I have a question. I just bought a AmigaX1000 and love it. I have been having great fun learning and playing with AmigaOS. It's quite different and I like it very much. With all the good news coming from A-Eon, like OctaMED, ImageFX, Aladdin4D, Personal Paint and the like. I find it more that a bit troubling that I cant send and only sometimes receive emails (Simplemail). Is there a reason that there is not even one email client for amigaOS? Please don't tell me about YAM or Simple mail. YAM is pop only and I have not had a pop account in over 13 years. Simple mail? in beta for how many years??. I am sorry and disappointed to say it's pure garbage in it's current state. Even it's form, if it worked ok is not great for a program intended to be used for emailing more than once a day. I can't find one program to just send and receive email? Wow. I am hopeful that when the new developer kit for 4.1FE comes out and A-Eons GDB debugger some good things will happen. In the mean time it seems prudent to have the following first.
Web browser: (Odyssey 1.23r3 is ok but needs lots of work and some updates)
Email clients: None
A good native NGAmiga word processor: not a rehash from 68k. libereoffice will be cool for sure but we have what? half baked garbage as of now.
contact database: is there one
calendar: is there one?
After the basic stuff is covered then I would be more interested in things like Aladdin4d. Please dont miss read this. I have bought every program in amistore but a game or two. I have also donated over $300 usd in total for different projects and will spend over $1000 more during 2015. I will also spend money on just about everything on amistore that comes out. I am a big supporter of A-Eon and have over $5000 in my X1000 project and will also buy a X5000 when it comes out.
Lets get a modern full blown top shelf email client and go from there.
PS this is a problem for Morph and AROS as well. Does anyone want to make money out there? my checkbook is ready to pay you!!
well, i mostly used yam on my amigas, and it was okay few years ago, admited, they were genuine amigas, not os4 systems, but im pretty sure there isnt anything better in sight for os4 as well.
now, if you didnt have any experience with amiga offshots like os4 before and you have expected it to be a fully supported system, then you probably should have informed yourself in advance. this situation is like it is and is not easy to change whether someone is ready to drop in few thousand dollars or not. as you correctly said, this is similar with aros, which though is free to use on generic hardware, and probably to lesser extent with morphos.
imho if you still want to spend your money i would be rather cautious to what i donate and would choose cross-platform initiatives, but this is your choice of course. just dont expect, that unlimited progress will break loose any soon.
