What is the future of Amiga?

[freqmax]

Think of Amiga as in spirit not hardware..

[runequester]

Think of Amiga as in spirit not hardware..

Amiga is blasting tracker tunes throughout the house, as Im cooking spaghetti

[freqmax]

RIAA black helicopters with men in black will soon arrive ..

[Iggy]

RIAA black helicopters with men in black will soon arrive ..

Yes! Remember, in the US, most legal issues revolve around property riights. That's what our grand promises of freedom and the pursuit of happiness have de-evolved into.

If the number of poor poeple in the US continues to increase (the way it has it recent years) we can take Steven Tyler's advice seriously and "Eat the Rich".

[fishy_fiz]

It's interesting to see peoples thoughts here. Most people project thier own opinions of amiga in thier response to how they view computing, which is a make up of tastes and knowledge on the subject. If the amiga is retro or not is reflected in a persons use. People who use it as a main system tend to (by necessity) be a lot more aware of the system, it's software, and how to do things that a more casual/retro person would be.
All this taken into account and it appears amiga.org is mostly full of the casual/retro crowd.

[Kesa]

I believe an os should take the minimalist approach.

For example i am currently using Windows 7 Utimate. Which is apparently the better version of Basic and Professional. I have used both Ultimate and Basic and i can not tell what the difference is. I think Ultimate has better networking or something (?).

My point is that the vast majority of a modern os will never be accessed by the average consumer. Accessed meaning features available to be used actively by the operator and all the added complexity that happens that the user has no control/knowledge over.

My estimation is this majority above makes up about 90% of a modern os.

If half the stuff in my os doesn't apply to me then why is it there? I believe this is the potiental of AROS.

K.I.S.S. !      :rtfm:

[Duce]

For example i am currently using Windows 7 Utimate. Which is apparently the better version of Basic and Professional. I have used both Ultimate and Basic and i can not tell what the difference is. I think Ultimate has better networking or something (?).
 :rtfm:

Ultimate supports AD domains (among other things) and higher level enterprise networking features.

Other than that, the diff between Ultimate and the
home versions is essentially just shit the average user will never notice, lol.

[freqmax]

AmigaOS (and maybe Haiku) wins in the fast response, minimal memory and processor usage. By using unprotected memory there's at least a 2-3x speed gain on x86.

Btw, While the lawyers assist people in suing each other the Chinese may run circles around that circus. Not an efficient development.

[vidarh]

BeOS failed partly because Microsoft threatened price favours to any PC supplier that bundled BeOS with their machines. Guess why bundled BSD/Linux machines takes so long.. :S

BeOS had pretty much failed already when they made their desperate move to port to the Mac and then finally x86. Most of the initial excitement over BeOS was over the "full package" with their dual CPU PowerPC box.

[Franko]

It's interesting to see peoples thoughts here. Most people project thier own opinions of amiga in thier response to how they view computing, which is a make up of tastes and knowledge on the subject. If the amiga is retro or not is reflected in a persons use. People who use it as a main system tend to (by necessity) be a lot more aware of the system, it's software, and how to do things that a more casual/retro person would be.
All this taken into account and it appears amiga.org is mostly full of the casual/retro crowd.

I reckon you've hit the nail on the head with that observation...

[Franko]

Hey, I hear you've got some early season snow over there. How bad is it?

Just took some pics of the snow in my back garden, it's pretty bad this year the large bump on the right hand side were 7 foot tall hedges, now flattened to about 2 and half to 3 feet... gawd it cold...







(don't think that old fence is gonna last the winter either...

[Xanxi]

I would have choosen Commodore amiga hardware + OS 3.x but have voted instead FCPGA 68k + OS 3.X, more realistic.

[Xanxi]

Just took some pics of the snow in my back garden, it's pretty bad this year the large bump on the right hand side were 7 foot tall hedges, now flattened to about 2 and half to 3 feet... gawd it cold...







(don't think that old fence is gonna last the winter either...

I would like to post you also some nice pics of Paris under the snow, but although half the country is paralyzed, there is almost nothing here. :-)

[obscurepanic]

I kinda love old school CISC-ish CPUs for a weird and dumb reason. Sorry.

[gizz72]

I'd go for AROS... its the closes thing to an A1200. Let fate decide its future..

[wawrzon]

@franko: the winter is about that too, here in berlin, must be even worse in my homeland, poland, so enjoy scotland. its made to suffer;)

as for the poll, the only alternative that beats "no future!" seems to be aros x68, and the rest remains in predicted order, with the usual culprits voting or their favourite, i can stand back.

i'd vote for the aros fpga, but lets see if they are worthy.