I used to love my Amiga 600. It was the best machine I ever had, it was constantly full of new surprises. I remember laughing at people who had PC's at the time, now look how it has all panned out.
Currently using Ubuntu Linux. I accidently bumped in to some screenshots of Amiga os4.1. I might be interested in getting back in to Amiga in one way or another a bit later on.
Can I ask some really annoying questions that probably get asked all the time.
1) How viable is Amiga os4.1 to use as a main machine?
Depends on how "retro" you are! OS4 shouldn't be compared to modern OSs, but rather a modern retro. For WP for example there is AbliWord, a port from the Linux world, and a few other linux ports but no Open Office. There is one email app, YAM, take it or leave it. Video editing is primitive at best. Picture editing is possible but don't expect photoshop or iPhoto.
2) I read somewhere that Firefox is available for Amiga os4.1, is this correct?
Firefox is being ported by the authors of the OS (OS4 is a closed source OS developed by two brothers), no completion date is known. There are various webkit browsers (I'm on the webkit side of the webkit versus gecko debate) probably the best known is OWB.
3) Does this handle flash as well?
Not exactly.
One thing I am not 100% sure on. I use Dreamweaver and Photoshop using Wine in Ubuntu. Is there anything similar in Amiga OS4.1 that allows you to accasionally run a Windows app.
No, it's PPC based.
Finally what sort of hardware is required, to get back in to Amiga.
What is performance like?
Expensive underpowered PPC boards that are approved to run it, you can't run it on a cheap used PPC Mac. These are essentially lite versions of a G3 running at 756 MHz, think mobile phone. OS4 is light on resources so it runs fine on this kind of equipment.
Thank you in advance
