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Some of the younger Slashdot readers may not be familiar with the classic AmigaOS...
Am I getting that old? Lines like this used to be resevered to references to a PDP or something similar.
I guess once I break 30 I'll be considered ancient. : P
I use my Amiga regularly to run Bars and Pipes. The day B&P becomes usable under UAE is probably the day the A4000 finally goes into the loft for good.
It's such a waste, what happened to Amiga, but for me at least, it's still the best tool for one particular job.
No, you now have the Tao operating system with kludges to let it run ten year old software. Congratulations.
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You are wrong for many different reasons. If Amiga is dead, then how could I have cut a commercial with one yesterday? If its dead then how come my work has two, my school has one, and the local university has a whole lab of them. Amiga is dying, no doubt about it. But the video toaster and flyer were/are such incredible products that they have prolonged amiga's death for ages. Is anyone buying Amiga's? I hope not, that would be pretty silly, but Amiga is not dead, it is just taking a long time to kick off because of the video toaster and flyer. Now that they have come to NT and have been there for a while, people are starting to migrate over when they have the money.
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No need to switch there; you just needed to perform the legendary dropping it four inches onto a bed trick. Many an Amiga fixed with that one.
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Come one, let it die... it had a good life. Move on to something modern, like BeOS. You would still get to fight an uphill battle, constantly claim (rightly) that your OS was better, and complain about the idiots that keep it from succeeding. Sounds perfect for an Amiga fan.
USers need MS-OFFICE to stay in bussiness or keep their jobs. Explain to the CEO who sent you a .doc file, that you can't read it because you bought an amiga?
Uhm, I can't read M$ .doc files at work, and they supplied my Sun Ultra 5 workstation... I don't even have a PC to use.
Besides, this PDA/Amiga news has nothing to do with anything you Linux nazis are thinking of. This platform isn't ancient, old or dead. It is currently only available in the Sharp Zaurus comercially, and as a development kit for developers. It's completely unrelated to Amiga hardware or the older AmigaOS in the same way that Windows, Linux, or Beos or QNX is unrelated to Amiga hardware or older AmigaOS.
I almost cringe when there's Amiga news posted to /. as all you morons all start crying "it's dead, forget it" when the news is completely unrelated to what you're whining about, other than the brand name on the label. /.ers love talking about the latest science or useless Linux utilities, but any post with the word "amiga" in it is immediately bombarded with uneducated comments. This situation seriously degraded my opinion of the /. community, as you all have absolutely no respect for anything not Linux.
Guess what? I use an Amiga at home, I have plenty of apps and games, and am very happy with it. I don't really need Windows or Linux or BeOS to be happy, as I already am. Why replace something that still gets the job done well, "just because it's old"???
Your same argument works well against Linux BTW...
And for all those Amiganoids out there: STOP PUSHING FOR AMIGA RELATED NEWS!!! Slashdot is a Linux site, nothing more!
/. right? It seems /. is a community happy to talk about anything except the new Amiga platform, which is not related to what they claim is "old and dead" in any way other than brand name on the label. AmigaDE is no more old and dead than any other brand new technology, which AmigaDE is. Now go and make Linux as easy to configure and use as my computer at home is, all you /. nazis, if you do then maybe I'll get it working right someday on my junker PC. It doesn't seem to like having two NE2000 cards installed.
Yea, that's why there's all that Linux related black hole/origin of the universe/what real estate web site is best news on
No, you now have the Tao operating system with kludges to let it run ten year old software. Congratulations.
Uhm, no. DE doesn't run AmigaOS software from 10 years ago. Not 3 year old AmigaOS software or even brand new AmigaOS software either. AmigaDE only runs AmigaDE and Java software. It has no capability to run Motorola 68K code.
Hmmm, that's a cure taskbar I see...
It loox quite a bit OsX and I like it!
Say we give up those window widget bars sitting @ the bottom of our screens (soo very M$ win puah) with sickening buttons a la windoze and clock on the right. Cool eh? A cute & smooth transparent boxy thing (beveld gives an even better 3Dish look) that holds BIG & COLOURFUL icons for the apps running... click & select on the popup the instance you want (with many konq instances there's no way you'll read the name of the URL it's pointing so it's just useless clutter)
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AmigaOS is not some open source project. It doesn't have to scratch any itch other then to get whoever owns Amiga these days (Amiga Inc?) some money. The thing about PDAs is that every person does not have to have PDAs with the same OS for them to functional, unlike with computers where it is handy. Also, as has been pointed out already, AmigaOS is not a new OS. It is an OS already running a low-powered hardware and that can be an the primary OS, as well as a VM. The latter feature is what makes AmigaOS orginial and different from other OSs. I least I can't think of an OS that has a VM to run its software.
Errr..whoops! that's what i meant (not workbench). i never actually owned an Amiga...just tooled around with the ones they had on display at the local KMart store. those bastards never did anything except turn them on...so they were always displaying the Kickstart screen.
I tried out the palm-top version of the AmigaOS a few days ago, only to be frustrated at boot time by a chunky, low-res image of a hand holding a Workbench floppy disk. Palmtops don't have floppy drives!! Until this is fixed, I don't see much future for AmigaOS on hand held platforms.
Some of my concerns are that, if GUIs are more than just a personal preference based on past experiences, why are succesive desktop environments from the same vendor so different? or If GUIs are building on computer-human interactions, then why do they often dumb-down the new GUI so people familiar with past versions can use it?
In short, are these screens developed by a graphic designer, and then programed by a techie, or are they based on some research that might make Amiga easier to use rather then just look better?
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
.. although marketting will be part of it.
:-)
The "New" Amiga ideology is to have a 'Digital Environment' which can be either be hosted on another OS (Palm OS, Sharp's TaurusOS, Windows, Linux, etc, etc), or run on their own native hardware (due RSN). Couple this and the write-once-run-anywhere abilities of their core programming languages, and you have an amazingly powerful system for emersing yourself in digital media and content, which is where the industry is moving.
And yes, you'll still have a command line interface if you want it
I had the same problem with the Fat Agnus in my A500. All you need to do is pick the whole case up and bang it down on the desk a few times. The erratic behaviour you are talking about is probably a green screen, black screen, and a constantly flashing red light on the case. Don't worry about it. Just bang it a few times and it will come right (without filesystem errors like "modern" OSes like GNU/Linux and Windoze).
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Several major companies, including Disney, still use Amigas regularly to create effects. Almost every TV station in the world uses Amigas. Some of the top serials on TV use Amigas to produce their work. NASA has been known to use Amigas and claim that Amigas are (still) the most versatile machines around. Modern languages such as Python and E have been ported. AmiNet has the largest collection of free software on the internet. Nope, even if the Amiga was a horsey it would be alive and running.
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Amiga is dead. I mean really really dead. Like so dead, that........ well lets just say its very dead. I can't think of anything more dead besides multics, ITS, and cp/m. Even os/2 still has more active users and is probably a biger market for software developers.
.doc file, that you can't read it because you bought an amiga?
Come to think of it FreeDOS probably has more users today then amiga. IT doesn't matter if its any better. If it died 10 years ago due to the lack of apps, then how do you think it will go today when all the old developers left?
If I was an old software company who wrote apps for amiga back in the 80's I would avoid the new one like the plague. Microsoft and Apple are the only real players in town when it comes to video editing and graphical applications. USers need MS-OFFICE to stay in bussiness or keep their jobs. Explain to the CEO who sent you a
It can be as fast as a supercomputer and people still wont buy it. Its a sad world we live in but politics will always determine which platform to oick.
Now I will cringe as I watch my karma go straight down to hell for speaking the utter truth that no one wants to hear.
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Amiga? Dead? No, just been wheezing a bit in the corner for the past decade. It's not running wild, but there's still some juice left yet. I keep mine tucked away in the corner when I need something I can rely on working as I want. /. community (as pointed out before) that whenever an Amiga story pokes it's head outa the barrel, it gets shot at. The fact some readers and critics seem a little confused over the matter doesn't help.
There seems to be a general discomfort in the
AmigaDE. "It's nothing to do with AmigaOS" ... well, yes, quite right. It's a "new" approach to a problem. Very little to do with the Classic machines. Get over it.
AmigaOS is Dead. Well, no. The fact Haage and Partner are still selling products like StormC proves there is still a whsiper of life. It is a great system - I've yet to be impressed by other OSs like Linux and especially Windows in quite the same way.
Only Amiga by name ... well, yes, yet again. It's the company that is called AMIGA now, not simply the machines. A fact oft overlooked here, it seems. Might as well call Linux by the name of Corel and be done. Same difference.
Yes, the classic boxes are old - yes the hardware can be considered almost obsolete in comparison to modern stuff; almost like the somewhat nasty and almost archaic x86 boxes that a lot of Linux systems run on. But we're not simply talking about the old boxes. At least give the guys a chance to produce a system and then slag it off.
All IMO as I understand it, of course. :)
How Can This Be Obsolete when FORTRAN is still in use?
Its even complete with a horizontal seperator, little arrows for running apps, and a Mail Icon that shows how much unread mail you have.
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Amiga forever! I've always respected a modular system. FIRST POST!
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The Amiga was, and still is, an awesome box. The extremely customizable OS and tight integration with the GUI and the CLI made it the most productive, user friendly box I've ever played with. I have several Amigas and love them. Unfortunately I have not been using them much lately as they are a bit behind in things now. It took the better part of a decade for them to fall behind. I just hope that the new OS does justice to all of us Amiga fan(atic)s who have truely enjoyed the OS for years. If the concept website wasn't already /. ed then I'd be staring at the concept screens instead of writing this lousy comment.
My name fits again.
As history has proven if software(OS) confines itself to a particulary device(PDA), the development of that platform is based on the demand of the device. And in a market as saturated and funded had handhelds, I doubt the Amiga OS will become the superstar without multiple(more than 2) device vendors(successful). To bad though, I would have liked to see it suceed.
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I thought you all were pro-competition... The more choices, the better.. all that jazz. What I'm getting from you guys now is "There are already enough OS's and GUIs." *sigh*
Nice, clean interface with gentle curves. Pretty sweet. Did the original Amiga GUI have curves like that?
the world needs a fast and cheap (and kind of portable, too) home computer, that is easy to operate and play games and write letters and all that minor stuff. Maybe Playstation 2 is the Amiga of 2000+...
You guys! ;-)
We all know the ST beat the Amiga hands down and only the more efeminate among us truly prefered the Amiga. I mean. The ST had an Atari logo on it. That was the same logo as was on all the cool arcade games!
That seems as good a reason to ressurect TOS, or even MINT as anyone has come up with for the current AmigaOS nonsense
I am not an amiga user and don't know if I every will be...
/. has an article about amiga is that helpful to anyone. (not to mention quite boring)
But I don't think that lampooning amigans with "It's dead let it go" everytime
They aren't saying that we all have to run out and buy an amiga now. It's just an interesting news item about an alternative OS... what's so wrong with that? if your not interested then don't worry about it, if you are then it's nice to get some up to date information on it.
I personally think it looks interesting, I don't know if it'll take off, but I think it could work if given a chance.