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How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
How do you even hire for that position? What tools do the AmigaOS team use?
I love that this is still worked on, and I'd love to know more about what that job is like.
How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
Are you kidding me? The Amiga scene is the most dedicated retro scene there is. Plenty of people with real hardware -- like myself -- are gonna be real excited over this.
How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
It's quite amazing, I can highly recommend checking them out: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
OMG, I've waited for this! I was SO worried litigation from Clonato would make all the work by Thomas Richter & Co. go to waste on the finishing line. It's remarkable how litigations are still a thing with the Amiga brand. I don't understand how the profits for the winning party is expected to be greater than the lawyer costs.
I can't keep track anymore. Is this a successor to 3.1.4 that came out not long ago, or something different?
Kickstart 1.0 - 3.1: By Commodore. Actually 3.0 was "officially" last but 3.1 was ongoing work that got wrapped up well enough. I don't really remember if Commodore officially released 3.1 or if it was picked up from their corpse by someone.
HAAGE & PARTNER BRANCH:
AmigaOS 3.5-3.9: First post-3.1 versions from 1999-2000 (for Motorola 68020 and up rather than 68000 and up) by Haage & Partner. Main features a TCP/IP stack and a new GUI, a new GUI toolkit called ReAction, MPEG movie player, MP3 player, >4 GB disk partitioning support.
HYPERION POWER PC BRANCH:
AmigaOS 4.0-4.1: First PowerPC-only version. Main features memory virtualization, new GUI, integrated third-party graphics driver support, etc.
HYPERION "CLASSIC" BRANCH:
Now they returned to 3.1 BUT with 3.9 source code still on their hands. Trying to advance Kickstart from a new angle that allows support for all Amigas, even the 68000 (Amiga 500). This is NOT for PowerPC. AmigaOS 4 is for those systems but since that's basically a dead end in 2021, this is a more pragmatic move. I also find less "careless" and more conservative than 3.5+, focusing on kernel improvements rather than bolting on big third party tools and libraries. Basically more how I'd expect actual Commodore releases would look like.
AmigaOS 3.1.4: Backporting numerous features and lessons learnt from 3.9 and now available for all Amigas, that is including the MC68000. An important update for classic Amigas since it brings in particular support that makes interacting with modern hardware easier with larger hard drives, and I think it added MC68060 support too for accelerators and whatnot.
AmigaOS 3.2: A continuation of the 3.1.4 branch and now probably surpassing 3.9 in many areas.
AmigaOS 3.x...?
How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
OMG, I've waited for this! I was SO worried litigation from Clonato would make all the work by Thomas Richter & Co. go to waste on the finishing line. It's remarkable how litigations are still a thing with the Amiga brand. I don't understand how the profits for the winning party is expected to be greater than the lawyer costs.
I'm amazed that it can be profitable to still develop an OS for those machines!
How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
(I am not an Amiga user, but I'd love to get one in the future when I have more space, time, and money.)
How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
It's a pretty special machine. It can display a lot of colors and has PCM (sampled) sound, but is still simple enough that you can understand everything that's going on. The SNES is comparable but hard to program. The DOS PC is comparable but less standardized. (I am not an Amiga user, but I'd love to get one in the future when I have more space, time, and money.)