Has anyone read the detail on the website - the developer is intending to get PPC accelerators built for this unit when and if it reaches fruition.

The final version is supposed to have a CPU expansion slot, and PCI slots so there is potential there for OS4.

As for Kickstart - there are two ways around it - bundle a copy of Amiga Forever or put a legally bought Kickstart 3.1 ROM on the thing as there are tonnes still available if you look.

@spotUP

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Thing is some of us have been fighting so damn long that we have little left - now I know what Ben Vost was feeling when he finally had to let Amiga Format go...

As things go I can't see Amiga Mart lasting past issue 1000 of Micro Mart :(

Time to get a Logic 3 Mediaboard (keyboard with a touchpad built in) for my PS3 I think... now I just want OS4 with 2 boing ball stickers... one for the machine and one for the keyboard ;)

If its all true - there is a 10GB partition on my PS3 ready to be boinged.

@MikeyC

Villaaaaaaa! lol

I see Paul Carrington has popped up :D

@Outcast

Gloves are off? thats a major understatment. As far as I can tell Hyperion own the rights to the term AmigaOS... Hopefully the court will agree.

I am guessing Hyperion could get some serious payments out of Amiga Inc for this... perhaps even Hyperion could take control ???

@rhino


heres a safe one:

http://www.acube-systems.com/eng/images/advertOS4Classic.jpg

I was using a family friends A1000 which he got very soon after the UK release, and messed around on a few friends A2000s and A500s until I finally managed to afford my own A500 in a Screen Gems pack at the World of Commodore show at the Hammersmith Novotel, November (?) 1990.

@IonMane

Logitech do a wireless keyboard with built in touch pad for the machine, and I believe a usb keyboard will work, and prob a usb mouse. I have the ext hdd i back up from other machines onto and that works fine and i can accesss all the files :)

@Oppressor

The only thing I would say is which do you prefer... AmigaOS or Linux... and which would your mainstream game player who wants to tinker and maybe do a little wp and graphics prefer amnd find easier to use... considering i can't get my head around Linux...

@Mikey_C

you know about the XEs right (and bear in mind some people have reported an issue or two with Micro A1s)? Rich guy????? I wish!

Regarding the XEs technically they are buggy. However from my point of view I put that down to Via crap doumentation and dont worry too much as a powered USB interface and a SIL card fixes the issues afaik.

As for Torchwood....

@Mikey_C

Have to ask... which bits didn't you agree with?

@Mikey_C

donated - sorry I couldnt afford more.

@Mikey_C

I think it had to be said though. Perhaps Amiga, Inc might wake up if articles like this start turning up elsewhere too. I have tried to be patient and supportive of Amiga, inc in the past and tried to show things in a positive light for the Micro mart readers, but enough really is enough.

Sort yourselves out Amiga, Inc! The only thing stopping a growth in the Amiga userbase is YOU.

@Mikey_C

Shocking isnt it.. considering the A1200 went up to ?425 at one point and the A500 debuted at ?599.99....

@rwo

Rather distressingly I cannot think of a single title that got a full release (ie in retail packaging)...

Which is your fave Amiga and why?

Stellar Dreams mainly died due to lack of A1s really I am afraid...

Frankly I wont be even remotely excited until we have decent hardware that has been licensed so OS4 can legally be run on it. As things are and with Amiga, Incs track record I can't see it happening.

Considering everything I am more than a little worried that OS4 will be without hardware as Amiga, Inc frankly seems totally disconnected from not only the OS4 community but the wider "Amiga" community as a whole, regardless of what Wayne tried to get going over at Amiga.org (much praise is due to Wayne for getting what he did get out of Bill McEwen though.)

Without confimation of a (rough) future development roadmap for the OS and no hardware apparently being seriously considered for licensing by Amiga, Inc, I am beginning to wonder what the point of a final release of OS4 is at all.

All the credit for OS4 has to go to Hyperion and their developers and to Alan Redhouse for being mad enough to even try to get a new hardware platform out in the first place, even if the A1s were less than acceptable to many.

Our only hope is that Amiga OS 4.x or any future version may be available on impressive enough hardware and give an "Amiga" enough like experience (ie easy to use, gives you the power to create etc etc).

The SAM will never interest users who arent already Amiga users, it will however provide a replaceemnt development platform following the death of the A1s and a posible integratable hardware platform for industrial or non-general computing device use, and I am afraid I can't really get excited about that.

Dont forget the only commercial mag in the world that still has an Amiga column