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Offline Fairdinkem

Re: Introduction and way forward
« on: November 29, 2010, 10:09:08 AM »
@Valeru

Welcome back to the Amiga Community, Win-uae is the best way to experience Classic Amiga computing short of owning a classic system:) Aros offers a free entry into a new experience of Amiga-like computing with very good 68k compatibility. After this you have the Next-Generation Amiga computing experiences that involve the continued evolution of the Amiga harking back to the Amiga glory days. The next cheapest option is MorphOS thanks to being newly available on old PPC Apple Macs you can buy very cheaply and you can run a time limited demo at no risk to see if you like it! Then you can do a dual boot and have yourself a mac and MorphOS experience. After this you can consider the most expensive to enter Amiga experience the official (controversial) successor to the AmigaOS (commodore) demise AmigaOS4.1.

I personally own a Pegasos2 and I have both MorphOS 2.6 registered and AmigaOS 4.1 update 2. I enjoy them both immensely and they both have there merits, I have also used AROS which cost me nothing to experience but I did not like it much but can see its potential but the fact it cost me nothing to try is awesome.

My thoughts on you buying a mac to run MorphOS are as follows. If you have enough disposable cash that such a purchase despite the outcome of the experience would not be regrettable then I say go for it. If you don't like MorphOS you will have a mac running MacOS. Be aware that MorphOS in my opinion and shared by others is the most polished of all three operating systems in the Amiga world still by modern standards is behind the times and is less automated and intuitive than modern systems like MacOSX and Windows. Ie to get stuff to work or install requires more often than not "Manual Intervention" you don't just install it and it works! Often you have to go to Aminet or some other site to download an MUI library or some other file to get the program to work because it doesn't come with the program or isn't installed by the install script "it drives me up the wall" :(

If you can look past these annoyances and the lack of modern applications and see any of the Amiga-like operating systems as a enthusiast market and not a true alternative to the big 2 (Mac & Windows) then you will find enjoyment otherwise nothing but frustration.

Cheers