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Cassiopeia counter5/2/2023 ![]() Currently I’m very busy but I would like to finish such an article as a tribute to 10 years of A1200 computing within the next couple of months! I believe videos would do a better job than just pictures and text as people always seem to mis-understand unique features like multi resolution/color depth (workspace) screen dragging and such. I think I should write an article showing people what was so special about the classic and why computing lost its elegance (Next to coevering the new hardware of course!). Most more curious people only tried WinUAE. Sadly the fast majority of people never had the oppertunity to really use a well configured Amiga computer/AmigaOS. Amigans clearly see the contrast with WindowsXP or MacOS X which even today, with over 100 times the raw processing performance and memory available to them react non-realtime to user input.Ĭlearly both these OSes have become more Amiga-like with 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking and good multimedia abilities but somehow the overal elegance of classic Amigas still can’t be matched. The most important aspect regard to perceived multimedia performance (Something badly understood when you’re only AmigaOS experience is through UAE on top of a fat host OS like Windows).Įven on very lowly powered Amigas the end-user experience is solid and realtime. Also there are many aspects to like regarding the way classic AmigaOS does things. There still is a rather vivid AmigaOS fan base, so the platform is not dead yet. In the future lets try and keep negative or counter-productive comments to ourselves. If it fails, who cares? I’m not going to lose anything - and neither will anyone else on the outside. I no longer run my Amiga but I can only wish the best of luck to Amiga Inc and those who are still using their Amigas. I ran my Amiga for many years, and I have seen many of the ups and downs which have shaken and rattled the platform. Setting this aside I don’t think you should comment on Amiga Inc unless you know the history of the platform and/or understand the situation they are faced with. The problem all these companies were plagued with was the same from the very beginning - They were all trying to resurrect an aged and severely neglected platform. The current owners however, seem to be making significantly more headway than the others did. Every company who has touched it has made bold promises and then failed to deliver (usually dying a rather unpleasant death). Why must people who admittedly know nothing continually post misnomers and FUD? Also Amiga Inc have announced a deal between Bernd Meyer and themselves to actively promote and license Amithlon 2.0 to OEM customers looking for an Amiga emulator on x86 platforms. Several incentives have also been put in place to encourage people to take up the offer, such as Free AmigaOne/AmigaOS4 bundles drawn at certain increments in the order numbers (The higher the number of orders the more Bundles will be given away). McEwen pridicts there could be as many boards produced as 50,000 (going by current Amgia magazine subscriptions). ![]() McEwen states there is a large need for this as they can not produce too many boards, but they need to be able to supply the current user base. ![]() To figure this out, Amiga Inc have produced a $50 voucher that can be redeemed with the purchase of the AmigaOne/AmigaOS4 bundle. Many things were talked about but by far the most outstanding and obvious was Amiga Incs stride to know how many people will be ordering the AmigaOne/AmigaOS4 bundle. CEO of Amiga Inc, Bill McEwen today unleashed his monthly executive update upon the Amiga Community.
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