@kolla Amiga was _also_ a toy - in fact, that's largely what it was, and today even more so. It's just crazy diehards like me that use Amiga for "real tasks", most people - apparently you included - mostly just care about games, games and more games. And a shiny desktop with icons from where games can be launched. You haven't even bothered to answer the simple questions - what do you do with all the PPaint filters etc that rely on ARexx? Which version of DOpus? What's the purpose of a 4GB version when the emulated system only can use well below 2GB - to run several emulated envs at once? Which version of OctaMED are you shipping it with? Will it do MIDI and if so, how does one connect to it?
The majority of Amiga.org users do not consider the Amiga a toy. It is true there are a lot who just care about the retro games. Many members here have stayed with the Amiga over the last two to three decades after the demise of Commodore. They passionately care about using Amiga as a real computer and seeing new Amiga software development.
We have provided a games menu included in the A600GS to cater for the retro games players.
For more serious users AmiBench has been provided as a full desktop system running in 24-bit with a new set of dual png icons. AmiBench has our latest AK-Datatypes pre-installed in addition to a new proprietry Picture Datatype and Datatypes Lib. it also has a set of System commands and gadgets backported from the Enhancer Software.
AmiBench can be launched in a few clicks on the A600GS. It features new Amiga software: Personal Paint v7.4, Directory Opus v4.14 and OctaMED v8. A-EON Technology bought OctaMED in 2015. The SoundStudio was built from the original SAS/C code last worked on in 1996. A number of new important functions have been added to bring it up to modern Amiga sound standards. Some good news is that we expecting to enable OctaMED Midi support by using a USB to Midi with the A600GS.
We hope the development efforts will be welcome to Amiga users who love using PPaint and OctaMED.
