OS4 moves to x86. What happens next?

[nicholas]

Unless someone comes out with a 1.0 ghz or faster pcc card for classic amigas, os4.1 on it is a joke. What I get  to just load os4 and look at it?
 
Way to slow to do anything at 200mhz or less, unless you just want to load it and look at it... Oh maybe you can run a text editor or paint...
 
They wasted how much time on the classic support? ppc cards are WAY too slow to be useful at all running os4.

Utter crap!

A1200 BPPC/200, BVision, PCMCIA Ethernet running an emulated 68k ASM driver, playing MPEG2 video over the network from a samba share.

Full frame rate, no skipping or tearing, smooth, audio is perfect and the machine is still as responsive and multitasks just as well as it is when not playing the video.

Troll much?

[nicholas]

MPEG2 ?
Welcome to 2010, people now use MP4 and I doubt it runs on your machine... even with frameskiping and no sound.

I also doubt your machine can cope with DVD decoding (and I'm not even talking about bluray, which is standard...).

It's no crap. These machines are very limited...

Why on earth would anyone even want to play a Bluray on an A1200?

Seriously, geeks like you who wet themselves at shiny new toys (As opposed to nerds who actually know what they are talking about and enjoy making stuff do what it wasn't designed to do just because we can) really don't get it at all.

If I wanted to play a Bluray (Which I don't, as I have more creative things to do with my time than waste it watching ) then I'd buy a Bluray player and a TV.

If I want to make hardware from 20yrs ago do things the engineers never imagined (Which I do, see "creative things" above) then I'll carry do what I'm doing with C64's, Amiga's and other eclectic pieces of hardware that are probably older than you.

[nicholas]

Thanks for calling me a geek. But someone still using in 2010 a 300Mhz-accelerated original 14/25Mhz Amiga from 1993 is more likely to be a geek than I am...

Nope, a geek would desire to run it on shiny new fast hardware, a nerd on an ancient piles of shit (relatively) and optimise the hell out of it.

Sorry to disappoint you but the C64 isn't older than me, although lots of machines were built before I was born...

I like to see people doing things you couldn't expect to see with old machines too, including nice C64 demos, new OS for c64/amstrad cpc,... Yet, I fail to see the interest of the rather hungry OS4 with a Amiga+PowerPC today when compared with OS3.x + wup/pup.

That's the point you keep missing.  

People do that because they can.  Whether you have the same interest or not is completely irrelevant.

[nicholas]

Digital Resistance! Redemption and Freedom!

http://dynebolic.org/

Nice to see these guys are still going.

No updates since 2007 though.

[nicholas]

Darn, maybe they're busy with other projects.  http://dyne.org/

It was a fun little livecd.

Hasciicam looked cool, never got it working though.

It would seem they are taking their lead from certain companies in our little community!

http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/13590

[nicholas]

Wow, I'm still on their donors list, from back before they had a goal.

Doesn't look like they'll ever hit 20k!

Maybe they should hit up Commodore USA for money and become the latest new-AmigaOS?

[nicholas]

Time to run off and register Commodyne.com .net and .org, I think!

Make sure to make outlandish claims about your future products and start accepting pre-orders before even showing anything of substance!