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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: spider on September 17, 2003, 01:26:05 AM
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Hello!
How long can you wait for A1/os4? If A1/os4 doesn.t show up by This Christmas(2003!) I will seriously consider the Pegasos option, What do you thinK/
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Dunno, but you should give this thread a title :-D
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I dont think os4 will be avaliable for the a1 before beginning of next year...
But anyway, you should add a subject/topic, people cannot even click on this topic from the front side..
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I've got no problem waiting, it'll be done when it's done, and I think that the longer it takes the better it'll be. That being said, I am also considering getting myself the Pegasos/Morphos as it's availible now, does anyone know if there is or will be an authorized dealer in Canada ?
:-)
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@Lando
so are you waiting for OS4 for your Pegasos? :-D
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I've got no problems whatsoever waiting... especially since I am not actively waiting. When it arrives it arrives... and when it does, I will try it out... 2003, 2004 or 2005... it doesn't really matter to me.
As for now I do whatever I need to do on my PC... and my A1200 fills my AMiGA needs.
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@Darth
No, I like MorphOS too much now :-)
I can't think of any reason why I would want to run OS4.
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April 1st 2004 ought to be appropriate. :-D
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Right after the demise of Commodore it seemed imperative that the Amiga got back on track ASAP if it wanted any chance of survival.
Somehow that never really happened. Many years have passed and we find ourselves in a completely different arena. Computers are less exiting than they used to be and all have about the same possibilities. Even the new Amiga related PPC hardware is not that different from other designs.
AmigaOS is a brave effort to somehow keep the Amiga alive, in a way so is MorphOS but unless they bring us something as exiting as the first AmigaOS did in it's day they will end up being just another OS and probably will take the same route as say BeOS.
I would say it's not that important when it will finally surface, more important IMHO is what this NEW OS will bring us. I was there when people were totally amazed with the Amiga, no matter what their computer background was they were stunned.
Will we see this happen once again ? I'm willing to wait for another experience like that. Maybe I will have to wait for OS4 or OS5 for that to happen, maybe it will come from a completely different direction. I don't know, all I know is that I'm waiting...
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I stopped waiting around for OS4 about the time that it nothing had been done on it for 6 months one week before its planned release.
TBH I felt like it was an utter slap in the face. The final straw however was when I saw the production A1. Sorry, it may have been a better machine than the prototype with the slot connector, but to me it seemed like a cheep imotation and lacked any kind of inovation.
I bought a pc and have been running BeOS happily ever since. Amiga inc had their chance, they blew it and that was the end of it, nothing I've seen since convinces me otherwise.
Pegasos is a nice machine I suppose but unless BeOS could run on it (the ppc veriaty) then I see no reason in buying one.
(Morphos may be a nice system, it seemed it when I played with a demo of it on a mates ppc equiped A1200, but it simply doesn't do what I want of it).
Now I await Zeta - BeOS r6. It should be out by xmas or shortly their after.
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[.......................................] this long.
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As I bought a Pegasos/MorphOS meanwhile: my patience is infinite!
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Pegasos is a nice machine I suppose but unless BeOS could run on it (the ppc veriaty) then I see no reason in buying one.
Now I await Zeta - BeOS r6. It should be out by xmas or shortly their after.
OpenBeOS is already on it's way and we hope to get Zeta also at some point.
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OS4 will be released on 30th February.
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:-D
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Hmm.. Might be interesting to do some archive digging and look what
people posted on this same subject a year ago. IIRC allmost the same
was talked back then too. People waiting to see OS4 by Xmas or at
least in January.
Biggest difference I remember was that back then it got a lot more
heated debate and plenty of flames. Looks like things are not so 'hot'
anymore.
Only thing that interests me in this is what happened to all those
people who annouced deadlines last time? ... I really can't remeber
nicks but there were more than few of them at that time.
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OS4 will be released on 30th February.
Which year? :-)
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He he. Just wait for 30th February. It won't be too long ;-)
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Hi Spider :-)
>How long can you wait for A1/os4?
I will wait the necessary time :-D
Perhaps even will I buy a A1-BiG4 before it appears ;-)
I have an awfull lot of patience in stock, and put myself in an endless waiting loop :-P since the demise of Commodore, I bought two coupons and t-shirts, participate to the "pulltheotheroneitzer" business cards contest, and more important that anything else : have got the beautifull and heavy loaded A4000 PPC I use each day since 1996 :-D
Amigalement,
Jean-François, Amiga ONLY since 1985.
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I bought two coupons and t-shirts,
Well that explains quite a bit!!!