How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
I have one. The music trackers on them are amazing.
AmigaOS 3.2
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Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#32Vaguely related: approximately 20 years ago I hosted "The Amiga Alternative Audio Page". Every time I migrate my blog to a new platform -- which is often because I like to tinker with it -- I figure this is the time I'll finally kill that page forever. And then my web logs fill with 404s and I bring it back from the dead because I don't have the heart to kill old Amiga software.
So, https://honeypot.net/post/the-amiga-alternative-audio-page/ is still a thing, but please don't ask me to update any of that software. I wouldn't know how to anymore if I wanted to.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#33I can't keep track anymore. Is this a successor to 3.1.4 that came out not long ago, or something different?
Yes, here's the timeline to clarify: 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…
3.1 was the last official Commodore release.
I totally don't need 3.2, but I admit that I want it anyway just so my UAE can feel shiny and new.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#34How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
We have FPGA implementations of the Amiga nowadays; these are basically identical to the original hardware. It's quite amazing, I can highly recommend checking them out: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
I didn't see on the github page whether there's an Agnus, Denise, and Paula?
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#35How 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!
I do the same with my PowerPC iBook clamshell from time to time. Amazed the tiny PCMCIA sized 5GB spinny disk hard drive is still original!
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#36How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.
I fire up UAE every now and then for the fun of it. Edit: I just realized that what I really want is an easy way to launch a single Amiga app in a window on my Mac. Double-click an icon and have The Bard's Tale up and running? Yes please.
What you are looking for is this: https://www.amigaforever.com/
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#37OMG, 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!
I think it's also useful for legally running an Amiga emulator?
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#38OMG, 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!
I'd be surprised if it's profitable. Maybe a labor of love. I've been an Amiga fan since the late 80's. It was my favorite machine. Nothing quite has had the magic of booting up games like Shadow of the Beast or Blood Money. The Amiga was truly a quantum leap.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm amazed that it can be profitable to still develop an OS for those machines!
I'd be surprised if it's profitable. Maybe a labor of love. I've been an Amiga fan since the late 80's. It was my favorite machine. Nothing quite has had the magic of booting up games like Shadow of the Beast or Blood Money. The Amiga was truly a quantum leap.
Shadow of the Beast was one of the most impossibly hard games to play of all time. But that sounds
and music.
Re: AmigaOS 3.2
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be surprised if it's profitable. Maybe a labor of love. I've been an Amiga fan since the late 80's. It was my favorite machine. Nothing quite has had the magic of booting up games like Shadow of the Beast or Blood Money. The Amiga was truly a quantum leap.
Shadow of the Beast was one of the most impossibly hard games to play of all time. But that sounds and music.
The parallax scrolling was incredible for 1989. Nothing was quite like it.