arstechnica.com — The Amiga is alive and well?sort of, and AmigaOS 4 was released recently. Ars Technica takes AmigaOS 4 out for a spin to see where the once-popular platform finds itself these days. I wonder if it runs The Secret of Monkey Island?
Jan 22, 2007 View in Crawl 4
heiroglyphJan 22, 2007
Wow, first no OS, now no hardware...I loved my Amigas and cursed their PC and Mac replacements many times for how poorly they worked. If they could ever get their act together (including a viable browser), Amiga could still make a go of it.Maybe Google will buy them next ;)
underwurldeJan 22, 2007
Who is he again? The name rings a bell......The day I sold my A1200HD was a sad, sad day...... I didn't buy another computer for 6 years (had a little PSION Series 5 to cope in interim!), and finally opted for a slick lampshade iMac with OS X, as a friend convinced me it was "the" computer to replace my amazing Amiga. QED, Final Writer, PageStream, DPaint, all the .MOD writers of which I remember no names. It was the computer that made me create. Now with iMovie, Photoshop, Pages, and a slick VirtueDesktop, I do more, but it just *feels* different. I _knew_ the Amiga, I'd AREXX applications, I knew the whole system by heart, hacked the heck out of the hardware also! Had a demo-group, which did pretty good (our main programmer is now a top programmer on the Splinter Cell series!) lost touch with the other guys over the years as the only thing that had kept us together was the love of the Amiga, and it disappeared with its death. Many friendships were based on this computer! Paula & Fat Agnus were my girlfriends :P
r3zonanceJan 23, 2007
Yeah, 64 colours on screen at 320x512, when the nearest competitor was managing 4-16 colour graphics at half the resolution.
r3zonanceJan 23, 2007
MODplug also does a tracker for Windows as well.
takedaJan 24, 2007
What about HAM? 4096 colors? :) It was possible even on A500 :)