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Ars Technica Reviews AmigaOS 4.0
Amiga Lover writes "While tales of the troubles behind the Amiga's ownership abound over the last 10 years, work has been going on in the background for newer releases of the operating system that powered some of the most desirable computers from the 1980s. You can now buy brand new Amiga motherboards, and the operating system is very close to a final release. Jeremy Reimer from arstechnica reviews the current developer preview of AmigaOS 4.0, going over this new small and fast OS in thorough arstechnica style."
Amiga users are my mortal enemy! Long live the AtariST
ahh warm and fuzzy.
So ahh... in other words... Amiga is dead?
What are the real world modern uses for an Amiga machine?
Our office has used one every day for years to prop open an annoying fire door.
Our office has used one every day for years to prop open an annoying fire door.
This is a task a Mac could do just as easily.
Yeh, but the Amiga has lotsa custom door-propping-open second processor chips and all that.
Its resting....
I'm very very sorry - but i just couldn't help myself...
If religous zealots don't believe in Evolution, then why are they so worried about bird flu?
GET A LIFE!! Move out of your parents basement! You! Have you ever kissed a girl? (now me) For the Love of Christ people! I had an Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000. I played games, I had fun, I even took one apart and spliced an op amp into the sound board so I could run negative voltages through it (try that with a pc) to run my laser graphics cards. BUT IT'S OVER! DONE WITH. Get a grip and let it fucking DIE already! I'm sure the architecture and OS were ahead of their time, but unless they were more than 18 years ahead of their time, then their still over the hill. Go outside and work on your car! or Go inside and work on your girlfriend! I don't care that one of the hotkeys looks like Bob Dobb's. Throw the fucking thing away, upgrade your PC or Mac and GET A LIFE! Amiga...it's over.
Jay would ask the dog whether to include a gate or not, and if the dog barked, the gate would go in -- otherwise not.
Wow, now that's impressive. The best I've been able to get from my dog is for him to ring a bell when he has to go outside to take a crap.
It'll be just like the 80s again. I can see it now, the animated boot screen with wavy lines that says
"4M1G4 0S 4.0
kr4CK3D 8Y BLU3ZM0B1L3
J3FF i5 A h0M0"
A dongle, huh? Methinks someone in charge of the current Amiga doesn't remember 1989 very well. Dongles back then meant "it might take almost TWO whole days for the kracked (yes, with the k, cuz they all thought it was k00l) version to start making the rounds." Or better yet, "I BOUGHT the damn thing and I still downloaded the kracked version because I lost the dongle."
What they ought to do is ship the OS with a custom USB floppy drive that can read all the various weird Amiga disk formats (including the custom ones used by games). That way it's more of a conceptual dongle - you don't need it to run the OS, but it sure makes it a lot more pleasant if you can actually get to your old disks.
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