2006 is almost gone, more pure death in 2007?

[ToddH]

Hi there.

This is my first post here.  I was a huge Amiga fan back in the 80's-early 90's, owning first an Amiga 500 then an Amiga 1200.  And while I don't have either system any longer, I still have fond memories of those days.  I've yet to find a computer that gives me the same feeling my old Amigas did, although my 20" iMac comes close.

I've thought about picking up an old Amiga again just to tinker with, but the more I think about it the more I think AROS with UAE integration is the way to go.  That way you can run it on pretty much any Intel box (provided drivers are available).  Plus, there are a ton of open source projects like Mozilla and Openoffice that could be ported over.  An AROS system running Firefox and Openoffice, as well as all of the old programs and games would be a pretty nice system.

Hopefully AROS continues to improve and open source programs like Firefox are ported over.  I have a spare PC that would make a great AROS box.   :-)

[ToddH]

I have Amiga Forever.  The lack of a modern browser really hurts it IMO.  Plus I hate having to launch it from within Windows.  Finally, it just just doesn't feel modern enough.  It feel like an old Amiga OS with a lot of stuff tacked on to try and make it look modern.  In other words, it feels clunky.  But at least it lets me get my Amiga games fix every now and then.

I tried the AROS live cd and was impressed that it feels like a modern, updated version of the Amiga OS.  

[ToddH]

I've actually checked out Haiku and it's making good progress.  I used Beos for a little while back in the 90's.  I liked it a lot, but ended up switching to Linux because of Beos development ending.

Since I stopped using my Amiga back in 1995, I went from Windows 95 to 98, then to Beos, then to Linux, Windows XP, and finally Mac OS X.  I now dual boot between Mac OS X and Windows XP on my Intel iMac.  The only time I ever boot into Windows is for games and Amiga Forever.