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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')."
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Television. One of my local channels will still have the occasional Guru Meditation at 0 dark hundred.
It has had quite a few of updates. And I guess many parts of AmigaOS 4 was actually improvements.
However I find it hard to consider anything beyond 3.1 worth much care from my side. Sadly.
Ignoring the A\Box stuff best chance it had of a resurrection was probably around the 1999 days when Gateway-Amiga wanted to build a fresh OS upon QNX Neutrino and Photon.
The Linux-switch and much more the virtual machine Tao-Group Elate stuff for Linux and WinCE was major failures and idiocy.
To try to upgrade and modernize a 20+ year old OS which have seen little reason to improve since the mid-80s and try to keep backwards compatibly at the same time instead of a complete rewrite starting of from scratch with the best OS ideas around is almost as stupid since it won't work. But atleast it gives the latest Amiga-stuff for the people still around.
Apparently it was hosting their website.
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?
The OS that will not die. They should have named it the Dracula.
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 ;).
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These guys are just trying to re-write history. They don't even have a right to use the name Amiga. Somehow they got an agreement from these other crooks to use the name "Amigaos". They have no legal right to call anything an Amiga.
Even the hardware companies that are making "PPC" hardware have no license to use the word "Amiga". All the machines are "AmigaOne" which is a trademark from a company named Eyetech in 2001 and not related to "Amiga" at all.
Nothing Amiga to see here people.
You're obsolete, it's now known as Software Failure. Anyways, prepare to press left mouse button to continue. And don't forget to update your Kickstart and Workbench either!
and banks still use cobol programs running on big iron mainframes. If it works, it will be used forever. And that scares the capitalists crazy if it ever gets into the public meme-pool.
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm