on topic - the SAM looks interesting, and I wish I had the cash in the coffers atm to order one - past screenshots I've not seen AOS-4 running, and my main gripe 'oh how bloody typical' thought when it came out was that you couldn't buy a machine to run it on anymore...
The second 'eyeroll' came with the lawsuit crapola 'blood hell... it's like AmithlonII!' I thought..
So Kudos to Hyperion and Acube! I'll hopefully be ordering one next year (although I don't think I could be faulted for adding a 'when both the OS and Hardware are in stock' after the last decade of Amiga History).
I look forward to folks getting the kit posting reviews...
Off topic - wha? We've decended to 'what is an Amiga' and promoting old tech holdovers as 'features' and 'other OS non-sequiturs' pretty early!
When my 2000 started playing up last month I put it on hold while waiting for decent priced replacements to appear on Ebay and fired up 'old crappy' and dug up the variety of 'software solutions' from years gone by...
Personally I don't like running WinUae for much - nothing against it, just doesn't give me the right 'feel' for getting stuff done or tinkering with software... I prefer said things on a seperate system.. booting up and running...
Back in the day I ran Amithlon on it - but I've replaced some hardware and now its a bear to setup ... well MORE of a bear than initially... so I checked out XAmiga - (cut down gentoo linux running E-UAE)...
Emulation wise - was a LOT easier to access the internet and my other computers than either the 2000 with OS3.1 OR Amithlon with 3.9.... can't speak for 4.0 (as I said - I've not seen it - hopefully it's better than these 2). I uncommented a line in a config file - rebooted.. that was it.
To date I've had NO problem with either Ibrowse or Aweb.. dunno where the 'emulation can't access the web' thingy came from - I've yet to see any sign of that..
The clincher I guess is the shutdown (and I laughed when I saw what the debate had come down to)...
It takes me LESS time to turn off my Xamiga system than it does to turn off my A2000.
Seriously... and thats not 'turning off and walking away' thats from 'I think I'll turn this off' to 'Powered Down'.
It takes 3 seconds to powerdown that system from hitting ctrl-alt-delete (cut down system don't need much cleanup).
For giggles I timed how long it took me to reach around and flip the switch on the back of my A2000.... NOT INCLUDING TURNING OFF THE MONITOR (which the other system does as well).... 5 seconds.
Dunno - when it comes down to debating the virtues of the powerbutton I think anything productive has long flown out the window.
