AmigaOS 4.0 released

tmk writes "After five years Hyperion announces the availability of AmigaOS 4.0: 'Amiga OS 4.0 is the most stable, modern and feature-rich incarnation to date of the multi-media centric operating system launched by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1985 with which it still retains a high degree of compatibility.' But there is a snag: the new OS supports only the AmigaOne, which is not available anymore. According to Hyperion, the new hardware platform will be announced by third parties early 2007."

Comments

HAHA

[Anonymous Coward]

A broken POS os for Broken POS hardware that you can't get anymore. PERFECT!

He's dead, Jim.

[Just Some Guy]

I loved AmigaOS. I used it for probably a decade after it had completely stagnated at the top levels, while its huge crowd of shareware developers kept shovelling great software out to Aminet. But come on, folks: Amiga is dead. Not dying; dead. All of the technical elegance I appreciated for so long has now moved into other systems (KDE and its KIOslaves are far cooler than Amiga's "datatypes" ever hoped to be), and other than keeping an emulator available for the occasional retro-gaming jones, I just can't see a single reason for its continued existence.

I'm the last one to criticize people for spending their days working on projects that look insane to everyone else, but this brings me pretty close. Rest in peace, Amiga. You were beautiful at a time when no other computer was, but your era has long passed. Leave us with our wonderful memories, and sleep well.

Re:He's dead, Jim.

[YttriumOxide]

It's quite interesting, because I hear comments like this a lot, but my personal experience is quite different. I hardly ever plugged my Amiga in to the TV (too low quality) and have never been much of a gamer so graphics and sound are only a "bonus" as far as I'm concerned. I always liked my Amigas (from my A500 through to my trusty A4000 that I had for ages through to my current AmigaOne) just because the OS is so damn easy and elegant.

Seriously.

[urbanradar]

If people like working on this, great, let them. But even if it was great in its day, is *anyone* seriously fooling themselves AmigaOS is going to make a comeback of any sort ever again?

The comedy continues

[realmolo]

So, it takes them how long to finally "finish" AmigaOS 4.0? And now that it's finished, the hardware it runs on is unavailable?

Just when you think the Amiga saga can't get any more absurd...

I fully expect them to announce that they're starting an x86 port, and it'll be ready in January of 2008. Or January of 2018, whichever comes later.

I had an Amiga back in the day. Loved it. Have no desire to use on ever again, though.

This sounds familiar ...

[ScrewMaster]

Let's see ... what other company has recently released an operating system for a hardware platform that doesn't quite exist yet?

Hardware is beside the point

[fm6]

If you're going to create an OS that nobody will use, does it matter whether there's any hardware to run it on?

mod parent up

[Anonymous Coward]

First they had hardware but no software; now they have software but no hardware. LOL.

her

[Shawn is an Asshole]

Amiga == feminine
Amigo == masculine

Re:The whole REASON I stopped using AmigaOS..

[Bert64]

I did the same... It wasn't just the OS tho:
Basic networking software on the Amiga cost money, a web browser, an ftp client, an irc client, even a telnet client cost money... Every other platform had these basic clients available for free. When i was first using the internet, i did so from an amiga, and very quickly got frustrated by the ridiculous pricing for the most trivial of programs.
And the attitude of a significant portion of the Amiga community when you pirated these programs... Many would shun you, claiming you were "destroying the amiga" and most of the networking software had backdoors that would be exploited to punish you for pirating these apps.
Piracy did not kill the amiga, piracy MADE the amiga, at least in europe... Most of the people who bought amigas for gaming did so because it was easy to copy games, people bought them for their kids so their kids could share games with their friends in school.
And then, when the amiga was on it's last legs, commodore bankrupt, users leaving in droves, rather than trying to encourage people to stay on the amiga, they make it so ridiculously expensive to stick with the amiga that it's cheaper to buy a windows or linux based pc.
Now the same thing happens with AmigaOS 4, artificially restricting what hardware it can run on with their proprietary rom-based dongle... Making it so ridiculously expensive to use that they will never attract new users, as the few remaining amiga users keep dwindling in numbers.