2006 is almost gone, more pure death in 2007?

[AJCopland]

I'm personally hoping hardware wise for MiniMig and nothing more, maybe i can build a nice little case for it and place it next to my TV where it belongs!

AROS is looking interesting i gave it a go on a spare PC a while ago between various Linux distributions and i've looked into coding for it, specifically i was wondering if it'd be possible to add OpenGL acceleration support to Zune but i never even got as far as seeing if it already HAD OpenGL support :-D maybe when i'm less busy coding for work i can code for ummm, well maybe not fun but nostalgia at least!

I enjoy my Amiga1200 for games and perhaps by the end of 2007 i hope to have got WHDLoad instead of running from flopy as i currently do and to have a CD-Drive working so i can install OS3.9 and maybe play some CD32 games that i've always wanted to try again.

Andy

[AJCopland]

Waccoon wrote:
@Astral:  I'm with you all the way.

AmigaOS is obsolete.  The hardware sucks these days.  Senseless patriotism for one CPU will get us nowhere.  Accept it.

What we need is a new OS that gets back some of those inventive people that made the Amiga so special and fun 15 years ago.  I just posted some of my old music on another forum and told some people about Audition4.  There was NOTHING on the PC or the Mac at that time that could do what that sound editor did on my 7MHz A1000.  That's the kind of inventive software I want to use these days, not this Linux "we can code but we can't design" crap.

Everybody has an idea of what kind of hardware they want and what the OS should be like at the low-level.  Nobody has a f***ing clue what they want to do, other than browse the web with a [more] moden browser.  Come on.

Well the one question that comes to mind if the hardware is obsolete and OS is dead is: What exactly would you want that would make whatever you want an Amiga?

I don't mean this in jest i mean really, if you don't want the OS or the hardware then do you just want a rebanded UNIX style OS like the Mac OSX? A pretty interface built on a BSD core? Or a more usable Linux like Ubuntu is mean't to be? I know there are other OSs out there i'm just using those as examples.

The Hardware + OS is what makes the Classic Amigas interesting, whereas it's an updated OS (be it OS4,MOS or AROS) that will be the only thing that distinguishs a new machine from the Linux and Windows machines of the world.

Andy