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."

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more pictures

[Anonymous Coward]

you can see more pictures of the new GUI on: http://www.aug99.com/exclusiv/guiamigaos.html

This is sad.

[jd]

I mean it. There is a plethora of OS' at the moment, any one of which -could- be easily either used as-is, or extended to suit the purpose of the Amiga.

Let's see... there are:

• Linux (and RT-Linux, L4-Linux, MkLinux, MOSIX, SE-Linux, etc)
• The multitude of BSD's (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SecureBSD, TrustedBSD)
• QNX
• Roadrunner
• MIT's Exokernel
• The L4 microkernel
• The Mach microkernel
• BeOS
• The OSKit development kit
• The ANTS distributed OS

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.

Re:Amiga??

[donglekey]

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.