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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: frankb on January 07, 2003, 08:42:59 AM

Title: pOS anyone?
Post by: frankb on January 07, 2003, 08:42:59 AM
Whatever happend to ProDAD's (http://www.prodad.de) pOS? The only real source of information I could find was here (http://amiga.emugaming.com/pos.html). Also, it seems that ProDAD (http://www.prodad.de) no longer support the Amiga.

I am suprised that no other group (AmigaOS (http://os.amiga.com/os4), AROS (http://www.aros.org), MorphOS (http://www.morphos.de)) picked up where they left off, as it seems that pOS had some good ideas.
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: xeron on January 07, 2003, 09:09:23 AM
pOS is dead. AROS, MorphOS and Amiga Inc all have sourcecode bases that are far more mature than pOS would be.

Basically, forget about it. If they hadn't believed the official line on a new AmigaOS in 1998 and given up, who knows? Maybe we'd all be using PIOS Twos...
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: Damion on January 07, 2003, 09:18:14 AM
I bet the name didn't help it much, either...:)
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: MrZammler on January 07, 2003, 09:34:36 AM
Damn it, now I remember. I had seen an amiga running pOS sometime ago, and was wondering what the hell it was.

If *anyone* has any info on how I can get this, please let me know.
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: MrZammler on January 07, 2003, 09:37:02 AM
Here's another one:

http://members.easyspace.com/flm/amiga/pics/pos.gif
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: on January 07, 2003, 09:37:42 AM
how is the aros team doing? do they need any help? I'd contribute if they need any graphics work done...
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: odin on January 07, 2003, 10:10:00 AM
The pOS prerelease CD can still be had from several Amiga dealers it seems. Try googling "pos cd amiga", spotted some dealer in Japan who still had it listed. Amigis.nl also has it listed.
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: xeron on January 07, 2003, 11:07:16 AM
Dithered icons... Yuck :)
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: Elektro on January 07, 2003, 11:40:16 AM
piece of sh...

 :-D
Title: Re: pOS anyone?
Post by: on January 07, 2003, 12:50:38 PM
I remember being very interested in this back then. The icons are dithered in that screenshot because from the start pOS was designed to run in 24bit (icons were thus stored in 24bit rather that using pens).

Back then this was encouraging news, but now that we have Morphos and maybe one day a new AmigaOS I think it's just an irrelevancy.