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Retro Activity: MorphOS 1.0

Posted by timothy on from the when-hobbies-get-stuck dept.

An anonymous reader submites: "You can read it from their development page if you like to get the word from the horses mouth. 'The current version is 1.0. Feedback welcome.' Hey, if you can't revive a dead horse, whip it some more, yeah?" All the better to run programs on their "old Commodore(TM) A1000, A500, A2000, A1200, A3000(T) and A4000(T) systems as efficiently as possible." Everyone has different uses for time.

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  1. Where? by jagapen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All I see on that page is version 1.0 of the "MorphOS Development Reference Manual," but nowhere on the site do I see anything about a 1.0 release of the OS itself.
    Furthermore, the site says that the purpose of MorphOS is to run Amiga programs FREE OF the old Amiga hardware.

  2. Re:Great Day! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OS/2 isn't dead, it's just in really weird nitch places. I believe the interface of the new copy machine at the place I work actually uses OS/2. I hear many ATMs do also

  3. Different uses of time. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Everyone has different uses for time.

    Well, some like to play with old innovative OS:es, some like to play with old rebuild monolithic Unix:es, trying to use slow X servers as desktop enviroments.

    I leave it as an exercise for the reader, trying figuring out which one of those two options I find more attractive.

  4. It's Over Man by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know what it's like when a loved one passes away. How it feels to find that you most loved piece of hardware has passed away. For 7 years my only computer was my trusty old Amiga 500. Even when CBM went up in flames I still went out and imported a A3000 from Canida. So I feel your pain.

    It's time to let go man. Just drop it and walk away, don't look back. I said, don't look back.

    If you still believe you must have all the benfits of the Amiga, get your self a nice linux box. Shoot, a nice Mac will help go through the loss.

    Trust me, it's for the best

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    Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification

  5. Re:Great Day! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It used to be quite popular on ATMs and in other 'fat embedded' scenarios, when IBM was backing it. I've seen it used for process-control on wave-soldering equipment (where Warp's flexibility to run realtime scheduling no doubt came in handy), and on the item-pickup kiosk at Sears, where it was struggling sadly under the load, no doubt on a 486 of some sort, the taskswitcher forever popping to the foreground as the poor thing tried to keep up.*

    It's also quite common to see in Point-of-Sale environments, where the same vendor seems to be providing software for both NT or OS/2. I believe Schnucks supermarkets in IL were still running it, though I could be wrong; look for telltale UI widgets next time you buy milk.

    *I should note that, not unlike *NIX with XFree86, OS/2 has certain memory requirements that must be met before it'll fly. It came before its time; on a K6-2 with 128MB RAM, it flew with memory 80% free, but by then, it was too late, and NT- an even bigger ball of bloat, being at heart a reimplimentation of OS/2's C sources in C++- was reborn as Win2k about 4 years later.

  6. It's not the same without the Amiga by myov · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even though I'm typing this from a TiBook, stories like this remind me how much I miss using the Amiga. My A3000 sits on a shelf just above my BSD machine, and I still have my A500 downstairs (or A0.5K as some people liked to call it :) My 3000 (one of the few softboots) was having some hardware problems, and I just haven't had the time to really work at it. At the same time, I just can't seem to find a good use for it - Linux, BSD and MacOS X now take care of my needs.

    IMHO, the Amiga made using computers fun. It wasn't *what* you were doing, but *how* you were doing it (except for those ^#@! guru's) Now that Windows has taken over virtually everything, computers have become just a tool for getting work done, and it's become too routine. Linux and to an extent, MacOS X, have captured a lot of the spirit of the Amiga, and features that I had on my Amiga years ago are starting to make their return (I missed my CLI on my desktop machine!). Yet, it just isn't the same.

    Off topic, SASG still appears to be active. Looking at some of the MUI screenshots, it's interesting to see how similar parts of MacOS X are - back in 1995!

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    I use Macs to up my productivity, so up yours Microsoft!