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AmigaOS 4.0 Status Report

Posted by timothy on from the mysterious-undead-bouncy-ball dept.

Mike Bouma writes "Core AmigaOS 4.0 developer Hans-Jörg Frieden has written a status report with regard to the current state of AmigaOS. Various advances have been made since the Developer Pre-release version of AOS4 was completed. Meanwhile AmigaWorld.net has launched a new File Depot portal dedicated to providing and hosting Amiga OS4 files and related resources. A first impressions review and some first user screenshots of the pre-release CD are also available."

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  1. Re:next review please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I tried a mac after amiga became a walking corpse... but it was just a bit too much like amiga, but not quite right. Lots of little things, like the mac's STUPID disk handling compared to amigas, the absence of shell windows (amiga always had a decent shell, though it was a strange mixture of sh and csh), the lack of multiple screens, the mac's ONE DAMN BUTTON, and NO MAGICMENU. But the mac had a very similar GUI otherwise, very similar system folder structure, very similar sound and graphics capabilities.

    All this meant, using the Mac was like one of those bad dreams where you're running through treacle or something, instead of just running. So I switched to linux, and swam. This was less disturbing than the "close but no cookie" mac.

  2. Re:next review please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Context menus are evil, at least as implemented today. MagicMenu just gave you ALL your menus off the right click, ghosting out irrelevant entries for context - this meant that you could _learn_ the positions of menu items, they didn't jump about, and you could do _everything_ without having to wander up to the top of the screen like normal amiga menus or mac menus. I fear the only way I'm going to get decent behaviour is to implement a new menu mode for Qt/KDE that emulates MagicMenu. Also, the amiga had that hold-down-right-button-click-left-to-multiple-sele ct menu behaviour, which was handy.

  3. UK vs US english by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    It's actually a dialect difference. In US English, names of organizations, businesses, sports teams, and the like are treated as singular if the name of the entity does not have a plural suffix, whereas in UK English, they are always treated as plural. Furthermore, in US English plural entity names for whom the singular form cannot be applied to their members taken individually may also be treated as singular, such as "Super Solutions has launched a new service!".

    E.g., in British English, "IBM have announced...", "Canada are on the ice."

    Since Slashdot tends to have a US-centric focus, the original poster was probably just on some sort of anti-American snit, if any logic can be applied to a troll.