OS4 and Amiga ONE - why?

[Lemmink]

What about a .PDF file, how long does it take to load the viewer? Is Adobe Acrobat available?

AmiPDF opens in about 1-2 seconds.
A 14.7 MB LEGO construction plan of 85 pages opens in about 5 seconds from RAM-disk

[bloodline]

KD7HTH wrote:

bloodline wrote:

riccofl wrote:
Is this the end of Amiga? Is there anything special about OS4, Amiga ONE, Pegasos or what else there is currently out there? I guess my question is also, did Amiga die when Commodore turned the key back in the 90's.

The thing that's special about OS4/MOS/AROS is that they work exactly like AmigaOS... but on more modern/powerful hardware.

If you are happy/comfortable/used to AmigaOS they will provide a pleasing experience for you.

Sounds a lot like Amiga Forever to me.  :-D

Except Amiga Forever isn't free ;-)

[Cymric]

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@lemmink:

Excuse me...? Lego construction plans as PDF...?? Where? Why? How?

(Yes, I know, the idea itself is straightforward now that I hear of it, but it has never occurred to me to actually search for these things!)
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[Rudei]

cecilia wrote:
"Is the the end of Rico?"

news flash: this isn't a movie. go out and find someone with an AMigaOne with OS4 and see how it works. I have, I like what I see.

Yeah.  Its good.  Good to be back here btw

Rude!

[AmigaPete]

Cymric,
I was gonna point you here www.brickshelf.com but they have stopped hosting the scans due to lack of sponsor - see this http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/

When it was up it had scans of catalogs and instructions up to 3 or 4 years ago (Lego didn't allow anything newer). Lego had even begun to give their blessing by supplying PDFs of instructions. In the meantime if you are desperate for certain instruction scans you can ask here www.lugnet.com (in the appropriate forum).

Pete

[Lemmink]

@ Cymric

You won`t belive it, but it is quite straight forward.
Just go to the official Lego site www.lego.com and select Customerservice -> Building Instructions
http://www.lego.com/eng/buildinginstructions/

I don`t know if older model are available, but will be able to download plans for the entire programm just on sale. As nearly every set has some special parts in it, the plans alone are quite useless. so there is no need to keep then secret.

What I am looking for is as site where I can download Lego productcatalogs back to about 1980 to refresh childhood memmories.

[DonnyEMU]

Has the machine seen any marketing or advertising the USA? No it's all pretty much been in Europe. I had a 40 member Amiga user group that resides in a college town. We wanted a demo during the school year that we could get students from the university of michigan to see.. We got an initial inquiry and no followup..

[AmigaPete]

Lemmink,
Brickshelf has (had) all catalog scans back as far as cataogs were made (1960s?). I currently have scans of UK catalogs from 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81 & 83. I can dig around to see if I have any more on CDRs. PM me with your email and I can zip them off to you. They are about 1 MB per year in size.

Pete

[Argo]

Is there anything special about OS4, Amiga ONE, Pegasos or what else there is currently out there? I guess my question is also, did Amiga die when Commodore turned the key back in the 90's.

Yes, it is now the only PPC desktop computer.
Depends on how you define Amiga. The AGA machines ended with Commodore. The OS saw abit more life and in fact branched out. It's emulated, copied, open source, and offical development continues.

[Paul]

did Amiga die when Commodore turned the key back in the 90's.

Well, my A1000's SCSI died shortly after Commodore's demise.

But my A1 with OS4 is doing a splendid job of taking over the honors of being my Amiga.

The only thing I'm not doing with my Amiga now which I used to do with my '060 4000 is use my SCSI scanner. . .

I'm using AWeb, Voyager and IBrowse, Simplemail, YAM and Thor, ImageFX 4.5, Final Writer/Data/Calc, Pagestream, dnet, AmiPDF and a bunch of utilities.

I've had and been using my A1 for over two years now. Linux was OK. OS4 is just plain fun, and I've been using it for over a year now.


Paul

[poweramiga2002]

@Framiga

I still use the ppc1200 with voodoo3/3000

but as i stated my amigaone is at least 100 times faster and i can do more things with the A1
i use the a1 for burning dvd,s,
internet
word processing,
watching dvd,
watching mp4,s
playing mp3,s
play quake quake2 doom duke nukem
heaps of playstation games
gameboy games
nintendo games mame games
mame games
heaps of sdl games

all in all its been the best choice ive ever made to go with the A1