OS4 Screenshot Running AmIRC

[Rogue]

Or is this running on a cyberstorm, and the Mouse Pointer an Amiga Sprite so not part of the screen image?

A CyberStorm with a 750FX ;-)

No, it's a Voodoo screen, with a hardware cursor, hence you don't see it on the shot.

[Rogue]

86.7MB OS install? Seems excessive.

What makes you think that this is only OS? Maybe NeRP likes to play Quake ;-)

The RAM readout is confusing too.

That's workbench for you. We really need to update that.

Having said that, it's looking better all the time.

Thanks  :-D

Can I have a copy for Christmas please?

I'll see what we can do...

[Rogue]

Does that mean it's a nasty two colour, gem clone mouse pointer?

Of course, and it glows in the dark! Especially when Orcs are near ;-)

I hope you allow the use of the good old AmigaOS 2.0 mouse pointer, all my boxes use that pointer, except my Linux box, because I can't figure out how to change the mouse pointer in that...

The default is still the OS 3.x pointer, but I think we'll include a set of new pointers at well. I personally use the BeOS hand pointer, but I guess tastes are different (speaking of which, I think that a Retro-OS 1.2 theme for OS 4 would be killer ;-) )

You actually *can* change the pointer under X with XF86 4.3 (guess what I am using the BeOS hand pointer there, too ;-))

[Rogue]

What is the space needed for OS4 at moment ?

I managed to fit a more or less usable system onto an 8 meg ramdisk. That included the complete workbench setup plus prefs editors, a backdrop picture, Tools and Utilities drawers, a set of Truetype fonts, but no "real" app.

A typical installation with all the stuff on it should be about 15 megabytes. That would include everything from a standard OS 4 workbench but still no apps.

When is scheduled this update ?

Things like the memory display should be updated for the final OS 4.0 release, this should also include bugfixes and the like. We've scheduled a complete rewrite of Workbench for 4.1.

It's a promise ?

Did it sound like one ? I don't think it does :-) It's just a promise to for the best effort - there's too much that is out of my reach...

[Rogue]

Have you been reading the #AROS irc logs?

Note: To those who don't know, I want an AOS1.3 theme for AROS

Actually, I didn't, but it somewhat comes naturally, doesn't it, when you started out on that :-) I mean, I can still remember when I first saw the Amiga 1000 standing in a local computer store - blue background, white window borders, orange highlite color. It was so breathtaking that it burned itself deeply into my memory.

Sigh. It was a dream machine in all aspects. All those Pentium4-Kiddies today cannot possibly imagine that :-D

Really? Hmmm, maybe I should read the Fcuking manual... Will KDE over ride my pointer? Actually, I might have to update my X... mine is several months old...

Yes, you need the latest XFree86 4.3.0. My KDE installation has a ~/.icons drawer with mouse pointer themes inside, and it will automatically use them. See the KDE Themes site.

[Rogue]

People are replying with things like "GeForce2 MX400"...

Just goes to show...

I recently dug out my old trusty A2000 which I bought from the last money I got for my millitary service in 1989, and tried to power it up again. Much to my surprise, in spite of tons of dust and an always-shaky ram socket on the 2060, it still worked...

That's what I call quality ;-)

[Rogue]

I don't believe you!!! I'll tell you what, you send it to my place so I can varify your claims*

Nice try ;-)