OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19668/Mini-Review_AmigaOS_4_for_Classic_Machines Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:45:07 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Classic? http://www.osnews.com/thread?310878 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310878 Seems to me than an A1200 (or higher) with a suitable PPC card as a minimum requirement hardly constitutes 'classic Amiga' as most of us know it.

Oh well, at least now four men and a cow can use it :-) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PJBonoVox) Comments RE: Classic? http://www.osnews.com/thread?310881 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310881 It was a horse AFAIR ;-) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (autumnlover) Comments Fond memories http://www.osnews.com/thread?310883 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310883 I cut my teeth on Commodore computers and I remember them fondly. I owned a C64, C128D, Amiga 500+, and Amiga 2000. I personally believe that had Commodore better managed its own affairs and stayed in business, the Commodore Amiga would be the computer of choice amongst today's scientists and graphics / multimedia professionals. The Amiga was head and shoulders above the competition when it was in its prime and this trend would only have continued. What a great machine!! Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmost) Comments Bored of Computers http://www.osnews.com/thread?310887 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310887 Amiga 500 was probably the last computer to give me the WOW! factor. Were all so used to having PC's around now it'll never happen again. Shame!

I have often wondered if the "been there done that" feeling is responsible for the discontent to towards todays hardware, software. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Al2001) Comments RE: Fond memories http://www.osnews.com/thread?310906 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310906 WORD UP! Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Javier O. Augusto) Comments Comment by nexus http://www.osnews.com/thread?310909 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310909 Well, I wrote this comment on AOS4. Yes, it was not really a review due to the lack of time (for writing a real review) and due to the lack of abilities to write in (good) english.

But just for completeness, i want to point out here, that all interested users should read all comments to my "review" as i was wrong in some observations.

So, e.g. the x-surf network card device doesn't crash anymore if you install the latest library updates or use the right settings, respectively.

EDIT: Thus, the speed and stability is amazing compared to AOS3.9 ;)

The thing, one can complain about is, that those libraries (and settings) should have been installed by the latest OS-Update (in february). If I never had written this little review in the amigaworld.net forum, I had never found out why my system crashes here and there ;)


greetings,
nexusEdited 2008-04-22 20:06 UTC Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nexus) Comments RE: Fond memories http://www.osnews.com/thread?310912 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310912
I cut my teeth on Commodore computers and I remember them fondly. I owned a C64, C128D, Amiga 500+, and Amiga 2000.


Impressing collection. I've still got some Amigae (what's the correct plural?) around, 2 x A500, 2 x A600 and an A1200. Furthermore, 2 x C64 two C128 (a normal one and a D type) around, and I'd like to revive them (plug them in) in order to do something impressing, just like as it was in their era.

As it has been mentioned, the Amiga computers were impressing: 12 V input, video and audio (stereo) output, silent, standard connectors (parallel, serial) - great. And introducing "movie like" graphics while the PCs were still beeping stupidly and showing 80x25 characters on a monochrome screen... :-)

I personally believe that had Commodore better managed its own affairs and stayed in business, the Commodore Amiga would be the computer of choice amongst today's scientists and graphics / multimedia professionals.


Well, maybe. But NB that SGI introduced modern and powerful machines in this field of use, too. But maybe the standard of what users do like to have at home would have gotten towards Amiga computers.

The Amiga was head and shoulders above the competition when it was in its prime and this trend would only have continued. What a great machine!!


Well said. In some regards, they still have advantages ("are superior") to PCs that call theirselves "modern". Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments RE: Bored of Computers http://www.osnews.com/thread?310914 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310914 No, it's because you're getting older.

Happens to everyone. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PJBonoVox) Comments RE[2]: Bored of Computers http://www.osnews.com/thread?310922 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310922 I'm definately getting uglier but older nah ;) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Al2001) Comments Pics or it didn't happen http://www.osnews.com/thread?310927 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310927 screenshots? Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rockwell) Comments RE: Pics or it didn't happen http://www.osnews.com/thread?310999 http://www.osnews.com/thread?310999 screenshots?

ask your favorite image search engine . ;)

example screenshots: http://www.vesalia.de/e_amigaos4.htm Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DaFreak) Comments Comment by biffuz http://www.osnews.com/thread?311004 http://www.osnews.com/thread?311004 I sometimes check for vintage computers on eBay... and it's amazing the prices that some Amigas can go up to. AOS4-capable machines reach the prices of a new computer, just because they can run this "new" OS, and I can't understand why. Or better, I can understand why, but I can't understand why people refuse to admit the truth ;-) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (biffuz) Comments