what the hell is an amiga one?

[Varthall]

On the other hand, OS4 is a joy to use and it is what I have always dreamt AmigaOS to be. This is one of the reasons why I don't regret having bought my AmigaOne.

Varthall

[Varthall]

@redrumloa

I think you are confusing OS4 with AmigaOne. OS4 may work well and assist the hardware with workarounds, but that doesn't make the A1 any less buggy / unreliable. Even in your explaination you explain the problems.

The A1 and OS4 are basically one thing. AmigaOne has been marketed in order to use OS4, and likewise OS4 has been developed to be run on that platform (and on classic PPC machines). I (and I believe most, of not all the A1 buyers) have bought it in order to run OS4, I have not bought it only as a motherboard as such.

I don't think anyone called A1 buyers dumb, I almost bought one myself.

Still, I always get that feeling when I read most of the comments here.

@jorkany

With no new PPC hardware left Hyperion was forced to revert to their original (circa 2000) idea of producing a version of OS4 that could run on the almost forgotten Blizzard and Cyberstorm PPC expansion cards.

I might be wrong, but from what I have read the Blizzard and Cyberstorm version of OS4 has being developed from the beginning together with the A1 version, and it was being shown by betatesters on various meetings. It has been released after the A1 version since it had a lower priority.

Varthall

[Varthall]

smerf wrote:
Well I held off buying one until I could get an Amiga One with the OS4 all together in one package, I don't think this ever happened because I never bought the New Amiga One. If it did happen it probably only happended for one week or so.

AFAIK later AmigaOne SE/XE and all MicroA1s were sold with OS4. According to Wikipedia, the firsts were shipped until 2004, while the Micros in 2004/05. The first prerelease of OS4 has been released on 2nd June 2004.

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