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I really hoped they could manage to produce something ... but sadly there is nothing. AFAIK not even the FPGA implementation is open to the public and there is no usable simulator ... "It's dead, Jim" |
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If it makes a difference, I think I more or less feel the same way about running an Amiga on Apple badged hardware, as I would on Google badged, or Microsoft badged hardware. At least with a PC I can make it look however I want it to look and install whatever I want to install. I'm afraid to that Apple and that logo to me = hype an conceit. The company should have died out in the 90's and been left dead and buried, but the cabal had to bail out their silicon valley buds and continue to gift us with those few people in marketing, graphic design, or execs who would find any excuse to spend triple the amount required on a computer that has only one mouse button, simply because they were apparently so enthralled by the idea of that minimalist schtick. MacOS may have hid its BSD underbelly well, but I'm not sure why Granny needs to use that? And I am not at all thankful for the iPhone and iPad - which are still lapped up model after turd model by Apple grazers who, as a group, have literally destroyed device diversity, competition and realistic pricing in the way Apple does best. Now people pay $1500+ for a new phone release and they are "oh so grateful" to be locked into 3 year cell contracts and force me to support that turd of a mobile OS simply because the Youtube adverts showed them a new shiny. I can't believe we lost Windows Mobile or even Windows Phone, Blackberry and Nokia Symbian plus countless other far more interesting OS and devices to that stain called an iPhone - and replaced them with an endless stream of clones which look identical apart from where a notch appears, or how bulky the camera lenses are. Yeah - I am not the least bit thankful to Apple computers, phones or users personally Yes, I really do hate Apple as a company and my experience with its userbase has not been a good one You might just find me agreeing on the G4/G5 desktops however - they were really nice pieces of equipment and some of the Mac Pro all-in-one's are also very nice and I do own one of those that I repaired and keep around for display. Quote:
Its a pity that AROS can't get as far as MorphOS has. Looks like it is going to be Amiga OS3.2 after all? |
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the Cloanto/Hyperion lawsuit has definitely slowed down OS4 development but there's quit alot still going on with OS4 over at amigans.net and A-Eon/Amigakit are still producing new OS4 hardware with the X5000 and recently released A1220 and also ACube with their Sam460 line, |
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Haha ... that's a bit mean. It would definitely have saved me a lot of tech related angst over the years, but robbed others of the joy Apple computers brought them back in the day - which I do understand of course.
I mean I also experience ambivalence myself because I know that Apple have been a catalyst for some positive developments. For example, I have a picture of the original colourful iMac CRT all-in-one on my wall. They didn't event the all-in-one but they made it a desirable object. Likewise they didn't invent the tablet, but they refined the form factor and made it palatable so that normies finally were able to see what techie people had seen a decade earlier. However, they are otherwise basically the tech equivalent of the Necromongers in Riddick |
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Despite all the hate and justified complaints of what Apple is sometimes doing: They managed to deliver a system that fulfills many things the Amiga(OS) was aiming for. The combination of an easy to use and intuitive user interface, while still providing good access to its "underbelly" via a CLI: in this case a full blown unix shell. MacOS has now also a very nice implementation of the "screens" concept. Programs can run on their own screen and this screen can be "dragged" (left to right and not up and down, but who cares). You can also split the view on your monitor and have two screens next to each other at the same time. Taking it a step further than AmigaOS almost every window can be turned into a full screen view and the app can adjust its GUI to accommodate for that. And these screens are of course no longer bound to just live on one monitor, but can be dragged to a second or third monitor, if you have those connected. And any window can be moved to any public screen as well. "Stage Manager" is a feature that I just turned on recently ... after thinking I would certainly not need/want that for a long time. Turned out I was wrong, because it is actually very useful. You can group windows together and switch between those groups in a nice way - windows of the group you are using are shown on the screen, while other groups are minified to a spezial area on the left side of the screen, that slides in and out (different from the dock, that is organized per app/program and not per window/group) All in all MacOS right now still provides the best user experience for power users, that prefer a streamlined intuitive user interface, while granting you all the things unix or linux would on the command line. Last edited by Gorf; 12 August 2024 at 17:48. |
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@ hammer
Hopefully that legal mumbo jumbo means that the law suits are finally finished and done with |
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