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AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release
David Doyle writes "Hyperion Entertainment and
the Amiga OS 4.0 development team announced on Amigaworld.net that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004. The Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release consists of a current snapshot of AmigaOS 4.0 for the AmigaOne platform with a straightforward HTML installation guide in English, German, French and Italian as well as the Amiga OS 4.0 SDK. The Amiga OS 4.0 SDK will allow near effortless migration of existing Amiga OS 3.x source-code to OS 4.0 as well as the creation of altogether new content. Full
announcement and Amiga OS4 SDK feature list."
Ok.. Now we're getting somewhere!
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Unfortunately it is slashdotted already, and there were only 10 comments when I tried!
I don't know much about this project, however.
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When Amigas were in their heyday, they had a lot of stuff that nobody else had- a lightning fast graphics blitter chip, a modern OS, and video capability. There were quite a few areas where they were demonstrably and clearly lightyears (or Lightwaves ;-P) ahead of everybody else at the time.
Totally the opposite now, though. Other computers have had all that stuff for at least ten years. So what's the "raison d'etre" for Amigas, now? Is there anything that the AmigaOS does better than other OSs?
I'm not trolling; I just don't see the selling point to these things. More OS and hardware choices are always a Good Thing, and I'd love to see the rise of cheap PowerPC motherboards. But either I'm absolutely failing to comprehend the selling points of the new AmigaOS, or there simply aren't any. I would like somebody to prove me wrong and point some out, I really would!
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God. At least they could do something halfway worthwhile, like port it to run on the Athlon 64 or something. You could buy a 64 bit Athlon CPU and a micro ATX board for just a few hundred dollars and have a usable system for a dated operating system.
Sure, I see some nostalgic value in it, but I just don't get it. Let me add that I loved the Commodore 64 and the Amiga systems of old. We've still got a few Amigas hanging around my workplace, but the last time that we used them was for Toaster and Lightwave 5 work and that was nearly 8-10 years ago. Even then, while useful, they were showing their age.
I see no significant changes to the GUI mechanics here. I guess it's simply for the purists out there.
I see no indication that this will ever run on hardware that is actually *available* to people. Again, it's another instance of this software being built simply for purists whoe want something "different" than what the Microsoft crowd uses.
Amigas were amazing for their time, but if you fastforward nearly 20 years, things have changed a lot. Sure, I love the PPC hardware that they are trying to use today, but is it really viable for this?