I know the Amiga Intuition scrollbars have the wrong aspect ratio, but what do you expect after all these years with no development? Sure, making Amiga OS open source would probably be a good thing to the community, but I cannot see how Amiga, Inc. would gain a lot from it.
By the way, Visualprefs is getting pretty stable, and it makes your window borders look ace, amongst lots of other things.:) Get it from Aminet.
With OS 3.5, we might just see an update to this as well. I think the current specs sound interesting, though I wish they would update the ROMs as well, and include RTG etc. They could call it OS 4.0 and sell lots more copies. Well, probably.
First of all, the Amiga isn't really dead. We still have Amiga Format, selling ~15.000 copies a month, as well as tens of other printed mags. Some of them really professionally done. The Video Toaster is still used lot's of places, as is Scala. They still do their job very well.
However, the biggest proof of the Amiga still being alive is probably the user community. Although not of the same size as the Linux one, it is truely a special thing to be part of. Lot's of new free- and shareware is uploaded to the Aminet every day, and that's just a part of what is being released. The demo scene is very vibrant even these days, and Amiga coders are doing full screen texture mapping in 20 FPS even on the AGA chipset, which most people claimed was useless for anything like this a few years ago. Quake was released commercially for the Amiga, Myst was released commercially for the Amiga. All thanks to active users who have been pestering the software houses. We'll get Shogo this autumn as well!
G3 and G4 boards are on their way, 603 and 604 boards are already out and quite well supported (though only as a co-pro to the existing 68040 or 68060 processor - yet!) We have 3D boards and brill 16 bit sound boards, and even the A1200 have proven to be quite upgradable. Just apply a bit of creativity and you can have lot's of equipment attached to even the clock header on the mother board!
Sure, we're lagging a bit behind Wintel boxes hardware wise, and the OS still lacks some important functions, but we are having fun, and there's still lots and lots of stuff happening out there, and tens of thousands users proving that the Amiga is not dead.
Together with the user community, I believe that there's still a good chance the Amiga can make a large comeback. Gateway isn't exactly poor either, and with the latest hirings of staff... well, I belive they can do it. impressive comeback
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I know the Amiga Intuition scrollbars have the wrong aspect ratio,
:) Get it from
but what do you expect after all these years with no development?
Sure, making Amiga OS open source would probably be a good thing to
the community, but I cannot see how Amiga, Inc. would gain a lot from
it.
By the way, Visualprefs is getting pretty stable, and it makes your
window borders look ace, amongst lots of other things.
Aminet.
With OS 3.5, we might just see an update to this as well. I think the
current specs sound interesting, though I wish they would update the ROMs
as well, and include RTG etc. They could call it OS 4.0 and sell
lots more copies. Well, probably.
First of all, the Amiga isn't really dead. We still have Amiga
... well,
Format, selling ~15.000 copies a month, as well as tens of other
printed mags. Some of them really professionally done. The Video
Toaster is still used lot's of places, as is Scala. They still do
their job very well.
However, the biggest proof of the Amiga still being alive is
probably the user community. Although not of the same size as the
Linux one, it is truely a special thing to be part of. Lot's of
new free- and shareware is uploaded to the Aminet every day, and
that's just a part of what is being released. The demo scene is
very vibrant even these days, and Amiga coders are doing full
screen texture mapping in 20 FPS even on the AGA chipset, which
most people claimed was useless for anything like this a few
years ago. Quake was released commercially for the Amiga, Myst was
released commercially for the Amiga. All thanks to active users who
have been pestering the software houses. We'll get Shogo this
autumn as well!
G3 and G4 boards are on their way, 603 and 604 boards are already
out and quite well supported (though only as a co-pro to the existing
68040 or 68060 processor - yet!) We have 3D boards and brill 16
bit sound boards, and even the A1200 have proven to be quite
upgradable. Just apply a bit of creativity and you can have lot's of
equipment attached to even the clock header on the mother board!
Sure, we're lagging a bit behind Wintel boxes hardware wise, and
the OS still lacks some important functions, but we are having fun,
and there's still lots and lots of stuff happening out there,
and tens of thousands users proving that the Amiga is not dead.
Together with the user community, I believe that there's still a
good chance the Amiga can make a large comeback. Gateway isn't
exactly poor either, and with the latest hirings of staff
I belive they can do it.
impressive comeback