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Re: AmigaOS 3.2

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Post by Narishma »

dumbfounder wrote: post #39
icedchai wrote: post #38

Earlier 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.

A lot of games from that era on the Amiga were like that, great in the audio-visual department but with terrible gameplay.

Re: AmigaOS 3.2

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Post by snvzz »

ethanpil wrote: post #21

Anyone interested in a comprehensive summary of the Amiga legal spaghetti should take a look at https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/ Play by play updates on their Twitter at https://mobile.twitter.com/amigadocuments

And, by extension, I'd suggest not fueling the legal drama by funding the lawyers through buying Hyperion's 3.2 or Cloanto's products.

Re: AmigaOS 3.2

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Post by snvzz »

tibbydudeza wrote: post #3

How many 68K Amiga's still working exist today ???. I don't get it.

Most that exist are still working.

They were well-built, and the most sold models (A500, A600, A1200) do not have the barrel batteries that leak and destroy PCBs.

A500+, A2000/3000/4000 have these batteries, but they weren't anywhere as popular as the other models.

If you own any of these, ensure you've removed the barrel battery (cutting it out with pliers is good enough, and the Amiga will still work).

I personally have 2xA500, 1xA500+, 1xA600, 1xA1200, all working.

I tend to have one running at all times. It's the A1200 right now.

Re: AmigaOS 3.2

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

xantronix wrote: post #36
kstrauser wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Given that kstrauser specified "an easy way to launch a single Amiga app in a window on my Mac," an Amiga emulator that only runs on Windows -- however good it may otherwise be -- is probably not in fact what they're looking for. :)

(Edit: I see that Cloanto does have a somewhat cryptic page for macOS, but the way I read it, Macs can only run the open source UAE that I gather Amiga Forever is built on top of. So https://fs-uae.net might be a better place to investigate.)

Re: AmigaOS 3.2

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

snvzz wrote: post #44
ethanpil wrote: post #21

Anyone interested in a comprehensive summary of the Amiga legal spaghetti should take a look at https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/ Play by play updates on their Twitter at https://mobile.twitter.com/amigadocuments

And, by extension, I'd suggest not fueling the legal drama by funding the lawyers through buying Hyperion's 3.2 or Cloanto's products.

So…who exactly do you buy from, then?

That's a semi-serious question; the "Amiga Documents" site linked in the post you're replying to seems to cast Hyperion as the (relative?) villains and Cloanto as the (relative?) good guys, but it seems if you want a version of AmigaOS released this century, that means Hyperion.

Re: AmigaOS 3.2

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Post by stuaxo »

kstrauser wrote: post #32

Vaguely 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-amig…

Please keep it, I'm going to get an Amiga as soon as I can afford to buy a place do I have somewhere to put it :)

Re: AmigaOS 3.2

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Post by kstrauser »

xantronix wrote: post #36
kstrauser wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

That’s more for a whole desktop (which is also awesome), but it’d be fun to be able to launch and quit an Amiga app as easily as a Mac app.

Re: AmigaOS 3.2

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Post by kstrauser »

ethanpil wrote: post #21

Anyone interested in a comprehensive summary of the Amiga legal spaghetti should take a look at https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/ Play by play updates on their Twitter at https://mobile.twitter.com/amigadocuments

Is there a summary of the summary?

Also, is there any financial value left in that IP? From an outside perspective it looks like people fighting over table scraps.

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