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Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ball-still-bouncing dept.

Amiga Gamer writes "Amiga Inc. Acting President Bill McEwen has given an update to Amiga OS5 of sorts. In a previous interview Bill had said of OS5: "The product that we are going to ship is going to be much better than OSX from Apple". "OS 5 is ahead of schedule, and we will be making public announcements concerning the product in the 4th quarter of this year.""

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  1. All 5 amiga users jumped for joy until by Ice+Station+Zebra · · Score: 5, Funny

    They heard it won't work with their 1000's.

    1. Re:All 5 amiga users jumped for joy until by smallfries · · Score: 2, Funny

      The rest of the interview could be summarised as:

      Q4) What's happening with the lawsuit?
      I can't tell you because it's a legal matter

      Q5..Qn) What's up with X?
      See my answer to question 4.

      The entire interview is just vapor.

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    2. Re:All 5 amiga users jumped for joy until by One+Louder · · Score: 5, Funny

      Probably because Amiga OS5 is the official operating system of the Moller Skycar.

  2. Hey, did that guy just say rings are cool? by VTMarik · · Score: 3, Funny

    Commodore is making new computers, Amiga is making a new OS, all we need now is a next-gen version of the Oregon Trail and we can successfully bring our childhoods into the 21st century.

    1. Re:Hey, did that guy just say rings are cool? by MK_CSGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      god no! they DID make next generation versions of oregon trail, THEY SUCKED, I'm still playing the original :D

      and still no girlfriend!

      Thank you, thank you, i'll be here all night :)

  3. Duh! by Burdell · · Score: 5, Funny

    OS 5 can't be but half as good as OS X!

    1. Re:Duh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      They should call it OS V. Then someone can hack together a way to combine it with OS X (via GnuStep or something). Then Microsoft can release Works for it. Gettit? VXWorks? Huh huh huh... *crickets* Ermm, alright, I'll go now...

    2. Re:Duh! by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny

      They should call it OS V.

      Or System V.

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    3. Re:Duh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, 10 times as good as OS/2. It would be 2.5 times as good as "OS 2".

    4. Re:Duh! by seanmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or Kevin Bacon, who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, show #4299.

      I WIN AGAIN!!!!

  4. I can't believe I'm saying this, but... by lottameez · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me be the first to welcome our Amiga-friendly, Commodore-centric, TI-99 riding robotic overlords.

    They visit our earth once more.

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  5. yet another by yoprst · · Score: 1, Funny

    press release from a crypt.
    /me goes back to playing with WinUAE

  6. Sales of the new Amiga... by Prototerm · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...will immediately follow the release of Duke Nukem Forever and the return of Elvis in a flying saucer.

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    1. Re:Sales of the new Amiga... by cei · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'd heard that Duke Nukem Forever was being programmed in Director CS3, once Knuth releases The Art of Computer Programming Vol IV, using a soundtrack from Chinese Democracy, and was going to be the flagship title of Amiga OS5. Oh, and Natalie Portman was going to be nude in it.

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  7. They are adding an interface to enable the... by JackMeyhoff · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. Infinite Improbability Function.

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  8. Re:Linux more prevailant than OSX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, they just spend more time on their computers, trying desperately to configure them, so it only LOOKS like there's more of them.

  9. Re:No apostrophe on 1000s by Ice+Station+Zebra · · Score: 3, Funny

    'w'h'a't'e'v'e'r's

  10. They ARE ahead of schedule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    When your release date is set for the Fifth of Never, being ahead of schedule is a simple task.

  11. Amiga OS5 will be so awsome, by Britz · · Score: 2, Funny

    it will be the only platform to run Duke Nukem Forever.

  12. Yes, but... by artemis67 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It ships with Duke Nukem Forever preinstalled.

  13. Re:The Berlin Amgia Users Group has 130 members. by DECS · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not to be rude, but there are more people in the Flat Earth Society, or who can translate Klingon to Esperanto.

    I like old computers, but a few hundred people is not a market for an operating system, it's a small hobby. Apple is derided as a bit player on the Macintosh, and it has around 22 million active users of Mac OS X and thousands of developers.

    SCO, Linux, and Microsoft in the History of OS: 1990s
    In the 80s, a new generation of graphical computers from Apple, Atari, Commodore, and NeXT--all based on the Motorola 68000 family of processors--leapt past the previous generation of 8-bit computers. That new hardware enabled more powerful software using a fully graphical user interface.

  14. Re:The Berlin Amgia Users Group has 130 members. by Chelloveck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not to be rude, but there are more people in the Flat Earth Society, or who can translate Klingon to Esperanto.
    Hey! How else do you think we're going to get good Esperanto translations of Shakespeare!?
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