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AmigaOS Twenty-Five Years of Check-Ins Visualized
the_arrow writes "As a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Amiga computer, Hyperion Entertainment has made a video using the Gource CVS visualization software showing a time-compressed version of 25 years of Amiga development, from the early days of AmigaOS 1.0 to the present. Personal commentary added by one of the current core full-time AmigaOS developers, Hans-Joerg Frieden (a.k.a. 'Rogue')."
Television. One of my local channels will still have the occasional Guru Meditation at 0 dark hundred.
I expect that the majority of these systems will be replaced in the next five years as everyone switches over to HD.
Even if you could find a used Cybervision or similar Amiga video card that could be tweaked to display HD resolutions, would existing presentation programs work with them correctly? Could they handle 16:9 aspect ratios? Would it even be worth the cost of hardware and labor when you could purchase turnkey PC solutions for less?
While I'm not sure if it would still be worth migrating, due note that AmigaOS is still under active development on newer (PowerPC) hardware. Now, it's not exactly top of the line stuff - the latest AmigaOS boards are still only at 733mhz, but still, it's out there and kicking (barely anyways).
I've considered buying one of the machines in the past. They're around $750 IIRC. Would be a nice toy to play with. I wish the system was open sourced though. I can imagine the the possible boost in Amiga popularity (not sales, but at least interest and usage) would be a lot higher if it could be ran on commodity x86-64 hardware and was freely available for development.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Whats funny is I saw a local tv ad that was shot in SD - and I recognized a toaster transition (odd thing having worked with a lot of video hardware - often you can tell what the ad was edited in based on the effects alone). There are people that still use the stuff ;).
And M$ could learn a few things (that they didn't already steal and try to implement) about UI responsiveness, and NOT RANDOMLY STEALING FOCUS FROM THE TOPMOST WINDOW I'M TYPING INTO.
Sorry. I use AmigaOS (3.x) every day in addition to Windows, CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian Linux, and MorphOS. It's still one of my favorites. And my two 17-year-old A3000s are doing fine, thank you for asking. :)
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That ax must be pretty sharp by now. Who cares about legal right to use the name? Hyperion's updated AmigaOS is a direct lineage from the original. You are the one who is trying confuse the issue. If Commodore had never gone out of business and kept making Amigas all these years, I doubt the latest models would resemble the original much at all by this point.