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How Icaros Desktop Brings the Amiga Experience To x86 PCs

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:51AM from the bouncy-bouncy dept.

angry tapir writes "Icaros Desktop is an effort to build a modern Amiga-compatible operating system to standard x86 hardware. It's a distribution built atop AROS, which is an open source effort to create a system compatible at the API level with the AmigaOS 3.x series. I recently had a chat to the creator of Icaros, Paolo Besser, about the creation of the OS and why Amiga continues to inspire people today."

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Re:Why the animosity? by MORB · 2012-06-19 03:43 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I used to use amigas since 1989, and develop on them (I even released a few things on aminet and participated in community events and such), and to my great shame it took me until 2001 to come to my sense and realize that amiga and its community are a pointless waste of time.
People who still haven't realized that in the year of our lord 2012? They are fucking morons, and deserve all the mockery they receive.