Concept Screenshots Of The AmigaDE GUI 97
Mike Bouma writes: "Check out this posting by Amiga`s CTO on the AmigaOne Mailing list. It includes some concept pictures of a GUI for the Amiga Digital Environment, which is being targetted at AmigaDE enabled handheld devices like Sharp`s upcoming Zaurus PDA. Some of the younger Slashdot readers may not be familiar with the classic AmigaOS, however interested people can (re)discover the AmigaOS through emulation, I suggest to check out this easy to setup "Amiga in a box" package."
Re:Why oh why?? (Score:1)
Re:Jumping on the bandwagon (Score:1)
Re:Amiga is not a horse and is not dead (Score:1)
Re:Amiga is not a horse and is not dead (Score:1)
You're purporting that there are no TV stations in the world still using Amigas? Perhaps I'm outside of the realm of consideration, but our local cable company uses Amigas for the cable access studios as well as to broad cast all sorts of information on the school district, city, and county channels. It's not much, but it's a counter-example to your presumtuous statement.
Re:Wow!!!! (Score:1)
more pictures (Score:4)
Wow!!!! (Score:1)
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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?
Re:Wow!!!! (Score:1)
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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?
Re:NASA IS NOT the bastion of modern technology. (Score:1)
They're using amigas.
They also use 386s.
See the similarity?
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Re:Amiga is not a horse and is not dead (Score:2)
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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?
NASA IS NOT the bastion of modern technology. (Score:2)
Nasa uses OLD, OLD, OLD technology because they know EXACTLY how it works.
You will NEVER see a Pentium 4 on the space shuttle, unless it belongs to Dennis Tito.
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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?
The Next Big Thing(tm) (Score:2)
Sure, some people would say that statement is crap, but then they said the same thing about the Internet. Companies are trying to make educated guesses on where everything is going. Right now, the embedded market is wide open and full of opportunity--and if it pans out, companies can win big. Of course, it could all get flushed down the tubes like NCs ;-) But remember that consumer devices/embeded devices are all the rage outside the US--especially in Japan.
Why fight MS on the PC if the PC is going to be a marginal market at best? That's what these companies are thinking.
I for one, agree. I don't think MS is stupid (i.e. they won't let it catch them off guard like the Internet did), but it will be a good market full of great opportunities. If you are just starting out and looking for a technology wave to jumpstart your career, my advice (which makes me in no way responsible for your life or your own stupidity) is to get cracking on the Palm SDK and churn out some apps. Proving you have skills will get you in early. This is from someone who successfull got on the Internet Gravy Train :-)
This is sad. (Score:4)
Let's see... there are:
The idea of writing a whole new OS, unless something new, some new itch has been found that just needs to be scratched, seems somehow crazy.
(Now, the SIMTICS idea that I'm working on is at least half-way sane. I'm merging two existing concepts to produce something that is - in theory - better than either could be, alone. I'm still not writing a "new" OS, though. There's no delving into re-inventing the wheel. The wheels I can use are already more than sufficient for any need I may have.)
Worse, the idea of exploiting the name of a very good system (for the time) in an effort to promote this new product is marketting abuse at its very worst.
(Now, if they were to derive some/all of their concepts from the original Amiga, or follow the Amiga philosophy in some significant way, then it could be justified. I've seen nothing to suggest that.)
As far as I can tell, this is a *One company that will happily seduce the populace, before collapsing under mysterious circumstances.
Re:Interesting Interface (Score:1)
That's hardly an innovation. exmh [exmh.org] has been doing that for years.
Re:Why oh why?? (Score:1)
Well, 100x100 isn't that bad if you screen resolution is 2048x1536 ;-)
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Re:This is sad. (Score:1)
Besides, you forgot about Darwin.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Re:Damned Workbench disk (Score:2)
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:2)
This is what every Amiga advocate used to say - because multi-tasking was just about the only thing the AmigaOS had going for it to start off with, along with a reasonable (but slow) file-system. For a long time it was horribly buggy, and it had a hideous and inconsistent UI. I was once Amiga advocate, but I doubt I would have been if I hadn't started out with OS 2.0.
Windows NT and all versions of Windows from Windows 95 onwards most certainly have real multi-tasking and multi-threading. On Windows 95 this can be crippled by Win16 apps, some of which were part of the OS distribution, but I don't believe that's true of later versions. So I think you're going on out of date information.
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:1)
No, but it is clear that most of the alternative platforms can't survive, and so spending energy on them can only hurt the chances of success of more viable alternatives like Linux. In fact, promoting such dead-on-arivial systems like BeOS and Amiga would be an excellent strategy for Microsoft. Divide and Conquer!
Jumping on the bandwagon (Score:2)
(as a side note, I do believe that BeOS is the coolest desktop OS I have ever used. On the other hand, I havn't played with Mac OSX (and its NeXT core) much yet, so that possbily could change. Probably not though...)
Sigh... (Score:2)
The Amiga platform is dead for commercial applications, the brand name has changed hands many times because it's still being associated with "cool technology" and some people thought they could exploit that for marketing purposes.
It's really sad to see the disappointment of old Amiga freaks when they see announcements about something new related to Amiga, only to find out that it's just a marketing gag or whatever.
Re:Interesting Interface (Score:1)
Interface looks like an X theme. (Score:2)
Other than Amiga colors and the boing ball, what does it have in common with the classic Amiga?
Myself I perfered MagicWB and Magic User Interface on my Amiga, I cant even use UAE without it...f s.jpeg [sasg.com]
http://www.sasg.com [sasg.com]
Some examples for the click impatient
MUI - http://www.sasg.com/mui/preview.gif [sasg.com]
MWB - http://www.sasg.com/pic/mwb_preview.gif [sasg.com]
Gallery pics - http://www.sasg.com/mui/gallery/Stefan_Stuntz/Pre
Re:Amiga is not a horse and is not dead (Score:1)
I'd say he was trolling perfectly, considering that 2 nitwits bothered to flame him about getting the model numbers "wrong".
I bow to your Uber-ness, Wakko Warner.
But he's right, those Amiga 200's probably would make fine paperweights...
Re:Regarding the screenshots (Score:2)
Nope, never, not even close. This has very little in common with Amiga of the past. The original Amiga ruled because it had an operating system that was suppported with several specialized IC's that would augment the OS. These new devices have no such hardware. I'm not 100% sure that the hardware is neccessary anymore (one was a graphics processor, one was a sound processor, &c) but that makes me wonder just how relevant Amiga OS is any more.
Makes me believe that they are just playing the nostalgia and pseudo-nostalgia card as a marketing ploy.
Re:Amiga is not a horse and is not dead (Score:3)
No they don't. See, I can match you one for one with worthless anecdotes, let's try it again:
Almost every TV station in the world uses Amigas.
Nope, wrong-o. Lemme try something new: this time I get to make up the "phacts".
The last TV station to use an Amiga switched over to an Avid 4 years ago.
Hey, I see why you do that, it was SOOOO easy!
Now for some good 'ol derision of your "phun phacts":
NASA has been known to use Amigas and claim that Amigas are (still) the most versatile machines around.
Yeah, they use them for doorstops and as reaction mass for extra-atmospheric maneuvering. I think that Mars probe that smashed into the surface was powered by an Amiga reaction mass engine. Apparently they don't even function well in that capacity...
;P
Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:3)
Allright..There's something i've been meaning to ask here. The biggest question that haunts the whole Amiga picture is: why bother
For the late 80's/early 90's, nobody disputes that the Amiga was king of the hill when it came to multimedia apps. But by today's standards, its really nothing to bark about. With every Amiga, you got 22 Khz stereo sound (about half the sample quality of a $5 audio card you can buy for any PC these days), and an 8-bit display capable of resolutions considered low-to-average in today's PC market, looking past graphics mode hacks unsuitable for GUIs like HAM. 24-bit displays on Amiga systems are basically RTG kludges that sit ontop of an already overburdoned planar display. Again, in terms of capability and performance, it's beaten by even the lowest of low-end video cards for PCs.
Next virtue...Small footprint. Sure, you can boot the OS off a single floppy, and it has a remarkably small footprint for an OS with those sorts of capabilities... But so what, so does Linux, so does QNX and others. Why bother with the Amiga?
When I was younger, I never thought i'd see the day when the Amiga's capabilities were surpassed by a platform as braindead as the PC, but it's happened, and happened a long time ago. I owned one for like 9 years, and I agree, it was a good machine..I just don't see the reason why anyone should really bother with AmigaOS other than pure religious zealotry or novelty.
Re:Hasn't anything better come along? (Score:2)
Intersting that you should mention PalmOS - the old AmigaOS is being Open-source cloned by the aros [aros.org] project, and, it's recently beern ported to Palm hardware - if anything, the old amigaos, let alone the new DE, is better for palmtops than Palmos (which is quite limited - no preemptive multitasking, dodgy shared libraries, yadda, yadda) - then again, EPOC32 is better than either...
Amiga Lives! *rolling-eyes* (Score:1)
Hasn't anything better come along? (Score:2)
And the OS was also very well suited to the platform at that time too. I just don't see how pulling out an old OS and stuffing it on a palmtop can be a good thing. Surely there is another OS more suited for this use? PalmOS, mayhaps?
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Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:2)
Because it wasn't the [outside] apps that were important, it was the [inside] *ability to multi-thread tasks on a personal computer* that was important. That's one of the reasons that truly multi-threaded Linux (successor to truly multi-threaded UN*X) is eating fakey pseudo-multi-threaded W*d*z lunch, and why Apple's OS X (based on BSD UN*X) is bringing the Mac world back to life.
Re:I still use my Amiga (Score:2)
That's too much work! (Score:2)
Or, if you don't have time, just stand next to an Amiga user for 6 or 7 seconds.
I shouldn't complain, actually. As a Mac user, Amiga folk serve an important purpose - making me look almost normal.
Re:Damned Workbench disk (Score:2)
<CrotchetyOldMan>Whyyyyy, you young whippersnapper... back in the day, we had to put in a KICKSTART disk and wait - oh, we'd wait and wait and wait - you damned kids think you're so PUT OFF when you have to put in a WORKBENCH disk... whyyyyy, we used ta dream of puttin' a 256k expansion up front, and here you are with your 512k and 1 meg systems, ooooooh... go get me a 1020 to beat you with...!</CrotchetyOldMan>
Why oh why?? (Score:2)
Why are all of the interface designers seeming to go to this sort of "plastic on acid" look for everything. I just installed WindowsXP on a laptop, and the first thing that I thought was the it looked like a first graders toy. All of the buttons were huge, shiny and colorfull. Mac OSX looks like a fourth graders frickin lunchbox, and KDE2 (a little better) still feels toyish.
This latest trend of making all of the icons (icons are useless wastes of desktop real estate as it is) look like plastic anime jewels is really sickening. Dont get me wrong GUI's are nice, but they don't need to make you feel and look like a retard for using them. IMVHO this is why window managers like enlightenment and DM's like Gnome will eventually be the future of GUI's, once the masses realize that a 100x100 close window button is not really nessecary, and in fact a really bad idea.
Who ever hires the designers that make interfaces like the ones shown in star trek (lcars) or the one in Swordfish will make the big bucks. Yes I realize that those interfaces are completely fictional and dont really do anything, but the theory behind them, especially lcars, is very good. The world where the application and the desktop integrate seamlessly is the world of the future (not even windows can do that, even with IE).
Just my $0.02.
Kiki! (Score:2)
Re:Kiki! (Score:2)
If you buy amorphium, you can also have an extremely poor model of her head which you can squish around with various 3D deformation tools.
Play! have gone out of business, of course, so Kiki is probably out on the street turning tricks for a hit off the ol' crackpipe.
Perhaps if you drive round the seedier part of town, you can pick her up, and 'have kiki again'
Re:This is sad. (Score:1)
Amiga Amiga Quite Contrary (Score:2)
I mean, first they are working on a hardware independent, OS independent "Environment" called DE, THEN they are reverting back to pushing forth development of AmigaDOS 4.0 as a whole stand alone system because as they said "That's what Amigans wanted". NOW they are showing us ugly little pictures of this Digital Environment that nobody wanted, as if they've forgotten the promises they've made.
Let me set one thing straight as a one time owner of 3 Amigas (1200/2000/4000)...
We don't WANT Amiga DE.
We don't WANT a new, unrelated hardware with the Amiga name slapped on it.
We WANT AmigaDOS 4.0 ported to modern hardware with a good mix of legacy software support and modern OS features.
If you don't WANT to give this to us, curl up and DIE already, it's long past overdue!
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Re:Amiga Amiga Quite Contrary (Score:2)
It doesn't make me more special than anybody, but it does show that I had a strong love for the Amiga. The fact that I ran a 10 line Amiga BBS with Cnet Amiga 3.05c out of my own pocket for nearly 10 years in a town where there was almost no Amiga support also shows that I cared.
I also wrote a lot of my own software, and indeed learned the vast majority of my programming skills on the Amiga. I don't think this makes me "more important", but it did put me into contact with a large number of Amiga lovers and I think I have a pretty good idea what most of them want.
Do you want new hardware, or do you NOT want new, unrelated hardware with the Amiga name slapped on it?
It was a poor choice of wording on my part. New hardware of course is a must, but I think most Amiga users would hate to see a run of the mill PC running Windows or some form of Unix with an Amiga name slapped on it just because a cruddy GUI is being shown as a software layer and being passed off as a next generation "Environment".
A totally new Amiga would be fine -- if it were a totally new AMIGA, not just a new machine altogether with an AMIGA name.
By Amiga, I mean the OS should be functionally AMIGA, the things that we (and you yourself apparently since you owned 5 Amigas in total...) fell in love with. Draggable screens. AutoConfig. Dynamic Ram Disks. An excellent and easy to develope for set of OS Libraries. A low OS footprint giving most of the resources to the APPLICATIONS (this is a concept seemingly lost now days).
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Companies can make more than one product you know...
I'm well aware... but somehow everytime Amiga Inc. mentions Amiga DE I get the impression they're trying to sell us on the concept that the Amiga brand doesn't need to be a stand alone platform, and I really get the overwhelming feeling that Amiga Inc. doesn't even really intend to try.
I fear they may be baiting us with the promise of future version of AmigaDOS just to drag us along long enough to hook us on this "OSless" concept.
I hope I'm wrong.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:1)
Everytime slashdot has an Amiga article some people feel an urgent need to post a couple of Amiga's dead posts. They always point out that the Amiga of 1992 can't really compete with modern machines.
Well surprise, surprise! The various plans and products under the Amiga logo (HW and OS) are not the same thing as a 1200 from 92. They have changed and evolved too! You're correct, the Amiga of 92 is dead, just as well as the Mac or PC of 92 is (even more so in the latter case, I'd argue). But this is, if you look close, not that thing.
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No, THIS is sad. (was Re:This is sad.) (Score:1)
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I don't mean to start a flamewar, but why is [Amiga | OS/2 | NetBSD | OpenBSD | FreeBSD | DeadBSD | AtheOS | Atari TOS | BeOS | HURD | GeoWorks | Darwin | xemacs | CPM | DNA computers | the human soul | ant colonies ] better than Linux? Really, seriously, why? I have everything I need with Linux (doesn't everyone?), and I don't recognize the need for any other [Open Source | GPL | BSD-licensed | commercial | forced labor-licensed | mandatory genital-mutilation-licensed] operating systems. Ever.
Is it just me, [and | or] am I [a complete moron | a lifeless cretin | a useless troll | completely intolerant of the sun and everything it represents]?
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Repeal the Sodomy laws! Get the Man off our backs!
Re:This is sad. (Score:2)
Re:Interesting Interface (Score:2)
Was it that long ago? (Score:1)
Am I getting that old? Lines like this used to be resevered to references to a PDP or something similar.
I guess once I break 30 I'll be considered ancient. : P
Re:Jumping on the bandwagon (Score:1)
I still use my Amiga (Score:1)
It's such a waste, what happened to Amiga, but for me at least, it's still the best tool for one particular job.
Re:Sigh... (Score:1)
Re:for all u who think its dead (Score:1)
Re:Amiga?? (Score:4)
Re:Bring out your dead, bring out your dead! (Score:1)
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:1)
With every Amiga, you got 22 Khz stereo sound
Bzzt. Wrong; there was no fixed certain sample rate; rather, the rate was chosen by dividing a certain delay between subsequent samples with a suitable number. The maximum rate that was possible to play with DMA was about 28KHz while in video modes, more with the modes introduced in ECS and AGA chipsets. You could also push values directly into the register with CPU if that wasn't enough. Although I guess that the other limitations of audio hardware started to show by then. Usually the rate used in games was something like 8 or 16 KHz, mostly because larger rates obviously used more memory for samples, and most games were written with 0.5 or 1 megabytes of memory in mind...
Re:Amiga is Awesome. (Score:1)
Is this *at all* related to Amiga OS? (Score:1)
Re:Amiga?? (Score:1)
Re:Bring out your dead, bring out your dead! (Score:1)
Yea, that's why there's all that Linux related black hole/origin of the universe/what real estate web site is best news on
Re:This is sad. (Score:1)
You obviously don't know what Amiga Inc. are doing then. AmigaDE can be either a new OS or hosted on some other OS. Some PDAs or set-top type devices may get "native" AmigaDE, with no other OS involved. Others, like the Sharp Zaurus, and desktop class computers, will use some other OS and AmigaDE will sit on top of that, be it Linux or Windows or whatever. In this way it acts more like an API than an OS, an API available standalone, or on top of Windows, Linux, etc. to make cross-platform development easier, sortof like Java does. One advantage it has over Java is that it's not interpreted, DE code gets compiled natively to multiple instruction sets, so should run faster than JVMs do on x86, PowerPC, ARM, MIPs, etc. And for you "Amiga is dead" nazis, DE doesn't run on the old Amiga hardware you're thinking of! It's totally unrelated to that! It's barely born yet... (though they claim t will eventually run on new Amiga hardware which is also yet to be released) DE currently only exists outside of Amiga Inc. as a Linux and/or Windows hosted development kit or in the Sharp Zaurus PDA.
"It's not dead, Jim, I've never seen anything quite like it"
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:1)
Why not? Are you against competition in the market? Would you rather all "alternative" platforms gave up hope and M$ took over 100% of the market?
If Amiga Inc. had put the exact same product together that they are currently working on, but named it anything else, the
With Microsoft owning most of the known universe, why should anyone bother with Linux? It's harder to install and configure than Windows is. It has less apps available to use. It has far far less games than Windows. Yet you're allowed to talk about Linux here but we dare not mention the A-word, when Amiga has less apps and games than Windows - just like Linux. How many Linux IPOs are now bankrupt? Amiga Inc. is still in business... How is the Linux market such a better place to be?
Re:Amiga Amiga Quite Contrary (Score:1)
Maybe you don't, maybe other Amiga hatin'
We don't WANT a new, unrelated hardware with the Amiga name slapped on it.
We WANT AmigaDOS 4.0 ported to modern hardware with a good mix of legacy software support and modern OS features. Uhm, make up your mind. Do you want new hardware, or do you NOT want new, unrelated hardware with the Amiga name slapped on it? You can't have it both ways... Personally, I'd much rather have new hardware than not.
AmigaOS4.0+ is not totally contradictory to the DE announcements. They're seperate product lines developed by the same company. Companies can make more than one product you know... (All next week, on Ripley's believe it or not!) Heck, Even M$ does it. Amiga Inc. claims that AmigaDE will run on AmigaOS 5.x. That's ain't contradictory to the previous DE announcements, it's just additional stuff, not instead-of stuff.
And why does once owning 3 Amigas make you such a serious voice on this topic? I currently have 3 Amigas (2000, 1200, 4000T - my main computer at home) in operation, many not in operation (1000, 500s), but that doesn't make me any more special than you, or Joe Schmoe who never owned one, on this topic.
Re:Kiki! (Score:1)
Re:for all u who think its dead (Score:1)
Uhm, no. DE doesn't run AmigaOS software from 10 years ago. Not 3 year old AmigaOS software or even brand new AmigaOS software either. AmigaDE only runs AmigaDE and Java software. It has no capability to run Motorola 68K code.
why are GUIs.... (Score:1)
Cute panel don't you think? (Score:1)
It loox quite a bit OsX and I like it!
Say we give up those window widget bars sitting @ the bottom of our screens (soo very M$ win puah) with sickening buttons a la windoze and clock on the right. Cool eh? A cute & smooth transparent boxy thing (beveld gives an even better 3Dish look) that holds BIG & COLOURFUL icons for the apps running... click & select on the popup the instance you want (with many konq instances there's no way you'll read the name of the URL it's pointing so it's just useless clutter)
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You are forgetting (Score:1)
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:1)
You are correct.
However, to make things fair, you have to get rid of all extra stuff in a PC, like sound cards and the like. The Amiga had (and has) builtin audio, and PC still hasn't. (Some PC motherboards have integrated audio, though.) There have been many graphics cards for the Amiga too.
Re:Damned Workbench disk (Score:1)
Errr..whoops! that's what i meant (not workbench). i never actually owned an Amiga...just tooled around with the ones they had on display at the local KMart store. those bastards never did anything except turn them on...so they were always displaying the Kickstart screen.
Damned Workbench disk (Score:3)
GUI Research (Score:2)
Some of my concerns are that, if GUIs are more than just a personal preference based on past experiences, why are succesive desktop environments from the same vendor so different? or If GUIs are building on computer-human interactions, then why do they often dumb-down the new GUI so people familiar with past versions can use it?
In short, are these screens developed by a graphic designer, and then programed by a techie, or are they based on some research that might make Amiga easier to use rather then just look better?
Re:Hasn't anything better come along? (Score:1)
It's not marketting (Score:2)
The "New" Amiga ideology is to have a 'Digital Environment' which can be either be hosted on another OS (Palm OS, Sharp's TaurusOS, Windows, Linux, etc, etc), or run on their own native hardware (due RSN). Couple this and the write-once-run-anywhere abilities of their core programming languages, and you have an amazingly powerful system for emersing yourself in digital media and content, which is where the industry is moving.
And yes, you'll still have a command line interface if you want it
Re:Amiga is Awesome. (Score:1)
Amiga is not a horse and is not dead (Score:2)
Scharp -- Sharp (Score:1)
It is not Scharp, it is Scharp.
Re:This is sad. (Score:1)
Amiga?? (Score:1)
Come to think of it FreeDOS probably has more users today then amiga. IT doesn't matter if its any better. If it died 10 years ago due to the lack of apps, then how do you think it will go today when all the old developers left?
If I was an old software company who wrote apps for amiga back in the 80's I would avoid the new one like the plague. Microsoft and Apple are the only real players in town when it comes to video editing and graphical applications. USers need MS-OFFICE to stay in bussiness or keep their jobs. Explain to the CEO who sent you a
It can be as fast as a supercomputer and people still wont buy it. Its a sad world we live in but politics will always determine which platform to oick.
Now I will cringe as I watch my karma go straight down to hell for speaking the utter truth that no one wants to hear.
Re:Amiga?? (Score:1)
This is exactly why it will fail miserably.
Time is the ultimate commodity: we get paid at work for our finite time.
If you spend your time on something that doesn't make money, you've wasted it.
Simple as that.
They shoot horses, don't they? (Score:1)
Amiga? Dead? No, just been wheezing a bit in the corner for the past decade. It's not running wild, but there's still some juice left yet. I keep mine tucked away in the corner when I need something I can rely on working as I want. /. community (as pointed out before) that whenever an Amiga story pokes it's head outa the barrel, it gets shot at. The fact some readers and critics seem a little confused over the matter doesn't help.
There seems to be a general discomfort in the
AmigaDE. "It's nothing to do with AmigaOS" ... well, yes, quite right. It's a "new" approach to a problem. Very little to do with the Classic machines. Get over it.
AmigaOS is Dead. Well, no. The fact Haage and Partner [haage-partner.com] are still selling products like StormC proves there is still a whsiper of life. It is a great system - I've yet to be impressed by other OSs like Linux and especially Windows in quite the same way.
Only Amiga by name ... well, yes, yet again. It's the company [amiga.com] that is called AMIGA now, not simply the machines. A fact oft overlooked here, it seems. Might as well call Linux by the name of Corel and be done. Same difference.
Yes, the classic boxes are old - yes the hardware can be considered almost obsolete in comparison to modern stuff; almost like the somewhat nasty and almost archaic x86 boxes that a lot of Linux systems run on. But we're not simply talking about the old boxes. At least give the guys a chance to produce a system and then slag it off.
All IMO as I understand it, of course. :)
Question? (Score:1)
Interesting Interface (Score:2)
Its even complete with a horizontal seperator, little arrows for running apps, and a Mail Icon that shows how much unread mail you have.
Amiga is Awesome. (Score:1)
Amiga Rules (Score:1)
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:1)
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:1)
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
What about the Developers and Suppliers (Score:2)
Will it work on a c64? (Score:1)
Re:Why oh why?? (Score:1)
"Oh no, only 5 minutes of this episode left and we're still in the middle of a battle... Computer, do something and make sure it has a happy ending!" -Jean Luc Picard
That'd be funny to see for a change and not some 'kedian pulse' mumbo-jumbo saving the day again.
Re:Interface looks like an X theme. (Score:1)
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Re:Scharp -- Sharp (Score:1)
Where'd you....
Nah. Too easy.
Re:Why oh why?? (Score:1)
Whoduthunkit?
Why the brush-off? (Score:1)
Regarding the screenshots (Score:1)
It may be dead, but... (Score:1)
Re:Other than zealotry, why bother with an Amiga? (Score:2)
Re:Amiga is not a horse and is not dead (Score:1)
Re:Jumping on the bandwagon (Score:1)
What about the king? (Score:1)
We all know the ST beat the Amiga hands down and only the more efeminate among us truly prefered the Amiga. I mean. The ST had an Atari logo on it. That was the same logo as was on all the cool arcade games!
That seems as good a reason to ressurect TOS, or even MINT as anyone has come up with for the current AmigaOS nonsense
There is room for all (Score:3)
But I don't think that lampooning amigans with "It's dead let it go" everytime
They aren't saying that we all have to run out and buy an amiga now. It's just an interesting news item about an alternative OS... what's so wrong with that? if your not interested then don't worry about it, if you are then it's nice to get some up to date information on it.
I personally think it looks interesting, I don't know if it'll take off, but I think it could work if given a chance.