AmigaOS4.0 website launched

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:23 pm

http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/

Amiga5k · Post by **Amiga5k** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:12 am

Cool, but no mention of where I can get it, how much, what hardware is required, etc.

Russell

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:28 am

Reading through that site, if i hear the phrase 'We remember when computing was fun' again, i'll shoot myself!

and yeah, no mention of hardware reqs, no big screenshots, price, etc...

It looks nice but there about 15 years too late.

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:59 am

Talk about an exercise in futility. Oh yeah, this will be a big seller! Goodbye Vista, hello AmigaOS 4.0

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:39 am

Brice Manuel wrote:Talk about an exercise in futility.

or flogging a dead horse!

Why dont these people understand the Amiga is dead.

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:23 pm

"ram disk" ... this kids cracks me up

- I say, at least save its contents during shutdown and restore during boot.. why not? theres no law against saving data from the ram to the disk, or is it?.. its not hybernation like ms'..

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:03 pm

dagcrack wrote:theres no law against saving data from the ram to the disk, or is it?.. its not hybernation like ms'..

Probably patented by MS.

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:26 pm

..I know but that'd be like patenting saving the data of your clipboard into your hdd

- I didnt meant the hybernation for the AMIGA OS.. I just meant the ram drive, should let you temporary store in hdd the contents.. that way it'd be more usable at least from my side.

PB · Post by PB » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:42 pm

> theres no law against saving data from the ram to the disk

There's no point, though -- otherwise it's just the same as a regular disk.

Amiga5k · Post by **Amiga5k** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:21 am

Except that a RAM disk is far faster than a 'real' disk. But the point is probably still moot, because any kind of data you're working on can be in ram somewhere anyway, even without a ram disk.

Back in the days when hard drives were small, slow and expensive, however, the ramdisk was a life saver (and sure beat swapping OS disks 87 times per session...)

I do think that Amiga et al is several years too late to release something - even if it's very very good - in this marketplace. Sure, Windows does so many things wrong we lose count, but it's still 90+% of the market, so what can you do?

Russell

Rescator · Post by **Rescator** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:41 pm

I dont know! AmigaOS 4.0 looks pretty damn nice compared to interfaces like KDE etc.

Now! If just a x86 variant of AmigaOS4 appeared, then I might seriously consider it.

All I got of Amiga's around is two 1200's, one 600, and one 500+.
Isn't AOS4 PowerPC Amigas only? That rules me out...

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:18 pm

Read the side tabs...

http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/i ... 16&Itemid=

Dammit why kick dead hardware???

x86 and x86/64bits is the future...

An OS launched today for other processators is dead...

Even apple has seen the light...

All that work for nothing

And i do miss the RAM Disk, it's more usefull than you can imagine

About the saving part, you just need a rexx script to detect the shutdown (if you do one, in Amiga you only need to press the power button) and save it's contents to HDD ...

Post by **Fred** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:24 pm

Num3 wrote:And i do miss the RAM Disk, it's more usefull than you can imagine

+1 . In fact, if an OS was designed to work only with AMD64 (ie: full 64 bits native API) it could have a chance, as it would remove a lot of porting problem and maintenance issues for different package version (you can see here for Windows: 32 bits, 32 bits Unicode, 64 bits Unicode - 3 package for the same software). At first glance i tough than OS X for PC would be this, but it seems like not. Would be have a good way to limit hacking for them too.

PB · Post by PB » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:04 pm

> i do miss the RAM Disk

You can get free RAM disks for Windows... I think the most popular one is
"AR Ramdisk" but it's only for Windows 2K, XP and 2003.

LuCiFeR[SD] · Post by **LuCiFeR[SD]** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:24 pm

a little snippet from hyperion's website

Hardware flexibility: AmigaOS4.0 targets the PowerPC family of processors. It runs on the full PowerPC range, from the low-end 4xx series appropriate for information appliances and cell phones, up to the 9xx series appropriate for high-end server and processing applications. A highly portable codebase and Hardware Abstraction Layer makes porting AmigaOS to other devices using the PowerPC architecture, from SOC components to the STI Cell processor, a simple and speedy matter. The PowerPC family is one of the most popular CPU architectures, and whatever your application there will be a solution for you. However the clean AmigaOS codebase was written with portability in mind, so if you've got your heart set on another processor family, talk to us and we'll see what we can do.

SOooooooooooooo, I suspect if enough of us actually said "Hey how about a AMD64 or x86 version?", then perhaps they would do something about it?