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Software for AOS4?
« on: May 06, 2003, 04:30:59 AM »
Still trying to justify an $800 motherboard.  What sort of productivity software is in the offing?  Games that aren't ports of old games for other OS's?  What's worth $800?
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Re: Software for AOS4?
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2003, 07:57:53 PM »
Not to rain on my own parade, but most of the games I really loved (CinemaWare stuff, worms, etc) is available on Game Boy, system cost :100.00)  If all I wanted was a really cool game machine, I could buy one for a whole lot less, and have enough money left over to buy a cheap Dell system.  I REALLY love my Amiga, but the available word processors are lacking, the web browsers, though really cool, don't have the features nessesary to survive on the internet today, and we seem to have lost most of the best graphics software.  I might be using my migger a lot now, but what about next year?  It's not just a matter of speed (in fact, not a matter of speed at all, to me,) but a matter of functionality.  Will this be worth it?
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Re: Software for AOS4?
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2003, 12:48:37 AM »
A year ago, I was screaming "Buy!  Buy!"  Heck, I felt that way six months ago  (Read some of my posts)  It's just that all of the developments and developers that seemed to be waiting for the green light seem to have moved on.  Getting them back doesn't really seem likely.  Maybe the Amiga really is dead this time.  (The last time, the community saved it.  This time, there doesn't seem to be much community left.)

As for considering a Peggy, I had heretofore thought that the Amiga name and community would be a better draw for developers (especially those in the community).  Now, I'm not so sure.  Is the outlook on that side of the coin really that much better?  (I mean obviously, it's out and it works, but does it have a future?)
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Re: Software for AOS4?
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2003, 03:48:53 PM »
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Dr_Righteous wrote:
Folks... It's a pretty safe bet that any decent software written for Linux will be ported to A1/OS4. The advantage? It's an Amiga. Old apps? Chipset software emulation will be done as a quick fix... And I'm sure Jens at Individual Computers will come up with a flipper card for a hardware solution. He has a nasty tendancy of doing things like that  :-P


Thanks!  That is really very helpful!  REALone Amiga?  Opera?  Mmmmmmmmm.  If this is true, good days are indeed ahead!
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