Do we have AMIGA OS anymore?

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SHADES wrote:
Really everyone.
I'm not here to BAG the OS.
I am really scared. There is nothing to say it's going to survive now. Even the Parent company has decided to seperate itself from it's roots and give up on giving it's community the resurection.

So much for the phoenix Fleecy. What have you done!

That's something which hit me in 2000... It became apparent to me that there was no place for the Amiga platform in the traditional sense... but I certainly feel that security can be maintained through the use of Opensource software. After Amino had bouth the Rights to the Amiga Name (they did not buy the IP) and called their Mobile Phone Toy Extra Overhead Layer Amiga... I gave up with the idea that any company would ever produce a viable Amiga Platform... thus I decided to support an opesource effort...

This is where I am now, and I feel happy :-)

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SHADES wrote:
@mikeymike

I used to think I had a very clear idea. Now i'm not so sure.
I guess that's why I'm here though Mike.
i am trying to find exactly that out.
Hopefully enough people will bring forwad their ideas and help me find out exactly what I have now, and what may be for the future of a Platform that seems clearly is no longer AMIGA.

I guess what the Amiga Community has is a common past :-)

I expect we will all have a common future too... but that is just my pure specualtion ;-)

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SHADES wrote:
@bloodline

I hope so bud. I really do. Our past seems so very frgmented now, AROS, MORPH, QNX etc.. all of which seem to be "The Community"

It's a pitty that allthese different systems are not compatible with each other. Linux is fragmented too but at least I can run a Redhat program on a SUSE build.

We have a common past, what's happened to our future.

I really hope you're right Bloodline. I REALLY do. I want that soooo much.

The future's bright... the future's... um.. err.. Black? :lol: At least it is in the SHADE!! ;-)

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Hattig wrote:

Which has been the MorphOS and AROS attitude from the beginning. It still doesn't stop people discriminating against them, unfortunately.

I don't mind AROS at all, I've used it.

I think people have issues against personalities on either side otherwise, and that turns them against what they produce.

MorphOS is a Quark kernel that has not much in common with AmigaOS, with an AmigaOS box on top. AROS is a nice clean complete reimplementation (shame that the Palm port died). AmigaOS4 derives from the classic AmigaOS, brought up to date, however the legacy creates some issues, most notably graphics.library.

The Palm port isn't dead... it's just sleeping :-D Staf has even updated the sources to make then ARM ready... Hopefully some one with more PDA experience will join the team and push the port forward.

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SHADES wrote:
@ Bloodline

Your so right!

My name is so appropriate to describe our community.
Now perhaps I should change it to Babel fish and I could make an OS to understand everyones idea.

you're a funny man Blood good sense of humor
I'm way to upset.

I say cheer up :-) The Amiga Community is now more than ever about people. Computers are nothing more than commodities... they are like table salt... it doesn't matter which brand you buy they all do the same thing... some will claim one tastes better than the other ;-)

You have three choices... and that's a good thing, I would say none is "Amiga" and none are not "Amiga"... they are all choices that you can make.

Check them all out, and see which meets your needs. if none of them do... then don't panic... you share a common past with the rest of us here... so there is no reason why you should leave the community just beacuse you don't like the option available :-D

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Since OS4 is based on a previous AOS, WHY is it still lagging behind MOS??!!

As many have tried to explain, the original sources are for all intents (excuse the pun) and purposes worthless. All credit to Hyperion, they have done a lot of work to get OS4 ready.

People seem to think the original sources have some magic incantantion written into them... they don't, they are of far less value than the ROM Kernel Manuals.

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AmiDelf wrote:
We should all support MorphOS for now, until AmigaOS4 is out. Thats my words for this situation.

MorphOS is as fast as AmigaOS is on a real Amiga.


Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

How's your new Dreamcast based Amiga comming?