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Offline Varthall

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Re: OS for the X1000
« on: August 04, 2011, 02:38:05 PM »
Quote from: Buzzfuzz;652982
But while we are at it, how about this ?
 
Board is ready and your X1000 is ready to rock and roll, it has OS4.2 on it (that is what it seems to be getting on it) and it all runs fine.
You can internet on it, you can play audio on it, so your favorite mp3's and all things and it can even show your video's.
 
And then ?
 
It can't play modern pc games, or any other platform like Xbox or Playstation, other than Amiga Classic, it may be able to do the ported Quake and so on, but it won't play Call Of Duty or Need For Speed for example.
 
At most offices they use Word and Excell, so here comes an email with a word document, you may be able to read it if that exists on OS4.1, but can you also fully edit it ?
You get a PDF also, again it might be able to read it, but can you also edit it ?

Not everyone uses a computer for the same tasks. For example, I'm not interested in playing modern PC games on my Amiga (and if I would, I probably wouldn't find time for it). I occasionally (i.e. once every one-two months) play a single game under Windows, but that's all. Speaking in general, it's true that it won't fulfill the needs of the vast majority of the computer users, but it will make happy those that like it and find it useful.

BTW I edit Word and Excel documents using Abiword and Gnumeric. Regarding PDF, I have never tried before but I guess it supports PDFs as well.

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Re: OS for the X1000
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2011, 11:47:13 AM »
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You're actually not disagreeing with tmhgm, you're just wording it differently.

As you say, the X1000 is aimed at a "select few people" (that are willing to pay 2000 bucks for an outdated desktop computer as long as it runs AmigaOS). How many of those people are out there? 100? 200? 300? That's not a future, that's a dead end. Not to mention that even if there would be more customers, there are no more CPUs...

Rogue has stated on Amigaworld.net that there will be a follow-up CPU after the PA-Semi one: http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32910&forum=33&start=40&viewmode=flat&order=0#593794

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For the manufacturer, yes. But what about OS4? How long have we been waiting for USB2 support? A decent 2D/3D graphics system? A filemanager that is not a joke? Some sort of concept for the whole desktop environment that goes beyond "let's try another icon set"? A web browser that doesn't suck?

There are lots of things in OS4 that urgently need improvements. Instead, the dev team is working on a port to some very expensive niche hardware.

They are not working on the port *instead* on working on the other, urgent features: USB2 support has been included in the incoming Update 3, the 2d/3d is being worked on (http://blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz/?p=290), and work on Timberwolf and OWB-MUI is also proceeding.

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