Aos 3 -> aos 4

[TheGoose]

I have used AOS4.x a little bit on the "classics" and could tell you that (forget about price and all those issues) the good news is that they did a remarkable job of making an 3.9 + Visual Prefs, Birdie2000 and MUI type of system work a whole lot easier, stable and quick, even on these old PPC machines.

The bad news is they did a remarkable job of making an 3.9 + Visual Prefs, Birdie2000 and MUI type of system work a whole lot easier, stable and quick, even on these old PPC machines.

Meaning, they would not break ranks and move on to offer something very new and different. And that is partly all our fault, sending the wrong messages that it should be a very 68K AOS but just faster and with more Aminet junk added on.

So, to me, they did a good job giving you what you asked for, as a 'community' voice / consensus.

I will never really go for the rabble of "NG Amiga" banter. They are lost. Amiga 68K however is finally picking up steam like the C64 scene and I'm reading about Assembly language! That crap is hard...

[TheGoose]

One thing here is that you can get rid of the hacks and they will be implemented to the system in a clean way. Also you can now drag windows outside the screen, change the side from any direction and other little things that are nice to have. Screendraging are back and so on, and that is just 4.0. I know that there's a hack for draging windows outside the screenborders for 3.x but AFAICR I never had much luck getting it to work. There are tons of other improvements than those that you listed.

Yes there are, I didn't use it enough to give more justice. The 1 click themeing in AOS4.1 is very cool; unpack, hit the icon and boom you Workbench is Transformed. I also liked how the AOS Title bar was customizable. I could pick out almost any kind of memory info my heart desired. I liked that for the 1st time I could see how much memory was left in the B-vision graphics card. At 800x600 16bit, I had 4 MB free. I could get more back with some tuning I'm sure. I think a lot of people here would love to migrate to it, just can't afford the hardware choices....

Just make a version for Mac mini and I'm back! Do it Hyperion.