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Welcome!

(1024x768x32bit @60hz or better). Since when I turn on my A1200T once in a blue moon the low res(640x512) make my eyes bleed  :-D

My Amiga 4000 has a Voodoo 3, and my workbench is 1280x960 in 24bit. Considering the AmigaONE and OS4 will support much newer cards, you won't be disappointed there.

Also been a programmer I was wonder will there be available good c/c++ compilers/ide's along with OS4 /gfx sdk?

There are rumours of the StormC IDE being ported to OS4. Actually confirmed are native ports of GCC and VBCC. The OS4 GCC port is supposed to be much easier to set up, use and maintain than the geek gadgets environment.

coupled with clear sdk documentation would encorage many people to at least "dabble" in the Amiga. (assuming the hardware isnt exorbiantly expensive!)

Olaf Barthal is, I believe, working on this. Time will tell, of course.

Oh and why are the OS4 screenshots so but ugly? If I could make scheme up who could I send it to? (I dont have any web space of my own).

Huh? I think the recent ones look great. In fact, I stole some of the design for my A4000s OS3.9 workbench.

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TheJackal wrote:
Actually that one looks fine, it was some others I saw that where, "OMG, my eyes, save my eyes dear lord"  :-D

Don't worry, the default scheme is going to use that blue/grey gradient look of the more recent pictures. The hideous technicolour vomit shots are the product one of the OS4 developers who is presumably colourblind ;-)

Well an easy way in the mean time would be to do what happens for developing for PS2/Xbox/etc. You use the PC (ducks for sharp objects been thrown!)

Hyperion already have cross-compiling versions of GCC that generate native OS4 binaries running under Linux and Windows, as well as the native version.

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I don't wish to put AROS down, as I think its a great project, but why would it be suited to a games dev? Does it have 3D acceleration yet? USB joypad/racing wheel/joystick support?

I can't see why it would particularily appeal to game devs in its current state.

(and, I know, at least you can get it now, etc.)

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Well, if you're looking to develop for a future AmigaOS or clone, feel free to ask here about any of the solutions, theres a bunch of developers on here. If you want to ask technical questions about a specific system, the developers of OS4 hang out on Amigaworld.net, and i'm sure there are a bunch of MorphOS developers at morphzone.org.

As for the factions, its not as bad as you'd think. In real life, we all pretty much get along, but web forums can get heated and seem like a war zone, mostly due to a minority of idiots.

I see you're in the UK. Well, we're organising an OS4 on tour date in a month or so, where you can come along and try it for yourself. That is, if you can get down to the south west...

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TheJackal wrote:
I might if work commitments don't clash. (assuming when you say south west its not lands end!)  

No. Our first choice of venue is Bath university, but we have a backup plan. We're just waiting for confirmation, which we should get for today or tomorrow. I'll post news items all over the Amiga sites once its all set in stone.

Besides people in the south are weird! :crazy: (i.e. Get of my land, in a farmers accent)

Arrrr! Now get orf moi laaaaaaarnd!

Is the AmigaOne and such like, off the shelf components, and thus the OS(s) are platform independant?

The AmigaONE is a PowerPC ATX formfactor motherboard (and there is a Mini-ITX version with onboard radeon in prototype stage). You can use standard AGP graphics cards, standard PCI cards etc. provided there are drivers.

It currently runs Linux, and some lucky people have an alpha version of OS4 on it.