Running AmigaOS on a PC (The Proper Way)

AmiLover writes: "OSNews is running a review of AmigaXL, a system that allows you to boot AmigaOS on your PC in a way that resembles a regular-booting x86 operating system. Screenshots accompany the article show the latest version of AmigaOS 3.9 running on a Compaq laptop. With AmigaOS 4.0 coming out in March with lots of new features (antialias fonts, better memory protection etc) is AmigaXL the one true future of Amiga, a future that AmigaDE, QNX and Gateway failed to materialize through their involvement with AmigaOS?"

Comments

Dead parrot sketch...

[jonr]

You know the drill... not dead, resting, ex-parrot, ceased to be... etc...

Does this mean....

[ThinkingGuy]

I'll be able to use VideoToaster once again?

The Amiga.

[cooperj72]

For those of you who have never used one, let me put it like this.

In 1989 I bought an Amiga 500. My jaw dropped.

I have never experienced another piece of
technology the way I did the first year I used
amiga. It's sound, graphics, multitasking, and
interface WAS that good... that far
ahead of it's time.

If there were and equivalent to getting laid the
first time it would be the Amiga. Sure
you've had better since, but you will
remember it always. For the record I'll take my
first lay over the Amiga anytime ;)

-J

Re:I wept silently to myself, when I read this.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

This is hilarious.

Operating systems that I use at least once a month.

NOS's
Banyan VINES 6.0 (with streettalk)
Netware 2.x
Netware 3.x
Netware 4.x (with NDS)
Netware 5.0 (with NDS)

OS's
Apple ProDOS
Apple GS/OS 6
MacOS 6.x -9.x
Amiga OS 1.x - 3.1
Windows 3.0, 3.11WFW, 95, 98, NT 3.1, NT 3.51 NT4, 2000 (all flavors, 2k with AD)
CP/M (for TRS-80 Model 4)
IBM PC DOS 3.x-7.0
MS DOS 2.x-6.22
Novell DOS 7
DR DOS 5,6
Atari TOS/GEM
IBM OS/2 2.1-4.0

RX11
OpenVMS 7.0
Ultrix 4.3
Solaris 7
NeXTstep 3.3

And literally too many 8bit OS's to keep track of. Tandy renamed the trs80 dos's every other week, I just can't remember all the different flavors of minix, cp/m and things named "dos". I have the only integrated ethernet/tokenring/arcnet/localtalk/fddi/atm/econe t/802.11/rs485 network that I've ever heard of. I'm a busy little bee, trying to write a VIP stack for linux, and integrate streettalk, ad, and nds all into my strange little OpenLDAP directory. I just got my first PDP-11 a few weeks back, and I've almost got unix v7 running on it. If you want to play guru, bring it on.

Re:I wept silently to myself, when I read this.

[Anonymous Coward]

You're a right bloody poofter, what?

Factory new A1200 and a bit of a rant.

[richie2000]

A few months ago I bought a factory new stock Amiga 1200. Since then, I have added an old 4 gig 2.5" Toshiba laptop hard drive and am thinking about a '060/PPC card with some serious RAM (on an Amiga, 16 MB is really lots and lots of RAM).

A few years ago, I lived a coupla miles from the old Commodore Sweden HQ and they didn't take down the old sign until recently and every time I passed by on my bike or in my car, I'd shed a tear thinking about the good times I had with my amigas and how different the world could have been, if only... If only Irving Gould and Mehdi Ali hadn't been such greedy bastards. They must have been grown out of a baboon's ass - there is no way in hell those two idiots could have been born and raised by humans. No, I'm not bitter. I'm BITTER!.

Let me go, I feel much better now! No, don't make me run XP again - NOOOOOooooo!

Re:Why not UAE, then? (was: Vm_Ware)

[Anonymous Coward]

Poster #1: Talks about performance of UAE on Powermacs then makes a comment about Basilisk II on XP(Obviously on x86).

Poster #2: Asks about specs on Basilisk II machine (x86 remember?) and tells about his experience on a Celeron 400(still x86).

Poser #3: (You) Snide comment about 604 PPC.

Poster #4: (AC) Points out that the first 2 comments were about x86 Basilisk II machines.

Poser #3:(You again) WTF....UAE....Powermac....WTF....