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Ars Technica Reviews AmigaOS 4.0

Posted by timothy on from the it-isn't-free-though dept.

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."

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  1. It won't run games??? by Cr0w+T.+Trollbot · · Score: 0, Troll
    "Legacy Amiga applications, such as games, that were written to access the old custom chipset hardware directly, will not run in OS4.0."

    Oh, joy. Well, it's not like games were ever a strongpoint on the Amiga, is it?

    The only reason the Amiga, with it's sub-Mac standard GUI and inferior hardware, ever developed the following it did was because of games. For a few years in the late 1980s, thanks to superior sound and color than that on competing platforms, the Amiga was the machine to own to play (and program) games on.

    Now they're promising an Amiga that will run an almost-modern, not-even-remotely-as-polished-as-OS-X OS on hardware that's two Mac-generations behind (the G3, with G4 "coming soon"), and it won't run any of the classic games? And any but the hardest of hardcore Amgia fans would buy it why?

    As an insanely challenging uber-geek project, this is fine, but it's not anything anyone is ever going to make a viable business out of.

    - Crow T. Trollbot