What if everyone used AOS4, the rockin' debate and information revealing thread

[weirdami]

I saw this picture in the image-o-matic and I got to wondering about AOS4. Not considering whether or not it's legal to have AOS4 anymore, if AOS4 had all the apps that people complain about it not having as why they wouldn't switch from windows or mac or whatever, would AOS4 be modern enough? Even though we all know that windows is lame, people are doing everything on it and I wonder if a genie came by and made every computer an AOS4 computer (whatever that is), what difference would that make? I can't really think of the right words to use here, because lots of words are loaded with regard to microsoft products and some also would say that of apple products. So, if you can see what I'm getting at, post up some rockin' chatter.  :oops:

Maybe I should ask if AOS4 is lacking anything that other OS's have or any modern OS is expected to have or whatever. Or, maybe if AOS4 just an adequate enough update to make old users happy and nothing more.

[weirdami]

I keep losing track of what all minimum hardware AOS4 needs but if there's a hardware component needed to be thrown into the mix, let's start with minimum requirements and work up from there. To start, I ask if Flash and Javascript whatnots on webpages (and in place of them) would run as they do on other platforms. That is to say, can the minimum hardware handle them. Furthermore, would an A1200 be able to handle them as they are now?

[weirdami]

Pyromania wrote:
Trev is right OS 4.0 on PS3 would rock!!!

So OS4 just needs some hard rockin' hardware to make the genie poof transition unnoticeable?

[weirdami]

DON'T KILL THE BANANA!!!!

[weirdami]

From the "full" AmigaOS4.1 "announcement", I add, perhaps:

Required hardware: AmigaOne
Required graphics card for hardware compositing: Radeon 1xx or Radeon 2xx
Recommend graphics card: Radeon 9250

to the mix.

[weirdami]

So, I got to wondering if the Commodore 64 OS, whatever that is, was able to work on these fancy quad core dealies, would it be capable of having something like Halflife run on it. I mean like is there something in the OS that would make it not possible or is it just that the hardware is too slow? Does the OS really matter?

[weirdami]

If Valve were insane they could have released a non-OS version of HL2 that drove all the hardware directly

There's a quote from one of the Valve programmers about the XBox version of Halflife to the effect that that version is much better because the hardware is standardized across the platform. I guess that console games can be OS ditchers, except, maybe, for the whole online score keeping thing.

Perhaps, though, since Amiga is big on multitasking, then the OS is important. That leads back to me wondering about AOS4's modernyness.