Amiga OS 4 Final Release in youtube!

[Tomas]

It was okay, but could have been alot better if you edited out the parts where nothing happened. And i would personally choose a different set of programs, like for example the rss one could have been dropped, as it is not really one of the programs that showcases the responsiveness of the OS.

[Tomas]

it's good that you show a couple of movies running at the same time. At the meeting I attend we have run about 4 movies at once - now THAT really gets people's attention!

What exactly is so special about it these days?
I am currently as i am writing this running 4 xvid movies at once using xine under ubuntu. All videos are running perfectly smooth.. It was indeed impressive in the beos days, but not anymore, at least not when compared to linux. I dont know how Windows handles this task though.

[Tomas]

I am gonna fire up my winxp laptop and test the claim that it is not able to run multiple videos at once.

Edit: 3 wmv files with fairly good quality was playing back just fine in wmp classic. I saw zero dropped frames or slowdowns and it used around 80-90% cpu. 4 movies at once would result in 100% cpu usage and slowmotion playback, but this can be explained by the fact that all these movies were in mpeg4 and in fairly ok res. I am sure i could have thrown up more videos if it was vcd/mpeg1 movies.

To those who have problems doing the same:
Make sure your graphic driver is up2date and that you are not using the default vesa driver that comes with WinXP. I have seen alot of people who just install XP and just use the graphic driver that windows installs for you, which is not optimal at all and will even slow down simple things like scrolling a window, web browser or similar.

Though, even though it aint impressive compared to modern systems/OS, i think it was still very good that it was included in the video, so that one can see that AmigaOS multitasks well.