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AmigaOS 3.2
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Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#22How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
I have my old Spectrum and Atari ST and from time to time I run them. My friends had Amigas and Apples(or their parents had them) that were super expensive at the time. I bought one Amiga from a friend when it got old. I also got old consoles cartridges and emulate them using FPGA devices as the original consoles died and I have not analog TVs anymore, so I need to use converters.
What I get from using those machines is feeling rich. I can look at my phone or a raspberry pi and say: Wow!!, that has millions of times more memory!
You also get the essence. With such a limited power they made programs that were useful and games that were funny. Now you have Unity or Unreal Engines powering games that are not fun or electron apps consuming gigabytes of memory that are not useful because the basics are wrong.
I use old Autocad for DOS with Autolisp support and you realize after all this time, the thing is useful.
My job is creating software so reminding what the basics are is always important.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#23Can someone post some screen shots? :D
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#24How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
Managed to get my 6mb A1200 on the internet just the other day.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#25How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
I still have a working Amiga 500 at my parents' house in Germany.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#26How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
Hey, we even added an M68k backend to LLVM recently with Rust support already on the way \o/.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#27How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
I booted up my A1200 in 2008 to see if it still worked after ten years of disuse - it did.
Then a month ago in 2021 I booted it up again to see if it still worked after a further 13 years of disuse - and it did again.
Played Zool both times!
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#28Can someone post some screen shots? :D
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#29I learnt C programming and a lot of stuff about UN*X systems from my Amiga 500 and later on a heavily expanded 1200, thanks to a wonderful "Geek Gadgets Version 2" project. I even ran GCC on my Amiga back then. After that, in 2001, I switched entirely to GNU/Linux (RH7) and I knew quite a lot about how to use it since day one, thanks to my wondeful Amiga computer and Geek Gadgets.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#30I learnt C programming and a lot of stuff about UN*X systems from my Amiga 500 and later on a heavily expanded 1200, thanks to a wonderful "Geek Gadgets Version 2" project. I even ran GCC on my Amiga back then. After that, in 2001, I switched entirely to GNU/Linux (RH7) and I knew quite a lot about how to use it since day one, thanks to my wondeful Amiga computer and Geek Gadgets.
same! geek gadgets was awesome