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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: weirdami on January 13, 2008, 05:11:02 AM
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Looks like AOS 5 is released.
"LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amiga, Inc. announces the availability of AmigaAnywhere™ version 2, the first phase of the Amiga OS."
"But taking Amiga President Bill McEwen aside for a moment, we discovered that AmigaAnywhere 2 is AmigaOS 5.
“We had to call it that because of the Microsoft deal,” McEwen whispered. "
Press release on BusinessWire (http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20080106005175&ndmHsc=v2*A1199624400000*B1199714576000*DgroupByDate*G2*J2*N1010492&newsLang=en&beanID=1024816846&viewID=news_view).
The thing is, it's being called AmigaAnywhere2. Apparently because of a deal with Microsoft (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/07/ces_amiga_os_5_surfaces/).
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“We had to call it that because of the Microsoft deal,” McEwen whispered. "
*snort*
What a crock of sh!t! You're only calling it that, so people will think that OS4 is a dead turd and you won't look bad to "potential investors"....
:roll:
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That was pathetic, Mr McEwen...
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My gosh, this guy is so full of it. Never have I seen a company done so much harm to loyal users/followers.
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They seem like those bad guys that took control of a wonderful world.
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The new platform offers more features and flexibility to safely move content from a physical to a digital environment
I still don't know what this means. My digital photos are a digital representation of the physical environment. My MP3s are a digital representation of my physical CDs. My emails are a digital representation of a physical conversation. They all exist on my iPhone and my Mac. Seems pretty safe to me, so I have no idea what AA2 is actually offering that doesn't already exist.
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moto
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“The Amiga world has waited long enough,” said Bill McEwen, President of Amiga Inc. “AmigaAnywhere is the step forward we’ve been diligently pursuing, making it easy to instantly and safely run all types of content on their favorite devices.
Unless, of course, their favourite device happens to be an Amiga.
What a load of jobbies.
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So Amiga OS 5.0, according to a previous interview with Bill and Wayne, will only run on Power PC platform, Amiga Anywhere 2 is Amiga OS5, Amiga Anywhere 2 runs one program on many platforms!!!!!
Seriously, what a joke! :roll:
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Can anyone verify this?
The point for AmigaOS buffs is that AmigaAnywhere 2 effectively starts up a virtual machine, boots AmigaOS and runs the code on top of that. And that makes it perfectly possible for Amiga lovers to fire it up and run the familiar Amiga GUI instead of the game. Why they'd want to is anyone's guess, and Amiga wasn't demo'ing the OS working in this mode. Can AmigaOS catch up with the user experience and the functionality of modern operating systems? Some might argue that it shouldn't try, that it should instead revel in its simplicity and very small storage requirement.
Or did they just reinvent Java?
Make sure you read both articles.
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Amiga is going more and more deeper :-?
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Argo said,
Can anyone verify this?The point for AmigaOS buffs is that AmigaAnywhere 2 effectively starts up a virtual machine, boots AmigaOS and runs the code on top of that. And that makes it perfectly possible for Amiga lovers to fire it up and run the familiar Amiga GUI instead of the game. Why they'd want to is anyone's guess, and Amiga wasn't demo'ing the OS working in this mode. Can AmigaOS catch up with the user experience and the functionality of modern operating systems? Some might argue that it shouldn't try, that it should instead revel in its simplicity and very small storage requirement.
That's Tony Smith, so I think he's just channeling his understanding of everything DE/AA/5 was supposed to be, formed over long years of covering it from a distance and being harangued by scenesters. (Yours truly having been one of many...)
It wouldn't hurt to ask if that particular smoke was blown, but it could just mean UAE... and UAE is a practically satisfactory solution these days for the legacy catalog, now that hardware has scaled up to meet it.
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Thing is, Tao's whole deal was a 'reinvention of Java' (in part predating Java itself), because, lest we forget, Java was a nice idea that still ran like a slug for most purposes in 2000 or so, when there was still an installed base of Pentium 1 machines and the average cellphone or PDA was more limited still.
In the time it took for AInc. to do the displacer-beast thing and Tao to sink, people got better at writing JVMs and hardware crept up to meet them across the board. Java's biggest problem was probably the memory footprint, and when the cost of RAM quartered that stopped being an issue.
AA still isn't a bad idea, any more than Inferno is, but between the lack of recognizable product (How many years, and we're back to Space Invaders? They're talking up persistence and media features, but have they ever been able to demo them?) and the likelihood of onerous nickel-and-dime-and-NDA licensing models, they're going to have a hell of a time winning 'normal people' over. If something really does exist and it's still as lithe as Intent was, it could have a niche as a portability layer between, say, DS, PSP and smartphones, but that's an uphill battle because the companies involved -- Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, respectively -- would prefer all content to be exclusive. (And, to that end, observe the lack a DE/AA Player for systems without a Windows license.)
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Heya, everyone.
I have this great idea. I call it the 'wheel'
Oh, wait, it already been done?
Damn...
Hmmm, give me a couple of years, I have another project I'm working on, you'll love it. Code name ' sliced bread'. I'll be making an announcement soon!
Heh...
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I think its not only the Microsoft deal, but the fact that is not an OS, should probably scuttle calling it OS 5.
Also....just the usual, until its a box you can put your hands on, its still just an Amiga announcement.
Yes, they, sort-of, delivered AmigaAnywhere, the rebranded Tao product, the first time around...and given that anywhere2, could be absolutely be anything, who knows if its a real update or not, whether people can buy it or not....what it does....all remains to be seen.
I agree its a virtual machine. Other than that...has any real features, the public would even be allowed to buy it....who knows.
doubt it.
and as long as its a secret project, read...so bad it cannot be shown in the light....not worht considering.
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Okay Floid,
So, AOS5 aka AA2 is Amiga,Inc's build of UAE on Intent or Java running some version of AOS. Probably 3.x something. Wow, ground breaking.
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WTF?! How can this spammer have 215 posts but none actually showing in his profile???
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moto