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Offline nicholas

Re: Wanted: Volunteers to make OS4 and MOS hardware entries for Big Book of Amiga Har
« Reply #89 from previous page: August 20, 2013, 08:21:06 PM »
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NG Amiga OS hardware in BBoAH has been on the to-do list for a very long time....

Please note - I have classic only myself.

Ah, is this the new BBOAH announced a few months back.

What do the other BBOAH(s) that have been running longer have to say? In particular the one run by Germans that took over from the original when it closed its doors?

I count three/four at least. Which one is yours?

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/
http://www.bboah.com/
http://www.bboah-works.de/
http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/
« Last Edit: August 20, 2013, 08:35:31 PM by nicholas »
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Ah, is this the new BBOAH announced a few months back.

What do the other BBOAH(s) that have been running longer have to say? In particular the one run by Germans that took over from the original when it closed its doors?

I count three/four at least. Which one is yours?

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/
http://www.bboah.com/
http://www.bboah-works.de/
http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/



It's in his profile:
IT's also the only one that gives the impression of still being updated.
http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com

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Quote from: Thorham;745522
Absolutely not. My pc can run Amiga OS, and is NOT an Amiga.


Amiga is the name of a computer from history, it refers to HARDWARE, and the OS is irrelevant.


But that's what Amigas are. They're computers based on custom (chipset), and not so custom hardware (68k).


No, it's not. General purpose computers are never OS specific. Amiga OS specific hardware doesn't exist, and that includes actual Amigas.


You're calling people insane for pointing out that Amigas are computers from a few decades ago, and not accept the whole 'If it runs anything that even just looks like Amiga OS, then it's an Amiga' thing. It's you guys who need to wake up and stop wanting your non-Amiga computers to magically become Amigas, because it ain't ever gonna happen.

And no, people who know what Amigas really are (is that even such a difficult thing to know?), will not call your non-Amiga computers Amigas just because you want the machines to be Amigas.


Amiga IS the past (in the sense that they haven't been made for a long time). Just like the Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and all other home computers from the eighties.


Some contradictions there.

At any rate, if the website there is to be dedicated to the 'Commodore Amiga' hardware, then nothing whatsoever should come after the bankruptcy of Commodore. That puts it pre-1996. The whole site should be dedicated to about ten years or so. 1985-to-1996. Everything thereafter was a 'fork'.
 

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There are four "camps".

Amiga + Amiga OS
AmigaOne + AmigaOS
Various hardware + MorphOS
Various hardware + AROS

Do you want Vox to start "modernizing" old entries too ???? :p

Various hardware + Amithlon
Various hardware + Winuae
Various hardware + Amikit
Various hardware + Amiga Forever

Those are even more Amigas probably because they can run actual OS 3.9
and software for it ...

Covering AOS4 Morphos and Aros should be enough though ...

Especially Aros68k , it's the one most related to BBOAH ...
 

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Do you want Vox to start "modernizing" old entries too ???? :p

Various hardware + Amithlon
Various hardware + Winuae
Various hardware + Amikit
Various hardware + Amiga Forever

Those are even more Amigas probably because they can run actual OS 3.9
and software for it ...

Covering AOS4 Morphos and Aros should be enough though ...

Especially Aros68k , it's the one most related to BBOAH ...


And of course, Commodore Amiga Mini with C-OS.
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Some contradictions there.

Nope. Amigas are general purpose computers that can run more than just Amiga Os. Amigas aren't limited to Amiga OS in any way, and were never designed to only run Amiga OS; they were designed as general purpose computers that can run anything. This applies to all general purpose computers, and not just the Amiga.
 

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Nope. Amigas are general purpose computers that can run more than just Amiga Os. Amigas aren't limited to Amiga OS in any way, and were never designed to only run Amiga OS; they were designed as general purpose computers that can run anything. This applies to all general purpose computers, and not just the Amiga.

I know what Amigas are, thanks. :-)

And all you're saying is: Amiga is OS-agnostic.
But in the same breath, you're saying that Amiga OS is irrelevant, and also that a PC isn't an Amiga just because it can run Amiga OS.

:lol:

I stand by all I've ever said. The classic Amiga machines, though they still work after all these years, are not being manufactured anymore (and if they were, they'd be laughed at, if the specs didn't change) and, thus, in that respect, they're dead and gone. That is what is irrelevant these days: the amiga classic machines (despite SOME still using them). I've got a classic; my brother has classic Amiga machines. They all still work, but none are as powerful as what is available in the PC world these days.

So that only really leaves the "Amiga OS" as a focus for what can be "Amiga" now. And much--as misguided as some of it was--has come since the Commodore bankruptcy, and some did bear the name "Amiga"; and was from a company called "Amiga".
 

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It's in his profile:
IT's also the only one that gives the impression of still being updated.
http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com

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It doesn't work on Amiga/MorphOS browsers unfortunately.
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