Amount of MorphOS copies sold

[itix]

I just wish MorphOS would have continued their support for the PPC Amiga board, but then again we are talking about a real rare beast, aren't we. I really have no qualms about MorphOS just the platform they run on.

it is shame that last PPC Amiga boards were made almost 15 years ago. They were nice, I had one, but they are very slow.

[A1260]

It's been my observation that they basically act the same. Same culprits on both sites  

of course there is culprits on both sides, but none of these amiga os4 culprits goes over to morphzone.org and start trolling all over the place for years.

[HenryCase]

of course there is culprits on both sides, but none of these amiga os4 culprits goes over to morphzone.org and start trolling all over the place for years.

A1260, amiga.org is not an OS4 only site, it's a cross platform Amiga site.

[Crumb]

of course there is culprits on both sides, but none of these amiga os4 culprits goes over to morphzone.org and start trolling all over the place for years.

ssolie did (although he got tired soon)

[mihcael]

A couple of people have tried AROS in the last week... http://vmwaros.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/3000-times-thank-you.html I wonder how many would consider themselves an AROS user? More then 50 i would guess

[wawrzon]

i rather doubt that it is safe to add up the downloads of both distros to sum up that there were 3k different individuals downloading. i would expect many people downloaded or resumed download (which would supposedly count as download) multiple times for several reasons and also that those interested downloaded both versions independently. still this is quite a number indicating a high potential user interest, which actually dramatically exceeds the numbers related to, say, os4 downloads.

[OlafS3]

It is a great number. It is not meaning of course that there are 3000 Icaros User now (and there are other distributions) but it shows the big potential for the platform. And new projects like AEROS or Raspberry support and improving 68k are becoming reality. So I am convinced that there is a real future for Aros now.

[HenryCase]

A couple of people have tried AROS in the last week... http://vmwaros.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/3000-times-thank-you.html I wonder how many would consider themselves an AROS user? More then 50 i would guess

Can add 300 downloads from AspireOS to this number (and that's all over the past 6 days):
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=65028#forumpost65028

However, as we know, downloads != 'active users'.

[Louis Dias]

Can add 300 downloads from AspireOS to this number (and that's all over the past 6 days):
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=65028#forumpost65028

However, as we know, downloads != 'active users'.

That's true, alot of people may still be on 1.3.3 ;-)

[haywirepc]

My post was deleted? WHAT?

I can't help it if I use profanity at times. I suppose I could stop using language like that. Its the coke and meth and asian hookers I can't stop.
Hey whatever it takes to keep me coding and happy.


MorphOS looks great to me but I keep saying I'm going to buy a mac and try it and so far I haven't. There is alot higher likelihood that I'll do that than
buy os4 hardware though, thats for sure.

My AROS box does most of what I want right now. I'm thankful for all the little updates and fixes lately. Tonight in fact I'm going to reinstall the latest icaros and amiga forever. Then I have 8 gigs of dos games to transfer, and many thousands of classic amiga games and apps. Its likely that I'll never be happy with any system, amigoid or other... Always tinkering.

Steven

[Terminills]

AROS WINS regardless of user count.

We do whatever it takes...

Last edited by Argo; Today at 05:21 AM.. Reason: Trolling, profanity, attacks.

Wait a.org has mods?

[Iggy]

MorphOS looks great to me but I keep saying I'm going to buy a mac and try it and so far I haven't. There is alot higher likelihood that I'll do that than
buy os4 hardware though, thats for sure.

My AROS box does most of what I want right now. I'm thankful for all the little updates and fixes lately. Tonight in fact I'm going to reinstall the latest icaros and amiga forever. Then I have 8 gigs of dos games to transfer, and many thousands of classic amiga games and apps. Its likely that I'll never be happy with any system, amigoid or other... Always tinkering.

Steven

Steven's probably using the best NG OS suited to running old software.
Since OS4's creators have full access to 3.1 that doesn't make sense (and MorphOS is more clearly focused on new software ). Ah, so be it.

[haywirepc]

Wait a.org has mods?

Yeah I didn't think they deleted whole messages.

My post was a joke about all the coke, crack, heroin, beer, liquor and asian hookers that I have invested in for AROS bounties and AROS coders over the years. As I recall I joked that OS4 and MorphOS didn't do what it takes. WE DO at the AROS camp.

Need meth to code? We'll provide you it. Like ASIAN hookers? Code for us!

It wasn't intended to be insulting to anyone, geez.

[paolone]

i rather doubt that it is safe to add up the downloads of both distros to sum up that there were 3k different individuals downloading. i would expect many people downloaded or resumed download (which would supposedly count as download) multiple times for several reasons and also that those interested downloaded both versions independently. still this is quite a number indicating a high potential user interest, which actually dramatically exceeds the numbers related to, say, os4 downloads.

Sorry, I can't understand what do you mean with the passage in bold. Download number has been first calculated starting from the moved terabytes (2.77 TB), divided by the size of the package (less than 1 GB): starting and resuming a download would still totalize 1 GB of transferred data. Then it was proved by numbers of hits and visits, so I am sure at least 3,000 copies of the Live! package are now stored on the same number of different hard drives.

This doesn't mean we have 3,000 users, of course, but that there are 3,000 people interested in trying Icaros, which is more likely, and also a good result in general. Even if 1 on 5 would decide to keep AROS installed and play around with it from time to time, that would mean having 600 users. But also gaining 300 would be a great success. We're talking about a hobby, after all, and I can't be happier of the result.

[haywirepc]

Paolone,

I just tried 1.4 on my windows pc. LOOKS great! Will be installing it on my native box next! Thanks for all your hard work.

You deserve 2 or 3 asian guest services representatives for this! (At least!)


Steven

[wawrzon]

Sorry, I can't understand what do you mean with the passage in bold. Download number has been first calculated starting from the moved terabytes (2.77 TB), divided by the size of the package (less than 1 GB): starting and resuming a download would still totalize 1 GB of transferred data. Then it was proved by numbers of hits and visits, so I am sure at least 3,000 copies of the Live! package are now stored on the same number of different hard drives.

This doesn't mean we have 3,000 users, of course, but that there are 3,000 people interested in trying Icaros, which is more likely, and also a good result in general. Even if 1 on 5 would decide to keep AROS installed and play around with it from time to time, that would mean having 600 users. But also gaining 300 would be a great success. We're talking about a hobby, after all, and I can't be happier of the result.

okay, lets say even that method of counting downloads might be inaccurate. taking such a huge piece of a file into account a user might not be successful and choose to restart. even though even halved its still a huge number for amiga relations. even though im not personally interested in aros x86 at this time i applaud.