Some helpful information for those new to the community.

[Karlos]

Without a second thought

Using an advanced gene-splice simulation system, I was able to work out that she'd look a bit like this*:



*actual results may vary.

[bloodline]

Using an advanced gene-splice simulation system, I was able to work out that she'd look a bit like this*:



*actual results may vary.

Nnnnggg!!! So much awesome! Can't control arm... :crazy:

[AmigaHeretic]

OS4 users as the jesters?




And for AROS we take these two:






And for those Blue MorphOS guys:



:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

[spihunter]

This is the new broccoli thread!. It's even kinda on topic for the site too?

[runequester]

What about the "AMIGA IS DEAD" and "amiga is only an A500 with half a meg of RAM" crowds?

Use this helpful 3x3 grid to understand where OS4/MOS/AROS zealots are coming from when they comment on any combination of the three different systems.

In row major order, they can be summarised thusly:

AmigaOS4 zealots (aka BAFs) perceive AmigaOS4 to be the one true OS due to it's direct lineage from the sacred 3.1 source. Discussion about alternatives is acceptable only after the fact they are not AmigaOS has been established. Conversely, AROS is perceived as a sinister threat, spawn of those that turned to the dark side (x86) only to spread like an unchecked disease to PPC, ARM and now even 68K! Finally, they perceive MorphOS as the wannabe contender that barges into every discussion about AmigaOS4 hawking their jumped up alternative, but alas the blue short ones do not hold the sacred symbols that belong to the one true OS, no matter how much they'd like to lay claim to the throne.

AROS zealots perceive AmigaOS4 as chained to anachronistic, slow hardware that will forever hold it back as time marches on. Hardware that is, like the equivalent mass in gold, astronomically expensive. They perceive AROS as the logical way forward; sexy, free and unrestricted by any notion of which hardware should be used to run it. Finally, they perceive MorphOS to be fundamentally flawed in a similar vein to AmigaOS4 tied to ageing hardware, though at least this ball and chain is available for rather less outlay overall.

MorphOS zealots (aka Smurfs) perceive AmigaOS4 as a wholly inferior product without any positive aspects at all, tied to obsolete, overpriced hardware. Consequently, they are completely unable to understand why anybody would use it, other than through some blind cultish devotion. They perceive AROS as an immature system, far behind the standard they believe MorphOS to have attained and thus aren't unduly concerned about the fact that it runs on even cheaper and far more powerful hardware than their OS of choice. Nor, it seems that the gulf in functionality that is their mantra is closing every day. Finally, they perceive MorphOS as the pinnacle of the Amiga experience, even if it is only fully appreciable on PPC Mac, to which it brings a second chance at life (thus skirting around the obvious observation that it's equally obsolete as the hardware their crimson adversary favours) after the architecture was unceremoniously dumped by apple in favour of x86.

[smerf]

Hi,

@The_Leander,

[MorphOS zealots (aka Smurfs) perceive AmigaOS4 as a wholly inferior product ]


Watch what you say, this smerf, doesn't agree with anything you have said, I don't like any of this new stuff being done.

I for one have found the perfect system, it runs Amiga OS 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9 with ease, it is called:

                C L O A N T O' S  A M I G A  F O R E V E R

 It accepst all the newest latest hardware, plays the old games, runs the old software, and basically has no problems.

Why you jreks haevan't pkiced pu on it, is beyond me. You keep waiting for the perfect system to come out, but you haven't relized it, it is here. All we Amiga users have to do is pick it, praise it, and use it. Accelerators, who needs one when you have a 6 core AMD Phenom 3.2 ghz processor under the hood, and for graphics you have a nvidia 460, or AMD Radeon 5770, sound hold on to your hats, the MSI 890FX has super sound chips. Smooth, precise, and a pleasure to use.

So all you others, crying about this or that, grow up and use what is there, we have to condone and support something and my VOTE is for Amiga Forever by Cloanto.

Who knows we may even get them to drop the WINUAE and come up with a whole self loading Amiga OS that might be used on PC's and (UGH) MAC's.

Then you can fine tune it with AmiKit. What we need to do is start a rag on programming in AF and articles on how to really dazzle it up.

We got it, all we have to do is accept it and use it.

smerf

[Trev]

And yet Fallout New Vegas locks up my system regardless of the version of WinUAE I'm running. Wait, what were we talking about?

[trekiej]

1. I believe AOS4.0 is the true Amiga, but I can not run it on anything.
2. I like Aros and it seems to be a good way to get things moving.
3. I think MOS is a great os but I can not run it either. I would like to run it.

[smerf]

And yet Fallout New Vegas locks up my system regardless of the version of WinUAE I'm running. Wait, what were we talking about?

Hi,

@trev,

Yea, sometimes Fallout New Vegas crashes my system, I downloaded it off steam, so I don't know if I messed up my download or not, then again it could be that darn buggy nvidia 8600 card I bought. They won't really admit it but Microsoft says that the 8 series of nvidia cards had a bug in it that crashed Vista, and now if your using it crashes 7 once in a while with the right calls on the nvid card, but then again I am jabbering on because come to think of it my Intel computer is using a 5750 radeon card, and Vegas crashes that out.

Oh well, I am so confused.

smerf

[Damion]

Very well done! Funniest thing I've read here in ages! :lol:

[cicero790]

@The_Leander

Perfect dogmatic analysis. :-)



EDIT: The suggestion was given earlier in thread. Ah Well..

[bloodline]

The comedy comes from it's simplicity, it does not need to be extended

[the_leander]

The comedy comes from it's simplicity, it does not need to be extended

Quite so.

I should note (again - I've said this in the gallery page). I didn't create this. I am simply the front guy for this. Those who created it and shaped it know who they are

[Karlos]

That would be 5 if you count your avatar!

Special Agent Gumby is sporting a handkerchief, not a boing-ball tupi.

[Karlos]

The comedy comes from it's simplicity, it does not need to be extended

Especially when you consider that it would end up in a sparse matrix in which the default cell contents would be something like this (at least for classic/natami/etc user's views of all NG systems):

[cicero790]

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