Website Simulates Amiga OS

cyclomedia writes "The Decibel Kid — the "AudioVisual Artist" responsible for last summer's Ipswich Zelda Map — has unveiled his new website. Modeled on Amiga OS it supports changing the wallpaper, window dragging, resizing, minimizing, and that z-index shuffle button. The mobile site is a completely different beast, modeling itself as a low-res LCD." There's even a drum machine. If you're pining for the "real" thing, there's always UAE (if you can find a ROM). Update: 03/05 15:45 GMT by U L : polyp2000 pointed out a better simulation, and a simulation of Workbench 1.5.

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Woah!

[Joce640k]

That's Inception, right there.

This is new ?

[polyp2000]

Been done before !
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html
http://www.chiptune.com/?again...

Re:This is new ?

[marcello_dl]

Black/red is my default browser theme, is it not the same over there? Try reformatting.

Re:This is new ?

[SQLGuru]

In my case, it was the K&R C books with foo and bar. But I'm also aware of FUBAR and what the acronym means......but I find foobar to be more "friendly", so when I don't want to insult someone per se, I'll use the foobar version. If I want to lambast someone, I'll use FUBAR (I also capitalize them as I've done in this post, so FUBAR is akin to yelling, too).

Re:This is new ?

[wonkey_monkey]

I've not figured out if this is intentional, or if they've been so ingrained with "foo" and "bar" from their college days that they just can't tear themselves away from it?

I've noticed a lot of people who write statements, but then put question marks on the end. It's a bit confusing?

I'm waiting till 2055

[Blaskowicz]

.. so I can obtain a public domain ROM and use UAE legally. Or maybe I have to wait for 70 years after the last author of the ROM is dead, I dont know much how copyright on software expires.

Re:I'm waiting till 2055

[The Rizz]

Or maybe I have to wait for 70 years after the last author of the ROM is dead, I dont know much how copyright on software expires.

It doesn't. New legislation will ensure it.

Re:I'm waiting till 2055

[Anaerin]

I believe one of the goals of the AROS project is to have a drop-in replacement for workbench/kickstart ROMs for m68k systems. So you could use their ROM on UAE and have a compatible system built entirely from open-source software. If that's your thing...

Re:I'm waiting till 2055

[wonkey_monkey]

move on with your life.

Move on to what? Berating strangers on the internet for having hobbies?

Legal ROMs for emulators

[amigabill]

You can buy licenses at

http://www.amigaforever.com/sy...

You can also buy legit ROM licenses for Android based emulators at

https://play.google.com/store/...

The open-source AmigaOS-alike named AROS includes their own ROM equivalents now as well. (Be careful! WinUAE has old ROM included, Aros Vision needs newer ones (included in directiry “boot” of the distribution))

http://www.natami-news.de/html...

Re:What a load of bollocks

[Valdrax]

There's been a website emulating an Acorn Archimedes for ages. Which is a far more interesting machine IMHO.

Than an Amiga? Come now, the Archimedes was pretty vanilla hardware for its day -- it was basically a glorified Apple II with an ARM chip in terms of capability. In comparison, the Amiga's hardware was a generation leap ahead, and its OS was far more modern.